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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Robbin Cooas-
BY w. p.

(The author of "Clive of In
dia" and other stage and
screen-plays, collaboration OH
film version of "Pygmalion,"
writes today for va~cationing
Robin Coons on his pet sub
ject-television.) -,
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 81. - We
speak of the Air Force as the new
strong arm in military affairs.
Television is going to be the new
strong arm of the entertainment
business. 1t may be more than an
arm-it may become the body of it.
Entertainment has gone as far
as it a as regards stage and
screen. All we can have from nu v
on is variation of theme and treat
ment.
Television is suffering the same
initial neglec, as did radio 20 years
ago. Yet television combines all
the facilities of stage, r and
RADICAL rolled into one. 1t may
be only a toy as yet-so was radio
when you fooled with the "cats-
whiskers'' in the days of 1919.
Yet even g. year ago in England
I was putting on television plays
that ran over an hour that had 25
scenes, 80 characters, and over 500
camera shots. The production came
on the television screen not as a
static play but with all the variety
end change of scene and with the
pace of a film. But because it was
played with living actors it had
all the intimacy of the stage. In
fact, such productions should give
the audience a feeling that they are
living with the characters rather
than watching them.
So the new arm has arrived.
And it may turn out to be the
strongest arm of all. One wishes
that the moguls of stage, screen
and radio would recogniz, it as a
new and powerful ally of the en-
tertainment business.
My only criticism of the set-up
is that whereas England has the
doubtful benefit of television's be-
ing a government mopopoly, Ameri-
ca, looks like linking it irretriev-
ably with the sponsor system of
advertising. Both are handicaps in
my humble opinion.
Television should, one day, be
good enough to get the public to
pay direct-as it does in theaters
or picture houses. You can be
clockcd up with the amount O
use television as you are clicked
up with the way you use your
telephone. Your sets should be
free, except for an installation
charge and a minimum rate per
month"; very small minimum.
But the productions should be so
good that people will pay a cent,
i've cents OF ten cents a%ccordine
to the scope and interest of the
program.
There are millions of people who
would pay ten cents for a two-hour
program made up of, say: Charlie
Mccarthy, or Jack Benny, Helen
hayes In a special version of "Vic-
torla Regina with Miss Hayes in
person., and a portion of the most
exciting local fight, CT a horse race
or 81 lie sporting event. A two-hour
snow for ten cents in your O n
nome when you can't get to the
picture show!
II the reply is that people will
not pay because they have been
educated to get radio free, nv re-
ply is that people will pay any,
thlng to see a show they want.
1t is up to the producer to nut
on such a good show that people
will want it
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
VS.. JOBS
New York Herald Tribune

Tractors and other mechanical equipment,
the automobile and improved farming methods
have increased the efficiency of agriculture.
They have also, according to a survey made
by the National Research Project of the Work
Projects Administration, reduced the number
of jobs which agriculture might now be offer
ing. THE average workman on the farm"
says the report Of the survey just received,
was able in 1880 to produce $50 per cent more
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Dec. The is a story of
sad experience back of the extreme care Steve
Early exercised in announcing the appoint
ment of Myron Taylor as the Presidents per-
sonal ambassador to the Vatican.
Probably there never has been a President
who would not have liked to deal with Catho-
lie affairs frankly and openly without running
the risk of political and religious flare-backs.
Yet our governments relations with the Vati-
can always have had to be conducted with
that danger in mind.
In first announcing the appointment of Tay-
lor, Early, on behalf of the President, made it
extremely clear to reporters that the act did
not amount to a recognition of the Papal state
in temporal matters. Yet the old excitement
over any connection with the Papacy sprang
up, just as it did years ago when it was a
pre-Civil war political issue of real proportions.
Early found it necessary to go all over the
same ground again two days after the first
announcement to assert that the appointment
of Taylor was not a stepping stone to es-
tablishment of an official mission at the Vati-
can. If history is any guide, he will find that
even his second attempt will fail to quiet the
real fears Of some and the political fears of
others.
Violent Debate
This country established it's first missions at
the Vatican in 1S4S. Plus TX was pope then.
He was an exceedingly popular pontiff who
won favor in Europe and America.
Nevertheless. when a mission to the Vatican
was proposed by President Polk he launched
one of the bitterest debates in congressional
history. pass your bill" cried one congress-
man, "and from that hour your native Ameri-
canism means only defense of Protestant rights
and Protestant freedom against Papal tyranny
and Jesuit aggression"
1t was charged at the time that the demo-
Gratis were establishing the mission solely to
curry favor with a large body of Catholic vot-
es who had supported them in 1914 in re-
~taliation against the "anti-C Catholic" activities
Of the opposition. Historians record that this
factor had some influence.
Plot and Counterfeit
AS there was politics in the beginning of the
mission, so there was politics at the end, in
1867 and 1868.
Secretary of State Seward and Senator
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts chairman of
the foreign relations committee, were having
their historic scrap. Rufus King, then minis.
ter to the Vatican, was the victim. He was
a Seward appointee and the Sumner clique in
congress set out to get him.
There were other factors. too. The old fear
Of Catholic influence had a part, there had
been a row within the mission, and finally
an old ruling Of the pope's against Protestant
churches within the walled city of Rome was
exercised against a Scottish Presbyterian
church. Protestant chapels were permitted in
legation quarters, but not at large. To some
Protestants the thing clashed with their ideals
Of religious freedom.
Prompted by these motives, congress dashed
out. 1t would not kill the cat directly but
took away it's milk by abolishing the appropri-
alton. There hasn't been a mission to the
Vatican since.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
AUTO TAXES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 Up -
The National Highway Users con
ference reported today that owners
ana operators of automobiles pait
Sl,1Sl,095,000 in motor veffcl,
taxes during 1898,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-01
Star-News Program

1. ~Shipydrds.
g. Increase of Port Facilities.
5. Adequate Hospital Facilities.
/. Annexation OF Suburbs.
S. Development of Fort Cds1ceH as
Health Resort.
6. Promotion OF Canning Industry.
Z. City Expansion Commission.
8. Junior College.
ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
Stun Clearance.
Free bridge across the Cape Fear
river over Highwdy 90.
Free ceuseway to Wrightsville Beach.
Recreation Centers.
Municipal AUDITORIUM.
Preservation OF Old City and THAI
ian HaM.
Civic Centre.
Organized industrial services for Viii
mingtom.
Adequate school facilities TOR Viii
mington and New Hanover county.
Traffic signals on streets OF Whining
ton.
T%hirty5oot channel from Wilmington
, to Southport bar.
Construction of third lock dnd dam
between Wilmington and Fayetteville
on the upper Cape Fear river.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

Barr brought ill Gunnar Lind gren and Mrs. Cora Tintinger from Atlin and will return with them Tuesday. He is a guest at the Bar al1of Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
.HAIDA DIVER
 GOES DOWN TO
 FIND BEARING
Locates Missing Piece, Sav- ing Ship Many Dollars
 and Days Delay

Ensign John Pritchard from the Coast Guard Haida today saved Capt. Ed Larson of the trader Einar Beyer, money and time when he went down in a diving suit to recover a main bearing that had fallen overheard at the Cold Stor- age wharf.
 The main bearing, weighing close to 200 pounds, broke from line with which 1t was being lowered yesterday to the Einar Beyer to replace bearing burned out short y before arriving in Juneau the other day on its voyage to the Aleutians.
 Faced with the probability O. having to send Outside for an- other bearing (cost approximately S150), and delaying his voyage un- til the new part arrived, Capt. Larson sought a diver.
 Coast Guardsman Ensign Prit- chard was the Cnly available diver in town. Until recently, the Iiaida had diving equipment, but no diver uHtil its last trip south, Pritchard with four other Coast Guardsmen, studied diving at Navy school.
 Last night Plitchard made a lluitiess dive, but today, after one hour on the bottom, the lost bear ing was found and retrieved after Pritchard had made line fast to 1t on the rubbish -cluttered bottom
 The halibuter Hyperion, Capt. Oscar Oberg, was used to ferry equipment from the Haida, and the outer fish loading hoist of ths Cold Storage was used for lower ing and raising Ensign Pritchard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
ATLIN TRACT0R
 MAN GETS FOOT
 SNAG6ED, TREAD

Phillip Mancuso, tractor driver on the winter freighting trail between CarcroSs and Atlin, crushed his foot
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

Scientists have computed the age of the earth to be between two and three billion years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
CABIN BLAzES
 UP; CAUSE E
 STILL UNKNOWN

Fire of mysterious origin would have. swept dilapidated Roberts Row on South Franklin Street last night lad it rot been for the quick work If the Juneau Fire Department.
 The department answered the IT larm at 930 o'clock last night and on arriving at the scene of the fire, found one of the Roberts Row ca oins ablaze.
 The caretaker for the cabins said That at four o'clock in the after noon the burned cabin was locked and nobody was living there. Fire men found no fire in the stove and no evident cause of the blaze.
 Damage was limited to the single room of the cabin, but could have swept the adjoining c a bins and other nearby frame structures cas- fly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
NATIONAL RADIO PROGRAMS FOR
 ALASKA SOUGHT
Aid of Chamber Asked in Putting Juneau on
 Big Hookup

Juneau Chamber of Commerce aid was enlisted today in a move to bring national radio programs to Alaska.
 c. B. Arnold, Manager of Sta- tion KINY, said he believed some of the outstanding hookup pro- grams will start here this year. During a recent trip in the States, he visited advertising agencies and officers of firms which advertise nationally by radio.
 Arnold asked that the Chamber write a letter to such advertisers showing that Alaska has an organ ised business life similar to that in the States.
 Recently Major E. M. George of the U. s. Signal Corps wrote to the Chamber urging that an effort be made to carry national radio programs to Alaska over the Sig, nal Corps telephone circuit.
 Miss Juneau Entrants
 Guests of the Chamber at to- days luncheon included Miss Synil Godfrey, the Miss Juneau" who will represent the community "t the Fairbanks Ice Carnival, ard other young women who were as-- pirants for the title. They were introduced by Charles w. Carter. Mrs. A. M. Uggen, director of the recent style show, c. B. Arnold, it's interviewer. and heads of flrr7 which outfitted girls in the show were also present at todays meet ing.
 Two new members, Harold Rf1eht and Joseph T. Flakne, were intfo- duced. Visitors included Emil John son of Wrangell and Clifford Fenn If Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Juneau Man Is Married
 Al WrangeII
(Wrangell Sentinel)

BefOre an altar DankeQ Wltn Cal ia lilies and tall candles making subdued light, Miss Margaret Pa tricia Ferguson of this city and Gordon Peterson of Juneau were united in marriage last Saturday night (February 17. st the St. Philips Episcopal Church. The Rev. Arnold Krone read the wedding ceremony.
 Preceding the ceremony, Mrs. John Coulter, at the organ, played appropriate wedding music and to the strains of Lohengrin's wedding march, the bride, lovely in lime green, entered from the vestry on the arm of her father, MT. Harry Ferguson, who gave his daughter in marriage. The bride wore a shoulder corsage of gardenias and carried a handkerchief the groom $ aunt, Mrs. H. G. Johsonn of Alamo, Texas, carried at her own wedding and which has been carried by several of the groom's cousins since.
 Mrs. Earl Jenkins, sister of the briue, was matrcn Of honor and Miss Carol Ferguson, another sister, vas bridesmaid. Both were dressed in French plum and carried bou- quets made up of yellow daffodils purple iris and forget-me -nots with a pink rose bud in the cen ter.
 Following the ceremony a wed- ding reception was held at St. Phil ips house where a large crowd gathered to wish the young couple happiness and good luck in their new life.
 Mrs. Peterson is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry Ferguson of Wrangen and, being reared here has a host of friends who regret
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
i DIkAGGI0 LEAVES FOR
 B. B. CAMP
Other Brother StdysHome-
 Contrdcis Are Not Signed

: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. % Dominic DiMaggio left San Fran cisco for the Florida training camp of the Boston Red Sox this morn ing, with his 1e40 contract still un- signed.
 His brother Joe remained in San Francisco to await developments be- fore reporting to the New York Yan- kees. Joe also is having contract trouble.
 Dominic said he expected to reach an agreement with the Red Sox afr ter he arrived at camp to start train- ing for his first major league sea- son. The sensational young out fielder was purchased from the Pal cific Coast League San Francisco Seals.
 Joe DiMaggio, voted the most valuable man in baseball last sea- son, said he hadn't decided wher he would leave for camp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
FAIR ENOUGH

CUMBERLAND, Ky, Feb. 29. - It's seldom a basketball referees problems are solved as promptly as those of Warren Sleepy Baker
 He officiated a game between Cumberland and Lily High Schools. Both schools used their centers to set up plays and each guarded the other closely.
 Warren soon found himself call ing personal fouls on both ends
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
HORSE RACE ON SATURDAY TO BE
 RUN, MUD FIELD
Rains Have Drenlhed San ia Anita TraCk-(dn't
 Dry Out

SANTA ANITA, Cal, Feb. 29.-- Continued rains left little hope for dry track Saturday for the sixth running of the s1O0,000 Santa Anita Handicap.
 The track is very soft, and appar- ently Will still be muddy Saturday.
 A wet track will lessen the chanc- es of five favored entries, Sea Bis cult, Heelfry, Specify, War Plum- age and ichchee. All are at their best on fast track
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

 Doesn't Play

SANTA CLARA, Feb. 29.-Frcd Ball, Santa Clara quarterback, didn't play single minute n three years as candidate for the varsity football team-but he's wearing a varsity letter.
 The student congress decided that if Ball had not been the vic- tim of a series Of injuries he would have made his letter since he was regarded as being as capa- ble as any man on the squad. of the floor on No. 12 for fouling No. 12. He began wondering if ne had called all the fouls on one boy
 A moment later, the pair of centers double-fouled and the timekeeper signaled both out Of the contest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Oregon Beats
 Idaho Again

Oregon cagers again defeated Idaho last night in basketball game in the Northern Division of the Coast Conference. The score was Oregon 55, Idaho A. Tuesday night Oregon beat the Idaho cagers by a score of As to 3l
 The two wins put Oregon nearer Oregon State for Conference hon. ors. Oregon States standing Is now II wins and 3 defeats while Oregon has won 10 games and lost 4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

 hat her new home will take her rom her.. Mf. Pc erson is the son of Mir. md Mrs. 5. c. Peterson of Min : ecta. Mlnn., and is at present ( np,oyed with the Alaska Game Commission at Juneau where the young pc pie will reside.
 Bee experts are attempting o cayelor a new breed of bees who will have high resistance to dis ase, will produce great amounts of hon-y but will have lost their instinct to swarm.
 1--
 Tcday's News 1ouay-Empirt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

in the caterpillar tread yesterday, according to word brought to Ju- neau by pilot L. F. Barr. flying over with his Pilgrim.
 Barr said Mancliso, driving for Louis Schultz, leaped from the cab of the tractor and caught his foot in the tread, badly mangling 1t. The tractor train was forced to turn back to Atlin and arrived ten hours later at the hospital, where Mancu- sos condition is serious.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

Tcday's News 1ooay-Empirt
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
575 BY RADDE
 X BEST MARK
 AT BRUNSWICK

Ed Radde packed off the blue rib ocn for the Brunswick last night when he rolled the evenings best tally of 575 pins, his Signal Corps quad winning three of four from tfC Takus.
 Cosmopolitans knocked the high riding George Brothers squad over. three of four.
 Tonight's games are Cosmos vs. Brunswick, and Florists vs. Home Grocers.
 Last nights markings were as fol- lcVS:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

Steamed bonemeal is the cheap est and most satisfactory mineral for adding the necessary lime and phosphorus to the diets of milk ing cows, according to dairy spec ialists of Pennsylvania State College School of Agriculture.
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
OPPOSE HORN
BLOWING ACT
Continued from Page Two)

necessary horn blowing is an ac-
tual detriment to the recovery OF
persons who are i'll or injured in
homes and hospitals. The very old
and persons suffering from nervous
disorders are particularly affected
by the noise-making pests.
Good driving manners call for
consideration of others. Safe driv-
ing practices demand the use of
brakes instead of horns at streets
and highway intersections. Use of
horns to summon late-departing
guests from social functions is in
tolerable.
1T is poor sportsmanship for
any driver to reach for his horn
button to prod the car ahead into
motion at the instant traffic light
changes to green, and it is sheer
insanity for drivers in a long line
of stopped vehicles to set up a
caucous din, when they have no
means whatever of knowing the
cause of the holdup. All they ac-
complish is to increase their own
nervous tension and thereby make
them less fit for the real job of
an automobile under mod
ern traffic conditions"
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Report of Church Services Fol
Next Sunday

Next Sunday
First Churcn of Christ, Scientist
| Wilmington, at Park Place and
Van Buren Street: morning service
IL a. M, Sunday School II a. m,
evening service 500 P. NJ, We'd
nesday evening service 500 p. m.
Christian Science Society, Milford,
meets at Grange Hall: Morning
service IL a. M, also meets on first
Wednesday evening Of each month
at p. m; Sunday School, IL a. M
Subject for Sunday, November 3:
Everlasting Punishment" Golden
Text: Proverbs 1876. Righteous
ness keepeth him that is upright in
the way: but wickedness over
throweth the sinner. A bible cita-
ton from the lesSon-sermon: Eek
iel 18: 27, 81, 80. Again, when the
wicked man turneth away from his
wickedness that he hath commit
ted, and doeth that which is lawful
and right, he shall save his soul
alive. 81. Cast away from you all
your transgressions, whereby ye
have transgressed; and make you a
new heart and new spirit: for
why will we die, o house of Israel?
80. For I have no pleasure in the
death of him that dieth, saith the
Lord God: wherefore turn your
selves, and live ye. Correlative
from the Textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy: Mans en-
slavement to the most relentless
masters passion, selfishness, envy,
hatred, and revenge conquered
only by a mighty struggle. Every
hour of delay makes the struggle
more severe. If man is not victor
ious over the passions, they crush
out happiness, health, and man
hood. Here Christian Science is
the sovereign panacea, giving
strength to the weakness of mortal
mind,-strength from the Immort-
al and omnipotent Mind and lift
ing humanity above itself into pur-
er desires, even into spiritual pow
er and goodwill to man
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
John BlxSSett MOO1'e
High Sch0O! Nescs
u,,r1op Observation-Disclosures. JANET KEITH
e,,sr. NJ zDrroR ...... EUNICE SPARKS

ganization here are few histor-
ical facts.
Records show that the G. 0. had
Is beginning as long ago as 1920.
The majority of the activities were
devoted principally to athletics,
but some attention was given to
dramatics.
In 1926, some felt that there was
the need for a greater General
Organization, including more ac-
tivities and a greater number of
students in its membership. Also
the advantage of membership
should be available to all students
rather than a selected few (prior
to this time, tickets had been $500
and S1.00; now S .50).
With these thoughts in mind the
present constitution was drawn up
and the result has been a student
teacher organization "of which we
can be justly proud"
Everett
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
Halloween PARTY
Everett

The witches are about and the
owls are howlingl You're right
Halloween is almost here and that
means the first school party of the
year.
The G. o. officers have decided
to have the party Nov. 1, and as
usual in our school gym.
1t has been rumored that we are
to have a Sadie Hawkins Ball in
stead of the same old Halloween
Party.
Can't you just vision SO many of
our boys as Lii Abner, Hairless
Joe, Pappy Yokum or our girls as
Daisy Mae. Linda or Nanny
Yokumi
Begin to let your hair grow and
come disguised as one of the gang
from Dog Patch or Skunk Hollowl
Everett
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
Radiant Living
YOU CAN
BUY HAPPINESS
By Rev. G. M. Griffeth
Pastor Methodist Church
Cecilton, Md.

Happiness can be purchased
Not indeed with money, but by do
ing good-by investing a little
thoughtful kindness here and there
through each day as you live.
| But I never have any occasion
to do anything like that" you are
thinking, II have to rush off tc
work in the morning and don't get
back until night"
That is the very thing that will
give you an opportunity Of doing
much good. Do you realize that
every person that you meet on the
way to your work, at your work,
or even on the way home, is a po-
tential source of happiness to you ?
Just taking the time for a cheer
full "how-do-you-do" will brighten
your own life for at least one hour
of the morning.
Even a good natured earnest
smile given to some unknown child,
as you pass by, will pay big divi-
dends not only to the child but es-
pecially to yourself.
The Book of Proverbs declares:
"A good word fifty spoken is like
apples of gold in pictures of sill
YER" Why not be putting some
such attractive pictures on the
walls of your everyday life?
Or, if you have some time on
your hands, why not sit down and
write just a few lines to some