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Today and Tomorrow . _ BY WALTER LIPPMANN_ War Information THERE have been, it seems to me, two main sources of trouble ;n (he government’s dealing with vrar information. One of them might be called the aftermath of Pearl Harbor: for the first few months there was nothing but bad u0ws of serious reverses and, put t0 this very hal'd test> the government flinched and then handled the bad news badly. This has caused a general sense of anx iety and uncertainty. The other source of trouble has been in the field covered by the temporary war agencies and more specifically in the President’s curi ous failure to set them up efficient ly. This has caused the confusion about rationing and similar meas ures which depend upon popular understanding. Mr. Elmer Davis is taking charge at a time when the real situation in the Pacific has become much more favorable as a result of the campaign in the Coral Sea and of the batle of Midway. But the effects of the earlier period remain in that the credit of our official war news has been im paired. It will be Mr. Davis’s first task to restore its credit. This is not a matter of publish ing information not now known about what happened at Pearl Har bor and about what happened the same day to the American air force in the Philippines. For the essential information about these disasters is known. It is no longer a secret to the enemy or to a host of Americans. The problem now is how to square the official accounts in such a way that henceforth of ficial accounts will be read with confidence. This can be said, and, I think, must be said without taking too critical a view of what the service departments did under the shock of the dangerous and humiliating surprise in the first phase of the war. The full extent of d a m a g e done at Pearl Harbor could not be disclosed until the damage had been repaired and the defenses of that critical position made secure. The initial disaster in the Philip pines could not be talked about while the American and Filipino armies were making their tremen dous stand on Bataan and at Cor regidor. It would have been better, no doubt, if no attempt had been made to discount the somber reality of the opening phase of the )var by magnifying and ballyhoo ing small tactical successes. But in the main what is wanting now is the kind of confessio nwhich is good for the soul: a candid dis closure of the defeats we suffered, PARK&ULFORD RESERVE / ekimec Of the perils we faced and have now surmounted. decides to do about the past which he in herits, one thing we may count rfe°dn'th^nlhke^th0Se Who have car' ned the burden of the first dark months, Mr. Davis will be leading from strength rather than from weakness. Though we may suffer reverses, the position should never again be so dangerously exposed as it was in December and Jan uary- Therefore, circumstances should not impose upon him an almost impossibly, hard choice be tween truth and dire necessity. But Mr. Davis will almost cer tainly have a difficult task when he comes to making intelligible the government’s information on inter nal affars. The root of the trouble here is that the President has not recognized tl^e necessity of giving Mr. Nelson, Mr. Henderson, and now Mr. Davis, the authority and the standing which men with their responsibilities ought to have. The fact that their authority rests on vague executive orders and on personal contact with the President is exceedingly awkward and a constant source of embar rassment. The Constitutional ground under their feet is not firm when they are dealing with the regular departments, when they are dealing with Congress, when they are dealing with the public They have to administer their jobs not by well defined authority but by influence, and it is nere that the conflicting statements about rubber, gasoline and the rest are generated. How could Mr. MacLeish, how now can Mr. Da vis—neither of them with cabinet rank, neither of them confirmed by the Senate, both of them per sonal Presidential appointees _ edit and vet the speeches and pub lic pronouncement of, let us say, Mr. Ickes and Mr. Jones and Mr.' Henderson? Have we not just seen that it needed the President him self to silence the babel of voices on the subject of rubber and gaso line? If we look still more closely at the position of the emergency of fices, we shall find, I believe, that the fundamental defect is that the President has placed at their head technicians and experts rather than public men, statesmen and politicians. Now indispensable as are technicians and experts, they cannot successfully conduct gov ernment. The technicians and the experts need to be led and they need to be protected by public men. Take for example, the Army and the relation between General Mar shall, the military technician, and Secretary Stimson, the public man. Suppose General Marshall were at the head of the War Department; it would be General Marshall who would have to conduct the rela tions of the Army with Congress, with the general public, with the other departments of government. General Marshall would have very little time and energy left to or ganize and command the Army, and he would be wracked by a thousand disputes and pressures that now are absorbed by Secre tary Stimson and the civilian staff of the War Department. Now Mr. Nelson is a technician: he has no political experience. Mr. Henderson is a technician: he has never held a political office, elec tive or appointive. Mr. Davis is, a technician: a very distinguished absolutely reliable professional journalist: but he has never been in public life. I submit that these men ought to have the same kind of political guidance and political protection as Secretary Stimson gives to General Marshall and as Secretary Hullgives to the State Department. For only now and then can the President find time and energy to guide and protect his political orphans. They have to be in political hot water before they are taken care of at the White House. What is the use of pretending that it is not necessary to under stand politics in order to conduct a government? Yet because the President does not like to alter his Cabinet, he has set up outside the Cabinet, expose naked to all the political weather men like Nel son, Henderson, MacLeish and Da vis. These men are not politicians but they have to do the work of politicians. They must do it, more Secretary Hull gives to the State without the prestige of rank as per over, without the insignia of office, astonishing that they attract to themselves all the rancors of pol itics and must face them without the armor or the training of a politician? We shall, I suppose muddle through. But if we do, it will be because the press, understanding the plight of the orphaned experts, takes them under its protection and sees them through their or deal. -V Search Made For Car Stolen From New Bern NEW BERN, June 17—Local of ficers and highway patrolmen are searching for the automobile of H. C. Waldrop, which was stolen here June 11. It is a brown, four-door Ply mouth sedan, 1937 model, and bears state license tag 351097 and city tag 1176. The car had a flat tire, and the ber was left hi it. i 3 Chamber Of Commerce Committees Appointed Three standing committees cl the local Chamber of Commerce were appointed by President E. A. Laney Tuesday at a meeting of the board of directors. Mr. Laney announced tfae follow ing appointments, explaining th a t others will follow shortly: Advertising and Publicity—F. E. Little, R. A. Dunlea, George L. Stearns, J. L. Allegood, D. J. Her rin, R. C. Fergus and George Mc Farland, Sr. Agriculture—J. K. Bannerman, S. A. Cross, R. W. Galphin, G. S. Currin and T. H. Wright. Port Development—N. E. Drex ler, T. D. Love, Jr., H. E. Boyd, J. B. Brinkley, N. L. Foy, and B. B. Cameron. The board adopted a resolution looking to action in Washington relative to the recent movement to secure additional sugar for the Wil mington area. The acting secretary was instructed to write Senators J. W. Bailey, Robert Reynolds and Rep. J. Bayard Clark, attaching copies of the resolution adopted several weeks ago, and seek their aid in the matter. The offices of the Chamber of Commerce and staff will be offer ed to the Community Chest move ment during the organization peri od, it was decided by the direc tors. They also endorsed the USO campaign for $28,000 and express ed the hope that it will be car ried through successfully here 4 -V JAPS CAPTURE SHANGJAO CITY (Continued From Pare One) Attacking in the wake of the cap. tors of Shangjao, the Chinese said, the city of Changshan, on the Che kiang-Kiangsi border, was recap tured by the Chinese. The Chinese reports told of fight ing south of Shangjao, southwest of Kweiki, and in central Kiangsi province as Chinese forces struck at the extended Japanese flanks. The high command said one Jap anese force of about 1,000 men was wiped out last Sunday near Tengpu but Japanese reinforcements were sent up and fighting continued. In central China, meanwhile, the Chinese said they had recaptured the Yangtze river port of Hosueh, in Hupeh province, 24 hours after the Japanese took the city. The Japanese sought the port as a ship ping center. 3 -V House Group Discloses Building Two Million Tons Fighting Ships WASHINGTON, June 17.—(/P) —The House Naval committee disclosed tonight that this na tion has 1,009,245 tons of fight ing ships built since 1934 in service and 2,646,606 tons un der construction. The $8,550,000,000 fleet ex pansion measure would add 500.000 tons of aircraft car riers, 500,000 tons of light and heavy cruisers, and 900,000 tons of destroyers and destroyer es cort vessels, together with 1.000 smaller craft, 800 of which would be sub chasers and torpedo boats. In a formal report on the ex pansion bill, the committee de clared it was intended to “util ise the country’s shiphuilding program to the fullest extent which does not cramp or hin der other war programs through the calendar year 1944.’’ new! complete kit f 'W only *1.00 A Mm, new KW by Cc*y that bos everything ter your “Simple Life to Beauty Core": Cofy Cieonsmg Cream, Conditioning Cream, SWn Freshner, Foundation lotion—a# in "acquaintance sizes" that wtii te«pt you to renew in regular-size editions. A Toy From Midway ■ M ■ - — ■ — Mrs. Helen Buckner, wife of Capt. Jean H. Buckner, commander of a marine corps anti-aircraft battery which helped repulse a Japanese raid on Midway, holds the first toy sent by Captain Buckner from the embattled island to their five-months-old son, David Nelson Buckner, whom the father has never seen. I Women Ready To Take Pay Cut If Savings Go To Government ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 17—WP>—The International Ladies Garment Workers union (AFL) offered today to work on war contracts for lower wages than are now paid on private contracts, provided manufacturers of war goods passed the savings on to the government. The union’s general execu tive board, in voting the offer, suggested no specific percent age of wage reduction on gov ernment work, but appointed a five-man committee to discuss the matter with representatives of the government and manu facturers. The War Production board has promised to let the wo men’s apparel industry make 20 percent of the Army and Navy uniforms, but that will provide work for only 3,000 of about 10,000 I. L. G. W. U. members in the New York area. Five hundred smaller dress manufacturers are planning to pool their machinery and re sources in an effort to get con tracts for such war goods as gas masks, parachutes, field jackets and sand bags. The union’s offer to accept lower wages if necessary was made to further that plan. -V MAGICIAN MACARTHUR LOS ANGELES, June 17.— (IP) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted membership today in the Society of American Magicians. To a cable from the Southern California assembly of the society, signed by Mrs. Harry Houdini and proffering an honorary life mem bership, General MacArthur re plied: “Delighted and honored.” APPLICATION REFUSED RALEIGH, June 17.—UP)—After a hearing today the State Utilities commission refused an application of the Motor Transit company of Raleigh to increase its rates. The firm, which operates from Raleigh to Winston-Salem, wanted its rate for fifth class freight to be its minimum rate. WELLES ADVOCATES COOLING-OFF TERM (Continued From Pare One) become partners, with full equality of status, in a new world under standing—an economic understand ing, open to the participation of all other nations of like mind— and economic understanding which may well become the nucleus of a United Nations organization for the relief and economic reconstruc tion of the post-war world.” Welles said that during the trans iton between the end of the war and the final conclusion of peace there would be a vital need for such an organization because: “Millions of the world’s peoples will be homeless; in Europe and in Asia transportation systems will be ruined, production facilites de stroyed, farms laid waste, cities devastated; we shall all of us be confronted with the gigantic task of converting to peace-time uses whole industries now producing munitions of war. “There must be agreement upon the objectives to be attained; ma chinery for carrying out the agreed action of the United Nations; and cooperative effort of the highest order among all of the United Na tions, to which the oppressed peo ples of the earth may look with hope when they have cast off their chains.” WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, June 17.—ypi—'Weather Bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec Asheville - 77 62 0.00 Atlanta - 85 68 . 0.00 Boston - 57 50 o.OO Chicago - 77 52 o.OO Denver - 82 52 0.00 Detroit - 77 56 0.00 Fort Worth - 95 75 0.00 Galveston_ 88 80 0.00 Jacksonville _ 91 70 0.00 Little Rock _ 86 68 0.11 Miami _ 91 72 0.00 New Orleans_ 92 75 0.00 New York _ 70 64 0.56 Norfolk_ 90 70 0.00 Portland, Me._ 50 47 0.04 St. Louis _ 74 57 0.00 Tampa _ 94 73 0.96 Washington _ 80 67 0.00 Wilmington_ 88 71 0.00 Cool... 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The air ministry news serv ice said Gatward at one stage of the flight crossed a Ger man airdrome only 20 feet in the air, ducked once under high tension power lines and came home with a dead rook jammed in the radiator. The bird had been swept off its treetop nest. Sergeant G. Fern, observer gunner, remarked that a few , bullets were fired from a roof top gun post on the outskirts of Paris, but that otherwise “it was like a peacetime flight.” TEACHER COMMISSIONED RALEIGH, June 17. — W— Dr. Howard N. Nahikian, assistant pro fessor In the Department of Mathe matics at State college, has been commissioned as a lieutenant, jun ior garde, in the tl. S. Navy and gone to Chicago for officer train ing, Dr. H. H. Fisher, head of thu department, reported today. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BUE—i Without Calomel—And You’ll Jump Out (i Bod in tho Morning Ratin’ to Go The liver should pour 2 pints of bile juice into your bowels every day. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food may not di gest. 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