UUtmngtfln morning §tar Published by THE WILMINGTON. STAR COMPANY, Inc., 109 Chestnut Street, p.‘ H. BATTE, Managing Director. Telephones! ■Business and Editorian office-No. 51 Entered at the Postoffice at Wilming ton, N. C., as Second Class Matter_ One Year.•••'.*^2® Six Months . f'S: Three Months..: No weekly mail subscriptions. CITY DELIVERY—Papers are sched uled to be delivered before 7:30 o clock on week days and 3:30 odock on Sun days. Complaints regarding at- ser vice or non-delivery should be maae before 9:00 a. m. to Circulation Depart ment. Phone 61. « ._ CHANGE OF ADDRESS—When or dering your paper changed from one address to another please give old as well as new address. ____ EXPIRATIONS—Look at the printed label on the paper. The date thereto shows when the subscription expires. COMMUNICATIONS must be accom panied by the true name a“d of the writer in order to receive atten tion. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. __ ALIf DRAFTS, checks, express orders and postal money orders for tne paper should be made payable to t order of the Wilmington Star Co._ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for jjublication of all news credited to it, or not otherw lse credited, in this paper and a so the local news published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. _ _ SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1923 Our Agricultural Efficiency. -O The Baltimore Sun is proud of the fact that Maryland trails closely after North Carolina and three other states in the matter of “agricultural effi ciency.” Perhaps it will be another cause of congratulations for Tar Heelia that her agriculture is ranged nationally as a self-seeking industry, about as near so as possible except in the one particular of livestock. Any how, it is sufficient to make the Balti more Sun claim a share of the honor for Maryland, which is done edito rially in this wise: Maryland stands among the leaders in a special sort of agri cultural efficiency. Its farmers raise 78.5 per cent of all the food which they eat, and a better , rec ord than this is found only in four other states—namely, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Utah. The department of agriculture gives this information and it treats the subject as an important matter. Obviously it is, for each farmer should by all means raise as much as possible of what he need?? for bis own use. Transportation bv - vail of food from one farming re gion to another is necessary to some extent, but it is^ disconcert ing to tfiscover that 9 per cent of the food which American farmers eat is so transported, although it might as well be grown in the lo calities where it is consumed. Those who know may be allowed to tell why Maryland farmers come so near to raising all the food which they themselves need, but the fact that they do is de cidedly to their credit in these days of transportation difficulties. North Carolina farmers are given credit by the United States agricul tural department for producing some 80 per cent of the requirements of the farms in food and feedstuffs. That may be surprising to many mere ob servers, but North Carolina produces . record crops of the 22 leading Ameri can-farm products, and in that re j spect she stands fourth among the .five leading states, the rank being as • follows: Texas, $594,619,000; Iowa, $418,414,000; Illinois; $386,017,000; North Carolina, $298,044,000; Califor nia $226,170,000. Fifth is North Carolina’s farm rec / ord in the value of all crops, the five > leading states ranking as follows: Texas, $716,408,00<h Iowa, $454,787, 000; .Illinois, $419,584,000; California, ■3 $418,833,000; North Carolina, $342, ■ 637,000. 1 In total crop values for 1922 North f Carolina fell back approximately $10, ! 000,000, owing to boll weevil damage, but her increase in the value of 22 leading crops she gained $77,467,000. The significance of that is that North Carolina’s agriculture made a great stride towards being self sustaining. North Carolina’s importation of ' food and feedstuffs are due to North * Carolina’s industrial and urban pop ulation. Only 20 per cent of the feed and foodstuffs coming from other ;v' states Is for our farmers. The other v' go per cent Is to feed the city and in dustrial population. Since that 80 / per cent is a huge amount, the farm ers can raise surplus diversified crops and find an almost 100 per cent home market right here in the state. ' --o Governor Gifford Pinchot, of Penn sylvania, has appointed a woman member of his cabinet. How many times will he have to listen to those ' words, "Listen, now, Giff.” The Ohio State Journal has invitee the contribution , of “unmitigated V falsehoods,” its aim being to publist -, »ne every day this year. That of iers a fine opportunity to 1921 cam - paign managers who are now out oi ’* t job- '■ - ! ' ' ' V Down Columbus Way. -o Making a city fit to live In Is the function of a progressive municipal administration. Year by year, White ville is becoming a good residential town, as well as a growing town. Bonds have been sold for the purpose of installing a waterworks system, and for the construction of an electric lighting plant, and now the prelimi nary arrangements are being made for beginning work on both plants. Somewhere down in the southeast ern neck of North Carolina, there is bound to be a city, and Whiteville is going to- be it. Few county seat towns in North Carolina have made the sub stantial progress scored by Whiteville during the past ten years. White ville's new -c9urt house is a handsome structure, and her new hotel is wor thy of a town much larger. White ville’s. paved streets are impressive, especially the boulevard, connecting Whiteville and Vineland, which are vigorous Siamese twins. The evi dences of prosperity in each are man ifest on all sides, and while they are I separate towns, a stranger would not ■ know it. They have about grown to gether. They have progressive banks, good schools and prosperious business houses. The Whiteville News Reporter is one of the best county papers in North Carolina, and we expect Editor Keziah most any time to claim 3,000 population for his two towns in one. Whiteville is a tobacco warehouse market and it is a good cotton mar ket when the staple is produced to any extent. However, the boll weevil picked Columbus county for its pio neer devastation in North Carolina, and cotton production in the county may not exceed 3,000 to 4,000 bales this year. Nevertheless, the boll wee vil cuts no ice with the prosperity of a county so marvelously resourceful as Columbus. She grows fine yellow tobacco, and her strawberry produc tion brings into the country several hundred thousand dollars in April and May. Columbus grows more pa pershell pecans than any county in North Carolina, and her progress in | swine and poultry raising is hardly | exceeded by any county in the state. Even Whiteville has become the cen ter of a new strawberry industry, and effort's are being made to make it a station for the refrigerated train ser vice of the Atlantic Coast Line this spring. Just now there is plenty do ing in Columbus. Here are just a few early glimpses furnished by the Whiteville News Reporter: Many growers have Already pre pared their tobacco beds and have the seed sown. Within another week or two travelers who are unacquainted with tobacco grow ing will be wondering at the can vass covered beds that will be dotting the roadside all over the county. A hundred miles or so further inland farm work can hardly be said to commence until along about the middle of March. In Columbus everything gets a move on itself with the advent of the new year. One can go any where in Columbus now and find people busily engaged in cujtivat ing and hoeing strawberries. This crop, by the way. is said to be ex ceptionally promising and the ex pectations are ^for a big produc tion of the berries in Columbus. Largely as a result ot'the poul try exhibit at the county fair last fall there is now a great deal of interest being manifested in poul try raising in this county. Mr. Lazar and Miss Lankford, county | and home agents, are working co operatively in this matter. 51r. Lazar reports quite a bit of recent activity looking towards ' better poultry raising. Mr. C. D. Har relson of Tabor has just recently built a modern brooder house and a 100-hen poultry house. He has bought a good incubator and has taken off the second hatch of 140 chicks. He had _160 in-the first. Mr. II. P. Britt has finished a 200 chick brooder house and has off a hatch from his large incubator. He has also bought a second in cubator and a 'good brooder stove. Mr. B. B. Blake is now building a 200-chick brooder house. Mr. B. S. Britt hought a large incubator this weelc and there are others making similar ventures- or plan ning to at an early date." Farmers in this county are yearly becoming more alive to the Importance of agricultural lime on wet lgnds. One dealer here in Whiteville has made two sales of 100 tons each to be used on farms in the county, and many smaller sales are being made dally. One of the buys of 100 tons are Messrs. Kichard and Hone Lewis. They will use it on their farm at Cat Tail Bay, 12 miles below White ville. About 250 acres of the Lewis farm is cultivated In corn, half one year and the other half the next. The land is low-lying and somewhat marshy and ordi nary fertilizers do. not prove satis-, factory. Corn and hogs are the chief productions on the place and It is understood that the plans are to make this place a hog farm, growing enough corn for all needs. About 90 head of hogs are now on the place and this number will be increased shortly until they j hopg t0 have enough for two or three car loads for the packing houses this summer. A Virginian recently informed The Star that he had located in Columbus to go into the farm dairy industry,! and while ho found all the adaptabil ities for that branch of farm industry; even more remarkable than he antic-, lpated, he had to limit his efforts be cause there is no creamery market in' Wilmington. However, he devoted: himself to diversified production of a kind that makes cotton growing* look like 30 cents. He never grew any cot ton in his life and says he doesn’t have to grow cotton in a county that, will produce numbers of crops worth more than cotton to any farmer. He proposes to remain in Columbus and grow up with.' the county. Whitevillehas a chamber of com merce and its activities include pro motion work in the entire county as well as afcrthh. county seat. ■ The chain-,, ber is ®<rw ' making a fight for Just freight irates to all points in the county. Whiteville is the home of Representative Homer Lyon, and our sixth district congressman has assur ed the Whiteville chamber that he will render' all the assistance possible at Washington. Columbus wants rea sonable freight rates, for she expects to greatly increase her shipments of strawberries and truck this season, j Her swine raisers want low carload rates so they can ship their hogs to the packing house market. Columbus has folk who will do things and all they want is a wide open chance. Sooner or later- Columbus expects to furnish* more carload shipments of hogs than .she ever did of cotton. • __:-o Expedient and Inexpedient. | The New York Times marvels at j the shifting aboijt of diplomatic ver- j biage as it is used by the Harding ad-! ministration. The Times says, for in stance: The state department has made large use of a truly blessed word in explaining its policy and changes of policy. The familiar ' phrase, "It is expedient/’ is used again in connection with the or der withdrawing’ our troops from ’ the Rhine. When President" Hard ing wrote his letter to Senator Lodge deprecating the Boran amendment,’ it was explained that such a measure was not regarded by the administration as expedi ent. At that time, judging by one of the expressions of the presi dent. it was apparently thought by the government to be highly expedient that this country should have a representative on the rep arations commission. But at the end of last week this had become "inexpedient,"’ according to the reply given by Secretary Hughes to inquiring senators. It purely is a convenient word whicB, like the “bountiful answer” in the p.lay. fits all questions. Now expediency is always "• related to something else. It does not stand as a good in and of itself. If there is a ■clearly defined and firmly held -foreign policy, a measure may be dubbed expedient or inexpedient according as it is an aid, or a hin drance, in carrying out that policy. We have to admit that at one time or other a thing may be expedient but may become inexpedient .under chang ed circumstances. However, it Stakes all the difference in th world, as to who is to be the judge of the appro priate time for action: Last Saturday when the senate passed the resolution of Senator Reed, suggesting the with drawal of American 'troops from France, President Harding objected to it on the ground of "inexpediency.” By an overwhelming vote, the semte regarded the recall of our troops as entirely expedient. Within thrfee days the .president decided, to order aui troops home, so his plea of inexpe diency was abandoned for a policy of expediency, in line with the senate attitude. After all, we shall have to suspend judgment as to the expediency or in expediency of the recall of ,.oor- sol diers, till we can judge from future results of our abandonment of Ger many at a time when France began to carry out her military adventure. We do not suppose there will be any dispute about the fact that “adminis tration inaction” has resulted: in this embarrassment for our government. Inaction has brought th# administra tion face to face with a problem which it should have talren action about long ago. We are at least two years too late. o Thieving Trickery Negro boys have again revived the practice of calling at homes and ask ing for suits of clothes for pressing clubs. These thieves acquaint them selves with the conditions, so that when they appear they invariably give the right name of . the pressing club and call the^ name of the gentle man whose suit is inquired for, so that the servant who delivers the suit is naturally misled and imposed upon. This annoyance has cropped up re peatedly for a long while, and it seems to us that the pressing clubs should adopt some plan whereby theY would give receipts for suits when de livered to their messengers on sta tionery of the pressing club. This, or some other safety device, should be employed by some concert' of action by the pressing clubs. ‘-*—o The order withdrawing American troops from Germany seems to have hurt France feelings. France seems to have been unmindful of the possi bilities of her Insouciance with re gard to the Washington government’s feelers. - • ——,0 The -monster Equitable building in New Ydrk city is offered for safe at $40,000,000. Of course, that is What New York realtors want for it. It’s right pice, hulling but we ha^e made up ouV.mind 'that $4'0|00«^00 iron meh invested 'ih .-iNbf th . Carolina' d&lfile we can get in On the ground dloor would be a far'JJette*- inVMtiiHBit We Are Not Out of the Woods Yet. --'6—— In the house of representatives at Washington a few days* ago, Repre sentative Crothers of New York -read numerous newspaper articles breath ing optimism about the industrial and business outlook for this year. He assumed at once .that it actually meant prosperity and he launched into a. speech giving file outrageous tariff law all the credit for the- eco nomic improvement manifest in the United States. Well, it has been more than four years since the armistice, and it ought to strike every one that conditions would improve themselves in that time. Proseperity possibly may come in spite of the tariff. but the numerous optimistic prophesies broadcasted at the beginning' of the new year was only a way of shooting the bull. Conditions in some parts of the country have improved, but many portions do not feel any alleged buoy ant effects of a tariff, which econom ically retards business instead of help ing it. A-cheerful and even hopeful outlook is good of itself, but a real satisfactory state of affairs actually depends on conditions to be met with next fall. The hopes we have certainly can not be based on a tariff which adds to the alerady great burdens of the people. It is not a good idea to fool ourselves till we actually get out of the woods. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. -o GREAT BALTIMORE ASSET Walters art gallery is now open to the public on Wednesdays and Satur days. This is perhaps a routine piece of news, for it is made ,public every year about this time; but there is one "fact contained in it which has never been properly appreciated. "* The gal lery is not always open. When, there fore, the time comes around for ad mitting the public there should be at least a minor scramble: of eager spec tators. Properly handled by an ad vertising expert, the usual inacessi bility of the Walters gallery should make it one of Baltimdre’'s most popu lar institutions.—Baltimore Sun. -0 WITHDRAWAL OF OUR TROOPS President Harding's decision that American troops are to be withdrawn from the Rhine, as announced by the secretary of state, comes at an un favorable moment, when it is likely to be subject to considerable misinter pretation. It may not be intended as a criticism upon French policy, and may be the outgrowth of a desire to keep American troops out of a zone of possible trouble. Almost Inevitably it will be given a broader significance. This may have been intended by the members of congress who secured the passage of , the recent resolution on the subject, . According-to thi’ -Information non* made publics Sue notification was sent to France'gbihe time ago that in the event of an', Invasion^ of the Ruhr our present action would be inevitable. No doubt the diplomatic .reiiuirements of the case have been complied with. But the fact remains that our action occurs at a very critical moment, and public opinion both here and abroad is nearly certain to interpret it as a di rect rebuke to French policy, at least in the absence of more satisfactory explanations than have been given. It may well be that this withdrawal ought to have been effected some time ago. That, however, was not done, and our action at present has the more significance since it has been so long deferred. Precisely how this will affect our reported offer to mediate or aid in determining reparations is not clear, but it can hardly help tl* pros pects of that proposal. The faction de termined. upon at Washington thus adds materially to the complexity, and apparently tends to increase the em barrassment of our foreign relations. _Xewi York Journal of Commerce. HOPELESS MINORITIES It'M3 the Irony of fate that the only ! place ip the world which bears the name ‘'Minor" should be the land where the minor peoples have no fu ture—the land of hopeless minorities. | Yesterday's report from Lausanne in timates that the allies have abandon ed hope of securing special guaran tees for them or a permanent home. A note of poignancy is added by the separation of fathers from mothers and children. The report of Mr. Allen T. Burns of the national information bureau, who has just returned from Russia and the near east,: states that the breadwinners of ,a naif million women and children and old men refu gees in Greece are held in Anatolia as hostages. Unless they can be reunit ed with their families, Judge Payne, ' the head of the American Red Cross, is quoted as saying the "ending of the need for American charity is indefi nitely remote." America has made eloquent insist ence at Lausanne, But we have taken no responsible part, arid as The Times correspondent at Lausanne says the net resUH^at tile end of eight weeks’ discussion' of ominorities’’ is that they will get just what the Turks proposed before the Lausanne conference, and that is practically nothing more than the minorities have, had in the past. If anything can be worse than their past, it is the future which these Asian minorities, ne&rest to Europe and America, are facing today. If Glad stone or Lord Bryce were at Lausanne It might be different.—New York Times. ■ New Bern Officials / Probe Cause of Fire (Special to the Star) NEW BERN, Jan. 12.—An Investiga tion aimed to determine the origin of the fire that destroyed the store of Robert Davis, negro, in Jajnes City,: two weeks ago, with a $3,000 loss, was; started today by Deputy Sheriff James Bryan, who is also chief of the city fire department, with the co-operation of Shertvood Brockwell, deputy fire insur ance commissioner ,Of Raleigh. Three negroes* alleged witnesses to the circumstances surrounding the fire which. Davis charges, was; of incen-i diary origin, were arrested by Sheriff Bryan yesterday on 'a 'warrant sworn out Before Judge Henry A. Grady, and held In jail in default .of bonds in the. amount'.of $500 each._ The;' trio are, !j?fank Fdy,: j3ol6mon .Fisher, and John,' s;gltas SikeB Blangij. ' R.'iA.'Nunn and, a b'n)orerf‘jawyef* .R;‘ W. ‘Williamson, are THE FUTILITY OF IT FIRE BUGS APPEAR i ON SENAfOR’S TRAIL; -— j Luther P. Tapp Twice a Heavy! Lose*- By Alleged Incen- j diary Fires. j (Special to the Star) KINSTON, Jan. 12.—The authorities here today admitted they were at sea regarding-' the, identify of incendiarists belieyed to have been wreaking ven geance upon Ltuther P. Tapp for some fancied injury'. The motive for two fires which have dost-Tapp- thousands of dollars jremamtd a” mystery. The j first of these blazes occurred the morn ing of December 23, when a student passing the Atlantic warehouse, leased by Tapp from the B. W. Canady estate ^or many years, discovered “two or three men" about a blaze in the center , of the building. Mr. Tapp at the time ( could conceive Of no reason for the , •apparent Incendiarism. I The blaze yesterday morning which gutted Tapp’s fine home in Northwest j Kinston was believed by neighbors to have been incendiary. The Are started , in the rear of the house. One report, said the flames were first noticed on th back, porch. They quickly ate their j way through the big dwelling. The j firemen found the blaze difficult to cope with. The interior of the house was ■ filled with smoke and fire. Water and , flames did $29,000 damage before the ! fire -was brought under control, it was estimated. The dwelling is one of the largest in the district, and with con tents probably represented on outlay of $40,000 before the fire. Tapp has been in the tobacco busi ness here longer than any other man on the market. He has taken an active part in polities, and was at Raleigh as a member of the state senate when his home was fired. Mrs. Tanp was away from home, as were the two daughteis of the family. His most intimate ac quaintances today could not understand why Senator Tapp should have an ene my, even for political reasons. Tne one slight clue that has been advanced indicates that the incendiarists do not reside within the corporate limits of the citvj* Bach, fire occurred at a time when there was little wind. This, the arson adherents believe, betokened consideration for other property owners. Buncombe Sportsmen Want Fish Conserved ASHEVILLE. Jan. 12. — Although heartily In accord with.the proposed state-wide fame law as drawn up by the North Carolina State Fish • and Game Development league, \%lth had-' quarters in Charlotte, members of the Buncombe County Fish and ‘jame Jrro^ tective association, meeting tonight, were of the opinion that the measure should also carry definite provisions for the conservation of fish. A special committee, name! in a re cent meeting was requested to make inquiries necessary to determine whether, or not - provisions protecting; fish are to be included, and also to write Horace Kephart, of Bryson City, editor'of All Outdoors, asking whether or not he, as head of the Appalachian Fish and Game association, has drawn up a proposed bill containing such pro visions. If not they will request that he undertake this work and such meas ure wilj be presented before a subse quent meeting of the association for their consideration. A German coin was called the heller, wasting a perfectly good “er." Sunshine Laundry Damp Wash Ser vice. Call'172-—Adv, Eastern North Carolina Towns Are On a Boom (SDeeial to the Star) KINSTON, Jan. 12.—As an indication of the construction boom that is under way in the South Atlantic states, a lo cal engineer today cited public im provement programs In . seven small towns in the region, calling for outlays totalling more than $2,000,000, that ,ie has been retained to supervise. The improvements .will include waterworks, lighting, sewerage and paving systems. Largest expenditures in the lot veil] be made in eastern Carolina towns, one of which has appropriated nearly a million dollars and another ♦350.000. A Georgia town will invest several hun dred thousands. All of the work will be of a public nature. Many towns ;n the region are understood to be plan ning for improvements. 9i irst teaspoonful reHcrvesscratchy, congestedfceP ing in yourtbroat. Phlegm loos ens, inflamedtmuesaresootbed. Follow the directions on the bottle. Such welcome reHe$l Yoar cough eases—your cold breaks up. 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