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s. THE MORNING STAR, WILMJNGTONn. MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1921 . -J FOUR , L ' 1 I ) '. , - -it 'J i .. . 'i5 51 1 v. 1 v ( : SB! ijZTHP OLDEST DAILY IN NORTH CAnOLIVA" rPvbllsked ETtrr Horalng Im the Tear hr The WL- UINGTON STAR COMPANY, Ine- 1M hetut Street. Wilmington. North Cnroliaa . ; - : : ! Entered at the Postofflce at Wilmington. N. C, t9 Second Class Matter. ' : anorJH.t ....... 1 1 :i - Business Office Tcle-0-eai ' r .,No. 6X SUBSCKIPTION RATES BY CARRIER " One Tear ...............v.... Six Months :ree Months ... Una Month - SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY SI AIL Postage Prepaid . Ually Daily anl only Sunday One Year Six Months 2.50, 8.W Three Months 1.2 ! One Month .45 . .60 , Subscriptions Not Accepted for Sunday Only - Edition MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS , The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the ue or publication ot all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also th local news published herein. All righto of repub lication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICESi Atlanta: Candler Building. J. B. KEOUGH New York. Boston V Chicago 2J5 Fifth Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples Gae Bid. BRYANT. GRIFFITH fe BRUNSON. t Rasrhkll Thitf Year? ' ""' i The open window admits a strangely stirring echo, the reminiscent crack of a collision between solidly stuffed . horsehide and seasoned hickory; "' in rapid alternation also the faraway - sounds of groans and cheers, of "bonehead" and "atta boy". . : - What about it? Are we going to continue strug gling along in this town without baseball? We'll have to admit that it is a struggle. No Ameri can town can nope to bat higher than .157 or thereabouts without a ball', team to help with the batting. Some towns'" climb to fairly lofty estate with nothing but a ball team. In ' any -case, baseball is just about second to a lot of boys in the trenches when it comes to makig the people of a town shoulder up to each other.. We can't say that meditihe of that sort would; hurt our town, 'it would do us more good. than' " . taiost of us can imagine. Now is the time to make a start. At least, it's the only time left; last, September was the proper time. It is whispered about that some of our enterprising workers are busy now with plans -for a season of baseball an Americaniation movement, so to speak. The rest of us would like to hear how their efforts are panning out. We should like also to have a chance to com mend them openly and, perhaps, if they're' not quite over the top, "to give them a lift. Let's get-together on this project right away. It is not too late, even if there is much to be done. There are men or organizations of men in this town who are fully capable of puUing it over. Who will take the lead? If it's your move" move? ' r Contemporary Views MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1921. Reforestation One of. the biggest jobs facing, the country " today is the inauguration of a program of replant v ing our deforested areas. No matter how rapidly prices of manufactured or agricultural commodi ties decline to pre-war levels, as pre-war produc tion is restored and deflation proceeds, one great basic industry will not be greatly affected. This is the production of lumber and wood pulp. .umber, it is true, has fallen rapidly in price recently, but the trend of lumber prices was up ward even before the war, and will continue to be so after economic conditions have become . stabilised. This is due to the fact' that those who are cutting' timber today realize the scarcity of s standing timber. ; ' k ' ' For fifty years, says Dr. Hugh Baker, former , Dean of the State College of Fprestry at Syracuse, and now secretary of the American Paper and - Pulp Association, lumbermen have been reckless in their cutting of timber. Instead of considering forestry as an industry, lumbermen thought of woods as a gift from Nature, so limitless that 'there was no need for careful cutting or for replanting. They have cut into their jown capital, without thinking that their investment in wood lands should be made to yield a permanent in-. V come. By vthe very nature of "things in the early days of the forest industry, part of the seeming ' Painlessness was unavoidable. Much of the land r cut over was needed for farm crops, and refore&t&f tion was not advisable because the production of ' s timber was not then the economic need. But the v ' day of the great need for cleared land passed, ,. and trained ioresters have been calling the atten tiou of the lumbering interests to their wasteful : " toethods. Foresters, as being theorists, were -generally regarded as cranks, however, and it was not until : ; the period immediately preceding the war that men 'realized how near we" were to the last bases ' ; of supply. . ' ' -'- With the publishers, the farmers, the builder - of homes demanding lumber, and with old field pine bringing as high as $12 a thousand in some .. parts of the south lumbermen as well as foresters are interested in replanting cut-ovtfr lands. A number of the great paper mills have embarked upon reforestation programs as a necessary part ot their business. Since fifty years is necessary to grow a fairly good stand of lumber, this may seem like a long-time undertaking, yet reforesta r tion may bring immediate profit. In the case of the reforesting areas of the College of Forestry at Syracuse, the first twenty-year period sees many smaller trees, the surplus ones, ready for jf' cuffing for Christmas trees. From the twentieth "year of the. new growth, fence posts, mine props, Q small . telephone poles, are cut, until, in the. v fortieth year, the wood may be used for pulp. " . ,.v Of interest to the-south particularly is" Col. Greeley's statement that lumbermen who are .' skinning southern, pine lands clean can often, at . a small investment, start the land at producing 500 feet of timber per acre every year. The leav ing of1, small sizes, of timber, though it may cost , a few cents more in logging, will pay big returns -n the rapid growth of the timber left, and the trees left standing will, by seeding, remove the ieed for artificial planting. To those greatly, and justly, concerned over the rapidly clearing off Df our southern forest areas, this statement by Col Greeley, a forester of experience,' will be .encouraging: . . , - . -.- Reforestation, seldom , requires artificial planting. Simple and relatively inexpensive, methods Of securing and protecting natural seeding are usually sufficient; In the south ern states it can often be combined with the ; - growing of livestock. The French turpentine ' very young pine timber and secure a continu- - ; ; ous yleld of navaL stores forty years before cutting. There is no fundamental reason why young pine forests in our southern " states ; V should not, by the same means, - pay their taxes and carrying charges with a smairproflt besides, until the owner chooses to 'cut them . Says Senator Penrose:." "I - don't think i . matters .much who Is made Secretary of State. . - : V I do not thinly we .will be satisfied to sit back and take the program of any Secretary -;' ' of State." Guess we'll soon find out who's boss V in this country, by goligarchy! ' 1920 and 1921 Frank Munsey begins a statement which he calls "a cheering outlook for 1921" with a friend's fervent ejaculation, "TJiank God 1920 is gone," and his own rejoinder, "I should like to amend your -remark by saying 'Thank God for 1920'." Another orgiastic year like 1919, when the coun try was on a wild debauch of inflation, and ex travagance, would have meant destruction. "'It has been the work of 1920," Mr. Munsey declares, "to lead thev way. back toward sanity and sound ness, and in this respect it has made a record of achievement incomparable in the world's history." The same point of-view is set forth in one of those inimitable essays wjiich Simeon Strunsky has been contributing to the Evening Post under the title "Annals of the Week." He describes ,an interview with a "wicked old man," Anno Domini 1920, who attributes his own unpopularity to the fact that he sought to cure the diseases of 1919, It was, he declares, "a fat year, a . yar pi silk shirts and automobiles and platinum wrist watches and ring side seats at the cabaret ... a good year because a great many of you suf fered from economic dropsy and diabetes. Then I. came along and gave you the jtrict diet treat' ment which alone could save jCu. from .yourself and this is the thanks I get."' , 1920 was the year of the Immitigable liquida tion. ' We had reached the. peak of a boom period ; added to. this was the war inflation. The law of econdtaic gravitation is inexorable. There had to be a reacUdh. Prices the cost of production, had leaped.V gone skyward. Speculation and ex pansion had become the prevailing mode. Our credit structure was at the breaking point. There had to be ajrecession. There had to be a readjust ment, or everything would have been smashed. And the .readjustment had to be entered upon without delay, or j the break would have come. We may thank our stars that the vicious process of plunging was brought to a quicks halt. The country needed the shock in order to regain its senses, dt'ean now devote itself to economies and to sound business methods and it can go to work, In that direction are hope and renewal. What 1921 will mean to us 'will be determined, as Mr. Strunsky suggests, by what we accomplish during these 365 days in the way of attending to our daily business, paying our rent and bills and "being just commonly decent to each other".' ' J -0 : Bewildering New York N Just a. faint suggestion of that amazing may sidedness which has always been one ?f New York's favorite trade-marks- is obtained by a com parison of newspaper accounts of New Year's Eve in the great city. Far from being all things to all men, the glittering metropolis seems for once to have been the same to no twoV What the New Year's reporter of the Tribune found is most .interesting when considered in connection with the impressions registered by his fellow-laborer of the World, and tha other way around. Says the Tribune: ; - L Vi ' From Thirty-fourth Street to the Circle last night Broadway was the same old roystering, dazzling carnival street that has welcomed the infant year since the eclipse of Madison Vo Square7. Public dining rooms, theaters ami I sidewalks were filled to the last square foot. : So weremany of the VelebrantS; proadway laughed at prohibition. It carried its drink . . under its arm,', or under its belt, and roared and hiccoughed its approval of the year that, ; was dying and the year that was to come. Says theWorld: . New York had a rather tame and relatively quiet New Year's Eve. It wasn't the crowd 5 of yesteryear, either in numbers or ' ill.? "pep". The Eighteenth Amendment had spread an indigo cloud over an, occasion that in other times Was furid. 't 4:-.'5;.'"V-- ' And still there are people whoc-n't understand why eye-witnesses habitually do violence to-each other's accounts 6f dog" fights' and- automobile collisions. 1 v ' ' ' ' THE JAG AND THE LAW Chirarra News: Two New-York iudees have Jield that, even Under ' the prohibition; regime, Jt cannot be laid down by .the courts jts. settled legal doctrine that tntoxicatiop is ground for sum mary discharge of an employe" working under -a contract. ". - v ' . ! The case has attracted much interest. It ap pears that a New York real estate agent, . aftej putting ' through a profitable' deal, celebrated Mis success '.' by getting drunk. Despite a contract giving him adeflnite term of service his( em ployer promptly dismissed, him' on the ground that the law today presumes sSbrlety on-the part of employes. , , - f ? The Jrial court agreed with -the employer but the appellate tribunal demurred and sent the case ; back for another trial before a jury - of twelve good men and true. vIn the opinion of the higher court, the ques tion whether one old fashioned spree justifies the discharge of, an employe, working under a con tract is one for a jury to pass uponiri view of all the facts of the given case. In some indus tries even one jag may, justify dismissal. In others, perhaps, public opinion, favors a charitable view, of the offense. ,. The law, says this New York coutt, cannot' and sTiould not impose standards of conduct that are not. backed . by public senti ment. Where a warning would be deemed suf ficient by the average person, discharge is not to be sustained as a matter' of law. Thus it comes about that twelve New Workers are to decide whether the real estate agent's single alcoholic celebration warrants his dismis sal or Whether he must be given another chance by the-, employer. ' ( MR. HARDING'S FAVORITE AUTHOR Waterbury American: Senator . Harding's con fession that Edgar Saltus is. his favorite author and that he has read "Imperial Purple" as many as four times has led to the uncovering of this author's not very well known works and the dis covery that the man who enjoys them lays him self open to the suspicion of being .erotic, senti mental, emotional and credulous. We have no idea that those adjectives fit our next President. One critic says he read the book not to find out what was in it but what the" inside of Harding's mind was like. There isan alternative namely, that the Senator is not a book specialist and didn't quite know what he was saying or what it implied. Besides, he may not hav said it. Saltus was a Yale man -of forty years, ago and even in those days a writer of "hot stuff." Knox, Borah, j Johnson and the League aatde, Mr. Harding will learn very quickly in the White House that the world is full of bitter .tenders and irreconcilables. , Aieaounes t or ; a r contemporary : "15,000 in CrlmeaShot Down by Reds"; 'Five Villages Shot 7- Up by Bolsheviki.Th'at Soviet artillery seems to wt 'em going and coming. , ' AND THE FARMER'S WIFE ' X etc York Tribune: The California plan wherer by men of small .means may become independent farmers provides not only for loans to prospec tive buyers, but -for community settlements and cooperative buying.- Tracts of land of 6,000 to 9,000 acres, providing farms for about a hundred families, have already been populated. An engi neer planned the buildings and the stock was bought In bulk by an expert from the State Agri cultural School. The dairy herds today fit is said, are' famed throughout the state. Cooperative selling, as well ,as buying, has proved profitable. This method, besides its other "advantages, eliminates the isolation of farm life, which as much as anything else is responsible for the drift to he cities. - There is a village instead of separated farmsteads. Along the same, line Secre tary Payne, in his annual report, urges community settlement on farms of not more than forty acres. A comfortable civilization, except for the tele phone, has been long in reaching the farms. Elec tric light, gas, radiated heat and hot and cold water have not yet arrived at the farmhouse, and probably will not until farm, life is organized on a new basis. Machinery has 'not done as much to make the life attractive as was expected. Work has been made easier, but more of it is crowded into a day., There Is still little opportunity for the pleasure demanded by young people, and the farmer's wife has remained a drudge, for the house comes last in the list of improvements. There is some ground for the grim humor in the -plea of the Colorado farmer that a law-be v passed to permit farmers to have two wives. And the woman .who disagreed with him. was not so far wrong when she declared it should be the other Way round:, the wife should have two husbands one to work in the fields, the other to help around the house. (From the Springfield Republican) The year 1920 gives the 'effect, as it closes, of being an interlude in the mighty historical drama which this stroke.'. An early sharp frost enabled the red -army , to cross the marshes -of thesutrid sea and take the defenses generation is privileged to witness. It , , ,.itle nswer. should have: been re-emmenuy ine, - k.. survivors ' beinjr ' transported by the allies 'to" Constantinople and other places of refuge. The collapse of the last couhter-reVolutionary army left the Soviets in nchallenged control Russia, and lias put; upon the allies, as the yer. cfbses, a new and grave year of reconstruction, as 1918 was the year oi - victory muif n- j -" makng peace. ,But overwhelming vic tory great as was the joy which. it in spired, did not srive the Ideal atmos phere for the negotiation of a just and durable peace. And thus It comes about that whereas 1919 was largely devoted to destroying the ideals wnicn had won the victory of 1918, so the year - W " I W K V Mi W W v. A'- k .T . - , just pasc nas in( grav pan- iCIi ... thah the Moscdw goVernmenr could Oe up witn inei neceiy muuu unsm i-i task of undoing what .was wrongly fteptemoer when m. MilUr., elected president, has shown a cables-hostility to the rovJL mp,a government in Russia, mat -in1'' along with -' "integral" e?ou in thls the reaty of Versailles, a 01 stohe of Its poircy. The .iil)f0I1ner history of the year has revolved these two foci, making little Drn ut Twice, the entente was put Un,fCfs dangerous strain, in -Jiai-'-h 4 France, without the sanction 0fVae" allies, invaded Germany and 0cr Frankfort and other cities a,, , nin problem. While rival .eovernments e-ust ' when wyn- no qk 'a " tf u 'H 1 ivepi. uiuiics . in nie uci liicjt, lai.irr done in 1919. . Home Affairs Not only has the year been an in terlude, but so far-as the world drama is concefned the United States has been little more than a spectator., The re fusal of the senate to ratify the treaty of Versailles left President Wilson's administration without - prestige or authority in international affairs, and with the return of-the American peace delegation from' Paris at the close of 1919 began that policy of emphasized aloofness which has continued ever since. The issue was carried into the presidentiaU campaign and whatever may have been the decisive factor in the election of November, the defeat-of the President's party left the admlnis- tratinn nnthine- t n Art Hut to wait in dignified inaetion for the advent of Hs deploring in" 1919, neither has it treated as. the true representatives ot Russia, and France did, in fact, recog nize th Wrangel government only a. few nonths before Its collapse. , This fiction can no longer be kept up, one of the great problems . to decide ;in 1921 .will be what to do about Russia. It has already touehed they United States throusrh the question of; what to do with the soviet trade envoy. Dr. Martens; 'after prolonged considerat tion of the matter the administration has finally decided to deport him, and the . whole question of relations with Russia is left over for the next ad ministration, to solve if it can. Slow Progress Made But if 1920 has not dispelled the 'Russian toz" which Lloyd George ognized the Wrangel as showr Much fee.line was slinw , v... '"ent, in Fra uKia.uu oi us ngnc under the tr .1. -"-niy " nrivate flprmh n nrnnorlv it '"turo . r i j a. ov ic.i i yajr me nHieninif.. full. an action ascribed to a dL'n to get German' trade for -ntiana the expense of France. 41 American "Responsibilii . v Such .episodes, make sordid chapter of , history, i,UJt r: help to explain why, during 1920. n I worm nas maae so nttle progress ward recovery. That the dHay u , ' a great extent due to the refusal , the. United States to participate in settlement which contemplated ,. participation seems obvious; on main questions, notably the question of iil o ivkamAv.. 4 V. 11 : ' iously to see what thTs country March 4. Thus the year has passed with nothing to show for it, so far as America's contribution ' to the new world order is concerned. ' In domestic affairs the year is not so blank, yet nobody expects a quad rennial election year to be fruitful in constructive labors, and the situation during the past 12 months has been even exceptionally unfortunate in this respec because of the antagonism be tween executive and the Republican majority in congress. In' spite of this, however, several important measures were put through, including ' the rail road reorganization act, the army re-J organization act, the merchant marine act and the Americanization act. A bill proposing a budget system and one declaring the war With Germany at an end were vetoed by the President, , and one repealing the President's war powers expired without being either signed or vetoed. , Constitutional prohibition was achieved in 1919, but came into force last January, an the thought and emotions of the American people have perhaps been more concentrated on this than on any other single topic except the presidential election. In August the woman suffrage . amend ment' became effective, and the gen eral participation of women . through out the United States In the Novem ber balloting was a notable historical event which' was pushed a little into the background by other matters. - Labor, Radicals nd Reds In the earlier months something re mained of the feverish prosperity whichwar brings Labor was dear and scarce, And disposed to be exigent, while prices continued to mount. It was to meet these conditions 1 that President Wilson called the second in dustrial conference at Washington which prepared a report suggesting methods for the peaceful adjustment of Industrial disputes. There has been a good deal of uneasiness due to the knowledge that drastic liquidation would be essential before a sound busi accomplished all that was hoped Yor in the way of dividing the spoils of victory, completing the - peace settle ment, art d puttins Europe on the road to recovery. Some parts of central Europe are said' to be in a worse plight than Russia, and the relief work to w ill eo v..v.. xivuiiivau auiiini ii ration The most notable forward stey taken during 1920 was the first meetimT held on. November 15. at Geneva ,f the assembly of the Lea.ue of Nations It lasted a month and many important questions were raised, including dis. armament, a world court with. pulsory jurisdiction, the "open w which America has generously contrib-Jin territory held under mandate th. . . .. . . .... ,ki..i.j.t i. I.. .. l uuisussiim vi Germany, ana the revision of the covenant but action was for tli. most part postponed,, the view prevail' uted and must continue to contribute, can only relieve misery alittle and save' rhilrlrpn who without this aid must- perish. For recuperation there Thust.iin??nt:".wa8."ecessary to ait am be a revival of industry and coinmerce l" UIU ncs would .i and this is blocked by lack of. capital, ... . . . . . . . lack of coal and raw materials, and above all bythe general uncertainty v THE NEW ROAD MEASURE Raleigh Hexes and Observer: Copies of the new road measure to be -submitted to the next Legis lature will be printed shortly and circulated among the people of the State. As outlined the general scheme seems a "good one. A synopsis of the bill is evidence that North Carolina has made decided progress in its road 'ideals, as well as in construction. In a general way we have come far enough to know that maintaining the roads we build is of as much importance as build ing them. Now-comes another thing that we must understand. That we may ' maintain a. road it must be built with an eye to that end. A road that is not properly built can't be maintained. That brings up still another phase of the subject. Roads built half a dozen years ago suitable for the traffic of half a dozen years ago could probably bf kept up all right if. we had only, that traffic to deal with. But 'because of different . conditions the road . of hair a dozen years ago is a failure now. In that time the truck -has -come. It is the road wrecker." The truck has given the- road question a wholly new aspect. Instead of building a road ow to carry a vehicle that with its load perhaps weighs, two tons we must , double that , weight. That increase in burden is a fierce strain on. roads and one that is to be 'worse instead of better. A crood road now must hfe more than aur- mmu ivu. it uiuai uave a : luuuuaiwu mdi win defy practically, anything. Foundations cannot be replaced like surfaces can. Apparently the job of road building now is building with a foundation that will meet the demands of the future. What that is to be Is a pure guess. But on how successful we guess it out defends the life of all of our .roads that we are about to build. If we make-a mistake of forgetting taht our roads must be.built for truck service, and of a heavy kind, we will have ro'ads that we cannqt maintain, and if We do not maintain the roads ,we build .we may just as well pour our road funds into a mud hole. "r- - v The report from Berlin is pxa.t Senator Mc Cormick is regarded there as Mr. . Harding's Col. -Housed Recalling that ;the Texan's long suit is saying, nothing, we had supposed-thatMr. Hard ing intended to be his own Col." House.- . One 'or. our best known sky:readera asserts in ier, forecast for 1921." thatnmarried ": women during the year will be subjected t6 temptation by members of the opposite- ee married and single. We refuse to be: impressed by; pessimism of that sort or-degree. ' . A Senate committee ; investigating the , coal situation has decided' to ski the Advice, of 1 Dr.". Garfield, former fuel . administrator. If the doctor's meniory s good he will probably, advise the"Vcdmmittee to take up something, else ' . . HUGHfeS ' ' Philadelphia Record: If secrecy is an lessential feature of diplomacy, Charles Evans' Hughes would make an excellent '' .ecretaryyof state, -S In 1916 he managed to go tHroufh a whole nresidential cam paign, from his nomination to his, defeat, with out giving the people the least idea what he would do if he were President, though he was belaboring President Wilson for what e did; or,' did not, in every speech he made. Mr. Harding has not been more franHor intelligible, but, no War 1s going ..on now, and perhans we can afford to take chances we could not afford to take four years ago. :- v- r - ' ; " f ADHESION TO PRINCIPLE -. New-York Post : . . Senator Johnson "is In favor ;of disarmament by agreement among the' five ' prin, cipal powers. We welcome the senator's adhesion to a great principle without stressing tol hard I; the question of "what would Hiram Johnson have saia. u iwooqrow i WUson . had1 proposed , af world policy based, only on the five allied and associated powers..,; It is "wlthrJohnson as with" other cham pions ot the little i nations: according to the" exi gencies ipf: the "argument now -you see the little nations and nowyoii don't., "r.., ness foundation could be reached, and return i the consent of France to the to tne agTRTesslVe war UDOn radical 1 -?-cr f o Hoflnlt Inrlomnitv in nrripr that, Germany miht make its plans and set to work. The year has slipped BURLEY TOBACCO MART ' TO OPEN IN LEXINGTON With Seven Million Pounds -ine. session was therefore chirtiv voted apart from the animated de bates, on many Questions, to n ... ! earJizatiori Of the 1phiia in,i :.. .. ." and planlessness due to the peace important progress was made n treaties and to doubt as to whether year ends wlth a " League of .Nations they can be executed and whether they Mn actual existence as a going concern will be revised. , The history of 1920 jand this in itself would make 1920 no is very larsreiy a nistory oi siow ana iiaoie. painful eforts to correct the errors made in. the original peace settlement. On January 10 the treaty of Ver sailles was put into effect by the ex- rhnnc-A nf ratification. Difflculties fivr . its enforcement began inlmediately i q ' , t i r with Holland's refusal to surrender feeaSOnv a Month Late, Opens . -. . ... ... .. . . . ' I YTT i T ' William ii for triai; tne ames aoan oned that point and also ther demand for the surrender for trial of German officers accused of war-time offenses. The danscer of pressing Germany too hard.was emphasized on March 13 by the overthrow of the Ebert government by a militarist revolt headed by Dr. Kapp; for a fortniht the situation was serious. The entente - premiers, whose meetings took the place. of the adjourned peace conference,- were obliged to give much of their time to discussing enforcement and .-modification of the treaty; important TiTStorical events were the conferences LohaoT!, San Remo, Hythe, Spa, .Lucerne and elsewhere at which an agreement was sought on critical points. ' Lloyd George supported the French demand for a strict enforcement of the disarmament clauses, seeking In tion in answer to the Challenge of soviet Russia. So many raids have been made, so many "reds" rounded up and either deported or released, as to create a general' impression of a formidable suversive movement, but all this activity' seems to have been in the nature of a national houseclean ing rather than, the suppression of a serious menace; the year has only strengthened the conviction that the United States is sound and patriotic and a sterile soil for bolshevism. The recent agitation over the "pro posed naval program gives a signifi cant hint of the troubles that might come n me united states should adopt a policy of splendid isolation and by tariffs and restriction of immigration exploit selfishly the tremendous ad vantages won by the war. In this as in other matters 1920 has been but an lmenuae; its place in American his by with neither of these issues disposed of. Disbandment of the German armed police-is just now an acute issue, and the next meeting of the premiers Is" to take up again the weariful question of fixing the indemnity. Substantial progress was made only in respect to coal deliveries, the allies at Spa agree ing to ive Germany aid in return for the monthly delivery of a specified quantity of coal. British and French Friction This failure of the allies to dispose f the outstanding questions left by the war was in part due to their con flicting interests, notably In the near East and in Russia. In the division of the Turkish empire Great Britain as the sea power, had enjoyed a great advantage, and even before the close of 1919 a sharp dispute had arisen with J tory must depend largely on the course .France in regard to the oil fields 'of taken by the incoming administration, j Mosul. British policy also conflicted While the United States, absorbed I with that of France in regard to the in business and in domestic politics 'treatment of the Turkish nationalists has thus held aloof from the interna tional affairs, the center of the stage has been held by the outlaw nation Russia; the year has .completed the triumph of the soviet regime over all its opponents, and for the first time since the bolshviki took command in iwvemuer, xaj., no iorces are in headed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha. England has favored the strict en forcement of the ,treaty of Sevres and when no other forces were available made use of the Greek army which of fended Italy and later in the year contributed to the downfall of the am bitious Greek premier.. Venlzelos lexingtoK Ky.. Jan. 2. The iS. irigtdn jlOose leaf tobacco market, the largest burley tobacco market in the world, will open here tomorrow wiik approximately 7,000,000 pounds of to bacco on the breaks. On the prie A ... .3 t. V. . . ,1 -1 . uucicu uujeia ueyenus wneiiier o: not producers will take charge nf situation ana tnrougn a company 0! their own undertake to market t',: crop of members of the Burley Tobac. Growers' association. For the first time in the history the market there are three nets c buyers present for the opening:. Sa will be held in each of the 18 wan houses dally-.; . - . . umciais or tne association will watrt the market closely . tomorrow and was announced tonight, if -noes c?o iv average up to the estimated cost production, 36 cents a pound, the c operative company recently authorize will, be incorporated to take char? A meeting of county officials will held here tomorrow night finally decide what action will be taken. The market this year opens 011 month later than usual due to the fa that the United States department agriculture and state oiTTcials wer askedto make a separate estimate tbe burley crop. NEW YORK ADMINISTRATION IS "MOST CORRUPT IX HISTORY arms against them. 'A year ago thejr ! France, on the other hand, finding its victbry seemed almost complete, for ; position in Syria difficult, was for cofn Kolchak haul been defeated, Tudenitch j ing to terms with Mustapha Kemal repeuea irom jfetrograa, and Denekine and modifying the treaty of Sevres in was. in grave difficulties. In March Denekine's army crumbled, but antici pation of peace proved premature. General Wrangel took over the beaten reninants of his troops, and with the order to make it more acceptable to the Turks. ' ,: ' This issue -was closely related to the question of making peace with Rus sia, which Great 'Britain favored both zlariuarv me aid of the allies organized an army in, on economic grounds and because o the Crimea which in the spring, tak-jthe dangers to Its 'Asiatic' empire Tn ing advantage of the diversion caused ' volved -in the continuance of hostile by the Polish offensive, began a cam- relations- with the' Soviets. France, oil paign in South Russia ' the : othei ; hand, . both under Premier The Poll:h-Rnlan War i Millerand, and under' his successor; The dramatic. and sensational vicis- jPremief Leygues,- who took ofHce .in situdes of- fortune, which ensued are still fresh in mind. At first thePoles, fighting with their traditional dash, swept alLbefore them, captured Kiev, declared, ,a protectorate' " over the Ukraine, and revealed an ambition- o restore th--anc!ent Polish empire. But their- lines were over-extended, their armies not well disciplined, their com mand not wholly efficient, and when! . t T. ! . - . . """I me us3io.iis, .even opponents or tne Bolsheviki rallying to, the nation's de fense, made a counter-atack, toe Polish line Ignominibusly broke and Warsaw, was for a time; III peril. 'But -the great est sensation of air, was still to come in.. the retrieval of the situation f the Poles under the command of the- dis" tinguished French . officer," Gen. xWey-- gand.. The Russians who had rashly gone toor far without adequate com munications, were badly beaten and lost much ot the territory they had regained. Butln, order to set a free hand to deal with. Wrangel, thesoviet government agreed to make peace ,on terms which to a considerable extent sausneu I'onsn . amoitions. , ,The pre- liminaries of. peace were quickly agreed upon and ratified in October and since "then- the . negotiation ; of a permanent treaty - has. been going on at.Kiga;- a. .rupture was. fecently. announced, but" . the history- of Russia's t negotiations with Esthonia and Finland Miggests that the break 'is ( only temporary." . Haying encled hostilities, on the Pplish ' frQit, . the , Soviets In November turned" againstthe',insigniflea"nt' army of Gen. Wrangel and crushed it with a single ALBANY, N. T., Jan. 2. Declarm; the "decent element" of New York city and the state demand an investigatta Of the greater city administrator. Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson Herkimer, and Assemblyman Josep Steinburg. of New York, both Kepi licanS, announced tonight they 1'roP"1 to as)c the legislature when it convenes! next Wednesday to make sucn an nnlrv. In the statement prepared by ft two members of the legislature fViare-A. wn mftfTo that, the t'ity 'siiffirinir from rnhahlv th worse J"' th ti mat rorriint administration ili 'I history." r hlSHOP 1EI,LS REFORM KI1S TO . BES HUMBLE AND PRAtTlfA TnSTON. Jan. 5.A warnina to H fortnera to ' cone with nrceiit nr'oblems In 1 a Dractlcal and hum fashion' were contained in the N'l Vr' mnr delivered 1V WsM William" Lawrence, Episcopal, at Paul's cathedral today. "That, idea that supreme Christnl must be purttanical and suprenily f( o'i'ihJ antatronizlnsr and stirring ranee:: - "Christ won his way f" triilH and srrnoe. Let us work out" Phrtufian Wrnhlemii in humble. iWlH . personal - acts.".;.... lst-3rd Deposits made on or before January 3 tiaHintresi:i 3ystfemafic New Year's Resolutions, i I' , irs :r.A K . . - ji-i .f v.- yy. : .. jt'.vC " :v y ---:-yi '5'r:-.?, '' 11wnSav Co. Oldest arid Largest Sayings B&nkJLti North Carolina ;-(, - V ' ' . I. ,1 4
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