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Post Office Under Act of Congress of March i, 1879__ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY Payable Weekly or in Advance I Combi —Star News nation fweek_-*0 8 •» » .50 1 Month ........... 180 l-10 *15 I Months_ 3.90 3.25 6.50 J Sonih. -.— 7.80 6.50 13.00 ? year .. 15.60 13.00 26.00 (Above rate* entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News)_ ' SINGLE COP Y Wilmington News --8c Morning Star ...° Sunday Star-News ..—.-~iuc By Mail: Payable Strictly in Advance \ss -.»S 'K * 10.0° 8.00 15.40 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News)_ ’ ‘ WILMINGTON STAR (Daily Without Sunday) j Months—$1.85 6 Months—$3.70 1 Year—$7.40 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATEDPRESS The Associated Pres* is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all l°cal ne"* printed in this newspaper, as weU as *U A news dispatches.____ FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947 _ --- “ Star Program State ports with Wilmington favored in proportion with it.s resources, to in clude public terminals, tobacco storage warehouses, ship repair facilities near by sites for heavy industry and 35-loot 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-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 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 gov ernments. GOOD MORNING I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning; or men, that cannot well bear It, to repent of money they spend when they be warmed with drink, and take this for a rule, you may pick out such things and such companies, that you may make yourself merrier for a little than a great deal ol money; for “it is the company and not the charjye that makes the feast.”—Izaak Walton. Welcome, Doctors Physicians from all sections of North Carolina are converging today on Wrightsville Beach for a day-long symposium with notable members of the medical profession on the program. The Star adds its welcome to that of the New Hanover County Medical Society for the visitors. May their stay at the beach prove as enjoyable as it is instructive. The Medical Society has been pre paring for this event for some months. As host, it has spared neither effort nor expense to make the event out standing in the state’s medical history. Although the symposium agenda is a full one, there will be time aplenty for rcereation. it is the hope ot the host orgamza toin that the visitors will prolong their stay over Saturday when the sports which make a trip to the seashore most pleasant will be available. There will be fishing, with craft available for those who wish to try their luck in the Gulf Stream, or others who prefer surf casting or want to drop a hook frorci a pier or over the side of a skiff in fresh water. For those who prefer swimming, the good old Atlantic is still rolling ’em in. Golf links will be open to all com ers. Altogether, tomorrow will be as pleasurable as the Medical Society can make it, for all the medicos who can be away from their home practices or professorships that long. Wallace Tobacco Market The Wallace tobacco market will open on Monday under the most favor able conditions. All of J;he warehouse men are looking forward to a million pound increase in sales over the 14, 000,000-pound total of last year. One warehouse operator declares there is more and better tobacco in the Wallce area this year than he has seen in the last six years. Obviously this view is held by other operators also, as two new warehouses have been built, giving Wallace a total of 314,000 square feet of floor space. Confidence in the market outlook alone could justify the investment re quired for these new buildings, both of which are of the best type. Wallace has not confined Its build ing construction to tobacco warehouses alone. Since the last selling period at least a quarter of a million dollars worth of new business construction has been completed. Wilmington is particularly pleased at the prospect for a highly competi tive market at Wallace, in the same way that a family is overjoyed when one member meets outstanding suc cess. Wilmington and Wallace are sis ter cities. What benefits one benefits the other. A Little Later, Please Attention of the City Council and the Police Department is solicitously directed to a letter appearing on this page from Mr. R. W. Wood, a business executive who obviously is as deeply concerned for the development and bet terment of Wilmington as any other person. Mr. Wood very properly points out that there is no parking problem on downtown streets before 8 o’clock and therefore cannot understand why parking meters were put into operation at 7 o’clock, as was recently ordered by the police. There is a multitude ot Wilmmg tonians who cannot understand the change. The reason given by the police is that a new shift goes on duty at 7 o’clock, but this certainly does not bear on the parking situation. The fact is, parking for shoppers does not enter into the picture before 9 o’clock. It is not until then that space at the curb is at a premium and meters become a definite convenience. Mr. Robert A. Collier, mayor of Statesville, recently decreed that park ing meters in his city were not to be put into operation until 9 o’clock a. m. daily. Commenting on Mayor Collier’s order, the Greensboro News believes the Greensboro city officials “might give serious consideration to the ex ample set by Statesville.” The Star believes Wilmington’s city officials might give equally serious con sideration to the Statesville example, and go even further, by doing as Mayor Collier has done. Wilmington parking meters are em ployed as a means of relief and not as a source of revenue. They should be operated only when downtown parking is essential to the smooth flow of busi ness. Get The Prices Down Wages of union labor workers have kept ahead of the spiraling cost of living. Not so, the wages of white collar workers. It is these tens of thousands of persons whom the fifty cent dollar hits hardest. ■ The ?40 a week clerk back in the late 30’s has had to weather the higher cost of living storm that set in in the early 40’s, and is not yet past, as best he could on pay increases far below the levels secured through strikes, for the most part, for union labor. Even with some advances in salaries, white col lar workers are having to deprive their families of many essentials. They are scrimping along on the borderland of actual poverty. What has happened to send the cost of living so high, since the shooting war ended? The Truman administra tion is said to have made a contribu tion to inflation by the removal of wage controls, by encouraging labor to demand constantly higher pay and by the repeal of tlje excess profits tax. But it was the republicans, suddenly gaining control of Congress, who jump ed on the band wagon to lead the fight for removal of price controls and sponsored the bill to relax rent con trols. They cannot fasten the blame on the White House alone. But where the blame lies is not so vital as the necessity of getting prices down to a level that will assure the moderate comforts to living, not alone to a favored minority—the union laborers—but to everybody who works for a living. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo The Man Bilbo, who started out as a laundrvman, mill hand and news butcher, to earn money for his educa tion at Peabody and Vanderbilt colleges and the University of Michigan, first gained general public notice when he was charged with bribe-taking, and subsequently exonerated, while serving his first term in the Mississippi Senate from 1908 to 1912. He had been a school teacher and studied for the min istry, but turned from the pulpit to the bar and the farm. With a gift for the kind of oratory most^ popular at camp meetings and picnics in his early years, he was soon in the thick of Mississippi politics, the only man ever to be elected twice gov ernor. The choice of the state constit uency three times for the United States Senate, he was rejected by the A [republican majority at the opening of the 80th. Congress on the broad charge that he was unfit for public service. Suffering from a cancer of the mouth and jaw, he grudgingly accepted a two month armistice from the Senate, and came south for an operation with the avowed purpose of returning to Wash ington to fight for the seat his fellow Mississippians had chosen him to take. He never went back. Steadily grow ing weaker, he expired yesterday in New Orleans, the immediate cause of his death being a pulmonary embolism. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo for more than two decades was the center of more political storms than any south ern politician with the possible ex ception of Huey Long. The two were bitter-enders, never willing to concede that any views but their own could possibly be right. For this reason, and also, we may believe, because both were fundamentally wrong most of the time, they were reviled by the press and from the pulpit. But whatever it is that gives one man precedence over another was possessed by both. Bilbo was not like Long in coveting totalitarian powers, but he did know how to gain the ap proval of the majority of enfranchised voters. He proved this when Senator Pat Harrison broke with him and work ed against him at home and in the Senate, but could not wipe out his popular support at election time. And Senator Harrison was a power in Mississippi too. A spectacular figure in American politics has passed from the scene. There was not much in his career to merit approval. It would be hypocritical to give him praise in death that he did not win in life. But it may be said in all truthfulness that from the time he first gained public office to the historic battle in the Senate when he was de nied a seat whoever crossed his path knew full well that he had contacted a strong, if frequently misguided, per sonality. As Pegler Sees It BY WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—When Pearl Bergoff died quietly of a lawful illness a few days ago, I said to myself, “Pegler,” I said, ‘he was a tetter man than John L. Lewis or Dave Beck, of the teamsters, or a hundred others that you could name without reaching for a book. He broke strikes for a living and he didn’t pretend to do it for humanity, he was a good strikebreaker; one of the best.” “You crazy fool,” Pegler said to me. “Low er your voice! Do you want to get arrested? Do you want to get killed? You can’t go around saying anybody was a good strike breaker.” “But Pearl Bergoff was a wonderful strike breaker,” I said to Pegler. “I knew him a long time. He was chunky and pugnacious like Lewis and Beck. Like Lewis and Beck he had pink hair and if you opened your mouth to bellow at Bergoff he wouldn’t flinch. He would jump right down your throat. He would have been a champion union organizer and politi cian like Lewis and Beck. His ethics and morals W'ere better and his methods were about the same.” Well, it does seem strange to be saying that a, man was a good strikebreaker, after all these years of union propaganda and tnought icntroi, the very idea is almost heretical or olasphemous. Our people have been gassed ivith propaganda until most of us dumbly be lieve that all strikes are righteous and all strikebreakers are satanic. By this power of propaganda and moral :errorism, the big unioneere actually hypno ized the public. People who knew better stupidly thought it was a social and political jjit a i\ci iiue ui iu uujf uidtA-uaicu goods. They were afraid too. Afraid in some ocal ties, of rocks through fhe window* in the lead of night, afraid of icepicks in their tires. Merchants were afraid of the secondary pick et-line. Mayors, governors and sheriffs, of a scalawag breed, made stump-*peeches, wheed ling for the political support of the union oosses on the picket-lines, when they should nave read them the liot act and shot them f they made a false move. We shoot stick-up men, don’t we? It is the duty of government to protect law-abiding citizens on lawful er rands against murderous goons swinging clubs. The policemen in the South Chicago riot stood their ground that May Day early in the 2. I. O.’s civil war, and killed a dozen of them, none of the dead or wounded were strikers. It was just a communist C. I. O. mob, testing the strength of fhe law, and, for once, at least, in a corrupt regime, Ed Kelly, who was Roosevelt’s satrap, was his own man. He and his people had talked it all out beforehand. They decided that this was the time to de termine whether Chicago would be terrorized by the Communist shock-troops who had con quered Frank Murphy’s government in Michi gan and wrecked and looted the automobile plants. They decided to shoot and slug and kick the life out of the insurrection and stomp it until it couldn’t even twitch, in Chicago, if the mob crossed the deadline. They did, and from that day, as long as Kelly reigned, and as long as Roosevelt lived, the Communists knew that they couldn’t get away with it in Chicago. They never tried it again. Pearl Bergoff was never on fhe communist side. He w’as a law and order man. Mr. Berg cff’s busines* was the importation of strike breakers. He had pools of them here and here, but he was especially strong in Phil adelphia. In 1936, Congress forbade thp inter date transfer of strikebreakers. It was a bad aw from all angles but the worse because it lid rot interfere with the interstate mass novement or filtration of union goons on ter -orislic mission*. Bergoff’s strikebreakers were aot all workmen. Some werp, but a lot of then, were just bums, no good for either working or fighting, on the other hand, when Lewi° and the likes of Peck and Harry Bridges came along, their pickets were not necessarily strikers. Bergoff’s men were called finks. The union pickets were called goons. They were rrore dangerous than finks had been because Ihev were stiffened with Stalinist traitors and Ihpre was a skeleton of military organization among them and Roosevelt was behind them. They had officer* and posts of command and intel'fgence and communications, but hardly one in a hundred of them was an actual striker. In Bergoff’s time, when the finks moved in to a plant and barred the doors for a siege, the workmen caught inside had to stay. The unioneers told some pathetic stories of wretch ed toilers compelled to array themselves against their fellow slaves in long beleaguer ment. But the same thing happened again when Lewis was organizing his C. I. O. Now the faceless wretches, trapped when the goons, yelled ‘‘sitdown strike,” were forced to de THE ANVIL CHORUS France Has Chosen By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP I WASHINGTON — In the past months, a very great event has been taking shape, inconspicuous ly, almost intangibly, yet decisive ly. If one can depend upon of ficial Washington’s best judgment, France has been making her choice at last. The makers of French policy are no longer seek ing fruitlessly to ‘‘mediate’’ in the world- embracing contest between the Western and Soviet systems. Instead, with' courage France has chosen the West. This may sound grandiloquent and vague. On the contrary, how ever, it actually promises the most solid progress in several vital directions. For example, the outline of a solution of the Ger man problem (which had so long seemed literally insoluble) now seems to be emerging. Such developments are not com pleted overnight, and there is still a marked difference between the British and .Americans on the one hand, and the French on the. other, on the question of timing. At the Angio-Franco - American conference on the German level of industry, the British and Ameri cans will press for immediate de cisions permitting the reconstruc tion of the German economy on a modestly healthy basis. The British and American zones are by far the most populous, and con tain the greatest concentration of German industry. Even a few months of delay will mean leav ing Germany for another year what it is today—a vast, poison breeding slum in the midst of Eu rope. The French, on the other hand, are understood to wish to defer decisions until the November meeting of the foreign ministers in London. Then, being sensible men, their policy-makers antici pate another failure to agree as complete as the failure in Mos cow. This, it is further understood, will give them, in the eyes of France and the world, a starting point from which they can set a new course. The French zone of Germany will then, if all goes well, be merged with the Anglo American zone. And thus, in turn, the Ruhr problem, which is the heart of the German problem in France's eyes, will at last become soluble. Long since, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault proposed management of the Ruhr by an international consortium. The Americans are now7 pressing the British to confide the Ruhr (w’hich is of course in the British zone) to an inter-zonal directorate. If the French zone is joined to the Anglo - American zone, the French will be represented on the inter zonal directorate, and the inter national consortium will thus, au tomatically, come into being. Bi dault has also pressed, very wise ly, for integration of the Ruhr re sources into a plan for the Euro pean economy. This will be ac complished within the framework of the Marshall plan. This is, of course, looking very far into the future. There are quite obviously two possible w7ays in which the present trend can be reversed. The first is the least likely. It is the possibility that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov may arrive at the November con The Innocents Abroad BY DOUGLAS LARSEN wAonuiuiui'i — ine congres sional committee investigating the State Department’s propaganda activities, headed by Rep. Karl Mundt (R., S.D.), is now set to invade Europe. They’re going to try to find out just how good a job has been done in selling America to the Euro peans and also try to find out how many listeners the State Depart ment’s radio program, the Voice of America, has there. Representative Mundt and the rest of the congressmen are ap parently sincere in their desire to do a fair job of reporting what they find. The report is supposed to give the rest of Congress and the public an intelligent basis for deciding the future of the depart ment’s foreign information activi ties. Unfortunately, the committee is starting out handicapped. It’s un likely any of the members will get into Russia, and maybe not into more than one or two of the “curtain” countries. Those are the areas where an evaluation of American influence and prestige is most important and where the State Department is most eager that the “Voice” is heard. Their budget and tentative time sched ule calls for only a few days in most places. Only one committee staff'mem ber is really trained to do the job that the committee members themselves will try to do. And he will probably be saddled with the handling of most of the details of stroy property and pretend to like it. They get their heads split open for asking to be let out. They were criminals against their will. On the outside picket lines, the unioneers paid regular day wages to bums to carry signs just as Bergoff had paid his finks to rattle machinery and make a noise like an industrial hum when he was going strong. So, as I said to Pegler when Bergoff died, Pearl was a wonder ful strikebreaker, and personally I told Pegler, I think he was clean er. and more honest than any union boss in the U. S. A. Break ing strike was a straight business with him. He never rumbled about democracy or human rights. I moving tne group, ramer man ue ing free to direct the investi gation. in a Drier stay in any loreign city, the best they’ll probably be able to do is get to some of the official sources, such as govern ment men, etc. And they will have to consult with the U. S. embas sies, too. What these sources will turn up can be gotten just as easily in Washington. Members >of the committee themselves aren’t agreed as to how they should proceed over there. One sensible suggestion is that they tear up the schedule and strike out, each on his own, or divide up into smaller groups. The more they conceal the fact that they are U. S. congressmen on an investigation, the better their chances, will be of getting at the guts of what they are looking for. No European is going to lay bare his soul, through an interpreter, while a group of plump congress men sit around taking notes. It takes a friendly, but subtle, job of questioning the right people to get a penetrating look at the European mind. And it takes wideopen eyes to see the various shades of American influence ex pressed in such things as what sheet music and books are being sold and what movies are being shown. These things, too. are part of the State Department's propa ganda efforts. Most of the members of the committee are especially eager to find out just how many Europeans listen to the “Voice” and how ef fective it is. A cursory question ing of scores of persons by this reporter during a tour of Europe recently revealed what a difficult job it is going to be to get any kind of an accurate count. Many of the more educated persons, in cluding gov ernment officials, teachers, industrialists, etc., know of the program’s existance. And if they haven’t, heard it them selves at one time or another it is merely because they don’t nave a radio, or one not good enough to tune in on short wave. But many persons had heard of the ‘Voice” only because of the press reports of the fight over its existence that had been waged in Congress. ference with his briefcase bulging with really important concessions to the French viewpoint on Ger many. This would be a remark able about turn. In Moscow. Bi dault was treated by the Soviet negotiators with a contempt which they did not trouble to conceal. Yet the Soviets have made about turns before, when in their view practical considerations demanded them. And there have been vague hints that such a reversal is actu ally being considered in the Krem lin. The second possibility is that the representatives of this country might revert to their former myopic method of dealing with France’s German interests. To the French, this method has been utterly incomprehensible. To an American, familiar with the vagaries of our government, noth ing has been easier to understand. Until Secretary Marshall moved into the State department, Ameri can policy was the sum of what was being done in a series of little semi - independent empires. One such was Germany. Those in con trol of American policy in Germa ny were brilliantly able men. It would be difficult to find a finer, more devoted, or more capable public servant than General Lucius D. Clay. But General Clay, and the others directly concerned with Germany, were not con cerned with anything else. There fore. they quite naturally wished to enforce the simplest possible solutions of the German problem, as promptly as possible and with out regard to anything else. France’s interests were opposed to these solutions, and friction was inevitable. The last manifestation of this sort of attempt to make policy for Germany alone oc curred when Secretary Marshall forbade announcement of a rise in the German level of industry only twenty-four hours before it was to be made. This past record makes it all the more necessary that the French views should be sympa thetically considered at the forth coming London talks. If there is an honest meeting of minds the French can surely be relied upon to approve those steps in Germany which are economically essential to take at once. The whole matter of course vastly transcends in importance the immediate future of Germany alone. For unless there is a firm agreement between the French the British, and the United States on the German problem, the Mar shall plan cannot succeed. And the consequences of failure of the Letter Box PARKING HOUR CHa\Ge To the Editor: Please allow me to say words in regard to :he*, change in the hours of paru”1* on the parking meters in d*cin* town Wilmington. As I v,av ways understood, these ' me *■’ were adopted as a measure lieve the parking situation 0‘° r,‘ business streets so as to e"n shoppers and visitors ;0 easily patronize our merch"' and simplify their shopping, fording a greater chance of Ba!’ ing space during shopping h„. Now, the hours have T1 changed to extend from 7 0Vi " a.m., instead of 8 o'clock 0tl1 As I see it there is no part“' problem In downtown Wi]n-Ur,jt at 7 o’clock a.m. There js 'if* of parking space on all busin streets at that hour and bevonl to 8 o’clock a.m. on^ Therefore, it is my opinion also of many of my friends th, the meters are now being for an entirely different puriw, than for which they were orJn,,' ly installed, and we think that i the city is in need of neu souJ of revenue why pick on the J toring public, which, statist show, are the most heavily ta*.J single group ln ihe country. As a good citizen I am willin, and anxious to cooperate and he In in any way possible toward a be* ter Wilmington, and a more pro.'. perous and contented populate There is no doubt in my mi„a but that there are others in th city who feel the same as i rl! about the matter, and i would consider it a great civic sen-, for you to publish this letter and ask for further commen: from other interested citizens There may be good reason for the change. If there is I can se, no harm in enlightening the pub lic and allow the matter to b* discussed and explained so ever? one will understand. As it now stands it will onlv create doubt and suspicion and resentment, which is not good far Wilmington. R. W. Wood, President, Precision Machine Mfg. Co’ Wilmington, N. C. August 21, 1947. How To Treat Arthritis Told BY WILLIAM A. OBRIEN. M. I, The body builds up natural re sistance to rheumatoid arthritii, similar to the resistance it create; against tuberculosis and other chronic infections. Resistance can be encouraged in many wayi even though there is no specif: remedy for the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is i drawn-out condition in which k lining membranes and tissues s' rounding the joints become in flamed. As the disease progresses, the bones become thin and ’he joints stiffen, causing deformities to develop. It is three times more common in women than in nisi, and it tends to develop in rela tively young persons, as the aver age age of patients is 35 to 10 years. Cause of rheumatoid arthritis ji not known, although the circum stances surrounding its develop ment are known. Severe physical or emotional shock, joint injury, sudden or repeated exposure to dampness and cold, prolonged fa tigue. or an acute infection may precede the onset. Patients with rheumatoid arthri tis complain of weakness, tired ness. loss of weight, anemia, and tingling and numbness of hands and feet. When the onset is lud den, many of the joints become acutely inflamed at the same time, while in the gradua-iy de veloping form, there is a sion spread from joint tp joint. Both varieties tend to become chror.tf as the fingers, hands, and knee joints become deformed, although any joint in the body may be af fected. Rheumatoid arthritis is a self limiting disease and. were it no: for the thickening and stiffness of the joints, the patient would *s well as ever when it stopped. When the condition starts sudden ly, it appears to end sooner and may heal without leaving a trace. A favorable outcome without de formities may be anticipated ;n some of the slowly developing varieties although this is the ex ception rather than the rule. Men with rheumatoid arthritis frequently fail to take their condi tion seriously, with the resuit till they sustain excessive joint dam age Women with arthritis tend to be more depressed with tne cor1' dition and need the most encour agement. Marshall plan are not pleasant to contemplate. Copyright, 1947, N. Y. HeraM Tribune, Inc. George Atcheson, Jr. An Editorial from the New York Herald Tribune rtmoassaaor George Atcheson Jr., risked his life many times in the service of the United States during his long and distinguished career as a diplomat in the Far East. He no doubt viewed the ight from Tokyo to Washington !n. anT A™y plane as a routine trip. He had traveled again and again under the most hazardous conditions and would not have re garded a journey across 'he Pa cific by air as dangerous. But men who dare to take chances sometimes survive the worst risks only to meet death in unexpected places as Mr. Atcheson apparent ly did when his plane was forced to land in the sea near Hawaii. The ambassador's life well illus bates the high demands nraae by the Department of state on he career men who serve in the Par East in comparison to the re wards they receive. Mr. Atche son s rewarded more handsomely U v.” r'?os,*’ as lie eventually achieved tne prestige and pay of ambassadorial rank. But he held mis rank only two years and he nad put in twenty-five years at a moderate salary while assigned to exceedingly difficult tasks, often in regions where living conditions "e.e abominable and real aafety was unknown. His diplomatic career began in S Peiping, where he was reqi'-—° learn Chinese, which is a: but easy. He rose through ranks of the Foreign Sen .re ,n China during the war lord e i «• during the destruction of the 'lords by Chiang Kai-shek, dur.-e the Sino-Japanese war and dur.:.? the rise of the Chinese Reds -ie and his associates were exp-t to protect American lives and - terests despite chaos that ex everywhere. He was on boa: a ill-fated gun boat Panay v p •• was bombed by the Japanese was in Chungking as counselor e embau-y during tne hardes: of the Pacific v ar. His record in that wean: £ ! difficii’t post was superb " t to his appointment to a P051 • which made even move den ■ or. his talents—that of political : viser, with the rank of ar''a‘”. eador, to General of the A. ■ Douglas MacArthur. He "■'c>IAt“ well with the general, despue complexity of the problems ■ both had to face, and his * ? increased. His loss will be * ! ; ous blow to the Dep«r'm*r» ^ State, and to the nation he **n j His courage and intelligence ^ loyalty will be miesed f°r 1 years to come.