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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Before Winter Comes

The present cold snap is al impressive indi-
..+ion that the summer season-the period Of
va cations and resort visitations-is nearing the
end. There will be some warm weather, OF
course. but the slackening of business and
community planning which always features
the mid-year period is over. We must settle
down to the problems of winter.
Wilmington must now begin to draft a pro-
gram for progress in business, in service, IN
community development and for taking better
advantage of resources and anticipated op-
portunities. It is appropriate, therefore, to
note that the rewards will be in proportion to
the constructive thought and leadership en-
gagged in the task.
Because of the unprecedented conditions pre-
vailing in this country and abroad, it is i'm
~perative that Wilmington concentrate its et-
forts, it's thinking, it's planning, its perform.
ance, on the nations rearmament. No other
task of equal importance c%onfronts either the
nation or this city. Wilmington must not only
discover how it can best advance that tre-
mendous project but what it can do to put its
great resources into the governments hands
for utilization.
After that, Wilmington needs a program for
the development of its economic possibilities,
both as a city and as the center of a great
trade area and of two beach resorts, Wrights-
vile and Carolina Beach. The producing Sec
tons of southeastern North Carolina, the COM
merce on the Cape Fear river, the beaches,
present both a magnificent opportunity to Will
mington leadership and a tremendous respon-
sibility as well. The city, which is the geo
graphical and economic hub of the entire dis
trict, must be as Jealous for the districts ad-
vancement as it is for participation in the de-
ense program.
Now is the time to draft the program, de-
velop the leadership and unite to do a good job.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Editorial Comments
From Other AnqIes
MAGNIFICENT NOW
Raleigh News and Observer

Whatever just criticism may have been d.
rected against the British conduct in other
lands prior to and in the early stages of the
present war, the attitude of the British people
in the face of imminent danger and destruc-
ton has been a magnificent and inspiring Spec
tacle.
The earnest and eloquent speech of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill yesterday was
noteworthy in itself. 1t was more than note
worthy, it may become epoch making in that
it voiced the determined spirit of an entire ma
ton, a spirit which may wrest victory against
overwhelming odds.
After the fall of France, almost three months
ago, the fall of Britain seemed inevitable.
Adolf Hitler %joyously predicted that German
troops would be in possession of london within
6O days. That prediction was generally &C.
copied by the entire world-except the British.
The 90 days have long since past. No German
England.
But, the absence of German soldiers is not a
matter OF accident. The British Isles and the
city OF London have been subjected to the
flercest aerial bombardment the world has
ever known. Far less, either in terror or de.
struction was required to SOFTEN the nine
other nations which have fallen before Ger
man arms in the past.
It cannot yet be definitely predicted that
"AA ~ ~ $OA44aO1Sos oul, II
can be stated very positively that the British
people will not surrender. If defeated at all,
and their defeat becomes increasingly doubt
full, they will yield to superior force and will
not capitulate because of any weakening of
their own spirit.
Referring to Hitler as a wicked man" who
has resolved to break our famous island by a
proves of indiscriminate slaughter and de-
struction," Churchill yesterday told the Brit
ish people:
He has lighted a fire which will burn with
a steady and consuming flame until the last
vestige of Nazi tyranny has been burned out
of Europe and until the Old World and the
New can join hands to rebuild the temples of
mans freedom and mans honor upon founda-
tons which will not soon or easily be over
thrown"
Those are the words of a great leader of a
great people. They are more, they are the
words of a great nation, which has already
proven its words by it's deeds and is fully re-
solved to continue the struggle, be the cost
what it NAV, /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Westbrook Pegler

The Star is pleased to add Westbrook Peg
ler's daily column to it's battery of features,
beginning on Monday. Pegler's pithy com
ments on current events and trends of the
time are as widely read as the contributions
Of any columnist in the country's press.
1t is not always possible to agree with him.
Personal bias and prejudice often evoke op-
position to his writings. But his downright
sincerity is unquestionable. While his flexibility
OF expression itself to bookish per-
sons, the soundness of his reasoning appeals
to all classes, even when his views are not to
the readers liking.
Above all other merits, he has the unusual
attribute of making people think. Some object
that he carries his iconoclasism to extremes.
and perhaps he does, but even that is more a
virtue than a fault, since it compels his read
ers to think out for themselves the issues he
deals with and form decisions which other
wise would remain unsettled.
The Star takes this occasion, not only to
recommend his daily contributions, but to i'm
press upon it's readers that it takes no respop-
slblllty for any views he expresses. Their APP
pearance " the columns of this newspaper
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
WASHINGTON
REPORT
BY CHARLES p, STEWART
Central Press C0lumnist

WASHINGTON, Sept. .2.-The defeat of Sen
ator William H. King for the Democratic re-
nomination as one of Utah's pair of spokes-
men in the upper congressional chamber
knocked Washington all of a heap when news
of the primary's result reached the capital re-
Gently.
The Mormon state solon was in his fourth
six-year term in the senate. Though a Demo-
crat, he originally was elected at a time when
Utah was strongly Republican, evidently be-
cause, regardless Of his politics., his home
greatly liked him personally.
For a long while he served simultaneously
with as dyed-in-the-woo an old Mormon as
Senator Reed Smoot. They were a queer duo,
coming from the same constituency poles
apart. partisanly speaking. Smoot ultimately
lost out, but King held on for hard onto a gen.
Grafton. His legislative associates IN Capitol
Hill, maybe excepting an especially well-posted
group from in and closely around Utah, gener-
ally had taken it for granted that his renomi-
nation and reelection were foregone conclu-
slonS. He has been a very popular senator
among them and they were downright shocked
to hear that he'd been beaten.
TIL city of Washington's own residents are
in a Other over the tidings, also, for the SEN
ator of late has been chairman Of his cham
ber's District of Columbia committee, a post
roughly corresponding to mayor OF the capltal.
And he's been a remarkably good one-warm-
ly devoted to the municipalities interests.
Too Much a Washingtonian
Probably Senator King was too ~much a
Washingtonian for his own good, out IN otan.
That's apt to be a consideration whlch nan
dicaps congress- District chalrmen. Liner
home voters tend to feel that their local lnter-
ests are being neglected in favor OF "ashn's-
tons.
Back when the Republicans were IN a ma
jority and held all the congressional cnalr-
manships, Senator Arthur Capper OF Kansas
was the District groups head but ne KEPT
pretty close to the grass roots, TOO. he Ike
wise has some Sunflower state newspapers
which constantly remind Kansas unat ne ) one
Of them And he broadcasts to them every
few weeks, over the radio.
Senator King, in his "a years OF service
hasn't often been back to Utah, to attend to
his fences. He's virtually lived alt the time IN
Washington, particularly since he's been may
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
TAR EDITORIAL AMERICAN CURRENCY
American Currency

The market for American currency remains
strong despite the fact that very little of it is
being shipped to Europe. Total shipments to
other countries amounted to 81, 100, 900 in Aug
ust, but only $500, 900 of 1.-THE lowest in two
years-was destined for Europe.
Only Portugal now remains among the Euro.
pean countries as a direct importer of our fold
ing money, though doubtless some of its i'm.
ports are transhipped to Switzerland. The
largest, taken last month was Cuba, which re-
ceived Sc, CSC, 900. American currency circu.
lates extensively in the island, the circulation
of currencies other than Cuban and American
being forbidden by law.
Receipts of American currency last month
from Canada amounted to 81, 100, 600, reducing
net shipments to So, 900, 900. In July net ship
ments were 81, 900, 900, with receipts totaling
$500, 900 and shipments to Europe amounting
to $500, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Roosevelt Urges Unity

m his address before the International Team
sters' convention at Constitution hall wasb
lngton, which was broadcast to the nation.
President Roosevelt looked forward to the dav
when the E. F. of L., the C. 1. O. and ths
Railroad Brotherhoods will be united in close,
bonds of fellowship, and the reason for his an.
peal was obvious. Although he Cooked for.
ward he undoubtedly had the present in
mlnd-the present in which the United States
needs the, cooperation of every element in the
population in the national defense effort.
The point was well made, for if the nation
cannot depend on its workers in this emergen-
cy It's rearmament project might as well be
laid aside as beyond accomplishment. The
army, the navy, the air force present onlv one
side OF the defense picture. The other side is
the efficient service of labor in equipping the
lighting forces. And whether it is the worker
In an airplane factory, a munitions plant or
arsenal, a riveter or other employe in a navv
yard, or an engine or train crew moving war
materials, there must be harmony if the pic
ture is to complete a perfect pattern.
The President also laid stress upon the i'm
portance of industrial cooperation. and o,,ite
properly emphasized the right of the govern
ment to force recalcitrant manufacturers tn
90 their share, bear their burdens, in fitting
the country for any emergency the future
holds. How could we hope to justify our
course if we conscript soldiers and fail to con-
script Industries which refuse to participate in
the defense program on fair terms, but hold
out for unreasonable profits Is it gratifying
to find that congress is shaping a policy which
will authorize CONSUMPTION both of men with.
out Gripping delays, and of factories which,
If left to their own devices, would be slackers.
The Presidents address was not without it's
political implications, although it carefully
avoided any reference to the present political
campaign. Blu in the main it was an earnest,
eloquent appeal for willing service in the
emergency the United States must meet. AS
such, it will be viewed by the majority of
Americans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Ferry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highray from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
95-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid-
sr Turning Basin, aciM ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport. uia
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
United Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported By one
countrywide tao.
~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 Erport BUYERS.
Development of mative grape grouing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sdndtoriuw.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Hollywood Sights And SOUNDS
By Robin Coons.

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 12-Kay KY
ser's a bad loser. Now that's a
mean thing to say about a fellow,
but that's what Kay says and he
ought to know. That's why Kay's
second movie ought to be better
than his first, and his third better
than his second, and so on.
If the connection isn't clear, let
Kay wipe the mud off the wind
shield and take his own look at
the road ahead:
I'm a bad loser, boy, the worst
ever. l want to keep on winning
as long as I can. I want to put off
the day, the inevitable day for
everybody in this game, when Pm
out. That's why there's nothing
too hard for me and the gang to
tackle. That's why we're all try
in and tryin' and tryin' over
again till we're sure it's the best
can do"
Kay and gang are launched on
their second picture, You'll Find
Out The launching was slightly
different from the start of their
first, That's Right. You're
Wrong" The reason? Well, when,
Kay and his gang first hit town
to make a movie, Hollywood
looked down its nose and said OH
we'll : another : band : leader : huh
and let it go at that. Hollywood
had seen plenty of band leaders
come in swing time and go in a
crawl.
So Kay made his movie, with
David Butler directing and
producing, and that was that. They
had the preview, and some
people liked the picture q wasn't
among EN-. although I like Ray
md Dave) and some didn't. And
movie went out on the read
Where the real critics talk with
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Employers OF Section
limited To Use NOSES

Employers in Southeastern North
Carolina who may desire replace.
ments for employees called away 10
active duty with the National Guard
ire invited to use the services of the
Wilmington employment service d.
vision of the State Unemployment
Compensation commission, Maurice
H. Moore, manager, said yesterday,
"Our facilities are open to employ
ers at all times and our service in.
cludes not only records Of persons
available locally but a clearance
system with other points in the state
and nation" he said.
Moore said the list Of job appli.
cants at the local NOSES office
comprises some persons who are
now unemployed and others who are
employed but are looking for more
compatible work and who are able
to perform work of a specialized
nature.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
It's conceivable that Utah-ites
think he's neglected them.

or. It's conceivable that Utah-ites
think he's neglected them.
The moral is:
Senators and representatives who
accept District committee assign
ments do it at considerable risk 10
their denomination and reelection
chances. They may be mighty
faithful servants of the District, but
the District hasn't any votes to
give them in return for their serv.
ices.
Votes For The d. C.
To be sure, there's been consider
able agitation of late in favor of
giving franchise rights to the Dis
trict. The democrats spoke for the
idea in their last national platform.
Senator King hasn't been friend
ly to the notion. That, however,
didn't have anything to do with his
denomination defeat. What the
heck does Utah care about the Dis
trict of Columbia! For that mat
ter, the District itself isn't 100 per
cent pro-franchise. Some folk are.
but many are not. The latter bunch
object on the ground that the Dis
trict's negro population is so large
that the Afro-Americans might
WELD the balance of power.
At a guess, it would seem that
Senator King missed fire because
Utah's democracy is New Dealer
ish. In comparison with Senator
Smoot, I used to think he was a
first-class old-fashioned liberal. but
he's been unfriendly to a lot of New
Deal policies.
Representative Abe Murdoch.
who beat him for the senatorial
nomination, is a rip-snortin' New
Dealer.
Wait For November
On top OF that is the fact that
Senator King has neglected his
bailiwlck. On the opposite hand.
Abe Murdoch has been cultivat;no
it assiduously.
It's Kinda melancholy, though. to
see a most likeaole 24-ycar senator
lapse into the discard.
AS to Murdoch, he r9ay still be
licked by the republican nominee
Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada
is suggested as Senator Kings s,,c
cessor at the senatorial District
commlt1ee,s head. If he's chosen
and accepts he'd better follow
Senator Capper's example rather
than Senator Kings '1'er
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Man bout

By George Tucker

NEW YORK Sept. 12-Some-
times the mere mention OF a
name turns a mans mind into a
picture gallery. There are four
names that have this effect on
c. v. Sonny Whitney.
Film Flon is me-. Film Flon is a
mining camp up under the Arc
tic circle. You get copper there.
A lot of that copper, most OF it
in fact, now goes to the British
and American governments. 1t is
a mine that Whitney developed
with Roscoe Charming, a famed
metallurgist. The name comes
from an old legend that concern
ed tn e inventor of a sort of SUBJ
marine who dived to the cen
ter of the earth, where he discov-
cred gold. Film Flon is that leg
endary lode, C. v. (Sonny) Whit
ney likes to say.
Eouipoise is another name that
produces an immediate effect
on Mr. Whitney's Imagination.
Eouipoise was Sonny's horse;
still is, in fact. He won the Ken
lucky Derby. He won $375,000 in
purses. Today Equipoise takes his
oats and his ease on the soft blue
grass of a Kentucky farm. He's
under the care of Ivor Bal
ding, and Englishman and a horse
breeder, who still goes to college,
learning things about horses.
Old Equipoise has some new shoes
now. The ones he wore when
he won the Derby have been
silver-plated and today they are
in Mr.. Whitney's office, on the
58th floor of the Chrysler Bldg,
where they serve as ash trays.
Mention Beryllium to Whitney
and his face lights up like a Hol-
lywood premiere. Beryllium, in a
sense, is his baby. He spent a lot
of money on research, developing
it. Beryllium is a substance that
you mix with copper to achieve a
metal far lighter than aluminium
and far stronger than steel. It's
good for airplanes and machine
guns.
Mention Pan-America Always
and you will get still another
CLEAN of interest from Mr.. Whit
ney's eyes. At this writing he is
on a return flight from New Zea-
land, where he and a number of
publishers have gone, charting
new trails. Whitney always flies
the routes before they are in actual
operation. He has been at it since
the first World war. He a an
instructor in that var He left
Yale at II to 60 to France. AS
chairman of Pan-America's board
he flies constantly. One of his
ideas, already in operation, is the
training Of cadets in Floria for
long distance transport navigation.
Navigation is important for pilots
who span the Caribbean and who
ply the Americas. Whitney thinks
courses in training on our Gulf
coast will be invaluable to future
Pan-America pilots. The names Of
those from the eastern section Sc
lected to take these courses have
already been announced in e
newspapers.
A long time ago Sonny Whit
ney's name used to find it's way
into the Broadway columns, and
he was not an infrequent visitor
at the night clubs. His visits r
rare now. Perhaps Film Flon up
under the Arctic circle, and Beryl-
lium in Pennsylvania, not to men
ton Pan-America Always and an
occasional visit to see old Equi-
poise down in Kentucky, are rea-
sons enough for his absence. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
Brief Docket Cleared
In Recorders Cour1

A brief docket was quickly cleared
in recorders court yesterday NOM
ing.
Mamie Doe, 81 North NINA
street, charged with assault WIN d
deadly weapon, was sentenced "
five months on the county larH'
William Cherry, 1904 North sV'
ond street, charged with assam
with a deadly weapon on a fenlas'
was sentenced to nine months V'
the county farm.
James Williams, Ais South S''
enth street, charged with an as
sault on a female, was given d ""
tinuance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
By LOUIS ADAMIC

To me the Unit
States is O an
idea than any
thing else. A n d
by the American
idea l mean the
body of ideals
a n d practices
which different
people have la
belled various
ly democracy,
equality, general
welfare; liberty,
t h e pursuit of
happiness t h e
A m e r i c a n
n r O q M + h @
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13

Promise of America, the American
Way.
I mean the thoughts, emotions
and doings of people on this CONT
nent that run like a clear stream
through our history from Plymouth
Rock to Ellis Island, and h a
aimed for a better life than seemed
possible anywhere else or earth.
1 mean the Mayflower Concord
ant the Declaration of Independ-
enc, the Gettysburg Address, and
the tears in the eyes of millions of
immigrants from more t han a
score of countries during the last
so years as they passed the Statue
of Liberty. on whose pedestal are
struck these words
Give me your tired, your poor,
The Wretched refuse of y o
teeming shore,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free,
Send these, the homeless, e
tempest-tost to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door.
There will be danger, l fear, in
this period of stress that Ameri-
canism will be defined and inter
preted too narrowly by the ele-
ments in our population which by
virtue of their numbers and prior
itv largely dominate the life of the
United States.
The danger will be that the idea
of Americanism will become again,
as it was during the first World
War, too insistently nationalistic
from the viewpoint of the no-long-
er-true idea that the United States
is preponderantly an extension OF
the British Isles and the Anglo
Saxon tradition.
Such nationalistic Anglo-Ameri-
canism will not be all-incluslve. 1t
will leave out tens of millions OF
immigrants and their American
born sons and daughters who are
not of the Anglo-Saxon strain, but
who come or stem from central
Europe, Scandinavia, Italy, Poland,
the Balkans, the Near and Far
East, Mexico, and Africa. And
leaving them out, il. is apt to weak
en- their current e%agerness to add
their energies to the defense effort.
Amricanism must be stated or
so it will be all-inclusive,
as something that is the monopoly
OF no one strain in this country, but
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13

their coin and it cleaned up
gross such as RKO hasn't l aSc ma
miles of reels - about l'oOO's+
on a half-million dollar ln't a,
ment. 81 you see this time ID.
different. Kay walks on a req v"
vet carpet, so to speak. LII
1 don't believe he's toolsS,
though. He's still that Nol md
Ca'lina country boy at heart s ~.
he knows this one has to Dc tird
ter than the last or it's MS VIE"
strike and out.
Kay found in Dave buU'- .ri
fellow who knows music
pictures and knows Kay hyst,
He found in Dave a fello" W..
agreed with him that NOBODY t~'
ed about the trials and 'I gJr,
lations of orchestra leaders as i,,,,i
material, and also as' s;n
that nobody wanted to see
making love. oon't,
eff l could do it, when l ',or
it would make Tyrone ro |lIy
look silly" he says, Just a. me- me-
as Tyrone Power would man an nv
look if he came up ana leu ii
band as if he'd been dolfls me
his life. So we skipped tns ri.
about the hard luck and ma
umph of the struggling orcns s ii
and we skipped making a iT sct.
by having me try Wv 70 still
In "You'll Find Out, Ray yicsel
is not "acting." A haAa,pnt
cast covers the acting depai pbris
and includes Peter Lore a,ine
Karloff and Bella Lugosl 'pii IN
their horror stuff stralgnnt; vaete.
mystery comedy, Dennis od'.rl,n
Iinny Simms, and Helen Fa Ea,
So far it doesn't look as mad
will have to show what
he is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
happy concentration of some of
hest Sniratinnc ond tendnnciaS

a happy concentration of some of
the best aspirations and tendencies
of humanity at its best nearly ev-
eryWhere at one time or another.
Americanism, as I see it, is a
movement away from primitive
racism, fear and nationalism, herd
instincts and mentality and superb
ority and snobbery; a movement
toward freedom, creativeness, a
or pan-human culture. l
A comparison of tn two
Americas of today is made by
Mary Roberts Rinehart in the
next article of this series on
"Our Country"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
GOOD PROGRESS

NORTH W1LKESBORO. Sept. -.
- up Highway department engi-
neers reported today rapid progress
in the reconstruction of bridges and
fills destroyed by recent floods in
this section.