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Development of Southeastern Nor® Carolina agricultural and industrial re sources through better markets and food processing, pulp wood production and factories. Emphasis on tha region’s recrea.ion 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 more in dustries. Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air port for expanding air service. Development of Southeastern North Carolina s healtii facilities, especially in counties lacking hosDitals. and includ ing a Negro Health center. Encouragement of the growth of com mercial fishing. Consolidation of City and County gov ernments. GOOD MORNING The man who rules his spirit, saith the voice that cannot err, is greater than the one who takes a city. If each would have dominion of himself, would govern wise ly, and thus show a true courage, knowl edge, power, benevolence, all the princely ■oul of private virtues, then each would be a prince — a hero — a man in likeness of his maker. — Mrs. S. J. Hale. High School Band Is Tops The people of Wilmington, who have long been proud of the High school band, have additional reason now to take especial pride in the organization. Competing before thirty thousand spectators at the North Carolina To bacco exposition in Wilson with high school bands from Raleigh, Wilson, Kin ston and Washington, the Wilmington players took first place and brought home a coveted trophy to add to their growing list. The grading was on neatness, musi cal and marching ability. Lieutenant Lacock, the conductor, and his assist ant, Mr. Richard Dobson, deserve great credit for this victory, but so do the boys and girls in the band. It is not yet determined whether the group will attend the Harvest festi val in Selma on September 3, but it is to be hoped that it does, and places first there too. At any rate every prep aration must be made to send the band to the State Music festival in Greens boro next spring. Tin Communist Strategy The New York Liberal party, which broke with the American Labor party in the Empire state when the Labor party subniitted to communist domina tion, has as its chairman Mr. Adolf A. Ber’e, Jr. Mr. Berle has reposed in a variety of political beds in the past. He was among the chosen few who foisted Fiorello H. LaGuardia on New York City as mayor. He supported Thomas E. Dewey when he first ran for district attorney. He was a member of the ori ginal Roosevelt new deal, and was re warded with an assistant secretary ship in the State Department under 'Secretary Hull. Now he heads a politi cal group which he declares is neither pink or black or any other pastel shade. Whether his frequent change of al legiance entitles him to consideration either as a leader or a prophet is a moot question. But he gave voice to an utterance in New York a few days ago which at least deserves a hearing. The communist strategy in the United States, he declares, is to defeat Presi dent Truman next year and elect ar isolationist President and Crongress. He added the communists will unit< with “backward” members of the Re publican party in this program. “This should not seem so surprising.” Mr. Berle said. ‘The most reactionary elements in our country co-operated with the Hitler regime for business purposes. They sold scrap iron and aviation gasoline to Japan. They are now intent on doing business with Rus sia. "Their program ealls for undermin ing the present State Department poli cy whenever it is possible.” Mr. Berle’s declaration is not sur prising. How he came to omit “back ward” democrats from the alleged coali tion, however, is. Assuming he meant 'to define "backward” as radical, we know the Democratic party has as many such members as the Republican party. The communists are baiting their hooks for everybody of this ilk, whatever their former political affiliation may have been. We cannot easily believe that the rank and file of the major political parties in the United States will per mit any group, whether in the liberal or the communist camp, to elect an isolationist president in 1948. The day for isolationism is past. Whether the next president of the United States was the candidate of the republicans or the democrats, we are I confident he will not have been misled j by the Kremlin’s ideology or try to | count his nation out in international affairs, as the communists would like. Cost Of Government In an analysis of an article dealing with the cost of government and the people’s food bill, which was written by its Washington correspondent, Mr. Harry Wohl, the St. Louis Star-Times notes that figures can become so huge “they cease to have meaning the human mind can comprehend.” The figures in Mr. Wohl’s article “cannot be understood even after hours of ex planation.” To make them comprehensible, the Star-Times editor, odviously after hours of study, reduces them to terms we lean grasp by the process of compari son. “In the year 1929,” he writes, “the people spent 19.6 billion dollars | for food and only 3.7 billion for gov ernment. In other words, government’s cost was 18.9 per cent of that for food.” These are figures we can understand, as are those that follow: “By 1945 the food cost had almost doubled, being 36 billions. But the cost of government had been multiplied by 25, rising to 90.5 billions. “By 1946 the food cost had more ; than doubled since 1929, being 42.9 billions. But while the cost of govern ment had declined slightly, it was still more than 12 times that in 1929, or 44.9 billion dollars.” Why has this happened? The Star Times believes the cost of World War II “wouldn’t have been anywhere close to its tremendous peak had it not been for the short-sighted government poli cy that inflated everything to encour age war production. Prices were infla ted. Wages were inflated. Hence the staggering increase of 2,400 per cent in the cost of government from 1929 to 1945.” This is the national picture, Being thorough and painstaking in his task, the Star-Times editor carries his com parison to its logical conclusion. “Let’s look at the same figures reduced to terms of each individual inhabitant of the United States. In 1929 the Ameri can man or woman said: ‘This year I am going to spend exactly $162 for food, and I am going to buy $31 worth of government.’ In other words he spent less than one-fifth as much for his government as he spent for his food. But what has happened? By 1944 this same individual had to say, ‘This year I shall spend $229 for my food and God help me, whether I like it or not, I shall have to spend $699 for my government.’ In other words, his food cost in 1944 was 41 per cent greater than in 1929, but his government cost was 2,154 per cent greater.” What this all boils down to, we are : told, and cannot believe differently, is that the people en masse are on a road that will lead straight to national bankruptcy. “Unless the pressure of public opinion forces the Congress to cut government spending by billions of dollars and restore the integrity of the United States Treasury, there will be no getting off that road.” Every last mother’s son of us has been feeling the pressure of federal extravagance and waste since the in flationary spiral started with the out break of World War II. But we have had only a vague idea of wrhat it was doing to the national and the individual economic situation. Here it is told in plain and simple terms. The Star-Times has performed a valuable public service in telling the story of our frustration in a way we can all at last comprehend. Unless we are extraordinarily indifferent to our fate we will see that the second session of the 80th. Congress does some con structive work on dometic relief legis lation. As Pegler Sees It By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1947, By King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — It is useless to look to most of our Washington journalism for passably honest analysis of any issue involv ing the name of Roosevelt and the corruption' that he bequeathed to a morally immature people who babble that it is wrong to expose the wickedness of his regime because, there by, we create sympathy for the master rogue himself and defeat our ends politically. Dam mit, most of these sodden hangers-on think only in terms of political and material loss or gain. Don’t expose the graft and hypocrisy, the treachery and the continuing impositions of this breed of parasites because, in the first place, the boss was a great man by the same measures that made Hitler and Stalin great. Don’t speak ill of him because he is dead and can’t talk back as though he didn’t have a hundred thousand venal hacks to write hi* defense if there were one in Christian moral*. And Hitler and Mussolini, too, are dead, but, by some special clause in the rule, enjoy no such immunity. This queer, depressing reaction to the ex posures of the conduct of Elliott Roosevelt and Howard Hughes has been expressed in most oi the privileged newspaper comment on the sorry show presented by the Senate’s subcom mittee. Granted lhat Senators Brewster and Ferguson did mishandle their job and yield the initiative to these two audacious adventurers, is that something for American journalists to gloat about who profess to have any concern for decency in government? Is that any ex cuse to applaud these two and their success in getting away with a defiance that should be the sorrow of all good citizens? As the game has been scored to date by this corrupted journalism so long exposed tc the cynicism of the greedy opportunists of the Roosevelt revolution, it would seem that the Senators had been caught in some flagranl misconduct and had convicted themselves un der the clever prosecution by Elliott and a man who frankly resorted to the hiring of pretty young women for ulterior motives. Senator Brewster was accused of offering to call off this inquiry if Hughes would agree to the provisions of a bill to combine the best elements of the big cut-throat American over seas Airlines for patriotic reasons. The object was to concentrate their diffused strength and enable them to compete in unison under the American flag against subsidized Overseas Air lines of other nations. Those subsidies, inci dentally, are paid by the American taxpayer, who thus plainly is subsidizing competition against the American lines. The object oi Brewster's bill was to stop the hacking and slashing between the Americans, and save their strength for the competition with other na tions. It may be an unwise proposal, but to suggest that it was a crooked scheme to put Howard Hughes out of business for the bene fit of Pan-American is merely to accept Hughes' own motivated, reckless and utterly irresponsible pleading in his own interest. That pleading was whooped up. incider tally, as a counter-blast to the disgusting disclosures tha1 his company had resorted to the practice oi backslapping and pouring ..drinks for Army officers, and apparently for others, and pro viding women for them, at company expense and keeping nickel-by-nickel accounts of the expenses. vvnat Kind of hospitality is that, anyway? j What kind of man would do that dirty trick tc | his guests and preserve the records so that ! they could later be used to influence sensi tive or vulnerable members of these happy little Companies? Does a decent man thrust his guests unknowingly into the society of pro fessional young women about town and then file away in the vault memoranda that this girl got $7.5 and that one $100 and that one yonder a $20 bill and $175 worth of nylons be cause she was “charming?” Certainly nc man or woman of the world will overlook the scandalous possibilities here. This Hughes is no boy. He has been around Hollywood and the Waldorf fo; years, and most of the hot New York and Las Vegas night clubs, and he knows plenty. He knows enough to duck when the photographers try to take his picture with women who might get predatory ideas. Brewster, the poor oaf, let Hughes muddy him up with insinuations that Brewster was earning some pay from Sam Pryor and Juan Trippe of Pan-American in offering this bill to combine the Overseas Airlines. Brewster bounced himself over his own ostrich-egg skull with his own gaudy red circus bladder and didn’t even, have the presence of mind to ex plain that Pan-American also objected to hit bill just as angrily as Trans-World did. The Senator seems to have forgotten to point out that almost two years ago Pan-American fil ed official documents petitioning the courts to redress an injustice done them and a great favor granted Hughes in the allotment or routes abroad to American Transocean Lines. General H. H. Arnold, who finally autho rized the contract given Hughes for 100 fast reconnaisance planes, urgently and aggressive ly recommended by Elliott Roosevelt in the grotesque role of flying general, admitted pointedly that he did this by a “verbal” order. Is that the way they were doing business in the air lorce in itjms of $22,000,000? They cer tainly had plenty of typewriters and WAC's to run them, but this order was “verbal.” Johnny Meyer admitted that he squander ed enormously of Hughes’ money on drinks, luxuries- and other entertainment for Elliott Roosevelt, the son of the President, and spent, specifically, $1,400 on Elliott’s third wedding alone. And he admitted moreover that this money was spent on this young rounder sole ly because Elliott recommended that Hughes’ company get this job. Yet this vulgar extravagance in time of war was kissed off as a normal and customary sort of thing in American business, and Ellioti had the gall to criticize General O. P. Echols, of the material command, in a manner of nasty insinuation, because Echols, after the war, went to work for a group of aviation interests as a civilian. This virtuous rebuke came, mind you, from a fellow who had trimmed suckers of fortunes on the strength of his father’s name and had served as president of a thing called this Aeronautical Chamber of Com merce when he knew no more about flying than any juvenile- hedgehopper in a June-Bug. but — mind this — but when his father was President of the United States. Quotations We must find a way to bridge the torrent of doubt and suspicion between the eastern and western powers or the eventual result would be conflict.—Eric Johnston, president, Motion Pic.ure Producers, Inc. Production and only produc ion which creates a balance of supply and demand is the only sure cure for the increasing wage and price spiral. — George M. Humphrey, Pittsburgh coal and steel executive. The toughest thing about success is hat you’ve got to keep on being a success Talent is only a starting point in business You’ve got to keep working that talent.—Irving Ber lin, song writer. We keep the Iron curtain down on how much we don't know, which is practically everything. — Charles F. Kettering, General Motor* enginter. 1947 “MARRY-THON” Economist Discusses Socialism BY ROGER W. BABSON BRIDGEPORT. Conn. I wanted to visit some typical New Eng land city to learn how its people are feeling. As Bridgepirt perhaps suffered most through the depres sion of the thirties and then-- ac cording to Newton’s Law of action and Reaction - prospered most later during World War II, I am writing from here. Bridgeport is a city of about 150,000 people. These people have had a reputation as being radical and for many years have elected a socialist mayor He, however, tried hard to be fair and has had the vote of many conservative peo ple. At one time Bridgeport was the only city in New England with a socialistic government. During the recent war these peo ple prospered greatly. Not only is this a large center for small ma chinery and tools of all kinds, but it makes guns and ammunition even is peace times. Hence, it was and is a war city. The conversion to peace time products was dif ficult and much unemployment was forecasted for 1946 and 1947, but this has not come about. Bridgeport continues to be pros perous. Certainly if tnis applies .o Bridgeport it should apply to most manufacturing centers in New England and elsewhere. The truth is that the entire Unit ed States — ae President Truman has recently pointed out - is at an all-time high. We have more em ployment and greater sales today than ever before in our history. The only disappointed people seem to be those of some summer re sorts who had planned on a re cord year which hae not occurred, roo. many people seem to be eco nomizing during vacations. They take only a twenty dollar bill and pne suit of clothes and change neither during the trip: This how ever is not a bad sign. These people are saving money foi something which will last longer and perhaps give them a little racation each day of the year. When the stock market was at liw ebb — some months agi — many readers criticised me for being optimistic during the early months of 1947. They felt that my forecasts for a “good 1947’ would be wrong. Each month, however, has confirmed my optimism. In vestors who cashed in hall of their profits did a safe thing; but the “smart ones” who sold every thing are now disappointed bears. —A Bridgeport socialist, who knew that the United States money in circulation had tripled from .$8,000,000,000 in 1940 to over $24, foO,00,00 today asked a local banker: “Why am I not three times at rich now as I was seven years ago?” This interested the banker enough to take a Gallup Poll of the next 100 women leav ing his savings bank. He asked each woman how much money sht usually carried in her pocket book before World War 11? These women usually replied: "About forur or five dollars”. He then asked them to count how much they now had as they left the bank after making their weekly deposit. He found that all the women of Bridgeport were averag ing twelve to fifteen dollars in their pockets, -- or three times what they formerly carried. But why do these people vote the socialistic ticket? The answer is because Bridgeport has an hon est Mayor Jasper McLevy, who leads the Socialist Party but who truly loves the people. He looks at every boy and girl as if it were his own boy or girl. He has a heart, generous with the poor enforcing the laws and especially protecting youth He is more than Politics And Sugar BY PETER EDSON WASHINGTON — Biggest politi cal enigma of the last session of Congress was the Sugar Act of 1938. A Democratic White House administration, supposed to be op posed to cartels, allowed the U.S. mainland and off-shore sugar pro ducers to dictate a bill which sets up a virtual sugar trust. A Re publican Congress supposed to be dedicated to free enterprise pass ed a bill which is full of controls. It was smart politics, all right, to get the bill passed this year. That avoids seven months of wrangling in 1948. When the industry-written bill hit the House floor a little over a month ago, however, it imme diately drew fire. Rep. John W. Flannagan of Virginia, former chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, in which the New Deal’s original sugar quota con trol legislation had been written, called the new act. “the most vi cious piece of price-fixing ever proposed in Congress. I am in the role of the lone wolf,” said Flan nagan. “I am the only one who will oppose this bill.” Flannagan wanted to know what the Stale Department’s 202-e amendment to collect claims from sugar-producing countries in de fault to U . S. citizens really meant. Who would produce the sugar that would be cut from the quotas of these defaulting coun tries? Hastily the bill was amend ed to give such quotas to U. S. producers. One of the changes which Secre tary of Agriculture Clinton Ander son had proposed was to strike out several provisions carried over from the old Sugar Act o.' 1937. The required U. S. sugar growers to pay their labor a fair wage and to observe child labor standards. On Flannagan’s insistance, plus pressure from CIO sugar workers’ union and the Florida and Louisi ana cane growers, these pro visions w'ent back in. That w-as the only fight, however, made against the bill in the House. In the Senate, the bill had a much narrower squeak. With only five days of the session remain- j ing, Sen. Dennis Chavez of Newj Mexico began to get excited about Sction 202-e. He offered an amendment to kill it. The sugar lobby boys began to sweat black strap molasses. If the Chaaez amendment carried, the bill would go back to the House. There wasn't time for the House to act, and, in that case, their bill would be dead. It came up for final considera tion on the next to the last day of the session. The debate was hot and the vote was close. But in the end the State Department’s Section 202-e was kept in, 42 to 40. After that, pas sage of the bill was a mere for mality. The fight since then, however, has gone on unabated. The sugar industry people and the Depart ment of Agriculture feel that the act has been given a black eye because of the State Department amendment, which hides the other provisions of the bill. The new bill, they claim, will stalize the industry and insure supply in line with demand at fair prices. In working out wartime con tracts for the Cuban sugar crop, the U. S. government provided that the price of the sugar would advance automatically as the cost of living index and the cost ol food index went up. There are certain price guaran tees for domestic sugar producers in the new bill, carried over from the act of 1937. There are benefit payments to cane and beet grow ers who stay within the:r allotted acreages. And if growers are also producer,,, they are guaranteed a fair price for their cane or beets, regardless of the price of refined sugar. Money to pay these benefits comes from a tax on the refining of raw sugar imported into the United States. Normally the re finers want a low price for raw sugar which they refine. In this bill they have gone along with the rest of the industry to support a higher stabilized price for everybody. But at the most, indus try spokesmen claim all these guarantees would raise the price of sugar to the consumer fr«n 1*4 to 3-4 cents a pound. Mayor of the city; he truly is the loving father of the city and all ite people. Let us not think only of money when people talk social ism. There are many things much more important than money by which cities and people should be I continue to be optimistic for judged. the many “Bridgeports" in the United States although sometime there will be a day of reckoning for all unless we think more of other people and get out of debt. The next panic will come suademy "like a bolt from the blue”. Al though our domestic situation is good the foreign situation is very bad. There are no prosperous “Bridgeports” in Europe. Com munism is very different from socialism. Comments ONE WAY TO STOP IT Another North Carolina town has disclosed i t s sensitiveness to literary- criticism. Some Rocky Mount citizens resent Martha Gell horn’s reference to the train tracks which bisect its main busi ness district and her remarks ap ropos the unkempt condition of its streets. Well, there are more ways than one to respond or react to critic ism. One is to grow hot under the collar about it—a process which gives an individual or town ap preciable publicity but tends to focus more attention upon the de fects criticized, if real. Another is to ignore the criticism, which usually has the effect of causing it to pass without more than pass ing public notice. But where the criticism is justified, the best re sponse is to do something def initely remedial about the situa tion or conditions that have been spotlighted for attack.—Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem). WHO SHALL HAVE THE RUHR Holding out for socialization of the mines and factories of the Ruhr, Ernest Bevin wants to know who is going to have these in dustries if the people do not. Given a choice in the matter, the; people would probably be willing j for somebody to take them over! who can make them produce _1 Greenville (S. C. i News. ' Drug Brings'" Hive Reliei BY WILLIAM a. O’BR.rx 4 Benadryl brings .w ..’ M. n lief to most patients h attacks of hives- , “h »c-, chronic hives ten,"’ toSe > - soon as the drug is Z = i are pockets of - ■ : with the difficulty caused collection of histamine , «» sues. Benadryl neutral ‘ chemical. 11Zes flj, The number of hives otne time runs from ore ,l*sent «t hundred, and the s;?( ■ Severj head to as large as 5 ? j hand. Fluid accumulat*™ °* k from those which are to large, deep, d; ings. In all forms . iug and swelling are w - complants. "" Any part of the both- n affected by hives, b' ki constricted by clothing s,14 apt to be affected. In pers' rcoK are subject to hives iC; tendency for the coart;*;0*, !* - « back in the same , ■ ■ * two-thirds of ail p( 0 , one or more attacks 0f hm. their lifetime. ""cs Hives have an unpredfev course. The majoritv 0f , ings flare up. last a few d’Wt“' a week, and then disappear'V1 condition can become chronic 01 until now, this type has v1* noted for its stubborn* rev** ance to most forms of treatme-.' Large swellings in vital such as the throat, may vi" with breathing, and intense'-' ing, insomnia and disfiguren,,| interefere with the victin ing powers. Paul A. O’Leary, m. d v. ! Clinic, reports that : . ac-f‘“1 tacks of hives, benadry] . the majority of patien s few hours to days. Benadryl should not be , cept under a physicinV directio because it may also cause tin - ness, dizziness, weaknss and - ness of the mouth. These ittt' avoid toe food or drug eve treatment is effective m ra f cases. QUESTION: Some time ago yn | mentioned that vitamins res::.<; gray hair to its original ANSWER: Wrong. There • • scientific proof that gray hsi. -; been restored to its or.ahial 1 by the use of vitamins. Just In Fun HIDDEN MOTIVE? ’ Rufus, a Negro with w:ir ways, courted the Widow Wr while she bent inbus or.- . her wash-tub. His remarks w* more and more romantic, iength, he offered a propc-A i marriage. "Are y ou sure you love r.t1 sighed the buxom widow, as ia paused in her wringing "Sho’ Mandy, shoY' Rufus is sured her. "I loves you." Mandy picked up anotner M ment and meditatively rubbed 1 over the washing-board. In St mind, hope seemed to be core: ing with doubt. Suddenly o raised her head. and. fixing»«' eye on her waiting Romeo, H demanded: “Look here. Rufus, you aY'.c; yo’ job, v*ls you?" — Wail S:.i5 Journal. RHETORICAL QLEST10N Meeiing a casual acqui on Fifth Avenue ore day, Or Levant so far forgot himself t< ■ inquire politely: “How are toda.v, Williams?’’ Williams proceeded o greet' car an unsparing account oil most lamentable conditio::, ting not a single ache c. pa After five minutes of the w:' recital, Levant shrieked. Br ’ dear fellow, I d.dn’t mean . ly!”—Wall Street Journal. GAS FLOWING Detroit reports a natural well flowing at the rate ct J : cubic feet a day. b.r : : to give the gentleman's rs'*JJj tell what office he seek; |f phis Commercial Appeal. 1 The Science Bil 1 An Editorial From The Wall Sti •cet Journal mien it was proposed that the federal government make a major financial contribution to scientific research, there immediately arose the fear that government would soon dominate the field; that such a lever for state control of the economy would be just too temp ting. ^ oJP1!6 t°talitarian rulers had so employed science. There was and is happily not as much as there en°ugh of tha spirit in Washington to justify the fear that it could happen here. So when Congress set up a,Na tl.°.na.1 Science Foundation.? it pro vided government money to be spent at the discretion of a group f citizens almost free from sup erv-ision. President Truman vetoed he bill and many scientists seem surprised and disgruntled. It is a commentary on the scientists’ understanding 0f poli ‘‘cs tuha‘ a group of them ever ought that such an arrangement would or could be set up or long continued if set up. Had Presiden. Human consented to this bill, it ™thave been a comparatively short time before some committee of Congress would be looking into he expenditure of the government funds. The committee undoubtedly wouid be able to show that they ad been spent in some cases un wiely and without reults. The upshot would be some verv red aced scientists and the imposition of the political control they dread. There are some facts of life that our scientists—probably the most uneifih and practically ideaiitic group in the world—must learn. Messing with politics invites pol itical domination. Year* ago the railroads and some dared themselves learned the lesson. T:.e industrialist who 'Mgr-' their creature learned i' l"' cost. Most, although not all. business me are it. So have a few lihn: notably Mr. Lewis and nev. Of all the groups one ca. of the scientists are politically. To borrow : quip of a witty Engiishr.** are as well equipped ; politics as a ‘Tabu: with a boa cur whole training and unfits them, and - r , things they are dot g atto ( of the international P '■r; they sponsor make little ridiculous. ( , The scientist is a b- 1 ample of that ove “expert.” Experts < '« bad political adn case. And of all scientists would be '> knows that if you p cal together they same result as they ’• • • '. , • day and the same ' a give tomorrow. The must know that what i safely mix today may re* 1 terrific explosion tomorf • j Some scientists are a’u.;- \ their disabilities. lUa few realize them so 1 are intrigued by 'he 1 ■ the trouble of the f • settled bv the rule of > ed elite. They can do j’;^ V w' damage as a layma: an atomic laboratory