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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
THE PRICE OF NEUTRALITY

The way of the neutral In this strange day
is hard indeed. 1t will be recalled that in the
latter part of January Great Britain address
ed an appeal to threatened n%eutrals, especial
ly to The Netherlands and Belgium to join
the Allies for their own protection.
The reply from The Hague and Brussels
was that the governments of Holland and Bel
GUM were quite capable of protecting their
countries neutrality and would brook no in
reference from any source. Queen WHHEL
NINA was particularly brusque. Now VIII.
HELMINA is a refugee in London and King
LEOPOLD a guest" of Germany in an isolated
castle in the land he once ruled. Holland and
Belgium are no more, their peoples in flight,
their chief cities in ruins, their farms laid
waste and their resources confiscated.
There is a lesson in this for America. De-
spite all our power and resources, even our
distance from present battlefields, is there
any reason to suppose that the price of neu-
trality may not ultimately be as great here
as in Holland and Belgium?
Heaven knows we want no war. But might
it not be possible to avoid war better through
repeal of our neutrality act and credits to the
Allies, in these desperate days of their exist.
ance, than through the standoffishness en-,
forced by our neutrality?
It is a question we must answer without
long delay.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

vehicle operators, has prevented 1t also be-
coming a death trap.
In late afternoons, when trucks add their
cumbersome presence to the heavy shopping
traffic, motorists have had virtually to stake
their lives on their skill at the wheel and
sense of timing to escape crackups.
After long consideration, which is difficult
to understand, the city authorities have final.
" decided to minimize the peril with control
lights. For this belated action, Wilmington
is grateful.
There would be additional gratitude if the
city commission took this occasion to rescind
the right turn on a red light rule, not only at
this. but at all intersections where traffic
signals exist.
Traffic safety will never be at par in Will
mington as long as vehicles are permitted to
attack pedestrians on the flank. The sooner
it is prohibited the better for the city and all
who use it's streets whether afoot or at the
wheel of motor cars.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD, June 6-That for.
midable legend, Oscar Levant, has
become an actor; and he confess
es, first thing, to a great weari-
less of the legend.
Levant, musical know-it-all OF
Information Please" is not ex-
actly making his screen debut in
Rhythm on the River" He did
that, more than 10 years ago, as
the piano-player in THE Dance OF
Life" the Hal Skelly-Nancy Car
roll movie based on "Burlesque."
Oscar, for all his reputation as
a professional sourpuss and a
sparer of nobody's feelings, is a
pleasant enough young fellow as
he goes about his novel m o i e
chores. Short, swarthy and brood
;ngly alert, he breaks into a sort
of shy, laughing-at-himself smile
at frequent intervals.
If he had any wisecracks on tap
the day I lunched with him, he
vas saving them for his script.
That was quite possible, mas
much as Levant is improvising
lines as he goes along, a process
highly successful to date. He is
involved with Bing Crosby, Mary
Martin and Basil Rathbone in a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
Man Abou Manhattan
Gsarpe Tucker

NEW YORK, June GA hard
bitten fishing schooner, fresh from
the Newfoundland Banks, thrust
her nose into a berth along the
South Street waterfront just after
midnight this morning, and a land.
ing crew went to work on her
cargo. She carried 1900 pounds
cf Goldfish in her hold.
A stones throw away lay an.
other schooner-this n from the
Caribbean. To the left lay another
and another, from the Georgian
Banks, from everywhere that fish
are caught by men who dip down
into the sea with nets.
These fish were being hauled to
the oldest fish market in the west.
ern Hemisphere market that
has been open for business every
morning for more than 200 years.
This is the famed Fulton Street
fish market, where Al Smith work.
ed as a boy.
More than one million and five
hundred thousand pounds of fish
are delivered to the Fulton Street
market every day. That's a lot Of
fish. These fish are Florida mack.
crel and cod; they are sWordfish
and founder; they r lobster and
butterfish and whitefish.
To handle these fish 1000 men
are at work in heeir stalls every
morning before five o'clock. These
men are employees of the New
York Fishmongers Association.
The market itself is owned by the
city of New York. Two huge stall.
like buildings, a hundred yards
each in length, house this vast
store of sea food. These buildings
are leased to the Fishmongers AS
ISOLATION by the city.
1t is from this point that the
scallops and sole, like those you
bought today. go out to thousands
Of retailers all over the city and
all over the metropolitan rec
Salt water fish aren't the only
ones handled here, for sweet wa
ter fish from the great lakes, and
great seel-head salmon from the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

yarn about a songwriter (Rath-
bone) who hires ghost musicians"
to sustain his fame and income.
Il +
The Levant legend (said Oscar
has been growing with each sue
cessive Levant enterprise.
II read that l drink 40 cups of
coffee a day." he said. Nobody
could drink that much Coffee
drink a lot of it, and it gets to be
40 cups. I'm supposed to be all
kinds of a screwball, and l guess
that's all right. l write a book,
and the publishers want to sell it,
SO Levant gets more of that kind
CT publicity. l read where l have
cracked a joke-anything the boys
think up, out of Miller's joke book
or anywhere, it gets pinned on me.
Now that I'm doing this-I don't
call it acting-I guess it'll G e
worse. I'm not complaining - I'm
just the unhappiest man in III e
world. I know it's got to be done,
though: it's part of selling the book,
or the radio show, or the picture. .
This legend about Levant - !
don't believe any of it. You're here
today and you're quoted right and
left, and tomorrow you're gone,
and you're a sucker it you take it
seriously. I'm a musician, a n d
that's what I'll be, and nothing
else, when all this stuff is finished.
Then it won't make any difference
how much you got quoted and no
ticed; a composer is judged by
what he composes, and serious mu-
sic is a different world. $50.
I'm not a knoW-it-all about mu-
sc. l make pretty good guesses
a lot of the time. Most of the ques-
tions are on good, general SUBJ
jects: sometimes, if you guess two
out of four, you give the impress
sion you know all the answers"
The only visitor excluded from
the Rhythm on the River set
by Levant's requests Mrs. Le-
want. Mrs. Levant is the former
June Gale, actress. Mr.. Levant
wants no more professionals than
necessary to observe his efforts to
be an actor, least of all Mrs. Le-
want. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

rate not even he can long endure, but will az
ford England more time to prepare for in.
vasion.
The nazi forces are meeting a different
kind of resistance now. It is impossible To
say what HITLER will succeed in dong 10 II
eventually. That depends on the strength re-
naming in the German wal machine ana lts
ability to continue the tremendous drain OF
the last three weeks without exhaustion. But
- ic obvions that WEYGANp has devised a bat
tie plan that will be hard to peat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

Oregon rivers, still silver and
cleaning, are brought in by boat
and by train.
There's a funny story about the
mackerel. They used to be known
as Spanish mackerel. But after the
Spanish Civil war people began
10 boycott most goods with a Span
ish name. Fishermen promptly be-
gan calling them Florida" mack
erel-and the sales at once mount
ed to their normal level.
The most impressionable item
about the Fulton Street menage
to strangers is the odor. People say
they can smell Fulton Street six
months after being there. Perhaps
that is true. Men who work there
tell me they never notice the smell
of fish until they are a away
from it. Then they are uncomfort-
able; life doesn't seem normal
without the heavy, pungent odors
that r a part of their daily
surroundings.
The market itself operates large
ly on a warehouse basis. When the
doors r flung open the buyers
crowd around and bid for lots. One
buyer may be interested solely in
tutterfish. Another in shellfish.
There is a department that feat
ures gigantic turtles, and, curious
~ enough, most turtles in New
York wind up in Chinatown. Tur-
ties are known to grow to very
old ages. There is a belief among
Chinese that if they eat enough
turtle flesh they may live to be-
come very old too. At least that's
the story.
One of the choicest items at the
market, from a color" point of
view, are the frog legs. Many of
them come all the way from ia
pan. The Japanese also send sword
fish, huge frozen monsters, and
despite the cost of transportation
and trade barriers, they sell for
Just half the price of American
swordfish. However, the American
variety is called vastly superior in
taste. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
WANTS BUT LITTLE HERE BELOW

WYTHE WILLIAMS. from sources not full,
revealed but presumably authentic, reveals il
his Charlotte Observer column, GAS the Cloc'
Strikes" the terms HITLER is said to have lai
down as a basis for peace in Europe. The
are in striking contrast with der fuehrer'
frequently repeated declarations that he ha
no more territorial claims. The alternativ
to their acceptance is Italy's immediate entr
into the war.
These are the surrender terms:
1. An immediate armistice, both sides
recognizing geographical conditions as of
today. Thus the Allies would recognize
that Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hol-
land, Belgium and Norway are for the
present, a part of Germany.
2. England must cede Gibraltar to
Spain, Malta to Italy and the Suez Canal
to an international Control Board. France
must cede Nice and Djibouti to Italy, and
give self-government to Italians in Tunis
and Corsica. The plebiscite in Alsace-
Lorraine to be under combined German
French %cont-ol, with all Germans voting
WHO llFSu IuelC USlolo 10
3. The Maginot and S~iegfried lines to
be destroyed. France to retain a profess
sional army of 100, 900. Compulsory mill
tary service to be abolished in England,
Half the British navy to be turned over
to Germany. All French and British
naval bases in the Mediterranean to be
destroyed.
4. Germany to keep naval bases in Nor
way, Denmark, Holland and Belgium for
10 years, in order to control British and
French disarmament. n CLAN and
France to renounce all treaties between
themselves and with other European
states.
5. All Europe to be in a customs and
currency union in three spheres, domin-
ated by Berlin, Rome and Moscow. Tur-
key to agree that the Bosporus and OAR
danelles become an international water
way under international control.
6. Belgium, Holland and Denmark TO be
restored their sovereignty, after ceding
certain bits of territory and entering the
customs union. A bit of Poland around
Warsaw and Kracow likewise to be re-
stored a certain amount Of independence.
Z. All former German colonies to be re-
stored. The League of Nations to be dis
solved and in it's place the European
Conference'-Berlin, Moscow, Rome-to
direct common European policy towards
the world at large, particularly the Unit
ed States. England to be entirely excluded
from continental reorganization. France
to be given back the invaded territory,
guaranteed territorial security for SO
years, meanwhile voluntarily" joining
the customs union.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shoes.
Seaside Highway from WrightsoiHe
Beach to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, W1d-
err Turning Basin, with ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bdnE
south OF Wilmington.
Paved Rtuer Road to Southport. via
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motionGl Agency. supported by one,
countrywide tdr.
Shipyards and Drydock.'
Negro Health center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
ADEQUATE hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape 0ro1oing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

ed when we are small. Courage is
the union of the brain and heart
and must be cultivated in an ever
bond as we grow up.
Napoleon used to say that ne
was always looking for people WITH
'Two-o' clock-in : the-morning cour'
|age"-the time of the dew drop,
when physical stamina is at its
Lowest and must be reinforced by
a united command of head ano
heart.
1t is the faith that faces the diff
culties and obstacles with deter.
mination to carry on.
Another cherished possession Of
youth is what we in everyday Ian
guage call FRIENDSHIP.
One can never have in later life
the friendships w h i c h impulsive
youth makes possible. Many OF
these friendships and much of this
love will perhaps last through life
if it was thoroughly earned and
freely given to begin with.
AMBITION should be followed
by work, for work is the salt OF
the earth. 1t is as necessary to life
as bread.
Somehow when our frame was
created, provision was made for
the use of this frame, which made
it essential we should go through
a certain amount of physical eff.
fort in order to enjoy life itself.
Sometimes the HONESTY Of
youth is COMPOUNDED with the angry
art of plain speaking or blum
speaking.
A blunt mind is like a blunt
knife. Wherever it cuts, it hurts
twice as much.
This so-called angry art Of blum,
speaking is perhaps often due to
the fact that we have repeated or
someone has repeated a blunder
Blunt speech and anger correct
few errors. Dispassionate analysis
will prevent recurrence.
The duty of men and women on
earth seems to be confined to just
a few fundamentals without
which we cannot live in society
with our fellowmen.
First, WE MUST WORK FOR
OUR OWN WELL-BEING. We
must put u frame in shape. Tt
give it the resistance which will
make possible the longest possible
life is the hope of everyone with
any kind of moral courage.
Second, the FAMILY MUST BE
CHERISHED AND PRESERVED.
The family forms the backbone
of our society, and despite the
many attempts to produce a new
model with some fancy ~accessor.
les, the fundamental remains the
same.
Third. we must have that LOVE
OF COUNTRY without which nc
nation al grow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
Medical Care
Ply LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ, D.

BY LOGAN CLENDEN1NG, NJ d.
AS we pointed out when writing
yesterday the profession OF oeD'
tistry is only one hundred years
old. 1t was in 1910 that a coAeS'
Tor the education of dentists Sa'
founded in Baltimore, The pIdt,
ice of dentistry then was large!
that of tooth pulling or the max
ing of dentures.
One of the earliest America
tai memorials was George @'s''
ington's teeth, exhibited IN b'I-'
more on the occasion OF the Gu,
tenary celebration and WhIcH "''
made of hippopotamus bone
l suppose the greatest adEa!i !,
that has been made in dentlStI! ~
the hundred years of its eHlS'F, ~,
has been in public education o. ~,
necessity for cleaning teeth a., IN
der to prevent decay, 1t is ollll.%'
for us to realize that the l0om
brush and cheap dentifriccs Az
themselves of fairly modern VI
gin. The first toothbrushes wa
made Of horse hair or pieces q
cloth OF linen, SomeIN-i''
sponge. i I'll
in it's infancy according 10 s
tics. for it is estimated tnsI a.,
per cent of the population o. 't ,5e.
America have never hao en- NJ
teeth examined and about w 4bsi
cent have never brushed
teeth. and nre
STRIVING them instead Of .,o pr, o
them out is also an introdoc. sStist,
the tlle'i last et' century e The old de .:5ge,
used to use coins, gold and ,,l s's ssi
and lead, wherever they G :osra5s sc
it. for tooth filling. The n; IL cit.
ton of plaster and enam Ds, % ,5oa
dited to Laurie Of Edin0ufS" ''
1854. Wh!le
Grown and bridge |ofH, nsr,y
it was attempted in very ,c 1
times, has been put on a ' lines
tic basis only in quite recel cned.;5
it was in 1864 that a o" If
dentist suggested the MUM 6aars al
gold crown, and ]. B. 81 Be ,-5s5s 4
American dentist, in 1870 -" 90 Oh
gold shell crown which ~as sonistet
viously practical that It SsI5iiT ot i
others to invent adaptallo" ,,,rofre5
Dentistry has naturally IN med.
from two great advances If ar
cine-one, the introducll&G?s Dts VET
aesthesia for which den'lo ond tsa
considerably responsible ~"
the use of the A-ra'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
NEXT: Merchandising.
Bladenboro

BLADENBORO, June 6-Misses
Sankie Hutchinson, W.C.U.N.C., Jul
liza Tatum Bridger, St. Mary's Raj
eigh, Azalie Surles, W.C.U.N.C.
Vardell Watterson, Wake Forest
college, Misses Alma Hickman and
Dorothy Bryan, Campbell college
at Buie's Creek, r among young
people home this week from their
various schools for the summer
months .-Master Robert Hall is re-
cuperating from a tonsil operation
last Thursday in Wilmington. Rev.
and Mrs. Hall accompanied him.
the three returning here Saturday
afternoon-Mrs. R. C.. Bridger
went to Salemburg Saturday to
attend the wedding of her niece,
Miss Martha burlington to Lamar
Murray of Bogolusa, La, when
they were married in a beautiful
ceremony in the Baptist church.
Mrs. j. A.. ,Bridger and little
Miss Mary Elise are spending a
couple of weeks with her parents,
DR.. and Mrs. Mathews in Elliot,
S. c. MIR. Bridger and James A.
Jr., accompanied them to Elliot
Sunday, returning in the afternoon.
Among Bladenboro folks attend
ing the Callahan reunion at White
Lake Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd S. Elkins and family, Mr..
and Mrs. D. V. Callahan and two
sons, Harold and William, w. G.
Callahan, Miss Aline Callahan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Walters and
family, MIR. and Mrs. w. E. Lewis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Smith, and
daughter, Elizabeth, Mrs. A. E.
Pait and l. c. Pait.
MIR. and Mrs. A. A. White had
as their guests for last week, DR..
Albert Parrish of Durham and DR..
Ralph Parrish of Rougemont. The
party spend a few days at White
Lake IN Norfolk Va, and in Bel
Mr.. Whites mother for a visit
WEDNESDAY and Thursday. The
Whites were hosts at a dinner
party at White Lake on Sunday
night when they had as guests
ele nls. Parrish, Mr.. Watts, Miss
Is Ehzaoeth Dunn, Ella MacGow.
ai' .he latter three of this place
miSs Satnerine Norris of Wilson
n1;,1a" o1e guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
nnn r 6rldger this week. Miss
GER ~ ioger Master Dewey Bird
go ~ went to Lumberton Fri
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
"FAVORABLE," SAYS PARIS

In this new warfare which HITLER has in
troduced, when speed counts most, it is diff
ficult to appraise a battle until it is done; but
the fact that the French caught a column of
nazi heavy tanks in a trap during the first
days fighting on the Somme, and the addi-
tional news that the WEYeASD line is holding
on the second day, with the German forces
unable to continue their customary blitzkrieg,
enables a Paris army spokesman to announce
the situation Favorable"
Despite the Berlin claim that German
forces have pierced the Allies defense at two
vulnerable points and are driving on to Paris,
there 1s some reason to accept this summa-
ton as approximately accurate.
We may we'll believe that one OF the alleged
generations is the one in which the tank
column was allowed to advance with little op-
position only to find itself on the edge of a
forest and under attack from the rear by in
fantry which closed in behind it. The other
1s too hazy to appraise. and may turn out to
have been Of similar pattern.
Whether it Is or not, it is infinitely satisfy
ing to learn that General WEYGANp has estab.
lished a line along the Somme and the Aisne
rivers which HITLER is attacking with tremen-
dous reinforcements without the shattering
lightning war which has characterized all his
previous campaigns.
Meanwhile the Allied air force has been
busy behind the German lines, attacking and
in some cases destroying nazi supply bases
and transports, and in Germany itself, bomb
ing a~irplane engine factories and other i'm
portant industries, with small loss to itself.
The significant point in this is that if the
Allies succeed in materially decreasing nazi
reserves at the source and WEYGAND manages
to cut off attacking units on the battle front,
HITLER will be slowed to a walk in his drive
on Paris, and that every days delay in this
offensive will work to the Allies advantage.
1t not only will require HITLER to waste men
and equipment munitions and supplies, at a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

day night to take part in a piano
recital at the home of their teach
er, Mrs. Tom Mcneil. The young
folks were accompanied by Mrs.
D. H. Bridger, Misses Julia Tatum
Bridger and Miss Bette Elmore.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Frink, Miss
Ola Grace Frink and MI. and Mrs.
j. C. Frink. of Auburn. Ala, went
to Raleigh Monday to attend the
graduation of their son and broth
err, Eby Frink at State college.
Miss Ola Grace, only daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frink has recently
returned from Mars Hill college.
Miss Frink will go to Auburn
to spend the summer with her
brother and sister-in-law, MI. and
Mrs. J.. C. Frink. Mr.. Frink is
connected with the State college
in Auburn.-Mrs. S. F. Shaw and
Miss Elizabeth Shaw returned
Tuesday from Huntsville, S. c.,
where they had been guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. V. Shaw for Sc
veral weeks.
Miss Bette Elmore is spending
this week at Myrtle Beach with
members of her sorority Of
Queens college, on a house party.
Mrs. Flack was hostess to her
Missionary circle on Tuesday night
at her home. Vases of cut flowers
made the living DON attractive
for the entertainment of guests.
Mrs. C. H. Dunn was in charge of
the program. Refreshments were
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Hales had
as guests for the day Sunday her
mother, Mrs. G.. T. Rackly, a SIS
ter, Miss Margaret and brother,
George, all of Fayetteville. Mrs.
c. A. Shaw spent several days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Teal in Wadesboro last week.
The families of DR.. and Mrs.
D. H. Bridger and Mr.. and Mrs.
J.. L. Bridger spent the weekend
at their Wrightsville Beach homes.
DIR. and Mrs. Bridger had as their
guest James Henry Elmore, and
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Bridger has
as guests Mr.. and Mrs. l.. C. Bird
ger and sons, Levie and Charles
and MIR. and Mrs. Frank T. Glib
son. Circle No. 4 of the w. M. S..
met with Mrs. w. B. Hilburn at
her home on Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Vada Hester was a visitor
and was speaker for the after
noon, giving a chapter in the Mis-
sion Study Book. Refreshments
were served.
Miss Ella Mae MacGowan, Blad-
enboro Home Economics teacher,
is this week at White Lake with
the girls encampment. Among the
girls from here who are on the
party are Misses Ann Bridger.
Marie White and Miss Dorothy
Hester .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07
TOP % THE MORNING

When nothing Whereoa to lean remains,
When strongholds crumsble to dust;
When nothing is sure but that God still reign;
That is the time to trust?
Ills better to pak By faith than sight
In this path of yours and mine;;
And the pitch black night,
When there's no outer tight,
Is the hour for faith to shine.
Selected
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-07

ness w o l d, ]
would start with
I M A G l N A
TON. Not d a J
d r e a m s, b u
i m a g i n a t i've
thought tow a r c
improving wha'
e v e r situation.
with which one
is confronted.
The next requi
site is Courage.
C. o r a G e i
something t h a
can be acquired
We are all scar