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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1942 With confidence in our armed forces — with the unbounding de termination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God. —Roosevelt’s War Message Star-N ewsPr ogram 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 Wi-od 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 He is dead who sees nothing to change, no wrong to make right; Who travels no new way or strange In search of the light; Who neter sets out for a goal that he sees from afar But contents his indifferent soul with things as they are. EDGAR GUEST -V Must Do More During the first four days of the rubber sal vage campaign 50 tons were collected in Wil mington. In the same period, collections in the New York metropolitan area amounted to 248 tons. New Yorkers gave about five times as much as Wilmingtonians, which is not so hot, con sidering that New York’s population is some what more than a hundred times larger than Wilmington’s. On this showing the people of Wilmington have just cause for gratification Yet we must not be content with what we have done. Rather we should find in the record incentive for do ing more. There is no reason to believe that the city and county have been drained of all scrap rubber. Probably there are more tons in the hands of owners than have been turned in at filling stations. We will have real reason to be proud of our final record only when every piece of rubber which is not serving a useful purpose has been added to the nation’s pool. It is not only a matter of civic pride that should prompt every resident to give up such rubber as they possess. There is a selfish rea son, too. If the gross amount of scrap rubber on hand after this campaign is insufficient to meet the war needs of the country, the gov ernment will most certainly consider a pro gram of confiscation through which we will be only too likely to have to put up our auto mobiles until a new kind of wheel has been developed. For the present we are asked only to turn in our worn-out tires. Unless they create a stockpile large enough to offset the loss in rub ber imports we probably will have to give up the tires now on our cars. If we really want to continue driving our motor vehicles it’s up to us to see that rubber to meet war needs is forthcoming. *-V A Heavy Handicap Submarine sinkings in Western hemispheric waters have not only disrupted our own coast al shipping. They have placed a heavy handi cap upon the export and import business be r tween this country and the other American republics. Honduras offers a fair example of the chang ed conditions. We are large importers of ba nanas from Honduras. Of course we can fight this war without bananas. Their importation is not a vital item either in our war or our table requirements. But bananas are the chief means of livelihood in Honduras. If they are no longer transported to their principal mar ket Honduras will suffer grievously economi cally. Yet it is virtually impossible to assure delivery at a United States port of a banana cargo. This is not an exceptional case. Rather it is typical. And as protective measures have im proved in the coastal areas of our own coun try, the U-boat warfare has increased in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, with resul tant heavier skipping losses in those waters It has been a part of our plan that ships now used to transport war materials to Old World fronts would pick up cargoes in South America on their return trip. But it has proved safer for these ships to avoid the narrow pas sages into the Caribbean and the Gulf. So they are coming home in ballast. The reduction in commerce among the Americas, therefore, is working a hardship in all three Americas. An economist sizes up the situation thus: Any cut in Latin American exports to the United States may have to be met by new American assistance loans. The war has already struck heavily at the econo mies of many of the smaller nations south of the Rio Grande and further declines in their shipments of bananas, sugar and coffee might have a disastrous effect upon millions of persons already living at bare subsistence levels. -V One Year In Russia It was one year ago today that Adolf Hitler crossed the Russian frontier to launch his drive for the conquest of the Caucasus, with its rich oil fields, of Moscow the Russian cap ital, of Leningrad the northern Russian center, of all the vast natural resources and industrial production of the Soviets. The invasion was in violation of the allegedly inviolate pact of friendship to which Hitler had committed himself shortly before his at tack on Poland. That is to say, the thrust against Russia was in the pattern of Hitler’s every act. When he sent his troops across the border he boldly forecast that Russia would be in the bag within three weeks—at the most six. And it must be admitted that for some days he seemed destined to fulfill his prophecy. Nazi legions swept ahead with blitzkrieg speed, tak ing city after city, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind, until it appeared that noth ing could stand against them. But the speed was so fast, the momentum so great, that they could not fully protect their communica. tions and supply routes. It was at this point that the Russian strategy began to make itself manifest. Leading Hitler deeper and deeper into the country, luring him further and further from his bases,' mak ing it more and more difficult for him to bring up reinforcements, great bands of Rus sian guerillas began to prey upon his rear guard, cut off his steady flow of supplies and munitions and slowed his advance with the single purpose of delaying him until winter should come and freeze him in. Hitler’s boast of a quick conquest was upset, for the winter, that caught him in mid-action, was so severe that hundreds of thousands of his troops perished from cold, in addition to the other hundreds of thousands who died in battle. When winter had arrived in full fury and Hitler’s air force was grounded, his mech anized equipment frozen in and his troops try ing to survive in such shelters as they could find, the Russians launched their great coun ter-offensive. They could fight in blizzards, being hardier than their enemies. Steadily they pressed home the advantage, regaining some of the territory wre’sted from them in the first head long attack of the Nazis. Hitler’s timetable went to pieces throughout the Eastern front from the Baltic to the Black sea. The history of last winter’s campaigning in Russia is well known. When spring broke, the armies of the Russian headman, Stalin were stronger for what lay ahead while Hitler’s legions were weaker, both in men and equip ment. The Kerch campaign resulted in Hitler's ascendency, but so stubborn has been the fighting in the Kharkov and the Crimean sec tors that he has been unable to capitalize it, and is today as far from Caucasian oil as on the day Kerch fell. Steadily Americap and British supplies, planes, tanks, guns and ammunition have been pouring into Russia. Steadily the United Na tions’ situation in the Middle East has im proved, so that even though Hitler is driving against the Russians with the total might of his armed forces, he has achieved no great strategic victory. It would be silly to assume that Russia and her allies are masters of the situation, but it is certain that Hitler’s striking power has de creased and that the Russian battle may prove the turning point of the War in Europe. This depends, of course, upon the ability of Russia’s allies to put into action enough warplanes and mechanized equipment to match the best of Hitler’s. It also depends upon the United Na tions commanders being able to outsmart the Nazi commanders. When the history of this war is finally writ ten it may be shown that Hitler made as grave an error in his war planning when he under took the conquest of Russia as when he failed to follow up the Dunkerque disaster with in vasion of England. B \ Just Goes “Glub” Some months ago the Star, in these columns, told of experiments in New Zealand and actual tests in Russia for extinguishing fire bombs with the least possible damage to property. Both in Russia and New Zealand it was found that better results followed dunking incendi aries directly into water than from smothering them with sand. Because the Wilmington defense against fire bombs had been built around the custom in England, which was to dump sand on the bombs, and this new method contradicted the principle that water, save as a spray, only increased danger, it was considered too revo lutionary to accept. But time has changed the situation. Now the OCD has put out bulletins explaining the new method and encouraging its use by American home defense forces. The revised program follows exhaustive ex periments by the OCD, by which it has been established that the bomb merely goes “blub” when thrust into water. A twelve - quart pail well filled will do. Furthermore, it is declared that if a house holder is confronted by more than one burning bomb he may turn the hose with the water under full pressure directly on each bomb forc ing them all to explode and do their damage at once. With a free-flowing stream of water in his hose he may then deal with the fire as with any ordinary flame. The procedure is simple. If a bomb rails in an attic, the homeowner, shielded from .flying particles of molten magnesium (a chair held before the face wijl do) can take an ordinary garden shovel and dump the bomb into the aforesaid pail of water. If he has not been forehanded enough to have water at a con venient spot in the attic (or other room) he is advised to devote his whole attention for the time being to the fires being started near by and ignore the bomb itself. While he is get ting out his sand, spreading it on the floor, moving the bomb upon it, covering the bomb and finally shoveling it into a pail—as was formerly recommended—fifty fives may have gained headway. By the new method, there’s just a “blub” and the bomb is through. As for playing a stream of water directly on the bomb it is explained that the fire-fighter, if protected, may safely approach to within 15 or 20 feet of the bomb and turn the hose di rectly on it. The explosion will not send par ticles more than 10 to 15 feet under ordinary conditions. After it has gone orf, exhausting the magnesium in one giant burst, the bomb will go out in a few seconds—perhaps 10 or 15—and one’s whole attention may be turned to secondary fires. The understanding is that the whole process will be dealt with in forthcoming lectures con ducted by the Wilmington Defense Council. -V-— Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 21.—The capital hasn’t lost its sense of hufnor, here is, for example, the story of Leonard Herman, Department of Agriculture clerk, who for two years has been the cause for a lot of leg-pulling among the agriculture experts. Every year, the department employes get up a pool on the wheat referendum vote; each employe who participates chipping in for the privilege of guessing what percentage of the farmer votes will be for continuation of the wheat control program. Last year, young Herman walked off with the pot and this year duplicated his 1941 feat, making him in all some $40 richer. The reason for the ribbing of the experts if that Leonard Herman is Brooklyn lad, born and reared in Dodger town, and by his own admission wouldn’t know a wheatfield from a Louisiana canebrake. It’s just that to any one who has spent his youth trying to figure out what the Brooklyn Dodgers are going to do next, figur ing out what the farmers are going to do is as elementary as two times two. • * * One of the better yarns circulated is that which Rep. Luther Patrick, the Alabaman who was defeated for reelection tells on himself. Explaining that while other congressmen like to relax by fishing, hunting or playing golf, he enjoys most going over to one of the radio stations and doing a little broadcasting. And that’s how come that Patrick told the yarn that boomeranged. “I hacl gone to the broadcasting station one afternoon just after the house had adjourned for the day. I had what I thought was a very funny little story. I said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we passed some kind of an appropriation bill up there a while ago. I voted for it. You know how it is with congressmen, we vote a bill out today and then buy a paper tomorrow to see what it was, and maybe vote it back in again. “I thought that was a pretty clever joke. But they had a record of that broadcast down in my district and they played it all over the district and on the radio until I had night mares about it. It sure wasn’t funny then.” * * * It took a young War Production Board attor ney to prove to his elders that the WPB is bound around with far too much red tape. The young lawyer, disgusted ai the number of officials who have to approve every memo randum issued by the office and doubting if many of them read all the paragraphs they initialed as okay, decided to test his theory. Into the middle of a long memo on cotton duck cloth, he wote a paragraph about Don ald Duck. Fourteen officials initialed the mem orandum as okay before the fifteenth detected the presence of the irritable Donald D. 3 QUOTATIONS The Axis knows that the next six months will spell victory or defeat for their forces For the Axis, it is now or never.—Lt.-Gen. H. H. Arnold, Army Air Force commander * • * I'm afraid my job is bombing Germans, not making speeches.—Pilot Officer A. F. Taylor, RAF, a hero of Rostock and Lubeck. » • • The people • of France are pratically unani mously pro-American and hopeful of a defeat of the Axis powers.—William D. Leahy, am bassador to Vichy, France. * CRIMEA DOESN'T SEEM TO PAY, EITHER! xjviM5; ~A\^7~V I I ^ < < HI H 1 SEVASTOPOL ff?0Mr HU", khark” ■$y 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. SPECIAL MEETINGS Casualty Stations — Medical Cqrps, first aid assistants only. Monday, 7:30 p.m., First Presby terian church. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Covenant and St. Paul’s Lutheran church. As Others Say It SCHOOLS IN WARTIME It seems to be agreed that the disruption of school life in Britain has promoted juvenile delin quency. At any rate, William H. Stoneman. writing from London to the Chicago Daily News, says that social workers in Britain are agreed that the United States might profit from British experi ence. He says we should keep as many children in school as long as possible, should not close our schools, should not call capable should expand rather than cut down normal educational facili ties. Yet the board of education in New York City has just voted to dismiss 125 regular employed teachers up for service and estimates. In these times there is considerable social danger in such economy, and for the sake of the citizens of tomorrow it is to be hoped that the practice does not become gen eral.— Washington Post. THE LORELEI Lonely on her rock in the Rhine, the Lorelei sat, so Heine’s poem tells us, sad in her seclusion. An ancient story haunted her. In the end she sought relief in the river that flowed by, and was turned in to a siren voice luring men to their destruction. What was the warning she heard? Was it of a day when the old city of Cologne would itself be as a fable and monstrous birds ravage a land of romance?—Louisville- (Ky.) Cour ier-Journal. I -i . The Literary Guidepost BY JOHN SELBY “YOU DON’T HAVE TO EX ERCISE!’” by Peter J. Steincrohn, M. D. (Doubleday, Doran; $1.50.) THE sight of a middle-aged man or woman deliberately forcing him self through 6 s e t s of tennis or 36 holes of golf nauseates Dr. Peter J. Steincrohn. Back in Hart fort, Conn., Dr. Steincrohn has built himself quite a reputation as the foe of exercise f or people past forty, and with the publica tion of "You Don*t Have to Exer cist,” his field is likely to enlarge considerably. At that, the title is misleading—what Dr. Steincrohn really says in the book is that you should not exercise after forty. Up to age Of thirty, he believes, men and women both can exercise as much as they choose, provided there is no organic reason against it, such as weak heart or an in fected lung. Moderate exercise is not harmful, he says, at thirty five. But then one should begin to taper off sharply, and for the average man the early forties should begin a period of energy conservation. The pipes may be in good enough condition, and the subject s general health may be perfect, but the machine has been functioning 40 years, and no mat ter how well it is preserved, it is a 40-year-old mechanism and de serves care and freedom from strain. Most of us, Dr. Steincrohn de clares, deliberately work toward death at sixty-five. He thinks that there are some men who really like violent exercise at any age, and to these he merely nods, mut tering in his beard that they must be prepared to wear out too early, unless they are actually super men. But most of the middle aged exercisers are driven to it by the feeling that it is necessary for health, that stopping indicates “giving up,” that their figure will slump, that is the “beginning of the end.” That is nonsense, ac cording to the doctor. Your figure, male or female, will not soften and droop It wili actually be better, he says, pro vided you will pay attention to pos ture, You can reduce without using any of the faddish diets, too, and with no danger at all. You simply figure out your requirements in calories, and eat them. Dr. Stein crohn lists four antidotes for the “disease” of exercise in middle age: good posture (which is a mild form of exercise), adequate sleep (you really do need more have five hours), intelligently planned breaks in your routine (that is vacations) and finally a hobby. If you must exercise, walk two miles a day, and or garden . And be your age gracefully Raymond Clapper Says: Roosevelt Appointment Of Davis Wise Choice By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, June 21.—Wheth er there is to be any material in crease in the amount of war news given out here will depend upon President Roosevelt, who hitherto has favored a rather tight lid. In appointing Elmer Davis as head of the new Office of War In formation, the President has made the ideal selection. He has found a man of the highest competence and prestige. Fortunately Davis has not spent much of his t i me here and he is therefore free of the many long-sjanding personal friend ships in Washington that might make it more difficult to do the job as ruthlessly as it must be done to be worth while. Washington has become clutter ed with too many publicity shows. Davis will have to shake them out and create a coherent organza tion to replace the bedlam. In that respect, the President ap pears to have given Davis ample power. But that does not necessarily mean more news. It may mean less conflict in the propaganda that goes out but it may not mean any more real information. Some officials here believe the time has come to tell the Avis some of the things we are doing. They would like to see the cold figures in some matters laid on the line. Several attempts have been made to do that. But there has been opposition in the military services and President Roosevelt has leaned to their view of it, as the proposed announcements have been suppressed. You have two extremes to rec oncile. Production men are natural ly anxious to tell of the big things that have been achieved. The ten dency among military men is to tell as little as possilbe. Any scrap of information might be pieced with something else by the Axis to re veal what we do not wish to re veal. Within the Army and Navy there is constant difference of opin ion on what should be revealed. Often the services are found in sisting upon secrecy concerning a matter which has been repeatedly mentioned in print. President Roosevelt has been inclined to the tight-lipped policy regarding war matters, including production. No layman on the outside can be very sure of his judgment as to what should or should not be disclosed. But when so many in the Government feel that more could be revealed then there must be some merit in it. The actual output of some of our plants should, by any ordinary common sense , standard, be news that would have some propaganda value abroad without revealing our whole production. In fact in some lines of production the whole story might have its effect on the Axis. Certainly it would encourage our own people, especially our armed forces and in addition the peoples of Allied countries. There must be some middle ground in most of these decisions which goes neither to the extreme of blurting out what might help the enemy nor to the other ex treme of suppressng facts that might encourage our side and dis courage the enemy. That is where Davis comes in. To be effective he must know fully what is going on, know all the considerations involved, know what is coming up. If he is to make intelligent decisons he must be fully informed himself. That means he must have all the in formation that the high command has. To really get it he must have all doors open to him. Otherwise he will be obliged to remain in the dark while trying to make de cisions about the most serious and delicate matters. Furthermore, unless President Roosevelt is ready to permit more to be told than has been, Davis will find himself unable after all to get out the news. These are military matters and he can’t ex pect to win arguments with the military very long if the President is for keeping on a tight lid -V Factographs A man in Asheville, N. C. claims to have invented a machine which he says will pull up trolley tracks as easily as a dentist pulls a tooth. He wants to use it in the salvage for victory campaign. * * * The radio distress signal, SOS does not mean literal!''. “Save Our Souls,” or “Save Our Ship.” ft was chosen because of the speed and clarity vith which it can be transmitted. A Mauston, Wis., insurance sales man solved the tire problem. He now roller skates through town to call on prospects. * * * An angel,” in Army slang, is anyone who buys a nrink. * * * The notion that Negro families ui'j6 ^0w standards is not up held by diet records from the southeast of the United States, as recorded by the bureau of home economics of the department of agriculture. When Negro and white families spent the same amounts of money for food, their diet rated good, fair or poor in about the same proportions. Interpreting The War — Fall Of Tobruk May Marl, Opening Of Very Criticq| Summer For Allied Nation, By EDWARD E BOM AT? Wide World War News a L, The Tobruk disaster "nor likely to mark the opening extremely critical, perhaps desperate, summer *01 the r Nations cause. A preliminary to the Nazis' m - onslaught ir, Russia, the su?fl " lpss of the Libyan stronghold , ■* some 25 000 British troops ire™ itably stirs uneasiness over 11 stability of the entire Me-'i'-J ean-Middle East flank ’ Sev-t"' Pol's mortal peril adds to th»"'I°‘ simistic effect. " "" With this due recognition ot grimmer aspects of the war ture as it appears at the moment’ it is possible to state some -JIa ed reassurances as to the im" diate prospects on the import. North African front itself The considered judgment of com petent military authorities is tul,' despite the blow the defender' have sustained. Egypt and s' ' are probabiy not in great dan»Pr at present from Rommel's dirve The brilliant Nazi desert com mander is credited with irsur :' cient strength to exploit his V,'i" umph decisively against the maining obstacles. At or near the Egyptian border the British now hold the strom defensive line in North Africa V eluding presumably the Halfav pass area which last year w jt an Axis strong point. Obviou- ■ the British cautiously held ti'ji. stantial forces in reserve while Rommel audaciously threw si entire strength into the unexpected offense. These British reserves are available to bolster the new fron tier. Eastward from the border, the defenders enjoy shorter lines, railroad transpotation denied the attackers, and presumably re'-u their margin of aeriai superiority. The British loss's are serious, in manpower as well as in armored force equipment. By Nazi claims, the Imperial troons taken a* To bruk brought the total captures of two weeks to 45,000 or more. But these represent probablv less than a third of Lieutenant General Ritchie’s army, assuming it was at least as large as the three Ger man and eight Italian divisions be lieved to have been under Rom mel’s command. It is true that the chances for a United Nations offensive re the Mediterranean seem to have been set back indefinitely, and trie bur den of isolated, battered Malta is even greater than before. Never theless, none of the whole train ot evils which could come from To bruk’s loss is inevitable What has happened in Libya is one of the necessary "calculated risks” of the war on the Axis. Only a few months ago two vet erai Australian divisions were transferred from th' desert front to the southwest Pacific. India is stronger now for the recent arrival of British armored which under other happier circumstances might well have provided the margin ot victory in Libya. Is That So! TELEVISION is going to be tough on contract bridge pit' ers. You can’t play for a grand slam and watch a night ball game at- the same ttime. * * * Bowlegs are said tc be a sign of courage. Well, we’ve noticed most bronco busting rodeo riders have ’em. * * * Factographs says a certain species of ants plant their ov.n garden. Soon, maybe, they’ll ge around to staging their own pic nics. * * * An eastern school graduate had no trouble leading nis class ar,a being named the most likely- b succeed. He was the only stude.n graduated. * * * That western man who has ne'e been able to sleep should be tl,c ideal airplane spotter. a a * Zadok Dumpkopf points nut that just when the rubber horse shoe really comes into its own "e lack the rubber. * * * Adolf Hitler has by this hme discovered that it is far ea-*e to conquer a small people to convince them that they a. conquered. * * * In view of what the British Rk' al Air Force has done to that area, the Watch on the Rhine should have been an alarm clock. * * * The Japanese face wil1 h be worth savin0 after a’1 '■1 buck teeth ha'’e Uee" knocked o. * * * The chap who nlays no favoi; ^ auiekly goes broke at the 1*3 track. * * * Hitler, according to an n wishes for the moon V.Tin.f ^ orobablv mean is that it ~ long before Der Fuehrer wishes were on it. * * * A person doesn't need tn he^ expert mathematician to a!! one round number—Herr He Goering. * * * A dispatch says the Gerrrats the Russian front are now c. plaingin about the warm '-t'1;8 ‘ G there. Our guess is that it 15 . the heat so much as the huini >
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