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V AJ|nB^| 111 k I CI rfbrl Carolina Portland Cement Co* Charleston, S. C. Atlanta Jacksonville Birmingham New Orleans 3|24|60 da PUBLIC DEBATE ON ARMAMENTS Japanese Ex-Minister oil Jll st ice Arcjuos With Professor Tokio.?Representative Yukio Ozaki, ex-minister of justice, who lias como into prominence anew because of his championing of restrict d armaments accepted the challenge to a public debate on armaments issued by Professor Matsunami of the Imperial University, who recently returned from Manila where he delivered a series of lectures on jurisprudence, | - began with a brief review of the respective naval strengths of the United States and of Japan and in the course of his arguments pointed out that, far from reducing the margin of superiority thttt the United States possessor over Japan, a race. xor naval armament win only wiuen the advantage America already possesses. "Nothing can be more absurd, useless and unwise than for Japan to compete with America in armament building," declared Mr. Ozaki. "As a matter of fact, the more Japan striven the more she will suffer, for internal crises will then become severer. It is a lucky thing that, at this time, an American, Senator Borah, has attract-1 ed the attention of the world by his plea for cessation in the made race ( for piling up armaments. If Japan I takes advantage of the opportun:ty that presents itself, then she will be saving herself from all the ills that will attend the i)?:-rfuing of huge armaments, ills which are inevitable if - the naval race is to be run. "Great Britain has suspended naval construction and it now onlyi needs that America and Japan ar-j rive at an understanding in older to give realization to Senator Borah's | proposition. Under these circum-, stances, considering that America took the lead one way, why should! noi .Japan approacn America aim reach an understanding-? Dr. Matsunimi based his argument on the contention that it would be better for Japan to abolish "her navy altogether if disarmament is so essential. He asserted that' since that United States had not joined the League iliere is no reason why Japan should approach the United States on a matter which has not been decided one way or the other by the League. In rebuttal Mr. O/.aki said armament restriction as leading to the abolition of the navy was on a par with temperance resulting in total abstinence. "It is to pave the way for the end of using force he said, and added: "In my opinion, there is not the slight est harm in seeking an underst; tiding with the United States on this matter although she is not a member of the League of Nations." A committee of students issued a statement declaring that whPe there exists some friction among the students, the general sentiment at the university favors Mr. Ozuki's proposal for r< striatic n of armaments. o Behind the Scenes. "Now there's your husband coming Mrs. Candour," said Mr. Funniman. "Let's make a litt'e surprise for him. .Mrs. Funniman and 1 will hide liehind the curtains here and you can tell him that the expected guests haven't come. Then we'll step out aud surprise him." (I'intcr Mr. Candour. Mrs. Candour obeying orders)?well, John, our guests have disappointed us. Mr. and Mrs. Fun ni man haven't come." "I'm glad of it," responded Mr. Candour heartily.?Houston Post. LAUNDRY ACT. I am the authorized representative of the City Steam Laundry of Wilmington, and respectfully solicit your patronage. Also Straw Hats Cleaned I .ike New. Satisfaction guaranteed. Bring me your package. GEO. McNABB 3|31'4t I,ORIS, S. C. 1 Jl l Is It the Business Supervise the S< By MISS MARGARET WIl #tive Wood of Ind "hotbeds of sociali for community da the activities or st NC?iiBL reason that was a appropriation was ok : | been breeding unr uphold that statei Jaws are broken in community center of the Department of Justice to try t law. Another statement made in con^ pay the expenses attendant upon on Again I ask, granting that we have a ings, is it any of their b??tness what Socialist speeches or whether we danc day on the floor of the senate that w( tics in our centers. Isn't that amazii ... suppose, that we should initiate now rules for senate discussions. W would not be a lawful procedure, I 1 would it not be more logical and rcasi the discussions of those who are acco make rules for our meetings? The community center is the peoj NO COTTON AND j STILL A PROFIT ? Cotton in Farmers' Hands Will Be Worth More Than It and the New Crop (Manufacturers' Record) If not a single acre was planted in cotton this year, and if every farmer would hold the cotton which he now has until the effect of no acreage was felt in the world's markets, the south woidd receive much more for the existing stock than it would ror itie stock: on hand and the new crop combined. The whip-handle of the cotton situation is entirely in the hands of southern farmers, bankers and merchants. If they will all unite to make certain that the acreage is drastically cut, assuring a production of not more than 5,000.000 or 0,000.000 bales, the advance in price would make the small crop bring to the south vastly more th \n would a crop of 11,000,000 to 12,000.000 bales. Every acre planted beyond enough to produce at the maximum 0,000,000 bales is an economic waste. It means more work, more picking, more fertilizer. All of these things would be saved and put to better use. Let the south cut its acreare to the bone; let it raise at the oulsute, even under the mose favorable renditions, not over (>.000,000 baios, and its farmers and its people as a whole will bo infinitely better off than if they should raise an average crop. The time and money and work wasted in cultivation cf a larger crop could to far better advantage be given to something el: o. The south should carry out as duicklv as possible a I ig ampaign of municipal and highway impiovements, because .hese improvements f!.rc needed, because now is '.he time ;t<> do the work, and bcause in doing it labor would be employed. Labor employed in planting acreage for more tban (>.000.000 bales of cotton is an economic waste and would imj poverish the south. Lahor employed I in the highway and municipal work I is economically profitable and wou'd j enrich the south. I ft. boheovr-s evovy banker and mer(chant in th" south to join with the ! cotton grower:? and help to see them j through these strenuous ti ves, n >t lor'v ^*AV the benefit of the grower.-. I but in order to make it possib'e for tin4 growers to pay their indebtedness t?> lvn!*"r.'. and merchants, and jthus st'irt agricultural prosperity ! once more. j This is the year which will test whether or not the cotton ?/rowers I of the south can really put into effect a system of acreage reduction to , protect themselves from destruction. It should be reiterated over and over again that with the stock of cotton now on hand in the world it would be a financial loss to .all interests in the south to spend time and money in producing another crop beyond the world's actual reqtiiroments. We have no doubt that if it were I not for the unwise financial policy which makes it difficult fov manufacturers as woll as for others to secure credit., every hale of cotton in the south that is offered for sale would he quickly taken by cotton mills and other buyers and held against higher prices. We do not say tliat the deflation policy may not drive cotton lower, but we have no hesitation in saying that when an article, such as cotton, is selling far below the actual cost of prodacj lion, the time will come when prison i will react and go above the present prices. (Jot envelopes of every kind at the Herald office. / . 1 i ; 5 of Congress, to ocial Centers? i f -.SON, Community Worker I ? jehalf of community center work. ts are impatient with Representa- 1 iana for denouncing the centers as sin" and the use of school buildings nces as a waste of public money. | lie business of congress to supervise jcech of tliose they represent? One jiven in the senate for cutting our that our centers in Washington had est. I know of nothing that could nent, but even granting it, even if, \ s, it is the business of the courts or ] he individuals who have broken the \ i i ^ress was that they did not wish to j r dancing in our school buildings, j j moral right to use the school build-] we do in them, whether we listen to 'I. e? It was even suggested the other, < i should not be allowed to talk poli-1 L ig? i n nntion-wide referendum to innke' ' lint an outcry there would he. It. L know, and therefore impossible, but Disable for us to make rules limiting h untable to us than that they should I ;li jle's machine. It works in the open. I GIBRALTAR OF THE BALTIC SEA Scenc of Recent Anti-Bolshevik Uprising Is Described in a Bulletin Kronstadt, famous Russian fort- 1 ress, where the revolt against bol- 1 shevism started early in March, and 1 where a committee was reported to 1 have started the "-Kronstadt govern- ' ment," but later surrendered to the { soviet is the subject of the follow ing bulletin issued from the Wash- ' ington. D. C., headquarters of thei" National Geographic Society: "What Gibraltar is to the entrance ' to the Mediterranean, and what Heli- goland before the fortunes of war caused its dismantling was to the entrance to the Kiel canal, Kronstadt has been for more than '200 years to the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, the northeastern arm of the Baltic. One of the most heavily fortified islands of the world. It was considered the impregnable guardian | of the mouth of the Neva and of Petrograd ? then St. Petersburg ? capital of tho Russian empire. "Kronstadt may mean either the group of mighty forts or the town, with a population of (55,000 before the war, which lies behind them. But the town for nearly half a century has been of little importance aside from that while it attained directly from the presence of the forts, the! barracks, and the naval base. "Kotlin, the island on which Kronstadt is situated, lies about 16 miles west of Petrograd with no land intervening. About 12 or 15 miles I from the city tho north and south shores of the Gulf of Finland approach each other most closely, being less than 10 miles apart. Within! these points the waters of the Gulf, of Finland are called Neva bay. j Marking the outer extremity of the j bay in the middle rise the guns of Kronstadt. "Some of the forts are built on the tip of the island nearest Petrograd. while others, built on piles, flank them. On the closest point of the north mainland are the batteries of 1 isi Nos. Six or seven ! miles north of I .-isi Nos is the eastern border of Finland, and just short of it are the other powerful batteries. These are known both by the Swedish name Syster.bak, and the Uussi.-n name, Scstroryet/k. Closer) : k\ 1 1.1 j i\ i t> t; i/t, i y: viim i. n i v..? away on tho south mainland, is the town of Oranienbaum, whore there are more guns and in additions barracks. "This chain of forts hems Potro^rad in and protects it on tho sea side. Tint it is obvious that they can with e<|Ual ease ho used against j the city or against each other, if they fall into opposing hands. "Neva bay is very shallow, and in the early years of the existence of St. Petersburg Kronstadt was its port. The cargoes were transported to and from the island in light draft boats. In 18SS a deep canal or narrow channel was completed, extending] through the bay from one of the mouths of the Neva river to the roads of Kronstadt. This made it possible for most of the ships trading with Petrograd to go directly to wharves in the city. Since the completion of the canal the commercial importance of Kronstadt has not been great. "Though Peter the Great, creator of St. Petersburg, founded Kronstadt to protcct that city of his dreams, and though the czars that came after him added to its strength with ilie same end in view, the fortress has been the scene before this of movements against the city and the government. During the unrest in Uussia in 1005 an;l 190(i, which was .ea'Iy .the forerunner ol the jevoiu j lion that finally dethroned the czar cidents was the rising of the garrison of Kronstadt in August, 1*)06. I'he notorious secret police were aware of the plot, and the mutineers *ound themselves without arms facing loyal troops brought from a distance the day before the uprising, rhe unarmed rioters were shot down l>y the hundreds in the courtyards of .heir barracks." JAPS DO" MORE THAN GERMANS Germans Did Little for the Natives Whereas the Japs treat Them Well "The activities of the Japanese, since in 1914 they took over the Mar shall islands in the central Pacific on behalf of the allies, has been in striking contrast to the methods of the Germans, " says a bulletin issued by the National Geographic society in re ?ard to an archipelago halfway between the Hawaiian group and the famous island of Yap. "Practical psychology, stimulation :>f trade with the new foster-mother j country, pedagogy, primitive love of display, fashions, and moving pictures have all been employed as force.-* j with which to make over as qu'cklv | as possible the manners, customs, and thoughts of the people. "Germany made little concession t'> r.ative habits and peculiarities. 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I ftntfMM is fll/GS, C/lftP j ?V>.3H * | rr*v. ? | SEE We send all woi ~j f The Onl | CONWAY ??5 Phons 129 ^ %/fiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii ber. German was the official Nn"Under Japanese control the* government has established public! schools in which special emphasis is placcd on industrial and vocational 1 education. The teaching of German i has been prohibited and all efforts are being made to - replace it with Japanese which now is taught in the schools. Direct steamer lines were established from Japan soon after occupation of the islands and intelligent Japanese traders who had studied the needs and desires of the natives are traversing all the atolls. "Marshall islands' youths are being dressed in uniforms and taught military exercises in the schools. Japanese methods of hair-dressing have been introduced for the women, and* gay colored kimonas are taking the place of the former apparel. "A master stroke of the Japanese was the rounding up of the kings and queens, chiefs and chief women of the islands and their transportation to Japan as the guests of tne imperial government. They were surround ed by the greatest comfort and all paintf were taken that they should see all things that would impress them with the prosperity, advancement and might of their new masters. Particularly they were shown the court, the naval establishment, the great cities, and the most important indus- , trial plants. "Motion picture operators trailed I this de luxe expedition of dusky no- j tables and took their pictures with the life of Japan as a background. Copies of the films have been showi by Japanese agents a'l over the Marshalls and other arclvpelagoes. The junketing nobles were deeply impressed and on their return home I spread stories of the powerful empire they had visited. Pictures backed up [what they told, no that the trip served to impress the whole joopulatic n. "The Japanese have built hospitals 'and are sending traveling doctors and dentists about among the islands. They also arc teaching sanitation in the schools. Japanese officials early adopted regulations requiring the native chiefs to bo responsible for the planting of a certain number of cocoanut trees each year. The .is'and*. which were of little value under German control are fast becoming of com mericial importance. "The Marshall islands are in one of the least traversed portions of the Pacific, south of the routes from the United States to Japan, China, and the PhiUipines, and north of the route to Australia via the Fijis. A straight line from San Francisco through the northernmost island of the Hawaiian group, if extended for an equal distance, would strike the [southernmost of the Marshalls. By this air line they are about 4,(500 miles from the United States. 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