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jfHE WILMINGTON DISPATCH, THURSDAY AFltRNOON, MARCH 2 1 ,1918
Published ;
DAILY ANDSIJNDAY
g - DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO.
V W. BCooier
I ' W. E. Lawson, Editor and Gen. Mgr.
1 , T -W. N, Keener,. ,
.President
Gen. Mgr.
.Associate Editor
LABOR'S WAR.
This ia labor's war. No elegient -of
the people of this country, or of other
countries, would suffer more' than"" the
worker from . a German victory a
German peace. .
What the Germans mean by a
"strong' peace, a. "German peace,''
was recently expressed by Ten. .Von
Liebert, a leading Prussian conserva
tive. "For us there is but one principle to
and we recognise no
TELEPHONES:
" Aral liamrW Offlftfe. ......... 4.41
Artvprtisinff Dena.rtment.... 17$ be followed.
Circulation Department.... 176 other. We hojd that might is right
L Marssing Editor.,..,.... We must Know neither sentiment.hu
.Cit Editor
"FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE.
manity, consideration, nor compas
sion. We must have Belgium and the
i.iruTED gRESS. nrtQ of France. France must be
The Aisreiated Press ta exclusively enti- made to pay until she is bled white.
tied to the ''f!flrtVirtM Mr- Gompers spoke well forvAmerl-
&patcaes credited to it or not rtterwwe - -
.5; in tM inner and also tue lovoi ran labor when he said:
;SeJpSimS "The Republic of the United States
aiao re.8eriiu. is not jperiect, iu uas uie Jtuiyeitet;-
tinni! of Yia Viiiman vii it ic tVi o Kovst
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.?6,,04) country on tne race or tne. eann, ana
$S.00Uh.ose who do not love it enough to
work for it, to fight for it, to die for
Daily and Sunday. .
Daily and Sunday, Six Months
Daily and Snr-Jny, S Months. . .
s v . it, are not worthy of the privilege of
, Utl.lv c - U BIT wnnifc.i;
m:iT and Sunday, per week. .... .lBc living m it
Or When Paid In Advance at Office "Isay to the Kaiser, I say to the
Daily and Sunday, One Year. .jj-jp Germans, in? the name of the Ameri-
Daily ana mVmS'"' 7 labor movement: You -can't talk
, Dail and Sunday, 3 Months.
Sunday Only, One Year fZ.uu peaco wu iub American womers,
' ... you can't talk to us at all now. We
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Foreian Renresentativea: Umash it fnr vmi
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r-rost, wrecn .u .... ; V" The workinemen of Ammra havfi a
. . m...i vfW AnvurriRina
Avenue, iisv i, r, . . , -
Building, Chicago. " irewcuatius mteresi to serve, a vuai
cause to defend, a work of surpassing
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1918. importance to accomplish. What is
vital to th'em is vital tor America and
The flourist is more popular now to the world. That they see their du
than the florist ty and the great mass of them are per
forming it with unimpeachable loy-
The kaiser-comforters in Congress alty is a cause for congratulation to
r tui bus v. v tne nauon ana to tne woria.
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. Charlotte . Observer: There -are
mighty few Republicans now left in
North. Carolina of the caliber of J. C.
Li. Harris. H. G. Ewart is one and
W. S. O'B Robinson is another per
haps we might drum up 'as many as
half a dozen" in the State but the
men cotemporary with Harris m botb
political alignments, have grown
scarce. "Loge" Harris, as he was fa
miliarly known, flourished during the
days of political giants in the State,
and he was a front-rank figure on tho
Republican side. His relegation be
gan, as did that erf a number of, othur
Republican strong men, with the com
ing into power of the amalgamated or
ganization composed of Populists and
Republicans, an amalgamation which
almost proved fatal to the Republican
party in North Carolina, by reason of
tfi&J&iiling ff from party leadership
activities of men who had proved its
greatest source of strength. With
the sloughing off from this alliance
the Republican party .-found itself
weakened in leadership through .a
novitiated succession, one which mov
ed a number of men of the Loge Hai1
ris stamp to seek voluntary retire
ment, from political activities. Loge
Harris not only had much strengths
as a politician, but he rated high in
the -estimation of the State as a citizen.
Special Values in Friday s and Saturdays'
JeUmg
The warning is sent out that if the
South would eat is must produce.
Asheville Times: That was good ad
vice given by Governor McAdams, of
Richmond, to the assembled Rotar-
ians in , conference. Keep your ears
open for expressions of disloyalty,
said the Richmond leader, apd never
allow a disloyal expression Unless you
resent it. If the Rotarians of Ashe
ville will resent- every suggestion of
opposition to the administration they
will do a large good.
MODERATE INCOME TAX.
Those who ar& somewhat inclined
to protest against the income tax,
thoush this number is eratifvinerlv
Thank goodness there are no Josh g need . . .
uas in Congress to monkey with the Unj.g consideration to realize
SUn. I that thft tY ig lio-ht in r.mnTini
with that levied in the other nations
With LaFolletteism and Socialism involved in ue world wa Ensrland.
running riot in Wisconsin, BOlsheviki fte richest of the Entente nations
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ts not rar Qistani. , nj with fha -at
States the richest nation in the world,
Washington squirrels do not have taxes the. incomes of her subjects far
to worry about food supplies as long more than does the United States
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as Congress remains In session. government, and when we compare
our rate with theBritish we see how
Just because you chew the rag a moderate ours Is.
lot, don't get it injo your head that In England the tax on incomes of
you are aiding food conservation. $1,000 is 4 1-2 per cent, --in America
nothing.
It has been three whole days since in ngiana tne tax on incomes of
We have heard anything about a ship- $1,500 is 6 3-4 per cent; in America
building plant coming to Wilmington, kmg for married men or heads of
families, and 2 per ctent on $500 for
an unmarnea man.
In England, the tax on an income of
$2,000 is -7 7-8 per cent; in America
nothing for a married man or head of
a family, and 2 per cent on $1,000 for
unmarried men.
The English income tax rate, also
increases more ranidlv with the
It. M IT- . i - j.
sruwia oi tne income man ours, a
$3,000 income being taxed 14 per cent,
$5,000 16 per cent, $10,000 20 per cent,
and $15,000 25 per cent, while our
corresponding taxes for married men
are respectively iwo-tmras or 1 per
cent, 1 1-2 per cent, 3 1-2 per cent
and 5 ner cent, and onlv aHchtiv t4o
tt 4 el 44- fhaf oMtiwv a I
u xxxCU for the unmarried, due t th.BVaTl
fuse to wear low-neck dresses but amount exempted, the rate being the
don't care a snap how high their Bnrno
skirts are.
Monroe Journal: "I can't go across
and fight in the trenches, but want to
do my bitl' remarks Capt. T. T. Cap'
hart, when he laid down $1,000 for
the "limit" amount of stamps last
week. Captain Capehart is the first
railroad man to buy a bis: lot of
stamps, but Chairman Morrow is ex
pecting a number of them to I buy $1,-
000 worth of stamps within the next
few weeks. The railroad men are al
ready doing patriotic work, by exert
ing themselves in moving freight, and
by working overtime without any com
plaint. And they will help put the
$700,000 allotment for Union county
across, "too.
Kinston Free Press: Mr. J. E. For
rest, a farmer no Route 2 from Kin
ston, was showirg in the city yester
day an egg laid by what he termed
his "patriotic goose" and which was
of considerable increase in size from
he average goose egg. It weighed
nine ounces, an increase of 50 per
cent, over the average weight of
goose eggs. Mr. Forrest saia tnat
the goose was following the habit of
custom on his farm of increasing the
food supply to help win the war.
Little djops of water
Sprinkled over the land,
Make vegetables grow,
In a bed of sand.
With Daves and Lenroot to choose
from, the Wisconsin voters can't go
so far wrong in electing a Senator
this fall. .
The Kaiser says his heart is with
the German people. Thank, old top,
as we had been wondering just what
; had .-become of, it.
LIBERTY LOAN FLAG.
IN THE NEWS.
Today is the birthday anniversary
of Brig. Gen. George Owen Squler, U,
S. A., the offcier who has, immediate
supervision of the immense develop
roent of the aviation corps of the
United States Army. Born in Dry
den, Mich., in 1865, Gen. Sguier be
gan his military career at tho age of
18, when he entered the West Point
Academy. Settling down to army
.work with his graduation in 1887 he
first joined the artillery, but was soon
shifted to the signal corps, and with
that arm of the service has been iden
tified for the past 20 years. Wlen
aviation began to be a phase of mil
itary equipment he turned his trained
powers upon" the aeronautical prob
lems involved, and of late years has
been steadily fitting himself for his
unforeseen but now strategically val
uable duties.
If Garfield could insert a few heat
i less days along through June, July A new ande distinctive feature will
v and August he might be able to re- be introduced in the Third Liberty
f. ..." town in the country which subscribes
Now thatvthe Turks have been giv- more than its quota of Liberty bonds
n a few more Armenians to njurder, wil1 be awarded. by the Treasury De-
they will not be heard from in other Payment an Honor Flag.
activities of the war for some time. Tbe "a& wlU De 36 inches wide and
54 inches long. The body of the flag
. Thm. TToir' vu b w&ite with a broad red bor-
duced since th reSiat.i of Trnt. der, and three broad blue vertical
tkr iir,!. ty, f-v,., Tit,' stripes denoUng the Third Loan. The
BfTias been "placed on the nension list flags' whicn wiU be of the same ual
for ."Rfirr1r.ft YnArm " Hy s the flags of the Navy, are al
ready being manufactured and will
be awarded as fast as .ffifr right to fly
If those love letters which caused
'the 'arrest of two men and two wo-
men in New Tork as suspicious char.
them is won. Though awarded by
the. Treasury Department, they will
be distributed by the Liberty loan
'aciera wbjb as craznv wrnton ia
Wlove epistles we ca ha ttees of the different districts
blame the secret service men for be-
-. ing ..suspicious. ,
There will also be a "National Honor
Flag tor each State, to be flown at
the State capitol, with the name o
each town winninc a flrtc inrih1 nn.
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VuyWWBB8 -wu.au autu -1133 1 nn it Thoro iU Va o, A
canca iue KMutu. ui newspaner a o- :
mBn Ior xu jhu.ui givjng tnem tional Hon6r Pine with r0nn,H
lhe:tory of the Western drive in ad-Lacn state recorde1 nn .
:yance, in order to prevent the cor. stars, to be r,!
f H town doubling its auota
rf xH?c ur 656, j" u,w wen wiU also be awards &a a a
liLITj...J xa i " -
-ICB (lHltSUSl Vt3 BIUICUICUI, OUlllH. ' I J.1 i x . . ..
.C?Q "i - wonai siar ror eacn time the ouota
is aoubled.
nonor koii, containing the
names of all subscribers, but not the
amount of the individual subscrip
uons, will be kept in each communi
ty A window card, bearing a repre
sentauon of the. Honor Flas:. will b
given each subscriber to the ioan
f r Via . . - - " ;
v.- ui.iu-.ayea at the home or nlarrf
lot Dusinv,i,
Str- Wiley is advising: the people to
leatipata as- a meian$ of ' conserving
Jffood; vAs' a means of getting rid of
the;cats. the plan might prove effec-
.tfv, but as a mean of increasing the
foed; upply that's where we-rise up
: in; a-inlghty protest. Doc may eat all
lluicat sbwai:iofeiaL there" is
nothing doing here
a$i mek the demand for Fridays and Saturdays
Jpecials nearly took us off out: feet Vks m advertised,
msold and many ladies reaped the reward for shopping
a the $on Marche.
If owelty Sweaters (greatly Reduced
$6.00 Ladies Sweater with sailor collar- White border in "rose, Copen
hagen and green. All sizes, price special at $3.98
$10.00 Ladies Sweater with checked sailor collar and cuffs, belt of
same, special at ...... . . . ... .-j. . . . . .$8.98
$9.00 Laches' Sweater, two-tone Lace Stitch, Copenhagen and corn,
corn and nile and corn and purple, special at $7.98
$2.00 Spring JVcs Special
at $1.79
This material has been greatly ad
mired this season. It comes in all
colors in charming gingham effects,
36 inches wide. A durable and good
fabric, priced special at . .$1.79
White (gauntlet Chamoisette
(jloves $1.25
This desirable style has been al
most off the market for the past two
years but we have been fortunate in
securing a quantity from a well
known company and are offering
them in all sizes, white only at $1.25
a pair.
idaist Values
The Wirthmir Waist always
sells for $ 1 .00, however, we could
easily say it was a $1.50 waist,
special for $1.00, because you can
not find a waist under$2.0O that
will compare with it. Three ship
ments came in just about the same
time, giving you twelve new styles
to select from.
Don't be afraid of the Wirthmir
Waist because the price is so
cheap, the quality is there and we
ask you to inspect them. . . .$1.00
Georgette- Waists in white and
flesh in all sizes, our price special,
for two days selling, at . , . $3.98
Cfhe Wanted Silk j$QSeQt
Special prices
Most stores when they offer silk
hose in special prices -do not put
in the most desirable numbers. V
believe when a thing is worth ad
vertising it is worth giving a real
bargain.
Mxat- tViraorl oilL- L " 1
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bronze, gray and champaign in a!i
sizes, $1.50 value, specially priced
for two days only, a pair . . . $1,39
One assortment of black and
white silk hose with silk top and
foot, all sizes, special at . .$1.59
$1.75 fancy silk hose, gray with
four color stripes in bright shades
This season s goods, all sizes, price
special, per pair ... ... .$1.33
Children's White socks in all sizes,
a special buy, made a long time
ago. These socks are the equal of
those generally offered at 35c a
pair; being highly mercerized and
nicely finished, in white only.
Price special, a pair 25c
guy war savings
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A Daily Lesson In History.
1818 A company to supply gas for il
luminating purposes was form
ed fn Edinburgh, Scotland.
Seventy-five Years Ago Today.
1843 Robert Southey, English poet
laureate, died. Born August 12,
1774.
Fifty Years Ago Today.
1868 Court of impeachment complet
ed all preliminaries for the trial
of President Johnson.
Twenty-five jYears Ago Today.
1893 The Mayor ;of Moscow was as
sassinated by a Nihilist.
One Year Ago Today in the War.
March 21; 1817. President Wilson
summoned Congress to meet in extra
session "to receive a communication
by the executive on grave questions o
national policy. Russian forcesveross-
ed the Persian border into x Turkish
territory
NEW YORK LETTER
(Special Correspondent to The Dis
patch.) New York, March 21. Chemin de
Fer had plucked a lot of fine gamb
ling birds in New York as the dis
trict attorney's investigation in re
vealing daily. No one seems to know
who introduced the game to Broad
way. Wilson Mizzner, Broadway's
most famous wag, denies he brought
it with him from 'France.' He did say
however, he played it in infancy.
Chemin de Fer literally translated
is "road of iron" and in lower cir
cles it is called "Railroad Jack." Miz
ner amused all New York by his tes
timony. He also showed he was not
a professional gambler for he said "I
won" in speaking of his winnings.
Any professional would say " I win
35 bucks." The professional, who does
not say "I win" when using the indi
cative mood, first person, past tense,
loses his union card and is kicked
into the amateur claBS.
"Mr. Mizner" said the district at
torney, "How many played in the
game you were in at the Ritz-Carl-ton"
"Two Cbristians-nd a number of
others" was the snappy rejoinder.
Mizner blamed the street .cleaning
department for being called into the
investigation, He said he won 35,000
bucks from a rich German banker.
And a few days later the banker be-
began to pay him doughnuts.
The doughnuts began to pile up in
front of Thia apartment and then the
street cleaning department got busy
to find out what was the matter and
the whole sordid affair came to light.
Mizner by profession is a play
wright. He writes of the underworld
and its habitues. "Ships that Pass
in the Night," "The Greyhounds,"
"The Deep Purple" and "The Only
Law" are a few of his hits.
But his fame as a playwright, al
ways has been somewha t overshad
ewed by the greater literary glory he
achieved when he struck from his
mind the world famous line "There's
one "bom every minute and two to
take him." He is also noted for giv
ing Cartoonist Tad many of his
snappy lines.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT
FUCHS' CASH DEPARTMENT STORES
The week end trading is becoming more and more popular each week. We
have made an unusual display of Spring merchandise. Make up your list of
things needed for Easter. You can get your order filled at our store and save
the difference. Out of town mail orders are filled same day received. Send
us your want list a trial will convince you.
Our Daily Birthday Party.
Major General Hunter Liggett, U.
S. S., born at Reading, Pa., 61 years
ago today.
Brig. Gen. George C. Squier," in
charge of the aviation service of the
l.nited States Army, born at Dry
den, Mich., 63 years ago today.
Samuel P, Capen, member of the
committee appointed to provide technical-experts,
for the ordnance bureau
and signal and engineer corps, born
at Somerville. Mass.. 40 years aco
today. v
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Dr, George E. V'ncent, executive
head of the Rockefeller Foundation,
orn at Rockferd, 111., 5 years ago
today.
Florenz fciegfeld, Jr., well known
American theatrical producer, born in
Germany, 49 years 'ago today.
Jbnny Ertle, promiHeit'-'feantanJ-weight,
born near Vienna. Austria, 22
years ago today.
MILLINERY
DEPARTMENT
. A big shipment of Millinary will
go on sale Saturday -all new styles
of nifty and attractive looking hats.
Our Milliners will deem it a privilege
to show you without obligation to
buy. Theyare expert inthis line, and
will see that you get properly fitted.
We will show a .big line from $2.98
up.
Disciples of Blackstone are desert
ing the down-toVn business district.
Even the ethical and conservative
.lawyers are joining the exodus. Be
cause city hall Is down town was the
main reason for them staying on the
lower end of the island. Not so many
years ago for a man to have an
office uptown when he belonged to
the legal profession almost classed
him as a shyster. The reasoning was
illogical but tbe prejudice has been
wiped away. Many of the lawyers, are
now establishing themselves right;
around the theatrical disfTTct in the
forties.
In the clubs and cafes where they
discuss peace and . war stocks, the
talk centers about oil. It would seem
that the industrial work recognizes
and the market accepts the fact that
the country is entering an age, of oil.
By good fortune and perhays by the
application of wisdom, oil has es
caped government control in the de
tail of price fixing, The market par
pers make it plain as,a gamble the
oil Issues are favored.
DRY QOODS DEPARTMENT
We have a most complete stock of Dry goods. A new shipment of Voiles just
in beautiful new spring patterns, for, per yard 20c
36-inch plaid silks, large designs, very high class merchandise, per yard . $1-98
Special for Saturday, Spring Voiles 28 inches wide, in floral and plaid and neat
figures, will be sold, per yard only 10c
WHITE SHOES AND OXFORDS
Ladies and Children's white shoes and oxfords, in' a very elaborate line, reason
ably priced. Canvas shoes and pumps from the smallest sizes up! ' Phone us or
send us your rhail order.
.Gents Clothing and Furnishings
Through the effort of good buying, we are in a position to
sell you a good wool suit for. $17.50
Special for Friday and Saturday, 25c men's sox in black,
navy anci tan, pair .......'.. 19c
Men's shirts in soft and dress styles from .... $75c to $7.50
Merits oxfords and shoes, snappy good wearing footwear,
...... $3.50 to $8.00
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