Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-07-26
THE .BUCKo MATsr IN PRINT.

THE .BUCKO NATE IN PRINT.
our contemporary. the Morning
News. fouled it's nest yesterday by
publishing an editorial attack upon
. Every Evenings harbor policy which
was so unfair and demagogic in tone
that it must have been written by a
certain gentleman who occasionally
walks the News quarterback and die
tates its editorial direction. Certainly
it's knightly editor would not stoop
to such pen an ill-tempcred screed.
A news article, which stated on au-
thority that certain forces that blocked
the new charter movement were Sc
cretiy opposing the harbor project.
aroused the ire of the gentleman re-
ferred to and caused him to see red
and yellow. OF course the shoe
pinched horribly. In other words.
Every Evenings article hit the mark.
When some writers cannot gain
their. point by logic they resort to IL
logical invective and misstatements
of fact which fool none but themselves.
So the News stated that ''the article
smacks so strongly of the enyenomed
prejudices of the paper" while the
real editor of the News knows that
Every Evening always strives to be
fair with everyone. Only a fortnight
ago this paper, in leading editorial,
took pleasure in complimenting a
scholarly article which appeared in the
News editorial columns. If there is
any "envenomed prejudice to-
ward our contemporary, we kuow not
of it. But then one cannot expect a
surly bucko mate TO possess the savoir
faire OF a gentlenanly Skipper.
The News further says that a harbor
would not pay Wilmington, and in
dulges in this bit OF pessimistic cant:
do they (the harbor supporters)
mean that any Wilmington industries
expect to import or export conlmodi-
ties in shipload lots? DO they mean
that any collection of Wilmington in
dustries can import or export goods
in shipioad lots? If they don't mean
that. how is the foreign trade of VIII
mington going to flow through the
port7 Everybody with any sense
knows that AN ocean freighter bound
to some other port is not going to stop
at Wilmington at an expense of many
times the freight to put off a few bales
of hides or to take on a few cases of
window curtain CLOTH
But the bucko mate does not wait
for his opponents to answer his aues-
tons. In the same editorial he an
swers them himself by saying but
when the wharves and terminals are
completed there will undoubtedly be
back of them available land for manu-
featuring plants that will want to use
ocean-going ships to bring them raw
materials and to take their products
abroad. That such plants will take
advantage of the facilities we believe
- . reasonably safe conclusion" Such
being the case. then why that first
paragraph, which derides Whining
toms commercial and maritime aspira-
tons,
The truth of this matter is that cer-
tain great interests which hitherto
have dominated the city fear for Will
mington to grow to any greater ex-
tent A harbor. and great manufac-
turing plants clustered about it, would
mean new blood and new money and
new IDEAS coming in; Wilmington has
great possibilities of maritime ma
ture. which eventually must be capt.
taIized.
For five years and more Every
Evening has consistently advocated
the building of a harbor which will
accommodate ocean-going ships
Never once has this paper deviated
from that policy The Morning News.
however, has varied its course from
week to week. When the bucko mate
relinouishes the tiller to the rightfui
akippsr we may expect the Morning
News 10 regain its course and san to-
ward Greater Wilmington.
No time Is as propstious as the pres
ent for tee construction OF this pro-
posed harbor. Many Wilfningtonians
are out Of work today. Some Of these
man could be given employment. Such
IN aet would cause the ugly growiirss