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Entered at the Postoffice in Wilming ton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. Foreign Representatives: Frost, Green and Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, Advertising Building, Chicago. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1918. WILMINGTON AND THE SOLDIERS It is gratifying news to the people of Wilmington, carried in today's Dis patch, that Colonel Chase, command ant at Fort Caswell, has consented to again allow soldiers of the fort the privilege of visiting this city. Some time ago Colonel Chase decided that because of certain conditions in Wil minerton not conducive to the best moral interests of our soldier boys at Fort Caswell, it was best for the sol diers to prevent them from visiting this city. These conditions have now been re moved, and upon the assurance of J. Allan Taylor and a committee of Wil- 1 t f 1 mington pumic spimea men, me sol diers will be allowed to spend the week-end here. The soldiers want to visit Wilmington, because it is the only large city in this secton where they may go for recereation and we need the soldiers in our town. It is, therefore, up to the city au thorities to see that the promises made by Mr. Taylor and his commit tee are fulfilled. Judge Harriss, of the recorder's court; Solicitor Burton and Chief of Police Williams have a duty to perform, and the good people of the town have a right to expect them to perform that duty without fear or favor. If the city authorities are unable to handle the soldiers, they .should admit it and allow Colonel Chase to send military police here to look out for bis men. This has been adopted in most cities where army camps are Io ated and has. worked well. At Peters burg, Va near Camp Lee, the mili tary police are seen throughout the city and they have worked wonders. Petersburg was confronted with the same conditions that confronted Col onel Chase, and which caused him to deny his men the privilege of visiting Wilmington. Military police are among the best soldiers, and are selected because they have proven their worth and ability to handle men. Their pres ence in Wilmington would not be a re flection upon the police department or any other branch of the city govern ment. They would simply co-operate with the city government in maintain ing order among their own men and relieve the local department of a duty .which they doubtless would be glad to be relieved of. ' ? ' - It is incumbent upon the city offi cials to deal with any situation that may arise from these visits. It is their duty to 1keep the city clean of evil influences. It is also the duty of the visitors to respect the city's ef forts and co-operate in every way pos sible. By working together, most cor- haI. tlnn n will wi-a I . t -.J 1 - tween Wilmington and the fort. If the city can't do Its part, the military autnonties snouia tase a nana, as the, soldiers should not be deprived of the pleasures of these visits. COWAN LOOSENS UP James H. Cowan, Wilmington's in dustrial agent, believes in lett'-ng deeds speak, and he is a hard person for a newspaper man to interview. Al ways affable, easily approached and a most willing talker, he is also as mod est as any convent maid- He will talk about Wilmington, North Carolina, and things in general, but he is nix on the personal publicity stuff. But, a few days ago he made a business trip to Washington, and a Post man got hold of him, with the result that Cowan in a brief interview spoke whole volumes about Wilmington, i It is one of the best things that has been said about this city in a long while, and without asking his permission, we hereby re produce just what the Post quoted him as saying "The distinction of building steel, concrete and wooden ships at the same time," said James H. Cowan, indus trial agent of the Wilmington, N. C, chamber of commerce, at the Raleigh, "is claimed by Wilmington, and this triple alliance is going to result in turning out ships arpidly. At Wil mington, as you perhaps know. Is be ing established the first government concrete shipyard and work upon it is progressing rapidly. If this gov ernmental test proves a success, ac cording to all indications, why, ship building is going to be revolutionized, because ship construction will be eas ier, quicker and really inexpensive. It will not take as long as to build s!ps, the material is plentiful and easy to get and there will be no serious laDor problem, as mostly unskilled labor is required. So that is why the concrete shipbuilding at Wilmington is being keenly watched by the country. "Wilmington possesses another dis tinction, which it is well for the coun try to note, including Washington. The community has found a way of pre venting profiteering. When Wilming ton was decided upon by the govern ment for steel and. concrete 6hip con struction Wilmington realized that there should not be profiteering, so to forestall profiteering a mass meeting of citizens was held and there ringing resolutions were, adopted. Counsel for the United States shipping board emergency fleet corporation responded to the request to, draft an agreement to which the property owner could subscribe, and this agreement obli gates the owners not to go beyond the rates of 1914. Of course, where ex tensive improvements have to be made stipulation is made for an increase in rent, but this is made specific, being fixed in the agreement at a small per cent of the cost "This agreement has already been signed by'a large number of property owners and will be subesribed to by practically all of them. Those who decline will be handled by public sen timent under the glare of the lime light after a special committee, called the 'profiteering committee,' has pass ed on the cases. This committee is a creation of the mass meeting, and is composed of fearless citizens." HUMAN INTEREST SIX SHIPS A DAY The man who can express a real emotion in a, few simple words, or with a few strokes of a pencil, is a true artist That title fits "Briggs," the famous American cartoonist who 13 represented on this page today. Briggs can bring back memories of childhood with a quietly humorous, occasionally pathetic, quick pen-and-ink study of a small boy and his canine pal. He is able to visualize the foibles of hu manity in a condensed sketch based on the minor problems of the day. His series of drawings, under the titles, "When a Feller Needs a Friend, or "The Days of Real Sport" are little black-and-white masterpieces. Through an arrangement with The New York Tribune, just effected, The Dispatch will print a new drawing by Briggs each day on this page. If you are not already familiar with the Briggs stories in pictures, glance at today's illustration and watch his work for a few days. It won't take long to get the Briggs habit SOMETHING IN A NAME The little town of New Berlin, near here, has renounced its Germanic ti tle, and adopted the more American ized one of Pershing. The good citi zens of the town wanted to avoid all appearance of evil, and while their municipal name bore the prefix "New," which took it out of the class of the . j Hohenzollem capital, they thotigbt it best to eliminate all semblance of Germanism. There may be nothing in a name, but the citizens of New Berlin thought otherwise. Over in New Bern there is a street called "German street," and the Sun Journal has called upon the authori ties to thoroughly Americanize the thoroughfare by ridding it of its Teu tonic name. Just what action tne Craven capital will take in this mat ter has not been indicated, but we doubt not that there will be an old street with a new name over there be fore many more moons. There are 819 shipways in the United States. An overwhelming ma Jority of them are completed. Before the end of the present year all will be turning out tonnage fo America's new merchant marine. In his ipeech at South Bend on Monday, Chairman Hurley declared that each of theso ways would complete at least three ships a year. If this estimate is cor rect a total of 2,457 new vessels will be added to the nation's emergency fleet during 1920. That means a production rate of more than six ships every day in the week. In a larger sense, it means that the United States flag will soon domi nate the seven seas. It is safe to pre dict that regular passenger and freight lines will be established between American ports and the principal cit ies of Central and South America, Eu rop, Asia a Africa. A big percentage of the new ship ping, under the direction of the rail way administration, will be detailed to traffic along the Atlantic coast. Wil mington, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville will become important ports. Railroad connections into these cities will be increased and improved. And a great deal of the traffic which. heretofore, has been shipped hundreds of miles over steel highways will be diverted to weter routes. Wilmington will play its part as a builder of ships, and it is one of the few cities that will benefit tremen dously by the combined activities of the 819 shipways that will soon be operating at ful speed. W. B. Cooper hit the nail on the head when he told a Washington newspaper man that when cotton was selling for seven cents the government did not come to the rescue; now with cotton bringing good prices, there is no need for government interference. In other words, Mr. Cooper believes in a rule working both ways. The Greensboro News is strongly in clined to the belief that a search of the Mexican coast will reveal the base of the submarines now operating in American waters. Possibly so. A search in Mexico would likely reveal many other things are are base. A German submarine lias been re ported off Cape Hatteras. The sub or any othe rship taht persists in hanging around Hatteras Is inviting trouble, and if it will only stick around a few days, there will be no use to send warcraft after it. Wonder if the severe fighting on the western front is in any way attributa ble to the fact that the allies are led by a descendant of a race of bull fighters while the Germans are led by a bull thrower The Fourth Liberty Loan By FREDERIC j. HASK1N. ' Washington, t. C June 12: Pre pare for the fourth liberty loan. Since the dust raised by the whirlwind progress of the third one has scarcely had time to settle this may seem premature, but -it is not The fourth liberty loan is , already occupying a large place in the minds of the treas ury officials who will have charge of its conduct and they are generously anxious that the public share their interest In the subject For the tremendous flow of revenue which is necessary to the suport of our war program can be maintained only by the continuous, resolute co operation of the. American people. Three liberty loans have been floated on freshets of patriotic enthusiasm. These have taken up many of the small savings accounts and much of the readily available capital in larger amounts. The future liberty loans will have to consist of money saved expressly for them. It Is the duty of every citizen to determine now how much of his income hg can possibly lend the government, and to lay that amount aside for investment in government securities as regularly as though he were saving it to pay the rent. This method of providing in ad vance for future liberty loans is urged upon the investor by Lewis B. Frank lin, director of the war loan organi zation. f The magnitude of this problem of financing the war is realized only by a few men who have the job in hand. An idea of it may be gained from the facts that the earning capacity of all the people and all the property in the United States is estimated at about .50 billion dollars, that we spent about eleven billions during the first year of war, and will spend over twenty bil lions in the coming year, these figures including loans to our allies. In a word, it will not be long before two fifths of our total national Income will be spent on the war. For every five dollars earned, two dollars must flow through the treasury department. If we are doing our share in the sup port of the war two-fifths of our earn ings must go to pay federal taxes arid to the purchase of United States gov ernment securities. Of course, not every one can do this much, which means that those who have large in comes must do more. A table show ing just how much might be contrib uted from incomes of all sizes in or der to make up a war fund of fifteen billions a year was compiled by one of the great New York banks. Ac cording to this table the man with an income of $850 a year should pay in taxes or lend to the government 9.6 per cent, of his Income; one who makes $4,500 a year should contribute 22.5 per cent., and so on up to the man who draws a million a year, and who should pay 80 per cent of that amount to his government in the form of taxes and. purchases of bonds. Since dur expenditures are already more than fifteen billions a year, all of these percentages would now have to be increased. But the point is that it takes a large part of all the money that all of us can make to keep the war machipe going. What Is not voluntarily loaned to the government by the purchase of bonds and war savings stamps will have to be taken in the form qf taxes. This latter fact makes it especially to the interest of persons of property to subscribe to the liberty loans, for taxation falls more uponjrealth than upon earning capacity. This fact wkj very readily perceived by . the big financiers of the country, who took the tax-free bonds of the first liberty loan In large quantities. The Second lib erty, loan was carried largely by the patriotism of wage earners, while the striking feature of the third was the way In which the farmers responded to It ! The public not only fails to realize the magnitude of this war revenue problem, and the responsibility which: it places upon every citizen, but it: also fails to understand that this foney is only a symbol, that mate rials of industry and labor of men are the things we must save and place at the disposal of the government It the government has a million dollars with which to buy steel, but there is no steel to be had because it is all being used in the making of non essential things, then the paper and coin are worthless for war purposes. That is why war time economy Is such a ral need, and why evrey argu mest for "business as usual" Is a sophistry. Business as usual means manufac turing as usual, and we cannot manu facture all of the non-essential Str.d useless articles which were made during peace time, when twofifth3 of all our materials must be used to make munitions, and two-fifths of all our labor muPt be engaged in making them. That Is why the government through its food administration and its priorities board, has so severely limited the use of al sorts of mate rials for the making of non-essentials. The government now controls all of the steel and all of the wool in the country, allowing to non-war indus tries what it can spare. In like man ner it has limited the use of sugar in making candy, and of grain In making breakjast foods. But the government has no contiol over lh way in -yhich non-war indus tries use the materials allotted to them. The result is that enormous quantities of the most essential ma terials are still wasted in the manufac ture of non-essential articles. This waste must be eliminated by the vol untary co-operation of the merchants and of the buying public. The point may be illustrated by a conversation which took place be tween a treasury official and the man ager of a large department store. This store, like all of the others, is now selling to women enormous quanti ties of summer waists, made of the flimsiest materials, high priced and designed to be worn only a few month The finance expert pointed out to the merchant that this represented in great part a loss which the country could not afford; the material put into the waists and the labor used in mak ing them do not give a sufficient re turn in service. The same is true of women's shoes, which 'navw uppers eight inches high, three-inch heels and thin, papery soles, largely represent ing waste of materials and labor at a time when the government sorely needs both. The merchant replied that women demand these flimsy and costly things, afid that his income would be serious ly curtailed if he did not sell them. "I bought $300,000 worth of liberty bonds," he said. "I could not have done that without' the summer waist trade." "No, but some of the people who paid for the waists could have bought them instead," was the reply. A patriotic manufacturer designed two standard brands of waists, prioe4 at one and two dollars each, called a meeting of department store owners, and proposed that for the period of the war, only these Inexpensive and serviceable garments should be sold. The merchants refused to consider the proposition, explaining that the public wanted expensive and showy stuff, and that therefore they must sell it But the attitude of both merchants and public must change. It has changed in other countries. Belfridge, L 1 V jjjfc MLS1 IMJHKCliD ' CHAPTER XI. Efficiency a Good Word. "You think a lot of that word 'effi cient' don't you, Mary " Carrie asked after a. laugh at Betty's nonsense had restored her good humor. "Yes, I do, Carrie. I think it is the one word we should keep saying over and over. To say, I will be effi cient' and really mean it, makes suc cess, money, sure. Better positions and more responsibility, too." "If you two will excuse me 111 be running along and selling my papers," Betty broke In, "meaning, Miss Mat thews, that I will wend my way to the delicatessen store for a loaf of bread." I was glad to be alone with Carrie. I hadn't finished what I wanted to say, and Betty was bound to butt in and make us laugh. "It is too bad, Carrie," I began, af ter she had left us, that working girls, office girls and stenographers should have to think so much about what they are to be paid. If we could only forget that part of it. If we could stop figuring , on thq i-ay envelope, and -vhen we could ask for or expect a raise, and just devote all our thoughts to our work it would soon make a big difference to us. and to our employers. But I toll you, Carrie, w eall think too much of the wages, and not enough of the job. Not that it is any harm to want all we can get, bui it is putting wages before service that spoils our work. I am sure that women like that Misa Greer never thought of her pay until she knew she more than earned it even at the time those m;n said she thiew herself oit of work In the mid dle of winter. You see she really knew she was efficient And that is everything. I am only just beginning to realize, Carrie, what that means. To feel that 1 can grasp things with out an explanation; that I have be gun to develop my own initiative be fore it was just plain hard work. I don't mean to lecture, but lately $ have been thinking a lot about these things." Betty and the Hunchback, "I've brought company, girls," Betty called, pushing a child into the room before her. "Run on in, sonny! No one will eat you, don't be afraid." To my surprise it was the same lit tle hunchback whose back I had rubbed five years before when I first landed in New York. He recognized me also and said with his .queer, twisted smile: "Did it bring you luck?" I had seen the little fellow sev eral times in the meantime, and no matter how poor I was I always man- j A. f m agea 10 give nun a nicuei. i "Yes, I think it did," I answered, then followed Betty out into v to hear how she had fouS why she had brought him ho7' I was biiviTio- v. v j he was watching me through thV dow. I saw him, and Marv", h w' hungry- I ain't foreot w t'J00 srn-n- ach used to yell for grub, an aS irntll T wan all nnvi j . not have none. So I jU5t askedV he was hungry, and he said: bet so I brought h'.ra along." While we were getting the bo. something warm to eat his biz looked longingly toward a box r! candy Mr. Laniard had eiven n-. the night before. 36 '7 "Help yourself, sonny rn good on a hungry stomach, but never xuiuu. uave laKing vavs wVse.f sometimes when there's soatr, sweet around." " "'" The Three Room Flat Recedes "Say, Mary and Carrie," Betty 'b. gan, after the boy was seated bef0-9 a steaming bowl of cereal. "I have -0 have that kid selling paper$r Don't you suppose if he was in one of them hospitals for crippled children we resd about in the paper the other dav might get his back straight?" "I'd like to know how you propo to get him there," Carrie replied "Those places are expensive." ' "You forget. Miss Newton, that von are talking to Miss Astorbilt when you speak to me. Far be it from lit. tie bright eyes to let a ,:tie thig like expense keep her from doir what she wants to. Ain't we the bloa ed millionaires since I've been work", ing for grandpa. Ain't you, Miss Newton, and you, also, Miss Matthews through taking care of me. Didn't I discharge you when I got a job. Now 1 am going to get you another baby t3 keep. And there he is." "But, Betty" I started to object. Not, that I wouldn't like to help the boy, but our little flat. We could have that and take care of the hunchback, too. "Let's do it!" Carrie spoke so qulcto ly, so earnestly that I started. "I'll work harder if you will. It will do U3 good, Mary, me especially. Then I knew I was right about Carrie. Sha was hungry for affection. So I object ed no further and Carrie, instead ot Betty, went with him to his poor tene ment home and secured his mother's consent for him to come with us until we could arrange for him to go to some hospital. "We'll dress him up nice and clean,'' Carrie said to me. "Then I'll take hint to some free hospital and see if they can help him." Tomorrow AN INCENTIVE TO WORK. (Copyright 1918, by Dale Drummond.) the American who owns the largest store in London, told American mer chants upon a recent visit to the United States, how he had set the fashion in England of wearing service able clothing by Tefusing to sell any other kind. Incidentally, by leading in patriotic methods, he has made more money than ever before. As any unprejudiced observer can tell for himself, an enormous part of all the goods manufactured and sold in this country represents waste. Even many of the necessities of life, as they are made and used, are' class ed by economists as "conspicuous waste." Clothing is a fine example, and the clothing of men is little bet ter in this regard than that of wom en. The silk hat the swallow-tall coat, and the starched shirt, have as Movie of a Certain Kind of Patriot By Briggs It is alleged that evidence of a plot to aid Czar Nicholas to escape from Russia to America has been discovered by Germany. "The fact that Nick wanted to come to America makes that part of the story sound reason able, but the source of the information leads us to believe that there was no yKt at alfc Since the order has. gone forth that female yeomen in the navy must wear cotton hosiery and longer skirts, we look for a decerase In the applications for enlistment in that branch of the service. Von Tirpitz says as soon as the al lies have been driven beyond Paris, the German fleet is coming out of hid ing and wipe the English fleet off the seas. More bull for the hejieflt of the German people, WAR News v VjUHCl I f6A& AB6OT Trto&e UUiOS IAY 8UOP FAIRC.Y tiotLS.' H; Tp. , Xk SotE TmJ " STILL omly had;' a hum BY The MECK IF 1 COOX-O-OMt-V Vo jQMg TH 1 isKS! war fAe V A VAJAU Cl .STAMP L What a BUiY&Hi CIVIUZATIOW ! CAAf OH ,Tb DO:-SOMt--- AFFORD T TODAY" little, excuse for their existence as the French heel ,and the spring bat vrith its , ridiculous crown of foliage and dead birds. These things are not even beautiful. In fact, philosophers assms us that . the continual changing of fashion is .simply an attempt to get away from one type of ugliness by in venting another. This gigantic system of waste arosa , from the need to consume our enor mous production of goods. Since a vast majority of the people earned only a little, and hence consumed lit tle, those who. had money were forced to consume in a wasteful manner. If they did not there would have been a surplus production, labor would have been Idle and business would have stagnated. The war did away with all fear ol such over-production by creating a world shortage of everything, and also by greatly increasing the earn ing capacity, and therefore the buy. ing capacity of labor. The need for "conspicuous waste" to preserve the balance of Industry went out of exist' ence overnight. But the habit c wasting, woven as it is into the so cial fabric, is not so easily killed. What" America needs now is leader ship in sane and simple- living. It i the only thing that can save the bll Hons needed for war purposes, and the material and labor which billions represent A Hero Every Day , ' When the new fleet of destroyers takes to the sea, one of them will bear the name of Kalk. It is named in memory of Lfeutenant .tauntoU Frederick Kalk, U. S. N., who lost bis life that others might live. He was officer in charge of the deck of tne destroyer Jacob Jones, when it was sunk by a German torpedo. After tne explosion, as the men of his ship were endeavoring to get away, Lieutenant Kalk swam from raft to raft, equal izing the load of each, until he diea from exertion and exposure. brave young officer was born m Aia bama, 1894. He graduated from tne naval academy in 1916, No. 51 in class of 178. His mother, Mrs. Flora S. Kalk, lives in Washington, D. u In the News Raymond T. Baker, whose marriage to Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbiit to take place today at Lenox, Mass.. is a young man who has come out u the west and risen to high station ; w national public affairs. Mr. Baker hai from Nevada, where h still has mi ing and business Interests. His fain was a California lawyer, for nan years chief counsel of the Southern. Pacific railway sytem, and his brotne was attorney general of Nevada. mond T. Baker made his first appear ance in public life about four 7 ago, when he went to Russia as seer tary -to the American ambassador Petrograd. Upon his return to 1 country, a little more than a year he was appointed director of tne which position he still holds. n . V :. ".'". J -