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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 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING Words are such mighty things, dear Lord, May I so yielded be That Christ who spake as never man, May ever speak through me. Selected. New Sanatorium Wilmington and New Hanover county are still feeling the benefits of the Red Cross sanatorium, which had to be discontinued when the Army, after taking over Bluethenthal airfield, extended the reservation almost to the sanatorium’s back door. This is shown by the comparatively low incidence of tuberculosis. The information comes from Dr. T. David Smith, Duke University medical school and president of the state Tuber culosis Association, in an address be fore the New Hanover Health and Tuberculosis Association, when he urg ed that the Red Cross retreat be super seded by another that the gains from its operation may not be lost and spread of the disease, which is no respecter of persons, be prevented. “The county organization,” he added, “is well set up for case finding and now is the oppor tune time for a sanatorium.” Because building materials are still scarce an immediate start might not be made. But there is no reason why all preliminary arrangements should not be completed, so that when the time comes for construction there would be no excuse for delay. The county government has a great responsibility for this undertaking, in the cause of humanity. — Russia Invokes Veto It was Russia that forced the veto * provision’s adoption at the San Fran cisco Security Conference. It is Russia that first invokes it. The United States delegation at the London session of the Security Council had proposed that negotiation, which we may assume in this case means meditation, be undertaken in the Leba non and Syria case, where British and French troops remain over Russia’s protest. It would seem impossible for the Moscow government to make its point stick as at least three of the five powers with veto rights—the United States, France and Britain—will stand against it and seven members of the Security Council voted for the United States proposal before Russia invoked the veto. There can be no dispute that the Russians are well within their rights, but to have used the veto with the cards obviously stacked against them was ill advised. They have acted like a boy with a new kite who insists on try ing it out on a stormy day, without considering that the wind will tear it to pieces. “Above The Salt” When former Governor 0. Max Gard ner of North Carolina was called to Washington for consultation with party leaders and subsequently was nominated for under-secretary of the Treasury, the man in the street was not slow in assum ing that something more important than an assistant’s post for him was under consideration. As sometimes happens, the man in the street was right. For, while Mr. Gardner is to be Mr Vinson’s under-secretary, he will in al probability serve most of the time as acting Treasurer, because Mr. Vinson’s duties in connection with the world banl will keep him out of the capital mud of the time. There appears to be no doubt that th< Senate will confirm his nominatior promptly. Thus North Carolina will hav< a favored citizen “above the salt” at th< official table. Housing Proposal Housing remains among the chiei shortages throughout the country, North Carolina is no exception. It has remained for the Raleigh Times to pro pose an expedient, if not a cure. The paper has solicited relief from Secre tary of the Navy Forrestal and the North Carolina Warehousemen’s Asso ciation, the one for the use of idle ships, the other for unoccupied ware houses. The idea is to have some of the idle naval and marine ships moored in the James river made available along the eastern shore where they might he docked or anchored in inland water ways where unhoused persons in that region could find refuge in them. Also, the Times points out, there are well built, securely roofed tobacco ware houses all across the state. They might be turned over to eager tenants. Quoting briefly from the Times: “At the larger cities like Wilming ton, Morehead City, Edenton, Eliza beth City, New Bern, Plymouth and Washington, many of the discarded Liberty ships, too slow for present traffic requirements, could be docked )r anchored and fitted out as fairly comfortable living quarters for fam ilies of both veterans and civilians. Then, too, there are barges like those General Eisenhower sent overland to cross the Rhine, which “could be park ed in the Neuse river near Raleigh, as veil as at Smithfield, Goldsboro and Kinston, or on the Tar at Louisburg, rarboro and Greenville.” Such accomodations naturally are crude and inadequate, but as the Times idds, “the situation is urgent, and peo ple are becoming desperate” for living places. The proposal is so simple it is sur prising that it was not advanced long ago. Authority In Question Because there is no reason to hope for any change in the decision of the North Carolina High School Athletic As sociation s eligibility committee against the New Hanover High school 'in the McKoy case, the local school has drop ped its protest, with result that no of ficial recognition will be forthcoming of the basketball team’s’ outstanding rec ord, despite the undisputed fact that C. E. McIntosh, secretary of the associa tion, gave permission to Coach Brog den to play McKoy in the Durham game, which precipitated the complaint. It is not inappropriate to ask, if the association secretary has authority to rule on the eligibility of a pupil to play, and has given consent after neces sary questions have been satisfactorily answered by the particular school in this instance, New Hanover County High school—why does the eligibility committee reverse his ruling? The in ference that he either lacks authority or the eligibility committee has no con fidence in his decisions is inescapable. Equally inescapable is the fact that southeastern North Carolina has no i epresentative on the eligibility com mittee, and that six members of this committee are also members of the exe cution committee, the only group tr which, the New Hanover High schoo: athletic authorities could have appeal ed. Notwithstanding the eligibility com mittee’s failure to support the associa tion secretary’s original decision, th< fact remains that the New Hanove] High School’s basketball team has woi all but one of its conference games, be ing defeated only by the Durham team which it in turn defeated here. The; may not be in the association’s records but the victories themselves are abov questioning. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEOLER (Copyright, 1946, by King Featurea Syndicate.) Throughout his career In the Cabinet, there were many Americans who thought that the title of Honest Harold, bestowed on Mr. Ickes with sarcastic intent, was a gross exaggera tion. Originally it referred to hi* suspicious ' nature which instinctively examined the mo tives of others. “Honest Harold'’ implied full recognition of the probability that here was one new dealer at least who would not tap the till or drain off secret graft in one guise or another either for ’ his personal gain or that of hi3 sisters and his cousins and his aunt. In this commonplace vir , tue there was a sidelong criticism of the mor aLs and ethics of his chief but it will be noted 1 that Mr. Ickes’ honesty was not so active as to evoke from him any public objection to such violations of his own code by his political bet ters. That a public servant be innocent of the larcenous instinct or that he resist it firmly would seem to be little enough to ask, but the personal fortunes of some who led the Roosevelt revolution show that it is not only a lot to ex pect of them but much too much. Mr. Ickes leaves public office, but not the public eye and ear, self-styled a grasping and miserly fellow and with no dissenting opinion from those who know him best, but his most enthusiastic enemy will not allege that he got a dollar of his fortune illegally. To that extent, then, he is indeed “Honest Harold" but that is faint praise. Honesty means more than that and by other tests Ickes flunked. In the second new deal, Mr. Ickes toyed with a temptation to return to Chicago and run for mayor against Ed Kelly whom he piously re garded as a rascal in need of turning out. He was not a resident of Chicago in any pub licly known sense of the term. He actually resided in the suburbs of Wash ington and hi* only other registered home was on a street called, in his biography in Who’s Who, “Private Road, Winnetka, Ills.,” yet Mr. Ickes said he believed he could establish a fine legal residence in Chicago. His plans changed and he was not called on to prove domicile but the Kelly politicians naturally went searching and their conclusion was that Ickes had a vague technical claim to legal but fictitious rPciHpnrp in a rnnm n« r»*>nr fVio oatipc of an old hotel near the loop. In 1940, Ickes had either changed his opinion of Ed Kelly or was stooping to conquer. At the height of that stupendously sordid brawl which nominated Mr. Roosevelt for his third term and Henry Wallace, amid boos, for his first in any elective office, Ickes was caught in fla grant association with the man he had so re cently and ardently despised. He and Harry Hopkins, who, to his credit, as wisely never made an issue of his honesty, turned up in the company of not only Mr. Kelly, but that other despicable Fascist, according to the new deal billingsgate of the time, Franke Hague, of Jersey City. The purpose of their huddle was not reform or civic virtue but the low, prac tical politics of the old-time smoke-filled room. They couldn’t get along without the rascals and their wicked machines so, in that moral crisis, they decided to get along with them and turn to their own political service the very wickedness which they deplored. Having his own gestapo in the Department of the Interior, Mr. Ickes cannot be presumed to nave been ignorant of tire $25,000 bite to which Judge Charles Harwood submitted in a rush act by Hall Roosevelt, the brother of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, acting on behalf of Elliott and his radio chain. Ickes knows more scan dal and gossip than any other one in Wash ington. Yet when the President named Har wood governor of the Virgin Islands, under the general management of Mr. Ickes, and even after the facts of the bite were presented in print, his honesty did not move him to repudi ate the whole affair. In so doing he would have reflected on his late leader, the preserva tion of whose reputation, as we have been see ing, is more important than all considerations of virtue and decency in public affairs. Mr. Ickes’ own participation in the distribu tion of philatelic monstrosities of great value was in accordance with the new ethics of high office. No man can say he got a dishonest dollar there in the sense of illegal doing but he knew the value of such stamps and so his conduct will be called honest only by those who share his principles. Mr TpItpq ha c altiraxro K/-««-»»■* _ n fight for labor’s gains, including the protection of the so-called common man from impudence and all manner of personal imposition by the bosses. Yet, like Fiorella LaGuardia, another honest man, in the same restricted sense, he was an overbearing executive in the Depart ment of the Interior whose manners and meth ods in his relations with individuals who couldn t fight back would have had him up on serious charges before the Labor Relations Board had he used them in private industry. Mr. Truman probably will be relieved to be rid of him once the noise subsides. The party is separating into its two natural divisions now and Ickes obviously belongs with Wallace, Hill man, Frankfurter and the few shameless fakers in the Senate who never had any principles and spoke pieces written for them by the left wing strictly for the sake of their jobs and invita tions to parties in Washington. The Repub licans might even think of nominating John L. Lewis in 1948 as the man to beat Wallace; and his communist following, counting Truman out in advance. Two mechanical dash errors of transmission in recent pieces are acknowledged and correct ed. In the reflections of George Spelvin, Amer ican, reference was made to the founding of a fortune through opium smuggling by the grand father of Mr. Roosevelt. As published , the word “grandmother” was substituted. There was no such intent. In a discussion of soldier dem onstrations in Hawaii, the name of Ewart Guinier, a warrant officer, selected as a mem ber of the GI committee to go to Washington, was changed in transmission to “Edward” Guinier. The first name is Ewart and the Dies Committee index lists Ewart Guinier as president of the New York district of the state, county and municipal workers of the CIO’ which has been a selected stamping ground of communist agitators and organizers. quotations > You are making a serious mistake when you learn nothing from it. I Certain people tell the truth-uncertain ones are likely not to. • • • Spring styles already are on show The more change in women's clothes, the iess in men’s. * « » a The smart traveler wants to see America first. The smarter one wants to for ever and ever. e 11 last— _—il “LEFT” HOOK --- , ~~ Now The Situation Along The Strike Fron t Has Developed Into Pretty Pass By JOHN SIKES The strike situation has come tc a pretty pass. Industry which makes the things you eat and wear and use and read appears not to be the only thing touched by strife. Here is a story from St. Louis, sent over the wires of the United Press, which seems to me to be the height of the sitdown hiatus. Suppose you just read the United Press story and make up your mind about the whole business: “With hallelujahs and hosannas ringing, the prayerful sit-dowr strike of 30 members of the Negrc House of Prayer church went through its fifth day Wednesday. “The strikers have been in the church for four days and nights, praying all the time. They staged the sitdown to prevent the church owner, Prophet Haivey Ambrc Green, from locking them out. “Green said they could stay as long as they prayed. They prayed and stayed. “Prophet Green was ousted as minister of the church at a pro test meeting held by 85 of the congregation’s 500 members on Feb. 4. He apparently accepted the decision and went to California, where he is pastor of the Metro politan Church of Prayer at Los Angeles. “The congregation then elrxted the Rev. Arthur Alphonse Smith, also of Los Angeles, as pastor. On Feb. 9, the parishoners petitioned the circuit court to transfer own ership of the church from Green to the congregation. “When Prophet Green heard about that he wired one of his faithful flock to slap a padlock on Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS OTHER HUNGRY It is not easy, thought it is wholly Christian, to keep ever in mind the desperate plight of the suffer ing millions in Europe and Asia, and to aid them up to the very limit of our ability. Yet this is one clear test of our fitness to be citizens of One World. But there is another hunger, widespread in our own land. It is the deep desire, expressed in many forms, for a clearer sense of God. Blind hands are everywhere reach ing ou; for Him, and crying “Where may I find Him?’ This spiritual restlessness and questing is one of the signs of our time. Heart hunger, is real hunger. It expresses itself in dissatisfaction with the prevailing mood for ma terial things. Homes are being disrupted at a fearful rate. Lives are wasting time and substance and fineness of spirit, in night clubs, in low-grade movies and in sensuality-soaked literature. None of these bring real satisfaction. What millions of us are con sciously seeking is a clearer knowl edge of God and of His will, and the possession of spiritual peace. A large part of the heart-hungry world is crying, with St. Augus tine, “Thou hast made us fcv Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts will not be at rest until they rest in Thee.” Help us to give bread, O Lord, to the world’s hungry millions; and the Bread of Life to starved spirits. Amen. the front door. On Saturday nighl the church members broke the loc] and the strike began. “Sunday Green fled here b; private plane from California fo a surprise appearance at morn ing services. He mounted th rostrum and told the congrega tion: “ ‘Jesus forgave and I forgive. “Or so he says he said. Mem bers of the congregation said h told them to get out in unpastoi like terms. “ 'I speak evil of no man,’ Green said. “I respect the Rev Smith.’ “In the next breath he an nounced he had filed a $100,00 slander suit against the Rev Smith in California. “ ‘He called me a female im personator, among other things, the prophet complained. McKenney On BRIDGE + J 54 3 2 V None ♦ 5432 + 5 432 + None — ■'! .. + 10 9 8 7 6 ¥87654 N ¥ None 3 2 W E 4 8 7 6 ♦ AKQJ S + 1098 7 6 109 Dealer + None 1 ■i — 1 + AKQ ¥ A K Q J 10 ♦ None I +AKQJ 22 ax WILLIAM E. McKENNEY Americia’s Card Authority No discussion of freak hand; would be complete without th< “Mississippi Heart Hand.” Thi hand has never been authenticat ed and was probably made up b; some practical jokester, or pos sibly by some dishonest gambler The record of it goes back to the old Mississippi River sjeamboa days and, according to the story it was supposed originally to havi been dealt at whist. If it were realt today at con tract, I suppose that South woulc simply open the bidding with seven hearts, which West wouli be inclined to double. It iooks a; though South should take everi trick, but actually he can take only six tricks, his six high trumps When the king of diamonds k opened, it has to be trumped bj South, with the nine of hearts Neither the ace-king-queen o: spades, nor the ace-king-queen jack of clubs will take any tricks, as West ruffs both suits. STAR Dust Pianissimo , “The prophet said he was pray : ing just like the strikers, ‘But I doubt we are praying for the sami r thing’,’’ : Until somebody else comes alonj - with a better one, I’ll put this uj > as the strike to end all strikes, : The Literary ; Guidepost By W. G- ROGERS ■ Starling of The White House, a1 ^ told to Thomas Sugrue by Col Edmund W. Starling (Simon <S Schuster; $3). , Starling bossed five Presidents For 30 years he was attached t( . watches over their lives, and foi the Secret Service detail whicl a good part of the time he was ir charge. When he told them that without too great personal risk they must do this or couldn’t d; that, they had to mind. An honest-to-goodness Kentucky colonel, he went to Washington it 1914 after a career as deput: sheriff and railroad detective. H< was with Wilson when we entere< the first World War, with Roosevel when we entered the second. Hi died in 1944 just after Sugrue fin ished the manuscript of this un usual book. Occupying a unique position fron which to observe national leaders he is at his best when he tells somi of the little things which he aloni knew, or alone would bother to re count: rr*l i. yr rii . ... . .. ni4cvu wuuiun l iex me Dar ber snip the hairs inside his ears and that he was jealous of th< dutiful attentions of his Secret Ser vice man to the second Mrs. Wil ; son; that State Secretary Hughe* ■ could blush and stutter that he wai ; no gambler when Harding force; on him $33 won in a golf game: ' that Coolidge could ask him tc lend me ten” and mean ten cent: with whieh to buy roasted chest ■ nuts, that Hoover got more ner : vous as the depression got worse until at Rapidan he would catch hie 1 fl^ook in his Pants, coat and hat The most entertaining storie: . concern Coolidge, who planned s hunting and fishing trip with Star ling when they left the White I House. There are very interesting pages, too, about the elaborate pre • narations made to guard the Presi dent; about Harding’s death, or which, as Starling recalls Steve Early scored a 25-minute beat foi the AP; on the Harding and Coo ndge funerals. *=> me stun or history even if it is small potatoes, and you’ll enjoy every word, or mouthful. But it should be added that a man who has seen one President with his face lathered and another in his oversize underwear is probably ‘no better equipped than the rest of us to pass Judgment on the League of Nations campaign, the Tearo* ptrnob,e' or“y need to return to God to straighten out the world’s affairs Height Of Indignity The dentist, after long and fu tile efforts to collect « bill for the false teeth he had made a patient finally took the matter to court Facing the judge os one whose exasperation has reached its height he said: "Not only did he refuse to pay me, your honor, but he had the effrontery to gnash at me re peatedly with my teeth!” _ Wall Street Journal Open Letters ADEQUATE AUDITORIUM Mr. A. C. Nichols city tfp, Wilmington, NC Dear Sir. If eight hundred thousand * lars is to be put into an ai-duLlT it should be modern and takV ^ of all the city’s needs g Ca* hai been without a dance ti v «“y a long time large enough t0T v,°r ous civic clubs to brin? a,tl* orchestras to Wilmington the winter months. Lmina ‘"J Wrightsville beach will “kp\ of this during the summer niomh* In planning this auditorium t cial attention should be ■ Pe‘ this idea; if a modern dance fw Jbalcony for spectators : provided m planning the c; J J, receive much revenue from dan!!" alone that will go a far « the upkeep of tine auditorium® venture to say that during the ut ter months the dance floor coidi be rented once a week to J0Ir. civic club in Wilmington at a rate of one hundred per night, tha* j. if proper planning is made in audi torium. Wilmington, N. G. PRICE CONTROL Feb, 21, 1946 Washington, D.C. Hon. J. Bayard Clark, M.C., Washington, D.C. My dear Bayard: I am attaching hereto copy of letter which I have written Sena tors Bailey and Hoey outlining m, views in regard to the extension of the price-control program. 1 hope you also will lend your support towards attaining the re suits I have suggested, Nathan S. Haskeit, Hon. Josiah W. Bailey, United States Senator, Washington, Ii. C. Hon. Clyde E. Hoey, United States Senator, Washington, D. C. My dear Senator*: I wish to preface my remark) in this communication by statin? that I am unalterably opposed to any "planned economy'^ but tit- i ■ der present conditions in our coun . try it is my studied opinion that the security of our future is de - pendent upon the continuation for at least another year, after June 30th next, of a strong price con trol. While scarcity of goods is the principal thing that can and does make inflation possible, inflation can be prevented or held dotvn by controlling prices. The price-control program, al though performing miracles during the war period, has been hamper ed by weakening amendments, in ; troduced in the Senate and House, One of the main reasons why fail ; benefits have not been accomplish ed from this program has been oc casioned by the cutting of appro priations to OPA in the past, and a large part of any inefficiency is atrributable to this action of to Congress. Those of us who have lived through both periods know that JI , it had not been for OPA the cos: I of living would have increased a: I ■ least 100 per cent during Wo:ii I i War II, judging from what ha? | pened to prices in a much shorter j time in World War I. The immediate renewal by the Congress of the price-control ar.i rent-control legislation which no" expires on June 30th next, is at’ essential prerequisite for the Na tions’s successful transition to h:?i level postwar employment, produc tion, and national income. It is my opinion that we ara faced with the imminent threat at a runaway price and rent infla tion, unless these programs art continued for at least another year and that appropriations are macs which are sufficient to assure tha: the regulations will be complid with. In the face of major ar.d acute shortages in consumer dur able goods, clothing and housing, the record - breaking demand precipitate inflation unless pricei are held down, until the supply a! scarce goods comes into appro*’ mate balance with postwar de mand. The people of our Country hw* not forgotten the post World I inflation which ended in an ec> nomic crash and an acute depres sion and this experience a-: World War I emphasizes the re mediate and pressing need for newing. strengthening and n'*® taining price and ren - control- -■ a short while after World "a;j the cost of living soared *■ reached a peak 108 percent above , the prewar level and a repeilW* of this, which of necessity wo be on a larger scale, would ®'esj economic chaos. Last fall, as we all know, sM* manufacturers and business - — held back goods from the mat1'*' because they wanted to make ?•■• its this year after the repea.^ the excess-profit tax. Unless im mediate steps are taken to re-e* the controls, so that many facturers, builders and other bu ness-men will curb productio® ; hold back goods in hopes of hi?-^ prices after the end of price-c> trol. r The renewal, strengthening a_" extension of price and rent & trols will safeguard reconvers-c The business-man will know [ it will pay him to get c8?aC" : operation going as quickly sible in a seller’s market >• he can sell anything and e' (Continued on Page Eight' .1
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