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and add l cup of
the sugar gradu-
ally, beating I'M
til smooth and
fluffy. Add the
dry ingredients to
the creamed mix
ture, alternately
with the milk.
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JeWeIry Contrasts

Jewelry in deep tones of the same
color is an effective contrast for
lame evening frocks.
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Look Within

Within is the fountain of good,
and it will ever bubble up, if thou
wilt ever dig.-Marcus Aurelius.
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Silver Cake.

(Makes 9-inch layers)
ga cups cake flour
teaspoons baking powder
~ teaspoon salt
" cup butter
liz cups sugar
l cup milk
~ teaspoon almond extract 81
egg whites (stiff1y beaten)@e
Sift together the flour, baking pow
der, and salt. Cream the butter,
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See Recipes Below

hot water until thick and clear
about Is minutes. Cool, and spread
generously between the layers of
cake. The filling is especially good
in white cake.
Liver Croquettes.
makes 1912 croquettes)
"a pound beef liver
/ teaspoon baking powder
Boiling water
tablespoons onion (grated)
! cup fine bread crumbs (mois-
tened with tablespoons water)
" cup thick white sauce
2 eggs (well beaten)
teaspoon salt
IA teaspoon pepper
Cover liver with boiling water to
which baking powder has been add
ed. Cook few minutes until liver
begins to get tender. Remove from
water, cut off tough skin or connec-
tive tissue, then grind. Mix with
bread crumbs, white sauce, and
eggs we'll beaten. Season to taste
and cool. Shape into small ball
croquettes. Fry in deep fat (375
degrees) until golden brown. Drain
on unglazed paper. Serve at once
with hot tomato sauce. If desired,
croquettes may be dipped in crumbs,
egg, then crumbs again before deep
frying.
Lemon Meringue Pie.
1 cup sugar
IA cup cornstarch
Va teaspoon salt
rs cup cold water
2s cup boiling water
8 egg yolks
l tablespoon butter
IA cup lemon juice
l teaspoon lemon rind (grated)
Combine sugar, cornstarch and
salt. Add cold water; stir until
smooth. Add boil e@~e-ea
ing water and E~Ck
cook, stirring con- /GNlGN
stantly, until mix (%gSAg1\
ture is clear and E$gSNS n !
thick. Cook 3 min \\AMssSA i
utes longer. Beat ~GN
egg yolks; stir
cooked mixture into them. Add re-
manning ingredients, return to flame
and cook l minute. Pour immedi-
ately into baked pie shell. Top with
meringue.
Meringue.
3 egg whites
tablespoons sugar
IS teaspoon salt
Beat egg whites partially; then
add sugar slowly, beating until mix
ture is stiff. Bake in slow oven
$500 degrees) for 10 minutes.
7 Apple Sauce Doughnuts.
2 tablespoons shortening
liz cups brown sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
l cup apple sauce
II teaspoon salt
teaspoon soda
IL teaspoon cinnamon
II teaspoon nutmeg
3A cups bread flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
Cream shortening and add sugar;
blend thoroughly. Add the eggs.
Combine apple sauce, salt, soda,
and spices, and add to first mixture.
Sift together the flour and baking
powder, and add. Roll out to "a
inch thickness on well-foured board.
Cut in circles and fry in deep fat
(365 degrees) until brown. Drain
and roll in confectioners' sugar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
Act Today

The city commission is scheduled to meet
a sain today. Inevitably the water situation will
be on the agenda.
For this reason the eyes of all Whining
tonians are directed toward the city hall.
Every person in the city expects the commits
sion to take definite action-not at a later
meeting, but today. The time for adjourn
ments is past. The time for action is here.
The question of salt water in city water
mains has gone unanswered long enough. For
years there has been no satisfactory answer.
For years the people Of Wilmington have
been subjected to the same trouble. Now, they
demand that the commission do something
about it-today.
It is not a question Of what the commission
feels it can afford to do, but what the city
can't afford to do without.
There are financial obligations involved, to
be sure. But they will not be as great, what
ever total they reach, as Wilmington's losses
if a permanent supply Of fresh, pure water is
withheld.
Wilmington's business firms and home dwell
sands of dollars in the past three weeks be.
cause Of salt water in the city's mains. These
losses must be stopped.
The distressed citizens of Wilmington must
be given reief-not merely temporary relief,
but permanent relief.
And today is the day that the decision must
be made at the city hall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
Clark Doubly Welcome.

Rep. j. Bayard Clark's visit to Wilmington
and his. two addresses, before the Kiwanis
club and at a meeting in the High school audi
forum sponsored by the local American Le-
gion post, gain significance by the fact that
there was no political motive involved. Mr..
Clark came in response to an invitation from
the Legion primarily to help the post in its
membership campaign, which is meeting with
excellent success.
His assurance that he has the pledge of the
Washington authorities that the Wilmington
area will be adequately provided with de-
lenses is reassuring. We could wish, of course.
that he had been able to announce one or
more major defense projects for the area.
But it is gratifying to the people of Whining
ton to know that he is exerting his influence
for them.
The explanation that no further commit
ments will be made until after the election in
vites the question why it is considered neces.
sary to postpone decisions which must be
made in any event, especially as speed is
the keynote Of defense. But it is something
to know that after November S Wilmington
will have a place on the defense map. And he
left no one who heard him in doubt on that
matter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25

They will even go 50 far as to recognize
Russian interests as predominant in the
Chinese province of Singkiang.
Should this prove satisfactory, both sides
would withdraw their troops from the Man.
chukuoan frontier. aus the japanese would
be free to use their forces in China and the
Russians could send their border army to
the Black sea area.
There are advantages to both parties in
such a settlement, particularly as the Rus
slams would not be asked to stop sending help
to China. But Stain may prove suspicious. It
is difficult to understand how he can see in
the Japanese offer any permanent advantage
to Russia, knowing as he does that Tokyo is
associated with Berlin and Rome and that
sooner or later he may have to resist Ger
man = Italian encroachments on Russia's
sphere
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
Mr.. Roosevelt Speaks

President Roosevelts address at Convention
hall in Philadelphia, where he had been NOM
mated for the second time by the Democratic
convention of 1886, was announced as a po-
itical speech-the first of five he will make
as the present campaign nears the home
stretch. But we believe the people Of America
will view it more as a declaration Of his prin:
ciples in a great national emergency than as
the utterance Of a political candidate.
Thus. when he gave Solemn assurance"
that the United States has no secret agree
ment with any foreign power concerning
American participation in any war. we may
be sure it was the President speaking, and
not a candidate.
1t is important that this portion Of Mr..
Roosevelt's text be studied carefully. Declar-
ing that he and your great secretary Of
state" are following the road to peace, he de-
clared: There is no secret treaty, no secret
obligation, no secret commitment, no secret
understanding in any shape or form, direct
or indirect, with any other government, or
any other nation in any part Of the world, to
involve this nation in any war or for any
other purpose"
Here is a pledge, the sincerity Of which can
not be brought into doubt. For emphasis,
the President added: 1T is for peace / have
labored; and it is for peace I shall labor all
the days of my life We will not, he de-
clared, participate in foreign wars nor send
our army, naval or air forces to fight in for
eign lands Outside of the Americas except
in case of attack.
There should be no doubt in any mind
that the administrations course had been
wholly directed toward peace, Mr.. Roosevelt
traced the steps that led up to the rearma-
ment effort. During the last eight years his
every thought" has been directed to pre-
serving the peace of the world and more par
~ticularly the peace of the United States-the
peace of the Western Hemisphere" Fore.
seeing the wars approach, he explained, he
employed the full power of his office to pre-
vent it's arrival. When war came he used
the same power to prevent it from spreading
to other countries. When that effort failed,
he called upon congress and upon the nation
to build the strong defenses that would be our
best guarantee of peace and security He
denied that he had phoned Mussolini or Hitler
to sell Czeehoslovakia down the river'' or
that the unemployed are to be driven into
concentration camps.
The whole tenor of the Presidents Philadel-
phia speech was above politics.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
Japan And Russia

Japanese eagerness for an understanding
with Russia may be responsible for the report
from Tokyo that Soviet authorities will speed
up the formalities attendant on the arrival OF
the new Japanese ambassador to Moscow to-
day. Whether the Russians are actually as
ready to deal as the Japanese hope is some
thing Josef Stain alone can say.
Very possibly the Kremlin would welcome
an assurance of quiet in the Far East at this
time-if the price is not too high. The Japanese
are ready to offer a good deal. They are will
ling to recognize Outer Mongolia as part of
the Soviet system if the Russians will do the
same for them in respect to Manchukuo. They
are prepared to allow the Russians to establish
a legation at Hsinking in return for the right
to establish a Japanese legation at ulan Bator.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25

dressed recently to the French people. MT.
Churchiu's plea was not meant for the men
at Vichy. It was an attempt to reach the
people of France themselves, not only In
france but in the French colonies, to restore
in some measure their hope and courage, to
point out again the stake they have in British
victory. How effective it was we cannot tell.
it is difficult to believe that Frenchmen
have followed the Vichy government SO
far would obey its dictates to the point OF
making war on England or helping England's
foe. That could be nothing less than a be-
trayal of France itself and its hopes OF sur
vival as a free and independent nation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
LABOR BILL HEARINGS
MAY BE HELD IN N. T..
Members OF State Commission In
wife Trade Associations, Others
To Appear

RALEIGH, Oct. "a Up -0pen
hearings probably will be held neN
month on the possibility of draftins
a state wage-hour bill for presenta'
ton to the 1871 general assembly a
legislative commission on fair labor
standards announced today.
Members Of the commission. meet
ing in the office sf Labor CoinHls'
sioner Forrest Fl. Shuford. lnFl'e'
trade associations, unions and oos'
ness to file briefs, and to appear IL
the hearings.
At present. North Carolina has ho
minimum wage law, and its man
mum hours laws are h~oneye9nov0
with exemptions.
Whereas North Carolina employs
in interstate industries are covered
by the federal w%a2e-hour law man
North Carolinans in %intrastale H.
dustries come under no such ille@
sure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25

natural laws are administered with.
out fear or favor. The natural law
of centrifugal force will turn a
speeding car over on the curve not.
withstanGing the fact that the driver
bought his liquor at the legalizei
liquor store. The law of economics
will function in the home where the
father spends his money for legal
liquor just the same as it does in
the home where monkey rum is the
beverage; and the resultant cost on
society to care for the wreckage will
be the same. The ravages of socia.
disease r just as great on the 50,
cial drinker as they are on the
debauchee.
An ever greater number of our
people are beginning to see the
workings of this unbiased natural
law, and are beginning to realize
that it cannot be violated without
desperate, tragic results both to the
individual and to society. Tie smoke
screen Of prejudice and propaganda
Ire being recognized for what they
are, and as a result a great mass
of our people will vote in a very
different fashion from what they did
a few years ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
MORE ON SALT

To The Star:
l read an ad in a New York paper
the other day
About hotels ard it went on to
say
That only with a wish and e twist
Of the arm
You could step into a tub of surf
water nice and warm.
They thought they had something
in this ad,
But when l read it, l suddenly
grew mad
To think with all the salt water, to
them it's so rare
And they have to pay to take' a
bath in it there,
While we down here are floating
in brine
But still continue to grumble and
whine.
We have the advantage over those
folks by a long shot
Why, down here we have salt
water to fill our coffee pot!
We have it to drink and have it to
spare
For washing our linens and
washing our hair.
We have it for dishes and washing
our food
And yet it still puts US into an
awful mood.
The people up North don't 60 into
a wrath;
In fact, they're tickled over a
nice ocean bath,
But like a child who has too much
candy to eat,
He soon becomes tired and sick
of the sweet.
The candy is alright, he decides,
in a store
But for his stomach he wants no
more.
Salt water, we agree, is fine for
a seashore.
But for our faucets we want no
more.
1ngratitude l guess might be the
word to use
For all this salt water that we
sorely abuse,
But it also goes to show that New
York with its glamor and fuss
When it comes to salt water has
Nothing on us!
A CITIZEN.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncilManager Admtnss17dt'on.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shoes.
Seaside Highway from WrightsuiHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, 1id-
er Turning Basin, with snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, eia
orion Plantation.
Development Of Pulp Wood Prodac-
ton through sustained-yie1d methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported BY one
countrywide Of.
%Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center tor Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF nattne grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
To The star:

To The star:
I have been very much interested
in the various comments from time
to time regarding the water situa-
ton. The fact is that we do have a
situation that we must remedy, and
I believe the best way to go about
this is to appoint a citizens com.
mittee, who in conjunction with the
present Army engineer, and the
several engineers locally could de-
termine whether the best place to
secure u water supply should be
Castle Hayne, or up the Cape Fear
river beyond the locks.
This, it seems to me, is the only
matter of important consideration.
Without condemning our commits
sioners, let's work with them to
bring about a satisfactory solution
to this bad situation that will prove
satisfactory to us and pleasing to
future generations.
WILMINGTONIAN.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
The French Situation

AS heavy a fog as often hides the English
channel covers the negotiations between the
Vichy government on the one hand and Ger
many and Italy on the other. We hear that
the effort is to drive the French into open
declaration of war against Britain and also
that the effort is restricted to naval and air
bases in all France and the French posses.
sions. Marshal Petain, premier of unoccupied
France, Is variously reported opposed to the
whole proposition and soon to visit Paris to
sign either one or the other proposal. AS so
servers can be sure of is that Hitler, baked
in his air campaign as a preliminary to in
vasion, is trying to effect some sort of agree.
ment with Free France to bolster h s
chances of ultimate victory-chances which
are growing simmer as winter nears.
1t is a sad thing to have to say. but if is
probably true that there are men in the Vichy
government who would be willing to accept
the bait dangled before them. These men
have worked hand in hand with Hitler: thew
care no more for Britain than the Nazis them.
selves; they have no scruples about stabbing
their former ally. For the sake of the present
advantage they might well accept whatever
Hitler offers, regardless of the fact that the
only hope for the liberation of France lies in
a British victory. .-
What such false leaders plot, however. is
less important than the way in which the
mass Of Frenchmen, and particularly those
in the colonies out Of reach of the Nazi mill.
tary machine, would react to such a program.
What is primarily at stake is not the portion
of France and the French empire completely
under the Nazi thumb, but the French troops
and colonies still loyal to the Vichy govern.
ment. Britain was seriously endangered by
the French collapse; her plight would be more
desperate still if such units as the French
army in Syria openly Joined arms with the
Nazis, or if Hitler actually gained naval and
air stations in strategic French colonies.
The revelation that these negotiations are
under way heightens the significance of the
speech which Prime Minister Churchill ad-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25

NEW YORK, October 24.-I have
to take this day out to pet the dear
feelings of two of my colleagues
who protest that they were mis-
represented by my Interpretation
of a circular which they distrib-
uted to members of the New York
Newspaper guild. These two r
George Britt of the World-Tele-
gram and Lewis Gannett of the
Herald Tribune. Among others,
they signed an appeal to their fell
low-members to turn out for meet.
ings and to insist that the dele
gates to the representative assem-
bly, also attend regularly, to pre-
vent "unrepresentative' decisions.
Just as all of us, until a few
years ago, referred to v%enereal
maladles as social diseases,
there are still those in the labor
movement who refuse to call COM
munism by name, and Mr.. Gannett
is one of them. Mr.. Britt has his
naughty moments when he will
a a bolo in private, but he is
still too bashful to use such words
IN public, and that is the cause of
our little trouble.
Send Telegram
The pair Of them sent me a long
telegram claiming that I misused
their appeal to support INV charge
that the guild is rotten with com
munlsm. Gannett says he has new
er identified as communism the
influence which has created a cri.
sis within the guild, driven ont
many American members and
caused the establishment of new
rival unions of journalists under
charters from the A. F. of 1.
Ihat is right. He never did 90
identity this influence, and 7 ne,sr
sald ne did. I never said Britt -
iaentitled it, although he did. 7 ~
identified this influence on nv ovn
responsibility, and l also take re.
'Sponsloility for diviging the guild
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
The Editors
BOX

The editor does not necessarily
endorse n article appearing IN
this department. They represent the
views Of the individual readers. o
respondents are warnsd that all
communications m u st contain the
correct name and address for our
records, though the latter may be
signed az the writer sees fit. The
Star.News reserves the right to alter
n text that for any reason is OBJ.
iectionable. Letters on controversial
subjects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
Building Equipment
Is Reported Stolen

J. Z. Newton reported 10 ="
sheriff's office yesterday that dAiID-
the night someone brohe lu'o u.
tool house at the project Tor "'''.
he is contractor in Sunset Palh' '''
took a large power saw, OF '"'
tionary variety, several hahd 81
several smoothing planes, se'9i%'
and bits. three or four A"'"'
cts and other tools.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
BAPTlSTS ADOPT.
MORALS REPORT
Report On Temperance Pre-
scented At Annual Session
OF Wilmington Body

A report on Temperance and
Public Morals" was presented to the
Wilmington Baptist associations an
nual session at the Gibson Avenue
church this week by the Rev. r. H.
satterfield, pastor of the Winter
Park and Masonboro Baptist
churches.
The association adopted the report
as presented with the request that
it be published.
It follows:
No subject has been SO clouded
with prejudice, distorted by passion,
sometimes uniformed. sometimes
designed to mislead. Today there is
confusion, OF Indifference, or blind
acquiescence on the part of other
wise good citizens and Christians.
In view of these facts there are
two or three suggestions that should
be made.
First. we should ask what is the
motivating power-the driving force
back of the liquor traffic? If his.
torical data prove anything they
prove that blind greed for gold is
the motivating power back of the
manufacturer and producer and that
an uncontrolled appetite is the driv-
what we will about the motive of
control, saving youth from the boot
logger, and decent drinking. All OF
us know that there are not the
real motives.
A second suggestion has to do with
the results of alcohol and the liquor
traffic. Here aoain we can cut
through all the confusion and prop.
uganda with one word, namely, o
ruption. The individual who drinks
is corrupted in his body, his social
relationships, and his spiritual life.
An eminent specialist in the field
of social disease stated some months
ago that drinking al the major
contributing factor in at least ninety
per cent of all social disease. In this
age of high-powered cars ones social
responsibility becomes very acute on
the highways Of the nation. Today
unprecedented reports reveal the fact
that the majority of highway fatal.
tiles a traceable to drinking driv-
ers." The drinker also falls short
of his social responsibility in the
home. The havoc wrought in the
home by alcohol is simply beyond
the power to describe. The min.
lister and the physician, the social
worker and the relief agent all
to these facts.
The most dangerous corruption,
however, results from the blind
greed Of the manufacturer. There
is nothing that he will not do to CON
fuse, mislead and blind the public.
The German propaganda minister is
the essence of stupidity in COMPARE
with the astute propaganda I'M
ployed by the liquor forces Of Ameri-
Politicians are the first victims
Of the trade. Laws must be made,
legislatures must be influenced, city
must be handled, and all
must be silenced by fair
means or foul. This pressure is felt
also in the field Of religion. More
than one minister in this country
has lost his life because his lips
could not be silenced otherwise.
And every means possible is used
to humiliate, misinterpret, and dam.
age the minister who is consistent
in his preaching with regard to the
liquor traffic.
But there is hope. First Of all
live in a moral universe in which !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
FREED

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 24-- -,
district court jury today freed r!t
Leschsin, 5S-year-old uneh'Yig 49,.
elevator operator, who testifIFo U~
ing his trial on a murder -.
that he killed his 5~7-year-oA 70
because she was always nass'
me-" He also pleaded sell oei H.,
saying he shot her in thelf MONK ~.
20, when she at'&cheU
with a knife.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-25
HOEY MAKES RECORDING

RALEIGH, Oct. 24.-Lf-oo,.
nor Hoey today made a 10 H. III.
recording on the important u +.
zenship duties. The RECORD ain
played in Charlotte at a cl'I1,
program sponsored by the hA'
club