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The Star-News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING Sing and smile and pray, That’s the only way. If you’ll sing and smile and pray, You’ll drive the clouds away. —One of Mr. Rodeheaver’s choruses. Tampa Port Project Wilmington is not alone in working for port extension and the development of postwar commerce. The magazine Business Week tells of the effort of the City of Tampa, Florida, to acquire the Hookers Point shipyard, operated dur ing the war by McCloskv and Company, and now declared surplus property. The City authorities have been in negotia tion with the Maritime Commisson for; __ _a ...i-: i .c;~~ 4 uo jjui '.uaccj ciiiva n mu, luc. vnj o iu cl offer was rejected as too low, Business Week comments that it probably will be successful even though there are two private concerns in the competition. If and when Tampa takes possession the purpose is to set up city-owned terminals with the object of developing trade in the Caribbean with schooners and lighter ships. The Hookers Point facilities cost $6, 500,000. Necessary land, in which Tampa City is vitally interested, is valued at $254,225. With this new competition in sight for Caribbean business, there is the greater need for Wilmington, through out its entire population, to back the proposal for new terminals and ware houses here, with the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company a tremendous asset. The Ports Authority was auth orized by the last legislature, but there is still much to be done—much that calls for united support by the people. Belated Reckoning The importance to the average citi zen, and to the future of the United States as a democracy,' of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling denying to mili tary authorities the right, even in war time, to usurp the functions of civil courts cannot be over-estimated. It reaffirms the unique pre-eminence m this nation ot what jurists some what ambiguously refer to as the “rule of law.” It holds aloft for all the world to see the fact that America, even in times of greatest peril, remains a gov ernment of j'ust and established laws, rather than one of men or of military edicts. It proclaims In unmistakable language the democratic insistence up on all uniformed commanders and mem bers of courts martial, present and fu ture, that their acts and decisions, whatever the provocation or the exigen cy, are in no wise privileged or irrevo cable. The facts that the situation in volved occurred in the Territory of Hawaii, rather than in the continental United tates, and at a time when that territory was under martial law, but measurably heighten the dramatic ef fect of the pronouncement. ynfortunately, the decision was be lated—as, under the circumstances, it could not but have been. This redemp tion cannot restore to the two civilians affected the many long months thej suffered in illegal imprisonment. Bu1 the reckoning is none the less sure foi its tardiness. l Balanced Budget Sixteen members of Congress hav< issued a statement calling for a balanc ed budget in the 1946-1947 fiscal year In part it says: “We cannot afford to spend monej we do not have. We cannot afford tc continue war agencies overdue for de mobilization, or war functions of doubt ful value in civil agencies. The Federal structure needs rebuilding for peace now, and from the ground up. We can not afford, nor do .we need at this time, in view of the wirespread opportunities for employment, such things as the big gest public works program in our his tory or a general government expendi ture almost twice prewar 1939. Every dollar we spend now must be justified by overwhelming proof of its need. “The proposed budget contains $11.8 billion of commitments and guarantees ana azo.o minim oi omtr spenaing oi which $17 billion appears now only as tentative estimates without detail. A determined Congress, with citizen back ing, can find the cuts needed for budget balancing among the items in that $23.3 billion total.” The gentlemen, of course, are not destined to have their proposal accept ed. The habit of waste, contracted since the days of NRA, has become too deeply seated in the government to be routed out as suddenly as proposed. But there is one thing that Congress could do to relieve taxpayers and bring the national treasury nearer a balance. This is to prevent philanthropic foreign appropriations, except in cases of dire want, and restrict expenditures to do mestic needs. Because of the responsibilities coinci dent with victory, it will be impossible to cut off all foreign loans or credits. But they can be held to an essential minimum, and this should be done with out fear or favor. Nevertheless, the people of this country, who have pro vided the money for war, who have put up with federal extravagance for years, and particularly the men who have fought our battles, must have what ever aid they need to restore them to sen-suiiiciency in tneir Dusiness and callings. A balanced budget need not be in definitely postponed, but it should not involve further sacrifices for the Ameri can people needing aid, nor firms long tottering toward collapse because of the heavy drains placed upon them by bureaucratic overlordship. Price Control Advocates of extending over-all price control fail to recognize that this con trol itself can prevent supply from ever coming into balance with demand. So says Henry Hazlitt, writing in the New York Times of March 4. Their argument, he says, would be valid only under conditions that do not exist and seem unlikely to exist. He enumerates four: That the price controls themselves would be reasonably flexible, allowing a sufficient margin of profit in each case to encourage maximum output; (2) that in stead of further encouragement to wage increases, wage control would hereafter be applied with the same strictness as price control; (3) that rationing would be restored on all important goods in short supply, and (4) that during this period of further price control the budget would not only be brought into balance but that there would be a substantial surplus of revenues over receipts and a change in interest-rate policy to reduce the out standing volume of money and bank credit. The proposal to continue price con trols for another sixteen months, he logically decides, “would leave supply sixteen months, from now even fur uiw uemiia m the race with demand than it is today.” His article calls for this further quotation: ‘‘Lf.gal ceiling prices that are kept be prifCvf-s that a free market would fix do two things: they reduce supply and tl‘nCreaSe demand- They can reduce supply in several ways. By lowering profit margins on a given product they may force marginal producers and sometimes even the bulk 0f producers to stop making that product. At the very least they discourage new producers from entering the field to increase the output.” t will take a lot of persuading, however, to get government advocates to see the light. iientr rUl °Pc» the season agamst East Bicycle, May 1. This will bring the two worst teams in the state together. The oniy chance the fans have for a break is ift it rains and the game is postponed. Unless his demands are made Xen threatens to jump to the East Bicycle team. Oddlj enough, the East Bicycle fans consider thi! also a threat. Pitcher Xenophon Meeks is a holdoirt. H< wants a salary increase. Xen is holding ou i0r an even buck a game Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1946, by King Features Syndicate) An eye-witness to the booms in Florida, 1 should be able to recognize one with the naked eye and ear. On the basis of that experience, I should say that the present congestion and enterprise in Arizona constitute a development rather than a boom. Like Florida, Arizona does a big business in the sale of warm weather in winter and there are those who believe that the time will come when the people will be reduced to the job of taking in one another’s washing, which is just what many conservative souls were saying of Mi ami in the early twenties. At first sight, the desert country is for bidding and ominous and service men who traveled through on their way to and from the Pacific, dully eyeing the wasves of moun tain and plain, the occasional weather-beaten little dobe houses and the trails leading back into the cactus, have said they wouldn’t get off a train here. Yet, in the last few years before the war and this winter, the tourist or vacation popu lation grew rapidly and it is as certain as aiij tiling can ue uidi uiia uiucahe win cuu tinue, accompanied by a growth in facilities for somewhat less nerve-wracking pleasures than those of the Florida Gold Coast and for the care of invalids suffering from tuber culosis, arthritis, some heart troubles and asthma. At present the accommodations for such patients are far short of the minimum requirements and here, I suggest, is an op portunity for doctors, nurses and promoters who are willing to invest money in quiet re treats or sanitaria. The hotels, too, and tourist camps for motorists, called motels, are over crowded and most of the dude ranches, which are, generally speaking, an elaboration of the New England farm-homes where summer boarders are offered a refuge from it all, are booked up. It is not my business to sell Arizona to anyone but, to my taste, which is not unique or peculiar in such matters as the population figures show, the dry, warm summers and the dazzling beauty of the sunsets are an irresistible combination. I was one of those who, seeing speculators buying and swapping options and titles to land, swamp and sea bo* tom in Miami 20 years ago, believed that when the craze was over most of the real estate would go back to palmetto and rattle snakes, alligators and mosquitoes. When last I saw Miami and the beach, they had grown into a metropolis whose principal business was the sale of climate and luxury at prices beyond belief, but with a solid foundation of air and sea commerce and some manufactur ing and a background of agriculture. A few boom communities actually did decay but only a few and even some of those failures were reclaimed after a few years as restless Amer icans shifted from old surroundings to new, which is still our way. Arizona’s basic business is mining and con trary to a general Impression among those [who think of the desert as a waste fit for no good use, the desert has been made to bloom in some areas with an agriculture of formidable importance. Who of those in the drifts and sleet of the east today would imagine, that in the out skirts of Tucson, there were trees heavy with citrus and sweet peas, daisies and violets in bloom on small tracts of utter desert some of them sub-divisions of claims pioneered by veterans of the First World War? These are the attractions, the luxuries, which draw the wmier vacation traae with money to spend on their pleasure and this class of Americans seems to be of a reliable permanence, though the individuals do change, for southern Cali fornia and Florida both banked on their busi ness and prospered as a result. It has seemed to me from the beginning ol my experience that Arizona and particularly Tucson, the University city, are more intel lectual, more interested in the arts than either the old residents or the boomsters and tourists were in Florida. I remember inquiring about Miami for days for a history of Dade county and a biography of Major Dade who explored the Everglades without success until, one night, a young woman who was press-agent for a big gambling house and floor show, and a stranger in town, at that, loaned me one. In Tucson there are a little theatre, lectures and university classes, and the history of the state and city, which actually were frontier so short a while ago, is an interest that con stantly occurs in books and reminiscent local stories. Men and women who lived the lives of pioneers here are still present today. This is not said in disparagement of Florida and her taste in pleasures but in an attempt at describing a difference in interests, locale and social activities. I have previously told of the remarkable growth of small homes on the desert land about Tucson. There are no mansions among tnem but neither are they shacks and this all indicates to me a development of a new region of solid citizenship who will not have to take in one another’s washing, after all, but like other American communities, will find work and opportunities and make good use of an area hitherto neglected or unknown which any European people would gladly pio neer as a new “living space.” Editorial Comment ILLUSION One of the illusions of enduring peace somewhat current in the United States to day is the very palpable theory that the Great Powers, by agreeing to banish mili tary conscription, can prevent future wars. The theory seems sensible and real be cause of. its very simplicity. Merv trained fighting men, make wars: to forbid men the right to train to kill one another thus would banish war. . Of course, if nations desire war they will not be denied their desire even though they lack weapons. All the naval disarmament in the world would not prevent navies, if they wished, from slugging it °ut in rowboats provisioned with brickbats Armies will train and march, openly or m secret, as lone as the impulse to war remains. Ban nTn! conscription in post-World War Ger eral^Staff Our whole experience S?ds some “ °f is war itseii. thwow him out “We know what a Wave and a Wac is, but ’ a Woe is what we thwow at a wabbit.’’ I IF HE THINKS THE OLD BED IS UNCOMFORTABLE , /^better be sure i / Yob uke it before. [ YOU WAKg OP YOUR _ j S MIHD DEFINITELY! , Church Of England Clergymen Begin Task Of Cleaning Up Ancient Soho By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 5— (U.R) —For 250 years the Soho district in the heart of London has been harass ed by thieves add prostitutes, and this week the Church of England begins the massive task of trying to clean up the area without scat tering its hordes of malefactors to other parts of the city, American soldiers, many of whom were slugged in its streets or doped in its gin mills during the war, know the area well. Attract ed by the free spending Yankee soldiers, Soho thuggery attained a pitch of violence easily exceed ing any era since the assassins of Charles II’s reign were hired by noble plotters in the taverns tucked in its narrow streets. The wartime flood still carries on and a good part of London’s current crime wave is hatched there. Black market, narcotic, and prostitution rings make headquar ters in its grimy cafes. Many shopkeepers pay protection money. Gambling houses and shady night clubs manage to keep running, al though police make innumerable arrests. There is often a murder under inquiry—the latest being the slay ing of “Dark Jean” Mizzi, a young prostitute strangled with her own stocking in her flat. Her husband has been jailed for living on her earnings. The favorite Soho weapon of the Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS HE BUILT A HOUSE A friend’s recent tragic death— he was stricken at the wheel of his car, while traveling by night to bring his wife home from a church meeting—led to a visit to his home, and an inspection of the house. My friend was a workingman, a mechanic. Several years ago he began to build a home, having pur chased a lot that would give him a garden. Helped by his wife and son, he did every bit of the work himself. And it was all good work. The house was no amateur make shift: it was finished as well as any contractor could have done. The evening he died my friend was busy insulating the attic. Inside, the house is completely furnished, the kitchen having all the equipment and modern gadgets dear to a woman’s heart. My imagination was stirred by all the evidence of love and Jabor and thrift that had gone into the mak inrt af 1 xioil om VintviA XTah. free from all encumbrances, and every brick and board and nail speaking the devotion of the de parted husband, the widow dwells in comfort, with her aged father as a guest. I do not know what sort of head stone will be put at my friend’s grave: His real monument is the home that he built. Is there any other memorial that a man can leave to equal a home, with children to perpetuate its fragrant memories? Thon settest the solitary in fami lies, O gracious Father: and Thou hast provided for the abiding home in Thine own presence. Amen* moment is the “Soho Slugger”— a tightly rolled newspaper in the fist with three English pennies— about the size of half dollars— held between the fingers, rims pointing out like a ‘Knuckleduster.” This does terrific damage, such as tearing the nostrils, and has the advantage of being unidenti fiable if dropped on the approach of police. In the parish house next to the ruins of the blitzed St. Anne’s church which dates back to 1686, a team of young Church of Eng land clergymen have drawn up a long range plan to eliminate Soho as a London sore spot, and make it worthy 0f its honest, substantial residents, including many famous literary and scientific figures who always have lived there. “It's no use making too direct an attack on crime and prostitu tion now,” said Rev. Max Petit pierre, “it would only scatter these people to parts of the city now clean. Also police know where to look for them now. Ours is a long range plan, in which the church will play the leading part by pro viding youth centers, cultural pro. grams and—we hope—a theater for church drama under the re built St, Anne’s.” Bishop of London John Wand will speak tomorrow at the first meet ing arranged by the Soho team, for a discussion of Soho's peculiar problem. McKenney On BRIDGE By WILLIAM McKENNEY America’s Card Authority One of the country’s outstanding bridge clubs is the Regency Club of New York. Ed Cheronnet. who conducts the duplicate games there, has increased attendance by giving the players different types of games. In a ieam-of-four con test he ran recently, Leo L. Leven tritt made six-odd on today's hand with a progressive squeeze. We played the queen of hearts on the opening lead and Leven tritt won. He cashed six diamond tricks, and West had to make five discards. If he discarded his three hearts including the king, and two clubs, the jack of hearts would squeeze him again. If he let go a spade, Leventritt could finese the jack of spades and cash the whole of spades and cash the whole suit, That is what happened in this case. The only way West could hold the hand to five-odd would be to bare down to the ace of clubs. When he won the ace, he could then cash the king of hearts. Leventritt *KJ4 | * A J 6 3 4 K 10 4 * Q 10 7 * Q 10 6 3 *97 * KQ 7 5 * 10842 * 2 4 9 88 *AKJ6 *'9532 4A85S *9 * AQJ753 *84 Duplicate—N.-S. vul. South West North East j 1 ♦ Double Redouble Pass Pass 1 * 2 N. T PasS 3 N. T Pass Pass Pass Opening—* 2. g Petitpierre said one of the cur rent complications in Soho was ! the fact that professional pros titutes have been reinforced by “crowds of enthusiastic semi amateurs,” but he said fine results had been achieved thus far by giv ing lectures on music and other secular subjects in church, as wrell as discussing Christianity in terms understood by youths who might shy at "ecclesiastical jargon.” He said the building of a theater in the former burial vaults of St. Anne’s would mean the moving of many graves. As I left the parish yard and entered the church ruins, I saw one stone marking the resting place of painter-essayist William Hazitt, and by scraping another stone I could read that it wras to “Theodor, King of Corsica.” who died a pauper in 1756 after deed ing his kingdom to his creditors. It’s barely discernible verse says: “The graves, great teacher, to a level brings “Heroes and beggars, galley slaves and kings. “But Theodore this moral learned ere dead; “Fate poured its lessons on his living head, ‘Bestowed a kingdom, and denied him bread.” I --1 Your Gi Rights Questions ana Answers On Servicemen’s Problems By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON — Veterans have asked the following questions re garding their educational benefits under the GI Bill of Rights: Q—I was among the first to be drafted, served nine months, was discharged due to a back injury. This was all before Pearl Harbor, and then I joined the Merchant Marine. Now I would like to go to college and have the government pay for it, but they tell me I don't qualify for this benefit. Is : that true? A—No, it is not true. As long as you served at least 90 days aft. er Sept, lfi, 1940, and received an honorable discharge, you are eli gible for all the provisions of the GI Bill of Rights. A— I am a veteran and the gov ernment is paying for my edu cation now. But because of a dis ability overseas I need medical care. My wife has told me that if I go to Veterans Administration and tell them I need attention they won’t let me continue school. Is this true? A—No. Receiving educational benefits has nothing to do with your right to medical attention for service - connected disabilities or vice versa. college at mght. when I inquired at the registrar’s office I was told that I couldn’t take the courses I wanted to. Isn’t it a law that col leges have to accept veterans if there is room for them? A—There is no law to force schools to accept veterans. A vet eran has to qualify for entrance like any other student. Q—Can I go to summer school with my educational benefits as well as to the regular term? A—Yes. Q—Can an American veteran go to a Canadian school under the GI Bill? A—Yes. Doctor Says— POOR POSTURE MEANS TROUBLE Persons with poor muscuV!? who pass albumin in their J?* might have postural album- "r,t Albumin enter- the r T^' bkod through the kidnev?°m result of irritation 0- mV 3s ^ the kidney or from fauSf'C 10n « Normal urine contai- .P°StU:! albumin too small t0 be TH c! by ordinary tests When\de:ect*i of urine i, poured over **^' ed nitric acid in a teV t, h n‘*ta!' white ring forms a- thV^n\aBd * the acid and the urine amounts of albumin are Br.TH urine is mivoj t"es®nt. n and heated, and a white’' !Cii tate forms, it also indicate? Slve albumin. In the oad **"*' persons believed that album^r the urine meant disease of a ney, but there are seve^ causes, especially in youn^ Albumin may be detected lr * urine after severe exercise,*®' tal strain, or prolonged to cold, but the commonest v,ru' Seen » tan young pars?1 caused by disturbance in C1,,J tion od the kidney from f0^' curvature of the spine. men postural albuminuria suspected the patient latest keeping him in bed which Ca ! the albumin to disappear. A< ,1 as he sits or stands, the album! reappears. The amount of album,' in the urine in postural albumi uria can be increased by placj, a broomstick across the small ***«*«* hooking the *>wwi behind it to push the spine % ward. Albumin which appears hi thi urine on sitting or standing and disappears on lying down is a! ways associated with normal kid" neys. the condition completed disappears as the persons grow, older and improves his muscula strength, nutrition ar.d posture. Albumin which appears In the urine following an attack of sort throat results from inflammation of the kidney (nephritis). fte germs and their toxins circulate through the blood and cause the kidney infection. Dropsy In ne phritis results from failure o! enoush water to leave the through the urine. This variety o! kidney trouble also has a tendency to occur in young persons. Insurance c o mpaniej have learned by experience that appli cants who have albumin in their urin are poorer risks than tee who have normal urine, but this does not mean that everyone in the group is suffering with a seri. ous kidney disorder. The Literary Guidepost By BOB PRICE DRURY LANE’S LAST CASE, by Ellery Queen (Little, Brown; 52). Drury Lane had a fleeting but brilliant fictional existence in just four books, published some years ago as written by Barnaby Eon who is really EUery Queen who is really two men. Three of the four have been recently reprinted and now comes the "Last Case to complete the refreshment of whodunit memories. It’s a welcome refreshment. This is Queen at his best. William Shakespeare is a leading charac ter in absentia, there are thieves who return their loot with premi ums to salve the looted, a ®88 who is in London and New bork at the same time, and diverse in triguing characters. The only source of regret is that the authors chose to make this s* irrevocably “Drury Lane s La-' Case.” They should have left open a little lane for a comeback. THE D. A. BREAKS A SEAL, by Erie Stanley Gardner (Mor row; 52). It’s a good thing for Madison County that Major Doug Selby, & D.A., arrives home on furloui-' He’s just in time to w'in a c°"" battle that has stopped local coun sel cold; to solve, incidentally, 1 murder that has immobilized county staff; to repulse the 8 Vances oi two picu* &** -« wing off on the late train for _ ® ■ _T jh Francisco. DEATH LIFTS THE LATCH. by Anthony Gilbert (Barnes, «). The latest in a series recount® the peculiar and pleasurable i y ties of that egregious London y yer, Mr. Arthur Crook, this 1 der yarn mixes all the y honored ingredients of fog. na stairways, a maiden in “1S and a chase over the side o £, cliff. Fast-paced reading mos. the way, but the reader is aP. feel let down towards the Vy^ THE INNOCENT MRS. DlJF by Elisabeth Sanxa> HolM* (Simon & Schuster; $2). This is the psychological stor.'^ a well-to-do businessman who velops ■a deep hatred for his ? Wife, a former model. He ^ to drink heavily with the rj- } that he becomes involved m couple of murders that even u y lead to his own doom. Sue-'•’ suspense rather than detect10'1' makes for good, exciting rea
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