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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
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pu HENRY AVERILL

RALEIGH, Jan. .I.-IHe poiIliSdA
strategists who accompanied Paul
v. McNutt to Raleigh for his jack
son Day appearance, were partlcu-
larly keen to induce former Cover
nor J. c. B. Ehringhaus to take
charge of their %favorite's presiden-
tial campaign in North Carolina.
There is reliable authority fofthe
statement that the North Carolina
managership was not only offered
the former governor, Lat that he is
still being urged to accept the post.
Whether he will is very doubt.
full. Second choice of the McNutt
! anagers is State Senator ] o e
Blythe of Charlotte, who seems at
the present to be a more likely ac-
ceptant.
State Grange Master Harry B.
| Caldwell was scheduled to take a
hot shot at diversion Of highway
funds in an address today at a Char
lotte district meeting Of the North
| Carolina Petroleum Industries com.
mittee.
"Highway funds cannot be divert
ed now in the name of economy OF
sound Judgement" read Caldwells
scheduled address. I'VE cannot
backslide today when many of our
| farmers who helped to finance the
present system of highways must
contend with road conditions that
make it practically impossible for
them to get to and from markets
at many seasons of the year."
Identity of t h e successor to
George Mcneil on the state board
of elections will reveal just how
deeply Governor Clyde r. Hoey is
really concerned over election law
reform in North Carolina.
Judge Richard Hartshorne Of New
Jerseys common plea bench (cor-
responding closely to North Caro-.
lina's superior court judges) was
here Thursday and conferred with
law enforcement officers and with
Hathaway Cross, first assistant to
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill,
who was out of town. In Chapel
Hill, Judge Hartshorne talked with
President Frank P. Graham OF the
University and with Albert Goats,
executive head of the institute of
government.
The Jersey jurist is chairman of
the American Legion's national COM
mittee on law and order.
In Raleigh, he was introduced
around by Roy L. Mcmillan, promi-
nent lawyer and legionnaire. He at.
tended the Raleigh Posts regular
Thursday luncheon and the district
legion meeting thursday night.
DR.. Ralph Mcdonald did not
commit himself on the question of
a presidential candidate while the
Jackson Day dinner doings we're in
full swing, except to reaffirm that
he is first and last for President
Roosevelt.
Mcdonald thinks the President
will stand for a third tenn and is
prepared to go down the line for
him.
The Mcdonald view of Paul v
McNutt is not at all unfavorable tc
the Indiana former governor. how.
ever, whom the North Carolinian
regards as one of the country's
very ablest administrators.
Commissioner of Revenue Allen
J. Maxwell will have an ad in the
next issue Of the Progressive Farm
er, edited by DR.. Clarence Poe
once SO prominently mentioned as
n of the commissioners opponents
In the gubernatorial sweepstakes.
A tip on the ads nature saws it
tries hard. to indicate a Poe-Max,
well tie-up-something which is pos.
s1ble, but which is vigorously den.
led in many quarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
Schunzel Fled
After Poke At NaZis

All I know is that, every time I
interview a player Or director or
musician of fairly recent foreign
origin, I find a person who is al
most inarticulate from emotion
about American advantages and op.
portunities and ideals.
They talk like this: I'm this coun-
try everybody laughs, and it isn't a
crazy, desperate laughter. -. In this
country, your newspapers tell the
truth. In this country. you can
criticize the government, even on
the screen. 80. In this country. no.
body really starves, but where
lived we were all SO sungry that we
hoped to die. In this country.
nobody is afraid"
This column didn't start out to be
a patriotic essay. 1t was intended
to be an interview with Reinhold
Schunzel. He is a director who left
Germany a couple of jumps ahead
Of the Gestapo when somebody dis
cerned that one of his pictures, sup
posedly about a Graustarkian king
dom, really was an Unflattering sa
tire on Maitland.
Years before, he had been a stage
and r star in Germany. One
of his leading ladies was Marlene
Dietrich, in her first picture. In 1881
he became a writer-director. Louis
B. Mayer brought Schunzel to Hol
lywood two years ago and let him
make a typical American picture,
"Rich Man, Poor Girl" He knew
scarcely a word Of English, but he
refused a dialog director and some
how managed to make himself un-
derstood to the cast. The film, If you
remember, turned out fine, and II
did a lot for Lew Ayres, Lana Turn
er and Ruth Hussey. Next he direct
ed ice Follies" and recently "Ba-
lalaika." The latter, introducing
Iona Massey, is a hit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
Behind The Scenes
In Washington
Je,,s Washington Correspondent

News Washington
WASHINGTON, Jan. l2.-Presl-
dent Roosevelt's 1871 budget looks
like an extremely smart move IN
the intricate chess game tina mas
been going on between the execu'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
HOME COME, JIM?

I1UNTE CUNIE, JIM.
LA GRANDE, Ore. - Perhaps
James A. Farley, postmaster gen.
eral, can explain satisfactorily to
James A. Farley, democratic ma
tional chairman:
Farley's Christmas card to Robert
E. Bradford, Union county demo-
cratic chairman, arrived 10 days
late.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
Toast Of The Coast.

Toast Of The Coast.
Umpire Harry Tanning of the Pa
cific Coast league, has only one
ARM: just the same the fans out
there voted him the best of the lot
in other words:
You never hear 'em panning
y.-.-. How, ENonninr
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
Carolina
News Shorts
(By The Associated Press)

ELIZABETH CITY -J M
Broughton of Raleigh, candidate
FOR governor, will speak before the
Rotary club Monday and before
the First Baptist church Sunday
school last night,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
CREDIT UNION

CREDIT UNION
NJ
the Kenansvlile Production C edit
association will meet here tomor.
row.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
ERWIN

ERWIN
FAYETTEVILLE-Dr. Clyde Err.
win, state superintendent of public
instruction, will be the principal
speaker at a meeting of the East
ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce
here Jan. %,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
MUSIC FETE

K1NSTON-The annual Kinston
Music Festival will be held here in
April.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
CONGRESS- DOUBLE
DILEMMA

But the catch in 1.-THE thing
that really makes it a fast one
isn't just the fact that the Presi-
dent would then be able to turn to
the country and say, well, I tried
to reduce expenditures but con-
gress wouldn't 60 along" The real
sticker is the fact that the law sets
the limit to which the federal gov.
ernment's debt may rise at 5000.
900, 900.
Listen, now, to the canny way
the President figured this one If
the Presidents budget should be
adopted in toto, the total govern
ment debt at the end Of the next
fiscal year would be just $62, 1000, 900
under that legal debt limit Of As
billions.
But if congress spends more-if
it goes only $63, 900, 900 over his bud.
get-it must, at the same time vote
to raise the debt limit. Which is the
one thing above all others that a
congressman approaching a re-elec.
ton fight would truly hate to do.
The President, in other words,
gets himself out Of a tight corner.
He avoids the necessity of having
to ask for a raise in the debt limit
80. he hands in a sharply reduced
budget -. and he puts the burden
for both things on the shoulders of
congress. If there isn't plenty of
back-spin on that one, just try to
think Of a trickier one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
A LEGACY FOR
SOMEBODY ELSE?

IA AAAlOAASA o1V
SOMEBODY ELSE?
There's this to think about, too
that third term angle.
Assume that President Roose-
velt's budget is adopted. It covers
the period from June, 80, 1910, to
July 1, 1941. The President who is
in office next winter-the one who
is elected next fall, in other words
is the gent who will have to do
the worrying about what is spent
after July 1, 1941. And that Presi-
dent will find himself with a public
debt that is within whispering dis
lance Of the legal debt limit, and
will either have to balance the bud
get or ask congress to raise the
debt limit.
Doesn't that sound very, very
much as if Mr.. Roosevelt figured
that somebody besides himself was
going to be President next year?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13

Identity of t h e successor to
George McNeill on the state board
of elections will reveal just how
deeply Governor Clyde r. Hoey is
really concerned over election law
reform in North Carolina.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Traffic Judges

Decision Of the Traffic Committee
of the Board of Trade to seek legis-
lation providing an additional Police
Court judge who would be perma-
nently assigned to Traffic Court, and
similar assignment of one of the
present judges to traffic jury cases,
is helpful step toward correcting
one of the weakest points in WASH
tngtons safety program.
Educational efforts by official and
unofficial organizations have done
much in recent years to promote
safety, particularly among pedes-
trians and children. Engineering
advances in the form of channeliza-
ton, improved signals and removal
Of visual distractions and similar
hazards are being made. But ade-
quate law enforcement facilities are
equally important. With more than
$4,000 cases a year being brought
into Traffic Court and the majority
of them swept through in assembly
line fashion, little more benefit is
obtained by haling most violators
before a judge than would result
from forfeiture of collateral.
But even the permanent assign
ment to Traffic Court of man with
legal training, judicial temperament
and background of information and
interest in traffic safety matters can
not solve the problem. The volume
of work is too great for efficient ad-
ministration.
A solution presents itself in
recommendation made by the Ma
tional Committee on Traffic Law
Enforcement to the American Bar
Association. This proposes establish
ment of a violations bureau under
direct supervision of the traffic Judge.
There, minor violators could conven-
iently and speedily file a written
admission of guilt and a waiver of
trial and accept standard penalty.
This would eliminate the shortcom-
ings of collateral forfeiture and would
relieve the trial judge of the burden
of thousands of purely routine cases.
In this way permanently assigned
turist could make an outstanding
contribution to public safety.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Suggests Training Plan for
High School Students,

To the Editor Of The Star:
With world conditions in their present
state, it occurs to me that it would be
quite fitting to organize volunteer
cadet corps in every high school for
the purpose of giving them military
training which upon satisfactory COM
pletion would exempt the high school
student from the provisions of the Selec-
tive Service Act.
Each cadet would receive military
training from three to six hours each
week and during each summer vacation
two months of field training in camp.
At the time of graduation, the student
will have had eight months of field
training in addition to the weekly train
ing. This training satisfactorily COM
pleted should be made equivalent to
one year of selective service.
firmly believe if such a plan could
be worked out by an amendment to
the present Selective Service Act it
would save time and expense, and until
such an amendment is accomplished I
believe every boy should at least receive
his preliminary training before reaching
the draft age. w. EARL HOPPER.
Weehawken, N. j.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
EorIy Winter

The year is clad in silver now,
And twisted in her hair
Are bronze-brown leaves, and dark pine
cones,
And twigs, dark-varnished, bare;
She has grown old, but graciously,
Her eyes are gray and still,
AS calm she tends her silver sheep
Upon the smoke-blue hill.
In soft wool robe Of pearly gray,
Thoughtful she walks alone;
Where some slim vines reluctant fire
Dies on frosted stone,
She stops awhile, and sighs awhile,
Remembering how she
Was glad and gay and then she smiles
And goes on, quietly.
Her staff in hand, she fords the brook,
And stops to let wave
Caress her ankle; in her eyes
Is peace, still, sweet and grave.
The year is old, but who would stop
To think that she is so
Who takes her gift of healing peace,
Her quiet kiss of snow?
BEATRICE RAW.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Argues for Purchase
OF Needed Islands.
0 the Editor of The star


The United States Government should
acquire complete ownership of the
Islands which are within reach of the
American shore-line and the Panama
Canal. These islands have been a thorn
in Americas side every time there is
war in Europe; and nations which own
them have used them to lure the Amer
ican taxpayer into debt and the Amer
lean people into war. Therefore, to pre-
vent recurrence of years of threat-of-
invasion propaganda and to prevent the
people of the U. S. A. from becoming
involved in foreign wars, the United
States Government should offer to
cancel the 1914-1918 war debt in ex-
change for complete title to the islands.
There should be no conditions, such as
guarantees to ask Congress to repeal
the johnson Act or the neutrality law.
Neither should the United States Gov
ernment accept the Singapore navel base
as condition of sale. If the naval base
sites ION order" in the islands leased by
the United States Government are to be
fortified at American expense, the
American taxpayers who are to pay the
bill should have complete ownership to
the islands. That is good business and
common sense.
FREDERIC FROST.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Britain Warns Moscow

The sharp language addressed to
the rulers of Soviet Russia by Ernest
Bevin, Minister of Labor and men,
Der of the inner war cabinet of Great
Britain, Is highly interesting. 1t re-
veals that Communist agitation di-
rected from Moscow is rife in Brit
ain, just as it is in America, and for
precisely the same reasons. So it
may be profitable to note what goes
on there and how the British govern
ment proposes to handle the matter.
Mr.. Bevin is no Tory. He is
prominent member of the British
Labor party, and in this country
might be considered rather radical.
Thus no one can justly accuse him
of class bias in his announcements
made in Glasgow, long a stronghold
for British labors radical left wing.
His first brush with the Commu-
nists came when he addressed a
meeting of four thousand trade union
delegates. A bad situation had de-
SSAoPCu Al VIC 1ldoSoW dlCd, Will
shipbuilding and other unions
threatening strikes which would be
most serious for vital war industries.
Mr.. Bevin was greeted by intense
heckling, partially quieted only when
several demonstrators were elected
from the hall. Saying he was aware
instructions had been given Commu-
nlsts to break up the meeting, the
Labor Minister asserted: You would
be surprised whom you have got in
your ranks. You should throw them
out!" At a civic dinner that same
evening, Mr.. Bevin categorically
warned the Soviet Union mot to in
terfere in our internal affairs. This
government has got to face the issue
as matter of war strategy, and has
to teach Russia that the method Of
carrying on her foreign policy does
not pay here" At Edinburgh next
day he encountered further hostile
demonstrations at meeting where
he asserted that Communists were
furthering Hitler peace offensive"
All this is an exact parallel of what
is going on in this country. 1t is no
secret that much of the unrest in
American labor today is traceable to
agitators clearly affiliated with our
Moscow-inspired Communist party,
whether or not they can be tech
nically tagged with the party label.
In his remarks at Glasgow, Mr..
Bevin stated roundly: IF there are
some subversive elements trying to
interfere with the war effort, I will
deal with them" That would be
sound policy for us regarding those
who appear to be trying to hinder
our preparedness program and the
foreign policy which the vast ma
jority of the American people desire.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
Gist Blair

To meet Gist Blair even on a sin
gle occasion was to realize that he
was gentleman Of distinguished
character, yet he never sought atten-
ton. The eighty years of his life
were spent in being what nature, his
inheritance, his traditions and his
time required of him. He had no
wish for any other duty. Neither did
he desire to compete for the ordinary
prizes Of the world. Perhaps without
knowing it, he was content with
role not vastly different from that
which Socrates assigned to Protago-
ras-good himself, "but also the
cause Of goodness in Others"
Mr.. Blair's patriotism might be
cited to demonstrate the value of his
career. His family for many gener-
ations had occupied position Of
Importance in the annals Of his
country. It therefore would have
been remarkable, indeed, had he not
been profoundly interested in the
preservation of those institutions
which made the Republic great in the
past and might be expected to make it
greater in the future. The very name
of America was sacred to him. He
spoke it with reverence. So, too, he
looked upon the services dedicated to
the national defense, the bench and
the bar and the church. These diff
ferent aspects of civilized society
were closely affiliated in his mind and
heart. AS judge advocate in the
Army during 1917 and 1918, as an
attorney in st. Louis and in the Dis
trict of Columbia and as leading
Episcopal layman, he contributed to
the progress of a free but responsible
democracy.
Born in the beautiful old man.
sion in which he has died, Mr.. Blair
was native Of Washington in the
most exact meaning of that phrase.
He visioned the Capital as repre-
sentative community as we'll as the
seat of the Federal Government. His
concern for parks, historic sites,
monumental buildings found express
sion in practical aid generously given
to the Department of the Interior.
In the field of business he was a
director in several corporations.
During his later years he was tireless
in the work of Emergency Hospital,
Of which he was president.
Mr.. Blair, however, will be remem-
bered not so much for what he did
as for what he was. His immortality
will rest upon the example that he
set, not merely upon his achieve
mentS.
Evening star., 1940-12-17
EAST FALLS CHURCH, Va.

Dear Sir:
"It pleases me to announce that
have at least one overnight guest roosting
regularly in the conventional bluebird
house opposite the sun parlor, which
cleared of most of its contents that re-
manned since the wren family left in
May.
IT made the discovery q few evenings
ago, although there appeared to be only
small downy ball of fur in the far
corner, so well concealed were its feet,
tail and head took for granted a small
mouse had taken possession of the
house.
"The following evening, when I
learned to my delight it was chickadee,
I placed bits of wool clippings from the
hooked rug recently finished and small
pieces Of fur from an old coat inside the
house for further comfort of the bird.
This timely gesture was well received,
since the temperature actually dropped
to II degrees that night.
"This particular house has been a
drawing card for it has not been vacant
but few months each year since its
erection three years ago
Each spring family of chickadees,
the earliest to nest, followed by the
wrens, and the following winter three
pairs of bluebirds have all used it to
advantage.
'The rustic houses seem to be equally
as popular during nesting season, but
shall make a survey before taking them
down in the hope that other birds have
taken advantage of them for winter
comfort. Likewise the sturdy coconut
shell which is securely fastened to the
pussy willow tree.
II have discovered that constant bird
feeding outdoors obviates the danger of
mice and small rodents trying to get
into the house, since it is evident they
steal enough from the birds to satisfy
them. This observation should be inter-
estirg to suburban residents, should they
care to try it.
sincerely yours, O. c."
Feed the birds outside, in order to
Keep Uile IllCe from CUllllllB lIlSlQe!
This appeal might induce mice-fearing
persons to be kind to birds, just in order
to get rid of the mice. Then, in time
such persons would realize that there is
far greater reason for feeding the birds
and this is simply that it is such a great
pleasure.
1t is such good to birds. too.
That the mice share in it is wholly
accidental and incidental We are not
as sure as our correspondent that out
door bait will keep mice from coming
indoors.
They are after warmth, one may feel
as well as food.
Every winter we have at least one raid
by mice, although there is enough food
at the four feeding stations to feed all
the rodents in the countryside.
SO far we have never seen a rat.
Our rodents consist of house mice and
some field mice, with a few shreWs
thrown in for good measure. Many per-
sons mistake the shrew for mice or even
for small moles. They are neither, but
an animal in their own right one which