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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1923.
DUKE AND HYDROELEC
TRIC DEVELOPMENT
rERE is no reason why North
Carolina should have any very
serious dispute with such a developer
as James B. Duke, who resides -n
Charlotte in the midst of what is con
ceivably the greatest industrial de
velopment in the Carolinas. He na
• turally located in the “City of Electri-.
cal Energy” to be close to wha't is the
greatest individual investment in the
industrial development that has made
two great states of the Carolinas. Mr.
Duke has $60,000,000 invested in
hydroelectric plants and power trans
mission lines, and it seems that if the
textile industry is to he confined to
the piedmont either he or somebody
else will have to make further invest
ments in the development of more
power.
-Lots of water has gone over the dam
since Mr. Duke first built his great
power plants in the Carolinas. All of1
them, possibly with the exception of
a comparatively small one, cost a great
deal less for construction than any ef
ficient plant can be built for today. We
have conceived, all along, that to be
the reason why Mr. Duke has not been
very keen about, making further large
investments in hydroelectric power
plants. In fact, he laid off the busi
ness because it had ceased to be at
tractive at the officially fixed rate of
$1.25 per kilowatt hour for industrial,
power. - However, he is willing to in
vest another $10,000,000 in power de
velopment, provided the regulatory
state commissions permit a power rate
of $1.40 per kilowatt hour. That is
little more than 10 percent increase
and the present value of a dollar in
purchasing and constructing power
doubtless warrants it, not to mention
that other matter of corporation taxes.
We are too far away from the : cone
of electrical energy arid its chief de
veloper and its great consumers to get j
excited over Mr. Duke’s intimation tha
he can not remain in the power game
unless a satisfactory -rate will be al
lowed him to make Ijiis investment
justifiable. His proposition is a plain
business one. He proposes to make
other investments in the Carolinas if
the corporation commission of North
Carolina and the similar body in
South Carolina will permit the power
rate to warrant his further activities
in a field so absolutely necessary to
expansion of the textile industsy. He
simply states the proposition and an
nounces that he will send no repre
sentatives before the commissions to
put up a fight for the rate.
Mr. Duke leaves it to the commis
sions and its up to them to take the
action that will bring about more
‘ power development and further cotton
textile development, or let the capita
list sit tight till the cost of construc
tion comes down. It is a question
whether the textile development can
wait as long as Mr. Duke can wait,
x The power magnate can not be com
pelled to develop more power and it
would seem to be a case for mutual
understanding between the investor,
the textile industry and the commis
sions. Meanwhile, the comparative ad
vantages of hydro-derived power and
coal-derived power for transmission
•may be approaching the equality that
will enable eastern Carolina to get on
a comparative power basis with the
piedmont. t
HOME-OWNING IN NORTH
CAROLINA
North Carolina is getti'hg consider
able publicity in “How to Own Your
Home,” an official handbook just is
sued tor prospective home-owners, a
- publication gotten out at the instance
J of Secretary. Herbert' Hoover, of the
department of commerce. The manual
shows that North Carolina has a home
owning record-of 474 home owning
families but of every 1,000 families.
The record for the United States is
456 home owning families out of every
1,000 families in the 48 states. North
/Carolina exceeds the national record,
and her record is considerably above
of the South Atlantic group of states,
which have 420 home owning families
out of each 1,000 families.
The South Atlantic is below the na
tional average while North Carolina
tops both. According to the handbook
of the department of commerce, North
jf- . ‘ . j ' ' ,,
Carolina is one of the 18 states to1
show an increase in the percentage of
home ownership among American
families. In 1900, the manual shows,
North Carolina families owning homes
j average 46 percent ef the states
families, while that percentage rose to
47.4 percet in 1920, a jump of 1.4 per
cent. !
The department ot commerce nas is
sued “How to Own Your Own Home”
for the purpose of stimulating home
ownership among American families,
lit contains^28 pages of its answers are
authentically presented jn condensed
form, ,to nearly every question haying
to do with the acquisition of property.
The Star does not hesitate to -endorse
the splendid motivation of this book
let, this paper has often appealed for
home ownership in Wilmington and,
fof home and farm ownership through
out North Carolina. Wilmington,
Charlotte and other North Carolina
cities which have fine home ownership
standing, have reached that status
largely through their numerous build
ing and Joan associations.
The purport of “How to Own Your
Own Home” is clearly given in ad
vance information being, sent out by
Secretary Hoover’s department In the
foreword to the handbook, Secretary
Hoover points out that in buying or
building a home one must not only
carry out the transaction of financing
the buying of a building or the;build
ing of a home, but must determine the
advantage of location with respect to
neighborhoods, schools, health sur
roundings, proximity to work, etc. The
annual, which ought to be helpful to
all prospective buyers or builders of
homes, was prepared by John M.
Gries and James S. Taylor, of the
division of building and housing, and
it accordingly aims to “describe the
stepS and precautions to be taken in
carrying out the trans action with the
least possible risk and the best as
surance of final satisfaction.” Here is
an extract:
Although most men arid women
who buy a house have done It be
fore and are usually unskilled, as
people generally are in the things
they do hut once or twice in a life
time, the prospective home owner
who carefully considers the real
needs of his family and his ability .
to pay, and who checks his own
judgement by consulting experienc
ed persons, may go ahead with full
confidence. Te need not be fright
ened by the mistakes of heedless
"ersons who have been carried
away- by some novel feature and
coaxed into a bad bargain, or who •
have tried to buy beyond their
means. While some risks are in- '
volved, as is usually the case In oh
» tainlng anything worth while, the
danger of failure Is relatively small
when weighed against the advant
ages of an owned home. Today, in
the period of post-war recovery,
when our national productivity is
increasing, we have the oppor
tunity to make definite progress In
the right direction. Moreover, the
development of the automobile has
given a great impulse to suburban
life and an Increasing possibility
of home ownership. Happily a
large sectioei of the people are
awake to the problem and an In
creasing number of business
groups have publicly acknowledged
their responsibility nad Interest in
it. They realize that unnecessary
barriers that may encompass a man
determined to own his home are
hindrances to good community
spirit and to good business.
In "How to Own Your Home” em
phasis is laid at the outset on the im
portance of the decision, the authors
likening this step to purchase in a
business partnership. “A family that
has saved up enough to make a first
payment and has paid its rent regular
ly when due has given agood evidence
of its ability to pay for and own a
home,” say the authors. “Homes are
usually bought from savings. Habits
of saving are best begun in early child
hood ; but adults who have not already
begun to save toward buying a home
should start at once. Many find the
buying of-a home the largest Invest
ment they eve.r make. But lack of ex
perience should deter tfo one.” u
The question of how much to pay
for a home is thoroughly discussed in
the department of commerce hand
book which says that “the exact
amount to be spent on a home can be
determined wisely only by carefully
checking over the family s needs ana i
its expenses." The pamphlet declares)
that “building and loan associations
will, in many cases, prove the best
means of financing. a home, for they
are often able to loan as much as 70
to 80 percent of the real value of a
home,' which is general# afiove the
limit allowed by law for savings banks
and Insurance companies.”
In the matter of choosing suitable,
location, for a home, “How to Own
Your Home” list£ as factors to be .con
sidered: I^ow or high land values;
transportation facilities; protection,
including fire and police; character, of
neighborhood; accessibility of schools
and playgrounds; shade trees; charac
ter of soil and necessity for grading,
filling or draining. What to,,look for
in house plans and insistence on good
quality of construction are included
in the topics covered by the manual;
“In addltlon' to payments on princi
pal and interest of loans on a;home,”
it says "allowance must be made for
some or all of the following expenses:'
Renewals and repairs jpfoperty tax
and special assessments; insurance;
wgter tax or rent; accessories and im
provements.” '
“It is„ hoped that prospective home
owners may find whether they are on
the right track by checking their
plans witlf the suggestions in' this
pamphlet,” it concludes, “and that the
homes so acquired will cause them no
regrets.
"If the readers of this pamphlet in
sist on good, honest standards in the
houses they build or buy, they not
only benefit their families and them*
selves but perform a broader service.
They help raise the quality of homes
In the United States and provide a
sound basis for wider home owner
ship.”
The handbook cart be obtained by
sending five cents to the office of the
superintendent of documents, Govern
ment Printing office, Washington, D. C.
MUST. KNOW WILMINGTON
‘ BETTER ABROAD
A town can get a ba<} reputation as
easily as an individual. Peojfle
abroad can also get false impressions
of towns on account of Idle gossip that
is about as unreliable as town possip
itself. A Wilmingtonian who has been
up the state says he was kept busy
explaining that lots of things he heard
said about Wilmington are wonderful
because there is nothing. to them.
When a controversy between a few j
Wilmingtonians gets In print, it is j
magnified up state as a factional fight, J
and it is difficult to make strangers
believe that Wilmington is not divided
Into two great warring, factions. The
Wilmington man who ran up on that
false impression of Wilmington all
over the state attributes it to the fact
that too much notoriety is given to
really trivial incidents and not enough
publicity is given to the actual prog
ress so manifest in Wilmington. The
people in the hinterland do not s^era
to-' “know” Wilmington, so it behoves
all Wilmingtonians to refrain from
cutting up in any manner that will re
flect* on Wilmington. Many Wilming
tonians who go away from home ought
to be better posted about the progress
which the city has made during the
year soon to close. -•
VRGINIA’S CLAIM TO PROG
RESS, TOO
That was a great boost which Sec
retary of State W. N. Everett gave
North Carolina in his address at the
state unfebrsity last Weaken the oc
casion of 130th anniversary of ’ the
founding of that great educational in
stitution. He pointed out the wonder*
ful progress of the state during the
last quarter of a century, and in
reviewing southern; history back to
the early days of the requblic, tfe con
fessed that at the beginning Virginia
easily stood at the head of .southern
leadership. During the secession
period, he gave the leadership to South
Carolina, but in this day of real prog
ress and industrial development, he
placed North Carolina many laps in
the lead.
We have noticed here of late that
all this talk about North Carolina
progress has made Virginia and South
Carolina watch their step and quicken
their pace in a rivalry that is wholly
friendly and commendable. If we
make the South Atlantic the most
famous part of the country, it will be
a fine work for the Carolinas and the
Old Dominion, but Virginia wants it
to be known that she is jealous of her
old leadership. /
At the weekly luncheon of the Red
Deer club at Norfolk "last Friday,
Major S. Heath Tyler was the speaker.
“Virginia is not the backward state
she has been pictured, but is far ahead
of many states in the, rapid strides
of progress made in recent years,”
the major1 said. “And when compared
with North Carolina, held up to the •
public as far ahead of the Old
Dominion,” he remarked to the Red
Deer club, “she has nothing to fear.”
North Carolina is only too glad that
Virginia proposes to have something
to Bay about southern leadership.
Major Tyler came back at us strong,
according to the Norfolk Virginian
Pilot, which said of his speech-!
"Major Tyler declared that for every
Virginian in North'Cajolina, there are
a hundred North Carolinians in Vir
ginia, which would show Virginia to
be' a state of progress, inasmuch as
people do* not desert a rich industrial
state for a mud hole. His remarks
followed a stirring talk on the bond
question which will come before the
voters in November. . Major Taylor,
chairman of the second district ‘Pay
As-You-Go Plan’ organizatijp, laid be
fore the Red Deer the facts concern
ing that plan for financing good high
ways in Virginia. He praised North
Carolina for Its progress ifi recent
years and for its splendid highways,
but declared it, had nothing on Vir
ginia in that respect- The issuance
of bonds for those highways, he ad
ded, would be a burden ” \
North Carolina may as well ’ take
notice that Virginia and South Caro
lina Also have their progress pro
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grams.. Colonel Everett made good
ciaim to North Carolina leadership
jWhen he spoke at the university, and
Nor*h Carolina has the satisfaction of
having set her neighbhring states a
fine example in. progress here of late.
If we have the leadership, now and
propose to keep 'it against Virginia
land South Carolina, we shall have to
go right-on With greater plans for the
development of the Good Old North
State. - " ^■
NEWSPAPER COMMENT
PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPER AT
v NORFOLK
George W. Norris, one of the heaviest
out-of-town investors in the develop
ment pf Norfolk, Will be the speaker
before the Monday Club'of the Norfolk
Portsmouth Chanjber of Commerce
Monday.
Mr. Norris, a director of the Federal
Reserve Bank, of Philadelphia, is
owner of the property in Berkley
where the. 'development of several in
dustrial sites is under way. The entire
project is being financed l^y him, it was
■rdVealed yesterday.
Mr. Norris was at the time Con
gressman from Philadelphia and com
missioner of that port. He. is interest
ed in waterfront property.
The site where the Butler project
is underway just beyond the Berkley
Bridge on the Barkley side of the
Eastern Branch was purchased by Mr,
Norris about twenty years ago. It was
bought expressly for the location of
the Cramp, Shipyards, but a financial
slump came along and the project was
abandoned. Mr. Norris, however, did not
dispose of his holdings, telling friends
that he believed in Norfolk’s future and
was going toAhold.
Several months ago the announce
ment was made that the property was
to lie developed to care for several
enterprises, one of which was the
Hampton Roads Bunkering Corpora
tion. '
Mr. Norris is expected to tell the
Monday Club several incidents con
nected with property improvements,
and while his subject haS not been an
nounced, it is expected he will glv.e his
reasons for locating here.—Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot.
CONGRESS HEARS OF
FARMERS’ TROUBLES
Joint Commission Receives In
formation When Inuiring
Regarding Banking.
WASHINGTON, Oct. If—The troubles
of the farmer today were laid before
the Joint congressional committee in-,
quirlng into the failure of state banks
to Join the federal reserve system.
Governor R. A- Cooper of the farm
loan board; B. C. Powell of Little Rock,
Ark., representing the'American Cotton
association.~T. H. Atkinson, represent
ing the National Grar#6. and B. C.
Marsh of the farmers’ national coun
cil, Were heard by the committee on
various phases of banking, as applied
to agflcutture.. v .,
Contrary tp the impression that the
farmers need additional financial aid
their general credit condition has Im
proved during the last yebV, Governor
Cooper said. During the-12 months he
declared hie borrowed (ess money than
In the previous year. ,
According to Mr. Cooper the board
fias received acceptable demands for
only IIO.QOO.OOO so far thi* year, al
though" it had further commitments
:»rhieh' probably would bring the total
to $40,900,000. This amounted to only
one-half of the money It held available
to assist agriculture.
Most of the demands for loan r. have
come from the south and far west, Mr.
Cooper said, generally through farmers’
co-operative associations. There had
been no great demand, he advised, for
credit in the middle wept.
Charges by Hepreseptative Strong,
republican, Kansas, that there had been
unnecessary delays in the: negotiations
of loans by the board were denied' by
Governor Cooper, who insisted that the
board would be amply able to take care
of every legitimate demand made upon
it without using more than half of the
fund it had appropriated.
Country banks remain outside the
federal Reserve system, Mr. Powell tes
tified, because they would receive no
interest on thpir deposit should they
Join that system and also because they
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THIS I^ERTAINLY NO TIME TO BE DOWNHEARTED
[ resented what they considered attempts
l to coerJre theni Into agreeing: to the par
| collection of chtfcks.
He urged the committee • to hold
meetings outside of Washington so as
to get In touch with country bankers
and to make every possible effort to
impress upon them the benefits which
would come by joinlngjjie system. New
York banks, he asserted, are paying
| salaries as high as $25,000 to men
whose bvjginess it is to induce bank
to remain outside.
Mr. Marsh said there was a genera
belief among country bankers tha
many of the disasters suffered by thi
farmers in recent years had been large
ly due to the federal reserve system
Mr. Atkinson brought to the attentioi
of the committee what seemed to hin
■ improper methods used by the systen
I to force par collection of checks.
Shot from Guns
Wheat and Rice grains steam-exploded
—puffed to 8 times normal size.
Airy, flaky, flavory morsels.
No cereal dainty ever
served compares with wheat
and rice grains puffed.
The food cells are exploded.
Over 125 million steam ex
plosions are caused in every
kernel. Thus whple grains
arft made wholly digestible.
Old and young irfevel in
Puffed Grains. They eat
them morning, noon and
night—with melted butter,
with cream and sugar, in
bowls of milk. r
Thus they get whole-grain
nutrition—the minerals, the
vitamines,the bran they need.
And they get them in food
confections.
The way to tempt all ages
to whole-grain foods is to
serve them in this fascinat
ing way.
Quaker Quaker
Puffed Wheat Puffed Rice
Pennsylvania Anthracite Briquette
DOMESTIC LUMP, POCAHONTAS LUMP
POCAHONTAS STEAM COAL V
Lime, Cement, Plaster, Laths, Etc.
Cypress and Red Cedar Shingles, Roofing, Etc.
W.B. THORPE & GO.
Warehouses: Corner Water and Ann Sts_Phone 789 ,
1 Fall Schedule
SUBURBAN LINE
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•Daily except Sunday. _
SPECIAL SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAYS
Cars leave Front and Princess every
30 minutes from 8:15 A. M. till 7:15 P.
M., and leave Beach every 30 minutes
from 9:30 A. M. till 7:30 P. M.
FREIGHT SCHEDULE (Daily Except
Sundays)
Leave Ninth and Orange streets 9:45
A. M.: 3:16 P. M.
Leave Beach, 11:30 A. M.: 4:30 r. M.
Freight Depot open daily, except
Sundays, from 8 A. M. to 12:30 P. M,
and from 1:30 to 6 P. M.
SUNDAYS
Leave 9th and Orange streets 11:13
Leave Beach 12:30 P. M.
Freight Office open 10:15 A. M. l»
11:15 A. M.
TIDJ5 WATER POWER COMPANY
ATLANTIC COAST LINS
Depart. irrlre,
Effective July 1, 1923
•8:40 A.M..Raieigh. & North.*12:45 AM.
1:80 A.M...South & Weat.. 11:40 P.M.
Sleeper to Columbia Open 10 P. M.
8.15 A.M._ North . «:05P.M.
8:80 A.M... Fayetteville .. 8:00 P.M.
8:30 P^l.. .South & .West.. 12:50 P.M.
Sleeper to Atlanta..!
18:00 P.M. ...New Bfern ... 112:40 F.M.
8:30P.M..,.. Southport ... 12:50 A.M.
t6:30 P.M... Fayetteville .. tll:05 A.M.
|7:00 P.M. North . 9 9:45 A.M.
JSleepers, between Wilmington and
Washington, Wilmington and Norfolk
and Cafe Car between Wilmington and
Rooky Mount.
•Daily to Goldaboro. but does not run
to Richmond and Norfolk Sunday.
tTuesday, Thursday, Saturday only.
IDaily
For Information, Phone 160.
SEABOARD AIR LENE
Depart. Dally. Arrive
1:00 A.M. Charlotte _12:25 A.M.
Sleeper to Charlotte Open 10 P.M.
8:10 AM. Wil-Ruth’fordtoh 5:35 F.M.
1:40P.M..... Charlotte ... .12:20F.M.
Parlor Car to Charlotte
For Farther Information, Phone in
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