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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing In The Wilmington Star. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. 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 Terminal*. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Seaside Highway from WrightsviUe Beach to Bald Head island. Extension of City Limits. 35-foot Cap* Pear 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 V od Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina Unified industrial and Resort Promo tion •! Agency, supported by one county wide lax. Shipyards and Drydocka. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate nospltal 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 “What have they seen in thy house?” 2d Kings 20:15. The real purpose of every home is to shape character for time and for eternity. The home may be one of poverty, the cross of self-sacrifice may be required, suffering may sometimes be necessary, but wherever a home fulfills this purpose it is overflowing with joy. —DR. J. WILBUR CHAPMA. -V___ Women In Training These thirty-odd women training at the NYA resident center in basic knowledge and tech nique of machines will be qualified for highly speciali7.ed work in war nidustries. It is men tioned that they wll be eligible for employment at the Norfolk Navy Yard, the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft plant at Balimore and he Fairchld Aircraft factory at Burlington. This means, obviously, that the skill they are now acquiring s but the development of natural talents of voinen. who excell in precision and delicae operations so essential in the production of air planes This is the initial step in this kind of training in the Wilmington area, though women have long held down important jobs in the aircraft plants of the Pacfic coast. As the war pro gresses we may expect to hear of larger clas ses and even more intensive training for wom en in war industries in this area. Ominous Ca]m For those who have followed Marshal Rom mel’s career, the present calm on the Egyptain front is as ominous as the hardest battle of the past in north Africa. This Nazi general, who has dug in before, and recuperated his strength for later and greater exploits, who is never so dangerous as when cornered, whose cunning is like a fox’s is not idle in these days of inactivity. It is known that, despite the situation in Russia and the rumors that Hitler has withdrawn some of his air power for service in the Caucasus, he has received sorely needed supplies and some equipment, and is biding his time for a fresh thrust toward Alexandra. * It is possible, of course, that he has orders to await the outcome of the fighting in south ern Russia before renewing his attack. If Hitler Is successful in the Caucases he will be able to release a large force to reinforce Rommel Tor an advance not only in Egypt but, vic torious there, for a union with the major Nazi armies in Iraq or Iran for a campaign in Cndia. Should this be the general Axis plan, and _it seems plausible, there is the more reason for the Allied forces in Egypt to counter-attack now with overwhelming strength, and break up the Nazi schedule. General Auchinleck appears to have the op portunity to strike a destructive blow in Egypt, which may never come again. ■ ' --T Let’s Be At It Deploring the lack of frankness at Washing ton and pointing out that the darkest days of this war upon us, “when the morale of the American people is going to be tried as the morale of Washington’s army was tried at Valley Forge,” Roscoe Drummond, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, gives definitions of morale whch deserve to be pondered deep ly. "Morale,” he says, “is spiritual self-confi dence. Morale is the American people’s faith in one another. Morale is standing firm. Mo rale is democracy’s fibre. Morale is free men in action. Morale is unity of the United Na tions. Morale, based on the sureness of God’s government in the affairs of men and nations, is the light that illumines the dark hour before the dawn of a deserved peace.” With this penned, Mr. Drummond bemaons the lack of cohesion or unity in planning and particularly in revealing plans for the war which cannot possible bring comfort or aid to the enemy, and makes the point that the "American people are willing voluntarily or by direction of their government to make what ever sacrifices are necessary to win this war; and the President and Congress will do well to avail themselves of this willingness without prolonging that indecision that plays into the hands of the enemy.” And in conclusion, he declares: "The truth is that the American people have given ample signs that they are ready to fight this war harder than some of their leaders yet realize and it is 1,me all the government acted. . . upon the truth of democracy.” We cannot escape the belief that the time has actually arrived to begin to fight this war, someplace in its vast ramifications, with the same determination, the same sacrifices if necessary, that the Russians are displaying on the Eastern front. We have been scouting the outskirta of battle long enough. We have need now to get into the combat. And that applies no less to the other United Nations than to the United Staes. Thirty odd nations have declared war on the Axis. Outside of Russia and China none are fighting a battle. How long do we expect to hold out on the defensive lines of the last eight months, with Hitler and the Japanese crowding us closer to the ropes every day we delay? The dark days are indeed here. And part of the reason is that Hitler and the Japs are fighting and we are defending. This war can’t be won that way. Victory can come only through offense. Let’s be at it, before we lose our spiritual self-confidence. _17_ Faces Difficult Situation If James A. Farley produces evidence, as he says he can. that Sen. James M. Mead made an isolationist talk before the National Demo cratic club in February, 1941, President Roose velt, who is backing Mead’s candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination in New York, will be placed in a difficult positon. One of Mr. Roosevelt’s demands, when the campagn was in its infancy, was that the can didate to win his endorsement must have sup ported his foreign policies throughout the en tire war period—long before Pearl Harbor. Mr. Mead has claimed to be such a man. Now, says Mr. Farley, ‘‘I charge and shall prove out of his own mouth that in that speech he revealed his true sentiment. . . and convict ed himself of being an isolationist and not in sympathy with the President’s foreign pol icies.” If he produces the evidence, Mr. Mead will join Mr. Roosevelt in the latter’s difficult situation. And a difficult situation in state poli. tics is what the President needs anything else but when the entire country looks to him for leadership in its most critical period. Senator Mead and what becomes of him is of little consequence. What affects the Presi dent’s position before the people is vital. They look to him as the shepard who must lead them back to security. There are many in this country who believe that the problems created by the war are of first importance and, to be dealt with ade quately, must have the President’s undivided attention. If they are correct in this view there is no place is the Chief Executive’s program for politics. _-ir_ Union Limitation Of Production -v One of the chief requirements for victory is all-out production of war equipment. American industries engaged on war contracts are con stantly encouraged to reach new production levels. Only by having more planes, more tanks, more ships, more guns, more munitions and supplies, can the United States be assured of overcoming the handicap enjoyed by the Axis because of its long start in the manufac ture of the tools of war. For years before any of the United Nations started to arm for this global conflict, Ger many and Japan were turning out tanks' and planes in mass production. If this is to be out matched it can be only by speed in production. Yet we read of a worker of the Sealed Power Corporation at Muskegon, Mich., ar raigned for sabotage, who tells the United States commissioner that he destroyed five stacks of aircraft engine piston-ring molds in a rage over a union limitaton on the number of units a workman could produce daily. The worker, by name Huburt C. Cox, made his charges against C.I.O. United Automobile Workers Local 637, of which he is a member. His declaration is borne out by the testimony of a company spokesman, who also said the union limited the production of units and that the company had tried unsuccessfully for more than a year to eliminate the restriction. If it is shown, when Cox is examined on August 12, that his statements are correct, what are the American people to think of a union that would hamstring production of any vital war-tool part when the very existence of the country in independence is at stake? _v_ Befuddled India The character of India’s befuddlement is il lustrated by the fact that whereas much of the world is at war she hopes to escape through “passive" resistance. India, says a statement by Gandi, ‘will attain her freedom through her non-violent strength.” India hopes, his statement continues, that “Japan will not have any designs” on her. This, in spite of Japan’s known purpose to link all Asia in her “eo-rosperity” program which has accomlished such wonders for China dur ing these recent years. If history records a more pitiful example of the blind leading the blind into a pitfall the book of its recording is not at hand. While there has been little fighting in the Pacific of late and that mostly restricted to air exploits, it is known that the Japanese have been moving westward in Burma and it is reported that six divisions have been sent southward from Manchukuo. Tokyo s keeping an eye on the march of events in coveted India. The quietude is like the calm that pre cedes the storm. It is not improbable that the Bay of Bengal may again become a storm center shortly. There is no reason to suppose that India’s willingness to take it lying down will not meet the heartiet approval in Tokyo’s military com mand. _v_ Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNET WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—Answering the mail orders: T. L. M. Akron, Ohio—War damage insur ance may be purchased from any one of the hundreds of fire insurance companies in the country. Under regulations laid down by the War Damage Corp., it provides full coverage for all real or personal propety damaged or lost by enemy action or by our own forces in resisting enemy action. The premiums vary from less than $1 to a little more than $7 a thousand, depending upon the type of property. Geographical location has nothing to do with the remium. It’s the same in Akron as in San Francisco or New York. K. D., Memhis, Tenn.—There has been no official announcement but the report is that you can look for a draft reclassification within the next three or four months. This probably will get a lot of men with dependents in cases where those dependents can exist on the allot ment pay. It will not affect married men with one or more children actually living in the home. It will not affect men, single or married, who are essential to war industries. Each board is now supplied with a list of more than 30 industries considered essential. Some of these, however, are only essential if they are working on war contracts. Mrs. K. W. L., Pasadena, Calif.—Don’t count your 1943 taxes until they are hatched. The opinion here is that the almost six billion dollar tax bill passed by the House is just the begin ning. In the first place there is the Senate hurdle to clear. That there will be some re visions is a cinch. But even if these are minor, it’s a fair guess that after the November elec tions are out of the way, there will be addition al tax measures to bring next year’s revenue somewhere near the $8,700,000,000 asked by the treasury. In Washington, it’s about an even money bet that some sort of sales tax will be enacted before the first of next year. P. R., Trenton, N. J.—Clarifying the rubber situation at this time is an utter impossibilty. Not even those government offcials and in dustrialists in a position to be the best informeu are anywhere near close agreement on the matter. • * • A. R. T., Mineral Wells, Texas—There Is nothing in the Washington record to substan tiate the claim that strikes are on the up swing. The most recent report of the labor department was that here are 17 srikes now in progress in war industries. These affect something over 10,000 men. This is about' 80 per cent less than the five-year peacetime av erage before 1940. H. D., Monroe, La.—I don’t think there is any need at this stage of the war to worry about American machines in the air or on the ground not being as good as those of the ene my. Reports from the battlefronts where our machines are being used don’t indicate any in feriority. Changes are, however, constantly be ing made. There probably isn’t a,front where our planes, tanks or guns are being used where experts are not on hand to study performance under actual battle conditions and the bugs are being knocked out as fast as they are dis covered. 3 _v_ Quotations To use the vulgar expression, you ain’t seen nothing yet.—Leon Henderson, federal price administrator. * * * We Norwegians are fully aware that not only continents but also oceans are links between nations and we would regard it as a great dis aster if the United States of America were again to isolate herself from Europe.—Dr. Arne Ording, adviser to the Norwegian Foreign Of fice. * * * Because our transportation system has func tioned so well does not prove that it can keep doing so indefinitely. There are serious dangers ahead.—Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of Defense Transportation. • * • If it weren’t for the bits of metal flying about, the desert would be a healthy place— Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. • * • Continue to be ingenious. Never let up in your search for doing more, faster, with less You have a chance to revolutionize the whole art of producing for war — Donald Nelson, WPB chairman THE GRAND CANYON OF AMERICA i k GOLLY! WHAT A GUU.V! NEVIS TL AS ft*. NEVJ PEACE ATTEMPTS fEiNCcM ADZ TO BRlHG C. 1.0. AHD AF OF i- TOGETHER.—^ Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COURSES High School room 109 at 8 p. m. Fire Defense: Every Monday. General Course: Every Tuesday. Gas Defense B: Every Wednesday. FIRST AID 10 HOURS High School Gymnasium at 8 p. m. beginning August 10. First lesson: Every Monday. Second lesson: Every Tuesday. Third lesson: Every Wednesday. Fourth lesson: Every Thursday. Fifth lesson: Every Friday. SPECIAL COURSES Fire Defense B: 3rd lesson, Thursday, August 6, 8 p. m. at Fire Dept., 4th Dock. Police Course every Thursday, High School room 109 at 8 p. m PRACTICE DRILL Friday, August 14, 8-9:30 p. m TRAININ COURSES Colored All classes begin at 8:30 p. m. Warden’s course: Monday, Aug ust 10, Central Baptist church, 7th and Red Cross. General Course: Monday, August 10, Gregory Community church, 7th and Nun St. Fire Defense A: Monday, August 17, Gregory Community church, 7th and Nun. Gas Defense B: Monday, August 24, Gregory Community church 7th ind Nun St. 3 If you hear or observe anything suspicious in character report it promptly to: Wilmington Police, 5244. Wrightsville Beach Police, 7504. Carolina Beach Police, 2001. Captain of the Port, 2-2278. County Defense Council, 3123. Sheriff, 4252. _v_ Factographs The saying, "to pull the wool over one’s eyes” (meaning to at tempt to deceive), dates back to Elizabethan days in England, where it had its beginning in a law which made compulsory the wear ing of wool caps on Sundays and Holy days. Those who didn’t have lyool caps tried to make them out of raw wool, and literally pulled the makeshift over their eyes. Raymond Clapper Says: Nation Looking For Cure To Win War Easy Way BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — Our trouble, said one Army officer to me, is that as a people we are looking for a cure-all to win the war some easy way. That observation, made not in any spirit of complaint but in the course of a matter-of-fact appraisal of where we stand, struck me as having a good deal of point just now. Our instinct tells us — and you may be sure that the information in Washington supports it—that we have a much harder fight on our hands than we thought some time ago. Naturally we look for some trick way that will spare us the agony of winning the hard way. For instance, the cargo plane is an essential of modern war. Man ufacture has ben going on for some time. In fact, its usefulness is so obvious that in our eager search for a short cut we begin to dream of enormous fleets of cargo planes carrying as much as freight cars, taking the place of surface ships. There are proposals to shift from shipbuilding to cargo planes, even to shift from bomber produc tion to cargo planes. If you allow yourself to dream a moment you can see all of our supply problems overcome by using thousands of flying freight cars. Such dreams begin with a prac tical idea, but inflate it until it as sumes grotesque shape that loses all touch with reality. Although the agitation of such plans serves a stimulating purpose, the actual ex tent to which they can be develop ed may depend upon many factors of materials, possible plant capac ity, and time, that are beyond the knowledge of most of us. Many people are impatient that the 1000-plane raids over Germany have not been maintained. Yet the enormous tankloads of gasoline consumed, the losses of crews and planes which drain replacements, create many difficulties of which The Literary Guidepost by JOHN SELBY “FOLLOW. THE LEADER,” by Clyde Brion Davis (Farrar & Rine hart; $2.75) When you find a novelist choos ing to use a central character of no particular attractiveness, you have found a novelist with cour age. Clyde Brion Davis shows that sort of courage in “Follow the Leader.” Charles Martel is his unheroic hero. Instead of making him a per son of charm and manly accom plishment, Mr. Davis starts him ,°ff ,a?.,a cornplex-ridden pimp ly little boy To make matters worse, he ties him to his mother’s nonng the girl next door, who sees knot Charley does badly in school partly because he has a bad ear but chiefly because he fs afrafdll hldtart lteacvrs' afraid of th« bad, tough boys his mother warns ^r1agamst' afrald of the girls Charley is even afriad of himself an£nW v? arly of his own body’. Sophie, his mother, is a consum Henrvf°h Wh° nags her husband, Henry because of his passionate determination to make his month! eF^sucr211^' Christian Farm , J succeed. The magazine is slow ly dying and Henry is an idealist and the family in one step ahead of the sheriff. Sophie wants the crea ture comforts and because she thinks her husband has failed her, she centers her hopes on her son and remakes him in her own dis torted image. The reader is likely to rage at Charley for being fooled —but sympathy for him enters at this point. Mr. Davis moves Charley through time with extraordinary skill, partly by means of the nar rative itself, and partly by means of inset historical passages which have a kind of newsreel charac ter; not, perhaps, an original de vice, but a very effective one. Charley starts his business career fixing bicycle punctures, and quits school after the eighth grade. Ig noring the girl next door, who ses something more than pimples on Charley’s face, he scrimps toward his first thousand dollars. He be first-*rade hero in the World War, a Ford dealer, and through the astute promptings of one Irving Radetsky he gradually becomes a merchant prince and but that is more than enough syn opsis. j “Follow the leader” is an Ameri can novel of first rank the bystander is unaware. In fly ing to India and China last spring, I had several opportunities to ob serve the enormous effort required to keep in the air even the pitifully small force of planes there. Simon Lake, the pioneer subma rine designer, proposes cargo sub marines, large enough also to transport 2500 troops. If you can build a small submarine you can build a large one. But how long would it take That always is a question in this war. These are not crackpot ideas in principle. But the physical task of .production imposes stern limits. Archimedes said that if he had a lever long enough and a fulcrum strong enough he could lift the earth. His principle was sound. But he was up against a production problem. * * • I may seem to belittle imagina tion and boldness but that is not the purpose. We are up against bold and imaginative enemies. We shall need every ounce of those qualities ourselves. We have been slow in some respects, slow to de velop airpower, slow to break away from the battleship. Our Army was indifferent to gliders until the Ger mans used them. We need to outdo our enemies in imagination. Hut we can learn something else from them, the thing that I sup pose my military friend had in mind. It is that with all the tricks that can be employed, there still remains a lot of hard pedestrian plugging to do. Hitler used the blitz, heavy bombing, t he dive bomber, air troop carriers, gliders and parachutists. But he depended on no one of these alone. He still had to go through hard, gruelling campaigns as the Japanese troops have had to do. To win thus far they have used everything. They tried short cuts but they did not win the war. Very likely we shall have the same experience. We are not likely to find a simple formula or simple device for victory any more than Hitler has found one. With all of his advanced military technique he is finding the road hard and paved with the mangled bodies of his own men. No miraculous short cut has worked for him, and we will save ourselves bitter disappointment if we cease expecting a miracle on our side. ~ _-ir J As Others Say It PIANO METAL The president of the National Pi ano Manufacturing Association es timates that a stock pile of half a billion pounds of metal is hidden in this country’s obsolete pianos, some three million tof them. In each one also can probably be found a tin pan—Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post. POETIC JUSTICE Poetic justice is precisely what one would look for in the Fiume region. It was seized, in days of peace, by the Italian poet-conspir ator d Annunzio. Nothing more fit than that these days, patriots, branded as irregulars, should be seeking to restore it where it be JS2£l” Louisville (Ky.) Courier Interpreting TheWar wsswsg Foreboding despatches Moscow on battle trends s'5 Caucasus are fully warrant ^ though they do not ten 5‘‘ story. ^ a- he Berlin announces that the v river, main barrier protec- - 80 Maikop oil field and Russ ^ munications with the Ret'5~ CCS! the Sea of Azov, has bee on a wide front and cros!^ some points. The Nazi h"6511 place the fighting front fro"—^ 100 miles south of the area.'*® Moscow tells of continued ^ although admitting an Si break-through and farther w? retreat. There is every jJ?** however, that the Ru=Var . a"t describe events of two w!?"5 more ago and afford no tr i „ K ture of more recent and «, Pic developments. ' “nun°’J5 The situation for Russian ,rr„ on the left fl*nk is bad e S even by Russian reports ^ is acutely critical if the cl'J version is accurate. The line rt ,f Kuban has already been ^ if not turned to loose German ! ' mored spearheads westward beta the river and in the rear of ret™ ing Russian forces racing deswi ately southward to escape en‘S ment. The Kuban west of Kropotkir which the Germans sav thev captured, still offers possible , uge to Russian forces now north of the river in the triangular north western corner of the Caucasus k tween the Azov sea coast and Z the Rostovbaku railway That lrne and its paralleling pipeline from Baku cross the rive at Kropotkin. From that point westward to its outlet into the Black sea via tit lake estuaries of the Taman penir sula the Kuban is a formidable ob stacle if the retreating Russians north of the Kuban and west of tit railroad an reach it in tire There are few rail or highway con nections to facilitate their retreat however, and such as there are' must be under constant, close-ran air, attack. So far as Nazi strategic designs in this critical area can be dis cerned, they are following an ex pected course. The great tend oi the Kuban seems virtually in Ger man hands and doubtless Russian scorched-earth crews are standing by to blast Maikop oilfield instal lations at a moment's notice. Even Its capture will not soon fill the tanks of Nazi warcraft of land, sea or air. There is still a chance for the Russians in the Kuban sector to rally in defense of Maikop, how ever. , Even with the Kuban bert lost, as indicated, they have another river iront behind it, the Laba. a Kuban tributary. It curves closely along the Caucasus range foothills, following the general course of the Kuban from south to north and west and averaging 4! miles west of the larger river. Although a lesser stream than the Kuban, the Laba is backed to the west by the Caucasus moun tains so closely that it should tie even better defensive ground than the Kuban bend area. The Nazi drive to the Kuban has consistent ly followed the open steppes, most favorable for mechanized :?» tions and blitzkreig attack. That probably accounts for its ® The most hopeful outlook te Russians lies in the fact that to reach any of the three great of. areas of the Caucasus Hitler must now fight among mountains peopled with hardy tribestr.es familiar with every trail and by path. Is That So! Granpappy Jenkins says Septerc bex is his favorite month—then its no use to mow the la any t®1-* and it’s far too early to wore about shoveling snow. * * * The planet Saturn, according t. Factographs. has 10 moons. be tough there trying to remain - bachelor. * # # Jap generals, we read, arePa* a salary of only S50 a week. this war is over we'll prove they - not worth that much. * * * After the war, we, understand commercial planes will be a 1 fly at such a high altitude t.a •• agara Falls will look like a faucet. .ugrc, With beef prices way up the lowly steer is once af3®,^ of the range—the western kitchen. * * * ,just&ve How time flies! Tt was ^sjest short years ago that o® worry was over what ® storms might do to civil® In colonial times, acc0”^tge! an historian, many oi.°n0sti, cities had no sidewalk-’- _ ^ year around must have W 1 season on pedestrians. * * * uttle bo? The number of things a ‘j.ets is can carry around in his P' 0j to exceeded only by the van . ^ jects his mother can cram purse. On March 11, 1841, the stt. President, New York to disap* with 136 persons on boa • fr0Bi peared and was never h * * * „ are HO In the Swiss Alps ther altj. fewer than 70 peaks jjOOO tude ranging from 10,000 to feet.
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