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J THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1921 FOUR ' r ' - i a- I ' r- - .- u star published by Ta WILMINGTOV STAR COMPANY. Ine4 109 Chestnatt Street - Entered at the Postofflce at Wllmlag ior. N. C. as Second Cl.ss Matter. Telephoni Editorial No. 1 business Of nee . .. No. SI SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear $7.00 Six Months 3 50 Three Months : 175 Olid Month 60 MEMBER. OP ASSOCIATED PRK9S The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of All new credited to it cr not othesrwis credited in this paper and also the IjcaI haws published herein. All rirhts of republication of special dispatcnes breic are also reserved. in. that is something different. be sure Uncle Sam ought to have stayed out and attended to his own more personal business, but as long i i a .11. i "D- a m O ihfl S boro correspondent would have broken , aTtere-ctive. Shmus litel7 suo in with an account of a copper outfit j mit. Usually when a. little nanon is aouui. time to prevent tne setting1 of a precedent. It would not have been very long, perhaps, before the Greens- THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. i921 The Senate on the Draw Having done little or next to noth ing for the people of the country as b whole, the Senate, or rather a com inittee thereof, is nevertheless entitled to recognition on the strength of its Wort to do something for the frater nity of poker players. That section of the population Vhich works loyally and untiringly un til 5:40 a. m. at the serious business kt drawing a jack to a nine, ten, queen tend king, and of making four per fectly good hearts and the trey of Sclubs vanquish three sterling aces, and ot looking utterly bored and hopeless Wrver the secret possession of four 6prightly "ladies" that important tgroup of citizens has friends in the Senate. The fact was disclosed following a decent committee meeting, called to (consider a legislative measure of great ilmportance. On the particular meas hire in question there was no progress to report; but reportorial diligence brought out the fact that the com mittee had labored earnestly over a question related to the great indoor sport of "drawing." One of the Jearn senators knew of a man who, in the face of heavy raising before the draw, had broken a full-house in order to stake his hopes on annexing a fourth ten. He succeeded, it ap peared, but left the field in disorder before a company of four queens. The question before the committee was on his poker judgment. A Kentucky eenator said the play had been well taken; a contemporary from the judi cial state of Maine held that tho unidentified player had experimented nn wisely. Unhappily, the Congressional recess came before the matter had been definitely settled. The issue has not yet come before the Senate, either in the form of a bill or a resolution; but a large body of citizens will look -to the re-assembling of the august upper house with high hope. It is possible that, having settled this point, the Senate will proceed to treat the issue raised by many persons who in sist that the fifth card in stud poker should be abolished. o Tax-Paying In his address before North Caro lina farmers at Raleigh. Dr. E. C. ;Brooks, State Superintendent of Edu cation, charged a very heavy finan cial loss to the 'unspeakably bad sys tem of indifferent tax collecting and jmore indifferent tax disbursement." X)r. Brooks took up the cases of twelve fNorth Carolina counties to illustrate fliis point, and some of the facts which 3ie brought out bear conclusively upon a question that has often been on the Tnind3 of thoughtful citizens. The business of collecting taxes has never been placed upon a thoroughly sound basis. Perhaps it will never be pos sible to devise a system that win bring every delinquent to book. It is well jinown that the United States gov iernment, with all its vast machinery nor collecting and its generally more insistent manner in such matters, hoses large sums through failure to jcolle.t. Dr. Brooks, laid emphasis upon oie )remedy which, we believe, deserves more emphasis than any other. Public opinion, he asserted, must overcome this indifference to public obligations. There is too little popular apprecia tion of the obligations imposed by citizenship and property - holding. There is far too much of the disposi tion to look upon taxes as something to be evaded. The tendency to draw an unwarranted distinction between taxes and obligations privately as sumed, to the disparagement of the former, has undoubtedly been Instru mental in forcing- the ascent of tax rates. It has resulted in an altogether unjust burdens being thrown upon the man or woman who holds the right conception of tax-paying, and has measurably impaired the strength and usefulness of all branches of govern ment. The essential dishonesty of tax dodglng is a matter which may hard ly loom too largely in popular educa tion. The citizen who evades the obligation of tax-paying is getting something which he isn't paying for, something which, because of his negli gence, his neighbor is having to buy at an unnecessarily high cost": the ( protection ' and other blessings of organized government, being demolished on the battlefield of Guilford Court House. And Wilming tonmight have felt constrained to re mark that a new variety of sandspur had sprung to life at Fort Fisher. sj o LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FOR AMERICANS FIRST Editor of The 'Star: Will you allow me just a short space in your columns that I may an swer the letter which appeared in your paper this morning, by Rev. V. P. Scoville, pastor of Trinity Methodist church. No doubt Mr. Scoville is doing Mr. Scoville is trying to get placed are from another country, they may be of the best type of men with good intentions and I hope they are. But dosen't it seem that if Mr. Scoville would spend his time among Harding for Large Families President Harding is now commit ted, it would seem, to the Roosevelt policy of advocating large families. The President's letter of congratula tions to the mother of nineteen -children shows humanity and political astuteness. Incidentally, the fact that , he sent his congratulatory message to the mother, but made an appeal for help in behalf of the father in dicates that the President holds to the traditional masculine view of domes tic gloriea and responsibilities. It is gratifying to note that Mr. Wanamaker, presumably the employer of the father, has promised to take recognition of the latter's extraordi nary family cares and to give some sort of financial relief. Papa Zaccahea, we should say, needs just about all of the help that even a .Wanamaker may extend. We trust that the President con sidered well the possible effects of his message to the Zaccaheas before send ing it. What the President of the United States may have to say on any subject is likely' to be received with unusual respect and favor by a multi tude of American citizens. Republi cans of good standing will be especial ly inclined to put their trust In Mr. Harding's opinion, expressed or im plied; and there is no telling where the matter will end if the impression should get abroad in the country that the President has become an honorary member of the nineteen-babies club. The Democratic party at least would be disposed to view with alarm an extraordinary crop of little G. O. P.'s. To a certain extent, perhaps, the President's implied advocacy of regi mental families will be offset by the popular knowledge that there is noth ing running around the White House but the fence and a fancy terrier; but jthe he'ad of the nation is privileged to fall back upon the ancient injunction, "Do as I say do." o A Baseball Town? We have heard the report of the i man who insists that Wilmington is I not a baieball town, that baseball would not under any circumstances receive from the people of this city sufficient support to survive a single full season. We have never been willing to admit that Wilmington lacked a normal interest in the chief American sport. For some Reason, it has been extremely difficult to make a "go" of baseball undertakings here, i It has seemed next to impossible to get a respectable start. ' But we have never yielded the opinion that, once fully organized and placed upon an attractive basis, baseball would re ceive here a measure of support ap proximating ""that accorded to the teams of other cities in our popula tion class. No one could have visited the base ball park yesterday afternoon without feeling that he was in the midst of a throng that was baseball-hungry. The stands were packed and overflowing. Automobiles laden with eager fans ranged the edges of the field. Scores of fans sought places of vantage along the shaded grass plots. Enthusiasm ran high throughout the game. And it wasn't a free exhibition either. Admission charges ran as high as fifty-five cents. We doubt if any game for which only a "free-will" collection was taken has attracted a larger at tendance. Wilmington will support baseball. Yesterday's attendance and enthusiasm merely suggested the support that would be won by a team playing i A. A 1 . miuuBuuui mc ocaouu mm m x ittigci t,ai bricklayers, concerte mixe.rs. circuit. The project would not be one Iplumbers' apprentices and plain labor ers, tne wora snouia De neara mat i TOT . . ' " to vield to the command of a big na tion the little nation does a great deal' of barking, confident that the big nation will not step on her unless she does something more than bark. Panama does not even bark. She makes as good-natured a back down as has ever been recorded in Latin American annals. But she cannot refrain from a part ing postcript to the effect that, right or wrong, she would have licked Costa PJca if she had been given half a chance: SONG AND THE SILO St. Joseph News: A vocal teacher of Chicago says that after you onw sing in an empty silo you will never want to sing anywhere else. She declares mighty good work. He certainly must , that a silo solo brings out only the have the unemployed, the man who is one hundred percent pure tones of the in need, at heart when he makes such j voice, the others are blurred and muf a plea through the papers and I wish ; nej. gne sang an aria from "Samson him much success. The two men that I and Delilah" in a silo on a farm, where she made her discovery. The results were amazing and startling. Accord ing to her statement, the cows seemed hypnotized, hens paused in the midst of a cackle and the blatant calves forsook their bawling to drink in the the ilingtonians who are out or worx liquid, one hundred per cent pure and have been out for some time, and j notes. She claims the siloJ offers an probably many of them members of his j unparalleled, test for the human voice, church, it would amount to a great j she recommends the experiment to CONTEMPORARY VIEWS SIDE-SLAPS OF MARS Baltimore Sun: Recently two hun dred persons were killed or injured by the explosion of a Japanese artil lery magazine. Some months ago America was read ing of the deaths caused by the ac cidental freeing of poison gas near one of our large towns. Accidents to British and American submarines have caused loss of life since the armistice. Only the Pension Bureau knows how steady is the unceasing flow of minor accidents t in the army and navy minor accidents resulting in blindness, loss of hearing, loss of limbs. Now the collapse of the ZR-2 causes the death of many fine men in the prime of life. Even in peacetime Mars manages to make deadly side-slaps. Not content with diverting human energy from ' sane and proper constructive purposes tc the building of destructive machines, Mais sees to it that the latter shall be veritable Frankenstein's machines, dangerous even to the builders. So long as there are great lethal devices built for the destruction of I possible enemies, those devices will take toll of those who build them. L,et it not be forgot that disarmament will not only save energy and money and prevent the great loss of life of wartime. It will also reduce these un necessary and distressing losses of like in piping times of peace. other vocalists. At this distance it looks as if the silo was all that is claimed for it as a practice ground and also ae a place for perpetual confinement of those COUNTY BOARD GIVES CHAMBER INFORMATION deal more. There are any number of men good cne hundred per cent Americans, who were born and raised in America and will depend on American industries for their support as long as they live, I voices which Ehould never be .raided who are out of work and many of where life of any description abounds, them have been out since the shipyards j o closed. ( The need today is for more co-opera- ' tion among the American people. Our policy should be America flrst;. we have been dealing with foreigners long enough, and we haven't gained , going to be given a job or a plea is going to be put up for a man without a job, why not let it be an American or an ex-service mah, the man who is a man. There are hundreds of them out Of work and in this city who need work and would be glad to get anything that would pay them an honest living. Put up a plea for the American, the TVilmingtonian, and see if you can't get results that will be worth much more, not only to the country, but to your city and yourself. W. B. WILSON. Wilmington. August 31, 1921. o Major Little Gives Committee Further Details as to Tax Rate TELL, THEM WHEN WAR IS OVER Newo York Herald: When the peace treaty has been ratified by the United States Senate and the German Reich stag the President's proclamation that the war is over should be spread broadcast in this country. A great many persons seem to have been wait ing for the end of the war before seeking work. The young men who spend the af ternoon at the Polo Grounds or the motion picture shows while their mothers take in washing ought to be informed that the war is over and that there is no longer an excuse for the most subtle loafer. At the racetracks and on the street corners, wherever are gathered poten- After MaJ. Josepn TV. Little, member of the board of county commissioners, had appeared before the executive com mittee of the chamber of commerce yes terday afternoon to ro further into the reasons of the board for adopting the tax rate of $1.20, Secretary Louis T. Moore was instructed to draft a letter from the chamber of commerce express ing the thanks and appreciation for the information and the spirit with which the board of commissioners complied with the request for more light. It was an illuminating talk Major Little made, and members of the execu tive body of the chamber expressed the conviction that the commissioner bad not only made out a strong case for the board, but had vindicated the stand of that body that if the rate had to go above $1 on the $100 of valuation, then the road and general funds should be taken care of. It will be recalled that the county board originally set a rat of $1, but this was raised to attrac tion over $1.08 as a result of thefschool mandamus hearing. With the $1 mavk gone by the board, so to speak, the oemmissioners raised it to $1.20 on each $100 valuation, whereupon the chamber of commerce asked for rea sons. ! 6ne reply was made a week ago, but yesterday Major Little came forward, voluntarily, with additional informa tion. One fact the major revealed was that out of approximately $670,000 the tounty's budget calls for, approxi mately $350,000 will so to the schools, which leaves about $197,000 that the commissioners can direct the expen diture of; that-jtefWte all the coun ty has for diy Siting."' into any other than set channels. Tapening that the expenditure of' the.' ,rinainder of the $670,000 is direcledwtisore the commis sioners -ever see theftfioney. Another ouwiifriaffte fact, related was that out of the 47c increase of the 1H21 tax rate over that of 1920. which was 73 cents, the schools set 32 cents of it, leaving the county, for all other purposes, 15 cents of the increase. Mr. Little also 6tated the apportionment of each dollar that would have been raised by the $1 rate, the division for different causes of the $1.20, and fhe ; distribution of the increase from $1 to $1.20. The desire for a continued place of prominence for New Hanover county in the srood roads movement was given by Major Little as one of the reasons for the increase over and above the mark set by the school budget man damus proceedings, and the chamber of commerce committee approved the step taken. requiring large capital. And some steps should be taken before the pres ent season closes to provide for a modern park and a league connection. o Censorship for Snakes As a matter of information for snake-hunters and snake-charmers, we would mention the fact that for a while the wires of the Associated Press will carry no accounts of violence done to members of the reptilian family, unless, perchance, the incident is in some respect really extraordinary. We have the sad intelligence in the form of a bulletin from "A. P." division headquarters "enough snake stories for a while." The man who ensnares a handsome rattler, seventeen-buttoned and six feet long, i3 no longer to enjoy the privilege of having his feat heralded by the greatest news-gathering agency on earth. His local paper doubtless will render all of the honor that is due, but national or sectional fame will not be forthcoming. The Richmond correspondent of the Associated Press will not again soon have the honor to report that another large rattle-snake, ; "coiled, and ready to spring," has been detected and slain "on the battlefield at Chancel lorsville, where was fought the. Bat tle of the Wilderness, and where General Stonewall Jackson, the South ern chieftain, fell mortally wounded." It is regrettable, but something more startling or absorbing must happen on the .battlefield at Chancellorsville before the Richmond correspondent will be able to claim the wire again We must agree that the Associated Press editors have acted wisely in breaking up the snake-story series in peace is here, technically as well as actually, and that there are houses to be built as soon as the silk shirt idea has disappeared. VOTES AND ALIMONY Philadelphia Public Ledger: There are penalties as well as privileges at tached to the franchise. A man in Minnesota is suing his wife for sup port and alimony. It is the first time such an issue has been raided in that State. The Judge is thinking It ovef: In English and American law ali mony is taken to mean payment made by the husband to the wife on the as sumption that the husband Is the earner. But it does happen that a woman, tired of a man for any one of a wide variety of reasons, is willing to pay him to take himself off. The price of the blessed immunity may come high, but she feels that to be rid of the worthless Is worth it. It Is not clear to the lay mind why a woman because she votes, has equal rights and as a citizen is bound to assume the obligation of -bread-winner for her husband. The lay mind has been unaccustomed to a woman being all these things. The decision of the Minnesota Judge may be ex pected "to shed- light on the problem. PANAMANIAN ETHICS Cleveland Plain Leader: Panama, considering the four hundred American marines who are on their way to the isthmus, has decided to acquiesce as gracefully as possible in the American demand for the evacuation Of the Coto territory. And. all things considered, Panama succeeds inmaking a very graceful job of it. She says she yields not because she is in the wrong but because the United States is too big to be triffed with. - According to Panamanian advices the United States has altogether" the wrong, slant on this Coto business, but let it be con sidered as a blunder of the head rather than of the heart. Panama loves us still, and she hopes we may continue to regard her with golden favor. Ingenuous, not to say naive, Is the further Panamanian statement that had the Coto ultimatum come from Costa Rica alone and not frOm the United States there would have been ..Teal, war. Not all .the arbitration awards In Christendom, backed by the might of the Costa Rican army, would have ACCEPT MANSON'S BID FOR CASWELL PROPERTY to Government Sells Houses Steamboat Master The bid submitted by Capt. W. C. Manson, principal owner of the Wil-mington-Southport steamship line, for houses in which the garrison at Fort Caswell was quartered, was the suc cessful one when the government an nounced the disposition of property at the fort that is no longer needed with a greatly reduced force of caretakers left in charge. The property purchased originally cost over $1,000,000, it Is stated, but the size of the successful bid was not named. Captain Manson intimated yesterday that he would likely dispose of his pur chase in small lots. He has houses and everything that goes with them, and the type of construction is such thl they can be knocked down and shipped, Steam heat and many other modern conveniences went with the . pur chases, the heating equipment being valued at thousands of dollars by prospective bidders who recently look ed over what the government had to sell. Just when Captain Manson will be gin .moving his purchase was not stated, but it was intimated that he would announce his plans within a few days. I compelled Panama to; budge one rrilli. YOUNG BRYAN GETS PICKED UP; NOW IS, EN ROUTE HOME Apprehended by a traffic policeman in Charleston, Wesley Bryan, the 17-year-old Western Union messenger boy who mysteriously disappeared from this city about a week ago, was detained by the police authorities In that city, until the arrival of the boy's- father, who" left for Charleston to get the run away lad. It will be recalled that yot;ig Bryan, who was a sreat reader of boys' books, particularly those that bred In him a spirit for the wanderlust, drew a week's pay and a year's savings, ag gregating $75, bought a .22 calibre rifle and a blanket, afterwards disap pearing. He was later seen vat ,Bolton, then at Lake Wu:carnaw, , boarding a train for Florence at the latter'station and tell- Credited Interest to Be to Savings Depositors September 1st THIS DAY REPRESENTS OUR QUARTERLY INTEREST DAY! Upon this day it is a pleasure for this institution to credit to the ac counts of its savings depositors during the past three months. This inter est is paid at the rate of 4 percent. The new interest period now opens and as a convenience to depositors we will accept deposits up to September 3 with the understanding that they shall bear interest as deposited September 1. We wish to lay particular stress on the fact that it is just as con venient' to bank by mail as in . person, and out-of-town accounts can be opened simply by mailing a check and your name and address m the custom ary way ; or, if money is senf, by registered mail. We cordially invite new accounts and welcome the building up of old ones. Home Savings Bank Wilmington, North Carolina THEATRICAL GRAND Dorothy Walton, who's magnificent work two years ago in "The Flame of the Yukon" brought her right into the front ranks, in fact the picture is still being booked all over the coun try, does her greatest work since then in "The Idol of the North" heralded as one of the rally most m,asterful pro ductions of the year, a Paramount production, to be shown at the Grand today and tomorrow. VICTORIA Priscilla Dean's widely Universial super-feature, heraldftd "Reputa- At Last- Wilmingtoraans have the opportunity of seeing the picture that has proven the season's sensation everywhere! - Universal ! Opening at the Victoria Today tion," will be shown for the first time locally at the Victoria theater today. ROYAL Tonight a pickaninny watermelon eating contest will be staged -at the Royal as an extra attraction, with Walt Kftllam's Good Luck Girls. This afternoon the first 50 ladies will be admitted free to see the opening chap ter of "The Lurking Peril" the latest serial sensation. BIJOU William S. Hart appears at the Bijou again today in another one of those strong, virile Western dramas, "The Lion of the Hills" a five, reel super production that is said to be the best thing Hart ever did for the screen. The BJou counts Itself indeed fortu nate in being able to present this at traction for today at regular Bijou prices. ' INSPECT CITY SCHOOL PLANTS THIS MORNING Party to Leave. Courthouse at 9:15 o'clock ing the agent at,tafceWaccaraaw that But whea UacJ Sam, stejDlb. was bound fax- Charleston. In order that first-hand Information may be gained of conditions of the various school buildings In th city, members of the association of school committeemen, board of education, board of county commissioners and other interested citizens, will this morning make a tour of the units of the system, the tour having-been ar ranged and Invitations issued to join in it by W. H. Stone, president of the committeemen. The party plans to leave the county courthouse promptly aU 9:15 o'clock, and there will be automobiles to car ry those making the tour. Much In terest has been shown In the plan to have the condition of school buildings better known and, as the tour of inspec tion includes the new high school struc ture, which many, persons have not vis ited, Indications are that the touring party will be , large and representa tive one. At all schools principals are busy getting everything in readiness for the opening of the nev term, set -for Sep tember 12 - in- rural schools and Sep tambar IS la - th altar . buJldiauzA. JDecat JSC Uruuersal The Most Fascinating Personality on the Screen PRISCILLA DEAN In Stuart Paton's Tremendous Drama of Woman Against Woman EPUTATION' Greater by Far Than "Outside the Law" VICTORIA OPENING TODAY Matinee 8tSO, 10c, 15c, 25 Night 7t45-9tdO, 15c, 25c, 35c ROYAL Ladle Free First 50 at This Afternoon's Matinee WALT KELLAM'S GOOD LUCK GIRLS Pickanniny Watermelon Eating Content Extra Attraction TonitrM TODAY and TOMORROW WHERE ITS COOLER! GRAND DOROTHY DALTON Tne star beautiful who appear in the beat picture she ha made since FUune of the Yukon" two year 8r "THE IDOL OF THE NORTH" A big heart throbbing, gripping and powerful drama of Alaska - A TREAT SELDOM OFFERED Come and Keep Cool Another Rare Treat Awaits You Here Today BIJOU Wm. S. 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