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The Star-News can not be responsible for cur-ency sent through the mails. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING Like the sun come out When rain persisted. Faith were a doubt Or fear existed. Smiles to the lonely, Clasp of a hand. . Is your saying only: “I understand” Elaine V. Emans Seventh Street The opening of Seventh street, south to Greenfield avenue, as suggested by A. H. Graham, chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, is a desirable project, but not for use as a truck lane. If the low area south of the street’s present development were filled in to average grade and paved it could divert a portion of the automobile traffic which now crowds Front, Third and Fifth streets. But if the job is under taken the street should be protected against heavy trucking. It is gratifying to learn that the fed eral government which is to pay for a truck lane is in consultation with Mr. Graham on an around-the-city route as proposed by the council last week. The only way that homes on Wilmington’s main residence streets can be saved from the damage trucks have caused on Third street is to route this heavy traffic beyond densely built-up areas. Against Monopolies It is important that the public under stand the type of thought prevailing in the minds of those responsible for the operation of American industry. The following remarks by Eugene Hol man, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, are illuminat ing: “The distorted picture of big versus little business, in which an effort is made to portray an opposition of in terest between large and small enter prises, is basically false. We are not on opposite ends of a seesaw so that when one goes up, the other must go down. We are in the same boat. We will float or sink together. Without each other, big business and little busi ness would both go out of business. “We oil men believe in freedom and competition. We are opposed to any arrangement whereby fair and open competition is restricted. We reject agreements to fix prices, allocate mar kets, or limit production, except where production is controlled to avoid waste of natural resources. We are against monopolies, either formed by private companies or by government, because we believe they result in less goods distributed to fewer people at higher prices. Monopolies and closed economies don’t harmonize with our conviction . that the challenge of competition provides one of man’s greatest incentives to progress. In the face of definite trends abroad and some sympathy at home for centralized con trol and the reduction of individual free dom, we in the oil business see the path of our development in the direc tion of greater freedom.” t Lewis Guilty The first effective step to curb union labor domination since the new deal set out to give it everything came when Judge Goldsborough found John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers union, of which he is the head guilty of contempt of court for failure to call off the strike Lewis had ordered for November 20. It now remains to be seen how effective that step will be in stemming the rising strike tide. Judge Goldsborough has a choice of three courses. He may sentence Lewis to prison. He may fine Lewis and the UMW. He may both fine and imprison Lewis. It is a moot question if a jail term for Lewis would meet the need or merely cast him in the light of a martyr. If the court should impose a heavy fine upon him, anc} let the union off, it is to be doubted if the ends of justice would be served. The one course which contains most promise is a heavy fine upon the union, not in a single lump but for every day the miners re main out. When the contempt hearing started some observers mentioned a fine of ?200,000 a day. Should Judge Golds borough have this amount in mind, and levy it upon the union, the strikers’ reserve would soon be consumed. However large it may appear $t first glance, it is to be remembered that by calling his strike now John. L. Lewis has not only crippled the nation’s in dustrial output and encouraged strikes by other unions. He also created a fuel crisis in winter, when home heat ing is a problem at best and is un slovable without coal. It is not unreasonable to look upon him as Public Enemy No. 1. No Dilling er, no Jesse James, was ever responsible for so many deaths as will result from Lewis’ coal strike. Judge Goldsborough is justified in breaking him, within the law. Public Health Bill A good deal of meaningless hair splitting in going on concerning the proposed Wagner-Murray-Dingell public health bill. Some of its advocates seem hurt when critics say that the measure amounts to socialized medicine, and claim that nothing of the kind is in tended. It is true that the bill would not go whole hog in the direction of sociali zation, by having the government estab lish a monopoly on hospitals, clinics and doctors. It is equally true that the bill would regiment medicine—and that is always the first step toward eventual socialization. Once the doctor becomes dependent on the government for part m all of his practice and his livelihood, ihe beginning of the end would be in sight for free, private medicine. T71_l 1 <• .1 ... . ... i uiuicx, uie iacx max xne Dili maxes government-administered health insur ance compulsory instead of voluntary Indicates the way the wind blows. One hundred million or more Americans would be forced to accept and pay for this insurance whether they wanted it 3r not. It would be deducted from each paycheck, precisely as are social securi ty taxes, and the annual cost would run between $37.50 and $40 per capita. Again the measure would reduce and in many instances eliminate the patient s freedom of choice in selecting a physician. That is always true of schemes to make the practice of medi cine in whole or in part a function of the state. The great objections to the bill are that they would give an enormously costly bureaucracy stringent powers over the practice of medicine, that po litical favoritism would in great meas ure determine a doctor’s earnings and success, and that the people would be compelled to pay for a state doctor when they might prefer to pay a private doctor. Those are facts and hair-split ting over words won’t change them. U. S.-British Merger The agreement signed by Secretary of State Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Bevin merging their occupa tion zones in Germany „may be reason ably expected to result in smoother ad ministration both of relief and the do mestic problems in the affected area. It is unfortunate, for the future of Germany and European progress that efforts to bring the Soviet Union and France into the program have failed. The effect of Russia’s refusal in par ticular is regrettable since it but em phasizes the breech between Moscow on the one hand and Washington and London on the other. If anything, it draws the “iron curtain” a little lower. And with the communists steadily strengthening their influence in France it is obvious that the Paris government is either now or ultimately will take its orders from the Kremlin on all matters pertaining to Germany. As Pegler Sees It BY WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, By King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NEW YORK, Dec. 3. — Life, the pictorial magazine recently presented -an article pur porting to be a review of the communist movement, or conspiracy, in the United States by an expert. The author was Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The New York - Herald - Tribune -selected Schlesinger to review a book called "The Plot ters" by a man known by many names, includ ing Arthur A. Derounian, Avedis Boghos De rounian and John Roy Carlson. Mr. Schlesinger thought well of the book itself and regarded the author as a sincere authority. In this latter particular he disagreed with Federal Judge John P. Barnes, of Chicago, who said Irom the bench, after a trial of the evidence, that Carlson was “a wholly irresponsible person who was willing to say anything for money,” and added, “I wouldn’t believe him on oath, now or at an time hereafter.” Of Carlson’s chapter on the American com munist party, Schlesinger wrote that it was "not so complete as his picture of the fascist, largely because the efficiently organized com munist party is harder to penetrate by Carl son’s methods.” The meaning of that remark plainly is that the communist conspiracy is more dangerous because it is less easily unmasked. Neverthe less. Carlson and, I gather, Sshelsinger, too regard "fascism” as the greater menace. The reader with a free mind has a right to suspect that Carlson had undisclosed reasons for pre senting an incomplete picture of the commun 1st conspiracy. An outsider certainly would have, as Schlesinger writes, great difficulty penetrating the communist’ iron curtain in American politics and unionism. But a person sympathetic with most, or all, of its aims might be loath to reveal it fully and might try to dismiss it as a secondary or unimportant threat. "But the chapter,” on communism, “shows amply that Carlson’s awareness of the proto-fascist use red-baiting as a means of Sixiecix xxjg au/uuc xu uic icik ux vjrcucx ax x i auxu does not suspend his conviction' that liberals must nail down communist activity wherever it is clear and probable,” Schlesinger continu ed. I should prefer plainer Americanese, but these double-dome types do use an ideological geechee and we have to use their own wordage or they may say we distorted it. "Proto-fas cist” is their way of saying ’pro-fascist” oi even ‘‘Facist William S. Gailmor, the snivel ing thief who lectures along the party line, once explained that he found the device "fas cist-minded” to be useful, as it would be pret ty hard to prove what was or wasn't in a vic tim’s mind. Canvassing Schlesinger’s statements and as sumptions, we find here that be does not ac cuse all anti-communist of "smearing anyone to the left of General Franco.” But there are many Americans in "The Plotters” far to the 'eft of General Franco who nevertheless in .ulge in "red-baiting.” I have done it for years, even when "red-baiting” was regarded as undignified if not dirty pool. Why should the reds injoy exclusive immunity from "bait ing?” And, moreover, there are those who re gard all opposition to communism as "red baiting.” Notwithstanding his "expose” in Life, which 1 thought deficient in Important matters for reasons which I am at liberty to surmise, I think Schlesinger could have gone much further in "Life” without exposing himself to any reasonable charge of "red-baiting.” On the subject of "baiting,” at this point, I offer an independent observation of Schlesing er’s which, to my mind, after long study of the smear technique, is a pretty example of "fas LlOl “ uaiUilgi A I**1- J/4 vwwv*«-o Harvard study-boy, I would say he is sharply aware of the “proto-communist use of fascist baiting as a means of smearing anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin.” He speaks of Merwin K. Hart as a member of an “unattractive group who may be de scribed as members of the proto-fascist demi monde.” and says Hart had participated “in practically every important anti - democratic movement in recent American history. Schlesinger thus runs over a man and rolls on. We are to take his word that Hart is a very bad fellow. But I have been observing Hart for some years only because he has been so roughly attacked, and I have never seen evidence that he is pro-fascist, and he works so openly for American principals and against measures which he has a citizen’s right to oppose, that not even by rhetorical license could he be called a political prosti tute. Only for the sake of argument do I take Schlesinger’s word that Hart had been active in “ant.i-democratic ” movements, but I would give Hart a cheer for that. This nation is not a democracy, but a republic, and there is a great difference. “Democratic” or “Democra cy” will be found nowhere in either the Dec laration of Independence or the Constitution and it was not by oversight that they were ex cluded. And “Democracy” has come to mean many things abhorrent to believers in the true republican form of our government, in cluding “sexual democracy” and other varia tions that Henry Wallace described in Soviet Russia which his patron, Franklin D. Roose velt, nevertheless damned as a dictatorship as absolute as any dictatorhip in the world. I had hoped to review in today’s discussion the association of Schelsinger’s father, Prof. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, with groups and purposes which the Dies committee held to be pro. or, as his bright young son might put it, “proto” communist. These references to .he old gent are contained in the official report oi this congressional committee to the congress of the United States. How young Schlesingei could have overlooked the national citizen political action committee and his father’s im plication in it, in his review of the red menace for Life. I cannot for the life of me, see. Jus! an absent-minded son of the traditional absent minded professor, I take it. But why the Herald Tribune would select young Schlesinger, and the Times would select Charles G. Bolte, the chairman and chief exe cutive of the American Veterans’ committee, to do Sunday reviews cf “The Plotters” is less a mystery to me. 1 have been noticing this tendency of late and more markedly and SO’S MOLOTOV! . jasBuroa German Scientist Says Three Years Needed To Perfect Supersonic Plane WRIGHT FIELD, Dayton, O., Nov. 19. —(U.R)— (Delayed) — Dr. Alexander W. Lippisch, former chief designer for the Messer schmidt Aircraft company in Ger many, predicted recently that it would take "about three years” to make a practical airplane which can safely fly above the speed of sound. Lippisch, working with the Army Air corps in experiments here, pre dicted that after commercial planes of this type are produced, flights could be made from coast to coast in an hour at a cost of $75. He suggested that an economical speed would be about 2000 miles an hour and said that one plane (could make three times as many trips as the best transcontinental plane today. Between the speed of sound, 761 miles an hour at sea level, and the supersonic speeds of 1,000 miles an hour and up, lies the so-called trans-sonic wall where air condi tions are strange and unpredictable and where normal wings, propel lors and airfoils lose their norma) characteristics. He said that aircraft might pierce the "wall” by climbing to 40,000 feet and above where the density would be less and the shock waves consequently of less intensi ty. "There they couia Dunct up through the trans-sonic to the super-sonic zone where there ap pears to be little danger from shocks,’ he said. The ME-163, the fastest fighter of World War II, reached 621 miles an hour at 10,000 feet in October, 1941, he said, and a flying wing capable of 650 miles an hour had more surprisingly in the reverend old Herald Tribune. For a while there, they had Bolte writing a Sunday feature about veterans’ af fairs and the A.V.C., a. boisterous young rival of the legion and the AMVETS in the business of “cap turing the veterans’ mind.’’ He never gave A.V.C. much the worst of it. I might get around to old man Schlesinger’s political associations tomorow. In closing today I would note some remarks by Orville Prescott, also in the Times, in another review of “The Plotters printed on a week-day. Prescott refers to “such seemingly respect able organizations” as the constitu tional educational league and the national economic council. Why “seemingly”? Would the Times let anyone refer to a “seemingly” respectable woman without sup porting the slimy doubt? Prescott also says Carlson has “looked into the C.I.O. and labor union generally and, except for individuals like Petrillo and Joe Ryan, he awards them a complete ly clean bill of health.” St he does and right there he proves again the unreliability which gave Judge Barnes.to say he wouldn’t believe Carlson under oath. I am willing to believe that Carlson speaks from ignorance here, but not that he speaks from Information after cap able inquiry, because the A.F. and L. is still crawling with thieving rascals and there are no more autocratic dictators in America than John L. Lewis and Dave Beck, of Seattle. been developed at Vienna by the mans out of Austria. It would have been in full pro time the Russians drove the Ger duction by this summer, he esti mated. It was a flat, triangular plane but was wasteful on fuel. He said he believed the super sonic plane would evolve into a fly ing wing. "A supersonic plane would b6 easier and cheaper to build and much simpler to maintain. The McKENNEY On BRIDGE BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority Glick A A K 10 4 V97 ♦ AQ 107 3 AK6 A 7 2 A Q 9 8 3 VJ63 V10 ♦ 6 5 4 ♦ K J 8 2 AQJ73 A 10 985 2 A J6 5 VAKQ.8S42 ♦ 9 A A 4 Tournament—Neither vul. i South West North East 1 V Pass 2 ♦ Pass 3 V Pass 3 A Pass 4 Pass 4 N. T. Pass j f 5 V Pass 5 N. T. Pass J 3 6 4 Pass 7 N. T. Pass i j Opening—A 10 4 Written for NEA Service It is nice to see a master play a good hand. Jeff Glick of Miami, a member of the committee for the national championships tour nament to be held Dec. 8 to 15 at Hollywood, Fla., played today’s hand at the recent Florida State tournament. It has one of the rare plays in bridge, the Vienna coup. In fact you might call it a double Vienna. Glick won the opening lead in his own hand (North) with the king of clubs, and started to run off the seven heart tricks. East’s first discard was the eight of dia monds and his second the eight of spades. Glick now knew that neither the diamond or spade finesse would work. On the seven hearts Glick fol lowed with two hearts, and dis carded the ten and four of spades and the ten, seven and three of diamonds. Then he cashed the ace and king of spades—and that is the Vienna coup play. Deliberately setting up a trick ior the opponent. At this point East held the queen of spades and the king-jack of diamonds. Glick now led the six of clubs, and East was helpless. If he threw away the queen of spades, dum my’s jack would be good. He dis carded the jack of diamonds, and Glick led the diamond from dum my, went up with the ace, and the queen of damonds was his thir teenth trick. * * * The moral of this hand, if there is one, is: Don’t be too anxious to signal that you hold the missing high card. engine is much simpler for one thing,” he said. “Supersonic flight is not for war, but for peace. It should be purely a commercial development. The better the facilities for communica tion between nations, the better the peoples will know each other and will eliminate the differences that produce war.” Letter Box GRATEFUL To The Editor: The board of directors wish to express their sincere appreciation for your cooperation and assistance in the recent campaign to raise funds for the new Catherine Ken nedy home. The space in your newspapers which you were kind enough to give us helped greatly in insuring the success of this worthwhile pro ject, and you may be sure was deeply appreciated. CATHERINE KENNEDY HOME By: Mrs. Albert Perry, Treasurer Wilmington, N. C. December 3, 1946. Star Dust Short Shift In the newspaper world the day of personal journalism is gone, but recollections of the colorful past ot fighting editors rfemain. In the midst of a bitter rivalry between two small Southern n .,-s papers some years ago, one of the editors stole a march on the other by slipping a new high-speed press into his establishment one night under the cover of darkness, and The Doctor DO NOT DISTURB SHOULDER INJURY BY WILLIAM A. O' BRIEX « Dislocation of thet shoulder '' suits from the arm's bein* <„ " outward and upward until "3 nead of the bone leaves tC , and rests below, behind „Cket Eront of the joint. ' r !n A . shoulder dislocation j. oated by the way in wu: , 3l victim holds his arm and bv ? existence of a vacancy whZ 2 head of the bone naturally be Dislocations are product falls, unusual twistino and strong muscular exertion'0"’ A dislocated shouider tremely painful. The patient ally holds the hand on the iri„rM side to support the forearm V3 ing the arm close to his borlv First-aiders should n o f JSL to reduce a dislocated shnnin' Unskilled efforts may H*r damage torn ligaments. While it is possible to *et . located shoulder back into Pia;' without giving an anesthetic aily it is not wise to do so The patient is placed flat on u, back on a firm surface, and tC physician holds the elbow on 2 affected side with one hand I the wrist with the other. The ar “ is pulled downward as the wrist and forearm are moved slov.lv outward. No attenrot at force i made, because of the dan^r 0| further tearing the ligaments J muscles. While the upper arm is belt this position, the elbow is brou«ht around to the front of the chest and held there as the affected hand and . forearm are swum across the body, t0 permit the hand to rest upon the opposite shoulder. At this point the bore slips back into position unless the head is caught in the torn liM. ments. When this method fails, ft. shoeless foot of the surgeon IS placed in the armpit, to assist in getting the head of 'he bone back in place. After the shoulder dislocation has been reduced, a large pad 11 placed in the armpit and the arm is bandaged at the side of the body, leaving the hand free. Tss hand and fingers are moved from time to time, to keep the muscle; from becoming stiff. It may be necessary to keep the arm in this position for soma time. When the arm is moved, caution should be observed, tt keep the head of the bone from slipping. Any activity which requires sud den upward reaching of the am or the use of the arm over the head may cause difficulties until the structures are finally healed, Shoulder dislocations have a ten dency to. recur, due to weakening and stretching of the joint cap sule. An operation on the join; it keep the head of the bone in place is advisable in such cases. A fracture complicating a dis located shoulder is a difficult in jury to treat. It is often necessary to insert a pin to hold the frac tures together. QUESTION: I have heard of tlf use of radioactive iodine in the treatment of goiter. My physicia: informs me that my heart is M weak for surgery. Would the io dine treatment help me? ANSWER: Your physician ma;1 facilitate an answer to your ques tion by referring you to a hospital or medical center where radio active iodine can be obtained. Only limited qua.iities have bee: made available as yet. The treat ment attacks the goiter by re leasing rays in the thyroid gland announcing grandly soon there after: “Fellow-citizens, you are invitee to come and see our magnified' press next Tuesday. This press, which will print, cut and fold H' COO copies of an eight-page pape: in an hour, will be placed it operation at exactly 3 P. M. To which the rival journal re joined with this helpful suggestion. “Be punctual, fellow - citizens when you go to see that grlJ new press Jim Bascomb is ha? ging about. Be there prompt; *■ three. For exactly at 3:04 hise tire circulation will have printed and he can call it a ^ WHY WE SAY by STAN V COUINS , RADAR* L ^ « This miracle of World War II °*,tain^ » its name from the initial l«’,,^s ^ scribing its operations. RAdio e e ing And Rangefinding.
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