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THURSDAY, JULY «, 19*3.
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TOP O* THE MORNING
MTe are dlecouraaed only so Ion*
a* we are not eonsdons of God. If
«bte Is tree, the flret thin* to do
whan dlacoi*ra*enient overtakes us
k to *o straight to God*—Pell.
SEEING IS BELIEVING.
North Carolina: newspapers have
been slinging great gobs of Ink about
tfieTdvisabillty and feasibility of the
state ship and port terminal propo
sal, but the best thing North Caroli
nians can do for themselves Is to go
bn excursions to ports which have their
states behind them. Seeing is believ
ing. Visualizing beats theorizing and
homilitics.
Why dispute? Why waste time
about port cities taking the initia
tive? There is hardly a port city In
the world that has not taken the Ini
tiative long ago, but they never got
•anywhere till they were backed or
[financed by their states or nations.
The most wonderful port development
of any American port in recent years
has been put over at Montreal during
/the past few years. Montreal took the
initiative, but the Dominion govern
ment had to get in behind that ini
tiative for the simple reason) that
«ven that sizable' and rich city, 1.000
[Wiles from the sea, was not able to
finance what many Canadians called a
babble-blowing proposition.
p ? Canada, through her parliament,
stood back of the Montreal project
and during' the pa£t few years that
great inland port has been made the
greatest grain port in the world.
Canadian wheat growers used to ship
their wheat across the border into the
United States, but politicians made
American wheat growers believe that
they needed tariff protection against
Canadian wheat. They got it, and
ijow Canada snaps her finger at all
'American tariff bills. Canadians
equipped a port at Montreal and now
iAmerican' wheat has an export com
petitor which makes American wheat
tariff as iseless as two thumbs to a
\ hand. Now the Canadian port is the
second in the handling of merchan
i;dise. Grain) terminals at Philadel
phia are to be modeled after those
of Montreal. Philadelphians took a
'trip to Montreal to ‘see” for them
selves, hence nobody has to tell them
what adequate terminals will do for
a port.
| The port of Montreal is getting a
'great deal of publicity for itself and
for Canada. As great as commerce
has become at Montreal, a dispatch
from there July 1 states that the busi
ness of the port has outgrown ^ its
great facilities, hence much more com
prehensive plans for further enlarge
ment and extension of practically
every feature of Montreal's harbor
plant and equipment will shortly be
put into effect "as the result of the
sanction of the Dominion parliament
, of a further loan of ?10,000,000 to the
i Montreal harbor commissioners.”
The gram elevators are to be en
larged, extension of wharves and piers
fare to be made, additional berths for
ships to unload and take on cargoes
fare to be provided; the great anchor
age basin is to be deepened and wid
ened, high level shore wharves are
to be built railroad extensions to new
‘Strain elevators are to be made, new
;cargo handling machinery is to be in
4 stalled, more economic devices are to
be provided at all harbor terminals,
quay -walls are to be-built along a
l front of 5,838 lineal feet, and reclama
tion work Is to recover many acres
. of land from water.
I'hat is a great deal, but It isn’t
tall. The harbor front railroad system
^ls be extended and electrified, trans
'"misslon * p^wer lines are to be ex
tended, slips are to be dredged to a
greater depth, the water, front is to
* be paved with concrete, and listen!
■ {Industrial wharves” are to be built
-jtlong the front of a large land area
'for the location of various kinds of
^Industries to be electrically driven,
phe port terminal powerhduse is to I
be doubled incapacity, for everything
. done at Montreal’s modern, terminals
| is done by pushing a button or by
.switching Oh the Juice. A $3,000,000
highway bridge, 40 feet wide, for ve
hicular transportation and travel,
with separate concourses for pedes
trians. Dr. W, L. McDougald, presi
dent of the harbor commissioners,
states that a very large improvement
program was carried out last year,
but: . V
In spite of these conditions the
demands upon the commissioners
for wharfage accommodation. by,
great companies as well as by
‘tramp* charterers could not ,be
met, and the commissioners there
for# felt they would be recreant
In their manifest duty if they
tailed to make every effort to
keep the harbor’s facilities up to
not Only the present Insistent de
mands but to anticipate the re
quirements of succeeding seasons.
Accordingly, the commissioners
and their staff have for some
months been preparing for fur
ther enlargement and developing
the port's facilities, which work
is now bearing fruit.
What’s^ the use of windjamming in
Tarheelia? Why should oceanic Car
olina or hinterland waste space and
white paper on "feasibility,’ “practi
cability,” “advisability” and “munic
ipal initiative?" North Carolina might
as well have waited f<5r county initia
tive before undertaking a $65,000,
000 state highway program. State
progress depends on state initiative
and state largeness.
BALANCED CONVERSATION.
President Harding speiled about
the, GJorious Fourth yesterday and
today will board the government
transport Henderson for his trip to
Alaska. He will embark at Taooma,
state of Washington, the jumping off
place of his trans-continental trip.
Out on the Pacific there will be a sur
cease of ^peaking, and surely every
body will wish for Mr. Harding a safe
and pleasant voyage. At sea he will
be entertained by radio and will get
the news by wireless. Meanwhile,
back in continental United States, the
speeches he has made at a dozen
places will be closely analyzed by the
politicians.
The President said many things in
his speeches and has been called down
on several things he has said. Issue
has been taken with him concerning
some of his claims for the G. O. P.
during the two years or more it has
endeavored to make another recon
struction record. According to the
presidential view, the Republicans
have done great things for the farmers
and labor, two elements of American
citizenship which cast millions of
votes. The farmers have been won
dering where they came in for any
benefits outside of their own organ
ized efforts, and so far as labor is
concerned, the chief of the toilers of
America has come forward with a de
nial of labor’s obligations to the
Harding administration.
At Helena last Saturday, President
Harding endeavored to show how
great a friend the Republican party
has been to labor throughout the
United States, but the very next day
Samuel Gompers,' president of the
American Federation of Labor, prompt
ly assaHed the Helena speech of the
chief executive and titular leader of
the G. O. P. The President declared
himself a friend of organized labor,
but in his statement in behalf of la
bor on Sunday, Mr. Gompers declared
that "labor retquires more than a
speech to balance against the acts that
have gone before.'* jLJibor’s titular
chief declared:
W« believe the President is sin
cere in not wanting the unions
destroyed, said the veteran labor
leader. "No sane person jooufld
want any such catastrophe. But
we cannot Indulge in any tumult
of applause over this late pro
fession of faith, because the unions
themselves have saved the day and
they have done this in spite of the
official acts of some of the Presi
dent’s leading officials and advis
ers. For their* existence today
they owe no thanks to the admin
istration.
President Harding made a very
frank declaration for himself and
doubtless he meant it, but he can’t
speak for Attoiyey General Daugherty
and others of his official family, not
to mention that congress, which com
mitted acts for which it is Impossible
for him to apologize. While agricul-,
ture had its sorest trials and labor
had its greatest conflict, even with
the government, congress devoted
two-thirds of its time to the passage
of a bill in behalf of special inter-1
ests. That is the way farmers and
labor looked at it, hence the results
of the elections last November.
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THE HENRY FORD ROAD
* AND WILMINGTON.
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Sure, we can conjure with the pos
sibility that Henry Ford’s proposed
railroad into hie coal lands, in the
Clinchfleld coal region of Kentucky,
might be linked with Wilmington. Of
course, if he builds his road and makes
connections with the automobile man
ufacturing city of Detroit, the Caro
lina*, Olinjchfijeld and Ohio railroad
would give the projected Ford railroad
traffic connections direct with the
Carolinas. It would link him with
the port of Wilmington and other
South Atlantic ports.
Of course, Mr. Ford- wants coal for
industrial use in his factories, bul; he
also wants a port^for the export of
automobiles, motor trucks and.trac
tors. New York commercial reports
this week st&te that more automo
biles than than ever are going over
to foreign countries and that the east j
is preparing to take large numbers
of automobiles, typewriters, cash reg- j
isters and counting house machines, j
They could come to Wilmington front
Ohio and Michigan points almost onj
a direct haul, the shortest route to
any American port. I
However, if Mr. Ford does not- build i
i his road, he can build a Ford city in
North Carolina and get his own coal
to his Carolina city by way of the
j Clinchfield road, which beads in
' close to the Ford coal properties, in
eastern Kentucky. A Ford city ip_
North Carolina would also give him
direct connection with the port of
! Wilmington. He need not wait to
build his railroad. He can build au
tomobiles in North Carolina and ex-,
port them now. Of course, state ter
minal development - at Wilmington
would look good-to-Mr. Ford.
COMMUNITY LIFE.
A community Is Ideal just in the
degree that Its citizens as individuals
are self-respecting, considerate, loyal
and sympathetic ; • and its business in
terests intelligent, co-operative and
! energetic. There is nothing myste
I rious about the progressive and for
ward-looking community for these
terms are convertible with human na
ture at its best. When business dival
ries beget harsh, unjust and malicious
antagonisms, not only is community
progress arrested, but social stand
ards are made to suffer and personal
attributes lose their virtue. To enter
’fully into the spirit of these verities,
it is only necessary Jo recollect that
the community is but the individual
amplified.
A community is what its average
citizen makes it, for leadership can
do nothing more than leaven the
lump, and the standard is low or high
just in the degree that the lump is
receptive and capable of' rising.
CONTEMPORARY VJEWS.
A WONDROUS GROWING SEASON
The 'cngth of the south’s growing
season and the diversity of Us field
resources are strikingly attested by a
reoent bulletin of the federal depart
ment of agriculture on the production
of white potatoes. Thres plain crops
of these are raised withid a year in
this, region, the investigator reports;
and there 1b hardly a month out of the
twelve maganlze of southern sports,
! recreations and when somewhere In the
south white potatoes cannot be planted
and harvested. One result Is a pro
nounced advantage In market value
to.~ the southern crops which sjpply
the earliest demand.
The bulletin dllvdes Dixie’s produc
tion into three distinct periods, or
phases—the early or truck crop, the
later or main crop, and the fall crop. .
—Atlanta Journal.
COCONUTS AND BATHING GIRLS
Reports from Cleveland indicate that
the effort of the Miami Real Estate
board to make use of the convention of
the National Realtors asosoiatlon for
placing Miami before the oountry in a
prominent way has succeeded beyond
expectations. So attractive was the
exhibit placed in the center of the
convention hall, with Its Spanish
patio, its bathing- beauties and its free
coconuts, that a cordon of police was
needed eaoh evening to keep the
throngs moving past the place. The
name of Miami painted on eaoh coconut
blazed, the fame of the city all over
Cleveland, as thousands of those at
tending the convention passed up and
down the main streets bearing the
labeled nuts. Attracted to the booth
by whatever feature, the Miami realtors
took full advantage of the situation by
passing out Miami literature to all
comers, and It is safe to predict that
hundreds who had hot before been in
terested in the Magio City, read the
booklets and looked at the pictures.
The benefit to Miami from such
splendid exhibitions as the realtpre pre
sented at Cleveland cannot be over
estimated. Certainly , many times the
amount expended ih’preparing the dis
play, although that ran into a good
many thousands -of dollars, will be re
turned to the pookets Of the-Miami real
estate men through sales to those
brought here as the result of the con
vention advertising. And the rest of
Miami will bo the gainer, top, ,4ry large
measures.
No little part of the growth of the
Magio City can be justly attributed to
the energy, the ' alertness and the
“nerve” of Miami’s real estate men.
They have not been satisfied to let the
God-given beaiuties and attractions of
this oountry draw men to live here, as
these attractions would In the course j
of time probably have done. But they
have hastened by many a year the
bu-ildlng here of a city by never losing
an opportunity to tell to the world
what Miami has to offer, by spending
large sums in developing attractive
‘residential- sections, by Improving the
shote, creating islands, and' In count
less other ways putting their tireless
energy Into Ihe development of the
g.-ev.e;* city
The Miami conquest at Cleveland is
just another feather In the cap of the
ret'.,lor« c f ti ls /ectlen, and It Is well
| that the community recognizes what
they have done.^—Miami News-Metropo
lis. ‘ . V
GREAT FUTURE FOR THE DAIRY
BUSINESS
|*~ A York county farmer has sounded
the right Idea about the dairy business
in this section of the Carolinas when
he says in an interview with the York'
ville Enquirer that we have not even
scratched our resources in this ^direc
tion. The Gazette was talking to 'a:!
r man the other day, who remarked upon
the vast amount of dairy business in
the cold, bleak, northwestern states
of Wisconsin and Minnesota,^ where.
| the outdoor growing season' is not
more than half what ours Is here,
"This section of the Piedmont south/’
he said, " bught to become the wealthi-;
est spot .agriculturally, in Amerioa.” j
■ This York county farmer was regret
ting that he had not gone into the
dairy business 20 years ago, but things
were different then. ■
“For instance,’ he went on, “the busi
ness did not offer anything like" as i
much 20 years ago'as it does now. I
Then I would have had no market for:
my cream and butter other than such
as I might havp built up laboriously
for myself; I could probably have sold
my pfoduet. In the shape. Of butter In
such cities as Charlotte, (Jolumbla and
Augusta, and maybqr to Wlnthrop; but
butter Is not the most profitable pro
duct of a dairy herd by any ineans, Un
lest you can run oh a biff enouffb *oale
to run a ofsamerv'ef your. own. •'
"But now you have theadvantage of
creameries and loe cream manufactur
ers that are ready to talee all your
cream at a fair price. You have plenty
of competition and It l%i*nore a ques
tion of produclnff the cream than it is
of selling: It. they will taae all the
I crfam we can deliver both winter and
summer.
“And that is not all. There are other
j sources of profit to a dairy herd besides
| cream. There is the manure, for ohe
I thinff. Properly taken care of the mi
| nure means money. Next there Is the
increase In the herd. That Is a source
I of profit rather than expense, and then
j still there is another advantage to this
| business, whether on a large scale or
_a small scale. It will give you back all
j you put ' in it more surely than any
other business I know of. And there
is no limit to the amount of Invest
ment It will stand either.
"This is a typical cattle country.
There is almost no limit to the -number
of cattle that .can be grown here,
whether for creamery purposes or beef
purposes. We have not even soratched
our resources in this direction.
"Just consider the steadily increasing
thousands of milk, butter and cheese
, consumers with which we are sur
rounded. .Estimate the amount of
money they are spending dally for va
rious milk products*, most of them in
cans at bis prices, and then' consider
the strength of the demand for real,
pure milk and oream so ’ong as there
Is any of this stuff on the market.”—
Gastonia Gasette.
RALEIGH MUSIC
TEACHER MISSING
Police Called to Assist in Search |
for Miss Evelyn Nichols, ofj
Caraleigh Mills. |
RALEIGH, July 4,—The local
police department baa been ashed
to aid In the effort being made by
Caralelgh Billie Officials to looote
Hln Evelyn Nichole, monte teacher
In the mill community, who has
been missing elnce Monday.
Mine Nichole, who la described «*
between 89 and 40 years at tage, has
not been traced beyond a down
town corner, where she alighted
from an automobile Monday morn
ing on her way to the office of a
local physician. She had with her,
It is said, a pone containing about
$60.
Failure of Mine Nichols to return
to- her room Monday caused con
cern and a search was started, but
no trace of her has been found
after she left the unto mobile.
Miss Nichols came to RJalelgh
from Greenwood, 8. C. two years
ago. Her mother now lives at
Greenwood, It Is stated. - ,
Sammy Hale May
Cause New Shift
Inability of Athletics to Cover
Ground May Make Connie
Mack Make Changes.
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PHILADELPHIA. Jutf 4.—Inability
of Third Baseman Sammy Hale to cover
much ground may cause Manager Mack
to make a shift In the Athletics” Ulieup
In the very near future. Hale, when he
had a trial with Detroit several years
ago showed poorly In the field. Ability
to hit caused him to be carried around
for several years. He was finally sent
back to the minors, landing with Port
land, Ore., of the Pacific Coast League.
In the minors,- Hale . starred at the
bat. His work in that department,
more than any other, caused Connie
Maok to part 'with a bag of gold re
puted to contain tfS.OOO, all in real
money. It was figured that his hitting
would more than overoome his fielding
faults. .
Never much of a ground covered, an
injured ttnkle has added to Hale’’s field
ing. In addition, he has failed to hit
up to his reputation. AU of which may
cause Mack to shift to Rlconda at any
time. Rlconda has filled the role of
sub In great shape several times. He
was with the champion. New . Haven
(Conn.) team of the Eastern League
last year.
LTTMINA SCREEN
The greatest story of the sea ever
Written. A thrilling story of he-men
who wear hair os their chests whose
veins run hot with red fighting bloods
A blunt, vigorous yarn of a boy’s fight'
upward against overwhelming odds,
where fight means a hard fist and'
prime muscle high courage and a ready
wallop. The sea! The flavor of salt
In the nostrils; the odor of pitch In the
air, the snapping of wind-swept canvas
crackling lige a machine gun; the
creaking, singing wood straining as
She rides the hleb waves! All the
magic,and lure' of adventure,, the
(Spanish Main and sallermen.
Such Is "Master's of Men," Lumlna’s
screen offering for the Fourth of July
and the day following, a powerful ver
sion of Morgan Robertson’s thrilling
story of the sea, read and beloved by
millions. Cullen Landis, Wanda
Hawley, Earle Williams fthd Alice
Calhoun head a'great cast to Interpret
Its leading roles.
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