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The Star-News can not be responsible for currency sent througt the mails. _ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1948_ TOP O’ THE MORNING If He should come today And find my hands so full Of future plans, however fair. In which my Saviour has no share, What would He say? If He should come today And find my love so cold,, My faith so weak and dim I had not even looked for Him, What would He say? —Crace Troy, in “Church Chimes.” Clearing Up Ambiguities In the first news reports of the meet ing in which the Augusta, Georgia, au ditorium plans were approved as a guide for Wilmington, it was said the hall usee for concerts and similar entertainmenl could seat 900 spectators. In Saturday’s Star an article dealing with the subjecl declared the architect’s intention is tc provide accommodations for 1,700 ir the “auditorium.” Both are misleading, due in the first case to the approval of the Augusta plan in a closed meeting with inadequate in formation later given to the press, and in the second to the vague use of the word auditorium. In the interest of clarity it is to be understood that the auditorium re ferred to is in reality the music hall and that it is this hall which the archi tect plans to have a seating capacity of 1,700. A communication to this department from the City Manager, A. C. Nichols announces also that it is the intention to use a part of the main floor of the other hall, which is best defined perhap: as the arena, for spectator space. This portion would have a sloping floor whicl would enable auditors to witness anj events taking place on the level floor and in the case of largely attended con ventions, wrestling and boxing and sucl like, with the action on the stage, th< level floor could be used entirely fo ernoof nf/M»n This explanation clears up some mat ters in doubt. It still remains to be see: if the entire seating capacity will h sufficient for a period of years and th population increase Wilmington is en titled to expect as time goes on. There is a note of hope in the closinj statement of Mr. Nichols’ letter. Say he: “I am sure the committee and th Council both are completely in sympa thy with having an auditorium tha will be of ample size, and the matte will come up for further discussion dui ing the period of preparation of prelim inary plans which, of course, will b worked out and fully discussed befor the final working drawings of the audi torium will be begun.” If this is the purpose, the future a well as the present need will be con sidered. Steel Strike Settled By the time most of us rise tomoi row morning and others of us are thin! ing of turning in, the strike of 130,00 employes of U. S. Steel will be over an arrangements under way for collectiv bargaining in other steel mills throug which, in addition to U. S. Steel’s foro 750,000 workers will get back on th job. With the steel strike ended, there little reason to assume settlement of th General Motors and other strikes whic have done so much injury to reconve sion will not also be settled short! When they are all out of the way, not only in major industries but in the small plants that have had to suspend pro duction from lack of material, there should be a great revival of consumer goods turnout. From that point on, prolonged infla tion will depend upon industry’s ability ! to meet the public demand. This, of course, will be impossible for many months. In the meantime, with the tre mendous reservoir of money in their pockets and the people possessed of a deep desire to spend it, prices are bound to skyrocket. A peculiarity of all sky rockets is that having reached the top of their levitation they invariably fall. Inevitably the price range, now go ing up and still to go higher, will come ! down—down in proportion to industry’s capability of supplying the demand. Per ! haps it is as well that we cannot fore- ! I see just what the depression in store ifor the nation will be. ; .. Their Duty Plain i Winning the war was one thing. Maintaining the peace in conquered ter ritory is another. With the war won, maintenance of peace becomes a great er and greater obligation, fraught with increasing difficulties, as the days pass. One reason for this is that the men who fought the battles are growing restive at being kept on the ground. They are anxious to get home, back to their families, to their jobs, to the normal living of their native land. Although demobilization has been quicker than the military leaders before V-J Day believed possible, the discon tent of troops still held in occupied zones is increasing. The way to speed the day of their departure for home is to increase the number of replacements. This need is not being met, either by volunteer enlistments or by selective service. Draft boards are reported having great difficulty in getting young men who have reached the draft age since the war closed to register. The men re cently released from school and eligible for foreign service are not responding to their boards’ calls in sufficient num bers to encourage the hope that the ranks of battle veterans will soon be filled with recruits. The situation has grown so serious that the military authorities contem plate reviewing the draft status of thousands of men previously classified as 4-F, many of whom have but minor deficiencies which would not interfere with the porformace of occupational duties. If this is done and the thousands capable of filling the bill are drafted, there will still be need for other thou : sands, who must come from the boys ; at home. i These are urged to consider, as we have pointed out before, that while the , war is ended the duration is not. They . have a duty to their country and to the t men who bore the brunt of combat, to > | come forward and take their proper -1 places in the armed forces abroad. -----. ; Editorial Comment the AGE of noise • ^ twentieth century is> among other . things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise and noise of desire-we hold r hlstory s record for ah of them. And no won ’ der- for a11 the resources of our almost mi ’ raculous technology have been thrown into - the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of all recent inven t tions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit r throVgh v’hich Prefabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of - course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the . mind, filling it with a babel of distinctions 0 news items, mutually irrelevant bits of in forma1 ion, blasts of corybantic or sentimental 2 music, continually repeated doses of drama that biing no catharsis, but merclv create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas.—Aldous Huxley, in “The Perennial , Philosophy.” * • * AGE OF SPEED This is the so-called age of speed in which people take longer than ever to do things that ought to be done.—Worcester Telegram. » • « WOMAN’S INTUITION '* A woman’s intuition is about two thirds _ suspicion.—The Crow’s Nest. " QUOTATIONS e __ h Leadership can only be assumed if and , when we cease to spend our time and effort •’ on the mechanics of organization. Club women e must have the courage to stand up and be counted on the vital problems facing us, rather than worrying about the minor issues involved. S —Mrs. Ward B. Gorman, president New York g State Federation of Women’s Clubs. ♦ * * h Political appointments of judges in children’s *. courts must be avoided.—Charles L. Chute, executive director National Probation Associa. tion. Walter Winchell In New York NOTES OF A NEWSPAPERMAN The politicos have tipped their mitt for 1946. It’s going to be reckless racism—pitting the Poles versus the Russians—the Irish ver sus the British, etcetera. . . Cutting up Eu rope’s quarrels to fan up ballots is what too many office-seekers try to peddle as “Amer icanism.’ As the lady in “State of the Union” observes: “I thought the Poles voted in Poland!” Some lime ago, when gang chiefs decided to take over a town in Illinois, they did it by rigging the elections. The goons went out among the voters and gave instructions, two bucks for a favoring vote, a punch in the teeth for an anti. . . A lot of eyebrows that went up over the gang tactics are on the faces of the racism needlers, and, whether they like it or not, these people arp more danger^Os to the nation than the Capones ever were. The most diabolic anti-democratic propa ganda of all is to make it appear that Ameri cans have only a choice between communism and fascism. Only democracy’s foes pose that problem—since they have never chosen de mocracy. As a matter of fact, the most glori ous thing about being an American is that you don’t have to choose cither one—because we have already picked Americanism. . . And you can wager that most of the people who exist had an opportunity to choose de mocracy. . . If I had to choose between tak ing communism and fascism—I’d choose gas. International diplunncy remains a maze of tragedy. The UNO has officially reprimanded Franco’s fascist regime. That is fine. . . But why does the UNO allow the Argentinazis to be a part of their organization? The difference between Spain and Argentina—is the differ ence between a Feuhrer and a Duce. 0 . The constitutional lawyers, as they are laughingly called, continue to debate the merits of the U. S. Supreme Court’s stupid Bund decision and its application to the se dition case, which the Dept, of Justice has stalled to date and secretly hopes is dis missed. . . Because the prosecutors at Atty. Gen. Clark’s offices don’t think there is much front page space anymore in this story—since the High Court reversed the Bund convictions. The whole case, according to the latest stall from the Justice Dept., is supposed to depend upon a connecting link with the Nazis. . The fact is, there are over 200,000 connecting links between the Nazi doctrines and those preached by the sedition defendants. . . Those links are about eight feet long, three feet wide and six feet deep, and each contains the body of an American who gave his life for this country. . . The next thing this reporter expects from the Justice Dept, is a lawsuit against lhe U. S. Marines for damaging prop erty on Iwo Jima! . . A seditionist, apparent ly, is a man who has a constitutional right to urge an American soldier to commit an act —for which the soldier would be court martial’d and shot. The country needed Lincoln in 1864, but the whole world needs him even more today. . . If he were alive now he would be denouncing power politics over a microphone because he spoke—not only TO the common people—he spoke FOR them. . . And. though fhe centuries change, the principles (particularly of evil! remain the same. . . Nations, like men, were not born to live in chains. In the 19th Century Abraham Lincoln fought for the principle that no man had the right to live by another man’s sweat. . . In this century he would have fought twice as hard for the right of a man—any man—to say what he thinks. . . From the man who speaks in the comer drug store to the man who bellows and barks over a national radio hook up. The reason is simple. . . To the sophisticated diplomats of the world the common people are only an inexhaustible supply of general suckers. . . To Lincoln the average man sup plied the deep faith and hard work which are the backbone of civilization. . . And Abra ham Lincoln believed that the least they were entitled to—was to know what was going on. Since not even his monument is behind closed doors you can bet that if Abe Lincoln were alive today he would be fighting the same fight—the fight in which he and FDR were killed in action. . . While there was breath in his body Lincoln would denounce the dirtiest and most dangerous formula of the 20th Century: That secret diplomatic proc ess (conducted behind closed doors) by which the blood, sweat and tears of the common people of 1946—is being manufactured into the Power Politics War of 1966. If Lincoln were alive today, he very likely would be under subpoena to appear before that discredited Rankin Un-American commit, tee—and charged with being a subversive. . . Because Lincoln would have dared to fignt for every man’s right to make a living—no matter the color or creed. . . Undoubtedly Lincoln would be attacked on the floor Qf the Senate or House by some Bilbocb (or some supporter of a Gerald L. K. Smith) because Lincoln v/ould have fought such men as though they were rattlers. . . He would have fought them for their intolerance and for be ing what they are. Beyond a question of doubt Abraham Lincoln today would be the target of some congressional committee’s counsel and celled alien-minded because he believed that a breadline in any State of the Union concerned the entire Federal Government ... In his own day he was subjected to every kind of insult lhat could be heaped upon an American President. . . In fact, on a scale equalled only by the attack upon F. D. Roosevvelt.. Why’ The answer is simple. . . Like FDR, Lincoln believed in a square deal for the com mon man—regardless of color or politics. These martyrs have gone to their graves But the hateful bigotry they fought—will r'ol quire twice as many martyrs—before it in turn is laid to rest.. Sudden thought on Mayor O’Dwyer’s hastv decision to paralyze the city: When O’Dwvor makes a mistake (like LaGuardia) he makes a beaut! A man is a man for al] his injuries and h* wants to be included in completelv’ d activities.—Florence Stanton Red Crn« v?31 pital recreation worker. ’ “ Cross h°s A FAREWELL GESTURE j \ / ^ Why Can’t Post-War Wonder Workers Bring Back Better Things Of Life? BY JOHN SIKES This is a nostalgic item brought Dn, no doubt, by at least a modi cum of easiness which oozes through my spirit with the return to work of the steel boys. Not that I ever owned any steel stock. But it just seems to me that all our postwar plans have been holding their breaths — if plans can hold their breaths — to see what Steel was going to do before any amount of relaxation at all could come about. Nearly everybody, you know, has been saying for some four years what they were going to do as soon as the war ended. Listening to them—and I was one of them my self—you’d expect to find nothing short of Utopia, standing here in the middle of February just a few months after the war’s end. There’s not much use telling you what you and I said we were going to have by this time. But just to jog your memory: everything from real rubber baby pants to a new car that would do everything but park for you. First came the automobile strike and then Steel. And then you just about decided the end of the war didn’t bring the end of your wishes. But now that steel boys have settled their differences you may start off all over again to yearn ing. Me, I've quit wishing for any of those material things the beautiful postwar world was, and probably is, going to bring to us. I don't want anything so complicated as a plane I was reading about the other day that will fly anywhere you will just by the push of a button. A little quiet and peace, peace and quiet of the olden days will do me. This, though, is something I’m afraid even that beautiful postwar world will not bring us. Mainly, I suppose, because too many of us are looking for the breathless things of life. And be cause that’s what we’re looking for that’s what the gentlemen who make things will produce for us. Naturally I’m running around in circles, getting nowhere. That’s the way you get when you get nostalgic and start yearning for the things you know you can’t have. So what do I want? Well, I was talking just yesterday to a lady here in town, a lady who never wants her name in the newspapers, and we discussed what must be termed, for want of something bet ter, the drowsy days of the Old South. I told her I knew just such a place that still observes just such days. Or did the last time I was there. * It was a lovely plantation neat Edenton, a kindred spirit, in a way, to Wilmington. When I got what the boys call ennui I’d go to this plantation and stay until the ennu: was shooed away. You went to bed, reluctantly, late at night in one of those broad four posters that seemed to give you acres and acres of downy stretch ing room. And the rooms were bi = enough to hold a square dance in After a restful sleep in the quie of the country you awakened t( have a white-coated colored boj knock gently on the door and ask you if you’d mind his serving youi breakfast in your room. Then he’d serve the breakfas' which was just a little matter o toasted beaten biscuits, broilec smoked herring row, rashers o: hickory-smoked bacon, and entic ing doo-dads of this and that, alonj with coffee that must have beei made by the man who inventec coffee and knew all about aroma: and odeurs and everything that makes coffee nice. Then, with all the leisure in the world, you dressed. And if you wanted to, the hostess drove you about the plantation in a road cart behind a spanking pair of two-vear olds, themselves seeming always to sense the gracious spirit of the place. Your days just moved along like that. If you wanted to you could stroll through the woods to the shores of Albemarle sound, or you could just sit around and read. No body pushed you around. And nights there were four of the sweetest untrained Negro voices I ever heard to make cornfield quar tet harmony for you. Not to men tion for dinner the kind of home cured ham even Smithfield, Va., would like very much to copy. And again, freshly baked beaten bis cuits. Is it any wonder, having known these things can exist—do ,in fact —that I become nostalgic? And is it any wonder that I won der, while the boys who’re working up everybody into a frenzy over what they’re going to produce in this postwar world, why somebody else equally as smart can’t figure out a way to bring back at least a synthetic counterpart of the sort of thing that’s making me nostal gic? Talk about your push-button air planes. Pishtuch! I’ll take beater biscuits, made the old - fashioned way. The kind the making of which wakes you up each morning with the pJ omp-plomp-plomp of the rol : ling pin—or whatever instrument 1 they used to use—as it beats dowr ; into the dough. Looks to me like somebodj should be able to figure those 1 things out as well as they figure e . way to make a plane go by pushing ; a button. DISTRICT SCOUT CIRCUS SCHEDULED With National Boy Scout week past history, the Cape Fear Council yesterday were looking forward to the annual Scout Circus, to be pre sented May 10. The event, a highlight of th£ Council’s program of the council, will be sponsored by the Junioi Chamber of Commerce. Plans foi the event will be discussed at c round-table meeting of leaders anc interested persons in the Americar Legion Home tomorrow night ai 8 o’clock. Futher events of the coming week include a banquet given for Trooj 19 in theFirst Baptist church Thurs day night, Feb. 21. F. C. Paschall scoutmaster, is in charge o arrangements. Friday and Saturday a groop o scouters will meet at Camp Sing letary to establish an Order oi Aaron Lodge, additional details wil be announced later, scouts official; said yesterday. “Fundamentals of the Bo; Scout Movement,’’ a slide film will be shown to New Hanover higl school pupils Tuesday and Wednes day and in Tilston school Friday Feb. 22. Window displays of various scou activities currently are on display in the following store winows Troop 10, Lane’s Drug store; Pad 10, Snow White Laundry, Lak< Forest; Troop 14, Efird’s; Troop 19 Foy-Roe. Troop 21, three locations, Caro lina Beach; Troop 32, two locations Burgaw; Troop 34, Shoemaker’s IT HAPPENED HERE Look in your pocket and see if you have two nickels. That’s what 13 people pass ing through the hall in the county courthouse did this morning before two nickels were located. It all started when a young woman, seeking to exchange a dime for two nickels so she might get some drinks from the coke dispenser, enlisted the aid of County Clerk T. K. Woody. Woody obligingly approached every man passing through the hall, friend and stranger alike, but with no success until the 13th person, a county commis sioner, triumphantly produced two nickels. ' Man Killed, Another Hurt In Mobile Fin MOBILE, Ala., Feb, *16.—(U.R1 1 One man was burned to death anc ; another seriously burned when fire destroyed a downtown Mobile ■ rooming house today. M. E. Johnson, 52, Pascagoula i Miss., was burned to death wher he was trapped by flames anc smoke. G. H. Hurst, Birmingham Ala., also was overcome by smoke and suffered serious burns but fire men managed to rescue him. Fourteen other roomers unsuc cessfully attempted to rescue John son but were forced, scantily-clad 1 into the street. Troop 35, three locations South port; Troop 36, Shrier’s Troop 37 Thrift-T-Store and Troop 04 Tooc Furniture company. YOUTH FOR CHRIST RALLIES SCHEDULE! The Wilmington district of the Methodist church is giving stimu lus to its youth program of evange lism in the Crusade for Christ b; Youth rallies, to be held thi' the bounds of the district thi, week, according to the Rev. J Edwin Carter, district youth di rector. i The program for each of the rallies includes a forum period fellowship hour, devotional perioe conducted by the young people o: the host church, ai d inspirationa messages by the district super intendent, the Rev. A. S. Parker and the district youth director. Three rallies scheduled for the Wilmington district are: Whitevilli Methodist church, Feb. 18; Clintoi 1 Methodist church, Feb. 20; Trinit; church, Wilmington, Feb. 21. Each rally will begin at 5 p. m. with a picnic supper at 6 p. m., an< will close at 9 o’clock. Specia guests, who will participate in ad dition to district representatives are the Rev. J. G. Phillips am the Rev. Lafon C. Vareen, leader: in youth work, as well as an of ficer from the North Carolina Con ference Methodist Youth Fellow ship. HELD IN SLAYING FAYETTEVILLE, Feb. 16—(A5) Cumberland county sheriff N. H McGreachy said Braxton Smitl was being held without charge it the county jail today in connectioi with the death early today o: Smith's son-in-law, Erwin L. An derson, 38. Interpreting The News BY JAMES D. WHITp Associated Press Staff uL If the Shanghai Herald £ '1 the Chinese government j! sb'1 soring a small economic revol.m This paper says that th. ment plans to eliminate the ru' sha by May, 1949, to make Z for motorized traffic, ” This would be revolutionary k. cause many million? of Orients’ make what passes for a livin.'v pulling a ricksha, and many* ,' lions more find it a handy vav i getting about. Nowhere is the rick sha more widely used" than j China. It is a social and economic factor of considerable important, there. ' Ricksha is a contraction 0f Japanese word, jin-riki-sha. wyc* means “man-stretch-cart." it3 I story goes that an American mis* I sionary in Japan had a crippj.J B wife, and devised this way f0r J. | to get out and about. 1 I No Shorlc I The idea of one human beini pulling another around came as no shock to the Orienh where for centuries the wealthy and power, ful had been lugged about in dan-chairs on the shoulders of their servants. For in the Orient, one big troa ble has been that there were too many people, and this means some of them had to do things which were humiliating or otherwise desirable. British pneumatic tires wen what made the ricksha practica It wasn’t just a “sedan-chair 0j wheels,’’ but one that only 0-( man could power, and much faster Japan virtually abandoned tk» ricksha because enough streetcars, buses, trains and so on were <je] veloped to crowd it out. But in China, particularly, tki ricksha spread. Like the bicycle, it could be made locally except for the tires, filled a great need for short-haul transportation that noli,, ing else answered, and above a] provided jobs for uncounted mil lions of laborers who could find nothing better to do. The employment factor was k puitaui cuuugn nidi hi t.eve:ai cases ricksha-pullers rioted again!: the installation of some of China’s few tramway systems. Westerners usually are upset by their first ricksha ride. The ides of another person pulling them around bothers them deeply. Someone then points out that:! your ricksha-man doesn’t pull you, or someone, he may starve. Where upon the westerner feels somewhat better and begins to enjoy the easy, open-air features of this light little cart, which have been compared I to those of a small buggy pulled by I a talking horse. It also becomes apparent that, under the right cir- N cumstances, pulling a ricksha isn't t necessarily such hard work, either, It’s only later that the westerner begins to see the system of usury and exploitation which gets the j ricksha-man in debt and keeps ; him there, the victim of the money lenders, the ricksha-dealers and his own ignorance and helpless ness. The plight of the ricksha-puller is only part of the whole picture of terrible poverty, inefficient pro duction and over-population which plagues the Orient. Straightening this picture out is the problem that faces these crowded Oriental countries and the world. China’s proposed abolition of the ricksha is one attempt to re-draw, in more dignified human terms, one dark corner of that picture. But the Chinese government knows that as long as some Chi nese are poor enough they will pul rickshas in order to eat. LETTER BOX BOARD GRATEFUL To The Editor: v At the regular meeting of t* Board of Education February ( 1946, the board unanimously ^ pressed their appreciation to papers for the excellent suppo^ given to the public schools and * community in regard to the i troversy over the eligibility of - ' basketball player. Your supr1 has been of inestimable value - maintaining the spirit and mo,» of our athletic team. . The secretary was directeo ’ make this expression to 1 > papers‘ H M Roland. Secretary > New Hanover County Board of Education Wilmington, N. C. Feb. 16, 1946. __ i T-4 Mickey Rooney Awarded Bronze , FRANKFURT. Germany, [ 16.—(&)—T-4 Mickey Rooney, ^ ■ er motion picture actor. ■ • ,j„ : awarded the Bronze Star .>* t “exceptional courage m T formance of his duties as tertainer,” U. S. Army head^ , ers announced today. (v,: l The citation, pointing w I Rooney traveled with s • armed groups through ^ ■ territory to take his sn0"®' upe? t line troops, said: “His superb U£ 1 sonal contribution to tn 0?. ' of the armed forces m cJ1g:t ■ ean theater of operatic ' be measured.” APPOINTS SECKETRAT ^ ATLANTA. Ga Feb. ^ a, - Rep. Helen Douglas odaJ, 4 nounced the appoimmen n£.v;. i Miss Estelle Gaines, Atiar ■ ^ i paperwonran. as her Prl'“ ,er oJ i tary. Miss Gaines, a rfP jiar. '■ the Atlanta Journal, me, - ■ dJ | ■ kin about three months = a campaign interview.
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