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fflp hunting gtfar -THE OLDEST DAILY l!V NORTH CAROLINA P.bllshed ETerr Mor.li.tp In tke Year r MINGTOK STAR COMPANY. Street. Wilmington, JioxtU Carollm Enttred at the Poatoffico at Wilmington, N. aa t'-ecopd Class Matter. Editorial Buaines Offlc Telepkeseat No. 1 o. h SUBSCRIPTION BATES BY CABBIE ft One Year "''HI! Six Months ,..,...,......... f-" Three Months . . One Mopth tw fcVUSCKIlTION RATES BY MAIL Postage PrrpaM Dally Dally and only Sunday .tm, $6.00 7.WW 2.60 .... 1.25 !. 45 One Tear . Six Months Three Months One Month ... ..... 4 Subscriptions Hot Accepted for Sunday Only Edition lEMBEIt OK ASSOCIATE!' PRESS Tho Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the Ube Tor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All right ot re-pu-lication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES: Atlanta: Candler Building. J. B. KEOT70H New York Boston Chicago 226 Fifth Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples' Gas Bid BRYANT. GRIFFITH A B HUNS ON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921 The Farrell-Hinton Mystery It appears probable that the world will never know, fully and officially, why Lieutenants Farrell and Ilinton of the naval balloon service engaged in a personal encounter. The august board of inquiry which hits been charged with the duty of getting at the bottom of the affair had not at last accounts made appreciable headway. Lieutenant Kloor, third member or the balloon party which attracted much attention by landing in the Cana dian wilds, insistB that he has no official report of the fight and knows nothing pertaining to it beyond the information contained in newspaper accounts. Testimony from cither of the principals in the bout would" necessarily he of questionable value. Moreover, having shaken hands in the meantime, they would probably show as much ret icence as their-companion. The solemn hearing apparently will come to naught, and this is to be regretted. Next to a fight itself, there is hardly anything that so takes hold of the mind as the cause of a fight. In this case interest has been particularly high. There arc various suggested causes. Lieutenant Farrell may have been unduly sensitive on the score of his advancing years or excess poundage, or Lieutenant Hinton jnay have felt aggrieved over the division of that roasted carrier pigeon. It is almost mad dpninr to consider fhat we mav never know the precise facts. Because of personal curiosity and lor the sake of the Navy's good name we had hoped that the board of inquiry would ascertain not only the cause of the fight, but the style: whether, for instance, the decisive offering was a right-hook to the chin or a mighty left to the solar plexus; whether the rules were those of the Mar quis of Qucensbury or of some other well known battle authority. o It must be admitted that there is a certain fas cination in watching the figures chalked up in the hospital drive, but we must not permit this side line engrossment to obscure our own obligation to make a personal addition to those figures. We Fhall gain some benefit merely by observing a fine thing in process of accomplishment, but it is to be remembered that the lookers-on will not carry this protect to success. Tho generous aid of every loyal Wilmington citizen is necessary. Let's make it 100 per cent. Subscribe as liberally as circum stances will permit, but don't be afraid to give your share. Governor Morrison is placing county authori ties on notice that he will expect the prompest pos ?ible report whenever there i3 even remote prob ability of a lawless outbreak, a lynching, for ex ample. The governor takes the view that the cause of public safety will be promoted more ef fectively by preventing an illegal disturbance than by investigating an outbreak that has alreafly oc curred. This view has not always. appeared io be generally accepted, but it carries a simplicity and soundness that are altogether refreshing. One of the Republicans of the General Assembly is sponsor for the argument that North Carolina Is too poor to build good roads. We are not in formed as to the county or section In which the gentleman originated. Our personal opinion Is that he, was not elected in this State at all, but arrived at Raleigh through an error in changing trails in some remote part ot the country. Correspondent Small reminds us again that the President-elect dislikes very much to hurt any body's feelings. Apparently not pausing to con sider that the effects of the very best anaesthetic 'nusii'wear oft sooner or later. We hear that the Fordney emergency tariff bill has passed the Senate. The idea of Congress seems to be that the stable should be locked in order to ?revent the horse from getting in again. If the President should appear to be unable to give a satisfactory account of that $150,000,000, we would beg Congress to consider that the French Jiay have short-changed him.5 ' - - To Build the Roads' Not so much ".. by skillful generalship, though that was in evidence, but chiefly by sheer force of sound argument jad common sense, tha4T0cates of a modern system of highways for North Car olina bavf scored a remarkably cleancut victory in the LowstJIous of th General Assembly. The overwhelming majority by which the Doughton-Connor bill passed in that body .yester day may b taken as foreshadowing the early com pletion of this measure's course through the chan. neU of enactment. -There is no apparent reason to fear . that the proposal to establish a gbofl rJds system in? the State will be received wlth less kindliness in the Senate than its appearance has evoked in the House. Governor Morrison' cham pionship of good roads has not at any time been questioned, so we may take great comfort in the outlook. DeSpite a varied assortment of good roads ideas and some hesitancy here and there due to miscon ceived notions of economy, the handling of this is sue in a manner and spirit becoming representa tives of a progressive State has been forecast jtrom the beginning. Persistent, intelligent agitation with respect of this pressing need had prepared the way with a thoroughness that must always re dound to the credit of a small, but intensely zeal ous gfoup of citizens. The General Assembly con vened in the midst of a striking demonstration of the popular demand for courage and vision in the. treatment of the highways program. The House has given evidence of its responsiveness to the popular will. ' " The victory is not yet won. There should be no cessation of the eall which has sounded. The people's earnest wish for united, systematic de velopment of North Carolina roads, conveyed so convincingly to the membership of the House, must be impressed just as effectively upon the minds of our Senators. "'. o A Message to Garcia Without the permission of the author, we are reproducing in part a letter which drifted Into our workshop 'yesterday afternoon. Joseph D. Garcia, . pleasantly remembered by us as "Joe" Garcia of the composing room force, wrote the letter and we don't blame him: Will you please give me a write-up in the paper about my boy who was born Tuesday, February 15th, at Thompson's Hospital, Lum berton. We have an eight-pound boy, J. D. Jr. Mother and baby are doing fine. Laefclng the inspiration that started this letter on its course to our desk, we realize the sad in adequacy that will attend any effort on our part to prepare a suitable write-up. Nevertheless we are moved to the attempt by our instinctive appre ciation of this important event. The arrival of an eight-pound boy is not an everyday affair, even in the most fortunate families, and we are very sure that Thompson's Hospital at Lumberton has not often given shelter to a more promising young citizen than this same young fellow, J. D. Jr. We would like to have him know that we shall look to him with a sense -of bounding hope. Most of his troubles are ahead of him, but we would wish for him a peculiar immunity from the less kindly dispositions of Fate. We know from his daddy's letter that Just now he is eight pounds of gold, and our prayer is that the pounds which he will add may not bring any dilution of that precious substance. It is an advantage worth mentioning to be described as "doing fine" as early in the great game he has entered. May the fineness of his doings never diminish th;s is our wish ami message for the newest Garcia. -O An Alien Band We have read with interest of the audience granted by Mr. Harding to a "committee of the German-American Citizens' League." Our atten tion has been attracted especially by the presence of one George Sylvester Viereck at the head of this committee and by Mr. Viereck's announce ment following the conference with the President elect, The committee, said he, had been received with the utmost cordiality and had gone away "sat isfied that there would be a just and equitable peace with Germany." Mr. Viereck and his asso ciates, It appears, had presented "to Mr. Harding "a memorandum setting forth certain views on issues confronting the next administration." What the "views" of the committee are, we do not pretend to know. We have no interest in the views of any committee calling itself "German American," or in the views of any other body whose very name is a He. If the designation of the committee were not of itself sucient evidence of Its unworthinest to be heard by a President elect, the sponsorship of George Sylvester Viereck should; be enough to remove the last vestige of fa vorable inclination. To learn that such an organ ization had been received with cordiality by the President-elect would, alone, give us pause; to be told that the President-elect gave satisfactory as surances of sympathy; causes us to marvel more than ever at this strange determination to please at all costs. Our: earnest wish for "an equitable and just peace with Germany" does not lessen our convic tion that a committee or league calling itself "German-American" may have no proper part in counselling On that peace. No group of "citizens" unwilling to be known as Americans, as that and nothing more or less, is entitled to the ear of the President-elect, to say nothing of his cordiality or'syrapathy. . ; ,; ' -'..!.' '.v:? "The party (Democratic) can not run with wa ter that has passed over the dam," according' to Mr., Bryan. The party ought to know that mHv K'ell alter three trips over with W. J. b. himself. I The postmaster at Savannah has resigned to become chief of police. It's remarkable how men's tasUis Change with the varying aspects of affairs it tie national capital. Contemporary Views ' THE TAIL TWISTERS " New York Tribune: That the Britiih govern ment has raised tor discussion1 the Question of in ternational debt cancellation hat ' provoked - re action to be expected. .The tall twisters have fas tened, thejr hands in a firm clutch and are eagerly tyingtnew knots. "Behold," it Is said, "the dia bolic cunning of John Bull as usual playing up a lofty ideal to save his pocket!" 1 - Yet G rest Britain has some right to claim her proposal should not give offense that she has a standing for making it. During the war, to help the oommon' cause, she lent as well as borrowed, and her loans greatly exceeded her borrowings, She advanced in all $8,700,000,000 to France, to Italy, to Belgium and other countries. -On the ledger's other side she received 4,210,000,00 from us. - Thus Great Britain's loans exceeded her bor rowlnars 100 per cent. If there was cancellation she would sacrifice on balance approximately $4,500,009,000. As her population and wealth are less than hlf our own, the Individual Briton would give up something more than the individual American. So she does not invite us to practice a generosity she does not exemplify. To bring the debt cancellation project forward now is doubtless an error : in judgment. It is too soon. In time it is not unlikely that mutual can cellation will come in some form, for if the war was waged fora pomnjop purpose 1t is scarcely fair to have some nations bear a greater part of the burden than others. But whether or not there is cancellation it is scarcely sportsmanlike to attack Great Britain for offering a program under which she will give up hey claims. But the tail of the British lion is tough and elastic, as has often been shown, and probably will be able to endure the new strain put on it. - " PEOPLE CAN HAVE IT IF THEY WISH Greeniboro Netcs: The time has come If in deed, it has not been true hitherto when the peo ple of North Carolina can get whatever they wish out of their general assembly. They have so far failed to get a decent ballot law because they did ' not wlsn it. The popular will must, indeed, be emphatic. No legislative body enters upon a new field without being forced to do so. This is perhaps a salutary fact; anyway, it is a fact. It ought not to be nec essary to force the administrative side of govern ment, as it too often is; but doubtless it is just as well that new legislative ventures are never tak en by legislative bodies of their own initiative, they never do anything, however demonstrably wise, until -they feel that they dare not refuse to do it. The people will not doubt have to set about it in the regular way, if they are ever to have a decent ballot law. There will have to be organi zation and systematic publicity. It will require petitions and demonstrations and letters and tele grams all the phenomena of that respectable show of force that convinces legislators, even sometimes against their will, that vox populi is the voice of a body in earnest, and that will not be refused. The Daily News had rather hoped the present general assembly would sense the feeling of the new body of suffragists, and give the people a secret ballot this time; but there wasn't "really any particular reason for hope. Legislators do not spe cialize as mind readers. It is true that the women voters have, a program, and that is supposed to be known to the members of the assembly; but the very multiplicity of items on the program has weakened the items individually. Whenever any considerable body? of the citizens decide, far enough in advance, that the protected ballot is worth striving for, they can get it for North Carolina. And progressive, thoughtful citi zens, the Daily News believes, have been under standing the value of the secret ballot, which Is the only decent sort of ballot. Daily Editorial Digest AN OLD QUESTION IN A NEW DAY AshcviUe Citizen: The debates Jn Raleigh on the question of stock law or no stock law recall to the elder generation of today the fierce controver sies that raged throughout the counties a quarter century ago when It was first proposed to curtail the free range privileges of cattle and swine. County administrations rose and fell accordingly as they espoused or denied rights which were alleged to be guaranteed in the bill of rights. Townships threatened to secede and establish county government of their own rather than yield the time-consecrated privileges of having their livestock consume a neighbor's corn crop in a night. It was the last effort of the pioneer instinct to perpetuate itself. r:;f; '! The free range was abolished in many counties, before the conflict subsided and now the propon ents of restriction seem powerful enough to make the law state-wide. The opposition is vigorous but weak numerically; only six Senators stood by one of their colleagues in Ti is effort to have his county exempted when the measure 'passed the Senate. But a sign of general enlightenment and social progress is seen in the battle over the bill; nobody has threatened secession from the state government and it has not been alleged that civil liberty hangs in the balance while this problem is considered by the general assembly. THE NORTH DAKOTA BUBBLE Atc York Times: Fallen Into hopeless smash Is the new heaven of North Dakota. How hopeless may be judged from the fact that the weary mas ters of the Non-Partisan league are forced to sur render to the bankers, that abhorrent class, in conceivable in the perfect Socialist State; and not' a downtrodden farmer rises against these oppres sors. The perfect Socialist State banked on its own hook and in its own artless way. Now the professional bankers, reactionaries who follow ac cepted banking methods, have had to be called In to save the amateurs, and they have imposed their awn terms. Only 32 banks have had to shut their doors. The great mother Bank of North Dakota is only not legally insolvent because there is no legal method of making it so. Though the legal depository of nubile moneys, it hasn't the cash to pay the state bills. Its funds are uncomeatable, on the waiting line in long credits and shaky paper or in banks in the coun ties apd smaller political divisions, and not to be reached because the State owes these moneys A lot of taxpayers have refused Xo pay their taxes What was the use when State finance was bedlam' A lot of schools will have to shut up next spring because-they can't get any money. General busi ness suffers necessarily from the uncertainty and confusion and the collapse of Socialist finance So the bankers have to come in to save the pieces and rescue the State. The terms, which the Non-Partisan league bosses have enacted by the Legislature, comprise the abandonment of most of the policies Of State so cialism and the return to common sense and com mon business methods. The remarkable State In dustrial Commission, which the other day orderea payment stopped on certain checks drawn by the State Treasury, is to l pruned of many of its powers of confusion and . destruction. The Bank of North Dakota, perhaps the most eccentric finan cial instUutkm that ever, existed, is to go into liquidation, and to be recognized, on sound prin ciples, as '-rJral Credits bank. The business of the Home Builders' Association is to be wound up The .fantastic program of State-owned enterorises is to be abandoned. The completion of the State mill and eyator will be the only survival of the Socialist policy. Probably that, too, will ulti mately pasir into private hinds. In sum, the bankers undertake to pull the State out of a hole and give it and its political divisions money to go on with by selling $6,000,000 of state bonds, on condition that the State give up insane experimenting with Socialist projects and return JJL VTwileB or ordinary prudence and safety Whether the. investigation to be undertaken of the State Bank-will result In any prosecutions is more than doubtful, since the craziest banking methods on' the part of officials seem to have been legalized When tbe ;flnncial account of the fouriyears of" State socialism is made up the taxpayers will have a pretty, penny to pay. The majority of the voters approved what has turned out tobe thjelr own un doing. They , have had an expensive education Pjeeumabtyntts effect will not be lost upon the voters in other States who have been duped, but not to the extent Of- more .than ? 18" a year so far by the plans of the no longer ..great TOwnley - ' The attack on "capital ships" by powerful minorities in both England and America seems to find them as vulnerable, in the eyes of the press, as the aircraft and submarine enthusi asts declare they are in battle. For the most part, American writers sup port the views of General Mitchell of their air service, who declares that for the price of one battleship we could make th country ''airtight from at tack by land, sea and air." Testimony against the capital ships in Britain, and Admiral Sims' views in this coun try seem to be more sympathetically receive! than the expert opinion of the navy board. There are exceptions among: the newspapers, however, and the Sioux City (la.) Journal (Rep.), falls in with the board's opinion that "every new weapon of offense that has threatened the supremacy of capital ships has been met by a successful mode of de fense." To bear out this statement, it declares: "It might be recalled nhat neither air planes nor submarines were effec tive to any great degree in the war after defensive measures against both Expert naval opinion "has not helped much" to settle the question either way, the Baltimore News (Dem.), re marks, especially since the other pow ers cannot agree: "If England puts her faith in the torpedo and the bomb," It remarks, "at the same time that Japan sticks to the heavy rifle, what are., ve going to do about it? The navy's answer seems to be that we must build enough sub marines and aircraft to match Egland apd enough big-gun ships to match Japan." The New York Times (Ind. Dem.), also regrets that we "are not so well prepared as might b wished to demonstrate the ' destructive power of the plane and the . vulnerability of the battleship." while' the Florida Me tropolis (Dem.), point out that "air strength in itself canpot ever be the biggest factor In either defense or of fense," and While this branch of the military is "entitl. to encourage ment," it should not, despite General Mitchell's ideas, be developed "at the expense of the other arms of the ser vice." The St. Louis - Post-Dispatch (Ind.), considers that the conflicting evidence on hand prompts caution in any large outlays at present: "Under present burdensome taxes large expenditures in capital ships which may presently become obsolete by reason of invention and 'develop ment In other branehew, cannot be sanctioned by business prudence. The circumstances, technical, financial and sociological, urge upon all govern ments the wisdom of minimizing naval programs." Granting the arguments of the na val board that "marine inventors have not been at a standstill and methods to meet the submarine and airship are being installed with some success." the Denver Ilocky Mountain News (Ind.), nevertheless feels that the coun try should -tgke cognizanceNof the fact that "the world s brains are converg ing on sending the great ship to the scrap-heap." The Indianapolis News (Ind.). sees the "testimony on both sides of tho ocean piling up in favor of air navies" and argues that "if the airship Is dan gerous to the battleship today it will be vastly more dangerous even one year from now, so swift Is the develop ment taking place" and concludes that "there is nothing wild in the belief that we are approaching a new era in naval warfare." While supporting this theory In general the Lexington Leader (Rep.), reminds its readers that "it has been intimated that-foreign govt ernments, unable to compete ..with the United States in the building of . bat tleships, now forming, V:he - unit strength of all navies, .are.;, spreading propaganda calling in ; Question v the value of such ships in order to halt our building program." When it comes to a debate in which one side is all for the airship and the other-all for the battleshiP.'-the. Day ton News (Dem.) thinks -that ''both sides are right and both are wrong.'' It continues: . . " "The navy in the future will, require a strong air force in the event of some conspicuous engagement, while the airmen in themselves cannot be fully protected against enemy attacks .withr out aerial guns and complete equip ment now carried on first-class and modern sea fighting machines. It Is bbvlpus that the aeroplane - and the battleship should -co-ordinate their ef fectiveness in making possible the. best possible "protection to the country in the matter of defense. Secretary Dan iels and General Mitchell upon mature deliberation will agree in the essen tials of both the atroplane and bat tleship as important and necessary agencies for our national protection." The New York Globe (Ind.) also sees no reason to slight one branch for the other. "Whatever we do about our battleships, then, we had better recon sider limiting our army air appropria tion to $19,200,000." but meanwhile, "we should study very hard over the Idea of getting rid of the armament Idea" for "airplanes will .be like bat tleships, costly, and they will smother us with mustard gas or phosgene, quite in the manner of the terrible celestial visitor Mr. Wells describes in his 'War of the Worlds.'" The lessons of the recent war, says the New York Post (Ind.), show reasons enough why aerial defenses "can no more be neglected than sea and Jand defenses" and "air planes are cheap in comparison to bat tleships." ' If the experts are to be relied upon the Columbia (S. C.) State (Dem ) de clares that the lc-adir.g powers are still "building navies that have been ob solete for some time." and if, in the "impossible" next war our enemy should possess airplanes and subma rines now contemplated, "commanding the air and the sea." the only safe place "for our jackies would be on shore leave." Th Utica Observer (Dem.), looks at the question prac tically, declaring that "even if civili zation is not far enough advanced to rid itself of war, it seems that there would be a gain in building aircraft rather than the more expensive bat tleships." The Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.) sums up the situation tersely from the aeroplane backers' 'standpoint in the statement that "it may take an other war to settle definitely .whether or not the- battleship isa thing of the past, but we know already that air craft are the great offensive and de fensive weapon of the future." rights. The adoption of the run measure for the Red Army win in th future subordinate it entirely to tv will of TroUky. The nrst order rearl as . follows: -.: - ; eacl "Our Fatherland is in danger ti fact that the Army wrongly interpret its civic rights is steadily becoming a serious menace to the existence bo h of the free Russian people and tL revolution. Posterity will despis,. ... if we .prove ourselves unauio. jn or(I,;. to save our glorious cause of treec!o,n to compel those who are weak-sph-.,.,,' to submit to a single and only w ,n I, your Red Chief, appointed iy Government and invested with the con fidence, of,,.the people, demand C0In" plete faith from ypu. All my effort are directed towards . one sing le pur" pose: to lead, our country out of the difficult position it is in and to Yii from the threatening yoKe of En, land and France. There is no pig?,". lor mscusstons and babbling v. he,-, a battle ,1s being fought, and tii'eiv" fore I categorically order that nil meetings and -general gatherings o army units called for political pur' poses shall be definitively forhuio. n Jn case ot, atempts to organize sucli meetings or, gatherings they must ha considered, as, illegal gatherin-s aimed against the Fatherland and fn eduni and are to be dispersed imniPdi.'.i1.V by armed force. The above-mention, ed nrohibition to be considered as ,n order issued on the battlefield. an, is under no condition liable to dis. cussion of any kind." The second order is worded after the same fashion: "In case of-attempts to evade Hi,, execution of military instructions, o, in case of appeals and asritation ,n, j ing at the non-execution or orders is sued by Commanding Officers resani ! 1 1 1 . , . .. s "S nmiiarj JJroprUOn5, ail nulltv persons, whether separate individuals or entire military units, must be im mediately brought to subordination i,'y force of arms if necessary. This onl( to be Immediately communicated to all army units and enforced without the slightest hesitation, it liejn- rt. membered that any manifestation of weakness will at the present moment only result in the downfall of n,, sia and the revolution. The iinny must be immediately made to realiV. the. inadmissibility ot discussions and interference with instructions issur.i by Commanding Officers, whether the instructions are of a purely military nature or refer to the change and ap pointment of officers and commander-!." ANNA RIVES REPORTED AS HELD IN NEW YORK She Is Charged With Obtaining Goods and Monev European News and Views Although the 18th orf January. fiftiuMi anniversary of the German Empire, was largely celebrated as a sort of Pangermanist holiday (as Maximilian Harding has pointed out,) the pacific league of former combat ants, the League of officers of the Ger man Republic and the German demo cratic League 'Friedrich Naumann' published the following declaration: "This day when 50 years ago the unity of Germany was proclaimed by the Emperor, has been exploited by reactionaries of all kinds with the idea of glorifying the monarchy. We only see in this proclamation of the Empire in 1871 a League of Princes, but not the realization of national as pirations in Germany. It is our de sire to bring about the great Ger man unity and we must say that reaj 'unity has never yet been attained. The absolutism of the princes, the con. servatism of the junkers and parti cularism in general have created in this externally shining empire this weariness which can only be con quered by a united movement of the people. "It seems tO: us that the national ideia will only be realized when from the Meuse to the Niemen from the Adige to the Baltic we shall hav created a united German state founded on the' democratic spirit of. free decision, after having thrown overboard the spirit 'of Prussian militarrsny On the other hand, the Nationalist Deutsche Zeitung said: "Let us only say two things: first, that our people deserve to be deliv ered and saved; second, it Is not pos sible for a restoration to take place as was the case in France after Napoleon but as the Empire is now beginning to recovery air that is not essentially German should be done away with, beginning a-t the schools right up to the Leaders of the Gov ernment. Do not be deceived about this second 'Versailles,' believe me me same spirit is yet alive which fifty years ao animated the first 'Versail les.' Don't be misled -by. our enemies, who themselves far's the Inflexible strength f ourpopls and help ithose who -wish to telfryour people. "Looked upon in this light the second 'Versailles' does not mean the end of our history it is just a de solate and sad station that we have to pass: Germany will' then belong co the Germans. "Thus we will only remember the .dth of January. 1871. and the vision i)f the 10th of January. 1920 will soon oe eff acted as a had dream and we shall se the Emperor with his white heard rise UP before us, feted by his heroes, lost In ttfe folds of the flag and the Imperial, standard. And be fore him5 '! Ill's "faithful Otto vori Bismarck who announces to the world that the heroic time of Germany wiJI return." A middle view was expressed by tha Tinpfniftch Zeitune: "If it was,tl wish ofe the Govern-j ment not to let ine ovm anniversary of the foundatic n of the Empire pass unnoticed and without explaining its significance to the "young. It was :iot that it wished t, .gloat over the re membrance of Imperial glory andhe power of arms, noKto excite the hatred or provolte sterile complaints about the present situation In Germany. The Government simply .wished to show that the German people." who,shttiie 18th of January 1871, became one, are today still the same united people and that the State'" that we have to de fend today against so many internal and external dangers, has not lost its international personality because . of the change in its constitution and that the decisoion to adopt the new political form by no means breaks the tide which unites us to the work of our fathers. . "The German Empire has lost by the Versailles Treaty important parts of her territory. We must see if it is capable of vitality in its present form. The Empire of King Wilhilm I. was only a torso at its birth, it knowingly renounced the idea of political unity with large parts of German-speaking territory. As a con sequence of the Treaty of Versailles, we have to sive up still more I am speaking especially of the Rhine Pro vinces. Life is more difficult for them than in non-occupied Germany. They feel themselves cut off by so many barriers from their German brothers and often abandoned by them. 1 know not how far these sentiments are founded. The people of the Khine Provinces will not give themselves up to' this sentiment; they will remain doubly faithful to their fatherland, and the fartherland will not forget them." (Special to The Star) NEW BERN. Feb. 17. Anna rrivM nretty 19-yoar-old girl, said o har from Rorky Mount, and at one tinif in the employ of a local Ktoro h.rr and known here, is being: held, it i stated, in New York on a rharce if grand larceny, following an order from tho chief of police of Richmond. Va. She is charged with obtainins goods from Miller & Rhodes, of ni, -i,. mend, through fraudulent means ami giving: checks amounting to over $:,fin on a Rocky Mount bank, which vpv returned with the mark "N'0 funds" She left here some time ntro and stayed in Wilniinrton some liinp ; finally leaving for Richrmnnd. it j? said. On her way from WiJminpton, i prominent business man of this city recognized her on th etrain and tnlM to her. The girl is said to have hkVcA for aid in obtaining a position viiimi she would arrive in Richmond. Tlv im-w jrern man js ri'pnrifn as prnmp. y giving her his card to Mr. Millor. nf Miller & Rhodes, Indorsing her vnv highly and asking for kindness a"l assistance from the flrin. The Rives girl arrived in rtiHimoivl and evidently used the c;rd to pond advantage, according to reports, pro curing clothes and money from Hi1 firm, and leaving for Washington, t was at first thought. Meanwhile, the checks' she h?A drawn on her father, jts she slid, in Rocky Mount, were returned to- Rich mond and the local business man w received,, a letter from Mr. Miller, relative, outlining the rnnditnn?. which called for the exnla nation vhi'' finally led to her arrest. It !f ru mored "further that it is serious? doubted if Anna Rives' father is sti'l living, opinion being here that he In? been dead several years. RED ARMY GAGGED The Russian daily newspaper Borba, issued in Tiflis, publishes two "orders of the day" addressed by Trotzky to the Red. armies, abolishing the right granted by the first Provisional Gov ernment in 1917 to all units of the army to hold meetings and gatherings for the discussion of political and other matters concerned with the wel fare oi such units. A little while ago the Soviet Government repudiated the privilege of industrial workers to hold meetings, call strikes, or in any way defend their economic or politic,- MR. SMALL "SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS' FOR A LAST TIME (Sprreial to The Snr KINSTON, Feb. 17V-John ItnmnliAv Small is "saying it with ffowers" the last time. Notwithstanding that n -will not be a congressman after March 4 he ie sending out ilowr seed .to the women of his first dis trict constituency as usual. The seed are accompanied by letters couched .n flowery language. A former Pitt county woman whos-' change of address to this city has net been noted on Mr. Small's mailiiiK hst. is In receipt of a copy ot the lettir and. a packet of seed. "Those Vnv seed may under your care pcrniinai and blossom Into thin-s of beauty, fragrance and Joy." says the represen tative's letter. "If in the slis:itcst de gree they may brighten your home -r chase away gloom, I fhail he more than content." -September 5, 1774. the fust ur.tl nental congress met. Hard Times Never really come to the family tha't saves. If your in come should stop or be reduced, a SAVINGS ACCOUNT will provide opportunities, comfort, and happiness ior you until matters adjust themselves. v Why not start a Savings Account with us .today? : rilmingt oldest ad Largest North Carolina Savings Bank t?r
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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