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The people's voice., 1940-03-13
SEC STARTS
PRUNING OF
h0L Ding COS.

WASHINGTON.-( -(FP)- Launching
a years-leng program of unscramblint
highly complicated utility holding
companies, the Securities and Elk
change Commission here served two
companies with notices to show cause
why they should not be reorganized
Similar orders will be issued against
seven other companies shortly, the
SEC said, and the program that may
take several years to complete will
be launched.
The SECS action was taken under
the section of theutility holding com
pany act giving the SEC power to
order simplification and unification OF
holding company structures. The Sec
tion was named the death sentence
by the utility holding companies in
their fight against the bill
Electric Bond & Share and Engi-
neers Public Service were the two
companies named in the SECS initial
order. At the end of 1888 the total
assets of the two companies were
about three billion dollars or more
than 21% of all registered holding
companies assets.
According to the SEC, Electric
Bond & Share has subsidiaries in the
water business, transportation bust
ness, sale and production of petroleum,
ownership and management of hotels
and other real estate, financing of
fruit marketing, the sulphur business,
petroleum transportation, ownership
and operation of toll bridge, and the
ice business.
The SEC contends that the company
is not an 'integrated company" as
required by the holding company act
and that it should be reorganized so
as to have unified management and
unified corporate structure.
Other companies which will be di-
rected to show cause, it was said, are
Middle West Corp, United Gas I'm
provement Co., Cities Service Power
e Light, Commonwealth G Southern
Corp, Standard Power C Light Corp,
North American Co., and United Light
& Power Co.
Thirteen of the 81 registered hold
ing companies have already filed vol
untary plans for reorganization and
seven of these reorganizations have
been completed.
Under the SECS Interpretation of
what these gigantic utility holding
companies are required to be, in order
to comply with the requirement of
"integrated public utility system"
they must, in the case of electric prop
critics:
"Be one physically intercommuni-
Gated or capable of physical intercon-
nection and one which, under normal
may be economically ope-
rated as single interconnected and
co-ordinated system, confined in it's
operations to single area or region
not so large as to impair the advan-
tages of localized management, eff
The people's voice., 1940-03-13
BRANDJORD'S RELIEF

them. And what is the governor go
ing to do for free liquor? Why you
know very well the whiskey sales
men will drop him like a hot potato
When the whiskey sales drop so will
the flow of free liquor to the gov
ernor's mansion.
You had better think this thing over
Mr.. Brandjord. I know you are anx-
ious to cut off some of these no good
reliefers and save some of that relief
money. But don't be too ambitious
for the governor. You have sweet
ened the kitty in the general funds
very nicely in the past. realize that
this is the campaign year, and that
there should be more political jobs
created around the governor, and
also know that there is red ink
smeared all over the treasurer's books.
If you think, Mr. Brandjord, that I
am trying to pull fast one on you
for it. Get an issue of The Peoples
Voice of March 9Th and read all about
it or call 26-J and have it explained
to you in detail.
l have heard some mighty nasty
rumors that some of the counties re-
fuse to let INDECENT old leave the
county where they belong. That if
they can afford to go across the coun-
ty line to visit friends. or relatives or
if friends or relatives are financially
able to send them enough to come
for a visit then they, the INDECENT,
are not eligible for relief and shall be
taken from the relief rolls. | guess
visiting friends or relatives is almost
as bad or worse maybe than smoking
chewing tobacco or drinking whiskey.
have some friends down in the
County Hospital, that were here, Mr..
Brandjord, long before you left your
native shores. Now | don't want to
get these old fellows in bad and have
them thrown out on their ears. But
| would like to go down and see them.
So l am asking you, Mr.. Brandjord,
if you will give me a permit or your
word of honor, that it will be alright
for me to go and visit these old folks.
| promise you that | won't take them
any tobacco or whiskey as l know
that you don't like it and 1 realize
that they, the old folks, can die just
as quick without. And, Mr.. Brand
jord, you are right. They won't know
the difference after they are dead
anyway.
The people's voice., 1940-03-13
GENERAL ELECTRIC
ADMITS FALSE AD !,

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-The Gener
al Electric Co. of Schenectady, N. Y.
has agreed to stop Misrepresentation
in connection with the sale of radios
the Federal Trade Commission here
announced.
According to the FTC, one of Gen.
eral Electric's dealers in New York
advertised General Electric radios at
1895, claiming their regular price
was s6995 and that the buyer would
save $50.
In its agreement, the company ad-
mitted it suggested the dealers ad
and paid part Of the cost of its
publication. The company also admit
ted that the radios referred to never
regularly sold for s6995 and that their
customary price was $39.95.
The people's voice., 1940-03-13
ROBINSON ASKS JOBS
MADE I'm AMERICA

Observation-Disclosures of
the phrase made in America" on a
program of jobs and prosperity was
urged here by CIO Vice President Reid
Robinson in a nationally broadcast
speech.
Speaking on the CIO radio program,
Robinson warned against placing false
hopes in a war boom, declaring, "It
may be fun while it lasts but it's fol
lowed by a painful hangover"
1--WE must have jobs and we must
have adequate wages" Robinson, also
president of the international Union
of Mine Mill &c Smelter Workers
(CIO) said, "but we must get them
by staying at home and working out
our American problems in an Ameri-
can way"
The people's voice., 1940-03-13
Federal Tax Receipts
(In Millions of Dollars)

Grand Total $4,957 $5,50S
Miscellaneous Taxes are "sales"
taxes levied on entertainments, coal,
oil, etc.
One of the taxes most strenuously
opposed by business has been the ex-
cess profits tax, which curiously
enough was one Of the smallest taxes,
accounting for Is million dollars or
only $40 of one percent of the fed
eral total.
The people's voice., 1940-03-13
WHO SUPPORTS
FARM LABOR?

WASHINGTON-( cost of
farm labor is not being borne by the
big mechanized farms which complain
so loudly about meeting payrolls ac-
cording to an editorial in a recent
issue of the Prairie Farmer. Quoting
a government economist, whose name
is not given, the editorial states:
Under the present system, the
large mechanized farm usually sup
ports it's workers only during the few
weeks of their employment, and they
must depend largely upon relief be-
tween times. In other words, the tax
payer is subsidizing labor supply for
many of the big commercial farms"
The people's voice., 1940-03-13

The first coop oil refinery in the
United States, being built by Con-
sumers Cooperative Association, now
under construction at Phillipsburg,
Kan, will be completed in November.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
PLAY CENTER

WILM1NGToN's younger set wants a recre
w alton center and gives very good reasons
for having one, among which is the COIL
plaint that now, when boys and girls WISE
to HE forth for a dance and sandwich the
only available places for such entertainment
are beer halls and road houses.
Surely it is not necessary to list other fea
sons. This alone is enough to convince any
parent that a substitute for %brothels, under
whatever name they parade their business
and display their license, should be provided
for the moral and physical welfare of thei1
maturing children: a substitute with a high
standard of decency.
At a meeting in the Museum Of Art the
other night Commissioner WADE promised q
center and recreation program under munici
pal sponsorship as quickly as the city hal
is able to undertake it. This is encouraging
City help would speed the undertaking.
But there is a way to get a center more
quickly, if Wilmington's business and domes
tic communities unite in the project. If one
of the vacant buildings downtown were to be
loaned by the owner, say for six months
as a headquarters for the youngsters, the
matter of a home would be disposed of
There are many buildings that would fill the
bill. Surely some owner. who we'll knows
he cannot hope for a paying tenant soon
will be big-hearted enough to open his build
ing for such a splendid cause.
With this disposed of, the young people
themselves could solicit furniture, rugs, a
piano, dishes, cutlery and other necessary
impedimenta, from householders, whose attics
are running over with all manner of aban.
doned, but still useable, goods. Many Will
mington housewives would be glad to clear
out their surplus with assurance that what
they thus dispose of will be put to good use.
There would have to be acceptable guaran.
tees that all property would have the best
of care. This could be provided through
an adult sponsoring board.
The plan has been suggested to the Star
and is passed on for consideration by kindly
disposed persons who have it in their power
to put it across.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
JAYCEE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Junior Chamber Of Commerce organization
plans have advanced so far that a whirlwind
membership campaign is already under way
with the aim Of obtaining a large roster be-
fore next Tuesday night.
The Star believes that the opportunity for
service in this new organization is so great
that no young man in Wilmington with a
proper regard for the city's and his own
advancement can afford to remain out of it
If the correct view is taken, the charter
membership should be composed of every
eligible person in the city, regardless OF
what other civic organizations he may al
ready be an %enrollee.
Dues are only eight dollars a year-less
than one dollar a month. Nobody would
feel a strain in meeting it. 1t would not
even involve a sacrifice in the tobacco bud.
get. But it's investment in a jaycee member.
ship would place that organization in a DO.
sition to achieve definite goals for the bet.
terment Of the city.
Wilmington has many fine detectives, any
one of which may be undertaken and carried
to completion by the Junior chamber, if the
revenue from membership is all that it is
capable of becoming. Adequately financed,
the juniors can be a power for progress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
LESS GOLD FOR T L q

Now that a better understanding has been
gained by some of the smaller countries OF
the possible dangers involved in being a
neighbor to Germany, there has been some
improvement in the defense against seizure
of gold reserves.
denmark succeeded in getting something
like half of its reserve, amounting to s53,
100000, beyond Germany's reach. Norway
sent abroad $4,000, 900 to $685. 0O, 900 of its
$9o,OOo,OOO gold stock. Sweden has abroad al
least half of it's $218, 900, 600 supply.
II Germany should make a claim for the
Norwegian and Danish gold in this country
1t would find the barrier already in place
and access to it cut off by proclamation.
Thus a substantial part of the loot the
Nazi fuehrer eyed when he sent his armies
into the north is definitely and, we mus
hope, permanently denied him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
ANOTHER NAIL THRUST LIKELY

H1TLERs threat that any neutral nation
switching supply deliveries from the Reich
to the Allies will be considered unneutral
and proper objects for attack, is further proof
that the Germans are in desperate straits fol-
the necessities of warfare and of life. The
threat is obviously directed at the Balkan
states, upon whose resources the Nazi fuehre1
has drawn in great volume.
1t also shows what may be expected in the
further spread of the European war. That
HITLER will hold his hand from new ex.
plolts, now that he is meeting a check in
the north, is not to be believed. He must
strike in new fields or suffer quick and ter.
rible defeat. The only other way still open
is through southeastern Europe-the small
but rich countries thus far saved, but always
perilously near the brink of war. Their out
put from mine, we'll and field are indispen.
sible, and HITLER will show no more respect
for their neutrality than he did in the north
when he occupied Denmark without a culver
and sought to seize Norway. In his philoso-
ply, need outweighs right.
That he is prepared for an invasion in the
Balkans is indicated by the presence of 100,
900 Nazi soldiers at Bruck, a German frontier
station on the Budapest-Vienna railway, and
100000 at Krakow, in Nazi-occupied Poland
all of whom, military authorities believe,
could be used in a thrust at any of the covet-
ed Balkan countries.
A quick move there is the more likely be-
cause of the opposition his invasion of Nor.
way is encouraging at the hands of the Allied
fleets and the Norwegian armies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
A GOOD OMEN

Secretary IcKEs, who has been a bull in
the china shop ever since he entered the
cabinet, announces that he would resign. were
ROOSEVELT to be a third-term president.
His announcement is accepted generally
as a reply to the charge that New Dealers
are working for it's continuation in power as
a mean of perpetuating their own jobs.
Whatever the motive behind the announce.
ment, many in these United States will be
convinced that no stronger recommendation
Tor a third term could be found than that
the 1rascible secretary of the interior would
be missing from the next cabinet,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13

in the first row for every first night
performance on Broadway the las
Is years. Her husband is a corset
manufacturer, and generally he is
with her.
There is an actors agent whose
name may not be mentioned, but
who is always in attendance, anc
thereby hangs a paragraph. He rep
resents some of the greatest box-of.
flee names on Broadway. He al
ways has with him a ravishing
blonde, but he never arrives with
the same girl twice. If there are
four openings in one week, he will
arrive with a different blonde each
night.
The thing that has endeared him
to the columnists is that whoever
the girl happens to be, she always
arrives in the same ermine coat that
he keeps especially for his first
night girls.
There are about 80 first string
critics sitting in on every opening,
and these critics have the same
seats year in and year out. This is
a calamitous item for those who
make a practice of differing theater
tickets. Every now and then some
misguided fancy unwittingly lifts a
pair OF reviewer ducats, not know.
ing that tickets aren't necessary for
the critics anyway, as he will be
passed to his regular seats whether
ne can produce the tickets or not.
When he can't, the doorman waits
Tor the pilferer to show up with
them, calls the manager and then
d itt!e scene takes place. The usual
alibi is Il found EN-"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
A TASK FOR PHYSICIANS
(Atlanta Constitution

While no Informed person can dispute the
statement that American physicians have
achieved the most widespread distribution of
the most effective medicine the world has
ever known, it is still true that there are
too large population segments which, through
ignorance, poverty or remoteness, do not re-
ceive that attention to their physical well.
being which should be the accepted thing for
all citizens of a nation claiming the progress
and civilization that does America.
There have been various proposals for gov
ernmental supervision of the medical profess
sion with a view to the providing Of medi.
cal service, surgical attention and hospitali-
zatlon in every community in every state.
These have, fortunately, been met chiefly with
disapproval by the majority of citizens. For
too long the medical profession in America
has met the highest ethical responsibilities for
the people to willingly accept substitution of
government controlled medical service for the
present private practice. The present system
is intrinsically American. Government control
would be a disastrous step toward that col.
lectivism which is the antonym of professional
freedom and the destroyer of professional pro.
gress.
1t is, therefore, reason for highest gratifica.
ton that the medical profession, as a whole,
has undertaken the task of bringing about a
greater distribution of the curative arts in
America. The doctors themselves are the
proper group to undertake this responsibility
and none can know better than they the
extent of the need and the best approach to
the problem.
Under the leadership such as this there is
greater hope that the day is not far distant
when competent medical service and, if neces.
sary, capitalization will be available to every.
one in America, no matter how remote their
homes from the great centers of population
nor how humble their status in the income
classification.
Through all history the medical profession
has maintained standards of ethics and of pub.
lie service unsurpassed by any professior.
The doctor false to the oath of Aesclilapius
is notable by rarity. The new professional
organization is, in effect, merely dedicated to
the carving out Of that same oath on ma.
ltional scale,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Man bout
Manhattan
By George Tucker

NEW YORK, April u - Usually
the most intriguing aspect of a
Broadway First Night to visitors is
the ebullient display or personalities
in attendance, but actually the
regular first night audience is SINH
lar to a stock company of actors
who arrive at the same time and
go through the same motions at
every premiere during the season.
The personnel of a premiere night
audience hardly ever varies at all.
I would say at least two-thirds of
the crowd are always the same. The
answer to this is that first night
tickets + exceptionally hard to
get, and n must be a critic, or a
friend of the producer, the author,
or of someone in the play to receive
any recognition at all. Even the
author has to pay for his own seats,
If he wishes to attend, and the ac.
tors always must pay for any guests
who are out front cheering for
them.
4 x *
Among the regular first nighters
is DR.. Jerome Wagner, husband of
Norma ferris, who played the lead
in "Show Boat" and sang that visit.
full, beautiful Kerns melody, "Why
Do I Love Your" Kitty Watts,
mother of Dick Watts, the Herald
Trib critic, is always present, invari.
ably with her son -. Hope Hampton
and her husband, Jules Brulatour,
who owns the patents from which
motion picture film is made, seldom
miss an opening. DR.. Nathaniel Lief
the song writing dentist, is a first
night fixture and usually sits with
Bob Coleman, Mirror critic, or one
of the other critics.
Kelley Allen, critic for "Wom.
ems Wear" who has been covering
first nights on Broadway longer
than any of the other reviewers is
invariably on hand passing out
gumdrops. Another gumdro p
fancier and inveterate first
nighter is John Byram, the Para
mount talent scout who used to
write a drama column for the N. Y.
Times. Mandelstam, the Wall street
broker who promotes summer camps
for hundreds of New York's side.
walk kids every year, is there, and
1 SO is Mrs. Katzenburg, who has sat
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
COLD WAVE AT HAND

Just on the chance that the anticipated
freeze in upstate areas may extend further
south than usual, it is recommended that
budding fruit trees and young vegetables
in this section be given what protection is
possible for the next several nights.
The weather, it must be remembered, is nc
more reliable than HITLER, and likely tc
strike as suddenly. It would be a great pity
if any crops were damaged now from failure
to safeguard them against possible frost.
And care should be taken to save the flow
erss now at their p~rettiest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
. RIGHT OR WRONG ABOUT PEOPLE
Should We Try for
Accuracy or Speed!

gives most attention to accuracy al
The start. The speedy draughtsman
is the chap who as a beginner
watched his accuracy closely One
thing that makes them speedy is
that they are not slowed down by
correcting mistakes.
In learning to drive an automo
bile, in taking 10 easy piano lessons
at home, in learning a new game
in all learning, in short-we should
watch accuracy in the early stages
OF learning, and at the end will have
both greater speed as well as more
accuracy.
Trying to separate accuracy from
speed is as impossible as settling
whether the hen or the egg is more
important. We can't have the one
without the other.
Fast takers impress most PEG
pie as being smarter than a whip.
But fast talking is more likely tc
be a sign of superficial thinking
than Of profound thinking.
1t takes both brains and reserve
for a person to think twice before
he talks. If he does think twice, the
odds are he will talk only half us
much.
Copyright, 1910, NEA Service, Inc.)
NEXT: Why are the public
schools pmntiar0
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilMandger Administrator
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsvtHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wtd.
err Turning Basin, a1ith ship n into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, vta
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prodno-
ton through su~staimed-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial n Resort Pro-
motioma1 Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for achites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape groWin0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
Murray Says Politicians
Not Solving Job Problems

WASH1NGTON, April 12.-(Pe-
fhlilp Murray, veteran steel work.
ers union leader, told the MONOPOLY
committee today that unemployment
problems apparently lacked "politi.
cal sex appeal" because the NATIONS
pollt1cians were not solving them.
1 can't find any industrial lead.
wlo IS trying to find jobs for
ohainpny workers." Murray,
.ian OF the Steel Workers Or
ean.zing Committee (CIo), said. 81
a"n ilho any politicians either" IT
suvss there's no vote-getting in it."
MURRAY was the concluding wit.
ness at a committee hearing on the
ploolems of workers who have lost
11os because of labor.savins ma.
'n'nery or chronological advances.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-13
LEFT MARCH Fl

The S1,235-ton Queen Mary, gray,
camouflaged and minus her luxuri.
Gus trappings, slipped out of New
York harbor March q on a secret
mission, believed ultimately to lead
TO service as a troop transport.
The SEE, 10000 liner, whcih in
peace time caters to the blue ..ibbon
TRANSATLANTIC trade, left a day after
the l2,oOO-ton Mauritania departed
from New York and headed south,
through the Panama canal and across
the Pacific, apparently to ferry
troops between Australia and Eu,
rope.