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THB NEWS OISPAY'CHES CRa.NTEO TO IT PUBLISHED HEREIN, a^ SIGHTS OP PUBLICATION OP SPPCIAL OR NOT OTHERWISE IN THIS PAPER AND ALSO THB LOCAL NEWS OISPATCMCS HEREiN AMO APB RESERVED MONDAY, OCT. 8, 1945 THE WIDENING CIRCLE There seems to be a feeling prevalent that the spread ing strife in the soft coal fields is something for Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, the 155,000 miners who have quit work, the states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Indiana, and John L. Lewis to worry about. At that, it would be quite some problem. That many idle workers involving the closing of some 586 pits cannot be passed off with a wave of the hand, even when only those who are actually participating in the strikes and the coal industry itself are given consideration. But as it so happens, this only starts the chain of disas-1 trous events. Of course the coal miners are out of wrork; and their income is subtracted from normal buying power.' Of course the coal mines are shut down and their production is as dead as last year’s Christmas tree. But consider, too, the fact that coal production over the entire nat>^” down 749,000 tons daily, which means that more than ow third of the normal output of the mines has been cut off. Consider the fact that our reserves are practically nil and that sharp retrenchments in shipments to dealers have had to be made. Think of the steel mills which are already feeling the shortage with many of them reporting large reductions in production schedules. For the moment we will forget that winter is coming on and that a coal shortage w’ould pinch severely. Instead we will selfishly think of all those consumer goods which we were promised as soon as the war was over—automobiles, washing machines and a host of others, all of which use some steel. What will happen if they can’t get steel because the steel processors can’t get coal ? What will happen to the workers in the factories where automobiles and washing machines are made? What will happen to the people on whom their steady employment depends? What will hap pen to reconversion? The coal miner quits and he starts an ever expanding vicious circle of idleness and paralyzation of business and in dustry. That does not affect just the miners, just the mine owners, just Secretary Schwellenbach and just a few states. For somewhere on that circle will be most of the people of the United States. We trust these millions who are affect ed will demand a proper accounting of somebody. BACK NUMBER Not content with hN absence from the news lately, Hitler seems to have made a dying gasp on the front pages.; And of all things, the man responsible for der Fuehrer’s 1 latest binge in the press was none other than General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who, we had thought, had given Adolf his final shove into oblivion when he reduced nazi minions to a defeated force. But it seems that the Dutch radio overhead General Ike tell a gioup of Dutch newspapermen that he has reason to believe Hitler is still alive. One of the correspondents accompanying Eisenhower on a visit to the Hague asked the general if he thought Hitler was dead. “I thought so at first,” the general was said to have replied, “but there is no reason to believe that he is still alive,” adding that such no longer constitutes a problem. We are inclined to string along with General Ike in the idea that no fuss and feathers now attach to the once master of the beer hall putsch whether he is as dead as he ought to be, or not There was a time, of course, when the Hitlerian tradition seemed to hypnotize even as the Hitlerian speech ' mesmerized a huge mass of gullible people. Times have changed, thanks to General Ike and his-1 troops. Even if Hitler is still alive—and of course we are 1 not saying that he is—and granting that he could get him- ; self excused from the war criminals court long enough to : make a speech, we doubt very much if he could attract a! J crowd large enough to please an average soap box orator. Dead or alive, Hitler is passe. OPINION CONFIRMED Just as we had thought all along, reconversion employ ment problems for North Carolina are not thought to be i as serious as they are in some sections. The latest confirma- ' tion of that opinion comes from the national committee for ! economic development which reported that a survey of prin cipal North Carolina cities in the latter part of August show- i ed no indications of serious employment reconversion prob-11 lems in those cities. At some points, war industries closed down but the com- ! mittee survey showed that workers in these plants were < quickly absorbed. ] It is fine for a state s citizenry to have confidence in its own ability to meet such problems. It is also nice for that confidence to be sustained from without, as it has been in thia instance. INTO THE OLD ONES AGAIN GOSH ALL HEMLOCK' THEY SURE FEEL GOOD/// t ft*. f r M>n WHAT OTHER | PAPERS SAY AUTUMN (New York Times) It is good to live in a land of changing seasons. Particularly a land that knows autumn. Not so much as a relief from summer, but as a season in itself, an annual time of maturity, of mellow ripeness and rich fulfillment. Now comes the season when we know again the certainty of achievement, the calm surety of all that is meant by harvest. Now comes the equinox, when day and night are in balance, when work and rest and dream and reality have their proper place. ; If we know the year for what it1 is before we have known too many | years, one after another, merely j is a sequence of time, we might | reach earlier understanding. For the fall of any year is more than j three months, bounded by an equi- i iox and a solstice. It is a summing j jp without the finality of year's1 ;nd. It is a ripeness, not only of' valley corn and hilltop bittersweet, | jut of the mind and the under-1 standing. It is a pause between! growth and the long white sleep, I when there is time to savor the sweetness of harvest, of crisp morn- j ng sunlight, and of full-kerneled . :hought and sun-ripe emotion. The sun is benevolent, ar.d it is now true to the compass; it rises j ;ast and it sets west. The moon las a horizon roundness and a zen- i th gleam that warm the wondering j reart. The stars make their rounds j without falter, but their paths some- j tow seem more clear in the autumn, skies. And thoughts seem to follow ! i clearer orbit, now that the year's | growth is at its summary and the ' nstinctive reaching for the sun has jecome a root-strengthened com-1 nunion with the earth. If there is I ;ver to be understanding, surely au-1 umn will be its time. Autumn, with ts clear-skied summing up and its j ong summer yearning brought to ruit. ‘I HAVE SEEN TOO MI CH FILTH” John S. Knight, publisher of the Miami (Fla.) Herald, and other Cnight newspapers, was one of sev- , ?ral American newspaper executives vho witnessed the surrender of the Japanese while in the Pacific as ;uests of the Navy and War De- I rartments. After interviewing Am- j >rican boys who had been "flogged mmercifully with eyes blindfolded md hands tied behind their backs” md after seeing “dozens of civil ans in the heart of Tokyo calmly jause and urinate publicly on the idewalks", Knight made these ob jervations in his "Editor's Note wok”: “It is part of the American credo hat the Oriental mind is difficult .0 fathom and understand. Be hat as it may, I certainly hope that n the years to come we shall not >egin mauldin tears for the poor Japanese who were misled by the nilitary caste. For my money, they ire a runty, under-sized race with varped little minds that suffer from lelusions of grandeur. “Don't catalogue the Japanese as juaint, picturesque little folks who Iwell in an atmosphere of beau iful cherry blossoms and silken degance. I have seen too much ilth, smelled more than my share >f that peculiar dead-cat odor and ooked into too many cold, hard ■yes ever to believe that pretty fairy ale again.” One cause of tooth decay Is said o be the action of germs which odge upon less exposed parts of a ooth. , j | The Everyday i COUNSELOR $ By DR. HERBERT SP.AUGH Life gives you back what you j give it. View it cynically and you will become a cynic. View it doubt-1 fully and you will become a doubter. View it sadly and will be mise ra you will be miser able. View it Joy fully and you will be happy. We largely reflect that at which we look. Every mature adult should cer tainly know that no man goes REV. SPAL’GIl through life with out a certain amount of trial and hardship, with out facing a certain number of ob stacles, without having to associate with a certain number of unpleas ant people. Often we can't see the back side of another person's life, but you may be sure that all is not a bed or roses in his back yard. He who will take the trouble to read his Bible is reminded of all these i things, but is likewise told how to | meet them and overcome them. No man is expected to remain in mi sery. The Bible tells us. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” "No man should be moved by i these afflictions: for yourselves know that we were appointed there to”, writes Paul, “For verily when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulations.” The Lord Jesus Christ told us clearly how to deal with life’s prob lems, overcome them, grow in spiri tual strength thereby. Read His last interview with His disciples record ed in St. John 14-17. He tells its purpose in these words, “These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer I have overcome the world.” He foretold the coming of the Holy Spirit, who was to transform the lives of man who yielded them selves fully to God, accepted Jesus as their Saviour. i nab ijuvvci i.i suu avaiiaoie iu all who seek it. The same power of the Holy Spirit which transformed Simon Peter from a vacillating, tempestuous, unpredictable Galli lean fisherman into one of the greatest figures of all times, is available for you. This power has not been dimin ished throughout the centuries. Get hold of it, and you can toss trou ble and obstacles out of the. way with amazing ease. You can climb upon them to new heights of char acter and personality. In fact, this is the only way you may expect to reach heaven itself. St. Paul learned that ....son, too, and he tells about it in Philippians the fourth chapter. Read it. There are great things ahead for you spiritually if you use God’s plan. Try it and stop licking your wounds in a corner. The flat fertile island of DJerba on the north African coast is the fabled “Land of the Lotus Eaters” i In the Pacific islands birds are much more numerous than mam mals. 1 ^CTt erary Guidepost _me; &,«• VIRGINIA WOOLF: HER ART AS A NOVELIST, by Joan Bennett (Harcourt, Brace; $2). Thf distaff side has produced some of England's most significant writers, Jane Austen and the Bron- , tes in the last century, and in this, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. The three last were alike in seem ing to ignore the specific issues and conflicts of the 20th century; men, women and children were their prin cipal concern. Perhaps because they were so little spectacular, so re mote from the traditional drama tic, they failed to win the audience they merited. An invaluable service is performed by Mrs. Bennett in reminding us again of Virginia Woolf’s extraordinary talents. In important respects the author of “Jacob's Room,” “Mrs. Dalloway,” "The Waves.” “Orlando” (which oddly Mrs. Bennett apparently does not regard as a novel) is the most contemporary of her sisters, for she was extremely, even painfully sen sitive to present-day problems. But she too saw them through the eyes of her characters, and war and peace, instead of being subject, are the essential background of her stories. Mrs. Bennett's study will send you back to Virginia Woolf better equipped to appreciate her; if she merely sends you back, she will re ceive my thanks. • * • • TAKE IT EASY—THE ART OF CONQUERING YOUR NERVES, by Arthur Guy Matthews (Sher idan House; $3.75j. You can wish a lot of ills on your self, this author charges, and he says a lot of you do. Worry about job, pay, wife, mother-in-law. or worry about sickness may bring sickness. Matthews gives interesting case histories and suggests remedies. It's a kind of Coue cure: "Every day in every way I am getting better and better,” in just the field in which common sense seems to indicate it might work. Unemployment In N. C. Declining RALEIGH, Oct. 8—UP)—A grad ual decline in unemployment throughout North Carolina is be ing mapped, and yesterday, the State Unemployment Compensation commission said there had been fewer claimants for Jobless pay each week since the middle of September. Col. A. L. Fletcher, UCC chair man, said the largest number of unemployed workers receiving job less pay at any one time was last Sept., when 7,161 workers drew checks. Of these, 5,725 were wo men. Last week the number dropped to 6,711 unemployed, of whom 5,104 were women claimants. Fletcher emphasized that none of the claimants being paid bene fits are connected with strikes. Under the unemployment compen sation law, no person engaging in a strike can draw benefits. The average person is estimated to walk 18,098 steps or 7 7-8 miles a day. Merry-Go-Round Navy To Speed Discharges As King Deposed By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen Now On Active Service With the Army) KANSAS CITY, MO.—Navy in siders are hoping for a new deal regarding discharges, recognition of reserves and other navy injus tices. following the shake-up in the navy’s bureau of personnel and the impending exit of navy czar Adm. Ernie King. In fact, some fresh air already has blown into the navy department. To get the full picture of what’s happening, it’s necessary to real ize that for about five years the secretary of the navy has chiefly been the performing puppet of hard-boiled, high-handed Adm. Ernie King. The late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was at sword’s points with King most of the time. The admirals would meet in formal session with him, show him a few routine cables and then adjourn. Later, King and his close asso ciates would handle the really im portant cables, which neither Knox nor Under Secretary James Forrestal knew existed. Admiral King pulled his own Annapolis classmates all around him. He formed the most power ful clique the navy has ever seen, with no one able to penetrate it. least of all the secretary ot the navy. The older men of King’s time at Annapolis (he is 65) got the chief plums, and the younger men bore the brunt of the fight ing. Antagonism against King was especially bitter among An napolis, men between the classes of 1897 and 1933. NAVY STORM BREAKS With the end of the war. how ever, the storm broke. Reserve officers and regular navy officers found strict censorship lifted and began to speak out. Long before this, however, some of the younger officers on Secre tary Forrestal's staff had tipped him off as to what was going on. They told him that the Important telegrams were not being shown him. They suggested that he go up to the communications room himself and look them over. Foi restal did, and, from that time on, he has had more to say about running the navy. The man who handled promo tions. transfers and discharges for King was Adm. Randall Jacobs, chief of the bureau of naval per sonnel or ‘BUPERS.” If you con trol "BUPERS," you can pretty much dominate the navy. And be tween them. King and Jacobs did. But the end of the war caught both King and Jacobs completely off-guard. They had never expect ed it so soon. In fact they were making all preparations for a full-scale in vasion of Japan this fall. Fur thermore. King did not want to see the navy reduced to anywhere near its peacetime size, so was the last man to want to speed naval discharges. 1 VIWW.0 1.1L< \JL. 1 U 1 VVUi'l It was at about this point that Jim Forrestal, for the most part a meek and mild little man, began to get tough. Though he had been wise to King for a long time, he had been handicapped by the fact that King was the special pet of FDR. and the late President considered it his job to run the navy. Forrestal was almost helpless. With Truman, however, it was different. Truman not only be lieves in each cabinet member be ing responsible for his own de partment, but he also knew some thing about the way Admiral King had ridden rough-shod over the civilian secretaries of the navy. So the first move made by Secretary Forrestal was to remove Admiral Jacobs, the man with the key to promotions, transfers and dis charges. Jacobs never wanted to go. He had a fine house at the Naval hospital supplied him by the government, together with a cou ple of Filipino servants. However he had no choice in the matter. At first a special job was creat ed for Jacobs. He was to be a full admiral with the magnificent title of "Inspector General of the Pacific." By this time, however, Forres tal was really feeling his oats. He was determined to run the navy himself. And public criticism a gainst Jacobs’ slow discharge sys tem strengthened Forrestal's hand He took away the glittering job in the Pacific and reduced Jacobs to the humdrum chore of running the Bremerton Naval base near Seat tle. Washington. Furthermore, Forrestal brought into the navy a man who does not play on Admiral King's team, Adm. Lou Denfeld, and made him cl.lef of personnel. King kicked ,»ke a Missouri mule, but Forres tal overrode him. THE NAVY’S EISENHOWER Then, to make matters worse, Forrestal brought in as Denfeld’s assistant, Capt. John Gingrich, another man who does not play on King’s team. Gingrich’s career, in a way, might be compared to that of Need a LAXATIVE? BUck-Drsugni prompt Uwolhr economical as to Behind The FRONT PAGE By HOLT McPHERSON Managing Editor a # M/Sgt. Kays Gary, home from two years and a half oversea# during which he served in headquarters communication rone of the European Theatre of Operations, writes today’s column by request as guest editor.—HM. By M/SGT. KAYS GARY I HAVE BEEN AT HOME NOW FOR ALMOST THREE WEEKS. IN that time there have been many questions asked, few answers given. There is little this writer can say of war, of terror and blood and the nightmares it breeds. I have no story or words that could adequately tell cf it. The full story has never been told effectively. The men who would tell it do not know and those who know cannot tell. Those who know lie still and quiet or have returned with minds and lips sealed. To these our tributes must be paid quietly but eternally and with more than lip ser vice sympathy. Tcday, we paused beneath the statue on the court square and read chiseled on the memorial there, “LEST WE FORGET”. It is ironic that after the last war many were forgotten. Our first character impression was that of a man in our community who had been gassed and because of some quirk or misunderstanding in discharge procedure was not pensioned, lived in suffering, died in suffering, poverty and hun ger, forgotten by those he served .... Forgotten during the depression when others were too busy feeding themselves. He never begged. He was given a military burial. We wonder if he or his children were impressed. The monument there in the court square, great, but not enough. Tha monuments must be built in the hearts of men who can give Jobs or make jobs where there are none; who will work and plan to make the breaks for the men who need them. Ten to one it will pay off, for the combat man is anxious to prove to himself as well as the world that he can still do a Job well without a gun. Don't forget him ... not even in 1965. NO. THIS WRITER SAW NO COMBAT; NOT ENOUGH TO MEN tion, but in the 21- years overseas he saw enough to make him love the U. S. with a passion that will be understood only by another who had been away so long. There comes a time when every man overseas believes that he is alienated from home forever. From that time on, his bitterness becomes more and more manced. Perhaps that is why this writer came to see the weaker, more disagreeable side of foreign peoples. Bitterness, how'ever. turned to pity and then an honest effort to Justify those weak nesses or determine their causes. In the case of the French people it seems that the national weakness arises from the inferiority complex, the temperament and immorality of the French individual. But each Frenchman, It must be remembered, should be treated as a batUe-shocked veteran. For four years he was treated as swine. scoffed at, mocked and plundered by the predatory Nazi. His pride and confidence in himself certainly must have suffered. His was the only major power to fail to the Nazi and he was beaten. Thoroughly beaten. When we entered France there was nothing. There w'as no food, no government, no Individual feeling of responsibility once freedom was won. There was distrust, for many had offered themselves to collaboration when it was apparent that France would never arise again. In summa tion, there was hunger and chaos moral and political, individual and national. The people of France had survived only through patronising the black market, which, devised by the Nazis, bled France white. Such patronage was without shame. It was a necessity to life. It still flourishes, but now not so much out of necessity as out of habit and a means toward a higher standard of living for the individual. The Individual aspiration to return Immediately to pre-war prosperity is defeating the national purpose. And who. now. can condemn France for syinging sharply to the left? It is the opinion of many Frenchmen that Communism is more demo cratic than the Republic they once trusted. Betrayed by Laval and by Petaln, its greatest national hero, France believes Itself the victim of a weak governmental system. Clever propagandists emphasize the weak ness of France's state as it existed under democracy, prescribe Communism and equalization of the power of the individual as a means of recovery. There is another reason for the sharp turn to Communism. Every French men is politically conscious from the time he begins to walk. A young (4 (4 See BEHIND Page 9 General Eisenhower. Like Eisen hower, he Is the product of the Kansas prairies. Born in Dodge City, Kan, he graduated from Annapolis and did a great Job in the war as commander of the cruiser Pittsburgh, it was Ging rich who largely towed the flam ing carrier Franklin out of dan ger, Incidentally covering up some glaring mistakes by other com manders which have never leaked out. It was Gingrich who nursed the Pittsburgh all the way across the Pacific when 100 feet of her bow was tom off by a typhoon—once again covering up some faulty construction which the navy didn't want advertised. But, somewhat like Eisenhower, who was fired by General Mac Arthur when they served together in Manila in 1938, Gingrich was "fired" by Admiral King. As a r reward for his heroism, he wa« relegated to the sidelines, remov ed from command of the Pitts burgh and given the innocuous Job of chief of personnel at Miami, Fla. Gingrich had been offered several Important Jobs by admir als in the Pacific, but King "sent him to Liberia" Instead. At this point, however, Secre tary Forrestal stepped In. He or dered young Captain Gingrich back to Washington as deputy chief of the powerful bureau of personnel. The mothers, wives and sweet hearts of navy men have a lot to be thankful for as a result of this transfer. Both Denfeld and Ging rich. though Annapolis graduates, believe In recognizing the reserves, believe in speeding disenarges, and understand the problems of navy men. There should be a new hur ry-up of navy discharges as a re sult. ■\ "Sure, your way is slwrtw. But we'll too more of the couetry my way!' You may cm well giro up. Mister. Bui hcic'i holpi Before you •tent, toko your Plymouth. Dodge. Do Soto or Chryalor to your doolor. Do that regularly and you noodn't foar long Journeys And when you insist on MOPAR. you'got parts engineered especially for your car or truck. Plymouth, Dodge. Do Soto. Chrysler Service is Good Service! Tune in Andre Kostelanet*. Thursdays. CBS. 9 P.M.. EST.
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