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All right of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved._ SUNDAY, MARCH 11. 1923 Factory Markets For Farmers. -0 Carrying on long-winded campaigns j with the expectation of helping the . fanners is not in it with industrial! plants which furnish producers with! a market for classes of products which , they can grow but can not undertake j to grow in the absence of a market, j During all these years of talk about, the coming of the boll weevil and the necessity for a substitute- agriculture j to take the place of cotton, nobody has ! yet been able to show the farmers a substitute that they can depend upon. Until we put up factories for the con sumption of raw materials other than cotton, we needn’t expect any other farm industry of a practical kind. Canneries and creameries can be com bined in the south and be made the basis of prosperity for farmers, but our anti-weevil campaigns never stress anything so practical as that. Some-' of the counties in South Car olina have gone into both the cannery and creamery industries. They have succeeded around Florence and Sum , ter, and now neighboring counties are following suit. Manning is to have a cannery industry, and it moves the Charleston News and Courier to say: The cannery movement took a long time to get under way in South Carolina, but it seems to be growing at last. Last year the Sumter cannery proved a life saver to many farmers in that county. This year, it is announced, a can nery will be operated in Manning, 20 miles from Sumter. The Man ning Times prints a list of prices which the cannery will pay for vegetables. It will, of course, buy for cash and farmers can know now, before they plant, what they can expect to receive for their products. -Canneries are a great help in many ways and this stabilizing Of prices is one of the most import ant benefits which they hssist in effecting. So long as the market for fresh vegetables or fruit holds tfp well, making it profitable to ship, the grower can dispose of his out put in this way. When the market for fresh vegetables falls off the cannery is there ready to take 1 them and the grower is advised months in advance as to what he will get for them from the can nery. i Why more canneries are not opened in the coaBt country around Charleston continues to be a mys tery. Here, if anywhere, it would * seem, it should be possible to make . them profitable. They could cer tainly be made t0 prove of great •advantage to this section, and if the proper foundations for such a development were laid they ought to be money-makers for those who run them. If there is any industry which would seem to belong here in the very nature of things we shoi^d think that this was it. The reorganized chamber of commerce ' could not do better than give its attention to seeing if something can not be done on this line on a considerable scale. Chambers ,0f commerce could not db any better work than to encourage and promote the kinds of Industries which require raw materials for con / version into commercial products. Even-if an industry is a small affair to Btart with it may grow into an in dustry of large proportions. One such industry in a North Carolina town finds itself almost in the million dol \ lar class at this time. It did a busi ness of about $800,000 last year. The Star shares the astonishment of the News and Courier that more can neries are not established in" the coastal country. The same applies to the Wilmington region. A canning and preserve, factory in the Wilming ton strawberry industry would have developed Into the largest industry of the kind in the south. However, there .vras an Industrial market to stabilize the industry, with the result that it is a more or less haphazard enterprise. The district came very near abandon ing strawberry growing some years ago. However, it is now growing again. The scuppernong grape Indus try also could be utilized for a great manufacturing industry but we are slow about seeing our opportunity in it. . Factory Products. --0 One of the features of "recent reports of the department of commerce is the increasing exports of American corn to European countries, but while the statistics refer to the -shipment of grain in bulk, the probability is that the factory products of corn shipped abroad will soon exceed in value our exports of grain. Few consider that the greatest value in corn is in the factory products made from it. In ad dition to importing ^grain from the United States, the Europeans have been greatly increasing their imports of “corn products.” The American Corn Products asso ciation of New York has filed papers with the federal trade commission at Washington, under the Webb-Pomer ene export trade act, for the purpose of exporting corn syrup, corn Bugar, corn starch, laundry starch and other commercial factory products. The members of the new association are the American Maize' Products com pany, of New York; the Clinton Corn Syrup Refining company, of Clinton, Iowa; the Huron Milling company, of Harbor Beach, Michigan; J. C. Hub inger Brothers company, of Keokuk, Iowa; Peni^k and Ford, limited, Of New York city; the Union Starch and Refining company, of Edinburg, Ind.; the A. E. Staley Manufacturing com pany, of Decatur, 111., and the Keever Starch company, of Columbus, .Ohio. Those are all immense concerns and they have hundreds of millions of dol lars invested in the manufacture of corn products. They have combined to handle their various products through one export corporation whose business will be to do the export busi ness and to educate Europe on the uses of the commercial products made from American corn. Either one or all of those companies have educated the south to the uses of their products. There is not a hpme in North Carolina that is .not using corn products in one form or other. Utilizing corn for the manufacture of so many salable and indispensable products is not merely a matter of general interest. It ought to keep us in mind of the industrial possibilities in the farm products we grow here in eastern North Carolina. We could manufacture in North Carolina at least $50,000,000 worth of the factory products we buy annually from abroad. Cotton and Corn Belts Have Prospered. -0--v The economists who have figured on the results from agriculture last year, estimate that the increased price of cotton has increased the purchasing power of southern farmers as a whole, and that is given as one of the rea sons why western farmers have been able to get better prices for their feed and'foodstuffs, of which, the south is able to buy more. W. 0. Scroggs, in his market article in the New York^ Evening Post takes an optimistic and logical interpreta tion of the latest crop statistics sent out from Washington. The department of agriculture estimates the purchas ing power of farm products for Janu ary at 68, on the basis of 100 for the year 1913. The figure is the same as for December, 1922. Of ten. leading farm products whose purchasing pow er is computed in terms of other com modities four have an index above the 1913 level and six have one below it. Cotton and wool, with indexes of 134 and 135, respectively, are the two com modities having the highest purchas ing power. The other two whose pur chasing power is above the pre-war level, are eggs (112) and butter (110). Those which stand lowest in the group are beef cattle (60), potatoes (65), swine (67), and corn (76). It is evi dent that the producers of fibers are more prosperous than the producers of foodstuffs, .and it is the low prices of the latter that bring average pur chasing power of farmers a third be low that of 1913. The department points out that If the cotton belt can make a good crop next year and de mand remains at its present level this will prove of great help to the mar kets for grain and wheat, owing to the increased purchasing power of the southern states. What aids one sec tion of the country will also benefit the others. It will be noticed that the world is hysterical about the possible supply of cotton this year. Americans are blaming the British spinners with .try ing to encourage cotton growing all over the world, particularly in Brazil, but we are doing the same so far as rubber production is concerns^. We have tp ma$e amends for the cotton spinners, for at their rate of consump tion now, the 1922 crop will be short 3,000,POO bales. Both the British and American mills are contemplating cur tailment of operations so as to make the present short crop last the mills until this year’s crop comes In. j. jp can be said that If the world Is willing to pay-the price for weevil cot ton, they need notTear a big crop this year, IT IS SUNDAY MORNING: BY'W. A. S'l^NBURY - '_: > ~ . r' ~ MERELY HUMAN f . “The Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of -the N Truth."—1. Tim. 3:15: ./ ■ More than ever before, men are thinking of the church as a human institution. They are judging* it by the practical, secular standards . employed in £he appraisal of other social agencies and indeed of in dustrial organizations. . And some of them conclude that the church does not produce' more bread, it ! does not furnish work for the la-. : j boring man, and it does not in I crease his wage, and the^more es- . pecially since it is dominated by I the wealthy and the socially se cure, it does not justify its exist ence; it is, they say, a needless expense and a bulwark of privi lege. •' » ■ Perhaps if you apply'their stan dards of measurement, their con ■ fusions are inevitable. - If the church is only a human institu tion, and if there is nothing to think of but bread and play and physical comfort, if mantis noth-, ing but an animated clod and SdUl and spirit are vain fictions, if re ligion id foolishness, then their arguments are irresistible. . But if there is a God, if there is a soul in man; if there is a des tiny to be fulfilled, or else defeat ed; if there is something more than the merely human, then the church may have a place; and the people who believe in the church may notJ^be fools, a'hd notwith standing all its faults, the church may be worth while in such a world as we live in. 'Sr. Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, Brook lyn, observed in a little book of his a few years ago that it is worth while to have something in the world which Will continually cry, i "Souls! Souls!” It is so easy to ! forget that a man is a soul, and I that the .soul needs care. And that is the business of the church of the Living God.' Not that it can forget the ordinary needs of men, or be. indifferent to | transient and physical circum stances. But the business of ‘the church of God' is to Cry in every quarter and in every tongue and. through every relationship of hu man life,,“Souls, souls, souls!” ... 'When Hhe church compromises or fails to make that message dear, then it fails; when it does effec tively remind men of this truth, that is success. For the church is not mereljr made up of men and women. There is a reality back of the church and in- the church, which is not just *“ of time and circumstance. There is something eternal, something spiritual, something divine about the Church. In Paul’s phrase, it is the church of the Living God. And tjiat church of God rings out to every man its challenge of the enterprise of eternity, and dares him with it. It commands him to come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty gods of matter and greed and lust and pride and blindness and sin. It cries out to him to save his own soul, and the souls of all those who shall hear his voice or see his face. Still, and forever, for all who have needs and hearts, who have sorrows and souls, who require courage or can bring strength to the armies of right—-to all men and women and little children whatever, the church is the mes [ senger of God, passionately point | ing. them to the Man of Galilee and Calvary, and crying, “In Him ! is our peace.” Permanent Business Conditions. -0 The report of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon touching present bus iness conditions and prospects, was generally reassuring. In practically every line business has been brisk, and the secretary can see little change in the prospects for at least a year to come, provided, of course, the ten dancy to advance prices does not bring on a buyers’ strike and cause' business to slow down. He notes that the volume of business has decreased, * and he fears that higher prices are re-j sponsible for it. However, the slow- j ing down of business is not yet so pro nounced that it is anything but a tem porary condition. Altogether he sees permanency in the recent forward movement in and industrial activity , throughout the country. I There has been a distinct commej-1 «ial and industrial'revival all over the j United States. Good business has j generally been reported, and the finan-: cial situation shows great improve ment in a general way. His general diagnosis is that the country is In a healthy condition financially and in dustrially, and he says the signs point to satisfactory conditions for twelve months ahead. He sees no sudden ces sation of activities unless high prices | again bring about increase wage de-1 mands. So far as the European con- ] ditions are concerned he can’t much I *ope to greatly increase our export I trade. j In building circles there is fear that a buyers’ strike is -inevitable,' if the j trend of higher prices continues. Onj that account, it is predicted that! building activities will not proceed ort the unprecedented scale of the pres ent. According to a statement of the Associated General Contractors of America, “climbing costs’: of building materials is going to be injurious to the building industry. That Organi zation of American contractors has appealed to the Federated American Engineering societies to help the building industry by aiding in reme dying what the contractors describe as “an alarming situation.” * Secretary Mellon states that the growing complaint about higher prices i is sufficient warning'that we can halt prosperity by what appears to be an unnecessary high price movement. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. i ■ ---V THE NEW PLANT AT GOLD HILL >• The day The Observer has long: look ed for appears to have arrived, and this Is, the day when,people who know how to go after the gold ores In this section and how to treat these ores after brought to the- surface, should enter this field of mining operations. People of that sort have cOme In, and as people, of the kind might be expect ed to do, have gone quietly aboiit their investment plans without making a public ado. The Rudisill, at Charlotte, and the Gold Hill,. In Rowan county, are AhJong the most famous gold pro ducers in this part of-the gold belt: i Each has a record output, of $5,000,000 | to Its credit. Control of the Gold Hill I property has recently been secured by ] a company abundantly capitalized—so abundantly, in fact, that It neither asks outside aid nor takes' subscrip- j tlons In stock—and this company has now about completed a modern ifiining I plant on the property. The ores will be mined and treated under a ne*f sya ! tern and by a new process, which is j „ald to develop 100 per cent In results. In other words, it is the expectation to get $50 from every ton assaying $50 in gold to the ton. Is a process of that kind is assured—and the conSpany is backing the prospect With its money— revival of the once -flourishing gold mining industry in the piedmont sec tion on a profitable basis is on the way. The new plant1 at Gold- Hill is (said to be the most complete thing of the kind ever known in this part of the country and will be in operation with in the next 60 days. Gold Hill ores have maintained a high assay and'we may expect that property to be figur ing extensively in the mining reports. Some of the streets of Charlotte were paved with material from the Rudisill dumps; one 40t^bn mill within the city limits was built over a gold mine and seoures its water from an abandoned shaft. These properties are to. the south and west of the city. To the west and .north are the St. Cath erine and Chinquepin Hill gold mines, with record productions. The Yellotv Dog and other mines skirt the town to the east, and gold-bearing veins un derlie the whole city. With the advent of. the right men with the process that does the work, we may expect a revival of gold mining in this part of the state that will develop a fever which may prove a counterpart for the California fever of the 49s. If the promises held out -by the new ownership of Gold Hill should be in large measure realized, it is a reasonable pfospect that a re vival in gold .mining is on the way. The operations of the new plant and new process at the Rowan mine will be worth watching.—Charlotte Ob server. SEEKING A LOST KAlLHUAi) This side the Blue Ridge, not many North Carolinians know anything about the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val ley railroad and what the state prob ably lost when this property was sold under mortgage. But the possibilities of developing this road into a great system of traffic between central and coastal North Carolina and the west are so impressive that the legislature won instant approval here when it took steps to save whatever equity the state may have in this railway. As the Greensboro Daily News puts it, events' may easily prove that in this matter the general assembly “has per formed a service which niay be among the most valuable of the services ren dered at this session.” Since'the day of the sale, it has been contended by the state that the terms under which the road was bought and divided > between two other railroad companies were improper. - Plans made for looking into this question miscar ried in the press of the World war, but now it is- proposed to go thoroughly into the transaction so that at- least the railway may be rededicated to the purpose for which it' was built. North Carolina is learning to look ■with keen .eyes into any proposition that means better transportation; it is realised that the chasms of time and distance block progress no less than the lack of schools and development of water power. If the Cape Fear and Yadkin can be made to function as its builders dreamed, it will become one of the great agencies by which a people move on to new high ground in their socia land material advancement.— Asheville Citizen. ’ WHERE WILMINGTON SCORES —■A. big export and import i firm that lias been keeping "North Carolina headquarters” -in Norfolk, has decided to move Its office to Wilmington, where it will have North Carolina headquar ters in fa6t. This move to Wilmington, by the way, ' would appear significant of the developing trend of business to, the seat of activities at our home port: —Charlotte Observer., PURE DRUGS In our entire stock, of Drugs you will' find only the highest grade and purest Drugs possible to secure. GREEN’S DRUGSTORE \0t> Market St. Telephone loi USE STAR WANT ADS > SELZ *SIX Lower Price—New Models Many new Selz*Six models have been v created — all $6.00—stamped on the sole —the lowest price asked lor a shoe of such quality. The Selz *Six is a wonderful bargain, as its sales prove. It is the biggest seller of its kind in America. Let us fit you at once and save you_money. WILMINGTON'S BEST SHOE STORE, Next to Murchison National Bank PARIS NEWS LETTER By Cable to the Associated Press PARIS, March 10.—(By Associated Press.)—The beggars of Paris, once thrivmg and well organized, are aban doning their aged profession and try ing work ds a means of earning their livelihood. The capital for centuries liad colonies of beggars, trained in simulating mental or bodily distress. They made famous the narrow little street near the heart of the city which is still called the “Court of Miracles” where the business of the outstretched palm was taught to .promising candi dates, as described by Victor Hugo. The high cost of living has out stripped public generosity, or else the beggars of today are less artistic in their work than formerly; for the po lice records show only one-third as many arrests for begging last year as in pre-war years. Begging, ah though prohibited except on New Tear’s and the 14th of July, still ex ists, particularly in the vicinity of churches. Many of the beggars, of course, obtain vendors’ or police per mits and offer passers-by pencils or shoe laces; but the old professionals seem to prefer to work in the old fashioned way, in spite of the danger of prosecution. The police, through sentiment, or policy, often allow old timers who have had the same stand since .their youth, to continue their trade, *but newcomers are barred. The police still tolerate the beg gars' colony in “Passage ^aint Ange,” near the northwest wall of the city, because they much prefer to have these people who know wh£t is going on in the underworld where they can lay hands on them when they are wanted: It has been found by the police that many beggars after tb’«* war 'learned a trade or capitalized their persuasive powers or their ability to size up “easy marks” by getting into the selling end of various businesses. . King Louis XVI has -taken much 'of the joy out of the life of the butcher of today, for the court of appeals has found an absblete decree in a dusty, forgotten volume which requires the butcher vto give a year’s notice of his Intention to close his shop an pain- of. a penalty of BOO francs “or a heavier penalty." This decree of February 17, 1776, the court of appeals has decided, “disposed of the question not only for that time, but for the indefinite..fu ture.” ■*' . . A Bordeaux butcher, just sentenced under this old law, had won. his case in two lower courts where he had been prosecuted for refusing to.sell meat at prices fixed by the -authorities and for closing his shop. A theatre for presenting standard French comedies is being constructed on board the steamer Lutetia, which will sail from Bordeaux March 17' for Buenos Aires. The passengers on the voyage to South America will have all the usual diversions of the shore, for besides plays there will be motion pic tures, a “Punch and Judy” show for children, and dances and all other so cial, amusements. A stock company permanently engaged for the steamer comprises f®ur •: men, and two women. Another innovation on ‘ the steamer Will be a salesroom installed by a Paris.department store whom anything not in stock! may be ordered for ship ment later from Paris. Veils, which came back some time ago as a sort of softening decoration around the edge -bf women’s hats and lately began to stream slightly in the breeze to the rear, as they did many years ago, now are creeping down a few Inches below the front edge of hats so as to mask shy eyes, some of the fashion leaders suggest that veils soon raay he worn to cover the-face entireiyr-as was the custom a genera tion back, when a well .dressed woman would as soon have thought of going in the Street barefdoted as barfaced. , Paris' last (‘public writer” is about to disappear, as other picturesque fea tures, of Parisian life that existed as customs disappeared as their useful; ness ceased. Georges Faes, a. law stu, dent, dreamed of becoming a judge a half -century ago, but succeeded his father as a "public writer” in a little frame lean to office against the wall of the St. Lazaire prison wall when his father died and left Georges with 12 sisters to support. Now the business, which was established' 96 years ago, is to come to an end, for the prison is sbon to be,torn down and the 20th cen tury no longer needs ,the once essen tial scribe who wrote love letters, for mal marriage proposals and business documents ior the poor and illiterate. “Love letters now are few,” said Faes yesterday. The young people of today use the telephone to make Jove. But there still are many persons who come to me to draft business letters. One of my principal occupations re cently has been to write applications for government decorations. I live with the intimate secrets of those who trust me, and I am happy when by aid obtains for them medals, marriages or divorces. This little lean to Is cha teau and my customers are my people.’ Mrs. S. A. Johnson Dies at the Age of 80 (Special to The Star.) WARSAW, March 10.—Mrs. S. A. Johnson died at her home here Monday morning from the effects of a stroke! of paralysis, which she had a few days previously at the dinner table. She passed away quietly at the age of 8U years. , A Virginian by birth, she had livefl here practically all of her mar ried life, where her husband, Capt. S. A. Johnson, a Confederate veteran, had held an important job with- the rail- „ road. She was remarkably active <n both body and mind for a woman of her advanced years, took an interest j in the affairs of the community, and was always cheerful arfd bright, and enjoyed the friendship of. a large cir cle, -who : with a large number of rela tlveSi lfloutn her passing.. She is im mediately survived by her. husband, the following' . daughters: Mrs. J. T. Gresham, of Warsaw; Mrs. L. A. Be ley, of Kenansville; Mrs. Herbert Sm of Clinton; and Mrs. John Land, Chadbourn. Also these sons: Dr, Ji Johnson, of Goldsboro; Joe Johnson Waynesville; Seymour Johnson, Cumberland, Md.; and R. D. John: of Warsaw, and a number of gra children. Funeral services, conducted by T George Mathis, of Clinton, and Rev. W. Cawthon, of Warsaw, were held the home Tuesday afternoon and int ment was in the local cemetery. ' floral offerings were abundant > lovely. rom TORNADOS You can not escape damage If a tornacP aits your viciniBui a tornado insurant policy will repay you in case of damage don. Talk it over with us to day. ■ “Think of the Future' Read Star Want Ad An Optical Illusion Which is the tallest? An Optical Delusion is to put off wearing- glasses your eyeo need them. Many a liea' ache hat been cured by the Pr°P' lenses in correctly fitted frames. DR. W. A. KAMER OPTICIAN—OPTOMETRIST Royal Theatre Bailding Opposite Pontofflce Kye* Examined, Frames 1'iirnl*11' Leiuei Replaced, Repairs Made AN ELEPHANT CHASES A A J : LADY :: Not one turned loose from a circus; only a little teapot shaped like Topsy . 'and the latest painted lady door stop. 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