T · Theshptvg säilggsml (FOUNDED ISM) Every Afternoon Except Sunday Entered « Second Otaee Matter at tb# 0. 8 Post Office. Shelby N. C_ By STAB PUBLISHING COBIPANT 117-219 East Warren Street Shelby, N. (X LEB a WEATHERS. President and Publisher HOLT MePHERSON. Mnr Editor - a L WEATHERS. Secy-Tress. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable On Order) ■V CARRIER *V MAIL One Year_*10.40 $7.00 Six MonCUs- 6-20 3.76 Three Months - 3.60 2.00 Four Weeks- A0 .76 One Week - A0 A0 ALL TELEPHONES — UM ^AMJi-tlRlFfTfit CO. INU—National Advcrtisint Representatives -THE ATOMIC BOMB Explosion of the first Atomic bomb in Japan, heralded yesterday by President Truman’s announcement that this is the deadly answer of America to the Japanese refusal to surrender, will cause reverberations far beyond the circle of the crater which it undoubtedly made. As much deadly power is contained in this bomb as ♦vould equal 20,000 tons of TNT, 2,000 times greater than the most powerful bomb known heretofore. When we con sider what a small vial of TNT will do under ordinary cir cumstances, our imagination staggers in trying to calculate the results of this new instrument of destruction. Americans can thank the Almighty that its secret fell to them first. Imagine, if you will, w’hat Hitler would have accomplished with the combination of his fanatical bent to ward enslaving the human race and such a mighty destroy - ing power as this. If der fuehrer had had it earlier in the war, there might not have been a London by now; Perhaps not a Washington or New York. If the Japs had had the use of it on December 7, 1941, there might not have been a remnant of the U. S fleet to repair. As it is, this weapon will be used to bring the enemy to terms. In one way, by shortening the war, it may save lives rather than destroy them. This is an obvious result. There are much deeper sig nificances than these. It is a fine thing to shorten the war with this weapon but what we want to know is what nation will have custody of it during the peace that follows. Although so far the secret of how the bomb is made seems to rest exclusively with this country, what is one nation’s secret cannot remain so forever. Sooner or later some un principled despot—every age has them—will get hold of the formula and presto—we’ll have destruction on such a scale as we have never known before, unless— Aye, there is our chance. If by some agreement among the family of nations a guardianship can be named for this destructive hell which will guarantee that it will never be used save in a righteous defense of freedom, then the human race may have some hope of survival. We have such a family of nations in process of organization. Announcement of this discovery by the President should tighten the bonds of that union. Then there is another angle to this discovery which may have a brighter side. If there is that much force avail able for destruction, surely it is also available for more con structive use. Perhaps in some modified form the force could be harnessed to turn our factory wheels and generate power to lighten the load on mankind. Anyway you look at it, the landing of this bomb in a far corner of the earth will probably be felt to its uttermost recesses. . -V RETURN TO RELIGION? Where would you expect to hear the strongest advocacy of a return to religion? From the pulpit? Of course that is what the church has been preaching in season and out of season for these many generations. The church has cried out bitterly against what it has classified as a decay of the Christian faith. Now, as evidenced by a dispatch from New Haven to the New York Times, the church has gathered a strong ally, a committee from Yale university which is urging the for mation of a strong department of religion at Yale as a post war-project, to develop greater spiritual and ethical values among the student body. “German guns are silenced but the spiritual battle is not yet wron,” finds this committee which added signifi cantly, “we repudiate Naziism but many of us are not at all sure of what we do believe in.” The committee alludes to aimlessness and lack of purpose as being the characteristics of many institutions. It refers to the sharp increase in class room dishonesty, the influx of younger students into the col lege who have matured intellectually beyond their social and physical development. No university is doing its duty to ward young men, points out this committee, which does not offer them the best obtainable instruction in the field. As goes Yale, so will go education—maybe. With this leading light in the education world taking this stand, can any institution, college, university or even high school afford to take a position far behind ? We never suspected Yale university of prophetic ten dencies, but this committee report sounds very much like the crv of Isaiah of old. -v That Atomic bomb is calculated to blast even lines off a map. -V- . As a result of a recent OPA ruling, the only point to fruit juices now is to drink them. WORSE THAN WAR rattletrap CAR. | RECKLESS SPEED FINIS A Daily Prayer In War Time FOR AN EARLY PEACE Make haste to deliver us, O Al mighty God, from the burden of war. "Send peace in our time.” Shorten the agony of this bitter conflict. Give our enemies the wis dom to surrender from further futile strife. We pray that Thou, who ever movest upon the hearts of mankind, will stir up to self-asser tion the Christian and liberal forces in Japan, that the folly of the mili tarists may be ended. For the sake of an early peace, grant increased power, O Lord, to all our agencies of battle. And while we pray for peace through victory we also plead for the spirit of peace in our own hearts. Make us magnanimous to a beaten foe, and to all the Japanese citizens within our borders. May we conduct ourselves in a Christian manner throughout these trying days, to the vindication of our faith. This we ask, for the glory of God and for the peace of the world. Amen. LETTERS BUILDING NOW AND AFTER THE WAR Editor of The Star: I don't know whether the ostrich really buries his head in the sand, but if he does he isn’t so different than most of us. I suppose it is quite natural for those of us who have not been exposed to real danger or insecurity to try and dodge the inconveniences of chang ing times by staying in our own back yards and resting in the sha dows of the "good old days." Ever since we were kids we have found a lot of comfort by pre tending—so why not pretend that nothing now is in the making that is going to affect our usual course of living? But the darn trouble with that line of thinking is — that so much has gone cock-eyed during our own lifetime. There we were drifting along, and all of a sudden we woke up in a panic, then in a war, and it seemed that the whole world was going to pieces. Of course, if we take a long range view of the situation, we’ll find that the world and its people are not basicly very different than they ever were. Once every million years or so the earth may tip a bit on its axis and a Greenland become ice-bound. Once every few hundred years, people get tired of the old ways and get a different angle as to the best way of mak ing both ends meet—then a new crowd slips into power. But just how far that shift is from right to left or left to right, and who gets caught in the squeeze, de pends upon the actions of people who have left their own back yards to do their thinking. During the last fourteen or fif teen years there has been a group of people who make their living by social working who have been plugging along with the idea that the government should build more or less homes for people who have not the ambition or means to do the job in a first-class way for themselves. The whole idea of “private ownership” will be affect ed by the measure of their suc cess. If government gets into home building in a large way, it’s going to be easier to slide towards so cialism. If the big majority of homes are planned, built, and owned by individuals, young peo- I I pie are going to gam more respect t for "private ownership.” The U. S. Senate is conscious j that the problem is just that—so a special committee with Bob Taft j j as chairman has been studying the | question for many months. Before j I long a new bill about Public Hous- j | ing will be thrown into the hop 1 per. How many congressmen will | really know what they are voting about? ] As I said, this problem of Pub lic Housing is bound up with some pretty vital consequences. They are shrewd politics being played on both sides of the fence. So if edi tors, congressmen, and voters want to be part of the play, it would be well for them to get their heads out of the sand and take a walk on the other side of their own back gates. Although I don't know as I agree with him entirely, Senator Ellender of Louisiana has a pret ty good idea. He is in favor of a limited amount of public housing, but insists that none should be done unless local communities ask for it, and that private enterprise be given the first and big chance. Some of the political teachings of my forefathers still cling to me, and I wonder if there wouldn't be less danger of grab-bagging and political finagling if each State took care of its own slum clear ance and public housing rather than have it done directly by the federal government. —F.E.S. | Soviet Helicopter Has Double Wings, Motors, Propellers MOSCOW. —— Disclosure has been made of a Soviet helicopter with double wings, two propellers, and two motors it was described as having a speed of 100 miles an hour and a landing speed of “approxi mately zero.’’ rhotographs showed the machine hovering above the ground at six feet and the pilot alighting from the ladder. Mass production already has be gun. Hope To Raise High School Enrollment WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.— Uf>\ — The government today launched a back-to-school drive aimed at in i creasing high school enrollment by 250.000 students this fall. Sponsored by the children’s bu reau of the labor department and the office of education, the drive Is a step toward restoring pre war enrollment of 7,250,000 boys and gills. This dropped last year to around 6,000,000, due almost en tirely to wartime job opportunities. Soviet Press Has No Comment On Bomb MOSCOW, Aug. 7.—(A3)—The So viet press and radio carried to the Russian people today the news of the new atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Shortly after midnight the Mos cow radio gave the first account of the bombing and the Tass new* agency subsequently issued the text of the announcement by Presi dent Truman. The government newspaper Iz vestia printed the story on its for eign news page without comment. \ The Everyday j me Everyday I COUNSELOR L By DR. HERBERT SPACGH “What is wrong with this world of ours?" Dr. Malcolm McDermott, Duke University Law School Pro fessor, gave his reply to this ques tion by stating that the fault lies “in man himself” and urged a re turn to the Ten Comm andments as the first step to a peaceful, de cent, humane ci vilization. Mr. McDermott was the featured dinner speaker, July 11th, at the REV. SPAUGH North Carolina Bankers’ confer ence, held at Chapel Hill, N. C. The Greensboro (N. C.) Daily News re ported his address as a lawyer’s analysis of the first great legal code and sermon on ethics which made a deep impression on the 125 ban kers from the Carolinas who are taking refresher school courses at the university. According to Dr. McDermott, “We shall not get a peaceful kind of world merely from some charter, league of nations or international police force. We shall get it only from a family of peace-loving na tions. We shall get peace-loving nations only where the mass of in dividual citizens have said within their hearts, 'we shall not kill . . . we shall not steal ... we shall not covet anything that is our neigh bor's." “There are learned gentlemen who astutely trace the causes of this war to economic forces, social up heavals and the like,” he continu ed. “I venture to assert that this war came about because the Italian people began to covet Ethiopia and an empire, the Japanese people be gan to covet China and the Indies, while the Germans began to covet the entire earth.” It is refreshing to find a profes sor from a great university speak ing on the subject of ethics and religion. A time was when there was a course in ethics at every col lege and university. Such courses are no longer generally offered. The nearest approach is sociology which deals with man's relations with his fellowman. Elective courses in Bib lical history are offered in some uni versities. We can be grateful to the church sponsored colleges which still require a course in the Bible for graduation. The Ten Commandments have never been outmoded and never will be»—The sooner men and women learn to live by the divine code, the sooner we will have peace on earth. (For list of recommended books and special articles dealing with personal problems, write Dr. Spaugh in care of The Shelby Daily Star en closing a long self-addressed stamp ed envelope, stating your problem.) Drowning was responsible for more than one-fourth of the 14,500 public accidents irf 1944. The first flight of the Wright Brothers caused no excitement in the daily press or in scientific publications, "Gleanings in Bee Culture,” a magazine devoted to the production of honey, was the first to carry an article about their achievement Merry-Go-Round Liberals Put Heat On Truman By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen Now On Active Service with the Army) WASHINGTON. — Ever since Franklin Roosevelt died, some of his most ardent senate followers have talked about organizing to carry on his left-of-center pro gram. Finally, encouraged by the British elections and worried over what would happen to our domes tic economy if the war ended over night, 17 Democratic senators gathered at a private luncheon If week. Practically every senator pres ent was a personal friend and booster of President, yet behind their luncheon was a veiled threat that if Truman became too much influenced by the reactionary wing of the Democratic party, he would have trouble—real trouble from the liberals. The luncheon wa# called by Senators Pepper of Florida and Kilgore of West Virginia. They brought with them a mimeograph ed five-pake document labelled “Full Employment—Objective of Domestic Policy.” In this careful ly written document, they pro ceeded to point out that: “American economy has never provided stable full employment under modern conditions of high labor productivity and mass pro duction. A review of economic con ditions between World War I and World War II makes this clear . . In 1939. though we reached the production level of 1929, there were 7.000,000 more unemployed. “There are some of short mem ory,” the survey continued, ‘who today urge on the federal govern ment a ‘do nothing’ policy toward ensuring full employment . . . We believe that extensive federal ac tion ir essential at this time.” 12-POINT ROGRAM The “federal action" proposed by Senators Kilgore and Pepper was outlined to the other 15 sena tors immediately after the lunch eon in the form of a 12-point pro gram. “I am tired," said the West Vir ginia senator, “of seeing the op position use us as a chopping block. The time has come for some action—and now.” Each senator then discussed the : program. The comment was dead ; ly serious, most of them worried ' over what will happen in our eco nomy after the war. Onlv levity I occurred when Senator Bilbo of j Mississippi, whom some senators . had not expected to be present, I was introduced by Pepper as "Poll ,Tax Bilbo.” The gentleman from , Mississippi sat grinning as Sena tor Elbert Thomas of Utah joking ! remarked: | "We have a program here foi i postwar prosperity. Our slogan, ir • which w'e expect you to join, sena 1 tor, is ’Support the Fair Employ ment Practices Act’.” 1 Bilbo laughed and replied: j “Jim here has one of those com mittees in his state.” He gesturec toward Jim Mead of New York where a fair employment act re cently was signed by Governoi j Dewey. “Let’s see how it work: i out before we start worrying aboui i it down here." i IF JAP WAR ENDS i SUDDENLY One of the most interesting in ! terchanges took place betweer Maryland’s Senator Radcliffe anc 1 Connecticut's Senator Brien Me i Mahon. Radcliffe expressed gen ! eral approval of the program bu added that he knew of no unem I ployment problem in the nation Whereupon, McMahon interrupter i to say that there was a growlni unemployment problem in Connec ticut. “Were in for a bad time if thi i war in the Pacific should end dur ' ing the summer, before adequatf j legislation has been passed to pro 1 vide for additional employment,' I McMahon continued. | "It seems to me,” he added, "th< I administration is on the horns o: ! a dilemma. If we don’t spend t( | provide employ/ent. we'll be in t bad way; if we do spend, our hugi public debt will continue to pili up” "There is no problem there,” in terposed Rhode Island’s agile 77 year-old Senator Green, himsel a millionaire. “There is only on: course, If we do not have a higt level of employment and genera well-being among the people of thi country, then we are headed fo: bankruptcy. “This country,” continued Greet bluntly, “has not caught up witl the democratic movement in Eu rope. The recent British election: are a good example. Those in con tiol over here are not in toucl with the changes taking place ii the world. They are in control o: the press, in control of vast ag gregations of wealth, in control o the utilities. But we in the sen ate must not be deflected. We mus go ahead with a new legislativi program.” ARMY-NAVY HOG-PILING New York's Senator Mead, whe succeeded Truman as chairman ol the Senate War Investigating Com mittee, remarked: “It’s about time this country be gan to shift from a two-war eco nomy to a one-war economy. The Army and Navy have got to stop sitting on billions of dollars’ worth of materials they don’t need and which industry does need. “Not only materials,” continued Mead. “They’ve got to release manpower we need in the coal mines, the steel mills, the rail roads. We can’t keep our civilian economy going ... At least the Army and Navy can release 100,000 key men for these industries. We’ve got to speed up for the reconver sion process.” "The Man” Bilbo also threw In [ his two-cents’ worth on reconver sion. J "I’m not a politician,” he opined, I Behind The FRONT PAGE By HOLT MePHERSON Managing Editor THAT ShOi’ "HEARD ROUND THE WORLD” WHICH SET OFF ' the American Revolution was a mere whisper compared with the implica tions wrapped up in that atomic bomb which has been loosed upon Japan to spread utter destruction. One could become terrifically discouraged were he to view the devel opment only from its destructive potentiality—in the hands of a mad ; man, such as Hitler, it could destroy civilization; it is better to think of its constructive power to revolutionize the sociological, financial and in dustrial future of the whole world, lightening the burden of common people everywhere and driving the world to higher standards of living and accomplishment. A few grains of uranium driving a ship such as the Queen Mary across oceans is better used than in blasting mankind into eternity. All of us knew that out at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, terrific activity presaged tremendous developments, and it was rather general knowledge that atomic energy release was being pressed by scientists on a scale never before attained, but even those in the know were hardly prepared to appreciate fully the implications in the statement President Truman and War Secretary Stimson made telling that the first such bomb had been dropped on Japan's army center, Hiroshimo. It makes one shudder to think what might have been the consequences had the Germans, who were feverishly at work on the atomic bomb, perfected it before Nazlism was annihilated, or had the Japs been able to use it at Pearl Harbor. - The atomic bomb is being hailed as the most destructive force in , history—we'd better think of ^t as the most constructive force in history lest we find a Frankenstein on our hands. Science has pushed back fron tiers 50 years in the course of this war, and the spectacle is something terrific to behold. IT'S PERHAPS JOB'S COMFORTING TO THINK THAT had Shelby had wholesome recreation available last Sunday afternoon the tragedy of a 13-year-old girl's being twice assaulted might possibly have been averted and a soldier now facing court martial might have been available for military duty. A lot of trouble such as that is due to parental failure to acquaint young daughters, and older ones, too, of dangerous inherent In taking up with strange men, even when they wear the uniform of armed services, of loitering in questionable places and of accompany ing men to their hotel rooms; but if on the other hand the problem were met positively with recreational facilities of a wholesome nature, some of the tragic consequences might be averted. Young people are going to have entertainment, wholesome preferably, but lacking that the alternative is unwholesome—and when some conscienceless wanderer is added to the equation the result is likely to be tragic. The burden is upon (1) parents, (3) the community, (1) the young people themselves. They prefer to live wholesomely, but they need to be encouraged in it. A TRADITION THAT ICE CREAM WAS INTRODUCED TO America at the White House during the administration of James Madison is blasted by the revelation that New Orleans knew the delicacy as early as 1808 when it was advertised in papers there. However, we are leu interested in when it was introduced than when it will be coming back in quantity and quality entitling it to be called "ice cream.” FOR PUNGENT EXPRESSION IT WOULD BE HARD TO beat that of A. Beverly Baxter, a Conservative member of parli ament who survived the recent British election, who to the New York Times states it thus: “As one of the few Conservatives to hold his parliamentary seat in the general election I feel at this moment rather like a shipwrecked sailor on a raft who has received a wireless request for his opinion on the future of navi gation.” WHEN STETTIN, BERLIN'S PORT ON THE ODER RIVER, WAB assigned to Poland following the Potsdam conferences, not the slightest twinge was suffered by Shelby's John Phifer who was born in that city 69 years ago and made it his home till he went to sea at the age of 14 years. So far as John, who is a naturalized American of 22 years standing and has made his home here for the past 24 years, is concerned they can give Stettin and any part of Germany to whomever they wish, with* out the slightest complaint from him—his Interests and concerns are , thoroughly American. But he remembers Stettin of his boyhood days, the sailing ships and characters of the waterfront there that caught hia fancy and caused him to set forth as a mariner for 14 years under British and American flags, suffering shipwreck off Iceland all tha exigencies of a seafaring career. He turned his back on all that and sought terra firma of upland country where he's found peacefulness and frienda and opportunity beyond anything the old world offered—the Poles can have Stettin; John's certain he's the best of the deal any way you look at it. dul irom a practical standpoint, we Democrats had better do some thing damn quick or the Japanese , war will end and we'll have five j oT" ten million people looking for 1 j Jobs. There will be riotous condi | tions throughout the country and when we come back here for the 1 next Congress, there won't be enough Democrats around for our own funerals. We’ve got to do something damn quick to provide ; 60.000,000 jobs." ' Bilbo, however, couldn't accept ■ all the 12-point program. Raising I the minimum wage level was too 1 much for him. This caused Sena ' tor Pepper of Florida to remark jokingly that it wasn’t proposed to i raise farm wages (Mississippi be i ing largely an agricultural state). "Don’t think that I’m dumb, ’ i shot back the Gentleman from ■ Mississippi. “You raise industrial i wages and you won’t get anyone i to stay on the farm. I can't grow cotton today because the hands want too much money.” The other items on the 12-point program which apparently met ■ with Senator Bilbo’s OK follow: ■ (1) Gearing of reconversion to full employment; (2) Continuing stable and prof itable agricultural at high levels; (3) Creation of expanded oppor tunities for business; (4) Expanding foreign trade; (5) National housing program; (6) Stabiliaztion of community construction; (7) A broad national health pro gram and social security system; (8) Increased education and training for all; (9) Greater development of na tural resources; (10) Gearing a fiscal policy to full employment; (11) Adequate security, training and job opportunities for veterans. Note—The 15 Senators pres ent in addition to Kilgore and Pepper were: Thomas of Utah, Thomas of Oklahoma, Mead of New York, 8tewart of Ten nessee, Green of Rhode Island, Lucas of Illinois, Murdock of Utah, Johnston of South Caro- j New Orleans women Urged To Vote—If They Want Husbands NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 7.—{JP>— "Women interested in marriage should register and vote,” a can didate for the mayoralty here says, Shirley Wimberly told women In a radio address yesterday that their chances are not so good “aa in other cities where municipal government is better and businesi offers more opportunities.” He said women outnumber men in New Orleans “because msFi leave us for positions in other states.” 3,029 Troops From Europe Coming Home NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—(jpy—Pouf vessels carrying 3,029 troops from Europe arrive at the New York port of embarkation today. Among them is the main body of the 109th Regiment, 28th Keystone di vision. The 109th is aboard the Mor macport, which is bringing home 2,972 soldiers. Other ships arriving: The Adula, with 52 troops; the Edward Bel lamy, with three, and the Amer ican Farmer with two. lina, Johnson of Colorado, Tay lor of Idaho, Magnusop and Mitchell of Washington!, Mc Mahon of Connecticut Rad cliffe of Maryland, and Bilbo of Mississippi. MALARIA CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH LIQUID for MALARIAL SYMPTOM! take ralr M dlrwtti