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\ Milimngtim s truing #tar Published by THE WILMINdTON STAR , COMPANY, Inc.. 109 Chestnut fatroet. P. H. BATTE. Managing Director. Entered at the Postofflce at Wilming ton. N. C.. as Second Class Matter. Telephones No 61 Business Office .No 51 ? Editorial Booms. • £ SUBSCRIPTION RATES» One Year . *.•'••••. fix Months . hree Months .If.?# . 3.50 . 1.75 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated PjMB >8 «^«,veg entitled to the use for publication all news credited to it, or not o e. edited. In this paper and also1 the local news published herein, ah r g Of re-publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.__ SUNDAY, MAY'20, 1923. The Castle Hayne Koad |V regret that 'the grand jury ot New Hanover county saw fit to crltl . else the expense ot the construction of the road from Wilmington to Cas tle Hayne without furnishing further details for the benefit of the public % showing that the cost is excessive. iWe have been of the opinion that it was much better for the state funds Ifo be spent on roads leading into Wil mington ratter than any particular part should be assigned to New Han over county, because it is much more i important to* Wilmington to prepare a method -to get people into Wilming [ton than ‘it £s to give them a drive over the county after they get here. But as to the road leading from Wilmington to Castle Hayne and be yond, this is a part of the Wilming ton-GoIdsboro highway, and is being constructed by the state highway com mission as a part of that system. The . plans and specifications are for a standard road of 18 feet width, and of a construction even better than 'Market street and other like streets in the city of Wilmington, and we hope the state highway commission will not get the impression that New Hanover is not satisfied with the ex penditure of this money in our county upon a first class, road leading from Wilmington to Goldsboro and beyond. It will be recalled that the specifica tions were prepared by the engineers of, the highway commission and ap proved by the commission, and the contract was let to the lowest bidder, which was $2.10 per square yard. Mr.ny roads throughout other sections of the state have been constructed by the commission at much greater cost, and in as much as this road is the only one now being constructed in New Hanover county by the highway commission, we feel that we should give the commission our sup . port in building • the, road ot of standard specifications and qual ity; and while we desire the cost to be ^always the minimum, we do not see how.it could be done cheaper or with [less grounds for criticism, than by getting the contract to the lowest bid der, which was done in this case. The »tate commission, we are satisfied, jWill receive the commendation of the public in building a high class road /leading out of Wilmington to the north. We will g^t nowhere by knocking • the highway commission in connec tion with its first effort to build roads in Nevj Hanover, when the construc . tion is in accordance with its estab lished methods throughout the state. The Fair Association The entire community and especiai , ly our retail merchants are to be con gratulated upon the success they have attained in arranging for a real fair for Wilmington. This is a much need ed enterprise in order to bring to gether the agricultural interests in this community, and we hope that farmers and everybody else who can contribute will begin to prepare now for exhibits in the fall which will be a credit not only to this' section of the State but to the entire state. The only way that the fair can be made a real success is for the public to arrange to have exhibits which will show the true productiveness of the community. ...If we can develop this fair on a high plane, eliminating fakers and carnival features, and let the public understand the enterprise is a clean one and of an educational nature, we have no doubt that the enterprise will receive the' support which will entitle It to continue its existence. So far as the world court is con cerned, Senator Pat Harrison, of Mis ' sissippi, expresses the opinion , that "President Harding will stand by his guns.” Maybe his sons-of-guns won’t ptand by the President. A preacher despairs of the human iracei A preacher’s success depends on the human race, The Star is willing to bet on the human race. . Something big has happened for Horth Carolina and Wilmington will aoon find it out. The Ultimatum to China The ultimatum given by the United States government to China to ‘'get the captives out and talk terms after wards” indicates the most strained re lations between the United States gov ernment and China, and that the Unit-, ed States government and other gov ernments will place the entire respon sibility. on the Chinese government, and will not take any excuses to the efflect that China is not in a position to deal with these bandits. No other construction can be put upon this ultimatum except that the Chinese government itself is'not per forming its duty, because China is told pointedly that “an excuse to I shirk or shift its own obvious respon-' sibility” will not be accepted. It is j very clear that with the' lives of a | large number of Americans in the j hands of these bandits and at stake, I that the United States government would not take such a positio'n but for the fact that it believes that China itself is making no effort to release these captives. As to what drastic steps may be taken in the event of China’s failure to comply with this ultimatum thfe public is hot informed. Twenty-live ! years ago the American navy would have sailed into Chinese ports, as Ad miral Dewey did at Manila in the case of the war with Spain, and de manded that the ultimatum be com plied with or that China take the con sequences. we ao not Know now tar me arma ment treaty between the United States and China and other countries inter-* ested in the- Pacific, interferes with such a policy of aggression at this time; but certainly the United States is in a position in conjunction with other nations, to enforce its demands or force China to take the conse quences. By the’time this editorial is read it may be that we will have heard what the final decision is. Cer tainly the United States government can not delay or hesitate to demand the full protection of its citizens wher ever they be. The Prison Investigation It has been 'a week since the gov ernor announced his purpose to make a thorough investigation of prison conditions in North Carolina, and dur ing that week the situation has been very much clarified. It would have taken several months and many thou sands of dollars, with charges ana counter charges filling the air, to have even gotten a start through investiga tions made by such men as E. E. Dudding and other prison reform fa natics who rely upon the statements of criminals to convict reputable pub lic officials. There is a grand jury in every county in the stpte, and there is a jail or other prison in every county in the state. The state government could spend tens of thousands of dol lars sending emissaries about over the state to obtain information to pub lish against somebody without any authority to correct the evils that ex ist. The grand juries of each county are composed of representative citi zens. They are interested in ths proper administration of the govern ment. It Is the solicitor’s duty to prosecute any violations of law, and it is the grand jury’s duty to report any improper management of public institutions, and now that the solici tors and the grand Juries in the state have taken up this matter we expect it to be completed without any extra expenditure of money and without un necessary delay , and we expect it to be more efficient and complete than it could be if otherwise conducted. ' It now occurs that since the appoint ment of Mr. George Ross Pou as su perintendent of the state’s prison, he has been studying and preparing a plan for prison reform. This plan has been submitted to the state prison board and adopted, and is substantial ly as follows: Hereafter prisoners will be pun ished according to offense in the following manner: ial Reprimand, (b) loss of more privileges; (c) re duction in grade, (d). addition of time to minimum sentence, (e) double shackles, (f) confinement in solitary cell and hard labor, (g) confinement in solitary cell or re stricted diet after examination by physician. Diet to be approved by secretary of state board of health; no prisoner to be confined longer than 34 hours except by authority of the superintendent.^ Maintain ing discipline without the lash is an experiment that has proved a failure'on a number of occasions it has been tried previously at the state's prison, but Superintendent Pou believes that with the new system of grading prisoners with fixed terms, will by executive or der. be assured of cuts of years or pioriths by good, behavior. • Of course .no one knows what will be the result of this new system. It must only be tried to ascertain Its merits. We have always been doubt ful of the wisdom of the abolition of corporal punishment, though we think that every possible element or cruelty should be abolished. We know hardened criminals have to be con fined, and that often when a guard goes into their cells he has to go armed. When such criminals abso lutely refuse to obey under any con ditions. and are insulting and-' inso-,. aa= 1 = 11 - !__ ... ■ . , ~ . IT IS SUNDAY MORNING BY W. A. STANBURY SCIENCE AND RELIGION The truth shall make you free." —John 8:32. This is a subject upon which „ many books have been written. For the last 50 years the storm has raged, with especial fury about the theory advanced in Dar win’s epoch-making books. For the first decade of this century there was a comparative lull; but in the last eight or ten years, and more violently since the ending of the war, this conflict has broken out again. It must not be thought that the problem of the harmony or conflict of science and religion can be lightly dismissed. To very, very many people it is a very real problem, not to say one on which depend the most fate ful and tremendous issues. Per haps the church, or rather the ministry of the church, has made two quite mischievous errors. On the one hand there has been a great outcry against what has seemed to be the irreverent and destructive encroachments of science upon the fundamentals of religion. And this Outcry has not been free from rancor and intol erance. On the other* hand, those clergymen who have been more liberally inclined have pursued generally a policy of silence, lest by their speaking they offered rather than help. But really, how can you take account of the facts of modern science and the theories In whose direction they plainly lead, and at the same time hold to the tradi tional creeds and forms of the re ligious life and faith? Are they not mutually contradictory? And in the end has not the vic tory for there have heent great always been with the scientist, contentions and bitter wordes— as against the creedist and the ec clesiastic? Who does not remem ber the sorry plight of the church, when she undertook to establish the form of the physical univerpe, rather than let Galilee, who saw it with his telescope, tell the facts as they are? And when Frank lin began to talk of electricity and to demonstrate his discovery of what the lightning is , the church affirmed that the storm is the voice of God, and that the use of such devices as lightning rods for the protection of build ings was an affront to God. One cannot help asking, what will be the outcome of the pres ent controversy and furor? Will the anathemas of pious clergymen and priests overwhelm the evolu tionist and discredit his theory? Or is. the church destined to the humiliation of having to acknow ledge some time that she was in erfor about this, and that the scientist was right? There are many good, earnest people who make sweeping state ments about science in general, and the theory of evolution in particular. They brand suppor ters of this theory as atheists, and vociferate that its acceptance means the denial of the Scrip tures, the death of religion, and the abolishment of the spiritual— with the total elimination of God. For them, the scientist with his theories of matter and of the origin and development of the physical universe and of life, is the arch enemy of our souls, the apostle of all that7 is dangerous^ and untrue. And they are struck with a great fear. They rebel against textbooks that take ac count of such ideas; and they are horrified at the doctrines said to be taught at our colleges and uni versities. But after all, it is not a ques tion of consequences, of what treasured beliefs of ours are go ing to the scrap-heap, of what conception of creation will have to be abandoned. It is a question of what the. truth is. Is the world six thousand, or six mil lion, or six hundred million years old; or is it not? Were the forms of life as we know them created by a single monment ary act, or are they the result of an infinite.process of change, which process of change is still going on? Are they, or are they not? mese are questions wmcn tue scientist Is patiently trying to solve. He loves the truth more than he loves anything else. And It It should turn out that evolu tion is the method by v which things came to be what they are, then what? i J)oes that banish God, ofr materialize Christ, or in validate the spiritual? Man’s spiritual nature is Just as much a fact as his body; and cannot by any twist of the understanding be dependent for its reality upon any special mode of physical creation. And if the world came to be what it is by a process Of evolution, does' it follow that God had noth ing to do with it? Or if man should be found Closer akin to na ture than he once thought, is he therefore less akin to God? If evolution is true, nothing is proved except that it is true, and that this is God’s way of creating. And nothing is destroyed, except false adeas. The scientist is seeking the truth. | The true disciple of Chris, is also seeking the truth. Why can they not agree? Are they not at heart collaborators? And if they arrive at the object of their search, they shall both be free. lent to authorities, we do not know how to command discipline except by corporal punishment. But the plan suggested by Mr. Pou contains a rec ommendation which will go a long ways toward solving this question, and that is the use of indeterminate sentences by which a prisoner’s term of confinement will depend upon his good behavior. There certainly is an inducement in such a pfan to make a prisoner a good prisoner. We think that the public should wait the investigation of these con ditions and the correction of qny evils by the regularly constituted authori ties before forming an opinion about the operations of state prisoners upon the affidavits of criminals themselves who have succeeded in getting this in formation into the hands of people who are at least willing to create a controversy whenever the state can be induced to spend large sums of money for experts to settle that con troversy. We shall await develop ments before making a wholesale con demnation of the , public authorities in charge of prison management.; The Landless Man The University News Letter for some time has been publishing some very interesting information and sta tistics with reference to the landless man, and also the ownership of auto mobiles. Dr. E. C. Branson, editor-in chief of the News Letter, has hereto fore published a very comprehensive pamphlet relating to his Investigation in Chatham county of the landless tenant and Dr. Branson is now abroad studying like conditions in foreign countries. He advocates -in his pam phlet a tax upon unimproved property, or other like methods, which would force the owner to turn it loose for the benefit of one who is not so for tunate as to be a landowner. In the last edition of the News Let ter we have quite an interesting study of the ownership of automobiles in North Carolina and on an average on* automobile Is owned for every thir teen inhabitants in the state. In Chatham county, where the landless tenant has become the object of much concern and consideration, one person out of every seventeen owns an au tomobile. This presents for our con sideration a thought which has not been generally presented in the News Letter, and that is how to persuade the average man to invest in land rather than automobiles. We haye no doubt that many of the landless tenants in Chatham county are owners of automobiles, and forcing the land owner to turn loose his unimproved property for the benefit of...one who has not any would not be of any great advantage to the state, unless these landless men can be persuaded to be come motorless men and land-owners. We are advocating all the time bet ter living conditions, more comforts and more pleasures, and there is really more pleasure in riding in a Ford than in digging in the soil. We do not know the- remedy which is nec essary to be administered in order to persuade a citizen that he should- buy a farm when he prefers a joy wagon; but it looks to us as if Henry Ford is responsible for the whole trouble, though this may be the road to the presidency for him. ' I Senator Moses, Republican, says he is doubtful whether the Republicans can carry the senate next year. He won’t have the slightest doubt about it if he will listen to Senator Pat Har rison. - j > ■ ■ 1 ' An Alabama editor claims" that Cleo patra Was “the world’s sweetheart.’ That shows Wvy giddy the wonjd al ways has been' since Mark Anthony set the pace* Ostrich Popular The coming "popularity of ostrich feathers is indicated, A number of evening gowns are' decorated with these feathers in the ^ form of long sprays of delicate flower* *■: CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. > IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION While immigration is seriously to the fore as a problem of national con cern on this side of the Atlantic emi gration is to the forefront on the other. Large groups in the British Isles are packing up their belongings and emigrating to Canada, Australia, East Africa and other parts of the • empire because of the lack; of work at home. Groups of young working men contract for their labor in remote parts of America or Africa arid emi grate in companies, while young women are ' similarly, sent ■'forth, frequently from public institutions of one sort or another, to take positions at do mestic service in the distant quarters of the globe. In Germany there as recently de veloped a similar emigration move ment toward the newer parts of the world. Thus far this outward move ment of population has by no means equaltd th einward movement, but it is anticipated by many that if politi cal and economic conditions in Ger many do not shortly improve there will be a net loss of man power within a few years. Unfortunately.for us com paratively few of these emigrating Britishers and Germans are coming to the United States. Instead they are seeking newer places where the reception granted them is likely to be better.—New York Journal of. Com fnerce. THE CLINCHFIELD LEASE When the Clinchfleld-was first pro jected it was believed that its southern terminus would be Charleston. Tor oug surveys of a proposed route were made and if te cost of constructing the mountain end of the road had not been so much greater than was anticipated it is probable that the line would have been extended from Spartanburg to Charleston at least ten years ago. Charleston will wait with the very keenest 'interest the development of the plan of the Atlantic Coast Line for this port. The business of the Coast Line has been growing with ex traordinary rapidity in recent years and at the present time it is making tremendous improvements on Its north and south lines. This move to take over the Clinchfleld and thus establish extraordinary potential coal facilities irf something new and its possibilities aretremendous. It has always been well within the range of practicability for the Clinch fleld properties so to be utilized as to make Charleston one of the great coal ports of the jworld. It will be a big thing for this city and section if the present move means that this Js now to be undertaken energetically and on a. proper scale. Coal from the Clinch field can come to Charleston with a directness possible from no other source of supply; and, of course, there is no other port which offers anything like the opportunities of development which are to be had at Charleston. The future of the Clinchfleld has been rec ognized for some time as a matter of very vital importance to this city and section, and we suppose that the bus iness interests of Charleston and the authorities will lose no time in getting in touch with the movements which are now under way and ascertaining just what they promise for this city and section.—Charleston News and Courier. WILMINGTON'S OIJFER The Observer has never harbored any notion in connection with develop ment of the state’s .shipping other than that the port of Wilmington would be the seat of major operation. That is the sta.te’s only part and the founda tion for a developed shipping business must be laid there, with development of New Bern, Beaufort and the inland routes as subsidiary enterprises to the rounding out of a complete scheme. Wilmington is now bringing out facts and figures which will impress the commission with the value of that port as an asset in any scheme for promo tion of a- state-owned and operated shipping business. The outstanding feature is a water front property with a value of $1,000,000. This means that Wilmington stands ready to make the state a gift of one million dollars as a starter in the shipping enterprise. The property offered was selected by the government' because of its ad vantages as a ship-building yard. It has shops, railroad tracks, docks and warehouses ready to hand, and would seem to be a better proposition than the state might have hoped for. The natural advantages to be had at Wil mington are of a nature to give en couragement to excellent speed on part of the commission in getting the state shipping plans under way.— Charlotte Observer. A SCOTCH COVENANTER The election of Rev. Alexander Sprunt as moderator of the Southern Presbyterian Assembly, gives that body of religious workers a Scotch Covenanter as leader. He is a native of North Carolina, and is a brother ot Wilmington’s most distinguished son, Dr. James Sprunt. He is a down-right,' upstanding and unbending champion of "the faith once delivered.” He is a scholar, an evangelical preacher, well versed in ' parliamentary law, and a gentleman who illustrates the best virtues of the Scotch Covenanter.— Raleigh News and Observer. TWO COAL ROADS FOR A. C. L. j Acquisition Of the Carolina, Clinch field and Ohio by the Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line af ford these roads two routes to the sea —the L. & N. by way of Marion and Spartanburg, and the Coast Line by way of Winston-Salem, Wadesboro and Florence. The Clinchfleld is prob ably the best built railroad of reoent years.—Hickory Record. SULPHUR CLfcAKS j ROUGH, RED SKIN Face,. Neck and Arina Easily Made Smooth, Says Specialist j Any breaking: out ot the akin, even fiery, Itching: eczema, can be quickly overcome by applying: a little Mentho Sulphur, declares a noted skin special ist. Because of its germ destroying properties, this sulphur preparation be gins at once to soothe Irritated skin and heal eruptions suob as cash, pim ples and ring worm. It seldom fails to remorve the tor ment and disfigurement, and yov^ do not have to wait for relief from em barrassment. Improvement "quickly shows. 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