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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
ANGLE PARKING

DSdl oil.
It was most interesting to read in
this mornings issue of the Star,
the intentions of our City Fathers
to experiment with anglo parking
on Front street. That will be the
beginning Of a continuous state of
chaos for motorists travelling Cor at.
tempting to traveD our main thor
oughfare.
Why? Viz. 49,. Angle parking is
10Y being used on Third street
from Market to Grace, and it is a
colossal flop. 1t is a menace to
every motorist that uses this street.
You, Mr.. Motorist, have you ever
driven YOU car through this dis
trict late in the afternoons? Then
you know. I don't have to go into
detail to %acquaint you with how
dangerous it is under existing con-
ditions. It's like trying to make
Roadway swimming against an out
going tide, and if you get through
that area unscathed, consider your.
self fortunate. At any moment you
might find your path blocked by a
a backed directly into your lane.
And, too, it isn't exactly fair to
tourists travelling U. S. II and U. S.
421, that are not SO familiar with
the peculiarities of North Carolina
motorists. Some day, although /
sincerely hope not, therell be a
serious accident on Third street,
and then u citizens will snap out
of their state Of apathy and de-
mand that angle parking must be
abolished.
One o fact 1 should like to
call to your attention. Third street
is approximately so feet wide and
Front street is only so feet. Does
it not stand to reason that on a
narrower street it would create
even a greater hazard?
A TAXPAYER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
NEW SCHOOL BUSES

The North Carolina School commission
plans to buy a thousand steel school buses
next month at an approximate cost OF $1,000
each. AS man. of the states 4,S75 buses are
old and out of repair, the proposal is in the
interest of safety, and parents who commit
their children to the hazards OF highway
travel twice daily will welcome this better
ment in the bus situation. Six hundred thou
sand dollars for safety is a sound investment.
But it will be as foolish for the states
school authorities to expect their investment
in new school buses to end the major haz-
ard of school bus travel as it would be to ex-
pect penguins to fly. That hazard will not
be ended until men of experience and proved
competence are placed in control of school
bus operation. 1t is not the purpose to throw
a monkey wrench into the machinery Of the
plan to replace outworn buses. That is COM
mended heartily. But it is fitting to believe,
and declare, that a major menace to the
states school children will not be removed
as long as boys are employed as school bus
drivers. While the pay of drivers is held at
its present low figure-less than $40 a. month
the school authorities will maintain an I'M
justifiable and indefensible hazard to child
life. They are only school boys without re-
sponsibilities who can work for that salary.
1t is estimated that 100000 pupils ride in
school buses daily, with the average load
ranging from so to so children for each trip.
In most counties the drivers are immature,
untried youngsters, totally unfit to be in
charge of this human freight. When the
states school commission raises the rate of
pay to the level at which men may be EN-.
plcyed, it will have met a major need. But
not until then, not even if all old buses were
replaced with steel vehicles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
ITALIANS TO AID
iron LUNG FUND
Half Of The 18th Chair Re.
ceipts To Be Donated
By Players
BY FOSTER

Yesterday Mrs. Ben WaShburn
member of the ITALIAN board of di-
rectors, announced that half the
gate receipts of 1.-THE 18th Chair
scheduled at the New Hanover High
school Friday night, will be donated
to the Iron Lung" fund.
Mrs. Washburn said that it was
the Italians earnest effort to helr
purchase the mechanical breathe1
for the city hospital facilities and
the acting group lis wishing the
Civilians all kinds of luck with their
venture"
THE 18th Chair" the famous
mystery play of stage and silver
screen slated for the ITALIAN tor
performers, is a book which has
everything. There is a hermetically
sealed room, misplaced suspicion. the
ever present under-current of hone.
less ENHANCEMENT for all principal
characters.
1t starts a~uspiciously with a. love
story. By the end of the first few
minutes the stark horror of an i'm
pending danger is projected with
such an impact that one is imme-
diately enthralled by the complica.
ton.
Soon there appears on the scene
an old Irish woman, a medium wbo
has been invited to hold a seanoe
in the Crosby home. For a few mn.
ments the mystic. a character which
is as cleverly under-estimated as .
raised eyebrow, injects a STRANGE
kind of comedy. After that the NAV
starts unfolding with forebodinp ra.
pidity.
With a, climax which should s,,r-
prise even the most ardent mystery
fan, 1.-THE 18th Chair" is going to
leave all fortunate enough to soc
the performance with the imnras-
sion that Howard Canister, director
has handled a complicated story with
the best Of Broadway polish.
AS an added incentive to n.o,,
the house, the organization is offer
ing a big box Of candy to the hold
err Of "The 18th Chair" in the a,,d;-
forum. Just approximately where
the chair is located Mrs. Wasbh,,rn
failed to say, but some person -
going to find the number "a vo,n,
lucky indeed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
AND
FUTURE

The Star-NeWs today presents its annual
business survey, in which progress during
1889 is reviewed and prospects for 1910 are
outlined.
In perusing the two sections of this issue
devoted to Wilmington's expansion and out
look, Stdr-NeaDs readers will be gladdened to
learn that the city has forged so far ahead
from early post-depression days in actual &C.
complishment and is definitely set for a fast
er, perhaps an unprecedented, pace in the
future. Wilmington's business pendulum is
swinging toward prosperity with increasing
momentum.
To get the picture of 1889 it is necessary
to view the decade which started with 1890
During the ten years the city experienced the
cruel subsistence that swept the nation fol
lowing the financial collapse of 1929, but
with a delayed start. It was not until 1881
that the full weight Of the depression de-
scended From then on until 1896 Whining
tons business crept at the dragging pace Of a
wounded animal. Then came the further re-
cession of 1887. With the hardihood and
courage that typified Wilmington's Civil war
reconstruction days, however, the business
community set itself to resist any attack by
hard times, and did the job so we'll that
when the last half of 1888 arrived with its
promise of recovery the people were on their
toes to take advantage Of every opportunity
with the result that as 1889 dawned and ful
filled the promise of the previous six months
the city, in its farthest business ramifica
tions, started forward into what appears tc
be an era of ley fundamentally sound
growth.
The figures showing how we'll Wilmington
rallied from depression distress, how it KEEP
going through the worst years and gathered
strength, economically and financially, ever
before convalescence definitely set in, are all
in the business sections today.
These sections also present the advance
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Book Highlights

You can put down EThe Inside Sto
ry" prentice Hall: $2.75) as {
thoroughly diverting, informative
book of newspaper reporting ex
perlences. It's a collection of yarns
from the Overseas Press Club oil
America, including stories from
Tom Morgan, Wythe Williams
Eugene Lyons, Irene Kuhn ant
Is others. The range is from the
truth about the Wilson-House
break, the Ford Peace ship, in the
World War, to Stalin's Counter
Revolution and current episodes
in the new war. Excepted briefly
here is Allen Firms picture of
Maurice Gamelin, "the man no.
body knows"
He was called zone of NV red
by Joffre away back in
1914, but before he went up on the
Maginot Line at the time Hitler was
marching into Poland, he was scarce
more than a name to most French.
men.
He commands every British Tom.
ny on the Western Front, but when
he was named Frances No. / SOL
lier in 1895 London's press gave
lin a paragraph and got his first
wrong. The greatest paradox
If a paradoxical war-that, is Mau.
ice Gustave Gamelin, the shy, trie.
'teely-eyed little warrior, who, with
he exception of Louis XIV's war
minister, Louvois, and Napoleon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
IS RUINOUS

I. M. BAILEY did not draw his punches when
he addressed some 1875 petroleum dealers at a
luncheon here when discussing the all too
prevalent practice of diverting gasoline tax
money to uses for which it was not intended
when the levy was imposed.
DIVERSION" he said, lis double taxation. -.
1t is an inequitable distribution of the tax
burden and is uneconomic. 1t not only vio-
lates the promise made when highway devel-
opment was projected, but is contrary to the
states regulation of public utilities where
equal opportunity for use is extended to all
within the area Of operation"
The states industrial advancement stems
in large measure from the improvement of
highways, he declared, and any curtailment
thereof places a serious barrier in the way
Of further economic advantage. TRANSPORTS
ton by car is in many ways the economic
and industrial salvation of the South.
North Carolina must go ahead with the de-
velopment Of it's primary and secondary
highways" and this project, SO essential to
the states progress will require every cent
raised by gasoline and automobile taxes"
Mr.. BAILEY, who is an ex-president of the
State Bar association, might have gone fur
Their, when he called diversion double taxa
tion. He might, with propriety, have defined
it as taxation by Misrepresentation. Money
obtained for a specific purpose and used for
another is just that.
Furthermore, it is, as long as the users OF
gasoline and the holders Of motor vehicle Ii
censes remain inactive, taxation without rep
resentation. This is something the people
themselves can best deal with. As long az
state authorities can juggle tax monies te
meet this or that demand upon the treasury
without stern protest from the people who
pay the taxes, there is no reason to expect
a change for the better.
Diversion will stop once and for all time
when the taxpayers with one voice unite tt
demand it. There will never be a better time
for that than now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
JEFF'S INPATIENT
TO e IT OVER

While the actor sat on the couch,
Miss Sheridan wriggled around sc
that she reclined in his arms. She
registered rapture. His %possessive
clasp looked like a title illustration
for Heaven Can Wait"
you finished with the picture,
Jeff" she asked.
"Nah," he snarled through a ten.
der, half-smile of sheer ecstasy,
Gotta coupla retakes tomorrow, and
I wanted to so to the races. Say,
haven't you guys got enough stuff"
Just a little longer" begged the
boss photographer. annie, how
about turning on a little more of
the well-kno-"
IF you say 'oomph,' I'll strangle
you" warned Miss Sheridan.
Well, don't strangle ME-" pro-
tested Lynn, who was looking pref
ty pink.
Your correspondent tiptoed out. 1t
was more establishment than I
could bear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
REYNOLDS FIVE POINTS

p ESPONDING to an appeal from a delega-
ton which recently interviewed him at
Washington, Senator ROBERT r. REYNOLDS of
North Carolina declares that he may enter
the campaign for the democratic presidential
nomination if he can have his name entered
in a state holding a direct primary. Should
he decide to become a candidate he would
join the large group of his colleagues whose
names are mentioned as presidential pros
poets. On the republican side are Senators
VANDENBERG, TAFT, BRIDGES, LODGE, McNARY
and NYE; on the democratic, WHEELER, CLARK,
BYRNEs, BYRD, MEAD, BARKLEY and oHANEY
Senator REYNOLDS has a five-point program
upon which he will conduct his campaign if
he throws his hat into the ring. In his cru
SADIE he has gained widespread publicity, es.
pecially through the "Vindicators,' an organi.
cation he formed for keeping America for
Americans" and through the organizations
magazine, The Vindicator, which is devoted
to the principles he advocates. He lists these
principles as: Keeping America out of war;
the registration and fingerprinting of all
aliens; cessation of all immigration for ten
W. CAS NSPS] SoSAOA W IA 0A4OAo
and undesirables, and the Punishment of all
isms in this country, notably communism,
fascism and naziism.
In discussing his program with the Wash
ington correspondent of the Raleigh NeWs and
Observer, Mr.. REYNOLDS declares:
By keeping America out of war, we
would prevent any entangling alliances
with any of the countries of the world.
By compelling all aliens to be regis
tered and fingerprinted we would know
how many such persons are in this coun-
try and could keep track of them, and
thereby prevent much of the sabotaging
that is being attempted.
One of the greatest points in the pro-
gram is that for stopping immigration
until the unemployment problem is solved.
1t is s%enseless to permit these thousands
of foreigners to come into this country
every year and take jobs away from good
American men and women.
By deporting all criminal aliens and
undesirables we could save much of the
money WE now spend to catch these peo-
pie and keep them in penitentiaries.
Danish all the 1sms that are now ram
pant in the United States and we will
keep out all of this propaganda and the
spread of dissatisfaction with our demo-
cratic form of government.
The senator is on safe ground. Washington
adjured US against entangling alliances. The
Monroe Doctrine upholds the principle of
America for Americans. The registration of
aliens is in the interest of law and order. A
halt of immigration would be a step toward
absorbing our own idle workers. Deportation
Of alien criminals and undesirables would
largely depopulate our penitentiaries. Danish.
ment of isms is universally recognized as the
one way to overcome unrest and dissatisfaction
in the country. No true-blooded American can
raise objection to any of Senator REYNOLDS
detectives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
SUB SCARES HECKLE
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT

Department of m would be lots hap
pier if people would stop raising submarine
scares in the Caribbean and South Atlantic.
Ever since the war started, the department
has been trying to promote u. S. tourist travel
to Latin America. First FDR. stymied it, by
talking about mysterious submarines among
the islands. Now, with trade just building up
nicely, the same story is going the rounds
again.
This time the White House was quick to an
nounce that everything was okay, but the
scare caused plenty of steamship ticket can
c~ellations just the same.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Highlights OF F. K. Speech

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 Up -
Here are some pointed paragraphs
from President Roosevelt's address
to the American Youth Congress to-
day:
I think that some OF us have in
the back of heads that if we had
a different kind of government this
meeting on the White House lawn
couldn't take place.
The national income has increased
from forty billion dollars in 1882 to
siXty-eight and one-half billion dol
lars in 1939-plus II per cent.
Our exports for the calendar year
1882 were worth a billion six hun
dred million. In 1899 they were worth
nearly three billion two hundred mil
lion-an increase of 81 per cent.
Don't seek or expect Utopia over.
night. Don't seek or expect a pan
acea-a grand new law that will give
you a handout-a guarantee of perm
anent remunerative occupation of
your own choosing.
In the case of jobs for you young
people, let me make it very clear in
the beginning that it is not at all
certain that your opportunities for
employment are much worse today
than they were for young people ten
years or twenty years or thirty yea S
ago.
One final word of warning: Do not
as a group pass resolutions on SUBJ
jects which you have not thought
through and on which you cannot
possibly have complete knowledge.
One Of the big local American
Youth Congress councils, I am told,
took a decisive stand against the
granting of American loans to Fin
land-not on the ground that we
ought to spend the money here
among u w needy unemployed,
but on the ground that such action
AN attempt to force America
into the imperialiStic war;" That
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not necessari-
" endorse any article appear
ing in this department. Iney
represent the views OF the IN
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all commune
cations must contain the correct
name and address for our rec
ords, though the letter may DO
signed as the writer sees ut.
The Star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that Tor
any reason is Objectionable
Letters on controversial sub
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Mrs. Lea, Hampstead
Resident, Dies Here

HAMPSTEAD, Feb. 10.-Mf5' W,
Fl. Lea, of Hampstead, dled d.
o'clock this morning at James "%
ker Memorial hospital in WHILE
ton after a lengthy illness
Funeral services will be held lon
t h e Cyprus Lake PresoElei" =.
church Sunday afternoon at 3 0 clO,r
She is survived by the tollo"inSa
five children, Misses Bellah vi
and Jacqueline Lea, Gilbert CoLn,,
Joseph Bryan and William HT mI.
Lea, Jr.; one brother, Thomas
den; and three nieces and nepn e,1'
Mrs. W. H. Glover, Mrs. l.. T.
liams and C. D. Brahmer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
In Hollywood
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10.-Behind
the screen: Hearing that Ann Sher-
idan was working in the still gal
lery at Warmers, I dropped in to
rest my eyes and found her-in one
of those black evening gowns -
waiting to do some "clinch stuff
with Jeffrey Lynn
You'd think that no man past
the age of 8 could be late for such
a chore, but Mr.. Lynn vas When
he finally showed up, he and Miss
Sheridan walked over to a brightly
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

holds more power today than any
Frenchman in history.
Gamelin's rise in the last 1e"
years has been no less than as
founding. After nearly winning a
marsha1's baton in the World wal
at 46, he dropped into obscurIly anu
was forgotten by the General sian
for a decade. He is still largely th7
man nobody knows. He seldom ap'
pears in public. He is rarely pholo'
graphed: He hates publicity p0lt
tics, banquets, meetings. He alni'9.
never makes a speech. He prelei'
to disguise himself in a dark iouh7'
suit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

drafts of the 1910 picture. They show indus
try, realty, construction, and bust
ness reaching out toward new frontiers. I'm
less there is some economic upheaval on a
nationwide scale, Wilmington will ascend to
new levels this year and at it's end place its
standard on. still greater heights for achieve.
ment in 1941.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

Illuminated couch
and with a let's
get-thiS- over.With
briskness a n d
went into a con
v%entional embrace.
T O cameras
clicked, and the
! a yers altered
their pose slightly.
Mr.. Lynn asSum-
ed his I'll-love-
you = always ex-
preston and pois-
ed his lips as close
to those of Miss
Sheridan. as the
Houe nff;oo will
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

allow. She half closed her eyes and
looked sort of swoony. There was
a brief delay by the photographers.
Does my right arm look okay?"
asked Mr.. Lynn, never altering his
soulful gaze.
Hurry up, you Tugs; I'm due over
at wardrobe right now" said Miss
Sheridan through parted, expectant
lips. The cameras clicked some
more, and the couple relaxed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

issued to people who contrl-
buted to the mile Of dimes"
fund? Take a look at one,
and you'll see that it is a
pretty close replica of the
"head' side Of a regular dime.
1t is almost exactly the
same size and the engraved
face is a good likeness of the
face on the dime. The prin-
cipal difference is that it says
march of dimes" instead of
"Liberty-In God We Trust
1885,"
CARTOONIST'S C X
STIRS SECRET SERVICE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

reasoning was unadulterated twaddle,
based perhaps on sincerity, but, at
the same time, on ninety per cent
ignorance Of what they were talking
about.
Here is a small republic in north.
ern Europe which, without any ques.
ton whatsoever, wishes solely to
maintain it's own territorial govern.
mental integrity. Nobody with any
pretense of common sense believes
that Finland had any Interior de.
signs or the integrity or the safety
of the Soviet union.
The American sympathy Is nine.
ty-eight per cent with the Firms n
their effort to stave off invasion Of
their own soil is now automatic. That
America wants to help them BY
lending or giving money to them 10
save their own lives is also aXioma-
tic by now. That the Soviet union
would, because of this, declare war
on the United States is about the
most absurd thought that l have
ever heard advanced in the fifty-eight
years of my life.
The Soviet union, as a matter Of
practical fact, as everybody knows
who has got courage to face the
facts, is a dictatorship as absolute
as any other dictatorship in the
world. it has allied itself with an
other dictatorship in the world. 1t
has allied itself with another die
tatorship and it has invaded a neigh.
Dor so enthusiastically small that it
could do no injury to the Soviet
onion, and seeks only to live at peace
as a democracy, and a liberal, for
ward looking democracy at that.
1t has been said that some of you
are Communists. That is an un'
popular term these days. AS Amerl-
cans you have the right to call
yourselves Communists, but as
Americans you have not only a right
but a sacred duty to conf1ne your
advocacy of changes in law to t,e
methods prescribed by the constltt-
ton of the United States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
ROBESON BONDS

LUMBERTON, Feb. 1O-An oiu,,
authorizing the issuance OF V 'n,n
up to $130,000 after June ~ -
has been approved by Robson '0''
ty commissioners.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

elevated, stumbled and nearly fell.
Here's how her last line sounded.
Joan, dear, you mustn't talk like
this (&-*?X&Z!"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

Another discouraging thought in connection
with the present international situation is that
some day historians are going to have to figure
out what this mess is all about.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
TOP O, THE MORNING

Is there some earnest prayer unanswered net
Or answered not as you had thought 'tUould
be?
God aCiU make clear His purpose BY and by
He keeps the key.
Haze patience NTH your God, your patien7
God.
All aoise, all knowing, no long tarrier he,
And OF the door OF all thy future life,
He Keeps the key.
SELECTED
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Bruce Cations
In Washington
(Star- News Washington Correspondent

Notar-1<e"s washington CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. lot was all done in a
good cause, and nobody is sore about it-but if
an ordinary citizen did what the birthday ball
people did when they were raising money for
the ~infantile paralysis fight, he'd hear from the
Secret Service about it in short order.
You know those little tin badges that were
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11
Star.News Program

l.. Shipyards.
3. Increase OF Port Facilities.
5. Adequate Hospital Facilities.
j. Annexation OF Suburbs.
S. Development OF Fort CasweH as
Health Resort.
s. Promotion OF Canning Industry.
Z. City Erpdnsion Commission.
8. Junior College.
ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
SLIM Clearance.
Free bridge across the Cape Fear
river over HtghWay 20.
Free cause0ay to Wrtghtsvtl1s Beach,
Recreation Centers.
Municipal Auditorium.
Preservation OF Old CITY and Thai
ian Hall.
Civic Centre.
Organised Industrial services for WI
mington.
Adequate school facilities for Wi.
mington and New Hanover county.
Traffic signals on streets OF Whining.
ton.
T%hirtyjoot channel from Wilmington
to Southport bar.
Construction OF third lock and dam
bet.ceen Wilmington and Fayetteville
on the upper Cape Fear rtver.