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City auditorium large enough to meet aeeds for years to come. Development of Southeastern North Carolina agricultural and industrial re sources through better markets and food processing, pulp wood production and factories. Emphasis on the region’s recreation advantages and Improvement of resort accommodations. Improvement of Southeastern North Carolina's farm-to-market and primary roads, with a paved highway from Top sail Inlet to Bald Head Island. Continued effort through the City’s In dustrial Agency to attract mors 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 government#. GOOD MORNING Be always displeased with what thou art if thou desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.—Quarles. The Police Survey Report What constitutes an efficient police officer ? In the main, the same qualifications for satisfactory service in any skill ed work. This is made plain in the report of a survey of the Wilmington Police de partment, made by Mr. Roy L. Morgan, former FBI member and present mem ber of the Greensboro governing body. Mr. Morgan was invited to look the police situation here over by City Manager Benson. His findings are now being studied by the City Council. Among his many recommendations he says an annual efficiency report should show the member’s record for loyalty, aggressiveness, knowledge of work, tact, personality, intelligence, initiative, executive ability, personal appearance, public relations, judgment, resourcefulness, attendance to duty and ability to get along with fellow officers. Furthermore, Mr. Morgan adds that the credit rating of all officers should be above reproach and any of ficer whose credit is below par should be suspended until the fault is remedi ed. Certainly these are qualifications that all employes of any business must have to hold their jobs. They are as essential in a police department as any where else, and perhaps more so in asmuch as police officers are expected not only to enforce the law but set a good example for others. Mr. Morgan touches this point obliquely in urging that strict rules of conduct be set up for officers off as well as on duty. There should be no drink ing or gambling in the City Hall, says, and adds that the officer’s con duct off duty should be such that no discredit will be reflected on the de partment, and that any officer failing to live up to the rules should be dis ciplined. He recommends that gossip ing in the department be summarily stopped to overcome petty jealousies and that all gossiping be thoroughly inves tigated to uncover the source. If found unreliable, the offender should be rep remanded. Mr. Morgan found that because there is no regular system of promotion there is dissatisfaction and lack of morale in the force, and that dissension will con tinue until the hit-or-miss method of promotion is corrected. So much for broad situation. The rjport declares that police headquarters is too cramped, too dirty, too cluttered; that no branch has sufficient room; that the entire lower floor of the City Hall should be turned over to the de partment. The present force of seventy-two, including dog catcher, chief’s secre tary and parking meter collector, should be increased to at least seventy nine, with one officer for every ten thousand persons. The files were found to be meager, with practically no record of individ ual efficiency and merit. There should be complete personnel files, and they should be kept in a locked cabinet in the chief’s office, available to the chief alone. Other recommendations are mat ap plicants for employment should be checked with the FBI, their credit rat ing examined, their neighborhood stand ing studied, their former employment checked, their military service, if any, noted, and that they should have a minimum of high school education. That the chief and desk sergeant should have the address and telephone number of all officers and all officers off duty should advice the sergeant where they can be reached in an emer gency. That all members should submit to yearly physical examinations. That all should have training in a police school and one member selected by the chief for special training in the FBI school in Washington. That there should be regular fire arms training by an armed services of ficer. That shifts should be rotated. Mr. Morgan recommends that pri vates receive a $200 monthly salary, sergeants $225, lieutenants $250; pri vates in the detective bureau $225, ser geants $250 and lieutenants $275. He urges a new system of records be installed and that officers at present in charge of this work be sent to Greens boro and Winston-Salem to observe how records are kept in those cities, and when the new system is set up all of ficers here be instructed in its opera tion. He recommends removal of the Bureau of Identification from the County Court House to the City Hall (which has already been done). He further says that newspaper re porters should be kept from behind po lice desks and denied the privilege of seeing records or receiving reports on any case except as authorized by the chief. As this is the first comprehensive study by an outside person of the po lice department in some years, it is to be expected the City Council will find much in it to be accepted, for the good of the department. The men them selves cannot well complain of any measure adopted which will better fit them for the exacting duties they are employed to perform. Call Mine Contracts Illegal Just when it appeared that coal would be mined in normal quantities under the new agreement of the opera tors with John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers union, albeit at greater cost, comes Representative Hartley, co-author with Senator Taft of the Taft-Hartley Labor Control Act, with the announcement that any op erator who signs up becomes a law violator by that act, subject to a $10, 000 fine and a year’s imprisonment. Mr. Hartley points out the new law provides that operators may deduct from miners’ pay the amount of their union dues, but not initaition fees and assessments. Yet the contracts, he says, which the operators have signed pro vide for these deductions—which are clearly illegal. He has no intention, he adds, of ini tiating proceedings against the opera tors, as this action should be taken by the executive branch, but he wants the people to know just what is being done to placate John L. Lewis. If Mr. Hartley is correct in his statements, and surely no one is better able to interpret the labor act than he, it is clearly up to the executive branch to do something, particularly as Presi dent Truman, who assured the public that he would do everything in his power to have the provisions of the act enforced. He had vetoed the bill, to be sure, but when it was passed again overwhelmingly, he assured reporters at a press conference, and through them the American people, that the measure would have his complete co operation. Unless he is willing to admit that Mr. Lewis is too smooth for him. he is in duty bound to take steps to bring the new mine contracts within the pro visions of the Taft-Hartjtey Act. As Pegler Sees It By WESTBROOK PEGLER ' (Copyright by King Features Syndicate, Inc.l NEW YORK, July 10.—About the time that Frau Wagner was convicted of being a fanati cal Hitlerite, in Germany, I received a letter addressed to the editor, typical of those which come from F. D. Roosevelt’s most ardent followers which said that Pegler was a menace, a nut, insane, crazy. “When he says that Roosevelt was a crook,” the letter said, “it proves conclusively that his mind is out of order.” As to Roosevelt’s crookedness, and I mean his larcenous avarice, not mere intellectual dishonesty, I have been going on the assump tion that his guilt was admitted by his own son, Elliott, and the widow. Otherwise they must have defended his character and reputa tion against unchallenged evidence. The Ways and Means Committee of the House, con trolled by his dwn party, took one look at the proof collected by the Treasury and de cided that they would not even call witnesses because if they went into charges at all they couldn’t save their hero. I quote from this letter just to show the fanaticism that Roosevelt aroused in many Americans. It is completely insensate. Both Roosevelt and Hitler were idolized and this idolatry was addressed to qualities which both men had alike. Nobody in our country, except Huey Long, ever realized more shrewdly that the com mon people possess about 75 per cent of the muscle, the emotion and the votes and only about 25 per cent of the intelligence, and character. Of course Roosevelt was a snob whereas Huey and Hitler were one-gallus barefoot boys. But Roosevelt divined that it he could goad a few aristocrats to say that he had turned against his own superior class and thus put himself among the common people, he had put over a trick on both classes. The dumb aristocrats obligingly did just that and the common people fell for him. When he called them “my friends” he was con descending and they knew it but they thought it was very “democratic” of a snob to sip with them, even though he used a long spoon and wore a clothes-pin on his nose because the “poo-ah” they have B. O. Bob Taft suffers a handicap because he is too honest to pretend that he thinks the common man is wise and pure in heart just because he is a common man. He might be wise and pure in heart, but not for that reason. Huey knew that the poor and the middle class people came as ornery as any others because he was one of them. A1 Smith knew it, too, for the same reason. If you think back, you will recall that both muer ana rtooseveit appealed directly to tne vanity, the self-pity, the envy, the vengeful ness and the brutality of the greatest number, with the greatest power, Roosevelt was an amazing corn-doctor. Hit ler foamed at the mouth and shrieked and ridiculed the Heinies to arouse them. Roose velt called the common man, “my friend,” which was something, coming from an up river millionaire who spoke with a Groton Harvard A, and churned up his feelings against “princes of privilege.” He and his family had been all of these, themselves. His father wouldn’t fight in the Civil War be cause he favored the Southern cause. That is what a copperhead was. His sons. Elliott and Jimmy, were truly princes of privilege, like the Mussolini boys and Count Ciano. We heard a great deal about the wicked German law to punish anti-Nazis for acts which deserved punishment “by virtue of the basic idea of a penal law and the sound feeling of the nation” even though no specific law was applicable to the fact. Roosevelt .couldn’t do that to us all of * sudden. But he had tricks, he was a hell of a man for “administrative law.” A bunch of communists on the labor board could penalize an employer contrary to the evidence and the employer had to take it because the courts wouldn’t question the board’s version of the facts. He was a great hand to “investi gate” his opponents and smear them with scandal. But he wouldn’t let Congress inspect his own tax returns or his wife’s or his mother's or Jimmy’s. They were royalty. That was all. This high prerogative was a trait that he shared with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalini while pretending to abhor privilege. He had a special household regiment of foot with a special insignia and a special garrison, communica tions, signals and flood-lights. Henry Morgen thau, his neighbor and court yes-man, got a government plane manned by the Coast Guard, and a private field, when the common man couldn’t get an eye-cup of gas to go to the movies. Henry was comparable to Goering or Goebbels but not as stout-hearted. Finally Roosevelt got much of the effect of Hitler’s law against undefined crimes. He did this by driving millions of common men into unions which were lawless, often crimi nal, pockets of his party, ruled by ruthless demagogs at best or brothel-keepers or ex tortioners. Yes, Jimmy Petrillo can clown and he has no criminal record but he can inflict the economic death penalty on his subjects, for anything, or nothing. So can old Whitney and old Tobin. So can John Lewis who got his powers straight from Roosevelt. When they bare their fangs they can rip and slash. ■rnrougnout tne years ttooseveit Deat every effort to remodel the union laws to protect his stupid, gullible, faceless friend, the com mon man, from the exploitation, anger and malice of his political henchmen, the bosses of “labuh.” And now they make speeches at the grave (admission free) about his great love of humanity. Don’t tell me. Quotations One of the major problems now is the vet eran who has had no work experience.—B. C. Seiple, manager Ohio State Employment Of fice, Cleveland. Obese persons kid everyone but themselves when they claim they hardly eat a thing. There is no source of fat except food, no I matter what people say.—Dr. Edward H. Rynearson, Mayo Foundation consultant. I wish I could cut prices, but our profit is so small that we just can’t do it.—Roger T. Sermon, Mayor and grocer of Independence, Mo Our tempo of life with its increasing stress es and strains may be expected to produce even more neurotic symptoms in apparently well people.—Dr. William C. Menninger, To peka, Kan., nerve specialist. The Eastern worker is very tough. He keeps on working until he falls on his face in the dirt and nothing remains for the doctor to do but write out the death certificate. —(From files of) Fnederich Flick, wartime executive of German steel trust, accused as war criminal. Science went into World War II as an ap prentice to war and came out a senior part ner.-Dr. Sidney J. French, Colgate U. chem ist. If there is one animal we can still do with out—or at any rate to a 'try large extent_ with enormous benefit to health, morals, and nerves, it is the ubiquitous canine.—Dr. Oliver Patrick Clark of Worthing, Sussex, England. The Communists aiin the minority in Po ianu and the general population hate the Russians v/ith a consuming haired. — Guy Hicko’-., former UNRKA public information director. THEY’RE SEEING ’EM IN RUSSIA, TOO! [ IDljicic.) \ Arcuoroi/, ( I n/r {{| A The Book Of Knowledge (Department: — SCIENCE) MEANING OF ELASTICITY Those of you who play the violin know that the E string, which is often made of steel wire, will stretch quite a noticeable amount without breaking. Remember that the steel wire is made up of mole cules. When it is stretched, the molecules are pulled sljthtly apart. It is not easy to pull the steel molecules apart. How diffi cult it is you may judge by the force needed to stretch the wire even a little. If you relax the force, the wire goes back to its original length. The steel wire is springy, or, in scientific language, it possesses elasticity. Elasticity is due to the forces holdin molecules together. The hteel molecules can give” just a little. Elasticity is a very r.'mmon property of solid3, but all sub stances are not equally elastic; that is, they do not all return with tile same readiness to their original places when the stretch ing forces are removed. Steel and quartz are among the most per fectly elastic or springy solids. We think of rubber as being very elastic. Actually rubber is rather poor in elasticity, for though it stretches easily a long way, it does not go back accurately to its original length. The tensile strength of a sub stance is the force needed to break it by pulling. Tire tensile strength of steel is about 140,000 pounds for a bar one square inch thick. Liquids also are elastic, though they cannot be tested by stretch ing, but by the opposite of stretch ing — by compressing them in strong containers. All liquids are very difficult to compress. VISCOUS LIQUIDS If you put two flat pieces Qf You And Your Debts BY PETER ED60N WASHINGTON — The gov’ment is worrying about how much you should be allowed to go into debt now. It is worried about how much you should owe the man who comes around every month to collect that lcng-past-due in stallment, or else take away the new car, the love seat or the washing or talking machine. During the war the guv’ment wouldn’t let you buy any mer chandise on time unless you were considered a good enough credit risk to run a 30-day charge ac count. Then on Dec., 1 the installment buying curbs were liften on all except 12 lines of goods still in short supply. They were autos, ra dios, furniture, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, iron ers, dish-washers, air condition ers, phonographs, sewing ma chines and vacuum cleaners. On these items you have to pay at least one-third down and sign away your life to complete pay ment on the unpaid balance with in 15 months, this is done under what is known as Federal Re serve Board Regulation W. It’s due to expire July 31, and that’s what all the bother is about. Representatives of practically every trade association dealing in autos, furniture and household ap pliances have been in Washington telling Congress it ought to take off all the controls and let buying on time go its own sweet way. President Truman might extend the Regulation W controls by ex ecutive order, but he says he won’t unless Congress gives him new authority. Chairman Marriner S. Eccles ,of the Federal Reserve Board orig inally asked for permanent au thority to put these controls on or take them off whenever the situa tion warranted. When the House of Representatives refused to grant that power and voted to let the controls expire at the end of the month, Eccles changed his tune and asked the Senate to ex tend controls tor a year only. The Senate Committee on Banking and Currency is trying to make up its mind on this point nww. Sen. C. Douglass Book of Bela Milk molecules move apart readily, and so milk streams from the bottle. Bat honey is a viscous fluid; its molecules do not separate directly, but slide over each other. Hence, honey only oozes out. - glass or metal together with a little water or oil between, you will find that it is almost impos sible to pull them straight apart. Yet if y«u push sideways, one piece will slide' easily over tha other. This shows that although the molecules may be hard to pull directly apart, they roll or slide readily over one another. Different liquids show this slip periness in different degrees. A special name, viscosity, is used to describe it. A viscous liquid is one that changes its shape, or flows, slowrly. Honey, molasses, and thick oil are good examples of viscous liquids. Different oils have different amounts of viscosity; and viscos ity changes with temperature. Oil when warm has smaller forces of viscosity than when cold. Just remember that extra heat means ware, acting chairman of the committee, favors changing the terms to require say only 20 per cent down payment and allowing up to two years in which to pay off the balance. Other senators favor keeping the time-payment controls tight until the supply of these scarce items catches up with demand. Their point is that to take off the controls now would merely in crease the demand and so shoot up the prices still further. Still other senators feel that all restrictions should come off. Their argument is that restric tions on installment buying work a hardship on poor people. It would do your heart good to know how they worry about the poor. They say rich folks with plenty of money in their pockets to pay cash for whatever they want get all the breaks under Regulation W. The way it works out these cash customers grab off all the new cars, or vacuum cleaners as fast as they come on the market. But families of limited, means are out of luck unless they can get money from the loan sharks. Auto, furniture and household appliance dealers who want to sell direct to installment buyers send their representatives to Washing ton as friends of the poor man. They don’t want to see him dis criminated against by this wicK ed Regulation W. What isn’t men tioned is that by selling goods on time, carrying charges and inter est on unpaid balance can be add ed to the price to yield a higher pi ofit. Some used car dealers have developed this into a racket. They won’t sell cars for cash. From the Federal Reserve Board point of view the danger of taking off controls is that too much buying on time at high prices may contribute to a de pression. That’s what happened in 1929. Business was booming and every body owed money for things bought on credit. When the crash came, people didn’t have enough money to pay balances. Federal Reserve Board people say they think that shouldn't b# allowed to happen again. greater activity, or motion, of molecules. When oil is warm, a molecule is already wiggling about quite a lot, and is ready to change its position. But if the oil is cold, a molecule is not able to break away to a new position unless it gets a big push from the outside. If, in very cold weather, an oil with high viscosity is used in an automobile engine, the engine is hard to start. So we use different oils in automobiles in winter and summer—one of low viscosity in winter, to make starting easy, and one of highei viscosity in summer, so that even if the en gin overheats, the oil will not become so thin that it will be squeezed out of the bearings and. cause a burn-out. (Copyright, 1946, By Hie Grolier Society Inc., based upon The Book Of Knowledge) 'Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TOMORROW: — The Disappear ing Quarter. THAT WOULD HELP A professor advises college stu dents to get more sleep. He can contribute his bit toward that de sirable objective by installing more comfortable chairs in hi* class room.—Roanoke Times. PLAYING ACROSS BOARD Mr. Stassen lets it be known the vice-presidency would not be be neath his dignity, and if Harold puts himself down for congress too he’ll be playing it across the board. —Charlotte News. WHY WE SAY/ HBuw.Li-* .""'TO ■fTEALONEiS THUNDE<?| t j John Dennis (1657-1734) invented arti ficial thunder for a play of his which proved unsuccessful. Shortly after wrrds, in a presentation of Macbeth at Drury Theater, he found his in vend®0 was being used and remarked: "W will not let my play run, yet they ^ ~yC//V <my thunder.”_ j, The Doctor Says^~ THERE ARE EASY POISON OAK CURfs BY WILLIAM A. O’BRIEN ». M exposure to poison \’v il or sumac has occured. ,L0,> should be removed and th« * pcsed skin cleansed w;th * **" soap, laundry soap, permanganate, or alcohol it •"^ likely that any cf these will be successful if the pois-10"1 penetrated the skin—and it r'Sl stays on the surface about i 5' minutes. 3 IS As soon as the skin rear" subsides, no further d;fficult“ velopes in the average case L. the poison has been spread other portions of the skin bvV patient. Secondary outbreak, * some distance from the plac. 11 exposure result from contact ■5! contaminated hands. To pJ™1 them, a full tub or shower bit? using plenty of soap, jt mended. Ideal method of bunding * sistance to plants of the pois%!!l‘ group would be taking doses by mouth, gradually S' ing up the dose until a high • sistance is developed. This a long time and is not practic-T Efforts of patients to shortcut th, method by eating large quantitic, of the leaves results in severe "ut flammation of the bowel. * Treatment of ivy dermatitl. varies with the extent and sever ity of the reaction. The affected portions should be covered with wet packs of diluted solution of potassium permanganate. plain sheeting or other white doth folded six to eight times, soak a-j apply to the irritated skin. Application of caiomine tion or powder with pheao| is soothing. Also—it should be n. plied three or four times a daj with a soft paint brush and tbt part thoroughly cleansed one* i day with water. In widespread involvement 0f the skin, baths of weak solution of potassium permanganate may i# tried. General body baths i> which cornstarch, bran or oatmeal are put in the water are soothing, a pound of each to a tubful o! hot water. Put the starch in the watt! directly, but keep the bran or tit meal in a cheesecloth bag. McKENNEY On Bridge _ i A A 87 2 V 8 7 5 ♦ 6 A K 8 5 4 2 ♦ J0 VQ103 ♦ QJ93 ♦ A J 106 N W E S Dcolcf A X 1091 V AKJ4 ♦ 842 AQ9 4k Q 5 4 *862 ♦ AK 1075 4k 7 3 Rubber—Both rut. South West North Ewt Pass Pass Pas* 14 Pass 2N.T. Pass a N T. Opening—4k 4 II BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEI America’s Card Authority Written For NEA Service Do you review the bidding to your own mind several tunes wil ing the play of a hand? Maaj mistakes can be avoided by goicj over the bidding, and lack ot bid ding as well. Bidding on today! hand was rather simple, but never theless important in the play to the cards. The opening lead was won 4 dummy with the queen of clubt and a small diamond was led South played low and West wo5 with the queen. A small heart wai won in dummy with the jack another diamond played. Sou'-t won this with the ace and N°rl{ showed out. South returned a cluo, aec^* palyed low and North won w® the king. At this point North l« the deuce of spades. Looking all four hands, it is not difftcm. to see that declarer should go ® with dummy’s king of spades. Bi without knowing the location ® the cards, could you figure out W right play? When I saw the hand pMj declarer went jnt0 a huddle finally played a small spade l?-' dummy, South won with the Q®*5! and this was the play that defe* !‘ the hand. West should have played ® king from dummy without » ^ rrient’s hesitation. North ® shown out of diamonds cn the s'1' ond round, so declarer knew ® South had five diamonds to ace-king-ten. If South *1*° ®‘ the ace of spades, would he * have opened the bidding? h declarer reviewed the bidding ^ his own mind, he would®' known that it was impossible, ■ South to have the flee oljPjj
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