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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. Cr THURSDAY; FEBRUARYV 171921. FOUR " . , ; . . . . li . ..... fm,- . f itUt Jffittirttmit 8 WHS OLDEST DAILY IN NOTH OAROMJA Pobllaae Every Mormii In the Tear br 1 JJi MlNGTON STAU C08IPAX. Inc., 10 Catux Street, Wilmington. Worth CaraUna . ' Entered at "the 'PostoiTlco at Wilmington. N. C, s Second CUs Matter, r . Telephone! Editorial )... ........No. Susinesf Office NO' SUBSCRIPTION RATES BT CARREER. One Tear ,2Kft Bli Months ? 76 Three Months . Una Month m - - SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL vta Prepaid Dallyani only Sunday One Tear ...... . .I.0 Bu Months 2.60 Three Months 1? One Month Subscriptions Not Accepted for Sunday Only Edition - j MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news creuited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and a.so tne Jocal news published herein. All right I re-pu-licatlon of special dispatches" herein are also reserved. ' FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES: Atlanta: Candler Building. J. B. XEOUOH . NewVork Boston t Chicago J25 Fifth Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples das BidB BRYANT, GRIFFITH A BRUNSON. : : : " " THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921 Tariff Talks A revenue tariff Democrat of the old school can sit back and read with peculiar enjoyment the clash of the New England industrial protectionist with the western agricultural protectionist. Sen ator Moses, in his terrific assault on the Fordney "emergency" tariff bill which passed the Senate yesterday, hooted at the measure in unlimited scorn. "Why, this bill is lopsided, it's blind and it's deaf and it has the rickets," quoth he. "lVs a combination between the rice paddies, 'the cane brakes, the cattle ranges, the sheep runs and the Wheat fields; and how I can support it, even though I am for protection through and through, I know not." And he must "assuredly did not support it. Comes now the senator from the agricultural west, Senator McCumber, who heatedly replies: "The senator from New Hampshire is perfectly willing (to stack protection upon protection for nis New England folk, but is unwilling -to share the benefits with the farmers feeding the worldv I am tired of such discrimination. The time has come when a protective tariff will do some good for the agricultural classes and I am here to see that they get it." All of which reminds one of what Hancock said. New England wants and always haa wanted and has generally received a protective tariff as high as the blue dome of heaven would permit, because New England is a manufacturing country and buys its food. The west, agricultural in the main, wants protection for its farm products, and im mediately runs afoul of the industrial communi ' ties. And thus the doctors of high protection dis agree, revealing how selfish, after all, is the prin ciple of a protective tariff. The Fordney bill appears to be all that Moses says it is, and although Congress has wasted weekr, that should have been devoted to other bus iness, there is no hope whatever of enacting it into law, even though the house a grees to the .Senate amendments, for. the President will certainly veto it with a bang, seizing the opportunity which Sen ator Moses has pointed out, to lambast the Re publican party; and time is short for an effort to rally, a two-thirds vote. As Mark Sullivan, has pointed out, the bill began as an emergency meas ure to help the farmer; it began in good faith; but the emergency has passed, the farmer has sold his crops, taken his loss and has "died," as Sullivan says, while Dr. Republican and Dr. Democrat dis cussed the prescription. 0 ; Mr. Daniels' Flag Flies In the accounts of the farewell dinner given for Secretary Daniels N by the House Naval Affairs Committee, in the warmth and unanimity of praiBe addressed to him on that occasion by Republicans and Democrats alike, the newspaper Teader'will find a refreshing contrast. Secretary Daniels . alone of the retiring cabinet officers, said Representative Britten, Republican, "will shove off with his flag flying at top mast," The mejnory need not be severely taxed to - recall . 1 a time when suspicion of party treason, or worse, would have been directed against any Republican leader venturing to compliment Secretary Dan iels, however apologetically or lefthandedly. In the, earlier days of his cabinet connection; the" Naval Secretary was cherished by the Republican party and the Republican press as an angel of -' pier r imtnt. For them he was the Henry Flivver ; of the political world. They engaged the cream TDf the country's cartoonists and humorists in order that ,no detail of the great Daniels joke should be omitted from the world's funniest rec-r ord. Occasionally, falling info fits . of irritation over the futility of their cheap burlesque, they , -broke into venomouB chorus, '"Give us his head," 'Let him go let him go!" ; But Mr. Daniels.did hot go. He continued, se rene a,ni unvexed, on the even course that he had et before bim. . He became an authority on' hi Job. Hf devoted his days and his nights to the lipbuildtpg of the American Navy. A people t& miliar ith the record of thi Navy In the world's greatest; crisis need not be reminded of the Secret tary's emergence frotn f he storm of bitterness and ridicule jas a man -of recognized accomplishments: It" is -refreshing' to read now of the. full member-? - ship 6ftb Hous Naval Affairs CommiUee;j'a4 . semblin at1 banquet board to pay tribute to this public spryaht,'i)e!Spite the ; avalanche of. crjii? eism he has received at various points of his ad-' ; TOlnistr4io;f lljiprigejBtetiYe .Padgett. tUe, Navy's administration during the war was one of potless purlt" " ' , , The Harding Lieutenants ,Mr, Harding's little' journey Utrougn' the won derland of "best minds has finally brought him back to Will Hays and Harry, paugherty. The. abearance of this belovM pair bn the scene 01 the maneuvers at St. Augustine suggests that .the President-elect is aware o the nearnessot JviarcA Having traversed the fairy world of beautiful drekms, pleasant sayings, mud-gripped river boats, and all the sweet nothings of vacation time, he has arrived at last at the threshold of his work shopand behold his business partners! Messrs. Hays and Daugherty have come to in struct him in the ways of a world that does not promise enchantment, and the. intentness of the Harding ear suggests that, he ha only been play ing at listening in his earlier engagements. The mild admonishments -of the more considerate Re-, publican papers, .the bold challenging of the New York Tribune these avail not to disturb the business-like pair now holding commissions as Mr. Harding's practical instructors. Hays and Daugherty belong to that political school which has been said to know exactly what it wants. Precisely how to get what they want is another element of the Hays-Daugherty education that has not'been slighted. It does not appear that they will have to extend themselves severely in the effort-to make the new President work satisfac torily. ' ' -0- The Tiresome Mr. Dempsey We do not wish to appear over-exacting in our requirements of a person of Mr. Jack Dempsey's importance, but we do feel that he ought to show greater consideration for the peace of mind of a public that is conscientiously trying to keep up with his movements, past, present and prospective. "We have the most ardent admiration for Mr. Dempsey's footwork, but 'when he insists upon keeping it at its. highest and most fascinating speed outside of the ring we must confess a slight giving-away at the pit of the stomach. It is our latest information from him, not hav ing read the night's bulletins, that he has about decided to run over to France and try his hand at fighting "over there." Without 'wishing to ap pear as an objector for we have never had any conscientious scruples 'against Mr. Dempsey's fighting, in France we must demand to know why he didnt say so in the first place; that Is, a month or. two ago. But that is not his way. Without putting on a glove in earnest, he has trained at nineteen or twenty well known sports camps, knocked every body from Samson to Carpentier into a state of pluperfectly innocuous desuetude, collected some thing like $1,786,499.15 in admissions, side-bets and bonuses and is still talking. Now, we'd like to get this man down: straight, metaphorically or atmospherically speaking, of course, and publish his itinerary. If he will only tell us on the level where he is going, and when, we will be happy to give any sort of guarantee that the world will nct be kept in darkness. Better still, if he will only go somewhere no matter how distant tell us about it after he arrives, and stays, there, we'll agree to write him a postal card every day, and tell him how agreeable life is in the U. S. A. The Futrelle Case Interest in the case of the man Futrelle, charg ed with leadership of the mob that attacked the Wayne county jail last December in an effort to take from the officers of the law several negroes accused of the murder of . a white man, centered, of course, in how a jury would react under such a case. That Futrelle waaJh the mob and took a leading part, even his attorneys admitted. Evi dence on this point was clear and conclusive. The only question was, Would the jury convict? It did. Convictions in cases of this character are not easy to obtain. There was once a lynching, party in an upstate county which took a whole cellful of. negroes from the jail, under the nose of the court, so to speak, for court had been opened for the trial of the negroes, and out of all the thou sands who stormed the jail, the authorities sue ceeded in enmeshing one mftn only, and he, as it happened, was an ex-convict, without friends or money, and they gave him fifteen years. The horde of other lynchers went free. Only two or' three men, in fact, were even arrested. Whether Futrelle is mentally unsound, as was contended, is of course, another matter. The jury evidently leaned toward him, for it recommended mercy. But the fact remains that the alleged leader of the mob has been convicted, and this fact stares in the face future woiifd-be lynchers who may attempt to take a jail by storm. The speediest methods of ending 'mob law is fo slap the law on the mobbers. Once they realize it is not a profitable game to play, there will be fewer and fewer cases pf lynching in North Carolina. ' " 0 The Wilson Millions From the prosaic ways of the sluggard, the gifted majority of the House" on Tuesday turned for diversion to the more volatile part of the fool It is almost to be regretted that the . Democratic members, chosen to dignify, by. addresses of oppo sition, tne resolution calling upon President Wil son "for an itemized statement 'showing disburse ments and allotments of the $150,000,000 war fund voted by Congress." It might have been honed that a Congress notoriously content with doing nutuig wouia, at any rate, not violate its tradi tion by doing worse. The-groallness and stuDiditv of this resolution condemn the Republicans of the Lower House as beneath the attention of an intel ligent and dignified opposition. .We mayjeasonably expect in due course a .'resolution requiring the f President to count out to a designated House com. mlttee $150,000,000 in nickels and dimes. " .. ; Neu York World; In reply to Senator' Robin- son's charges that the senate was making army promotions the football of politics, Senator Lodge said the country- "had not forgotten that oolitics kept Theodore Roosevelt from going to France and had kept Leonard Wood at home." v;- '. -'A- v :Thia is a characteristic piecejtf intelleetiiai dis honesty on the part of Senator Lodge. The so called Roosevelt division was a political exnloit. inot a military exploit, and President" WJIsonvery properly refused to permit the military. Diana of the'army td be upset by -a political .circus. ..-..As for Gen; Leonard Wood, Senator Lodge knows IwTiy hedid, not go to France, lie knows also that "neither the1 President nor the war department was responsible for General Pershing's' decision which kepT General Wobd ' at home. " "This continued ef fort to picture Leonard Wood as - the . victim -of - politics in the war is sheer fake Contemporary Views ' UNTO THE LAST TICK . Grecnsbord Daily Neicsi The Wilmington Star has never been quite clear as to why the cattle tick1 decided to make its last stand in eastern North Carolina, "but we are beginning to realize that it., displayed remarkable generalship in its. choice of a battleground." The easterners will fight too and for, the last tick. THE AUTOMOBILE REVIVAL Charlotte Neics: The Charlotte Automotive as sociation heard some rather cheering "Words at Its Monday meeting from Mr. McCullum, a leading official in the automobile world who declared that in the, highest financial circles, it was generally agreed that by the middle, of the summer, business would have picked up to normal and that the out look for a revival in the automobile business was distinctly bright. This business was among the first to fall by the wayside in the process of defla tion which was inflicted upon the country and while there 'may, have been virtue in calling a halt to the indiscriminate purchase of automobiles by the people, there is no reason to assume that the nation has reached the peak of its automobile buying power. : There are lots of people who are driving cars who are not financially situated so that they can afford it, but, for that matter, there are lots of people who eat loaf bread instead of corn oreaa. It's a matter of taste and also of the development of living standards and if we regard the automo bile as nothing more than a luxury and that would be a grotesque statement it still has a large and indispensable place in the life of the people. People are expected to buy some things that are not bread, otherwise, we would not be able to make much progress, toward a rational and balanced "development. The outlook for the automobile trade is as bright as that for any other line of business that Is estab lished' and that has so important a place in the. commerce of the world. Chances are that when the times are again made normal, the people will buy cars just as freely as they ever did with the added possibility that they will also make up for the time they have lost since last summer. DISILLUSIONED Cleveland Plain Dealer: Only with the tenta tive reparations settlement does France fully re alize the extent of its present financial difficulties. Large as the sum agreed upon is, France s share of it would still leave the country face to face with bankruptcy. - The total budget for the current year totals 41, 000,000,000 francs, of which more than Half is list- . ed as recoverable from Germany. Taxes promise to yield not more than half the aggregate sum. On the assumption of Germany's payment of the present amount of reparations France would re ceive from that source during the first ten years not more than five billions. A staggering deficit thus faces her no matter what the method of ap proach. It is regarded as impracticable to exact more income through taxation, as the result would be a capital levy that would retard the industrial re covery of the country. Its credit is already so weak that further public borrowing Is said to be out of the question. . . The. only recourse is to make substantial re trenchments and the work of reconstruction prom ises to suffer most heavily WorkrjL employed In restoring the devastated regions are being dis charged by the thousands. The government pay roll has thus been reduced by more than 170,000 men. Reimbursement for destruction by the en emy are being scaled down to a basis of pre-war values which were 20 to 30 per cent 'of present re placement costs. The effect is to discourage many who returned after the armistice to the devastated regions. Dis mayed by the unfavorable outlook, many are again departing and going into the southern part of the country, to spend the winter. The mistake of French leaders who promised full reparation for Injury to property is now ap parent. That endless stream of gold of which the French peasant dreamed is not flowing across the Rhine. Neither will German bonds suffice to pro duce the food and manufacture the products of which the French nation has need. Nothing' but a return to the thrifty habits Of the French nation which triumphed to pay the indemnity imposed upon the nation in 1871 will promote a sound pol icy of reconstruction. ; THE PSYCHOLOGY OP PEACE v Aiheville Citizen:. David Lloyd 'George startled thinking people everywhere when he declared in a public speech a few days ago that the world is in a desperate plight and that he did not see the way out of the present disorders and uncertainties. When Anatol France argued a few weeks pre viously that civilization is threatened with a breakdown, serious-minded people were not alarm ed for they appreciated France's penchant for pes simism and discounted his doleful prophecies. But the English prime minister is the undisputed leader among international optimists and this con fession wrung from him by the untoward trend of events caused the world to pause and wonder. They realize that -the, situation must indeed Be critical if Lloyd George was moved to hang his head in despair. While the earth is filled with the rumors of strife and racial differences, territorial disputes and trade rivalries are tuggjng threateningly at the bonds of friendship, it is inconceivable that the world will wish to turn again to war to settle these differences. Erasmus the, scholar laid down the thesis that "war Is delightful only to those who have no experience with it." The nations of the earthx have had their experience with war and they are still mourning for their dead. They are just completing the audit of the great war and running , up the totals of the slain and of the financial losses. ', . The great war dislocated all the customary pro cesses of peace. It, glorified hate ,and exalted de? struction and . taught people every wnere to place their faith in the power tohit hard. It is natural that a. wdrld desperately -ill with the maladies of war ,would find its convalescence slow and, that relapses would come to retard speedy and com piete recovery . .r i , ' v But it is unthinkable that the world Is facing war rather than peace; It is unbelievable that civilized nations still; bearing upon their, bodies the raw and painful wounds of the last conflict will take up arms-in the resentment of imaginary wrongs. The world war cost the countries involv ed more than $348,000,000,000 , in direct and indi rect expenses and a potential loss of life of 43, OOO.oOO people; The prosperity of tha world has beeh mortgaged for a generation while It will take France seventy years to "recover the, loss in population which that country suffered, r The League of Nations furnishes thi machinery -by which the possibilities at war may be rendered more remote but this machinery Will not be ef fective unless it is supported by a spirit of peace among air the peoples of earth. 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