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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use ot all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. "™*~ FRIDAY, MAY 15, 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-NewsProgram To aid in every way the prosecution o* 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 of City Limits. 36-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 Drydochs. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital facilities for white. Junior High School. Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy ers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING The inscription, “Know Thyself,” as writ ten over the temple at Delphi six hundred years before the Christian era does not ap ply to the Greeks alone, hut is a command to every man and woman of every age. . . But before anyone can truly know oneself, one must know God. A knowledge of God is a prerequisite to knowledge of self. Only as humanity is printed on the hack ground of divinity can one know self. —NABERS. -V Civilian Defense Parade Charlotte Is planning a parade of defense workers on May 20 in which it is announced at least 7,000 persons will participate. The purpose of the demonstration is obvious. It will not only give the people of Charlotte a chance to see the personnel upon whom the city will rely for vital aid in an emergency, but stimulate recruiting among the non-help ing population as well. We may reasonably assume that Charlotte as well as Wilmington and other cities still* need larger forces for the many activities concern ed with community security. Wilmington needs them, despite recent increases in volunteers. It might prove the means of filling existing gaps in Wilmington’s defense groups if a simi lar parade were held here. -V A Flimsy Excuse The Japanese are claiming that but for bad weather they would have made a killing in Jhe Coral sea. It is a foolish boast. American forces were subjected to the same weather. If it was an insurmountable handicap for the Japanese it could have been nothing else for our fighters. It is more likely that the Japanese with this eanard, are trying, to bolster the confidence of their sea commander who, having tasted American fire, may well be considering the advantages of avoiding it in the future. The fact of the battle is that the Japanese had hoped to cut United Nations communica tions with Australia by surprise attack and conquest of strategic islands belting Australia’s approaches. They failed because American Australian reconnaissance planes discovered what they were up to and our forces intercept ed the invasion fleet in sufficient strength and with enough air support to make the enemy turn tail and scoot for cover. Japap, during the first stage of tjae war in the Orient, had such an easy time of it. be cause the opposition was not adequately or ganized, it is difficult for her war makers to realize that the entire war is not to be fought on the same lines. When she has a demonstra tion of growing power among her enemies and suffers a major defeat she must do some thing, if only to trump up a foolish excuse, to save her face and give her fighting forces encouragement to keep on fighting. It is safe to say that as resistance increases and the general counter-thrust gets under way, Japanese leaders will be scratching their heads to summon up even more untenable reasons for defeat. -V Let’s Go Ahead, Not Backward Automobile sales stopped. Tires to be had only with sweat and blood and tears. Now it’s gasoline. Is it any wonder people are talking about reverting to horse and buggy? But Dobbin and the old carry-all are not the solution of our transportation problem. In the first place Dobbin is too nearly extinct. In the second, carriage factories are gone with the dodo bird. It would take longer to put horse and buggies into commission for general use than to develop synthetic rubber. Besides, a return to horse-and-buggy days would represent a step backward in this go ahead country. It is more likely that the solu tion lies in development of substitute fuel for gas buggies and a new kind of wheels which will make pneumatic tires unnecessary. There are many experiments being conduct ed with this end in view and some measure of success has been reported by several inven tors. None has been entirely successful, but out of the total, or in combination with others still to be undertaken, we may rest assured a wheel that will meet every requirement of careful driving will be manufactured. As for fuel, that too may be solved. For one thing there is enough vegetable waste on farms every year to make billions of gallons of alcohol, which has been used experimentally to fire motor cars. There is one cabbage patch in Alabama containing several hundred acres, from which a crop is distributed to the farthest corners of the country. When the cabbages are cut and trimmed there is a tremendous mass of outside leaves and stalks left on the ground to rot, and there’s alcohol in all of it. No back yard garden but could make its contribution to a community still for extracting alcohol. But if this cost too much, in the long run, for general distribution, and too much tinker ing on motors were neccessary to convert them to alcohol burners, it has been demon strated in times past that kerosene can ‘-■e ’treated or combined with other liquids which give it potency for gas combustion engines. The problem of transportation is not unsolv able. Not by any means. And the solution does not have to push us back into horse-and buggy days. The ‘Gas Hog’ Now add to the list of human swine, the “gas hog.” He’s the fellow who demands ex emption from gasoline rationing or, if he couldn’t get an “X” rating, wants the next largest, and is ready to “go to Washington” to get it. Wilmington had its full share of “gas hogs” during the registration days. They were quar relsome to the highest degree. They made all the trouble they could for the teachers con ducting the registration. They threatened ven geance of a hundred sorts, even to having the teachers discharged. They said they had in fluence in Washington. They said they’d go to the local rationing board. By the great horn spoon, they’d get what they wanted or know the reason why. Of course they got what they were entitled to, and no more. There may have been some exceptions, through no fault of the teachers. Some may have lied themselves into a rating they did not deserve. That wrong rests ex clusively upon them. And their punishment will be severe if they are discovered. But there is small satisfaction in that. These are indeed days to try men’s souls. At no time in our national history has indi vidual integrity, downright honesty in all deal ings, been more in demand. Any persons who sinks so low as to try to lie himself into pos session of anything in the war emergency, anything needed in the war program, is ap praisable only as a friend of the enemy. It strikes far deeper than selfishness. 100 Per Cent School The Cornelius Harnett school, which has done many remarkable things during its long service to education, including some pioneering in garden projects which ought to be revived on a city-wide scale, is to establish another record today. The school—every class, grade and teacher—is to buy war savings stamps. And because the record is something to be eminently proud of, there are to be special exercises to celebrate the event. All praise to the Cornelius Harnett school! While the 100 per cent rating thus to be attained is a splendid achievement, it does not represent the full effort of the school to pro mote sales of both stamps and bonds. The children have been active agents in their fam ilies as well. There is no way to determine how many bonds have become assets in the homes of Cornelius Harnett pupils, but it is well known that through their efforts parents have invested heavily in this best of all gov ernment securities. Wilmington would have no difficulty reach ing, and topping, its quota if everybody did as well as the youngsters at this school. And that makes us wonder why everybody doesn’t A Another Traffic Offender It seems practically hopeless to get any where with our private campaign for safety awheel. But we should be derelict in our duty if we gave up the fight. Here is another case of carelessness which cannot be condoned or overlooked. Yesterday a negro boy in the middle teens rode his bicycle down Grace street between Third and Second with his hands off the handlebars and crossed Second without slowing down, more intent upon the tuneless air he was whistling than on traffic. Second street at Grace is a through street. All traffic on Grace is ordered to stop by signs plainly painted on the pavement. Yet this negro delivery boy went through the in tersection at fast coasting speed, hands aloft, with no more regard for the danger he was creating for himself or pedestrians or motor vehicles than a baby just learning to walk has for a flight of steps. It so happened that pedestrians were cros sing Grace on Second and two automobiles moving in opposite directions, and within their rights, were nearly midway of the intersection on Second. Not only the boy’s life, but the lives of all persons using the crossing, were imperiled by his recklessness. There is no way of identifying the boy's em ployer. But the case is a clear indication of the duty which rests upon all employers whose deliveries are made by bicycle and others whose messengers ride wheels to conduct courses in safety with attendance compulsory upon all such employes. -V He Loses Either Way Pierre Laval, Hitler’s cat’s-paw at Vichy, knows very well that if the Axis loses this war his life will not be worth a picayune. If he were not a besot'ted fool he would also know that it w'ill be w'orth no more if Hitler wins. Hitler's scheme is to use men as long as they are useable and destroy them as soon as their usefulness ends. Some thousands of years ago it was written in a book that has survived all wars: “Be not deceived. Whatsoever a man seweth, that shall he also reap.” Having been a traitor to vrance, Laval can hardly expect that Hitler, the most treacher ous of men, will not also be a traitor to him. -V Washington Daybook (Second Of A Series) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 14.—Although there is no official opinion on it, most observers agree that the order in which business is going to be hurt by price ceilings is (1) the retailer; (2) the wholesaler; (3) the manufacturer. To take them up in reverse: The manufac turer, for the most part already has made his readjustments to price fixed basic materials, priorities, etc. The wholesaler will suffer most from the necessary cancelling of contracts al ready made for future delivery and from the pressure from his retail customers to absorb some of the losses. tLeon Henderson, OPA chief, estimates that 60 per cent of the whole sale goods now moving into the markets al ready are doing so under controlled prices.) * * * The real headaches, however, will be those suffered by the retailers and few will escape, from the general store at the crossroads to the biggest emporiums in the metropolitan centers. OPA estimates that $700,000,000 will be sheared off prices by the order which makes March highs the for-the-duration ceiling. Retailers already are wailing that they were selling goods in March bought on contracts made long ago at wholesale prices far below March levels—that to pay March wholesale prices for those goods and sell them at March retail levels will force them out of business. To consider all of the problems -which are facing the nation’s retailers, it would be nec essary to go into every store and consider almost every article sold. OPA field representatives already are work ing day and night to help the retailers in the districts solve their problems and avoid bank ruptcy. The top suggestion is to cut down on serv ices. The cash-and-carry business, for example will probably become almost general. Where delivery services are not eliminated entirely, they will be greatly curtailed. Self service stores, or those partially so, will become num erous. Fancy packaging will become a thing of the past. Credits will be tightened up and many long-term credit systems abandoned. ajc # # With all of this corner-cutting and by “rol ling back'’ some of the losses on wholesalers and manufacturers. OPA hopes the price ceil ings can be established and maintained with out wrecking retailers. If they can’t the wrecks may become numerous. If they be come too numerous, something else may have to be resorted to but if Administration officials continue to think as they do now it won’t be an occasional ripping out of the price ceiling. Unless it falls on our heads in some manner not now seen by government officials, the price ceiling is here to stay. It is much more likely that it will be extended to other com modities and even to wages than that it will be relaxed. (Tomorrow: The Housewife And What Lies Ahead.) -V QUOTATIONS The rise of more sophisticated swing music has revised jitterbugging, which has been streamlined into something the better hotel ballrooms and Army morale officers are will ing to sanction. — Arthur Murray, dance teacher. * * * Hitler knows we have enough avaiable oil that ultimately will be blow him and his stoog es to — well you can fill in the name of the place.—Petroleum Co-Ordinator Harold L. Ickes. * * * We shall have a chance to niake a new world in which the freedom of each one of us shall be the charge of all. — Sir Gerald (CamDbeil. British minister to Washington. the unreluctant dragon The Editor’s Letter Box The editor does not necessarily endorse any article appearing in this department. They represent the views of the individual readers. Correspondents and warned that all communications must contain the correct name and address for our records, though the latter may be signed as the writer sees fit. The Star-News reserves the right to alter any text that for any rea son is objectionable. Letters on controversial subjects will not be published. CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST To the Editor: Terrible as is the wholesale mur der of merciless warfare, it is not the only way in which “Man’s in humanity to man” is shown. Near ly all of us are far too careless and thoughtless of the suffering ones, even in our own midst, to say nothing of those at a distance. Why are we so unfeeling toward our fellow-beings? Why are we so ready to feel, (even if we don’t think or say:) “My table is well filled, why should it concern me that others are hungry? I have sufficient clothing, what does it matter to me that others are clothed in rags? I have reaspnable health and strength, why should I care that many others are lame, halt, or blind or suffering the pangs of pain and anguish in var ious ways?” Wherein can we complain of those who (quoting from Gray) “Wade through slaughter to sF throne and shut the gates of mercy on mankind,” if we in turn bar the gateway to hope, happiness and well-being against the sick, help less and discouraged ones we might have helped? Shall the hands of those who are groping blindly in the prison-house of pain and despair reach''out to us in vain? If so. where is our expecta tion for help when our own dav of distress and trouble arrives? Chickens come home to roost in strange and unexpected ways, as many thousands (including myself) have learned to our deep sorrow and regret. Jesus says: “With what meas ure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” How many of us can stand before Him and say “Lord, I am ready for the same treatment which I have dealt out to my fellow-beings to be meas ured back to me?” A hymn writer of the past sums it up in this way: “That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me!” Can we use these words as our heartfelt prayer? Suppose there was some helpless and afflicted person in our locality who had received very indifferent treatment at our hands: then suppose it was suddenly learned that he (or she) was a personal friend of the President’s and that he was intending to stop by on a certain day to see him (or her.) Would there not be a scramble among us to offer every possible help we could to the afflicted one, and when the President made his trip, w ould we not crowd around him to say: “Yes, I saw to it that so-and-so Was done for him (or her.”) and “I per sonally had this and that done,” etc.? Yet all afflicted one» have a far greater Friend than any human being, Who has very em phatically stated that whatever is done for His needy ones is done for Him, and whatever we refuse to them is refused to Him. P. H. Willord. Bolivia, N. C May 15, 1942. 5 Raymond Clapper Says: Whole American People Going To School Again By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, May 14 — Two American leaders from opposite sides within the last few days have said the same thing in different words. Vice-President Wallace and Wendell Willkie have both made strong appeals to the American people to follow a bold course in carrying through the war into the job of organizing the world after ward. Wallace and Willkie undoubtedly will* disagree about many details. The important fact is that these two leaders in opposing political parties are urging the same funda mental outlook. < Last week Mr. Wallace told the Free World Association that a world - wide revolution, beginning 150 years ago, is still going on and that we must prepare to face many changes after this war as the course of this peoples’ revolu tion proceeds. This week Mr. Willkie. in a com mencement address at Union college, pleads with politicians in both political parties not to sabo tage the victory by repeating the isolationism that followed the last war. He makes the pointed warning that men elected to Congress this year may well be holding their offices when the peace is being made and will have to decide on much legislation concerning it. Mr. Willkie pleads that men who would make a mockery of the war sacri fice not, be put in office. Victory, he says, will only clear the way for the real task, f o r then we must use the full force of our influence and enlightenment as a nation to plan and establish con tinuing agencies under which a new world may develop —a world worth the fight and sacrifice we shall have made for it. Those are Willkie’s words, and damned wise ones. The whole American people is going to school again. We won’t be graduated this year. Nor next year. All of us have to work at learning as hard as a class of young men trying to complete an officer’s training course in three months. Commencement addresses are apt to sound a little silly this year, because the speakers know no more about the kind of a world they are trying to talk about then the youngsters do. Probably not as much. The youngsters usually will know more about the machines and the chemistry that are shaking us us so violently. The old fellows know so much that isn’t so any more. The youngsters have free minds instead of cluttered muse ums in their heads. * * * Once the commencement season was a time when stuffed shirts who had made a little money and had given some of it back to old Alma Mater returned to the cam pus, put on cap and gown and told the hot, bored youngsters who were waiting impatiently to get back to their girls how to succeed in life. Usually the old chap had all of the answers, and could prove it by the endowment check previously handed over to the board of trus tees. The formula was to work hard and save. * * * That formula used to'^vork. Op portunities were all around for the taking. But your filling station owner is now learning that, unless those Japs around on the other side of the world are held in their place, he can’t run his filling station. The enterprising young man who went to South America and built up a business finds now that the ships he depended on have been taken (Continued on Page Seven) The Literary Guidepost BY JOHN SELBY ‘‘A B C OF AMERICA’S WINES,” by Mary Frost Mabon (Knopf; S2). At last somebody has made a serious effort to debunk two rea sonably serious matters — wine drinking in America, and wine making in the same country. She is Mary Frost Mabon. and her book is called "A B C of Ameri ca’s Wines.” If you are one of those who have taken Washing ton’s and Jefferson’s advice to make wine your drink instead of hard likker, you can’t do better than to read Mrs. Mabon. Firstly, she takes the hide off those misguided people who have conspired to make a mystery of wine and its uses. After quite a bit of discussion she reaches the only sensible conclusion; if you like it, it’s good; if you don’t, it’s bad. There are plenty of French men who serve rather sweet white wine with roast beef, for exam ple. I have dinner once in a while with one of these. It seems to me foolish, because most people like a good red wine, preferably bur gundy, with red meat. But my hos tess does not, and Mrs.. Mabon would rightly say it was my hos tess’ business. Mrs. Mabon also takes a fling at the people who have developed those precious descriptions of wine. One Englishman describes a wine he liked thus: “a girl of fif teen coming in on tiptoes.” An other wine impressed the same man so: “a poor thing, a made-up, painted, artificial" creature, the sort young boys find fascinating.” This is the type of_ idiocy that drives men (and women) into tak ing three Scotch and sodas before dinner. She also sorts out, after a fash ion. the current controversy as to whether American wines shall be described by the foreign wine they most resemble, or shall be named for the grape and the locality that produced them. She seems to favor the latter, but decries the meti culousness which leads to such label as this: “Colcombet Napa Sweet Semilion Haut Sauterne, Mt. St. Helena Vineyard.” What house wife could remember that, she asks with justice. But Americans are drinking more and more wine, and more and more good wine is being made here. So Mrs. Mabon devotes the larger part of her book to telling precisely where the wines’ are made, aged and bottled; what they are like; where they are to be had and praise be, approximate ly their cost. This is a delicate business, and so far as I can see she conducts it with an almost desperate honesty. 2 Interpreting The War Russian Drive Against Kharkov I* Significant By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War ,\nalyst Marshal Timoshenko’s action ■ hurling powerful segments 0f Ukrainian armies against Khar'v’ is of first significance whether°! represents a diversion to reli‘.!* German pressure on his Crirr.t ? front, or a major offensive on h" own hook, as Moscow contends * It reflects strikingly the rej'- . strategic values he sees in held.-* the Kerch isthmus and in acy,"? ing a break-through at Khars™ the Ukrainian “Pittsburgh;’ ' And those values rest not much upon Kharkov itself ..!° access its recapture would Red armies the Nazi common ication network south and west" i it. 01 Russian incursions which bv, passed Kharkov to the south j preparation fo rthe assault on the city already have seriously hair, pered German north-south direct communications. The Kerch-Meli. topol-Kharkov railway is the prime link supporting the Nazi jump-off positions in the Donets basin and the Crimea. The main stem of that line had already been cut by the Red airiv southwest of Kharkov. There have been insistent reports in the lav few weeks of Russian e a v a 1 r v dashes or guerrilla operations per ilously close to Dnepropetrovsk. At that point, on the northern curve of the great southern bend of the Dnieper, the East-West road connecting Stalino in the lower Donets area with the We, makes its river crossing. It inter, sects the Kerch-Kharkov Nor;. South line a short distance east of Dnipropptrovsk. forming a vita. ly important Nazi communication route for a wide sector of the Donets front below Kharkov, Traced out on any map. the Timoshenko drive at the Kharkov protective bastion for Nazi com munications seems grooved to reach or threaten Dnieprope.ri vosk in an attempt to paralyze the Nazi southern offensive before : even gets going full strength. Red recapture of the city and an ad vance southwestward through the breach to the Dnieper could fore ’ a German retreat in the lower Donets instead of a major attack There is another inference to be drawn from Russian stress on the Kharkov operations. The implici ■ tion is that the fight for Kern; peninsula is only an outpost alta r of heroic size in Russian strategy: that the main Russian defer.3 front for the Crimea backdoor k the Caucasus lies east of Kerch: strait, not on Kerch peninsula. Maps showing that the land e; -t of the strait is broken by Id1 and estuaries support that con clusion. While at its narrm. est point the strait is only four ' five miles wide, it is a ten-n: > span at the points of the on 1 ' road or rail connection east ol' strait. The Western panhandle of Caucasus is far more difficult rain to overrun than the Kc 1' Eastern panhandle. Only two n: ■ row tongues of solid ground, b dominated by small heights, ' ford passage eastward toward : plains or to take Rostov and Don front in the rear. It now ; pears certain that Tomoshenk ‘ relying on that broken terrain sl its water hazards to halt the Cor ma Crimean push, not upor. Kerch isthmus. As an outpost. Kerch pcnm. and its garrison have ;i 1 r e a d rendered invaluable service, w have forced the foe to the cod business of massed frontal at on a narrow front and for days absorbed the first the offensive. There can ic ■ doubt that some of the il: :: been taken out of the >■ - ’ c. - even before it has reached ‘ main obstacles in its path, ho ■ strait and the water guarded te. rain beyond. That has justified Timoshens-u blown Kharkov offensive his immediate purpose is defer to effect a diversion, or 1 boldly at the very outset struggle to cripple Gei m munications on the Donets-C mean front. -V Y estery ears 10 YEARS AGO TOD" Felix Hayman. pres;ch 1 Charlotte Hornets, baseball died suddenly today. W. O. Ficklin of Ann Marsden Bellamy, Jr when their autos cdli Cape Fear Country d * * * 25 YEARS AGO TOD" The first military uni! city to be called to sen the last trained here. 1 for Greensboro to be : ' yr: Company G. of the Seed’d ■ “ Carolina regiment. The sisted of 36 men. 50 YEARS AGO TOb" Rev. Yan Phou Lee c0 ing a series of stone; J1. ' tures at the Fifth Ave dist church on “Chine; r ‘. * and Customs.” He shov.cd v . excellent views of Chinese ■ j night. --V- (e; John J. Lynch, United • fish and wildlife service was born and raised m - Cl H0..t. R, I., but has become an standing authority on t'10 dji tenance and development 0 coast marshes for water'0" •
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