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HHilmingtim toning Siar Published by THE WILMINGTON STAR COMPANY, Inc., 109 Chestnut Streeit. P. H. BATTE, Managing Director. Telephones: \ Business and Kditorian office. , .No. 51 EntVed at the PtSstoffice ^ ^^mins" ton, N. C., as Second Class Matter No weekly mail subscriptions. ' ^ CITY DELIVERY-Papct-s are ached ulea to be delivered before ^ Sun_ on- week days and iatn ser days. Complaints rega S made vice or non-deliyery shouldi m before 9:00 a. m. to Circulation ^ ment. Phone 51. * CHANGE OF ADDKESS-Wlim ^or dering your paper changed £ro ^ address to another .please gi> well as new address. EXPIRATIONS—Look at the prmtj label on the paper. AM® da'1 shows when the subscription expire_ COMMUNICATIONS must be accom panied by the true name d atten of the writer in oruer to reeei e a. tion. Rejected manuscripts win noL returned. ___— ALL DRAFTS, checks, express mo hey orders and postal money ord t_Q the orders and postal money « » - the paper should be made payab order of the Wilmington Star co. _ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated _ Press V o? entitled"'to tbe'use "for publication .of all news credited to it-or not othe credited, in th:s paper and A~'f0rie-;ns local news published herein. A.I rights of re-publication of special disp herein are also reserved. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1923. World Conference on Ruhr. -0 Berlin is informed, that Premier Mussolini, of Italy, “has decided to appeal to the American government to call at Washington a world con ference to consider the great econ omic problems left over by the war, and, at the same time, will appeal to France and Germany to act with moderation until this gathering has reached some definite conclusion.” A world conference on economics, reparations, and all other war prob lems of Europe is what has been urged by Senator Borah, a former isolationist Republican and “irrecon cilable.” Senator Borah not only strenously and very ably urged such an international conference but he overdid the thing by criticising the Harding administration for an atti tude which Borah himself helped the administration to take with regard to Europe and its affairs. Of course, President Harding can not give heed to either the appeal of either Borah or Mussolini. The fact is, the horse is gone, and it is too late for the Harding administration to take the position of a guard at the stable door. Indeed, the semi-official announce , ment comes from Washington that “in spite of the evident effort of senate irreconcilables to make an issue of the administration’s attitude towards Europe’s troubles, the administration intends to adhere to the course which it mapped out in dealing 'with the situation produced by the French in vasion of the Ruhr.” Nevertheless, the administration “is looking for an opportunity to be of assistance in ameliorating present dangerous con ditions." President Harding and his advisers are satisfied that while no effort on its part or on the parr, of any other nation can change the present dangerous conditions, there may come a time when America can assume a helpful role, which it stands ready at all times, to assume. The administration should have adopted a helpful role tow years ago, and as least when the Washington arms limitation conference was held, '4when France fished for international guarantee ^gainst Germany’s future enmity and when it became plain to close observers that France was main taining her big army to do exactly what she has done in using that army to seize Germany territory. It did not require a prophet to foresee precisely what France has done in her seizure of the Ruhr—aimed at further crip puug urermauy as mucii as u was ner aim to collect reparations. Collect ing reparations was merely inciden tal to France’s seizure of the Ruhr. France gave the allies and America several opportunities to act, hut when she realized that they would not do so she decided to help her self in her own way with her own military pow er while it was still in a mobilized state. To interfere with France aft er she has acted, unless she asked for such Intervention, would be a pure case of meddling,. exactly the con - trary to “aloofness.” France has not . made any appeal' for American inter vention because she ' does not want any interference with, her deliberate and long contemplated plan. Germany has protested to Great Britain and America and other nations against Ffench Invasion, but no nation will take it upon itself to meddle in such dangerous / situation. Neither will the outside nations unite to interfere, for all are actually neutral as between France and Germany in this new «tate of war. It is out of all reason to expect the Harding administration to isolate America for two years and then be come aggressive at the moment when there is more danger than at any time since the armistice more than four years ago. It ought to be quite ob vious to anybody that France has burned her bridges behind her and is determinedly carrying out her pro gram against Germany—not only against the German government but against German resources and Indus try and agaiDst German people. She is not only coercing the German gov ernment but is seizing German citi zens, trying them by court martial and sending them to prison. There is no wonder that Washing ton regards the Ruhr news as “terror izing.” France is not only coercing the German republic but is commit ting acts of war against German peo ple. Their own government is power less to prevent the foreign dominance Arer them. Since France is neither asking for intervention or assistance, it would be an altogether bold depar ture from American isolation for the Harding administration to get mixed up in a situation which borders on war and eventually will be the cause of war. I Hard-Boiled Isolation. —vo—— At one time, the isolation adminis tration at Washington appeared to be shedding its hard shell, but, recent events in Europe havfe caused Presi dent Harding and the state depart ment to go in the shell and close it up so tight that not a word about the dangerous situation in Europe can escape from the administration’s state of “aloofness.” That may be very well under the circumstances, for American efforts to save Europe came too late for even a plan to be devised in time to secure public in dorsement. Once indorsed by a pow erful Republican congress, the Hard ing administration now is being bold ly charged with absolute failure to have a constructive foreign policy. A strong Republican faction has risen up in congress to condemn and re proach the isolation administration. Senator Borah’s speech a few days ago, ripped isolation up the back, al though he was once counted with the irreconcllables. Even the Democrats are now saying that the president’s Republican critics are going too far under conditions now dangerous. In the meantime, no amount of nagging can induce President Harding to make any kind of attempt to bring about a settlement of the reparations war be tween France and Germany. It is too late for the administration to make even a gesture, so it ignores Borah’s terrific assault on a policy very few Republicans now dare to defend. New Lutheran Church Paper. -o The initial eopy of the North Caro lina Lutheran has been received bylhe Star. Naturally, it is a notable in cident that one more star has made its appearance in the journalistic fir mament of the Old North State. The Lutheran denomination has 30,000 communicants in this state, and for more than 50 years that church has been a potential factor in making North Carolina the good state that her loyal sons and daughters pride them selves on. There are thirty-eight Lutheran synods in the state and the church has steadily grown in num bers and influence. Such a large Lutheran element in the State de served a chffrch paper of its own, and since the new publication will fill a long felt need, it can be ventured that it has come to stay, since it is reason able to presume that the paper will receive the staunch and liberal sup port of Lutherans throughout the state, including several hundred be long to two churches of that denom ination in Wilmington. The North Carolina paper is published at New ton and its editor is the Rev. A. R. Beck, an influential minister who brings great earnestness and capabil ity to hia chosen work In the field of church journalism. -u—■ Alter all, the senate committee In vestigating the Teapot Dome oil lease got some of the inside history of the Mammoth Oil company. It’s a won der some of the oil men don’t name their outfit the;Behemoth Oif' com pany. Lots of people who bought oil stock during the last / ten years are laboring under the impression that they bought stock in the Dodo Oil company. It wouldn’t be hard to get Stacy Wade to agree to that. —:-0 The*American Woolen company has announced that the 1923 price of fall worsteds, overcoatings and woolens would average an increase of 16 per cent a yard over a year ago. ,The in creased-price of 50 leading lines of staple woolens would average’ 12 1-2 cents. “It is understood that the new prices are not based, entirely on the prevailing costs of raw wools.”' Cer tainly not. They ; are more likely to be based entirely'ori the Fordney-Mc Cumber tariff act. As high as cloth ing is now, this means much higher prices next fall. Increase of the Cotton -Acreage, Th6 Washington correspondent / of the New York Journal of Commerce finds out from-'the agricultural de partment that "the south will plant a' large acreage in- cotton during' 1923.” That is the survey made by the crop reporting board this early in the year: That seems finite likely in view of the early and persistent campaign being carried on in North Carolina, South Carolina and other cotton states by groups of campaign ers who are telling the farmers ‘‘how to grow cotton under boll weevil con ditions.” It does not take much of an argument to persuade cotton grow ers te plant cotton under any kinds of conditions. Southern papers gen erally make it plain that southern farmers may raise hogs and grow oth er things hut nothing ever will wean them off from the fleecy staple. There are farmers who can be de pended on to devote considerable acreage to cotton if the boll weevil should grow to the size of a butterfly. The commerical crowd which wants cotton is back of some of these cotton growing campaigns, and not many of them remind' the farmers that "growing cotton under boll weevil conditions” on poor land would be poor business this season. Growing cotton on god, land under boll weevil conditions, might be worth trying, but no farmer can afford to grow cotton under poor land condi tions and boll weevil conditions com bined. If the farmers are determined to grow cotton they should restore the soil to fertility first and then defy the weevil. Legume- and nitrogen cover crops would soon enable them to grow cotton under most any con dition. The New York Journal of Com merce carried that “larger cotton crop” story under a “box-car” head and should the price of cotton drop, the cause of it will not be hard to ex plain. The friends of the cotton grow ers have been telling the world that last year’s crop cost more to produce than the farmers received for it, even at 25 cents. Increasing the acreage, without the hope of getting more than .20 to 25 cents a pound for the fleece, would cause the cotton world to doubt that the 1923 crop was sold below cost of production. The Industrial Fund Plan. -0 A way to aid and encourage the establishment and the upbuilding of industries, without losing a cent, has been tried out to the satisfaction of many cities. Baltimore and Easton, Pa., have both tried the “industrial fund” plan and found it eminently successful. Easton has tried it and has succeeded in promoting Indus trial development on a large scale. Norfolk has made up her mind to try the same plan, and is going into the industry promoting business with a trial fund of one million dollars. The Norfolk Virginian'Pilot has made a comprehensive study of the Easton plan and is strong for jt. Wilmington is going to try the in dustrial fund plan, too, provided the general assembly shall e^ct the en abling bill now before that body. That Wilmington bill ia on the eve of com ing up for action, and we shall soon see whether we are to do that kind of promotion work for the develop ment of Wilmington. It is said that during the twelve years that Easton has done industrial promotion work under the “indus trial fund” method not a dollar has been sacrificed. On the contrary, many Industries have been established and others enlarged, with the result that industry has grown, employment in creased, payrolls grown, and taxable values increased. The methods for investing the fund are safeguarded, and the commission which handles the fund has done so under a plan that Is the equivalent of operating a local bank devoted exclusively to mak ing loans to industries. Business men and commercial or ganizations at Norfolk are putting over the Easton plan in that city. It has been indorsed by the public and the Virginian Pilot says the finan cial and business reputation of the Norfolk men backing it is conclusive proof that the plaq is absolutely sound. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. -0 BIG THINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA Prom his camp at Raleigh Brother' Ball, of the Columbia State, la passing it- out to the South Carolinians by the column. His paper of Tuesday missed Charlotte connection, so Tuesday and Wednesday’s came in a bunch. The combined editions carry editorial stories running into lour columns— and it is all about good roads and schools as developed under the me thods obtaining in North ■Carolina. These are some of the disclosures fys is making for the benefit of 'the- ped pie of South Carolina and the South Carolina Legislature in particular-*1- (• Forsyth and Mecklenburg, the coun ties in which are Wlnston-Saleni;ajS.dJ Charlotte, pay license .flees anil;'g»s-~‘ oline taxes 10 or 15- tjmes the ajm-punt’ of those paid by Montgomery or'.Blade: en but the state roads’ Ibullt through Montgomery and Bladen are paid for and, maintained by license fees add gasoline taxes. . S ;> ' ■' The motor licenses and gasoline revenues all, not~.£0 per .cent or 60 -per cent, but -every penny of them, they go to the State "Highway De partment. Forsyth and Mecklenburg, Buncombe and Guilford, Wake, New Hanover and Orange—Winston-Salem, Charlotte,: Asheville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington and Durham in those counties—are helping to build the roads “for North Carolina." Spartanburg, Greenville/ Anderson, Richland and Charleston are receiving, as.counties, 80 per cdnt of the motor licenses while the Highway Commis sion of" South Carolina gets 20 .per .cent—and the Highway Commission of South Carolina has not a dollar of gasoline revenues. In South Carolina is but the thin beginning of understanding of con structing state roads. That is why one may roll smoothly from Columbia through Kershaw to the Chesterfield line and there must halt or have his car pulled out of a hole by a pair Of mules—Spartanburg and Richland, so far, insist that Chesterfield take care of her own roads while the vehicle revenues col lected in Spartanburg and Richland be, spent on their roads and bridges or on other objects. Let the South Carolina legislators and the South Carolina motorists get this in their heads. It is not, prim arily, a bond issue that is building roads in North Carolina. In that is no magic. Even with nothing more than the motor license revenues, the South Carolina Highway Commission would, by this time, have produced a State highway s'ystem twice as complete and twice as valuable as it is—but it has had a pittanee of 20 per cent there of because the rich counties of South Carolina have not had the vision and the common sense to give up anything, because they have cared everything for themselves and mighty little for South Carolina. That isn’t a pleasant thing to say but it is the hard fact— and the statute creating, after a ted ious struggle, our highway commis sion is the proof of it. DIFFICULT MR. BORAH We don’t know whether Senator Borah terrifies his enemies, but we are sure that he frightens his friends. After every such explosive statement of his as that which appeared yester day, they tremble for him. That he may be easily convicted of inconsis tency is a minor matter. He has ap parently ceased to care about such trifles. But there is always the fear that in his rash assertions he may be proved in error l»y production of the facts. He now, for example, affirms stveepingly, in the course of his severe attack upon the administration for having no foreign policy, that “we “did not even, as a matter of fact, “suggest to France, iru a way that “France felt bound to notice, any "plan whatever." Has the Senator been to the State Department to ask for correspondence? If it^should be produced and show that he was wrong, would that divert him from future attacks based on Ignorance or half knowledge? If the Idaho Senator is difficult to satisfy, he is also hard to follow There is more in his rapid changes than simply his sudden becoming the champion of intervention in Europe after having so long been the chief oi the Isolationists. He now says that “we made definite and certain pledges as to the treatment of Germany.” But who were the "we"? Why, of course, the President of the United States and the other Commissioners at Paris who signed the Versailles Treaty for the United States. But who in the Senate was the protagonist of the view that they had no right to commit this country to the definite and certain pledges of the treaty, and who led in its rejection by this government? William E. Borah was tpe man, and now he appeals to a contract which he did more than anybody else to tear up. He forgets also that in that contract certain definite pledges were given to France. She had the promise of reparations sufficient at least to restore her devastated regions. In case Germany did not make the pay ments as required, means of compul sion were placed in the hands of France by the contract. But the case with which Senator Borah now in vokes’it, now repudiates it, and ignores the parts of it which he does hot like, is only one of the anxieties which he causes his friends when, they read his public deliverances. Of course, a detached Senator like Mr. Borah is in a privileged position. He can criticise violently what is done without being called upon to state in precise and official terms exactly what should be done. He now recurs to his suggestion of a world confer ence. But its scope he leaves clouded in such general phrases as “to adjust the economic problems involved." Yet he must know that, if our government were to summon such a conference, it would have to draw Up a definite plan. Should it, however, work out a detailed program proposing a scal ing down or cancellation of the war active participation of this govern debts owed America, or offering the ment in measures to compel Germany to pay for the lawless damage which she did in the war, no man would be more certain to rise choking with in dignant protest than Senator Borah. He Is an able man, doubtless a sincere man, but really a little difficult.—New York Times. Sunshine Laundry Damp Wash Ser vice. Call 172.—Adv. 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'• BARTLETT ADDRESSES WH1TEVILIE MEETING Poultry Hatchery and Potato Curing House is Urged as Community Undertakings (Special to Tlie Star) WHITEVILLE, Jan. 25.—N. G. Bart lett, secretary ^md manager of the eastern Carolina chamber of commerce, delivered an address before Whiteville citizens last night. The address-abound ed in'practical arid, inspiring sugges tions for the improvement of the agri cultural interests of Columbus county. Variety of crops and farming activ ities was the keynote of his address. This, he said, was necessary for the prosperity of the farmers in view of the devastations of the boll weevil. One crop farming, he thinks, is generally a very bad policy. Mr. Bartlett stress ed livestock, dairy products and poul try and urgeh the full co-operation of j Whiteville merchants and bankers in providing , a ready cash market for | whatever the surrounding farmers i might produce. j There were two suggestions that he j made which were particularly interest ing. One was a town hatchery of about 2,500-egg capacity, where farm ers and others might bring their eggs in lots of 200, renting a compartment •. at four cents per egg ,and obtaining | the most satisfactory results in pro- | ductlon of chickens. He says that such j a hatchery placed the poultry business j of his home county in Georgia on a : large, enthusiastic and profitable basis. I He citecj 'one farm of 2,600 white leg-! horn hens, which made a handsome and ] paying business. His other suggestion j was a community storage and potato drying house, which could be financed j successfully with an outlay of a few ( thousand dollars, and made to pay well. Hie address abounded in facts and wise counsel, reasonableness of which appealed strongly to his audience. Mr. Bartlett will be asked to pay another visit to Whiteville and talk to the bus iness men and farmers. W. L. Askea, traffic manager. Golds boro chamber of commerce, was also present and presented the claims of his traffic bureau in the handling of trans portation matters for the business men of the town. Several towns in this sec tion, it seems, have already made a contract with his bureau. The Whiteville Library association held Its annual meeting Monday. The librarian reported that 1,356 books were loaned during last year, 381 of these being since November 1, when the town government began its finan cial assistance. A much larger pro gram has been undertaken for the cur rent year. The officers of the associa tion elected for the coming year are: President, Rev. Andrew J. Howell; vice president, Mrs. Seth L. Smith; secre tary and treasurer, Mrs. A. Elmo Pow ell. Mrs.'R. C. Carson and F. M. Hes ter were elected to serve with the offi cers as members of the executive com- ! mittee. | The George M. 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