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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 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’* War Message Star-News Program To aid in every way the prosecution ot the war to complete victory. Public Port Terminal*. Perfected Truck end Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Seaside Highway from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of 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 Drydock*. 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 The words of Christ to his sorrowing men come to us to-day as freshly and as truly as on the night they were spoken. If they were adequate for need of disciples they can prove adequate for us. “Let not your hearts be troubled: ye believe In God.” But ilo we? In many of our undertak ings, nationally and individually, we have left God out altogether. There is perhaps little value now in recalling our indiffer ence to the claims of God, the neglect of public worship, the slackness with which we have regarded His holy day, the care less treatment of the religious education of children, the hatred of all self-discipline and the selfish love of pleasure and enter tainment . . . the weak longing for the things which peace brings, but an indif ference to the only things which bring peace! —Leslie D. Weatherhead in “This is the Victory.”—Written amid the crash of bombs in London. -V Another Second Front In addition to the bombing raids of the Royal Air Force, a second front is rapidly develop ing in Europe against Hitler. It has been tak ing form and gaining strength since the Fuehrer’s first conquests. In recent months it has reached large proportion, and is becoming so powerful hat Hitler has rushed large ges tapo and storm-troop forces into occupied countries. Still only furtively organized, still lacking leadership, it is levying a heavy toll or the Nazis. This second front is manned by millions forced to work in virtual slavery in Nazi-con trolled war industries. Five million of them are in France. They have no sympathy with the Vichy regime or the Laval sell-out. Other millions are in Holland, in Norway, in Bel gium, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia—wherever Hit ler’s slimy heel has descended in his bloody march through Europe. They let no oppor tunity pass for sabotaging the tools of war they are forced to produce for Hitler. And so effective has their campaign become that Hitler is sending reinforcements for his slaughter crews. Death by execution seems only to bring more recruits. Hitler has stil to learn that he cannot stamp out the lov< of freedom by slaying free men. The aspect of this second-front battle tha recommends itself for closest consideration i; that when the day arrives for a continents counter-offensive against the Axis, wherever i is launched, the millions now under Hitler’ lash will spring to its aid and demand chance to contribute their lives if need be ti his overthrow. Mustn’t Fool Ourselves With Hitler’s U-boats operating in the St. Lawrence and off the mouth of the Missis sippi, it is obvious that the enemy will balk at no task for the destruction of shipping in our waters. No greater folly could be conceived than to assume that the submarine attack along the Eastern seaboard is being brought under con trol because sinkings have declined. Sinkings are fewer chiefly because sailings have been | reduced. i It is probable that the growing patrol serv • ice is having some beneficial effect, but it is ' far from par effectiveness as is proved by the | presence of submersibles in the Gulf of Mexi co and the St. Lawrence river. These boats still travel very much where they wish. Their increasing daring is not to be over looked or discounted in Wilmington. There is more reason to consider their ac tivities a definite peril than to suppose our selves exempt from any danger of attack. We should concentrate our united community ef fort upon preparation for attack and be ready for it if, when and as it comes. It is a hopeful sign that in recent weeks the people of Wilmington have roused from their earlier indifference and are making progress in their defense effort. But it must be re membered that speed in this is as essential as in the production of war tools by industry. There is no possible means of knowing when the enemy may strike. This is not said with intent to alarm any one. It is intended only to impress upon every body the vital necessity of being prepared in time to render aid to all who may need it and to minimize loss of life and damage to property if an attack comes. No single unit set up by the defense council is fully manned. Many persons serving in one or another still have to complete their train ing. This presents two tasks that must be performed quickly if Wilmington is to com plete its preparedness in time. One is to completely recruit every staff still lacking workers. This can be done only by the volunteer method. If any men or women are not now enrolled for home safety, and many are not. it is their duty to register nad and receive assignment to the unit in which they are best fitted to serve. The other is to speed the training of all by intensive study, even though it require the cancellation of many engagements and pleas ures. Heads of units are under heavy obliga tion to see that their aides are fully qualified for their exacting tasks whenever emergency arises. -V End the Smugness The investment of $2,000 idle money in war savings bonds *as reported a few days ago when the investor’s attention was called to the fact that if the Axis wins this war the money would certainly be confiscated. It is surprising that this view should have escaped anyone’s attention. Certainly it has been emphasized by the government, by news papers, the radio and from the pulpit. If this particular case means anything, it is that, despite all the publicity given to what would be the fate of Americans in event of defeat, the awful truth of their subsequent fate has not yet sunk in, that the same smug com placency that prevailed while we were watch ing the war from the sidelines still exists among too many citizens. Notwithstanding France’s fate and what has happened in every land Hitler’s forces have overrun, there are still many among us who honestly believe “it can’t happen here.’ There never was a greater fallacy. The slow pace of war bond sales during the earlier months of their promotion clearly indi cated the reluctance of the American people to realize the possibility of losing the war. Sales have increased since Pearl Harbor, since Corregidor, but are still far below what they should be. And there is no logical reason for it except that many persons imagine we could not by the wildest stretch of the imagination be beaten. We could be. The chance that we will be is decreasing daily, but the danger of defeat is not yet removed. One way to dispel it is for every idle dollar to be invested in war bonds, and for larger percentages of the people’s earnings to be set aside on payday for the same purpose. Is it fantastic to imagine every quarter or dollar, even every dime, invested in a war savings stamp is the equivalent of another Jap, an other Nazi, destroyed? We believe not. -v_ More Rationing Foreseen If present signs are a correct index to the future, the nation’s rationing program has only started. Where it will end nobody knows. Thus far commodities in which shortages exist have been effected, with the single ex ception of gasoline, the supply of which is practically exhaustless but means of trans porting it inadequate. The other items, sugar and rubber, are actually insufficient for ordi nary demands and their sale must be cur tailed in the war emergency. Rationing of other commodities is bound to come, even where no actual shortage exists. This, we have good reason to believe, will be done to prevent hoarding, as good a way as any to create shortages. And when this be comes necessary, we also may believe, sanity ; will have come into its own at Washington ; and department heads will no longer be per L mitted to enjoy their present favorite pastime t of figuring what might be rationed next in > the hope of getting a white mark for their i effort. > Because it appears certain that rationing or ders will be promulgated from lime to time and the people at large have already answer ed about all the questions that could be asked them, it would save time if the information already in. hand were applied to all future reg istrations. Persons having ration cards, for example, ought to be required only to present them in order to obtain a card for the newly rationed commodity. To go through a new inquisition every time a rationing order is put into effect would be a needless -waste of effort, time and patience for registrants and the registrars, in the latter case the teachers who have borne up well under previous registrations but may be expected to break down if required to repeat their labors at frequent intervals and carry on their pedegogic duties at the same time. -V Gas Attack If worse comes to worst and the Nazis re sort to poison gas, the prevailing opinion in London is that the British are in a much better position to withstand gas attacks than the Germans. The view is based on the fact, gathered by agents of the British Economic Warfare Ministry, that Germany would be compelled to depend on gas shelters instead of masks, and that these shelters cannot accom modate more than 40 per cent of the popula tion of the larger cities. Were a gas attack alarm sounded there would be a rush for the shelters, they contend. The first to come would get in. When the shelters were filled all other persons would be left outside to bear the brunt and suffer the effects of the raid. , It is understood that Germany has prac tically enough masks to go around but has done nothing about distributing them on a large scale, and instead of giving them free to the people collects money for all disposed of. In contrast with this, the British have made free distribution of masks throughout the coun try and are reputed to have enough for every body. Because Germany is so poorly prepared to withstand or weather gas attack. London is quite convinced that Hitler will not introduce chemical warfare on the Eastern front. There is general disbelief in the reports that have been spread that the Nazis are already using a new type of bomb which generates gas after its explosion. . The situation may be as the British believe and their position may be sound, but it would be highly dangerous to assume that what they know of German plans for combatting gas at tacks is the sum total of Nazi provisions for safety. If one lesson has been taught in this war, it is not to take anything for granted where Hitler is concerned. -V Editorial Comment A CRITICAL WEEK Charlotte Observer This is likely to be one of the most critical and decisive weeks of the war in the world down under. While the best informed advice splits as to what the Japs had in mind in sending a flotilla of fighting planes and ships into the Coral sea where they were repulsed by Amer ican and Australian naval and air forces, the best suggestion would seem to be that they were at least making a new adventure against Australia itself. As long as Australia remains in the hands of the United Nations, Japan will continue to live under contsant menace of being counter at tacked. The occupation of that country, however, would greatly solidify and secure the phe nomenal gains already made in the far Pacific. And if this were the strategy of movement which brought the clash in the exotic Coral sea, it may be taken for certain that the enemy will be back as quickly as it can bring reinforcements into action. The circumstance that this first contest has clearly and decisively gone to American and Australian forces in no sense is to be con strued as intimating that the victory is final or conclusive. Japan has enormous reserves upon which it can draw in order to return to the action and when its possible resources in both planes and fighting ships are thrown into the en gagements, the Allied defenders will be strain ed to their utmost to match blow for blow with the enemy. It would be well for the American people to be guarding themselves, therefore, against the seductive and bewitching suggestions of a false optimism. Japan is proving itself to be an enemy of convincing shrewdness as well as of military might and powerful resources. At the moment this enemy has only been bruised, and for the moment. The test of decision as to the respective capacities of the two forces in the teamwork of planes and ships on those faraway seas may be within the time-compass of mere days. $ * # * A NEW SOURCE OF CONFIDENCE Charlotte Observer It would be a mistake to assert that Churchill’s Sunday address was the only world message he has delivered since becoming Prime Minister in which he voiced his utter confidence in the outcome of the war. He has never indicated that he held to any other view than that his country and its asso ciated democracies would eventually be re turned the victors. But this spirit of assurance and optimism which he had previously uttered rested upon his understanding of the spiritual qualities of his people, and those of the whole world who have a deep devotion to the imponderable values. • _ It was inconceivable to him that the prin ciples for which these peoples stood would suffer repudiation and defeat in arms. Faith, therefore—his faith in the faith of his fellow countrymen and those of America created within him the sure foundations of conviction that, in the long haul, no matter at what fearful disadvantage these have had to contest with superior might of the long prepared enemy, theirs would be the crown of the conqueror in the end. But on this last Sunday occasion, his ad dress rang with this old confidence plus. He can re-assert as of old his consistent faith in the survival of right over wrong, of virtue over venality, of light over darkness, of the good over the bad. and in the spiritual essences of the people of the democracies to hang on to the bitter end for the supremacy / fair enough noim * m 0t0 f NEW YORK, May 16.—Far be it from me to stir up mischief between two ladies who have been getting along beautifully for years and years, but I find that Mrs. Frances Perkins, our cherished Secretary of Labor, and Mrs. Roosevelt have de veloped a very interesting difference of opinion and wonder if they would be good enough to decide publicly which lady is right. In a recent published contribution to the sum of human wisdom, Mrs. Roosevelt took the position that unions, with their rakeoff of more than one thousand million dollars a year, should not be compelled to publish audited financial statements and said the reason they are not "anxious" to do so for the benefit of the general public is that “when they are not well established, this information would inform employers immediately of certain of their weaknesses." Mrs. Roosevelt said further that “most of the unions that I know publish a report of their financial status to their members and do so in more accurate and simple form than most business corporations.” I would like to point out the escapes in this connection. Mrs. Roosevelt does not undertake to say that all unions dr most of them publish such reports, but says this is done by most unions that she knows. That is a vague term. Important Difference How many unions does slie know? It is my impression that she knows very little about unions and she may be speaking of, say, only a half dozen of them. Nor do we know whether she is speaking of locals or internationals and there is a very important difference. For the inter national may be reasonably straight and the locals crooked. A case in point might be the Electricians of the AFL. If we grant that the international is straight we still know that one of its biggest and richest locals, the one in Chica go. is governed by one of the foul est crooks in the whole rogues’ gal lery of predatory unioneers, namely Umbrella Mike Boyle, who has been notorious as a grafter for many years and was denounced by the federal court as a betrayer of labor, but never was removed from office by the international. I point out also that Mrs. Roose velt does not say unions are weak now, but attempts to suggest that they are weak even with their rake off of a thousand millions plus, per year. She says “when they are not well established’’ and so forth, and the whole effect of her answer to a question is a political stall. Mrs. Perkin's View* Well, what does Mrs. Perkins say on the same subject? Addressing the national conven tion of the AFL in Seattle last Sep tember, Mrs. Perkins, after salving the boys with the usual political maharkey, told them as follows: “The scrupulous account for money, regular independent and public audits of all moneys, includ ing insurance funds, dues, assess ments and so forth, should be done voluntarily rather than under com pulsion. With the trade union basic right protected by statute, surely no moneys need be expended except as authorized by the membership and for purposes which can be stated in a public accounting without em barrassment." Let us go back and run over that again. Mrs. Perkins calls on the unions to give regular, independent, public audits and says the unions are now in such a strong position that their Strength, not their-weak ness, can be stated publicly without embarrassment. Of course, we all know that they are the greatest single political power in the country and the great est single financial power as well and it has been shown that they are infested with low rascals and vicious adventurers and here, never theless, we have Mrs. Perkins, plead ing with them to be nice voluntarily as an alternative to compulsion. She knows, of course, that she might as well request a skunk to smell pretty, contrary to the nature of the brute, but at least we have here wrung from her an admission that the unions are not weak and could not endanger themselves by revealing their riches. “Whatever secrecy or veil may have been effective i.. the early days when the unions were strug gling- to survive is certainly no longer effective," Mrs. Perkins said. Reading these expressions side by side I feel a suspicion that one or t he other of these ladies doesn’t know what she is talking- about, or that one or the other is trying to kid the public. A bill to require such accounting was passed by the house, but was killed in the senate by di rection of the President. This provi sion, of course, would have been the first encroachment on the most gi gantic racket in American history. HAPPY RUDOLF The happiest man in that Happy Nazi Family must be Rudolph Hess no longer compelled to shout “Heils” with the others.— Louis ville (.Ky.) Courier-Journal. of their ideals, but now he is able to add thereto a new hope born of the tangible resources of might and force with which the Allied Na tions can adequately match the ' resources of the enemy. In a word, CHURCHILL has the : confidence born both of the re sources of faith and the resources of arms competent to give the Axis : blow for blow in the air, on the ! sea. on the land. And only now have these latter : resources of material armaments , come to be factors upon which the j democratic peoples can rely for , sure and complete victory. ! UNCORKING IT Interpreting The War By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst Mid-way of this crucial year of 1942 has been ushered in by a deepening new crescendo of bat tle and sudden death. No continent or sea is untouch ed by a war that has no limits. Mankind everywhere has no cer tain refuge from the hardships of war or the horrors of destruction that falls unheralded from the sky or leaps unannounced from the depths of the sea. Yet in the midst of the ever mounting conflict of conquest loosed upon the globe by the Axis blossoms one hope in the hearts of men who love freedom more than life. It is that this final tumult will prove the beginning of the end, that somehow, somewhere it will be made clear before winter that the Axis war lords are being tierded into the pit of destruction they have dug for themselves. Basis of Reality? Is that hope just another fond delusion in the minds of peoples dragged unwillingly into the vast struggle? Or has it some basis of reality, of possibility, to help brace Allied courage and resolution? Nowhere except in Russia has an expectation of 1942 victory been authoritatively voiced. And it is in Russia, now aflame with battle ac tion on a scale that staggers the imagination yet is only a m e r e curtain raiser for what is to come, that the answer must be found. There now is little doubt that Hitler’s week-old lunge eastward in the Crimea heralds the opening of his promised summer campaign to annihilate Russia. The most hopeful indication is that Red armies are fulfilling the pledge of their leaders to strike back effectively. They have al ready given as well as taken hard and telling blows. It is Nazi le gions. not the Russians, which are being hurled into this climatic clash now with the bitter taste of defeat for the first time on then lips. Loses Weapon On the basis of meager and ut terly conflicting Russian and Ger man disclosures as to the progress of these first clashes of the 1942 campaign it is impossible yet to gauge the battle trends except in one crucial respect. There is every early intimation that Hitler has lost in Russia the weapon he used effectively to carve out his previous stunningly swift victories on t h e continent, the trump ace of t h e marked deck with which the plays the game of war—surprise. Russian reaction to the Crimean drive is to attack simultaneously at many scattered points. The ma jor purpose obviously is to pin Nazi reserves to defensive posi tions. Red leaders .re taking full ad vantage of the limitless manpower reserves at their command. Their strategy also must be governed by what they know definitely of the winter wastage of German man power in meeting endless and scat tered Russian attacks. 1 The Russian winter offensive— substantial as was the aggregate 1 3f Russian territory released from 1 the grip of the foe,—primarily was 1 a battle of man-power attrition. Russian superiority in that re- 1 spect is probably the dominant ele- i nent in the situation which 1 Prompted Russian official hopes of t a 1942 victory. 4 1 New Zealand Digs Heels In For Major War Stroke As Japan's threat to the south west Pacific grows. New Zealand— the eastern island neighbor of Aus tralia—digs her defense heels deep er into her homeland soil and braces herself against invasion, says the National Geographic Society. Before the days of long - range bombers, aircraft carriers, and sub marines, New Zealand, clinging like a barnacle to the under side of the globe, was securely isolated from aggressor nations by miles of cool blue seas. It lies 1200 miles south east across the Tasman Sea from Australia. A land virtually cut in half by Cook strait, it stretches 1,000 miles from the northern tip of North Is land—with its semi-tropical climate, volcanoes, hot springs, and modern cities—down through the rugged, timbered, sky-piercing Southern Alps of “Little Switzerland’’ to the south ern tip of South island. It has more variety of scenery for its size than any other country in the world. Its climate has everything but extremes. The inhabitants have the lowest death rate, the lowest infant mor tality rate, and the longest life ex pectancy. There are no extremes of wealth or poverty. One out of every five inhabitants has a car. There is one telephone to every two homes. The 3,300 miles of railroads are government-owned. The British Dominion is as large as the state of Colorado. Tts popu lation of slightly more than 1,600, 000, mostly of British and Irish descent, ahout equals Detroit's. A third of the inhabitants are con centrated in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. Last year New Zealand counted her Japanese population on the fingers of one hand with two fingers to spare. One w-as a storekeeper, an other a captain o£ a river dredgt. and the third, a teacher of jujitsu New Zealand is the world's lat est exporter of dairy products, fru en mutton, and lamb; it is the tom-;: largest wool exporter. Britain im pends heavily upon it for food a; raw materials, taking over ?u cent of her exports. During the firs; two years of war, British receive 2o4,000 tons of butter—enough :i form a wall the height of a t - and 400 miles in length. One hi!-; wool for every person in the Ik:-; inion, or 1,600,000 bales: ... a of cheese, or 1,000 miles of cheese crates end to end down the -- bined length of North and Mi Islands; 598,000 tons of meat—ti1 also traveled the 13,000 • mile sea route to wartime Britain. But while New Zealand, tin- - her exports, feeds her mother • try well, her own armed .Orem - pend almost entirely upon ■ ■ r- ■ countries for the tools of war •'» the battle moves down the re closer to her home shores, her«' fense pace quickens. Almost (">r: man and woman of military ■■■' now serves in some war c*m< From the once peaceful pastor lands and bustling cities, he""1 three and four hundred the -' men and women have been mob lized. One out of every four met :• in the armed forces. Sixty thousand soldiers serve in foreign fields. F ty thousand women are in the He® en's War Service Auxiliary. The Dominion still is a young'W It is little more than a hundi* years since the English first li the Union Jack there, it! to the two main islands— X"rth i South—Stewart Island off of South Island, and the Cook * lands approximately f-’.nM ®!-': northeast of tlie capital c Wellington, several smaller is off the. eastern coast are included this British possession. __, Sunday School Lesson By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of Advance Text: Matthew 22:41-23:11 Our lesson presents -what has be come the question of the ages, and at the same time tells of the deep est tragedy in the age-long his tory of religion. The question is, What think ye of the Christ?, and Jesus asked it to confound those who were ob viously gathered together against Him, challenging His right to teach the people and to do good work because He did not have the of ficial badge, or label, of their nar ticular authority. The scribes and the Pharisees who confronted Je sus were probably no worse, and no better, than those official relig ious leaders who from time to time nave presumed to assume that ihey had a monopoly of religious truth, or of the right to exercise religious functions. Among these scribes and Pharisees were the iinest and most earnest people in Israel, and this has been true of religious leaders in every age. But imong them also, were those vhose religion was formal, ‘who :ared a great deal more about heir own power and prerogatives ban they did about essential fac ors of righteousness, truth, and airness toward their fellowmen. This is the age-long tragedy of eligion—that so many who have nade high professions have not ad lives that were established in ssential goodness and kindliness, 'his is the ultimate test of the . T reality of a man’s religion i essentially a good man, fair ward his fellowmen. 8enC:C" kindly, manifesting all those of the Spirit which Paul cm •? T' ; ated with such delicate care. • religion is not a matter of conformity to some teaching man; it is a consecration of c life to the God of love, whose m acter and saving power are n> fest in Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus made the conflict bet" - hypocrisy and formalism on _ one hand, and the reli and goodness on the other mistakably plain that 1 !S ■■ mat men snouici nor nave r-„ more fully from that te;c) ' 8-1 the spirit of the scribes : sees of old continues to '■■■< manifest even in n;.r >■ world, and those wh greatest profession of being chosen quite frequently 2i' little evidence of having God and made His love the inant beauty and power 01 lives. Here, then, we come to the long question that is above all others—What thins J . the Christ? The answer is “ ■ not in some dogmatic or doe J ^ formula, but it is manifested i ^ heartfelt acceptance of the e- ^ pie and way that Jesus tied. We cannot only think 1 Jf Christ, but we can f®0 ^ strength to follow in His f°0,r'pj.; f we will avail ourselves 0 j lower to save.
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