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J - .NT l A- THE MOKNI(i STAB, WH.MINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, JANUAfof ;2T1921. is - .-is j Sip fflatmtiQ iar THE OLDEST DAILY IV NORTH CAROUVA" Pvfclffce4 Every Sternissr fa the Yea The W'll H1NUTOX STAR COMPANY, Ie, 10 CeOMt Street. WUmini(iii, Worth Carelima ; ; 1 ' C Entered at tbe Postomce at Wilmington, U. as Second Class Matter. Editorial ...... , Business Office L. No. CI V INSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER On Ysar i. .:..$7.00 Bix Months 4 - 1'bree Months ..;...- L7G Un Alontn .... bL'MSCKIFTION HAXK5 BY MAIL Peataffe Prepaid ( Uaily ; 'only One Tear 6.oo 'Six Months 2.5a Three Months ............ 12 One Month 1 .46" Dally anl Sunday . 17.00 !.& 1.76 1 Subscriptions Net Accepted for Sunday Only . . Kditlon . i ' MEMBER OK ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the uc for publication of all news ereaited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tbe local news published herein. All rightn of re-pub-licatlon of special dispatches i herein are also reserved; ! y FOREIGN ADVERTISING j OFFICES I Atlanta: Candler Building. J. B. KEOUGH , New York Boston - I 1 ; Chicago 225 Fifth Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples' Oas Bids BRYANT, GRIFFITH jfc BUUNSON. SUNDAY, JANUARY 2 1921. Own-Your Home Tbe man who owns his own (home is not. the victim of the landlord, his life is not embittered by the search for a place. to live in these times of shortage of houses, he and his family have a place in the community which the renter can no have. In spite of the manifest advantage of . owning one's own home, many people have been frightened by the prospect of a mortgage, or by the ever-recurring bills for repairs, taxes, street improvements, and so. on. They have not realized . that the money paid in rentals every year, foT long periods of time, pays for the houses they rent, many times over, and at the end of a. life time, they have nothing but receipts for rent in . return for the money spent on housing. On the other hand, many who have realized the import ance of owning a home have been handicapped by lack of the necessary capital,-particularly if they erected. Even the building and loan associations and private capital open for investment" in mortgages did not reach all of these. During the war , and post-war period still existing, the "tightness" of ' money affected the prospective home builder particularly. ' Now, however, there is evidence of legislation by Congress to help the home-builder help him self. During the past month two bills designed to relieve the serious housing condition in this country were discussed, .with builders and real estate men in, attendance.to give ,their; views ion: the necessity f of relief. : One of 'these bills the McLaughlin bill which1 eifimpts" from income taxes the ; returns from investments in mort gages up to $4u,00u. This bill if passed, would probably release' for borrowers much money which y has been or would be, invested1 in non-taxable A Neglected Science V V The American, Association Iwrthe Advancement -oi Science has just learned through one of ; its observant members that the earth is lying in a huge-magnetic field, of an origin unknown, but foreign to the planet itself "a vast field of un explained currents," in the -language of a cor respondent. Jhe value of thisv discovery Is problematicaf. Manifestly, It is a part of the' busi ness of the A. A. for the A, of S. to inquire inf,o matters of this sort and to pass along to the rest of us as much light as it is safe for us to have. The news columns a day ortwo ago recounted no Jess thm sixteen voyages of 'exploration that are contemplated" or already under, way. Im patient from the long restraint imposed by the war, our men of science again seek gratification of the longing, to search out the mysteries of the sphere on which we live. Ve are about to hear many interesting things and to expand our chests under an exchange of assurances that we are a race of remarkable Intellectual endowment, capable of discovering very soon everything that is discoverable and of satisfactorily guessing any thing that may happen to be outside that field. Without any thought of derogation, yre must confess that our own celebration of complete scientific conquest will be deferred, at any rate, until we have had a more re-assuring report from the men who are trying to establish fairer rela tions between the cotton growers of Columbus county and the ragged, shivering children of Central and Southeastern Europe; between' the .wheat farmers of theMiddle West and the famish ing millions of Northern China, We must refuse any share of the glory reflected by the World's best minds until more satisfactory progress ap pears in our pursuit of the most indispensable of all sciences, that of human relations. -If science could provide for the brief space, of twenty-four hours an observer, detached from the earth's surface aJd fqrees and fixed conveniently aloft, we should have in his report, not a tribute to our genius, but an idictment of our incredible stupidity. In the few lands of plenty, he would see the producer 'in dejection because the precious fruit of his year's toil is marketable only at the price -of bankruptcy. He would find many ocean cargo carriers tied up in idleness. In the lands of want,he would observe a degree of want that may hardly be surpassed cold, hunger, home-' lessness stagnation and despair. In a single country he would behold a population equal to half of that of (he United States dying because there is no food. There are signs that something is going to be done. Some expedients, at any rate, have been undertaken. We are beginning to do some quick thinking now because necessity "has administered the prod that was inevitable. A highly superior and scientific race might have -foreseen what was coming; -might have, attempted some remedy in advance no man professing wisdom will now admit the existence of any doubt in his mind as to the exact course by which we have come to our present state. The cold fact is pressed upon us that weiare, in fact, as yet a rice of. blundering provincials unable to remember for the space .of two years that within our several national bounds we have feW problems or aspirations that are not of direct and vital, concern to the whole of mankind. Gradually, we are coming' to the-realization that one vitally important phase of human relations has been misconceived and erroneously 'described as "foreign" relations. In the truest sense, there is no such thing' as "foreign" relations on this securities, of .which there are so many oh the market. The other bill, more revolutionary in its earth, no person or group or people that 'may . Contemporary Views "I WILSON'S: CHOICE - Knoxville Sentinel: It may strike some as. strange that' Mr. Wilson should choose to be the first of the presidents to make his home in Wash ington after retirement to private life, in view of the fact' that the community life of the capital has hot been especially friendly and Hospitable to him. j But Mr. Wilson's social resources like those , of the mind are largely his own and are indepen- . dent ojT the locale in which he may choose to reside. ' ' . . A FRIENDLESS STRANGER New York Sun: .An endearing classic must be slightly altered to be made to read "What is the Constitution between members of Congress?" as this brief colloquy in the house reveals: ."Mr. Huddleston Will the gentleman tell us what constitutional warrants ''there is for this kind of legislation? . "Mr; Garrett I do not think there is any. But: it has become rather academic, perhaps one might say obsolete, to raise constitutional questions." After Mr. Huddleston had ponderedjthe reply of the minority parliamentary and constitutional expert be was moved sadly to remark "it would seem that the Constitution not only has no friends in the house but no acquaintances either." i provisions, would create a United States Home Loan Bank, with branches in all parts of the country, operating through the: postal savings . system. It would utilize the postal savings funds as a fund for building purposes, j which would be greatly enlarged by removing the limitation of $2,500 on Individual postal savings1 accounts and tbe payment of 4 per cent interest on the deposits. Whether or not these bills will pass is uncertain, of course, yet they are important as indicating national attentiontp a national problem. y The large cities are getting at' the problem in a direct way, without legislation, and with the "show me" idea of interesting builders. They are working toward "Own Your Home" Expositions, following the plan-worked out by the committee in charge of National Thrift Week, January 1725, 1921. Chicago will have an exposition in the . Coliseum, March 26 to April 2, and New York will have a two-weeks exposition in April, as the two , previous shows held in the city have been so popular as to warrant an extension of time. T5 . stimulate the Interest "of able architects in the problem of the smalJL house, the exposition has offered $15,000 in prizes for the best plans of small houses; The contest, which provides, "for plans 1W1 nuie, oncK, ana stucco construction, is being directed through leading architectural journals under the supervision of Mr. H. K. Holeman, president , of. tlae Illinois chapter of the American Institute of Architects, with the approval of the Institute. If this movement could be spread over the entire country, we should have a great im provenient In the architecture and - construction . 1 of our. smaller homes, as well as a revival of interest in building, The latter must come, as our , standard of living can not be maintained with out it; we should exert ourselves; to build wisely : and .attractively, as well as extensively. ' o :- f You heard all of those whistles blowing, didn't ; you?, Well; it's time t go to work. properly be known as, foreign". In the things that are fundamental the Fate that placed us here has made us one, whether we would-or not, and the acceptance of this truth must-be madi the starting point; the foundation, of. any profit able search into the mystery of our common destiny. , ' MAN THE PYGMY Neto York Tribune: Man, the pygmy,-ought to be aecusfomed by tnis time to the discovery of his own importance. He has done it so often since science arrived upon the terrestial scene td blast his conceits! The new measurement of Orion's right shoulder shrinks our tiny globe to a negli gible speck in the universe. But what is that to the shocks that have gone before! Those ingenious , speculators, the modern Dsy chologists, are fond of reducing these shocks to three main discoveries. The first was man's dis- Lcqvery that, so far from being the center of every thing and living onj the only patch of ground any where, that patch was only a small bite of a very large globe, which in turn was but one revolving unit in a vast cosmos of earths and stars. The second shock came many centuries after in the shape of the Darwinian theory. Thereto fore man had conceived of himself as a very spe cial creation for which the whole world had been built and he assumed that he had been wound up and set in motion asthe chef-d'oeuvre of all eter nity. Thenew theory of things left him as the climax of known creation, but gravely attacked his uniqueness of origin it madehim the nat ural descendant, or at least the relative, of all sorts of despised things, from tadpoles to monkeys. The psychologists consider that the' world is just now approaching an equally grevious shock to egoism as a result of the discoveries relating to our subconscious minds. The change in outloon te like that-following the acceptance of the Dar winian theory, for it reveals human conscious ness as anything but a self-determining and in dependent creation, as we have fondly conceived it to be, and has closely related it to the primi tive mind of the race and in addition subordinated it to its past, immediate and remote. We have all known, in a sense, that we carried our past around with us; and the past of our an cestors, as well. The new psychology discloses the detailed fashion in which this is true by delving into the subconscious and thus giving a stress and a reality to our unseen ego that it never had before. So probably the psychologists are right. It may be something of a shock to human vanity to learn that Betelgeuse would fill our terrestrial sky if it replaced our sun. It is a far greater shock to realize, for instance, that the elaborate reasons that we give for our 1 politics and other solemn views are usually just so many excuses for subconscious conclusions already reached by our despised and invisible instincts. We" are not at all the highly rational darlings of a universe that we supposed ourselves to be. We can still be the masters of our fate if we will, but it is only by a frank recognition of our constitution and a life carefully adjusted thereto. And soon. At least, so stands psychology today. A cen tury hence it will doubtless jolt man again, or if psychology does not some other science Will. Which suggests, we submit, -the real reason man is able to withstand so cheerfully these, "shocks" of discovery; each one, when seen in perspective, only increases the, amazingness of the universe and of man. For the more science learns the more it discovers to lie beyond. By. recleTlc J, Haskin WASHINGTON Jan. . 1 That there is no such thing -as a wild pigeon in the United States any more is an idea which seems to be widely entertained in this country, and which is wholly No Gifts From Chance "Wbat is so rare as a day in June?", the poeU Lowell asked. We have our answer: a day in January such as that with which Wilmington began the New Year, a day bright of sky and com; f orting in its warmth but with a hint of far-off cold, the spur to effort and achievement. If we are to have happiness in the twelve month which is ahead of us, it will be a joy. flowing not from a stroke of good fortune but. from zealous labor. If we are; ever to lift ourselves out of the valley of the shadow of economic and industrial desolation, it will be through consistent, well-aimed, unwearying work The great law of service must hold imperious sway. '''.''. Is there reason to be disheartened?' None that wise' and courageous men and women can envisage. A colossal task awaits our per formance. It can be done if we are capable of dedicating all that we are and have to our salvation. It will be done for we are of the 'stuff of which Matthew Arnold spoke as awaits ing no gifts fromVhance and thereby conquering Fate. T "Monk" : Eastman came through the Western .front's storm of. steel and lead unscathed, but full citizenship in New York proved too much for himv ;i. Says Mr. ; Harding::; "The' cabinet is now" pretty- welljin hand." It' is just i matter of fitting the pegs k into the . holes." And that, of course, is no task worth mentionine for V iU' : lzei;.who would think-nothing of. makimr a ill - hole.ccund.iDL otden-to-make things agreeable for '"j! T. -a. de$ired.-peg:. ;;' T - - - ' ' "mm .. - :r.c A Gertflan wardfflce official admits that there- is a most , warlike spirit in the -schools - of his' ; country, but he does hot '"fear that this will Lead to an untoward ; event. ,Any suggestion of an . "untoward event" would probably be dispelled quiCKiy , enqugn cy- tne uerman alumni of Foch i. If the Republicans try to make .too much cam paign capital out of their socalled economy pro gram, the 'democrats may at least -reply that it has Jeeh several years since a. dollar. was; worth saving. ' t England's chief, problems just now, according to a London correspondent, are Ireland and unem ployment. Wedon't believe the combination Is, possible. ' ' , In connection with this talk about having a Teal farmer for Secretary of Agriculture it may be stated that there are quite., a number of real j farmers who are entirely willing to try something 'hewforispelL::;:'" .- .'('.; ; .iang declared his unwillingness to die for Itaiyi iD'Annunzib is now, according to the ' latest VeneUa'gossip7 , suing his wife fofdiybrcev cTlii; quht to be sufficient to meet--fie ; mo?t vxtreme ueas oi seit-uetermtaauvu. .; v. . " Reading that, King Alfonso has just been Va. London dividing his time, between dancing'lessons and vaguespeculations concerning' i lx&weUp-, ment ot pleasure resorts along the. coast jof his 1 country, WAohder if he 'has ever read orf heard the passenger pigeon, which wa&.once phenomenally-abundant in 'tfie western 'United tSates, is extinct; tm't there-are at least three species of wild pigeon found, today within the United States. All three of thenf are littde known, de spite the fact that one of them is dis tributed, in a sparse and scattering manner, over "a srood part of the west. For some reason, the wild pigeon, is, an object of exceptional popular in terest, if one may Judge by the num ber of questions that come to an In formation bureau about it, aridythe number" of newspaper and magazine articles that have been written on the subject. ' Nearly every American now "knows something of the tragic and mysterious history of the passenger pigeon, which 60 or 70 years ajro darkened the sky with its vast flocks, killed whole for- ests by usin them as roosting places, and glutted American markets-with its flesh. .1 is believed by scientists that the slaughter of the pigeons did not alone account for their, complete and sudden disappearance along in the eighties, but that some other factor, which has never been explained, must have had a part in it. All of this has been often recited. The passenger pigeon has been given, a great deal of publicity, while the other American wild pigeons are almost un known to the general public Another Wild, Pigeon The most important of these is the band-tailed pigeon, which occurs In a scattered and -unaccountable wjay all over theRocky mountain country and west to the Pacific coast. The reenter of abundance is said to be at the mouth of the Columbia river and people who live in that section are probably famil iar with the birds, but most persons, even In states where they are found, never saw one.' The band-tailed pigeon is a true pig eon. It is a. good deal more like the average man's idea of a "pigeon than the passenger pigeon was, because it belongs to the same genus as the do mestic pigeon. We have seen this bird and it looks exactly like a big blue do mestic pigeon. - It coos the same" way. and when it rises makes the sameloud clapping sound with the wings. It, has the very peculiar habit of carrying its light nest of twigs with it when fright-' ened during the nesting, season. Thi$ sounds fabulous, but is" attested by government scientists. It grasps the nest and eggs between the legs. Some times merely a single egg. is carried in this vay This pigeon has a way of appearing suddenly in larg-e flocks where, good crops of acorns. Us favorite food, are found. For yearn afterward, if there are few acorns, not a bird may appear. Down in the Keys of Florda they have another wild pigeon known as the white-crowned pigeon. It is rare, and extremely shy, the reason . beins" that it Is one of the most tpothsome of birds. A native in Key West told us last Win ter that during .the tourist season as high as three dollars each is paid for a QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q. I understand that the senior sen ator accompanies and introduces a new senator when h$ Is sworn j in.; Who performs this office for representatives? B. A. A. T. Since . n 1 . . - erroneous, according to the ornitho-o-4 ,nce t a11 representatives are eistg 1 1 elected ,for two years only, the entire The fact of the matter is that UNCLE SAM LOSES A GOOD MAN New York Herald: Rear Admiral Samuel Mc Gowan, paymaster general -of the navy and chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts, has re signed from the service and will efcd his official activities for Uncle Sam today. He must not doff his uniform without a word being said In praise bf his record, for that record is one of conspicuously excellent work, in the pub lic interest , Before the United States entered the conflict against the Teutonic empires Rear Admiral Mc Gowan was a member of that small but foresight ed body of American citizens who Mid the cour age to recognize the inevitable and the energy to do everything which lay in their power in time of peace to prepare for war. ( Wherever and whenever it was possible he translated into acts the advice of . Washington, an example far too few of us followed; would that all officials in the government had been inspired to do as he did! It will not be asserted that under the immedi ate chieftainship of Josephus Daniels as secretary of the navy Paymaster General McGowanwas able to do everything he wanted to do or by any means everything which . on April 6, 1917, the nation wished had been done to prepare the fighting ships for their task; but it is a matter of record that his? energy and his pre-vision had accomplish ed so much toward , the preparedness, intelligent men longed for that her had earned the-gratitude of all patriotic Americans. Consequently, it is no ' more than fair at this season to recall Samuel McGdwan's' services to his country-and to wish for him the reward of prosperity and happiness ' through all his days. V ' AN ABUSE OF THE TELEPHONE , New York World: Letters to The World by citlzens"who complain . that stock salesmen and others solicit them over the telephone raise , an interesting question ol personal rights. Has a';tel ephone subscriber any defense o privacy which" people who do not' have his acquaintance "are bound to respect? Is it anybody's privilege to call up anybody , else in the city on the. telephone" and beg for a charity or expatiate on the merits of a particular make f automobile or a -particular issue of bonds? " - '-'f-i. . The increasing reliance oh this form" of personal appeal, whether or not it may be, called a nuisance and dn abuse of telephone service, has reached a point where at least' it may be characterized as' an abuse of courtesy anoTa violation of the ethics -of ordinary lifeSalesmeri and solicitors who would hesitate to invade a citizen's home in person show no scrnplebqutinyadinjit;by theit)r6xys of a .telephone c5.f ' Perhaps the practice had an excuse during the war, when' thr. necessity ,of obbdning. subscrip tions for liberty bonds and relief funds gave it some Justification. But it is since the war that it has attained Jts;;worst , development Burglars have; made it impossible . for anv New Voh-pp to' call rhishome his castle; but-his telephone ought the birds. .'It probably has a hard life. 'A third 'wild pigeon comes into the United States along the Rio Grande on the Mexican border. .It. is called the red-billed pigeon, and is a large bird of excellent table qualities. . . Pigeons are distributed all over the world, and they make a most interest ing study, because they illustrate so apply the way in which environment affects the development of living creatures. Thus, it is not generally known that the dodo was a great flightless pigeon. In fact, althouffh the word dodo has become a part of our &lang. very few peopb; know what it means. Death of the Dodo f The dodo was as big as a"; swan,' and could no more fly than an ostrich ) yet it was a true: pigeon. It developed its peculiar physical characteristics, .be cause it lived in certain islands of the South Seas where it had no natural enemies. It grew large, fat. clumsy andflightless, because it had no neces sity for being otherwise. J.t suddenly acquired some enemies when the Dutch discovered the island of Mauritius, which was its home. The Dutch sail ors ran it down on foot, killed it' with clubs and ate it with great gusto. The last of-the birds was killed in the 17th century, but there are written records of it, and also skeletons. The same 1 true of its near relative, the solitaire, which was much like it, though smaller and a trifle a.uicker on its feet, so that It survived a few years longer. Pigeons live chiefly on islands, be cause Islands are generally free of the predatory animals wliich destroy such birds. Pigeons are stupid, and are easily killed, while their nests are al ways poorly, hidden. In the tropical islands of Australia, where they most abound, pigeons nearly always live in trees, and their only . 'enemies ' ar-e hawks. It isinteresting to note that these tropical pigeons always iare green or greenish in color above, so that the hawks cannot . see them among the leaves. On the other hand, the North American pigeons -arid, doves. which spend a jrood part of their time on the ground, are always gray In color.1 Na ture does the best she can for her crea tures, and man stems to be the one! . ' . . . ' i . -. , . , a i iorce mat can upsei ner calculations. He wiped out the dodo and the passen ger pigeon, just as he his so many other forms that had been centuries In achieving an adaptation to; their en vironment. ' membership of the house has to 4e sworn in at the beginning "f a new session'.--The oldest member of the house administers, the oath to t the speaker of the house, who then admin- . jsters the oath to groups of members. the groups usually composed of one or more state delegations. In case of a member elected to fill an unexpired term, the new representative Is usually introduced by a member of his state delegation. Q. AVhat are some of the new fruits and grains that the departmentment of agriculture is importing from Africa? G. O. E. j A. Many new kafir corns and sor ghums, some varieties of grasses, some dry -land rice, mangoes and a gourd, which is filled with seeds that resem ble the butternut In taste, are among the many specimens of African vegeta ble life which are being examined and experimented with by thfe United States department of agriculture. Q. Is the number of deaths in rail road accidents growing smaller, or does it only seem so in comparison with fa talities caused by automobiles? M. E. S. A. The interstate commerce com mission says that in 1919, 8,978 persons were killed in railroad accidents, this being the lowest death record since 1S98. Q. What is the'longest road in the world? W. A. T. A. ;The Lincoln highway may well be styled the longest road In the world. It crosses 12 states, connecting New York with San Francisco as directly as possible, consistent with the topogra phy of the country.. Q. How many people are drawing Spanish-American war pensions? A. The pension bureau says that the number of pensioners of the Spanish American war on the rolls now is 22, 814. Q. Please explain the use of ammo nia in making ice. Is it used in the brine only or in the ice itseif ? D. W. S. A. The. bureau of standards says am monia is used as a refrigerant. It Is not placed in either the brine or the ice. In fact, after ammonia gets into eithe the brine or the ice, it is a sign that something is radically wronger with the plant. Ammonia gas is compress ed and-is then cooled, usually by. water flowing over the pipes through which the ammonia is passed. This cooled gas under high pressure is then allowed to expand and in so doing it takes up the heat from whatever substance sur rounds it. The substance may be either ibrine or water. In the case of tne ior- mer the brine is cooled to a tempera ture well below the freezing point of water, while in the case of the latter, the water is changed into ice. Q. Where were postage stamps first used? S. F. G. A- The history of postage stamps begins with the issues made by Great Britain in 1840 under the administra tion of .Sir Rowland Hill. The success ful usej pf stamps in the postal service of Great Britain resulted in the adop tion of stamps -by Brazil, France, Switz erland and "the United States before 1850. I The example was followed by many ! other countries, and since I860 nearly all have adopted the postage stamp j as the most convenient means of indicating the prepayment of post age ji mSM matter. Q. In the game of 500. what value does the joker have in -a "no trump hand?" D. C". A. According to Hoyle, in a no trump bid at "five hundred" the joker is a. suit bv itself, and is a trump: but the holder of the joker cannot trump with it while he is able to follow suit. If the holder of the joker leads it. he has the orivileere of naming the suit that shall be played to it, regardless of his previous play. RUSSIANS HAVE KILLED OFF 13,000 PERSONS IN CRIMEA 1) JOafly Health TalkJ By Wffliam Brady, m.d, DPItMlft V Mm . " IaaY THTr 1 'Health Is V. funny thing. reall you've got it youj keep quietly 1 ' ling;t yourself all th Qtk thine- tickle- vnn lnM "snJ de!'sv. I made some allusion to this ft-. i nn . a, . '"i ;uBiiun inai eoes with hw.,.. in one of my talks, and some sartf11 took mft severlv tr tDi, ,-a - j , aon. i..r told me it. was most unbecoming " ,1 and betrayed. a very selfish n.... N furthermore It was cruel and Js'?1 of me to crow and chuckle ovr 1T Lhealth, and so many thousands n 1 I l - l.i- . ...... 3 W Dd,l pie wim suvn puur neaith that thJ would rvt almnat onirtki,,. . short day of relief r ot! Do you: suppose they hav. seD. ' compartments in heaven, and entrants to their proper comnartmlJI I hope so. I want to go t0 that . tion of heaven where a fellow- oa,, T Illd.KH il II V miALAKP iTlt. 1)111 lln : , ... ,n the angels whose happiness is snonJ "S1" iua wi w u imyy as (hit Rather than that I'd preier to go toti, devil. From what I've'seen of iim .v latter citizen of the hereaftpr tu ue tt uucci iui iniivn, . l any rat There is a fine distinction which zm be made between health and disea rleaitn, -an exceedingly rare stai, j, perfect functioning of the body. ease is any impairment or disturbanC of any function. Disease is not funn7 ai au, except a iew nisiancc? amonj the neighbors. The great t rouble vin disease is that it inevitably produce symptoms. Symptoms are the manifej. tations of disturbed functions. Now I say health is a very rare stau Ninety-nine out of a hundred who havJ ordinary, fair health, ,as the saying j really have some disease, nothing ! rious, you understand, just some fune. tional impairment that keeps thu from enjoyjng that funny feeling mentioned at the beginning. Tou see what I m getting at. 4or. you? Sure. They have some sym toms. Some people set out in life to tra symptoms, and soocer or later they fir, plenty of them: They carry banner inscribed with huge minus signs. The are pessimists. They have a lot of bail blood stagnating in their - splanchnii veins. They are sreat readers of a! manacs ana testimonials; doui rornisr1 literature are. replete with symptoms. Other people no out after bettei health and select for their banners plm , rmi , ' '- t . . signs, iney re optimists.- n iney navt anything to be happy about they get J glad on and save their long faces fori rainy day. The sypptom propaganda, so indus. triously conducted by the quacks and the patent medicine sharks in Amerirs and Canada in the past century or mor accounts for a good half of all the i! health of the. people today. Answer me this? Have you et! known a nostrum hound who Wasn't i pessimist? LONDON, Jan. 1 The Bolsheviki in the Crimea have shot 13.000 persons, according to the latest reports from Russia, says a dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph from Berlin, dated Thursday. ANNOUNCE CLOTHING REDUCTION . A general reduction sale of all men's" j clothing and accessories was an nounced yesterday by the A. David company, North Front street. A large stock-of Hart Schaffner & Marx cloth ing will feature this sale. In making the announcement yesterday the man agement declared that the sale is e ing conducted to assist those of the buying public Who are seeking to bfing nrices down. A number of articles, will r - - - be offered value.' at less than replacement DIDNT MEAN ANY HARM (Special to 'Tie Star) GOLDSBOtRO, Jan. 1. Some of the mob who on the night of December 2 atta'cked the courthouse here, break ing down the doors, firing through the windows and doing other damage, who are now oul en 51,000 bond, realizing the seriousness of the charge, now say that they did not want to lynch the negroes. NO CELEBRATION AS XONG AS THOUSANDS ARE HUNGRY ' - ' - BALTIMORE, Jan. 1. The Rev. Charles BJ Schrantz, president enYeTItus of St. Charles college. 'a'Catholic Insti tution near herer has refused to jpin in a celebration -and banquet in his honor, ' prepared by the Sulpician priests, on the occasion of the 50th an niversary ofvhis ordination, because he said: I,"WiH 'not Join in any:ceiebra tion as long as there are -starving peo ple in Europe." Because of-his attitude the celebra ' tion was .abandoned, although priests and bishops were expected- from, all over the country and. 1,000 prlests.who had been tinder his, instruction wished to ... make a" formal avo"wal of their gratitude.- ; ' , ... j-.-' Father-Schrantz said-. the times' were "too hard and too, sad!v-for the- cele bration of even a golden jubilee. .rThe money which would ', be required,' "he said,- "could be ;so much .easier em ployed for-the relief of the heart-rending distress of -thousands upon : thou sands of -our fellow men who arc literally dying from cold, hunger and despair'. v. '.r- .-.--r ' ' ' . ' ; ,: , Outside the larger elties thr : arc no . existing speed limits far- automo-bilee-in America. i.-;;i-;;'V-',W. , Built j in 1532, Mexico claims the hon or of having the first commercial high way in America. ' ' ' - ' - ' : dUESTlONS -AND ANSWERS A Popular Mlsnnderiitandlrig; I was aware that you do not prt.1 scribe for readers. But I did not artl you to prescribe for me. I merely a.k ed you to suggest a diet for my condi tion and any exercise you might deenl helpful. It seemB to me that you lea: backward in your attempt to be ethi cal. (Mrs P..B A.) Answer: My dear friend, ethics i- not concerned. Tou labor under a popl ular misapprehension, assuming that 1 Is a doctor's . province to prescrilJ drugs ahd nothing else. As a matt:! bf fact, medical practitioners todaj prescribe many other remedies " thai drugs, among them diet and exercisJ T- m iricanahlf. f nrpscrlhlnc- drtiEsi exercise or diet for Individual casn without having such personal know! edge of the circumstances as l mai obtain through a. personal examination only. It Is a matter of fair dealing t the reader, not to myself. In fact. you will take the trouble to invest:! gate, you will find that our much m ligned code of medical ethics is pracw callv nothlnr-but fair dealine for ttl patient, and not an unreasonable ana selfish set of rules for the physician'! personal' benefit. Consumvtiov Not Inhertied Is consumption inherited? lA. S. f 1 Answer: No.( That notion arose fron the frequent ' occurrence of several cases of the disease in a family, hut the truth is that one infected the other through the contact between parent and child. A- I DEATH OF A. I. DAW SO ! (Special to The Star) KINSTON, Jan. 1. A. L. Dawsoi oo-aH Sfi n nrominent LaGranae mar I slaori rllrwiTiP' a kitlT illness Mr. Dawson was well known 'in this ?"-l tion. His death occurred at the re?i dence of a daughter near IaGrange tt waa son of the late Thomml Dawson of Moseley Hall. He Is sur vived bv the following sons and daugh ters: Mrs. F. F. Spencer and Mr.' tom. RnilR Fairfield: Mrs. Thoma'l L. Gillikin. New Bern; Mrs. Thorn?? Aldrldge, Levi, Edward and Vivia;i Dawson, Lenoir county, and Thorn.' Dawson, who is in the navy. FOURTEEN FAME AUAUMS (Special to The Star) fiOI.rSRORO. Jan. 1. Fcurtee false alarms of fir,e were sent in frov various places In the city last n.gn' which kelt the department on the all nigh t One genuine alarm oame at :o a., m., - bh v. Charles Street bein partly destroy T January 1st 3rd Deposits made on or before January o bear interest from January 1. Number "Systematic Savink'' among your New Year's Resolutions. r ' ? "OWest and largest Sayings Bank: In North Carolina"
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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