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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20,
1923
Watching North Carolina
-o
South Carolinians, and especially
tlie South Carolina press, is watching
the movement in North Carolina for
state port development, with Governor
Morrison’s proposal for a state oper
ated ship line as a collateral possi
bility. Naturally, the manufacturers
and business men of the neighboring
state have begun to take notice of the
value of the port of Charleston to
their state and its development, so
they are wondering if North Carolina
is going to take any step looking to
wards taking advantage of water
transportation to help out in the state j
freight rate situation. Taking note of j
the interest of our neighbors, the
Charlotte Observer says:
The city of Charleston only re
cently came into possession and
•ontrol of its water front. The
Spartanburg- Herald is advising
:hat Charleston ‘‘keep an eye” on
What North Carolina is proposing
io do in the matter of developing
its shipping interests, so as to im
press South Carolina ‘‘with the
significance of the proposals being
advanced by the sister state.” It
believes that if North Carolina
should go into the shipping busi- |
ness “a very interesting problem j
might be raised for South Caro- j
lina.” Perhaps North Carolina is i
going to set an example for South i
Carolina in the matter of develop
ment of the shipping business of
equal value to the example it set j
in the building of good roads. It
is encouraging to know that the
Palmetto State is manifesting an
interest in the latest move in de
velopment of resources by this
state.
North Carolina ought to be keening
her eye on South Carolina port de-'
velopment, too. Now and then The i
Star has tried to give North Carolina |
some idea of port development at j
Charleston. Charleston already has j
a public terminal development based |
on the splendid terminal property
built there during the World war by ,
the United States government and
taken over by Charleston, to be uni
fied with other terminal facilities con
trolled by the Charleston port com
mission. New maritime enterprises
have been inaugurated in Charleston.
A steamship line plies via the Panama
canal between Charleston and Pacific
ports, and possibly few people in our
own state know that the business in
terests of the central portion of North
Carolina have received indirect, if not
direct, benefits from that Pacific com
merce through the South Carolina
port. We happen to know that canned
goods and Pacific coast products have
come by sea to Charleston for distri
bution to North Carolina jobbers.
North Carolinians ought to know
that it would be impossible to develop
a port at Charleston or increase the
maritime facilities of that South Car
olina port without its being of prime
benefit to North Carolina, and it would
be just as Impossible to develop port
and maritime facilities at a North
Carolina port without its being of pro
portional benefit to a large part pf
South Carolina as well as to the whole
State of North Carolina!
In 1921 Charleston' began "the expor
tation of bright tobacco, and during
the past season tobacco exports reach
ed considerable proportions. Eastern
North Carolina contributed some of
that tobacco for exportation through
that South Carolina . The-,govern
ment engineers ha^e just completed
the survey for a 2£-inile canal which
■will connect Columbia with the port
of Charleston. The canal will shorten
the water route from Columbia., to
Charleston by more than 100 miles.
The canal is to connect the Charleston
port waterways with the Santee and
' Congaree rivers, and both Charleston
and Columbia realize its importance
to those cities and the state. Hereto
| fore steamboats plied between Charles
j ton and Coluipbia by the Santee river
| route, which is a round-about way, but
when the line was operated soon after
the civil war a heavy traffic was car-,
ried on. To shorten the route by more
than 100 miles will give Columbia and
the whole upper part of the state the
advantage of water transportation.
Charleston is building more public
terminals, and it is a matter of spe
cial interest to note that among the
inquiries made by North Carolina leg
j islators at Raleigh was one as to why
I the port of Charleston had not been a
I factor in lowering freight rates in
South Carolina. Regardless of the pos
sibility of lowering interior rail rates,
better port and terminal facilities at
Charleston gives the state export and
import advantages it would not other
wise have. However, Charleston is on
the way to getting classed as a deep
water port upon which rail rates are
based for general1 distribution. > Intel
ligent men in both North and South
Carolina ought to know why freight
rates in their states can not secure
parity rates based upon such a devel
oped ocean gateway as Norfolk.
The Star does not know just how
comprehensive is the grasp of the
North Carolina legislature on this sub
ject of port and maritime facilities,
but judging of rumors of “a desperate
fight” on the pending port and ship
‘measure at Raleigh, the South Caro
linians need not have any fear that
North Carolina is going to take any
great advantage 'of the Atlantic ocean
to provide herself with either, a rate
basing or a competitive port. We shall
have to wait and see" how that “des
perate fight” turns out. It might turn
out in favor of Virginia and South
Carolina.
Pull Dick and Pull Devil
-o
The French invasionists and the
German passive resistants both claim
the advantage in the struggle for the
mastery in the militaristic method of
international dealing to accomplish
economic results. It seems to be a
case of pull Dick and pull Devil, with
victory for each one side or the other
ruinous in consequences for each of
the contestants.
In his speech in the senate Monday,
Senator Borah denounced the French
policy as a violation of the Versailles
peace treaty but he overlooks the fact
that the reparations commission,
claiming to act under the treaty, ap
proved the French policy by a vote of
three to one. Senator oBrah also, as
sailed the Harding administration for
its impotent attitude towards interna
tional problems fraught with serious
consequences to the world, and to
America, as well. It is said that Am
bassador George Harvey agrees with
the plan supported by Secretary
Hughes, and it is said that President
Harding’s plan is the same as the
Hughes plan. Whoever knows what
the Hughes plan is, can guess what
it is that President .Harding and Am
bassador Harvey are standing for.
In the meantime, in his financial
article, at the week-end, Theodore
Price, the New York economist, says
“the outlook is confusing to a degree
that is almost without precedent.’’ He
notes this disastrous result:
France has carried her peaceful
penetration of Germany so far
that what is almost a state of war
exists, and a political bridge has
been built iifto Germany over
which the Ked Army of Soviet
Kussia may at any time advance
toward the Rhine. This Red Army
is said to include 1,200.000 well fed
well equipped men who are
for the most part officered by
Prussians. French francs have
fallen to 6.63. Belgian francs are
still lower at 6.02, and German
marks are almost worthless, be
ing quoted at four and two-tenths
cents a thousand.
If that meanSi anything, it means
equal ruin for France, Belgium and
Germany. It remains to be seen what
the final result may be so far as the
balance of the world is concerned. The
financial markets in the United States
and Great Britain remain unperturb
ed, and economic conditions in the two
great English speaking nations seem
to be generally undisturbed. It'is said,
however, that commodity prices in the
United States have risen to the high
est point reached this season, with
every prospect that they are to go
much higher. It is certain that the
export demand for-'cotton will be cur
tailed, but in spite of that, prices for
the staple have risen along with other
commodities.
Certainly the conditions are confus
ing, and most any thing might happen,
since it is agreed in both Europe and
America that France’s military scheme
has all sorts of eventualities in it.
There is nothing assuring so far as
most European countries are concern
ed. Under such conditions, the Turks
are standing pat at Lausanne, realiz
ing that the allies are in no position
to put anything over them.
The American protective tariff
league has congratulated President
Harding and congress upon the alle
gation that the traiff act “has brought
prosperity and stability.” It doesn’t
take^mhch to enable tariff beneficiaries
to see prosperity and stability for
themselves. They take no account of
the masses of the people.
of it. The “Star Reader” may not be
aware of it, but a good many farmers
there use legumes wherever they can.
Cowpeas, soy and velvet beans in sum
mer, oats and rye mixed with vetch or
clovers for hary and cover crops in
winter. At present many of those
beautiful green acres- are plowed up
preparatory for early spring truck
1 crops, and their wealth of nitrogen and
humus stored up for future use. Yet
I enough is left to show “Star Reader”
that legumes and cover crops are
j raised there, and others interested in
“does it pay?” or enrich the soil, to
show and convince them that it does
both to the benefit of the farmers, their
community and their county and state.
B. VAN BAVEL.
Castle Havne, Jan. 24.
CONTEMPORARY VIEWS.
IS THE ENTENTE J£NDED?
There is a common feeling1 of uneas
iness running through the allied coun
tries, ourselves included, lest the de
cision of France to “go it alone”- in
her policy of forcible collection of rep
arations from Germany may mark the
end of the celebrated ‘‘Entente Cor
and France by King Edward VII in
the year 11*03. While this was broad
ened out into an alliance during the
war, in order to include Italy, Belgium
and numerous other countries, and
thus became more of a definite organ
ization than a 'mere ‘‘cordial under
standing,” yet its continuation after'
the close of hostilities very promptly
reverted, in tendency at least, toward
its earlier forms.
While this understanding*: has exist
ed unbroken since the armistice, when
judged from the standpoint of sympa
thy and more or less identical object
ive. it ceased to exist as a common
policy or as a political and diplomatic
unity. This happened just as soon as
the peace conference got under way
in January. 1919. The first step In this
breach was precipitated by the discus
sion of the “fourteen ppinfe” and their
interpretation. Differences were ac
centuated during the formation of the
league of jiations, and the culmination
came in the contest over Flume. The
United States played a prominent part
in this breach, although Its influence^
both in 1919 and later, has been along
the line of a mediator, and at times
even practically as a member of the
entente.
Bight here it may be said that one ;
of the great errors made by President
Wilson during" the war, both from the
standpoint of national psychology and
its results in statesmanship, was to
insist that we were not in any sense
any “ally” of the powers at war but
only an “associate.” Although techni- (
rally he, perhaps, was correct, yet by
this policy he unconsfciously drove a
nail in the coffin of the league project
which he then was preparing. It stands
to reason that there Is much less In- 1
ducement or attraction in joining a
political organization with associates
than there would be with allies.
Although there were 12 different
conferences over German reparations,
in the four years following the formu
lation of the treaty of Versailles, yet
the entente persisted and was a real
and continuous force through them
all. It has been the only thing that
has restrained the mad course of Tur- :
key at Lausanne, and it still keeps
that conference marking time instead !
of coming to a disgraceful and con- I
temptible end. But at least its con- .
tinuous life is better than chaos in I
the near east, especially at the pres
ent moment. Few people made note
of the recent fact that on January 1
last, the day before the adjourned
meeting of the conference of premiers
at Paris, Lord Curzon came to that
city from Lausanne and had a ’long
private conference with Poincare and
other members of the French minis
try. These officials were-all evidently ,
aware of the probable friendly break 1
in the Paris negotiations, and care
fully prepared safeguards against dan
gerous results from it at Lausanne.—
New York Journal of Commerce.
diale” formed
Great. Britain
THU FORGOTTEN MEN
While we are building- more good
roads, why not build more good peo
ple? There are in this state 317,000
persons who, if they are not to be an
insupportable weight on the advance
ment of North Carolina, have got to
have better bodies and better equip
ped minds. They are the families of
the 03,000 white farm tenants in the
state, some of whom live on a cash
income of S cents per person per day.
The renters, those who own their work
stock and implements, have for them
selves and families an average daily
cash income of 12 cents per person.
The 8-cent men are the croppers who
are staked everything by their land
lords. Walter Page called them "the
forgotten men.”
Those astounding and pitiful facts
are brought out in a recent University
of North Carolina extension bulletin,
"How Farm Tenants Idve,” by Mr. J.
A. Hickey and Dr. E. C. Branson, based
on investigations by Mr. Dickey in
Baldwin and Williams townships in
Chatham county, conditions there be
ing typical of the whole state. It
shows that the Tarheel whi.te - farm
renter has an annual pash income of
$251, the cropper $153. Says the bul
letin :
“The average income per person in
the 329 farm families investigated,
white and black, owners and tenants,
was only 23 cents a day. How could
anybody live on less money and liver
at all? How can whife tenants on a
dally cash income of 12 cents a day per
person ever buy and pay for farms of
their own? They do it—-57 of>the white
farm owners of this/particular terri
tory have done it during, the last 20
years. They do it, but how thejr'do It
passes understanding. And moreover
they have’idone it by self effort alone.
Can this repord be,'beat in any other
state qf the unlon? .This is what I
have fn, mind when I say that .God
Almighty made North Oerolina Id ha
a paradise for poop fqil»s---that is to
say, for the average 1',9‘iX 6>»h onntenl.
with merely lu,epin-g* iJitWchad body to
gether.” 'v
• But--that Is not ehotigh. AH North
Carolina, ompipe tn stun gnd fairyland
in fertility, must b« ijtada a paradise
:where thepobr rise tip and oast off
forever the'fdtters of 4&jtt poverty. In
a wdrd, tlih' White teniWt of North Car
olina must ho edUoatud into the wis
dom of buying lani}, iiWhat, is more,
the state mijtjt make J.t' atr entity, IlH I108',
SMe'tor'HraTo accomplish that which'
makes a man a sovereign being, own
ership of borne and soil.—Asheville
Citizen.
—!-"%
.Stacey Wad§ Wants
Measure Regulating
Handling of Gasoline
RALEIGH, Jan. 24.^-^In line with Ills
program of legislation to protect hu
man li% and property, Stacy W. Wade,
insurance, commissioner, has had intro
duced inythe’ Senate a measure regulat
ing the ' storage, transportation, sale
arid use. of. gasojirie and volatile oils.
Senator H. S. Parker, of Wayne.' intro
duced the bill.
The insurance commissioner, under
provisions of the bill is authorized to
adopt rules and regulations, in general
accord with such rules and regulations
which have been or hereafter may be
adopted or endorsed by the United
States Bureau of Standards, or the
National Fire Protection association, or
the National Board of Underwriters,
governing the keeping, storage, trans
portation, sale or use of gasoline and
volatile oils.’
The measure follows in full:
“Section 1. That ijr>eh&ll be unlawful
for any person/ firm, association or
corporation, to keep, store, transport,
sell or use any crude petroleum, ben
zine. benzol, gasoline naphtha, ether,
or other like volatile combustibles, or
compounds, in such manner or under
such circumstances as will jeopardize
life or property.
“Section 2. That the Insurance (fom
mission is hereby authorized to rhake
and adopt rules* :an& regulations in
general accord, with such rules and
regulations which have been or may
hereafter be adopted or endorsed by
the United States Buren.ii of Standards,
or the National Fire Protection associ
ation. or the National Board of Un
derwriters governing the keeping, stor
age, transportation, sale or use of gaso
line and volatile oils.
“Section 3; Any person, firm, associ
ation or .corporatism violating any of
"the provisions of this act. or any of
the rules or regulations of the Insur
ance department, adopted pursuant to
"the provisions of this act. shall he sub
ject to a fine, or penalty, not less than «
ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars
for each offense. Each- day of viola
tion of the provisions of this act, or the
rules and regulations of the Insurance
department adopted pursuant hereto,
shall constitute a separate offense.
“Section 4. That tlTe rules and regu
lations adopted by the Insurance de
partment, pursuant to this act, shall
apply to all cities and towns of 500
population and over at the last United
States census, provided, however, that
where applying to storage plants now
existing and doing business such plants
shall be alloyed ninety days to conform
to the rules and regulations made pur
suant to this act.
“Section 5.. Provided that all rules
and regulations pursuant to this act,
applying to cities and towns aforemen
tioned, shall also apply to all property
within one -mile of any such city or
town.
“Section 6. This act shall be in force
from and after its ratification.”
BETTER THAN
WHISKEY FOR
COLDS AND FLU
New Elixir, Called Aspironal,
Medicated With Latest Scien
tific Remedies, Used and En
dorsed by European and
American Army/Surgeons to
Cut Short a Cold or Cough
Due to Cold and Prevent Com
plications
Every Druggist in U. S. Instruc
ted to Refund Price While
You Wait at Counter if You
Cannot Feel Relief Coming
Within Two Minutes
Delightful Taste, Immediate Re
lief, Quick Warm-up
The sensation in the drut trade is
Aspironal, the quick-acting cold and
cough reliever, authoritatively guaran
teed by" the laboratories; tested, ap
proved and most enthusiastically en
dorsed by the highest authorities, and
proclaimed by the common people as
ten times as quick and. effective as
whiskey, r.ock and rve or any other
cold remedy they have ever tried.
All drug stores are now supplied
with the wonderful new elixir, so step
Into the nearest drug store, hand the
clerk half a dollar for a bottle of As
pironal and tell him to serve you two
teaspoonfuls. With your . watch in
your hand, take the drink at one swal
low and call for your money back in
•two minutes if you cannot feel relief
coming within the time limit. Don't
be bashful, for all druggists invite you
and expect you to try it. Everybody’s
doing it.
Take the remainder pt the bottle
home to your wife and cables, for As
pironal Js by far the safest and most
effective, the easiest to take and the
most agreeable bold and cough remedy
for Infants and children, as' well as for
adults.—Adv.
Chamberlain
TABLETS
•SOLD EVERYWHERE FOR'
CONSTIPATION
BILIOUSNESS
INDIGESTION
Stomach Trouble
MRS. (JAIUIIIS AVANT
DIMM AT CEHRO GOKUO
CMC it HO liOUDO, Jan. 24.—Mrs. Carrie"
Avant, wlfo of Pearsall K. Avant, en
tered Into life eternal at an early hour
Sunday morning, After an'illness of
three or four days.
Funeral service wae conducted by
the ftev. Hoyle Love, her pastor, ‘and
Internment was made In the Porter
Swamp cemetery ’Sunday' afternoon, in
the presence of hundreds of friends and
relatives. - ' —a.. ... ;
Mrs. Avant, before her marriage, was
the daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Ira L.
Orcen. . Her husband, father, mother,
three brothers and two sisters survive.
TRY SULPHUR ON
AN; ECZEMA SKIN
Costs Little and Overcomes j
Trouble Almost Over Night.
Any breaking out of, the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly
overcome by applying Mentho-Sulphur,
declares a noted skin specialist, be
cause of its germ destroying properties,
this -sulphur preparation instantly
brings eash^ from skin irritation,
soothes and heals the eczema right up
and leaves the skin clear and smooth.
It seldom fails to relieve the tor- :
ment without delay. Sufferers from
skin trouble should obtain a small jar
of Rowles Mentho-Sulphur from any
good druggist and use it like c,old
cream.—Adv. /
Chilblains
ache and pain?
MEffTHOLATUM
gives quick
relief.
DrKINGS NewDiscmen
jV’ou'-checkit!
Nov)—nostrils spre from blowing
throat rough and scratchy^-chest- ••
• tight ahd oppressive with conges
tion afid coughing—what discom
fort! •
r^-cool, head-clearing relief
following;’ the first dose of Dr.
•King’s NeW Discovery! How ef
fective—this dependable 50-year
old remedy. Grandma will tell von
it is a safe cough syrup for every n , „ Vr
of the family. Your druggist has it.
Service Station
Exide Storage Batteries, Gill Piston Rings, Genuine
Ford Parts
Accessories of All Kinds, Vulcanizing
„ Call 1193 If You Have Trouble
WALTERS GARAGE
113 North Second Street
wamimB
Save Money
on Your Land-clearing this Spring!
We handle DUMORITE—the lowest cost farm explosive made and the only
dynamite of its tfrpe. DUMORITE has approximately the same strength as
40 per cent dynamite, stick for stick, and shoots with the slow heaving
action of 20 per cent. ■'
At the price of 100 sticks of 40 per cent, we can sell you 135 to 140 sticks
of DUMORITE—you are getting one-third-more dynamite for your dollar.
Buy your supply now. Remember-DUMORITE is non-freezing and you
can use it in any season—and it doesn’t givfe you a headache like most
dynamites.
For blasting ditches, we carry a stock of du Pont 50 per cent straight
dynamite.
Come in and let’s quote you prices for explosives for stumping and ditching
work you can do dn any season with du Pont dynamite.
FISH SCRAP FERTILIZERS
Special Fertilizers for Tobacco and Cotton
Josey’s 8-3-3, for cotton and corn............. $25.00
Josey’s-8-3-3, for tobacco withmiuriate..$25.00
Josey’s 8-3-3, for tobacco with sulphate.. $26.50
All C. O. D., Freight Collect; Shipment at Once.
We will book you for shipment during the season if you send in
now the money for what you want. Prices subject to advance with
out notice.
N. B. JOSEY GUANO COMPANY
Wilmington, N. C.
Tarboro,
N.