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Count Cve words to line THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. THURSDAY. MAY 14, 1942 With confidence In our armed forces—with the unbounding de termination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God. —Roosevelt's War Message Star-N ews Program To aid In every way the prosecution of the war to complete victory. Public Port Terminals. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Seaside Highway from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension oi City Limits. 35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wider 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 Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Promo tional Agency, supported by one county wide tax. Shipyards and Drydocki. Negro health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital facilities for white. Jun'or High School. Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy ers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING Souls can be lost; souls are lost; and when a soul is lost nothing can compensate for this loss. If a man gained the entire universe and in the transaction lost his soul, the deal would he carried on the red side of the ledger of heaven. There is nothing big enough to warrant a man seeking it in exchange for his soul. —CHARLES HADDON NABERS. -V The Rush Is On The registration for gasoline ration cards has brought to light the fact that many motor car owners have neglected to estab lish ownership of the autos they drive and have been guilty of a great variety of minor irregularities. The office of the Automobile Club of North Carolina, which acts for the state in the issuance of licenses and other matters connected with the legal operation of motor vehicles, has overflowed with de linquents since the registration started Tues day. The crowding has resembled the early phase of the final rush for licenses every year. Which suggests that much time and annoyance can be saved by completing all negotiations connected with the transfer of cars from one owner to another at one fell swoop, in ! stead of waiting indefinitely, as so many have done. y r Defense Stamp Conspiracy The conspiracy to defraud the American people and place a heavy burden upon the federal treasury through sale of bogus de fense stamps Is as shameful as any traitorous act could be. It is not only that, if carried out, it would have robbed the people of millions intended for legitimate investment in government se curities. It would have had an unsettling effect upon the country’s economic structure as well. The men who plotted to do this in a time when the nation is in a war which threatens its very existence and the freedom of every individual citizen deserve no more consider ation than a proved agent of an enemy power. Too much praise cannot be given the secret service whose members not only discovered the plot but confiscated plates and stamps and arrested the alleged leaders. It required expert sleuthing to do this and we have good reason to be grateful that we are served by so competent a group. The publicity given the coup should serve to safeguard the people against any subse quent effort of criminals to perpetrate a sim ilar hoax. No stamps should be purchased from any persons not properly authorized to offer them for sale. The post offices, the banks and most retail stores are so authorized. Be ware of any one else who offers them. -V Be Sure To Register Indifference of the enfranchized citizenship to the obligation to vote has become one of America’s greatest political sins. Rule by minorities has been the consequence. And minority rule is contrary to every prin cipal of democratic government. Because the registration of voters in this city and county for the forthcoming primary election has thus far been below par, as it has so often been in the recent past, some word must be spoken to warn the people that failure to cast ballots for the candidates who will stand for election in November will place the blame for any blunders in selection square ly upon them. Registration books will be open again next Saturday in every polling place. It is the solemn duty of every person entitled to vote but unregistered to appear on that day and be enrolled. And if any persons are in doubt whether they are already on the register it is an obvious duty to find out their status so that their names may be added if missing. Remember, there is a primary register and a general election register. They are separate and distinct. The voter whose name appears only cm one is not entitled to vote in the other election. The name must be on both registers if the voter is to participate in both elections. Wilmington’s voting record in recent elec tions is nothing to be proud of. At no time since long before the election changing the form of city government has Wilmington poll ed a truly representative vote. Now, with a war going on and the nation facing its gravest crisis, it is imperative that the candidates chosen for election in Novem ber shall be the choice of a true majority. This can be accomplished only if a great majority of eligible voters register and cast their ballots. Wilmington cannot afford to fall down again. -V Uniforms A woman’s corps to serve in non-combat jobs with the army, 150,000 strong, has been legislated into existence. As the bill authoriz ing it was backed by the administration there is no reason to doubt that the Chief Execu tive will sign it. Strangely enough, feminine interest centers largely in what kind Of uniforms will be de signed for the members, proving that brass buttons have more than a masculine appeal. This is not so frivolous as it might seem. There is something about a uniform that inspires confidence. Even an arm band or a distinctive cap or insignia — if it be no more than a button on a lapel — commands respect. It sets the wearer off as one in authority, able to perform special service. This is why we believe every person con cerned with the public welfare In these try ing times and doing work connected with home defense should display some visible to ken of his or her position. There has been much opposition to the uni forming of defense forces and even Red Cross volunteer workers, because of the wool short age. Naturally it is desirable to make what wool we have or can get by import go as far as possible. But it is doubtful if the elimina tion of uniforms or other insignia of service would be as valuable as the effect on morale of having person* in civilian defense occupa tions plainly identified. If it were done, the sight of thousands displaying the emblem of their office, however humble, would be good for the morale of the masses. Nobody sees a Gray Lady, a Deaconess, a Sister of Charity, a policeman, state troop er or soldier without a sense of security, stemming from their special raiment. It is not improbable that much the same effect would be created if, say, air raid wardens always wore their arm bands and other work ers in the defense set-up displayed their in signia. What About Bailey? What about Senator Bailey? Are we going to return him to the senate or force his retirement from that vital post? The decision rests with the voters of North Carolina. There has never been*a period in our na tional history when it was so necessary to have trained, experienced stewards in posi tions of trust and responsibility. Clear think ing and efficient service in office is at a premium. And the thinking and service must stem from close acquaintanceship with all matters in hand, whether it be an appropria tion for war materials, the further develop ment of the nation’s waterways, or any of a hundred measures . directly associated with our war program or of strictly domestic pol icy. Only the men who through long contact with the many phases of national legislation are capable of doing a good job in this crucial period. Senator Bailey is one of these men. His long years in the senate have qualified him for the exacting tasks that legislative body must perform with precision now. So what are we going to do about him? Put him on a shelf, where his country will lose his services? Let him retire to private life at a time when his experience is most needed? Send another man to the senate in his stead who can acquire the equivalent of his knowl edge of public affairs and requirements only after years of apprenticeship? Or are we going to return him to Washing ton, that he may continue the good work he has been doing, not only while the war con tinues but after hostilities cease and this na tion takes up the task of establishing sound governmental and economic peace throughout the world? Can we afford to do anything else? Hardly. —-V Blood Donors Needed Wilmington's defense program, which has been making definite and commendable prog ress in recent weeks, lacks coopration in one important factor of safety. The people of the city and county are not responding to the call for blood contributions as it is felt they should, and as they must if an adequate blood bank is to stand between life and death for many persons. It may be that some residents are reluctant to give blood because they fear it might have an ill effect upon their health. They may dis abuse their minds on that score. Any one in normal health and not older than 45 can spare the quantity of blood withdrawn by the surgeon without danger. If this were not so the coun try would be overflowing with invalids, for tens of thousands of Americans have given their blood for this purpose. It would be to Wilmington’s credit, and in an emergency would preserve many lives, if the blood bank now being assembled at the James Walker Memorial hospital were great ly increased. _it _. _ Washington Daybook (First Of A Series) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 13—To the thousand and-one questions about the sweeping price control order which places retail ceilings on hundreds and hundreds of articles this month, the answer is simply “nobody knows.” Just exactly what will happen as a result of it? Who will be hurt? How can the seller of goods or service adversely affected beat the game and stay in business? Will it (with other measures already in effect and to fol low) solve our inflation problem? Will it fore stall- or necessitate rationing? Will it neces sitate subsidies? How is it going to be en forced? Will “black markets” become preva lent? The answer still is “nobody knows.” » * » If there are two people in Washington who should know about the price control order, they are Leon Henderson, chubby chief of the Office of Price Administration, and Presi dent Roosevelt himself. Yet the OPA calls the sweeping price ceiling order merely the cornerstone in the wall against inflation and Prsident Roosevelt warned the nation in his fireside chat that he would use his executive powers to the full est to carry out the policy laid down. Both these pronouncements indicate that the price ceiling is not the end of it, but rather the beginning. Both hint that measures will be taken as necessity arises—but just what these potential necessities may be is not defined. The reason is that for the most part they can only be guessed at and it is those guesses, unofficial and official, with which I wish to deal, for in them possibly may be the key to this riddle which is going to affect more American lives than any other law or govern ment order ever issued. * * It may well be that this nation, operating through its democratic processes, is throwing itself into a depression in the hope that it may emerge from the war effort going uphill instead of down. That at least is the way one government economist has described it. If it isn’t a self-imposed depression, then it is a self-imposed brake on what might have been the biggest boom in the nation’s history. The way Leon Henderson tells it, there’s nothing very complicated about the present inflation threat. After taxes and sav ings are deducted, it is estimated that the American people will, this year, have $86 - 000,000,000 to spend. BUT the total value of goods available for purchase is only $65,000, 000.00. It doesn’t take any text book econo mist to see what happens in a situation like that. * * * The spenders bid the prices up. The sellers boost them just as fast as competition will permit. The have-littles demand higher wages. Earnings in dollars and cents, soar. And the cost of living —oblivious to the fact that all that goes up must come down harder than a land mine and with much more devastation— tries to hit that limit in the sky. That’s what the government is trying to prevent and price control is a part of that effort the part that up to now is going to hit more peple in more places than anything that yet has happened in this war. (Tomorrow: Headaches For The Retail er.) ---- v - Quotations _a The air raid on the Japanese Empire was only the first installment on our debt to Tokyo, and America always pays in full.—Rep. Clar ence Cannon, Missouri Democrat. * * * I hope it’s enough to buy a bomb to drop on him.—Charles Thompson, 11-year-old St Louis boy, buying war bond on Hitler’s birthday. * * * There is actual, continuous and substantial interference with interstate movement of war materials in many states because of certain state laws.—Joseph B. Eastman, director of Office of Defense Transportation. * * * We must tear out of history books the things that prejudice one poeple against another — British Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. * * * We have one watchword: to move forward today, not tomorrow.—Secretary of State Cor dell Hull. ~ * * * z I don’t want any stamps or bonds I just want to give the war effort this $50—Jocin Loncaric, St. Louis WPA worker, to internal revenue collector. nuernal Despite the immensity of continuing nlant expansion our aircraft firms are keeping up with or ahead of government schedules -John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical'Cham ber of Commerce. dxn ANOTHER CORKING SPEECH BY CHURCHILL Yesteryears 10 YEARS AJGtO TODAY Judge George Rountree, speak ing at the weekly public forum at the county courthouse, asked for the consolidation of city and coun ty governments. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY The unrestrained wrath of the senate was poured down today on food gamblers and speculators. They were termed “pirates and robbers’’ by the irate solons in one of the stormiest outbursts in the history of that body. A fourth German attempt to raid England with Zeppelins ended in disaster, as British /naval forces shot one of the big balloons down over the Channel and dispersed the remainder of the raiders. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY The state commissioner of agri culture has received reports from correspondents in Robeson and Bladen counties, that caterpillars are stripping whole forests of leaves. The insects are moving west. 2 Is That So! The growing shortage of golfing equipment will have the country club set bragging about how few clubs it took them to go around. * * * And the irate duffer who can't resist smashing his clubs as he announces he is through with the game will have to stick to his word. » * * In tobacco-short Holland, smok ers make cigars of dried cherry leaves. Grandpappy Jenkins fears they’re “not berry good.” * * * ‘ The fellow who is content to just coast along may not get very far, but he certainly should save a powerful lot of gas. * * * War reports refer to the second phase of the war. Just like our second phase of spring weather. Raymond Clapper Says: 8 Americans Fighting Under Difficulties BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, May 13. — Mrs. Roosevelt reports in her column that her son, Elliott, a major in the air corpfe, has returned from Africa with a germ that means a spell in the hospital. That is not surprising. Malaria and dysentery lurk everywhere and sometimes defy the most careiul precautions. I saw Elliott in Khar toum where we spent an evening together. He was as impressed as I was with what the Americans are doing, especially under diffi culties strange to the United States. You do not dare drink a drop of water that has not been boiled. Often it is difficult to know whe ther the water has been boiled. When in doubt, you drink beer. Toward dusk everyone puts on mosquito boots, to keep out the malarial mosquito which hovers near the ground. Everyone takes quinine. It is not a preventive but helps fight the fever if one is bitten. * * * That is the kind of thing, on top of all other difficulties, that American forces in Africa, the Middle East and most of Asia must cope with. There are sand storms, tropical heat that slays un less you wear an insulated helmet reaching down over the back of your neck, torrential rains that make operations difficult, and al ways the native labor that insists on doing work in slow, ancient ways that drive Americans to ex asperation. Yet, in face of these difficulties the Army and the Pan American Airways, working together, have within a few months put into op eration this most remarkable air route across Africa. Work began last' summer. We were not in the war and Pan-American was given a contract to start the job for the The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “IN SEARCH OF SANITY,” by Andrew Shirr a Gibb (Farrar & Rinehart; $5). It is a dangerous business to try to say in a few hundred words what a 546-page, closely printed scientific book is about. This state ment, therefore, must be skimpy and suspect as well. But it is something merely to be able to call Andrew Shirra Gibb’s “In Search of Sanity” a scientific book, because not many books about psychology conform to that definition. Mr. Gibb was an engineer be fore he took up psychology, and throughout “In Search of Sanity” he applies as carefully as possible the scientific system of reasoning Therefore he does not begin with a set of preconceptions, and de vote his book to “proving” these. This in spite of the fact thax he worked with Jung and feels that the Zurich professor has probably the best basic approach to the “science” of the mind. And this because Jung does not begin his work beset by a cluster of prior metaphysical assumptions. So far as I can see, Mr. Gibb is reasserting the ancient principle of individual responsibility. This entails the recognition, by each of us, that we have withip us balanc ing psychic principles—we are both selfish and altruistic, for ex ample, and normally we reserve the latter characteristic for our selves and project the selfishness upon other people. The assertion of certain mechanistic biologists and deterministic philosophers that our sense of individual free dom and responsibility is an illu sion Mr. Gibb thinks is not only wrong, but unscientific. They are, he says, merely begging the ques tion in their premises. It is the effort to disown and ex ercise our common human attrib utes, to project them upon other people, which leads us to fear and to distrust the people upon whom we do project these attributes, that leads to snobbishness and pseudo aristocratic attitudes in indivi duals, and to mass movements which make political life in its larger sense unbearable. Therefore we are, in Mr. Gibb’s view, to regard these human traits as empirically given, and we are to understand that the individual has within him a “creative and integrative function” which will enable him to harmonize these traits, and thus to solve his prob lems. He devotes a great share of his book to explaining why this is so, and how the harmonious in tegration is to be accomplished. 2 if United States Government. A 700-mile overseas air route had to be developed from the United States to Africa before the land operations could begin. Next came the task of constructing land bases and enlarging the pioneer British airway across Africa. This was the largest single air trans port assignment ever undertaken by a private organization, Pan American operating for the Amer ican Government. * » * Veterans of Pan-American’s reg ular overseas operating staff were put on the job. The first shipload of men and materials was on the high seas at the time of Pearl Harbor and reached Africa a few days later. Pan-American drew on its long experience in flying both oceans and the South American jungles, and was thereby able to start op operations without losing time in costly experiments. It had to or ganize, transport and set up a com plete transcontinental airway across Africa, providing not only airports but servicing facilities, living quarters, food, medical aid and equipment. That meant building an airway over 5000 miles of jungle, desert and mountains, with temperatures far above one hundred degrees, without telephones, telegraph or trains. It mant using camels and donkeys. Gasoline had to be car ried over trackless deserts by pack animals. All of this has been done since last December in what is known as the “white man’s graveyard.” One American out of three was in the hospital with malaria at one time. Pan-American brought in a medical corps, built hospitals, drilled wells, installed purifiers, sewers, drainage ditches. Now less that one per cent of the men have malaria. Transports were operating with in 60 days of the President’s order. Now the African route is one of the most heavily traveled air routes in the world and is capable of unlimited expansion. It was built out of the spirit and technical competence of Pan-American air ways. There is talk that the Army may take <?ver the Pan-American opera tion in Africa. The pioneering has been done. While there may be good reason for militarizing the line, it would be a loss if the Pan American organization, profession ally trained for exactly this kind of loru were swallowed up into Army routine. The British have -^turned their air transport to civilian hands after trying out RAF operation. The African line is working with speed and efficiency under private operation. Space is under Army control. It is an instance of close teamwork under pioneering con ditions and could easily be gum med up by the wrong kind of a move now, as we all remember from the air-mail episode. -V Factographs Aden, a peninsula on the Arab ian coast, at the southern end Df the Red sea, is a British Asiatic possession. It is a crown :olony, and the population (includ es Perim, an island) in 1931 was 18,338, mostly Mohammedans. Interpreting The War Import Of Nazi Blow On Kerch Peninsula Remains To Be Seen By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst The Russians’ announcement p they have retire, to new po^!io‘®' on the Kerch peninsula giv'es’ * somber cast t. the war news though there is yet no coniii-m ’ tion of Hitler ^ claims o£ a decbh' victory in that area. In fact the Russians deny p. Nazi leader’s boast that the Mt,]* has ben concluded: they say p,* Red troops are retiring j.,‘ gor! order and inflicting heavy losses. Thus, the real import of the blow the Nazis have struck in this vast ly important sector remains for' events to determine. The phrasing of the Xa/.i an. nouncement, however, goes tul. ,f’ remove any lingering doubt as whether the Kerch operations signal the opening of the ]0ME heralded “annihilation” offensive ja the east. It uses that word l0 characterize the claimed results j,,. eluding capture of 40.000 prisoners and vast war booty. It says that the Nazi forces are pursuing pie Reds from the broke. If-mile dr, fense line at the western neck of ule isthmus toward Kerch itself That and wort pictures of u,e battle painted by Nazi press r.-~ ports indicate that a massive force of men, planes, tanks and guns was mustered in the Crimea for tli Kerch drive. It tends to verify the conclusion of observers at Beri that half a dozen German division, and an overpowering air strength were thrown into the five-day struggle. If that is true, as it seems to be it eliminates the possibility that the Kerch fight is merely a tactical operation to improve the Nazi posi tion on the south flank of the long battle line or remove a dan gerous Russian threa*. There are various reports o£ synchronized Nazi attacks all along the sector extending from the Kharkov n acc. in the Donetz basin to the German "island” advance base at Taganms on the shores of the Sea of Azov only 60-cdd miles from the all in, portant Rostov corner on the h; None of these reports ha, been yet mentioned in either German Russian official accounts. They lend color to the belief, however, that a vast Nazi turning nm, ment in effect hinged on Ker isthmus but calculated to sweep ti Don river front door to the Cau casus clear to the Volga is binn ing, if not already in motion. In contradiction of the on Churchill intimation that no . -, dence of a massing of Genmui forces for a major offensive ;n Russia had been detected, i:. m, onlookers have reported a ;. army 2,000,000 strong assembled mr a big push in the south. The liiii-r claim of a mashing victory v Kerch isthmus tends to subtumin-•• that. It suggests that .. more German troops were nis centrated on that 12-mile front alone. That any such concentrate, could have been brought together in the eastern Crimea nndetect"! by the Russians seems impossible. Air observation and reports in: Russian civilians must have reveal ed military movements on tl:a: scale. There are only two re by which thej could have enterol the Crimea with all their neces.-v war gear, the Pc -ekop isthmus ond the Melitopol-Simferopol railroad. It would follow, naturally, i ' Red army preparations to meet a tremendous Nazi attack to regain the Kerch gateway to the Cane - - have been in progress on both sid' - of Kerch Strait. A russinn failure to hold that narrow water bath' even if Kerch isthmus is lost nea.r would undermine the Don d<u >■ line before the foe even reaches i' Kerch Strait itself, coupled v. Russian naval forces and air p"« could afford the Red army means of fighting a prolonged ■ ■ laying action if the Germans reached its western shore. Its de fensive possibilitie ha e never be tested. Lord Beaverbrook remarked it recent broadcast in this 1 ■ that Russia had developed "the!' generals of this war," And best of them, beyond d"ubi Marshal Timoshenko, (onm u ; - the southern front. He is a disciple of the Nazi attack technique. And if lie attack front begins to swing In gate on the Kerch hinge. In- nl - have an opportunity for a mu flanking thrust southward be:u it from the Kharkov region. -V As Others Say It — THE IDEAL LAW The ideal law would be _ which cuts down all incomes t 000 a year and brings ail othei comes up to the same level - .'e, York Times. STREET CARS The gathering problem. f°r ‘t*.. sas City is not find'ng the best j most comfortable methods • transportation. It will be a P lem of getting the public to ■ destinations. — Kansas City S* • PILDUZER PARK .e Aunt Hettie Dewbiddle say* only wishes she could have to Corregidor in time vvitr. • guns and ammunition to help poor boys out. — The BenlZi Bard, in the Baltimore Sun IN KNITTING CIRCLE* ^ In some knitting circles ttS , told that everybody is t0° ,0 even to talk. Sometimes it ^ quiet that you can hear a 51 I drop.—Raleigh Times. .
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