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ST6 f -1, V .. . " is. .-'jk 1 1-' -r. ..L K --"1 iiRAGE-EQUR. THE WILMINGTON-DISPATCH r PUBLISHED DAILY, AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUBLISH INGfCO. TELEPHONES Business Office ...... Editorial Rooms . ..176 ,. 205 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP 8 MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION. ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON- ; -Of The Wilmington Dispatch P1Ushea Daily and Sunday at Wilmington, N. C, for 1 October 1st, 1916. T State of North Carolina, s . County of New Hanover, ss. V : Before me, a Notary Public in and for k: 1 the State and county aforesaid, personally i appeared W. id. Lawson, no, having been i v , duly sworn according to law, deposes and j- ' says that he is the Business Manager of 7 The Wilmington Dispatch and that the foi- lowing is, to the best of his knowledge and ;i" belief, a true statement of the ownership, A management (ami if a daily paper, the cir- - culation). etc., of the aforesaid publication a for the date shown in. the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and - " Regulations, printed on the reverse of this .. form, to-wit: , 3 That the names and addresses of the v. publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers-are: Publisher, Dispatch Publishing Co., Wil mington, N. C. Editor! Jas. H. Cowan, Wilmington, N. C. -Managing Editor, W. E. Lawson. Wil- " Business Manager, W. E. Lawson, Wil mington, NL C. , o That the nvncrsi re: Disnatch Pub- HahiTiP' Comrmnv a comoration). Stock- holders (holding one per cent, or more of total amount of stock) : Thos. W. Davis, w. B. Cooper, W. E. Lawson. Thos. E. Cooper; James Owen Reilly, all of Wilmington. 3. That the known bondholders, mort gagees, andother security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: American Bank and Trust Co trust 4. ' That the two uaragraphs next above, giving theVnames of the owners, stockhold ers, and security holders, if any contain not onlv the list of stockholders and securi tv holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholders or security holder appears upon thv books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name . of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements em bracing affiant's knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securi ties in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner: and this affiant has no reason to believe that any- other person, associa tion, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or oth er securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the ,average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise. to paid subscribers during tne six montns preceding the date shown above is 3.742. W. E. LAWSON, ' " Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of October, 1916. Seal. JAS. H. TAYLOR. Notary Public. ' My commission expires Feb. 15, 1917. Entered ?vt the Postofflce In Wilming ton, N. C, as Second-class Matter. Foreign Advertising Representatives: MacQuoid-Miller Co., Inc., New , Tort: and Chicago. After all Charles Evans Hughes. A Jffzzle--th'e "'soda water fountain. f - --. I : - w m - " I Time draweth nigh when one will Si have to have coal cash. .: ; Frequently a tale of woo turns out Vi to be a tale of. woe. "Hughes to Make a Whirlwind Tour." Mostly wind, we suppose. -f;! Oh, if -some folks would only do 5 things instead of people. 'Carload of Phonographs" goes an advertisement. That brings on more ltalk. "S It seems that such a chilly running mate as Mr- Fairbanks can't even make Mr. Hughes keep cool. I '. is Some ball in Boston yesterday, but also SOME bawl at Shadow Lawn, fellow-citizens. vj'--- About the -only way they seem .to be able to make Germany take water ' ' is with the submarine. Hughes will, whoopup and Wall Street will cough-up, all in a strenu ous effort-to beat Wilson. Too few young people appreciate - r that , the march of time is-really a 1 run. . The arnica market should certainly .fe'7be stimulated by the advent of the .jv, football season. iV Berlin says the British "tanks" are r - .failures. According to the prohis. j -' - yAmerican tanks are always failures. The "jint" debate in the Sixth dis- VVtrict between Godwin and McCaskill instead of being elevating is rather "7w"iellevating. Another war loan is to be made by -America. An heiress of this country ;-"V-is to marry an Italian prince. - --;r' ' " s - .: .: V : That nipth inning of yesterday's ' "Cgame for a Xmentai anguish made po ".'"'JltlcaJ suspeiise seein like solid com iiJ lor t-1 . . Yet a wee while and the price of - ' f'hnttAn1 will Drobably be ble to per- A. - j :: :sonally find out whether or, not Mars "-i-la, inhabited, s .- . : ' ' Yes, 'indeedy, the chap who de- ' " V.jiiirijtt "bolitifesi make strange - s - tl'bedfeliows sure had the right dope : Vrrnn. shakihe fists ateach other; v" '.'-.m-ei DnMsovoit have . gone to losses.'- " ' " . - i dBlflWlTlMia , To a , Durham :x audience Reprepenr franklv' ad-? tntire Claude - Kitchin rrdttPd that he had swallowed .his ferences with the President and was enthusiastically supporting him. It was a manly utterance, and nothing iHctin,. or inconsistent. npmocrats differ with Mr. Wil-!is son as to certain things, but tnese are minor in comparison with ;he accord that of the "greatest good for the greatest number. It is but tragic to allow not only foolish, minor differences to separate people on the big issues ;Xf the day. In mak ing the measurement of a jnan's ca pability to hold office, and as no man has reached the perfection stage, the test" must be merit against demerit, asd .surely Mr. Wilson's merit out weighs his demerit. Why should any man, because he does not agree to all details of the army bill or believe in all the ramifi cations of the navy measure, or be cause he doesn't like the naming of Bill Jones as fourth class postmaster at Crossroads Corner, lose sight of the glory of the country out of war, the Federal Reserve act, the rural credits system and the many other big deeds and vote against Wilson? Simply because a citizen does not be lieve the eight-hour legislation was the correct thing, why should he for get the many benefits of the Wilson administration and fail to realize that Mr. Wilson averted a great nation wide calamity by his railroad legis lation, or be oblivious to the fact that the railroads have not yet been injured (railroad stock has gone up since that memorable time" in Septem ber) and, in a frenzy of rage, in hys terical forgetfulness, commit suicide? Why should the masses fall out over small differences when the Wall Street gang is forgetting them in order to massacre the people? Why should the common folks lose con trol of reason and fail to pull to gether merely because of slight dif ferences, when Roosevelt and Taft are' shaking hands, Bill Flynn and Boies Penrose are slapping each other on the back, Bacon and Calder are smiling at' each other, George Perkins is helping to elect Hughes and Giff. Pinchort is willing-to take a chance on retrogression, in prefer ence to assured progression, in order to wallow in the Federal feed trough and" deny the people? Why, fellow citizens, why? THE DRAFTING OF LABORhKS. NEGRO The , Dispatch yesterday afternoon containedaii article Irom its Wash ington correspondent citing the'seri- ousness of the drafting of negra la borers of the South, a grave problem being presented for the cotton andj tobacco growing States. Renresen tative Bent, of Montgomery, Ala., was quoted as declaring that the "black belt of Alabama has been stripped of a large number of farm hands." Nat-' urally, this has caused something of a problem. Yet this shortage would only be temporary but for the fact, according to Mr. Bent, that there is a sequel in that most of the negroes be come dissatisfied with conditions up North and come ba,ck. When they re turn they are out of funds and have to be assisted, which places a burden on the Southern people. Mr. Bent adds that the better element of the negroes realize the inadvisability of migrating to the North. No doubt the drafting of negro laborers- is causing a big problem in the. South, but we are much of the opinion of Representative Bent that the better element of the negroes realize they are better off in the South. No doubt, in the rural sec tions and among some in the cities worthy negroes, who are easily influ enced, may be lead away by the plausible tales of the labor agents who come from the North and whose only object is to induce them to go to other fields so they (the agents) can earn their pay. But this faith on the part of negroes worth while is largely on the wane, and we 'believe (it will be found that most of the ne groes who are going to other fields are the worthless brand. ..Sev eral thoughtful Wilmington citizens, whose business has lead them amid scenes where they could take' cog of conditions, found that it was only the worthless class of ne eroes who are leaving this city; that those worth while realize that underneath the sugar coating of the. words of the Northern labor agent is the bitter, and turn a deaf ear. So Wilmington is probably well off in this way, after all. Surely it must be ' admitted that Wilmington would be beter . ,off . if. the shiftless type found other climes in which to loaf and hatch up devilment during their i - ' '' idle hours. The - serious problem is that cited by the Alabama-Congressman. 1 b p . -" the burden of the return of the shiftmen the milk of hum?n less negroes strapped - and absolute - ly dependent upon both whites .'and tbose. worthy ones of ' their ownrace Of course the remedy to be applied when such a class wanders back Is to strictly enforce, the, vagrancy, laws. L.vi. tt ? t VbThS 'A-trasedV.U - s v ar?g , mm m inr - fv f-, tfv . v 51-. I ; ', BfflTt'and. his wife Have partea. vv iclS JS V.4 S II? J I Wl HI W li M 7 r; ? JL JLJLX.N: -U- KJF dcrnot -know who "Watermelon Biir dif-'.is, -nor does the tittle tend to, bririg serious thought. Yet, there w ,w edy written d,eep to the story, ,On of. the Durham papers tells,;. that "Watermelon Bill," whose real . name W. A. Perrell, white, and his. wife have agreed to separate after a mar ried life of twenty years and wedlock that begot fifteen children. V The mu follows Drocedlngs (for "a divorce instituted by the wife, who admitted sixteen years of.happy life; not life xwherein she reveled in luxury yet, why should luxury be a necessary ingredient to happiness but' four years ago the trouble started and'e; treated her cruelly. A divorce suitfbilowed, and now the mutual -separation. So Mr. Ferrell will go one way and Mrs. Ferrell another. After twenty years of married life, after' hav ing struggled with-s the raising Of eight hcbildfen and mingled their tears to gether by the bier of seven others, they ar to separate. The musty pages of time may con tain as strange a happening, but cer tainly none sadder. It is tragedy as great ; as enacted on battlefield or presented in some murderous brawl. One of the sweetest sights in life is to behold a cojiple, that has been mar ried for many years, still the same old sweethearts; one of the saddest Is to see a comradeship of many years broken by the grave. As husband and wife grow older that is when they need each other's companionship more. After having fought life's bat tle side-by-side there is no peace that can surpass, no happiness that can go beyond that of each other's company. So it is one of life's greatest sorrows when the Grim Reaper separates folks of this kind; one of. life's deepest tragedies when the hand of man does so. "Watermelon Bill" may possess a name that ordinarily makes a person smile and his wife may not have pos sessed the silks and satins of the "grand dame;" their life may have been so ordinary as not to attract ven passing notice, but when, after twenty years of married life, they separate, j they add to life's sorrows and wet the pages of history with tears WHEN THE BOMERANG HIT. By entering suit against Chairman Vance McCormick for libel, Mr. Jer emiah O'Leary but adds to his dilem ma, and demonstrates that though not in retreat and still in com mand of his voice, he is in utter con fusion. He is. merely making his plight worse- and iafparttng strength to the Wilson campaign. It was Mr. O'Leary who, in his re joinder to the President's reply, after havine initiated the telegraphic meth- 1 r i J cnmshnilv OI Wal lill C, UUtlBlCU OUUUl ouuiuuu; i not being brave enough to make the charge to his face, and yet the country liOw finds him resorting to the libel suit. This is especially strange as Mr. O'Leary has been decidedly belli cose in his demeanor and words. He wanted the United States to (walk around with a chip on its shoulder and if the chip was not even swiped at to fight, anyhow. Yet, now he has resorted to the courts. Verily, Mr. O'Leary's cutlass seems to be but a bodkin, fater all. There is a strange thing about the O'Leary procedure, too; one that car ries a moral with it, as well. The gentleman threatens to sue the Pres ident for libel. In this is presented double contrast. Mr. Wilson was most liberal in his construction of free speech. Not for one instance did he attempt to bridle Mr. O'Leary's tongue, but just the moment that re partee became too much for the lat ter gentleman he showed disposition to lash free speech to the mast and hit it with a tarred rope. Contrast No 2 Is found as the position of Pres ident Wilson is an exact reversal of that of ex-President Roosevelt, who, when attacked by criticism, had sev eral newspaper publishers haled in ta court. Of course, the courts could not make American liberty subservi ent to Roosevelt's spleen, so the cases were dismissed. The moral is plain: Free speech, a sacred American prin ciple, is not safe in the hands of the Republicans. The Republican campaign commit tee has just tabooed a harmony but ton presenting pictures of Roosevelt, Huglies and Taft. Fie! Nothing more touching could haveHteen presented. Not even the framed motto, "Home, Sweet Home," swung on the wall of the house where hubby takes a crack at wifey with a plate and wifey re turns the" compliment by hurtling a ' flat-iron at hubby's cranium, could be more appealing and inspiring. The trouble in New York has pot Tbeen due tcTthe cows not doing their , xmaness. j. Newports certainly appear to ' h Tmerican market cornered .uin the limelight with Ger. t . . . . . , , r " retard his or Rfihderte are oleasinir in in th6 most aesiraoie siyies oi mi "STANLEY" MANLEY All , Wool Blue Serge Suits, sizes 6 to 18 years, made in the Norfolk, pinchdd back, and belted styles, - patched pockets and plenty of them priced at $2.98, $3.50, $5.00, $6.50, $7.50 I THEFIGHT AT KINGS MOUNTAIN. In memory, preserved by the hand of the historian and kept fresh by the admiration and loyalty of generations that come and go, a great battle, the turning point many claim of the Am erican revolution, was lived again yes terday in North Carolina. Just one hundred uk frty.-six years ago yes-, terday North Carolina soil was the scene of the great battle of. Kings Mountain, and so yesterday the anni- I V til Oai J wo c nnrft mure tcicuivw Indeed, it was fittingly ousei vcu terday as the Governors of Virginia and North Carolina met and vied with each other in mingling their tributes It was appropriate and well, as it was the mountaineers of thesa two great commonwealths who, on the morn ing of October 7, 17S0, lead by Wil liam Campbell, surrounded General Ferguson's force" of eleven hundred men, trying to fofm a juncture with Cornwallis. Dismounting at the foot of the hills, they picked their way. from rock .to rock?. historians tell the world, and attacked the .invaders. The entire British command was either killed or captured. Thus was Corn wallis forced to turn back, when a juncture with Ferguson would have been a great menace to -the cause of the colonists. twin zfL&Btoie. or M -rarrMtf.g-B - - Jl II Siclde Pears, Apples, Lem ons, Cranberries, Potatoes. Carload Gibbons New Hamp shire Potatoes, also car York Imperial Apples from West Virginia expected about Octo ber 10th. Tust received nice lot Florida Limes and Porto Rico Or anges. We carry in stock a com plete line of Caridies, Penny Goods and in Pails. Send us your orders. ' BEAR PRODUCE & MERCHANDISE, CO.,. Wilmington, N. C. Phone progress with his class work. School Suits looks, fit and fabric. Avery nice assortment of All Wool grey, brown, and blue mixtures. In the most desirable styles, each one designed for hard usage during the school months. Priced $2.00 up to $8.00. sizes 6 to 1 8 years. 615 North Fourth Street. Car Fare Refunded on Purchases of $2.00 An addition to human suffering must be realized when one beholds in the newspapers cenes on countryroads around New York when milkNis be ing dumped on the ground by the in furiated dairymen, and then reads how mothers clamored, and in ya.in, at New York milk stations for the fluid necessary to the health, in many cases, no doubt, life of their babes. It would seam that human despair crows greater, but for the spread Christianity. Back of all laws that bring better conditions must stand Christianity to make people realize clearer and better; to have lawmak ers create that which will give the fullest protection to the people; who will not quibble over State or Feder al rights when life is in the balance; will not tarry to bow and scrape while chaos reigns and human existence is propelled towards the precipice. IIIIUllllllllllllllllllIUIlllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIillllillHIIIIIIIIIIlHIIII; J B. iyicCABE &CO., Certified Public Accoun- tants. - 1 Kcon 815 Mureblwm Bank Bid. j rbone: 096. WILMINGTON, N. O. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiii""!""111""11111 i J 323. :;, imperative vow boy should be d so that his appear vill measure up to that classmates his clothes some extent promote for Boys are of Designed for hard wear and make wuui myup, SCHOOL SHOES FOR BOYS. We recommend the Logan and Welton Shoes for Boys . school wear. Every paid designed for the greatest ; - am oiint: of wear combined with style and comfort to the boy $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3. or Over. of! I 'k 111 Ira 55J5JJ55 "iupoL j or a generous truri tube o U.i exceptional oo",P'; ' uTklMT and yoir dealer's name to Vlvaudou. Dept. S. TImea Building. New York. N. Y. Clothes of Character Are "High Art" Clothes J. M. Solky & Go. One Price Clothiers and Furnishers. No. 9 North Front Street. supporting fttr-AJ mi BRAoalEl graceful line They are the nable come ...m,mi.,i.mm..mi..n.ii.niiiiiiiriiiiniHiiminn.m W6 'carry the same high class of canned and bottled goods as the down . town Stores, and if you will ask for our prices, we can save you money. No high over head expenses. Good reason; Isnt it? THOMAS GROCERY COMPANY,, Inc. JL SISt USUUMWllbU BUSINESS READ ere it the kind that FREE FREE A good strong 2-bladed pocket knife given Free with each school Suit or pair of shoes bought at REHDER'S igflisiiinilil When men and young men weary of clothes that bear itereotyped stamp of "just clothes" they buy suits and over- coats with the "High Art" label. They Characterize good taste In dress and are always ex ceptional values for their price. , Beautiful Bust and Shoulders are possible if you -will wear a scientifically constructed Bien Jolie Brassiere. The draggine weight of an unconfined bust so stretches the muscles mat ine contour oi me nfare a bjw-- fut the bust' back where it be ongs, prevent the full bust from having , the appearance of flal- hinssa liminatA thi danrer Oi rs r xQ LEE) dragging muscles and confine the flesh of the shoulder giving H to the entire upper "body. . g daintiest and most serviceable garments iniaRi- g in all materials and styles: Crowi Back. Ioi'K a Front, Surplice. Bandeau. etc Boned with walohn, rustless boning permitting washing without removal. Have yonr dealer show you Bien Jol ie Brassieres. If not stock ed,, we will gladly send him, prepaid, samples to show you. BENJAMIN Jc JOHNES, 51 Warren Street, Newark. N. VJWl -BMa u&.M vhuiv" SPECIALS 3 - hakingana with due another. XL