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BABSON extolls ROOSEVELT ERA Bv ROGER BABSON nv pARK, Mass., April 20. Se death o£ President Roosevelt « more than the loss of a per nieaffrTend or even a great Presi ,on? t m»ans the end of one era ^ ,he beginning of a new era. ?" Jv mean a 50 per cent return 1: i, American conservatism as loSUaletf before the election of Prevlnt Roosevelt. Certainly it Fr d% return to a democratic ro6!Tof government in contrast to ^ domination of a great person ‘'il war will continue to be pro TL with utmost intensity, in dent Truman will not inter P -v th the commanding gener T and admirals. It is probable < Secretaries Stimson and For SJwil. continue in the Cabinet .1 ncace finally comes. Mr. “nt. Plfc death, however, does fh°row greater responsibility upon Mr. Churchill. President Truman is reported to be more open-minded than his n^edecessor in connection with the reace terms. He has insisted upon •‘unconditional surrender for Ger ir.anv but to my knowledge he has rot demanded this for Japan. Cer lainlv the Administration will not h. as’ friendly, economically to Russia. It is also probable that the small nations have lost a good friend in the death of President T?nf>«PVelt. President Truman is noted for his economical traits. Instead of being the only son in a wealthy home, he was born a poor boy. gomo’of my friends in Washington -efer to him as a “second Calvin Coolidge”. This means that taxes will be reduced sooner than they otherwise would be and that the National Debt will be kept down to lower proportions. The country will be less generous with foreign na tions. Many articles have-appeared the past week headed “The New Deal jf Dead". I do not believe these statements. The common people of all the world are “on the march”. Franklin Roosevelt did not make conditions but rather, existing con ditions made him. It is, however, fair to assume that the New Deal will go into the ice-box for a few years, while its ardent friends will be in the dog-house. This doubtless means renewed courage to busi nessmen with higher stock prices. Since President Roosevelt took control of our Government, Boards and Commissions have, to a large extent, taken the place of Congres sional Acts. Some of these—such as the War Labor Board and the Securities and Exchange Commis sion—have tremendous power. But this power can be controlled 100 per cent by the President through his appointments. This means that the policy of our government toward la bor, management and capital can completely be reversed by the character of the tppointments which President Truman may make. There will be no radical form of military training; the Army’s program is out the window. If later some glorified “CCC” is needed to help the employment situation, President < Truman may consent to something of the kind. At this point I must admit that there is one real unfortunate fac tor in the situation; namely, that for some time our country will be without leadership. Whether Presi dent Truman will develop into a strong man, or whether some other man will gradually assume leader ship cannot now be forecast. I feel deeply the loss of Frank lin Roosevelt. I knew him person ally arid—during World War I—I worked with him intimately. The way he rose from a bed of afflic tion to become the o,ne man upon whom the entire world depended is almost unparalleled in history. It sobers us up, however, to ask whether we should again depend upon any one man, however won derful he may be? Is not this a good time to re-read the Thirty first Chapter of Isaiah and cease depending so much upon men, or ships, or armies, or money Here are the verses to which I refer: . “Woe to you children, saith the • Lord. ' 'fhat take counsel, but not of me; And tha’t make a league, but not of my Spirit; That set out to go down into Egypt for help; And trust in chariots, because they are many; And in horsemen, because they are very strong; But unto the Holy One of Israel they look not, Neither seek the Lord Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And their horses flesh, and not Spirit; 1 Wherefore both he that helpeth shall stumble, And he that is helped shall fall.’’ ---V Requiem Mass Celebrated For News Syndicate Head PELHAM, N. Y„ April 20.—CP) A solemn requiem mass was cele brated in St. Catherine’s church today for Joseph Vincent Connolly, president of King Features Syndi cate, International News Service and International News Photos. Connolly died in New Rochelle Wednesday at the age of 50. The Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mc Intyre, auxiliary bishop of New York, sat in the sanctuary during the mass. A delegation from the Catholic Institute of the Press conducted a memorial service last night at the home. -V CONDEMNED TO DEATH PARIS, April 20.— CP) —Gen. Henri Fernand Dentz, who com manded French troops which re sisted the British occupation of Syria in 1941, was condemned tc death for treason today. Today and Tomorrow By WALTER LPTMANN There is a considerable differ ence of opinion between the State Department and the armed forces over the Pacific islands which have .been taken from Japan. The problem which will come up at San Francisco when “trusteeship” is examined, is very important in deed because it raises concretely the question of how we are going to reconcile the spirit and the let ter of the Atlantic Charter with our own vital strategic interests. Strangely enough tnere is a widespread impression in this country that the United States alone among the great powers is asking nothing special for itself out of the settlement of the war and is satisfied with its pre-war frontiers. The impression is quite mistaken, and until it is corrected, we cannot be the champions of the Atlantic Charter, without violating the golden rule. * * * The western pre-war strategic frontier of the United States was on a line which ran from Alaska to Midway and Pearl Harbor and then to the Panama Canal Zone. Beyond this frontier lay Wake, Guam, and the Philippines, which were known to be, and soon proved to be, indefensible because Japan was in possession of the islands taken from Germany in 1919 and mandated to Japan by the League of Nations, namely the Marshalls, the Carolines, and the Marianas, and also of the Bonin and Volcano islands (which include Iwo Jima) and of the Ryukyus (Which in clude Okinawa). We have con quered these islands in this war and we shall w'ish to retain them effectively and in perpetuity as the new western frontier of the United States. Under the Atlantic Charter we are pledged to "seek no aggran dizement, territorial or otherwise,” and we cannot, of course, stoop to the sophistry of arguing that to possess these islands is not "ag grandizement” because they have only a total land area of some 800 square miles, are an economic lia bility rather than an asset, and are inhabited by people who are so primitive that they could not un der the second article of the At lantic Charter have “freely ex pressed wdshes” about “territorial changes.” * * # It would not be honest to deny that our vital interests are in con flict with. the plain words of the Atlantic Charter. The principle of trusteeship which was agreed to at Yalta is an attempt to rec oncile this conflict. The essence of the proposal is this: title to the mandated islands, namely the Marshalls, Carolines and Mari anas, belonged originally to the principal Allied and Associated powers who were victors over Germany in the last war—to Great Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan, and they per mitted the League of Nations to give Japan a mandate over them. The new United Nations organ ization is to be the heir of the old League of Nations, and it is from it that our legal rights in the mandated islands will have to be derived. The title to the other Japanese islands will pass to th' Allies, acting for the United Na tions, when they impose uncondi tional surrender upon Japan. If we ask for outright annexation, we shall formally violate the At lantic Charter. If we do not ob tain effective possession, we shall not have a strategically secure frontier. The trusteeships pro posal, as it affects these islands, is to leave the formal title "with the United Nations but to exer cise effective possession under a deed of trust which cannot be re voked or altered without our con sent. * * * This solution is not wholly sat isfactory to many high offices in the War and Navy Departments. They would prefer full sovereignty without any reservation which im plied that other nations had the right to inspect and to criticize our use of these highly strategic posi tions. They feel that these islands are as much a part of the Ameri can defense as Pearl Harbor or Bremerton or Norfolk. Whether in fact they become that depends upon the terms of the deed of trust which will have to be nego tiated, not at San Francisco, but in the peace settlement. If our strategic occupation is as effective as it is in the Panama Canal Zone where the sovereignty is not ours but Panama’s the joint chiefs of staff will, no doubt, be satisfied. If possission is hedged about with restrictions like those which the disarmament treaty of 1922 im posed upon us at Guam and Cor regidor, the Army and Navy will surely object, and will carry their case to the President, the Con gress, and the people. * * * There is no disguising the fact that if the trusteeship solution, as we mean to apply it here, con forms to the Atlantic Charter, it does so only by a very loose con struction of the words of the charter. As a result we cannot with a good conscience refuse to give to our Allies some of the benefit of some of the doubt when they too make claims which seem just as vitally important to their security as the Pacific islands are to ours. Thus Australia will, as Mr. watt, her Minister of State for external Affairs, has put it. “nat ually regard the arc of islands I ying to the north and northeast - 3f our continent” as ‘‘of crucial - importance,” and while “Australia ( will be anxious to build a univer- | sal security system” she will be * “vitally concerned” about "who shall live in, develop and control these areas so vital to her security from aggression.” France has a similar preoccupation with the River Rhine and the Rhineland and the Ruhr, Britain with the Low Countries, the Channel coast, and the security of the Mediter ranean, the Soviet Union, as we know, with the borderland with Germany, and with access to the sea through the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Persian Gulf. * * * There is an old saying that all legi.imate interests are in har mony, and the task of each of the great powers is to demonstrate that its interests are so legitimate that they can be harmonized with the interests of others. This is not at all impossible. But that it will require an enormous amount of tolerance and of humility, we can see clearly when we examine sin cerely our own claim to extend our military frontier from the middle of the Pacific to within close range of the mainland of Asia. Let us not then, as champions of international morality, forget that the first rule of morals is the golden rule, and let us not, as so many of us so often do, judge our selves more generously than we do our Allies and our comrades-in arms. -V 60,000 Japs Reported Driving On Chihkiang CHUNGKING, April 20.— <iP> — Sixty thousand Japanese troops in three columns are driving across western Hunan province toward the U. S. 14th Air Force base at Chihkiang, 250 miles southeast of Chungking, a Chinese army spokes man estimated today. Another 40,000 enemy troops are believed being held in reserve tc assure the success of the new of fensive. The main column of the three pronged drive has been engaged at a point 22 miles west of its starting point at Paoching, which is 70 miles west of the Canton Hankow rail junction of Heng yang, the spokesman said. -V Native chiefs of Borneo are buried in small tree houses by their tribes when they die. Now Try This 3 For 1 Value In Aspirin You’ll get nearly 3 tablets for only If when you buy the large 100 tablet bottle of St. Joseph Aspirin for 35c. Big family favorite! No aspirin does more for you no matter what you pay. Always get St. Joseph Aspirin. POLICE SCHOOL RALEIGH, April 20.—W—The aleigh police department will sponsor a police school for its own members and police officers from nearby towns and cities beginning May 1 and ~ continuing for four weeks. The Federal Bureau of: In vestigation will supply Instructors. There’s drama in this Summer’s cottons . . . and we warn you, they bring out the actress in you! For an important role in the Sum mer scene, you'll want one or two of these. BUY WAR BONDS *14 NORTH FRONT I m i WILSON LOVED WILMINGTON l nn l A GREAT MAN ---HE KNEW THE VALLE OF FRIENDSHIP AND SERVICE TO HIS FELLOWMAN! SEE THE THRILLING PICTURIZATION OF HIS LIFE AT THE MANOR-STARTS MONDAY! | ATTENDED SCHOOL HERE Woodrow Wilson was a student of Tileston School located at Ann and Fifth Street during the time Wilmington was his home town. It was while a I student of this local school that he dropped his first name of “Thomas” so that his name of Wood row Wilson would add up to 13 letters, he considered “13" his lucky number. ★ FATHER PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FROM 1874 TO 1882 Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, D.D. father of Woodrow I Wilson, was the minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, North Carolina from 1874 to 18s2. Many of the older residents of Wilmington 'vill recall Dr. Wilson as one of the finest ministers j they ever knew. 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