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Count five words to line. — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news itories appearing In The Sunday 8tar-}leu;i SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1940 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 O’ THE MORNING Power belongs to God. And power can be re leased for the service of men. The Church on her knees is the Church of power. The task to be done is the world to be won. No half-heart ed efforts will bring the world back to sanity. It will need the drawing together of all the forces of God and of right. —From “FORWARD.” Relief In Books In these days when the newspapers are filled with war news and the mind rebels at absorbing more harrowing details of bomb ings, invasions, intrigues and mortal suffer ings, it is a relief to turn to some old favorite from the rich storehouse of literature and brouse through its pages at leisurely pace. There is a better night’s sleep ahead for anyone who will do this than for those whose evenings are devoted to a favorite newspaper or hours at the radio with an army of com mentators discoursing on this or that phase of the day’s terrible developments. With so many volumes available, it may be difficult to make a choice. But it is safe to say that with eyes shut one may extend a hand to any book shelf whose owner chose his treasures discreetly and, closing the fingers, find a book well worth re-reading within them. Andersen’s Fairy Tales are a rich mine for the adult, because of their pictorial quality. And St. Luke’s Gospel is marvelous for its reportrial style, its close attention to detail. The stories it tells, aside from their religious aspect, are gems of good writing. There is gold here, no less than spiritual comfort. But of all books there is perhaps greatest compensation in rereading Hugo’s Les Miser ables. Taken slowly, it will afford a whole winter’s relaxation, and loses nothing through repetition. In the same way some of Dickens and Bulwer, especially the latter’s historical novels, afford a whole season’s peace of mind. And if one enjoys the music of singing words, there are Shelley, Keats, Byron and Burns. Wadsworth, in the fall particularly, is glorious. And always, with neverceasing com pensation, there’s Shakespeare, to fit any mood, cure any mental indisposition. Even Milton has the beauty of a Mozart mass, cnee one gets the hang of his majestic com position. Yes, it is easy to get away from the de pression war news brings, and to find courage to face the unknown future, in books on any well-considered book shelf. v , '■ f .• No Economic Handicap Actual calling of men into service under the draft law is still nearly a month ahead. Ac cording to present war department, plans, the summons will come on November 15. Mean while, eligibles will have time to adjust their personal affairs and otherwise prepare for their year of intensive military training. It is impossible to foretell what Wilming ton’s contribution in manpower will be on this first call. Presumably it will not be large. Deductions for volunteers already enlisted will reduce the normal total. But it will be neces sary for Wilmington to release some more young men then, in addition to those already either in the regular army or with the National Guard. Their departure, whatever their num ber, however, cannot have a serious effect on business or materially reduce the earning ca pacity of the community at large, any more than the departure of the National Guard con {ingents did. As with the National Guard, the places of draftees will be filled by others during the training period. As many clerks and workers will draw pay after the draft call as before it. That is to say the turnover of employee earn ings will be great then as now. There is little reason to believe that the draft will change the city’s economic situation to any noticeable degree. With as many per sons at work at the same rates of pay, it is hard to see how it could do so. Furthermore, the demand for skilled artisans in all con struction trades created by the extensive re armament program—the building of canton ments, air bases, ship yards and other defense plants, as w’ell as in essential war' industries— inevitably will provide advantageous employ ment for much of Wilmington’s skilled labor. If workers must go elsewhere for such jobs a portion of their earnings will find the way home to their families and be spent here. And it is even possible that some defense projects will be launched in this immediate vicinity, in which case Wilmington will have full benefit of the entire payroll. Viewed broadly, and considering the possi bilities by and large, Wilmington stands to be benefited by the draft, rather than injured, as some timid souls claim. Greece Next " i With Rumania under heel, Hitler makes de mands upon Greece which, if met, will wipe that little country off the map as an independ ent state. Italy and Bulgaria must have territory, the Axis must have air bases, the government must resign and another on the Axis pattern set up instead. It is a crafty move. With Rumania occupied and Bulgaria in line, Nazi forces, already as sembled in Carol’s erstwhile domain, will be free to advance southward and establish bases much nearer Egypt than those in Italy. And it begins to appear that Egypt, rather than England, which refuses to be conquered by direct attack, is the next major objective of the Axis. It may be that Hitler believes by absorbing Greece and directing the attack on Egypt from her shores, Turkey and Russia will in terpose no serious objection because it will not necessarily strike at, but skirt, the Dar danelles. Such a move might even have the blessing of Moscow, and the Ankara govern ment, which has shown a militant attitude of late, might see in it no cause to use the “2,000,000 bayonets” it recently announced would oppose any threat to that narrow strait which links the Black and the Aegean seas. However that may be, it is obvious that Hitler is concentrating for an Egyptian thrust, that Greece offers the best, perhaps the easiest, route, and that nothing less than a superior force will sway him from his purpose. What answer Greece will make to the de mands is not known when this is written. What help Britain would be able to give is also un known. Britain’s forces are pretty well occu pied now. Reinforcements in large numbers for Greece might not be available. In that case, Greece would go down, unless Turkey and Russia, contrary to present indications, took a hand and threw in their military strength, not so much with Britain as because they look with disfavor on any further spread of Axis influence and conquest. Whatever the answer to the Axis demands, it is apparent that the Balkans will shortly be in the war from one end to another and that Britain will have need of all the help we can give her. Stop Shillyshalying As time passes and Wilmington’s water con tinues brackish and unpalatable, it is impera tive that the people of the city rise in their might, and force quick action for relief. It is not as if the situation were new and baffling. In that case there might be some ex cuse for delay. But it has happened before, not once but often. There is no longer any valid excuse for failure to correct the evil. Surely, it cannot justly be pleaded that tile opening of several private wells for house holders, who may go to them at considerable personal inconvenience, and secure drinking water, is a satisfactory remedy for a condition which should not exist. It is not only that Wilmington’s people are served with salty water at their homes. That is bad enough, in all conscience. But Wil mington has received publicity which will oamn it in the eyes of everybody who reads newspapers. We want greater population. We want fam. ilies to come here to live. We want industries to establish plants here. Can we expect to draw them, once they learn that we pump salt water through our mains, and are in no hurry to provide clear water in its stead throughout the year? We want the government to establish na tional defense plants of one sort and anoiher in our midst. We have delegations in a steady stream at Washington setting forth our claims to recognition. Is any federal official, any member of congress, any influential Washing tonian, likely to bring pressure to bear for Wilmington when the best we offer is the afore said salty water? This is no time to mince words. Plain speech is in order. The people of Wilmington ought to let their wishes be known in such plain words that no responsible city official can misunderstand them. Editorial Comment HE’D BE WELCOMED BACK. Greensboro News The coastal section, the Wilmington vicinity in particular, has been voicing regret at the enforced departure therefrom of Lieut. Col. George W. Gillette. He was commissioner of waterways, and has been recalled to Wash ington for reassignment. Colonel Gillette is immensely liked personally, and the work he did, and the manner in which it was done, were highly satisfactory. His exceptional fitness for this position is, indeed, commented upon throughout the state. The Rocky Mount Telegram says that he has “done more for the advancement of waterway services in our state than any previous com missioner.” What the Daily News has found especially satisfactory is that Colonel Gillette seems to believe heartily in inland waterways as poten tial factors in commerce, or in defense, or both. He has such faith, or he is the sort of man who does thoroughly and zestfully what ever he is appointed to do; and we suspect that both things are true. It may be that the recall.for reassignment is merely army routine. North Carolinians are wishing that it may be, and that he will be sent back to take up the job upon which he had made so excellent a beginning. 3 DELIGHTFUL BOMBINGS N, Y. Herald-Tribune Continued resistance, after forty days, to the best German efforts to reduce the British Isles to heaps of rubbish have not only bit terly disappointed but puzzled the Nazi high command. Characteristically, they have sought, from those who grope in the doubtful regions of empirical science, explanation of an incredible bafflement. The response, perhaps satisfactory to the Teutonic military mind, may not be as convincing to others. Rage and frustration need not suppose that British ob duracy is due to proverbial toughness or to “ability to take it,” the Berlin public is told by “Das Schwarze Corps,” organ of the Elite storm troops. “Rather this England ap proaches death with sensual pleasure,” ob serves this paranoac publication, “smacks its lips over every phase and bears every humilia tion and cynicism, if only it can hope that in dying it can drag its enemy into the abyss. The psychopathologist knows that in such cases pleasure in destruction parallels pleasure in self-destruction. Thus is solved the puzzle ol British toughness and endurance.” The state of mind of a nation which can re ceive seriously such ghastly rubbish may throw light on the origin of deeds that have astounded and horrified mankind, but dis closure of it will hardly recommend Germany for readmission to the society of civilized nations, when in time she must seek it. Mass insanity, with murderous tendencies, seems indeed to be a more solid scientific fact than the frantic gibberish of “Das Schwarze Corps.” Bruce Catton s In Washington' Star-News’ Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON—A little noticed ruling by Attorney General Jackson has put the National Labor Relations Board in the driver’s seat in connection with the defense program. In response to a request from the defense commission, Jackson ruled in effect that a firm is in violation of the Wagner act when the board says it is, rather than when the board’s decision is passed on by the courts. Jackson was asked to rule because the de fense commission has just decreed that no army or navy contracts for defense materials will be negotiated with any firm which is vio lating any of the government’s labor laws. Naturally the question at once arose, who de cides when a given company is violating one of these laws—tbe Wagner act, for instance? TWO MEMBERS NOW AT ODDS Hereafter, then, the labor board can shut any corporation out of the defense program by finding, in a case brought before it, that the corporation is violating*the Wagner act. Jack son's ruling said a company would become elibible again if the circuit court should re verse a labor board finding against it; but between the labor board’s ruling and the circuit court’s decision many months may elapse. Right now the labor board is a two-man affair, the two men being Edwin S. Smith and Dr: William Leiserson, who oppose each other bitterly on practically all points. The term of the third member, J. Warren Madden, expired some weeks ago—and it is no exaggeration, in view of the Jackson ruling, to say the ap pointment of his successor is of vast im portance to the defense program. Smith and Madden teamed together. Because that was so, the board today—in its person nel, its policies and its outlook—very largely reflects the social and economic viewpoint of Smith. And the. point to remember is that Smith for a long time has come about as close to being a fellow traveler of the Communists as any official in Washington. CLEAN-UP HINGES ON THIRD MAN Smith’s closest associates on the board ai*e its secretary, Nathan Witt, and its associate general counsel Thomas I. Emerson. A solid nucleus has been built up within the board of “key position” employes who see eye to eye with these three. Regional officers in the field are excepted. The result is that a group all but openly identified with the famous “party line” has been in a position to run the labor board. The congressional committee that has spent a year investigating the labor board missed all this completely. It identified ordinarily liberal and pro-labor people as Communists, and never once got into the real problem— which has been common gossip in the capital | for at least a year by my own knowledge. A ■ The Editor’s LETTER BOX • The editor doe» not necessarily endorse any article appearing in this department. They represent the views of the individual readers. Cor respondents are warned that all communications must contain the correct name and address for our records, thongh the latter may be signed as the writer sees fit The Star-News reserves the right to alter any text that for any reason is ob jectionable. tetters on controversial subjects will not be published. THANKS Dear Sir: The Sorosis Garden club wishes to thank you for the splendid pub licity and the cooperation of the public in their annual flower show. MRS. E. E. HUNTER, Secretary. FOR ROOSEVELT Dear Sir: When we see men who had been decorated by Hitler and who are in sympathy with Germany in this war, as Lindbergh was and is; when we see them pleading for the election of Wilkie, as Lindbergh does; it is time for our red-blooded young men and for their fathers, mothers, wives and sweethearts to work for and vote for Roosevelt. W. B. KEZIAH Southport, N. C. 1 OUR LAND Hitler wants 10 rule the world instead of his own land, Mussolini wants the same; These two go hand in hand. They both think that they’re high, They’ll stand by and watch their own people die. But they think with all their might That they’re the only ones can fight. We Americans will show them some day That they can’t always have their way. We Americans think always of lives Of brothers, sisters, men, and wives. Roosevelt doesn’t want us in a grave, He’d rather have us alive, true, and brave. He’s not like a dictator or a king But like a father to everything. So let us shout long as we can, ’Cause we want Roosevelt and no other man. ELIZABETH COTTLE, 17 FRANCES SAUNDERS, 14 Medical Care BY LOGAN CLSNDENING, M. D. Vitamins, as I intimated yester day, are the fertilizers of the hu man body. We need only small amounts of them and they act subtly to influence our well being, our growth, our hardiness (resist ance to infections) Just as fertil ers affect the same general fea tures of plants. The question arises—and a very natural one it is in view of the prevalent craze to get all sorts of extra vitamins in concentrated form and otherwise—whether we can get too much vitamins. Plants get too much fertilizer sometimes. Can we overdo the vitamin busi ness? Most of what we hear is just the opposite kind of advice—here is Surgeon - General Parran, of the Public Health Service, telling us that there is a “new starvation” in the United States that hits two out of five citizens, resulting in faulty nutrition. “More than 40 per cent of the people in the country are not getting a diet adequate to maintain good health and vigor,” writes Dr. Parran. Deficiency Diseases Rare I gave reasons in the first arti cle this week for believing that this sort of talk is grossly exag gerated. Physicians who see pa tients in charity clinics are famil iar with conditions in all walks of life—particularly those walks of life where food is not abundant— and yet they find that deficiency diseases are still rare. But people are undoubtedly tak ing vitamin products in large quantities. So the question is per tinent—does this do any harm? Experiments have been carried out to determine this, and the re sult of them seems to be that there is no ground to fear that ex cept in one instance, any ill effects come from overdosage. Vitamin A is obtained by the body on the average American dietary in the amount of about 5,000 units daily. McBeth gave large quantities of the vitamin to school children up to 16,000 units a day. The age of the children was from 8 to 14 years. No outward results were observed from this large dosage. Thiamine chloride, which is the crystalline form of Vitamin B is required by the body in the amount of about 50 units for children and 200 units for adults per day. Twen ty-seven thousand units were taken by a laboratory worker in a single dose. And the same man took twenty times the needed dose daily for quite a period of time. No ill effects were observed from the ex Too Much Vitamin Riboflavin, which is the chemi cal name for Vitamin B-two can be taken in 1,000 times the needed amount without producing toxic ef fects. Vitamin C is destroyed or ex creted from the body very rapidly In experimental work on animals’ five times the ordinary amount taken in daily by the body was given and no ill effects observed and no changes found in the liver’ heart, kidneys or lungs in the ani mals after they were killed. The only vitamin that can do any harm when taken in large amounts is Vitamin D. It normally Jb Doing Business at the Same Old Stand IN HOLLYWOOD BY PAUL HARRISON BY PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD — An all-seeing camera is working for Orson Well es in the filming of “Citizen Kane." Nearly every shot is a specia problem for Greg Toland the boss cinematographer, and some oJ them are likely to look downrighi spooky. Most Hollywood sets have only two or three walls and no ceiling, Most of Welles’ sets have a ceiling and four walls. The came a comes in a door, or maybe a window, and moves about the room on a 20 x'oot boom, or crane. In one scene, for instance, the camera projects clear through the dining room of a house and into the living room. The lens picks up a boy playing in the snow out side, then it turns to pick up three actors inside. When the people move from one room to another, the camera follows them all the way. All this requires smooth work to keep furniture and people out of the way of the camera boom. PLENTY OF MISHAPS Welles likes long, smooth scenes uninterrupted by the closeups and angle shots of accepted movie tech nique. He’ll rehearse his players and crew for hours before using a foot of film, and a visitor gets the idea that production is going very slowly. Truth is it’s progressing rapidly. Lots of things can go wrong, of course. I watched a long series of mishaps on the scene previous ly described. Between each take there’d be a long wait while work men smoothed the snow in the yard outside and prepared to pour huge bags of fresh flakes (corn flakes) into th*e wind machines. Finally everything seemed to be moving smoothly. Welles, on the sidelines, was going through a prayerful pantomime. The compli cated scene was almost completed —and one of the actors gargled a word in his dialog. “Cut!’ moaned the young direc tor-producer-author-star. “We got the lighte right, the props right, the sound right, the action right— and now this frog gets a maij in is threat!” “Citizen Kane” is the story of a man told in five versions— through the views and experiences of people who knew him. The in troductipn of one of these chapters, Welles explains, is a page from a diary. Individually, as the eye would see them, the words appear, and one of these is “boy.” NET EFFECT SMOOTH Immediately the letters dissolve into a rebus-like picture of the boy himself, a small figure on the white margin of the page. The picture becomes larger; the white background is seen as a snowbank, with the kid playing there. The camera has been watching him through an open window. His mother had raised the window to call to him; now she closes it as the camera daws back to show ner, the living room and the two men. All this sounds pretty tricky, and it. is. But the effect, seen on the screen, is amazingly smooth. I don’t know whether “Citizen ! Kane” will be a box-office smash, ! but I do believe that the Upstart ! Orson Welles is contributing some important ideas to the convention al movies. 3 BRI INS TO PAY WAR SALES m Women Rush To Stock Up Or Luxuries On Eve Of Heavy New Impost BY J. NORMAN LODGE LONDON, Oct. 19.—(iP)—The wom en’s shops of London looked like the basements of New York department stores' on a bargain sale morning today as the fair sex of this be leaguered capital swarmed in to buy silk stockings, lingerie, handbags, powder, rouge and other articles of feminine beautification. It was another phase of the war. The purchase tax which is expected to raise £110,000,000 (about $410, 000,000) for Britain’s war needs will become effective Monday and these things will bear levy of one-third the price. Woman, it seems, pays in this case, too. Another point of the program is that, starting Monday, women will be able to buy only 19 shades of slips and panties: navy, gazelle, cof fee, cloud, new nectarine, new lilac. RAF 'blue-grey, khaki, new mist, opaline, black, ivory, lagoon, new peach, azure, champagne, rose, nile and pompadour. Ah, me! The lingerie dealers, it seems, adopted a shade card which is now standardize^. The shops did a big business, too, in slacks. The women seem hard-hearted about this, apparently concluding it’s better tp hide their legs than to show them in anything but silk, be cause after Dec. 1 legs must he en cased In something other than silk— unless you think silk made out of wood shavings and other ersatz prod ucts are nice to look at. More essential commodities than women’s accessories, things like drugs and medicines will carry a one sixth of the purchase price fax. Children’s clothing will be exempted. is needed in the diet because it prevents rickets, and does so by aying down calcium salts in the ong bones. When fed in excess this calcification goes forward at Sidney stones and similar deposits ill over the body. Tomorrow: Body Growth and Efect of Diet on Physique, 1 Book Highlights In his introduction, H. G. Wells calls his “Babes in the Darking Woods” (Alliance: $2.75), a “nov el of ideas,” stresses the fact that here are real characters from life, who talk as you would expect them to talk, who live and hope in the England of 1940. The novel bears out Wells’ pre diction in full. But he might have termed it “conversation piece,” for his characters discuss, in ade quate detail, a multitude of topics ranging from love and sex to phi losophy, education and the future of the world. The story is incidental. The thoughts, the ideas are the au thor’s chief concern. His charac ters move through various events, but only to provide opportunity of expression, and a setting for ex pounding facts and theories. Briefly, the framework on which Wells ties his arguments concerns Stella arid Gemini, two educated, young English people, discovered spending a holiday together with out benefit of clergy. Their affair interrupted, Gemini goes to the continent, is in Poland during the invasion, in Finland during the Russian war. He is wounded, when a munitions train explodes, returns home broken and disil lusioned. With Stella’s help, he returns to normal as Hitler marches into the lowlands. The story closes with Gemini on a mine-sweeper and Stella working as a nurse. But the worth of the novel is in the ideas it expounds. For exam ple, consider Gemini’s lengthy dis cussion on the future of the world after the war. There must be an Armistice, Gemini argues, imposed by neces sity, fostered by neutrals, proba bly America and Russia, then a world federation, ruled by inter national commissions controlling effective disarmament, repara tions, restoration of displaced pop ulations, air and general trans port, restoration of production, through readjustment of money and barter. The federation must put an end to air war forever. There’s more to Gemini’s theory, but you’ll have to read the novel. to appreciate it. Here is a work j well worth your perusal. 11 NHHS OPEN HOUSE PLANS PERFECTED Parents To Sit In Their Chil dren’s Seats At School Tuesday BY GLENWARD BLOMME On Tuesday night of this week, starting at 7:30 o’clock, the Parent Teachers association will operate the High school on a regular schedule, with the exception that the periods will be shorter and the parents are to take the place of their children. Parents will meet their children's teachers, sit in their seats, see how their rooms look and where they are located. Teachers will call the regu lar rolls and parents will answer "present” for their child. They will not be asked to recite, but may ask as many questions as they like. On Tuesday afternoon students will carry their program cards home to their parents and the parent "ill use it to follow the schedule for the night. Student guides will be in the halls to help parents find their w to the rooms and answer any ques tions. The teachers and students ha\e been working for some time on ex hibits. posters, etc., to make the rooms interesting for this event which is expected to draw a large § crowd of parents. There is s room in the assocaition for mote parent memberships and Mrs. hl'rr ton Shands, membership chairman, will be on hand Tuesday night, to receive memberships and dues. The program as outlined by Mrs. E. W. Mange, chairman, will oien with a 15-minute concert by the No" Hanover High school ROTC hand, under the direction of Lt. Eugene Lacock, starting at 7:30. Mix* Maude Webber, Bible teacher. "1,1 conduct the devotional at 7:45. "■ h a short business meeting following The Glee club will present several numbers after the business meeting’ j then T. T. Hamilton. Jr., principal will take charge and explain 'he procedure for the night’s schedule ^ Following the end of the per!"-° at 9:30, the parents and teacheu will go to the cafeteria for refresh ments prepared by Mrs. J R son, hospitality chairmaaj.
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