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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Is entitled to the exclusive use of all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1543 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 Our Chief Aim To aid in every way the prosecu tion of the war to complete Vic tory. _ THOUGHT FOR TODAY Grant me but this: To let no trust go wrong. To keep my courage strong To fear no evil spell, To do some one thing well from day to day. _A PRAYER—CHARLOTTE BECKER. Still Need Volunteers Pending instructions from Washington or Raleigh, the Office of Civilian Defense will continue to function, particularly in the con trol room—which, by the way, has never been fully manned—despite the changes announced in the Aircraft Warning Service. For the present at least the AWS will not go completely out of business. Instead there will be periods of service for its staffs, and a call from it for activation of the OCD should come through. As the control room is the only agency set up for reaching and assem bling OCD units, any change in its operations might lead to serious if not tragic conse quences. The control room undoubtedly would welcome recruits from AWS so that all tricks might have adequate personnel. It is apparent that a redrafting of home defense programs is under way. Possibly fur ther curtailments will be announced. But there is one essential war-time service that cannot be reduced. Rather, it is constantly expanding. It is the Red Cross. As the war reaches new frontiers and demands for relief increase, the Red Cross, being best prepared to meet the requirements, is continually called upon for greater service, in the performance of Which more workers are needed. No single unit of this organization has enough workers. The motor corps, the Gray Ladies, the production rooms, the nursing di vision, first aid department, nurses aide all need additions, and need them greatly. They offer the best of all opportunities for members of home defense units now being reduced to continue their service in essential war work. ■-V Lecture On Delinquency Because juvenile delinquency presents a dis turbing problem here, Wilmingtonians are ahowing deep interest in the coming lecture by James H. Hepbron on the subject under ■ponsorship of the Community Forum. Mr. Hepbron, who is managing director of the Baltimore Criminal Justice Commission and chairman of the Maryland State Com mission on Juvenile Delinquency, not only brings to the subject the wisdom of life-long itudy but sympathetic interest as well. Under his leadership the sentencing of boys and girls in Maryland is no longer in court hands; the Child Welfare Bureau puts the emphasis on correction rather than punishment. In addition to his broad experience, Mr. Hepbron possesses rare talent as a speaker. Naturally all units concerned with the devel opment of youth in this city and county, and reformation of the wayward, as well as par ents, will find profit in hearing him. The lec ture will be delivered at the New Hanover high school auditorium at 8:30 o’clock on No Vember 1. Ci Mountbatten and M’Arthur I Lord Louis Mountbatten’s arrival in New Delhi to assume supreme Allied command in eastern Asia, which was announced yester day, is paralleled by a statement by Secre tary of War Stimson that his authority does not overlap General MacArthur’s, which in cludes the southwest Pacific war theater from a line east of Guadalcanal and the Solomons. Apparently Lord Mountbatten’s chief task will be to drive the Japanese out of Burma. General MacArthur, obviously will continue his offensive on island enemy bases in prep aration for the final campaign against Japan itself. If Lord Mountbatten meets equal suc cess in Burma that has resulted from Mac Arthur’s advance northward from Australia, the Pacific war will be advanced materially nearer to an Allied victory in the Orient. The monsoon season will soon be past. When it ends we may expect to learn that the forces which have been training in India for the jungle combat they must take up in Burma are on the way. It is not yet clear that enough warships have been released from the Mediterranean and other naval zones of operation to take a great task force across the Bay of Bengal for a landing, say, at Rangoon, but we may reasonably assume that the Burma offensive would not have been brought so near the starter’s gun unless both naval and air sup port had been provided. It may be said, however, that MacArthur got along very well and made definite progress while his command was woefully underman ned in all branches of the armed service. The Japanese had superior strength on Guad alcanal and New Guinea and New Georgia and Bougainville, but MacArthur has pressed steadily on toward Rabaul, the Japanese out post on New Brifain. He is winning back the Japanese island empire in the southwest Pa cific, not by outnumbering but by outfighting and outguessing the foe. If Lord Mountbat ten, who is a hard and skilled fighter, can match MacArthur in strategy, he will not need a vastly overwhelming force to win the battle in Burma. This Burma fight must be won. On victory there depends China’s greater participation in the war. The Burma road must be reopen ed that great supplies of war tools may reach Chiang Kai-shek. This is essential not only to force Japanese forces off China’s soil but also that Chinese military manpower, ade quately armed and trained, may join China’s allies with full effectiveness in the ultimate defeat of Japan. Hopefully, Lord Mountbatten will be able to retake Burma and open its lifeline to China with the same talent for exceeding expectations that MacArthur has exhibited in his zone of operations. Plenty of Toys Lack of critical materials and the man power shortage are being felt in Santa Claus’ workshop, but for all that the jolly old fellow expects to make his rounds with a pretty full sack on the night before Christmas. There may be about 10 per cent less, he hints, just to be on the safe side, but if all goes unex pectedly well this slack will be taken up. Of course he can’t make some of the toys which have been favorites in past years, such as metal-wheeled goods, electric trains and mechanical toys. What goes into them is needed for beating the Germans and the Japs. But there will be lots of military-slanted toys and a great variety of games. Santa has been cudgeling his brain to devise new ones. Santa’s agents, the merchants of the coun try, expect their trade will top $200,000,000. If parents cannot be fully satisfied with what he turns out, there are always war sav ing stamps to fall back on. It is remarkable, the interest children take in them. ■-V Should Start At Top The American Federation of Labor is au thority for the statement that a movement is in organization, or at least in contemplation, to expand the influence of the Department of Labor by centralizing most of the agencies now dealing with labor problems. It is added that CIO approval is a foregone conclusion. It may not be impertinent to inquire when labor organizations were authorized to make announcements concerning the plans of gov ernment departments. In the past, the gov erment has been quite capable of drafting its own plans and making them public at the appropriate time. It is difficult to believe that even now with an administration in power which has petted unionized labor until its leadership has become intolerable even to most of the rank and file of the membership, can have departed so far from the custom as to open its heart to labor without taking the public into its confidence as well. But maybe the AFL leaders who have passed the word on to delegates attending the organization’s annual convention at Boston are merely doing a bit of wishful thinking. Be this as it may, there is no doubt that the Labor department needs revamping. It has been in a muddle for a decade. But any change would be of little value unless it start ed at the top. Mrs. Perkins, the department’s chief, has proved herself a weak sister since President Roosevelt included her among his first Cabinet appointments. Instead of im pioving she has steadily grown more incapa ble, until practically all responsibility has been lifted from her sagging shoulders, and she has become scarcely more than a clerk whose chief task is to compile statistics and issue periodical report. If the bureaucratic agencies which have been set up to do much of the work and make many decisions she should sponsor are to be centralized, certainly no betterment can be expected if she remains at the head of the department. We are still convinced, as we stated long ago, that a retired army general, used to establishing and enforcing discipline, is the proper person to hold the labor portfolio. But with a national election in the offing, perhaps the administration, particularly President Roosevelt, does not want strict discipline in labor. -A Greater Air Strength Needed That was a significant announcement by General Arnold, chief of the United States Army Air Forces in Seattle. The Italian in vasion, he said could not have been successful with a single plane less, and to get as many as participated into the action it was necessary to draw them from every available locafon. The Italian invasion was a minor affair in comparison with invasion of western liurope. If we could barely muster enough war planes to execute the former successfully, how can we hope to succeed in the latter unless there is either a tremendous increase in plane pro duction or fewer of the planes we manufac ture are sent to other localities—Russia and the Pacific theater, for instance, where they are vitally needed? General Arnold’s revelation can only be viewed a« an appeal for heavier production, and not in the United States alone but among the Allied nation* as well. _ (Editor's Note.—Tbs Star and the News aeeepts no responsibility for the per tonal views of Mr. Pegler, ind often disagree with them as much as many of bis readers. His articles serve the good purpose of making people think. By WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK.—If any of you are overbur dened with worry these days, it might interest you to know that same can be attended to promptly and neatly by a professional of long experience, meaning me. I have been in this business for about 10 years and my many contented clients have sent me very compli mentary testimonials, which may be seen by appointment. No worry is too insignificant for my attention nor large enough to daunt me, and my range of topics has included the future of the Tunney-Muldoon trophy' symbolic of the heavyweight championship of the world, the fairest gem in fistiana’s bauble, as the late Leo P. Flynn used to call it. and the se curity of Singapore. The last time I saw the gem in the bauble, it had been shoved back in a corner under the stairs in Madison Square Garden and I needn’t tell you what happened to Singapore. I think I should explain that I do not guarantee favorable results. I just worry and the results just happen independ ently. At the present moment I have many or ders on hand from clients desiring me to worry over the impending coal shortage for them and I may say that, as is my custom in servicing multiple orders, I put them in a hamper and do them in a batch. It is a system not unlike that of a little boy' of my acquaintance who prays specifically' and by name for his parents and other members of the family, but blankets the rest of his fel lowmen in a general peition. 1 believe the coal shortage is going to be very severe and I am really going to town on this issue, and it seems a shame that, with the case in the hands of an expert, others should waste their energies on it. They might just mess it around. I have found in my long experience that it is possible to worry very fast and in the course of a very few minutes when I am hav ing a real good day', I can polish off our future relations with Russia, the menace of com munism in Canada, the new income tax pro posals of Mr. Morgenthau, the indecency of the Wagner act and the postwar world. I started with little bits of worries, such as flunking long division, and whether my old man would be canned in the annual pre Christmas massacre when he was a reporter in Chicago. I flunked the long division sev eral times and do such problems nowadays strictly with matchsticks, but my dad never was canned, so you see, while some worry is justified, much of it is sheer waste. I guess it is something like farming. You can’t tell what the crop is going to be but you have to keep on trying. Because l am an entrepreneur, as mey used to call the proprietor of a peanut stand or lunch wagon back in the days of the NRA, I am able to worry long hours without inter ference from any government department. On a 40-hour week, I would soon be swamped with business and a very helpful service to the public would be badly obstructed. My system is to start worrying as soon as I wake up, usually about some carry-ovpr problems from the day before, either personal or public. I next take a look at the papers and pretty soon the mail arrives, a hundred or more letters in a batch, and I then spit on my hands and really get going. My clients lately have sent me many orders for worry on the subject of a manpower shortage at a time when the union racketeers are overmanning many jobs, and wasting men, mostly dum mies to be sure, on mock work; and let me say that my performance on this one has been uncommonly fast, thorough and polished but there have been so many repeat orders that I have had to attend to them in several huge batches. A friend of mine, an amateur, tells me that he sets aside one hour every evening' for worry but, while he is very earnest, he is after all an amateur and something of a plodder at that and I have known him to put in a whole week’s worrying time on nothing but the soundness of his insurance policy. Such individual worry is very wasteful, as you can see, when I am at your service to worry about the whole great problem of in surance in connection with inflation and es tate taxes. I worry standing up, sitting down or walking and while I do not like to boast, I may say that I bar no topic. Just phone, write or wire and state your worry. -V-:— Victory is ahead, but it is the considered judgment of our military leaders that we still have a long, hard fight.—Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson. * * * The (U. S. troops) all wanted to know whether they would have jobs. Tney took a tremendous interest in ^e kind of world we are going to have after the peace. — Mrs. Frankly* D. Roosevelt, back from Pacific tour. “SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE!”_ mi I— Raymond Clapper Says: A War-Time Election Raises New Problems By RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON. — No presiden tial election has been held in war time since Lincoln's day and the prospect of next year’s campaign raises some new problems which already are being thought over. We can’t have the usual kind of presidential campaign, with i t s peacetime extravagance of man power. travel, meetings, and lav ish use of hotel space in most of the cities of the country, with mass j luncheons, mass dinners, and all ! of the bountiful trimmings, sou- j venirs, and metal badges. It is even difficult now to get 5c cigars, even at the wartime price of 6c. In only one respect will the poli tician be favored in this campaign ^-there will be more babies than usual to kiss. Democrats around party head quarters here want a late conven tion and are talking about Septem ber instead of June or early July. They think a short campaign would be more appropriate in war time. Presumably they expect the candidate as usual to be Mr. Roos evelt. If he is, then they could hold the campaign the night before election. Chicago seems to be pre ferred as the convention city by the Democrats. It is centrally lo cated, has adequate hotels—if any empty rooms can be found—and it is a lucky place for the De/io crats. Economy of everything is de sirable. The simplest meeting ar rangements are dictated. To oblige hotel keepers and local merchants who contribute to the cash kitty for convention expe>ses, party managers usually drag out i • _J • , W „ GCU1 V cil uuu - a week. Two days is enough in wartime, and less than that if the Democrats are going to nominate Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term. Attendance at the convention may well be confined to delegates and only the necessary minimum of others. Republicans naturally need a longer campaign period than the Democrats would require with Mr. Roosevelt. They must do more campaign work for their candidate, whoever he may be. Wendell Will kie’s friends appear to favor Cleveland rather than Chicago as the convention city. They would rather take a chance on meeting in Governor Bricker’s home ter ritory than on the packed galler ies that the Chicago Tribune peo ple might provide. Whether the usual kind of barn storming campaign tour will be possible next year is doubtful. With gasoline and rubber restrictions, large political meetings seem im practical. Radio is likely to be used more. We have always car ried on our presidential political campaigns in an atmosphere of Yankee Doodle extravaganza that is not likely to be achieved under wartime conditions. Political sentiment now as it is checked in by people from various parts of the country gives Mr. Roosevelt an extremely strong po sition. At the moment, he prob ably would be difficult to beat. Republicans worry about him only. They are sure they could defeat anyone else. And at the moment, it is difficult to see anybody on the Republican side except Willkie and Dewey. Organization work is being done for Willkie. But Gov ernor Dewey, while professing lack of interest, keeps in a strong posi tion by occasional well - timed strokes, such as his declarations! at the Columbus Governors’ Con ference and a few weeks ago at the Mackinac Island Conference. Much that goes on during a pres idential campaign, and in the months preceding it, is trivial by any standards and especially so during such a war as this. Yet it is an inspiring event in the history of society that in the midst of a desperate global war. the Ameri can machinery of self-government can continue to function. This is the only great power that now at tempts such a thing as the final literal exercise of the act of self government. That should put us on our best behavior as custodians of an almost extinct practice which we hope will eventually become common among many peoples again. -V Daily Prayer FOB THOSE AMIDST BATTLE Our men are engaged in the final test of battle, fronting the j foe: Lord God of Battles aid! Thou rulest over all, and maketh the wrath of man to praise Thee: so give victory this day, we hum bly entreat Thee, to those who have gone forth in Thy Name to establish righteousness in the earth. To our fighting men impart the courage which is sub’ime self-forgetfulness. We thank Thee for their resourcefulness and valor and patient, heroic persistence in the face of the foe. Intensify, we beseech Thee, their sense of com radeship with one another, and their union with Thee. Impart skill to their hands and courage to their hearts. Grant them the spirit of obedience, even unto death. May those who fall be sus tained by Thee, in life or in death. In their conduct toward a beaten foe may our men be chivalrous and magnanimous. We pray for swift and complete victory, that peace may soon come and war be ended forever.Amen.—W.T.E. As Others Say It BOOTLEG BUTTER The authorities in the City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia) are reported to be hot on the trail of butter bootleggers, in their city, black market operators, with sales men peddling butter from door to dooi at 75 cenis a quarter pound —nearly six times the legitimate price. The peddlers, it is revealed, use eggs as a “front.” Their au tomobiles are laden with eggs, and if a policeman, for instance, in quires what they are doing, they say they are delivering eggs, which is legal. Meanwhile, the butter, the source of which is said to be a “mystery,” is kept out of sight. Let’s hope our fair city, which evidently enjoys no immunity from bootleggers of mean liquor, can manage to keep out the butter bootleggers. — Greensboro Record. WAR WRITERS War reporting always has been attended with danger, but never before such danger as in the pres ent conflict. While a number of correspondents have lost their lives, those that remain show no hesitation, when opportunity offers, of getting the news where the news is being made. Prime Minister Churchill, in speaking of the immense army of correspondents who move with the troops and carry their cameras into the heat of the fighting, and who produce the news of a very high quality and accuracy that fills the public press from hour to hour, paid a deserved tribute to men who have evinced a high sense of duty toward the public they serve.—New Bedford iMass.) Standard-Times. HOW HE DOES IT James C. Petrillo levies a pri vate tax on makers of records and collects it. He does it because he can and he can because the Con gress of the United States and the executive of the United States are afraid to prevent him.—Lynchburg (Va.) News. The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “The FBI in Peace and War,” by Frederick L. Collins (Putnam; $3). Most of us will remember that 10 or 15 years ago the kids on the corners were playing Dillinger, or Pretty Boy Floyd. And now, research down-street proves, they are either soldiers and sailors, or G-men. The change means some thing. What it means is exceedingly well explained by Frederick L. Collins in a book he calls “The FBI in Peace and War.” This is the whole story of J. Edgar Hoover’s department from the day when Attorney General Har lan Fiske Stone appointed Mr. Hoover to the directorship of what wfas then considered merely a dustbin into which the deserving, but dumb, relatives of politicians could be, tossed for sustenance at the public trough. Mr. Hoover had in mind a de partment which would yield all the advantages of a national po lice force with none of its dan gers. He wanted no Gestapo; he wanted a vast, national coopera tive body w’hich would know all about solving crimes and catch ing criminals, and also about pre venting crimes. He wanted it or ganized with such elasticity that in time of war it could quickly ex pand to take care of espionage and sabotage. And he wanted it staffed (remarkable to say! with gentlemen. Perhaps it was Hoover’s inflex ible demand that his operatives be presentable that set so many oldtime police forces against him at the start. These called FBI men “Hoover’s Boy Scouts,” and although they occasionally mar veled at the completeness of the FBI equipment and methods, they also thought the solid clump of the average copper’s foot far sweeter music. Nobody, least of all, Mr. Hoover, undervalues the work of the average copper. But now that worthy also appreciates the FBI. More important, he uses it to the limit. Mr. Collins’ book describes the formation, the training and the functions of the FBI. It also dem onstrates the machinery behind its apparently instantaneous reac tions. Lately it has turned up some startling facts—one arsenal for example, was found to have 20 per cent of its workers bear ing police records, some for es pionage. Inside Washington WASHINGTON.—All me.;;,, ; , 1 the written word and the | have before them a reqm ■ 5 1 the Office of Censorship I present statements on the ;;ec..1 of radar. Censorship does not for, : t , 1 fact it encourages, telling :nt, tomers that the reason fc. .' J blackout is that radar h . . , ij possibiliies and obviously not want the enemy to . ideas from speculative d:, . in the United States. Insistent clamoring by ■ turers and the press genei. ed the Army and Navy - . . ] 1 somewhat last spring f f, original hush-hush policy s brief, carefully edited .s': nouncement did little m ,. .... E confirm existence of rad;; However, that disclosure . .. I growing advertisements stories, each a bit more -eve. than the last. But there was another , for the blackout on radar. It med from concern that of publicity was placing an burden upon the thousand, . workmen in radar, and eve secret electrical device,, who \ ly know the still hidden .p. •, and have loyally kept a pledge u utter silence almost to the n for 21 months of war. Paul V. McNutt, war manpovr - director, continues to acih,■ voluntary procedure to si; pi> bor for war plants. His ref say that compulsory ]c_rg must be passed now coincides v, views of many legislators 'ha: there are still some other • that can be done to augment : army of war workers. The recent orders of Eco ■ Stabilization Director' Byrnes to relieve the v.nr pi,... manpower shortage on M:p .. coast are believed to be ; nature of an experiment. If Byrnes’ plan to co employment agencies-. service and the efforts of agements of war plat's -are in mobilizing the west c • v the added burden that v . t - it when the war again-; goes into high gear, the i ;; i will be applied to oilier ljbor spots. Uninformed aviation ei-'.'ni got some cold water poured their dreams of post war - • - portation when it was learned i ! conversion of the thou | Army bombers into peacetinr i f |ing planes is considered tical by the experts. Army bombers, accord;; ') their designers, are so con-' ed that their balance is acr i f by placement of guns, armor . • i * other wartime equipment. To i these -ships would destroy the ■ ance of the planes and make : unairworthy. But there is a b; ight side. Already, major aircraft plan planning rapid conversion to p time plane production as soon the war ends. Gen. George C. Marshall, A chief of staff, who likes and newsmen and does not belie > hiding everything he know, a brass hat, is letting nev see a 30.000-word report cont.-; colorful and hitherto seem lights on America's part in war. Of particular surprise t ‘Up U.v department’s public r e fa branch, which had closely - the document against nr-vsmoi eyes, is General Marshalls o • closure that American troops probably Air Force patrols— - | stationed along the west const ' I South America. Troops are stationed at st!ate o' points in Chile. Peru. Ecuador ; ; the off-coast Galapagos islai prevent Japan from kicking '■<■ United States in the pants v i: surprise invasion of Soutli A; - -r ca, or to make a thrust at ' Panama Canal. -V Civilian Defense Timetable BASIC TRAINING COT RH ' Isaac Bear School Building, Room 203 At 8 P. M. GENERAL COURSE Monday. October 11. FIRE DEFENSE \ Tuesday. October 12. GAS DEFENSE R Wednesday, October r. RULING REVOKED WASHINGTON, Oct. Regulations limiting hour; eration of service stations an er gasoline sales outlets 1 yoked today by Secretary l1 ;. ™ ing as petroleum administi war. The order permits df | each local area to estab;. limitations by voluntary ment if desired. x Old regulations limiting stations to 72 hours wecX ben in effect for various since July 31. 1941. They tablished on a national i uary 18, 1943. -V TOBACCO PR ICEf 1 RALEIGH, Oct. 7.—! - Food Administration sail that average prices sh creases up to three cents types of tobacco on Min'. Eastern flue-cured tobacc today, while prices being Old Belt markets remains -V SENTENCE COM.Ml II RALEIGH. Oct. 7.— nor Broughton todav saves of William Vicks. Cho-. Negro scheduled to die ■ for the rape of his Hx daughter, by commuting tence to life imprisonment.'
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