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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing In The Wilmington Star. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942 With confidence in our armed torces — 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 Wiod 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 I do not wish you joy without a sorrow, Nor endless day without the healing dark, Nor brilliant sun without the restful shadow, Nor tides that never turn against your bark. I wish you love, and strength, and faith, and wisdom, Goods, gold—enough to help some needy one. I wish you songs, but also blessed silence, And God’s sweet peace when every day is done. —DOROTHY NELL MCDONALD -V-. Question Was Pertinent In the days when this newspapr, in com pany with others east and west, was trying to overcome the isolationism of the Lind berghs and Wheelers it asked, in broad terms, what the United States would be able to do if Hitler, successful in Europe, launched an in vasion against us by way of Mexico. Because Pearl Harbor was well in the future and even the lend-lease program was only a dream, the question appeared to many, too many, as a merely academic or rhetorical discussion, so far beyond the realm of prob ability that it challenged no consideration. Even in Wilmington, despite its known ac cessibility for attack, the view was credited *o a lively imagination and forgotten. Now it appears that Hitler had the United States on his calling list long before the “phony” war was over and the global conflict started. He did propose an invasion of this country from Tampico and offered Mexico territorial com pensation for her cooperation. Among repatriated diplomats recently re turned to their homes is Lieut. Col. Armando Lorenzo Bernal, Mexican military attache in Berlin. Following Mexico’s declaration of war on Germany Colonel Bernal may speak out in meeting. What he says confirms the Star’s position that it “could happen here.” While the cam aign in Poland was still under way, he says, the Nazis discussed with him a proposal to take over Tampico port and use it as a base for attack on the United States. There is no reason to assume that the plan, despite the many changes forced upon Hitler since he invaded Russia, is not still a part of his long-range program, with the exception that Mexico, now in the war herself, could not negotiate with him but would have to be conquered before he could establish a base within her borders. No day passes without offering fresh evi dence that Hitler’s chief aim is world domi nation, at any price, and that no part of the ngrth can be secure for its people unUl is exterminated Don’t Be A Slacker Wilmington’s Defense Council has built up a machine for the care of the public in a war emergency which has won commendation in high places. But instead of becoming com placent, and recognizing that its effort is still below par, the Council urgently appeals to men not already enlisted in one or another de fense enterprise to volunteer now and take the training necessary to fit them for the exacting tasks that would have to be per formed if an attack should come, if Wilming ton is to be saved from heavy casualties and property losses. There is immediate need for more volun teer policemen, firemen and fire watchers. The personnel of none of these vital branches of the defense forces is adequate. If Wil mington were bombed, if fires were started, if any group of citizens were seized with the mob frenzy, the small staffs available and trained would be unable to cope with the sit uation. To the destruction caused by bombs would be added greater losses resultant upon confusion and lack of adequate control. Can we, as residents of the city contemplate the consequences of a bombing raid combatted by undermanned forces without shuddering? Or are we, as some declare, indifferent, still clinging to the false theory that no bombing raid can come? Can we not realize, at last, that we, too, can do too little, too late? These policemen and firemen and watchers, have it within their power to render invaluable service in emergency if their ranks are filled and if they take the training for their jobs that a steamfitter, for example, does for his. It will not be easy to forget, if a raid should be conducted and lives sacrificed, that some person might still be in our midst if we had joined one or other of these services. We are as much in this war as the boys who have already gone overseas. Our respon sibility is as great as theirs. The time has come when slackers in civilian defense are as offensive as draft dodgers. -V Looking Into The Future Because the war program came upon Wil mington so suddenly and also because the city had lagged for some years in municipal de velopments, the activities which have been un dertaken and in which the success has in most cases been notable, have necessarily been dictated by the emergency and expediency. Consequently they are predominantly transi tory. It has taken about all the energy the city and its people have to keep up with im mediate requirements. There has been little time to plan for the future and to determine which may be dropped when the war emergency passes. there is, however, a group of wide-awake citizens affiliated with the Chamber of Com merce who undertook a long-range study of Wilmington’s advantages and opportunities, from which it is intended to draft a program of permanent development. The purpose is to weigh the resources upon which the city may draw, the commerce it may hope to build up, the industries and businesses it has every right to believe would prosper here in the post-war era, the assets it now has which could gain greater value through wise capital investment, and from the findings shape a city-building plan in the carrying out of which Wilmington may take its place in the fore front of Southern cities. This project, in its entirety, is little less vital than preparations for protection under attack. It is so vital to the city’s future that every man and woman who would have the city assume its proper leadership should be thinking of ways and means for improving its prospects. If we understand the policy, the plan is not an exclusive Chamber of Commerce under taking. Instead the Chamber of Commerce is desirous of receiving a multiciplicity of ideas, among which there are certain to be some which will be usable. -rV Joint Tax Returns Should husbands and wives be forced tcf make joint income tax returns? The question is hotly debated in congress and very much everywhere public affairs are discussed. The treasury department thinks the joint returns would increase the national revenues by some hundreds of millions annually. Strange as it may sound, however, the taxing power is concerned not alone with raising revenue. It must also be exercised in the light of justice and equity. Millions of women have jobs which have no connection whatsoever with their husbands’ jobs and earnings. Other millions are the pos sessors of income-producing property which has no connection with their marriage and is clearly and completely their own. To say to these women that they cannot make an in dividual tax return, is to say in effect, that the right of women to own separate property is abrogated. Gift taxes now in effect prevent wholesale transfer of income-producing securities or properties between husband and wife. Competent lawyers are convinced that the mandatory joint-tax-return law would be un constitutional. Whether it is or not, it is clearly unjust. It amounts to a penalty on the insti tution of marriage. The revenue it would pro duce can be and should be raised in another, more equitable way. -V May Have Moved Too Fast Because Rommel’s forces advanced into Egypt so swiftly after the fall of Tobruk, no time was spent in establishing large supply bases or creating sufficient communication lines. Seeking a quick victory, the wily Ger man seems to have believed he could be in Alexandria, living on the fat of the land, be fore the British knew what was happening. Can it be that he outfoxed himself? The trend in the present fighting shows at least that if the British, who were not again to be caught unprepared, can continue their behind-the-lines demolition and at the same time prevent large deliveries of reinforcements and supplies across the Mediterranean, Rom mel, instead of the British, will be defeated. With the British fleet at last able to take part in the Battle of Egypt, and with Ameri can and RAF planes preying on his commun ications, it would seem that Egypt may be saved. Another factor which strongly favors the British is the new life and spirit General Auchinleck has infused in his forces. Whereas in past exploits in Libya they lacked the punch that could bring a victory, he seems to have filled them with determination to win. When all is said and done, this may well prove the deciding factor. There is, of course, no reason to believe that the battle now underway on the Mediter ranean shore is in the closing stages. Many more days of cruel testing lie ahead. But the chances for a victory there are better now than since the first fighting started in Libya. -V Charles Stewart Says By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Britain’s parliament can’t afford to express a lack of confidence in Prime Ministei Church ill quite largely because Americans have so much confidence in him, according,to hints from sources in London. No doubt John Bull’s system is pretty gen erally understood here, but for the benefit of folk who may be unfamiliar with it, it’s like this: A national election of members of the house of commons is pulled off. That preliminary having been attended to, the recognized leader of the winning party gets the premiership, ap proximately corresponding to our presidency. The incumbent hangs on indefinitely, unless he resigns, up to a maximum of seven years, when another election’s due automatically. In the meantime, "however, suppose one of the commoners decides that the cabinet head is mismanaging his job. In such an event he moves a vote of censure (parliamentary “lack of confidence”) and a ballot’s taken. If it goes against the prime minister, he’s chucked out forthwith and another national election’s in order, though the official bird may waive it in favor of somebody else who is parliamentarily acceptable immediately. It’s suggestive of a loose program, but the British haven’t a written constitution, so there’s considerable variability in the program. Lords Count Little The house of Lords may appear to be rather disregarded, but that isn’t an elected body. It’s socially classy but it hasn’t the authority that the commons have, or quite as much as our senate possesses. It’s independent of perio dical appeals to the voters, though. Well, Winnie Churchill, while Britain’s war time prime minister, has had two successive censures move against him in the common ers’ chamber. In the first instance he had only one adverse vote. — The second tally was recorded a mere few days ago. That time his vote of confidence (a victory for him) was 475 to 25. Ordinarily it would have rated as a liberal margin in his favor,, but 24 plus 1 did not look so well. He’d have been a winner, anyway,but, if it hadn’t been for American influence, London accounts agree that he wouldn’t have scored 475. The nub of the situation is that Britain abso lutely can’t afford to alienate a single Ameri can today. And the British dope is that Winnie is darned popular on this side of the Atlantic. In the first place, his parentage is fraction ally American. A son of British Lord Randolph Churchill, he’s a son also of the former Jennie Jerome, a daughter of Leonard Jerome of the U. S. A. While educated in England, he’s al ways advertised that he’s around 50 per cent Yankee. He s emphasized it. He has American mannerisms, too. He’s cultivated ’em. His ac cent is American. It probably is slightly offen sive to English diplomacy, which is addicted to the broad “a” and hostile to Yankee forms of profanity, in preference to “blimey” and similar Cockney terms. In short, he’s hard boiled. Blankety-blank-blank - blank represents his type of expression. Natural “Side-Kick” He’s Accepted as what the English would re gard universally as what they’d deem a natur al side-kick of President Roosevelt—if they had any notion what a side-kick is. * Pictures of him look tough, likewise. They look like photos of what the Britons beheve one of their countrymen ought to look Ilk®’ t° register in Washington. lestthevednfrait t0 di,scount him in London, lest they do so here also. It isn’t altogether a miscalculation Winnie’s assessed as one of ourselves. If he d been “non-confidenced” by the house of commons, it wouldn’t have made any essen tial difference with the Yankee pro-United Na s woum *»™ ».b wiSr*" m CapiM Hni ■■ ■»“* If the house of commons had turned him down, it wouldn’t have been a good war devet ooment. Twentv-five members of +bP house of commons didn’t realize it. but 475 members It wasn't a bad pronortion. j QUOTATIONS We must show now by positive act of colla boration with nations of like mind that we are prepared to shoulder our full share of respon sibilities for building a better world.Secre tary of State Cordell Hull. * * * * A needless restriction in some city building code may delay our production of certain weap ons just enough to cause some of our boys to lose a battle they would have won.—War Pro duction Chief Donald M. Nelson. * * * Every candidate for the Senate and House, to be elected, must be able to convince the voters that his election will assist in bringing the war to an early and successful conclusion. —Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska. “BLUEPRINTS FOR VICTORY”_ I Axis - countries ft i I ► ■ M, n? SlS* ss Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES All courses meet at 8 p. m., in High School room 109. Fire Defense A: Every Monday General Course: Every Tuesday Gas Defense B: Every Wednes day FIRST AID COURSES Tuesday, July 21: Masonic Tem ple Lodge, at 7:30 p. m., 20 hrs. SPECIAL COURSES Fire Defense B: Thursdays at 8 p. m., Fire Dept. Headquarters. 3rd lecture: July 16 PRACTICE DRILLS Wednesday, July 22; Thursday July 30. All drills will last from 8:00-9:30 p. m. No blackout. 3 Is That So! | A California astronomer an nounces his belief in the existence of a new planet, 35 times farther from the sun than we are. Surpris. 'ngly, the Japs, so far. haven’t tried to include it in their Asiatic co-operative sphere. * * * Incidentally, wouldn’t the new planet make an ideal place of exile for a fellow named Hirohito? * * * * * * Grandpappy Jenkins says he has a neighbor who celebrated the Fourth of July by repeatedly play ing a phonograph record of “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” * # * Thirty thousand American-made taxicabs, according to Factographs are still in use in Tokyo. Now, if they’d only run wild—. ★ * * • A girl doomed to spinsterhood is one who insists that when she gets married her honeymoon must be spent in Europe. * * * During the 16th century Spanish conquistadors, lacking salt, sprinkled gold dust on their meat. Gosh, the price of steaks then must have been nearly as high as they are now. regular weekly conference last week, the President gave Congres sional leaders some important news on new moves he plans to head off inflation. They also got a sizzling earfui as to what he thinks of the House farm bloc for sniping at the anti inflation program. The President told his leaders that he was planning t0 order a nationwide survey of prices, wages savings, investments, instalment buying and all other factors involv ed in the inflation picture, prepara tory to asking Congress for addi tional legislation. The survey, he said, will be made to find out “just where we stand,” and will be conducted with in the next two months by the Of fice of Price Administration and other government agencies. One anti-inflation step Congress will be asked to approve, the Pres ident said, will be the granting of subsidies to manufacturers to en able them to keep within govern ment price ceilings until such time as increased labor, transportation and raw material costs are ad justed. Subsidies have worked out well in England and Canada, the Presi dent explained, and have prevent ed many smaller concerns—caught in the middle of higher production costs and enforced price ceilings— from being driven out of business. “What about wage stabiliza tion?” one Congressional leader asked. “I think it is absolutely essential that wages in the higher brackets be frozen,” FDR replied, adding that the War Labor Board soon would take some action in this di rection. young man embarking on a medi The Literary Guidepost enough of it to serve her purpose without tangling her reader in a maze of useless minutiae. Hurri canes, wars, tidal waves and inva sions of smelly dead blackfish have come and gone like the Sunday trippers. She has accurately chosen the pertinent events, and told them briefly. But the major problem in every remote community which has at tracted as many "furriners” as Provincetown is the tension be tween the natives and the newcom ers. Since thousands are forsaking the cities for what seems to them a simpler life, it is not a local problem. Even today, when the narrow streets are brimming with sailors, the problem exists because Provincetown is slow to absorb its strangers. Mrs. Vorse has only re centiy been accepted, she admits ^tb understanding and no hurt. Frederick Waugh was accepted, too, and a few others. But the hordes of theater people theaVar« ?yed there’ 99 per cant of the artists practising in hen writeersStUdl°tS»: thC majority of the writers — these have only been “Time and the nfTv?\v,haS *to be read in the ught lf y0U EkiP- don’t “ J vu St0uy 0f EuSen« O’Neill and his work.1 3 BY JOHN SELBY “TIME AND THE TOWN,” by Mary Heaton Vorse (Dial; $3.50). In the days when people could drive motor cars for pleasure, they used to swing down from Boston through Plymouth, cross the Cape Cod canal around Barnstable, and sweep as rapidly as possible along the narrow road out to the clench ed fist at the end of the Cape. There they hurriedly unloaded, and began twisting up and down the narrow streets, dripping ice cream cones in their hands — women in tight slacks and men in shirts open at the neck. This was called spend ing the day at Provincetown. Except as an irritant, this week end crush had nothing whatever to do with the life of the town, as 35 years of experience have made clear to Mary Heaton Vorse The locusts came, and their debris could be swept up when they left. But some other factors have af fected Provincetown life very deep, ly, and because they are common to all New England and in lesser degree to many other parts of the country, Mrs. Vorse’s "Time and the town” is a record of value To begin with, Mrs. Vorse has the history of Provincetown in hand, and has been able to tell The Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen On Active Duty) PRESIDENT TELLS CONGRESS CHIEFS OF NEW ANTI INFLATION PLANS; WILL ASK SUBSIDIES TO KEEP BUSINESS OPERATING UNDER CEILINGS; HE DE NOUNCES FARM BLOC MOVE AS EFFORT TO BREAK PRICE CONTROL; CONGRESS RESTRICTS STUDENT LOANS FOR FEAR OF AIDING SLACKERS. WASHINGTON, July 14—At their*— Alter denouncing the House farm bloc the President dropped’ some acid comments regarding the sub stitute Agriculture Department ap propriation bill which banned the sale of government grain stocks at below parity prices. Farm bloc Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri and his cohorts had rail roaded this through the House, and the President described it as an at tempt to wipe out all controls on inflation. “Had the Senate agreed to that bill,” he warned, “I would have had no other course but to veto it.” MRS. CARAWAY’S CHAMPAGNE Navy men always hold their breath when a ship is christened. They have a superstition that if the bottle of champagne does not break bad luck awaits the ship. So when demure Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, only lady of the Senatei christened the subma rine Sawbuck at Portsmouth, N. H., it was tactfully suggested that she take a few “practice strokes” with a wooden bottle. However, when the big moment came, moth erly Mrs. Caraway walked up to the bow of the Sawbuck and bash ed the real bottle of champagne with such force that she doused Thomas Withers. “Splendid!” commented Withers. “You’re a lot stronger than I thought. Most women have to use both arms to break the bottle, and sometimes they don’t succeed.” Note:—Mrs. Caraway’s husband, Thad Caraway, was one of t h e driest Senators of the prohibition era. DRAFT DODGERS? .me Datue over the CCC made the headlines, but it wasn’t the only row at the closed-door meet ing of the Senate and House con ferees on the $1,066,000,000 appro priation for the Laloor Department and Federal Security Agency. There also was a hot blowup over a $7,500,000 item for $500-a year government loans to students taking courses in medicine, dentis try, pharmacy and other profes sions deemed essential to the war effort. This proposal, sired by Dr. John W. Studebaker, ambitious chief of the U. S. Office of Education, got a rough reception from Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Representative Albert Engel of Michigan and others on the ground that it would encourage draft-dodg ing. Senator Richard Russell of Geor gia, chief advocate of the student loans, told the conferees: “I’ve got a brother I’ve been helping through college, and I know what it costs Most young fellows of draft age who are studying for professions are having to compress four years of study into three, and give up summer vacations during which they used to get jobs to help fi nance their education. “That’s one reason we need this money. Another is, the Army and Navy have been taking so many of our professional men that we must make sure of a sufficient number after the war,** „ "H°lc* on. Senator,’’ broke in Engel. Under the language of this fai 1 as Passed by the Senate a cal course will get $500 a year for interpreting the unT ON PAGE THREE The Editor’s Letter Box The editor does not . endorse any article apt., . r'’ this department. Thev renrt , :'J views of the Individual", Correspondents and ■ all communications mi the correct name and our records, though the l in'2S for be signed as the writer ...‘ ", r The Star-News reserves r , . to alter any text that for son is objectionable. Itt r5,len' controversial subjects wiM /" published. 1 •* LOUIS MOORt To The Editor: The reason for this commufc tion may be very obvious. a„0:' may be out of my line: bur L;1 sions occur when one feels in expressing himself in extraneous matters. Wilmington could not have a bet ter advertising medium than th' pen and word of Louis T. \\0on He is known throughout North o olina, at least, as a spokesman fni many things upon which peoi)u elsewhere place a high value :!jr Moore is steeped in local tradition al and sentimental matters, which other cities would consider them selves exceedingly fortunate to poi' sess. Such things are priceless arid have a practical value which m.av be as great as smokestacks and humming machinery, however dei sirable these latter may be. People often come to Wilmington because of what they have heard about it and to see its beauty and attrac tiveness. And Louis Moore knows how to tell them interesting things and answer their many questions Besides. Wilmington is a resort town, and it is so regarded even yet with its greatly increased pop. ulation; and certainly no one has advertised its resort facilities more than Louis Moore. His published words have no doubt brought thou sands of tourists to the city. Mr. Moore is intellectually quick and efficient; and I tear the fact that he was for so long the execu tive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce has suggested a change which certainly his ability and alertness would not cal! for. Sometimes it is hard to be fair and wise in the midst of rapid de velopments; and it must be admit ted that men tested by work and achievements may nevertheless be considered as back numbers when their accomplishments speak then praise and keep alive the hope of better things. Let us make the very best of Wilmington as it is, and strengthen the hands of those wh0 have achieved things. Louis Moore has my admiration, and all the state considers him as the embodiment of the best thought of Wilmington He has undoubtedly done a great deal to advance its commercial in terests, and been the source of con fidence that prompted many an en terprise of the city in its decision to locate here. No one thinks more of Wilmington than Louis Moore and would do more for it If I have gone out of my line. I ask to be excused for my error: but I offer no apology for wliai I have written. Andrew J. Howell -V Wilmington, N. C. July 14. .1942. DOGS To the Editor: If there is no law now requiring dogs to be muzzled and chained it was high time that one should be passed and enforced. (With more people going to be forced to ride bicycles like I am). Dog owners as a whole have no respect for people or their safety and I do not see how I can be expected to protect myself against two vicious dogs attacking me at the same time (one on each side1 like happened yesterday about 7 p. m. in the 500 block of Wrights ville Avenue which is entirely too narrow to fight off an all out at tack and dodge cars at the same time. Fortunately I did not have my basket loaded with ice and gro ceries or I would not have been successful in this stunt. Maybe a law can be passed that prohibits any dog to bark after dark or disturb the peace in any way. In tills case I speak for my self only. Others who 'nave a dif ferent shift from mine may no! want dogs t0 pester them when they have to sleep in daytime. A any rate it is high time something be done to keep any and all off the streets at any and ml time. Or there could be cot. -entratiu'i camps for them where if a d°s bites some one it is only a dc? owner. This is the first time In my ’■ years here of fighting off (either as pedestrian or c>'c ', that I am asking for any space - your paper. Subscriber Wilmington, N. C. , July 14. 1942 seven years from the go mrsi^r counting in three years of 're-ms'1' ical training. Suppose tin. j over three years from 1 ■ ~"" young man can quit after -xp-*. ing his pre - medical c< there’s nothing to stop switching to another fi<' i 1: c" isn’t essential.” “Yes, and he and rr. n”f; students meantime will ' 1 ce.i deferred from the draft *,;8f Bridges. “A lot of par.: • want to keep their sons out of ’ war will capitalize on thi-r think we ought to encourage dn dodging.” “Neither do I,” retorted fir”' “You’re making a mountain e a mole hill. This appropriate won’t have any such effect “I insist,” replied Bridge-'' '”10' <Continued on Page Nine)
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