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The Associated Press is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940 _- - _ I Star-News Program Consolidated City-County Government under Council-Manager Administration. Public Port Terminals. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Arena for Sports and Industrial Shows. Seaside Highway from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of City Limits■ 35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into industrial sites along Eastern bank south of Wilmington. Paved River Road to Southport, via Orton Plantation. Development of Pulp Wood Produc tion through sustained-yield methods throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Pro motional Agency, supported by one, county-wide tax. Shipyards and Drydock. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital facilities for whites. Junior High School. Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP ’0 THE MORNING Wealth heaped on icealth nor truth nor safe ty buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Johnson-In an Old Book. WHERE’S WILHELM? The Hohenzollerns are worried. They have not heard recently from the head of the family, Wilhei.m II, former kaiser and exile at Doorn since the World var. As the fight ing in the Nazi-Dutch campaign, wtiich ended so quickly, reached Utrecht, close to the kai ser’s retreat, his safety is feared for. Wouldn’t it be ironic if he had sought refuge in Eng land? ROTARY STARTS SOMETHING The Rotary club took an encouraging step on Tuesday when it adopted a resolution en dorsing re-opening the shipyards and proposed a joint drive of all civic clubs to win approval , for the movement in Washington. It is the Rotary’s idea that a committee visit the national capital and enlist the co operation of Senators Reynolds and Bailey I for the movement and otherwise stimulate in v terest in it so effectively that Wilmington will again take its place among the country’6 ship r? building cities. In view of what other communities have done in this line, it is not hard to believe thal the city’s progressive people will lend a hand ! in any way they can. For it must be acknow | ledged that, with the possible exception o: greater commerce through the -port, no single f project could do so much for the progress anc | economic security of Wilmington as a busj I shipyard. The need for cargo and passenger ships is | increasing with every additional day of war fare in Europe. There is already strong com plaint that vessels are lacking to transpori such commerce as the war has left. If the Interruption continues, and becomes worse, as It is likely to do, the world will be hard press | ed to conduct exchanges in goods essentia In the ordinary affairs of life, not to mentioi the movement of supplies needed by the na tions not excluded by our neutrality act. Evert I day the war continues the opportunity in ship 1 building becomes greater. If America can become the chief source o new ships, there will be a great national ad vantage therefrom. And if Wilmington cai participate in the reviving industry, Wilming ton will go ahead just that much faster. Ai parently all that is needed to bring this abou It a concerted, united effort by all business am k civic interests. - m ill WAR DRAWS NEARER rpHE occupation of Holland by the Nazis, ^ with the threat to Britain that conquest brings, centers American thought more than ever on national defense. The President frankly says it is not of par ticular consequence now how money for it is raised; stronger defenses are needed and must be provided. The machinery for raising the fund can be set up in a variety of ways, but what the machinery is, in the final analysis, is a minor consideration. Mr. Roosevelt never spoke truer words. For the present, with the war two thousands miles away, there may still be placid souls among us who see no danger. But, in very sooth, it is nearer our shores than we can contemplate in comfort. The Nazi peril, through the surrender of The Netherlands, is only a half hour by air from London. A Nazi spokesman has said that we may look for attack on England next. It is altogether probable that while the land battle is in progress—the greatest in history, most observers believe—a great battle will be launched by air and sea against Great Britain. And because of their superiority in the air, the Nazis will have great advantage, with strong probability of success. Should England fall, and it would be folly of the deepest sort to believe that it cannot fall, the British possessions would fall too. And we must not forget that Great Britain possesses territory right at our doors. Not only Canada is British territory. There are the Bahamas too, and they are but little further from our shore than is Holland from England. They would make a magnificent air and navy liaco fnr TTttttti? No wonder the President takes off his coat and goes to bat for defense. He told reporters at his Tuesday conference, and told them cor rectly, that whether the money comes by bor rowing, raising the national debt limit or by taxation is a minor matter; it must be forth coming, and promptly. This appears a proper time to levy a direct defense tax, as a means of bringing home to every person the peril confronting the na tion. A correspondent recently proposed a de fense stamp, to be used on all mail matter in addition to the regular postage. There is much to recommend the suggestion. It would no im pose a great burden on anyone and it would produce a great deal of money. Even the tre mendous total of ten billion, cited by the Star’s correspondent, cou'd quickly be financed by this means. But, as the President says, the means is of secondary importance. Defense is the principal thing. CARLELESS CYCLISTS While Chief Roitrk is cautioning cyclists to have bells on their machines at all times and lights at night, he would lessen the hazard of accident between bicycles and automobiles if he warned young riders to discontinue their habit of pedaling three abreast in the streets. It is not an infrequent thing to see groups of school children extending three deep from the curb and riding none too close at that. It is an accepted and commonsense rule that slow traffic stick to the left, leaving the right of the roadway to faster moving vehicles. By this means there is less peril of accident by either rear-on collision or by sideswipe. Cycl ists would improve their own situation and that of motorists paralleling them if they re membered this rule and put it in constant practice. If this were the custom, and not the exception, they would not spread out toward the center of roadways and imperil both them selves and motorists. Granting that children, by reason of their immaturity, enjoy exceptional privileges and i should be guarded by adults in all perilous situations, it is still a fact that by disregard ing common driving courtesy they create un necessary hazards and should be restrained in the interest of safety. Parents have a duty here, no less than the chief of police- A little discipline at home would help. And discipline is a matter of train ing as much as of punishment. STOP THE VANDALISM Commissioner Wade has evidence that trout have been shot in Greenfield lake, that plants in Greenfield park have been stolen, and, to cap the climax, has in his possession a gig recov ered at the lake spillway. He asks public as istance in stopping these forms of vandalism, and points out that Greenfield park, with its magnificent lake, is for public enjoyment, not public defacement. Surely, all forms of vandalism there should stop. It is not enough to put the job up to the police. Every law-abiding citizen has a re sponsibility to see that the public’s property, to the last fish In the lake, the last tree or flower in the park, le preserved. And every law-abiding citizen has the legal right to intervene when vandals are at work. The common law extends the police right to every citizen. Here is one time when every citizen should exercise his authority as a police officer. CHILDREN’S CHORUS Durham is sending a children’s choir to Augusta. Georgia, for a church concert, to be followed by another in an Augusta school. After hearing the chorus at Legion Field ; during the recent May Festival the question asks itself: Why should not Wilmington send i its school choir away for concerts too? Should such a trip be promoted the benefits . would accrue to Wilmington no less than to t the participating children. Surely, Durham 1 has no more tc offer, so far as a trained chil dren’s choir is concerned, than Wilmington. 3ut perhaps Durham better understands the i'alue of exploitation. Wilmington has good reason to be proud jf its school singers. It would be a fine ges ture of appreciation to give them a chance to display their talent in another city. WASHINGTON DAYBOOK By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 15—James F. Grady, a iuiet-voiced fellow with wavy, pepper-and-salt tiair, has started a revolution that’s spreading to every government department. Before it’s aver, it probably will create more good will than all the pork barrel, relief and federal aid pro grams ever conceived. What he’s doing is showing the federal agen cies how to streamline their correspondence; how to take out stuffed-shirt expressions, delete the $5 words, and turn out letters and sound like a pat on the back rather than the pom pous high-handedness of some minor official who’s so self-important he doesn’t realize the taxpayer butters his bread. * * * , Scarcely A Day If you think this isn’t important, ask your congressman. There are 2,300,000 pieces of gov ernment mail pouring out of Washington every day and it’s estimated that 1,000,000 of these are personal letters. There isn’t a day that gov ernment officials don’t get complaints. Often, it isn’t the employe’s fault, as in the case of the home owner who went into hiding when told his loan was to be reamortized and nearly fainted from relief when he found he was to be given 20 years to repay instead of ten. After three years of working with government agents, Grady finds that even before any in structions in letter-writing have been given, their letters stack up favorably with those of most private industries. Yet, in one department alone, he found ex amples of letters that were contradictory, insult ing, commanding, impertinent, weakly apologetic, arbitrary, offensive, insincere, grudging, critic al, petulant and indifferent. Hoopskirts First One of the first things the letter writers learn is to ge rid of the “hoopskirts:” "Your letter was duly received. . . . We beg to advise that. . . . As of even date herewith. . . . Your letter of the 15th instant, ultimo, proximo. ... I beg to hand you herewith. . . .” and so on and so on. A by-product of Grady’s program has been economy, but he doesn't emphasize that. In one agency a survey disclosed that letters cost 75 cents apiece to prepare and mail. If this aver age holds for the 1,000,000 a day that go out, that’s $750,000 a day for Uncle Sam’s Washing ton letters. Grady became an expert on epistles by acci dent. An administrator in a California college, he was asked to assist in organization of the Land Bank office at Berkeley when it mushroom ed almost overnight from 50 to 1,400 employes. In coordinating the work, he found employes needed most some instruction in writing effective letters. Out of the conferences came Grady’s plans for training and supervision. The Land Bank governor asked Grady to come to Wash ington as a special assistant. That was three years ago. Since then, the demand for Grady has been far in excess of the supply. He has worked in the field for the Land Bank, in Farm Security, in the census bureau, weather bureau, and now is launched on circuit of other agriculture de partment agencies, starting with the soil con servation division. He has lecture courses at the American University. And he is co-author with Milton Hall of a book called “Writing Effective Government Letters.” If you get a letter from the government that sounds as if it came from an official in a Vic torian counting house, or makes you wonder why you have to pay taxes for salaries for smart alecky nincompoops, just be patient. The Grady revolution will get 'em yet. Editorial Comments From Other Angles GET READY FOR MORE OF IT Durham Herald Some of the bad news the Allies and their sympathizers will have to hear and face these next few months is at hand. Ahead is more anc worse of the same kind and source. The commander of the Dutch army has ac knowledged the defeat, virtual collapse, of hig forces. German forces have slashed the country into three pieces and are fast occupying al strateirio nnints. If not the decisive, a major battle rages acros: Belgium and France and though reports are fragmentary, the substance of all of them is that the Germans are forging ahead and the Allies are retreating. That, of course, adds up tc sensational German victories and say Allied de feats. German communiques speak of spectacul ar advances and Allied communiques spealj ol ster Allied morale. No cfne knows, but no one would be surprise! if Mussolini pitched his tent with Hitler an; day, and that, much loose talk to the contrary would probably put the Allies in a still more precarious position. Certainly it would not bol ster Allie dmorale. Most Americans, of course, share the sadnes: of the Allies and, as every rational student ol human behavior foresaw, Americans who were complacent a few months back are now more than a little angry with Hitler. That trend, too is likely to increase as the stream of bad news continues. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the fight ing is all one W'ay or that the Germans have won or are certain to win the war. It simplj means that German strategy and tactics con sidered and the fighting capacity of the Allie: faced, for the next few weeks German advances and Allied retreats are in the cards. It means, too, and don’t forget it, that the Allies are in de sperate straits, are fighting with their backs tc the wall and can, yea may, lose. All of us try, naturally, to draw some conclu sion fi ora the welter of conflicting reports we read. And many of us, understandably, lean our conclusions toward our wishes. Allied com muniques help us in that respect. German com* rURiitlU?S-llelP us *° *°°*c on the pessimistic side, exeent ‘ ls simply telling the truth to say that greatest ^ they teU us that s,auSher of the would ...masnitude is going on, and the side we ward ,-r,,e ,° see move forward is moving back the f’ortunes Pfn°wWar.reaChinS Uttle ab°Ut i The Editor’s LETTER BOX The editor does not necessari ly endorse any article appear in this department. They repre sent the views of the individual readers. Correspondents a r e warned that all communicatlSsis must contain the correct name and - ’dress for our records, though the latter may be signed as the writer sees fit. The Star News reserves the right to alter any text th—t for any reason is objectionable. Letters on con roversial subjects will not be published. TO BOBBY JEWELL From out of childhood’s garden God chose the choicest flower He plucked Bobby from our midst today And dark for us are the hours. Just six short years was he lent to us A brave little soldier was he Patience and fortitude were the les sons He taught to you and me. A smile he had for everyone Also a cheery word No matter how severe the pain Never a complaint you heard. Although our hearts are bowed in grief We thank God, he is in His care For in Paradise he is at rest And no more pain will he have to bear. —His Kindergarten Teacher. Wilmington, N. C-i May 13, 1940. I Man About Manhattan By George Tucker " NEW YORK, May. 15—Obeserva tion: Most of us seldom think to avail ourselves of opportunities un til it is too late. Until a few months ago it was possible for practically anyone to go all through the big naval yards here, to see how the big battleships operated, and, in some instances, even to get aboard submarines. But most New Yorkers, used to having such things in their back yards, never gave much thought to it. But now the broadcast ot ships being blasted out of the water, and coastal ports being bombarded at long range by big sea guns, has generated a desire to have a close look at such naval items as airplane carriers, sub marines and destroyers. Too late: the bars are down. The chance has gone glimmering in the wind. You have to be intimately con nected with the governmant, or the army or navy to get within smell ing distance of the navy yards now. * * * Problem: Weary, and with his eyes red from too much reading, Lanny Ross plopped down in his favorite restaurant and told of a three-day search for a missing song. “We looked through 27,00 pieces of music,” he ex plained, “and didn’t find it.” What music? Well, on his broadcasts Lanny h as promised to sing requests. In his mail the other morning came a letter from a woman whose sister ran away from home. She was distressed. Knowing that her sister always ad mired Lanny, she wrote in to ask if the singer wouldn’t sing a cert ain song, in the hopes that her sister would hear it, and return home. She didn’t know the name of the song, or the music, but she quoted the lyrics. Lanny, with a couple of aides, spent the next few days ransacking the musical ar chives of New York. It just wasn’t to any avail. However, Lanny went on the air and recited the lyric. “Then,” he said, “I did the next best thing. I sang Home Sweet Home.” Whether the missing young woman was turned in—and went home—hasn’t been ascer tained. * * * Over at the Museum of Modern Art, in 53rd street, is a most sig ula collection of film. It is a collection of 48 different motion picture — the complete celluliod biography of Douglas Fairbanks’ career. Not long ago Doug died, but before he did he presented this record of his life work to the muse , um. It begins, back in 1915, with a film called “The Lamb.” Thai was the first motion picture Doug ever made. And when I made il h' never went back to the stage i again. His last film was 'Mr. Rob‘ inson Crusoe,” made in 1932. If you went to the trouble to string all these films together you would have a running, if garbled story 2,700.000 feet in length. Last wee1- the Museum announc ed it would show all these pictures to the public. And after New York has seen them, they will be dis tributed throughout the country to high schools and clubs, free. It seems to me this is r. particularly happy event. IN CARS MOUNT VERNON, Wash.—(AP) Late for work, Bernis Yenter decided he would dress while driv ing to his office. He got his shirt and socks on successfully but when he tried to pull on his shoes he lost con trol of the car. It ran into a field, overturned and was demolished. Yentis, un hurt, promised state patrolmen he “wouldn’t use a car for a dress ing room again.” CHILDREN’S MUSEUM School children operate the largest amateur museum in the world. Located in Washington, N. C., it is known as the Bughouse. ‘Patriotism Is Not Enough’ j I • HOW to EAT to BEAT the HEAT Your Vitamins Are Just As Close As The Corner Grocery Store B ALICE H. SMITH Nutritionist, Cleveland Health Council The vitamins have sort of sneak ed up on the country. A lot of people still don’t know about them —where to look for them, at least. Vitamin therapy, for that matter, is still in its infancy. But enough is known about vita mins to keep the average person pretty healthy. And you don’t need to look very hard for them eigher. Vitamins are always on stock at your closest grocery. A glance at the daily quota of essential vitamins will show you that. If you want to be sure you get them all. include the following foods in your regular diet: The equivalent of one pint of milk daily (adult), one and one half pints to two pints for child ren. One serving of green leafy or yellow vegetables daily. One serving potato daily. One serving citrus fruit or to mato daily. At least one other serving of fruit or vegetable daily. One or more servings of whole grain cereal daily. One serving of egg, meat o r meat substitute daily. These foods, plus the food nor mally consumed to meet your bod ily needs, will furnish, according to our present knowledge of vita mins, all the A, Bl, C, riboflavin and nicotinic acid necessary for the normal person. The adult re quirement for Vitamin D is un known. The child must secure his Vitamin D either from exposure to sunlight and-or Vitamin D concen trate, such as fish liver oil. "But the pills?” some persons ask. "It’s so easy to get my vita mins in pills and then I don’t have to worry any more.” The answer to that is that you have to worry more because foods contain, in ad dition to vitamins, minerals, pro tein, and energy, all of which the body must have. Moreover, it is more economi cal to have them in your food. If you can afford concentrates you can afford a good diet and if you can afford a good diet you don’t need concentrates. If you buy right you can lug home enough vitamins to keep the whole family healthy. That’s pretty important these first hot days. Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Bobbin Coons— nun,!.,* wuuu, May tz—there s no telling about this Wallace Beery, the most troroughly scrub bed guy in town. He has been washed up more times than any top-ranking star in pictures, and yet here he is today, going along at a good clip. He never changes from the gruff, lovable, cussed old cuss, and why should he? There never has been and talk of “a new Wally Beery,” and if there were the folks would probably stay away. They’ve stayed away from Beery pictures before. Take that last one, “The Man from Dakota.” Not so hot, and not doing so well with the folks. But here he is again in “Twenty Mule Team,” a rootin’ tootin’ number, and out at the studio they think everything is go ing to be all right again. i * * That’s the way it’s been with Wally, time and time again. He was “through” when pictures first began to talk, and pretty soon he wasn’t “through” any more but busier than a one-man band. He got a lift into the 10-best star gang, and his movies with Marie Dressier raked in tons of heavy sugar. There was one time we all knew, positively and for sure, that he couldn’t go on. That was when “Viva Villa” looked like Me tro’s most expensive, most colossal flop—before they remade most of it and bagged a super-hit. When you think of - it, the Beery type of stardom is the safest. It’s easier to take a slight tumble if you’ve tumbled before, and it’s easier to climb again when no body expects the climb and you’re aided by the psychological factor of surprise. Speaking of safety in stardom, if there is such a thing in such a mercurial eminence, the evidence points to “characters” (of which Beery is one) as the tops. The character men, stars or fea tured players, are the boys who work and work and work. Adolphe Menjou apparently has a life-time job—and he's the same Adolphe who, like Beery has been well washed up on many occasions. He works around, is frequently star red, and never has time on his hands. Frank Morgan, turning from bumbling comedy to more serious dramatic stuff lately, is insuring a new life for his career. * * >jc Thomas Mitchell—he’s “in” and apparently for keeps. Walter Bren nan, who never got the girl in all his years in pictures, always wins by a whisker or two. Akim Tam iroff, Lynne Overman, Reginald Owen, Eugene Pallette, Donald Meek, Gene Lockhart, Lewis Stone, George “Gabby” Hayes, Joseph Schildkraut, Edward Arnold, Rol and Young—what would movies be without them? If I were in pictures (and could n’t be Walt Disney), I’d choose to be one of those boys. They not only draw starring checks (I mean most of them), but they get none of the bitter pills of stardom. Stars get blamed for bad pictures, but the character men get credit—and rightly—for salvaging bad ones, for contributing vastly to hit ones. IN ACIDENTS HELENA, Mont. (AP)—“I was standing on a corner, a door came along and knocked me cold.” That’s a Butte man’s story of how he got a black eye—and he’s sticking to it. He was on the curb, waiting to cross an intersection, when a car came along. A door flew open and the handle struck him and knock ed him into a sign-post. A doctor, who vouches for the story, was cal'ed to revive him. THE ONLY WAY Not one of the ordinary tests used by laymen to detect poisonous mushrooms is absolutely safe. The only sure method is to know the various species by sight. NAZI ARMY GETS FIRST REAL TEST BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feature Service Military Writer WASHINGTON. — The Nazis’ whirlwind invasion of the low com- [ J tries is the prelude to an attempt ed knockout punch at Great Brit ain. At last the long-delayed “bid for | quick victory” and perhaps the B dreaded “total war” is underway, f If the Germans can establish and s ; maintain a stronghold on the Dutch I coast they will have a pistol point- ! ed at the heart of England. Huge, ; sprawling London is only 45 min utes bombing time from The Hague. Meanwhile the Nazi military n r chine is to get its first major te.-t . against big league military cppos- ; tion—large units of the tuned up French army. They Planned It So The Germans are using tit cream of their army. Seventy a. visions, upwards of 800,000 fror.l line soldiers are moving through the Netherlands and in parts c! Eelguim. Every detail of their ope: ations certainly was worked out with traditional German military tnroughness. | have been Germany’s “preferred The Netherlands and Belgi” routes of attack on Britain ar.d | France since long before W o r ■ J t war days. The Nazis know pra-j cally every foot of the terrain. Strategic railways and highway! can rapidly pour troops into j j low countries. On the other side, the I- rcr.'-i high command has worked f - years to perfect plans of count - ing a German invasion via Be. When the war started last -V tember, the French began cxter.r ing and strengthening the ; line along the Belgian border ; ■ wall probably is not as ' imprs ■ ble” as the sections directly Ik-* j Germany. A “break through j the weaker section may be a ' j of the Germans’ grand offim=— providing their drive through gium is not permanently stal.ee A Matter Of Time Allied Generalissmo Game., should be able to put Frcncl1—•“ British forces in Belgium stru-i \ enough to give the invaders a of World-war proportions ana ; keep large bodies of troops France. Before the lightning invasion ‘ the low countries military obse^ [ j ers wondered why the Ctn. -.j made so little use of their v_ s air force. Perhaps they were o--- y ing it up for “the one big a. sive.” „ v.,:i K The Germans probably wih ^ ■ a preponderance in air str » ■ for the lowlands struggle. W* I other hand their gasoline _ I ■ may not be adequate for a .• longed “all out war . ., I The Germans as usual seen- I have the jump but if tbe, “r 3 I and French “can take h ■ few months without .s I feat, the tide can slowly I other way just as it did 'n j AT FIRES . . s i I KEPP, Fans. ■ A!’ - .. ■ strange spectacle t h e H fire laddies made as the) ‘ ^ | the furnishings from thc ‘V.-r I home of A. W. Sunrigre '• . , ■ here. Out they came t'arr'i I* heating stove, a fire blaxu's | il^ in it. I
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