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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) (DISTRIBUTED BY UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.) 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;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. ~ McKENNEY On Bridge A KJ 10 9 8 5 3 V J6 ♦ A75 •A 4 ■ -Mrs. Marts d|k Q 7 6 2 N * A 4 ¥9 WE ¥ Q 8 75 4 ♦ 10 3 2 S ♦J8 *AQ96 Deo|ef * 10 8 5 2 3 --— 4k None VAK1032 ♦ K Q 9 6 4 ♦ K J 7 Tournament—Neither vul. South West North East 1 v Pass 1 * Pass 2 ♦ Pass 3 * Pass 3 N. T. Pass Pass Pass Opening—4k 6 20 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 L_t-.liriSl. COM. TW WORLD KISHTS RtSIHVEP-_