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Wt±z iT' !;®SS m ilmington Horning §iar Published by THE WILMINGTON STAR COMPANY, Inc., 109 Chestnut Street, f P. H. BATTK. Managing Director. ‘f 5, ' | Telephones ’'Business Office. Editorial Rooms. .No. 51 .No. 61 }& Entered at the Postoffice at Wilming y^N-C, as Second Class Matter. One Year .. Six Months .. Three Months .$7-00 .3.50 . 1.75! No weekly mall subscriptions. ft- CITY DELIVERY—Papers are sched : Suled to be delivered before 7:*0 oclowk on week days and 8:30 o clock on Sun j days. Complaints regarding tot.«J I ' vice or non-delivery, snould be mado before 9:00 a. m. to Circulation Depart ment. Phone 61. __! - CHANGE OP ADDRESS—Whe S o* dering your paper changfed froi a on <g address to another please give old as well as new aldress. .__ COMMUNICATIONS must be ac-om panted by the true name sad address of the writer in order to receive aiten tion. Rejected manuscripts wil. not returned. • •__ , -EXPIRATIONS—Look at the label on the paper. The £“t*Joires. choWB when' the subscription exp__ ' ALL DRAFTS, checks, exPress the orders and postal money orders f„r tae ' oraera anu -+ ~ thfi paper should be made payable t: order of the Wilmington -■tar, Co. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRES • The Associated Press is exOusi ely entitled to the use for Pu^.u°fherwise AH °Led‘le?..t0„iL^ ann°d °also the 1 all news credited to it, or nee b. edited, in this paper and also tne local news published herein. All rights of re-publication of special dispatcnes herein are also reserved. _— ^ •___-■— ---* MONDAY, MARCI^ 5, 1923 They Should Know Wilmington a New Yorker who is now indenti ; fled with the industrial life of Wil 5- 'mington asserts that the industrial ad-1 vantages of Wilmington, relatively ■ ■ speaking ought to#be equally appealing ■ • to industrial developers as the pied ;' mont section. Electric power in Wil mington posibly costs slightly njore, perhaps, than electric power in upper portions of North Carolina and South s’ Carolina, but the double advantage of ■water and rail transportation facili ;• ties in Norjh Carolina’s ocean gate way city over balances the piedmont s power facilities, admittedly great, as a matter of cour^fe. f No doubt if industrial migrants : knew that, they would give Wilming ton and eastern Carolina the once over. The means for moving raw materials and manufactures by sea, and land are obviously superior to the factor of rail facilities only, while the labqr sup i ply at Wilmington, and Southport, Is » a tremendous/ factor in favor of this ;■* seaport manufacturing district The coastal climate and our ocean play . ground advantages are strong features ' Of the industrial advantages here. It | is a notable fact that Wilmington’s ■ 'largest industries have been located here because they can reach the whole of America by rail and have access ; to the yrorld by the broad Atlantic. | Wonder if those sharp, New England p ers know that? . Of course, this is no attempt to disparage the superior advantages of i the piedmont sections of the Carolinas. They1 are sufficiently great to force . themselves upon the attention Of in dustrialists at the north. It seems so now that when a piedmont city, town ' ■ or rural community wakes up of a - . morning it need not be surprised to ig hear that fate had decreed it to be the southern home of a branch textile plant of a great New England manu f factoring concern. On and after to - day western North Carolina localities -will Bit up and take notice as to 5 which is to be the site of the new Appleton plant which an Asheville dispatch says Is to.cost approximately $5,000,000. ’ It is given out that the site is^to be selected- by the officials iodqy, for approval by the chiefs a| ' Boston Ih the* next few days. ' : •*’> The company’s, site scouts in ? North Carolina, state that work prob ably will be started on this southern plant within the next 90 days. Five i eites in'western North Carolina have been given a high rating by J. E. I;’Sirrenne, one of the company’s engi neers, who was delegated to recom inend a location. The final choice of .:p ^location is to be made by the Ap pleton mills company at Boston some time during this week. The points listed as advantageous sites are as : fallows: ' One ih McDowell cfmnty; ' one in Burke county; two in Ruther , tord county; and one in Henderson county. Those five Carolina localities Will be bn the anxious bench this week. I " Meanwhile, the Swink Manufactur i/lng company, composed of successful • North Carolina textile men, is to spend >' |l,600,b00 on a big cotton mill develop ,• fluent to be located six miles south of Salisbury, N. C. They have planned to develop a town to be called Swink. Those promoting the development are I Jw. J. Swink, of China Grove, and.J A. Cannon, of Concord, well known [n the southern textile industry. The tompany has already bought 400 acres »f land on the main line of the South ern Railway. . 3 ' ^ Greenville, S. C., looms big in the pictures this week. The Southern Worsted company, organized at a re-j junt meeting of stockholders, in New | ' r ■ . • ■ • York, announce that it will invest $1,- J 600.000 in a worsted mill to be erected at an early day in or near Greensville.; A Greenville dispatch, announces that the new woolen mill, the first tor South Carolina, will be controlled by the Judson mills, of Greenville, the Waterloo manufacturing company, of Waterloo, N. Y., the Alester G. Fur man company, of Greenville, and A. M. Law, of Spartanburg. Spartanburg, S. C., acording to a Boston announcement, is to be' the centre of a 116,000,000 development promoted by the Pacific Mills com pany, of Boston. That New England company has bought 700 acres of land near Spartanburg and will erect a finishing plant and a cotton mill of 300.000 spindles. The same company; will also huild a worsted, mill in, upper South Carolina. These mill stories are breaking in such volume in the Carolinas that it is difficult to keep up with them. In a recent article explaining why New j England' manufacturers seem to be stampeding to the Carolinas, the edi tor of a New England textile journal declared that it had all come about “because of the Southern Power com pany and hot air.” The New England editor confessed it was something to blow about, and New England com panies were about to run over each other in their rush to the Qarolinas. They should know Wilmington. .1 Europe’s Chief Disturbing Fac tor * -o 4s bad as economic conditions in Europe are, that is not now the chiet disturbing factor in the continent. The one ominous and disturbing fea ture of the situation is France’s cost ly and ruinous invasion of the Ruhr. In spite of it, Americans sympathize with devastated France to the extent that they hope she can get out of Germany every cent of reparations it, is posible for her to pay. Neverthe less, the bverwhelming sentiment among Americans is that French oc- j cupation of the Ruhr will not only j make it impossible for, Germany to j pay her just dues to France but it will increase the burdens of both France and Germany. France, how ever, believes anti-Ruhr sentiment in the Unifed States is due to German propaganda. Under that impression, France her self is carrying on a ’distinct propa ganda to gain American approval of her invasion- -of the Ruhr. The gen eral tenor of the French propaganda | in America, to quote one of her of ficial speakers, is that “the French occupation of the Ruhr is merely a necessary means for forcing the collec tion of debts justly due to France, and not a milataristi'9 attempt to pun ish a deafeated enemy.” Further that “it has been instrumental in prevent- ] ing another war which would have been forced on the world Inside of the next two years.” France seized more j territory last week and explained that it was done as a “fiscal policy.’ As a I matter of fact, she is making the sit uation more difficult for herself and j Germany, while resultant effects are j injuring the economic and commercial 1 realtions of all nations, including the j United States. The New York Journal of Commerce, decidedly pro-French as to reparations, thus reveiws the re sults of French seizure of the Ruhr: Thus far French occupation of the Ruhr has been a failure In practical results, and there Is small prospect of anyj,real success. The cost both to France and others has been tremendous; the profit nil. Having seized an Industrial sys tem that they cannot manage, the French are . obtaining only one , tenth the supply of coal previous ly received, -and have made little progress in overcoming German passive. resistance. One false step ' necessitates another, and unless • this “peaceful” invasion is rec ognized as futile Still further ag gressions will be necessary to Scarry out original designs, what ,’ever they may be. t Next to the Kaiser himself, Poincare is proving the greatest menace to peace in^Eiirope., He and his adherents have thrown Eu rope into a state of tension worse .than existed before the war; ex haustion being the only preventa tive against a fresh conflagration. Deeper hatreds are being created than existed even during the .war; hatreds that will endanger peace for generations to come. . In all probability sober judg ment and tipie will prove that in- \ vasion if the Ruhr was both a moral and economic, crime, which cannot posibly be justified by de fault of a paltry 10 per cent in one ; year’s .payment by Gerpiany. Why throw Europe into convulsions for such a trifle? France experts must have known , that such’ action as . they, are now taking would impair and not strengthen Germany’s ability to pay. Seennngly- secret forces and ambitions are at work, which have not yet disclosed them selves; and the -fact should not be overlooked that tfrere are several powerful blocs alive in France, one desiring reparations, one desiring revenge' and another desiring an nexation which afford an extraor ' dinary- opportunity. to ambitious politicians, many of whom are'ar dent mimkrists. Even a stronger view on the same line is generally held in GreaUBritafti, and lb matters not what-may' be said., France is determined to carry out a policy which she determined upon al most coeval with the Armistice. That is why she held her military establish ment practically intact. Il has been apparent all along that Francb con siders German territory 'as good as German reparations, and fear of re covery in Germany has impelled France to occupy, the Euhr with the double motive ot getting her ..due out of Germany and to crush her complete ly while the crushing Is g<5bd. It 1b a deliberate purpose which France , Is determined to carry out While the allies are determined that Germany Shall pay every cent of reparations she can, France is bent on collecting reparations or taking their equivalent in territory just as good. - All she asks is to be let alone. She has already flouted intervention by the league of nations and she has given America and Great Britain to understand that they have no invita tion to Jher party. . Of course, it means another war in the years to come but that depends on whether it is possible for Germany to recover, or whether the French policy will drive Russia to the side of Germany. Just at present the Bolsheviks are cold-fotters on that proposition. Just now France is the most powerful nation oh "the continent, and British and American dsloation & all she expects of them... Got to Mobilize to Get Some where Charleston has waked up to the necessity for a chamber of commerce representative of the city and is fev erishly making a^canvass for a cham ber membership of 3,000. At any rate a large membership is 'certain,. since women as well as men are to be ad mitted to full membership to work for Charleston. A fine start has been made, the News and Courier remarks, and belief in this new movement at the South Carolina port city is “gen eral and sincere.” Quoths the Char leston paper: In the very nature of things or ganizations like the chamber of commerce have to go through a shaking up process every so often. This is true not only in Charles ton hut everywhere else. The Charleston chamber of commerce when the present reorganization is completed should be in better posi tion than it has ever before been to serve the community. It will be a thoroughly democratic and a thoroughly representative body completely equipped fin all respects to function as a chamber of com merce should function. It should not be at all “in the very nature of things” for such a body as a chamber of commerce io lag. It really is not in the nature Of things in any particular instance. It is be cause the business men of our southern cities have not recognized the great value of and absolute necessity for, a live chamber of commerce, if their cities can be expected to develop and make progress-in this live-wire age. Charlestonians are apt to realize that now, so the News p.nd Courier sen ses it in the remark that “they know that Charlston must have a live cham ber of commerce and that one who expects to do business in Charleston can not afford not to give to the cham ber his full measure of support” That is all absolutely true. The men who expect to do business in their city must see that their city makes progress before their own busi ness can be expected to make progress. One only need to look to the piedmont cities of the Carolinas in order to ob serve the power p,nd pull in a live chamber of commerce composed of all classes of a city’s most virile citizen ship. The composed of all classes of a city’s most virile citizenship. The proper place for any live man is, in his city’s' chamber of commerce. -.—n - ■ - Railroading People to the Asy lum --o-—7 That crime has bSen committed more than once^in depriving men and' women of their liberty under pretense that they are> Insane, is not to be de nied. That men and women today are confined in Btate and private hos pitals on the ground that they are InSane or would become a menace to other people if liberated, when they could very well be freed without dan ger to themselves or the public, is j conjectured not without some basis in fact. J. The''busy, rushing world that goes aboutsits dally tasks takes no thought of, persons confined in living tombs whojnight be out enjoying God's free air and sunshine and a bit of simple human happiness before their final summons comes. We .don’t know— and we don’t care—but we would like ly start a riot if the full facts of every 1 case of this kind were before us. There ought to be a review of all insanity cases }n the state and in provate hos pitals, on which subject we herewith reproduce a letter to the Raleigh News and Observer, written by W. C. Orren der, at Morganton. Bear in mind that In cases of this sort the more im portunate the appeal, the stronger the claim that any certain person 1b in sane. A perfectly sane man, who might be ah obstacle in the way of any maliciously minded person, could be carted into a private Insane a'sylum and immured for life, without any body ’soever having access to, the facts. The letter mentioned follows: •Why don’t you folks do some thing about getting *s|me folks out Of the asylums Of the state If you., Want, to economize-on state money? There are a whole bunch of people , railroaded to the asylums by some ' people to get rid of them and’ take - f whatHhey have. Facts can be ob tained If you want them. In thf ~r name of common sense get busy ' and get some legislation. through ■~V 1 . . / to efve people their liberty -who are no#' looked In the state asylums. I can produce a letter written by a <j$ctor who says in black and whU^' that a certain',doctor said that;’ Jyf> would send a party to morgiptoh and send the ^erlft along'to help him out to show that he Was not insane, yet the doctor himself said that the party is not insane and never was. Dr. Me- J Campbell acknowledges the fact, / but K1 cannot turn the man loose. 7 Why hot give Dr. McCampbellT power to turn men loose who dp not need to be here eating up state tar, utilizing the rooms Where others are needed? Why not ap point a board of. review of all cases and make It a heavy penalty to put people in lock-ups to get rid of them? In the name of God do - , something for the people behind the; bars before the people in the state lose all respect for, the law makers' of the country. People out side can help themselves,, those be hind the bars cannot. ■- What are you going to do? Remember that the doctors of the asylums cannot turn folks loose until Some one assumes responsibility for them and you cannot blame the doctors. They are simply state Jailers and will lay themselves liable should anything happen 'while under their jurisdiction. You cannot blame the doctors for. that. Dnt for God’s sake get some legislation through f effecting the release of folks where no one assumes the responsibility who cap, ought to and should be outside not riding or eating up state mohey. If you Want further facts yd% can get them. In several states similar complaints have been made. In New York there have been many notable instances in which habeas corpus proceedings have been resorted to.' The'status of a cer tain man of wealth in New York is that of a. mental incompetent His status in Virginia is that of a sane person qgite capable of managing his owq, business and equally capable of taking care of himself, t CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. --o GREAT DEVELOPMENT IS NOW TAKING FORM Announcement was made in Boston yesterday, as coming- from Edwin Farn-, ham dreene of the Pacific Mills, that the Company is soon to take title to about 700 acres of land near Spartan burg, S. C., the, property being acquitted though the office of Alester G. Furman company of Greenville, S. C. While no final decision has been n>a<ie as to when the first step In the de velopment shall be taken, plans are being prepared by the Lockwood, Green company for a finishing plant and cot* ton mill of approximately 300,000 spindles. Even these tentative plans sugest huge things' to come, and involve aV present values at least $15,000,000. At the offices ofi Lawrence & Co., the sell ing-agents for the mills, nothing could be added to the statements given above. j’ Market ijumors of all sorts have been current for some time concerning the probability of an announcement of this character. In New England many newspapers and people regard the’ rumors as part of a propaganda to discourage further restrictive legisla tion in ^Massachusetts. In this city there has never been any doubt that some great planning was under way, and since this company came into the 4-4 bleached goods market as a leader in production, and price making, through its immense 80-kier bleachery at Lawience, the market has been' pre pared to believe almost anything’ as possible. Being.already as leader in the staple and fine printed goods business and the 4-4 bleached goods busines, the next logical step In mass output for domes tic consumption is In the direction of wide sheetings, sheets, or pillow cases. Guessing will be enhanced by the pos itive statement that mills will be built s'ida by side with finishing pflants. The company already owns very large print cloth yarn goods mills in South Carolina,. so that the assumption that some additional new lines will be pro vided for is not a violent one. Coming so soon after the formal con firmation of the reports in this journal of a great new worsted plant being planned by the engineers now engaged on the Pacific plans for erection In the south, the matter is certain to give ground for a great deal of discussion in' textile investment channels.—New York Journal of Commerce. SAD NEWS FOR THEM This afternoon in death row at the state prison 17 persons stand peering froms their cells awaiting the date when one by one they will he taken from the place of incarceration and electrocuted in the-state’s noted chair. It is a sad day indeed for these 17 men who must pay the penalty of death for crimes which' they have committed. They are --sad when they see one of their number taken from his cellr led dowi^ the long hall to -the deathchamber and his life is taken from film. But they forget this at timed, ^ according to a. correspondent who interviewed them in death row of the prison at Raleigh a few days ago. At times these condemned* men forget themselves and exchange Jokes. ’ They laugh about their troubles and think of possibilities of escape, believing that the governor will give them Reprieve and that they will eventually escape the penalty - of death. The .Enterprise is inclined to agree With the Greensboro Daily News that ignorance is largely responsible for crime today. . It is the condition in which these men find themselves today. Think of It. Seventeen men are in the prison at Raleigh awaiting' elec trocution, - Never before in the history, of North Carolina has such a large number of criminals condemned to die been placed in the penitentiary at one time. ' „ . . „ ■ The foreging conditions cause peo ple to shudder. A world war veteran who saw 13,000 men killed in France, was unable to see the* state take the life of Bob Williams'the other day. He said give him war and with it hell in preference to what he viewed when the negro murderer’s life was snatched from him. Taking . the lives of men i>y elec trocution doesn’t prevent crime alto gether, but it ought to have el salu tary effect on crime. Any kind of punishment for men who violate the la*ws of the land will not stop crime, but it will at' least cause persons who think of' committing crimes to consider the . penalty tiiat they must pgy. The’ thought' of punishment many times causes' a > man to think, before he pulls the trigger and that is one reason the state Requires the criminal tp pay the' penjcity with his life; *. And that is indeed (sound /ar gument for the man who would abolish capital punishment. . In spite of the effect electrocution has on crime in North Casolina they are seeking to have the. legislature say. that .newspapers will not publish reports of electrocutions., What are they ' trying to da? i Evidently they [SPRING FEVER] j [tiredout,noencrgy| -; Hood's invigorates, tones up system For nearly fifty years this old, re liable tdnic has been recognized as the ideal spring medicine for ^ purifying the blood and toning up the system. Hood’s Sarsaparilla restores ap petite and provides a gentle and needed stimulant to organs weary and tired from winter’s'demands. It helps the blood to carry m creased vitality to all parts of the body. Take Hood's. Your food will taste better. You will, enjoy the day’s work. The ionic for that tiredfeeiing HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA are of the opinion that the death chair cannot stand the test. Bob Wil liams;, the negro who died in the chair this week, said these words, before he breather his last: “Tell them to let my death be a warning.” And Bob did one thing. He scored a point for the newspaper boys who were there to report the event. The Enterprise does not believe the legislature will pass any law of any kind that will tend to prohibit news papers from carrying accounts of electrocutions at Raleigh. If it doeC then it has killed at least a part of the efEect of taking human life in cases of crime.—High Point Enterprise. Uncle Joe Cannon Is Given Great Ovation - WASHINGTON, March 4.—Represen tative. Cannon, of Illinois, “Uncle Joe” as he Is known to his colleagues, re ceived an ovation tonight such as few men have been given by the house. The veteran of 46 years legislative morrow from congress, asked unani mous consent to extend his remarks in the record'on what he said he did not know about the farm credits bill. The house to a man arose and cheered him, the galleries Joined in the demonstra tion which lasted several minutes. “Uncle Joe” was a disconsolate figure as he walked up and down the aisles on his last night as a member of the* house. He had expressed . grief throughout the day at the absence of his old friend, Representative James R. Mann, of Illinois, who died several months ago. The closing night of congress was not orthodox, without “Jim” Mann, the 86 year old veteran declared. / Mr. Cannon’s whimsical humor, how ever, was not altogether absent. He carried in his mouth the usual long cigar as he asked for recognition to extend his remarks. ■ His request was one of the few utterances he has made on the floor, during the present ses sion. He frequently had told friends that his presence was necessary only to make a quorum and that this was one o fthe-reasons why he was giving way to a younger man. Senate Carries Over McNary Nomination WASHINGTON, Mar«h 4.—The sen ate In executive session late tonight considered the nomination of James G. McNary, Texas and New Mexico banker, to be comptroller of the currency, but action went over until tomorrow. Sen ator Oouzens, Republican, Michigan, one of the members of the banking commit tee, opposed to confirmation, was un derstood to have blocked; action at to night’s session. Senators favorable to Mr. McNary, admitted that confirmation of his nom ination could easily be blocked tomor row, with-the senate obliged under law to adjourn at noon. Dr. BELL’S Pine-Tir Honey For Coughs arid Colds Nothing saps your vitality ancl slows down your work more than a cold —the kind that drags on and on. Banish those strength-stealing colds quickly, simply. Dr. Bell’s—a time proven remedy—breaks tight, rasp ing coughs, loosens phlegm, soothes irritated throats. Check&colas at the start. Buy Dr. Bell’s today. Ail druggists. 30c. 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