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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, NNC., "THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1921. FOUR . ... r-y If?! ? if7? 1 - 1 f i it: . if 31! In? iHnntwg fcu THE OLDEST DAILY IN NORTH CAROLINA PbfUhe4 Evrry lloralns i tfce Ye T Tl STAR COM PANT, Infc, 1W CeMi Street Wilmington, North CanUu " Entered at the Postoffice at Wilmington. N. C .44 Second Class Matter. g Telepko.e.i ...No: 61 vrrr r r no. i Editorial Business Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER On. Yr ...$7.00 Blx Months ... lliree Months , Un 'Month .... X.7S 6UBSCRIPTIOX RATES BY BIAIL . Fostige Prepaid Daily Daily an 1 only Sunday One Year ..Sd.Oo Six Months 2-50 Three Months 1.25 ! One Month 45 Subscriptions Not Accepted for Sunday Only Edition SlEMBEl OV ASSOCIATE!' PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the Use lor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this.paper and also the local, news published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dispatches berem are also reserved. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES! Atlanta: Candler Building.'j. B. KEOUOH New York Boston Chicago 1225 Fifth Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples Gas Bid BRYANT. GRIFFITH & BRCNSON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921. w Devil Anse How often do We hear the question: "After all, 'is the world growing better?" Once in a while, there come3 a crime wave, that sets the timid to quaking. Tho alarmists cry that the world is tottering on the brink of the fate that engulfed Jsineveh and Tyre. They behold civilization reeling toward chaos. They do not see life broadly and as a whole. If they did, they would know that the poet's "one increasing puropse" is being steadily, how ever slowly, realized and that "the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." The bloody chapter written by Devi! Anse Hat lield is a case in point. His was a series of crimes which wiped out an entire family and took a toll of twenty-six lives. Devil Anse is dead. With him died the feud, for his survivors have felt the touch of civilization, have learned that, venge ance is not a prerogative of mankind. For decades, the law seemed helpless in the face of Hatfield's capacity for ferocious hatred. But that time rs now gone, and will never return. "Is the world growing better?" We answer: "Yes, the world is steadily losing its savagery. Man Is proving himself the heir of all the ages." o Rockefeller and Schools Fifty million of the seventy million, dollars given during 1920 by John D. Rockefeller to the General Education Board is to be applied to the assistance of colleges and universities in the rais ing of teachers' salaries. Evidently Mr. Rocke feller realizes the vital necessity of providing a "living wage" for the men and women who are holding the colleges together. Without them, it would be impossible to carry out the purpose for which Mr. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board, that of "promoting education within the. United States, without distinction of race, sex, or creed." r . To this end, in the years from 1902 to 1920, the board had appropriated $35,000,000 toward a total of -$131,600,000 to be raised by institutions. The next few years will probably see a greater expendi ture, as the donor has now authorized the board to expend all its funds, principal as well as inter tst, at its own discretion. In the field of negro education, according to lie report, the board during the past year made appropriations of $1,100,000 to the endowment funds of four institution and toward salary in creases gave $120,500. In addition the board gave fl53,000 for improving buildings and equipment, a purpose for which the institutions raised $232, 000. In all, during 1920 the total appropriations for negro education were over $2,300,000. As im portant as the money given is the stimulus to local support wb.ich the gifts, fostered. The recital of totals of gifts made is far from giving an adequate idea of the ways in which the General Education Board functions to the Improvement of education. It has recently made lurveys of the schools of Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina, and it now engaged in a survey of Kentucky. Through' these studies will come a more scientific estimate of the efficiency Df our schools, and a uniform basis for the toeasurement of attainment. No less important, in this time when the cry is , that the mechanical nature of production has destroyed the craftsman spirit, is the General Edu cation Board's contribution of $60,000 to the National Society for Vocational Education. This money, is to be spent in a study of the relation of Irt to industry. Under the supervision of C. R. Richards, the director of Cooper Union, the study will be productive 'o good to the individual urorker, to the manufacturer, and to society as a Whole. , - ' 0 - The . headlock, the' most terrible of wrestling holds, is doomed. . Leading experts and athletic tuthorities have joined in declaring that the grip urith which Et Lewis, world's champion, earned ais title, and which, enables him to defend it, must go. Their verdict is just. The wrestling -ring of today is not the gladiators' pit of bygone lays. ':: Consider jts consequences. . Stecher, the greatest trappier of them all, pitted Lis strength gainst It, and as a result, is today a helpless paralytic. tbyszko, the giant Pole, sought to belittle'it, only" j ui wmucu ujr vauaocK laughed at its terrors. He was borne s senseless from the mat. Wrestling is a , fine sport. It is becoming a ; popular pastime in colleges and universities. It 's being patronized more ami more by women of ' .it . . . in social ranKs.. i a sport with a future---' trovided such brutality as the headlock symbolizes a discarded. Duelling f is dead, cock-fighting Is , , anned ; ' bull baiting is prohibited ; boxing has eeu humanized. Let the headlock go. The Calder Bill disnatches carried declarations Yesterday's dispatches camea uewdxauuua opposition to the Calder bill to regulate the coal- industry from a miner's union official ana rrum a West Virginia Senator whom the ' miners re gard as a spokesman of the . operators point of view. William Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, before a Senate committee, objected to the bill because it is an extension of the wartime Lever act which he claimed lias been used to harass and oppress the members of his union. Senator Elkins, speaking in the Senate, regards it as an invasion of the field of private business, a "paternalistic adventure," the sort of thing which the voters o the country sternly re jected last November. Mr. Green said, "We tear governmental au thority in te fixing of wages, and we are appre hensive lest the courts construe the emergency sections of the Calder bill so that miners might be compelled to work regardless of wage conditions." Senator Elkins said, "Decentralizing Industry and ' centralizing government at Washington has become a mania . . . The great jnss of the Ameri- can people; spoke in no whispering or uncertain tones theirx opposition to this sort of mania '. : . . I expect to vote against the Calder bill . . . It is time we start on the work of fulfilling Senator Harding's promise to the country to 'return to normalcy." Neither union leader nor Senator seems o be intersted in tne consumer's side of the matter. The 'outstanding fact which can not be set aside by the protestations of labor or the platitudes of operators is that the public suffers and has suf fered indescribably by reason of the chaotic con ditions of the coal industry. Owners and workers have been brutally neglectful of tbte common in terest. "One group has gouged and the other has bludgeoned. The time has come for making both responsive to the requirements of the general wel ' fare. Mr. Green is afraid of the courts, but the coun try is not. Senator Elkins wants to set back the hands of the clock. But his is a wander-voice. However objectionable centralization may once have seemed, the tide which has set in that direc tion will not he arrested even by the magic word "normalcy". The Calder billvhas its defects, but they have not been pointed out by either Mr. Green or the Senator from West Virginia.' o A Statewide Stock Law North Carolina can never claim to be truly pro gressive until it has enacted a st&tewide stock law. The matter has been before a-number of our legislatures. The time for action is long over due. This is not a subject which falls within the com petency of single counties, lor meat and. milk supplies rise above local inhibitions. It is no more possible to restrict the benefits of a stock law than it is to limit the benefits of health regula tions. Both involve interests in relation to which local prejudice and ignorance should not be permitted to play any part. It is earnestly to be hoped that some forward looking legislator will soon introduce a state wide stock bill. After "it Is presented, the best proof of vision would be its enactment by a unani mous vote. " " ' The Needs of a Port To the citizens of Wilmington, who nave faith in the city's development as a. port, the following analysis of marine terminals and port facilities will be of interest. The article written by "Floyd T. Smith, of the Power and Mlninsr npnartmTit r,r he General Electric Company, Schenectady, ap peared in the January number of Marine Engi neering, and has the weight of technical knowl edge and experience back of it. The truth of Mr. Smith's introduction is evi dent. "Facilities which the port requires should include good harbors, deep channels, wide piers, warehouses and pier sheds of improved construc tion to accommodate the shipping which comes to it, but one of the most important of all neces sary facilities is the loading and unloading methods and mechanical equipment that perniits quick dispatch. Other necessary services which the port should provide are dry docks, repair -plants and coal and oil bunkering facilities. Naturally the proximity to the ocean is of vital importance, but equally true is It that the terminal facilities I of a port somewhat removed from the ocean may be, such that a ship could be loaded and unloaded in such tima as more than compen sated for the extra time required for the same ship to run over the longer distance." As a whole, the ports of this country are in adequately supplied with permanent docks for the handling of "cargo ships. New York, even after war expenditures, Jias still .relatively poor equipment but has extensive . improvements planned; Philadelphia's' municipal piers are con sidered good. New Orleans gained greatly during the war, but Mobile and Galveston, with very favorable situations, cannot take . full . advantage ' at them because of lack of facilities though "their plans also are extensive. Norfolk and Portsmouth are undertaking great improvements ........ "In fact," says Mr. Smith, "it seems the -future has never held so many plans for port' develop ments. A plan to rebuild every harbor and port along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Galveston and to install new freight handling machinery, to do much work now done by men, has been sug gested in a resolution adopted' by the Southern Traffic League at its recent meeting in Galveston." "A wise man profits by the experience of others." May we not' consider the truth of the saying, and that of the Montreal Harbor Commission, to the effect that, "The ports that have remained stationary or lost in prestige have been those whr6h-neglected to provide facilities before busi ness was forced to seek elsewhere the facilities provided-by rival terminals. Business follows the facilities. Great port developments have in variably been followed by increase ; of trade and population." ; - ' , . o : . .. The Climate The-weather man .Tuesday night predicted tnr - . 'l ;IUI North" Carolina rain or snow. In predicting, for the lengthy ,old state he.must perforce, strike an average, moi- ; make some sort of double-barrel forecast,, for Nortn Carolina begins with the outermost sands of Soutbport; and continues till the geography reaches Murphy, or Cherokee, 'way -up in the everlasting hills.. - : Whenever he s says "snow". We ot southeastern North Carolina smile, though occasionally , he catches us with the smile on, and freezes it hard ; but as a rule, the "snow" -is forthe upstate country, and none for us. We had some of it recently, but that was an exception Southeastern Carolina has the "finest" climate in the world. Upstate people may have all sorts of winter, but down here -in the near-near-tropical breezes, we usually get a little rain or. mist while the rest of the state is tdtin in firewood and sitting close to the fireplace Why anybody would want to go further south than Wilmington for the winter, is hard to understand unless it just be cause such people do net possess the facts about Wilmington. This suggests the idea of an all-the-year-round resort, long discussed by our own people, and it certainly would be worth our while to create hotel facilities and stage an elaborate campaign to 'attract people from the north and northwest to this section. Our climate is delight-ful-Ave cannot appreciate it as much as people from the farther north - states .would appreciate it if they only knew. One of the best investments we could make at all, would.be the informing of the northern public that Wilmington, North Caro lina, is really the place for them to spend the harsh months. Why, it was only the other day that Wrightsville Beach was bedecked with winter bathers. We have the gulf stream in our front jTard. It is exceptional that we have real winter weather. Upstate may groan- in bonds of ice and 1 sleet, but we revel in mild weather almost all the time in winter, and almost every winter. -o Contemporary Views THE PRESIDENT'S BOOK Charlcsto7i News and Courier: It is good news that the President is preparing to get tgwork on his book as soon as he goes out of office. . That is the next great task .which lies before him, and it is not the least important of the labors which he has undertaken in his career.' He has been a prin cipal actor in one of the greatest dramas of human history and he has accomplished many . mighty things and has, struggled ably and valiantly to wards still loftier heights and achievements, the attainment of . which was made impossible at last because of the malice of some and the blindness of others. It is possible, indeed, it is probable, that the book which he will write about the peace conference in which he played so great a part will become in time an important factor for the en lightenment of those whose, blindness prevented t the great consummation for which the President ; strove, and in this way it may help powerfully to : bring the nations at some later time to the goal . to which he tried vainly to lead them. It is hardly likely that the recent announcement of a book by former Secretary of State Lansing has anything to do with the present announce ment of the President's purpose. It has long been understood that Mr. Wilson would tell the story of the peace conference after his relinquishment of the presidency. It is certainly true, however, that the publication of Mr. Lansing's book, which will be given to the public the day after the Pres ident leaves office, makes it all the more necessary that Mr;. Wilson prepare his account .of . the peace conference without undue delay. , It: is known that Mr. Lansing's book willcrilicise sharply some , of the policies and decisionsof te President at Paris, and of course due weight should ipe,r'and will be, given to the views of thVfojrmf igretery of State. But it is right and necees3ooj.Jiat the Presi- dent should be heard rega: matters; and since the questions at issuetare,,t in taany cases of the utmost importance andftara, a direct bearing on the policies of this naUotfrnd it other nations; it is essential that air sid.e)Kijpontroversy be made plain as early as possHbl3f3 ' ' THE WINSLQ318 Washington Post: One bf-ihe thtngs for which Congress should find time bereetf ilow and March 4 is the passage of the Winelobill which amends the transportation act., so :.thatfpartial payments of the amounts due the railroads may be made pending the adjustment of Uhe final account. The bill has been considered byrt the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce and has been favorably reported Co-the.House So far as can be learned there Is rip Objection-to.it, consequently its passage in both the House and Senate would require but very little time. There is due to the railroads under the guaranty, provision of the transportation act several hun dred minions of dollars which, under a ruling of the comptroller of the Treasury, can not be paid until the accounts are fully adjusted. Meantime, the railroads are in dire need of funds, and many of them1, are not earning enough to' meet their current bills. The government's liability in this matter is not questioned.' The guarantee was given in good faith and will be carried out, but it will contribute vastly to the improvement of business conditions generally If the railvoads are able to secure partial' payments of the amounts due them and thus secure relief. Members of the Interstate-Commerce Com mission, the Secretary of the Treasury and other-, government officials are favorable to legislation at this time. They realize that this consideration should be extended to the railroads, but are unabte to grant it unless the law is changed. The Winslow bill should be passed by the House under suspension of the rules, or under a special rule, if necessary. The faults justify this; course, because its passage will release many millions of dollafs and will very materially help to im prove business conditions. No; representative -or senator need have any qualms about voting for the bill on the ground that it is helping the cor porations. The government is committed to the payment of this money, and the ; only question involved is whether if shall be paid in install ments, as proposed in this bill, or in single pay ments after the accounts have been finally audited' and certified. - " '.; : THE UNIVERSITY NEEDS . AiHeville Citizen: "I firmly believe that the growth of the university during the next decade will be limited only by the rapidity With which it can build up its material plant aad . enlarge its faculty." - , So said President Chase. the other day1" in out-' lining the crisis which faces the State university. The present enrollment is about 1,400 but the ac commodations for students, both in dormitory and class room, are badly crowded;, the faculty is none too large and many of the best' professors have re fused larger compensation elsewhere simply be cause of their faith in the university's future and in the belief that the' state will deal liberally with x them ia: recognition of their value to the youth of the state.' v .. . . : - : - , Governor-Morrison has given powerful support to -higher education in his special message to the . general assembly, he takes the position that the ' budget commission's recommendations were mere- 4 1 . -l-4- n lil r .1. . Villi.. At 1 ly. suggestions made without any possibility of the" commissions' ; knowing what the income of the state is to be when a scientific taxation program, shall have been worked out. . The 'assembly should hear from ? the people back home unanimous " in dorsement of the governor's stand for more gen erous and far-seeing appropriations for all state institutions;- - - - :, Goat Siaits Coats Every express from Newi York is bringing to us Spring's new creationsin ladies' and misses' apparel. Not in years have styles been more fascinating and prices more moderate. Dresses of Taffeta, Crepe Satin, Canton Crepe and Crepe de Chine at $12.98 and up. " . , Coat Suits of French Serg-e, Tricotihe and Tweed, $18.50 and ud. Coats and Wraps made of Velour, Bolivia and Wool Jersey, $9.98 and up. Skirts and Blouses.' The newest ideas of fashion aje embodied in thesfa garments, which are priced toj meet the demands of every purse. 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T, 1921, expose for sale, v foi - cash, at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the courthouse door of New Hanover County,t at 12 o'clock m., the following: described tract of land located So East Wilminff ton, in Harnett Township, County of New Hanover, and State of Nortto Caro lina, and bounded and described as fol lOWS:' . : ... .... "-. 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