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JUNE 13. 1947 Star Program State porta with Wilmington favored in proportion with ita resource!, to in clude publio terminals, tobacco storage warehouses, ship repair facilities, near by sites for heavy industry and 36-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 ef resort accommodations. Improvement of Southeastern North Carolina’s farm-to-market and primary roads, with a paved highway from Tc> sail inlet to Bald Head island. Continued e'foK through the City’s In dustrial Agency to attract more in dustries. Proper utilization of Bluethenthai 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. •• GOOD MORNING Think not those faithful who praise ail tty words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.—-Socrates. >Vilmington Azalea Pageant j After so long a time of hoping Wil mington at last has taken a definite step toward an azalea festival. The group that endured the heat at Wood row Wilson hut on Wednesday night, and upon whom the chief responsibility for engineering the preliminary ar rangements, accomplished more in some two hours than has been done in sev eral years. It is this spirit, the willingness to thresh out details and arrive at deci sions only after careful consideration that holds the best promise of success for the initial event. For example, it was difficult to de cide whether to seek a movie starlet j for queen, leave the selection to com-; petition among southeastern North Carolina eligible, or crown a Wilming ton girl. The starlet was settled upon because of her advertising value, but only after the other two proposals had been fully considered. The same consideration was given the program, each day’s attractions being thoroughly studied. In fact the decision to open on a Thursday night and close on the following Saturday i night with a name band dance, re quired expression of varying views be fore it was settled. So it was with the flower show, the parade, the water car nival, and particularly the pageant. The time consumed, and it was blister ingly hot, was well spent in that it brought forth a schedule which can now be presented to the city’s many or ganizations in soliciting their coopera tion. While the schedule is necessarily tentative, it is something to work on. One event, which had not previous ly been considered but promptly re ceived unanimous endorsement, is the pageant. As the plan now stands it would be held at the Legion Stadium, weather permitting, or indoors if the evening were rainy. The Thalians will be invited to produce it, with whatever additional help may be needed. It will have to do with the birth and develop ment of the azalea. So popular was the proposal that it is probable the name of the festival may be Wilmington Azalea Pageant. Now that a start has been made and 1948 settled upon for fulfilling a ch erished community aspiration, it is possible to discuss the economic ad vantages to Wilmington. There would be a wide advertising campaign, such as Mobile and Charleston conduct in connection with their similar projects. Many thousands of persons would find Wilmington’s name in their daily news papers, on their movie screens and in their radio receiving sets. How many would attend, naturally is problemati cal, but certainly a large percentage. Visitors spend their money more lav ishly when away than while at home. Merchants, hotels, restaurants, all busi necs concerns would reap unprecedent ed profits. It is so in Mobile, so in Charleston, so in Pasadena and Port land, on the Pacific coast. It will be so in Wilmington. It is reasonable to expect the firms of whatever nature that stand to reap the harvest will not be reluctant to share in sewing the crop. Crossed Lines A difficult situation is created by the action of the Chamber of Commerce Aviation committee in its endorsement of State Airline’s petition to the CAB to reconsider the certificate tentatievly awarded to Piedmont Aviation Corpora tion to operate commercial air service to Wilmington. It is not that the committee should have sided with State Airlines. The committee is well w’ithin its rights when it does so. But there is just complaint that it should have taken this step, and proposes to ask the city and county governing bodies to follow in its foot steps, without first hearing what Pied mont has to say for itself. That is the procedure in legal mat ters. It is the procedure of federal bureaus constitutionally established. It is the method employed by the CAB, which does not issue certificates to any air line without hearing all applicants desiring to provide identical or similar servce. It was the method of the CAB’ in the present case. let the committee took action with out first hearing Piedmont’s plans. This is not typical of the committee, composed as it is of leading Wilmington business men not given to precipitate decisions. The only way, apparently to account for its action is that only four members were present in person, the balance of the votes endorsing State’s proposal being represented by proxies. Even Hamilton E. Hicks, the commit tees’ chairman was absent. The question naturally arises why it was deemed necessary to put on such a burst of speed, and solicit proxies contrary to the customary procedure of the Chamber of Commerce and its committees when, by waiting a short time Mr. Hicks and enough members for a quoroum probably could have been assembed in person to consider the matter. John H. Farrell, the city’s industrial agent, explained at the meeting that i Piedmont’s president, Thomas Davis, i had failed to reply to a letter Mr. Far rell addressed to him on April 10. It is assumed that for this reason Mr. Far rell considered Piedmont disinterested in Wilmington and forthwith used his influence and energy in behalf of State Airlines. But it develops that Mr. Davis hag been in communication with Henry Boyd, Jr., manager of Bluethen thal airport, and that Mr. Boyd had been in Winston-Salem to confer with Mr. Davis but a short time ago. The Star holds no brief for Mr. Davis and Piedmont. By the same token, it is not opposed to Mr. Gilbert, State’s president of State or to State’s efforts to give Wilmington air service. But Mr. Farrell’s activities have placed Wilmington under a handicap by se curing the endorsement of this power ful Chamber of Commerce committee for State when the Civil Aeronautics Board has already tentatively granted Piedmont a certificate and in all pro bability would confirm its decision, if it consented to review the two applica tions of the two lines. In that case, what would Piedmont think of Wilmington and what would be its attiture toward establishing base operational offices here? Ordinarily corporations do not ex tend themselves in communities where they believe they are not welcome. It is to be hoped that the City Coun cil and the Board of County Commis sioners maintain a completely neutral position. Only by so doing can they meet the present need. Contrast In Claims The Russians claim the United States wants to rule the world. The United States claims that the Soviet Union is determined to rule the world. There is a difference between these claims. The United States wants only to have the peoples of separate nations rule themselves. Russia wants the peoples of separate nations to become Soviet satellites. Russia has made tragic progress in attaining its goal. In Europe, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, • « Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania are snugly behind the Russian iron cur tain. Eastern Germany is dominated by Russia. Communist guerillas are still fighting on Greece's northern bor der and when wounded are hospitaliz ed in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, in both of which countries recruits to continue the battle are being trained. Mark F. Ethridge, United States rep resentative on the United Nations Balkan Investigating Commission, just home from Eprope, declares that com munists would already control Greece but for the United Nations. It is only UN intervention that can keep Greece from being hidden by the Russian iron curtain. In contrast to this, the United States merely insists that free peoples remain free. As Pegler Sees It B7 WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1947, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NEW YORK. June'll.—The nuisance of the Roosevelts continues with undiminished ribal dry more than two years after the passing of a man who gave us a new article in the moral code, superseding the austere and pain ful standard observed by Andrew Jackson and U. S. Grant. The professional democrats still plod a weary way to Hyde Park on florid occasions, such as Memorial day, to punch the clock and commit carnival politics for the sake of the record and to confirm their own status in the organization. Attendance is not officially compulsory but is strongly ad vised. The widow's constant presence has become an interesting role in these pageants of for malized mopery in view of the fact that she was so easily called away from her afflicted husband’s side throughout his twelve years and somewhat in the White House. A canvass of the datelines of Mrs. Roosevelt's newspaper column from its beginning in 1933 to the date of his death in April. 1945, which found her in New York and him in Warm Springs, a thousand miles apart, would show that she j spent no more th^n one night in four under ! the same roof. Other wives and husbands I have given contrasting examples of unrerr^t- 1 ting attendance in similar circumstances, but here again we may owe a degree of emanci- j pation from old ways to the loose-jointed i principles of conduct established for us by | his happy and unconventional family. We find her more ostentatiously devoted now' than she ever was during the most diffi- | cult years of his life. Here again the contrast with the normal conduct of average human beings is interesting because, to use practical language, the run of us bury our dead with j respectful rites and seldom go back, and cer t-inly never to holler up politics. The Hyde Park pennant, postcard and peanut ronces-| rions are still open. Address applications to :he executors. Robert Patterson, the secretary or war. was detailed to the duty of making the big harangue on Memorial day when the poor fellow might have slept late and shot a mess of golf. They have not yet come to the sensi ble expedient of recording such blab and hiring one of Jimmy Petrillo's union disc iockevs to play it to the faithfu. Quoting the unblushing Patterson, the wid ow wrote “if we stand as the bulwark of freedom, if we prosper as a people and out of our prosperity extend assistance generous ly to the less fortunate" and so forth. We retained some fragments of our own free dom only by rejecting her proposal a few years ago that ‘the government" order us all. men and women, to assigned tasks under compulsion, wherever any Tckes. Morgenthau or Leon Henderson might assign us. About the same time Harry Hopkins, the gritty Rasputin, was proposing that not just troops but civilians be indiscriminately quartered in our homes by ordPr of local fir neighborhood quartermasters, and chuckling at the pros pect of “society leaders" become rooming l ouse keepers. But possibly neither she nor the uncombed Harry meant a word of it. 1‘ was another way of picking up a little easy money, and such writings have never j been binding on these essayists from one day ; o another. The lady’s quotation of Patterson's awk ward reference to generosity in discussing a Roosevelt also recalls a paradox. For Patter son said this at the grave of a man whose son, Jimmy, the eaglet, actually asked for a ruling that the old man was a soldier on active service because he was titular com mander-in-chief and that the estate therefore deserved a tax rebate of a few dollars. The Jackson day orgies around the country lave become a hilarious mockery now that he New Deal has taken over Old Hickory’s :haracter and personality as their own pri vate moose-heads for the clubhouse wall. To oe sure, the little old gamecock introduced some realistic thoughts on spoilsmanship but tie remained, unto the very death, a gentle man of the most primitive and exacting honor in all matters of personal debt. They flew | Ihe widow to Hollywood for a Jackson day profanation and some of the high democrats of the reformed version came down of a nausea and had to leave town. Nevertheless, the shakedown proceeded at $23 a copy. The "eceipts seem to have been highly satisfac tory. All this was ironic under the gaunt and scowling visage of the dying consumptive who busted himself to pay off the debts of an adopted son, Andy, Jr., who was not a swind ler or even a dead-beat but just a spend thrift and a fool in business. Unlike the saint ed martyr of the new regime, whose followers , scrupled not to use Old Hickory as a kapok j effigy, Andrew Jackson look no part in se- , duaing suckers to be taken by his son and ; would have blown the man through who dared to suggest that he himself might use his office to swindle the creditors of their due. Marquis James, in the best of the Jackson biographies, estimates at $40,000 the amount lhat the old warrior scraped together at var ious times to bail the young scamp out of cebt, and he tells us that some of these owings were debts only in the most technical sense at that. The same subject naturally re calls that U. S. Grant, for all his stupidity and other faults, was also honest to a degree lhat a Roosevelt might consider not just stu nid but imbecilic. He, too, paid off when he needn’t have and gave up his home in the process and both he and Jackson hurried to save their honor by cruel exertions while ’hey were suffering the tortures of dissolution toward death. It is no \yonder then that the diners used Jackson’s own day as an occasion to honor Roosevelt as the author of the new dispensa tion. It meant release from the restrictions and inhibitions long endured by men and women of honor as the price of decency and self-respect. Editorial Comment _ like coals of fire Keep your temper. Do not quarrel with an angry person, but give him a. soft answer. It is commanded in the Holy Writ—and further- i more, it makes him madder than anything , else you can say.—Rockinghom Post-Dispatch. ] DON’T WORRY, SOMEBODY IS! iltfl' • cont piAivt HO COttoH, Don't PLAMt,, HO TATERS! The Book Of Knowledge (Department: — FAMILIAR THINGS) THE UNITED STATES FLAG Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag Day in the United States — birth day of the Stars and Stripes. On that date, the flag is displayed on buildings throughout the country to commemorate the adoption of this national emblem by Congress on June 14, 1777. The first official American flag, first used in 1775, was not the stars and Stripes. Called the Con gress colors, or the Grand Union 'lag. or the Navy Ensign, this wa> composed of 13 red-and-white stripes to signify the thirteen iriginal colonies, with a small Union Jack (flag of Great Britain) n the upper left-hand corner. This showed that the colonies still felt heir union with the mother-coun ry but .had grown up into an in dependence which could not be suppressed. The Congress colors were flown 'or the first time on Dec. 3. 1775, m the Alfred a •-•’ John 3aul Jones, great naval hero who it that time was a senior lieut enant, raised the flag. A month ater. it was raised over the Con inental army at Boston. However, t was never carried in battle. After the Declaration of In dependence on July 4, 1776, this 'lag bearing the British Jack was so longer appropriate, but there Fort McHenry at Baltimore—inspiration of “The Star Spangled Ban ner.” Sight of American flag still waving over fort, after all-night bombardment by British in 1814, inspired Francis Scott Key to write what is now the national anthem. seems to have been no other legis lation until nearly a year later. Then, on June 14, 1777. the Con tinental Congress adopted * flag ot 13 red-and-white stripes, witn 13 white stars on a blue field. This was the first Stars and Stripes. There are many stories as to who was the designer of this flag. The names of Francis Hopkinson, poet - composer, and Captain Paul Jones are mentioned. One story is that a commission including Gen. Washington was appointed and that they consulted with Mrs. Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia flag - Speeding Up Telegraph Service BY PETER EDSON WASHINGTON. — Long range implications of a Federal Com munications Commission request for a $373,000 appropriation from Cogress to investigate Western Union Telegraph Company’s serv ice. rates, and operation are now considered drastic. If the FCC should make its in vestigation and find that U. S. tel egraph service was not as efficient as it should be., there would still remain the problem of what to do about it. Three possibilities have been suggested Let the government subsidize Western Union so that it could give better service for lower rates Let the government take it over and merge it with the U. S. Post Office Department. A number of foreign governments have long since socialized their telegraph business, running it as a branch of the postal service. Finally, merge Western Union with Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph Company's Bell System, to let one management run all of the coun try’s communications business. Most telegrams get delivered by telephone anyway. Western Union naturally isn’t any too happy about these pros pects. A survey by, FCC would cost the company as much as the government. Western Union’s President Jo seph L. Egan appeared before the House Ways and Means Commit tee recently. He testified that what the business needs more than anything else is to get our from under the government's 25 per cent excise tax. This makes the cost of sending a wire too high, without the company getting an; benefit from the increase. Furthermore, company spokes men say that before Western Union is probed, it should be given a chance to finish its $60 million modernization plan, now sched uled for completion by the end of 1949. This project cans ior me elec tion of nearly three million miles of radio relay systems and the leasing of another million miles of Bell sytem land lines. Western Union would then be permitted to dispose of most of its poles and wires. Western Union is now try ing to get rid of a number of its offices which don’t produce revenue, substituting agencies in drug stores, filling stations and such places that are open long hours. FCC has to grant permis sion for the closing of any office. Opposition usually comes from chambers of commerce, neighbor hood business associations, and | employes of the telegraph offices | i which the company wants to close. | The modernization plan also I calls for installation of a number I of facsimile telegraph transmit ters. spotted around like mail box es in business building lobbies and private offices. Charge account customers would have keys to these boxes. They would write out 1 their m e s s a ges on telegraph ! blanks, drop them in a slot, push 1 a button. The machine would do the rest, delivering an exact copy of the message just as written. The bill would come later. All these changes look towards mechanization of the telegraph business, to reduce manual oper ations and labor costs. Over 70 J cents out of every telegraph dol-1 lar now goes to labor. This com pares to 40 cents in the telephone business, which has cut labor costs by dial phones and other technological improvements. A large part of Western Union’s woes can be attributed directly to government interference. Up to war times, telegraph company pay scales were sub-standard. But a few days before it went out of business. War Labor Board hand ed down a decision giving Western Union employes $31 million in back pay. That reduced the com pany's surplus from $36 million to $5 million On top of that, WLB granted a wage increase which cost the company another $23 mil lion. and threw it in the red, though 1945 had been its best year. A year ago one of Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach's fact finding boards granted telegraph workers another wage increase which cost Western Union another $23 million. A third raise, to cost the company another $6 million, has just been agreed to with AFL unions outside New York City. The CIO union in New York is still holding out, but the total of all icreases in the last year and a half adds $1 million a week to Western Union costs. me omy wav tnese costs could be met was for another arm of the government, FCC, to grant Western Union rate increases. This FCC has done twice, for 10 per cent each time, giving the company $35 million increased revenues. Currently Western Union is net ting about half a million a month and is getting by on a big econo mizing drive. Tne telephone strike this spring helped Western Union business by three or four million dollars. But that s'rike rnay have revealed that any merger of tele phone and telegraph companies would be suicide for the national communication system. maker. We are told that, after the benefit of her suggestions, the first flag was made from a drawing handed to her by George Washing ton. and that she made all the flags for a time. The story of Betsy Ross is interesting, but most students of history do not think it is proved. More think that Francis Hopkinson designed the flag. After tne new states Vermont and Kentucky entered the Union, two new stars andtwo new stripes were added in 1795. Prior to this, the stars were in a circle, but now they were placed in rows. No Other change was made until 1818. Then it was decided to reduce the number of stripes permanently to 13, and to add a new' star each time a new state was admitted to the Union — the addition to be made on the 4th of July following the admission of the state. As there were twenty states at that time, the stars were increased from 15 to 20. Today there are 48 stars. It was during the War of 1812 that the flag flying over Fort McHenry at Baltimore inspired Francis Scott Key to w'rite “The Star-Spangled Banner,” now' t h e national song. A statesman and attorney, he was living Bafli more at the time the British bom barded Fort McHenry in 1814. and he w'as asked by President Madi son to secure the release of a certain Dr. Beans. For this pur-1 pose, he went on board the British ship Minden and was held over night during the bombardment. In the morning, when he saw t h e American flag still flying over the fort, he wrote the first draft of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” (Copyright, 1946, By The Gro Iier Society Inc., based upon The Book of Knowledge-) (Distribu'ed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc ) Tomorrow' How the Conjurer Makes His Money. The Doctor SaysS^ BODY MAKES flu REPAIRS IN S|H| By WILLIAM A. o rpu During sleep nr,os- of N; M ! functions drop 0 " nt :> mg the body a chance with necessary ,ep2 Blood pressu e '. " mg sleep. fl . ' "f" d°.;.- . fuurih hour and ■ a Just before awake disturbed bv n0;-.e " ' hte pressure mav ,, Body temperature any^ during sleep. Test man8 : •he evening Sh< - persons the teirae earlier than it "v! J:e t The pulse is s;0tt a lism is reduced ri'ir-'"'i: Breathing also ;s regular. Kidney act! tv Perspiration is increase* > sleep. The fluid los mght is almost as Srea 2 • during the day The the stomach is n o t 1 changed during sleep and 5* ls eaten just before re;;-’.' “ •* tion will proceed at * «s in the waking hours " Sleep requiremeris of c, poisons of the sa p ar ^ Older persons s sleep than those in 'middle 1 and young children reo most sleep of all. 1 A good rule f0r person, v ages is to go to bed each I' f ‘ such * time ,hat >'°u can J. the next morning complete'*.' ec. without being called. To'', a night of restful sleep one ,2 prepare for it bv getting 2 troublesome thoughis. Taki-j ’ troubles to bed with you iniery with the early par* of you which is the most importar.- *1 During the summer mon'm res’ in the middle of the dlv' advisable for all persons. Hpr 1 ly for the very young and thVv QUESTION: An X-ray nation was made of mv t,, because of backache, and hv> trophic changes were found mi lumbar spine. What loe; f mean? ANSWER: With a d vlv, years. t h c vertebrae devn thickenings and irregulariiiei •! pertrophic changes' They „ caused by wear and tear. McKENNEY On Bridge A A *87 3 ♦ A J 9 4 J 10 6 5 , 4K 108 6 n |*->2 3 w r *10911 * A Q J 3 . 1 ♦ 10861 ♦ K Q 7 5 * 2 4 None Pettier |<M7 Grosser 4 Q 9 7 5 4 ♦ K4 ♦ None 4 AKQ932 Tournament—Both vul. South West North East 1 4 Double Redouble 2 4 Pass 3 ♦ Double Pan 4 4 Pass 6 4 Pass Opening—4 K, II BY WILLIAM E. MrKENVFI America’s Card Authority Written For NEA Service Here is an interesting .uii from across the sea. Dr. Ps. Stem of London, who has sent •) some fine hands in the par. sk me this one. at the same limit forming me that he has just*® ten a new book. When I recur a copy we will have a lew ar’.rlt about it. The squeeze in today's hanj* one of the most unusual I iM ever seen. Dr. Stern said ! 111 played byr Paul Grosser, form? a member of the repiesMliW Czech team. The opening lead w as *or.« dummy with ihe ace of d.arr.or.ci Mr. Grosser discarding the font* hearts. The ace of spader cashed and a small hear •<* West winning with the >cr ™ came back with the ^ hearts, which declaier trail* with the deuce of clubs. The h of spades was trumped wilt " four of clubs, and dumm s of hearts ruffed wlih the ‘It®1 clubs. The seven of spade‘ “ plaved. and declarer war to ruff this in dummy wi'c ten of clubs. .... Next he led the fo ir o». » monds, and made anotne: play by trumping with the /■ < clubs. The ace of ch. ed and when declaier red t« " of clubs, West was squeezed^ If West threw away a i declarer would overtake in my with the jack of c ’it *• ruff the nine of diamond. ■ ^ own hand, thus establishing^ mv’s diamond jacx ror «_ If West discarded a *paae' J { er would play dummy * ^ clubs on the nine men nine of spades in dumm.. . lishing his spade queen . last trick__^ WHY WE SAY k> STAN J COU.INS » l > ''GRIN UKEACHESHIREFcATji • nfl1 1 This vorv common expression ^ nated in Cheshire, England. vh' cheese was sold in molds shaped ^ ^ cat. These molds always porlra ^ grinning eat.
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