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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS ' SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1946 TOP O’ MORNING Sympathy with Christ’s great heart and purpose is the supreme essential of Christ likeness; not Bible reading, not church going, not saying your prayers, not giving a tenth, not holding an orthodox creed. These are five splendid helps to Christ likeness. But they are not the real thing. The Pharisees had all five. Yet of them our Saviour said, “Except your righteous ness shall exceed the kingdom of heaven”. Likeness to Him means sympathy with His great heart and purpose. That way spirit ual life lies; that way Christlikeness lies; and no other way. Dr. Egbert Smith in “From One Generation to Another.” Camp Sites Needed It is noted with commendation that the district committee for 1946 is look ing for a Wilmington Boy Scout camp site. All success to the effort. The Scouts have been camping here and there, sometimes on Lake Wacca maw, sometime elsewhere, always en joyably and with benefit. The value to the city troops of hav ing their own assembly place for sum mer camp, however, is obvious. The boys would not only have special in centive to protect the property, but could create a building program which in time would insure them of ample ac commodations and playgrounds. At the same time it would be emi nently fitting to undertake a similar project for the city’s Girl Scouts, who are rapidly growing in numbers and efficiency, but who lack a camp, al though their need for one is every bit as great as the Boy Scouts. With so much unoccupied land with in the Wilmington area, especially on the sound, one of the many owners have an exceptional opportunity of proving his interest in the organization by deeding or granting a long - term lease to whatever acreage the girls would need. Girl scouting is not receiving the public support it deserves. The women who have so valiantly revived the move ment are achieving splendidly, despite the handicap of wide-spread indiffer ence. With summer not so far off, the time is ripe for some land owner whose property is idle to “come across so that the organization may have its camp. And, with this done, there is no good reason why another owner should not do as much for the Boy Scouts. A Final Home As the scientists who shot the moon with radar confess they do not know what may eventuate from their experi ment lesser men are not justified in guessing what lies ahead. But it would be strange and helpful if they finally discovered the moon is not actually a dead planet but habit able and then developed means of transporting mortals to it. What with atomic bombs and laboi troubles the earth grows less enjoyable Too, Too Much The long and distinguished history of the United States Congress is smirched here and there by doings unworthy of that eminent body. Then have been one or two canings, a few fis fights, and some rather nasty name callings. But we venture to guess tha none of these shocked the member themselves so much as an inciden which took place just the other day. The culprit in the matter was Re* - • William Thom, an Ohio Democrat. In the course of some otherwise innocuous remarks he referred to Senator Taft as—and we shudder to repeat it— “Senator Taft.” Naturally, this threw the House into a dither. A Republican member jumped to his feet to inquire whether it was in accordance with the rules to “mention the name of a member of another body.” Acting Speaker McCormack re sponded with this 'opinion which, if ac curately reported, must set a new House record for qualifying phrases in one sentence: Speaking only for my self, in general, the names of members of the other body are, in my opinion, in most instances not used on the House floor.” Airport Development If arrangements are not speedily made for operation of the Army Air Base by any branch of the armed forces, the county administration will soon have to draft a program of its own. Lacking experience in such a project on a large scale, and being busy with its own normal functions, the Board of County Commissioners will require the advice of other air base operators, and be prepared to invest county funds in improvements essential in transform ing the field from a military base into an air field adapted to the needs of commercial air lines and private fliers. The Civilian Aeronautics Adminis tration has urged the commissioners to examine what has been done at Wins ton-Salem and the success that has ac companied the transformation there. Winston-Salem has found an airport authority eminently satsifactory. The county is thereby relieved of the many details connected with the project, which it has no time to perform. The authority there has found it profitable to employ an airport manager, a man of experience in air transportation, whose services have steadily increased use of the field. Obviously the CAA would not have named Winston-Salem if it were not convinced its program was a good ex ample worthy of emulation. The New Hanover commissioners, with equal ob viousness, would pass up an opportuni ty to profit by the experience of the Winston-Salem field if they neglected to observe at short range what has been done to make its operation successful. Having seen, and being anxious to develop the Wilmington field to the peak of efficiency, it is not to be doubt ed that they will mould their program on the Winston-Salem pattern, so far as it can apply to the local situation, and particularly employ a manager who, besides seeing that gasoline is always available for visiting planes and a ground crew on hand to make repairs as they are needed, will contact distant fields with the object of having fliers routed by way of Wilmington. In the air age upon which we are entering fliers will be routed as care fully as gasoline companies routed auto tourists before the war. Wilmington may share largely in this practice as soon as its accommodations are known at distant fields, particularly as it is acknowledged by pilots as one of the country’s best. Whatever the cost to the county of employing an experienced manager, the investment would be a source of profit. If, in addition, an airport authority were also set up, the prospects at Bluethen thal would be materially improved. There is no time to waste in fitting the airport for civilian use, when and if all branches of the nation’s armed forces reject it for their own operation. QUOTATIONS The rebuilding of Poland is not purely a Polish problem. It is the moral obligation of the entire world. . .We are the first casualty on Hitler’s long list. We sacrificed the most. — Primier Edward Osubka-Morawski of Po land. * * * Ultimate aim (of the UNO) is not just a negation of war, but the creation of a world of purity and freedom. . .which is governed by justice and moral law.—Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee of Great Britain. * * * ' The UNO transcends the League of Nations ! because we have behind us the experiences , of the league and the comprehensive support ' of more influential powers than were in the ; league.—Sen. Tom Connally of Texas. DIESELIZATION - Note on the development of the language: ; Webster’s contains the wo^d dieselization. It , is defined as follows: “The act or process of t dieselizing.” Looking farther, I find that the transitive verb to dieselize is defined as fol lows: "To equip with a Diesel engine or en • gines.”—John O’Ren in the Baltimore Sun. J. 1XX-J -- - 1 Equal Privileges by marquis chidds WASHINGTON—One of the chronic gripe? of the GI during the war was the privileges and prerogatives enjoyed by officers as contrasted with the ordinary soldier. The officers got the fine clubs, they got the liquor, they monopo lized the time of the Red Cross gnus. Thus went the familiar complaint in every theater in which there were any privileges and prerogatives to be enjoyed. Now Congress has discovered that this inequality extends to demobilization. Officers in both the Army and Navy are en titled to terminal leave. Depending on _the amount of leave they have accumulated foit months is the maximum—they can take time, on full pay with allowances, to look around for a job and begin the process of readjust ment to civilian life. Enlisted men in the two services dc not have the same privilege. They must go to a separation center and there wait out the pro cess of final discharge. As Dr. Howard A. Rusk pointed out in a recent article in the New York Times, this gives the officer a great advantage over the enlisted man. It tends to make the process of adjustment much easier for the officer, says Dr. Rusk who, as a colonel in the Army Air Forces, worked out the air forces’ splendid rehabilitation program. Today the combat enlisted man goes directly to a separation center. He is discharged rapidly as possible and, when he gets his final discharge papers, he is out of the Army. This means that he cannot avail himself of Army medical facilities. The officer, in contrast, in his months of terminal leave, can go into an Army or Navy hospital instead of having to take ais chances in a crowded veterans’ hos pital. For some months, Congress has been ham mering away at this inequity. There must be a dozen bills which have been introduced in the House alone. The War Department was asked to submit figures on the cost of extending the privilege of terminal leave to enlisted men as nroll o n r» one The War Department’s recommendations were submitted to the Bureau of the Budget, which has not yet passed on them. They put the cost at the staggering figure of $2,788, 000,000, which would cover both officers and men. Admiral Louis J. Denfeld, chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Personnel, told congressmen some time ago that the cost for the Navy would be approximately $1,500,000,000. He recommended the extension of the leave privilege to enlisted men but pointed out that the cost would be considerable. The reason the cost would be so great— more than $4,000,000,000 for both services—is because the privilege would be made retroac tive. Both on Capitol Hill and in the services, the feeling is that those who have already been discharged without benefit of terminal leave should at least get the additional finan cial compensation. But the millions of men already out of uni form would not get the kind of benefit that terminal leave is meant to give—the cushion ing of the shock of transition between military and civilian life. For them, it would be merely i kind of bonus. Inevitably it would feed the present trend toward inflation. Just to put such a program into effect would take a vast governmental machine. The War Department estimates that 3000 clerks would fiave to work three months just to set up the system. In spite of ail this, there seems to be a fairly good chance that a Congress acutely sensitive to GI, grievances will adopt a bill granting terminal leave to all service men and women, officers and enlisted personnel alike. No mention of the proposal was made in the President’s message on Monday. Representative Mike Mansfield of Montana, a liberal democrat, is one of the most active sponsors of the proposal. He introduced a bill last fall calling for equalization of the leave privilege. The sad fact, of course, is that this was not done at the outset of the war, so that it would have ben accepted as a part of the war’s cost. Some of the headaches of demobilization ■night then have been avoided. (Copyright 1946, by United Feature Sundicate, Inc.) Editorial Comment SNOW AND LITERATURE If the earth’s multiplied population were distributed evenly all over the earth’s sur face, only three people out of each ten would ever see a snowfall. Snow never falls upon 70 per cent of the earth’s surface. It is a novel thought that a majority of the world’s population does not know what snow is except from hearsay. To read, as most of us have, the lines which tell of the first snowfall and of the snow which began in the gloaming, we could easily con clude that a snowstorm is one of the world’s most familiar sights. But with any impression that a familiarity with snow is universal would be a profound mistake. It just happens that most of the world’s literature is produced in the part of the world where snow storms are common.—Daily Oklahoman. BOOKS OF THE STATES A proposal to keep in print and up to date the state guides of the American Guide Series, originally prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the WPA, is made by the Oxford University Press, Oxford, which published 11 of them, would now like to publish them all and to assign a staff exclusively to them. There must be many persons who will agree with Oxford’s assertion that the guides “are valuable books that should be kept in print indefinitely,’’ for they have proved to be emi nently worthwhile compendiums of regional lore and contemporary information.—Chicago Sun. OPPORTUNITIES DO EXIST Those who think all the good opportunities are passed should heed Dr. Jasper L. Stuckey, North Carolina geologist who says there are excellent prospects for the development of in dustries in both metallic and nonmetallic minerals in this state. After a lapse of 62 years iron mining in Cherokee county may be resumed. Geologists believe there is up to 20 million dollars worth of tungsten waiting to be mined in the vicinity of Townsville. No, the day of opportunity is not past.—Dur ham Herald. age of speed •This is the so-called age of speed in which people take longer than ever to do Z That ought to be done.-Worcester Telegram.gS T. tv P0°® CONSOLATION Sli"' “°"Eh problems automTST so“ed 5,?a,'k!”E Evening Post. solved.—<Charleston Four Kids Born At Scotts Hill Almost At Same Time Merely Goats BY JOHN SIKES There’d be precious little I’d know about goats if Mrs. J. S. Swann, of Scotts Hill, hadn’t tele phoned me yesterday. Mrs. Swann is a kinsman of Mrs. W. H. Edens, also of Scotts Hill. Mrs. Edens owns a goat, a nanny goat. Well, it turns out that on the night of Jan. 15 Mrs. Edens’ nanny goat became the mother of four little goats, two nannies and two billies. Quadruplets, mind you. Ths seemed to me an unusual amount of goats to be born at one time. In fact, Mrs. Swann thought the same thing. She said a great many people have stopped by the Eden place at Scotts Hill to see the goats and that most of these people have said they never heard of goat quadruplets before. This unusuai incident set me to thinking that my education has been more neglected than I’d thought; that it should include a few items about goats. It isn’t that I didn’t know any thing at all about goats. When I was somewhat younger I owned a goat with a set of harness to fit, and a wagon. I recall that if you twist a goat’s tail he will get-up and get-up pretty rapidly. Too, I remember interviewing a retired Army officer at Pinehurst who raised goats and he intrigued me by telling me his goats were absolutely odorless. Seems there are several breeds of goats that are odorless. Among these are the Nubian and the Toggenburg. These are used mainly for milking pur poses. When I interviewed the Army of ficer I was down with a crusading fever. It was about the time when there were a great many more underprivileged children in North Carolina than there are now. I fig ured they needed milk. I also fig ured that it would be a great deal more economical for the parents of these children to own goats than it would be for them to own cows. Economically, I figured right. But I couldn’t sell the idea to the par ents. But until yesterday that,' in sub stance, was about all I knew about goats. I wondered, too, if it wasn’t a bit unusual about what happened to Mrs. Edens’ goat. I didn’t get the goat’s name and I’m not sure whether the four baby goats have been named. This shows I was off in my reporting when I talked with Mrs. Swann. But there are extenuating circumstances. You see, when Mrs. Swann called me she said: “Would you like a good story about four kids being bom%” “All at one time?” I asked. ‘Yes,’’ she said. That naturally snapped me out of the usual humdrum of the Star city room and I was about to grab my coat and make for the Edens’ place, figuring that if we didn’t have a Dionne incident at least we had a Keys incident. (I think Keys is the- name of those famous quad ruplets.) But, then, Mrs. Swann told me the kids were goats and what with getting excited one minute and then being let down the next I forgot to ask about the names. In a move to piece out my edu cation I turned to the Encyclopedia Britannica,—really to try to find if there’s anything unusual about goat quadruplets. They forgot to men tion this item, though. Maybe the Britannica people didn’t think it would ever be brought up. I did learn, though, that the goat is the ruminat of the genus Capra. (And on my own part I will give you the information that the word capricious comes frm Oapra and by this you can judge for yourself what kind of temperaments goats have. That, I emphasize, is another piece of information the Britanni ca does not give you.) There are lots and lots of kinds of goats. In China, India, Egypt, Europe, and North America the goat is chiefly a milk producer You may remember that Ghandi usually takes a goat around with him when he travels. That’s be cause he drinks hardly anything but goat’s milk. Those nice, soft sweaters you wear come from goats. These are the Cashmeres. The Angora goat also produres wool or mohair. They make those shiny black men’s sum mer suits from mohair. But the milk is probably the most important product of the goat, although lots of people eat the flesh. Even you may have eaten goat and thought you were eating spring lamb. The chalky white milk of the goat contains more solids than that of the cow. It makes excellent chees es and probably if it weren’t for goats you wouldn’t know as much about the Swiss as you do because most of the Swiss cheeses are made from goat’s milk. The chees es that come from Norway are made from goats’ milk. These cheeses have a nutty flavor. Maybe you didn’t know, but goats are so important, even in the Unit ed States, that there are three magazines published in this coun try about them. The one that in terests me most -is called “The Goat World.” However, I find I’m much more interested in Mrs. Edens’ quadrup lets. They’d interest me even more if I could find out if it’s unusual for goats to be born in fours. YWCA Nears Completion __ _ \ First Year’s Program GROWTH OUTLINED ' Mrs. Theodore S. Johnson, National Member, Will Attend Meeting Here By MABEL ROGERS Star-News Staff Writer Mrs. Theodore S. Johnson, of Raleigh, and National YWCA mem ber from North Carolina, will be the main speaker at the first an nual meeting ol the Wilmington Young Women’s Christian associa tion, scheduled to be held in the “Y” Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The election of officers will also take place during the meeting and ballots which have been prepared by the nominating committee may be placed in the ballot box near the door, Miss Dorothea McDowell, executive director said yesterday. In reviewing the year’s activi t es, Miss McDowell said that prior to her arrival here last April, the work was carried on without a board committee. After Miss Mc Dowell took over the directorship she immediately started a mem bership drive and board members were elected. Miss Mary Rhyne, program director in charge of younger girls’ work, arrived in October and began a full program of activities for that age group. At present, Miss Rhyne has six active Girl Reserve groups functioning. Other groups organized during the year included the Business Girls’ club, named the Blue-Tri angle club; Resident Girls’ club; Classes in art, leather, shellcraft, poise and personality, psychology and home making. The Blue-Triangle club, which not only includes the “Y” business women, but town women as well, has proven successful under the leadership of Miss Virginia War, president. During the past sum mer, recreation programs including swimming, picnics, and other out door parties, were given. At the regular meetings of the club inter esting and out-standing speakers appeared on the programs. Benefit Party Planned A benefit bridge-bingo party is being planned by the group to be held in the “Y” February 12, at 8 p. m. The Resident club, which has a membership of 18 girls, holds a regular weekly meeting in addition to Monday night Vesper services. This group also holds occasional social events for entertaining other members and friends. Mrs. Edna Parker, resident director, is the club advisor. no available space at the Y for a gymnasium, the newly formed basketball teams use» the gymnasium at the Presbyterian church for the older girls, and the Boys’ Brigade c’ub, for the young er girls. At this point Miss McDowell said "You.see our family is growing so fast we are actually out-growing our home. Our house is nice, but it is small and we don’t have enough room for all the girls and all of our activities. Maybe some day in the near future we can build a big, new, and modem build ing which will include a swimming pool.” A tabulation of the various groups which met at the “Y” for the year was made and included the total number of attendance as follows: Classes, 74 meetings and 802 at tendance; committee and board, 31 meetings and 338 attendance; regu lar groups, 21 meetings, 394 attend ance; special activities, 13 and 427 attendance; groups sponsored by “Y” and other social agencies, 9 meetings and 493 attendance. Outside groups using the build ing include: Junior and Senior Alpha Zeta, Women’s Bible class of Grace Methodist church; Busi ness and Professional Women’s club, and the Symphony commit tee with 23 meetings and 326 at tendance. Coast Guard Auxiliary Commandant Scheduled To Address Group Here Lt. Comdr. L. H. Hines, district commander of the Sixth Naval dis trict Coast Guard auxiliary will be the main speaker Wednesday night at 8 o’clock of the Wilmington Wrightsville Beach division at a general meeting of all officers and men in the customshouse. The auxiliary here, Flotilla Com mandant J. Irving Corbett said, has 212 members in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Lt. Comdr. Hines is expected to outline future activities of the auxiliary, as well as to hear ideas and suggestions from divisions members. By JAMES D. Whitt SAN FRANCISCO, TTie lady correspondent K.l *'* into the blue sky 0e i°°ke<i Up shrieked. 1 of anj A centipede 50 feet lonB above her, its whiskey 77? M red eyes rolling, its bod-, mg in the breeze. Jndulat. That was years ago. bU‘ .h(r, no reason to think that the ?? n.es* h*ve, .topped making thhl’ elaborate kites of bamboo an^ 8 per and sheer im3ginat;oi nd centipede is perhaps the most catching of the hundred'^' models which begin « time of year to turn China , into a circus. !^le> The wind is steady northwest and everyone get ’ kite fever. Young and old 7 ? and rich, are affected 7? r found Chinese interest •<-?? ^Ple th«gs of Jifa m6 the kite season a time when doors.CVery ChineSe 1,35 The kids are hit first ... the empty lots with laughter* a!5 SCifai?ing 3S they nm madly t pull their kites into the air V. tmg their lines tangled. „yinj quarreling, forgetting their Zj rels as their gaudv trea.„ r' catch the breeze and Jbe jestically on high. m,‘ Babies barely able to toddle a. pear with toy kites only six inZ long. Grandfathers watch fondly while then the first thing 0 know they have a kite of th.; own. In the late afternoon when work ers get home, serious looking' adults appear with special kites some made of silk and flown v..! after year. They compete wi; each other in a matter of C way to see whose kite flies best and highest, or whose is most usual. m There is considerable boast™ and running down of the other fel, I low’s kite, and a vast amount ol I advice is passed freely back and ! forth. Crowds gather, and onlook- ’ ers give advice too. Kites are made by families who do nothing else, piling up a stock \ throughout the year for the kite season. The commonest kinds are the "devil kite’’ and the butter, fly. Both are made of rice paper stretched over a thin framework ‘ of bamboo strips. Al] are so ex pertly balanced and designed that * they fly without tans. All are painted by hand, and it’s safe to say no Chinese would be caught dead with the crude and un. ; adorned kites which content Amer. ican kids _ Some Chinese kites range up to six feet high and it takes a strong man to hold them in a stiff breeze. Some have “harps" strung across their struts which vibrate and sing in the wind. Kitemakers imitate almost everything. You see warriors and fairies, dragon-flies, hawks, house flies, beetles, bats, dragons, rad ishes, cabbages — even frogs and fish—and, of course, that grisly giant centipede which scared the j lady correspondent. (She wound up by buying one and taking it in Its collapsed form—back to England with her). The centipede’s eyes turn with the wind, and its body is a series of paper discs strung out behind each other on cords. Its feet are made of rush-blooms. As a modern touch the Chinese make kites whi-h i- «'• tike model airplanes, and they have a line of comic kites whicn -.vui.uers off in to the completely improbable. For example, the citizens at Peiping looked up on_ day to see an excellent paper imitation ot a standard wooden slop bucket Coat ing serenely overhead, 1 — 102 CIVIL ACTIONS SLATED FOR TRIAL A total of 102 cases have been | calendared for a two-weeks civil | term of New Hanover Superio; I court to be opened here on Feb. »■ K A judge for the first week has no. I yet been assigned. Judge John 1 B Burney will preside over the seco» B week. I Forty-three uncontested divorce' ■ have been set for Monday, Feb. . I as well as the following civil F B tions: „ I In the Matter of the Will I B. Hobbs; Bessie Kelly vs. I beth King, trustee; W. G. De " I vs. J. E. Sneeden and L. T. LaM'- ■ R. W. Melvin, Sr., vs. Nettie »■ ■ Thompson Melvin; Walker Boot - ■ Clewis, by next friend, vs. 0 | Daughtry Clewis; New Hare county vs. K. C. Sidbury; I® *■ Guardianship of Moses Bear. Nesbitt Court Teeners Stage Polio Drue SW Members of the Nesbitt &■ Teen-Age club held a Paren' ,jj gram Friday night with p- | going to the ‘March of ' .j fund. An admission charge cents each was charged. Included in the program g dance by Helen Preston; a • ,, “I’m Not the Only Cripple .f Alton Wilson, and group ™ by members of the organ - ■ BROUGHTON TO f CHARLOTTE, Jan. 26.-^.,. Broughton of Raleigh, form , | ernor, will speak 'n® meeting of the Chariot.e C of Commerce February ■ s. I meeting will mark the si*1' local B| niversary meeting o’ 1 Chamber of Commerce.
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