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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
Editorial Comment
HITLER'S "GOLD"
Christian Science Monitor

"Our capacity for work is our gold, our
capital, and with it we will defeat any other
power There is the Nazi challenge epito-
mized Let all who would meet it take heed.
Adolf Hitlers boast is not true, will not
come true. The Nazis never tried to conquer
the world with work. They were not satisfied
with the success Germany had achieved IN
regaining economic power by hard work and
industrial organization. They were not con-
tent by peaceful trade to overcome economic
handcaps unfairly imposed on Germany; their
economic power today, as in Rumania for
example, rests largely on military might.
| Once violence is forsaken or curbed the
German peoples splendid capacity for work
will not defeat any other power" but give
the world and themselves useful enriching
products
Yet it is true that German military power
rests largely on work. The Nazi regime has
won popular support partly because it has
put the people to work Putting them to work
has produced the mechanical might Of the
German army and air force.
| Only so long as German industry and in
genuity support the Nazi war machine can it
stand. But those who would stop it-and pos
sibly only when it is manifestly stopped will
the German people see the folly of its violent
methods-must match Hitler's "gold' in kind,
with work and more work. Certainly it has
become plain today that R. A. F. pilots can
not take wing on pound notes nor American
sailors 60 to sea in dollar bills. Money must
be turned into machines by the work of mems
hands, work which requires time, skill and
self-sacrifice.
Herr Hitler declares that only totalitarian
state can achieve the required sacrifice for
the common veal" His method is to draft
labor and capital. When machines make war
and it takes score of workers to supply
every fighter, work becomes military power
The democracies have seen that they must
resort to military conscription. Britain in some
measure has also drafted workers and wealth.
How far on that line must the United States
go? For despite the yellow metal at Fort
Knox, the gold America must use for de-
tense is work, and more work. Will Ameri-
cans really awaken to the situation? VIII they
make voluntarily the sacrifices that the Nazis
have forced Germans to make?
Let industrialsts who seek to use the war
emergency for profteering or for wreckng
labor organizations, answer. Let unions who
hold up defense by jurisdictional strikes or
play unfairly upon the Nations need for labor,
answer. Let all Americans who believe they
can meet the totalitarian challenge with 'fbusi-
ness as usual and pleasure usual, answer
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
TOP o. THE MORNING

haze qiues then, the acords aUhicb Thou
gdvest me-; and they hdUe Teceiued them.
...I haze given them Thy aoord; and the
svorld hath hated them, because they are not
of the aporld, even as I am not OF the a0orld.
prog not that Thou shoa1dst take them out
OF the aoorld, but that Thou shou1dst Keep
then, from, the eUil.
As Thou hast sent me into the aoorld.
Neither pray for these alone, but for them
also avho shall believe on me through their
,yord. From Christ's Intercessory prayer
his last night before his trial and cruc'fraon
John II; 8, H. Is, 18, 20.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
STATE PURCHASES
50 AUTOMOBILES
Cars Are Scheduled To Be
Used For Highway Super
vision Work

RALEIGH, Dec. 13- Up The
state board of awards today
bought so Chevrolet sedans for the
highway department from the fleet
sales division of General Motors
Sales Corporation of Charlotte, for
a total of $27, 1880.
The automobiles will be used for
highway supervisory work. The
purchase price was about the same
as that paid for cars last year.
Among other contracts awarded
today were:
Four hundred suits for discharg-
ed prisoners, United Dollar Stores
of Durham. $1,000.
Fifty thousand yards of un-
bleached sheeting for prisoners,
United Dollar Stores, $6,937.50.
Syrup, 27,500 gallons, American
Molasses company of Wilmington,
81, ,s6e.85.
Twenty-Five thousand yards of
sheeting for prisoners, Carolina
Textile Products of Durham, ST..
624.38.
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Public Port Terminals

II is fact so well established that proper
utilization of the Cape Fear river, both Tor
defense and for commerce-which is an es'
sential factor of defense-requires the con-
struction of adequate terminals and ware
houses. that the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration, to which application for a $63o'ooo
loan has been made by the city to finance
such a project is to be expected to take
favorable action. Any decision which failed
to include the desired loan would be serious
handicap to the defense effort.
The brief which has just been filed by the
city, and which was summarized in yester-
days Star, shows an available inflow OF com
modities-not conjectural but definitely await
ing terminals here-sufficient to pay all oper-
ating costs from the start and hquldate the
project debt over reasonable period OF time.
Careful surveys of production and industrial
areas within the normal sphere of service
have proved that the facilities in contempla-
ton for Wilmington will more than support
them and retire all bonds issued for their
construction.
Other southern ports have been built up in
a similar way and have demonstrated in black
and white, not red ink, that such terminals
are public necessity and convenience. Mobile
and Gulfport stand out as illustrations of this
fact. Both have not only increased the move
ment of commerce through their ports but the
port facilities they built, have attracted in
dustries and business which have sent there
cities far ahead Of their rating before their
ports were developed.
The need here is even greater than at either
Of these other coastal citis. With large troop
concentrations in this vicinity and the move
ment of supplies as well as military equip
ment to be considered, Wilmington would be
denied its proper opportunity for service il
it's port were not fully developed-f these
terminals were not built.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilMana0er Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial ShoWs.
Seaside High1cdy from Wrightsville
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, soid-
er Turning Basin, .oith ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paued River Road to Southport, pia
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Production
through sustainedyteld methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
tional Agency, supported By one county
1oide tar.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
adequate hospital ~iNties for sohites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape 0roUing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sandtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
An Impressive Message

President Roosevelts letter to the Economic
Club of New York. which did not receive the
press recognition it deserved, carries mes
sage of three fold Importance.
1t is important because it recognizes that
in our American way of life political freedom
and economic freedom 60 hand in hand" We
have all the evidence we need, from the
totalitarian regimes abroad to show that po-
litical freedom cannot survive when citizens
lose their economic independence to the state
1t is important because it frankly faces the
fact that government and private enterprise
working together is the best way to secure
freedom from want, freedom from insecurity
and freedom from fear" And the message is
important finally because it makes clear that
the success of this joint effort must rest on
the foundation of proper reward for labor,
proper incentive for enterprise and a proper
return on investment
With this letter to group of business and
industrial leaders discussing National Unity
for Defense" Mr.. Roosevelt has struck an en-
couraging note at an opportune time 1t is
the first time since the election that he has
set forth so clearly what he conceives his
objectives to be during the months ahead.
These detectives are stated in broad and
general terms, to be sure. But if Mr.. Roose-
welt follows this program in the simple and
commonly understood meaning of the words
he uses and if he implements words with
actions he will have advanced a long way
toward cementing national unity and speeding
the completion Of our defenses.
| This challenge to our democracy to achieve
speedy defense and national progress by max
ing the best possible use of our national re
sources is precisely what Mr.. Roosevelt call:
it"a challenge to government, to labor, t.
industry and to capital alike We can only
meet that challenge if all of these group.
recognize clearly their common dependence
and their common goal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 - Well,
Pals, I'll bet you can hardly wait
to hear what the boys over on
Broadway have got cooked up for
your New Years Eve entertain
ment. They've figured out a little
scheme that practically doubles
their admission prices, and when
I think how right Barnum was il
makes me want to toss this type
writer right out the window and
get over on Broadway myself.
To be specific, all the big musi-
Gals which normally are $40 will
jump to $7.70 for New Years Eve.
These include Panama Hattie"
Louisiana Purchase" Hold On
to Your Hats" and Boys and
Girls Together"
Then there is the long running
''Hellzapoppin," which goes from
$3.50 to $500. After this m e
Ethel Waters in Cabin in the
Sky" and Helen Hayes in Twelfth
1N1Suk- W11Sl I1AOVC 11O1ll YC.oV w
$3.50. Admission to George Wash
ington Slept Here" 'The Man
Who Came to Dinner" and Life
With Father" will show only a
modest 33 1-3 per cent increase,
going from $3.50 to $40. There
will be no increase on whatever in
Joe Cooks farce on skates, 1T
Happens on Ice." nor in Separate
Rooms" with Lyle Talbot. and in
Johnny Belinda" But Tobacco
Road" now entering its eighth
year on Broadway, will go from
$1.10 to $2.20.
Bear in mind these are merely
the box-office prices, which will
hardly do you any good at all.
They do not include the legal COM
missions collected by ticket brok-
ers, who by now have all the re-
naming worthwhile seats anyway.
Their commission, fixed by III e
legislature, is IS cents on an or
dinary $3.50 ticket. On New Years S
Eve they will rise accordingly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON Dec. 13.-The name is Mari
on Post. Not being one man census bureau,
couldn't be positive, but l think she is the
only full-time woman photographer now in
the employ of Uncle Sam. (Dorothea Lange,
who used to be, now is on part-time schedule
with the bureau of agricultural economics)
Marion is one of the three photographers
on the staff of the Farm Security Administra-
ton. For more than two years she has haunted
farms in every state east of or Man River
A tall wispy young woman, with blue eyes
and cascade of curly dark-brown hair which
she usually binds in a red bandana, she has
been mistaken for gypsy; arrested for a
spy; ordered off farms where the tenants
thought she was an itinerant peddler; played
the role OF mother confessor to scores of
farm folk in the isolation belt and numerous
times been called brazen young hussy for
travelling about the countryside without a
chaperone
Wide Territory
Yet in spite of all these mishaps and hap
penstances she invariably has come back with
the plctures-of tenant farmers Okies, and
industrial workers. With sometimes no more
definite assignments than: Check up on con-
dltlons among the Mississippi delta people,
or let's See how far we are getting with
the fruit pickers in Florida" Marion Post
mas hopped off on six or seven-rnonth junkets.
For weeks Oh end she has lived out of her
convertible coupe, which not only contains
her three cameras and all the paraphernalia
that goes with modern photography, but
enough of wardrobe to make her presentable
and comfortable from the sands of Florida
to the ski-runs of Lake Placid.
Seized As Spy
Ihls necessary heap of luggage is one thing
mat often has drawn suspicion of highway
cops and village marshals It had nothing to
DO, however, with her most serious precica.
Iment.
IN Kentucky hill town on market day,
Marion was shooting endless plates of film
when deputy sheriff pulled her in ION sus.
plclon OF being a spy Hailed before the
magistrate she was damned by several wit
nesses who declared under oath they had
seen blue-prints in the back of that little
black box" She didn't spend any time in
jail, but it was only because it was court
day and the circuit Judge happened to be
sitting at the time.
MISS Post sees her job as unglamorous
out mteresting-a slight contribution she
hopes, to visual appreciation of how millions
OF farm people must live and a black-and.
white record of what her department has done
TO help some Of them to better way of life
Studied Abroad
New Jersey, girl Marion Post studied
(at New York University and for three wears
at the University of Vienna) child psychology
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
Man About Manhattan
By GEORGE TUCKER

This ticket agency business is
part of the New York adventure
not easily appreciated by outland'
ers unless the Long View is taken
This view includes tolerance and
an attitude of leniency toward
the world in general and the mid
die men in particular who stand
between you and the box office
Live and let live is the idea. Prob
ably ticket brokers are a neces-
sary evil. Many producers believe
them indispensable. They say a
fair distribution of tickets would
be impossible without them.
I do not look upon the matter
this way. 1t seems to me the thea.
ters themselves could open addi.
tional box offices and do just as
well for themselves while saving
the public thousands of dollars
Those who can afford to attend
the theater three or four times a
season could attend an extra per
formance if they didn't have tc
spend the extra commissions.
AS matters stand, the brokers
receive about 40 to 60 per cent o1
the choice seats for all shows
opening on Broadway. Currently
they are organizing a fight against
the legislature to increase h e I
margin of profit, contending they
cannot keep going under the pres.
ent arrangement. They argue tina
unless the legal limit is increased
many small members will be
forced out of business, leaving
speculation in the hands of one
or several dominant brokers, thus
creating monopoly.
Meanwhile. the years end looms
and old John S. (for Sap) Public
forms cheerfully in the line to the
right. How is he taking it? Say
have you ever noticed that look O
bovine contentment in the eyes o1
a cow being led to the knife? Thai
explains John exactly. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14

pie out of the theaters, how many
people can three Lane sisters dis.
courage?" He got his answer in
'Four Daughters and the sequels,
in various of their solo flights.
And he still is getting it in Rose.
mary's personal appearance trip.
Ever hear Harold Lloyd's nick.
name? It's Yabble, and it's tackled
on to dog in Lloyd's girl-guy.
COB whatever the title is now pic.
ture. Origin: Harold as a boy had
a pet mongrel, Bill. He used to
cal Yah Bill, yah Bill"
When Lloyd makes another pic.
ture starring himself, the girl will
be Lucille Ball, who is going to
be busy girl in any case. AL.
ready they're planning to co-star
her with Desi Arnaz in 'Ha.
vana"-the plan having absolute.
ly nothing to do, Of course, with
their romantic interest in each
other.
Declaration of war: On those
shorts starring dance band leaders
and their bands. One Of the recent
headaches added injury to insult
by basing its pilot" upon the 70.
mantle appeal exerted by the lead
er--which was the more painful
because the audience, rightfully,
Uttered throughout
Question: Will today's song ly-
RIGS sound as "corny" 20 years
from now as some Of the first
World Wars do today? Tin Pan
Alley" raises the quary-especial.
ly its revival of America, I Love
You," which is still = stirring,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
Hollywood Sights and Sounds
BY ROBBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. IL - He
might be disqualified if it got down
to cases, but our nomination for
the actor longest in this picture
business is Montagu Love.
Forty years ago this autumn in
Portsmouth, England, his h m e
town, Love sold an original draw
ing. to a movie manager. He got
one pound for it, and it was one
of the first ever used for adver-
tising and lobby display. If that
counts as movie debut of sorts,
his service beats Jean Hersholt' S
1906), Donald( Cris,'s 1910 and
Jack Hollis (1913. Loves actual
movie debut, as an actor after
some amateur and professional
stage work, came in 1914 and he
has been at it ever since. He still
does commercial art on the side,
and recently sold a drawing of a
fur trapper and a halfbreed for
use in advertising ''Hudson's Bay"
the MUM film in which he plays
the part of the early French
Canadian governor. =.
There's "a short on the screen
called "Alice in Movieland. A cy-
MICS comment thereon: ''It's
meant to discourage screen-struck
girls from coming 10 Hollywood.
1t will discourage everybody from
coming to movie 1heaters." But
the heroine, blonde Joan Leslie, is
an attractive youngster-you'n see
more of her in High Sierra"
Speaking of the bright lad who
posed the question: 'If one Lane
sister can keep thousands of peo-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14

and education. A photographer
friend in Vienna gave her a Gamer a
and started her off on tangent.
She taught Z a while after that
at Croton-on-tne-Hudson, but teach
ing finally got smothered in photo
graphy and she took a job for a
year on the Philadelphia Bulletin,
She might have been there yet if
they had assigned her to more
murders, fires, court trials and
tenement tales, and fewer society
and fashion affairs. But if they had.
the department of agriculture
would have been out of one of its
ace camera-snappers and Ken
lucky would never have had a
chance to talk about the time they
almost caught modern Mata
Hari.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
PUBLISHER THANKED

PUBLISHER THANKED
Mr.. R. B. Page,
Star-NeWs,
Wilmington, N. c.
Dear Mr.. Page:
On behalf of the Salvation Army
I wish to express to you our deep
est appreciation for your most gen.
erous support and cooperation dur
ing our recent campaign. Your
assistance played no small part
in bringing to a successful close
our annual campaign for funds.
We are now looking forward to a
year of greater service and your
cooperation not only during this
campaign. but throughout the year,
is deeply appreciated and has been
most helpful in the work of the
Salvation Army.
With kindest regards, I am
Yours very truly,
E. w. NANCE
General Chairman
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
The Editors
Letter Box

The editor does not necessarily
endorse any article appearing in
this department.. They represent the
views of the individual readers. Cor
respondents are warned that all
communications must contain the
correct name and address for our
records, though the latter may be
signed as the writer sees fit. The
Star News reserves the right to alter
any text that for any reason is OBJ
jectionable. Letters on controversial
subjects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
RESOLUTION PASSED

RALEIGH, Dec. 15,-tf'-lm -. ~
North Carolina Seedsmen asso. ~.
ton today passed resolution a., r,nt
ing the general assembly to eAen annt
seed from the states three per =,
tax on retail sales. New OIL 'oe'e s.or.
the association, elected tins "ln NV,
noon, are O. z. Morgan OIL ''N VII.
president; Stanley Cross OF "
mington, first vice presldei'' a,os.
Byrd of Gastolina, second vice plr1 1,y
ident; and J. w. Sexton oil i''
Mount, secretary-treasuref'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14

the recent history of Nazi-counquered coun'
tr;es tn Justify belief that there would be
any change in Spain.
United States authorities now 1aVora01y III
clined toward the appeal from Madrid should
take this into consideration before they finally
sanction the loan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14

catchy tune. But oh-the iSiN yo,I
America 'just like baby 10 oebbsd.
or you, or you? ShuddeflFs
roe!
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
Fair Enough

The Star wishes its readers
to know that views and onin
ions expressed in this article
are those Of the author and
may not always harmonic
with its position.-The Editor
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-01
SLOAN SPEAKS
TO N

Carl S. Sloan, Kiwanian, and
president of the Big Horn
County Electric COOPERATIVE,
gave a talk before the members
of KiWanis at their regular
Wednesday luncheon.
Mr.. Sloan discussed the Or
ganization, program and out
come of the work done towards
securing the allotment for the
local Rural Identification pro-
ject.
Word has been received from
Washington, D. c., according to
MI. Sloan, that the Big Horn
county project had been allotted
the sum necessary to complete
and put into operation Rural
Identification.
The lines will cover the Little
Big Horn valley from the Ray
Powers ranch through Wyola,
Lodge Grass, Crow Agency and
adjacent communities. It will
also extend north of Hardin to
the Guy Van Cleve ranch and
south of Hardin to Halfway
community.
DR.. G. M. Overland was a
guest of Kiwanian John K. Ran
kin.
The program for August 18th
will be under the direction OF
B. H. mccarthy, club vice presi-
dent.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-01
700 Present At
Stockmen's Picnic

About zoo, people attended the
roundup dinner picnic of the
Big Horn County Livestock As
ISOLATION at Spear Siding last
Sunday. Members of the asso-
citation feel that the event was
so successful that they plan to
make it an annual affair.
Two beeves and 300 fish CON-
posed the principal dinner
course. A number of stockmen
from other parts of the state
were present, besides those
from Big Horn county.
During the afternoon DR.. w
]. Butler, state veterinarian, OF
Helena, and Superintendent
Robert Yellowtail gave brie1
speeches. Mr. Yelowtail remin-
ded his listeners that Junior
Spear, president of the asso-
citation, was his early employer
and that after a days work
which started at three in the
morning, they would go out af-
ter supper and brand three OF
four hundred calves to round
out the day.
The association is seeking full
cooperation from all Stockmen
in order that the stockmen's
rights and needs may be real
lied and protected.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-01
New Ownership
For Bus Line

Russell B. James,, vice presi-
dent of the Burlington Trans
portaJion company, announced
today that the Billings-Sheridan
bus line, formerly owned by W,
R. Lowery of Billings, has been
taken over by the Burlington
Transportation company and
will continue to operate as be-
fore under the new ownership.
Schneider's Confectionery has
been named as the new bus
depot and c. B. Schneider will
be the agent. This set-up is eff
fective on August l. Schedules
will remain the same for the
time being but several changes
may be made in the near flu
ture, Mr.. James stated. He also
pointed out that the company
expects to obtain new and
improved equipment for the
line.
The Billings = Sheridan bus
line now becomes a part of the
Burlington bus system which
covers about 1000 miles of ter
ritory from Chicago to the Pa
cific coast.