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. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947
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-td-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 utilisation 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.
GOOD MORNING
Nothing is of greater value than genuine
education, but the letters after a man’s
name are no proof that he is truly educat
ed.—Henry M. Wriston, president Brown U.
Veterans Hospital
Having passed the House, the bill
authorizing the Veterans Administra
tion to establish a thousand-bed neuro
psychiatric hospital in eastern North
Carolina is now before the Senate,
where our senators naturally will use
the full power of their influence to have
it approved.
Wilmingtonians hope the location
finally settled upon will be in New
Hanover county. And there are rea
sons why this vicinity should be
chosen.
There are many tracts admirably
suited to the purpose, convenient from
the transportation viewpoint yet offer
ing all the advantages of rural quiet,
with ample woodland and level areas for
parking and such athletic activities as
convalescent patients may enjoy—
quoits, tennis, softball, baseball.
Neither water supply nor sewage
presents a problem. And within easy
reach is the Atlantic, for swimming and
fishing—or just watching the break
ers—and fresh water streams that also
abound it fish.
Surely veterans whose nervous sys
tems were shattered by the war could
not be offered better environment,
more congenial surroundings, in which
to recuperate.
A Vague Bequest
When Judge Alexander Holtzoff of
the United States District Court in
Washington ruled that Rollins college,
Florida, should get the $1,500,000 left
by William Hayes Ackland, the Uni
versity of North Carolina was ruled out
on the ground that Rollins had paid
more attention to art than the univer
sity at Chapel Hill.
It appears that Mr. Ackland wanted
his money to go to a southern school,
which should bury him, his papers and
pictures on its campus, and that Duke
was his first and only specific choice.
Duke turned the bequest down.
Now North Carolina will carry its
case to the next higher court in the Dis
trict of Columbia, says Dr. Frank P.
Graham, and there is the possibility
that before the litigation is ended the
school finally successful in its effort to
get the Ackland money will have had
lo spend a considerable sum and its net
ijain be materially reduced.
Being eccentric, perhaps Mr. Ack
land did not foresee a court struggle
as a result of vagueness with which he
bestowed his wealth. But it often hap
pens that wills, even when drawn by
persons of clearer vision, find their way
into the courts and the beneficiaries
have to expend what little hoardings
they posses in obtaining, or complete
ly losing, the inheritance.
On the other hand, money is some
times left in trust for unidentifiable
heirs or institutions and lies in bank
indefinitely, drawing interest but a
cause of trouble for generations. We re
call reading of a small sum of money so
left by Benjamin Franklin—only a few
dollars—which at last accounts had
mounted to $90,000. And Franklin was
a sage gentleman who would not be
suspected of leaving a doubt in anyone s
mind as to the disposition of his woi Id
ly goods.
North Carolina university could
use the Ackland fortune to good ad
vantage, and is not to be censured foi
proposing to fight further for it. But
Rollins could use it also, especially in
its music department which, however
small, has made an enviable mark for
itself.
Worst Totalitarianism
When Adolf Hitler was increasing in
power and the German people in con
sequence were losing more and more
privileges, we in this country emphasiz
ed the difference between totalitarian
ism and independence.
Today we have even more reason to
point out this difference and labor the
harder to promote something at least
resembling our independence among the
weaker nations which were reduced to
abject poverty and importance by the
world’s worst war and are threatened
with compulsory subjugation to a worse
totalitarianism than even Hitler enforc
ed in Germany at the height of his
power.
It is not an exaggeration to say that
the United States is the last powerful
state which holds that the right of the
individual to live his life as he chooses
is the most basic and precious of all
rights. This, especially, is the principle
which makes all our institutions—free
enterprise, representative government,
freedom of speech and press and reli
gion— possible. History has proven a
thousand times that the destruction of
this right is followed by the destruction
of all other rights. The totalitarian
state — whether it calls itself socialist,
fascist, communist, or anything else—
invariably ends in oppi’ession. The
kind of government which controls the
economic life of a counti’y, sooner or
later must control all other phases of
life. If it tells a man what he must
do, where he must work and wrho he
must support, it will also tell him
what he must say and think.
This is precisely what is happen
ing in Europe where the Russians have
taken command. Illusti’ations of what
is ti'anspiring in the part of Ger
many behind the Russian iron curtain
were published by the New Yoi'k Times
of Tuesday. They show the rubble of
what was the Siebel experimental air
plane plant at Halle, from which the
Reds have shipped all useable machin
ery, machine parts, sanitary equip
ment, whole bricks $md steel girdei's.
They show an aged couple expelled
from East Prussia waiting at the Uibe
for shipment to or near Meissen, and a
group of men, women and chidlren in
l’ags also removed from their East
Prussian abodes to be settled in the
same l'egion.
It is things like this that point up
the case against the unopposed domina
tion of the Soviets, in lands beyond
their own proper frontiei's and must
spur the few remaining free peoples
to stem the communist tide wherever
it is spreading.
Air Crash Inquiries
Three major airplane disasters in
fifteen days spur inquiries with the pur
pose of bettering a tragic condition and
restoring public confidence in air travel
generally.
President Truman has taken a hand
by naming a five-man special board of
inquiry on air safety headed by James
M. Landis, civil aeronautics chief. Sena
tor Brewster’s subcommittee on avia
tion is devoting its attention to the sit
uation and the C. A. B. is using every
device at its command “from mudprint
analysis to metallurgical baths” to trace
the cause of the two Memorial day
crashes and their sequel in the Blue
Ridge mountains.
Certainly no effort should be spared
in learning what was wrong with thfe
planes involved in these accidents or
in flying conditions, for only by prop
erly diagnosing the cases can future
similar crashes be avoided.
There is some feeling the rules
governing pilots are too limited, that
they are not free enough to use their
own judgment in emergencies. Persons
holding this view contend a pilot in the
air should be as independent as the
captain of a ship at sea.
Whether this would help solve the
problem is not for the layman to say,
but it is fair to think that as the re
sponsibility for the safety of his plane
and his passengers rest solely, upon
him, as with a sea captain, he might
use his own judgement, which is usual
ly fortified with long experience in the
air, when the rule book does not offer
a way out of an emergency.
This is for the authorities to deter
mine, but it is obvious that there is
need for overhauling federal air safety
regulations, for further research to per
fect all-weather flying, and a more in
tensive study of the causes of all air
crashes.
As Pegler Sees It
BY WESTBROOK EEGLER
(Copyright, 1947, By
King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
NSW YORK—So far in my discussion of
'.he goofy guru letters, I have proved that
Henry Wallace was very intimately associ
ated with Prof. Nicholas Roerich and Louis
L Horch. He sent Roerich to Asia in com
mand of an expedition for the Department
of Agriculture and he appointed Horch to
several important jobs in the Departments
of Agriculture and Commerce.
The question now is whether Wallace, who
once stood within a single heartbeat of the
presidency and now aspires to the job on
a third ticket, could have been silly Enough
*o write such nonsense. I am referring to
the mystical, oriental prattle in the letters
which were offered to the republicans in the
1940 campaign. Three of the best experts on
disputed documents have given their unqual
ified professional opinion that the hand which
wrote two veritable Henry Wallace letters
is the same that wrote the goofy guru letters.
But even experts disagree, so let us come
at the problem from another direction.
Wallace fell hard for Roerich, and within
a year after he got into the Cabinet as
Secretary of Agriculture had him traipsing
over the Mongolian desert in pursuit of grass
seed. Two distinguished American botanists
who were sent along were so badly treated
that the expedition wound up in a bad row.
Roerich was not even an American citizen
but a Russian with a French passport. He
got into political situations in Japan and
Manchukuo and our own State Department
was terribly disturbed because the Depart
ment of Agriculture had issued American
credentials to a foreigner to go messing
around in the troubled politics of the Orient.
It must be remembered that some of
Roerich’s followers in the circle here in New
York, of which Wallace was an intimate,
thought he was a sort of deity, a god.
At least they regarded him as a spiritual
master and a supernormal intellect. Some
of the letters which were written him by
his disciples used the capital “H” in the
pronoun “him”, referring to Roerich as
Christians do in referring to God or Jesus
Christ. The goofy guru letters which turned
up in the 1936 campaign and again in the
1940 campaign are similar in tone to the
letters from acknowledged disciples which
finally found their way into court records
in lawsuits tried here and in an income tax
case against Roerich.
Wallace enjoyed the protection of secret
forces during all these actions, but they were
jusr the old, familiar democratic machine
political forces and nothing occult. His name
had to be kept out of the record and thus
out of the papers. Otherwise, he might ap
pear before the public as a blithering slob.
Wallace projected his influence in the De
partment of Commerce beyond his own de
parture by appointing Horch regional director
for the states of New York and New Jersey
a short time before President Truman finally
canned him out of the Cabinet in the fall
of 1946 for making his pro-Soviet speech.
Horch is still in there and he was chosen,
after long association with Henry, because
Wallace thought him an appropriate person
to possess the great powers of the position.
Henry fired his old guru, Roerich, in 1935
while Roerich was still chasing Mongolian
grass seed under the guard of a group of
Oriental musketeers armed with rifles mooch
ed from the 15th U. S. infantry in Tientsin.
Roerich never came back to the United States
and in 1938 the Internal Revenue laid a bill
against him for $48,758 in old taxes, plus
penalties and interest.
Remember that by this time Wallace and
Horch both were sore at him. And bear in
mind that it was common practice in the
new deal to sick the Internal Revenue on
individuals who got into trouble with power
ful new dealers.
In the income tax case, Roerich, in ab
sentia, lost by a hairline decision. Roerich
had given Horch a complete power-of-attorney
to conduct his business while he was away.
Horch certainly held Roerich in his power
apd Roerich’s lawyers in the tax case charged
Horch with “bad faith ■as a vindictive in
former.” The board finally held that Horch
was not an informer but acknowledged that
he did give information against his old mas
ter which was his only by reason of his
fiduciary position under the power-of-attor
ney.
Horch was not as powerful or as important
in the new deal as Henry Wallace. Therefore
he could be sacrificed while Wallace was
protected, and he was nailed in several pro
cedings.
This is from the record of the U. S. Board
of Tax Appeals in the Roerich case: “Horch
and his wife were received into Roerich’s
circle of associates” in 1922.
“During 1922, Roerich told Horch he wished
to lead, an expedition to central Asia for
scientific and artistic purposes; that he had
received messages from the occult world;
and that he wished to paint pictures in The
East and he asked Horch to give him money
for the trip.
Prom 1922 until the latter part of 1935. the
relations between Roerich and Horch were
strengthened by Horch’s adherence to a mys
tic cult of which petitioner (Roerich) was a
leader. Horch addressed Roerich in rever
ential and affectionate terms. He failed to
have Roerich’s paintings appraised by deal
ers in the belief that they were possessed
of healing powers. In correspondence Horch
used a name which, Roerich stated, had been
his in a past incarnation. Horch wrote that
since their first meeting his one wish had
been to *P.th«r ♦ '* R'e-'eV- •n-’„t
ings for preservation and lamented that he
had considered selling a few to relieve a
temporary condition.”
Tomorrow I will quote from the record
letters, and other material showing tha{
Roerich was regarded as a supernatural or
.preternatural being by Horch and other mem
bers of a circle of which Henry Wallace
was certainly a familiar associate if not for
mally a member.
“BUYER RESISTANCE”
T**
a/LL
The Book Of Knowledge
WILD HUNTING DOGS
The dingo, famous wild dog of
Australia, was once tame. Dingos
were probably brought to Austral
ia a few thousand years ago by
the primitive kblacks when they
came from the Pacific islands and
Asia. No doubt a number of the
animals eihter ran away from
their masters or were left to take
care of themselves when a family
or small tribe perished in some
catastrophe, and so they became
wild. Now Australian natives
sometimes catch dingos and tame
them.
The early dingos spread over all
of Australia, finding the hunting
good. They were able to catch and
kill all except the largest kan
garoos. Hunting in a pack, they
cuold take these too. When Euro
peans began to raise sheep in
Australia, the dingos were very
destructive. But they have now
been pretty well killed off in the
more settled areas.
Another wild dog is the African
hunting dog, a strange-looking
animal. Its oars are large and its
coloration is a patchwork of
black, yellow and white. It’s body
is lean, its legs long and its head
massive. Some people think it
looks like a hyena and call it
“hyena dog.” Packs of a dozen or
less are common, and some packs
contain 60 or more.
Throughout most of the bush
country of Africa, those hunters
roam, traveling over great dis
tances. All the game leaves a re
gion when the hunitng dogs come
through. The dogs follow their prey
like well-trained hounds. They
depend chiefly on the smaller and
medium-sized antelopes and run
them down, though the antelopes
are the fleetest of the plant-eat
ers. The natives fear these large
dogs (they are about the size of
wolves) but there is no reliable
The dingo, handsome wild dog of Australia, was once a tame dog.
His ancestors went wild long ago. Now young dlngos are sometimes
caught and tamed by Australian natives.
This raceon-like wild dog of The South American bush dog,
China locks like a “coon” but is a strange little wild dog of the trop
true dog. It lives on fish and fruit, ics, can be tamed and used in
mice and rats. Its fur is valuable, hunting, if raised in captivity.
account of the dogs attacking a
man.
The hunting dogs make a
twittering chatter, very bird-lkie
and mild for such fierce animals.
Their hunting call is a '‘hoo-hoo,’
much like the hoot of an owl.
The dhole or red hunting dog of
Rackets In Housing
By PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON, — New York
Republican Congressman Ralph
Waldo Gwinn is now slated to
head a House labor subcommittee
probe of rackets in the building
indusrty. If the committee does
the job it has the chance to do
this summer, there is no reason
why it shouldn't hit the front
pages day after day, as long as
it wants to hold hearings. For just
as much as big business monop
olistic practices in restraint of
trade need curbing, so the
stranglehold of the building trades
on the construction industry needs
breaking.
The Gwinn subcommittee's main
trouble, however, will be in
getting witnesses to testify on the
facts of life everyone knows.
The way the national building
labor situation shapes up, most
big industrial and commercial
construction jobs are union shop.
In all but a few of the biggest
metropolitan centers, the home
building industry is open shop.
These open shop contractors
usually pay the union scales and,
in general, abide by union hours
and working conditions prevailing
in their area.
To many of these conditions
that have now become traditional
the employers may strenuously
object—in private. But when it
comes to making a squawk in
public, the boss contractors have
always been afraid to opne their
mouths. The reason is simple. If
they start crusading against ‘'fea
therbedding” or “made v/ork1
labor practices, the unions crack
down. The contractor is boycotted.
Next time he wants to hire union
labor it won’t work for him.
Because of the contractors' fear
of reprisal these aDUses have been
publicized only in a general way.
There never has been a national
survey of abuse's in the budding
industry. Not even the National
Association of Home Builders, the
Producers’ Council or other trade
associations in the industry have
any documented information on
the extent of these rackets in their
own business. That’s where the
Gwinn committee has a chance to
dig in and develop facts.
Among tha many v building
l uades’ abuses that heva been re
ported from time to time are
these:
Refusal to allow use of machines
for digging excavations.
Requiring steel workers to lay
mesh in concrete.
Refusal to handle ready - mix
concrete.
Requiring that only journeymen
—not helpers or common labor—
carry bathtubs or heating
radiators from curb to house.
Limiting bricklayers to a certain
number of bricks per day.
Limiting lathers to a certain
number of bundles per day.
Requiring three coats of plaster
or. wall when two is enough.
Refusal by carpenters to h a n g
more than a limited number of
doors p'er day. Refusal to permit
factory-fitted doors to be used.
Limiting the size of paint brush
es, prohibiting spray painting and
requiring more coats of paint than
are necessary.
Refusal to handle window fram
es in- which glass is fitted.
And so on. All these practices
run up the cost of house construc
tion and are a direct factor in to
day’s national housing shortage.
Many of these conditions will not
be found written in union agree
ments. They are simply imposed
conditions which, if not lived up
to, mean that union agents pull
men off the job. t
From the unions’ standpoint, the
claim is made that work in the
home building industry is so ir
regular and exploitation is so
easy. Limitations of this kind are
necessary to give workmen a min
imum wage and protect their jobs.
Guaranteed work weeks or
guaranteed annual wage plans
may have to be devised to solve
these obvious weaknesses.
But what both sides of this
picture show is that labor condi.
tions in the building industry need
a complete overhauling if the cost
of housing is to be brought down
within range of the family of
average means. The Gwinn com
mute has the chance to find the
answer to that one, if it will.
Everyone who has tried to break
up the building rackets in the past
has stubbed his toe. This includes
even the Department of Justice.
How much effect the new Taft.
Hartley labor bill will have qn
these cases, if it becomes law, will
be worth watching.
India, China and the Maley region
is a close relative of the African
dog, but it is smaller, about the
size of a coyote. The dholes are
is.ur.es3 nunters, even driving
tigers from their kills. They oc
casionally kill a bear or a leo
pard. They do it by surrounding
the victim, those in front holding
its attention while others rush in.
The little bush dog of tropical
America is thought to be another
relative of the hunting dog. It is
less dog-like in appearance, with
short legs and tail, and a veiy
large head. In habits it is shy and
cunning. The Indians of the
forest sometimes take the cubs
from the dens in order to raise
them. Cubs raised in captivity
become quite tame, and can be
used in hunting.
The raccoon dog lives in China
and Japan and looks more like a
raccoon, with its sharp nose,
black mask and bulky body, than
a dog. It is » true dog, however.
Raccoon dogs live near streams
and depend on fish and fruit, be
sides catching mice and rats. The
fur of these small wild dogs is
valuable.
(COYPRIGHT, 1946 BY THE
GROLIER SOCIETY’, INC., bas
ed upon THE BOOK OF KNOWL
EDGE)
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TOMORROW: — How to Make
a Flower-Box.
The Doctor Says—
GLANDULAR FEVER
HARD TO DIAGNOSE
Bv WILLIAM A. O BIUKN \j B !
Infectious ,
(glandular fever i H.av :0!V
ognized unless special , 'ec
inations arc made
disease is most < >
15 and 30 years of 0 ;
in World War n ,
er persons in Grs; n °&
Infectious
starts slowly with ah'. ^
over the body, fever, "s all
throat. Fever is us
may last from a i '
week. Joint pains " :o a
chills are frequev C<J "til?*
Disease is sus- e
largement of the'.y, *
curs. Glands in the a
and groin become «v i
the fever stage. SpiV^ ' V’ ^
larged. In y0„nj 5*° »
largement of the glands L J?
chest and abdom< , ‘ , !
cough and syn
appendicitis.
Sore throat i ,; .
infectious mo onucieoH,.
Throat is red covered v ft
membrane. In a number of ,7
skin rashes develop, which mav
confused with other childhood J?
seases. 1 •
• V, K, •0 s namonud*?
MS Probably „ a virus. Infection I
are most common jn the Snrj„,
or fall and outbi eilh£
as single case, o; in epidemic
Incubation period • one to p,™
weeks.
When the blood ol patients with
infectious mononucleosis i, 0>;an),
ined the white cells are increased
in number, and there i> an excess
of certain forms.
Infectious mononucleosis is !lev.
er a fatal disease. Recovery J
complete, although relapses m a v
occur. The enlarged glands and
the spleen may last for a time
after the patient apparently ;s
well. ‘ ‘.
Patient should stay in bed while'
he has fever. Drugs may be given*'
to ease the pain. In severe cases,2
a blood transfusion hurries coni'*
valescence. Public health official!
do not quarantine for infectious
mononucleosis because of the mild
nature of the disease.
QUESTION: I have been vacci*
r.ated and am afraid I will be left
with a scar. Is there any way I
can prevent it?
ANSWER: No. bn- i; will bi
come less noticeable with tin
passing of time.
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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
Written for NEA Service
Many of you will want to sit
right down and w rile me a
letter about Low bad the bidding
was on today’s hand. I certainly
would nol like to play a hand with
a void suit at three r.o trump -
but suppose you were sitting in
the East position, and your oppo
nents did get to three no trump on
the hand.
That happened to Mrs. Edwin l*
Marks of Albany. N. Y., winner o!
the mixed-pair event in the recent
Metropolitan Championshi] s *>
Montreal, Can., and Mrs. Mark!
was confronted with an u
point of play.
Strangely enough, severs, o
pairs reached three no run.p on
the hand. The opening lead*"
won by declarer with the jack o
clubs, a small diamond led to dum
my,’s ace and the jack of hear
played. When East failed to cover,
declarer let it ride, played ■
other heart from du
finessed the ten-spot, mu- -1 ■-'■ 1
four hearts, five dia:
club. . ,
However, when decla c ;;
jack of hearts again
she recalled that So
hearts, and if ho held I (
her partner. West, n ...
blank king. Mrs. ■ 5 .
that would be the ouL •■d '
could lose by covering y /
ered the jack of hear" ' ‘
queen. This held th< ac ^
three no trump as dec?
make only three hea'*_ --
WHY WE SAY by STAN J. COLUNS U 1 --
bJUDASTREE"
A small tree of the Leguininosoe spe- ft \
cies, found in the temperate regions of A I
Asia and Europe, and in parts of the Pt£
United States, derived its name from Hi
the legend that Judas Iscariot hanged JT
himself from such a tree after he had ^
helraved Christ »»'» gin«aVmatu«is
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