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Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-News * R B Page, Publisher Telephone Ah Departments 2-3311 Entered as Second C1 ass Matter at Wil mington, N C Post Office Under Art ol Congress of March 3, 1879_ SUBSCRIPTION-"RATES BY CARRIER IN NEW HANOVFR COUNTY Payable Weekly or in Advance Combi ne Star News natiop A Week _* 30 $ 25 S 50 1 Month- 1 30 1-10 2.15 3 Months - 3.90 3.25 5u 6 Months _ 7.80 6.50 13.00 1 Year _ 10.60 13.00 26.00 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) _ ' SINGLE COPY Vilmington News .-- 0° Morning S>ar . ”c •indav Star News ... 1Uc Bv MaiF~ Payab'» Strictly in Advance ^ Months .*2-50 *2 00 $3.85 « Months - .5 00 4.00 7.70 ! year _ 10.00 8.00 15.40 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) _ WILMINGTON STAR ~~ (Daily Without Sunday) 3 Months $1.85 6 Months $3 70 Year $7.40 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusive ly to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches _ * WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 29, 1947. __ I Star Protrrnm State . .. “ *avured in proportion with its resources, to in elude public .terminals tobacco stor age warehouses, ship repair facilities nearby sites for heavy industry an" 35-foot Cape Fear river channel City auditorium large enough t • meet needs for years to come ' Development of Southeastern Nort; Carolina agricultural and industrial resources through better markets and food processing, pulp wood productior and factories Emphasis on the region s recret tion advantages and improvement oa taz an assault to return to power? And, remember, there’s a mighty important election coming up next Nov ember? These are just some of the issues the citizens of Brunswick must consider. The Star has no desire to tell them what to do. But this newspaper rightfully feels that it is not only its business but public responsibility^ help protect an ad joining county and the whole state from public ridicule and scorn which this ap pointment will produce. We are also vital ly interested in seeing that all public of fices are filled by the best persons avail able. Perhaps a movement will be started to eradicate the danger brought on by the two commissioners — Chairman R. O. Lewis and Burris Chinnis—in their success ful sponsorship of Mr. Stanaland over the candidate proposed by the third board member, Steve Mintz. It is the law that the bonds of Brunswick officers and fiscal agents must be executed by a surety com pany or companies and not privately. Whether one will accept Mr. Stanaland is another question. We wouldn’t. Neither, do we believe, can the majority of the good people of Brunswick. Had the' county’s qualified voters elected him sheriff, they would have no one to blame but themselves. Now, however, if he goes into office, they can hold only two men directly re sponsible for placing him there. And these two have just as much moral accountabil ity as Mr. Stanaland for whatever tran spires, either good ' or bad, during his period of service. Highly Unpredictable The conflict between Premier Paul Ra madier’s middle-of-the-road cabinet and General Charles De Gaulle promises to be the most interesting purely domestic political contest offered by the continent since the end of the war. Following his triumph in the municipal elections, De Gaulle made his first open bid for return to power in France with a demand for dissolution of the national as sembly and the holding of new general elections. Yesterday, Premier Ramadier’* cabinet approved his fighting reply to General De Gaulle. He was to deliver it later in the day. But the real test will come either Thursday or Friday when the question of a vote of confidence by the deputies will be brought to a climax. Back of all the issues is the Communist party. Opposed for sometime, by Premier Ramadier’s socialist and moderate govern ment, it had made such gains that the French, through the municipal vote, re turned General De Gaulle as their first champion against the Reds. Thus, they swung far to the right because middle of-the-road policies of opposition to Com munism were failing. Whether the deputies are following what appears to be a clear public trend will not be disclosed until the ballot on confi dence is taken. If they were American politicians they probably would favor the General over Premier Ramadier. But be ing French, the outcome is highly unpre dictable on this side of the Atlantic. As Pegler Sees It By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1947 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—No other busi ness in the United States, except the busi ness of government under Roosevelt, has ever been so heavily and defiantly infest ed with traitors as the moving picture business of Hollywood. By traitors, I mean Communists, including the kind who deny that they are Communists but constantly prove that they are. By Communists, I mean persons devoted to the corruption, the frustration, and, finally, the violent overthrow of the government of the U. S. A. I still hear some in Washington say they can’t believe Roosevelt really knew the Communists were sifting into the govern ment back in the thirties. They are either liars or fools. Of course he knew about this and it wasn’t a filtration, either. It was an invasion. And as fast as the old Dies committee exposed individuals and rousted them they scurried back into the woodwork and lodged in new places. Day by day, as the memoirs accumulate, Roosevelt appears more fatuous—a grin ning, tragic, two-bit wise-guy, played for a fool by smarter men who kept him thinking he was the smart one, the daring reformer destined for a place in history not too far down the list from the God of Christendom. I am not blaspheming. All his crowd, except the likes of Jim Farley whom he patronized both socially and in tellectually. thought of him as a mere mortal political reformer. Close vour ears, but so thev did. And if you think Roose velt could not have been tempted by such a prospect, name another American who was so well convinced of his political im mortality that he built a memorial to him self. He had some men around him who were as thick as thieves with Prof. Harold Laski, the English revolutionist and secre tary of the Labor party which has just about scorched the earth of the political England that meant so much in confi dence and dignity to western Christendom. Roosevelt listened to them and they listened to Laski and hugged him in a way that was ominously confidential. And, finally, it was established by Laski’s own testimony in a recent trial, that Laski did contemplate violence in the revolution. What do we mean by violence? A kick in the pants? A punch in the snoot? A brick through a store window? For a start, maybe, yes. But, in Russia, violence meant the bloody obliteration of millions of the best people and the exile and slavery for life of millions more. All the Communists regard that as a very fine revolution. That is the kind of revolution they would perform here. Peo ple shooting from windows at people in the parks in Washington. Policemen strung up in New York. George Washington bridge down with a beautiful crash and splash. The cardinal and the household clergy against the wall at St. Patrick s. A hundred puzzled, proud civilians, women and m^n, hustled against a wall in the sunken garden of Rockefeller center by a squad of dirty killers from downtown. Maybe a few Communist writers from Hol a few Communist dancers and actors from Broadway comedies and musi cal shows, and a couple of beautiful girls on the firing squad. John D. Jr., and Nel son Rockefeller among the victims. Rat a-tat-tat. No Well, how much violence wili there be, then, when these Hollywood traitors and these refugee conspirators make their Communist revolution? Who will regulate the violence Charlie Chap lin? Who will guarantee that the atom bombs in stock will not be used on Pitts burgh to guarantee that our “war po tential” will be destroyed; will not be used on Chicago and New York? All we know is that they are counting oh ’ a violent revolution and we therefore may count on the maximum violence. The Hollywood movie magnates make excuses They can’t tell who is Commu nist and who isn’t. They wouldn’t like to do an injustice and fire a mere liberal bn false suspicion. Well now isn’t that too bad? Isn’t that just too fastidious? It seems strange then that they are always so willing and quick to fire and blacklist some poor devil of an American, writing under his own name, on the mere whisper of some dirty sneak that he called someone a name or ab horred Communism as a bloody horror. Hitler abhorred Communism so that makes an American a Nazi in Hollywood But the magnates will not believe that anyone is a Communist unless he boasts of it Even if he goes to their meetings, contributes to their funds, acts and sings at their benefits and defends the Moscow program at. every hitch in the line, he may be only a sincere liberal. These magnates build the prestige, the confidence and the power of these traitors all the time. They pay them so much that they hose the money right into Com munist funds rather than pay tax on the income. They have never done a truthful movie lampooning the vulgar, licentious giants of Hollywood culture, and Communism in the studios, but do you remember the brutal assault on the integrity of the Congress of the United States in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Quotations The Soviets were never our allies. They were co-belligerents, using our sacrifices, blood and treasure to expand their tyranny and oppression throughout the world. — Sen. C. Wayland Brooks (R) of Illinois. DESIGNER’S NIGHTMARE I\ Truman May Not Give LawMakers Real “Blueprint” For European Assistance BY MARK SULLIVAN WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.— The days since President Tru man announced the calling of a special session of Congress for Nov. 17 have thrown some light on future developments, though much remains to be seen. For complete light it will be neces sary to wait until the President sends his concrete recommenda tions to Congress. In speaking about these Mr. Truman made a distinction be tween the two purposes of the special session and his attitudes toward each. As to one of the purposes he said: “I shall rec ommend a program for dealing with inflation, high prices and the high cost of living.” But as to the other purpose, foreign aid, the President did not sug gest he would recommend a specific program to Congress; he rather pointedly indicated that he would not. He called attention to the emergency, but left the details of solution up to Congress. No Blueprint Expected Whatever the reason, and whatever the weight it may have, Washington is convinced that the Administration has come to a conscious conclusion not to lay before Congress a blueprint of foreign aid and the many and intricate conditions that go with it. Some develop ments following Mr. Truman’s announcement and increasing the impression it made have given rise to a feeling in Wash ington that the Administra tion is consciously avoiding re sponsibility for a comprehensive program about foreign aid and is leaving that responsibility up to Congress. Foreign aid includes much more than the amounts of money involved. There are many questions of policy and method. Is our aid to be a gift or a loan? Is aid for industrial reconstruction in Europe to be given to governments as govern ments and left for them to dis tribute, or is it to be channeled by us to the beneficiaries of it? Is all the aid to come out of our Treasury and from our taxpay ers, or is some of it to be pro Red Case Histories BY PETER EDSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 — If representatives of Soviet Russia, now in the United States, can read American newspapers, or are having them translated and analyzed, they should have no doubts about the wave of anti communist sentiment now sweeping this country. There is the President’s call for a special session to imple ment the Marshall Plan to aid Europe. There is the firm re sistance to the Communist bloc in the United Nations. There is the determination to keep watch on the Balkans. There is the new impetus to strengthen national defenses and make America safe against any threat of foreign aggression. These things are on the high er, international level, but the feeling runs deeper, down to the individual and personal level, too. The government’s loy alty probe on every one of its employes exemplifies it. The Hollywood investigation by the House Un - American Acitvities Committee is merely the show window for all this business. The crowds in the hearing rooms are definitely with the witnesses who are castigating the Communists. Maybe it is the glamor of Menjou, Cooper, Tay lor and Montgomery that draws the crowds, but the things they applaud and demonstrate about are the expressions of opposi tion to communism. What the Thomas Committee is publicizing is - exactly what has happened in every field of activity in which Communists have been allowed to infiltrate under cover — in labor organi zations, in the armed service, in government. There are hun dreds of cases, but these three, which can be fully documented, may be taken as typical: 1. In a union, there is the case of a 40-year-old Cleveland er, recognized as one of the most influential labor leaders in his area. He joined the Com munist Party when he was 30 as a protest against his own failure to make more headway in life. He was then an unspec tacular field organizer for his union. Carefully coached by Com munist Party leaders, he began to take more interest in union activities. He reported every thing that went on in the union to the party leaders. He became not only a leader in his local union, but in the Cleveland City Union Coun cil and in Ohio labor circles as well. All this time he kept his membership in the Communist Party a secret, denouncing any one who accused him of being a Red as a “Red-baiter” or “anti unionist.” Working under-cover in this way, he has for five years been one of the most val uable tools of the Communist Party in the Mid-West. 2. In March, 1946, Gen. Doug las Mac Arthur removed from the staff of the Tokyo “Stars and Stripes” an Army sergeant whose writings were said to be flavored with Comunist thought. The sergeant protested loudly that he was not a Com munist- He said he was being persecuted. Less than a year later after his discharge, he was a by-line wrriter on the New York Daily Worker, Communist Parfy organ in the U. S. Check-up on this man’s record showed he had been a top Red leader in Reading, Pa. In 1940. he tried to'get his name on the ballot as Communist candidate for Congress. In election irregu larities he was charged with perjury, found guilty, sen tenced to a year in jail. De fended by Communist Party lawyers, he was able to avoid serving sentence. He moved to Water bury, Conn., and there be came a Communist Party leader until he was inducted into the Army in 1944. ‘3. In February, 1942, a gov ernment • employe was investi gated on a tip that he belonged to Communist organizations. He denied, under oath, that he was a party member. A month later, a report was sent to the head of the agency employing this man, proving that he was a member of the party working out of the national offices. In 1944 he was elected lo the National Committee of the Com munist Political Association, which, in 1945, became again the Communist Party. The par ty constitution requires, that members of the National Com mittee must have been party members in good standing for four years. So he must have been a member of the party when he took a government oath that he was not. You can’t trust ’em any farth er than you can spit. vided by semi-governmental banks, such as the World Bank, or. private banks or private in dustries? Should we make any stipulations about how the funds are spent? These and many other ques tions, of policy and method are to be left up to Congress and not presented to Congress by the President as a packaged pro gram. The impression that the President would make a com prehensive recommendation to Congress was created by the fact that the preliminaries look ing to foreign aid have been conducted by the Adminis tration. The Marshall plan came from the Secretary of State. The inventory of our resources to determine how much we could safely afford was made by a committee headed by Secretary of the Interior Krug- Other pre paratory work was done by a committee headed by Secretary of Commerce Harriman. Function of Congress All this may have created an impression that the President would recommend to Congress a program about foreign aid, as apparently he intends about in flation and high prices. But in fact the preparatory work is the function of the Administration. The writing and enactment of a program, which uses the pre liminary work as information, is the function of Congress. It goes with that body’s supreme power, the control of the purse. For writing the program Congress has first-hand information ac quired by its own members. Up ward of 200 Senators and Rep resentatives have been in Eu rope this fall and summer for the specific purpose of equipping Congress with information about conditions in Europe having to do with aid- by us. It is out of Congress that the country will receive information about com ing developments in foreign aid. As to the other purpose of the special session of Congress,- high prices and inflation, the Presi dent said he will “recommend a program.” That program will be watched to see whether it in cludes any proposal about gov ernment support of the prices of farm products, food. The govern Croup Attacks Can Be Blocked BY WILLIAM A. (FBRIFA, M „ Children, who are subiect croup, should be treated as Soo° as they develop suspici0°" hoarseness or cough A <■- ,, dose of syrup of ipecac, a Sedj five and a warm sleeping TOotr may prevent the attack. Ordinary croup is an acute catarrhal inflammation of ^ larynx, complicated by a spas^ of the throat. The atta sta"rts suddenly at night, lasts for eral hours and, by morning 2, crisis is past. Some children may get more than one at1a„u during the night. The average child with croun has had an upper respiratory fection for several days before the attack; in others, the throe spasms js the first sign .f dift;' culty. Mothers of children who are prone to have croup can often tell, by their heavy breath ing and coughing in sleep, that there is trouble ahead. Children with croup are awak ened from sound sleep by diffi" culty in breathing, loss of voic* and a crowing sound in their throat. They are frightened bv their inability to talk and breathe, but crying only makes matters worse. The child dutch, es at his throat, his lips are blue, pulse rapid and a little fever is sometimes present. To ease the child’s suffering, he should be made to vomit, a large doze of syrup of ipecac is followed by a sedative Steam inhalations are soothing, but care must be taken to prevnt accidental burns. An old fashioned home remedy for croup spasm is to put cold com presses over the neck during the attack. Ordinary croup is seldom mis taken for any other disease, but if the infection and spasm per sist for more than the night, a physician should be called be cause of the possibility of diph theria. Croup is uncommon after chib dern start to school. Nervous children seem to develop it more readily than easy - going types. When high - strung chil dren have colds, their windows should be kept closed at r. ht. and the air made warm nd moist. Ordinary croup is not a fatal disease, even though the child is in great distress. The attack may come back the next night, but the throat always heals without leaving a trace, * # * QUESTION: Can an infected gall bladder with gall stones cause damage to the liver? ANSWER: Yes. It may cause an infection, which subsides aft er the gall bladder has beet, removed, or it may persist. Just In Fun BAPTISTS WERE GYPPED A rich Baptist congregation in a South Mississippi town wanted a fine stained glass window for their new church. They sent fif ty thousand dollars plum to France to get such a window. Finally it arrived. A big celebra tion was scheduled. At the cli max of the ceremony the window was unveiled. It disclosed » beautiful scene of John the Bap tist SPRINKLING the Savior The celebration broke up, and the Baptists are offering this window at any amount, to the Methodists. — Greneda County (Miss.) Weekly. MASTER UNDERSTATEMENT The understatement of the year was recently made by Chiang Kai-Shek when he said S90. .000.000 of China’s foreign ex change had been ‘mishandled —Durham Herald. ment has on hand immense quantities of farm products, bought for the purpose of sup porting prices. That this is an e' sential factor in the present high price level goes without saying Any program about high prices and inflation which omits men- j tion of this would hardly be con vincing. Copyright, 1947, New Y»rk aid Tribune Inc. Very Much Alive An Editorial From The Greensboro Daily News The Daily News is delighted to learn that the proposed even ing college for Greensboro re mains very much alive and that the chamber of commerce spon soring committee, instead of bowing to the many obstacles thrown in its way, is preparing to push plans on a new tack. Proposal, based on successful operation of such colleges in other cities, is to secure a state charter under which the institu tion here would operate. Mean while ,'major universities and colleges in the state are being approached regarding possible affiliation. To the Daily News it has seemed that this evening col lege for Greensboro has had nothing like the sympathetic in terest, assistance and coopera tion from higher educational au thorities whom one would ex pect to be most interested in such a project. Movement to get the University of North Carolina in particular interested ran into one obstacle after an other with apparently little earnest or determined efforts to iron them out. Surely the proposal for such a college here represents a wholesome and commend able civic effort, the sort of community interest which eou cation and its democratization need. Adult education has o’rr to have prominent place educational movement. .A ' A ' that general trend anA must be realization that t lished colleges and uni' cannot possibly me*" demands which are rr ■ * 'n them and that there likelihood of their physi. *11 lities or personnel being catch up with these dec for years to come. Tlv lems of democracy da for greater intelligent-, keener understanding ;■ continuing education of t . pie in whom their solute : timately rests. All force factors combine to stress >' ■' opment of educational ties, especially when the. back directly to the peop Greensboro’s evening c . would, on as wide front as V ' sible. We are confident that Greer' boro’s interest, detenru •' tion and spirit will find a v But meanwhile it would much easier if some of agencies which ought to be i ' sponsive co-operate more t1'1 than they heretofore have