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The Star-News can- _ not be responsible for currency sent through l the mails. I MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ( AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS < MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING S Hope is the best part of our riches. What C sufficoth it that we have the wealth of the j Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls? v —BOVEE f --- J Onion Contests £ t The scarcity of onions disclosed | in an article in the Star recalls the years the Star-News sponsored gar- i den clubs among Wilmington’s school , children. It was customary to hold , annual contests in the schools with - prizes for the youngsters who produced . the best bunches of onions. In one case ( a local firm gave a hundred chicks and the ten gardeners who led the field were given ten each in special recog nition of their effort. The Star-News clubs were merged in the national movement for war gar dens, when the conflict drew the United States in, and so the special projects in the schools were stopped. Now it is suggested that an onion contest might be started with all the j city’s children eligible and the seed firms offering prizes, either of day-old , chicks or seed for next year’s planting. , By uniting for the project and nam- j ing from their own stores a committee to sponsor and promote the plan, Wil mington would have no shortage of onions, come spring, and a lot of school children would be the better off, whether they were winners or not, by the experience they would gain. A Difficult Case V Dr. Wilhelm Furtwaengler, the Ger man symphony conductor, is not to be permitted to return to Berlin. The controversy over Doctor Furt waengler has gone on for some time, his friends contending he was not iden tified with the Nazi party, the United States Military government’s investi gations showing that he was, and de claring that in conformity with the four-power agreement for the denazi fication of Germany he is not entitled to return to the podium of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. Gen. Robert A. McClure, director of the United States information-control division in Germany, announcing the decision, says: “It is indisputable that Dr. Furt waengler was prominently identified with Nazi Germany. By allowing him self to become the tool of the party, he lent an aura of respectability to the circle of men now on trial at Nurem berg for crimes against humanity. “It is inconceivable he should be allowed to occupy a leading position in Germany at the time when we are at tempting to wipe out every trace of nazism.” In support of his position General McClure notes that Furtwaengler was appointed a state councilor in 1933 by Herman Goering, and never relinquish ed the title, and was vice president of the Reich Music Chamber, a blacklisted organization, until he quarreled with Mie party in 1934. Meanwhile, the Doctor is under in vestigation by an Austrian commission t » in Vienna to determine if he collaborat ed with the Nazis. If he is cleared a music post will be found for him, pro vided consent is forthcoming from the Allied Control Council. His case is particularly difficult to deal with in view of the fact that he has great talent. France’s Hand Out Leon Blum is about to visit the United States. His departure is set for Wednesday of this week. Before he romes the French government is re ported intending to publish what is railed a “yellow book” which will con :ain documents dealing with money ne gotiations between Paris and Wasft ngton both before the Bretton Woods igreement was concluded and after vards. This obviously indicates that M. Slum is headed for our shores to seek idditional loans, or gifts, which ap >ears the settled policy of all nations n any way associated with the United States in World War II. The situation 3 clearly handled in an article in the Jew York Times written by Harold Callender and wirelessed from Paris. Says he: "... the facts and the record speak o eloquently that a factual summary annot avoid carrying the implication lot only that France will be unable to neet her financial obligations under he Bretton Woods agreement without American aid but that she may be un .ble for a long time to revive her in ernal economy. Such, at any rate, is he opinion of many experts. There was no reticence on this point vhen the assembly ratified the Bretton rVoods agreement after a debate in vhich Rene Pleven, then Minister of finance, said that France’s ability to 'ollow the charter of Bretton Woods lepends on foreign assistance still greater than that which she may get ’rom the monetary fund or the Recon struction Bank (two institutions es ablished by the Bretton Woods agree nent). M. Pleven added at that time :hat he had negotiated with the British md American Treasuries on the sub ect before devaluing the French cur rency to an exchange rate that the igreement provided, must be accepted >y the authorities of the monetary ;und created by the agreement. Doc lments covering these negotiations are sxpected to be included in the yellow )ook.” Mr. Callender further explains the French do not expect another large \merican loan quickly. What they vant now is an Export-Import Bank oan to tide them over a few months in oaying for imports. They are well per suaded that the United States will want !o see what kind of regime is to be set jp in the forthcoming elections before discussing larger American aid. Having contributed to France’s re lease from the German yoke, it is an American duty to help the nation get back on its feet. There is no reason to doubt that Washington is willing to do so. But the war allies must recognize that the coffers of this country are not inexhaustible. Wallace Festival Wilmingtonians welcome the an nouncement that Wallace is to resume its pre-war custom of holding annual strawberry festivals. They will be happy to drive to Wallace again and share the good time they always had before the war brought a stop to the events. This year’s festival is scheduled for May 1 to 11, the time the community’s strawberries will be at their best. A crreat variety of entertainment is to be provided for every day. Of special interest will be the selection of a fes tival queen, to be chosen by photograph by Kay Kyser, from girls in Duplin, Sampson, Pender and Onslow coun ties. The occasion offers additional evi dence that whatever goes on in the rest of the world, southeastern North Car olina is determined to take advantage of every opportunity to advance its production, regional friendliness and economic improvement. Wallace may count on large attend ance from Wilmington at its straw berry festival. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1946, By King Features Syndicate) 1 thought this .discussion ot a site for the United Nations plant was to be conducted on a high, gentlemanly plane but some of those bums on the other side of the debate had to get nasty about it so let’s everybody grab a chair and play their way. ‘in the first place that bunch of cosmic mooch ers had plenty of nerve to pick the prettiest countryside in the New York area and, more over, a none which in the next 20 years or so would provide home sites for many more thousands of Americans who work in New York but like the sight and sound of a bird, and to look on trees and flowers and hills and would not willingly condemn their chil dren to the dirty associations and influences that are encountered in the public schools of New York. And don’t anyone give me that old Democracy line either about the spiritual benefit of association with other social and racial “groups” or I will bust you right back with the fact that none of the five children of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who has been sound ing that prattle for years and years, nor she nor their old man, either, ever spent an hour in a public school but were carefully segregat ed from the lower classes in fastidious pay joints. To hear some of ihe abuse of those who live in and beyond the Westchester - Greenwich area, you might think they were nothing but a lot of bridge-playing, high-suburban blubber heads who would wreck the peace of the world and sacrifice not only the rising generation but the little that remains of civilization to protect their mean little investments. Well, for those who like it, bridge is no less legiti mate than forms, conferences, councils and congresses which are the pleasure of so many of those sallow-minded fakers who would like to make us address the chair and go through some committee every time someone wants to kick the cat. The service records of those com muters in the wars of their respective genera tions will stand comparison with those of any other group of equal numbers, not excluding Franklin D., Henry Wallace and Sidney Hill man. The same proposion of their sons went to this war, too, and will just help myself to the arbitrary assumption that, if peace and civil ization did depend on the cession of this parti cular site and no other site on earth for the realm of the U. N. 0., every one of these Americans would gladly yield and shove on down the road with the bedding and the bird cage in the wheelbarrow. ijut no reason nas been given why the U. N. 0. must have this patch and no other and so the suggestion that the citizens who don’t want to move are jeopardizing anything but some ulterior purposes is abusive nonsense. More over there ir, no excuse for gouging out of the living body of the United States, and alienating it, any section that may finally be selected. Un der reciprocity we give the embassies of oth er countries a mild type of autonomy but the ground they stand on is still part of the District of Columbia and there were no complaints but, on the contrary, suppressed cheers when some of them indulged in a humane abuse of our hos pitality to peddle a few hams of liquor under prohibition. The correct place where this organization should have its plant distinctly is nowhere near New York or Washington, which are infested with a formidable quantity and vaiiety of or ganizations devoted to interference in our poli tics and the confusion of our opinions. There are hundreds of these ill-mannered and ar rogant things all devoted to some religious, racial or national interest abroad and to the proposition that every American boy owes “Democracy a duty to go to a series of wars in their behalf. They are so influential that even the Republicans are afraid to tell them where to go with their demands lest they aliente the segregated “Foreign” vote in the metropolis. They print propaganda by the ton. the telephone directory is crawling with them and the U. N. O. in the Westchester-Greenwich site would be a marvelous convenience for them and a menace of equal magnitude to the American boys who will be of fighting age in the next 10 years. Lincoln, Nob., wanted this plant and, al though Lincoln never had a chance for obvious reasons, she would be a good selection. Travel is an absurd objection considering that per sons coming from the ends of the earth would have only a few hours more to go and if it is the lack of plays and movies presented by our communist producers, and saloons and rich trash for night-life that makes a site undesir able, then why not be honest and reopen Paris as the political plague spot and brothel of the world? We have thousands of miles of government reservations in the West which could accom modiate the U. N. O. for all its legitimate pur poses and let anyone who objects on the ground of cold or heat consider whether a Russian or a Finn could reasonably complain of the cold in, say. Wyoming, or an Arab of the heat in Arizona. Well, there I go again, raising my voice and hollering like a barker at a Coney Island koolch but I know Westchester-Green wich people and the ones who have been de nouncing them are mainly a lot of old fools who are ready to die anyway and don't care what happens to whom and a lot of suitcase trade who never would take the care and respon sibility of decent homes but feel free to abuse good citizens for unwillingess to abandon theirs. QUOTATIONS BEES, according to Factographs, are smart er than any other insects. And what s more —they have the weapon with which to back any argument. , * * The old saying that "there’s always room at the top” doesn't hold these days if you are looking for a penthouse to His little nephews and nieces are so noisy ZaTok DumkopPf refers^ *em as h» dinfolk. A survey shows Jerea^e at kast^SO giac^rs justGttiCeesrpSafor those hosts who are always running out of ice cube-.^ __ —tv,-r in 1945, according to the United Stated 'weattier^ureau, was rather freakish. Now they tell us! ( , , 4Vint he has quit as sun god that well Now that n Q should have lots of tim known poet Hif muse. to devote to me u m * * _ Jenkins sa.vs that he isn’t so in Grandpappy ^r _n the debut of the first rob terested this y in the fareweU appearance OLD SHADOWI Water-Front Is Comparatively Safe With Atlantic Keeping Vigilance By JOHN SIKES Those of you who live, or own property, on Wilmington’s water front may go ahead and rest eas ily at night. That is, if the spectre of fire haunts your dreams. You may do this because Wil mington has— and has had for a good many years passed—an effi cient waterfront fire department that never sleeps. Never sleeps, that is, in the sense that the men of the department are on call 24 hours per day. And, more im portant, that can churn their way to a fire from their dock at the foot of Grace street and begin fighting a blaze in something un der five minutes. Just so you'll know who we’re discussing, the captain of the wa ter-front department is Charles H. Register, who's been on that job for 27 years. In his crew are Lieut. Alonzo Russ and Privates E. A. Jones and H. F. Watters. This crew mans the fireboat, Atlantic. Maybe you'd like to know something about the At lantic. She’s been in continuous service since 1912. She was built by Capt. Jimmy Arnold down at Southport. Now, this is pretty old for a fireboat, and Fire Chief Luddie Croom, along with the City Fath ers, are trying to do something about getting a new one. They have their eyes on one that is down in Bucksport, S. C. The Atlantic is 50 feet long, with a beam of 141-2 feet and draws five feet. Captain Register, incidentally, has been on the water for 35 years and has U. S. licenses for that pe riod just to prove it, in case any body needs proof. The Atlantic covers the water front from the shipyard to Josey’s Fertilizer place. But these water-firemen don’t stop at the mere business of fighting fires on the water-front. From the powerful pumps on their boat they can shoot a stream of water as far up the hill, as they call it, as Fifth street. Once, when the boat was tied up at the foot of Chestnut,- they played a stream of water over the top of the Murchison building. Furthermore, these men don’t stop at the mere business of put ting out the fires. During the war a tanker—it was the Oleney, Captain Register re calls—came in port with a jagged hole in her bottom. It was a secret then, but crewmen of the Oleney told Captain Register the tanker had rammed a German submarine not so far off shore before she put it at the mouth of the Cape Fear. One of the compartments of the Oleney was flooded and the At lantic pumped water out of the hold for 101-2 hours before ship fitters, etc., could go down and repair the damage. But this isn’t all the extra-cur ricular activity the Atlantic’s crew engages in. In the past several yeai the crew has recovered 11 bodies of drowned persons from the Cape Fear. True, there haven’t been many spectacular water-front fires here to dramatize the work of the At lantic’s crew, but there was a near holocaust the day after Pearl Har bor, Dec. 8, 1941. A tanker put in here with thou sands of barrels of oil aboard. The tanker caught fire, but before the flames could reach the oil the Atlantic’s crew had the blaze ex tinguished. They had the fire out in 45 minutes. Anyway, it doesn’t make any difference how large or small your fire is. The Atlantic has the means if combating everything in the way of blazes. Besides 1, 000 feet of hose through which the Atlantic pumps water from the Cape Fear to a fire, the boat also is equipped with the latest types of fire extinguishers, including the C02 stuff that proved so valuable during the war in smothering fires. LETTER BOX McKOY CASE HEARING To the Editor: The Board of Education, in view of the reception accorded by the Eligibility Committee of the North Carolina High School athletic as sociation to the representatives of the New Hanover high school in the recent hearing as to the eligibility of Johnny McKoy, can fully ap preciate and wholly sympathize with the reluctance of Mr. Hamil ton and Coach Brogden in pursu ing further a matter which has proved so unpleasant. Nevertheless, the board feels, and this is concurred in by Mr. Hamilton and Coach Brogden, that it owes to the high school,’ the player envolved, Coach Brogden, Mr. Hamilton and the public, the duty of exhausting all available means of correcting what it be lieves to be a grave injustice not only to the parties involved, but the school youth of North Caro lina. The board has, therefore re quested the chairman of the North Carolina High School athletic as sociation to call, as we had agreed to, a meeting of the full executive committee, so that the matter can be presented to it. Dr. John T. Hoggard, Chairman Board of Education Wilmington, N. C. February 23, 1946. GRATEFUL FOR HELP To the Editor: The board of directors of the Tuberculosis and Health associa tion, at our meeting last Wednes day, asked me to write and ex press to you and every member of your organization our deep appre ciation of your assistance to us in our recent Christmas seal sale. With your cooperation, we have passed our goal and secured the funds necessary to carry on the work we are trying to do in this county (and, through our par ticipation in the state and national organizations, in the nation as a whole,) for the prevention of tub erculosis. i It is a great work we are doing 1 and if we can all continue to work 1 :ogether as we have in the past, I ' mow the day will come when : .uberculosis is a negligible factoi 1 n our community life instead of > he problem it is today. 1 With many thanks again to you J ind every member of your or- 1 lanization for their splendid help, i ! am, ' j LUCY L. NASH, a Executive Secretary t Wilmington. Feb. 23. 1946 w tv STAR Dust Where Interest Starts Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an ac count of a mee'4ng of the famous Atlantic club, a group of distin guished New England authors who used to gather together from time to time in Boston, has amusingly revealed the deeply absorbing in terest with which writers are prone to regard their own works. On the occasion copies of the new number of the Atlantic Month ly were brought into the club, whereupon each member seized upon a copy with great eagerness. “Then,” said Emerson, ‘‘each sat down and read his own ar ticle.” —Christian Science Monitor. Upholding Her Dignity “Mother, that horrid Jones boy called me a tomboy,” cried nine year-old Penny with righteous wrath. “And what did you do?” I asked noting her torn dress and tear streaked face, and remembering the Jones boy was twice her size. “I made him take it back,” she said. “I kicked him in the shins and tripped him and sat on his -best and pounded his head in the iirt until he yelled ‘You’re a per -ick lady’.”—Coronet. Nobody Can Hate Long Nobody can hate very hard very long. It’s too much work. Some thing like trying to sing on High C perpetually.—Washington Eve line Star. Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS —--■ WILLIAM T. ELLIS IN NOAH’S ARK LAND Azerbaipan — a word horribly mispronounced by the radio com mentators—has been much in the news of late. It is an untraveled region, near Mt. Ararat, where Noah’s Ark landed, the place where Turkey, Russia and Iran impinge. It is populated by Kurds, As syrians, Armenians, Persians, Turks, Circassians and a medley of other nationalities—ancient peoples all. Also it has oil. I traversed Azerbaijan repeated ly during World War I, and know it rfor rough country, made rougher by the destructiveness of the Rus sian soldiers, then in occupation. Few travelers venture into that part of the world, with its pictures que people and landscape. Before Armenia was absorbed in to the Soviet Union, it was at con stant war with Azerbaijan and Georgia, its two little neighbors. All the region is populated by sim ple folk, who naturally settle argu ments with arms. PrimiHvce, they are yet fiercely loyal to the prin ciples which have kept alive their ancient heitage. One wonders if, in the strange providance of God, the ancient people of Asia are to have a special part in the remarking of an over sophisticated world. For Thine own purposes, O Eter nal God, Thou hast preserved peo ples of old to rebuke the over-civil ized nations of today, and to call them back to the ageless simplici ties of life. We would return to Ararat and Sinai and Calvary, tmen. Doctor Says— GOITER CHECKED BY IODIZED SALT By WILLIAM A. O'BKIEX Many plans have been n’rw ’ for elimination of comm ‘-‘V"5'® but none has been more ful than the universal use 6Ss' with a proper iodine contem one time physicians recommend^ giving iodine tablets to yon-- ' sons, and some communities !r] iodides in the water supoh ?x neither of these methods war n-,1 tical. dS prac Goiter in adolescent children prevented by using natural V, containing 0.01 per cent of D0 sium iodide or its equivalent 7 cooking and seasoning Tri-' ‘ be used by both children adults, as it is not harmful7 patients with thyroid disease. In common goiter the m-.-a enlarged and firm and may c S tam knobs of extra thyroid tiss-» or cysts. In excessive e-ilam? ment the gland presses o"'-, trachea or extends down in,0 chest and causes shortness n) breath. “ Following the educational cam paigns between 1920 and 1930 on the use of iodized table sal to prevent goiter, goiters in children decreased rapidly. A recent sir. vey by 0. B, I’.imbal, M. D "i Cleveland, indicates they are o the inctease again as the consume tion of iodized salt has gradual! declined during the past four or five years. Michigan health authorities made a study of 50,000 school children between 1924 and 1928 who ha used iodized table salt as a goite preventive. In 1924, from 30 t0 jj per cent of the group had g0j|er but in 1928, only 7 to 9 per cert showed enlargement of the gland At that time there was a iea that iodized table salt might be harmful to persons with toxic goiter, but the study showed tha‘ no one suffered the slightest p effect Many patients with goiters lor rr.erly underwent surgical opera, tions for relief of symptoms. Be tween 1930 and 1940 the number of such operations declined one half from the previous high be cause of the decrease in common goiter in young people. Simple enlargement of the thv. roid gland is found chiefly in in. land regions where the soil lacks iodine. As a result of the low iodine content of the soil, iodine in the water, plants and animal tissue is also low. Children reared near the tea usually obtain plenty of iodine from the soil, water and animal tissue as it is blown in ward in the sea spray and then brought down by the rains. Health authorities recommend that only a natural salt containin' 0.01 per cent potassium iodide or its equivalent should be sold and all other salts should be witti drawn from public sale. This would result in the practically complete elimination of common goiter in children and fewer goiter operations in older persons, The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS DAVID THE KING, By GUdvi Sctamlit (Dial; JU). A Scant 100 pages from the Old Testament are expanded into mo:! than 600 pages in this most ■ambi tious novel. In the field of fiction dealing with faith or Biblical sub jects, "The Song of Bernadette" :s a feeble attempt and "The Hobe " a [ commonplace one beside Miss Schmitt's elaborate retelling of a familiar story. The long tale opens with David tending his father Jesse's sheep and ends with the death of the venerable king, too aged and cold to be kindled by the lovely Shu nammite maid. We follow the lutist David into Saul’s camp. We see his love for Jonathan: his marriage to Michai; his fail into disfavor and 10 years' wan dering; his return with the con quering Philistines, accompanied ■ by'two wives; his disagreements with J’oab; his love for Bath Sheba and die fatal mission on which he dispatched Uriah; the | death of Absalom; the crowning of Solomon. From Dan to Beersheba, fro™ Samuel to Nathan, from the hunted rebel in the southland 9 the Star of Bethlehem bearing his crown in the golden citv of Je:v Salem, there are names of place® fondly remembered from childhood. We read, or I dr, wio the same awe, the same wide a.d fascinated eyes with which « boys and girls we looked at tM colored pictures given to us it Sunday school. Miss Schmitt, * phenomenal story-teller, does r.o let your interest flag a seco. • This is a most worthy boor.-c selection . . . Literary Guild a - Religigus Book Club both p It for March. . But as you recall from Schmitt’s earlier novel, 1 - Gates of Aulis,” she is a She does not build a story, s embroiders one. Despite the ofw_ extraordinary precision cf •■.e' language, it remains fenci ^ rather than evocative. The c„a acters, as remote in this story s they are in time, excite you c ;' rarely stir you to tears. Dav for example, in the novel gr:C' " for Absalom in words which 'f:3 me cold, though the same wom= ■vith Biblical context are a™°‘° ihe most heart-rendina in -lte‘ ire.
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