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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES! AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING Mark Twain was right in affirming that what a man thinks of his fellows is what in his heart he really thinks of himself. To lose faith in folks is to lose faith both in God and ourselves. —“Christian Herald.” Wants A Throne We no more than recover from the shock of learning that Hirohito admits he is a mere human that word comes via a Baltimore Sun correspondent, thal he is not even entitled to the Mikado. An ex-Buddhist priest claims the throne on the ground that 554 years ago Hirohito’s ancestors drove out the priest’s progenitors and have ruled il legally ever since. He asks Genera] MacArthur to give him back the crown. Well, it’s a poor country that can’i afford a pretender. Justifiable Delay President Truman is being severelj criticized by certain members of Con gress for postponing his message on the state of the nation from yesterday until next Monday. Their argument is that, the President, having castigated Con gress for delaying essential legislation in a recent broadcast to the people, is now, himself, guilty of doing jtist that, inasmuch as the established custom long has been for Congress to take no action until the President has delivered his message. The present exception to this custom, however, appears to be justified. Ob viously, Mr. Truman hopes to be able to announce settlement of the steel concroversy and possibly the end of the General Motors, the packing house workers’ and the electricians’ strikes when he goes before Congress on Mon day. Until existing labor disputes and strikes are"disposed of, any message on the state of the nation could at best be but a gloomy recital of failures. The President may not achieve all that he hopes to do by next Monday, but restoration of peace in the steel industry would be the stepping stone to general labor peace, and the tone ol his message could be much more hope ful. The President’s course since the "honeymoon” ended has not been es pecially commendable, but in this one decision he certainly does not deserve to be reproved, especially by members of a Congress which devoted so mud of its tifhe before the recess to dilly dallying. In Their Front Door Too We were just wondering what the wives of packinghouse strikers will think when the visible supply of meats ' disappears from butcher shops and markets and they are reduced to vege tables for the family table. This packinghouse strike will wall right in the front doors of the strikers, who will have to go without their favor ite food as well as the mere civilian. We seem to hear the little woman telling, her striker husband that “he cut off his nose to spite his face,” or something equally scathing. So far as the public is concerned, the meat shortage during the war ac • A i Icustomed everybody to going without, nine-tenths of the time. If the strikers have any idea that they can win public favor for their demands they are off the beam. The packers would be well within the rights of American citizens if they refused to negotiate further with the strikers but employed other men and operated on an open shop basis. Victory Clothing Drive Wilmington is making a belated start in the Victory Clothing campaign, which is already more than a week old, but is fortunate to have Wilbur R. , Dosher, postmaster, as director, or chairman, of the drive. Mr. Dosher made an outstanding success of last winter’s campaign. With similar co 1 operation from church organizations I and the schools, there is no reason why • this city should not contribute more . liberally than then. The need is for warm clothing, bed ) ding and shoes. Wilmingtonians who • have shivered in the current cold spell ' can easily picture the suffering of mil 1 lion3 in Europe who are still pitifully i thinly clad, after German depredations 1 during the war, many of whom must perish if American aid is not forthcom ing quickly. iney nave no money to uuy laiment. Even if they had, there are no markets for them to patronize, except perhaps black markets holding their goods at prohibitive prices even for the well-to do.' This is one appeal which does not in : elude money. All that is wanted is worn ; apparel and bedding. Surely Wilming ton attics contain many articles no long er needed which could be given without cost to the donor. When Mr. Dosher has perfected his organization and designated his deposi tories, there should be a steady flow of gifts which will bring comfort to war victims and possibly save many from death from exposure and disease. Donors are urged by the national organization to tie shoes together and “tack” coats and vests and skirts and waists or jackets, that they may not become separated in packing and so lose at least half their value. The problem of keeping related items together is important as all clothing collected is shipped to Treasury Depart ment warehouses for processing and packing, and in such mass handling it is almost impossible for workers to trace stray shoes and other items. The national goal is one hundred million garments. Let Wilmington’s contribution be noteworthy, in the name of humanity. 3-Cent Air Mail Not long ago it was forecast that air travel weuld ultimately be reduced to 3 cents a mile. Now we hear that 3 cents an ounce is considered for air mail. It came about at a conference of Postmaster Robert E. Hannegan and his aides with officials of the air trans port industry. “The postal officials,” says a recent article in the New York Times, and the industry renrespntji tives agreed that the present air postal rate of 8 cents could be reduced to 5 cents and still show a profit for the Postoffice Department of $10,000,000 yearly.” Whereupon Rep. Robert E. Ramspeck, vice president of the Air Transport Association, suggested the rate be cut to 3 cents. Only in recent years has there been any thought that the Postoffice Depart ment should produce revenues above operating expenses. The hope for many years was to get to the point where it could operate without a deficit. Not un til James A. Farley became postmaster general and made a great to-do over issuing special stamps for any an$ every occasion, and postal rates we~e increased in consequence, along with heavy sales of new issues to collectors, did the department pass the- deficit stage. It would seem wise for the postal officials to make a new schedule of rates which would cover costs of opera tion and eliminate profits, so that the people might benefit by the change. A 3-cent air mail rate would be a boon. The coming of the atomic bomb has opened everyone’s eyes to the appaling consequences of failure to achieve international coopera tion.—W. L. Mckenzie King, Prime Ministei of Canada. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1946, by King Features Syndicate) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—The question has been raised, and much too late, of “freedom of the press” for Army publications in which the buck private has been encouraged to be lieve that he has a right to talk back to his - superiors. By what theory it ever was de cided that such papers had any legitimate place in disciplined military forces we never have been told, the reason for this reticence being that such impudnece cannot be reconciled with our military system and our laws governing the conduct of both officers and enlisted or drafted men. The old, original Stars and Stripes was an experiment that turned out well, thanks to the happy coincidence of some young and mischievous men who displayed an opportune knack for lampooning themselves, their boss es and war in a genial and patriotic way. When this war came along, however, the columnists and the pinks first promoted a great expansion of such journalism and then contrived to plant themselves in the publi cations, as data in Army intelligence has posi tively noted. Failing that, they got jobs in press relations and various headquarters and the communists were diligent to be good soldiers in the sense of not courting charges. Their purpose was to sit out the war without being killed or hurt and to acquire all the information and influence they could for use in the future. The present time is of that future. All this doubtless will be developed in some phase of impend ing investigations and scandals. It was a nasty conspiracy and cyni cal almost beyond belief. However, the dangers presented by Army journalism, under privilege, are worse than most of us, and that term includes high staff Under “freedom of the press,” this journal ism has a right to employ the most vicious of the guttersnipe gossips as “correpondent” and “columnits,” with a right to express their opinions and publish the filthiest and most disruptive rUmors about all superiors, from corporals to the Secretary of War. Un der such franchise, these vermin are not only protected in their violations of the common est military laws but protected, as well, in their non-combat editorial assignments. For, the more offensively they violate the regu lations and the articles of war by holding their superiors and the whole command up 'to ridicule and contempt, the more angrily their supporters may protest that any rebuke, such as a demotion or a transfer to dangerous duties, was arranged by the offended “brass-hats” as a means of silencing criticism. It is a new application of the old, familiar system that plant managers in civilian indus try encountered long ago, the martyr method which invoked the Wagner Act to prevent an employer from firing a saboteur and disrupter on the ground that he was being persecuted for “union activity.” Any slacker, turned GI journalist, might cry that the captain or the general was sending him to his death be cause he was telling the trfuth. Unless this so-called “GI journalism” is abolished, the principle will have been es tablished, to the irreparable damage of the Army and the nation, that any man, even a colonel with a grudge against a general or a second lieutenant, has a privilege under “free dom of the press” to inspire vicious com ments against that person in print and that the “writer” of the item, under journalitic privilege, may refuse to reveal his source. Bribery and corruption are thus invited. Any private, saluting punctiliously, may neverthe less have the right to deliver the most insult-' ing public affronts to any officer under his own name as a “contributor,” and get away with it. In an Army, respect for rank Is required and it cannot be compromised by ah appeal to “journalism” which leaves the subordinate free to ridicule and lie about his superiors with no fear of punishment or responsibility for slander. Such papers, of course, are ini mune to civil suits for damages in libel. Our civil, conventional, daily journalism has been grievously infected by this poison and the evil flowed straight Into the blood stream of the service publications as soon as these low things were forced into uniform. There is no room for freedom of the press or journalistic privilege in the American armed services and all such papers should be suppressed permanently. If “brass-hats” have abused their power to persecute the ranks, then the great and honored corps of correspondents for the ci vilian press would seem to have been almost criminally remiss in their reporting of the truth. Why haven’t they told us about these impositions and why haven’t they mentioned the names of the bad colonels and generals and given us times and places? QUOTATIONS In order to expedite complete reconversion and full employment, small business must be given a federal financial transfusion which will make it permanently strong and self sufficient.—Sen. James M. Mead of New York. Since 1940, five years of intensive research and development have revolutionized every phase of radio. In 1946, the scientific revolu tion will become continually more apparent to the public.—Brig.-Gen. David Sarnoff, presi dent, Radio Corp. of America. The United Nations must become truly a world government, or it will be nothing.—Philip J. Noel-Baker of Great Britain. This department is convinced the people of Hawaii want statehood now and that they have demonstrated their eligibility and right to be admitted into the Union—Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior. To win victory, much that was of great price has been given up, much has been ravaged or destroyed by the hand of yar. But the things that have been saved are beyond the price— King George VI of England. The highway perils are too great this year for anyone to take chances on driving a vehicle with senses °t^ol-^C.a.rroH E. Mealey, Eastern Region director, National Safety Council. The more the principal of free speech and self-expression succeeds in the world, the better and more democratic the world will be.—Prof. C. K. Webster oof Great Britain. 1 Tn Europe today, apart from the Soviet Union, there are but a scant.1,500,000 Jews alive. They are the survivors from the nearly 7 000,000 Jews who once lived and knew the ; joys of normal, decent life—Paul Baerwald, honorary chairman. United Jewish Appeal. j “LINE'S BUSY!” Men’s Caps Aren’t Just Coming Back, They’ve Been With Us All The Time By JOHN SIKES There’s been so much talk late ly about the scarcity of men’s shirts and shorts I went down to have a clarifying chat with my old friend A. T. Dowdy. Mr. Dowdy is privy to such odd ments of personal data about me as the measurement of my girth, neck size, how much padding will be needed in the shoulders of a suit to bolster me out to man-size and how much I’d be able to stand for a hounds-tooth number. There being little in the way of clarification anybody in the cloth ing industry can do this day and time, I ended up talking with Lewis Stein about, of all things, men’s styles. One of the things that drew my attention was the display of caps in the Stein window. Now, I was under the impression, that caps went out with the dusters the dan dies used to wear when they went out for an afternoon’s automobile drive. I remembered — from old chromes I had seen, of course — that caps were quite an item back in the day’s when Teddy Roosevelt was coming along fast. Such out standing characters on the Ameri can scene as John L. Sullivan wore them with a certain amoflnt of rakishness. Bringing them up to date: the cap situation took on added in. terest when President Truman wore one on his sea trip to the Potsdam conference. But, all in all, until I saw the Stein display, I thought caps went out at about the same time peg legged pants went out. It is noth ing unusual to report I was wrong. Caps, it turns out, are always a good item with the men’s stores.. True, you no longer see the young - or old - man-about-town wearing one to his office. Or in the business district. Men nowadays usually wear caps when they motor or play golf. Unless somebody just happens to be sueh an individualist he wants to stand out in a crowd in which everybody else is wearing a hat. Mostly, though, caps now are bought for sport.. Of course, those male Apache dancers you sometime see in the movies or winding up a stage show usually wear caps. And Hollywood has apparently tried to make them a trade-mark of a tough guy be cause almost every gangster you see sports one. That’s about all there was and is about caps right now. One of the interesting items I gleaned from my conversation with Mr. Stein was that there have been no really new styles for men in the past four years. This is be cause most of the yohng men, who usually set style, have had their styles set for them in the form ot a uniform during the war period. By inference, you can figure on seeing some new rinctums in men’s clothes pretty soon since the boys are coming home. Right now they’re buying anything in the way of civilian clothes they can get their hands on. Normally, there are four sources of styles in men’s wear in the United States. Among the college men new ideas usually stem from Princeton and Yale. I was surpris ed to learn that Harvard carries little weight in collegiate clothing circles. Seems that Harvard is too conservative and the rest of the colleges and universities pay little attention to what is being worn in Cambridge. Among the class known as the idle rich, styles stem from Palm Beach. Some pretty colorful stuff in the way of men’s apparel comes nut of the Florida resort. What happens in this case is that wealthy men at Palm Beach origi nate their own styles. After these have been worn for a spell, the manufacturers pick up the I3eas and make similar items at a price within reach of you and me. Among the ultra-conservatives, Wall street sets the styles. Usual ly these styles take the form of sombre but faultlesly tailored suitings. The flashier set get their notions for flamboyant creations frc/n the people who hang out around Broadway at Times Squaie. This is the theatrical crowd. All these bits of information I picked up in my talk with Mr. Stein. When I wondered out loud to him about where Hollywood comes into the men’s style pic ture, 1 was told that Hollywood is just a sort of youngster in the style-setting business. Hollywood is trying to get its ideas across, cut in this flashy end of the men's wear world most everybody still clings to Times Square. Anyway, it seems Hollywood got most of its ideas from Times Square in the first place. Mr. Stein couldn’t give me any good reason why there aren't any outstanding names in men’s wear like the Schiaparellis, Carnegies, Adrians, and so on of women's wear. He did mention Graziazzi and Wetzel in New York. But they are so little known that both Mr. Stein and I, working together, could not figure out how to spell the first name. Just in case you’d like to know something about style trends, though, Mr. Stein told me the two button sack for men is coming back strong. That, I have to report, is about all there is new in men’s clothing circles hereabouts. All I could find, that is. P. S. The Boss says I left out Zoot suits. I’m very happy to do this—altogether. 1 Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS A BROTHER’S VISIT Last week I met the British Prime Minister, and Lord Halifax and several other dignitaries. I al so had a good talk with my old friend, Cordell Hull. But none of [hese gave me the deep satisfac tion I had in a visit from my elder brother. We talked of family affairs and >f personal interests and of old times and of public matters. His ripe and penetrating judgment ipon politics and the world situa ;ion made me, a professional in :hese fields, very humble. I like to think of Frank as of the asst type of American citizen. He s a workingman, having come up lie hard way of the machinist’s aench to his present position as superintendent of a large factory, lis employers gave a splendi ferous party, with lavish gifts, on lis fiftieth anniversary with the irm. The entire force was pres ent and paid enthusiastic tribute o the boss. Quiet, modest, home-keeping, :hurch-going, my brother has won t high place in the esteem of his immunity. It seemed to me, dur ng this happy visit, as if he were ; YOUR G. 5. RIGHTS By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON — Here are some questions on the return of service men from overseas: Q. My husband is in Austria with the 505th MP Battalion. I would appreciate any informa tion you can give me on his re turn. A. War Department says that outfit is at Tongres, Belgium. Un less your husband has 60 or more points, he is slated for continued occupation duty. Q. My son has just been trans ferred from the 136th Port Com pany to the 135th Port Company. He has told us not to write be- ' cause h» says his outfit is waiting ' to be shipped home. When will that unit sail? . A. His outfit is at Okinawa and , no date has been set for its re turn. He may be on his way home, however, if he is a high point man. - , Q. Can you tell me the loca tion of the 310th Ordinance De- f --- more entitled to the label of a 1 "Successful American” than many 1 a man written up in the maga- 1 zines. At least, he is a represents- ^ tive American in the best defini- 1 tion of that term. We thank Thee, O Father, for all ;he ties that bind ns np in the s rondle of life; and for all men and v women who exemplify patriotism. J u»d loyalty to Thee. Amen. f pot Company and if it is on its tvay home? A. It is at Ahrweiler, Germany, rhere is no information here about its return. Q. My brother is in Korea. He was in Europe until July in mother outfit — Company “B” i 1308th Engineers Regiment. He aas 68 points. When will he be lome? A. With that number of points ie should be home within a few ■ nonths. His outfit is now in Okina wa. Q. My sweetheart is in the 117th Paratroop Infantry Regi nent. When I last heard from aim he was in Paris. That was nore than a month ago. Where is ie now and when will he come lome? A. That outfit is now reported1 n Hochenswangan. Germany. It las been alerted to come home. Question* will be answered only in t^is space—not by mail.) i The immediate emergency is to j ;et places for people to live. It’ < [oesn't necessarily mean that we j fill have the best kind of per- ; nanent housing, but there will , ave to be places for people to j ive.—Wilson W. Wyatt, new Fede- \ •al Housing Expedilter. ---- e 1 The Koreans now are on the 1 tairs and they're going to march i p to independence.—Lt. Gen. i ohn R. Hodge, commander, U. S. 1 >rces in Korea. i The Doctor Says_ MENTAL DISEASES NEED TREATMENT By WILLIAM A. 0'BR!e\- >( ^ The average person does M think clearly on the subject , mental health or mental dj« o! He realizes the importance , physical health and he w, when he is not well. He m,, 1 know all the ways and mean,'1; promoting physical health but v usually makes a fairly in;elli choice when confronted Wjth serious disease problem. * If he thinks at all about men’* disease he considers it someth” quite foreign to him. He belie,0* that most of his friends are good mental health, and vh ” they become mentally ip it 'n quite a shock to him. Actual]? mental ill health takes a lo:l time to devplnn Over half the hospital beds « f the United States are devoted • ’ the care of patients with nerve, 1 and mental diseass. This is not only of the Veterans Admit! istration hospitals, but also 0f h vilian hospitals. Patients with mental diseaa may be divided into four group. In the first group the symptom, are so severe than everyone recog. nizes that the patient is sick. The second group of the mentally :;i ' includes the neurotic, those md:. vlduals who find it difficult to make an adjustment to living con ditiong as they find them. In the third group we find those persons who, while making a good social adjustment, are greatly handi capped by their own emotions. The fourth group includei “problem” children. It is now m. erally recognized that children who fail to show satisfactory de velopment, who indulge in temper tantrums, bed wetting after the period of infancy, and delinquen cies are mentally ill. Feeble-mind. edness is not included in this group. To assume that mental ill heal'h is hereditary because it runs in i family is not true. We may in. herit an undesirable make . up from our people, and if we are forced to live with abnormal peo ple during our early development the association will have a bad effect upon us. Certain types of mental illness have a definite physical basis. In flammation of the brain, brain tumors, hardening of the arteries injury, and disturbance of glands of internal secretion may produce signs of mental illness. First step in examination of the mentally ill is to find out if there is a physical cause of the con dition. Next step is to dc/ermine the possible relationship of faulty mental hygiene to the disease, TTiird step is tc Institute proper treatment based on the cause. 1 The Literary Guidepost BY W. G. ROGERS WRITTEN ON THE WIND, by Robert Wilder (Putnam'i; $2.75). Money lasts but blood runs out, . .that is the idea behind this story of the Whitfields: old An drew who built the tremendous to bacco fortune, his sons Joseph and Cassius, the latter’s daughter Ann Charlotte, son Cary, son's wife Li lith, son’s friend Reese Benton. There’s some reflection, slightly | lurid, of recent life in America: impossibly rich heiress, hi?) times, vast amount of drinking, 9 illicit loving. Though you v'cl nave missed the rounded, credm:* j characterizations and the nice motivation provided by this stun- § ulating author, you could ha'-! . read some of this in newspaP8 neadlines. Wilder doesn’t point i moral, he tells a tale, yet there11 always the intriguing suspic.on | that fact spices this fiction. The Whitfield home is if * place called Winston, N. C. :he founder of the fortune away in a mausoleum right <w side the front door, Cassius is -•* ng trouble bringing up his^ ’ _ and girl, who somewhere along -• ine h-ave got spoiled; with M t’s liquor, with his sister, ses Cassius persuades a penr.:*t‘ | neighbor to turn over to him, ••• ion Reese in hope that Reesc.^ ^ •eady Cary's chum, can exe:'— he influence of which Cassius * ncapable. The Whitfields are the <* , iticks; Reese's function is hem together into some 'J0'"' ible, abiding relationship. he ^ nore than Cary’s friend, s responsible for him, but by ■■■ eery fact, less than a friend s under obligations more ex live and weighty than th> I )osed by friendship. The 5■•“'.'j. 1 itruggle between his debt 0 “ :rs and his debt to himself l his book life. There are very exciting ^ ^ nents, on top of a general - ^ >f excellent craftsmanship- ' ■“] j s practised at filling his “/ •ut, providing it with body. 9 dying the background for Pn iction with past action. Ke J :onversation well, too. V®u ^ i oy watching the money fl° he blood thin out. f But while your interest lags, you are not deeply nr , j f this novel is not manufac-- ^ i t is not, on the other ban • js | pired. “Written on the w — a j letter than most, not <3U“ natch for the best.
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