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the newfieldS, they wouw proDamy 'fgy 13110 A 00 -rey approximately 1,000,000 tons of new construction to American shipping In By FREDERIC J. HASKIN the last ten months, for it was not un-. til August 3 of last yea that our com jvl mandeering orderwent into effect. We Published DAILY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO. have been content to run along ift the old rut.

Now their products are recognized aa peer of any in the, country and the world is their market place. Verily, the dawn is Just breaking upon the vsouth's furniture city, and the whole state rejoices with it over Its merited recognition. in his cranky little speed plane is a passing phase of the great air game. The coming type of air craft Ut the heavy battle plane, which is as stable as horse and buggy, carries several have also added 118 German and Aus If YOU feel nnv Hm iu.r"' Washington. D.

June 13- What eileet Is the tremendous development of aeronautic; going to have 'upon American industries and ways of life during peace time? This is a faseinating question which is being much discussed among the few men who realize how great a thing our progress In the air has be trian vessels, with a total deadweight tonnage of 730,176. We have requisitioned from the Dutch under men, and is as easily controlled as a drop me, don't hesitate." sll0ull limousine. Our Havlland plane Is of A Bit 0f Human Heart Thank you George, for n' this type. These great airships in PARKER R. ANDERSON President nd General Mntr FRANK P.

MORSE Vlc-rrldnt SIDNEY BIEBER gecretary-Traeurer squadrons of IS to 20 are fighting the the order of the president 86 vessels, with a total dead-weight tonnage of FARMERS' OPPORTUNITY of your father and mother. Bm ouns men frie- aS! war in- the air today, and their development means the development of a come. They are agreed that the work stabel plane which will carry several The market quotatons on potatoes, I of 50 years of peace time has been done in three or four of war; that the What did you think. 526,532. In addition we have chartered from neutral countries 215 vessels, with an aggregate dead-weight tonnage of 953,661.

This tonnage, togeth TELEPHONES; passengers the kind of a plane we will use In peace time. stopped embarrassed. 'vnt 1 modern airplane is the highest JGeneral Manager's Oflce 44 CHAPTER XLI An Incentive to YVbrk Carrie did as she said and took Jack Holmes that was the litle hunchback name to the hospital. The surgeon told her that he could be greatly helped, if not cured. But that it would be a long and tedious process, and even if done thru a charitable society It would be rather expensive that is expensive for us.

Carrie had told the lipndly surgeon that we Jfyere just working girls. But we agreed to pay so much a month for him, and he was taken Into a sort of hospital home for crippled children. You wouldn't have known Carrie. was the kind of fellow thar 1 Advertising Department 11 76 The experts say that the thing really er with the vessels which we have Circulation Department 1 176 needed to make civilian flying safe is on taking up a girl's time and T0 ing nothing, I hope. I know that achievement of man's mechanical genius; that in our aeronautical training school thousands of young men, tfho will be the leaders of the rising a system of landing fields Most of Managing Editor.

44 kJity Editor ..205 lots of such felloe 91T! wouldn't have blamed you if vou 1 generation, are gaining a conscious the accidents are landing accidents, and many of them are due to the fact that the aviator has no good place to FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. mougnt me one, too." mastery of the air; and tnat a great MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS No, George, I thoueht Industry, with varied ramifications, land. Of course, there is also danger The Associated Press is exclusively enti Nellie Rand." has been created. of falling if the engine goes wrong, tled to the use for renublicatiou of all news The peace time uses of the airplane It was out at last, I had Rw v. just as there is danger of going into my heart; that I cared enough tAm dispatches credited to it or not otherwise (credited in this paper aad also the local bews oublished herein.

All riicbts of re. the ditch if the steering gear of an All her Ustlessness was gone. She now furnishes interesting figures for farmers, especially is eastern! North, Carolina, the more interesting at this time because it is the season for putting out sweet potato crop. A report. by a leading northern dealer quotes sweet potatoes at from $2.50 to $2.75 per bushel, fifty cents and more above the price of the standard white potato, which has been the object of a great deal of attention ny truckers In this section of the state.

As The Dispatch in a former article stated, there is an unlimited field of opportunity in growing sweet potatoes. The-expense and labor of cultivation is not as much as many other crops, and the yield is heavy, ranging from one hundred and fifty to four hundred bushels the acre, the lower jealous of another girl. automobile goes wrong; but that dan can be as yet only vaguely foreseen; but it is certain that none of these things will perish, that the technical knowledge, the industrial develop rtyiDHcattoa ot special aispatcnet nerein are Never! She's pretty and jaiso rservea. was talking of what we must do for our little protege and doing all things that before she had re whole cheese. And we sort of Hke BY MAIL: ger Is small in both cases.

If it is somewhat greater in the airplane, that is offset by the fact that theer Is nothing to collide with up in the air no telegraph, poles, pedestrans, nor fused to do. Studying, reading, and ment, and the human sense of conquest over a new element are all per- J- it. run arouna witn tnat sort Harv But I never talked to her, onlv'foow SDally and $6.00 best of all, investigating her work to manent thing. and I never told her what I have iu-t told you about father and motW gaily and Sunday, Six Mouths. pally and Sunday, 3 Month $1.50 Sunday Only, One Year $2.00 see if she could better herself In the position sne now held; or if she had I'm glad," and I was.

It better do as I did and leave. I had learned something more. feel that there was something rf DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Dally and Sunday, per week 15c Cr Whfen Paid in Advance at Office Daily and Sunday, One Year $7.00 Daily and Sunday, Six Months $3.50 umerenc peiween ueorge and That we were on a more intim basis. But, too, there was with ths feeling another. I wished he had asked me to marry him and let me helium take care of his parents.

I waJ Girls alone in a big city, working girls, need an interest in life to make them happy. Carrie could not feel an interest in her work until she bad found this other interest, one that made her work necessary. She had been obliged to leave in the coast-wise and Great Lakes trade, gives us a total of more than 1,400 ships, with an approximate total deadweight tonnage of 7,000,000 tons now under the control of the United States shipping board." To this information Mr. Hurley adds a concise statement of the shipping board's program, It calls for 1,856 passenger, cargo, refrigerator ships and tankers with an aggregate deadweight tonnage of 200 wooden barges, 50 concrete barges, 100 concrete oil-carrying barges and 150 steel, wood and concrete tugs, with a combined dead-weight tonnage of 850,000. There have been commandeered on the ways 245 vessels, with an aggregate dead-weight-tonnage of 1,715,000.

"Five billion dollars," said Mr. Hur-ley, "will be required to finish our program for 1918, 1919 and 1920, but the expenditure of this enormous sum will give to the American people the greatest merchant fleet ever assembled in the history of the world a fleet which I predict will serve all humanity loyally and unselfishly upon the same principles of liberty and justice which brought about the establishment of this free republic. The expenditure of the enormous sum will give America a merchant fleet aggregating 25,000,000 tons of shipping." aily and Sunday, 3 Months $1.75 Our new system of aerial coast guard patrols, for which provision has been made in the current appropriation measures, will absorb a large number of the machines and the skilled aviatirs which the government is now developing. It is not probable that any great number of government planes will be placed upon the market, but oipe will, and these will be eagerly bought up by enterprising men, and used for pleasure and industrial purposes. The greatest force In the developing of peace time flying will be thousands of airplane pilots and mechanics who will be reelased from service after the war.

These men will demand employ Sunday Only, One Year $2.00 of course, ed to tell him so, but, couldn't, so I only said: Entered at the Postoffice in Wilming. created a real interest for her work because of her desire to help little Jack. And she had done another ton, N. as Second Class Matter. thing also.

She had improved her Foreign Representatives: self immeasurably. She had taken lErost, Green and Kohn, 225 Fifth the first step toward her business suc Avenue, New York, Advertising Building, Chicago. cess by showing that she was in earn est to make the most of her job. Another thing I had also learned. ment in their new and asCinating pro fession, and the demand will surely That responsibility and promotion come oftenest to those who are ready create its own opportunities, for the force of a widely felt human desire is for them.

That if we were to succeed after all one of the most irresistible THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1918. we must be dependable: tnen we forces in the world. must make ourselves, necessary. George Harkness Again figure being for poor land and little attention, and the higher being the record under exceptionally favorable conditions. The average, it is stated by ihose in position to know, is at least two hundred bushels per acre.

At the prevailing price, the income from an acre of sweet potatoes would approximate $500, and the cost of securing this return is comparatively small, which should leave a handsome profit. This can easily be multiplied, as the average farmer can readily cultivate a number of acres. The sweet potato as an article of food value stands high, and there are known cases where people deprived of most of the other foodstuffs have livfid several months on sweet potatoes as their principal food; not only living, but having good health and taking on solid flesh. Farmers do not take advantage of this crop as they should. It is not only a source of large profit, but is a valuable foodstuff and Its importance will grow as the war conditions increase.

The farmer who puts over a big crop of sweet potatoes is preparing himself for a rich harvest. The. carrying of mails by air, which has just begun in this country, will WILMINGTON AND "It isn't fair to you, Mary," George curves. In the near future, It is confidently predicted, the map of the country will be dotted with landing fields. Every municipality will probably be compelled to maintain one and there will doubtless be many others in connection with private and commercial hangars.

These will go a long way toward making mail and passenger traffic in the air as safe as on the land. The only other step necessary to bring it Into its own is the reduction of the expense of flying, and that is sure to come. There is no reason why the expense of the production and operation of airplanes should not be reduced as rapidly as it was in the case of automobiles. The place of the airplane in our national life is further assured by the number of industries which are growing up around it. Nearly of these will, after the war, find other uses for their, products, but they will also try in every way to encourage the use of airplanes.

A large amount of money and brains is now engaged in these industries, and moaey and brains always get results. One of these industries is the making of cotton cloth for the planes. Before we entered the war, the allies were using nothing but linen for the purpose. We could not possibly get enough of that material for our own needs. Accordingly the Bureau of Standards was put to work upon the problem, and it devised a cotton cloth made from long staple cotton which seemed to answer the purpose.

Perceiving that this cloth wa sits "best chance" the airplane production board invested several millions in the long staple cotton and set mills to work making the cloth. It proved a great success, and we are now supplying our allies as well as ourselves. The castor oil industry is another. Castor oil is the only lubricant that can be relied upon for use in airplanes. When we started out building doubtless see a rapd develoDment Harkness said to me as we sat in the There are hundreds of out-of-the-way little restaurant having our usual sup places where air mail service is far per after having been to the moYles; more needed than it is between Wash The concrete shipyard of the gov "What isn't fair, GeoTge My ington and New York.

Aerial mail WINS RECOGNITION ernment which is located at Wilming- service, and passenger service, too, voice wasn't quite steady: "For me to keep coming to see you Iton, expects to complete its first way could do wonders for Alaska. The government once asked for bids on a I Jin early July, according to announce when oh, Mary, I'm keepirg other fellows away, perhaps nice fellows who could ask you to marry them contract to carry mail by air in Alas ka, and no bids were made. After the when I can't. "No, you're not, George!" I ex war, with the country full of ambitious young aviators, and many used planes on the market, no such offer will go begging. There are many places in the west which need airplane mail claimed.embarrassed so that I scarely knew what I was saying, and a little "Please don't be any different George.

As I told you, I have nr steady young man. Of course. I go oai occasionally but not often. And I ikt-you better than any," I finish haltingly. "Thank you, Mary." he returae; very soberly, then went on talking things.

But I noticed that night ht held my hand all the time we stood talking on the steps and that hi seemed sorry to leave me. So ahlu I wept a little after I went to bed i was not entirely unhappy. Tomorrow BETTY HAS A PECULIAR EXPERIENCE. (Copyright, 1918, by Dale DrummiiJ Travelette "'T' jrp, Arona. Arona is best known to travelers as the station on the railroad from Milan where Lake Maggiore first bursts into To Italians it is best known foi its plantations of American corn, a novelty in Europe.

Today, Arona is an industrial center, but off in the northeast corner the castle of Angera adds a touch to tie landscape which bespeaks Mediaeval importance. The famous Borromecs-they who produced the Cardinal de Medici who became Pope Pius IV-dwelt in ancestral halls on the outskirts of the village. At the Hotel Reale, a tablet cal attention to the fact that Garibal was a guest there in 1848. That "Arona, Lago Maggiore," Turner's wonderful canvas, was not mad from photographs, can be gathered from Ruskin's letter, in which he say "No such hills are, or ever were. sight from Arona.

They are gathere. together, hill by hill, partly from the Battes of Oleggio, partly from above the town here, partly from half-way ut the lake near Baveno, and then all thrown together in one grand izag-inary chain." The scenery at Arona is so satisfying it needs no artist's license to add to the beauty of its fertile plains, its wooded hills and famous lakes. hurt, too. Why had he said any service as badly as Alaska does. thing? The men who are close to modern "But I may, Mary, and you are too airplane work expect a much more sweet too nice a girl to fooled.

rapid development of passenger traffic can't marry for years, never, maybe Those Mexican editors now visiting the United States will get a lot of real in the air than the laymen can imag I have an invalid father, a dear kind ine. This latter cannot get away from information, but will they be permit the idea that flying is very dangerous ted to publish it when they get back He reads continually of accidents at mother who because of the care she has given dad and hard work she did so that I might amount to something is -going blind. She sees a little, but not much. A relative, a cousin of home ment made in-Washington. There are five government concrete shipyards in the country, the others being at Jacksonville, Mobile, San Diego, and San Francisco, Cal.

The yard at San Francisco is already in operation, and the construction of the other three yards is well under way. The government has just let contracts to these yards for the construction of forty ships of 7,500 tons each, sach yard to build eight ships. This work 'will be watched with the keenest of interest, not only by officials 3f the American -government, but of. foreign governments as well. The concrete ship is at the stage where it now may be said to be beyond an experi-nent, the first big vessel of this class, the Faith, having already completed a nost successful voyage from San Francisco to Vancouver, and has sail-3d for Seattle to take on cargo for the return trip to San Francisco.

The ship the aviation schools, without realizing what a very small percentage of chance they represent when the num. mother's poor like ourselves, is living airplanes, a large drug firm was com with us. So you see, dear, why I said ber of men in training is taken into account. He never thinks about the Russia, in the pit she digged herself, is now looking to America to help her out. She should show a more repentant spirit before too much aid Is A High Point factory has received an order to furnish a number of desks for use in the white house at Washington, and it is said that one desk in- eluded in the order is for the president's use.

Naturally High Point is elated over this official recognition of its manufactured goods. For some time the city has had the reputation of turning out as much or more furniture than any other in the world, and it is generally spoken of as the Grand Rapids pf the south. While its many factories have turned out great volumes of furniture, up until a few years ago more attention was devoted to quantity of output than to quality. This was due to a certain extent because the High Point market was largely south of the Mason and Dixon line, and the demand for the higher grade of furniture was comparatively small. This left the north and middle west to the manufacturers of Grand Rapids and other centers.

Along came the world war, the opening attended by a serious financial depression in America in the south, where the price of cotton tumbled down to seven cents, robbing that section of its means of securing available cash. The whole country was hard hit along in 1914 and 1915, and none was hit harder than the it wasn't ialr to you." automobile accidents which are I remembered that I had heard counted In every aper, because he that men sometimes had their prob has become accustomed to these and accepts them as a matter of course lems to race as well as girls ana women. But I never had it brought home to me before. How could George He will probably be surprised to learn that 3.950 cadets in our flying schools flew 261.300 miles, which is ten times keep so bright and cheery with so Whether it is cleaning np hotels over here or cleanig out boches in Europe, the American soldier does a thorough job of it. much care and trouble? I put the around the world, in one day, without thought into words and he said: "Care, yes, Mary.

But no trouble missioned to supply the need for castor oil. It could not get a fraction of the necessar yamount. Accordingly the board sent to India for a shipload of astor bean seed, farmers were encouraged to plant it by the offer of a fixed price for all they could raise, and now there are 80,000 acres of the beans growing in three states. Millions have been invested in the plants for the extraction of the oil. Much the same might be said of the cellulose-acetate wit hwhich the wings of the planes are Impregnated to make them "drum head tight;" and of the spruce which is used for the wooden frame work.

In each case a new ih-dustry has been created. And in each case this industry will find other markets for its product when the war is over, but will nevertheless remain a a fatality. Do you think that an. equal number of beginning motorists could run that many miles without a serious And for keeping cheerful, it would be ehaved in a most splendid manner a poor return for mother's kindness smash up? nder all kinds of conditions, accord- her love, if I went around with a long The "ace aviator of the newspaper The Washington Post considers the U-boat activities off the American coast only annoying, just as the Jersey mosquito is. ng toHhe report i of the government face.

She was bright and cherry al stories, with his tiny wasp an air ways," then, "I wanted you to know. plane and his daring rair-raising xperts who accompanied her on her stunts, has also prejudiced the con aiden trip, and even surpassed the. force behind the development of the laims that had been made for her. servatlve landlubber against flying. He likes to read about those things, but airplane and Its use for civilian pur "Blease to conduct a private campaign" Headline in Charlotte Observer.

Please elucidate. Wilmington Is already engaged in poses. The war has brought on the he cannot Imagine himself doing them urning out wooden vessels, and with Flying Age. But as a matter of fact, this line scout operation of the concrete yard to egin early next month, to be followed Somebody Is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life By Briggs mmediately by operations at the steel ards, this city will be engaged in urning out three classes of ships, ana destined to take front rank as a hipbuilding center. The nation is apidly speeding toward the maritime eadership of the world, according to hairman Hurley of the shipping A Hero Every Day The splendid seamanship of Uncle Sam's men is always in evidence.

Hers 'is an instance of splendid ship team work that earned the commendation of Secretary Daniels. Ensign W. S. Hactor, George F. Schad, coxskain ot the Hancock, and G.

C. Legg, chie, boatswain's mate of the Potomac, towed the steamship President from San Juan, P. to Philadelphia. Penn. Ensign Hactor was commended for his excellent seamanship, and for his action in standing by the anchor er gine, risking death in order to prever the broken end of the cable from passing through the chain pipe.

won praise for getting the starboara anchor ready for lettin go after port anchor had been lost and the snip was drffting without steam and neaa-Ing for the beach. NAMES IN THE NEWS. "Will to War" is a phrase frequently used by the German militarists maintain that the will to war maw unscrupulous offensive a necessity is considered justifiable for the sa oard, in this great scheme Wil- ington is to play an important part. manufacturers of furniture. In High Point, the manufacturers faced a crisis, as did others everywhere.

Mills operated only part of the time, and the number of employes was reduced to the minimum. It was a serious time for the furniture men. But they did not give up. They, immediately began to take steps to open up new markets markets not dependent upon cotton or any single crop. Their representatives raided the jiorthern field.

At first they met With but poor encouragement, as the grade of goods they had been manufacturing did not fit the demands of the trade. The southerners promptly decided that if their goods did not comply with the requirements of the northern and eastern trade they would make their furniture meet the requirements. They In an addreffs delivered this week Notre Dame university, at South end, Chairman Hurley lifted the i nTir nr" ir 1 1 i i Jzxi i it I with tw vwoklj MygSt TO Bur FOOD FOR fwCOMC TAVxWiLt 1JN TS KlS1 i Twice -r you; 1 T6u3Le, I jveil from the plans of the shipping board, and for the first time let the gaze upon what has been He further revealed the ambitious program the board has mapped out for the next two years. "In the month of May," he said, "we roduced 53,000 tons more than were of winning. roduced in the entire year 1915.

Dur- ng the year ended July 1, 1916, 00 dead-weight tons of steel vessels In the News Dr. Kenneth W. Sills, who is to ere delivered. Adding the 1915 ton- age with the 1916 tonnage gives a rnrmiiiiT installed today as presid of Bowdoin college, has been dean otal of 468,100 tons. With a tonnage or the first five months of this year that institution since mu- Scotian by birth he came States a a child, grew up Portland, and graduated froo high school and later from Bo college.

After pursuing POf1' raised the standard of their products, and soon the salesmen were armed with goods that would meet the test of the most critical. Orders began to come to High Point, at first slowly, but in a steadily increasing stream, and in 1916 the factories began to run on full time and With full force of employes, their output going to the new markets. Business conditions brought on by the outbreak of the war began to Improve all over the country, and the southern trade returned to normal. To meet the old trade and the newly acquired, the Higli Point manufacturers put their plants running at ful Ispeed, never losing sight of the newly acquired trade had pulled them through the trying days of a year or two before, and at the same time taking Care of the! rold southern customers. One result of 'that period of stress which forced the High Pointers seek the eastern markets in order to studies at Harvard ana versities he returned to Bodoln ii on pducator, oegin iuh oaiow as an instructor, and finally as fessor of the Latin language ana ature.

Two years ago Dr the choice of the democrats i of 805,000 tons, we delivered in five months 336,900 tons of shipping more than was built in American shipyards in the years 1915 and 1916. I do not believe I am overoptimistic in saying that our tonnage output will continue to increase until before this year closes we will be turning out 500,000 tons each month." Concerning the present strength of the American merchant marine, Mr. Hurley said: "On the 1st of June of this year we had increased the American-built tonnage to more than dead-weight tons of shipping. In the eleven months from July 1, 1917, to June'l 1918, we constructed in American shipyards a tonnage equal jto the total output of American yards jduring the entire previous four years. 2a- short, the shipping hoard lias Added for United States senator, xj hAP.n prominent umocLoui nw rna.

various war activities, especww of the Red Cross. Person Withdraws. June M. Person, of 'ran uu i has announced that he 11 not as keep going, is no doubt, the order for a second primary to aeu- furnlturej for the nation's executive offices Had they not been forced br nation for judge in inw Clf, leaves the nomination to Juas the Tart, who led the neia firrt primary lit rS 4 1.