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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
The Right Leadership

The Farm, Civic and Business association
has made a wise choice in its selection of J.
K. Bannerman as president. Mr.. Bannerman
is not only a leading merchant, with a finger
on the pulse of the business community, but a
man of outstanding moral, cultural and civic
attributes, whose leadership will be of inesti-
mable value to the association and the entire
city.
The association is to be congratulated, in
fact, on the excellence of its selections for the
filling of all important posts in the organiza-
as well as group representatives, are all OF
proved ability. 1t is right to assume that once
a program is drafted and line of action ap-
proved, this new agency for better understand
ing among the city's and the %county's many
units of activity and for cooperation in build
ing a better and greater community will exert
a tremendous influence.
At this particular time, when the nation is
centering it's greatest effort on coordination for
defense, the detectives of the association as
sumo major importance. 1t is essential to the
success Of the defense program that city and
farm and industry become better acquainted,
more familiar with what each is doing and
what each can do to promote the best interests
of the other. Cooperation is the keystone upon
which the arch of preparedness for emergency
must be built. There is no better means for
bringing together the diverse interests in our
own sphere of operations than those forming
the foundation of the Farm, Civic and Busl-
ness association. Under Mr.. Bannerman and
the leaders who will help him in its guidance,
it's success is assured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Annual Money Campaigns

An important decision confronts the people
of Wilmington. 1t should be made soon.
The period of annual campaigns for money
and for improving the situation of the poor and
needy, as well as for advancing the moral and
spiritual and athletic advantages of the COM
munity, such as the Y. M. C. A., is just ahead
of US. Starting in the autumn these drives US
ually extend well into the spring. Already
some of the city's organizations which by the
very nature of Their work are dependent upon
public subscriptions for support are mapping
plans for their solicitations.
The decision to be made is whether Whining
ton is to have a community chest, through
which one s~olicition would seek to meet the
needs of all eleemosynary organizations, or
have separate campaigns for each, as in the
past.
Other cities in North Carolina have found the
community chest plan effective. It has made
available funds sufficient to meet the needs of
various charities and cultural groups, without
repeated calls upon eligible subscribers. It
has brought welcome relief from frequent re-
quests for aid.
On the other hand, the argument is ad-
vanced that many persons, allowed to make
one donation for all, are Inclined to shave the
total, and so impose a hardship on the organi-
cations affected to shave the total, and so i'm
pose a hardship on the organizations affected
and heavier duties upon the solicitors who
must extend thir efforts to new fields to make
up the amount thus deducted by individuals.
Between these two viewpoints Wilmington
must determine which will be best for this
community. The civic clubs would here ap-
pear to have opportunity to assume their prop
er leadership in jointly discussing the situation
and making joint recommendations for the
guidance of those with the forthcoming cam
paigns in charge. By starting soon they will
be able to reach a studied decision before time
for the drives arrive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14

ton had become dominant. The present ty-
rants puppet, the man who said They shall
not pass at Verdun, Marshal Petain, has no
choice but to set in motion in France today the
edicts of Adolf Hitler under which the people
of France must sweat and bleed in anguish.
For how long? Who can say!
But it is worth noting, and taking to heart,
that France threw off the yoke once before,
and won free. France is different now, to be
sure. France is humbled, crushed But is it
fair to believe that the spirit of France,
the spirit which quailed not at a frightful
at the violent death of it's ruler and
most of his followers, is dead? That would do
the descendants of Frances revolutioparies an
It may take years to rouse Frances spirit to
But that it will rise again, and rise
is not to be doubted. Equality,
fraternity and justice, now in the mire, await
only the propitious moment in the future 10 re-
assert themselves in La Belle France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
"THE GOLD BAG"
Durham Herald

DR.. Paul Cadman, economic adviser to the
American Bankers Association, has assured
North Carolina bankers that Sin case Germany
wins the war in Europe, America is not going
to be left holding the bag with 20 billions of de,
monatized gold in it. Germany, reasons the
economic expert, will not abandon gold for bar
ter, because it is not profitable. Gold, he con-
tends, is still the most valuable means of pur-
chasing throughout the world and barter re-
stricts rather than encourages trade.
We are not disposed to argue with the gentle.
man. He ought to know something of whereof
he speaks and there is a certain amount of as
surance in his statement that he recently
polled IS monetary authorities and out of that
number only four even suggested that gold
was apt to become worthless.
1t is not being exactly cynical. however. to
recall that recent tally sheets do not leave
the majority OF our economic experts with an
enviable record, especially in tn matter of fore.
casting the strength of German and Japanese
economic policies. Quite a few of them, we
seem to remember, had Germany pretty we'll
on the rocks economically some years ago and
just as many confidently expected the collapse
OF Japan before she Weathered one year of the
war with China. And all of us know that Ger
many, undoubtedly at great economic sacri-
fee, has managed to forego and keep rolling a
tremendously costly war-machine that has bat
tered down nations supposedly much stronger
economically and is today hurting that ma
chine against the supposed gibraltar Of eco
nomic strength, Britain. Japan, too, has man.
aged to stay on top to the point she is now chal-
longing both the United States and Britain.
Whether or not DR.. Cadman was a pjarty to
the unmaterialized prophecies concerning Ger
many and Japan, we haven't checked up to
see. 1t doesn't particularly matter. They have
entered new ones anyhow, and maybe the new
ons will pan out.
The one and only point we would suggest is
that, apart from what happens to gold in the
event of a German victory, the resultant world
is certain to be a different one from that which
gave DR.. Cadman the Information upon which
he necessarily bases his guess as to the future
of gold. And without in the least challenging
his conclusions, or those of his IS authorities,
we would recommend that experts and lay
men digest the apparently only slightly realized
fact that we are witnessing a revolutionary
change and old formulate may or may not
survive that change.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
: Call for Supplies

Great Britain's proposal that the forthcom-
ing inter-American conference at Havana per-
feet a pool through which England will get sur
plus commodities, to the exclusion of the Axis
powers, is a matter for the conference itself
to settle. Any speculation on the decision the
participating nations may make. at this time
or in these columns, would be Inappropriate.
But it is not presumptuous to say that, so tar
as the United States is concerned, q favorable
view of the British request would more likely
be taken if England were to give assurances
that American tobacco would be restored to
its former standing in the Empires markets
and that American cotton would have priority
over the cotton of other producing areas, nota-
bly, Egypt.
There staple crops of the South have been
hit by Great Britain's action in EMBRACING
the one in favor of Turkish tobacco and
curtailing purchases of the other to placate
Egyptian cotton growers. American planters
nave been under a handicap because of the
London restrictive policy. Unless the British
are ready to revise their position and open the
doors to both commodities, it is hardly to be
expected that conferees from the United States
at the Havana conference will fall over each
others heels in Impotence to yield to Eng.
lands entreaties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
July a., In France

It was in 1870 that Charles v of France gave
orders to build the Castle of Paris. Construc-
ton was completed 10 years later.
Orinally it was used for defense against
the British, it's four towers armed with cannon.
for political offenders, something like the Tow
err rulers of England.
Then, on July IA, 1913, the people having
recruited their strength and deciding the time
propitious for revolt, it fell, and its destruction
started a day later under the pounding of can.
non and to the pealing of the TIE Deum. The
old Castle of Paris, the emblem of slavery, the
instrument of tyranny-the Ba~stille-was no
more. The French people were free.
Today, July "A, 1910, the French people are
again in slavery, again under the heel OF a
tyrant, whose harsh rule promises worse suf-
fering than their ancestors endured under the
king they subsequently slew, when the revolu.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Wheat Crop

The eagerly awaited crap report of the de-
partment of agriculture, which made it's ap-
pearance on Thursday, showed a total of POS,
654, 900 bushels as of July 1. A year ago final
figures of spring wheat totaled 1911, $40, 900 BUSH
els Private estimates last week predicted in
two instances returns Of 1877, DOC, 900 bushels
Despite continued pessimistic crop reports,
wheat markets displayed an irregular trend
during the last few days.
According to the daily grain letter Of Good
body & Co., There are two major forces at
work in shaping the price trend of wheat. On
the one hand, there is the steadily increasing
mount Of hedge pressure against the incom'
ing winter wheat crop, which usually influences
the market adversely, and on the other hand
there is the precarious condition of our spring
wheat crop which might lead to considerable
damage if the weather continues dry and hot
during the next two weeks"
Regardless of the price trend, it is important
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
THE MAN
OF A MIGHTY FEW

PINE CITY, Wash.-lR-The stu
dent body of this little Whitman
county towns high school numbers
only 81, and many of those are
girls, but that doesn't stop tn e
Pine City boys from being pro-
6cient athletes.
The basketball team this spring
finished fourth in the state hlgn
school hoop tournament, although
the tallest man on the squad was
only five feet, 10 inches tall.
The tallest player, Don klmm,
was the only senior on the team
and did not rate the top billing oi
a couple of diminutive teammates,
Irving and Bob Letter, both o.
whom gained AI-State honors.
But Kimm showed the way u
stardom in the schools ath!e'eS
during the baseball season. !.
In 48 innings he allowed ou'
seven hits, striking out 80 victims,
He's pitched two no-hit games q
pair of one-hitters, let up WIN
two-hitter in the county sernl-flnas
and won the championship WIFI
another one-hit performance
And remember, you baSeo'9g
scouts, he's a senior.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD. - Pare Loreptz
soon will be back in Hollywood,
and his reception this time will be
unlike the brush-off he got in 1885.
When he began to make pictures
for the government he tried to en-.
list some of the technical facilities
Of the big studios, but they weren't
interested in the putterings of a
visionary.
When he went ahead and made
such striking documentary films as
THE Plough that Broke the
Plains" and The River" every
company in Hollywood was wish
ing it had helped him so that it
could help him take bows. But Lo-
rentz followed those pictures with
an even stronger demonstration Of
his self-sufficiency:
Warner Brothers wanted to buy,
for $50, 900, the best-selling Fight
for Life" by Paul de Kruif. The
deal was almost made when the
author got to figuring that Pare
Lorentz was the man to whom his
book should be entrusted if it were
not to become just another twisted
strip of celluloid. He went to his
publisher and proposed that they
yank the book away from Warmers
and offer it free to the government
on the condition that Lorentz would
direct it.
That's what happened, to the
dismay of the studio and to the Us
doubted benefit of the picture, for
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Sfar-News Program

Consolidated Ctty.Connty GoOernmen:
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrfghtsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, III
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, ptd
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc'
ton through sustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide taz.
Shipyards md Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0ro1oing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Enndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14

that the United States have a large reserve OF
available wheat for distribution in lands al
ready suffering from lack of grain supplies as
a result of the European war and short crops
on that continent. Whatever course the fight
ing abroad takes, whether favoring the Ask
or England, there is every reason to anticipate
famine conditions in much of Europe next
winter.
Our reserves will be needed to prevent star
walton among millions of peoule.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Navy
|Enlistments

Additional first enlistments as ap
prentice seamen during the pas
week included 10 young men from
Southeastern North Carolina, F. l.
Williams, officer in charge of the
local sub-station, reported yester'
day.
They included: Leon E. Leon
ard, 81, sor of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Leonard, of Bolivia; Claibon K.
Everett, %, son of Mr.. and Mrs. T,
K. Everett, of route two, Parkton;
Jesse W. Bowling, %, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. Bowling, of route one,
Bolivia; Hugh D.. Mercer, 20, son
of Mrs. o. E. Mercer, of Bolivia
Leon Pridgen, 20, son Of Mrs. L. A.
Pridgen, of Atkinson.
James M. Blanton, %, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Blanton, of 81 Spot.
ford Mills; John L. Williamson, 18,
son of j. B. Williamson, of Ash;
John F. Boney, 10, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. R. Boney, of Lumberton;
Harry L. Mincey, % son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. E. Mincey, of Chadbourn.
John w. Brown, %, son of MIR
and Mrs. j. Brown, of route one,
Bolivia; Nelson D. Robinson, 10,
son of Mrs. A. 1. Brewer, of Is
Hudson Drive, Wilmington; Der.
wood W. Scott, "a, son of Mr.. and
n ;. c. K. Scott, of route two, War
saw; and Thomas E. Mercer, %,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. v. Mercer,
of Bolivia.
They were transferred to the ma
val training station base at Hamp-
ton T Dads, Va, for eight weeks of
preliminary training prior to active
duty assignments with various
ships of the U. S. fleet.
A number of vacancies in the
r ng of apprentice seamen still
exist, Williams said. Interested
young men will be enlisted as soon
a. the necessary papers are COM
pleted.
Further information regarding
the opportunities offered by the U.
S. Navy may be secured by writing
to or calling in person at the local
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
QUESTIONS AND ANsWERS
Book Highlights

To most people, the New York
City since 1900 means b i 6 G r
buildings and more people. Ac-
tually, the transition goes deeper.
Manhattan society has changed
to such an extent since Ward Nc
Allister first named the Four Hun
dred, that the %glittering social pyr-
amid of 1910 bears little resem-
blance to the original group. The
urbane man about town who was
something Of a social 'arbiter has
almost disappeared, his niche
filled for the most part by play
boys and professional extra men.
Yet scattered through the Man
haitian society scene are individ-
ua1s, both men and women, who
cling proudly though rather hope.
lessly to the traditions of the old
order. Futile but likeable, they
are unable to grasp the slick ur-
banity of Manhattan, 1910
Such a character is the slightly
wistful Mr.. Opal, in John Mo-
sher's latest collection of essays,
E"Celibate at Twilight" (Random
House: ~$2). Mild but enjoyable,
the book has bite and irony. Mr..
Mosher, of the New Yorker maya
zine staff, does an expert job of
placing his characters against Ca
fe Society backdrops for contrast.
Crime Club addicts will find
deep contentment in Mr.. Wester-
by Missing" by Miles Burton
well-developed murder mystery
involving Scotland Yard.
The investigation into the vic.
lent death of John Westerly. in.
trovert and student of birds in
the field, begins before anyone
really knows that the man has
been murdered. He has, of course
and Inspector Arnold of the Yard
discovers the gruesome remains in
due time.
The case takes strange twists.
leads into apparently unfertile
fields time and again. All of the
suspects seem vulnerable enough
But In the end, Arnold and his
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Doris Duke CromweWs
Premature Baby Dies

HONOLULU, July 13-tR-A ba
by born three months prematurely
to Doris Duke Cromwell, tobacco
fortune heiress, died yesterday.
The child was born Thursday anc
lived a little more than "a hours
The heiress is the wife of James H
R. Cromwell, former United States
minister to Canada.
Mrs. CromwelPs secretary auth
orized this statement:
Mrs. Cromwell gave birth to G
baby girl weighing 3 IL pounds or
Thursday at 8 pm. in Queens hos
pital. The baby died "a hours later
Mrs. CromwelPs condition is ex
cellent today"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
BY PAUL HARRISON

the Hays Office never would have
approved a script such as Lorentz
wrote, even if anybody in Holly
wood had been willing to attempt
it.
The government doesn't seem to
be inclined to spend any more
money on educational films just
now, so Lorentz is going to seek
Hollywood backing for some of his
ideas and for the small group OF
assistants which he has held intact
since 1885. They'll be welcomed
now. Anybody who can make an
eloquent picture as THE Fight
flor Life for a mere $780, 90 sounds
like an answer to MovietoWn'S un-
easy prayers.
THE COY
COMMA
It is not 1attering, but a fact,
that there has been about as much
discussion of how to punctuate "All
This and Heaven Too" as there
has been of the film itself since it
opened here. The question is
where to put a comma, if any.
Confusion reigned almost from
the beginning, with inquiries
pouring in from correspondents,
advertising writer's, and title
makers. One edition Of the Rachel
Field novel placed a comma after
'All This; a subsequent edition
used none at all; and most stylists
insisted that a comma should
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
A GOOD DEED
EUROPE!

ZURICH R-Swiss students are
playing host to students from Hol-
land and Belgium.
More than a hundred men from
German-occupied areas are study
ing at the University of Zurich.
All communications have been
cut off and the students are
stranded and penniless in Zurich.
The Union of Swiss Students has
asked the foreign men to be their
guests for meals until they hear
from home again. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14

sub-station, located on the seroIlN
floor of the postoffice butioHr9'
which is open daily from 0;'0 DIM
until 4:30 I'm. ,ror
Lieutenant Commander Me- If
land w. Wood, officer in chaISe +be
naval ocruiting activities ia ., VI.
Carolinas district, with heaoQDo ar.
tiers in Raleigh, late Friday aI'
noon conducted a quarterly litSp
ton of the local office 'ho ~,
pressed satisfaction at the fe"
ing results being achieved
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
ONE SUCCESS M
JULEPS AND GEN. LEE

RICHMOND, Va. R-Rush, a Ne
gro butler at Richmond's Common
wealth Club for As years, ism
thinking of retiring, but he's train
ing a protege. Two essentials are
to be taught-proper mixing of a
mint julep and memorizing the
farewell address of General Robert
E. Lee. Rush admits he knows both
perfectly.
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TOP % THE

o Lard, reDiDe Thy Uork in the midst OF the
gears, in the midst Of the gears make knoUn +;
in nrath remember mercy -.
Thou Uentest forth for the sdluation OF
Thy people.
Hd5qkENE 3;2 and 10
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friend, Desmond Merton, manage
to fill in all of the answers and
come through with a suitable con-
clusion.
More than that can't be expected
of a murder mystery 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
TIME
TRADES
FOR. CORN DOGS"

HOUSTON, Tex. R-The hea pIl
aches cf a football mentor W."
harry Jimmy Kits NO more n.
Kits, who was fired at Rlce M
stitute after last years dlsaSIt2
season, has deserted the coacil aS
business. He is promoting d 4 4he
type of sandwich in Houston % in
corn dog'-a weiner Wrappe0 2
corn bread.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14

come after Heaven" Most writ
ers have been solving the problem
by referring to the picture merely
as "ATAHT." On the film itself,
the title has nc punctuation, but
there's a comma in some of the ad.
vertising. On its three-sided mar.
quee the Carthay Circle Theater
bills it three ways: AL This and
Heaven Too," '.All This, and Heav.
en- Too," and 'All This and Heav.
en-, Too"
With or without a comma. the
title has nothing whatever to do
with the picture.
FAINT PRAISE
is LOUD
All Hollywood seems to be a lit.
tie embarrassed about this film.
1t was praised so extravagantly in
advance that the movie colony dis
likes admitting, now, that the 100
year-old story is rather draggy and
talky for these times. You could
have sensed the feeling at the
plushy premiere. AS the lights
went up, people exchanged muir
murs and covert glances of disap-
pointment. But by the time they
got into the lobby the place was
hip-dep in superlat1ves and en-
thusiasm. Old Harry Warner, who
knows pictures when he sees EN-,
smiled graciously under the bar
rage of praise and said quietly,
well, I believe people will like the
last part of it."