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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
%Southport's Fine Job

Very properly Southport is exulting over tn
completion Of its yacht basin dredging. 1t il
hard to vision a project that could do more fol
the community's advancement. What it means
is that Southport will become a regular, DEF
mite port of call for the small craft that use
the inland waterway every year, and reap a
harvest from fuel and supply sales. Even now
a flotilla of so boats is scheduled to base there
while on a fishing tour in October. The several
days of their visit will be a gala time for the
city.
Wilmington congratulates the energetic peo-
pie of the Brunswick county port upon their
foresight, their aggressiveness for progress.
The yacht basin plan was well conceived and
splendid1y carried out with the aid OF the
army's district engineers whose work was so
speedily finished that a saving of $14,00 to
the government resulted. If there is also a bit
of envy mingled with Wilmington Fluctuations,
it is easily understood. We, too, would gladly
have a highly developed yacht harbor to decoy
more of the cruisers that winter in Florida.
If we know the aroused spirit of %Southport's
population it is to be expected that the city
will undergo great transformation now The
city will be put to it to keep pace with the i'm
proved port. We are sure that it will do so.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
The Oil Outlook

With gasoline a major source Of revenue i
it is interesting to learn that tn
for petroleum is growing roster. Say
the New York Herald Tribune
Although the end of the large consuming
season for oil is near and prices for refined
products lave shown unsteadiness here
and there, there is a better feeling about
the future in most sections of the industry.
No doubt this is based primarily on the
general business advance, as well as the
emphasis placed upon oil supplies and re-
sources in the national defense program.
With airplane activities in this country
scheduled to rise sharply over the next
few years, use Of high test motor fuel is
expected to offset to some extent at least,
loss of export markets from the war. In
the meantime ordinary gasoline inventor
les are onsidered quite high, but oil COM
panies have been very active in the last
year or more in installing the newer and
more flexible refinery processes. These
permit seasonal changes in output sched-
ules, increasing gasoline output in the
spring and summer and intensiication of
fuel oil output activity in line with fall and
winter demand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
School Patrol To Expand

Wilmington is proud of its Junior police
force-the school boy patrol that safeguards
pupils at street crossings near school build
ings. The service these youngsters render is
to be counted in lives saved, injuries prevent
ed and peace of mind among parents whose
chi1dren's physical well-being they assure. Will
mington's record Of safety among children
en- route to or from school is the envy of
all cities in the state, and the credit goes
to the boys on guard at intersections.
Now the reorganization of the force en-
visions a patrol of 200 members with squads
at every school in the county. With several
rural schools on much Travelled highways the
new plan is in the interest of greater security.
The droves of young children who must cross
traffic arteries where motor car drivers. are
likely to relax their vigilance will be safer
under the wings, so to speak, of the boys in
Sam Browne belts.
This rural service will be under supervision
by the Wilmington police force which has
brought the city patrol up to such a high
standard of efficiency. It is natural to be-
lieve that children attending rural schools will
enjoy the same degree of security as urban
pupils because of this senior police sponsor
ship. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Farm Income Redivisi0n

The Department of Agriculture reports
North Carolina farm incomes well above last
year. In July alone the increase is estimated
at 23.6 per cent over the same month in
1888. The money value is placed at ST. 19, 900.
Gratifying as this is, interest centers chiefly
in the redistribution OF revenue. We learn
that in July of last year the income was
divided thus: from crops, SO, 416, 600: from
livestock, 50, 598, 600. In July, 1910, the divis-
ion was: crops, SO, 1853, 900, livestock, "a, PSI, 900.
The decrease in crops, by these figures is more
than offset by the increase in animal hus-
bandry.
Clearly, North Carolina farmers have learn.
ed how to get ahead even when their soil
crops are below average. It is gratifying to
everybody and especially to the economists
who have labored so long and so hard to
impress farmers with the possibilities in live.
stock, to see that the states agriculturalists
are at last learning their lesson and getting
away from their inherited one-crop viewpoint.
Tobacco production, for example, is prob
ably 40 per cent lower this year than last.
which probably accounts in large measure for
the drop in crop revenue. But it is not the
handicap it would have been in previous years
because the states farmers are raising cattle
and hogs on a scale not before dreamed of.
Because of its open winters and year-round
pasturages, southeastern North Carolina is
in a peculiarly advantageous situation to pro.
tit by the new order of farming.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Dakar Rises In Importance

Jumping into unexampled prominence as a
result of the De Gaulle expedition, Dakar is
a much more important spot than many sup.
posed. In fact, it is one of the worlds strategic
seaports, besides being the capital of French
West Africa, the largest French possession on
the Dark Continent.
The city is in about the same latitude as
Martinique, and is near the apex Of the Cape
Verde peninsula. Only about 1,5OO miles from
South America, it has been the starting place
or arrival point of numerous transatlantic
flights, and before the war was used by both
French and Germany a%irlines.
The city was founded by the French in
1867, a year after a French protectorate over
the neighboring mainland was proclaimed.
French West Africa, with 1915, 1853 square
miles OF area, OF one-sixth of all Africa. has
often been called a second Brazil. It com.
prlses eight colonies-Senegal, French Guinea,
Ivory Coast, Dahomey, French Sudan, Upper
Volta, Mauritania and Niger and extends
from the Atlantic ocean to Lake Chad and from
Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea. The popula.
ton Of about 49, 600, 900 natives and 27,oo(
Europeans is notably small chiefly because
of an infartile death rate which not long age
was As per 100.
Baker has the only harbor in the region in
which large vessels can moor and has lona
been a port Of call for shipping lines handling
a large sea trade
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

W p1ONS lldI IldClllllc- ]
ends of liberty than the ends of tyr
1t is a great and terrible moment
Every selfish and powerminded
group in the country is going to
try to use the confusion for its own
ends. At a time when what we need
most is clear heads and the will to
sacricife private prejudices and in
terests for the common good, men
in high office and 10 ware running
the record of their otherwise useful
lives by a panic scrapping Of every
principle they We're brought up to
believe in. In the name Of the great
totalitarian DOGGY they whoop up the
mob against whatever m inority
seems weakest and least popular.
Much more than the German mill
tary-industrial machines vast sue
cesses in Europe, we have reason to
fear weak nerves in public life at a
time when we need every kind of
courage, but particularly civic cour-
age.
1t is civic courage and civil liberty
that will beat the European and
Asia-ic bogeys abroad and at home
and firmly establish this republic OF
free men in the new world that is
being hacked out in cruelty and
bloodshed. An American monopolist's
despotism will not succeed in saving
America any more than the poor rot
ten French businessman's republic
succeeded in saving France.
What will be saved out of the
wreck of the British financial en-
pire will be saved not by the smooth
bankers of Threadneedle Street, but
by the traditional aptitude of free
government of the English people
as a whole. The qualities we can
rely on in this struggle are just the
qualities the dictators and their
slaves haven't got, the qualities that
have made our country, in spite of
shortsightedness and stupidity and
greed, the best place on earth for
a man to live.
In times of great stress nations
sink to their lowest common de-
nominator. I believe that, just as the
lowest common denominator of Eu-
rope has become something bad for
mankind, the lowest common de-
nominator Of the people of North
America is to the good and that it
will get better. a. great deal depends
on The kind Of leadership that can
work up that lowest common de.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Chance In Aviation

Plans of the University of North Carolina
to conduct aviation training classes for young
men and women offer an opportunity to share
in the governments pilot training which should
be of especial interest to those likely to come
under the ~selective service law.
It is notable that a large proportion of those
joining the army in recent months have sought
to enter the air service. If the same inclin-
alton prevails among others of military age,
the fact of their primary training in aviation
might be an important factor in the type of
their assignment to army duty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Hogshead Of Tobacco
Crushes Negro Worke,

LUMBERTON, Sept. 25.-Barney
Taylor, 25-year.old Lumberton ne
gro, was instantly killed early Sat
urday when struck by a hogshead
of tobacco as it tumbled from a
truck at the old Ada Mclean mill
just west of town.
Taylor and another negro, Hurley
Hester, were riding on top of the
truck load of hogsheads when the
accident occurred and both were
thrown off, Hester receiving frac-
lures Of his pelvis and one foot.
Coroner D. w. Biggs ordered no
Inquest, stating that the fatality ap-
peared accidental.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Trickery In Africa

1t is a great pity that nations which had en-
joyed a deep friendship for years should at last
be pitted against each other, as France and
Britain now are. But that is what war does.
In this case it is probable that the whole
thing was engineered by Adolf Hitler to drive
a wedge into the growing sentiment in French
colonial possessions for alliance with Britain.
On Sunday it was reported from Vichy in a
copyrighted dispatch to the New York Herald
Tribune that all of French Equatorial Africa,
including the Cameroons, Chad and Gabon,
had declared for the Free French govern
ment at London and that there was strong
agitation for support Of Britain's cause in
Syria and in New Caledonia, in the Pacific.
Apparently it was this assurance that led
General de Gualle to launch his expedition to
Dakar, from which he retired when his ennis
saries bearing a white flag and seeking con-
ference with the local authorities, were fired
upon. The whole proceeding was characters.
tic Of Hitler, in keeping with his tricky diplo.
macy and general deceitfulness. The world
has not before known 50 ardent an apostle OF
lying.
Hitler has obviously disrupted any lingering
friendship between the Vichy government OF
unoccupied France and Britain. To that extent
his Vaccinations have succeeded. But it is
equally obvious that in doing so he has started
Britain on a campaign for the occupation Of
part of the French colonial empire and capture
OF French battle. craft which sailed recently
into Dakar harbor. If the campaign is carried
to its logical conclusion, British forces and
French soldier under General de Gaulle,
whose military talent is unquestioned what
ever his diplomatic deficiencies, will take ur
a position behind the Italian forces now adj
vancing across the Egyptian desert in an Of
fensive designed to cut the Suez canal. This
will give them great advantage in the Battle
Of Egypt
How well the French air attack and a DOS
slble land attack on Gibraltar by Nazi troops
across Spain will offset this will depend or
whether Gibraltar falls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Quotations

We invoke the 1910 Community Mobilization
to bring home to every American his share in
the great common cause Of relieving human
needs here in America. - Charles Francis
Adams, national chairman Of the Mobilization.
When the people lave a real opportunity to
see Mr.. Willkie and learn his views, there will
be no question about the outcome. From now
on, the trend will run even more our way
Floor Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., G. Q. P.
national chairman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Man About
Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

SAN JUAN, P. R. Sept. 25.-This
city is indescribably beautiful, As
you round the ancient fortress Of
Ell Moro and enter the harbor,
the beauty of it gets in your eyes.
You can see sharks cutting toward
the ship, but this does not deter
the diving boys from leaping into
the water and swimming out to
meet the ship. Their shrill cries
of "Centavos, Amigos" comes up
from the water like the strange
implorations of articulate water
babies. The ships screws churn
up the mud from the harbor bot
tom, but the diving boys do not
mind a little mud. Not one coin
in a thousand is lost. They dive
for them. pop up to the surafce,
exhibit the coin, and plunk them
into their mouths.
In the center OF the harbor,
moored there since ltaly'S entry
into the war, is an italian freight
err. A dozen U. S. destroyers are
scattered about the harbor, In an
hour from now there may be only
three. They come and go cease
lessly on patrols. The sky sings
with the drone of American
bombers and fighter ships
In the distance rises the Puerto
Rican mcmtains-probably a
continuation of the American Ap'
palachian chain. But the c0a-'5'
sector, the City of San Juan NSsl'
and the plains of the island as
granaries of p%lantains and sastt
cane. of coffee and cocona's' T..
bananas and pineapple. Ihls Wy
is so old that it StartleS you "
think of just how old it rea.y H.
compared to the United DID =, ~
The architecture has held .? w
it's Spanish balconies and nu,
work, it's courtyards and high 'tt
arches. You pass the sea- .
tropical medicines, and II " =" '
wonder of pure Spanish oss .sa,
An eyesore nearby is the 't ,'
Capital, which is blunt anu ~n
congruous in its plain Amefi'''
style. md
The streets are very narrow ' ,n'
rocky in San Juan. Many are W
hill. And nobody moves very 'G h..
You simply take your TIME ,sus W.
cause after all there IS a I.s,ty
and it does get p avett
warm in the sun, if you e ans,
yourself. Even the San Juan , I05
stroll when they chase cats n aost.
the waterfront there are sO th,
in the streets anu VI
street corners you see id ares'
with poles to which are 'lg T,ss.
numbers of land crabs Ia +,
are for sale and are IS Sat hsv /,
be delicious, although Will
to take their word for IT, I'm
We are stopping at the w wVD
d,do ho+o1 which looks out OIL
fringed lagoon On one th'
and the Atlantic ocean on n. int
other. When you first w 'Lfcb M j
the terrace restaurant, winch I'VE
in soft blues. and look out 0t III
the sea, the magnificence anu hrestr
of it takes your Undo,
The sunsets from my pos
seem like something Billy "
up. at til
Escombron beacn CIV"
the music of Ralph baltUt' {
young American who wen nd TO
Puerto Rico and became Jarce
lis boleros. Everybody ua "a an
here, so maybe 1 will luS' ~ III
watch. The bolero, the tango ,,sn
rumba, and the conga' NO. h
Americans can dance WIN dov
sheer abandon that they 40 vo,I'y
" fool IL lON
got to begin when you're ID mt
fling clothes, and keep u i il:
you reach your dotage' ~" e
about lets me out, because con,
out of swaddling clothes
thirty-odd. years ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
MAKE YOUR OWN
CELERY SALT

Make up your own celery salt
for seasoning soups and stews. Sc
lect crisp celery leaves: wash
them well ane place in a covered
pan or dish on the back Of the
stove. When the leaves are well
dried, roll them between the fin
gers until powdered. Store in a
covered jar a
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
BY JOHN DOS PASSOS

have no choice but to go forward, if necessary COM
pleting our reorganization under fire. No matter what
kind of economic system is eventually set up, it must
work towards the same basic aims for which the Union
was founded. 1t is around the core of respect for the
rights and liberties of the individual man that all
our institutions have grown up. To bring the life
of every American back into sharp relation to this
central principle we need words as freshly accurate as
those of rs, and state-building as rapid, energetic
and original as that of the convention that laid down
our Constitution.
I think that-if we could look at the development
OF American government under the New Deal as if
it were 10 years off, liberals and tories alike would
be forced to admit that more useful building has
been done than they have been willing to see. To
put the republic into a state of defense we must
organize for liberty or else therell be no republic to
defend. The job before US is to make every mans
liberty and every mans inventiveness and push work
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
TOP O. THE MORNING

No man today can retain mental calm and
poise unless he strives to look at life and
trouble and Work by first getting apart, some
1rhat apart Nth God. You con do this only
through prayer.
REV. JoHN S. BUNTING
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

nominator of habits and traditions
into a disable public formula, the
Jackson and Lincoln kind of leader
ship.
1t may be that we needed Just
this to make a nation out of an over
grown but still half provincial from.
tier republic. Anyway, it has come
and we must face it. If we have the
nerve, if only we have the nerve
to use our heads and the e~xuberant
diversity of our lands and our peo-
pie and u mighty Industrial plant
and the experience of our state
building past. We'll pull through.
Well not only pull Through, but
We'll give the world an example
OF organized liberty that will knock
Hitler's thousand years of desppotism
into a cooked hat, an old out-of-date
museum piece of a Napoleonic cooked
hat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Star-News Program

Consolidated C4ty-County Government
under Council Manager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck n Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsvtHe
Beach TO Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35.Foot Cape Feor River channel, pid
sr Turning Basin. With ship lanes into
industrial! sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Pared River Road to Southport, viG
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc
ton through sustained-yieid methods
throughout Southeastern North Caroline.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency. supported by one
countrywide tao.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for tohites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for. Erporf Buyers.
Development OF nattve grape 0roaofng
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdnotortum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

: Farmers had enough grain on
hand at the end of the 1910 har-
vest to raise 10 pounds of pork for
every person in the U. S.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

Margaret Culkin BANNING
warns of the mental enemy that
may attack our nation before a
physical foe attempts conquest,
in the next article of this series
On "Our Country"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
.OUR COUNTRY
Organize For Liberty, Pleads
John Dos Passos> Who Sees
Danger To Nation Al Home

Fifteenth of "a articles on sour Country" uqitten exclusively
for NEA Service and The WHm imgton Morning Star By the nG-
tons most famous authors.
By JOHN DOS PASSOS
Author of" u. S. A. "The Big Money" Adventures o a Young Man" etc
Yes, W e re in danger: but the danger that threatens us most is not
from across the Atlantic: it is the danger that comes from poor thinking
and incomplete organization at home. The breakdown of the 18th century
va CAUGHT the United States in a difGcuE stage of transition "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26

efficiently in the frame Of close-knt industrial organization. we've got
to prove lat machine-p production in a or peace a better serve the
ends Of liberty than the ends o tyranny.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Fair Enough
ny B PEGLER

The Star wishes its readers
to know that vie~"s and oipn-
ions expressed in this article
are those of the author and
may not always harmonic
with it's position.-The Editor.
La gaceta., 1940-05-28
PLETTO " UNA
r DE CAJ0NES

I'm pleito para perseguir a "a
Enterprise Box Company, fir
ma manufacturers He envases
para tabacos de West Tampa,
por violaci6n de la ley sobre ho-
ras Y jornalss, fue presentado
en- la Corte Federal aver por
Phillip B. Fleming, administra-
dor de la ley.
La compania, que tiene su
planta en- la Gale de Green Y a.
venida de Fremont, emplea u
mas cuarenta traba5adoras, Sc
gin la a~cusaci6n, y ha violado
las p~rovisiones de la ley de ho-
tides.
FL administrator de la ley a.
segura que a algunos trabaja-
dures sc lie abOna men0s de Csc
por bora cuando Ell minimo debe
ser de 30c. Tambien sc ha en-
contrado que a los obreros no Sc
les paga Ell formal y medic a que
tienen derecho por las horas ex-
traordinarias despues de las es-
tipuladas por la ley.
La gaceta., 1940-05-28
Ell ARMA SECRETA
DE LOS

New York, mayo 2S.-El ar
ma secreta, a menudo mencio-
NADIA por ell alto mando aleman
como una amenaza contra los a.
liados, Sc ha informado aqui no
ser otra cosa que una flotilla de
aeroplanos capaces de transpor-
tar tanques de 80 toneladas al
lugar del combate, segdn ell He
raid Tribune.
Asegura ell peri6dico que la in
formation mencionada la obtu-
vo de un aleman que sali6 del
pals de origen POGO antes de de-
clararse la guerra Ell otono pasa
do y ell cual reside ahora en- los
Estados Unidos. Sc dice que los
aeroplanos de dicha flotilla tie
men una extension de ala de 200
pies y que montan cuatro motO-
res de 1900 caballos de fuerza
cada uno.
Segdn ell i%nformante, los ae-
rOplanos estan construidos de
manera que pueden levantar Y
transporter tanques o gruesas
pleas de un punto a otro con ex
trema facilidad.
La gaceta., 1940-05-28
LOS RBTtRAN
A LINDBERGH SUS HO-
n

Paris. mayo 28.-La perte-
nencia honoraria a la Escuadri-
LA Lafayette, que Sc lie concedio
a Charles A .Lindbergh despues
de su vuelo trasatlantico en-
1927, lie fue retirada hoy por la
Ascciaci6n de Combatientes Vo
luntarios Americanos en- Ell eiel
citc frances desde 1914 a 1918:
representa- a los pilotos de la fa-
nosa 'Fscuadrille".
La association anunci6' cue su
acc'6n Sc debi6 al discurso pro-
runciado nor L~indbsr0h Ell paea
DO sabado v que 10 clssifica CO.
mo d:finitivamente opuesto al
espiritu de los voluntarios ame1
ricanos de Ia Escuadrilla Lafa-
yette V la Legion Extraniera
rue acudi6 a la defensa de Fran
cia en- 1917.