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MONDAY, OCT. 29, 1945
PRESIDENT TRUMAN’S SPEECH
President Truman made an impressive speech in New
York Saturday. Its greatness lay in the fact that it con
tained the same principles as set forth in the Atlantic char
ter, the United Nations charter, as enunciated a quarter of
a century ago by the great foe of isolationism, Woodrow
Wilson. It was a restatement of the faith and honor America
has pledged to the world toward keeping the peace and as
sisting in the propagation of self-determination for all
peoples.
The President was saying nothing new when he de
clared “We seek no territorial expansion or selfish advan
tages.” This has been said by others as applying to both
World War I and World War II. It is good to hear it over
again, however, because repetition gives this worthy theme
substance.
In view of the fact that President Truman on the same
day as he made this speech, also pledged to keep the navy
strong; in view of the fact that he has openly advocated a
large reserve of manpower for military purposes; this para
graph is to the point:
“We seek to use our military strength solely to pre
serve the peace of the world. For we now know that
is the only way to make our freedom secure. That is the
basis of the foreign policy of the people of the United States.” I
Of course, the President is only saying what is in the
hearts of the people. We venture to say that few citizens
of United States have any desire to see their armed strength
paraded before the world for any other reason than it shall
keep the use of it impossible in another war. If there were
the remotest idea that accumulation of military might on
the part of our nation would tend to ignite another such
conflagration which came near consuming civilization, then
it would be thoroughly discountenanced.
Just the same it is well that President Truman has ex
pressed our thoughts for us. We might forget.
His pledge for eventual return of sovereign rights and
self government to all peoples who have been deprived of
them by force is a reaffirmation of the Atlantic Charter and
gerves notice on the world that we consider ourselves part
and parcel of international society. It is notice of more than
that. It means that the United States not only considers
itself a part of the world family of nations, but also that I
being a part of this familv, it regards decent conduct and
high ideals among its members as imperative.
President Truman reaffirmed the faith of our people in
a United Nations organization when he said that “We are I
convinced that the preservation of peace between nations \
requires a United Nations < "—'nization composed of all the j
peace loving nations of th- >'’0.1 l who are willing jointly to
use force if necessary to i peace.” In some quarters
faith in that United Nations organization was for some
reason weakening. The Truman speech bolstered it once i
more.
The presidential address had very little that was new
in it. That was why it was a great speech. It adhered to j
the purpose, expressed often aforetime, of the American
people.
1
DISGRACING THE UNIFORM j1
i
Shelby and Shelbians like to be hospitable to visiting ,
service men, and the community has found them decent and >
genuinely appreciative in the main; while an occasional snide j
appears, he is untypical as was that one Saturday night who t
figured in an automobile mishap. 1
A taxi clipped his rear fender; the tax driver admit- i
ted he was at fault, saying he had insurance that would ; j
cover any damage. But the soldier, acting more like a nazi ^
storm trooper than an American army man, took the occas-11
ion to berate the civilian with such a flood of vile and obscene
language questioning his honesty and reflecting on his an- j
cestry that the local man. who was trying to do the decent <
and fair thing, could get only humiliation despite his will
ingness to mend the damage. The scene the soldier created
was uncalled for and out of character, but the fact the man r
was in uniform caused his ungentlemanly and even unlawful ,
conduct to go unchallenged. It is untypical of course, of b
the general run of our service visitors, but it gives increas- l
ing reason to suspect there will be vicious ones who will
hide behind the uniform to commit depredations and indec- °
•ncies unworthy of the service—the more vicious one is, the r
less likely the service ever had reason to be proud of him. t
The service man worthy of his uniform necessarily reflects t
It In hia conduct and attitudes as a good citizen. \
AIRING THE SCHOOL ROOM
WHLrWUSHi
If Today Is
Your Birthday
B» STELLA
MON DA j, OCTOBER 29 -
Born today, your patience ant
quiet dginity will have a great dea
to do with the amount of succes
which will come your w#y. To:
have an infinite capacity for de
tail and will see that a job is pro
perly done in all respects. You art
very cautious in all your under
takings and will make sure that i
project is sound and has excellenl
prospects before you embark upor
it. In other words, you would nol
make a very good speculator. Yoi
have excellent reasoning power:
and you will be important in some
executive capacity where your abil
ity to make important decision:
can be used. You are interested ii
people as social problems and art
particularly concerned with af
fairs of children and what is callec
the “teen-ager". You are genuinely
fond of children and consequently
they appear to enjoy following you:
advice and example. You should d<
very well in some educationa
sphere where you can guide anc
instri/t children and adolescents
You do not have as much initia
tive as you might wish and all to<
often you will prefer to drift witl
the tide of things rather than kici
up the kind of fuss that will stari
something new or revolutionary. I]
you refuse to take the initiative
you may become mediocre insteac
of successful. Exert your best ef
forts at all times.
—Hold War And V Bonds—
Navy Wants Fleet
Test Of Atomic Bomb
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —UP,—
rhe navy is anxious to test the
itomic bomb on a surface fleet,
t navy spokesman said today, but
nuch work still must be done to
ievelop satisfactory methods of
naking the experiment.
It is logical, the spokesman told
lewsmen, ‘ that two tests should
* made on a simulated fleet in
ormation. The first would be a
est demonstrating the possibili
ies of the atomic bomb when ex
ploded in the air.
The second, he added, should
nvolve the explosion of the atomic
omb well below the surface of
he water. In the latter case, he
aid, the test should be made in
rater so deep that no bottom re
ctions would occur.
—Buy Victory Bonds Now—
iden Thinks World
‘In Great Danger’
LONDON, Oct. 29—(JP)—Former
oreign Secretary Anthony Eden
lid in an address that the
orld "is unquestionably in very
reat danger and nations are not
lined together.” despite the ter
ible warning of the atomic bomb.
The wartime secretary said no
ne nation, however powerful, ever
'ould be strong enough to domi
ate Europe, still less to dominate;
ae world.
“A third world war would mean1
h.e annihilation of the human
ace.” he told an audience at
.eeds university.
a.Tt.
erary
Guidepost
M, IV Q
BLACK METROPOLIS: A STUDY
OF NEGRO LIFE IN A NORTH
ERN CITY, by St. Clair Drake
and Horace R. Cayton (Harcourt,
Brace; $5).
i BRONZEVILLE. Chicago's teem
i ing Black Belt, is defined and
■ described in greatest detail by
• these authors. Second largest con
i centration of Negroes in this coun
ry, it is represented as typical of
.her big centers of Negro life in
.he North.
According to tradition a Negro
was the first settler in the area.
The city was both a station and
a terminal on the pre-Civil War
Underground Railway. Two world
wars have helped to boost
Bronzeville's population above 300,
000, until every 10th Chicagoan is
a Negro.
The Negroes enjoy considerable
. political freedom, though they
may not aspire ot some top of
1 fices. Within their community, in
• sofar as it is separate from the
i white city surrounding it. . . . and
[ that is not very far . . . they are
I free to enjoy life, liberty and the
. pursuit of happiness in the best
• white tradition.
i Beyond that, Negro opportu
nities are very harshly restricted,
; freedoms do not coincide with
law allows isn't always what the
Negro gets In a depression they
are last to be hired, first to be
fired; a job ceiling bars them
from most positions above the
I rank of semi-skilled worker.
Unlike white - skinned foreign
! peoples, woh can quickly move
' from the poorest areas to bet
ter residential districts and be
come assimilated as unquestioned
Americans, Negroes are restricted
to high-rent, slum sections border
ed with a color line seemingly as
effective as a prison wall within
which disease, vice and crime
flourish. Intermarriages are rare,
i and emphatically disapproved by
Negroes, to whom social equality
! does not mean sexual equality.
Richard Wright supplies a pro
vocative introduction.
—Save Via V Bonds—
£,14o lokyo rersons
Arrested For Buying
Goods From G.I.’s
TOKYO, Oct. 29 —UP}— Tokyo
Metropolitan police today arrest
ed 2,145 persons accused of pur
chasing merchandise from Am
erican soldiers.
The confiscated loot, turned over
to allied authorities, included a
bout 1,000 packages of cigarettes,
candy, soap, matches and canned
goods.
—Save Cash, Buy Victory Bonds—
Convenient
TOPEKA, Kas.—(fP)—It was
a case pf being in the right
place at the right time. Frank
lin P. Adams, newspaper and
radio humorist, came to Winter
General Army hospital to en
tertain patients and wound up
a patient himself.
Making the rounds of the
hospital, Adams finally gave
up and was treated for sinus
trouble in the hospital’s eye- |
ear-nose-tbroat clinic.
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| COUNSELOR
IBy
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
"Food, freedom, friendship and
Christian faith,” are the four es
sentials of life which Glenn P
Wishard, American Y. M. C. A
director in the
Philippines, dis
covered during
his 27,000 hours
in Santa Tomas
cone entration
camp in Manilo
Speaking to the
Winston - Salem
N . C ., Rotary
club, he describ
ed his experien
ces in camp and
with the Japa
REV. SPAUGH nese and said
that if the mili
tary clique in Japan were elimi
nated that he believed the ordi
nary Japanese could be educated
into ‘‘friendly and peace keeping
citizens.”
i Men returning from German
and Japanese prison camps have
had time to think deeply, some
thing which the average American
doesn’t *do very much. We home
fronters would do well to listen tc
them.
t These men have managed tc
live without those things which
most of us consider essential tc
life—radios, cars, mechanical gad
gets, professional entertainment
and liquor.
Here is a man who was forced
down to bed-rock. He places first
those things which so many ol
us take for granted. Most of us
have never known what it is tc
be without a grocery store nearby
what it means not to be able to
express our opinions publicly, tc
werk or not, to vote for our gov
ernment officials or not, to be re
moved from those we call our
friends, not to be within reach of
a church.
iuui caocuuais, uiree
are Intangible — freedom, friend
ship, Christian faith. We need
to remember that these three must
be cultivated if we are not to lose
them.
Because of our careless use of
freedom, which involves our re
sponsibility towards our neighbor,
our crime and liquor bill has
reached staggering proportions.
Friendships must be cultivated,
kept in repair, if they are to be
retained. So many people by their
critical attitude destroy existing
friendships and prevent the for
mation of new ones. A high
ranking army officer recently re
leased from a Japanese prison
camp says that under the crowded
conditions of prison life friend
ships were sorely strained. In or
der to avoid arguments and fric
tion, they tried to engage in con
versation only on topics over
which there was no disagreement.
Wlshard said that his Chris
;ian faith was the greatest comfort
)f all. Let’s not forget that. The
;rue Christian way of life is not
jossible without Christian faith.
Playing Safe
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—(/Pi
—Nine year old Geneva Scalf
isn’t talcing any chances on
slow mail delivery north.
Yesterday — two months
before Christmas — she mailed
her letter to “Santa Claus at
the North Foie.”
Merry-Go-Round
Military Will
Spend More In
Peace Than War
By DREW PEARSON
(Lt Col. Robert S. Allen Now On
Active Service With the Army)
WASHINGTON — Chester Bowl
es, the OPA chief, let quite a big
cat out of the bag in his testimony
before the senate banking and
currency committee the other day.
He revealed that the army and
navy plan to spend $41,000,000,000
the first 12 months after V-J day.
This was a part of Bowles’ testi
mony on how inflationary pres
sures were building up in the na
tion.
Alert Senator Charles Tobey of
New Hampshire quickly caught
this.
"Where did you get those figur
es?” he asked Bowles.
The OPA director replied he had
received them from the army.
Tobey shook his head. “What
in the world do they want tc
spend it for?” he asked.
Bowles shrugged his shoulders
and said he didn’t know.
This $41,000,000,000 in 12 months
of peace compares with a total
military expenditure of only $33,
000,000,000 during the whole World
War I.
U. S. CONGRESSMEN IN
munui *>
When the house foreign rela
tions sub-committee was in Mos
cow. members spent almost twc
hours in a frank give-and-take
conference with Andrei Vyshinsky
vice commissar of foreign affairs
known to U. S. diplomats as the
‘'Harry Hopkins of Russia.”
Hottest topic discussed was
freedom of the press. Vyshinsky
was quite outspoken on this sub
ject, demanding to know why the
Soviet Union didn’t receive
‘■friendlier” treatment by Ameri
can newspapers.
"What do you mean?” chorused
Representatives Mundt of South
Dakota, Bolton of Ohio, Wright
of Connecticut, and Gordon ol
Illinois. The four congressmen
insisted that the great majority
of U. S. newspapers were fair tc
the Soviet regime.
Vyshinsky smilingly, but vig
orously, shot back: "We would like
to get a better press in the United
States. Too many of your news
papers picture us in an unsavory
light, making it appear at time!
, that we are immoral and even
vulgar. We resent that.”
The four house members point
ed out that one of the prices e
j country must pay for a genuinely
free press is the right of every
j editor to attack any government
or individual with whom he dis
i agrees.
i “You've got to take the bittei
with the sweet in a free press,’
interjected Representative Mundt
‘‘We’re used to it in the Unitec
States and take newspaper at
i tacks for granted. Why, member!
of our own Congress are blastec
j far more often, and more vigor
ously, than the Soviet Union."
Vyshinsky grinnlngly dropped
the subject, but indicated that he
wasn't convinced.
WILSON AND HIGH WAGES
Exactly one year ago, Charles E
Wilson, head of the giant Gen
eral Elictric, made a speech which
had national repercussions anc
| won him much praise. He pro
posed that, after the war, wage;
be kept high in order to keep pur
1 chasing power high. This, hi
said, would help his company anc
| others to sell refrigerators, wash
ing machines, etc. This columr
at that time paid tribute to Wil
son’s statesmanship.
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l ever, and let’s examine how Char
ley Wilson has followed up hi;
own recommended statesmanship.
The United Electrical Worker;
in Fort Wayne, Ind., have beer
negotiating with Wilson foi
months to secure a minimum rate
of 72 cents an hour. The mini
! mum wage rate in Fort Wayne
froeen by the War Labor board u
84 cents an hour. So far Wilson'!
General Electric has refused tc
budge.
United Electrical workers alsc
have been negotiating for sever
ance pay for workers laid of I
through no fault of their own
Wilson has declined. In Japar
his company paid severance pay
to its employes but he won't dc
| the same in the USA.
In Eria. Pa., he has already
started making peacetime * refrig
■ erators, but, contrary to Wilson’s
I speech of last October, his refrig
| erator workers are compelled tc
work for a 25 percent to 75 percent
reduction in their weekly take
home pay.
In addition, the refrigerator
unit job was moved from Sche
nectady to Erie where many ol
the jobs were reclassified and
turned over to women instead of
men at much lower wages.
In Erie, both 'a federal and a
state conciliator are trying to get
Wilson to arbitrate. He refuses.
Note: Meanwhile, United E
lectrical workers have one of
the best no-strike records of
the war, have been praised by
Secretary of War Patterson,
Admiral Nimitz, and Stars
and Stripes. Meanwhile, Gen
i eral Electric made profits in
1944 of $64,000,000 after pay
ing taxes, which was a 43
percent Increase over 1936-39.
Its reserves have increased
from $93,000,000 in 1939 to
$262,000,000 today.
GI CHAFF
Surplus army-navy pistols, shot
guns, field glasses, etc., are won
being offered for sale to service
men. However, there's a big
hitch. In the first place enlisted
men can’t but—only officers. And
the other day, when certain offi
cers turned up at the Pentagon
building to look over the shotguns,
they were asked whether they
Behind The
FRONT PAGE
By HOLT McPHERSON
Managing Editor
THERE ISN’T—OR CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT BE—ONE INDI
vidual in all Shelby and Cleveland County not Interested In the suc
cess, the brilliant success, of the current campaign of this community to
raise $100,000 toward providing the community center which will be a
living and useful memorial to our men and women who served in World
War II and will be the cornerstone of a parks and playground program
that is our Number One need.
Never have we had a finer, nobler opportunity to honor and perma
nently memorialize our gallant heroes who fought and sacrificed
for us, than with this living, lasting tribute. It is something of beauty,
permanently useful.
Never will we have so a liberal chance to have such a recreation
center, offering something for everyone to enrich living. All we have to
do Is provide the money to build it. Other cities are making similar in
vestments on even greater scale—we need to act now.
Never will we be able to furnish clean, wholesome and healthful
play and body-buildir.g recreation for so many at so little cost. Swimming
pool, skating rinks, playgrounds, gymnasium, auditorium, dining and
meeting rooms, community reading and rest rooms—everything that
should go into a great Community Center will be there insofar as wo
provide the money to do the job as it should be done.
Never will Shelby and Cleveland county pass up a challenging,
public-spirited "something for everybody" opportunity as the Community
Center offers.
Never must it be said that Clevelanders are not proud of their heroe*
of the war, proud and ready to give for its youngsters of today and
yiose of coming generations. We can and will finance and complete thig
memorial. This useful center of community life, this final need to make
our community even better I
THOSE LOVELY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CHIMES ON
the crisp autumn air yesterday, a gift of the Earl Hamrick family,
are religiously enriching to everyone. They constitute a rich and
lasting memorial to the late Rev. and Mrs. G. P. Hamrick whose
influence continues to live after them. One can't listen to their
beautiful music without being reverent.
SHELBIANS FAIRLY JUMPED OUT OF THEIR SEATS LAST
night when good-natured red-headed Seaman, second class, Don Roberts,
; whose clean humor made him one of The Star's most popular carrier
[ boys and later the A & P's equally clever produce handler before h#
| went into service, matched wits with Phil Baker to come off winner of
64 dollars on the "Take It Or Leave It” program last night. Shelby got
many times that much enjoyment and good publicity out of it.
Nineteen-year-old Don Roberts is one of four members of the
| James J. Roberts family in service, having entered the Navy Just a year
ago. He's stationed at the U. S. Naval Recruiting Station AGC, First and
52nd Street, Brooklyn, whence he got the call to Phil Baker's wldely
I heard program. As soon as the grinning gob came to the microphone
the fun started. Phil asked him how he liked New York, which Don
; said "is o k , but not half as good as North Carolina". The audience
immediately took the lad to its heart. Phil asked Just where in North
' Carolina, and the reply was "Shelby", explaining in response to further
questions that he clerked at the A & P. Phil asked if he was a fast
1 clerk. On, right much of a ladies’ man anyhow, sidestepped that neatly
with his prompt reply “I’m fast with the men but not with the ladies.’*
The crowd roared. Phil asked if he had his best girl with him, but Don
! said he didn't because he was broke! Pandemonium took the audience. It
was evident'that *64 was in the bag by tha time, but Don took Number
17 which called fer supplying missing words, the names of garment*. He
went right well through them, but toward the last encountered difficulty.
“I wanted to pray for him,” said his aunt, Mrs. Luther Thompson, on those ff)
last two when he stumbled, but he crashed through the richer by *64 and **
an Eversharp pen and pencil set. Don was terrific, a natural, loved immed
iately by all who heard him just as he was by those who know him here.
GOVERNOR CHERRY HAS NAMED TUESDAY, OCTOBEE
30 as "30th Division Day” and it’s something dear to the hearts of
North Carolinians who were in or have loved ones who fought in
that "Old Hickory” division. In World War I men of the 30th won
12 of the 78 Medals of Honor awarded by Congress In that war,
while in World War II the proud record was continued as the
30th battled from Normandy to the Elbe and caused the Ger
mans to call it “President Roosevelt's Storm Troopers". Imbued
with the name and fighting spirit of Andrew Jackson, the 30th
carried on a mighty tradition.
FROM MANILA, CAPT. B O. STEPHENSON WRITES THAT
news of Shelby's victorious Legion team was published and gladly re
ceived there. He sends a clipping of an item about a heroic pigeon which
1 General Patch decorated and is being processed through Steve's office
! for discharge. The pigeon, it seems, had fought all the way from
Guadalcanal to Luzon, was wounded twice and got decorated by General
Patch personally. Blakie, that is the pigeon's name, was wounded in
Guadalcanal but came home with his message, a communication es
sential to the safety of an advance unit. For this escort he was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal by General Patch who visited the loft
in person to make the presentation. Blakie never flew combat errands
after that, being an old campaigner with a hole in his crop, but he got
wounded again when struck by a hawk as he was out exercising. It
caused one soldier to remark, "He's been in combat, bombings and
submarine attacks, and then had to get hit by a hawk. Gee, if that bum
; could only talk, huh!” Blakie has 105 points, not counting children,
some of whom still fly in the Pacific area. The pigeon goes to Fort Mon
mouth to live amid his spangles and teach his fighting spirit to hi*
I children.
were regular navy or reserves. Be
ing reserves, they were politely
told they could not buy. The
shotguns, revolvers, etc., were be
ing held for regulars ... It doesn't
matter much how long you have
been in the navy if you belong to
the Navy Shore patrol. Maybe
it’s three years and maybe you:
have three children. The navy is
keeping its shore patrol. Most i
of them were formerly city or j
county police officers and their m
cities would like to have them
back, but the navy is hanging on
to them . . . One commanding of
ficer at Port Benning, Ga„ told
his men that unless they all do
nated 25 cents to the National
War fund their pay would be
withheld. They paid up, but the
compulsory tactics didn’t make
them feel happy toward the War
fund.
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