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The Star-News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS ' SUNDAY, JANUARY fl, 1946 TOP O’MORNING A young man In London omnibus no ticed a ribbon, the total abstinence badge, on the coat of a fellow passenger, and asked him in a bantering tone “how much ho got’” for wearing it. “That I cannot, exactly tell,” the man replied,” but it costs me about one hund red thousand dollars a year.”* * The wearer of the badge was willing to live by his convictions at a great cost materi ally, for Vhat he gained spiritually, he valued far more than money.” From “The Upper Room” March Of Dimes The March of Dimes which for years has helped finance the nation’s battle against infantile paralysis, goes on de spite President Roosevelt’s death. This battle is one of the greatest hu manitarian undertakings of Mr. Roose velt’s career. Having been seized by the disease when he was in his prime, and compelled to spend years combating it which more fortunate men. devote to their best endeavor, he gave much of his later life, even in the midst of the world’s bitterest war, to ways and means of conquering it. The March of Dimes was one of the means employed for raising money for the fight. During Mr. Roosevelt’s oc cupancy of the White House, millions of dimes found their way to his desk, for many Americans preferred to make their little contributions through him in person. At the same time toy Danas or other containers were displayed at res taurants, hotels, stores and other places where the people congregate, and add ed materially to the total money raised. Now that the presidential victim of the disease is dead, the March must de pend upon the banks and containers dis tributed in public places. Because it is a part of one of the greatest campaigns ever launched for survival with whole bodies, it is impossible to oversubscribe the dime fund. New Hanover county’s quota Is $8, « 200. It is too small. The people within the county can well afford to double the quota. Let them do so. _ JVhy Not Enlist? Enlistments and the draft are not providing replacements for American occupying forces in sufficient numbers, with result that the rate of returning veterans is reduced and the process will continue long after it was hoped the last man who had seen foreign service might again be in this country. At present ap proximately 800,000 are coming home monthly. This total must be cut to some 800,000. With the fighting war ended, it is difficult to expect young men volun tarily to enlist or welcome being called up by their draft boards. But the fact remains that despite the end of hostili ties, the war job is not finished, and cannot be closed out for some time to come. Occupation is an essential part of the preparation for peace. And occupa tion cannot be adequately conducted, certainly it cannot be completed, with out sufficient armed forc§£.-ind;he zones assigned to this country. Considering the labor situation at home and the uncertainties of the im mediate future, it would be greatly to the advantage of thousands of young Americana to do a trick in the Army, i J especially those who have no family re sponsibilities. liapid increase both in enlistments and by way of the draft would bring everybody—veterans as well as novices —home the quicker. It is worth ponder ing. Better, it is worth doing. They Belittle MacArthur General Douglas MacArthur, who is justly incensed, at not being advised of the decision taken by the Foreign Min isters at Moscow to create a commission for Japan’s administration but who, as a good soldier, at once said he would do the best he could in the circumstances, is the victim of either an inadequate or an over-zealous press gallery. Regardless of where the fault lies, the military leader best fitted by train ing, temperament, judgment, adminis trative ability and abiding faith in his destiny is being slowly but most cer tainly hamstrung on the biggest job ever assigned to a individual—the cre ation of a sound peace in Japan. He is looked upon in tms country and abroad by leaders who should be seeking his counsel as an inferior, mere ly an agent to do the bidding of his su periors. Only the other day Secretary of War Robert Patterson declared: “We advise MacArthur and give the general all the information possible relative to his command, but it is not necessary to consult him in advance.” And upon his return from Moscow, Secretary of State Byrnes explained the action of the Mos cow conferees by saying that General MacArthur “properly had no voice in making foreign-relation policies.” No voice, forsooth, but a strong hand, as the record reveals. Quoting Paul Manning, CBS correspondent, the only man present at the German and the Japanese surrender ceremonies, we learn that in two months following the rites on the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay, two and one-half million Japanese soldiers were demobi lized without incident; the first group of Japanese war criminals were put on trial; secret societies were dissolved; freedom of speech was established; civil liberties were established; family-own ed cartels were split-up. Pretty good, this, for a man who had no voice in foreign-relations policies. Looking back a little further, and still quoting Mr. Manning, we find that MacArthur, after he finally got an air force, executed 130 amphibious assaults “and that in all of them put together fewer than 100 men lost their lives get ting ashore.” Is it any wonder that Her bert Ashbury and Frank Gervasi, in the Reader’s Digest condensation of their Collier’s article on MacArthur, should declare: “Military experts say that his campaigns could scarcely have been im proved upon; he attained his objectives quickly, decisively, and with a minimum of American losseB.” When MacArthur was selected as Supreme Commander in Japan it was distinctly said that while he was to be chief stewart of the Allies, the view of the United States should outweigh all opposing views. This was due to the fact that the United States, with Mac Arthur playing a stellar role, was large ly instrumental in the defeat of Japan. The war in the Pacific had been ours from Pearl Harbor on. Starting with a broken-backed fleet in Hawaii and two divisions of troops in Australia Mac Arthur and Nimitz and their magnifi cent commanders and men brought Japan to its knees. It was only fair that the United States should have the deciding voice in policy and that the Supreme Com mander should be in personal charge of Japan’s affairs. But because Russia made a belated entry into the Pacific war, and especially because Washing ton seems incapable of bearding the Moscow government but is forever mak ing fresh concessions to it, Russia along with other powers having no greater right to a voice in Japanese adminis tration are to tell »MacArthur what he may and what he must not do. No sadder example of Washington’s inability to hold its own ih the postwar world is to be found than thii shunting of MacArthur to a sidetrack. A company cannot pay out more wages, salaries/and operating costs than it takes in. This is fundamental.—George H. Bucher, president, Westinghouse Electric Corp. | Your New York Correspondent Walter Winchell AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Billy Rose’* 2nd Report from Abroad) Paris is like a midnight madonna, again walking the streets after two years in jail. Her cheeks are painted, but her eyes are dead. Here’s a city of four million without coal—a midway without lights—Coney Island in the wintertime. The only thing that bums and gives off heat is in the eyes of De Gaulle. I came here from London via boat-train. As I entered the Hotel Raphael I met Guthrie McClintic, one of our drama heavyweights. He had just come up from Biarritz where he had staged a G. I. version of “Winterset.” We have both lived on the same block for years—our homes are that far apart. But we had never met. Here we shook hands, grinned and ordered a drink. At 5 that morning we switched from cognac to champagne. Now that we’re both home are we ringing each other’s doorbells? Don’t be silly. You don’t do such things in New" York! Ella Logan joined our party. Without grip ing, without throwing her weight around, she’s been singing her sweet head off for G. I. Joe. And nas been doing it for two years. Here in the States her cafe salary is $4,000 a week. 'Make no mistake about it, this bonnie breath of Broadway is the Elsie Janis of World War II. The news about Chevalier couldn’t be better. A member of the Underground assured me that Maurice never forgot he was a French man. While paying lip service to the Hun, he worked with the Maquis. He’s starring in a tiny theatre in the Montmarte, once again the big boy of the boulevards. The feeling about Lucienne Boyer seems mixed. Some say she not only sang for the Nazis—but put her heart in it. A pretty smari fellow told me she ‘merely sang. I prefer tc believe his version. It’s easy to talk tough 3,000 miles from a tommy-gun, but let’s not forget that a prisoner up in Sing Sing usually 'strings along with the warden. Sacha Guitry, the playwight, is something else again. Paris agrees that he played the Nazi game, played it eagerly and at a profit. Today, this intellectualouse strolls the Champs Elysee, a free man. But who are we to point? I don’t see anyone arresting Joe (McNazi) McWilliams. How do the French like us? Are they thank ful to the Yanks who liberated them? Wish you hadn’t asked, because the answer isn’t pretty. They don’t like G. I. Joe and vice versa. They wonder what’s keeping us; why our 20,000 homesick guys don’t clear out of Paris. They have forgotten that we spent plen ty of blood bailing them out, and that the ports we are using to send our lads home are the ports we recaptured. They have the impudence to assert they liberated Paris themselves. General "Ike,’’ Georgie Patton and the Third Army are yesterday’s news paper as far as they’re concerned. I knew this is tough talk, and a lot of Frenchmen won’t like it, but I’m not a paid ambassador of good .will, and I’m calling the shots as I saw them two weeks ago. If the French were smart, they’d be nice to G. I. Joe. He happens to be Uncle Sam’s favorite nephew, and without Sam playing Santa a lot of them are liable to die. Senator Pepper was stopping at the same hotel, and I saw a good deal of him. Travel ing the hard way—by boat, bus and droshky —he has been all over Europe. When he talks about foreign affairs, let’s listen. He didn’t learn it from a movie travelogue. I found him sincere, charming and liberal without be ing looney. As for their musical shows, let’s be kind. They’re producing with bits and pieces, i saw the Folies Bergere and the Casino de Paree revue—Minsky with old sequins. Do you remember Dolores, the statuesque darling of the Follies? I saw her at the Ritz Bar—as beautiful as ever. I was told that she and her husband helped many hunted people hide out. The black market is a national disgrace. At the dinner table of a moneyed man in London you get saccharine and condensed milk with your coffee, apologies and very lit tle meat. He’s playing the game. At a similar table in -Paris you find big gobs of butter, pears, grapes, chickens, cheese. He’s playing it the French way. No wonder they idolize De Gaulle — their outstanding novelty—a square shooter in a bankrupt clip joint. I went into a jewelry shop—thought I’d buy my wife a little coming-home present—ad mired a gold bracelet and asked the price. The salesman told me what it weighed—that if I brought in so many pennyweights in gold .watches or gold teeth, I might have it. But they weren’t trading gold for paper. I wish some of the pipe-smoking phonies who write pompous papers knocking the gold standard could go over. They might start listening to Mister Baruch and stop wisecracking about the gold at Fort Knox. By some miracle, Picasso, a Spanish Jew and bitterly anti-Franco, is still alive and painting. Gertrude Stein is still making with the intellectual doubletalk. Derain played pot sy with the Noisy. The beauty of the new French clothes escaped me. Their hats confused me. I don’t happen to care for a feather luck in an eggplant. It’s about time our lovelies stopped falling for foreign labels. Hattie Carnegie in New York and Adrian in Hollywood can run them around the block. As for their prices, whew! Twelve hundred dollars for a dress, $450 for a pair of high-heeled shoes. A well dressed mademoiselle has paid $5,000 for what’s on her back. And don’t ask me where she got it. One thing did bowl me over—three-di mension photography. A Frenchman has per fected it. It makes the photo on your piano look as dated as a bunch of glass grapes. The “love for sale babies” are still swing ing their pocketbooks at Place Pigale—better known to our lads as “Pig Alley.” What a soldier pays for a kiss depends on his shoulder insignia—so much for a lieutenant, so much for a major, so much for a colonel. And now for the 64 billion dollar question: Will France recover? Of course she will. Un cle Sam will again take the rubber band ofi his bankroll, and, let’s face it, there will al ways be customers for lingerie, luxurjn and love. But it’s my guess that it will be Nine teen Fifty-Something before the French boat is on an. even keel, and I’m betting thal the skipper will still be that beanpole Wash ington with the Charlie Chaplin moustache— De Gaulle. i ' This Isn’t Helping Mama’s Headache Any I_I News In The World Of Religion At the Roger Roop Farm, near Union Bridge, Maryland, are 175 heads of cattle which the Church of the Brethren is presenting to UNRRA for the people of Czecho slovakia. The animals are bred heifers, mostly Gurnseys and Hol steins, and are intended to rehabi litate the war-devastated herds of Czechoslovakia. They are the per sonal contributions of Church of the Brethren farmers and congre gations, particularly from Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Vir ginia. Some city churches purchas ed calves a year or more ago and paid nearby farmers to raise them for this project. “I cannot but re call that there were cattle in the stable the night Jesus was born; the spirit of that Christmas lives on in the hearts of those who gave these animals for the children of my country,” said Dr. Vaclav My slivec, in accepting the cattle on behalf of the Czechoslovakian gov ernment. ‘‘The Methodist Churchman ship Award”, given each year to a prominent Methodist minister or laymen by Zion’s Herald, New England Methodist weekly, was granted for 1945 to Dr. John Wear Burton, president-general of the Methodist Church of Australasia, and for almost half a century a leader of mission service in the islands off Australia and New Zea land. A native of England, and for merly a missionary in the South Pacific, Dr. Burton has done more than perhaps any other man to spread the gospel message among the “fuzzy wuzzies” who time and again came to the rescue of American and British wounded sol diers during the fighting that led to the conquest of Japan. To help European Protestantism “get on its feet” after the devasta tion of the war, American Protes tant churches are raising a fund of $19,000,000 to be expended through the Commission for World Council Service, a creation of the newly-formed World Council of Churches. Of this total, $10,000,000 is to help care for the existing phy sical emergency of the churches and church people: feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, es pecially during this winter and un til the next harvest. The other $9, 000,000 will be for housing pastors, congregations, and church organi zations, mostly in temporary quar ters. This will be used in Holland, Italy, France, Belgium. Czechoslo vakia, Greece, Norway, Finland, and Germany. The Protestant churches of Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austra lia are also assisting in this wide service to Europe’s churches. Speaking in favor of “full em ployment” legislation a s sound ethical ideals, common sense, jus tice and fundamental to the pre servation of the Republic, Bishop G. Bromley Oxman, of New York, said recently: “An economic order that cannot provide opportunity for all to work cannot endure. Failure to use the full productive power of the nation is to sabotage the fu ture. It is real labor applied to real material on real machines that mean real wealth. To fail to use such labor is to make the fu ture poorer in a material sense, and, when we consider what hap pens to the mind and heart of the unemployed man, it is to make the future poorer likewise in a spiri tual sense. Too many men who ob jected quite properly to the killing of little pigs were silent i n the presence of mass unempoyment in which a man’s self-respect is killed and as a result of which we failed to produce necessary goods which, as far as true wealth is concerned, has precisely the same effect as th'e destruction of goods. The sorry spectacle of idle machines, unused materials, and unemployed men present at one time do not make sense. Our future wealth is dependent upon the full use of the machines, full production of ma terials, and full employment.” ‘‘The Friends of the City” (‘‘Los Amigos de la Ciudad”), a leading organization of business and pro fessional men in La Paz, Bolivia, has presented a medal to Dr. Frank S. Beck, of Chicago, Metho dist missionary and surgeon-super intendent of Pfeiffer Memorial Hospital, La Paz, in recognition of his years of humanitarian service to the city. Says the citation ac companying the medal: “Dr. Beck, who has lived thirty-four years in Bolivia and exercised his profes sion here, knowing that our native people needed medical aid, went (to the U.S.A.) to study medicine, and returned to carry to humble homes his good and kind aid. In the unfortunate days of Bolivia, he went with the first military forces to Chaco, in 1932, and stayed through their hours of glory and adversity. Finally, from funds from his own country, he erected the Clinica Americana, where the poor and unfortunate find a com fortable, warm, and affectionate place.’’ LETTER BOX TIRED OF PROPAGANDA To the Editor: I am getting a little worried about all the propaganda being spread about "the poor German people.” As a former officer in the Military Government of Ger many in which I spent five months as the Military Governor of Nurn berg District (excluding the city of Nurnberg), I learned quite a bit of the German people. Previ ous to this, 1 served six months in France and six months in Bel gium in the Civil Affairs branch of the army. In France and Belgium, I found evidences of a deliberate and very efficient plan to strip these coun tries of every resource calculated to benefit Germany. Civilians were not only ill-clad and lacking food and fuel, but humiliated at every chance. In contrast, I found the Germans to be very well-fed, well-dressed, and still arrogant. Many times, before the Allies would enter a German town, the Nazi officials would open up all the warehouses and distribute the contents to the inhabitants. No German would mention this and it took some time to find this out. Now that the American troops i ave left all European countries but the former enemy ones, the liberated countries have been left to shift for themselves. Forgotten are their troubles and problems of restoration. Now attention has shifted to Germany. It is only natural that the Military Govern ment should be concerned with getting Germany back to normal because this is their job, and just as soon as they accomplish this, they hope to pack up and go home! It is also natural to tak$ a deep interest in the work that you are doing. All of this has gone on to such an extent that the peoples of the RETIRED BISHOP TO PREACH TODAY The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, Greenville Sound, retired' Bishop of the East Carolina diocese, will speak today at 11 a. m., in the same church—St. James’ Epis copal, Third and Market streets— in which he was consecrated as a bishop 31 years ago today. Bishop Darst announced that his topic will be “The Challenge to the Church in 1946.” Bishop Thomas H. Wright, who succeeded Bishop Darst in the Eastern North Carolina diocese on Oct. 5, 1945, will attend the serv ice. On Jan. 6, 1915, the Rt. Rev. Daniel Tuttle, Bishop of Missouri, presided in a ceremony which consecrated the Rt. Rev. Mr. Darst as a bishop. Also participat ing in the consecration ceremonies were the Bishops of South Caro lina, North Carolina, southern Vir ginia and West Virginia, all of whom have died since that time. NAL MILEAGE UP OVER 33 PER CENT JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 5.— National Airlines flew 5,540,491 passenger miles in December, 1945, an increase of more than 33 per cent over the number of pas senger miles flown in the same month in December, 1944, accord ing to H. C. Dobbs, NAL vice president in charge of traffic. In December, 1945, 10,826 pas sengers were carried as compared with 9,498, in December, 1944. The December load factor from New York to Jacksonville was 95.29 per cent, from Jacksonville to St. Petersburg 93.19 per centt, from Jacksonville to Miami, 92.86 per cent and from New Orleans to Jacksonville 89.59 per cent. Several DC-4’s, capable of carry ing 46 passengers each, are ex pected to be added to the NAL fleet of Lockheed Lodestars this month and will greatly increase January seat availability and load factors between New York and Miami, and' intermediate cities including Wilmington, N. C., on the NAL route, Dobbs said. After the Norman conquest of Britain there were more than 70 mints coining gold and silver in the country, more than now exist in the world. liberated countries are bitterly protesting that we are helping our enemies more than we are help ing our friends. They say that they should also be under Military Gov ernment. The solution, in my opinion, lies in removing the military person nel of Military Government and replacing them with trained ci vilians especially chosen for each job. And our army of occupation should be replaced by forces of Belgium, Holland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. As things exist now, our boys are too gullible and susceptible to German propagan da. instead of them denazifying the Germans, the Germans are in fluencing them. But the boys of the other countries know what the German has done and will do again if he has the chance. Let us not make the same mis take we did at the end of the First World War, when copious German tears induced us to lend th»m money which in time was used against us. BERNARD DAVIS. Wilmington, N. C January 5, 1946, interpreting The News | By JAMES D. WHITE Associated Press Staff Writer SAN FRACISCO, Jan. 5.-L China has no occupation troops in Korea, but geography dictates t vital Chinese interest in what hap. pens there. Chinese Manchuria lies to the west, and Korea dominates the shipping of the Yellow sea and the Gulf of Chihli. From the Russian standpoint, Korea flanks the sea ot Japan, and from northern Korea you can see the sometime Soviet naval base at Posiet bay, ana the mountainous coast leading up to Vladivostok, Russia’s principal Pacific port. This week there has been quite a show in Seoul, the Korean capi tal, with certain Koreans agitating for independence. This agitation follows the Big Three decision in Moscow to place Korea under a four-power trusteeship of Russia, China, America and Britain. After five years Korea will become in- ' dependant under a government which is to be established on a provisional basiS in the meantime. Call For independence But this week in Seoul some Ko reans yelled for independence right away. To make the point clear they brandished knives and pursuaded other Koreans to march in parades and demonstrations. They heaved rocks at American occupation troops and scared Ko rean servants away from Ameri can jobs. Behind this reaction is the Ko rean political picture. It contains these elements, at least: 1. The ‘‘provisional government” of Kim Koo, who recently was flown back to Korea in an Ameri can plane from Chungking, where his unrecognized regime had de veloped in the war-time capital ol China’s national government. Kim Koo, now called the "presi dent” of this group, presumably succeeds (without explanation) Dr. Syngman Rhee, exiled Korean leader who spent many years in America until he returned to Ko rea shortly befort Kim Koo got there. Shortly after Rhee arrived he startled many people by de claring that in some respects lie sided with communists and others who wanted land reform. Since then little has been heard of him, and the talk is mostly of Kim Kim Koo took this stand: If his provisional government is recog. nized, and if opposition arises (such as from the leftist “peo ple’s republic” group), Kim said he would deal with them “just as Chiang Kai-shek is suppressing the Yenan government” (of com munist China). This brings us to (2) the “peo ple’s republic,” which says it isn't a government but which the Americans found already set up when they got into their half of Korea after Japan surrendered. It is made up of local Koreans who stayed throughout the Japanese occupation and who say they want to redistribute the land to peasants at the expense of wealthy Koreans who worked with the Japanese. Reports from Seoul say this group supports the Moscow de cisions on a trusteeship had notn ing to do With the strong-arm dem onstrations this week in Seoul which are laid to Kim Koos group. 3. The unknown factor is what group, if any, the Russians are supporting. Kim Koo says Korean communists are not organized. The northern half of Korea re mains sealed off under Russian oc cupation. The moscow agreement stipulates that a Russo-American military commission shall be es tablished soon to coordinate the two halves of the country. It now is seriously separated with little contract between the agricultural south under the Americans and the industrial north held by Rus sia. China has no troops in Korea. But Kim Koo, fresh from Chung king, looms large in Seoul as Ko rean factions try to get together to set up the provisional govern ment agreed upon at Moscow. NEW PEDIATRICIAN TO PRACTICE HERE Dr. E. S. King has arrive Wilmington and became assoc, with Drs. J. B. Sidbury and J 1 Knox in the practice of pc according to an announcement, 1 yesterday. Dr. King received his B. A de gree from Wake Forest college and his degree in medicine feom ■ ferson Medical college, Philadel- « phia. He interned in James Walker Memorial hospital and Kings Park hospital. Kings Park, 111. In 1928, he became instructor biochemistry and bacteriology at Wake Forest Medical school. Dur ing 1936-37 he took post-graduate work in bacteriology at Harvard university. Dr. King was awarded a fellow ship in tropical diseases at the Army Medical school in Washing ton in J.943; The award carried with it the advantage of several months’ travel in Central America to study tropical diseases. From 1944 until the time he came t0 Wilmington, Dr. King was head of the bacteriology departmen’ at Bowman Gray school of Medicine. He and Mrs. King will reside in the 'Oleander court apartments. SHOWS ‘POP’ WAY HOME BERESFORD, S. D. <U.R)—Cpl Orris T. Hovas arrived in Beres ford to rejoin his wife and become acquainted with the son he had i never seen. The boy was his son.
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