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MAY 22, 1947) Star Program State ports with Wilmington favored in proportion with its resources, tc In clude public terminals, tobacco storage warehouses, ship repair facilities, near by sites for heavy Industry and 35-foot Cape Fear river channel. City auditoxium l>*— 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 uecominodations. 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. ’ >e\ elopment of Southeastern North Carolina’s health facilities, especially In coiint’es lacking hospitals, and Includ ing a Negro Health center Encouragement of the growth of com mercial fishing. Consolidation of City and County governments. GOOD MORNING Money and time are the heaviest burdens oi life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.—Johnson. Welcome, Ladies It has been all of eight years since i the state Federation of Women’s Clubs 1 held an annua] convention at Wrights ville Beach. The long absence makes the organization doubly welcome now. Wilmington, no less than Wrights ville, greets the delegates with—we had almost indiscretely said open arms, but certainly with cordial handclasps. So much has happened since the Federation was last here, so much tragedy and grief, the convention should prove a means of agreeable es cape, as well as affording opportunity to draft a program with the content and happiness and welfare of the cities representated, as the chief aim to be . ’ ned out during the coming year. The Star joins heartily in the com munity’s gratefulness to the Federa tion for coming to Wrightsville for the . 1917 convention, and trusts that the visit will lead the organization to re turn in much shorter time than has lapsed since it was last here. Misusing Liberty Thomas Mann, German novelist who could not submit to the nazi domina tion as set up by Hitler and so found refuge in the United States, has, as all great writers must have a keen and penetrating vision not only of ef fects but of causes influencing human action. No one can read his books with out discovering that he “carries through” in his thinking to the logical conclusion. Possessing these rare attributes, what Mr. Mann has to say on any sub ject, and especially on present-day Germany, deserves close attention. Thus, when he declares in London_ he is revisiting Europe for the first time since 1939—that Germany is al ready “misusing her liberty and democ racy” and that self-pity has led Ger many to fail to cooperate with the Allies, it may be taken for granted that he arrived at these viewpoints only after examining the facts closely. In an interview with the Associated Press, he declares: “Germany refuses to acknowledge thav. misery and tragedy are not her’s alone, although she herself caused them. There is suffering in England and in France, but the German people refuse to acknowledge the suffering of others. Germany takes a morbid pride in her own tragedy, believing it to be unique. It is self-pity, part of the na tlonal egotism, which is preventing Ger many from co-operating with the Allies in her revival.” The Allies, he said, “were misled by the Germans’ drugged attitude after the collapse and have not recognized this essential unwillingness of the Germans to do their best and to co operate with the victors.” Mr. Mann declared Dr. James New man, American Military Governor of Hesse, was “absolutely right” in stern ly warning the Germans of his dis trict recently to discontinue strikes and violence. But he said “it naturally will take a long time for Germany to recover her health after such a com plete spiritual and moral collapse.” He attributed Germany’s difficul ties to two other main factors: That the entire country, its talents, resources, and strength, had from 1933 until the end of the war been concen trated on a "barbaric regime” and “the failure of the Allies to agree at Yalta or Potsdam on economic and trade in terchange among all four zones of oc cupation.” There is food for thought here, not only among we, the people, but in high places as well. Holden Beach At Disadvantage Residents of Holden Beach have been placed under a heavy handicap by the Highway Commission order prohibiting trucks of more than four tons dead weight on the ferry across the Inland Waterway. When the chairman of the commis sion, Mr. A. H. Graham, declares that there are more important highway projects to be completed in Brunswick county he may well be asked what can be more important to the welfare of any community than the delivery of foodstuffs for its people. Nor can his statement that the four ton truck rule has been in existence a long time but not enforced be con doned. If there is now to be rigid obser vance of the rule, milk and food trucks will have to stop on the mainland and deliveries to consumers be made by hand—an interminable process and costly. That the ferry could accommodate loads exceeding four tons is indicated by a statement of Dr. Edgar Holden. Dr. Holden declares tw'elve-ton trucks have made the waterway crossing with out damage to or endangering the ferry. Inconvenience in food deliveries is not the only complaint against Mr. Graham’s ruling. Some twenty homes are under construction at the beach. Building materials cannot be delivered by hand, so construction will be brought to a standstill. With southeastern North Carolina beach resorts in great need of addi tional housing, Mr. Graham has halted building operations at Holden by an arbitrary decision which, in the under standing of the developers there, is not in harmony with a fair interpretation of the original agreement with the highway department. That agreement specifies perpetual ferry service would be manitained, ac cording to information form an au thoritative 'source. This, according to the same source, means the service would be commensurate with the need. Instead of providing adequate ferry service, Mr. Graham has taken the op posite course. Hopefully, the confer ence of SENCBA representatives with Mr. J. A. Bridgers of the highway com mission staff, set for today, will im press the chairman of the Highway Commission, when the proceedings are conveyed co him in Raleigh, with the necessity of donig something to im prove ferry communication with Hol den Beach untjl such time as a bridge can be built, instead of interrupting building construction and delaying food deliveries, as his present order does, ACL Wins First Round The Interstate Commerce Commis sion’s ruling favoring a merger of the Florida East Coast Railway with the Atlantic Coast Line involves a higher price than the ACL had anticipated, but Mr. C. McD. Uavis, the president, in an interview by telephone at Atlanta with the Star, declared he is sure the directors will recommend to the stock holders that the ICC price be accepted. This will mean that the first round in the battle for the East Coast will have been won by the Coast Line. The East Coast has been in receiver ship for five years, during which time a lively contest for it has been in progress. In its first ruling, the ICC accepted an examiner’s recommendation for independent operation, under con trol of the St. Joe Paper Company, a du Pont property, but later reopened the case to hear the Atlantic Coast Line’s absorption plan. Since then there have been many rumors, among them that the Southern or the Seaboard Air Line might get the East Coast. That the ICC ruling will precipitate a court battle is inevitable. And it is as probable that the battle will be hard fought and possibly long drawn out. But the Atlantic Coast Line has the edge on other contestants as a result of the ICC’s decision. If and when the decision is upheld, the Coast Line will be able to operate on its own tracks down the east coast of Florida to Miami. This will be to the advantage of the stockholders, who may be expected to support the ACL management in its efforts to find favor in the courts. As Pegler Sees It By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, By King Features Syndicate, Inc.) George Sokolsky, my colleague in punditry, recently laundered a shirt for Governor Tom Dewey He explained that Irving Ives, the freshman republican senator from New York, was speaking strictly for himself and not for Dewey in opposing legislation to restrain the rascality of goons and thieves who run many of our unions. Sokolsky wrote, “I know for a fact that Dewey is not supporting Ives’ labor position at all.” Knowing both Dewey and Sokolsky and how Sokolsky works, I daresay (hat Dewey told him so. I assume that Ives has worried Dewey by his opposition to the republican policy on unions as represented by Senator Taft and that, in this respect, Dew’ey wants to dis own him. Many of our citizens and some speculative writers drew the inference that Dew’ey w’as trimming on the republican man date received in the election of last fall to write iaws which would drag the parasites off the body of American labor and set the citizen free. Sokolsky says this is not true and that Ives is off the reservation. I will take his word for it—and Dewey’s. Now, if you will go back with me to some events of last August. I will megaphone to you some points of amusing but sad impor tance in cur nolitics. When the republicans W’ere nominating their man for, senator. Dewey w'anled Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, retired. Notwithstanding all the hypocritical clamor against religion as a consideration in politics, every politician knows, and so do many of the voters, that religion is in many cases the first considera tion. Franklin D. Roosevelt and other presi dents have bowed to this political rule, one plain result of w’hich is that we always have one Catholic and one justice of the Jewish faith on the Supreme Court of the United Stages, as we have today, both appointees of Roosevelt, with religion the first considera tion. General Drum is a Catholic. Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan, who opposed Drum, and Dewey, for the republican senatorial nomina tion. is a Catholic, too. Dewey knew he could not handle Donovan, who has a habit of being his own man, and, as head of the party, the governor opposed him. Dewey was absolutely confident that he would win for himself, but it was conceded that he would have to tow rope his senatorial candidate, whoever that candidate might be. in the contest against Herbert H. Lehman. Mr. Lehman had made a good reputation as a governor, but, more over, the practical fact was recognized by both democrats and republicans that he would poll an enormous Jewish vote in the city of New York, as he did. Because Jews and Catholics get along well in New York politics, the republicans, having no Jewish personality comparable to Lehman, decided to pick a Catholic. That would just about equalize things in the field of religious consideration. Inasmuch as Dewey’s personal strength would be a factor in the election of the republican candidate for senator, the mana gers of the republican machine insisted that he deserved a man who would stay hitched and loyal. Donovan was not, and no great friend of Dewey. A smear was issued against Donovan charging him with hostility to or ganized labor. That show of hostility had con sisted of his performance of his sworn duty as a public proseciPor in sending to prison some union criminals who nad dynamited a passenger car on a struck railroad 25 years ago. This smear appeared ot help Donovan. A whispered insinuation then started that al though Donovan was a Catholic, he was not a “good” Catholic and therefore would be opposed by the “good" Catholics, especially in Buffalo. The republicans injected the re ligious issue against one of their own party Donovan disposed o£ this by quiet reference to the fact that he had recently received two Papal decorations for his “humanitarian works’ in the second World War. He had re ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in the first one. Aftf'r some haggling. General Drum casual ly it be known that he never had been a candidate at all. Donovan couldn't beat Dewey’s strength, so in the end the republi cans picked Irving M. Ives, who had served a long time in the Albany legislature and had puttered in labor legislation there. Ives is a prnlestant. Dewey carried him on his coattails. Then Ives went to Washington and in his first few monlhs struck out on his own inde pendent course on union legislation. A hand made senator threw down his boss. Would Donovan have been more perverse? We don’t know, but the point is that for all the mouthing of platitudes in abhorrence of “religion in politics,” religion nevertheless i? played upon constantly by both parties. To be sure, it is exploited in the positive sense by the nomination of men whose religious pull is carefully reckoned in their favor and not in antagonism to any religion or religious groups But Jim Farley would be the last to deny that the delicate business of balancing a ticket with a due proportion of proiestants. Catholics and Jews, and, nowadays, an oc casional Negro, is most important in the qual ifications of a state chairman. 1 once sat in the private business office of a democratic state chairman of New York and heard him turn down his own brother, a Catholic, for a place on a county ticket with the explanation that the ticket was perfectly balanced and must, not be disturbed. But next time, may be. We live in a world of political lies and false pretenses. Editorial Comment The Absent-Minded The experience or a local dignitary who went to a nearby college and came away leav ing his wife behind brings to mind a certain professor who journeyed to Richmond several vears ago to lecture on "Memory” and forgot his notes In etiher case forgetting the results would require a long time.-Roanoke (Va.) World News. _ Out of This World! Henry A. Wallace wants the United States to finance the w'hole world. But why should he be so concerned over this world—he’s not of ft.—Charleston (S. C.) Even Ag Post. Own Wilderness Even his detractors feel that Hank Wallace is something special among voices, as he seems to carry Ills own wilderness. Richmond Times-Dispatch. * FANNING THE FLAME ! The Book Of Knowledge finno m /Mil ■ I WONDER QUESTIONS DOES A PLANT GO TO SLEEP? As we usually use the word sleep, it means a condition in which consciousness of the outer world is lost. A man who sleeps does not see or hear what is going on around him. In this meaning of the word sleep, plants do not sleep. They have no sense of sight or hearing. They do not see, so they cannot cease from seeing; and they do not hear, so they cannot cease from hearing. Yet, in the sense in which sleep is a periodical rest from activity, they may be said to sleep in vaiA-ing degrees at va rious times. We talk of the winter sleep of plants; and in winter plants do live a life so much less active than their summer life that they may be said to sleep. A green plant that has shed :ts leaves may be said to be asleep. Without the green leaves it cannot make starch, or sugar, or woody fibre or honey, or pollen, or buds or flowers. It is not dead, but ii is not working and making living tissues. That is one sense, then, in wnich plants, in temperate climates at least, may be said to take a long sleep. But in much the same sense of rest from work, every plant has a good sleep during the twenty A sugar maple tree is shown wide awake in summer, with branches covered with leaves, and asleep in winter, with branches bare. A green plant that has shed its leaves is resting, for the leaves do much of its work in making living tissues. four hours of a day. Almost ail their work is done when the sun is shining. They are busy break ing up carbon dioxide an^j build ing the carbon up into sugar and starch and other substances. But when the sun ceases to shine, all that wonderful chemical work ceases, too. The carbon dioxide is no longer broken up. no s igar or starch is formed, and so the plant may be said to sleep. Indeed, the winter sleep of the plant in temp erate lands is chiefly just a sleep of this kind—a sleep due to lack of sunshine. In a third sense, flowers may be said to sleep when they close ] their petals. The daisy is said to | shut its eyes. But this kind of sleep is not so real as the other kinds we have mentioned; for there are some flowers that open their petals at night—at the very time when they are doing little' or no work. They sleep with open eyes. In other cases, flowers close their petals and curl up their leaves to retain moisture or to es 1 cape the sun's heat; but that also cannot properly be called sleep. They work with shut eyes but they do not sleep. Sleep is rest, and when plants cease, or almost cease, from work, then only can we rightly say that they sleep. (Copyrigh, 1946, By The Grolier Sociey Inc., based upon The Book Of Knowledge) (Distributed By United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) TOMORROW: — The Coyote and the Jackal. Star Dust He Oughta Know The customer at the filling sta tion asked for a change of oil. ‘'What do you want—in bulk or sealed cans?" The attendant ask- ! ed. the difference?” “No difference in oil,” the at ten. .it explained. "The bulk is for people whg take my word for the quality and the cans for those who question my word.” ‘‘Your word is as good as mine. ’ the customer said thoughtfully. As the attendant started to procure the oil from the bulk supply, the customer spoke up quickly, "1 .said your worn is just as good as mine. Give me that can oil.” The Gnu Behold the shaggy, ox-like gnu. Who's rarely seen outside a zoo. His horns are sharp; his virtues, few; I wouldn’t tease fhe brute— would you? —Dolph Montague Registered Lobbyists Total 795 By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON. — Seventy - five paid labor union lobbyists are now '' working in Washington, according to a detailed study of reports for the first three months of 1947, filed with Congress in compliance with the Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946. These reports show that the la bor lobby is now the biggest seek ing to influence Congress. It does not include John L. Lewis, Phil Murray, Bill Green, or the heads of the big unions. It also does not include the flying squads brought to Washington from all over the country to work on local congress men while they are considering the Taft - Hartley labor reform bills. The 75 registered lobbyists are the more or less full - time union “legislative representa tives,” as they’re called. Breaking down the total, it is shown that 20 of the lobbyists are registered from CIO unions, 19 are from the Railroad Brotherhoods, nine from the Foremen’s Assn, of America, five from AFL, plus two from its affiliated UMW. nine from i n dependent machinists unions, four from the telephone workers, and seven from miscel laneous labor organizations. incidentally, umuiis ui icuatu i employes which have registered lobbyists seeking to influence gov ernment pay scales and conditions of civil service employment num ber 23. If this number is added to the 75 lobbyists from non-gov ernment unions, the total labor lobby counts 98, or approximately one out of every eight lobbyists who have reported to Congress. Seven hundred and ninety - five individuals had registered as lob byists up to May 1. Of this num ber. 545 filed reports purporting to show their income and expendi tures during the first three months of the year. Failure to file a state ment or filing an incorrect state ment is punishable by a fine of $5000, a year’s imprisonment, or both. Next to organized labor, the big gest lobbies which reported to Congress were working for the Townsend Plan, which registered 18 lobbyists, and the Citizens Com mittee for Displaced Persons, which registered 21. This latter or ganization is working for legis lation to amend the immigration laws so as to admit more Euro pean refugees to the U. S. It re ported all its lobbyists were un paid volunteers. Townsend Plan lobbyists reported pay and ex penses varying from nothin.g to 25 per cent of the dues they collect, ed. Highest paid Townsend Plan lobbyist appears from the reports to be John C. Cuneo. of Modesto. Calif., who reported income of $13,442 for the first three months. Veterans’ organization iobbyists numbered 14. topped by $10,000 a year John Thomas Taylor of the Legion and S9600 Omar Ketchum of Veterans of Foreign Wars. There are six registered lobby ists seeking to influence education legislation. Four of them are from the National Education Assn. There are eight lobbyists for the farm organizations. Six are at work on anti-discrimination legis lation and anti - poll tax laws. Twelve are interested in health legislation, topped by $12,000 a year Dr. Joseph S. Lawrence of the American Medical Assn. Two are looking after the inter ests ot' Indian tribes. Thirteen rep resent miscellaneous do-good so cieties. Eleven lobbyists represent women’s organizations. Six speak to congressmen in behalf of re ligious organizations. There is even a peace lobby. Eight registered lobbyists for U. S. peace organizations in the first three months of this year received salaries totaling $7393 and expense money of $2108. There is a registered lobbyist for “Unveiling the Universe,” an other interested in anti-vivisection legislation, and one seelting legis lation to improve the condition of retired Army and Navy officers. Thirty-four of the registered lob byists said they didn’t work at their trade in the first three months. The fact that the labor lobby has now become the biggest in Washington indicates how the pro fession has changed since the big power lobby investigation of 1934. Up to that time the usual con ception of a lobbyist was of a rep resentative of some vested inter est drawing many thousands of dollars in pay and with more or less unlimited expense accounts. There are still some of them around. But reports of the labor lobby ists show they are not highly paid. Highest paid labor lobbyist seems to be John T. Corbett of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers with -10,724 a year. Highest pai,d of the CIO lobby ists is Robert Lamb of the Steel workers, $8000 a year. Of the AFL lobbyists, $7500 a year W. C. Hush ing is tops. Average pay 0f the labor lobbyist is around $75 a week. Their expenses average $200 a month. Washington’s big business lobby will be looked into in me next Miln m< The Doctor Says—. NEW: HAY FEVER ViC!^ By WILUAmTVkr,En Hay fever time is a, ' | £or those who are sensitive4? ^ pollen. Grass and weed 'fs v/dl develop their trouble mer advances. Patie..., JS s<. -I been made i„sensi^, those who cannot g0 ;0 5e« free place may be reli^' syn.ptoms by recently <■ ? remedies. ’ Gls-'0veri; True pollen allergic v only occur at the time tn ^ are in the air. Patients symptoms before or afters hnating season do not i.,.1* fever Average patient % hay fever is sensitive to t ’ ■ five pollens, not one as „’‘,r'f 1 erly believed. fcr;. management of hay fc year-around affair. ‘Mo “ 11 cians recommend taking P':‘" lions during the off season,,”?* lv long intervals, then 'i:' them up well in ad pected trouble. Some patient, rendered completely i:; the second or third year' others may have to take a course. u~sf' Skin tests with the Susn pollen are taken before treat? is started. It is helpful to 2 the dates of symptoms, t- - ■ physician by consulting a 'v* can tell which pollen are rf air at the time. Sixteen conib* t-On sets of skin te.^t mat-T'■' have simplified the search fo- ■■■ offending pollen in the' ive.,„ case. There is no special tj1IPI, which benefits hay fevn 1 tients. Some patients hav it helpful to spend the seasc location where fewer of their pr’ len are in the air. Only ways';■ escape the difficulty are to tail a sea voyage, to stay in an r conditioned room in which the po len have been filtered out. y, take prescribed injections. Although many drues have bee used for symptomatic relief ( hay fever, the most effects! to date are pyribenzamine or by adryl. They must be admir.ytsni by a physician so they cash stopped if reactions occur. McKENNEY On Bridge BY WILLIAM E. MeKF.NXEl America's Card Authority -I A 8 6 4 3 V 102 ♦ 10 8 6 3 2 A " 6 A J 10 9 5 2 V Q983 ♦ None ' * 8 5 3 2 A AKQ V None ♦ A K Q J ♦ K Q J 1094 Rubber—N-S vul. South West North Fast 2* 4ty Pass 4 N'T. Pass 5 ♦ Pass 6 V Double Pass Pass Pass Opening—* 7 21 Written for NEA Service Lieut. Jonathan B. McMte wrote me that they enjoy tie rubber bridge games at Han.il::: Field. Calif., but today's iut: nearly broke up the game, rtf haps you will not like the bidriig but that is the way it 1 and it is the reason South «11 * play bridge any more. When South opened the bid’fc with two clubs vulnerab bid four hearts to make :• W; for the boys to get a slats. they doubled four hearts, he "A mn out to four spades. East’s four no-trump b:d a the Culbertson slam co and therefore West’s resp.r.f five diamonds showed a diam void. South of course passed :’ •. no-trump bid. just waiting ■ East and West to get high f,';; so he could double. If ^ r.ot get too high, he would -p with six clubs himself. When East went to s x 1 South certainly thought he tp heat that contract. He do When the op< won in dummy with the ai was not greatly worried. o a diamond was led ana ■ . by declarer, South began 11 •- ^ little shaky. A club was ■ w in dummy and declarer !■• - to trump out the ren at ■ monds and clubs, P ,, trumps, and a spade conceded to the oppone:..- _ South refused to score hand and has not : since. He has our sympat JWHY WE SAY bystAWi-couiNsiLJ * prune" i While it is all quite confusing a prune is really a plum. According to Luther Burhank, great American plant breed er, a prune is ‘'any plum w hich has suf | fieient sugar hi jts substance to dry | w ithout souring.” con, mi r> n»««i
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