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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1942. With confidence in #ur 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 of the war to complete victory. Public Port Terminals. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Seaside Highway from Wrights ville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of City Limits. 35-foot Cape Feax 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 W>-od Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Promo tion'll Agency, supported by one county wide tax. Shipyards and Drydocks. 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 Disciples as units cut a sorry figure. As a group they are adequate to a world crises. —Rev. John Gardner. -V Neglected Opportunity “Time” observes that experts are convinced that “China has been a great military oppor tunity which the U. S. has neglected—an op portunity which if not grasped may not exist much longer.” China’s greatest need now is planes, pilots, mechanics and gasoline. Chinese airfields pro vide the Derfect take-off points for raids on Japan proper. The great industrial city of Na gasaki, for instance, is only three hours by air from Chekiang. Formosa is closer still. All important military objectives in Japan can be reached with relative ease. The raid on Japan made by Brigadier Gen eral Doolittle’s squadrons demonstrates that Japan is relly vulnerable to air attack. He ! and his fliers reported that every target was hit according to plan, and that Jpanese de fenses didn’t amount to much. The fact that : every American plane escaped is proof of that. Japanese radio broadcasts following the raid were obviously designed to buck up civilian morale — which certainly indicates that the Japanese people didn’t enjoy the American air visit at all. Many an American bomber, with crews and spare parts, is likely to go to China in the near future. Tokyo hasn’t seen the last of United Nations growing air power. 3 -V Our Turn Next From Greece come the latest tales of sys tematic Nazi inhumanity. It is a shocking story. A year ago it would have been blazoned over the front pages of all newspapers, and the skeptical would have asked whether this was like the World war horror stories which were discredited afterward. By now, more’s the pity, we have learned that no savagery is too great for the Nazis to perpetrate. Atrocity has been heaped upon atrocity until authenticated accounts have ceased to be sensational news. After Poland, nothing seems worth doubting. Today, because we were unprepared, we can only pity. Tomorrow, all pulling together, we shall be in position to promise to the people of Poland, of Greece, of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and France and Scandinavia and the Low Countries that the Yanks are coming, and that those who manage to survive for yet a while shall see retribution exacted for the crimes of which they .are victims. 3 Unity Turns Trick There are far too many exceptions, of course. But in general it can truthfully be said that the emergency of this war is bringing about almost unbelievable unity on the Ameri can labor front. Some employers still are trying to profit exorbitantly out of their workmen. Some un ions still are seeking to get the last golden egg even it it kills the goose. Over all, how ever, there is growing a realization that capi tal and labor are sailing stormy seas in the same open boat, and should devote themselves whole-heartedly to the common cause. When Donald Nelson first proposed labor management committees to spread war pro duction, he aroused a storm of protest liber ally sprinkled with personal abuse. Employers saw in the plan a covert scheme by which the labor unions would be enabled to muscle in on management functions. They would have none of such utopian dreams. A few did try the idea, then more, until now such committees are functioning in more than 800 war plants. There have been abuses here and there. On the whole, both sides have proven so sincere that labor-managment committees no longer can be considered radical, experimental or es sentially debatable. They have succeeded. Mill & Factory, a trade publication, can vassed 88 plants chosen at random, of all sizes and with wide geographical distribution and diversity of product. Seventy-seven report ’d that labor has not attempted to encroach on management functions. Eighty-four report ed that the unions have not tried to use the committees for bargaining purposes. Sixty-five said that labor has used the committees in a sincere effort to increase production. It develops, for the benefit of those who ioubted, that workers and managements can co-operate in the common interest. We must assume that in most instances such collabora ;ion will continue until the war has been won. Is it too much to hope that the habit of meeting on common ground, of exchanging aews amicably, of subordinating selfish group nterests to the common welfare—in short, of functioning as reasoning human beings — can ce carried over into peace time? -V Bullying No Good It was not so long ago that the American jeople were bemoaning the fact that we had ;o many young doctors none of them could ;arn a living. The ranks of the medical profession were 3vercrowded. Parents who had put out thou sands of dollars to fit their soni for the trade 3f Hippocrates and additional hundreds for of 'ice equipment, only to learn that reception rooms were empty and their beloved boys idle, vanted to know what was the matter with our sconomic system, and the doctors themselves vere in a funk because they had no practice. Now the situation is reversed. The armed orces of the United States need five thousand nore doctors at once and will want at least wenty thousand before the year ends. And Paul V. McNutt, head of the man-power com nission threatens that if there are not suffi :ient volunteers it will be necessary to resort o the draft. Unfortunately, doctors cannot be fitted for heir profession as quickly as soldiers in the •anks. For this reason it is not easy to foresee vhat can be gained by a draft for supplying he deficiencies in the armed service if, as ve are led to believe, the percentage of medi :al men within the age limits for military luty who have not already joined the Army )r Navy or Air Force or Marines is exceed ngly small, and the civilian population is al •eady inadequately served by those remain ng in private practice. The emergency of war has created a grave ituation in that it has called so many physi dans into service and left too few to care for he home folks. How it can be met is not dear, but there is nothing to be gained by ihaking a stick in the faces of the remaining ioctors and telling them to get into uniforms /oluntarily or else. . . -V From Robe To Khaki Associate Justice Frank Murphy’s decision to desert the bench for the armed forces is in ■ceeping with the character of the man. Al though he has taken only a three months leave of absence from the Supreme Court, it is conceivable that if he feels be can be of most use to his country in combat he will either seek to have the leave extended or re sign. Mr. Murphy must have found it difficult to sit quietly by while his beloved Philippines, where he had been United States high com missioner, and had contributed to the entente cordial which has been growing more cordial throughout recent years, were being beaten down and had finally to be surrendered to Japan’s greatly superior forces. Denied oppor tunity to take part in that historic campaign and the glorious defense of the islands, he is obviously determined that further Japanese encroachments in the Pacific shall not be ef fected without such preventive aid as he can give. He came out of the former World war. a captain. He will now start training for a lieu tenant colonel’s commission. If it is indeed to be a long war and an even harder one, we may expect to hear again of Mr. Murphy who is casting off his justice’s robe to don an army uniform. War Draws Us Clos< BY CHARLES F. STEWART If Pan-American chat has seemed a trifU copious lately, there’s a sound reason for it The anti-Axis war probably hasn’t anythin) else to be said in its favor, but it certainly i: entitled to credit for tying us new worlding! together in bonds of what promises to be en during friendship. The pending conflict couldn’ have popped more opportunely for the purpose A decade of Good Neighborliness had already taken a lot of effect, but something still was required to rub the idea in vigorously. The war’s pretty well done the business. Our all-around western hemispherical inter ests are so obviously mutual that we can’t bu recognize how closely they’re allied—that anj one or two of our republics hanging out frorr the family are one or two mere orphans. A couple of ’em, Chile and Argentina ,stil hang out in the orphan classification, but Chile started the other day to come in under the rooftree and the Pan-American Union has jus adopted a system of unification that inevitable will include the Argentinos also. For heaven’: sake, don’t refer to ’em as “Argentinians’ 01 it’ll crab the whole program. They like ii about as well as we’d like to be spoken of a: ‘ ’ Americ antini ans. ” How About Canada? There are 21 of us Pan-American republics, I’ve always said that Canada ought to be a 22nd. Maybe it’s been impractiable, owing to our Sister of the Snows’ relations with Brit ain, but it belongs in our line-up. And there are some little peewee islands and teeny-weeny continental overseas posses sions that we’re due to assimilate. However, we’re middling well now a cohe ■sive empire. Latin American statesmen, from presidents on down, have been Washington visitors lately, closing the dicker. The last of ’em was Dr. Parra-Perez of Venezuela. But he’s only one of a succession. Now, of the Latin Americas, war’s been de clared against the Axis by Mexico (latest), Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, the Do minion Republic, Honduras, Panama, Salva dor and Nicaragua. That leaves II Pan-Americas that haven’t, but all except two of the bunch have broker diplomatic relations with the Axis folk. What's the matter, then, with Chile and Argentina? Chile’s dangerously accessible to air raids from Japan. It isn’t defensively provided. Ii has formidable Jap colonies. It’s skeery. II needs Yankee assurances of protection. Argentina Agricultural, Too Let it GET ’em and the Chilenos can be gambled on. I’ve been there. The Argentine proposition is commercial. The Argentinos produce almost exactly what we produce. They’re afraid of our agricultural stuff. But— The Pan-American Union’s governing board on inter-organization of agricultural science has just been created to integrate these in terests. It’s going to fix ’em so they won’t clash—so that the places that, relatively, need wheat and corn will be able to trade for ’em profit ably with regions that need commerical dope —processed merchandise. A lot of dope is afloat relative to the unde sirability of inter - American publicity, It’s hooey. We can’t be any more closely in touch with ’em than possible. I knew ’em in the days of the last war. If we want to make the best of it, we’ve got a hemisphere. Att: Latin America’s o. k., possibly except ing the Argentine republic, which is a bit too agricultural for us. Let’s see if we can’t de-calcutralize it a trifle. 2 -V Editorial Comment A TEST OF FREEDOM New Terk Times In a 5-to-4 decision handed down on Monday the Supreme Court declared that "courts are competent to adjudge the acts men do under color of a constitutional right, such as that of freedom of speech or of the press or the free exercise of religion, and to determine whether the claimed right is limited by other recognized powers, equally precious to man kind. As the summaries of the case show, the "other recognized powers, equally precious to mankind” include the power of local au thorities to impose prohibitive taxation upon members of religious sects distributing litera ture and soliciting contributions. The sect in question is the one called Jehovah’s Witnesses whose activities have been of a nature to stretch the principle of religious toleration to the utmost. There can be little doubt that the local authorities in Opelika, Ala.; Fort Smith, Ark., and Casa Grande, Ariz., meant to im pose taxes which would make it difficult or impossible for this sect to carry on its propa ganda. v p We can see this case in its right light only if we try to imagine one of our established re ligious groups penalized in the same way. We know it could not be so penalized, because its methods of appeal would not offend people and because it would have a following capable of effective protest. Jehovah’s Witnesses suffer because they are a small and, to many, an obnoxious sect. The minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. They may or may not be unworthy. Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test of the sincerity with which we cling to the Bill of Rights. If those be*°v? t0 the larger groups do not defend the rights of persons with whom we disagree, and whom we may actually detest we are confessing that we hold our own rights , ?rance’ or by our numbers, or by our political or other power. » se*ms to us that the majority opinion in Oils instance lends itself to the whittling down of freedom of speech, freedom of religin and freedom of the press. To Chief Justice Stone it seemed that "if the present taxes, laid in small communities upon peripatetic religious propagandists, are to be sustained, a way has been found for the effective suppression of speech and press and religion despite consti tutional guarantees.” 3 --V Quotations I want to say to the fathers and mothers of America that when their sons go to battle in this war they will be the best equipped soldiers that ever went to battle in any age. —Sam Rayburn, speaker of the House of Rep resentatives. * * * Nothing short of utter defeat of the en emy will be sufficient. Great calls will be made on your strength, but I know you will meet them as befre with utter disregard in the common cause of achieving victory._Qen Neil Methuen Ritchie, commander Eighth Brit ish Army. ; “PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE’’ I \ Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES Fire Defense A — Mondays at 8 p.m.. High School room 109. General Course — Tuesdays at 8 p.m., High School room 109. Gas Defense B — Wednesdays at 8 p.m., High School room 109. MEETINGS Air Raid Wardens — City: All wardens in city to be on duty at their posts Friday, June 12, at 7:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. to report on test of air raid sirens. SPECIAL TRAINING Fire Defense B — Friday, June 12 at 8 p.m., Fire Department Headquarters, 4th and Dock streets. Required training for aux iliary firemen and rescue squads only. -V Factographs Shrewd Business Shrewd business men were the people of Nice. They knew who buttered their bread. And so the favorite walk, palm-tree 11 neck facing the blue Mediterranean, was known as the Promenade des An glais while a popular restaurant was the London House. If Laval’s little deal goes through all this will have to be changed, ‘for the du ration.”—Louisville (Ky) Courier J ournal. « » * Cologne Cologne is one of the oldest cities of Germany. It was a Roman outpost, a colonia, hence, the name. Rivers were the highways. Such barter as there was centered here. Before the Christian era a small Jewish settlement sent yearly tribute to the Temple at Jerusalem. Down the Rhine later came British missionaries to tame the Teuton barbarian. They still come, bringing bombs, not Bibles, missiles, not missals. —Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. Raymond Clapper Says: Scrap Rubber Unknown Quantity In Rationing RAYMOND CLAPPER to round it ud and see what comes WASHINGTON, June 11 — The unknown quantity in the rubber situation is how much scrap can be rounded up. The greatest stock pile of rubber in the country is in the hands of private owners. It consists of tires on the cars of citizens and discarded rubber of all kinds lying around millions of homes and shops. The tire situa tion is rather definitely known. It is the idle scrap scattered through out the country in driblets that is the unknown quantity. But the Government has been slow to check up on that poten tial source of supply. The dawdl ing and confusion which have curs ed our handling of rubber from way back in 1940, when the danger of losing our Far Eastern supply became clear, have per sisted down to this moment. Officials concerned with saving our precious rubber supply have been convinced for several weeks that nation-wide rationing of gas oline was necessary. But the out cry against it was so strong that President Roosevelt hesitates tc act until he finds out exactly how much rubber we have in sight. When people are put under ration ing regulations they are not going to be content to be told we are short of rubber. They want to know how much. To tell them thav we must check up on the supply of scrap rubber that we can count on. Therefore the rubber statement which was drafted for Mr. R jose velt last week has been held up until a check of scrap rubbei can be made. But there has been ser ious delay in getting at that The only way to find out about the ] scrap rubber is to make a drive ' out. And that is what the Presi dent is now planning, as announc ed at his press conference. Secretary Ickes, Oil Co-Ordina tor, had a plan ready when the rubber conference was held at the White House last Friday. He had the agreement of the petroleum industry to conduct a scrap-rub ber buying campaign througi fill ing stations. The Petroleum Indus try War Council was ready to put thousands of filling stations into this drive and buy up old rubber for the Government at one cent a pound. The plan was for a two weeks campaign pushed to the lim it. At the end of two weeks we would not only know what our scrap pile was but would have it in the hands of the Govern ment,. all bought and paia for. But the War Production Board objected. It as interested in a general salvage campaign of all kinds of junk on a gift basis. To take rubber out of that general junk drive and make it a special affair, and to pay for the rubber, would upset the other salvage ef forts, so WPB said. The whole Business was delayed while the juestion was argued out. Mean time no real progress was being |nade. That is the kind of delay hat has persisted over two year's and has produced the rubber irisis. The same confusion and inaction yill force the Eastern states to iay a hard price this winter. There vill not be enough fuel oil to heat lomes and supply industrial needs t0 build pipe lines The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “MacARTHUR ON WAR,” edited by Frank C. Waldrop (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3). PEOPLE will never get enough of MacArthur the hero, but it might be just as well for them if they could for a time- change their perspective, and take a look at MacArthur the prophet and plan ner. The General is every bit as good a planner as he is hero, and fortunately he has it all down in black and white, duly stamped and sealed by the War Depart ment. He almost got himself cash iered before the job was done, too. MacArthur’s father was a gen eral. MacArthur graduated from West Point at the top of his class. He went into the engineers, where the West Point top crust habitu ally finds assignment. He served almost everywhere, as the list in Frank C. Waldrop’s “MacArthur on War” shows. He has a para graph or so of honorary degrees and another huge list of decora tions for valor and such like. He was aide to his father and other dignitaries; he also went through the mud and over teh top in the first World War. He made over the Philippine Army with what suc cess the world knows. He made speeches, too — good ones. But all this is of small impor tance. Mr. Waldrop shows, com pared to what MacArthur did while Chief of Staff from 1931 to 1935. For then MacArthur did a job of prophecy; he saw the form of the war to come. Having seen, he laid plans for it. Then he asked to be retired. It was not quite that sim.Dle— he also withstood snipers. One of these Mr. Waldrop names as Rep resentative Ross Collins, member and later chairman of the House military appropriations commit, tee. “Put every man in overalls,” Mr. Collins said on one historic occasion, "and you’ll have a lot better defense than if he has stripes on his pants.” Vet MacArthur’s industrial mo bilization plan was formed, and his general mobilization of man power planned. His four-army de fense system, his independent striking air arm under the chief of staff, his armored force school at Fort Knox are some more of his innovations. The list could be made longer, but the point of Mr Waldrop’s book will not be sharp ened by making a catalogue. It is that MacArthur is one man wltn vision and guts whose service did not come too late. The General’s own words are in this book. l/ , u Ilave Deen built. Enough tankers are at the bottom pip. LT" 10 h,v' “>« Today we are unable to lay up any reserve of oil for winter. Stocks in storage now are 15,000. 000 barrels less than they were a year ago. Daily consumption of fe‘i „eum in the Eas* runs about 1,300,000 barrels a day. We are getting in about 183,000 barrels a day by barges and emergency pipe lines, and some 700,000 bar* rels by railroad tank cars. There is no way in sight to fill the re maining gap. The railroads are using 55,000 tank cars in the East now, against 1000 a year ago Thcv can push it up a little more per haps to handle 800,000 barrels out that would be a miracle and would mean further stripping of tank cars from the rest of the country. fa^0S* u8S,y days when ocean tankers hauled 1,400,000 barrels of fuel oil to the East Coast every g°nf- for a long time The Navy believes it is conquer ing the submarine. Sinkings have been reduced of late but the loss has been terrific. Such tankers as ar® Iaft and such as can be built will have to run fuel to England. More and more will be needed ] over there as the air offensive picks up. All of this is the price we have 1 to pay now for being a nation of i Micawbers. | Interpreting The War Second Front Plans 4re Highlight In Brirtish. Russian Agreement PQC( BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst Formal understandings betw. Russia, Britain and the ti States bearing on creation oA ed ond front in Europe this y arSec‘ now revealed incident to disclA** of the secret visit of the Sn t( commissar for foreign Vyacheslav Molotov to ww”’ ton and London. hw5 One significant part of those * ficial outgivings is neither the of Molotov’s visits, the post ^ commitments contained in the" r^ London-Moscow pact, nor even t ’ military discussions which D„,f leled the political talks. Whafdl ' stick up like a sore thumb S h! Fn 1942.’’ SeC°nd fr°nt Ul The rest could have been tai™ for granted more or less flu “ formal statements that seen*! front measures for 1942, this ves not at some indefinite future formed the main theme of dism sions with Molotov have a meaiin: all their own. 6 The Anglo-British war plaRnpr, have taken a leaf from Hitler' own war-of-nerves manual, and en larged and expanded on it ufv’ are deliberately telling any Ger man radio listener, who dares Hit' ler ire to pick it out of the ether' what they propose to do and when they propose to do it. They conceal only the where and how ef pro. jected operations. No German who has defied Hi', ler to harken to British or Amerl. can radio news bbroadcasts can have much doubt about the situa tion. Such listeners have more than the wreckage of Cologne and Essen by which to judge second front possibilities of the near fu ture. They have been told, for in stance, that those thousand-planes a-night shots are but a starter to test out the technical arrangement; for air warfare on that unprect. dented scale. They have been it formed by highest British and American authority that American air power will soon gang up with the British to double or treble the force of the air attack. They know, also, by Allied an nouncements, that a considerable American army is in the British Is.es training in Commando tac tics, which means invasion tactics. They were promptly informed ot the arrival in London of an Ameri can Army-Navy staff charged with the execution of second front plans. No secret was made, quite the con trary, of the arrival in British wa ters of a powerful American Naval task force, including craft heavily enough gunned and armored to deal with Germany’s powerful von Tirpitz. That disclosure was particularly disheartening for thoughtful Ger mans who heard it. It meant that Japanese intervention to involve this country in two-front war had not diverted American attention from the Atlantic to the Pacific exclusively. And now comes official word ot the Molotov visits and their results, headlined by the formal declara tion from London and Washington that the most urgent matter under consideration was the setting up of a second front against Germany now, this year. That gave an offi cial time element to it all. a time element duly revealed instead of concealed. Exactly what either Washington or London may know about the state of public morale in Germany at this moment is not revealed There have been whispers from Scandinavia and Switzerland, par ticularly since the bombing of Co logne, of growing resentment iha Hitler has depleted his western de fenses to attempt renewal of ms Russian offensive. They seem cred ible, nor can it be doubted tna whatever else is to come in nd-front operations in ihe montM ahead, a formidable Allied atta » on German nerves as well as Ger man war industry and commu cttions is already in full swing -V As Others Say It ACCOMMODATIONS FOR NAZI SWINE Free German circles n City have a new story from °j cupied Europe about two officials who commanded a <-ze oslovak innkeeper to show a room. i. Obediently he escorted them • his best suite. “And how much do we have pay for this pigsty?” the - asked. „Fo. The innkeeper answered ^ one pig, Uwo marks; f or pigs, four.”—News Flashes 1 Czechoslovakia. WANTS HER SUGAR BOOK In suing for a divorce, a Ean City woman petitions the c» order the return of her fUS°‘ f‘-j don book—an item that may general inclusion in divorce P ‘ dons during the rationing e ^ gency.—New Orleans Time. :ayune. “MUSICAL” MOTOR-HOR>»aS The war production board • ordered frozen the stocks 0 .ypes of band instruments—m- ^ oily not including, we fear‘ ; so-called “musical” motor-h vhich contribute to the vracking "Noises of the DV :erts in our cities.—New fimes-Picayune.
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