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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. SATURDAY, JUNE 13. 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-N ewsProgram 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 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 Wtod 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 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 • ‘ Whiskey drinking is risky drinking. —CONKLIN Guilty The gentleman who was heard to complain of dirty streets was seen to crumple an empty cigarette package and drop it on the sidewalk. -V Russia “Comes Across” By the new agreements between Russia and the United States and Great Britain, one of the most serious handicaps on aid to the Soviets is removed, so far as public opinion is con cerned. Russia is now committed to a program which contemplates a “better world here after.’’ That must mean that any thought of a world revolution for the universal enthrone ment of Communism, as dreamed of old, is now in the discard. Neither the United States noi Great Britain could have taken the steps to which they are committed by these agreements without suffi cient guarantees from the Russian government that self determination, not domination, is to be the lot of all nations, when peace-time comes. Furthermore, the agreements r^sonably do away with any fear that if the Russians should drive the Nazis off their soil they would give up the fight and leave the elimination of Hitler, ism to others. •-V Good Advice Dr. Paul H. Nystrom, who heads an asso ciation of merchandisers, recently observed that winning the peace, and with it the preser vation of free enterprise, is as vital to the future security of this country as winning the war. “At least 30 organizations are currentlj shaping plans to remake the country after the war,” said Dr. Nystrom, in an address. “May. be improvements can be made, but business should participate in the remaking. There are 40,000,000 youngsters in this country and we must preserve for them the same rights anc privileges that we have. That is a part 01 winning the war.” As a leader in the vast merchandising in dustry, Dr. Nystrom is particularly qualifiec to discuss free enterprise. For retailing is om of the most important back-logs of the whole free enterprise system. It is a business whicl requires relatively little capital to start. It i completely competitive. Any man can start ; store and become his own boss. And any man can go as far as his energies and abilities will permit. The history of retailing in this country proves that. For example, most of the great chain stores systems started from a Single store, owned by a man with ambition and the drive to go ahead. Most of the executives of the chain stores started in lowly jobs, as store clerks, warehousemen, bookkeepers, etc. And the great retailing systems of the future will be managed by men who are unknown today. Retailing is the kind of business that offers unlimited opportunity to “the little guy.’’ Many of those 40,000,000 American youngsters will start their careers in a retail store of some kind. Some will stay in the business—some will go into other fields. Some will become the famed industrial leaders of tomorrow. In the interest of the Americans who will follow us, the free enterprise system must be kept alive To keep it alive is, after all, one of the reasons why we are fighting the greatest war of all times. -V Stop Chiseling i U.icle Sam, personified in this instance by J Leon Henderson, is deadly earnest about the , new gasdline rationing machinery now being perfected. Whether its use is confined to the eastern seaboard or made nationwide, Mr. Henderson intends to see that there is an end to the sort of chiseling which has been so easy under the temporary system. The setup is designed to see that weekly allowances are fixed on a basis of actual need, rather than of convenience or mere per sonal desire. Having allocated to each motorist what he really is entitled to out of the limited supply, there will be controls over filling stations to assure that the allocations are respected. This would seem not only equitable, but even necessary if federal rationing agencies are to have the respect of the public. The need for gasoline rationing in eastern seaboard areas would seem clear, notwith standing the protests of some who haven’t con sidered the facts. The need for its extension to the rest of the country is not so convincing, if gasoline alone is considered. But if gasolie rationing is to be used as a method for controlling the un necessary burning up of rubber—in preference to the more straightforward but very unplea sant alternative of confiscating tires—then ob viously Mr. Henderson cannot discriminate against the east. A set of tires worn out is four tires less for the war effort, whether they be used in Maine or in Texas. That, obviously, is the theory on which gas rationing on a 48-state basis is under serious consideration. Chiseling by motorists and filling stations, such as became too common in the rationed area under the loose temporary system, is sel fish and unneighborly if it merely results in the chiseler getting more than his share while others get less. Chiseling under a rubber-saving program, resulting in unnecessary destruction of our pit ifully inadequate rubber stockpile, would be unpatriotic. Some say it would be treasonable. We can’t disagree. Therefore we commend Mr. Henderson for his efforts to make the new system as nearly foolproof as ingenuity can devise. We hope he will put plenty of penalties behind its enforce ment. And we hope the motoring public will be patriotic enough so that those penalties will not have to be applied. -V Turns Tables There was a little misunderstanding the other day in Washington, D. C., and ice cream peddler John Chowlis made the capital’s po lice department look miehty petty. Chowlis invested a quarter on the “numbers game’’ and won $135. Then he went to his friends, the cops, to whom he sold ice cream and candy for a living, and tried to buy a $50 war bond. The bluecoats, who hadn’t stopped the illegal lottery, wanted no tainted money used to buy bombs to drop on Berlin. They wouldn’t sell Chowlis a bond or stamps. But Chowlis is a Greek. He knows what happened to his native Athens. He persisted until somebody sold him a $100 war bond. As alternative beneficiary he named the Met ropolitan Police Relief Association. -V May Be Turning Point It now appears that the Japanese defeat at .Midway may have the effect of releasing de fense troops on the United Slates West coast for combat service in the far Pacific. By turn ing the enemy back in the first definite thrust he had directed toward this continent, many units now in the forces held along the Pacific coast can, in the opinion of some military stiatagists, be moved further west as rein forcements for MacArlhur. Such a step will be taken only when the war council is convinced that the'Japanese cannot renew their threat to Haw'aii and the Pacific slope. But if it is established, as evi dence of enemy losses at Midway comes in, that the “right hand of the continent” is not under threat of invasion on a major scale for the present, it will be possible to give Mac Arthur the striidng strength, both in men and equipment, that he needs to justify a counter offensive to retake territory seized by the Jap anese in the first mad rush in their campaign and lay the foundation for ultimate victory. * In aU engagements where American forces ! have met the Japanese on anything like equal i terms the advantage has been ours. That a = major counter-thrust has not been undertaken 1 has been due to the lack of fighting forces, to planes, tanks and general equipment. Now, if circumstances are as they seem to be, this lack can be remedied and American forces reach Australia, and American planes China, in sufficient numbers to stop the enemy in the Pacific and turn him back botl* in hig attempts to expand his conquests among the islands and in China, from which vast country the final attack on Japan and Formosa may be launched. The Midway battle, therefore, assumes much greater significance than lodges solely in hurl, ing back an attack on the island. It could represent the acutal turning point in the Pa cific war. -V Washington Daybook By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 12.—In spite of all the common sense with which every American is supposed to be born, that Nazi precursor of hysteria, Dame Rumor, has been riding wild in the United States — and still is. No government agency has to sweat over the wanderings of that old crone through the maze of exaggeration like the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sooner or later, every rumor sifts into the FBI files. The FBI considers it from two viewpoints. There might be an ele ment of truth in it; or it might be an Axis planted story, designed and circulated to create confusion, uncertainty, hysteria, or dis trust of responsible governmental agencies. In either event, the rumor has to be traced to its source and in a file at the FBI, an analysis of the sources reached is rapidly gorwing into one of the most amazing statisti cal studies on “RUMOR” that ever has been assembled. * * In a mid-western community, a farm hand Who went about in his spare time snapping pictures of anything that caught his fancy be came, through rumor, an Axis agent who was snapping strategic roads, bridges and grain concentrations. The poor fellow turned out to be just another camera fan who wouldn’t have known an Axis agent if one had bit him on the ankle. In another locality, the death of a canary gave rise to the widely spread rumor (and some hysteria in this instance) that the city's water supply had been poisoned. The FBI call ed a veterinarian in on that one and found the canary’s feeding had been neglected for so1 many days that it died from overeating when it was finally given food and water. A report that ground glass had been found in sponges for bandages being prepared for | the armed forces sent the agents scurrying— especially since the report carried detailed in formation on how the ground glass was being smuggled into the bandage rolling rooms in the pockets of workers. That one started in the lecture of a conscientious instructor who, in cautioning her pupils on the necessity for care and sanitation in preparation of the ban dages mentioned that ground glass had been found in some bandages in 'World War I. • • * A physicia who treated a young woman who worked in a gas mask manufacturing firm for a nasty needle stab in her finger was supposed to have expressed the opinion that the needle was used to puncture the masks. ] The rumor was given credence when another ;; story spread that a number of gas masks < produced by this firm had been condemned. Some gas masks had been condemned—by the company inspectors—because of pinched eye pieces resulting from a defective die. Further investigation showed that it would have been virtually impossible for the doctor’s patient to ' have punctured gas masks at any point with ( the size needle she stuck in her finger. The * gas mask materials were too thick and tough ' -V- J Editorial Comment ; - I SECURITY NOT ENOUGH 1 Winston-Salem Journal Security is not enough. Upton G. Wilson's j columnar discussion of the seeming attitude ' of the canary which sits caged in his room — ' the room of a cripple who has Iain in bed for 1 nearly 30 years — as compared with the j thoughts of the "caged” man, strikingly brings j out the point. i Somewhere it has been written that in an I ancient war thousands died in the forests while only hundreds perished ii> the battle line. The men in the forests were seeking security. But had these thousands found safety, food and I shelter, they would not long have remained : content if only they had safety, food and shel- ; ter. The slaves in this and other countries years ago had security. The bodies were clothed and ; sheltered. They had enough food to keep them t well and strong. Their masters prov ided medi- . cal care for them when they were ill. But 1 security was not enough. i There is something in the heart and spirit 1 of every virile human being which demands < more than security. Indeed, for some of these '• things man is willing to exchange safety for the dangerous risk; security for the unknown I hazard. j Of some animals it may be said with greater degree of truth that security is sufficient, or- ' dinarily. The well-fed cow is not as likely to tear out of her pasture as a hungry one. The house cat sits on the hearth and purrs when she gets her cream regularly. But there are times when the well-fed cow tears out of the lush pasture to get at the shorter grass out- ' side. There are times when pussy leaves the warm hearth to grapple with large rats which ‘ sink their teeth into her flesh Security, even ; for dumb animals, isn’t always enough. There is no such thing, of course, as com- ( plete security. Life, even in the most peaceful j and happy surroundings, is always a gamble. Its uncertainties are always present, inevitable ; death is always around the corner. , Within the past few years many Americans 1 have been preoccupied with the idea of at- i taining much greater economic security ] through forms of insurance and various gov- ] ernment controls. We have pledged ourselves ] to the proposition that in a land of plenty none must go hungry or naked or homeless, i And this is a high and worthy ideal. But one lesson which the present war for ’ survival is winging home is the verity that security is a relative matte- — that it is not by any stretch of the imagination man’s all in all. Other values are more important, be cause it is upon the triumph of these other values that any worthwhile system of security must rest. This security is not mere freedom from want. It is security from craven fear, release from the bondage of chicanery and cowardice, and the freedom of man to do and dare, to dream and make his dreams come true “THE MOON IS DOWN”_ Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES Fire Defense A — Mondays at 3 p.m., High School room 109. General Course — Tuesdays at 3 p.m., High School room 109. Gas Defense B — Wednesdays it 8 p.m., High School room 109. --V As Others Say It LOOKING FOR A HOLE Mussolini is said to be in Libya, ’robably just looking around for i hole he can pull in after him.— Ireenville tS. C.) News. NO RETREAT ON THE HOME FRONT At its State Convention Friday, he Democratic party in North Car ilina did what all of us are hoping he forces of democracy in the rorld will be able to do this year, t took the offensive. If there were those who feared hat we might have to retreat on he home front during this W’ar, hey did not make their voices leard in Raleigh Friday. On the :ontrary, the host of Democrats issembled from all sections of the tate cheered their leaders on to dctory when Major L. P. McLen Ion, in his able keynote speech, ileaded for a continuation of de nocracy’s program of progress in his Commonwealth, and when the jlatform committee gave its clar on call for victory over the de eatists.—Winston-Salem Journal. ANOTHER NAME FOR IT? We learned from our Chinese aundryman a few days ago that n his native village the char cters “sun-origin,” denoting Ja )an, ,are vocalized something ike “Git-wun.” We hasten to ipplaud the chance which caused hose good people to call th e ir Cipanese enemies by such a de ightful name. However, we think t might be modified into “Git ots” and eventually into 'Git im-all.”—Charleston (S.C.) News ind Courier. Raymond Clapper Says: 20 Million Ship Tons Can Be Built In Year j By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON. June 12 — We are doing an unprecedented ship building job because we have bro ken away from traditional methods Facilities are sufficient to build 20.000,000 tons of shipping next year—as much as the entire Brit ish merchant marine—but there probably won't be enough steel to do it. We could be building 25 per cent more ships right now if the steel were available. That involves one of the ques tions of balance that have to be decided between the United States and Great Britain. Private citi zens can’t know whether N avy ships, merchant ships or tanks should go short. We only know that if the present rate of subma rine sinkings keeps up we will need to build every ship that we can possibly build in order to trans port the necessary supplies to Eu rope for the western-front offensive that is coming sooner or later. One of the tasks of the new joint American-British production board just set up is to decide what can better be made in England and what can better be made in the United States. Our specialty is the big mass-production j ob. Shipbuilding ‘ has traditionally been regarded as a hand-tailored job, but to some extent in the last war and to a far greater de gree in this one, we have made it a regular manufacturing job in stead of an old family handcraft to be passed down from father to son. As a result of that approach, men who never saw the ocean are building ships. A stove fac tory in Indiana is making life boats. The huge forepeaks of our merchant ships, a whole section of the prow, are being made in Denver. At Baltimore, the Koppers The Literary Guidepost | By JOHN SELBY “Immohlal Sergeant,” By John Brophy (Harpers; $2.50). John Brophy has done tne most extraordinary job of complicating a perfectly simple (and remarn ably good) story I have seen in years. This neatest feat of the sea son takes place in a novel called “Immortal Sergeant,” a story of the North African campaign in the present war. This is the simple story. Colin Spence, in London, is in love with a very good pianist but not quite the man for her. He believes his failure with her is due to some lack of manliness in himself, yet he never reconciles himself ' to losing her. And then Spence finds himself corporal in a company of desert fighters sweeping back and forth across the Libyan sands— freezing by night and scorching by day, dominated through both day and night by a tough sergeant who also is a first rate soldier. One day twenty-four rnen, in cluding Corporal Spence and Ser geant Kelly, are sent on a desert patrol of very little importance. It is just another routine job, for 3 time. But the patrol is caught by a trio of Italian dive-bombers and havoc begins. The patrol is de | donated, and the sergeant so bad ly wounded that he kills himself rather than hold -bacK his com lades. Then Corporal Spence must command. He finds himself able to command largely through hu memory of Sergeant Kelly and Kelly’s immortal toughness, and although only the corporal and the weakest member of the patrol sur vive, the corporal has found him self. The straight narrative in 'Im mortal Sergeant” is about as good as it could be, and the story of Sergeant Kelly’s death close to perfect. But the rush of the nar rative is clipped off every few pages with a pair of prissy liter ary shears, and flashbacks are introduced. These tell the story up to the start of the patrol, and there are literally dozens of them. In-’ deed they do more than tell the story of the pianist and the thwar ted corporal; there is some lft erary criticism, and even a scene in which the author (Mr. Brophy' presides at a benefit dinner oi some sort. This is introduced, it apears, so that Mr. Brophy Can tell off some of his literary con freres. If it were told straight through, this novel would leave you cheer ing. As it is, it leaves you fidget ing. [company, which never made ship propellers, is turning them out on a production line with such speed that old-line manufacturers have been visiting the plant to see how it is done. Part of the production line is out of doors, as there was not time to put a roof over it. Making propellers was the job end the roof could wait. In the gigan tic Kaiser yards at Portland. Ore., men who came from Middle West ern farms, who worked on the Bon i neville dam, and who never saw a ship, are turning out shins in two months. They finished one in 4G days. Admral Howard V i c kery, in charge of construction for the Maritime Commission. explains the phenomenal records being made on several grounds. We are prefabricating. For instance deck, houses are manufactured complete with all equipment down to fitted bedrooms and plumbing fixtures, and then swung down on the ship by cranes, and welded into place. We are working from one set of plans. Engines made in any one of a dozen plants can go into any ship. Pumps and boilers the same Welded construction saves a vast amount of time. Fundamentally the speed comes from ignoring traditional methods. It c o mes from using 20 and 40-ton cranes so that enormous units can be swung aboard already assembled. All material is controlled through the Maritime Commission so that there is an even flow to all yards. Those are the main reasons why America is able to build-, two ships a day. The industrial method has been used. There is equal need to do the same kind of job in building anti-submarine craft We are suffering staggering losses. If Japan begins a submarine cam paign off the west coast, our dif ficulty will be multiplied Huge numbers of light craft are geared to a more exact and complicated type of construction. Why not turn the Maritime Commission loose on this, or introduce its methods into the Navy, or-’give'the job to the Coast Guard, which is really in terested in small craft? Do any thing to get large numbers of light craft out against the subs. -V F actographs The fossil remains of over 200 varieties of flowers and plants have been preserved in amber, making it possible to botanize in the eolilhic Age countless cen turies before men appeared on the earth. * * * Pressed wood hardboards are being used for U. S. Army trail er exteriors, tank interiors, arse nal shell holders, refrigerator boxes and even bowling balls. * * * The state of Tennessee’s of ficial bird is the mockingbird; and that of Texas is the western mokingbird. * * * These days the ambitious young easterner can’t go very far west Jn a mere three gallons of gas , Interpreting The War Axis Armies Probably Under Orders T0 Get Rotting At Any Cost By KIRKE I SlMPsox WIDE World War Analyst Hitler’s flair for showmanshh seems interwoven vuh -ve-T? Libya and southern Rum crucial new battles arc develop^ simultaneously. On both fronts German or \v , armies seem to be under 0,1;''* from Hitler to get roihnc m •,„! cost. In Libya they ha\ t baue-H the Free French garrison out 0f Bir Hacheim, anchor oi the Br't ish defense line, and r.nts-.ecl “ ponderous thrust to Harms;' 0„i! 30 miles from Tobruk, a Rr'.' ? gibraltar. In Russia the. re ing against Marshal Timoshenko'” hard-won advance position in .' j Kharkov region and also prncSj. fui-iously the effort to s;wm ^ Sevastopol fortress in the Crimea That still does not furnish 2 d« inite pattern for the ‘'summer" 0[! fensive to crush Russia which H* ler has promised his people. Sum" mer does not come in a tec’u-ic'il' sense, however, until Mondav June 22. the first anniversary the Nazi attack 011 Russia. Wholly aside from tactical or strategic considerations conditi... ing Axis operations, the close ap pioach of t hat anniversary pc bloody memory might have special significance for Hitler. It is a! ]ea-u possible that he has demanded thr his generals produce results which would permit him to proclaim that he had kept his word and tha the great summer offensive he promised was in motion and mak ing progress. Whether for that reason or mere ly as a coincidence, there is little doubt that a double crisis js veloping in the two-pronged Ger man effort to regain the offensive in the east. Nor can it be greatly doubted that the timing of the Molotov visits to London. Wash ington and Canada to fashion new United Nation commitments for peace and war in Europe and see. ond-front undertakings also re flects the June 22 time milestone. If the broadside of Eussian-Br ; ish-American announcements lad no other effect, they would cer tainly tend to stiffen Russian mo rale for a dew ordeal with the promise of two-fron' heln. Ex treme pains were tken both ir London and Washington, howevei. to implement those verbal ex changes with action that not out assures Russians but warns Ger mans that more than a matter .1 words was involved. Reports of the Nazi attack in the Kharkov area are not clear enough yet to warrant an attempt to gauge its direction or force. Nev ertheless. Moscow admits “defen sive” fighting there while Berlin claims progress “east of Kharkov" In Libya the situation is more clearly defined even if the trends of a vast new tank struggle al most on the outer perimeter of To bruk’s well-proven defenses were still unindicated as this was writ ten. Loss of the Bir Hacheim an chor was a serious matter obvious ly for the Allies; but not neces sarily critical. The Free French garrison, with the help of roving British mobile forces, held out more than t o weeks at Bir Hacheim It goes without saying that there was a heavy toll of Axis tanks and mo torized equipment, to sa:- nothing of troop casualties. It remains *o be seen whether the time and ma terial lost in forcing the French evacuation of the outpost has no: so eaten into Axis reserves of sup plies and equipment as to weaken Rommel’s striking power and ac tually warrant the classing of Be Hacheim as an Allied victory rath er than a defeat. Is That So! WHEN PEACE conic? 1 ' a vd should hold no terror for a Con. mando fighter. In view of "'ha; those lads arc going through right through a train wreck. # * * In Junior’s estimation a second to Christina? Monday morning after .?c!wf has closed for the summer. * * * The Jap navy appear? to ha>« struck out with the ba-1 - ed—American bases ) o •> tied --r revenge. * * * A little late, it has curred to Grandpappy 'e.r.r that they must have S’vt" Hangman Heydrich juG cr.oigi rope to get himself fatally # A Those ew Guinea na:1’j who danced until they level.’4 a site suitable for an have at last proven that 1 bugging has its practical -nde. * * * Hitler, we read, has w ■ - l,l‘ brain to science. He might - ' ° because no scientist wr do 21'’* i penny for his thought? * * * In our backyard vie ' SE len. the rubber plant awl maple tree have a new comps’1' on—‘the coffee berry bu * * * You’ll know the war 1 vhen our amateur strateg’-' ?et back once more to argJ r he merits of t he T-fonnati1-1 tnd the Warner system
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