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MONDAY, DEC. 10, 1945
SHOULD BE ON HIS WAY
You don’t have to tell us that the disclosures being
made in the Congressional Pearl Harbor investigation are
important. We know of no recent inquiry in Washington
which has answered so many searching public questions on
the lips of nearly everybody for the past four years.
Just the same, we do not like and do not believe the
public is in sympathy with this seemingly unending question
ing of General George C. Marshall. His first 12 hours of
testimony ended Saturday and it would seem that he would
have during that period sufficient time to reveal all that
came within his knowledge or under his observation.
But apparently not so. Senator Ferguson, of Michigan,
one of the most persistent questioners on the Pearl Harbor
committee has said he has a lot more questions to ask the
former chief of staff.
If it had not been for this intimation on the part of
Senator Ferguson, General Marshall would be on his way to
China right now. The general has had a plane kept in readi
ness for the long trip to Chungking and is eager to get away
to his new job as special envoy to that country. .
As we have already intimated, the American people
have a perfect right to know’ what happened at Pearl Har
bor four years ago, but to our notio-n need for this knowledge
is not quite as pressing as what is happening in China rieht
now. If any further questioning of General Marshall is need
ed to clear up the Pearl Harbor incident, this could very
well take place after he gets back.
He ought to go to China immediately; further delays
should not be tolerated.
HIS LIPS SAID NOT GUILTY
“I wish to stand here and swear innocence to these
charges.” These were the words of General Tomoyuke
Yamashita; his last, before adjournment of the trial which
found him guilty of permitting monstrous atrocities by Japa
nese troops in the Philippines.
These were the strange words which emanated from the
ever-strange mouth and mind of this Japanese; the opaque
philosophy of believing an obvious lie and giving word to
it with the air of one who states a sure fact. We have heard
these words simply as sequel to those uttered a little over
four years ago when another of the “honorable” Japanese
declared, “I wish the United States to understand that the
emperor desires nothing but peace . . . nothing but peace,”
and even then his last words were lost in the blast of Pearl
Harbor’s bombs.
Yamashita saw evidence in film and person of the rape
of the Philippines, the Japanese bayonet in the stomach of
the babe, the oiled heads blazing, women lying in death
with death again clasped to their bosoms in small, pitiful
packages; he saw men lying before altars with hands tied
behind their backs . . . backs twisted and stiff in macabre
poses. All these he saw and stoically lighting a cigarette,
sr , back and smiled at what he supposed must have been the
classic speech of a martyred hero.
Just as incomprehensible was his statement that he
wished to thank the U. S. defense attorneys and judges for
bavin®- accorded him a fair trial.
ON THEIR OWN BOTTOM
Suggestion by Chief Walter F. Anderson of the Char
lotte police department, as relayed through the columns of
the Charlotte News, that the liquor evil may be partially
curbed through the activity of the United States bureau of
internal revenue in enforcement of income tax law, leaves
us almost cold.
Naturally, we think a bootlegger is fair game. Anyway
you hem him in is O.K. by us. If he has not been paying his
fair share of Uncle Sam’s charges on his ill gotten gains,
then certainly the more revenue agents on his trail the
better.
However, that is neither here nor there when it comes
io enforcement of the liquor laws. Illegal possession, sell
ing and, or transporting alcoholic beverages are crimes in
themselves and should be recognized as such. Nor, can we
see the advantage in beating all the way around the bush
until we arrive at a civil action by the government to en-!
force our own state statutes.
Some day. some where these laws will have to stand
on their own bottom. They should be enforced as if they
do now.
ONE FOLLOWS THE OTHER
'**F**V.
>1 >
THE EVERYDAY i
! COUNSELOR |
| By DR. HERBERT SPAUGH j
All who drink alcoh^ic bever
ages, whiskey, wine, champagne.
brandy, beer, ale, or anything
which contains alcohol should read
this. It is the re
sult of scientific
investigation and
is an accepted
principle of the
Alcoholics Anon
ymous, the most
successful organi
zation in the
country, which
deals with alco
holics: —
_ Continued use of
REV. SPAUGH alcoholic bever
ages during the
course of the
years generally develops in the
drinker an allergy to alcohol. This
is not true with all drinkers, but
it is true with those who become
habitual drinkers and those who
become victims of the habit.
He who is allergic to alcohol is
in the same situation as the dia
betic who is allergic to sugar oi
the hay-fever suffer who is allergic
to flower pollens, house dust, feath
ers, etc. The man or woman whc
is allergic to alcohol must there
fore realize that one drink sets ir
process all of the craving for more
alcohol, the endeavor to satisfy
which brings on drunkenness.
My association with the group
which promoted an Alcoholics An
onymous chapter in Charlotte con
tinues to bring alcoholic prob'.err
cases to my resk. They all follow
a similar pattern, and it is the
same old story. The victim may gc
for weeks, months, even a year oi
two without taking a drink. Ther
he feels that he is perhaps strong
enough to take one cocktail al
some social affair. Presto.! Tht
sleeping demon of habit is aroused
That first drink calls for another
and another, and soon the victirr
is on an alcoholic spree. Ther
comes that awful struggle of try
ing to sober up. Even if the vic
tim has tremendous will power
he has a hard time of it.
There are three things I wan!
to say to those of you who partake
of alcoholic beverages:
1. Your use of alcohol in any
form exposes you to the increasing
danger of becoming an alcoholic
one who is allergic to alcohol. Wher
you reach this point, you will be
allergic to alcohol the rest of youi
life. Every case I have examinee
has commenced with social drink
ing. Others who deal with alco
holics will tell you the same thing
This is a cold scientific fact.
2.. If you are allergic_Jo al
cohol, recognize the fact that you
are an alcoholic, and leave that
first drink alone.
3. Will power alone will not
break the chain of habit. Those
who have never suffered from al
coholism don’t know what they
are talking about when they say
it is a matter of will power. It
takes more than that. It takes
what the Alcoholics Anonymous
call Wise Power — the Power of
God. If you are an alcoholic you
will never win complete victory by
yourself — you will have to lay
hold on the Power of God.
EDITOR'S NOTE—Dr. Spaugh's
new book The Pathway to Con
tentment will come from the press
shortly. It is being published in
Washington
Daybook
By JACK STINNETT
(Second of Two Articles)
WASHINGTON — Complaints
against the armed forces discharge
system and failure to move troops
back more rapidly from.— abroad
are expected tB Teach‘Their zenith
about the first of the year.
After that the complaints will
gradually die out—for the causes
of them will be dying out.
The usual answer to all com
plaints about getting the boys back
so slowly is "lack of shipping.”
After talking to War Shipping
Administration officials as well as
£rmy and Navy men who have
come through the discharge mill
in both oceans, the conclusion
must be that “lack of shipping”
is only the result of a fault that
goes far deeper: lack of advance
planning.
If VE-dav didn't come sooner
than expected. VJ-day certainly
did. It caught the War Depart
ment in the throes of trying to
move an army half way around
the world and the Navy cocked
and primed to unleash the great
est naval force in history.
Some of the worst early con
fusions have been ironed out. For
example, the deluge of returning
men are no longer being dumped
into one port on each coast to
cause irremediable land transpor
tation gluts.
In both oceans, the War Ship
ing administration has more than
500 ships (subject entirely to or
ders from the joint chiefs of
staff, WSA officials point out very
emphatically; with a capacity of
more than half a million men.
Add to these the fleets of Army
transports and hospital ships and
the aircraft carriers the Navy
now is converting to troopships,
and the contribution of the Air
Forces and you can see that the
(“lack of shipping” can’t last for
ever.
I Taking Just one week at ran
dom from recent ones, the Asso
ciated Press roundup of troop ar
rivals went like this: Sunday,
34,500; Monday, 28,400; Tuesday,
29,000; Wednesday, 18,600; Thurs
day, 34,000; Friday, 31,700, and
Saturday, 20,600.
That's getting very close to 200,
000 men a ^eek. It doesn't take
much arithmetic to see that the
complaints from overseas can’t go
on for very many months at that
rate.
• • • •
Another bright spot in the off
ing is that re-enlistments are out
stripping expectations. (The emo
j luments offered for re-enlistments
j have some of the veteran regular
Army enlisted men mumbling in
! their beards.) Soon, there should
be a steady stream of these men
j who want to stay in the Army
on its way to replace those who
want to get out.
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CROSS SECTION 1945, edited b
Edwin Seaver Fischer; $3.50).
Stories with a meaning, storie
with a form to fit that mean
ing, stories that don't go noe syl
-table -cat- of-their way- to persuad
you to read them . . . that's wha
you'll find in this second annua
of the Book-of-the-Month Clul
has assembled some 350 mor
pages of the sort of writing, som
verse but mostly fiction, that in hi
opinion does not stand muc
chance of being published else
where, but that is worth a bigge
audience than the writer's own ob
liging friends.
It seems inconsistent to Include
selection from Gladys Schmitt
forthcoming book, which has a'
ready been chosen by the Litei
ary Guild for March; it seems ur
wise to print Edita Morris' vei
slight story when she has publish
ed in regular channels, some wor
infinitely superior; and finally
seems unfortunate that the poet
except for Robert E. Hayden an
Gwendolyn Brooks are not moi
impressive.
With these exceptions, this is
remarkable job of editing, remark
able in precisely those aspect
which Seaver defined as his goal!
stuff easily worth printing bi
marked by differences, slight y<
all-important, from what boo
and magazine editors usually sup
pose the public likes. Seaver re
veals a nicer discrimination tha
a lot of his colleagues. If he ha
dug up little or nothing that
great, he does present many page
that are vivid, individual and sig
nificant.
Hilde Abel’s ‘'Bus That Had N
Sign,” symbolizing in a 11 rifyin
way the tragic fate of Berlin, :
very close to pure surrealism an
. gets the book off to an excitin
■start. *
The two prostitutes who wer
on a picnic, the traveler who wa
right about race prejudice bi
guessed wrong on which race, th
soldier who wanted a little lone
liness, the miserable couple wit
the barking baby . . . these ar
vital fictional material.
Among the writers are Jan
Bowles, Norman Rosten, Isidc
Schneider, Helen Wolfert a n
Richard Wright.
High Point Taxis
Get 2-Way Radios
HIGH POUT, Dec. 10 —iff)— .
local taxicab company today e*
pected to have two-way radio com
in unication in at least five of it
cabs by Christmas.
J. F. Beck, president oi the Blu
Bird Taxicab Company, announce
the forthcoming innovation upo
notification from the Federal com
munications commission that h
had been granted a license.
High Point, Beck said, is the sec
ond U. S. City where such a perm]
has bene granted.
He pointed out that cabs will b
in constant touch with a centre
dispatcher, enabling speedier an
swering of calls.
Cuba has a larger foreign trad
per capita than any other Latii
American country except Argen
[ tina.
}
Merry-Go-Round
Baruch Sought
To Avert War
By DREW PEARSON
Lt. Col. Robert S. AUen Now On
Active Service With The Army
WASHINGTON — Last month
Jap Ambassador Kurusu, specia
envoy) in Washington at the tim<
of Pearl Harbor, stated that tw<
high-up Americans were workinj
closely with Japanese diplomat;
1 in order to head off war. He saic
. that one of these was a membei
iof the cabinet, another was an in
fluential but unofficial American
Since then, ex-Postmaster Gen
eral Frank Walker has discloset
i that he was the member of thi
l cabinet, and this column can nov
reveal that the influential but un
official American was Bernan
Baruch.
Mr. Baruch, when qaestionei
regarding his Japanese contacts
• said that he was chiefly trying t<
f get information from the Japanesi
in order to know what they weri
up to.
One of Baruch's contacts wa
through Raoul Eugene Desvern
! ine, former head of Crucible Steel
! an organizer of the Libert;
league, and former attorney fo
> the Mexican and Cuban govern
J ments. Desvernine was in toucl
with Kazuo Nishi, New York man
ager of the Yokohama Sped'
; company, controlled by the Japa
' nese government, and had beei
- angling to sell cotton to the Japs
On Dec. 5, 1941—two days befori
Pearl Harbor—he gave a cocktai
1 party for Mr. Nishi. The next da;
he WTOte t*»e Japanese banker th;
following letter:
“Dear Mr. Nishi:
"I am deeply indebted to yoi
for the honor you paid me at thi
cocktail party yesterday after
noon. Please accept my sincen
gratitude, also extend to your col
leagues my thanks to them,
also wish you a safe Journe;
home; but, more important, i
prompt return. Please assure eacl
one of them that if I could be o
any help in their principles in thi:
country, I am theirs to command
My only hope Is I may be able t(
make some contribution towarc
clarifying the situation betweer
the two countries.”
When questioned regarding thi:
letter, Mr. Desvernine said he hac
no comment to make.
Mr. Nishi hardly had time to re
ceive this letter on Sunday. Dec
7, when his country blew up mod
| of the Pacific fleet at Pearl Har
j bor.
The FBI, Investigating Jap filet
! in this country, ran across thii
f letter and started a probe of Des
) vemine. It was at that time thai
s Bemie Baruch intervened on be
half of Desvernine and said h<
- had been helping hir>. The Jus
- tice department's Investigation o:
. Desvernine was then dropped.
LION AND THE MOUSE
1 Freshman Representative Hugt
Delacy fo Seattle, Wash., whosi
i, speech is given credit for goading
„ Pat Hurley out of an ambassador
“ ship, was talking on the telephom
s to veteran Senator ( Tom Connallj
s of Texas.
1 “Young fellow,” the Texan ad
- vised, “you’ve got so much powei
r in your voice, you'd better tx
- careful. You'd better not criticizi
your wife out loud, lest the gocx
a Lord hear you and reach dowi
s and take her away from you."
Delacy assured Connally tha
* the information on China whicl
■ he used in his criticism of Hurle;
y had not come from the State de
* partment, as charged by the ex
^ cowboy ambassador,
t “i know that, young fellow,” re
s- plied Connally. “It becomes mor
d and more obvious that you didn'
e need secret information. The fact
you mentioned in your speed
a were available to anyone with in
' dustry enough to put them to
s j gether. When this hearing go
’ underway today, even we got a lo
1 of wires at the committee Iron
1 newspaper correspondents who ha<
k been in China, offering to testify
' And they weren’t proposing t<
': support Hershey's charges.”
n '\J. S. FIGHTS DUTCH WAR
s While the senate foreign rela
s | tions committee is looking inti
s our policy in China, it might alsi
‘ | cast an eye on the Dutch East In
riioe
0 ’ It's not supposed to be known
? but two months ago the Dutci
* asked the foreign economics ad
3 ministration for lend-lease equip
? ment to outfit 5,000 Dutch ma
rines—whom we trained at Cam]
1 Davis, N. C. FEA, however, flatl;
* vetoed the request.
1 But the Dutch quietly went u
e the navy, where they dealt witi
bellicose A dm. Joseph M. Reeves
1 navy lend-lease chief. He was i
e pushover. From him they go
i $16,000,000 worth of equipment to
e i the Dutch marines In this coun
try, most of it going to Cam]
3 Davis, but some being sent to the!
part of embarkation for the Dutcl
East Indies.
The five navy requisitions, la
beled “NEN 10001 to NEN 10005,
included 450,000 gallons of 80-oc
tane non-aviation gasoline, 25,00)
gallons of lubricants, medical am
V surgical supplies, field rations
- yard and dock materials—includ
- ing pontoons for invasion land
s ings—and post-exchange supplie
sufficient for a farce of 5,000 mei
e for three months.
1 Representative Ellis Pattersoi
i of Los Angeles is demanding i
- complete Investigation.
e U. S. TIED TO BRITAIN’S
SKIRTS
- Before Congress okays the $4,
t 400,000,000 loan to Britain, i
ought to take a look at the wai
e the U.S.A. is getting the blami
1 for British cut-throat imperiallsn
- in various parts of the world.
The Dutch East Indies is one
example. Greece is another. On<
s t of the worst is Ethiopia, where
i British troops still Insist on occu
* j pying part of a nation which
j fought to the death against hav
l
i
Behind The
FRONT PAGE
Bj holt mcphebson
Managing Editor
BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD THE HAPPY IDEA THAT STRONG
1 legs run so weak legs might walk, the Carolinas all-star high school
! I game was brought forth and in nine years has grown steadily as an event
: | in Its own right and as an increasing support to the hospital for crippled
> I children maintained at Greenville by the Shriners of the two Carolinas.
[! Saturday’s great event when 25,000 fans overflowed'the Charlotte stadium,
testified to the greatness of it all and caused some $20,000 to be raised
. for the strengthening of weak and deformed young legs.
It is a tribute to the Shriners who stage it, to Charlotte which plays
1 host to one of the most publicized of Carolina sports events, to the
| people who support its worthy purposes that this thing has grown to
. its present proportions. That it will continue to grow depends only upon
1 facilities being available to handle larger crowds—there were thousands,
many of whom has bought tickets, who were unable to get into Satur
1 day’s game because the stadium was overflowed.
| People like a spectacle like that, and they like more the fact that its
. commercial value accrues principally to so worthy a work of making good
i legs out of crippled ones.
ONE R^SON THE LITTLE BOND BUYERS ARE NOT
as enthusiastic about bond buying, causing the Series E sales to
lag so badly everywhere, is that returning service men are so
fed up with the waste of money and manpower by the government
| that people don’t have the urge to make personal sacrifice to
the extent they did before. The boys and girls who have seen this
wasteful extravagance first hand don’t like it, their parehts and
loved ones are learning of things they don’t like and it’s high time
the administration got around to realising that the winner of
the 1948 election is going to be a candidate and party committed
I to plugging the holes of waste through which the nation’s sub
stance is pouring out. The Victory E Bonds’ lagging sales are a
symptom of a national concern—the treatment after that diagno
sis ought to be clear.
THINGS I NEVER KNEW BEFORE: SO SMALL ARE NEWLY
' born o possums that a dozen will fit in a teaspoon.
That it’s against the law in Dayton, Ohio, to feed a cow or hog on
[ any of the city’s sidewalks.
BEG PODD’N DEPARTMENT: SHORTSTUFF LAUGH
ridge says, in light of reflections and genuflections appearing here,
he’s not speaking to me any more. I’m sorry that I have so many
things on my mind I find it impossible to remember not to speak
to anyone—so I’ve asked him to forgive me when I speak to
him anyhow.
MISS MARGARET MOOSE, WHO FOR SEVERAL YEARS WAS
i secretary to George H. Hart, sr., at Lawndale, is going to accompany
[ Department of Justice attorneys to' Tokyo for the war criminal trials.
She's one of eight secretaries chosen from over 300 applicants for that
; interesting assignment for which she's giving up her recent Job la
Charlotte.
WHEN MAJOR LEE HOPPER, FORMER 8HELBIAN WHO
made his home with his parents at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., got his
discharge at Camp Standing he shifted from rating of sergeant
to plain major. Another man there named General Wall had
the unique handle of Private General Wall. Then there wao
Ensign Pence, which Is a good place to stop this nomenclature
business.
CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION IS BEING GIVEN TO COVERBD
bridges, fast disappearing as picturesque parts of the landscape. Tm
wondering if there's one remaining in Cleveland—I fail to recall one but
would be Interested in getting a picture if there be one yet.
WHILE UNQUESTIONABLY MANY MANUFACTURERS
and fabricators are holding back shipments to take advantage of
a more favorable tax structure after January 1. a lot of people
are In for disillusionment because they seem to have the idea that
with New Year's day such a torrent of merchandise will pour
forth to relieve shortages. Don’t you believe it, for the vast maw
i of American consumer demand will drink up months and evea
years of the swiftest production of peacetime goods and all that's
held back will constitute hardly a drop in the bucket when It
breaks forth. Of course, It will be that much, but It will bo a
long time before a buyer market will be back.
IN A FEW WORDS AL RICH SAYS:
i It's better to give than to lend, and It costs about the same. *
The kind of religion that makes a man look sick cannot be expected
' to cure the world.
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
i The man who does as he pleases is seldom pleased with what he does.
I The hardest fall a man can take is to fall over "his own bluff. .
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
Some people have concrete opinions—thoroughly mfbed and per
! mftnpnt.lv Rpt
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; Farmers To Meet To
Discuss Production
RALEIGH, Dec. 10— (/P) —G. T.
Scott, state director of the pro
duction and marketing administra
tion at State College, announced
yesterday a proposed meeting sche
r duled for the latter part of this
month by farmers in this state.
) Crop production goals will be
i the central theme of discussion.
, Scott said.
l|
- ing Italian troops on its soil.
Latest case is Siam, a nation
■ with 700 years of proud independ
1 ence, but over which the British
now demand a protectorate. The
t British are censoring the Siamese
press, handling all trade and in
■ tercourse with the outside world,
' controlling all the banks, and
• keeping troops in Siam indefi
> nitely.
I Meanwhile, the State department
, stands by, quietly acquiescing.
• Last fall, U.S. papers were full of
■ stirring stories of how the Sia
i mese underground had fought the
i Japs, how the Regent of Siam was
the head of the underground and
1 closely affiliated with U.S. agents
i Now all that is forgotten.
The British are using lend
lease tanks and guns in the streets
of Bangkok, while more and more
Siamese are wondering what the
difference is between the Japs
’ and British.
Most tragic fact is that Orien
tals tied U. S. policy up with the
British. And now that we are
handling the British ji four bil
lion dollar loan which Everyone
knows will not be paid back, they
figure it's a definite American
I stamp of approval on British poli
jolea.
Gay New Years Eve
Promised For JV. Y.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 —m— The
gayeet New Year'* Eve celebration
In New York City since before thef11
war was assured today as the state ‘
liquor authority announced it
would permit bars to operate all
night for the occasion, provided
they obtained a special $10 per
! mit.
The regular weekday closing hour
is 4 a.m. Hotels and night clube
reported they already had been
receiving a flood of early reserva
tions.
Returned F.H.S. Vet*
Will Meet On Tuesdoy
There wiU be a meeting of all
returned Fa 11ston school district
servicemen at the school building
at 7 o’clock Tuesday evening for
the purpose of making plans for
a future banquet or other oele
bratlon.
Although there are only 03
chemical elements In nature, sci
entific experiments have produced
almost 500 unstable (radioactive)
types in the laboratory.
The Army had more than 900
post exchange outlets in the Pa
cific.
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