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! COAL REGION CELEBKA
J TION,
■ The Star thanks the Lee County
' chamber of commerce for an invitation
to attend a oelebration at Sanford
next Wednesday. July 11, purposed to
enable North Carolinians to see the
State’s coal region and to grasp the
meaning of the new developments in
the Deep River coal basin, by view
ing! the extensive inning develop
ments now in progress six miles from
the Lee county city of Sanford. The
governor, lieutenant governor, state
officials, leaders of the general as
sembly, members of the North Caro
lina press, and 250 of the leading
business men of the state have been
Invited to the celebration so they
ican see and appreciate some of the
[great resources of the state,
j The event has been planned in con
nection with the recent reporf, of the
United States Geological survey con
periling the Deep River coal Held in
which there is available for mining
87,000,000 tons of bituminous coal
With the same volatility as that of
the Pocahontas coal fields of West
Virginia. We have been over that
Mai region and are proud of the/fact
that we had an opportunity to start in
motion the publicity which has
brought about confirmation of the re
port of Dr. Emmons in 1852 and of
Admiral Wilkes in 1856.
The Lee county chamber of com
merce has done well to emphasize the
resources of Lee and adjoining coun
ities, for there are coal deposits in at
least 14 North Carolina counties. The
jDeep River field has been more care-,
fully examined and now the operations
ithere are giving employment to more
rthan a thousand men. The occasion
jet Sanford will be “Industrial Day,”
lend it will occur next Wednesday? be
Iginning at 10:30 a. m. and lasting
throughout the day. An interesting
program and barbecue have been ar
ranged for Sanford’s guests, and one
of the features will be an automobile
trip to the coal fields, copper mines,
iron mines and other industries. Those
who attend will have a fine opportu
nity to “Know. North Carolina” in a
particular that will amaze them.
BOOSTING ESTABLISHED
INDUSTRIES
Every- time the success of estab
lished industries is emphasized it is
ft convincing argument that newcomer
| industries have £he same opportuni
ties for-success. The Star has often
.' pointed to Wilmington’s flourishing
'manufacturing group as an example
'for others, and has made it a point
; in frequent articles to mention the
'fact that Wilmington’s successful in
dustrial group includes three of the
'"Big Eive,” besides several manufac
turing concerns looming large in the
[national group.
t The Star notes with interest that
1 the Montgomery Advertiser is empha
sising the success of local industries
In a manner that is quote striking
(and convincing. That Alabama pa
mper calls attention to the fact that
"Montgomery has one of the largest
pickle plants in the south,” the Price
Booker Mahufacturing company, which
employs 200 helpers during the busy
packing season. It furnishes a mar
ket for cucumbers from south Alabama
and southwest Georgia, and its high
class vinegars a^d bulk cucumber
pickles are shipped to all portions of
, the United States. The company owns
'its own tank cars, and is extending
its business info all states. Montgom
ery people make it a point to buy
Hhe home product, hence her mer
chants are always stocked with a
Montgomery factory product.
In order to give the'.city a boost
through that big Jocal. industry, the
Advertiser requests all readers to
mention the facts to "three more peo
ple." A few yearB ago, there was no
cucumber growing industry in -Ala
bama and Georgia, but now that an in
dustrial plant furnishes a market for
the farmers, the producing industry
has grown to large proportions. Cre
ating a'demand is always sure to pro
-mote^nroducUon, ^yi ';:
ITS NORTH CAROLINA’S
MOVE.
On numerous occasions Mnterland
Carolina has held "Just freight rate”
conventions and even formed the
Noth Carolina Just Freight Rate as
sociation with the determination to
free this state from rail rates outran
geously discriminating against inte
rior North Carolina, points. Techni
cally, rates in favor of Virginia
points, obviously unjust to North Car
olina’s interior cities, were based
upon “deep water” at Norfolk, al
though practically the same class of
ocean freighters which trade at Nor
folk also trade at Wilmington. Is it
-possible that interior North Carolina
has so soon forgotten its desperate
but losing fights for suitable rail
rates?
The fact is, North Carolina has
spent thousands of dollarS*for attor
neys’ fees and for the expenses of the
state corporation commission which
has waged hot fights against freight
rate discrimination. North Carolina’s
contentions have always been vain.
They were made on the ground of
“Justness,” but ^denied by the Inter
state Commerce commission on purely
technical grounds. A quarter of a
century ago that should have warned
North Carolina that her only remedy
was a competitive port, but she never
took the initiative till last January,
when Governor Morrison sprung his
ship and state port terminal proposi
tion. That gave North Carolina an
opportunity to help herself, for it is a
state problem which Governor Morri
son hopes to. solve and not any spe
cific problem of any port or sub-port
in North Carolina.
The ship and port problem has been
generally discussed in connection
with the investigation now being con
ducted by the state ship and water
transportation commission, but some
of our esteemed hinterland contem
poraries do not seem to be able to
grasp the idea that the problem is that
of their own territory and not that of
Wilmington, New Bern, Beaufort or
any other ocean front town. Never
theless, some North Carolina editors
apparently cannot get away from the
idea that it is Wilmington’s problem
or that of the ocean front towns. In
deed, port towns are more inciden
tally than generally concerned, but
they happen to be the key to the sit
uation and through them the state
has an opportunity to unlock the pan
dora box bf technicalities prhioh
have had and forever will have a
ruinous economic effect on North Car
olina generally and on interior North
Carolina specifically. We quote here
from, the valued Asheville Citizen the
kind of slant with which some of
North Carolina’s papers are viewing
this matter, to-wit:
• Before Dr. E. C. Branson had
been In Hamburg ten minutes, ap
parently, he had hia text for a
message to North Carolina on the
building of seaport towns. In his
first letter, published in Sunday's
Citizen, he says: “I had foFgotten,
if I ever knew, what difficulties
Hamburg has had to conquer in
order to become the greatest ex
port shipping center of continen
tal Europe. Natural advantages
alone considered, Wilmington has
Hamburg beat a thousand miles, as
the boys say. But for a thousand
years or more Hamburg has been
dredging and protecting her chan
nel into the open sea, and exca
vating the slips and quay that now
spread out, like the fingers of a
monster hand, into the thousands
of acres of water surfaoe.”
It takes time and money to do
such a thing, says Dr. Branson;
“also it takes the pressure of busi
ness in exportable surpluses and
the demand for- Imported goods in i
a populous back-country-”
And then he says this to Wil
mington and to all North Caro
lina, in which town and state there
has been and is much debate over
the proposition of better water _
terminal facilities:
“When the rapidly developing
prosperity of North Carolina cre
ates similar business conditions
and necessities, then the state
must have her own accessible,
well equipped port, first for coast
. wise shipping and then for trad©
and travel on the high seas most
likely at Wilmington. And the
chances are that Wilmington must
herself take the Initiative even as
New Orleans, and Dos Angeles dim
Manifest dividends. Invite capital
and create courage everywhere.”
It is reasonable to suppose that,
at the very least, the next general
. assembly of North Carolina will
offer its aid to Wilmington and
other coast cities in making it pos
sible for some of them to become
great harbor cities, like San Diego
and New Orleans. But San Diego
tyas so muoh in earnest that the
; citizens bonded themselves H to
"the inhabitant. In Wilmington
there eeems to be no united opin
ion on the need for any greaterx
accommodation for shipping than
the place now has. And if Wll
- mington has no bigger vision than
. this, what hope is there even of
. forcing a greater destiny upon
her It is time for the forward
looking citizens of Wilmington to
take off their coats and go to
work.”
The Citizen discusses the subject
Under the caption, “Developing Port
Towns,’ which is rather aside from
the real purpose of the state ship and
water transportation movement which
is development of North Carolina
through her outlets to the high sea
so she can avail herself of the poten
tiality of ocean transportation. "How
ever, we are sure the Citizen must un
derstand it that way, for that paper
is characteristically constructive and
a consistent and persistent advo
cate of every factor entering Into the1
making of North Carolina.
So It Is Dr. Branson, for , he Is a
forward looking North Carolinian and'
he has oftlmes applied to the develop
ment of North Carolina the principles
of economics which the state must
adopt if It hopes to make the substan
ttetf progress it Is capable of tender
such leaders as our distinguished
University professor. We^are sure,
however, that Dr. Bronson is misun
derstood when he is supposed to de
clare it as a principle that port de
velopment must depend on “municipal
Initiative.” since that now is only; In
cidental to present major port devel
opments. Once the national Idea was
that internal improvements developed
upon the states and for a long time
the states held themselves aloof from
federal “paternalism.” However, the
problems of the nation and the state
were so inter-related that for a half
century interstate commerce and port
development Is entirely a function of
the government, depending on the
needs of the nation and the com
merce to Justify public expenditures.
Hamburg is the— world’s third
greatest port measured by her com
merce, coming after New* York and
London. For centuries, It is true that
Ijjjhmburg and the state of Hamburg
were responsible for development of
the Elbe waterway, but in 1888, Ham
burg became a member of the Ger
man customs which so developed com
merce that In 1890 the German empire
devoted $40,000,000 to port terminal'
development at Cuxhaven. Thereafter
the Elbe became the ocean gateway Ql
the empire, as it is now in service for
the republic. Hamburg alone never
could have developed the nation’s
ocean gateway and made it the ship
ping emporium of continental Eu
rope.
As a purely state and economic
proposition, no port town ever can or
ever will be able to develop an ocean
gateway for North Carolina, and Dr.
Branson plumbs the line when he de
clares that “the state must have her
own accessible, well equipped port,”
although “the chances are that Wil
mington must herself take the initia
tive even as New Orleans and Los
Angeles did.” New Orleans, 100 miles
from the sea, never became a major
port till the state of Louisiana took it
over. 1
So far as "Initiative” Is concerned,
Wilmington took that years ago, de
veloped a commerce of $65,000,000 a
year, and the municipality Itself .owns
about *900 feet of harbor front property
which she proposes to make a free
gift to the state for the comprehen
sive terminal development that North
Carolina needs. Wilmington Is back
of the state in any comprehensive
plan she adopts, and the port inter
ests are unanimously with Wilming
ton, including the great exporting
concern of Alexander Sprunt and Son,
Inc., and the Atlantic Coast Line. In
dividuals concerned In port trafflo may
Object,’ but merely as Individuals.
If North Carolina "knows North
Carolina,” and we think she does, she
had better recognize at once the first
opportunity she ever had to utilize
for state development the 250 miles
of ooean front that is hers.
SPIRIT OF ’76.
Those who did not reed the Fourth
of July speech of the Hon. A. W. Mc
Lean, at Rutherfordton last Wednes
day, should take up again*yesterday’s
Star and pour over every word of
that Independence day address. Mr.
McLean discussed the text of the
Declaration of Independence and ana
lysed It along with other Immortal
principles upon which our popular
government Is founded. He inter
preted the fundamental phrases of
that great document, the greatest of
doctrines ever propounded by man
kind, and his address served a vital
educational purpose In rebuking cer
tain flippant Interpreters who have
not possessed the profound - insight
and statesmanship that would ena
ble them to grasp the meaning of the
American declaration of independ
ence. It sounded the death-knell of
autocracy, Mr. McLean conclusively
showed, and gradually that same
American doctrine has liberated the
people of more than half the peoples
of the world. It led to liberty for the'
British people themselves, and today
our Declaration of Independence Is
the chart for the “world democracy."
Probably few American 'statesmen
have so clearly discussed the living
and spreading doetrine which makesj
men free and nations independent.
• *■ •- V- I V
, MOHHOK DOCTRINE FOR FRANCE
; PARIS, July 6.—The suggestion that
America should guarantee -the security
of France from future German Invasion
by the promulgation of a sort of sec
ond Monroe Doctrine - was made / by
Bllth W. Branchy president of the
American: Chamber of Commerce in
Paris, speaking as chairman of the or
ganisation Independence: Day banquet.
UEGION WITH GIBBONS
GREBNVIDU5, a C., July 5.—Dele
gates to. the annual, convention -of the
department of South Carolina of the
American legion voted today unani
mously to send a telegram of congratu
lations to Tom Gibbons, St. Paul, for
his showing against Jack Dempsey In
the heavyweight championship fight at
Shelby, Moat* yesterday. * 1
CONTEMPORARY 'ftEWS. \
duirluton’i EHettloa
The enrollment figure# as published
yesterday testify to the tremendous in
terest which the Mayoralty eieotion to
be held on August 7 has excited. Four
years' ago the total enrollment was
7,904. The women toad not then been
given the ballot. Last year in the
governor’s race the total enrollment
for the city was 10,443, of which 3,
39-3 were women. Figures are not yet
available as to the number, of women
enrolled for the present election, _but
it would appear that the number is ap
proximately as large . as that for the
men.
Two months ago, when Mr. Stoney be
gan his campaign, the impression was
strong—at "least on Broad street—that
it would not..be possible to get the
voters to shake, off the. political apathy
which. seemed to have settled , so
heavily upon them. How /iiistaken this
view was is now evident to all; for
there has never been an election in
(Charleston in which interest was keen
er, as the figures show.
Thera are a good many persons who
will probably like to know how the
enrollment for this year compares, with
that of four years ago. The table
published below shows this and sfh’ows
also the approximate number of white
persons 21 yearn of age and ovsr In
Charleston as given in the 1929- cen
sus by wards. The census tables art
so grouped that it is impossible to give
this information exactly,’ the total of
white persons 21 years of age and
over in 1920 having been only 21,982
in faot; the census in its enumeration
by wards repeating certain groups.
Still these figures are approximately
right by wahis for 1920 and have a
certain interest and value. Of course,
the population flguresuby wards have
changed consideratjj^slnce 1920; but
the 1920 figures are the only ones
available for comparison.—Charleston
News and Courier.
Roasting Bar Co-operative Marketing;.
The depot platform presented a busy
scene, 14 men and.boys being: employed
all day sorting, trimming and crating
the snowflake roasting ear corn
brought, in by 15 growers to make up
a oarload. The work ww supervised
by -Mr. Julian Mackey, of Valdosta,
and Mr. J. R. Kramer, a northern
buyer. The expense of packing came
to 39 cents per crate, and a crate holds
from four to six dozen ears of corn,
according to size. Messrs. Mackey and'
Kramer offered to buy the oarload at
II per crate; that is 63 cents net. The
carload was finally sold in the after
noon to Mr. W. L. Miller at 11.05 per
orate. It is expected that another Joint
carload will be made up next week.
Mr. R. E. Carter expects to have a
whole carload of his own by that time.
—Lanier County (Ga.) News.
To Be Sore
A lot of prominent New York Re
publicans are going to give “Hi”
Johnson a big dinner on July 25, in
honor of his return from Europe, and
the Harding men are wondering just
what it means. Why should the presi
dent care? In his St. Louis speech he
made an abjeot surrender to the sena
tor on hig World Court proposition, and
if he wants a renomination there are
plenty of federal 'officeholders to put
him across. Can't a modest gentleman
come back from Europe and meet a few
friends in a sociable way without hav
ing hi® motives impugned?—Phila
delphia Record. "
THE COUNTRY EDITOR
The country editor Is becoming a
man of more consequence In his com
munity than the public is disposed to
believe. What would the country
people do without their home paper,
anyway? So good an authority as the
chief of Division of rural schools at
Washington, has prepared a very at
tractive bouquet whioh he is tossing
to the country editor. This community
asset, says the chief of division gives
freely the use of his oolumns for pub
lication of all news items relating to
education In the territory covered by
his paper. ' He leads the movement for
the establishment of the county agri
cultural high school. He points the
way to school consolidation in sections
of the oounty where several district®
can unite to have one good school with
high school grades. He voices the de
mand of the people of the outlying dis
tricts for modern schoolhouses, for im
proved school methods, with better
pay for better teachers. He advocates
the use of the sohoolhouse-as a com
munity center, where the epople oan
get together, not only to talk over
school's progress, but to discuss the
many subjects relating to better farm
ing. The editor is the best friend of
the boys’ and girls' clubs, which gen
erally start in the sohools, and will
print any number of items about the
best acre of corn, the best pigs, the
best chickens and the largest toma
toes raised by the club member®-. And
all this is free. The country editor is
“some pumpkins,” ( isn’t he, Zeb?—
Charlotte Observer.
MRS. CYRUS McCORMICK DIES
CHICAGO. July 6.—Mrs. Cyrus H.
MoCormlck, mother of Gyrus H. Jr. and
Harold McCormick, died at her home
today at Lake Forest, near Chicago.
Mrs. McCormick had been ill for a week
with aoute bronchitis. She was 88
years old.
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V *u*8 NICHOUi LOCATED
RAXjbJiQH, July i.—Miss Evelyn
Nichols, musjo teacher of Caraleigh
Mill* vlllaffe, whose mysterious disap
pearance Monday puzzled and alarmed
friends, has been located at the home
of friends eight miles from Monroe,
acoordins to announcement at police
headquarters here tonight.
Before taklns the train for Monroe
Monday afternoon, Miss Nichols, ac
cording to authorities at a looal hospl
,ta l,endeavored to secure^ the service*
of A nuree .to accompany fcer. She wan
eomplainirig of severe neuralgia at the
time. ' - ’ f
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ENDEAVOR CONVENTION MEETS
DES MOINES, la., July B.—This oity
is host to thousands of Christian En
deavorers from all parts to their twen
ty-ninth annual conventiono. Leaders:
expect 15,000 delegates. ‘
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