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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 MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1946, TOP O’ THE MORNING KindMess which Is not inexhaustable does not deserve the name. —Marie Ebner-eschenbaeh. Accidents In Slow Motion Usually auto-bicycle accidents happen so fast it is next to impossible to deter mine just what causes them. They are generally attributed to carelessness— either the driver’s or the rider’s. One man in Wilmington has made a thorough study of them. He is Captain John Davis, for years head of the police traffic squad, now in retirement. Dur ing the novel exhibition scheduled for November 2 at the Legion Stadium Captain Davis proposes to demonstrate the principle causes of these accidents in slow motion. He will use an automo bile and a bicycle and put them through the motions that create hazards of acci dent and accidents themselves, at a snail’s pace so that every move may be seen and no lives endangered, at the same time explaining, as he does so well, what motor vehicle drivers and bike riders should do to avoid collision. Through his many years of active service with the Police department, Captain Davis has had much experience in this phase of traffic and has a fine talent for making his deductions under standable for the youngest cyclist as well as the oldest motorist. Since his retirement, as well as during much of his police service, he ha? devoted con siderable time to lecturing a1 the public schools for the instruction of the pupils. The demonstrations he plans to give at Legion Stadium will be capable of improving the safety situation and should attract parents of school children as well as pupils. In assuming the sponsorship of the event, the Wilmington Kiwanis Club accepted on opportunity to perform a valuable public service. Is This The Last? Just what do the people of the world think when they read reports to tie effect that some of the principal mili tary and political leaders believe that a third World War is as inevitable as the rising and setting of the sun ? Here at home, w'e read that our arm ed forces are vigorously pushing the development of new weapons of un imaginable destructive force_including some that may prove to be more mili tarily effective than the atomic bomb. This is, of course, the plain duty of our military chiefs. They must prepare for the worst, and as rapidly as they can. And in the meantime, some of the na tions seem to be doing everything pos sible to make certain that those weap ons will be used, and soon. At the end of World War I, there was much talk of “the lost generation.” The problem at the end of World War JI seems to be whether or not this shall be “the last generation.” If we once more permit the world to resort to force of arms, no nation and no indi vidual will escape the awful conse quences. Someone recently remarked nobody £ can say for sure what weapons will be used if there is another war, but in any war after that armies will fight with spears. Views On Byrnes Broadcast Secretary of State Byrnes’ position, as revealed in his radio address, has been discussed in these columns. It is appropriate that the views of other persons on Mr. Byrnes’ views be record ed also. This is the more justifiable on the ground that no public utterance by a high United States official has more clearly or definitely defined this nation’s attitude on the distressing state of world affairs. Mr. Byrnes laid down the broad principles of our foreign policy both as to our relations with other nations and our hopes for the re-establishment of peace on earth and good will among men. He made it very clear that we and all other peoples have nothing to fear but fear, as President Roosevelt declared in the early days of his dynasty. The chief sour note in the comment on |dr. Byrnes’ broadcast comes from Henry Wallace, who said he is “more certain than ever that we must adopt a real American foreign policy.” This is in keeping with the Wallace idea that he alone is capable of drafting a “real” foreign policy for the United States. On the other hand, Representative Gordon of Illinois asserted the views voiced in the broadcast are a “definite step forward for unity of all nations. It is a program that will result in fair play and justice to all.” And Representa tive Emily Taft Dougles said she is “thoroughly in sympathy with such a constructive appeal.” She believes, she added, that it will “clear present ten sion.” Even Senator Pepper of Florida, who usually goes along with Wallace in most of his radical views, declared: “The statement of Secretary Byrnes clearly puts forward the position of our delegation at Paris and of our official foreign policy. » “I share with Secretary Byrnes the ernest hope he expresses that we shall gain better understanding of one an other. “The pressing problem facing us all is how the big nations of the world can regain and continue the unity and con fidence in one another which gave us the great victory we won in the war.” Senator Lucas believes the speech will be “very displeasing to the isola tionist republican leadership” but “the 95 per cent of the American people who* are firmly behind the foreign policy of Secretary Byrnes will applaud it.” Senator Thomas of Utah believes “Secretary Byrnes’ sincerity and desire to bring about a decent jeace impresses! everyone.” This, from Senator LaFollette: “The Secretary of State vigorously espoused the ca’Use of a just and democratic peace for which he and Senators Connally and Vandenberg labored at Paris.” And Representative Sol Bloom says what was done in Paris will have “full results for peace and security.” How the Russians will react doubtless will become known when the foreign ministers assemble in New York. R. 0. T. C. Uniforms The R. 0. T. C. band needs help. The need is for more uniforms. There are, fifty on hand. Twenty-five must be forthcoming if the band is to make a showing as creditable as that of other high school bands in the principal cities of the state. Without them the band will be only partially uniformed, and civilian rai ment, however attractive under other circumstances, is out of place in a mili tary band. Nor is the lack of uniforms for all piayers the only pressing need. There is a thousand-dollar debt outstanding on uniforms previously purchased. In planning to secure additional uniforms the meeting of this obligation must be taken into consideration. In the past band members raised quite a fund by soliciting magazine sub scriptions. This was supplemented with some voluntary money gifts. But both sources failed to meet the entire cost, and so now, with the problem of secur ing money for additional uniforms, the members face a doubly difficult task. Wilmingtonians' have reason to be proud of their R. 0. T. C. band which responds to every demand for its serv ices, often at considerable sacrifice to the members. In the'present emergency the best way the people of this city can show their appreciation of these willing serv ices is to support any effort the band puts forth both to discharge its debt and to pay for the required uniforms. As Pegler Sees It BY WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright By King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Whoever takes the trouble to analize President Truman’s speech announcing the •‘decontrol” of meat—these jargon words are becoming a national gullah will discover that he wound up beating himself over the skull with the very bludgeon that he had been using on Senators Taft and Wherry a few minutes before. It was as though a . ail player had been sold to the opposition in the fifth and wound up the game with a homerun against his old comrades. Early in the speech, Mr. Truman at tacked ‘‘a few men in the Congress who, in the service of selfish interests, have been determined to wreck price controls, no matter what the cost might be to our people.” Toward the close, however, he adopted the very arguments that had been offered all along by those who had opposed its continua tion, obviously, he had to insist on the wisdom of his decision, but, in justifying his own course, he found himself agreeing with the men he had abused. In honoring Taft and Wherry by name, Mr. Truman actually dis criminated against a large number of de serving Democrats who had agreed that con trol was not only a failure but a totalitarian device and likewise had wanted an end of it. Inasmuch as this course is now vindicated by the President himself, especially by his hope ful view of the immediate results, these Democrats would seem to have deserved a little personal scorn, too, to help them in the current campaign. "As we speed up the removal of price controls,” the President said, “the removal of wage controls will be accelerated. In this way, we shall move steadily, and as quickly as we safely can, toward a free economy and collective bargaining. The risk in re moving meat controls is less than it would otherwise be, because production, in general, is now increasing at a significant rate. “As the shortages continue to disappear,” he then said, “the inflationary pressures will ease and the need for government controls will cease,” which is precisely what every advocate of the President’s reluctant and be lated course had predicted all along. And next: "Abundant production is the only sure and safe road to a free market," which, again, is just what old Bernie Baruch, or his spook, Herbie Swope, wrote way last winter and not with any merit of originality either, for this wholesome platitude had oc curred to the intelligence of millions of others long before. It was undignified of Mr. Truman to dwell so heavily on “selfish” and “special” interests in referring to the ranchers and hog farmers who withheld their animals from the market in anticipation of higher prices to come im mediately after control should be abandoned. He was here trying to imitate Roosevelt’s employment of abusive language as a sub stitute for reason, but without the master’s nasty knack or voice and in a speech which repudiated not merely some controls, but Roosevelt's dearest principle of government control itself. He completely confused the two sides of the subject and changed sides in announcing that he. too, like these same “selfish” and “special” interests, was anxious to end controls. And he was dishonest because selfishness is no more active in the growers of meat than in politicians and the men who strike for higher wages, whose greed is en couraged and praised. This phase of relations between labor and industry of all kinds has been distorted for years, to the disadvantage of all concerned, and should be adjusted in the popular understanding for the general good. Selfishness may be carried to extremes and at some point is believed to become sinful, but whether that point lies on hither side or beyond the spectacular selfishness of the late Mr. Roosevelt and Harold Ickes, we are not all agreed. Roosevelt, much more selfish than the average man, turned even the presidency to personal profit by exploiting by-products of office, and his reputation for meanness among the serfs in the region of his Hyde Park barony will outlive the headless horse man. As to Ickes, his own entitlement of him self as a “curmudgeon” in every meaning of the word makes it unnecessary to labor the point. Not much worse could be said. Corporate greed is no more rapacious than individual greed. Indeed, it is merely an ag gregation of the selfishness of executives and stockholders who are individuals, and Ameri cans by the million. When Mr. Truman spoke angrily of meat producers who "are endangering the health of our people by holding back vital* foods he called to mind though he did not mention, strikers who endangered health in many cases and, in general, threatened the national stabili ty, by withholding vitai services for selfish motives. One wonders whether Mr. Truman would have hidden a few white shirts and a few gross of hankerchiefs, ties and socks for a higher market had he still been a haber dasher and not President when the shortages occurred within the last year. If so, he could have justified himself in a reasonable con science by recalling the lean years when, as his biographers tell us, he went broke. This is to justify neither greed, whether in Roosevelt, Ickes, the meat growers or the corporations, nor the selfishness of a striker who threatens to brain with a bat a driver trying todeliver milk to a New York delica tessen. But a President who is not a saint sounds sanctimonious and at a loss for valid arguments when the only charge that he can make, and then only against nameless defend ants, is participation in a common human weakness. It is like shouting at a man: “You're normal!” Money used for education xis more in the nature of an investment than an expense, for schooling develops human resources and de veloped human resources produce wealth and contribute to human happiness. —Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. We knov that there is a national and in ternational conspiracy to divide our people, to discredit our institutions and to bring about disrespect for our government. Why should we blind ourselves to obvious facts. —Attorn ey General Tom C. Clark. THE POISON THAT REALLY KILLED HIM w ev^ Slow Purge Of Japanese Educators Causes Worry To Occupation Forces TOKYO. Monday,Oct. 21—W— The Japanese government purged from public office 186,000 militant nationalists but barring from the teaching profession only 331 of the 15,992 educators on whom it check ed during the first year of the oc cupation, General MacArthur re ported Sunday. The “screening” of educators, a function of the Japanese Education ministry, is known to be causing headquarters officials some con cern and may result in a reshuf fling of the boards which pass on teaching eligibility. The MacArthur report, covering McKENNEY On BRIDGE 4Q J 109 7 3 f A52 ♦ 6 *K 10 9 Samuels - 442 N 46 V 10 9 W E V K 7 6 ♦ Q J 7 2 $ ♦ A K 10 5 + AJ73 J 4 6 5 4 ■ 4 A K 8 5 V Q J 8 4 7 ♦ 98 \ 4Q8 Tournament—Be;.. South West North East Pass Pass 14 2 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 Pass Pass 5 4 Pass Pass Double Pass Pass Pass Opening—4 K 21 By WILLIAM E. MeKENNEY America’s Card Authority Last year a new event, the na tional open individual cham pionship, was added to the pro gram of the Winter National Tour nament. This year the event is scheduled for Sunday, December 8, when the Winter Nationals will get underway at the Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Fla. One hundred and twenty-four players entered the contest last year and it is expected that close to 200 will participate in it this year. Last year's winner was Theodore Sam uels, of Easton, Pa., who is ex pected to defend his title in De cember. Today’s hand came up in the in dividual last year. At practically every table North bought the con tract for four spades and made it, losing a heart, a diamond and a club. Samuels elected to take the sac rifice at five diamonds. It is diffi cult to take a sacrifice in the five zone, especially when vulnerable However, it was a very good one, as East had to lose only one spade, a heart and a club, going down 200. Only one club trick was lost by stripping the hand and playing the ace of club* followed by a small club. If North won he would drop South's queen. If South won, he would be forced to give declarer a sluff and a ruff. * * * Sacrifice bidding plays a most important role in tournament bridge and is perhaps the most diffic- ’t technique of the game to learn. I the occupation through August, re flected general increases in most | things in Japan, ranging from the cost of living to the death rate. Production increases were re ported for coal mining, machine industries, refining, paper pulp, yarn and raw silk. Wages went up, but so did living expenses, the index on some com modities jumping from 200 to 700 percent. The national debt rose to 220, 000,000,000 yen (about $15,000, 000,000 at the official exchange rate), and the bank note issued ciimbed to more than 5,000,000, 000,000 yen. Despite improving production, the Welfare ministry told head quarters that 6,800,000 Japanese would be listed as unemployed by the end of the year. Food stocks dropped to a “new low',” the MacArthur report noted, v.'iih more than 214,000 tons of im ported food being released “to pre vent disease and unrest in deficit areas.” This imported food made up 31 per cent of the staple food ration for August. While there was some apprehen sion of unrest as a result of the food problem, the report said rela tions between the Japanese and oc cupation forces continued good. During the month, headquarters authorized Japanese whaling in the Religion Day By Day BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS “SHE TALK AWAY!” There is an amusing old stofy about the origin of the name Chau tauqua. An Indian who lived on what is now Lake Chautauqua had an over-talkative wife. So one Autumn, as he set out on his sea son’s hunting, he strung her up by the neck on a tree by the lake. Months later he returned, and there hung the skeleton. And the wind, soughing and whistling and murmuring through the bones, made the old familiar sounds. Shaking his head despondently, the Indian turned away, saying, “She talk away! She talk away!” If an ungallant comment upon the sex as a whole may be per mitted it would be that too many women talk too much about too lit tle. There are abundant and glor ious exceptions to that generaliza tion; and certainly no informed man would willingly see the silly, “smart and sophisticated” chatter ot' cocktail circles substituted for the homely talk about everyday folk and things which mark the conversation of plain people. But the temptation to gossip and to re tell unimportant trivia is a social sin of myriads. “Let your speech always be gra cious, seasoned with salt,” is the Bible’s injunction against insipid talk. Again the Book says "Let your yea be yea and your nay nay” Silence is often a sign of ttrength. The chatterer 1* always a weariness to the listener. We would guard our lips against idle words, 0 Lord, mindful always of tha counsel of Thy words. Amm Antarctic under Allied supervis ion. This drew protests from Nor way, Australia and Britain. Japa nese officials estimated thousands of tons of edible oil and meat would thus be added to the national lar der. The report noted that coastwise shipping increased and that pur chasing missions came from Burma and Hong Kong to obtain textiles. Other Japanese exports included timber to China, coal to Hong Kong, coal, asphalt and iron pyrites to Korea, and lead, rubber, tin and raw silk to the United States. Besides food, imports included salt, oil, graphite, cotton and phos phates. Headquarters reported it had in custody nearly $255,000,000 worth of gold, silver and platinum. Your GI Rights Questions and Answers On Servicemen’s Problems By DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHNGTON, Oct. 20.—NEA) — Here are some questions from vet erans regarding the change in Na tional Service Life Insurance made recently: Q—I have not gotten along well with my brother since we were children. I am not married, and aside from my brother my mother is the only living relative I have. My mother is the beneficiary of my government insurance. If I should die and my mother got all my insurance, would my brother get that money after my mother’s death? A—Under the present law as al tered by a recent amendment, you can name any person you wish as either primary or contingent bene ficiary. If your mother dies, and then you die, before you get a chance to change your beneficiary, the insurance will go into your es Doctor Says— EXCESS SECRETION | UPSETS STOMACH By WILLIAM A. O’BRIEN. M n One person of every 20 ma tures an excess of stomach ?P. tion. This condition is erri .! confused with ''acid stomach ‘‘Acid stomach” does not ex st The stomach may manufacti;-P cess secretion, but it cannot r 5' duce too much acid. The lining membrane of the stomach consists of cells v - P1 ■manufacture acid, pepsrn, < and mucus. The secretions ; P der the control of the nerve of stimulants which come to the stomach from other orgar s The glands which produce the secretions are concentrated ln , . rious portions of the stoma, After the stomach has finished j; job of digesting the food f: n previous meal, only a small - of secretion is manufactured. The first effect of food on the stomach comes from the < zi!,' smell, and taste of the food ~ p even from the anticipation of the meal. Workers returning to then rr.r.j at the end of the day been V' make gastric juices, rich i- ai. p as they smell the good thing? rf. ing cooked in the kitche presence of food in the stnmac;1 also causes a flow of gastric i After the food has been in the stomach for a certain time. • ; „ opening between the stomach - intestines relaxes in order to >• the partially digested food go through. In persons who ma:,u'5r. ture an excess of stomach ?ecrP. tion, the stomach lining ni: y bt injured in the region of the ,pf.-. ing because of the greater com.--, tration of acid present, ar.ci ulcer? may result. Pain, nausea, vomiting and heartburn result from upsets in the muscles of the stomach Rhythmic waves pass over the stomach and keep the food mov ing along. Blocks at the opening be tween the stomach and intestines cause these contractions to increase in depth and to produce eramp like pains. (Hunger pains are cat's ed by contractions of an empty stomach.). In vomiting the muscular con tractions are reversed, while m heartburn the loose, fairly Hide connection between the stomach and esophagus permits the gastric secretion to be brought up into the throat. The stomach is constantly in fluenced by emotions, nerves, foods, and body needs. Unstable individuals tend to have upset stomachs at the slightest provocation. Unfortunately, they mistake these symptons for stom ach disease and attempt to treat the symptonms with stomach medi cine. When the victims acquire emotional control, their symptoms disappear. The symptoms may be due to ex cess secretion, muscular difficult ies, or both. tale, and your brother will get his share of it when your estate is pro bated If your mother should re ceive your insurance and vour brother is still alive when she dies, your mother's will will determine whether or not your brother w.. eventually receive part of your in surance. The only way you can make sure that our brother doesn't get a share of your insurance, re gardless of what happens — and that is apparently what you are worried about — is to make your mother primary beneficiary and' name another person as continger: beneficiary. Q—I named my mother benefi ciary in my government insurance policy when I went into t’ne serv ice. Since then she has died I assume that my father will be the beneficiary now. Is this true’ A—No. If there is no beneficiary named in your policy now, the pm ceeds in the event of your de"' will be placed in your estate. A:: your estate will be divided bv court, which is sometime': a ccrv and time-consuming business. Q—Can I now name a pert"' who is not a relative a- or., u beneficiary of my government surance? A—Yes. (Questions will be answered or!;' in this space—not by mail)._ WHY WE SAT by STAN J. COU.INS » L J /CIRCUS/' The'Circus, a great Americas institu- / tion, derived its name from Circus Max imus, largest ring of ancient Rome, ^ eneirgfed by rising tiers of seats, where f perfMMrs carried out their acts-*
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