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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 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING I , How young he was, how short His time on earth! A pulse beat through the centuries, a breath Between the starlit hour of His birth And that strange darkened hour of His death —For thirty-three brief years that His feet trod The earthly roads for us, we thank Thee, God. —Grace Noll Crowell. Lower-Cost Houses The Star is convinced that too much thought is being devoted to new hous ing in the $10,000 class and too little to the $2,500 to $4,000 bracket. The percentage of families able to pay $10,000 for a home is exceedingly ’ small, despite the high wages of war times, in comparison with those capable of financing houses costing less than half that amount. For example, the GI married during the conflict and again at home, prob ably to meet an heir for the first time, wants a home of his own but because he has had no chance to accumulate much cash and being too independent to look to his own or his wife’s parents for help, has no chance to tackle a down payment, pay taxes, interest and in surance, and support his little family on his present means. Primarily, he wants financial inde pendence. He can not have it if he must keep his nose to the grindstone in definitely. The case of the GI is equally appli cable to that of millions of so-called white collar men, who haven’t bene fitted by the great advance in pay en joyed by industrial workers. Incidentally four houses costing $2,500 can be built for $10,000. Four families, needing homes could be ac commodated, instead of one. The hous ing problem would be solved to that extent. It’s Wilmingtonian H. L. Mencken writes John H. Far rell, Chamber of Commerce secretary, to learn the proper designation of resi dents of Wilmington. Three are mentioned, whether by the Star reporter, Mr. Mencken or Mr. Farrell we are unable to determine — Wilmingtonite, Wilmingtonian and Wil * mingtoner. Gramatically, we believe, all are cor rect, but two may be stricken out be cause they are not euphonious. Wilmingtonite grates on the ear. Wilmingtoner tangles the tongue. Only Wilmingtonian is smooth sounding. Furthermore it has the sanction of long usage. The First Stone Let him that is without sin cast the first stone. This might well be address ed to Soviet Russia because of Mos cow’s complaint of British action in Greece and Java. Undoubtedly there is reason to feel Great Britain has not acted wisely in Indonesia and Greece. But complaint from the Russians would stand analysis better if the Russians, while still Hit ler’s partner, had not divided Poland with him, nor later enforced one-waj 4 / policies in Hungary and Rumania and the Baltic states, Iran and the Balkans generally. The substance of the Russian action at London exemplifies the old man’s admonition to his young son on the sub ject of smoking_Do as I say, not as I do. Dangerous Authority A little authority, in the case of most men, is a dangerous thing, not in itself but because it creates a lust for power. Because a few men were given a modicum of authority in the first place they are now determined to be rulers. Regardless of the suffering they cause or the disruption of the nation’s econ omy they are driving the United States to the wall, and will succeed unless they are halted in their tracks. There is the case of James C. Pe trillo, despotic head of the musicians’ union. He offers such a clear example of the proposition that, although he is not at the top of the list, his record deserves noting. When sound pictures came into ex istence, members of theater orchestras and other professional musicians realiz ed that without putting up a fight for survival they would have to find other employment, for which most of them were unfitted, and that during the search their families would be in accual want. Because Petrillo had sopie ability as a leader and the then head of the union lacked assertiveness, he was made president, and for a time conducted himself and the affairs of the union in a reasonably business-like manner. But it was not long before he fell victim to the aforesaid lust of power and steadily, step by step, has not only set himself up as a dictator of the Hit ler type but enslaved the members of the union, exercising the right to domi nate America’s music and hire or fire at will. In their separate fields, Hillman, Murray, Lewis, Green are as despotic. The little authority given them at the start has led them to seek and seize more and more power until the country, as a result of their activities, is face to face with as grave a crisis as if a foreign enemy were at our doors. There is still a margin of safety. It is held bv Congress. Congress must enact anti-strike legislation at once or sacrifice its margin. Dodging A Showdown Although some observers view the situation in Iran as evidence that the Soviet Union is on the brink of aggres sion, it is obvious that the present session of the Assembly in London is reluctant to force a showdown, despite the Iranian delegation’s appeal to the Security Council. The case is one more example of the Western Allies’ unwillingness to stand up to the Russians lest serious trouble result. If this is true, it may be said that they are only postponing the day when, willy-nilly, they will be forced to take a definite stand, and nothing is to be gained, but much may be lost, by delay. We read that if the present govern ment collapses and former Premier Ghavam el Saltani is restored to power he will seek an impartial solution .of the deadlock over northern Iran by ad mitting the Russians to equal economic privileges with the British _ possibly by granting oil concessions. Recalling that when Russia was in dire straits and it was necessary for the salvation of the Caucasus, Ameri can engineers, American troops, Ameri can equipment built the roads over which American materiel was trans ported under American troop guards and delivered to the Russian forces at grips with the Germans, we can not refrain from wondering why equal privileges should go to Great Britain and the Soviet Union and the United States should be left out. The United States alonfe completed improvements in Iran which will have lasting value. It will be hard for Ameri can taxpayers to forget that the na tion’s war costs mounted to $354,000, 000,000, if help like this is to rate strictly as a gift. There is plenty of room for a prosperous future in non-scheduled flight operations with out seriously paralleling or duplicating exist ing air transport.—William A. Mara, Bendix, Aviation Corp. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1946, By King Features Syndicate.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—In two recent speeches, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has identi fied communism and the activities of the American communists as a moral and social menace, unusually vehement expressions from him,’ and an indication that the immunity which the communists enjoyed under the patronage of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roose velt no longer exists. During Mr. Roosevelt’s presidency, with the exception of that brief time when Stalin and Hitler were allies against Poland, the foul aggressor, the American communists and their fellow-travelers were regarded as vic tims of error who nevertheless had a right to work for the violent overthrow of the Amer ican government by such “constitutional” means as sabotage, permeation of the Wash ington government, and persecution of em ployers and rank and file workers through the Labor Relations Board, which they in fested and dominated. At the meeting of the International Asso ciation of Chiefs of Police in Miami Beach, Mr. Hoover did recognize the existence of a post-war crime wave which police officials of the waning LaGuardia administration in New York nevertheless denied even in the pres ence of such an outburst of murderous thug gery that the law-abiding went down to the corner after dark only in peril of death. ihe press coverage of the Miami speecn generally seems to have neglected, whether from innocent reasons or the design of moti vated leftish reporters and desk-men, to give due emphasis to his discussion of the com munists. Of them he said: “These panderers of diabolic mistrust already are concentrat ing their efforts to confuse and divide by ap plying the fascist smear to police depart ments, the F.B.I. and other American insti tutions to conceal their own sinister purposes. The godless, truthless way of life that they would force on America can mean only tyran ny and oppression. They are against the liber ty which is America. When they raise the cry of unity, remember that there can be no unity with the enemies of our way of life. The fascist-minded tyrant is no different from the American communistic corruptionist who uses the tricks of the confidence man until his forces are sufficiently strong to rise with arms in revolt.” Mr. Hoover plainly was referring to the communists of the unions who dominate many large units of the C.I.O. and, in collaboration with reckless and stupid non-communist boss es of A.F. of L. units have actually estab lished, in almost all tests of power, the right to riot and intimidate by chains and clubs American citizens bound on lawful errands at struck premises. He reminded the chiefs of police that “our first line of defense” is the cop on the corner, who, in Stamford, Conn., and Kearny, N. J., in recent weeks flinched in the presence of mobs and refused to uphold the citizens’ rights. These, be it remembered, were not strike-breakers, al though the citizen does have a right to ac cept a job that a striker has quit and a right to police protection. “It behooves us,” Mr. Hoover said, “to be on guard for an enemy that brazenly has advocated the corruption of America, that poses behind a dozen fronts, that squirms his way into those great American forces such as the church, the schools and the ranks of labor.” In the other address, on receiving the champion’s award of the Catholic youth or ganization in New York, Mr. Hoover observed that during the war “arrests for prostitution increased 375 per cent, for disorderly conduct 357 per cent and for drunkenness and driving while intoxicated 174 per cent among girls under 18 years.” Whity he did not at this point charge the communists with blame for these figures, his citations recalled the revelations of Benjamin Gitlow, the predecessor of Earl Browder in command of the communist conspiracy who wrote in his confessions that the debauchery of young girls was a primary purpose of the communist youth movement and a personal delight of the male communist conspirators. By his admission, Hoover’s figures would be a comfort and mark an unearned g. in for the communist cause. Recalling that youth has ever been a revo lutionary force and Hitler’s exploitation of German youth. Hoover said: “In our country we have seen another youth movement arise. It still flourishes. I refer to that high-sound ing, idealistic title, ‘American Youth for De mocracy,’ which conceals the evils and cor ruption of communism. The name is a new one for the ‘Young Communist League.”’ This is a true descendant of the very same youth movement to which Mrs. Roosevelt oft en gave solace and encouragement. Quietly in those days, the F.B.I. was calling on the Dies Committee for factual information regarding communist activities and Mr. Hoover certainly has a much greater knowl edge of this conspiracy and abhorrence for the corruption than he revealed publicly while the organization thrived under White House patronage. His present denunciations speak for themselves and by way of interpretation it is tempting to conclude that under Mr. Truman he is no longer obliged to refrain from attacking these late protegees of the Roosevelt household and government. QUOTATIONS The people who definitely do not want to fight any more wars must promise total anni hilation to any nation which starts to fight, and must be prepared immediately and ruth lessly to carry out that promise.—Maj.-Gen. G. B. Chisholm, deputy minister of National Health and Welfare of Canada. ! Unlike the development of the atomic bomb and other secret weapons, the development of agents of biological (germ) warfare is possible in many countries, large and small. . .under the guise of legitimate research — George Merck, director, U. S. experimental germ re search. . While the President denounces inflation, he is promoting the greatest peacetime inflation this country has ever seen, first by lavish spending of government money andsecond by promoting a general increase in wages.—Se. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. It is not accurate to say that collective bar gaining and voluntary arbitration have broken down in the automobile and steel industries. The plain facts are that collective bargaining and voluntary arbitration have never been put into practice in these industries. _ William Gren, president, American Federation of La bor | THE GERM CARRIER [ United States Stresses Air Role For UNO “Police ” In Advisor Choice By ROBERT HEWETT AP STAFF CORRESPONDENT LONDON, Jan. 22— (£>) —The United States lavors heavy empha sis on air power in the proposed United Nations “police force,” judging by the appointment of top air-minded generals and admirals as U. S. advisors to the UNO Security Council. Short, sandy-haired Gen. George C. Kenney, General MacArthur’s former air chief and head of the Pacific air command, is senior officer on the battle-experienced U. S. military delegation, which soon will open discussion with mili tary leaders of Britain, Russia, France, and China on the size and use of the armed forces which each nation will assign to the peace preservation force. The role of air power in the in ternational “police force” was ex pected to be the chief point of discussion at the forthcoming meet ing of the Big Five military lead ers, with aviation advocates favor ing a fast, hard-hitting air force capable of swift and drastic action against any nation designated by the UNO Security council as an agressor. Two other air-minded officers represent the U. S. navy and army ground forces—a naval aviator, Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, boss of the Pacific fleet amphibious forces; and a former paratrooper, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, who retired as deputy supreme com mander of the Mediterranean area to join the UNO committee. Military leaders of the Big Five will be summoned formally to meet after the UNO Security coun cil has been organized. At present only the U. S. and British military leaders are in London. Initial conferences, it was indi cated, will deal with the size and type of military forces each nation will contribute. Final organization of the peace preservation force was not expected to be completed before summer. One of the problems which was expected to be deferred was selec tion of a commander for the inter national “police force.” Because joint operations involv ing so many different nationalities are unprecedented in military his tory, the U. S. has placed its top military internationalist* on the delegation, including Maj. Gen. John Russell Deane, who com manded the U. S. military mission to Russia from 1943 to 1945. Secretary of the delegation is Navy Captain Denys W. Knoll, who served with the mission to Russia after escaping from Corregidor by submarine 48 hours before the sur render to the Japanese. Another adviser is Brig. Gen. Charles P. Cabell, former chief of the Army Air Forces Strategy division, who attended the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. British representatives on the military staff council are Lt. Gen. Sir Edwin L. Morris, former chief of staff in India; Admiral Sir Henry Moore, former commander of the British home fleet; and Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod, former chief of the RAF in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS HE WAS A LOAN SHARK When was a boy in the com posing room of a Philadelphia newspaper there was one unpopu lar printer who was ostentatiously pious. He kept a martyr pose, and attributed all his unpopularity to his piety. I learned, however, that he was the shop ‘Shylock,” lend ing money to the men at usurious rates. They regarded him as a hyp ocrite. Peter, in his Epistles, had stern words that fit this and Similar cases. We read of eminent public men as profame, drinking, gam bling. Sabbath-breaking politi cians, and yet making pious pro fessions of religion. Their words will go down with the public. We want lives that cor respond with creeds. The plain man judges his neighbor — and his leaders — by their deeds. As Jesus said, “Not every one that saith to me, ‘Lord, Lord,.” His test is the doing of the will of the Father. Patient Father, make us, we pray Thee, doers of Thy word. Save us from the great sin of cloaking unworthy lives in reli gious professions. Amen. $25,000 Jewel Robbery In Florida Reported BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 22.— (U.R)—A $25,000 jewel robbery at the exclusive, high-priced Boca Raton club was revealed here today. The jewels were taken from a room occupied by Mrs. Nathan Ap pleman of New York city, on the afternoon of Jan. 12. Police at the Florida hamlet, owned by the hotel corporation, said they had “several good clues” but refused to say whether they be lieved the robbery Was an inside job or was connected with a series of similar incidents on Miami Beach, 40 miles to the south. Jap Repatriation Ship Strikes Mine In Pacific SHANGHAI, Jan. 22. —(/P)— A Japanese repatriation ship, holds jammed with 4,279 home-bound na tionals, struck a mine today 60 miles off the mouth of the Yangtze and was reported sinking rapidly. The U. S. Navy cargo ship, Bre vard, radioed that it was standing by and taking passengers and crew off the stricken 6,000-ton vessel, the Enoshima Maru. FARM EQUIPMENT DEMAND BEST YET CHARLOTTE, Jan 22. —(£>)— Speakers before more than 300 members of the Carolinas’ Farm Equipment Dealers association in opening sessions of their annual convention here today pointed to a tremendous backlog of de mand for farm equipment and emphasized prospects of a record sales year ahead. Because f the known backlog of demand for new and replace ment farm equipment supplies, convention leaders have selected “The Job Ahead” as the convention theme. Dr. L. J. Herring of Wilson, president of the association, is presiding over the convention, which will conclude tomorrow. Annual reports were submitted today by Dr. Herring and Allen A. Chappell of Wilson, secretary treasurer. Speaking in the open ing day’s sessic#is included J. Kay Garner, Greenwood, Miss., and ofjicial of the National Farm Equipment association; G. O. Ba son, Charlotte, representative of the Reconstruction Finance Corp oration s Charlotte agency* and R. U. Fox, Hartsville, S. C.’ vice president of the convening organi zation. Tomorrow s speakers will include gj1- J’ W. Harrelson, Raleigh, Chancellor of N. C. State College and Robert M. Hanes, Winston Salem, president of the Wachovia Bank and Trust company. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected tomorrow. I COTTON INDUSTRY GIRDS FOR FIGHT MEMPHIS, Jan. 22.—(£>)—'The cotton industry summoned its 15, 000.000 dependants, from field to loom, today to an all-out fight for survival in the "synthetic age.” Oscar Johnston, president of the National Cotton Counoil, • told the annual session of the body it would be "the most aggressive offensive attack which has been conducted by a major agricultural group in any nation at any time in his tory.” He said the million-dollar cam paign to combat the growing in flux of widely advertised “wonder products” would follow a three pronged pattern: (1) Expanded scientific re search. (2) Great promotion. (3) Lower cost of cotton pro duction on the farm and in the factory. Johnston asserted that the ap pearance of synthetics and the pro motion of other fibers confronted the seven billion dollar cotton in dustry with the greatest competi tion in its history. “Cotton can defeat any competi tor on today’s horizon,” he added, provided it is given equality with that competitor in scientific sup port, sales pressure and produc tion efficiency.” Plans to maintain this equality will be laid during the meeting here this week of representatives of all branches of the industry. Producers, ginners, warehouse men, crushers, spinners and mer chants are here from throughout the belt to feel the pulse of Dixie’s backbone crop and to make mea sures to keep it pounding. Health Poster Entries Will Be Judged Saturday Posters which are being created and drawn by local school children will be judged Saturday Jan. 26. The contest, which is being held in conjunction with a community health campaign program which starts Feb. 3, is being staged for the purpose of-choosing a poster which will be used to publicize the campaign. Members of the committee who f Pards* will judge the posters are ( Greer, chairman, Miss ^ Stout, Miss Emma La«'S0. Rupert Bryan. ..j A prize has been dona^ John Fox of the Royal ■ be given to the winner. The Doctor ULCER COLITIS hard to cure BY WILLIAM A. O’Brifx v. The patient with chronic ’ 1 tive colitis (inflammation (CE:a‘ large intestine) and his nhv must face the situation as! the management of thl. J' is a long battle of Ups Chronic ulcerative colitis -."A be confused with colitis cai dysentery germs, amebae'o'r „ ous conditions. ‘ “erv’ When chronic ulcerative develops it usuallv sta-ts h„. ! the ages of 15 and 40 in iZ6*1 women. The disease begins C ' rectum and progresses usually stopping at the junction"; the large and small imes.^ The mucous membranes of r colon becomes congested fr.A-' and ulcerated, and in advance! cases, the entire lining mav hfV stroyed. ’ ae‘ Mild cases persist for Veil without causing much disability while violent cases progress idly to a fatal termination, moderately severe recurrent'lot* is the most common as the av® age patient is free of trouble b months or years only to have difficulty return and then 4, prove. Symptoms begin insidious!, with flatulence, indegestion, cj', Ionic distress and occassional, ly loose stools. TLere is usually ■>. regular fever, weight loss, weak.I ness, loss of appetite and anemia j Chronic ulcerative colitis j, ? probably caused by several fat. 5 tors. Some physicians believe that 1 infection with a special germ is the ■ main factor as treatment with vat. * cines leads to good results in maev cases. Most patients with chronic J ulcerative colitis have personal::! problems. Emotional disturbances caji bring on attacks after the disease has been dormant for some time, - Children with this disease usjhj ally have these difficulties and a,, tention to their mental hygiene bar a favorable influence in treater. Rest in bed is necessary in ire acute stages of the disease and‘.hi application of heat to the abdome is soothing. Diet should be null., i tious and non-irritating. If blood loss is excessive, trans fusion is life-saving. Suifa drugs! are of value in certain phases c! the disease, but they are not cura-f tive. Patients with chronic ulcerahe colitis must cultivate great pa tience and perservance in meet ing their many problems as the disease may last for years. The Literary' Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS THE AIR - CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE, by Henry Mil ler (New Directions: $3.50). Miller, after a decade abroad during which his pen has won him a reputation as genius, returns t) study his native land, and his con clusions about it and us and tilt American scene in general sees to him to be summarized most ■aptly by the title; “Air-CondiU ed Nightmare.” As a prose writer, Miller is r..t at his best while complain..' about our lacks and faults. Hi - at his best when he cuts loose.: to speak, forgetting his moral, a., emphasizes his experiences; can for instance get you merr., lost in words as he was lost ate western roads, and you'll enjoy '-: mis-adventures with an auto. As to his theme, I approach • with sympathy. A new year i here, it’s time to take slock. ler’s eye is keen, he should * helpful. In fact he is. You’ll be glad especially tore | his unstinted praise of cornpte Varese, painter Martin, pho-*? rapher and philosopher Stieg though to be sure you've ci thern praised before. You’ll ate that gadgets aren’t all; you'll it hard to deny that we are 's and timid. . .not happy, note; tented, not radiant, not fearie; But I find too often that .'te exasperates rather than ■■■ suades; he has a good case bv _ muffs it; he'd rather lay abou. and prove he's angry than ta.-:<^ pains to sift arguments and p he’s right. ..... It’s absurd to call New :” the ‘‘most horrible place i- ' world,” or ‘‘the most hideou isn’t consistent to complain door toilets in Chicago bu the same public inconvea.ct»fe' Paris; to condemn our s)'--n not those in Europe; to -ye, French whore but scorn ar. A--"j ican; to grouch about t a conversational art defining by example means; to excoriate Detroit Pittsburgh yet never say 0 against Marseille or R°J' ’ .j like one manor in the Sou'te ing in the North. . .MHle: ; lisher is indeed a Pittsburgh Pj uct, and his firm is in Conr.e--^ Though I agree with s- ( praise of France. I sull ’--'•te*^ should have used a map ^ j;. U. S. for his travels among ^ a map of Paris that he ®a with him.
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