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Evening star., 1940-09-12
Miss Helene Anna Snouffer
Weds Mr.. LunSOn.

The marriage OF Miss Helene
Anna Snouffer, daughter Of Mrs
Lucy L. Snouffer, to Mr.. James
Eugene Lunson, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Clifford Lunson, took place
August % in the Nativity Chapel
the Rev. Enoch M. Thompson off1ci-
ating.
Gladioluses we're on the altar,
and an organ recital was given pre-
ceding the ceremony by Miss Leath-
anna Bready.
The bride was given in marriage
by her brother, Mr.. William F.
Snouffer, and she wore a street.
length gown of dusty rose. Her
accessories were brown, and she had
a corsage of gardenias and lilies
Of the valley.
Miss Alice D. Snouffer was maid
of honor for her sister and wore
a street-length gown of aqua green
with black accessories and corsage
Of talisman roses.
Mr.. James c. Moseley was the
best man.
After an informal reception In
the church parlors the couple left
on a wedding trip to Berkeley
Evening star., 1940-09-12
To Address Club

The Business Women's Council
meeting at the Covenant-FirstP Pres
byterian Church will have Benjamin
Mccartney, son of DR.. and Mrs
Albert Joseph Mccartney, as guest
speaker at 8 pm. Tuesday.
Mr.. Mccartney will discuss his
experiences in Norway during the
German invasion. He recently re-
turned after many months abroad
The meeting will be open to the
public.
Evening star., 1940-09-12
Suburban
Social
Notes
Mrs. ]. Frank Rice
Gives First of
Bridge Luncheons

Mrs. ]. Frank Rice entertained
yesterday at her home in Takoma
Park, Md, at the first of series Of
bridge luncheons she is planning for
the fall. She is giving similar
party today at her home.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Rice have as their
house guest this week her brother,
Mr.. H. Gilmor Walter Of White
Plains, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Garry of
Drummond, Md, are spending a
fortnight with relatives in Pontiac,
Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Starratt of
Somerset, Md, are spending a week
in Petersburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Stern, I'd,
entertained at a porch picnic Sun
day at their home in Takoma Park,
Md, in honor of their daughter,
Mora, who celebrated her 10th
birthday anniversary. The guests
included Mr.. John Stewart, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Gillis, Mr.. John Klaber,
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Feuerlicht
and Miss Betty Smythe.
Mrs. Peter B. Simpson and Mrs.
George Sanders were co-hoStesses
Tuesday at a luncheon which was
given in the home of Mrs. Simpson
in Buckingham The affair was
given to honor the birthday aniver-
sary of Mrs. Arthur Orr and for
Mrs. Vincent Benfell, who with her
son, Stanley Benfell, will soon leave
for Salt Lake City to spend two
months with Mrs. Benfell's mother,
| Mrs. A. Terry.
Mr. Howard Kacy has returned to
his home in Wynnewood Park, Md,
from fishing trip in the Thousand
Islands, where he was guest at
the summer home of Mr.. Joseph
Hines Of Frederick and Washington.
| Mrs. w. c. Watson who spent the
last 10 days with her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H.
Davidson, in Arlington, left today
for her home in Hindsboro, III. She
accompanied her nephew, Mr.. Ed
ward H. Davidson, as far as Athens,
Ohio, where he is an instructor in
the English department at Ohio
University.
Mrs. C. E. Batschelet, Mrs. Ray
Wheeler, sr,, and Mrs. Flora Rup-
pert were joint hostesses at a bridge
luncheon Tuesday, when they en-
tertained "a guests in the home of
! Mr. and Mrs Batschelet ON Military
Evening star., 1940-09-12
Ex-Birminohom Muyor Dies

NEW YORK, Sept. II (P).-George
Ward, former Mayor of Birmingham
Ala, and widely-known Southern
industrialist. died yesterday at Me-
mortal Hospital. His body was taken
to Birmingham last night.
Evening star., 1940-09-12
Meut Prices Probed

A Defense Commission said today
that reports of recent increases in
retail meat prices in various parts of
the country were under investiga-
ton by Ben Lewis. chief economist
in the consumers advisers office of
the commission.
Evening star., 1940-09-12
Navy Bill Signed

President Roosevelt yesterday
signed a bill authorizing an increase
in the Naval Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps from 2,4OO to 1900. The
Navy has said 1t intends to establish
Naval Reserve Officers Training
Corps at 16 additional universities.
Evening star., 1940-09-12
through the Straits Of Gibraltar yes.
terday-unmolested by British bat
teries at Gibraltar.

This report raises the possibility
that some OF the French feet units
refuged at Toulon have escaped
from that Riviera naval base and
are joining the British.
Evening star., 1940-09-12

Springs. They will reside upon
their return at ll9 Staples street
NE. Both the bride and bride
groom were graduated from Eastern
High School.
Evening star., 1940-09-12
Six French Worships
In GibruItur Struits
By the Associated Press.

CEUTA, Morocco, Sept. 12.-Three
cruisers escorted by three destroyers,
all flying the French flag, were re-
ported heading for the Atlantic
Evening star., 1940-03-31

Rr ISN'T in the mind 1t is the lips The world just
is full of empty words. They roll out of dead and fiat
. No really listens to the words The other fellow is
possibly saying the same kind of words
The people think this says THE middle
class believes that says another I'm my opinion within
the twenty years shall all have to accept
nism ascism" says third The people, the PRO
etaria" the middle class" and forth and forth
There this attening many of these big flat words
and flat empty statements always being said Where do
get all of these words?
You take trip did just last fall six thousand
miles in car you visit many towns you get sense of
Evening star., 1940-03-31
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

has real meaning shall have to start off by trying to
chuck these big meaningless words We shall have to begin
consciously to think small and stop trying to think big
There is this street of houses in which live this
in which sit with friends that there at
by table in restaurant How healthy to begin thinking in
terms of this limited world.
What the meaning of that frightened look that fits over
the face of that sitting there? There man
gesticuating and talking himself he walks along What
is troubling him? The little human meetings of people
Streets in roos 60 Life with its curious loneliness, has
its warm moments
The big thinkers call this approach to life escape
They blame you for try
Evening star., 1940-03-31

ton can sit here in this room, and speaking into mike
address Million perhaps ten million. people sitting in their
homes throw these big words at them increasingly
difficult remember that these people, addressed not
all one big mass that life is of infinite variety shades and
oompexity.
This axity surely something to fight against to struggle
against When such words the people, the masses and
the poletariat" the mddeclass and forth come to
our lips ought STOP We ought to ask ourselves rs
there any such thing?"
IT IS my own notion that, if to break it up and
begin draw closer another again, begin to really
think again. to communicate with another in way that
Evening star., 1940-03-31
1GlS>SAS!liS'

finally out: he simply wanted to tell that he
hadn't known how nice the road along which he had for
years been driving into until had written of it.
This is what This what think shall have to
get back the intimacy of life its charms its strange
ness teors its accidental qualities These great thoughts
about world affairs that trying to have nowadays
tending to separate from another in curious
There much bigness that isn't bgness at all, too
much using of big empty words If the thing call cvza
ton be saved will be saved by the throw
es socaed but by what in the smnd
in the minds of people in their houses in Short by growing
realization of each other and of both the beauties and diff
culties in the art of living with Others
Evening star., 1940-03-31
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w THIS page we give you an important
message from Sherwood Anderson. Here is
story which illustrates his point: During
recent visit to New York, young lawyer
from Boise, Idaho, fell in with group of
young "intellectuals." They were talking fast
and furious about Russia, 1.-The proletariat,"
the bourgeoisie" and ''the Communist
Party Line" The lawyer listened attentively.
Then he drawled: Gentlemen this is a new
kind of language Out where come from the
party line means a rural telephone line with
ten to twenty subscribers
As THE week begins, 10000 field workers
will start counting noses for the Sixteenth
Census. When it's all over w. A. Cogshall,
Professor of Astronomy at the University of
Indiana, will determine the exact center of
population of the United States. THIS WEEK
asked DR.. Cogshall if he cared to prophesy
where it would be. Here is his answer:
Since $780," he says, the center of popu-
1890, it was located on the large strip coal
mine near Linton, in western Indiana. In 1910
the chances are that the new center will fall
close to the Wabash River, either near the
pretty little village of Merom on the Indiana
side, or maybe close to Palestine, in Illinois.
1t all depends on how many people have
moved westward during the last ten years -
and on how many of them went to Southern
California or to the Pacific Northwest.
TABLO PICASsO, the Spanish artist. is one of
the outstanding creators of cubist paintings
"a phase of modern art that has made life
more complicated for lot Of US.
For example, there was the bewildered Gus
toms official on the Spanish border. Some
time ago, one of Picasso's favorite models
was passing through his station. In her lug
gage was one of the masters paintings "a
riot of varicolored cubes. triangles and
assorted squiggles.
''Sehorita!'' cried the official. What's
this?" That" said the young lady proudly,
is a portrait of me. Senor Pcasso says it is
one of his best" The official frowned. ''Seno-
rita, you are under grave suspicion. You say
this is portrait of you - but to me it looks
like an accurate drawing of the military de-
fenses around Madrid!"
Who knows - if the war continues maybe
the Secret Police will put an end to modern
art altogether, and set the artists to camou-
1aging battleships.
FROM letter by c. X. Allen, Warden of
Rhodes House, Oxford, to all former Rhodes
Scholars in the United States: The enemy
has CONSIDERABLY informed us in advance that
he intends to bomb Oxford. Whether or
not he carries it out, we know - and every
Oxford man in every part of the world knows
- that though the enemy may damage the
body of this place, he will need more than
Frightfulness to destroy its soul"
4 4
] HE Better Man." in this issue, is by a
new author. We think that you will like his
story. M.
Evening star., 1940-03-31


ing to escape from the
great problems now shak-
ing the world. In my opin-
ion it is instead a going
toward life. Of that l am
sure.
Some years ago, for a
time, l ran two small
weekly newspapers in an
American town. Being a
man whose name was a
little up" as an Ameri-
can author, l am quite
sure that when | came
there to the town, when |
bought the newspapers,
the people of the town
were afraid of me. as they
had a right to be. They
thought l would be want
ing to change them, make
the town into something
new, control their think
ing, use them as puppets
for my own purposes. How
could l help knowing what
they thought and felt?
10 live at all in the
town, l had to be very
small, not take myself too
seriously, take the town
in which I was living as
the center of the universe.
| used to ride and walk
about through the resi-
Dental streets of the town
and on nearby country
roads. l wrote a long ar
ticle about a certain wom-
ans flower garden. l wrote
articles about country
roads that wound out of
town over low hills, about
the everyday sights
Sounds, smells, ha~pen-
ings of the tn~il.
ns- Gay an old farmer
came in to renew his SUBJ
scription to the paper. He
stood awkwardly about.
There was something he
wanted to say but he had
d;F~,1<1y ~ cavr;oO Il.
Evening star., 1940-03-31


and wonder of America.
You come home to your
home town and people
stop you on the street.
In your opinion" they
ask, what are the Ameri-
can people thmking?"
Do they expect an in
telfgent answer from you?
l do not think 50, but the
question jars you a little.
There is the temptation
to begin rolling out the
empty words.
There must be some
thing in the air just now
that accounts for this at
tempt to think big, to
group thousands and hum
dreds of thousands of diff
ferent people under single
imaginary patterns. There
must be something to. ex-
plain this attempt at un-
derstanding - more often
a pretense of understand
ing world affairs. l
grant that there may pos
sibly be a few men, stu
dents of world affairs,
world travellers, men in
government, who can
grasp these. huge prob
lens that involve millions
of different people. l don't
know whether they can
or not.
But it seems to me that
the danger lies in the emp
tiness of 50 many words
we use. We 50 persistently
fail to realize the curious
accidental quality of life.
1t seems to me that a
marked mind-emptiness is
likely to come with the
habitual use of big mean
ingless words-the
masses" the people,"
the farmer" the mid
die class" All this may be
a natural result of the
speeding up of all of our
channels of oornmunica-
ton. l can sit here, in this
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
Four Youths Visiting
Homes On Navy Leaves

Four young men of the Whining
ton section r visiting their par
ents while on 10 day leave of abb
sence following the completion of
preliminary training at the naval
training station base at Hampton
Roads, Va, r. L. .Deloach, local re-
cruiting office, said yesterday.
They include: James P. Padgett,
Of Leland; John H. Foy, of 402
Church street, city; James E. Wells,
of 800 Mercer avenue, city; and Carl
c. Gross, of Delco.
Upon the completion of theil
leaves they will return to the naval
training station base for active duty
assignments with various ships Of
the U. S. fleet, Deloach said.
There are numerous vacancies fol
first enlistments as apprentice sea
men in the U. S. Navy at the local
sub-station, located on the SECOND
floor of the postoffice building, hi
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
u. S. Army Mobile Unit
Plans Tour Of Section

A United States army mobile uni
will be in the Wilmington section
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
August 26, 81, and %, Sergeant S
W. D.. Bennett, local recruiting of
ficer, said yesterday.
The unit will make an extensive
tour of all counties in Southeastern
North Carolina in an effort to en-
courage young men to enlist in the
army, Sergeant Bennett said.
Any young man interested in Sc
curing information about the oppor'
tunities offered by an army career
are urged to contact the unit upon
it's arrival at postoffice buildings in
the various county seats in the Will
mington section.
Itinerary of the unit was an
nounced as follows: Monday, Column
bus, Brunswick, and Bladen coun'
ties; Tuesday, Onslow, Jones, ano
Carteret; and Wednesday, Fender,
Duplin, and Sampson.
While Sergeant Bennett takes to
the field with the unit, a clerk Will
be in charge and on duty at the
local sub-station, located On the
second floor of the p~ostoffice build
ing, to- examine and interview inter.
ested applicants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
Robert Reaues Joins
u. S. Marines Here

Robert E. L. Reaves, 10, SON OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Reaves, of
go South Fifth street, and a grad
uate of the New Hanover High
school, class of 1910, has enlisted
in the U. S. Marine corps, Ser
geant G.. F. Frederiksen, local re
cruiting> officer, reported yester-
day.
Reaves has passed final examina-
lions at the Raleigh district head
quarters office of the U. S. marine
corps recruiting service and has
been transferred to the marine
training station base at Paris
Island, S. c., for three months OF
preliminary training.
Upon the completion of his pre-
liminary recruit training Reaves
will be given an active duty a
signment with some ship, navy
yard, torpedo station, navy am
|munition depot, or foreign station.
Sergent Frederiksen said yester-
day the U. S. marine corps recruit
ling service has openings for young
men between the ages of ID and
80, with grade school education.
good normal character, in good
physical condition, unmarried with
lno dependents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
Local Youths To Take
Naval Training Work

Clevelanr G.. Hines, Jr., of Will
mington, who enlisted here in the
U. S. Navy April IS, has been Sc
lected as a student for the Group
II school at the naval training
station base at Norfolk, Va, r. l..
Deloach, local recruiting officer
said yesterday.
Deloach said the length of the
course of instruction, 16 weeks, is
short bat comprehensive, and is so
planned as to give the student a
foundation on which work in the
trade rating of his choice may be
built.
All students pursue the same
course during the first term Of
four weeks in which they are drill
ed in tyrewriting, English compo'
sition, spelling, semaphore signall-
ing, range finders, radio code, and
given an outline of the various sig
nal systems with procedure, the
use of ravigational charts, and the
general duties Of a petty officer
of the navy.
|. Upon completion of the first term
the men are detailed for further
specialized instruction leading tt
qualifications as radiomen, quar-.
termasters, signalmen, and yeomer
or storekeepers (clericaD, Deloach
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
MODEL AIRPLANE
PLANNED
Winner To Represent City
In All, North Carolina
Meet AT Raleigh

The Wilmington Junior Chamber
of Commerce is sponsoring a mee'
for gas model airplane builders at
the local airport, Sunday, August
25, to select a representative from
the city for the All North Carolina
meet in Raleigh on September L
L. C. LeGwin, Jr., president an
nounced yesterday.
All local gas model builders are
expected to be at the airport fol
this competitive event, the winner
of which will be awarded a free trlr
to Raleigh, to compete in the state
event, LeGwin said. .
All local and Southeastern NORTH
Carolina entrants will be required
to register at the airport Thursday
August %, with James Pennington
LeGwin said the Raleigh meet
sponsored by the Capital City Jay
Gees, is the largest ever attempted
in the state and will be featured
by gas models only.
The winner of the local meet will
be eligible to compete in the Ra
leigh meet for cash awards totallnE
$100, and including a first prize o
SIS, second prize of SO, in the fou:
main events.
Contests will include: a timed
event, the miniature motors to b
set for 80 seconds of running time
and divided into two classes, moo
els weighing under two pounds, an
models weighing owe two pounds
and a limited" event, each mode
being limited to one-eighth ounc
of gas to every pound of plan
weight and fraction thereof.
Winner of the local contest, LIE
Gwin said, will be among the ap
proximately 125 entrants in the Al
North Carolina competitions in Ra
leigh. Registration will be handle
by the aviation committee Of tn
Raleigh Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Entries will close at 6 o'clock
Friday, August 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21

when compared with the records
for the previous month, Moore
said.
Placements during July included
100 private. and p public.
The accumulative total Of pub
lie and private job placements in
Southeastern North Carolina from
the first Of the year through July
amounted to 961 and represented
the placement of oil different per-
sons in jobs, Moore said.
Employment gains figures at the
local office include activities in
the counties Of New Hanover, Co.
lumbus, Fender, and Brunswick.
A summary of July activities
comprised: new applications, 315;
renewals of previous applications,
969; active file total, 4,058; initial
claims, 743, including 423 white and
1924 colored, and continued claims,
1923 white and 1910 colored, for a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21

The Great Pyramid of Egypt
and Boulder Dam contain about
the same amount of masonry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
WANTS TO HELP

VICHY, France, Aug. 2O-R
Marshal Philippe Petain, chief
of state of the new France, dis
closed today that General John
j. Pershing had sent a message
expressing the wish that he could
be at the side of his old French
comrade-in-a arms during these
critical days.
Were it not for his age
(Pershing will be 80 in Septem-
ber) he would be here said the
marshal, himself now "a.
Il was very moved and pro-
foundly grateful for his wish to
help in saving France and the.
youth of France"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
Local Negro Killed
In Prison Camp Fight

RALEIGH, Aug. 20.-(P-Prison
officials said that William Henry
Jones, 22-year-old Wilmington negro,
died today at a hospital in Fayette'
vile from wounds suffered in a fight
with a fellow prisoner at the Cum.
berland county camp August 8.
The other convict, listed by Prison
Superintendent Oscar Pitts as Ernest
Costin, p, negro, of Burgaw, was
being held in Central prison here
pending outcome of a coroner's in
quest at Fayetteville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
UPSWINC IN JOBS
IS REPORTED HERE
Employment Bureau Mana.
ger Finds Conditions
Better In District

A gradual upswing in employ
ment conditions in Southeastern
North Carolina was reported yes
terday by Maurice H. Moore man
ager of the Wilmington Employ
ment service division office of the
state unemployment commission.
Public and private job place
ments during July totaled 121,
more than a six per cent increase
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-21
Leroy Jones Faces
House, Breaking Charge

Leroy Jones, negro, will be tried
Friday in recorders court on
charges of breaking and entering
the homes of J. W. Blake on the
Castle Hayne road and r. C. Morris
on the Gordon road, sheriff's depu.
ties said yesterday.
Officers said Jones was released
from states prison a few days ago
after serving a term for house.
breaking. Large amounts Of prop.
erty were removed from both places
and some of it has been recovered,
officers said.