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Rejected macuscncts will not returned. ■ - MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is e^olusi ely entitled to the use for P“blicat^.ol all news credited to it. or not °fu^wth c,edited, in this paper and also tne local news published here n. All r |hts of re-publication of special dispatcnes herein are also reserved. TUESDAY, APHID 24, 192? Developing Our Opportunities The Star has, time and again, ex ploited that subject, but it is good enough subject to be discussed every day till all of us understand' what opportunities are and know opportuni ties when we see them. Even so, the most practical thing of all is to de velopment our opportunities. From the Charleston News and Courier we have borrowed the caption to this ar ticle although the Charleston paper’s editorial discusses the question from an angle involving our opportunities to get the most out of this life. We surely do neglect opportunities of that kind, perhaps every day, or frequently at least, because we are always waiting for the “opportune moment” to do what we ought to do now. It is true, as the News and Courier declares, that “many of us waste our time waiting for what we are pleased to call the opportune moment?, and in the waiting loBe a great deal that ought to make life very precious and valuable.” That refers to our opportunities to make the mbst of our lives and to make the most out of ourselves, but there is such a thing as waiting too long for • the “opportune time” to take advan tage of our opportunities in business, our opportunities in manufacturing enterprises, our opportunities in de velopment undertakings, and our op portunities in undeveloped resources. There are opportunities of a kind of which we are conscious. There are others which we would not know it they spook hands with us. There are others which we recognize but whicn appear too big for us to tackle. There still remain still others because we waste our time waiting for the “op portune time.’” Individuals do that, cities do that, states do that, and boosters do that. They wait too long to take advantages of opportunities, even though they stare them in the face. The trouble Is that we find some excuse to wait till the “time is ripe" or for the “opportune moment’’ to ar rive. The fact is, the time is ripe an'd the opportune moment arrives when we do not know it. Meanwhile, we have lost our opportunity. We will have to make up our minds to the ^ fact that the opportune time for doing something that needs to be done is right now. The time to put over en terprises and undertakings is just as soon as we decide that they are things worth doing and ought to be done. In his talk at the chamber of com mence banquet the Wilmington Hotel, last Saturday, President Samuel Vau clain of the Baldwin Locomotive works said something that will be found to be everlastingly true. He said that the man who expects to make some thing out of himself would have to - -v do it himself, and that; the community which expects to develop would have fo undertake its own development. Evidently, the locomotive buiffler does not believe in waiting for the “oppor tune moment,’’ and he gave us all to understand that he knows no com munity can get anywhere if it is dis posed to “let George do it.” Individually; Mr. Vauclain has made a-big success of himself, and one of his biographers has said it is because -he “always strikes when the iron’s > hot" 'Since we have come to think about it, Mr. Vauclain and his dis tinguished party have not traveled all over the south and taken in Wilming i- ton “Jj*st for their health-” We have interpreted it to mean that Mr. Vau clain has made up his mind that “the iron’s hot” in the sfouth—hot enough for locgg&otive builders to come down and tSre advantage of their oppor tunities in southern development, j Drummers of all> kinds have been coming south for years and they al ways come when the opportunity for trade is good, but this is. the first time locomotive drummers ever came south in a Pullman car and took in the Whole of Dixie. There is some thing quite significant in it. It means that the “iron's hot” in the south, it it is hot enough for locomotive manu facturers, it is just as^ hot for WI1 mingtonians, if only we will "strike while the iron’s hot.” Mr. Vauclain and his party trailed development and prosperity all the way from Texas to North Carolina, so Wilmingtonians ought to know that the “time is ripe” and that the “op portune moment is here right now for whatever they have on the pro gram. Spend Carolina Money With Carolinians In the made in Carolina depart ment, o£ Sunday’s Charlotte Observer, J. C. Patton, the industrial editor, discusses complaints made by North Carolina manufacturers and firms about their inability to secure con tracts, on equal terms, with contrac tors and bidders outside the state, for the furnishing: of material, machinery, and supplies for which the state has been spending millions of dollars dur ing the last two years or more. Foul weeks ago, Mr. Patton discussed this same subject and published complaints made by North Carolina concerns, claiming discrimination against them. Previous complaints condensed con tracts in the expenditure of $65,000, 000' for highway construction and in yesterday’s Observer consideration is taken, of other vast sums which the state is spending under appropria tions and bond issues authorized by the general assembly. Platt W, Davis, treasurer of the At lantic Paint and Varnish Works, of Wilmington, wrote to Mr. Patton and enclosed a list of appropriations for public buildings and betterments of state institutions, involving the ex penditure of more than $10,000,000, authorized by the 1923 legislature, and the list is published along with the inquiry of Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis in quired: “I would like to know why it is that not a cent of this money is given to the manufacturers of this state, with the exception of that for the Samacrand training school, which paint was sold by us.” The. question | is both pertinent and important, both to the manufacturers and to the state. The answer will have to come through the state’s commissions or disbursing officials, but meanwhile Mr. Patton says in his department of the Obser ver: Will these $10,000,000 be spent for home talent in architects and. the best. Carolina has as good as the best. Will Carolina builders and contractors get the Jobs? Caro lina hae as good as the best. And if Carolina architects and Carolina contractors get these jobs, they will most likely buy their flooring, their celling, their roofing, their steel, their plumbing and heating . equipment, their brick and nails and locks and bolts and other hard I ware* their paints and varnish, their heavy timbers and their lignt lumber from Carolina jobbers and Carolina merchants and Carolina manufacturers. Mr. Davis is a big manufacturer of good paint—as good paint, we believe, as can be purchased any where In this country. He has proven its merit on a thousand public and private buildings, and yet he complains that he cannot get a dollar’s worth of these pub lic orders. W e believe that purchasing agents and public servants who spend these funds should take an oath of allegiance to the state of North Carolina, and should either spend these funds with home peo ple, wherever possible, or get out and let men take their place who are fully sold on their native state. We believe that In all of these matters, Involving good roads funds, and the millions spent on, public buildings, the public should he given the fullest, facts and In formation. And we believe that In every case home people should be given first preference on all expendi tures. Are the men handling these funds of the same opinion? one would presume off-hand that North Carolina’s millions would be spent In North Carolina, with North Carolinians preferably, and it is rather surprising to hear of com plaints like that made by the Wil mington paint manufacturer, follow ing close after complaints against the purchasing department of the State Highway commission. If the com plaints come from disappointed bid ders, that is another matter, but home people would have good reason to com plain very bitterly if they are not given an opportunity to contract wltn the state while It Is spending ap proximately 1100,000,000. It requires responsible bidders tor road and building construction, ana when it became certain that Nortn Carolina was going to Spend scores of millions • of dollars, our first thougnt was to keep as much of that money In the state as possible. For that reason, The Star urged the organization of construction companies. It would be Interesting to know how many con struction concerns in North Carolina hare gone after that big pile of North Carolina money. We know that in the matter of highway construction, many J concerns outside the state ‘'secured j good contracts. - While it advantages North Carolina to build highways and public institu tlons, the sending of the millions of dollars out of the state is bound to have a bad economic effect. The em ployment of out-of-state is bound to have a bad economic effect The em ployment of out-of-state labor and the purchase Of materials of any kind out side the state, when it is possible to get labor, materials and taJlent in the i state also would be poor economy. The Marathon Dancers Nobody -will work 62 hours on the 1 stretch, nor 66 hours, nor 90 hours, nor 96 hours, and then, keep on with j the determination of working 100' hours before stopping to take a rest. However, that is what so-called danc ers are doing in the marathon con test for the endurance championship. At last accounts a Baltimore couple had put it all over other dancers who have made records all the way from the Pacific to the Atlantic., The thing might begin with a dance but when the dancers become jaded they give a good imitation of the toddle. Foolish ness. Sure, but that is what the crowd wants and is willing to pay its money for. Some of the long period dancers have had to be taken to a hospital when they danced to the limit. Sev eral have come very nearly dying. It was in Washington, the Baltimore dancers made their record and beat the next highest record of 90 hours, made by a couple at Norfolk. Con cerning the Virginia city dancers, the Norfolk Virginain Pilot says: "It was a hectic day and a hectic night for the police, for no local event in years has aroused such tremendous interest or sent bigger crowds to the streets.” When that Norfolk couple danced till they could dance no' more, having scored 90 hours, the young fellow who performed the male part was “waltzed off to a hospital, dazed and delirious.” He was better next morning, but says there is no more dancing for him. It is believed that some of these marathon dancers have ruined them selves beyond recovery, but the crowd is crazy to see the sport. Since Mexico has given up such innocent sports as bull fights and cock fights, these sports might be introduced into the United States. As humane exhibitions they have marathon dancing skinned to a finish. v' Amalgamated Canneries One of the financial events of the past few days has been the conclusion of the merger of 35 or 40 canneries in Canada, the general company to be known as Dominion Canneries, Ltd. The capital stock is 3100,000,000, and the promoters had no trouble in rais ing the money. The canning industry is a big thing in California and Canada. North Carolina is getting canned goods from both Canada and California, and it is feared that it will many a day till a $10,000,000 can nery merger is effected in this state, although we have here the raw ma terials for 1,000 canneries. CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. J AMERICA’S BIG STEAMSHIP | In the tens of thousands of visitors that have gone abroad the Leviathan during Its stay at Newport News may be found a good omen for the Ameri can merchant marine. The curiosity that has led 100,000 persons to visit the isteamer during the past few months is an earnest of the interest Americans everywhere have in the in dustry of which the Leviathan is the greatest type and symbol. A part of this interest is inspired, it is true, by good publicity. But without a solid basis of sentiment for a start, publi city could not have accomplished such results. The whole United States re joices in the fact that the big steamer Will shortly take its place in the regular transatlantic service, and that it will be the greatest ship afloat.— Norfolk Virginia Pilot. 1 NEW ROAJD AND PROSPERITY The gaps along the line of the Wil mlngton-Charlotte-Asheville highway, which In years to cojne will be known throughout the country as one of Its famous roadways, are being rapidly conected into a hard-surfaced whole. The Rutherfordton Sun last week gave wdrd that the paving from that piece to Forest City would be complete by Jifly 1. This will place the fast-grt>w lng townB Of Rutherfordton, Spin dale and Forest City oh “Main Street,” in completion of one of the most im portant links in the highway. Our Rutherford contemporary in the same connection makes report of a remark able building development under way in its town, including a aolid business block, a number of new residences and an lo* cream: factory. Travelers through the owns in that section of the State will .this summer find many evidences -of new life and prosperity. -Charlotte Observer. l. GOAT CARIiED MilTTON Several Georgia ' papers - report a marked increase In the states goat population, and a marked increase in the price of goats. Kids used to_s«ll for 50 and 75-cents apiece. NOW they bring a much better price. ' One newspaper, in chronicling the shipment of goats by the carload, won ders what use is being made of them. The Albany Herald says it- thinks it can explain,, the mystery: These goats are being sold for mutton, and people are Mklng it. The Herald continues: •®ost of the hotels and restaurant are serving; goat meat, but on tbeir menus it is never listed as such, It is always mutton-—on the menue cards. “We know a good woman who vtfU not knbwingly eat goat meat, for the same reason that she refuses catfish. It is Just a mistaken prejudice. And yet#we have frequently seen her order mutton chops or lamb roast from the menu, and then eat goat meat witn apparent relish. . * “What with the ravages of forest l, fires, timber cutters, turpentine gangs and prowling dogs, the large sheep herds that once ranged the woods of the wiregrass regions of South Georgia have been greatly decimated, and. now, comparatively speaking, there are but few sheep left. . Goats are more hardy and flourislv where Bheep would not.. They are also more pugnacious and less liable to fall a prey to prowling dogs and other ' rapacious animals. _ These conditions, together with the fact that goat meat is quite acceptable when, served as mutton, will account for the rapid increase of goats in south Georgia.”-—Montgomery Adver tiser, / SPECULATION AND HYPOGRISY Perhaps there has never been a pro ceeding on the part of the government which was more deeply dyed with un-I mlstakable Insincerity than the appli-’ cation of the ^department of justice for an injunction against the coffee and sugar exchange. This is. said without the slightest Intent to apolo gize for, ■ or defend, any of the doings of,the exchange and without the re .motest desire to complain of the work ings of our law in, connection with any violation of its terms. If there has beed illegal or illegitimate specula tion or operation it ought to be cor rected,. and those who are guilty of it. should be made to suffer the full penalty of their offenses, whatever these may be, pending relief by con gress. But the purpose of this proceeding is not said to be that of enforcing the law in this way or of penalizing offenders. Its alleged object is simply that of preventing the “boosting” of the price of sugar. The simple savage old plan of sending Uriah the Hittite to serve in the forefront of the battle and so to prevent disclosure of the doings of someone else works today about as well as it did three thousand years ago. Sugar “operators” in con gress, sugar boomers in the Admini stration who predicted shortage and so pushed up prices, sugar owners and raisers in- the dominant political party, are worried by the public un rest. Their "thoughts on the present discontents” have made them ffeel that there is need of a scapegoat, and they have found one in the coffee and sugar exchange, whose operations, according to the government’s own petition, are so far removed from the "spot” {sit uation that there is only a. tiny frac tional element of ■ “legitimate” trad ing in actual sugar growing out of deliveries. According to the report of the tariff commission on the sugar situation, published simultaneously with the pro ceedings in this city, though whether by accident or design it would be hard to say, "the duty on Cuban raw sugars * * • is Included in the wholesale and retail price of granu lated sugar.” It needs no. ghost come from the grave to tell us this, yet this admission is probably only the out^ growth of the current “split” in the tariff commission which has made it impossible for even the easy virtue .of that body to’ be completely over thrown. However, the price doctrine of the commission is at once offset by the familiar old campaign falsehood that if there had been no tariff there would have been an invasion Of this market by foreign sugars, with corres ponding reduction in the output of domestic (beet) sugar. How this could have been true if, aB the administra tion itself lately asserted, there is a world shortage for this year every where it would be hard to see, yet the attempt of the commission is plain ly enough that of whitewashing the tariff. Thus the whole situation is again put “up to” the sugar futures speculators.—New York Journal of Commerce. Hollis Joy, 21, Boston student, says he hasn’t been kissed. We say he doesn't know hie last name. Russian leaders have 1,600,000 men under arms now, and millions of others under their thumbs. MORE THAN EIGHT MILLION PACKAGES OF BLACK AND WHITE ARE SOLD YEARLY ■■ / Sale Each Year Growing h* Leaps and Bounds, is of Tremendous Impor tant to Women Although placed on sale only a few years ago, such complexion necessi ties as Black and White Cleansing, and Peroxide Cream, as well as many oth ers, are now outselling most of the jlder and better -known articles, and for no other reason than their unusual merit, uniform quality and popular low prices. Many druggists and dealers who sell toilet articles sav that they have never seen the equal of Black and White' Beauty Creations for solving the rilkn and complexion problem forjtld as well as young women who had never before been able to find the right meth od of caring for their skins. A few years ago Black and White Beauty creations were unknown. Xo (ddy they are selling at fhe rate of more .than twenty thousand packages a day ■for every one of the 365 days In the yiar, or a total of more than eight milli.pn packages a year. From the biggest stores in the large Cities, to the smallest cross-roads coun try store miles away from even a rail road, Black and White Beauty crea tions are being sold in ever increasing quantities, with the result that the manufacturers have been forced , to tfove ihto; larger quarters three dif ferent times during the last four years. Bven the present plans, which occupy .ft total floor space of 106,000 square feet, are taxed to full capacity in the ,effort to keep Ud witli orders received every day from all parts -of the coun try- , Highest Quality BLACK-WHITE Beauty Creations1 [ ai 25^ and 50**Prices David Brown, of Pittsburg, walked 250,000 miles. Dave, was not hunting a drink. He is a postman. Things are so noisy in Eurbpe now . people think two dogs lighting are sound asleep,. CRISIS IS PASSED BY MRS. JAMES HANNA - IN PERFECT SAFETY Declares Tanlac Ended Long Suffering From Stomach Trouble, Palpitations and Weakness The list of testimonials _ln hehalf of Tanlao grows daily as new tests of its power s are made. Mrs. .Tames Hanna, wife of a well grocery merchant, re siding on South Broad street extension, Gastonia, N. C., made the following statement a few days ago: “By the help of Tanlao I have over come a case of indigestion that had made life miserable for me two years. I seldom got a good night’s Bleep for I often woke up with my heart flutter ing and acting so strangely that it alarmed me and set my nerves all in a frensy. I couldn’t walk up the steps at the back of our house without'get ting, al lexhaustffd and out of breath. I suffered terribly from the gas whica formed on my stomach after every meal and I got So run-down and weak I could hardly go at all. “By the time I had finished half of my first bottle of Taiilac, X felt a won derful change coming over me and aft er taking the second bottle I was like a different person. Indigestion, short ness of bre*th, heart palpitation, nerv ousness nor anything else troubles me now. I will always bless the day I be gan taking Tanlac.” Tanlao Is for sale by all good drug gists. Accep't no substitutes^ Over 37 mlllion bottles sold.—adv. GAINS 25 POUNDS IN 30 DAYS Ilemarkable ' Experience of r. C. Lake Bullda bp Weight Quickly “T was all run down,” writes P. .0. j Lake. "I had to quit work I was so j week. Now, thanks tnPrunitone, I look like a new man. ;I gained 25 pounds in 30 days.” "Pruniione hits put 10 pounds on me in 14 days.” stated Wm. Brack. "It has made me sleep well, enjoy what I ate and enabled me to work with interest and pleasure.” If you would like to out on a few pounds of good solid flesh, just try Prunitone; it will surely surprise you. For sale by Miller’s Pharmacy.—ad. Millions depend on S.S.S. to purify their Blocid iQINCE the days ^ of the Chero kee Indians, man has relied upon nature to produce certain barks and herbs to purify the blood. Today, the - manufacturers of L S. S. S. gather V n im - « - ■ IUUUomUUO \JL tuuo of these certain barks and herbs an nually and prepare in concentrated form ’ scientifically proportioned, that great blood purifier, called S. S. S. This is why S. S. S., since 1826, has been such a great success. It has meant to millions ©^ underweight men and women a plus in their strength. S. S. S. builds blood-power, it red-blood-cells. That ia what n. % fighting power. And fighting 3 destroys impurities! It always Vh It fights pimples, it fights skin p^8’ tions, it fights rheumatism it h?ru' nerve-power—thinking power Th 8 are the reasons which have S. S. S. today the greatest cleanser, body-builder and ' builder. uccesa Mr. James Chaloupka, Camn SW School, Chilficothe, Ohio, writes”"1!? feel like a new man alter taking's c « It gave me a better appetite and c/eait my skin of pimples and blackheads " “ Try it yourself. S. S. S. is sold at an good drug stores. The large size i. more economical. Get a bottle today* S« S.S. mafasyou Jed like yourself again \ Variety in price as well as stock is the rule here. We can show you something very reasonable, or if you pre fer the expensive furniture we can show the finest woods manufactured into the most artistic furniture. e*Better Furniture-—Less Money ” W. J. Bradshaw & Co. Garrell Building Telephone 593 There is No Mystery about the Telephone Business HERE are probably some things about the telephone business, which mystify you, just as there are things about other busi nesses which you do not thoroughly understand. Perhaps it is a charge on your bill or some practice about the service which confuses you, even if it does not annoy you. When these occasions arise, why not ask the local manager about them. He will be glad to explain our entire rate schedule or to tell you the necessity for any of tmr practices. All telephone practices are designed to make it easy for you to . do business with us and to improve your service. They are the result of long years of experience and reflect our best business judgment. They are flexible and are constantly revised in the interest of cordial relations with our patrons. There is no mystery about the telephone business and one of our greatest difficulties is to induce our subscribers to tell us about the. things that worry them. We want you to be familiar with the reason for every charge we make and to be satisfied, as-we are, that* it is a proper and necessary charge. Errors are inevitable in all enterprises using human agencies and we particularly want you to tell us when there is error in the account rendered you or when you do not fully understand any feature of it. , Our success depends largely upon the measure of the good will jof the community we can win and hold. Willingness to correct error and to cheerfully explain every detail of our business are, we believe, two prime elements of public service. « M. B. SPEIK, Carolina^ Manager SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE t ‘ AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY