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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

pletely Independent bureaus.
MILITARY CONTROL
IS DIVIDED
AS things stand now, the navy actually has
no one military head. The chief of naval opera.
lions is the highest ranking officer, but he is
only in charge of the operation of war planes.
The nine bureaus through which the navy,s
routine work is done are not responsible to
him at all.
Each one is headed by a rear admiral who
is named by the President; each bureau has
it's own appropriation.
The bureaus, accordingly, are to a great
extent their own bosses. The secretary of the
navy has authority over them, but when there
is a conflict between two bureaus he is apt to
get saddled with an intricate technical prob
lem he is not qualified to decide.
TOP-HEAVY DESTROYERS
RESULT OF SYSTEM
Out of all this, according to competent critics,
come such things as the top-heavy destroyers.
(Those destroyers aren't really top-heavy, by
the way, in the sense that they're unsafe sea-
boats.)
One NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Repair-de-
signs hulls, armor plate and so on. Another
Engineering-is responsible for propulsion ma
chinery. A third-Ordnance-is responsible for
ornaments.
Suppose Construction and Repair starts a
new cruiser. It consults with the other two bu-
reaus, finds out what they're going to put in
the ship and where they're going to put 1t,
and goes ahead. Some months later the design
is finished. Meanwhile, advances in engineering
and gunnery have been made.
The Bureau of Engineering specifies certain
new machinery; Ordnance decides to make a
few changes-to install, for instance, a set OF
the new IL antiaircraft guns where it origin
ally planned to put the much lighter so cal
iber machine guns. Result; a ship whose
stability factor Isn't at all what was origin
ally planned. It's nobody's fault; simply hap
pened because Of the system.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
MRS. CAREY

The death of this great woman de-
serves more than passing notice.
She was born in June 1862, to Usher
Newkirk and Jane DeVane and was
therefore d descendant of both Scotch
and French families that original,
settled in the upper Black river sec
ton of New Hanover county which
in 1874 was attached by legislative
author: y to Sampson county under
the name of Franklin township.
AS a child in her fathers home
she learned of that gallant young
Newkirk, an ensign under Paul
Jones, upon whose retirement that
great naval hero presented him with
a sword. This much priced relic at
one time in the home of his kins-
man, jeremiah Seavey, was later
removed to Alabama by members of
the family. Again she learned o.
patriotic ancestors in the heroism
of Captain Abraham Newkirk's
cavalry company of the Civil war of
which the late DR.. r. H. Hollida
was a member and the late Edwin
Kerr, a boy courier.
On her mothers side she was a
member of that distinguished HUI
guenot family, the DeVanes, every
generation of which has been prom.
irent in the various walks of life.
The most widely known representa-
tive of this family at present is
Clyde DeNane, dean at Yale univer.
sity.
This cultured woman married in
January, 1884, that splendid citizen,
D. c. Fennell, a member of another
prominent family of the Black river
section, and the couple later made
their home at Kerr. Mrs. Fennell was
always surrounded by a company
of admiring friends to whom she
ever endeared herself by her charm.
ing personality in which we're blend.
ed the characteristics of her Scotch
aid French ancestory. She was
well versed in the ~genealogy of not
only her w but of all the families
OF her section and all authority in
other matters great and small. By
visitation and correspondence she
maintained a close connection with
a great host of friends and her life
vas indeed a benediction to al
those touched directly or indirectly
In early life she joined the Epis.
copal church and was confirmed b,
the late Bishop Atkinson, of Will
nlington, N. c., later moving hel
membership to Harmony Presbyter
ian church at Kerr, from which she
was buried February 6, 1910. Hell
funeral was attended by a great con
course of friends as well as relative.
from far and near
Her husband, four daughters, and
six grandchildren and one great
grandchild survive her.
HENRY E. FAISON
Clinton, N. C.
February IL, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Star-News Program

Consolidated CityCounty Government,
under CouncilMa Manager Administration.
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.
35-foot Cape Fear River channel. uid-
er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved Rtuer Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Deuelopm mi of Pulp Wood, Produc.
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
S%hipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, Developed around the
CommHnity Hospital.
4dequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not necessari-
" endorse any article appear
inc in this department. They
represent the views of the in
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all comlnuni-
cations must contain the correct
name and address for u rec
ords, though the letter may be
signed as the writer sees fit.
The Star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that for
any reason is Objectionable.
Letters on controversial SUBJ
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
TRUCK LANE
Dear Sir:

VA
May L heartily commend the action
OF the Commissioners in planning,
as stated in Thursday mornings
paper, a conference with State Of
tlclals regarding a truck lane? There
are many anxious citizens waitinr
to hear that a satisfactory solution
OF his problem has been arrived at.
Surely the Commissioners would
allow the abuse of South Third
street as a truck lane, there being
100 many reasons why this would
be highly un~progressive. II would
be obviously short sighted TO make
ms use OF a street that has: The
CORVALLIS House, in
whlch the town should have great
civic PRIDE; Historic St. James,
church. visited by manv tourists.
the unusually PLEASING Confoaosst
War Monument; the really manic.
clent First Presbyterian church do
signed by an outstanding ch,.as
architect; and a larger numher 80
fine homes than are to be fo,,,a
and equal number of blocks ~
A town cannot regard the resnon
slblllty OF a street like this lipbt,u
South Third street property ownars
pay and nave for many years paw
ed, taxes on the highest assessed
residential property in town
soutn lhlrt- street is in a zAn,d
area trucks on this street violate
the spirit OF the ordinance zonine
agalnst business. The coming was .
progressive step to preserve the 80
sets Of the zoned section. inc1,,d;ns
'aose asse's OF Third street enumer.
ated in the above paragraph. recent
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

ly two of the houses on Third street
have been bought by very desirable
outsiders come to make their homes
here-one a retired ambassador f
the United States of America. We
must make them, and others wish
ing to make a home here, feel that
their investment has been made in
a town where homes are held of
value.
Charlotte, Raleigh, and other cities
have recognized the necessity of
having a truck lane separate from
the highway route through town
and so routed that it will not drag
down real estate values.
The industrial growth of Wilmin =
ton is to be watched with pride by
its citizens, but industry must Il so
planned for that it does not bring
deterioration of property values.
Normal traffic on Third street dan
gerously impedes the movement If
trucks and tanks. An unimpeded lane
'ooio SASolly " lIt advantage
of trucks.
The proper routing of the truck
lane would mark a step in future city
PLANNING, for which there is con-
stantly growing need to care for the
Industrial development and protect
evel.t asset which is ours already.
The State should build the truck
lane for the City, because Whining
ton, as the largest distribution CEN
ter of petroleum products, has paid
immonse sums in taxes into the
State treasury. ,
l am glad to hear that there !;
no intention of altering the width of
the street.
I thank you for the time and at.
tention given to reading this letter.
With appreciation of, and gre It
interest in, your plans for confe.-
ence with State Highway officials re-
garding the best possible route for a
truck lane looking to the
sive future of Wilmington, Z am.
Yours very truly,
NOMINAL f. MacRAE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

Affairs Committee is currently
beginning hearings on two
plans for navy reorganization
one submitted by Congress
man Vinson Of Georgia, chair
man of the Naval Affairs
Committee, the other by Con-
gresham Mas Of Minnesota,
the ranking Republican on the
committee.
These bills differ widely in
details, but both are aimed
at the same defect-a sys-
tenn under which the navy
lacks a central professional
authority and does it's work
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
IT'S A NOW

The expected blitzkrieg having failed to ar.
Air Force memorandum describes it now as
a sitzkrieg. In case you have not been reading
German lately, the term is interpreted "sit-
down" war. Obviously the air force has its
lighter moments too.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
same distances than the rate;

same distances than the rates :
Wilmington.
With a lower rate from NORTH
shipments Of fertilizer could :s
be made to the above named dea!
ations in North Carolina at love
rates than those prevailing FRI
Wilmington.
This adjustment was very l2
ious during the fertilizer seasn \
to the fertilizer Industries at VI,
mngton as well as to the inl-i
ton of fertilizer materials thru:
the Port of Wilmington. The Z
carriers in Wilmington were vi
courteous in the matter and great
disappointed in the indepe1del. q
ton of the Norfolk and SoutIi
railroad.
Effective on September : N.
the rail carriers from Wllmr!l1
put into effect rates On teE-l1
that will reflect a lower bass u
for mile. than those publlsaE
the Norfolk and Southern ganI
from Norfolk.
These rates were also plola
from Norfolk and each All M|
port will, therefore, be on an "
basis according to dlstance: \
association believes that NAL
ton has recaptured what was
to Norfolk and will obtain aala
al traffic through the port vi
this adjustment.
The association reports ta
carriers proposed during l9%
crease minimum rate RUE Nv
minimum charge of 50 cent;
shipment to a minimum cua;
s1.Oo per shipment, After nlna
conferences on the subject tM
riers withdrew their proposal
the minimum charge OF % cF--
mains in effect.
During 1899 the association ~
ed reimbursement of rates OIL
goods, beans, peas, and oTSFu
from Pacific coast VesselS d
mington via motor carriers W!
in North Carolina which Isll',
auctions of so per cent IN ~
many instances, so as to ll'v ~.
petitive transportation a'
ton.
The association also secol.
justmen on paper articles 'll@'
from Wilmington by haVlas
to the paper description "S n.
per, Tissue Paper, and Gum ~
In respect to the interc01s- =,
iustmen of rates. rules anu =
tees on Pacific coast uaIls q
was heard before the UniIsr
Maritime commission al W." o.a]
ton, D. c., New York, New wv. u~y
and San Francisco, Inc iii
has made his findings from ~ t'I
of record, and supports ~
association in its testIm0n.
ing rate equalization OIL GUILE
ports. nj
Under the proposed poF .r:
cation rule, through "a''. ,rs
charges on ~commodltles Mt
posed to be equaliled VIA h,
many instances through ,I' iii
ton of steamship lines O. III.
rate advantages enjoyed BY , ii.
of Wilmington as compaI'u
er ports. -;otia
ported plans for the es'a1 er,:
of a radio beacon at INV
to the Cape Fear river d +
Their aid to navigator n,r:Y
operating with the port eor D
and the chamber Of colIll" -.
spect to the various p%roj. . n.
o oefore IL the en- engineers for tie lei
development of the Cape F t5s
oy widening and deepen-"'
snt channel. .q+oa =
Officers for the Nlllll' nj
Traffic Association, Inc. ' Psa>
include: president, HoL@''1 ora
:irst vice-president, T. D. ,.. 8
second vice-president, J1'
Wade. - direct
Members of the board o. I.,sr, g.
r. A. TAYLOR, j. E. bL r.. "
.ce Pearsall, T. D Lo'H' III vi
;trom, ]. D. sprunt, James s
Alex Hoffman, P. B. hr .a1I;t
and Addison
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
BY BOB MATTHEW'S
(Staff Writer)

The flow Of commerce through the
Port of Wilmington during 1888 to-
tailed 2,407, 727 vessel tons having a
traffic value of s75,012,5 $50, as com.
pared with the 1887 record of 2,209,.
SO vessel tons having a traffic
value of $751; ,S49, Henry E. Boyd,
traffic manager, Wilmington Port
Traffic Association, Inc, reports.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Bruce Cations
In Washington
The star.News Washington Correspondent

IN VEdSr11HEtoH CUITCSpUnutTt
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-The whole argu-
ment over the basic organization of the U. S.
Navy-the system which is blamed for those
much written-of "top-heavy destroyers' and
so on-is about to get a thorough overhaul
ing by Congress. Out of it may come a long
overdue revision of the entire navy set-up.
A special ub.committe Of the House Naval
Evening star., 1940-09-21
Comments on Futility
OF Human Conflict.
To the Editor ot The Star:

Az vac --N4eOA "a Ailc SeuI
Franklin D. Roosevelt has said, Resort
to force in the Great War failed to bring
tranquility. Victory and defeat were
|. alike sterile. That lesson the world
should have learned" Fine true words,
although not altogether consistent with
more recent belligerent utterances. Ger
tainly no one can deny that the lesson in
question was not learned and one Won
ders If the people will ever realize that
world problems are not solved by bombs
bursting about helpless civilians while
countless planes create endless havoc.
Even If Great Britain wins the present
war (Which is the hope of American ma
jorities), 100000 or more vanquished
people will remain embittered anda en-
ragged, and vice versa. Immediately plans
will be made to overthrow the enemy at
some future date The fires of hatred will
merely smolder for time, eventually to
burst forth in fresh conflagrations. This
mass lunacy. known as war, has been
going on for endless ages and the prob
lem is no nearer solution than it was
when cavemen, with more primitive wea-
pons but less horrible, sought to gain
power.
Hasn't the time arrived for churches
one and ALTO devise ways and means to
check these devastating, ever-recurring
conflicts with the view of bringing about
peace on earth? 1t is pleasant to preach
about heavenly hereafters, but isn't it
infinitely more important to grapple with
present problems, the most horrible Of
which is war, unless indeed we wish ulti-
mately to perish in this holocaust of our
own creating? Lao TIE said, "The tri-
umph OF violence ends In q festival Of
mourning. The more weapons of
violence, the more misery to mankind"
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH.
September 16
Evening star., 1940-09-21
Beyond His Reach

In the course of short-wave
broadcast from London last night a
representative of the Times de-
scribed the business of producing
newspaper during the blitzkrieg. He
told about the volunteer, tin-hatted
watchers on the roof-"the ducking
squad"-who warn their comrades
below of imminent danger; of the
editors and reporters working along
side the typesetters and pressmen
In subterranean depths and of the
courageous truck drivers who deliver
the papers through blacked-out Lon
don streets during momentary lulls
in the aerial bombardment. Every
body was working under extraordi-
nary danger and difficulty, but with
a spirit undimmed by the past four
teen days and nights of horror.
"Our papers," he added casually,
"are small But the reader still gets,
for his penny or tuppence, something
that the newspaper readers of Ger
Evening star., 1940-09-21
mated from the House bill q provision

mated from the House bill a provision
which could have given the Govern
ment control, after the present emer-
gency, over private plants whose
costs are charged of, out Of tax-free
earnings, under the provisions OF the
proposed legislation. In hearings be-
fore the Senate committee National
Defense Commission officials warned
that the enactment of this provision
would defeat the purposes of amor
tization, by discouraging the invest
ment of private funds in the con-
struction of defense plants. The
Senate is to be commended, there
fore. for removing the strings which
the House placed on the amortization
privilege, and it is to be hoped that
the House conferees will uphold the
action of the Senate in this matter.
In view Of the differences between
the two houses, the conferees face
no easy task. Enactment of this leg
islation is an important part Of the
national defense program. 1t is
therefore essential that these differ
ences be ironed out promptly and
that final congressional action be
completed as quickly as possible.
Evening star., 1940-09-21
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Tr1ce1Dell.

Instinct it is, without doubt, but that
cannot tell us just where it knows to
draw the line between what 1t can do
and what 1t cannot do
Squirrels Judge distances with uncanny
accuracy. Now and then one of them
misses and falls to the ground, but this
is very, very unusual Sometimes in icy
weather, when limbs and boughs are
coated with ice, their claws will slip,
permitting them to get bad falls.
Unless the fall is extreme, the animal
will not be harmed, although the breath
may be knocked out of it. We saw one
of these rodents get a nasty tumble in
this way. When picked up, it lay inert
in the hand, to all appearances lifeless
Closer inspection showed that its
heart still beat
Now squirrel in the hand is no nice
customer. We were afraid it might
come to life before 1t let on, then sud-
denly give us nip, clear through to
the bone. with those razor sharp teeth
and make a precipitate getaway.
So to forestall this, we quickly placed
the apparently dead animal on the
ground in a nearby yard
There 1t lay still for a time. then sud-
denly rolled over and was off up a tree
as if nothing had happened to it.
Nothing had happened, indeed. except
that it had had the wind knocked out
Of it.
Squirrels are so timber and agile. so
relaxed in all they do, even when they
are jumping like coiled springs, that
they are able to fall without adding to
the damage by tenSed muscles.
In other words, they are quite soft
when they land, and so act as cushions
to themselves in their rare falls.
1t is absolutely marvellous to see the
chances they take in the tree. Leaps of
20 feet or more, from one sWaying tip of
long. slender bough to another equally
slender, are every moment occurrences.
These leaps are at once the poetry
of motion combined with the the tech
nical knowledge of an engineer in re-
gard to stresses and strains.
Ax
cHNA-A oAo, VIC bt44Cfcy w IlOG reg dI u
acorns as poor stuff.
While they prefer walnuts and hickory
nuts and peanuts, they get great deal
of good and satisfaction from ordinary
acorns.
In fact, there is no tree which squir-
rel likes better than an oak, in any Of
the many species, and it is only natural
that the product of oaks is very much
to their liking.
We came along a sidewalk the other
day where chawed-up acornS lay almost
an inch deep, showing that many squir-
rels had been there recently.
How neatly those ctisel teeth take a
walnut apart! One must marvel at
them, in this respect, as over their abil-
ity to negotiate a wire, either above or
beneath.
Evening star., 1940-09-21
Hoot Mon!

international piracy no longer
contents itself with grabbing the ma
terial goods of the present. 1t ap-
propriates TIL intangibles of the past
as when Italians claimed Paolo (alias
Paul. Revere as one of their nation
ais. At any moment the world may
expect to hear of Georgia Washing
tonic or even De Lano Rosa Velti.
The other day the sports paper II
Littoriale insisted that golf belongs
not to Scotland but to Italy, where
it was first played by the ancient
Etruscans.
Historians have been strangely
silent about this phase of ancient
Etruscan culture. Could it be that
the tombs investigated by archeolo-
gists are really bunkers? Gould their
contents of gold and silver orna-
ments be sacrificial offerings to the
local god in charge OF golfers, to in
duce him to preserve players from
the deadly peril of the slice, the
hook, and the topped ball, and knock
XVIII strokes of their handicap? If
so, was the practice any more ilog-
ical than the present American Gus
tom of decorating sand traps with
broken niblicks sacrificed on the altar
of peevishness? Could Caesar, look
ing across the Rubicon, have consid-
cred it in the light of a mere water
hazard, taken courage, and driven
across? Even If all this were true,
credit still must go to Scotland for
bringing the game to its modern
perfection. It was not the Etruscans
who invented the nineteenth hole or
the correct words to use when f1f-
teen-foot putt rims the cup and stops
a quarter of an inch away. The Scots
did that.
Evening star., 1940-09-21
"THAYER STREET NE.

Dear sir:
In your department of The Evening
Star recently noticed some items about
SQUIRRELS, which recall to me what I have
seen here and I wonder If 1t has been
seen by others.
That is, the knack Of running along
a wire-telephone wire in this case-as a
sloth travels, beneath, instead of above
the support.
"A squirrel can and does use the tele-
phone cables in the usual manner, to
walk on, but they are large enough to
give good chance for balancing, whereas
single wire is not.
Here, within a year, have seen squir-
rels cross space of as much as so feet,
as have stated, hanging below the wire
and holding by their feet, of course, from
a pole to the wall of house, from
whence they could reach the roof, and
trees.
Il saw it done three times in one day.
but it is not often done since, or 1 have
not chanced to see 1t.
II shall be pleased to know If this is
a new trick or not.
I'm this locality squirrel food is not
very abundant. only acorns, which are
poor stuff Yet there are quite a lot Of
them.
VERY respectfully, S. F. B."
Walking upside down under a wire is
done now and then by all squirrels, but
usually simply as result of losing bal
ance above it.
this trick, if it is forced to, but not many
of them do 1t by choice, we believe.
Out our way the squirrels walk both
cables and wires. like tight-rope walkers,
but scarcely ever walk underneath
hanging like a sloth.
We have seen them do It, but Just
for few feet. and, as stated if per-
chance they slip above and fall beneath,
whence they swing themselves along for
a few feet until they can get back up
again.
Our belief, therefore, Is that only
squirrel here and there takes to doing
long distances in the manner of the
america,
which even sleeps upside down.
That. we must submit, is something no
squirrel can do.
The sloth is equipped with very long
claws, which it can hook over the
branch and thus carry himself along as
if in sling. L.
Our squirrels have no such claws but
nevertheless they are able to achieve the
same results in measure, because the
claws they do have are capable of any
thing the animal attempts.
Just how it knows what to try, and
what not TO try, must remain mystery.
one which cannot be explained by that
easy word instinct.