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SUNDAY, APRIL IS, WZd THE MOKNLNG STAR, WILLIINGTON, II. C, TWO 1IEGR0 CONTRASTS. SUBJECT OE STUDY BY FIELD AGENT rrm TT TT TITIfl ATI mutiifmuiiDUf OF FASHION STAGE, BITUMINOUS GOAL IS IHEXCDSABLE .. . .... . ..... -. ... .. ' ' , ... i Colored People Jn outhtlange Out of All Reason In comparison Wjthis&in rice, Experts "''-'';:v iAssEsrt.' y From Affluence To Ex . treme Poverty' - . ' ' ; peeiHle T ) .' i , WashlagtonApr1l Present high prices ot bituminous" coal were char acterized sts inexcusable on any theory pt ,eupply end flemand or. on any eco uomic . principle in a formal state ment issued today hy Herbert N. Shen ton, secretary jotth .. Unite States bituminous xoal commission, which ab judicated" the dispute between the soft coal operators and miners. : Neither the .advice of the commission to Duy and store coal early, he requirements cftfce port trad, the status of car service", the daily output ot the mine, the weather conditions, nor supposed thortage of supply explain in any man ner the rise in prices, which are out of all relation to the increase 4 the cost of production .caused ar higher wage granted by the, commisBton. After reviewing the factotre contribu ting to the sky-rocketing of prices, Mr. Shentea concludes that they will &' decline. - '- ' V-;-'1 t - .RlM'iA.Oal FrUxm "The present rise la the prioe . or bituminous coal." says the statement, "can in no way be attributed to the campaign for early haying stor age recommended by the United States bituminous coal eommiasioa to be car ried out - by the council' of national defense. The commission had thor oughly in mind the fact that, owing to bad weathen conditions and various ether reasons. . the removal of fixed prices would doubtless cause a flurry in ooal prices for several weeks even after the usual annual drop in consumption of coal. , "The recommendation for the cam paign of early buying; and storage ws that such buying; and storage houlfl, be . urged' to commence on or about May 15 when at the present rate of production, there was reason - t be lter that production would b la ex cess of market demand. The Plan fox this campaign are. therefore, being rapidly developed, and the heartiest co-operation of tbe largest consumers irt the country has been enlisted and pledged. .- "There are various causes for the present, and probably very temporary, upward trend in the prices of bitumi nous coal.- Consideration must be given to the, fact that there was a re-arrangement In the distribution of coal after April 1; that the first week in April happened to include the low pro duction always associated with Eas ter, and. that high cost production mines which have for past years beef able to operate only because of the fixed price conditions are making a last effort to obtain what they can. i ' Feeling of Apprehension. "A -widespread feeling has developed throughout the country that there is going to be a ecarcity of coal for do mestic consumption, owing to the for eign demand. Some persons ' point to Senator FrelihgHuysen's statement of the foreign need for coal. Doubtless a great aeai oz coax is oaoiy neeaea in Europe this year, and such as can not be, supplied from other sources will' come; from ithe-Pnited , States, in so far as it can be shipped; ' but there are very real limitations to our ability to . make . foreign., shipments, and the present large foreign demand . is ?not likely to be continuous enough " to :. warrant the permanent enlargement of dock facilities and the diverting i into the coal trade of a large, portion of our merchant fleet. , "In epite of -the. fact that the fleet which was supplying the American Ex peditionary Forces . was one of 'the greatest , that -;, the United States has ever-- gotten' together, the v total num ber of ehort tons conveyed ; by r this fleet to Europe waa not in excess of seven and a half million tons of cargo from our. entrance into, the war through April, -1919. , During 1919 we exported overseas 7,198,000ylong tons of coal. This record was better than that of any other -year with one ex ception. During the first ten months f 1919 we were exporting coal.over-' seas . at a- greater rate than ever - be fore. It is therefore safe to say on , this basis that our coal exports over seas in 1920 cannot exceed 10,000,000 tons, which is only 2 per cent of our total production." ' ; Regarding production- - "TherA RPAmn nTxn tn Va a mi,U prehension in- regard to production. The .weekly reports of the geological survey show that in the first quarter of the present ; year our production decidedly in excess of the production last year, and slightly in excess of the production under , high pressure In 118. Thr to tViAvaf .... based "on the past" few months for the ekyrocketing of -prices. : ; "The fear of immediate suffering from car shortage seems also to figure in the. reaims for the flurry. ( There were sufficient cars and motive power to distribute this unusual production of the iast few months, on account of ; careful and energetic car distribution: These cars and motive power are rractically all available, and, whije there is definite need for more of both in order to stabilise the industry, there Is no immediate - serious threatening of a car shortage such as has not ex isted during the winter, unless it is necessary, because of emergencies, to divert coal car for other purposes. The more open weather conditions and Ihe efforts to improve allocation of ears by the car service commission of the American railway association gives' promise of a greatly Improved car situation In the near, future.' Some Frenzied Bidding "Frenzied bidding, up of prices on the part , of coal buyers seems, there fore, at this time to be entirely unjus- . f Jfled. There la no reason to hoii,, that there will be a limited supply of coal for the;domestlc market or that there will be an increased shortage of vat a in mo near iumre, save , as it is a part of the general 'transportation difficulties i of th ' present tim B' . forts are being made to stabilise prices through regulations of. the lnert,t Commerce commission " and by special legislation. The educational camnnio, f,or early buying and storage wnr also iea to stabilize the market.' r WHAT A 'CENT CAN BUY. : For one cent you may buy many : a newspaper which' has cost thousands of dollars to- produce. Every quarter of the globe has been combed to ; bring rov tne lnrormatjon which is scanned n a. half hour's hasty .reading, , W n - gsJfcssw ' - m m " " The gajfnient whlca holds 'the center ef the. fajbioa stage today i ' arogsata blonae. There is such i a variety of . styles, colors and ma Iterial "v. that every - vroman. can be stated. The oarerblotise or cosrnne iblotue Is attracting more attention than any of the pothers Just now. Here- is cne f or rery informal wear at home. It la a loose smock-like af tfair artistically trimmed with satin flowera and embroidery . CHURCH IS LOSING GROUHD 3R6ERHMY Widespread Exodus 'Continues, Wlth Economic Pressure Vierred As Chief Reason ; New Torki APril Vlwr-rA critical and heart-rending' ."situation ; f or , stable and progressive Christian organization ex ists in Germany at this moment, ac cording i.o . trustwDrthy . news bein re ceived. ; This crucial condition is al most entirely due te the separation of church and state by the Ebert govern ment, and the general discouragement economically . of .the people, it is be lleved. - -'v-" r .-:.'"iv . Dispatches received at the New York headquartersof the ! lnterchurch world movement through their foreign sur vey department, "indicates huge exo- duses from the, church organizations, And yet according, to first-hand infor mation, -the:-churches- are crowded .for their services. , , V The Kev Henry Jacob Schuh, of New Tork, recently returned from Europe as an .American ' Lutheran commission er in relief work, announced upon land ing. "People in, Germany are i packing the churches, hearing doctrines of re pentance preached to them when T was there." Such a statement needs no elucidation It - speaks "for " Itself. ; Church Renunciations. Minutely, " the- lnterchurch: world movement's vdispatches. go on to state that In 1919, from: January 1 to Septem ber -30, there were recorded in the mu nicipal courts of-Cologne, 8,513 church renunciations, and that this movement has so Increased In 'volume that' today there are ' In Cologne 100 to .150 daily renunciations. In Berlin, for the same period, exodus records are running; high.. There they have reached. 22,-564i or ;100 dally. v , In Cologne it is--estimated by some that the f ree-thlnklng . or agnostic popula tion already exceeds the Catholic pop ulation by 23,000. ., K ' "When the ETbert government, said Rev, Smith, "adopted tbe ruling by which the . church 1 waa divorced - from the " state, hundreds of Lutheran churches, with 25,000,000 constituents, formly supported by government, tax ation, totteretd." ' . !-;':-:' "It was' hot -the. Intention of the Ebert government to v. destroy the church. : The real danger is the radi cal movement, the reds and spar t leans If they jgain , control of Germany the emiaren win grow up witn no religious 'Much of the situation is due to '' the disconsolate why try" attitudes manU fest by a number, of German pleaders as well a the mass of people, brought about so. much by the economic situa tion. ' This is known from the report of the Rev. G A Fandrey, of Chicago, to the National Lutheran.; council on his Lutheran relief .work- In : Europe, when he said, "There Is the conviction among the leaders that there Is no hu man.' possibility to. meet the ' national needs and the terms of the peace treaty During my. stay more' and more accept ed the-view that the situation Is hope less," why- try :.L.Kr ? . -.U:' Eugene F Fuessle, of Athe" foreign survey department of the lnterchurch world : movement, according with, both the Lutheran -commissioners , the JleV. Schuh an the Rev,' Pandrey; ' in the fact that this defection from the church is . chiefly an effect of . the economic pressure sunder which the people are living. ? Until "the" revolution, - the church was ' a . part of the , state and was supported by it. The new comti tutlon , declares' that . ther. Is no state church. .' Religious compulsioft is done away with, the church Is made self governing,, and for support must rely upon - established" funds and , contrlbu tlons of members. v ; Practically a similar cowditlon exists In many,; of the, other Europeaji coun wes, especially in. kussis whernthe Greek Orthodox church no longer hold Its geat;organize.d-.rpower. nd sTeiga as the state Church of llussia- a , j. The city back-yard . or .vacant-lot garden? provides a supply of vegetables at home without transportation. : or handling costs. Vegetables from the home' garden are fresher and more palatable; than those "bougat from a dis tance. Many persons who work in of fices," stores and factories have time mornings and evenings that may well be devoted to the cultivation of a gar den, thus utilizing spare time and idle land for food production. x - V The production ot, vegetables at home relieves " transportation difficul ties and solves the marketing prob Himpton,.-ya April 17.Prpf- WVT; Williams of - Tuskegee institute, Aia.f field agent of the .-. jeanes ana Slater boards, spoke recently in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute., on 'Contrasts in Negro Life." He said? It is not difficult to find many good colored homes;": in many cases wen- appointed beautiful homes, in almost every section of the lower, south, both in the towns and in couiitry' places. ' Many Poor Cabins There are, however thoulsuda of wretched cabins. . Not Jong ago iToae from Memphis one cold day rjght down the Delta to Vicksburg. Mis. ,; You could scarcely see '. from - tha.mVlroad a single home occupied vx wrepe pie that wa at all a.t.tractlve.'.yer3r. fewi, indeed, "gave aTldences of ordi iiar comfort. :. Yet I- ltnew;th&J in: some' towns thrpngb; Whieh;we -cassed and in many of those ; couatrjr places thar vera noon la WithcjOOd homes,' "Many colored peosleihave had .tha advantages of scnoo; ana, nvBj.?"3r eted by those advantage ''and have sent their children ,to- achool in large numoers. iu.any oweTr,' u little or no opportunity for schoQlin-g. Many are large landowners, but there ar hundr"eu; dX thousands wno own no 'land. , . i-u. ..L-r- - 'Amone all ': colored - people . today the desire for education is greater than ever before.' Never before have I seen the colored schools so : well filled, as hi vear- - Indeed.' many Xf them are too full--for 'the work they" ought1 to be doin 8r-ijf;E very Where I ; find, colored OeopiOJ VUgEl,uBk . ;Mr mi ' u(ivn Professor .WiUianis: speaking. .airecuy to the Hampton stud en to, eaidirv.r. '1 have often wished-, I could; make you understand! and ; appreciate bow. much: better - off - you ..are at Hampton h.n th Rfndanta ;lni ko manv n laces to which It would be very ey to,' take you. The world Is going, to expect of you larger service;' greater: return for what you receive, than it could reas onably expect 'of those less.' fortunate than yourselves." "Professor. Williams added: " '. V x ' . We Teachers't Ne Scnoels - " "Hundreds' of colored -iubli schools have not opened at all this year be cause they cannot eet teachers. In some, counties as high as , 40 per .cent of tho public schools have hot opened. "The war evidently - emphasized th need of educatlon'amongjcolored peo ple as nothing' else has ever dons Those thousands of "young, men who went out from .the .' far .south espec ially, many of whom had had" no chance of. education, came back with keener appreciation of its value than they ever had before. The idea of getting some education has been,';hndedn o iner peopie,- ana-- ev.ery.wo-ereiaey are striving' to see to it that, the boys and girls get a little chance at school, "The exodus of the colored people from the south has had something to ao with- this increased effort on the part of. the public; authorities.' :Many of the . people arg understanding, as they never understood' before, that the south cannot take its place alongside of other sections- of - this, country and hold "that place,, unless it has a - hi gher average intelligence, unless the . aver age intelligence of that Section can be brought up ; to tne other sections' of this country. , So, as never before. hey are trying to see to it that-every boy and girl gets at least a. better chance at schooling. , , . , , Report : Better pondlIons " "Only. 1 recently . .we i had several of our jeanes conierences, -andanj-almost every case teacner . reoerted- better conditions than 'formerly,' - greater in terest on the.partref.tbe public; school authorities, and? incceAsecU: interest on thfpart of the 'colored people them selves in f the effort to extend i school trms, in building; be tter.sch6blhouss and in giving better supervision to the work of. Ithe fteacljersf 'Jl ;v v "scnooi .uthoriues in the south are interested in. colored., public schools as they have never been before, and es pecially is that tfue where the school authorities are it- young, -well-trained men themselves. . . "Within the last five years the color ed, people" have I pu.t into the1: building ) oi oBenwaia bcaoqis improved rural schoolsV-something over half a mi-Iiop-dbUars, while 'the pubnc autVorir: ) ' ties- and Mr. Rosenwaid ; have nut itfi ' "The masses of, pur, folks are'; to' be: educated ' and trained by young men and young women like yourselves. The4- two and. -a, .quarter million tH of negroestia. the soutn -whe canhot?tead and write must be educated by ne groes. 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