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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-10-04
In THE TIMES
The Evangelist

In our Sunday School lesson
we begin a six month study of
the Gospel according to Luke.
FSOsassi aessan. many ques.
tions are asked, and the answers
are given. There is an excellent
sketch, by Rev. Lundquist, on
the life of Luke. You'll enjoy
it as we did.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-10-04

Here folks The All American ticket for November
West Virginia Reading from left right are: Judge Ma
Jackson of Logan candidate Attorney General Allison
Fleming of Fairmont candidate for State Auditor Worth
Shumaker of Buckhannon candidate for State Superintendent
of Schools Daniel Boone Dawson Charleston candidate
Governor Mrs. Chauncey d. Hnerman Cameron candidate
for Secretary of State Tom Of Wheeling candidate
for United States Senator former Governor Howard NJ Gore
of Carburg candidate for Commissioner Agriculture and
Hal Morris of Charleston cand date for
guessed it. It's the Republican ticket
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Surplus Foods Week

Surplus Food Week, now in progress here
as throughout the country, affords home-mak-
ers excellent opportunity to help keep Ameri-
cas- economic system in balance. 1t was ini-
tiated for the purpose of building up home
consumption to offset the loss of some $500,
900, 900 in foreign sales, cut off by the conflict
il Europe.
It has nothing to do with the activities of
the Surplus Commodity Corporation which is
distributing these commodities largely now
through the stamp system of relief, but is
intended to increase retail sales of the same
commodities among financially independent
buyers. 1t is obvious that something must be
done to find a market for the goods which
previous to the war were sold abroad, and the
only thing. apparently, that can be done, is to
create a larger home demand. Hence, Surplus
Food Week.
Wilmington housewives are urged to re-
member that by increasing home consumption
OF commodities on the surplus list they will
be helping to solve the economic problem Eu-
ropes war has posed for the United States.
Among commodities thus listed are rice, raj
sins, pork, pork land, eggs, wheat flour, whole
wheat graham flour, honiny grits, fresh ap-
pies, fresh pears, fresh snap and lima beans,
oranges, dry beans and corn. There are others,
but this is the principal group.
If the habit of buying them and insisting
that the family eat them is contracted now,
it is reasonable to assume that it will be
continued long after this particular week is
past. That is why it is important to participate
in Surplus Food Week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
The Beach Fire

later generation may view the fire at
c.ro1ina Reach as a blessing, as the present
population of San Francisco looks upon the
holocaust which swept that city IS years ago,
b,,t for contemporary residents and property
owners it is a major catastrophe. 1t is not
only that the loss may run as high as a mil
lion dollars. That is a heavy burden, OF course,
hit insurance payments will materially Tighten
it. What is more shocking is that so large an
area of buildings mostly of wooden construc'
ton could be without adequate fire protection
and that no adequate supplemental water sup
n1v was available when the cutting off OF
power, to prevent electricutions, halted the
town pump. The little lake and drainage
ditches, which firemen turned to in the emer-
gency. proved a poor substitute for pressur.
flow. Dead water is harder to pump than
water stored at an elevation.
This, of course, is, at best, but a post NOR
tenn reflection. The business section of Caro-
lima Beach is in ruins. The only value of the
ackward glance is to encourage a look ahead.
That shows that Carolina Beach, in rising from
it's ashes, must make provision for fire pro-
lection which will prevent another major ca
tastrophe impossible. This can be done, and
assuredly will be done, not only by better
water supply for emergencies but by specify
ing what type structures may be erected in
the central fire zone.
Carolina Beach will be rebuilt. There is no
question of that. One can see it springing up,
not overnight, but over a long enough period
of time to insure its architectural and land
scape attractiveness. The fire offers the re-
sort planners an opportunity to revise the
map, to replot for beauty and stability and
permanency. The new Carolina Beach, we are
confident, will be as substantial and as beauti-
full as any resort on the Atlantic shore-not
as large, but quite as handsome as the best
That is why we believe that later generations
will look up Thursday mornings blaze as a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Entertainment At Camps

The army, itself, is to direct all activities
designed for the entertainment and comfort
of the draft army in camp. The morale division
of the adjutant generals office has been re-
established and it is the plan to engage hos
tesses for club houses and cafeterias through
this branch. 1t is hoped that by this arrange
ment boys at cantonments, many of whom will
be away from home for the first time, will
be spared the pangs of inconsistencies and other
emotional unpleasantness.
All entertainment will be under direct army
supervision. Private organizations will be per-
mitted to establish recreational centers out.
side of bounds, but not within, as was the
case during the training period of the last
mobilization. The Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, the Knights of Columbus, and other
private institutions will be forbidden within
the training grounds-a doubtful blessing,
which can be offset only by the army pro-
yiding the equivalent in spiritual leadership.
Whether it will do this or not, it is %solacing
both to boys subject to the draft and to their
parents and relatives to know that camp life
is to offer more han strict military routine.
1t is believable that the draftees will make
better soldiers if their time is divided between
drill and entertainment. Whatever happiness
is introduced at cantonments will be in the
interest of efficient defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
And they add that the advance wi

sistance. And they add that the advance will
continue.
Probably the conclusion to be drawn is that
the Italians have gained an initial minor sue
cess but that the real fighting will start as
they approach Merseh Matruh, which lies $50
miles from the border. 1t is evident, at least
that the British are not trying very hard to
stop the advance now. Their chances will be
better as the Italian line of communication
lengthens for then the striking force Of the
invaders will be less because of the necessity
Of protecting their base and their flanks.
Much more disturbing to the British than
Italian success thus far, it would seem, is the
fact that the Egyptian government has not
seen fit to declare war even though its terri
tory has been invaded. If it is true, as Rome
announces, that Mussolini has obtained an
Egyptian pledge to keep clear of the war as
long as the Italians confine their attention to
the British, the problem of defending the Suez
canal has been made even more difficult.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
George E. Kidder

The first shock of George E. Kidder's death
is past. The grief clings. None who knew him
can think of his going without a throb in the
throat. He was that kline of man. Keen in bust
ness, loyal in friendship, efficient in service,
he left the stamp of his personality where
ever he went, SO that his loss extends far be-
yond. the family circle.
Despite the obligations of his important bust
ness connections-he was president of the &C.
ment Products Company, and had many COM
mercial interests-he found time to share the
burdens of public affairs with the same eff
cheney that characterised all his activities. AS
mayor and alderman of Wrightsville Beach,
where he made his summer home, he exerted
powerful influence upon that resorts develop
ment. 1t is the testimony of the wide circle that
mourns his loss that individually their lives
were enriched by contact with him.
Among the verities is the fact that some
thing OF every man remains after death. The
good they do is not inferred with their bones.
shakespeare to the contrary Notwithstanding.
1t IS SO with George Kidder. So long as mem
DRY lasts the good that he did, the power for
good that he welded, will linger for his friends
to cherish. 1t is a rich heritage, both for the
bereaved family and for everybody who Knew
him..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
The Royal Air Force

1t becomes more and more apparent that
II Hitler fails to invade Britain the Royal Air
Force will have had quite as much to do with
1t as bad weather. The British authorities
have had little to say of the effectiveness of
the Royal Air Forces continental raids. and
the Germans less. But from unofficial sources
evidence piles up that the intrepid fliers of
that force have been striking Gripping blows
across the channel which have caused the
erman to revise their plans from day to
day and lessened the probability of invasion.
James M. Minifie, in a copyrighted article
In the New York Herald-Tribune of Tuesday.
writes in more detail than we have previously
seen OF the destructiveness of British air raids
upon Nazl concentrations. The night before,
ne says, heavy attacks were made on concen.
trations of war supplies and Shipping along
almost 800 miles of coastline, from Hamburg
10 Boulogne, taking in Wilhelmshaven, Ant
Werp, Flushing, Ostend, Dunkerque and Calais.
Reports from Americans returning from
France, and from neutral sources, bear out
the contention of the Raj. that its recent at
lacks OF the long c%oastline facing England have
thrown German plans into confusion. The col
ossal task of building up supplies and means
OF transportation is never ending. for as soon
as it nears completion fresh bombing attacks
sink barges, blow up stores and block mort
entrances with sunken Ships Here is cir
cumstantial evidence that Hitler in waiting not
SO much an opportunity to strike by land at
Britain, according to his own thinking, but a
chance to strike at all.
Another hint of the probable outcome of
the Battle of Britain is to be found in the
comparative losses Of the British and German
air forces. The British prime minister, Winston
Churchill, assuring the British people that his
figures are correct, declares German plane
losses three to one over the British and in
man power six to one. Hitler may be able to
sustain this greater loss for a time, but with
his lessening replacement production in planes
and with experienced fliers becoming fewer
and fewer, it is obvious that the air supre-
macy he covets and must achieve for success
ful invasion is questionable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
MAJOR FLETCHER MAY
ASK MILITARY LEAVE
Head Of Wage-hour Division Ex-
pected to Assist In Admin
iStratiOn of Draft

RALEIGH, Sept. 19.-RAMajor
A. L. Fletcher. head of the Federal
Wage Hour division in the Caro-
linas, said today he might ask for
military leave from his post, to
assist in the administration of the
draft in North Carolina.
Major Fletcher is judge advocate
to the State National Guard land
a member Of the staff of Aid. Gen.
j. Van B. Nets, who has been
designated by Governor Hoey as
the administrator of the draft ma
chinery in North Carolina.
If General Nets decides that
my services r needed, 1 will
ask that a substitute be assigned
temporarily to my duties in the
wage-hour DIVISION" said Major
Fletcher. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
AS To Egypt

From the first communicates dealing with
the progress of the Italian push into Egypt
lhere IS no way OF telling how this struggle,
carried on in intense heat and amid desert
sandstorms, is going. AS usual, both sides in
terpret it so far to their own advantage.
For example, the British say that the fall
OF Solum and other points is of no signifi-
canoe because they never intended to make
a serious effort to defend them. The Italians
point out, on the other hand, that the British
did not give these places up without some re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Mrs. Bankhead Will Not
Seek Place In Congress

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 49,
R-Mrs. Florence Bankhead re-
moved her name from the list Of
possible successors to the congress.
sional post held for % years by
her late husband, Speaker William
H. Bankhead.
Her nomination, tantamount to
election in heavily democratic Ala
bama, had been virtuanv assured
by action of state executive COM
mittee members from her Ct h e
seventh. district.
They had agreed to present her
name to the state committee at the
special meeting called here Sat
urday to select h democratic
nominee for the vacancy. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

IL would be difficult, even allow
ing the straight northerly line, to
fashion a picture frame exactly the
shape of that map. The jutting in
dentations of the Gulf of Mexico
states, would make it a jig saw car
pentry job to fashion such a picture
frame.
But within that frame work lies
the problem and the answer to the
American case. And from my win
dow. my little sector Of it is every
bit as authentic as the Kansas wheat
sector, the Nevada Mohave desert
sector, the Wisconsin dells, Pennsyl-
vania coal fields, New England mill
towns, Cape Cod fisheries or Okla
homa oil lands. All of them part of
the American case.
Down there, out there, I say to
myself, intangible and real; remote
and intimate, lies the American
dilemma. And valuable beyond anv
of the wealth in her soil, her bank
ing houses, her communities, is her
integrity as a democracy
Beneath her surface turmoil and
torment, fear and hysteria, politics,
cross purposes, selfishness and self
fitness, that integrity remains the
paramount issue.
lmbedded even in this n tiny
sector of scene outside my window
is a spot of protoplasm which is the
source of the life of u nation.
And you cannot define it any more
you can define life itself. 1t
squirms with the beginning of our
American ideals and ideas. 1t is the
of u high love of freedom,
uncompromising demand for the
dignity of human living, our sancti-
of tolerance, humanitarian
and the right to live and let live.
Out there, you willy-nilly polite
lans' pecking up your grains of gain,
you democrats, republicans, pushing
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Star-News Proqram

Consolidated C~ity-County Government
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md 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-
sr Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved Riuer Road to ~Southport, Via
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
lion through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial! md Resort Pro
motional Agency, SUPPORTED by one
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, Developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for uhites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development Of ndtive grape groUing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sandtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

line song have been made in the
past, but nobody ever did it right
until Barron came along.
Perhaps the most appropriately
named photographer ir New York
is Caesar Camara, who has bun
l up his cameras and departed
Tor Mexico, where he will make
pictures for the Mexican govern
Camara is also an expert
trap drummer /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
American War Mothers
Omen Meet In Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, Sept. 10 ne
The North Carolina brahcH "a
American War Mothers oesa
21st annual convention heIe .too1,
A memorial service, a lu".,. r,
business sessions and a DaHf fot
night made up the days pto5
the rs delegates attending 10.
The final session will be hel'
morrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Man About
Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER
BY TUCKE

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Any Is
minute stroll down Broadway, 5th
avenue, or And Street is sure to be
productive of at least a dozen en-
counters. Each is worth a story,
although the names involved may
not always be accustomed to the
bright lights.
Here is Missy, whose father, a
football coach, is athletic director
of Hampden-Sidney College, in Vir-
ginia. Missy's real nar-4e is Grace
Logue Bernier, and she explains
that shining light n her eyes with
the announcement that she soon is
to become the bride of the editor
of a weekly newspaper, SOM
where in the east" When that
happens Missy will We Mrs. Lamp
son Smith. Her dad (they call
him ''Yank') has had quite a ca
reer as a football coach. 1t was
he who gave Alabama its rst
Rose Bowl team-the one that had
John Mack Brown on it.
y
That black-headed young m a n
scribbling a left-handed note on
the back of a menu is Frank Will
son. Probably you don't know who
he is. But you listen to what he
ha; to say all the time. He writes
the Kay Kyser show each week. He
is also the author of 1T Bishop
and the G~argoyle," a radio fea-
ture. Frank is a Cincinnati boy,
born, he tells you, ''in the white
stone-stooped section made famous
by Edna Ferber's Back Street"
For a while, after coming to New
York, he lived above a speakeasy
in genteel elegance, dining on pa
nuts and chocolate bars. Then he
finally got going.
If you pass the old Amsterdam
theater on And street you are al
most certain to bump into Nat
Dorfman, theatrical press agent
whose clients include Irving Ber-
lin, Buddy Desylva, and others.
But ask him what's new and he
won't mention Louisiana Pur-
chase" or any of his other shows.
With that light in his eyes that
proud parents r always afflicted
with he sayc, MY kid, he won
another tournament. He's sixteen.
l think he's going to get some
where" Mats kid is a strap
ping young buck who is already
regarded as n of the finest anna
teur tennis players in the east.
Here comes Doris Dudley. a gal
in blue Stacks, shapely sweater,
and dark glasses. She's on her
way to keep al interview with INT
of the drama critics. She got quite
a play in the papers " little while
back when John Barrymore and
his wife staged that rumpus at the
opening of my Dear Children.
That was when Doris was ousted
from the show in favor of Barry
more's wife, Elaine, and it was
then that Doris got off her classic
remark to the reporters: II am
in the peculiar position of trying
to fight sex with talent" Between
Broadway plays, Doris is being
featured in a radio drama. Her
papa is Bide Dudley, the drama
critic.
Well, that's Broadway, that's
And street, that's any street. You
try to get somewhere and you find
yourself talking shop with people
you haven't seen, or thought of,
IN weeks. Most of them aren't
known outside of New York, but
they are important. They are the
people behind the scenes. The en-
glneers who really make the wheels
go round.
recommended - Blue Barron's
recording of Sometimes I'm Ham
Ply. A hundred recordings of this |
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

with as many colors as a bottle of sand purchased in
a children's sand store.
1t is of New York, my view, of Hudson River, of
New Jersey Palisades, of docks, Hells Kitchen, sky
scrapers, apartment houses, brownstone dwellings,
petty shops, family wash lines, pent houses, ocean
liners, churches, schoolhouses, warehouses, motion
picture houses, old houses, new houses, gas tanks and
subway kiosks. Dimly, on the opposite side of the
Hudson river, the view is of country houses set back
in forestry, bridges, automobiles crawling like ants
along macadamized roads, and streets of working
mems dwellings,. standing in rows, like paper dolls
cut from a folded newspaper.
1t is the American scene down there, as dear as
close, as familiar and desirable to me as the Ameri-
can air I breathe these eighteen stories above the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
TOP O. THE MORNING

4 neU heart WtH I give you. and q new
sptft WlH put Wlthin you and I WiH take dwdy
the stony heart Of yoar flesh, and I UiN giUe
you an heart Of flesh.
LAMENTATIONS 5; p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Fair Enough
nv W~ESTBROOK PEGLER

The Star wishes its readers
.+o know that views and opin-
ions expressed in this article
are those of the author and may
not always harmonic with its
nosition.-The Editor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
. OUR COUNTRY
Fannie Hurst Stands Al Her
WindowAnd LooksAtTheO One
Thing That Matters Above All
By FANNIE HURST

Author of Back Street." Limitation Of Life" -Four Daughters" ETC.
Every morning I look out of my window, which is a city window, and
gives O. one of the most dramatic views in the world.
1t is a view as startling as that of a Tibetan monastery torn mt of
the rock Of the top of the Ehmalayas Q Of the Grand CANNON sIeaAed
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
FAIR TO OPEN

MEBANE, Sept. 80 4 onsp
Mebane six counties fair VIII
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

1T is the American scene, I say to myself, and out there in all that
me- e of human behavior, ambition, dedre, love, hate, hope comass
ana lear, IS ne design of my country which stretches from coast 10
coast and ron north to south, its shape that of the map of the United
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

each other about, you Intervention
lists, isolationist, New Dealers, rlc1
men. poor men, beggar men, doctors
kwyes, merchants chief, There u
one thing that matters above oil !"
tt. great emergency of our na'''D''
life. America.
Concentrate on it. Save it anu
thereby save yourselves, your V""
dren and the greatest treasure '"''
any nation can claim for It's o""
a democratic way of living.
Stand at your windows you i"'
men. poor men, beggar men, doctors,
lawyers, merchants, chiefs ~"
your interests. Pool your sirens
Pool your energies. Focus upon thu
spot of national protoplasm'
Lying out there, stretching "a
coast to coast and from noflH ="
south is a scene that must De ~
served within the JIG saw traine"0'"
of democracy.
1t is the case for America
Upon your ability to suDolo-''''
all issues to that, lies our tulu''
I stand at my window "'"
Thanksgiving goes up Tor 'he
lege of citizenship in this dehloO'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

America has imported too "aT,
ideas and fears from EUROPE ID.
Robert p. Tristram Coffin WIZ m
vises us to try being Aner'ca"' IN
the next article of tins seiN'
Our Country"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-27
Manufacturing
AiHigh Point
Pierce County High
In U. S. Report

Pierce county ranks high
as a manufacturing center,
based on a report recently
completed by Harry L. Hop
kins, U. S. secretary of COM
merce.
The survey. the second in a
series compiled to assist distribu-
tors and manufacturer In market
ing products effectively and eff
GENTLY. analysed the economic
trends in the county from 1929
to 1887.
Hopkins pointed out that the
study dealt with manufacture and
expenditures for raw materials.
fuel and power used In production
Of necessities.
Pierce county ranked s1st In
1887 In value OF manufactures pro-
duced, totaling s134,344,777, and
Goth in money expended for man.
ufacturing necessities. totaling
$97. 341. 046, as compared with the
rest Of the nations 3,070 counties.
Biennial Census
The report. based on an analysis
made by the bureau Of foreign
and domestic commerce of the BIZ
ennial census of manufac-
lures. shows comparative figures
for 1920. the peak OF prosperity
year; 1888. the turning point OF
the depression. and 1887, the latest
year for which figures are avail
able. The census for the calendar