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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, FEBRUARY 13, 1946~ TOP O’ 'THE MORNING For years I’ve prayed, and yet I see no change. The mountain stands exactly where it stood. I will pray on. Though distant it may seem, The answer may be almost at my door. Or just around the corner on its way. t But whether near or far, yea, I shall pray— I will pray on. Edith L. Mapes in “Open Windows” Americanism Week In concert with Jaycee units over the country the Wilmington Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the period between Lincoln’s and Wash ington’s birthdays, February 12 and February 22, as Americanism Week. The project is reinforced by a proclama tion by Mayor Lane, in which he urges “every citizen, young and old, to give * due consideration to his duties and privi leges . . . and renew his pledge of al legiance to the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States.” It is to be emphasized that the pro posal is not for Jaycees alone to ob serve the week, but all citizens of every degree. The period is short, and some may question its advantages, but if everybody concentrates not only on thinking but also on living in accor dance with the higher ideals of the American way of life the time will be long enough for such living to become the fixed habit of the people, and so gain the benefits and advantages of our democratic principles. With the world in its topsy-turvy condition and the domestic situation far from satisfactory, the Junior Chamber’s project is especially com rnonHoKlo Truman And 1948 President Coolidge’s statement that “I do not choose to run,” in answer tc an inquiry concerning his attitude to ward an additional term, was various ly interpreted because of the colloquial form in which he made it. There car be no similar confusion concerning a declaration attributed to President Tru man, as reported by the Chicago Sun in which the Chief Executive is quotec as saying he “does not wish to seek the presidency in 1948=” The incident, as related in the Sun, occurred some weeks ago, in the hear ing of a “handful of close Whitt House advisers.” Ever since, Robert Hannegan, national democratic chair man and postmaster general, has im posed silence upon the group and done his best to spread the idea that Mr Truman will be a candidate. Well, Mr. Truman, if correctly quot ed, does not say he will not be. Ht merely says, according to the Sun, tha1 he does not wish to seek the presidency There is nothing in this that indicates he will not be a candidate. To seel the nomination and being drafted foi it are two entirely different proposi tions. Thomas F. Reynolds of the Sun’ Washington bureau, accidentally or in tentionally, makes the President guilt of double-talk. The statement as i stands is a literary trick and shoul be accepted as such. - - - - - v.; v NLRB Under Fire “To talk of holding prices while the payroll is pushed is to attempt the im possible. ’’This is the sage remark of ! Dr. Leo Wolman, professor of economics at Columbia, during an address before the American Bankers Association’s 'trust division. The meeting was held before the current reports of probable changes in the administration’s bureau cratic family, but it is to be hoped White House attention has been called to it. Doctor Wolman leveled his sights at the National Labor Relations Board, de claring that as long as such agencies “are free from effective restraint or control, there is no point in rewriting the Wagner act or any other labor law.” He noted that the NLRB is not bound by what is in the law or by the intentions of Congress, adding that “even a sound law would be mangled beyond recognition by this kind of ad ministration.” We have not seen such a straight forward and clear statement of what has been going on for more than a dec ade and what is largely responsible for the many crippling strikes now in progress as in this paragraph in his address: “Since 1933 we have gone so far in conferring rights and privileges upon organized labor that it is today hard to think of any responsibilities and re straints to which labor unions are sub ject. Granting the right of collective bargaining does not mean, or should not mean, that the beneficiaries of that right are above and beyond the law. Yet that is about what has happened.” His conclusion is that a correct, frank and clear statement of economic policies by the government is an essen tial need. And we may suppose with good reason the Doctor holds that the national security can best be restored by a full return to constitutional gov ernment with elimination of the rule by bureaucrats, including the NLRB, that has brought about the deplorable conditions u’ ,’er which the nation now struggles for survival in freedom. Unless this is done, the independence we cherish so greatly will be under as serious a threat from within as it faced when Hitler was riding roughshod over Europe with the purpose to attack our shores and add the United States to his conquests. Unsound Economics The Labor Department reports that the cost of living for middle income urban workers reached the highest peak since 1921 in mid-December. Ac cording to a United Press dispatch from Washington, the consumer’s price index stood at 129.9 on December 15, or 31.7 per cent higher than in August 1939. If this is not a substantial indica tion of an inflationary tendency it would he hard to find one. On top of this, consider what the effect upon the national economy will be when wages of industrial workers are raised as the means favored by the government for settling strikes. The workers will be taking home more money than they can spend at fair prices for consumer goods. Because it will be many weeks after the steel strike is ended before manufacturers requiring steel for their products can hope to replenish their supply, present strikers again at work will be accumu lating cash and cultivating a wild de sire to spend it. As a consequence they will be willing to pay exhorbitant prices for whatever is offered for sale and inflation will be present in its most disastrous form. Clearly the proposition of paying higher wages just to get men back on the job is not sound economics. Help The Needy With the Cape Fear rising above Wilmington, it is gratifying to know that there is practically no danger of flood here. The probability is the high water will not rise to the level reach 1 ed last summer, when trickles reach - ed Water street. But it is not pleasant to think what - may happen to dwellers in low land both above and below Fayetteville, 3 many of whom suffered heavily in last - summer’s overflow. Because we are ? so well situated there is the more rea t son to be alert to relieve any families 3 whose homes or livestock or crops may [be destroyed. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLEB 'Copyright, 1946, by King Features Syndicate) Driving home from work the other evening, George Spelvin, American, picked up a thumber who noticed Mr. Spelvin’s paper on .he seat between them and said: ‘I don’t see how you can read that dirty smear sheet, nothing but lies about President Roosevelt and his wonderful help-mate and alwavs trying to smear labor and every day they publish those hate articles by that louse, Pegler. And if a man stoops so low-down that he can’t let our great President rest in his grave after he gave his life for the common man, why does he wait untii he is dead and can’t defend himself and any decent man and not even a rat wouldn’t smear their worst enemy after they are dead.” “What lies about Roosevelt?” Mr. Spelvin asked. “Nothing but low-down, cowardly smears about bow he helped his boy Elliott get out of debt like any decent father would and about how his grandmother left them a mil lion dollars from smuggling opium into China and our gracious First Lady she profiteered by teaching us on the radio how to be tolerant and always smearing the working man,” the thumber said. “Were those lies about how Roosevelt got Jesse Jones to square Elliott’s debts and then he got back the collateral by telling the suck ers it wasn't worth a dam and then the old man, personally, sent it to Elliott’s wife to square the alimony rap and it turns out to be worth $250,000,” Spelvin asked. “Why didn’t he do it when Roosevelt was alive?” the guy asked. “Nobody but a rat would smear a dead man when they can’t answer back.” “Maybe he didn’t know the facts until he died,” Spelvin argued. “But anyway, why didn’t Elliott defend him instead of admitting it was all true when the Treasury got after him and if you knew it is all a pack c| lies why don’t you defend him and if it was my old man they smeared in his grave you can bet your sweet life I would show them up if it was all just nothing but a pack of lies but if it was true, I guess I would change the subject.’ "Not when the victim is dead end can’t answer back,” the thumber insisted, “and of all the low-down louse-rats why even a louse rat has respect for the dead and here he is doing Hitler’s work and— “What about Hitler?” Spelvin asked. “Him and Mussolini, what about them, and Goeb bels, too?" “What do you mean, what about those low down louse-rats, the dirty—.” “But,” Spelvin said, “they’re dead, ain’t they, and they can’t answer back and here you go, smearing them in their graves—.* “You aren’t comparing our great leader with those dirty—.” "I’m just asking how you stand on whether you are supposed to keep your mouth shut because a guy is dead or whether you just mean because it’s Roosevelt whereas I fell for the guy the first time and cheered like a fool when he was going to give the money changers the bum’s rush and then we find out he ar.d his wife and Jimmy and Elliott were grabbing dough with both hands and the old man knocks off a stamp collection and it cost him peanuts and now it is worth $100,. 000 to the estate and I just wonder how you are going to learn anything about history if you say Hitler was a great guy just because he is dead.” "Who said Hitler was a great guy?” the thumber yelled. “Well,” Spelvin said, “what about Harding and Coolidge, because they are dead, too, and 1 don’t suppose you would want to smear them in their graves although it seems to me like I have read a lot of new dealers always tall- about the Ohio gang and old Harry Daugherty was the head man of that bunch and with Coolidge it is always that he busted the police strike in Boston and he was nothing but a Wall Street tool and—.” “Well, if you are so crazy about that crooked bunch from Ohio and you think Cool idge was so swell, why don’t yo u defend them?” the thumber asked, “and the reason is it is all true." “But he died in office,” Spelvin said, "so I was wondering if that means he gave his life for the people like Roosevelt or the one just croaked while your guy died of natural causes but he was a martyr." “I can see you have been doped by hate— propaganda," the guy said, "after we just fought a terrible war to abolish hate.” “Roosevelt was a pretty fair hater, him self, I always thought,” Spelvin said, "and it seems to me like you do a good job hating this Pegler because—.” "Because he is always knocking the work ing man,” the guy yelled. “About how all unions arc rackets and all the rich people are right guys." “Well, those union crooks ain’t dead,” Spel vin said, “and a lot of them are in the can so why don’t you prove they aren’t racke teers and, anyway, I never noticed where the guy said all unions are rackets and I never knew him boosting rich people or anybody else, much, but a picket brushed me with a brick, today, and, brother, tomorrow I am going to carry my own brick because picket or no picket, no dirty brown shirt is going to bust me with a brick." “I get off here,” the thumber said. “You are dam well tooting you do," said George Spelvin, American. Editorial Comment MONTH OF SURPRISES February may be a little fellow, but under his 28 days he packs a pretty rugged wallop. He doesn’t always choose to use it; but if some over-bold spring zephyr, on a reeonais sance mission from the South, tries to slip in on his icy terrain, he’ll often counter with a deluge of snow and sub-zero temperatures that usually set some sort of weather record. No other month equals February’s reputation for disrupting people’s travel plans. With one hu'! of his snowy breath he keeps airplanes on the ground, snarls highway traffic, bogs down the railroads, and sends people scurrying for shelter. He takes special delight in crossing up the Weather Man, and rocks with laughter over the annual plight of the poor groundhog. February is a little package filled with big suprises.—Christian Science Monitor. BILLBOARDS We have never been very enthusiastic about billboards. Many of them obstruct attractive views. Some of them add to highway danger And-to be a little more frank than some of <mr colleagues—billboards compete with new? 52K.SJ. dollar.—High Point , HER HOPE CHEST _ Gut* v This Is One Of Those Boy-Meets-Girl Stories You See The Movies Work Out BY JOHN BIKES Let’s plot one of those Boy Meets-Girl items and send it on out to Hollywood and see if we can’t get it in the mo’om pitchers. All right? All right. The Boy joins the Army and, af ter the proper lapse of time to let him get activized—as I believe one of those high-falutin’ words they use in the Army is called— he goes through the African cam paign. On a furlough he gets back to Oran, Algiers. Ah! Algiers, one of those places where Charles Boyer talks only to Hedy Lamar, and vice versa. In Oran the Boy Meets Girl. Then the Boy pops off to Italy and Sicily and stays long enough to chase the Nazis to well and gone. , Ihen he comes back to Oran and marries the Girl. But his leave is short and he only has 24 hours with his bride. Then he pops off to Italy and again to help chase the Italians back to the Alps. This trip the Boy gets sick and is in and out of hospitals for six months. During those six months there is no correspondence between Boy and Girl. Not one letter! Then the War ends. This time the Boy has three days' stay in Oran, making four days all told-he gets to be with his bride. Along comes a ship to America and the Army says the Boy’s gotta go hon*e now and the Girl cannot go, too. So the Boy comes back to Amer ica and gets discharged from the Army. Then he sets out to do something about getting his bride, to whom he’s been married for nearly a year but whom he hasn't been with but four days, over here to America so they can settle down and live happily ever afterward. Like all boys want to do, this Boy came home; came home to Shelbyville, Tenn. He looked for a job tere that would support the Girl. No job. Then he came to Wilmington and looked for a job. No job. He went to Detroit and Cincinnati and probably a lot of places in b tween, but still no job. Then a kinsman, right here Wilmington, got wind of a job Lake Wales, Florida, that just fi the Boy’s talents. So he started the kinsman started — to tracir the Boy down by long distam telephone. He called all tho: places the Boy had been, inclu ing Kingsport, Tenn., which I fo got to mention up yonder. Final! the kinsman located the Boy Cincinnati, where he was stoppir with an aunt and probably frettir because he couldn’t get a job he could bring the Girl here they could start living happi ever afterward. Well, the Boy got here, accepts the job and then turned about ' send the good news to the Gi who was still over there in Ora: Algiers, so far as the Boy knew. Then, in came a cablegram before the Boy’s cablegram hs time to get to Oran—from the Gi announcing that she had left Ors on the good ship Francois Jenkii —the first name sounded like was going to be a very romant full name—on Jan. 19. Well, you cannot, on most shi] like the Francois Jenkins, receb a cablegram so there was, and i no way for the Boy to get word the Girl that everything is love and for her to come on and jo him here. Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM X. ELLIS by the drum tower In old Peking stands a famous drum tower. Near-by are the homes of American missionaries. To me, both suggest a profound memory. For it was while visiting a missionary friend that, all un known to him, I underwent a fun damental spiritual struggle, in which faith emerged victor over doubt. We all have these memories of great hours when the soul has un dergone its profoundest testings, they have an abiding influence upon our lives. Decisions then made are permanent: at least, they are standards whereby life is tested. This is an hour to “have it out with God.” His reality, His Provi dence and Father care, and His revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ, are fundamental issues for every soul to face Literally everything depends upon the decision. ..“Lord, show me myself; Lord, show me Thyself, in Christ’s name. Amen." — * McKenney On BRIDGE By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America ’s Card Authority Throughout the country today e increasing number of groups a: playing good bridge, but there a wide variation in bidding. Ft that reason, I believe it is a goc idea to present from time to tirr some of the bidding problems th< interest the experts. In today’s hand, East made fourth-hand opening bid of one di; mond, which is certainly a min mum. When his partner responc with one spade, what should Ea: do? Some may say that East shoul be satisfied and pass one spade but there are hundreds of hanc that West might have passed orij inally, with which, in combinatio with East’s hand, a game coul be made. For example, if We: had a holding such as six spade to the queen, the king and on heart, the ace and one diamon and three small clubs, it mig! easily produce five-odd. .. majority of experts feel the it West had bid a heart over th diamond bid, East could pass this but that spade overcall should b kept open for one round. >r—— -- e- The Boy, after finally tracking down that job, was finally stumped n by the one thing he thought he’d n settled when he got the job: get ts ting in touch with and bringing the _ Girl here. So far as he knows she’s g somewhere on the high seas. But e it’s been a long time—for him, at « least—since Jan. 19. For all he 3- knows, the Francois Jenkins may r- be sailing all the way around Cape f, Horn. At least, it seems it’s taking n time enough for that. You know g how Time drags along when Boy g is away from Girl. 0 The Boy has mentioned the mat 0 ter to the Red Cross and, although y they haven’t been able^to help him yet, they tell him they’ve got in d touch with the Army people in 0 Washington and as soon as some r* word has been given to the Girl b they’ll contact him. When she reaches America they’ll send her — on down to Lake Wales and the d Boy and Girl can pcik up from rl that four days. n So the Boy left here yesterday is by plane to go to Lake Wales, de it pending on the good old Army tc ic find his bride and send her to him. You think I’m making all this is UP iust because it happens to be ■e Wednesday. 5, Well, I’m not either. The Boy is o James Glenn and his home town is y Shelbyville, Tenn., and he's a n nephew of Mrs. E. W. Stacy, out on the Carolina Beach road, and - Mr. Stacy is the kinsman whc called all over the country for him. And the Girl was, before she married James, Yvonne Mem brives of Oran, Algiers, and she can speak French, Italian, Span ish. Arabic, and English. She cer tainly ought to feel at home at most any port the Francois Jenkins n Puts in, speaking all those lan e guages. s James, who hasn’t been out of ir the Army very long, isn’t too much d worried about not having heard e from her since her boat left Algiers tt Jan. 19. “She’ll be here,” he tells you. a But you can readily see, and un i- derstand, that tempus does not i- fugit anything like fugit enough s for James. it * Let ter BOX ;- FEED THE HUNGRY n To the Editor: d There is a saying that fools rush it in where angels fear to tread and s that possibly applies to me in get e ting into a controversy that has 3 been going on for two years with t out a decision but which has now reached a point where some im t mediate and permanent solution e must be found. The problem to • which I refer is that of the Asso 2 ciated Charities and its inability to meet the needs of its clients due to lack of funds. This situation has developed due to the fact that effective January 1, 1946, funds from the Communi ty Chest are no longer allotted to the Associated Charities. These funds had amounted to $5,000 per year, so naturally a deficit de veloped as soon as these funds were stopped. The present budget of the Com munity Chest provided for funds for a family service agency to be set up by the board of direc tors of the Associated' Charities, and this new agency is to take over short time and rehabilitation cases only and provided $1,500 per (Continued on Page Twelve) ' A ¥ A t + ♦ A A J 7 3 i I ¥ A95 4 7 ♦ K 9 8 r t * A 6 4 * Neither vul. Sooth West North East P?ss ( iPass i Pass J 4 . Passi [-1A Pass * _• .-§• .> » The Doctor Says_ I FOOD INFECTION I CAUSES ATTAClIi By WILLIAM A. O'BIUEX I Physicians oft< are 1 1 V ;» see patients suffo-g ^ stomach and int< ■ I acterized by pains diarrhea. The a ;ack, pUn* hjl f rather suddenly ai d ' '*** M related to food. pal,am m ’»'X they have been but most attacks of so.^fX poisoning turn out to beA® /X fection. The patient foods which contained^ ST "* ** h“ «*3 Many years ago phv5|,i„, , lieved that ptomaines’,,^ poisoning. For a tin e, slI ^ sets were called ptomaine m? I mg. It Is not likely ;hat f 1 j could ear food which !n?:) posed so badly that it Ton."'’ 1 ptomaines. When -poi^;1 ! ! foods are examined for tcrrri’:! | true cause of the difficu’tv r ' I “ptomaine poisoning - 'l0 eC!‘ myth. * In the past, milk and milk ucts were the foods which ,: frequently transmitted disease"' ^ places in our foum-y|j still is a common method" I spreading disease. As seen .! t community start* to use pro'.1 pasteurized milk, food ini(c1:: f of this type rapidly disapw'a | Raw milk is a common sprts ; nf Hiconcc Inspection of meat Is safeguard against spreading ..■■■* lions through food. There a're tain animal diseases which included in meat inspection sM: they have been found imprar-J Trichinosis or pork worm disti, is contracted by eating impr,r„ ly cooked pork. The larvae of worm which lie imbedded k*, muscle are effectively killed ■■ appropriate storage a:' a lowy perature. Storage standards - are well established. If meat used before the proper time, ; if it is not thoroughly cooked, <■ person who eats it may devt trichinosis. If food poisoning is suspected the patient should be made ■ vomit ar.d a physician should; summoned. Sample of the suspe; ed food should be kept and turns over to the physician on his rival. To be certain that all s s| pected food has been removal j from the stomach the physic;;: ■( may pass a stomach tube a-.i , wash out the remainder. Further, treatment depends on the cause of ■ the upset and the condition of tht 5 patient. True food poisoning may eaus| abdominal cramps, nausea, vomit* ing and diarrhea. More often tat attack turns out to be an infected ; food which the patient has ester. Without re a 1 i z. i ng anything is wrong with it. Food infection il less common today, due to a bet* | - ter fo o d supply. Attacks ol stomach and bowel upset are r.ot necessarily due to poisoned or fected food. ' The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS WASTELAND, by Jo Sinclair (Harper; $2.50). The hero of this novil hi christened himself John Bn anonymous and i m p e i 5 fl ■■ names. When we meet him, » >■ seeking relief from a psycnia. for his aches and pains. With Miss Sinclair's help '! psychiatrist digs into his John, we discover, is really and Brown is his defensive <■ traction and Americanizahcn the multisyllable surname of - ish-Jewish parents. He has reje‘‘ ed his blood, family and rel^ “' sometimes panic seizes hi thought Gentile acquaintances »> penetrate his disguise: h-'-ne^ p.o more at ease with than relatives; he • and psychologically homeless. ^ A not unusual backgio^* shaped by not unusual : J ^ * has trapped him: he lies e5 circles within c i r c ' e s. America has not real ghe $*• has ghettos of the mind, , and frightening places, a™ ‘ man is prompted by ig u poverty, pride and fear, ne ( easily people tliem \vi h creatures. . ke, Brown w-as in a ghe a: * he hated, a mother he , ? vain to love, one si>'.w »'-u scorned and anotnei feared, envied and resemea. Under the psychiatrist s * ^ ance, the ghetto vani: - . eymen are routed, and , ,e. 1 £S; learns how prejudice s'y - j maladjustment take *•";*'* how they may be c..mca This novel, the first DJ’ ' Cleveland author, is rema for its expert developing emotions, profound --i ,or, character. Above all. 'nt,f consecration should ■ c0® . $ ed; she doesn't add 8 ■'■ ' :a the sake of a laugh. '.'.e%d titillate your senses with ' raj ventures natural to 0j women who are integral P-^, her story. She works wit able directness. . n of “Wasteland,” border re^" ., ill-adjusted personalities ^‘!ei an unstable economy and - ■■ ^ by that half-knowledge . ;s make fools of the best ot a most worthy addition to ‘ ize of winners of the Harpe • ^ novel contest, one of me 1 j pendable literary awards.
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