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Star Program
State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to in
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair facilities, near
by sites for heavy industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re
sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the region’s recreation
advantages and improvement of resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina’s farm-to-market and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City’s In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina’s health facilities, especially in
counties lacking hospitals, and includ
ing a Negro Health center
Encouragement of the growth of com
mercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County
governments.
THURSDAY. APRIL 17, 1947.
GOOD MORNING
Those that are the loudest in their
threats are the weakest in the execution of
them.—Colton.
Vote In Primary
The time to register for the forth
coming city election is past. The time
fo’* candidates to file is past. The one
remaining duty is to vote.
The primary is less than a week off.
; It is in this balloting that Wilming
ton’s electorate will select the candi
; dates whose names will appear on the
* final election ticket.
; Nothing save illness or other serious
; circumstance over which the individual
; voter has no control should interfere
; with a visit to the polls next Monday.
Wilmington voters on the whole
• have long been averse to casting bal
lots. On the other hand they have been
very willing to criticize elected officers
and condemn a whole administration.
It is only fair to say that any eligible
voter who stays away from the polls on
election day has no right to complain of
any official action of successful candi
dates. The one way to justify com
plaint is, after having voted, the voter
finds the candidate or candidates he
supported failing to fulfill pre-election
pledges.
Otherwise he or she should take
what comes in silence.
It would be well, considering the
problems that must be settled by the
next city administration, for the next
council to be the choice of a large ma
jority of the city’s electorate. Wil
mington is getting too large, Wilming
ton’s opportunity for advancement is
too great, for a minority administra
tion.
Wilmington is its own greatest cor
poration. No business concern, no in
dustry, or combination of them, oc
cupies as vital a place in the com
munity’s financial and economic struc
ture. The council is Wilmington’s
board of directors. It must be chosen
with the same type of carefulness and
broad support that the stockholders of
a private corporation elect its directors.
We, the voters of Wilmington are
the city’s stockholders. Remember
that when primary day rolls around.
The New Truman Policy
President Truman’s Jefferson Day
dinner address is still receiving atten
tion from columnists and editors, i
fact which may well be accepted as ar
indication that he touched minds as
closely as the dinner touched pocket
books.
The Christian Science Monitor goes
so far as to declare the President “laid
down several planks for a democratic
platform in 1948.” One of these, the
Monitor admits, has “boxed” republi
can opposition. It is his proposal to aid
people resisting Russian expansionism.
“For those who oppose it,” adds the
Monitor, “find themselves accused of
going ‘soft’ toward communism.”
Carrying its comment to a logical
conclusion, the Monitor continues: “The
republicans may well criticize and
amend specific measures for carrying
out this policy. But they will be hard
put to it to find an adequate counter
so long as tensions between Russia and
the United States produce such war
like sounds.”
Sound reasoning, we think. And in
addition to its humanitarianism, Mr.
Truman has laid down a policy which
has all the earmarks of being sound
political judgment as well.
Medal For Hull
No man, with the possible exception
of General John Pershing, occupies a
higher place in the regard of the Ameri
can people than the Hon. Cordell Hull.
It is with true gratitude, we are
sure, that they learn of the honor
finally bestowed upon him in the form
of the Medal of Merit with oak leaf
cluster, personally by President Tru
man, in a simple ceremony at the Naval
Hospital where Mr. Hull has long been
a patient.
The citations note that Mr. Hull, as
Secretary of State, made diplomacy “a
powerful weapon in support of our
armed strength,” and commend his
services in the defense period up to the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Roosevelt clan probably will
dispute the declaration that he is the
father of the United Nations, but we
believe the majority of those who know
the course of events while the organ
ization was being formed are in full
agreement with it.
Mr. Hull gave his entire active
career to public service. After many
years in Congress, w'here his voice
was always raised in behalf of sound
legislation, he was called into the
Cabinet by President Roosevelt, as
Secretary of State, at which post he
remained until his health broke.
It was he who created the “good
neighbor policy” which has done more
to cement relations between the United
States and republics in Latin America
than any American statesman in this
nation’s history, since the Monroe
Doctrine.
On his 75th birthday he issued a
statement from his hospital room set
ting forth his views on the trend of
world affairs. He reviewed conditions
throughout the world without glossing
over evil conditions even then emerg
ing in the aftermath of World War II.
In conclusion he wrote:
“There is an overwhelming need to
day for every one o fthe United Na
tions, whether large or small to keep
faith with those ideals of a brother
hood of peace, justice, and freedom
which inspired our wartime unity and
cur wartime efforts to insure unity
among us after victory. All mankind
will be eternally grateful to those
statesmen who follow this course un
swervingly and thus demonstrate
their courage, their ability, and—above
all — their unyielding devotion to
peace and humanity at one of the most
perilous junctures in history.”
Like most good advice his recon
mendations have been ignored. This
does not lessen their value. It would
be well for the world if the General
Assembly of the United Nations and
the Big Three gathered in Moscow
heeded them.
Reynolds Sets Record
To Milton Reynolds and his Bomb
shell plane goes the credit of creating
a new record for world-girdling flight.
The time, 78 hours, 55 1-2 minutes. This
reduces the time consumed by Howard
Hughes in 1938 by some twelve hours,
eighteen minutes. Hughes’ record was
91 hours and 14 minutes. Mr. Reynolds
had with him aboard his reconstructed
A-26 attack bomber Captain William
Odom, war flier, and T. Carroll Sallee
of Texas.
The next question is when a rocket
plane will circumnavigate the earth and
what will be its elapse time, Air travel,
despite this performance of the Bomb
shell, is still in its infancy.
But it has become a lusty infant,
for. all that. With each successive trip
the world, to all intents and purposes,
, shrinks a little more.
Jules Verne, for example, believed
he had performed another miracle when
he sent his fictitious character, Phileas
Fogg, around the world in eighty days,
i This .was in 1872. Nelly Bly. made her
actual trip from here back to here,
figuratively, in 72 days, six hours and
eleven minutes, and what a stir Hearst
made of that.
A year later George Francis Train
cut her time, making the trip in 67
days, 12 hours and three minutes. In
1903 J. W. Willis Sayre got around in
54 days, nine hours and two minutes,
and Henry Frederick did it in 54 days,
seven hours and two minutes. Then in
1907 Colonel Burnlay-Campbell re
quired only 40 days, 19 hours, 30
minutes.
There were several other trips, no
table for reducing previous records, but
it was not until 1931 that Wiley Post
in his famous Winnie Mae, traveled
the northern air circumference of the
world in eight days and some minutes,
and again over approximately the same
route cut his own flying time to seven
days plus. Then, in 1938, Hughes,
over the longer route, set the record
just lowered by the Bombshell and its
intrepid crew.
Bad Council
By ARTHUR KROCK
WASHINGTON, April 16. — Henry A. Wal
lace. once Vice President of the United States,
has gone abroad to build up opposition to the
Truman Doctrine in the British Isles and on
the Continent, the task being supererogatory
in Soviet Russia and areas controlled from
Moscow. On the errand he has already met
and will meet members of other governments.
In so doing Mr. Wallace has put himself at
least within the shadow of the shadowed of
the Logan Act, and Congress is full of j
voices demanding that he be proceeded
against for its violation.
The decision rests with the President. But
there are so many reasons, both technical
and practical, why the demands are ill-found
ed and why the course proposed would react
heavily and unfavorably against its purpose
that virtually no one in Washington expects
Mr. Truman to undertake it. Among the tech
nical reasons are these:
1. The Logan Act passed in 1799 and now
in revised form appearing in the United State :
Code as Section 5 of Title 18, bans what is
termed "criminal correspondence with foreign
governments." It provides fines and impris
onment for any persons subject to the juris
diction of the United States who "directly or
indirectly" (a) carry on verbal or written
correspondence or intercourse with any for
eign government or its officers or agents,
without official authority from Washington, de
signed to "influence the measures or conduct
of any foreign government. . .in relation to
any disputes or controversies with the United
States: and (b) for persons under this juris
diction who "counsel, advise or assist in any
such correspondence."
2. The Congress which passed this act met
while rumors were prevalent that Bonaparte
had ordered the French Fleet to attack our
coast and an insurrection of slaves was being
fomented. Dr. Logan of Philadelphia, who
later became United States Senator, decided
to go to Paris on a self-appointed mission to
improve the relations between this country
and France, and if possible to prevent war.
He saw Talleyrand and other ministers, was
V'armly received by the French press and
people, but this government resented his un
auth >rized activities. Secretary of State Pick
ering induced. Congress to pass the statute
now known as the Logan Act — a law Picker
ing himself violated when he fell from power.
It has been invoked several times, but never
importantly, and no prosecution or conviction
under it has occurred.
3. No government of a country in Mr. Wal
lace's itinerary is engaged in any official con
troversy with the United States over the Tru
man Doctrine. Therefore. Mr. Wallace is not
violating the Logan Act in this respect.
4 Undoubtedly the purpose of his trip
abroad is to build up foreign sentiment against
the Truman Doctrine which could "influence
the measures or conduct of other govern
ments ’ to a point that might conceivably
"defeat the measures of the government of
the United States" in the areas w'here it is
proposed to test out the Truman Doctrine—
Greece and Turkey. But the Truman Doc
trine is not a “measure,” Congress not yet
having put it in operation. And after it has
become a "measure," if Mr. Wallace pursues
his effort abroad it would be very difficult
to establish in a court of law that he has
urged on foreign governments procedures to
“defeat" it as such.
A ground for action under the Logan Act
could be found, perhaps. But it would be nar
row and very insecure.
The practical reasons against statutory pro
ceedings, including the violent proposal that
Mr. Wallace’s passport should be revoked, are
even stronger:
1. Many who now condemn his taste, his
judgment and even his patriotism would draw
back in alarm from the precedent that might
be created. Although he has been a Cabinet
Minister and Vice President, Mr. Wallace is
now a private citizen and a publicist. If it
shoulo be established in American law that a
private citizen, an editor under a free press
guarantee, invites legal punishment if he goes
abroad to repeat to foreign audiences criti
cism. of a domestic policy which he has ut
tered here, official abuse of the new power
would become a new temptation for future
American governments. And if the law were
successfully invoked on the technicality that
this private citizen had physically come in
contact with members of foreign governments,
the technique would be sufficiently suggestive
of the practices of police states to arouse
widespread protest among informed friends
of the American system of government.
2. Because of this and other probable conse
quences it would be bad politics for the ad
ministration, and a heavy disservice to the im
mediate objective and the Truman Doctrine it
self.
3. A good many students of our history
would see in the proceedings a revival of the
Federalist thinking that produced the
Alien' and Sedition Acts, which instruments of
official.tyranny were destroyed by Jefferson,
who, in this instance, had the assistance of
John Marshall.
4. Signs are multiplying that the British
and French publics are increasingly aware
that Mr. Wallace’s influence on American pol
icy is steadily diminishing.
If these things are true, then his selection
of a forum abroad will add to the support
of the President at home, contribute nothing
to the "defeat” of the policy when made,
and assure a hostile reckoning in public opin
i ion when he returns.—New York Times.
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The Book Of Knowledge
AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS
(6) Indians of the Eastern Area
The largest area of early Amer
ican Indian lile was the Eastern
Woodlands — a huge section
stretching from the Atlantic
Ocean west to the Plains, north
to the Eskimo and Mackenzie
areas, and south to Kentucky.
There was a northern group of
tribes living between Lakes Huron
and Superior and the Eskimo
area. They were dependent upon
the caribou for food and clothing;
ar.d in many other ways, their
mode of life resembled that of the
Mackenzie area Indians.
South of the Great Lakes and
the St. Lawrence River, ware
three other bg groups.
One was composed of the Iro
cjuoian - speaking tribes. Among
these were the tribes which, about
1570, formed a league called the
Five Nations—the Mohawk, Onon
daga, Oneida, Cayuga and Sene
ca. Later in 1722, the Tuscarora
Indians from North Carolina join
ed them and then they were
called the Six Nations. The Six
Nations together made up the Iro
quois. The Huron, Cherokee and
Dther tribes were distantly related
to the Iroquois and spoke dialects
of the same language.
The other two large groups
were composed of Algonkian
speaking tribes. One group lived
to the east of the Iroquoians, and
the other to the west. Thus, the
Iroquoians occupied a sort of 1s
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BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
Written For NEA Service
At the dinner table the other
r.ight Peter Leventritt, Erich
Kreisel and I were discussing
newspaper hands. Today's hand
was given to me by Kreisel, who
thought it was an ideal newspaper
hand.
Leventritt differed . He thought
the most interesting hands were
those about which even the ex -
perts argued. I agree with Leven
tritt, but I like today’s hand.
Several pairs made the hand be
cause when East won the open
ing lead with the king of dia
monds he shifted to a club and
South took the finesse.
The only way to defeat the
hand is for West to open the jack
of hearts—no other heart will do
the trick.
With the diamond opening, here
is the line of play presented by
Leventritt and Kreisel; Let us say
that East wins the first trick with
th, ace of diamonds and returns
the diamond king. Instead of
trumping this, South discards the
six of hearts. If East shifts to a
spade, declarer wins it in dummy
and then takes the club finesse;
of if East returns a club, South
lakes the finesse immediately.
If South trumps the second dia
mond, he has to work out a rather
involved endplay to make the con
tract. He must casn the ace of
clubs, trump the eight of clubs in
dummy, and lead the iacK of
spades, East of course will not
cover, so the ten of spades is led
and overtaken with the queen.
Now the balance of the spades are
cashed, and East is forced to bare
down to the ace-queen of hearts
and the queen and one club. De
clarer then cashes the king of
clubs and throws East in the lead
with the jack.
If East bares down to the ace
of he?.-ts sr.d three c!"he'. South
has to lead g heart to last's ace
and then take the club finesse.
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Indians planting corn.
Algonkian baby In cradle strap
ped to his mother’s back.
land in the vast Algonkian terri
tory.
The Algonkian Indians taught
the early white settlers how to use
the canoe and the toboggan, and
how to make maple sugar and
maple syrup. Pocahontas and her
father, Powhatan, belonged to the
Powhatan tribe of the Algonkian
stock.
The keynote of existence in the
Eastern Woodlands was corn.
Fields were cleared in the forests,
ar.d between the stumps, hills of
corn were planted, often with
squashes, pumpkins and beans
planted in the same hill. The corn
ears were eaten fresh or they
were dried and pulverized for
storage through the winter. The
corn meal was cooked in various
ways, with fat, berries and meat.
Deer were hunted. So were wild
turkeys and fish. Wild rice was
gathered, and occasionally plant
ed.
Families banded together and
lived in villages, usually on high
land not far from a stream.
The summer house of the Al
gonkians was dome-shaped, cov
ered with bark or mats. It was
called a wigwam. The winter
house was a rectangular affair,
with walls of bark stretched over
saplings.
The Algonkian clothing was of
woven bark fibre, rabbit skins,
deerskin and (among the Eastern
Algonkians) feather robes. They
were fair tailors; the women’s us
ual costume was a two-piece
dress. Moccasins provided foot
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Religion
Day By Day
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
A BAGDAD ROMANCE
Years ago, when making a trip
down the Tigris River on a goat
ski;, raft, I hired at Diarbekir as
servant a husky Armenian young
man, whose family had perished,
he told me, in an Armenian mas
sacre.
After a bookful of experiences,
we arrived in Bagdad, and my
faithful dragoman, old Shamu,
took “Cheer-Up”, as w;e called
him, to the Armenian Church.
There he discovered his own
[brother, who had likewise escaped
the massacre, “lying among the
dead as dead',” thinking himself
the only survivor of his family.
The brother was secretary to a
rich man, and from that hour
,,Cheer-Up,” was made.
More romantic reunions than
th’j await many of us at the end
of life's journey. Ah, the unim -
aginable joy of these unexpected
meetings in the Father's house of
many mansions!
We thank Thee. Fatter, for all
the surprises of love. Thou hast
planned better things for us than
we can ever devise for ourselves.
Amen.
gear; sometimes leggings were
added.
Weapons were the bow and ar
rows, clubs and. later, toma
hawks. Birch bark was made into
various utensils; mats were
woven of reed and bark. The ca
noes were of birch bark.
There w'ere no social classes
and little attention was paid to
ownership of property w'ithin the
tribe. Religion was important, and
there were dances and ceremonies
fox many occasions, especially
centering around warfare. The Al
gonkian had many stories about
their gods and their forefathers;
some of these stories have come
dcwn to us.
(COPYRIGHT, 1946, BY THE
GROLIER SOCIETY INC. based
upon THE BOOK OK KNOWL
EDGE)
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Tomorrow:—The Iroquoian Tribes
Letter Box
STAR-NEWS GOLF TOURNEY
To The Editor:
I have been following very close
ly with much interest the inaugura
tion of the Star-News advertising
golf tournament. I wish to con
gratulate you on this very worth
while undertaking. I am certain
much good can come from a
tournament made up of players
comprising business men and em
ployees participating in this fine
sport where they can meet and
play together.
I recall a similar event spon
sored by the Virginia-Pilot in Nor
folk, Va. about 1932. It happens I
know Norfolk, having played on
its golf courses a number of times
and as I recall the above mention
ed Virginia-Pilot tournament was
a real success. It also happens
that Jack Newman, chairman of
your working committee is the
same gentleman who did the same
job for the Virginia-Pilot.
The golfer who won the Pilot
tournament was Chandler Harper
of Portsmouth, Va. He is as you
probably know one of the top rank
ing professional golfers in the
United States today.
Let us hope your efforts towards
increasing interest in local and
southeastern North Carolina sports
will result in the discovery of an
other Chandler Harper, that the
name of our city will be emblazon
ed along the golfing trails of our
country. This should also be help
ful in stimulating additional in
terest in our fine courses here.
I appreciate very much having
been appointed on your rules com
mittee and have already advised
my acceptance.
J. E. L. Wade
Wilmington, N. C.
April 16, 1947.
WHY WE SAY by STAN J. COLLINS * L J- StAWSOM
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CROW ABOUT rfcfe
Crow used in the slang sense of brag- Eg
ging was derived from the sport of cock
fighting w here the victor always crowed
1 over the defeated bird in the cockpit.
MJmJKI OF FARM
PRICES ON TAPk
by marquis CIULnc
washington- a ‘ Ds
nonsense has been \vrtt» Scal #
the role of government ■ ' r' \
mg farm prices. Inch*,-vi:Up?«b .1
men are crying out m
the spectacle of governm°;°f t
port for food prices a, th» s'*
time when the President if ^
manufacturers to n ar’ Ur8':t
their price tags. "* A
In working themselves
a tizzy, these indignant ger“., :r'<
ignore most of the facts s'- ^ 1
these facts were poir-ec} u;r,e S
Secretary of Agriculture cv
P. Anderson in an interview ^ :
and most important of an", *“«
fact that, without •;«, “ -i '<!
price program adopted'
gress. we might not toda\ -
the bumper crops whi,i
possible to feed oursekYY.
high levels and also -0 s- n (r!:
to hungry Europe. 'p ‘0,t
The United States and Ca
are both producing about
cent more food than was 2r,lri,Pe!’ 1
before the war. But •. <,,/ aj ^ •
only two countries in :he !;
that have topped pre-war w'!
After World War I. thee y■
disastrous collapse of farm n- 1
which had a ruinous effec: or”
riculture, particularly jn p. 3'
die West. Mlj’
. 111 working up their case
indignant gentlemen convener
ignore the fact that the pncY, '
only one commodity is now- 0' *
supported. About $80,000,000 is k.?
ing spent to support the price
potatoes as a result of the bourt#
ous 1946 crop. Potatoes a-“e"'.
small fraction of the cost of lYv
—about 4 per cent of the avers*
consumer’s food bill
The price of every other com
midity is above the level at which
support is required under the war
time law. That law requires
ernment support when the pY(
drops below 90 per cent of parity
Hogs are at 159 per cent of parity
butter fat at 120, corn a; ij]
wheat at 121, chickens at 102. rr.e
reason they are high is that p,,.
pie have had money in their pog
ets to pay the price even wltet
as with bacon and ham, ;t wjj
very high.
On March 15. the price of ? Ei
was 96 per cent of parity. fY
price js being sustained in the
present season, when hens ate
laying, by purchase of eggs to he
sent to Great Britain in dehydri:- ^
ed form.
wny, men, me ordinary sto, t
ble individual will ask. couid t
potatoes also be sent to hunp
people in Europe? Why are ni
lions of bushels being destroyed’
Already 22.000.000 bushels hive
been dumped at a cost of SI!,
500.000.
The obvious answer is that po
tatoes are nine - tenth* water,
which makes the cost of shipping,
in relation to food value, exces
sive. Because it takes so mam
potatoes to make a pound of de
hydrated potatoes, the latter cos:
10 cents as compared to whta
which costs 6 cents a pound.
There would be a scant solution
if we had not rushed headlong to
abandon all controls in the imme
diate aftermath of the war, when
many countries were still close to
starvation and chaos. We could
have rationed wheat and bread,
thereby compelling consumers to
eat more potatoes. In this way we
would have conserved wheat for
export to areas where it is do
perately needed, and at the same
time we would have consumed the
excess potato crop.
But the same indignant gentle
men were the ones who cried out J
against rationing and other war
time controls. These were con
trary to free interprise they said.
These same gentlemen talked
about letting farm prices fall to
their natural levels. When they
say that, they are forgetting a lot
of recent history. They are for
getting what happened on the
farms in the depression of 1930
and after.
In 1931 and ‘32. farmers -n the
Middle West were in revolt. They
forcibly stopped sheriffs' foreclo
sure sales. TTiey talked freely o'
using violence. They poured milk
into the streets rather than take
depression prices for it.
In Washington the powerful
farm lobby was at work. Farm
spokesmen argued that industrial
prices were protected by all sorts
of agreements and that only farm
prices were left to fall or rise in
the whims of the market. They
demanded equality of treatment
and they got the AAA
The wartime support price pro
gram is due to end Dec. 31. 1948.
But anyone who thinks that farm
prices will be permitted after -".s’
date to rise and fall in a free
market is bound to be badly mi: ’
taken. Neither the democrats nor
the republicans are likely to ad
vocate abandoning farm controls
after next year. The American
farmer would have an equal righ
to demand that all tariffs and pro
>$tive devices for industry be
abandoned at the same time.
(Copyright. 1947, by United Fes’
ture Syndicate. Inc.)