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The Star-News can not be responsible tor currency sent through the mails. __ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 17:15. Assistant Next Now that the City Council and the Economic Industrial Committee are ir agreement on the additional services of John H. Farrell, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, as indus trial agent, and that this work which is counted upon to bring new plants into this area shall be conducted from the Chamber of Commerce headquar ters, providing a competent assistant t< take over the conduct of that office under his supervision becomes a pri mary need. ITie sooner this is done and the as sistant acquainted with his duties th( quicker will Mr. Farrell be free to de vote his major efforts to the industries campaign. Naturally the Commerce body’s directors will w^nt a man no1 only capable of meeting the public bul also accustomed to handling the infinite detail that must be attended to daily. It is not to be forgotten that whoevei is chosen will require some time tr “break in,” during which Mr. Farrel will be unable to give the bulk of his effort to the new duties he must tak( on. Curley Conviction Men who hold public office are undei especial obligation to avoid even the ap pearance of evil. Their constituency in particular and people in general lool to them for leadership in the highes type of citizenship. When they fai their failure, technically no worse thai another man’s, is doubly reprehensibl because of their position. This is wh; the offense against the law, of whicl James M. Curley has been convicted assumes such large proportions. Mr. Curley, former governor o Massachusetts, present mayor of Bos ton and a member of the House of Rep resentatives, has been found guilty o using the mails to defraud. It is a com mon oliense, oiten committea ana oite punished, but in his case it is inevi tably magnified. His attorneys have served notice o appeal from the court’s sentence. B.u because evidence of wrong doing wa introduced against him and was cor sidered strong enough to lead to cor victior, Curley could not hope to hoi the confidence of the public agairi. A seventy-one, with the shadows alread lengthening, that is terrible punishmer even if he should ultimately go free. Glass Houses Probably the saying “People wh live in glass houses shouldn’t thro stones” is as old if not older than Aeso] But it has lost its pertinence. Glass houses are being built thi stone throwers can’t damage — unlei perhaps some animate colossus toss< a mountain at them. Henry Kaiser, who has a progra for building 1,250.000 houses this ye; . t* and 1.500,000 in 1947, is erecting a: experimental group in southern Cali fornia, with the chief material fibre glass board. Miracle Needed The price of food, shelter and cloth • ing. says Chester Bowles, former Office ; of Price Administration chief and pres ent economic stabilizer, can be held at their present level under President Truman's new wage-price policy. Mr. Bowles is an earnest soul, with | strong convictions and deep faith in run-awav inflation, despite signs to the contrary, and because inflation would be disastrous it is to be hoped that he has. But with Small production on the one hand and all but unlimited cash in people’s pockets on the other it looks as if he is expecting the impossible. Wisely enough he qualifies his fore cast with the stipulation that coopera tion of the whole nation will be neces sarv if the Elvsium he envisions is to be unfolded throughout the land. If he ! is to secure the cooperation of the peo ple he must first bring the production of consumer goods not merely up to but above normal, because of the great ly increased spending power of the populace. Perhaps he has inside information on the end of strikes which are interfering so grievously with production. If this is true and if it were possible for the wheels of industry generally to start turning immediately to pour out ca pacity output, then we might indeed escape serious inflation. But with new strikes coming as fast, or possibly fast er, than old ones are settled, it would appear that Mr. Bowles may reach his objective only through the beneficent intervention of a miracle. It would not be inappropriate there fore to pray for a miracle. Widen The Breach The United States and Britain are “treating Russians as infants,” says Joseph E. Davies, former United States ; Ambassador to Moscow, in defending j the Reds in their attempt to learn what i they can about the secret know-how of j atomic bomb manufacture through spy ing. j He invites the question if the Unit ! ed States and Britain would have tried 'so sedulously to guard the bomb secret I ^ f lin T? llfln n M -< h n J Mni- J 111m - >•“ V AH Muu'uiikj ilV V > V.U linv overgrown infants since the war ended. Would the suspicion of Russian pur poses that has grown up in Washington and London have reached its present level if Moscow’s envoys to all inter national meetings had displayed a greater willingness to act in harmony with Russia’s chief war allies? We believe not. Having acquired unaccustomed pow . er as a result of American and British . aid in her war program, the Russians • have lost no opportunity to seek a domi ; nant, not a parallel, position in world : affairs. 1 Perhaps Mr. Davies is right in say 1 ing they are within their moral rights - to acquire bomb knowledge by military r espionage, but the fact that they have i done so, coupled with their attitude in , general, is not calculated to encourage the entente cordial upon which world f peace must largely depend. On the contrary, it is bound to in - crease British and American suspicion f and widen the breach among the inter - ested capitals. l —— --- QUOTATIONS f *irsf: cornrnerc>al uses of atomic energy t probably will be «long conventional lines to 8 flve generators. Later it may be possible to . Convert atomic energy directly into electrical energy without turbines.-Dr. R J Dunnim? - director Columbia U. Division of War Research :1 T - t _ .. travelod from one end of the Porcbn r.'rmiM to the Other and worked with y !v,!lUSSianiday and ni^f- They treat you all t a Srt,v,and Can be trustod- —T-5 William A. Zuber of Athens, Ga., back from 34 months in Iran. They (the Russians) were suspicious of Americans and we wore suspicious of them. There was never any trouble, but the friendli 0 ness was just on the surface. —Cpl Phillc N g»«in of HI., back from 30 months it ). Farmers would only have to keep their pro. ducts on the farm for three days, and the ((price) problem would be settled—Henry H it Rothbun, president Dairymen’s League Co operative Association. IS d The hope (for peace) lies in the fact tha .it takes only a period of about a dozen years tc implant a basic culture in the mind of man m the period of childhood between the age of f ir ~bd tbe age of I4—Beardsley Ruml, chairmai Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1946, By King Features Syndicate) The Political Action Committee of the C. I. O. started insidiously and soon reached into the White House and the outposts of the Farm Security Administration by way of the depart ment of Agriculture, the American Veterans committee Inc., a similar political growth and not necessarily benign, invites watchful and critical attention. The expressed aims of this organization are such as Sidney Hillman and his P. A. C. could endorse, and Hillman’s program, be it remem bered, has bean so consistent with the line of the communists that they joined him with wild whoops in the 1944 campaign and drove out of the so-called American Labor Party of New York, the entire socialist faction who now called the party a communist front out loud. This American Veterans Committee was not the result of any spontaneous get-tcgether of servicemen, according to its own little biogra phy it was started by one Gilbert Harrison on Jan. 28, 1943, when he sent a letter to “a group "Without a name to identify the group,” the history says, “correspondence continued, short ly involving many more men than the original 25. It was then carried on through a mimeo graphed letter exchange edited by Miss Ada line Guenther, assistant director of the univer sity Religious Conference at the UCLA and a personal friend of most of the original mem bers.” The UCLA means the Los Angeles house of the University of California. Mr. Harrison is a UCLA man and was chairman of the Student Religious Board and editor of the university daily paper. ^leaning no insinuation but strictly in the interests of clarity it may be recalled that the Dies Committee found a number of cases in which the word "religion” and “religious” were used by organizations which it regarded, on the basis of evidence and collateral informa tion, as communist fronts or transmission belts. There was a time during the right-wing devia tion of Earl Browder, for which he recently was repudiated and fired, when the communists re sorted to "religion” to beguile and seduce young men and women of strong religious con victions, both Christians and Jews. We do not question the religious sincerity of either Mr. Harrison or Miss Guenther or im pute communism to them. But the fact that these religious associations are cited in their background justifies us in the exercise of some reserve, mere mention of these affiliations is not necessarily persuasive. In February, 1944, Harrison “contacted” Charles Bolte, an American veteran of the British Army who had lost a leg in Africa. Bolte took an office in New York and. by inner processes of his autogeneous nucleus, became chairman. This small founding group, obvious ly because of political compatibility, rather than by coincidence, includes tw'o members of the Lawyers Guild, tw’o former employees of the Office of War Information, one former „e~t: _m at- . in.* .1 i —. w '-’x Hit luiicu 1U1IUQ1V uuvru J 111 Itfll L in Italy, one alumnus of the London School of Economics, one former bureaucrat of the NRA, the fascist experiment of the first new deal; one public relations director of Hillman’s P. A. C., two men associated with Time. Inc., and one veteran of the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington, that fantastic boon-doggle which introduced a female dancer and a male Hollywood beauty, friends of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, in the role of salaried public morale builders. The Lawyers Guild, O. W. I„ and the AMG attracted many communists, and the London School of Economics might be called, with equal truth, the London School for the Study of Communism. Time Inc., is some thing special with political pecularitie3 all its own. Although Bill Mauldin, the left-wing political cartoonist, has insisted that veterans who join the A. V. C. should remember to be citizens, not veterans, his picture, published in the bulletin, shows him in uniform and helmet. All publicity concerning Bolte carefully notes the fact that he lost his leg and he is coming along to rival Long John Silver. And John McNulty, now 41 years old, a New York politi cian and ex-judge and official of the Lawyers Guild, served only 15 months entirely with the A. M. G., apparently starting from scratch as a captain at the ago of 38 in 1943. Appropriate mention is made of the fact that William J. Caldwell, the treasurer, flew 68 missions as a gunner and radio operator. The bulletin does not tell us whether McNulty might have bean drafted as a private had he not been commis sioned. On the average, the official roster of the A. V. C. would seem to be no more representative of combat veterans than any typical roster of the American Legion or the Veterans of For eign Wars who have been derided for their strong and narrow nationalism. Its veterans of heroic service are adequately recognized even as they would be in the Legion or the V. F. W. and due respect is given individuals who served in less perilous commands, it being theirs not to reason why. This is pertinent because the Legion, in particular, has been mocked about the antics, often idiotic and downright indecent, of non combat veterans of the first war at the Legion’s National Conventions. The Legion seems to have outgrown this unpleasant adolescence now and that is well because it has a serious opponent for all its purposes, not merely a social rival, in the A. V. C. The Legion and the V. F. V.'. have been conscientiously non political. This new group is plainly and aggressively political in the direction of the objectives of the P. A. C and the C. I. O. which are, for the most part, those of the communists. It is no haven fer Republicans or for conventional Democrats imbued with that strong and nar row patriotic nationalism which, in the Demo cratic deep south, drew the highest ratio of volunteers in the country. It is, in short, a veterans auxiliary of Sidney Hillman s politi cal Action Committee. You can go to the zoo and see elephants— or hear them walking around in the flat just above. • * • Remnants of the German fleet have been divided between Britain, Russia and U. S. Davey Jones still remains the big winner. Three Oklahoma men who stole $500 worth of musical instruments landed in jail, where they will face the music. A Rochester doctor says the moccasins and sandfls of the Bobby Sox era are producing flat feet. Shucks, we knew those crazy kids would settle down. ^ , . ; Statistics now show holiday sale of . tovs was a record breaKer. Father simply ‘ has to be entertained . AML. I PEACE WORK _ f OKTAIHlV 1 f 'AOPtJiT < ,SSSS®« Could There Possibly Be Something We Men Don’t See In Women’s Hats? BY JOHN SIKES There’re few things that disturb me anymore, in case you’re inter ested. This isn't due to any belated callousness or indifference. I have simply decided it’s injurious tc tranquil living to become too much upset over this problem and that dilemma. Things have a way ol working themselves out provided you don’t introduce too many ol your own personal prejudices and ob=essions. There was a friend of mine, for instance, who was about to become a nervous wreck because he per mitted inconsequential items to blow him into apoplectic rages. He decided he had to do something about it. So he set aside a certain period each week—from two to four p. m. each Tuesday—to do his worrying. Every time a worry came up at other times he jotted the matter down on a piece ol paper and stuffed the memo in his desk drawer. Then eacn Tuesday afternoon he’d sit down, open the desk drawer, and set himself to worry ing over the matters of the previ ous week. It got so, when he opened the drawer and began looking over his worry items, he’d forget what the items were that he was going Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS THE BIG GAS MAN I am denied the luxury of sweep ing generalizaions concerning any class or group, because I know too many persons in all classifica tions. In early boyhood I began to work at manual labor, and I have never gotten over my sense ol identity with the wearers of over alls. On the other hand, my later work as a newspaper man and as a churchman has brought me into association with a wide assortment of employers. Some have been all that the labor press charges the "capitalist” with being; many others have been sincere Chris tians, with a high sense of public responsibility. For example: Here is the weal thy head of a gasoline refining company, with millions of gallons of gas subject to his say so. Yet during the period of gasoline ra tioning he used only the amount al loted to the ordinary citizen. He walked to the train from his home and from the train to his office, instead of using a car. His wife did her shopping afoot, like other women. . , That man had a sense of honor and patriotism and democracy. He did not believe in special privi leges for himself, I heard him once in a panel discussion of the labor question, and his views were American and Christian, as were also those of the representatives of labor who participated. When we have leaders facing our public problems from a de finitely Christian standpoint, then a solution is In sight. Speed the day, O Lord, when all men of personal honor shall know themselves as brothers and face life’s difficulties In the *Plrlt 0< Jesus. Amen. to worry about. Most of them nevei materialized. Now this friena car lay his head down on his desk, right over the drawer, and go tc sleep. There is, however, one item that I cannot patly jot down upon a piece of paper and stick it into my desk drawer and forget about it until next Tuesday. It is an item over which I become a choleric purple each time I am reminded of it—and I cannot sit down in a restaurant, walk along Front street, or go anywhere without being re | r~' ■'r it. And it is a fairly obvious item. I , nut mere men like I am have been doing the same thing about it for lo! these many years and none has yet come up with the solution for getting around it. I refer to the item of women’s hats. Lest I become violent while jot ting down these items, permit me McKenney On BRIDGE BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority Harold Karp of New York gave me a couple of interesting freak hands, one of which I will give you today. Suppose you held the North hand, your partner has opened the bidding with one spade, and the next hand bids two spades. You know that, in all probability, you can make seven hearts: but West has already told his partner he has no spades, so a seven-heart con tract with a spade opening by East would be down automatically. Karp decided to try to get South to bid hearts. When West bid three clubs, he made a cue-bid of four clubs, and over South’s four spades he used the Blackwood four no trump overcall. South’s response of five diamonds showing one ace. His hope that his partner held two kings was fulfilled when South bid six hearts. Karp really took the bull by the horns when he bid seven hearts, because it was very likely that South would go to seven spades. There was little danger of a seven no trump bid by South, as Karp had divulged that he held no clubs and the opponents would be sure to run that suit. South, however, was somewhat bewil dered, and although he held only the heart deuce, he decided to pass. Regardless of West’s opening lead, seven hearts was cold. ♦ J8 VAKQJ 10753 ♦ A Q 9 ♦ None A None ¥96 ♦ 853 *K J 10 9 6432 AAK9 642 ¥2 ♦ K J 7 + Q85 Duplicate—Both vul. South West North East Pals 3* ?*uble Pass 4 ▲ v>T 4 * Pass tt pfS 4NT Pass 5 ♦ Pass 5 N. T. Pass 6 ¥ Pass 7 V Pass Opening—* j. 1 first to take a firm hold upon my ; self and then try to proceed calmly with what the boys upstairs call my beef. Yesterday I was sitting in a res taurant getting ready to enjoy a good meal. Just when the first shrimp in the cocktail was being prepared for a savory mastication, in walks a lady with a face whose contours reminded me for all the world of a full moon in late Octo ber. She was one of these dumpy little creatures who’d obviously given a great deal more time to the raiment she squeezed her ful some frame into than to the frame itself. Because the frame was fashioned somewhat after one of these humpty-dumpty dolls which, if you push them over, will plop back on what passes for their feet they are so roly-poly built. Well, really, I didn’t give the frame anything other than a pas sing thought. I’ve seen too many of the type rigged out in slacks. (And why do some ladies, when they al low themselves to get far beyond the svelte figure stage, insist upon wearing slacks, no camouflage at all for the bulges that inevitably follow too much preoccupation with the dinner table?) Well, this lady had an affair fastened to the forepart of her head that I supposed had been sold her for perfectly good money and which some imaginative milliner had told her was a hat. It could not have been a hat, j unless the nightmares somebody like Dali dreams up can be called hats. It was a little round affair with the circumference and depth of an individual chicken pot pie. Factly, a chicken pot pie would have been far more attractive be lciuoc it wuuiu nave naa tne aaaea appeal of tastefulness. This hat-pot pie creation was set at so precarious an angle that, when the lady sat down to eat, I was uneasy lest the thing fall in her soup at any moment. Now, I’m not going to mention the hundreds and thousands of other such millinery I have noted here because to do so would just invite another spell of high blood pressure. I simply want to direct one or two or more questions to the ladies: Why do you wear these things? Is it because you all have an entirely different standard of beauty than we men, Or are we men not privy to some esoteric and subtle ideal of beauty which is perfectly obvious to you ladies, Or do you wear those darned things just to have some wrought up male like I am sit down and ask such foolish questions as these? STAR Dust The Right Place One night O. Henry deserted the lowly haunts where most of his stories were laid to glimpse the bright lights of Broadway. At Forty second street he was suddenly ac costed by an acquaintance, who ex claimed, “Gosh, I never thought I’d catch you over here. I suppose you’re strolling about, picking up character.” The author of “The Four Mil lion” smiled wryly and replied, “Well, hardly, but I suppose there’s plenty lost hereabouts.” —Wall Street Journal The Doctor Says_ VITAMIN C AIDS VICTIM OF SCURVY By WILLIAM A. oTrien y Scurvy has bee- " ^ ancient times. w). serious disease in •' a ing long sea voyage i. "l"'=<• of famine. But it -- ■ i at ease, too, a nutritions • disease caused by - ' -T C (ascorbic acid.) pal lta a ly respond quickly to' tr* with the missing vitamin.' '655 Scurvy affects perior; 0. , ferent ages in various -• infants the growing bones a- ^ fected; in adults. ~ V cause weakness, l0e- DV' ; * indifference and ter.de-W arms and legs. In the rnZ vere forms in children :»j ,r * there is a striking tendenc y hemorrhage, especiallv 0* ..5 gums. ' ~e Symptoms of a scurw hp-y gradually with indifference sue ana sometimes d»p-c Patient prefers to si; or < i most of the time. As the apDe •, fails, digfficulty in eatirg -e-' .'! from sore gums. Skin become dry. rough, and discolored s, small blood vessels in the s’-p j injured, hemorrhages develop "h healing, the sore mouth is J ly the first condition to imp-re"' and after this the other sym.pw,1 Scurvy is suspected ’ when""j bleeding, sore mouth develop; a persons on inadequate diets aV-'. gums ulcerate, the teeth ’ and fall out. When infantile s vj is suspected, an X-ray exarr':, tion of the bones reveals the ran acteristic changes. Scurvy may develop along a other deficiency disorder; those who are not maintaining j proper diet. Chronic illness at interfere with proper nutrition =-j scurvy or any other deficiency diseases can develop under these conditions. Oranges, lemons, and grapefruit are the richest common source -! vitamin C, while tomato juice tains about half as much as orar.g| juice. Other vitamin C rich food are fresh berries and fruits, greei peppers, cabbages, leafv vegeo bles and liver. A reliable so. i under all conditions is potatoes which even when cooked afford | great deal of protection during ;;i winter months when other soured are not so easy to obtain. The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS WINTER MEETING, by Tthcl Vance (Little, Brown; 12,50, The affaire Grieve, that's Sisri Grant’s term for the love of Susaj Grieve and Lt. John “Slick No vak, U.S. submarine hero. After reading about Slick’s el ploit in the papers and seeing bid in a newsreel. Stacy makes his as quaintance at a theatre opening Fond of meeting people and go:( places, he invites the hero to dirv ner and, to fill out a foursome adds his friend Susan and his sex) secretary Peggy. Susan is old New England. Siic! the child of latter-day immigrar.:s| her father was a minister and hi a window cleaner. The author who is expert at juggling values at character inversions and trar.s positions and, in general, at put i ting Humpty-Dumpty togetr.cn again, switches her characters loyalties, makes evil do good art wrong be right and all that glittetl turn to gold. It is all Stacy’s doing, for hi brought the three of them together You eniov it as he does, thou?: i hope you won’t be so old-maid:^ Doting on affaires as long the tr.'S don’t involve him, he finds it if* cinating. Other people's emotion disturbances are his food f'! drink, he relishes their mi?'^ havior, he has a sharp eye for of color. LETTER BOX CONGRATULATIONS To The Editor: I congratulate you and staff on Sunday’s Star-New'-^ not only conveys a picture o, ■ ^ is going on in thr area, bn portrays possibilities for be -- ture. The effort in collecting f - assembling this information n have been enormous, and ■■■ connected with this effort are be congratulated. G. W. Gillette, ( Colonel. Corps Oi 1 gineers. Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 19, 1 46. FURTHER SERVICE ASKED T« Th A XT' rl i f n r • In behalf of the ComiM* Council of Wilmington I . congratulate the Star-New - ,, the excellent Sunday s was a most enlightening an ^ formative presentation o ^ city’s industrial and --- ramifications ., (< It afforded our community , opportunity to learn firs facts of our own city. , May I suggest in _ son.e issue you give a similar P° . of the spiritual, cultural a fare institutions of our ci*: • ^ Rabbi Sai. uel A. -- man, .... Chairman - Commit-' Council. Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 19. 1946.
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