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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
THE PRICE OF A WAR
New York Herald Tribune

Neither the text of the Russo-Fi4I nish treaty,
the lame and somewhat contradictory explana.
tons Of the Allied leaders nor the Swedish
whistlings in a deepening dark do much to
mitigate the initial impact Of the news that
Finland's great fight is over. 1t is in many
obvious ways another Munich. With decisive
help denied her, Finland has barely saved her
life at the cost of rendering herself almost
though perhaps not quite-defenseless against
a resumption of the Russo-German advance.
Sweden has saved her neutrality at the cost
of most of her defenses against
domination; she has averted the horrors of an
imminent war at the risk of only having to
meet them later on in a worse case. The
Allies have saved themselves the very great
dangers and difficulties of an intervention at
a heavy sacrifice in prestige and at the cost of
surrendering the military advantages it might
have yielded.
Americans, who offered so little help, can
not criticize these hard decisions. They can
look only at the possible results. Two seem
obvious. There is no chance now OF opening a
northern front; Germany has been made Sc
cure in her vital Baltic communications And
the Allies hold on the Danubian and Near
Eastern nations has been unavoldably weak
ened, with a corresponding diminution in the
chances of opening a front in the southeast.
If France and Britain failed to save Finland,
there is so much the less reason for the south.
east to rely upon them-and this IS true wheth-
err the failure was due to the want of will,
want Of the moral authority to overcome Scan
dinavian hesitations or purely to the want of
tho military means for the undertaking..
How much, if anything, the first two factors
may have had TO do with it no one can yet
say-there is evidently a great deal that has
not been told about the negotiations over Allied
| aid-but it is impossible to overlook the very
formidable character of the military problem
presented. The only direct way into Finland
was by way of Petsamo-some 100 miles from
London by the direct steamer route, much far
Their by the routes it would have been neces-
sarv to follow to avoid submarine and mine
do noers an Inadequate base at best and al.
ready held by the Russians. The only practic-
able entrance was by way of the Norwasian
and Swedish railroads which are not Of larea
capacity to begin with and which Norway and
sweden could not have dared to open 1,n1aaa
assured that the Allies were prepared to maLs
a really major effort. And where were the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
is RUMANIA NEXT?

With Poland divided, like JACOBS coat, be-
tween Germany and Russia, Czechoslovakia
betrayed and Finland conquered, the two big
boys Of Europe seem to be throwing dice to
determine which will gobble Rumania Each
wants her. That either will try to have his
way with her before the war of nerves along
we'll indicated by proposals recently made by
Herr HITLER.
HITLER wants an iron guardist in the Ru-
mania cabinet, where he will be on hand to
"enforce' guarantees the Nazi chief would Of
fer in return for Rumanian resources, includ-
ing large deliveries of petroleum for his war
planes. King CAROL says he will not consent
and casts an appealing eye toward London
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Lumberton Job Office
To Rent New Quarters

The Lumberton office of North
Carolina State Employment service
will soon be housed in a new build
ing which is being built especially
for it and which will be rented by the
employment service, the Whining
ton office of the Noses reported yes
terday.
Moving of the Lumberton staff
into new quarters is another step
of the NOSES program to improve
premises in all Sc offices in the Or
g~anization and to bring them up to
Offices.
The new Lumberton building will
represent a far cry from space &C.
cupied by offices in 1888 when the
service began. Then the NOSES had
to thank city and county govern
ments for its temporary housing
facilities and consequently was serv-
ing the public from grand jury rooms
and mayors offices all over the sta ,.
Local NOSES officials said yester,
day that not only have the Sc office
grown more spacious and more at
tractive, but they all have large
signs owe the door and substantial
well built equipment has long ago
replaced crude furnishing that the
service had to use in it's early days.
All of the metal filing cabinets,
desks, book cases are now properly
tagged and inventoried.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
RURAL HOUSING PROJECTS

The federal government has done a neces-
sary thing in providing funds for better hous-
ing in rural areas. Although the start is far
from meeting the need, the $685. 900 made
available for housing authority use in back
hope that with success in the first venture
the authority will be in position to claim
larger appropriations, and ultimately advance
the cause of good housing in the hinterland
as capably as it has done in the cities.
If there is reason to complain of the pres
ent program it lodges in the fact that North
Carolina is not among the states chosen for
the initial investment. 1t would be fine if we
could say that North Carolina does not need
rural housing projects. But this is not a fact.
1t needs them as much as any state.
That it is not on the favored list appears
to show that somewhere between the drafting
of plans and the designation of localities for
this particular form Of federal aid somebody
went to sleep sat the switch"
1t seems right to believe that the matter
of clearing the back country Of shacks and
supplanting them with comfortable, sanitary
dwellings for small earners will 20 forward
on an expanding basis, and that yearly pro.
grams will be On successfully larger lines,
1t therefore devolves as a necessary dutv
upon the leadership of this state to see that
the same nap is not taken again.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
BETTER HOMES
DRIVE PLANNED
Mrs. Burton Reports Organl-
cations Unified For
Campaign

An educational give and take ex
change for better homes and better
citizens will be stressed during April
in Wilmington and New Hanover
county, Mrs. A. Paul Burton, city
chairman for the Better Homes in
America campaign, said yesterday
wilmington organizations are
now working under n unified set
up for a worthwhile Better Homes
campaign. Let's hold North Carolina
to rate higher than fourth place this
year." Mrs. Burton said.
I'm the past four years North
Carolina has rated fourth place. Bet
ter Homes drives are yearly; they
are continuous. There is no set pro
gram. Different communities observe
the national movement in their own
guided way" she said.
Final report blanks and albums
will go to the state chairman, Miss
Harriet Naumann, home economics
department, Woman's college e,
Greensboro; then to Purdue univer-
sity to be rated by states, towns.
and cities. The report for Whining
ton will be compiled by the local
chairman and an art committee of
Wilmington.
Last year 1000 committee chair
men reached over 100000 families.
These chairmen working with gov
eminent and business agencies have
accomplished in a voluntary, co-or
dinated, and we'll organized move.
ment results which neither govern
ment, business, nor individuals could
have achieved alone, Mrs. Burton
said.
Better Homes simply means CO.
operation. 1t also means coordination
for the dissemination of ideas. ad-
vice, information, and cooperation
of all state agencies working toward
specific goals.
In North Carolina, the state Bet
ter Homes committee looks forward
to improved standards in each home
as income and desires make this pos
sible, to cleaner towns and country
sides, to control of signs and regula-
ton of unsanitary eating places and
tourist camps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

churches of Wilmington and vicinity
are having special services in their
churches, beginning tonight at s
o'clock and running through the
week with services at 8 o'clock each
evening when the preaching is done
by the pastor of each church. 1.-The
seven Presbyterian churches of Will.
mington and it's neighborhood are CO.
operating in this movement in loyal
obedience to the General Assembly
The Crusade has met with a wonder.
fully loyal and devoted on
the part of the Presbyterian consti-
tuency in the South. Hence, II is
confidently believed there will be a
fine cooperation with these services
during this week. The public is cor.
daily invited to attend any of the
Presbyterian churches which thew
may prefer" DR.. A. D. p. Gilmour
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Star-News Program

Consolidated Clty-County Government,
under CouncilMdnager administrator.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial!
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF city Limits.
S5.toot Cape Fear River channel. utd'
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Wa
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc'
ton through sustatned-yted methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
mottonal Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tur.
shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center TOR Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm emit OF ndtive grape 0ro11sng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
ANTI-DIVERSlON
STANDS STUDIED
Maxwell And Cooper Oppose
Present System On Diff
ferent Grounds
Star-NeWs Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Ry HENRY ANERlLL

RALEIGH. March 16.-Close Oh
the heels of publication Of this bO'
reau's story that Anti-DINeIsIoA''''
would not be satisfied unless s0's''
material candidates specifically o'
pose the Revenue Acts contlnEs''
diversion provisions, one Of the 1885,
ing aspirants has authorized 0Se u
a letter in which he did eNoy"'
that.
Commissioner of Revenue AIeh Do
Maxwell, it seems, Is fatty asaas.
the section which has been one
the biggest bones of conteh'o" ~
the last two legislatures thousa -.
opposition appears tc be paseu @
so much on principle as upon .''
financial expediency.
His idea, according to the ls.E,
which is being printed IN lHe r D
recent bulletins of the NoFlh ~"
lima Petroleum Industries con nm, l
is that the section keeps S-'0.,.
tied up all the time where's y. ' ~.s
sum could be made aVallap'e ~,
on the highways should n p""
sion to divert be repealed
Within the last couple OIL -, ,,.
40rI1I luF
another of the gubfrn2to.l"
didates, Mr.. Cooper showed r an,
that he looks with distaVof uIon ,,
sort of diversion; thou2H o'''"s NJ,
last General Assembly sess'o, ,..,
Wilmington mayor publicly e'''o ~, "A.
Governor Clyde Hoey's s'"i'' ~
of retaining the cohll"=, ,r,
version section in the Re'e"uy nj
Cooper did not reVefs' n ,5n|
principle, he merely poin'ed On.
his plan for s. au.o"i Fi,,|
tags there will he no suFP'1' .4.l
wav funds to divert which ., ,'
all is ar argument WDIco ,o tas|
be success sfully answered IL o'''
be approved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Presbyterian Churches Begin
Week OF Euangelistic Services

There are 500, 900 members of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States and $500 churches and $500
ministers and missionaries. This
Christian force is organized into II
synods and SO Presbyteries and all
are under the control of the su-
preme Court of the Church, called
the General Assembly.
This General Assembly. at its
meeting at Montreal last Nav, Or
dered a great spiritual advance in
the form of an aggressive evangelis.
TIC campaign. By order of the Cen
era Assembly, all the ministers of
n church have been requested to
preach definitely evangelistic e r
mons during the 10 SUNDAYS ending
March 81, and each pastor has been
requested to preach every night for
a week in his own church before the
end of this period.
Accordingly, all the Presbyterian
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
ROAD

Dear oT:
We are living in n of the old
est homes in the southern part OF
New Hanover county. We are the
fourth generation. Our grandfath-
er. Henry Martindale bought a part
of this land as early as 1926. Taxes
have been paid every year up to
1889. We live a half mile from the
Carolina Beach highway. The land
lying between our home and the
said Carolina Beach highway be-
longed to a Mr.. w. H. Biddle. He
has sold the said land off in small
lots, with the exception of a forty
(4O) foot right-of-way for us and
all parties on north side of right
of-way to use at their conveniences.
Our mother, Mrs. Rebecca john
son, formerly Miss Rebecca Mar
tindale will be seventy G0) years
old in April, and is a widow has
lived here all her life, with the ex-
ception of three years, and now
needs medical treatment by a doc
tor and on account Of road condi-
lions it is impossible for a car to
get in and out of our place and she
isn't able to- walk out to the high
way and a doctor cant drive in.
She is being neglected. We are
asking you if something can't be
done about our road condition.
There are nine (9) families that
use the road. There are only three
in our family and all three ladies.
In 1857 great grandfather bought
a piece of land on Myrtle Grove
Sound thirty-six 1850 feet wide to
drive cattle to and from the beach
out to his place, where we now
live and still pay taxes on, and
now that the state has taken about
four (4) acres over, and is going
to build a highway on the most
valuable part of it without con-
sulting the on the said
road. Ancestors were not even in
this part of the country at the
time of said date. We can't see
any right and just in any such
doings.
Take an almost invalids Widows
land away from her and build a
highway for strong, healthy men
and she can't get over her road to
a doctor without waiting a week
or ten days so her road can dry
out. We can't see any free and
just county in all this. Will you
please look into this matter and
see if something can't be done.
MISS HARRIET JOHNSON
MISS CATHERINE CASTEEN.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
By A

Have you ever noticed a group
Of boys gathered around some
'hang-out?" Did you notice how
their eyes followed the big shots
who were coming and going and
splitting evil words at their asso.
ciates?
A boys leisure time Is his great.
est enemy. especially when he is
growing up. Scouting is more than
a game. A scout occupies himself
during these dangerous times.
There are many interesting things
to do, with a view, always, to char.
acter building. 1t develops self-re.
lance and helpfulness, courage and
courtesy, loyalty and reverence,
patriotism and honor, and other
kindred qualities of good repute-
through action.
Are you n of the too many
parents who r not willing to "be
bothered? How does your boy and
his pals of the neighborhood spend
their leisure time? Dc you, as par.
ents, know every minute of the
day and night where he is. what he
is doing and who his companions
are?
Scouting, whether in the home
neighborhood or at camp, teaches
boys arts and handicrafts of the
out-of-doors in the company of
clean-lived men leaders and develops
in them quickness of hand and
eye, and above all, resourcefulness.
Consider these startling figures,
which you may check yourself:
The scout age boy sleeps $3.50
hours a year.
He goes to school 1000 hours a
year.
He eats $50 hours a year
He has $3.50 hours left every
year for his interests and activi.
ties. It is this amazing block Of
time which demands a program and
essentially the selection of this pro.
gram is up to the parent.
It is because the scout program
has helped and is now being sue.
cessful in helping a million homes
solve this problem of leisure hours
and worthwhile interests for boys
that it is now accepted as the great
national citizenship and character
building activity program for boys.
Everyone at one time or another
is likely to get lost. Not necessarily
in the woods or in a strange city,
but really a lost soul. And what a
terrible thing it is to be lost. Not
knowing which way to turn, many
have come to the solicitation of
scouting and boys
A scout has a better opportunity
to really find himself than any
other boy. The provisions of the
merit badge plan Of the Boy Scouts
of America make it possible for a
boy to receive, through his own
initiative, an introduction to more
than 100 trades and professions for
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Brunswick Farm Leaders
Will Meet Or Friday

A meeting Of farm leaders OF
Brunswick county will be held Fri
dav, March %, at Shallotte for the
purpose of setting minimum stand
ards in detail for Farm Security
administration families in that
county.
The county farm agent, home eco
Monies and agricultural teachers,
and a group of successful farmers
of the county have been asked to
meet and formulate minimum stand
ards for FSA families with regard
to the number of cows, chickens,
amount of gardens, vegetable, and
cash income crops.
W. M. CHM, supervisor of the
rural rehabilitation division; Miss
Mildred Mcdonald, farm and home
management supervisor. and Miss
Lillian Butler, secretary, for the
FSA in Brunswick and New Han
over counties plan to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

ing our military forces with airplanes that
are on the verge of obsolescence even though
they are not in full production. 1t is worth
our while to have our military planes tried
out in actual service.
We benefit from the fact that Allied orders
have added to our aviation plant. So long as
we make sure that we are a step ahead of the
procession we can afford to let a reasonable
number of our planes to be sold abroad.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Franklin Terry. Negro
Chef, Dies At rs

Funeral services for Franklin
Pierce Terry, Is, colored, who died
at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning
at his home, 9O6 south 18TH street,
after a long illness, W. be held at
l o'clock this afternoon from the
st. Marks Episcopal church.
Burial will follow in the Pine
Forest cemetery. The body will lie
in state at the shaw Funeral par
lor at Sixth and Red Cross streets
until time for the funeral. Terry
was chef at the Cape Fear club for
30 years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

visions or the air forces, not only
to save Finland from Russia but
Sweden from the Germans?
If 1t was another Munich, there
were real military reasons for it,
as there were unquestionably for
the original Munich at which
Czechoslovakia was sacrificed. New,
ertheless, it still reflects the fact
that history is not made in these
days by wishing: that there are
real limits to the strength and the
foresight of the democratic peoples;
that it is not inevitable that every.
thing will turn out all right in the
end, and that democratic govern
ment has yet to find the answer
to the famous 'piecemeaI' tactics
OF the totalitarians. But there is
one great difference between the
peace OF Munich and the peace of
Moscow. In September, 1898, Mr..
chamberlain gave away the Czech
bastlon in reliance on Hitler's
promises. Today, the Swedes. the
Norweglans and the others who
have let the Finnish bastion fall
nave done SO in reliance upon the
mlhtary power of France and Brit
am IN Inc West-something less
easily broken than Hitler's word.
only history can a whether
'iley were wise or not, and until it
speaks, others must be silent. But
more 'nah ever, the issues of the
war ana OF world history have been
transferred to the western front,
Inc there the situation is no diff.
IRON what it was on the
uay tne Soviet bombers first rained
loads on Helsinki.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
The Editors
LETTER BOX

The Editor does not necessarl'
w endorse any article appear
in this department. They repre-,
cent e views of the individual
readers. Correspondents ar 9
war,,e, that all. communications
must contain the correct name
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az the writer sees fit. The Star.
News reserves the right to alter
any text that for any reason IS
objectionable. Letters on con-
t~roversial subjects will not be
published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Bruce Cations
In Washington

(The Star-News Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 16-The Constitution
says we take a census to find out how many
congressional seats each state ought to have
1t orders Congress to reapportion seats after
each census.
Congress hates reapportionment. It means
that some members are likely to vote
themselves out of jobs. Recognizing its
own frailty, it passed in 1929 a law making
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Baxter's To Be Moved
To III Market Street

A Front street landmark-Bax-
ter's tobacco shop-will tomorrow
leave the location it has held for
33 years.
William 1 Billy Baxter, opera
tor, announced yesterday that Bax-
ter's will be removed on Monday
from the Purcell building to Ill
Market street. The building is one
of two being demolished to make
way for a new motion picture
theatre.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Miss Weber To Talk
At First Presbyterian

Miss Maud Weber, instructor of
Bible at the New Hanover High
school, will be the principal speaker
at a meeting of the Men of First
Presbyterian church to be held Tues.
day evening at $50 o'clock.
The high school glee club, under
the direction of Albert Brown, will
furnish music for the meeting.
All members of the organization
have been urged to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
Garden Club To Otter
Filling Station Ff'''

Plans to conduct q coN'el. al,
cleanest and most attfa'@' ann
station in Wilmington were ann r..
ed Yesterday by officials Of '"'
Fear Garden club. rect rr.
Five dollars is Offered as ','' ..,,,
and honorable mentlo' a
prize. Filling station 1f' p.
asked to call Mrs. Rooe'' t.rrq,
kin, phone 1910, for InI' Pe .o,,r,e
"rhe contest is a new 'sa,a. F.,
current activities of the 1aPs so.s
Garden club and one that i ri
will meet with great response
officials said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
WANTED: A HOME

The county welfare board yes
terdsy requested that any per-
sons willing to adopt a young
boy and girl apply to the board
at once.
The boy for whom a home is
sought is six years old and the
girl is 8.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
DlfN

BATON ROUGE, la. A'' r,t;
- Up Paul English j., NJ:
known Snowman, wro aided il ' .r
ing many of the political s9r rs aaI
the late Senator Huey T. 70 9i
led singing in his po-lllCt. sf,r
died at his home here LIE
noon following a lengthy lines
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

ItdppoItiOllIIIcIlG duloiIldtiC
According to the present
law the President should have
given Congress the census
figures the first week Of last
January. But the census isn't
|even started yet. That's be-
cause the Lame Duck Amend
ment shifted dates around
since the law was passed.
Don't Expect Anything
This Year
It may make the law in.
operative this year. Congress
had plenty OF warning, Of
course. Last year Senator
Va ndenhero GOT throuph the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17
TOP o. THE MORNING

Courage, kindness, mercy, truth,
Shine like stars i'm darkest night.
Every purpose, pure and strong
Strengthens hope, and spreads the light.
BRITISH WEEKLY
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-17

Senate a bill to set the dates right. But the
House committee tabled it. Early this winter
President Roosevelt got Representative Matthew
Dunn of Pennsylvania to bring the bill out
again, but it's still in committee, and the com
mittee is unfavorable.
The bills chances are not rosy. OF course
the next Congress can take the 1910 CEN
sus figures and reapportion on that basis.
"They could-but would they?" asks Dunn
grimIy. He favors it.
Up to 1920, Congress always obeyed the Con-
%stitution and reapportioned every 10 years.
But it did it simply by increasing the number
of congressman. To have done that in 1920
would have created a House of $40 members
too big.
So, since 1920 Congress has just forgotten
about the Constitution. Even if the belated
Vandenberg proposal is acted on now, reappor-
tionment would not be effective until 1914
the amendment gives the states that long. to do
the necessary re-districting.