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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-06
RASH WORDS

The full effect of WINSTON CHURcHIn's
challenge to the new world to save the old
may not at present be estimated, but it is
obvious that the British prime minister fed
fuel to the opponents of adequate defense in
this country, and to the political enemies of
the administration at Washington, by his
broad, and we must believe, rash declaration.
The United States is face to face with its
greatest emergency, in the successful meeting
Of which national unity is a deciding factor.
To raise the bogy of war-mongering against
the ROOSEVELT regime, with a national poll
teal election in the offing, is to nullify much
of the effort centering in Sdefense.
And that is just what Mr.. CHURCHILL has
done. Republican candidates will be quick to
seize upon the implication in his words to
charge the President and all defense agencies
with doing their utmost to plunge the coun.
try into Europe's war, whereas the objective
of our effort is to make the United States
impregnable against attack.
It was an unfortunate and inopportune
rhetorical flight. America will do its part in
stopping the totalitarian juggernaut, and is
doing it daily in it's factories; doing it so
we'll that American planes are engaging and
defeating larger air detachments of the nazis
in open combat. Mr.. CHURCHILL will assure
the Allies Of greater material help from this
country if he limits his appeals to the things
we can do for them without jeopardizing our
own preparedness program. And we will do
more and more with every means at our com.
mand.
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the Allies may expect and must meet II tne
HITLER mind ia made up for it.
Throughout the period Of war, the Allies
have s%crupulously avoided even a hint Oh
violating the neutrality Of any nation ano
have suffered cruelty for their integrity. Con
sidering the price they have paid for tnelr
policy, might it not seem the wiser course in
the emergency, to move into Switzerland
first, not to conquer it and lay it waste, but
to protect their interests and the interests OF
Switzerland, and prevent another possible
blitzkreig by the nazis?
Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium
fell to HITLER because the Allies were too
decent to move in first. Millions are dead,
cities are RACED, governments deposed, be-
cause HITLER neither knows nor respects the
rights of others. The Allies could see a les
son in this and apply it to the advantage OF
both themselves and Switzerland. The step
would be justified on the ground that if they
had been in Belgium and Holland in time, the
British retreat from Dunkerque would not
have been necessary.
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injure terminal facilities and result in their
lack of ADEQUATE maintenance because of re-
duced revenues.
This news should penetrate to Washington
and create stronger sentiment for ship build.
ing, which is practically at a standstill. The
federal government has stopped far short of
adequate encouragement to this important
business. Perhaps there has been insufficient
testimony in the right places to bring home
to the government the need for merchant
craft not only to replace ships in world com.
merce sunk or interned during the war, but
to carry on the nations own trade between
the f~ar-flung coasts. If this is the reason for
federal indifference, it might be removed by
a crusade in which all port cities united.
Wilmington, for example, might with bene.
fit to itself and the entire shipping interests
of the country, join such a crusade. Certainly
the fact that the Pacific Coast has taken
leadership in exposing the conditions and re,
cognizing the need for betterment need not
impose q barrier to local action. On the con,
trary, it ought to stimulate effort here.
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BATTLE TO SPEAK

CHAPEL HILL, June 5.'P-
Kemp D. Battle Of Rocky Mount
prominent attorney and past pres.
ident Of the North Carolina Ba,
association, will be principal speak.
er at a public meeting here to-
morrow night under the auspices
of the Chapel Hill chapter of the
William Allen White committee tc
defend America by aiding the AL
lies, DR.. Archibald Henderson
chairman of the local committee
announced tonight.
The meeting will be held in Ger.
rard Hall at 8 o'clock and will be
open to the interested public, DR.
Henderson said.
Mr.. Battle will speak for the ma
tional committee, it was announced.
Local speakers Will include John
M. Foushee, mayor Of Chapel Hill;
Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence, DR.. w.
w. Pierson, Jr., Colonel Joseph
Hyde Pratt. Louis Graves and Ad.
miral Percy w. Foote.
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BOMBS AND BONDS

Foreign dollar bonds were affected adverse
ly by the bombing Of Paris, which seemed to
many observers the initial step in greater
intensification of the war.
French bonds were not traded on Monday
but usually they do not reflect developments
in any case as there are few American hold.
ings left. German, Austrian and Canadian is.
sues all sagged, with the empire bonds mostly
at lows for the year.
Belgian and Norwegian obligations reflect
ed the continued payment of interest on vari.
Gus securities, June 1, by gains of one to four
points. Italian sevens moved slightly higher,
but all the Italian municipal issues pointed
downward again. Even a good many Latin.
Americans continued their decline, apparently
because distrust of all foreign issues grows
steadily in the market.
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LACK OF SHIPS

An inadequate. merchant marine is working
Coast port authorities have taken up the hue
and cry for correction of this crippling stu.
ton.
SMITH M. WILSON, vice president of the
Seattle commission, addressing a recent meet.
ing of the Pacific Coast Association of Port
Authorities at San Francisco, declared that
unless the shortage of ships is corrected by
adding bottoms to intercoastal runs produc.
ton, sales, employment and future operations
Of industries and merchants will suffer trag.
ically, and added that decreasing cargoes will
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TRAGIC MIGRATION
STARTED BY WAR
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had no choice about their role in
this
So fast do armies move today that
these refugees couldn't even make
a sensible selection Of what to take
with them in their hurry.
Nor did they know at the time OF
fleeing that they would have to KEEP
on the move, constantly %retreating
from Belgium or northern France,
further and further south.
Near St. Pol, in northern France,
there is a little village through which
the r%etresting French and advanc-
ing Germans swept without doing
heavy local damage.
The French evidently didn't make
a stand there and the Germans had
no interest in stopping. Yet the en-
tire population of the village, quite
naturally, had fled.
Enroute to St. Pol l found chalked
on houses remarks like: Grocer
Monsieur Chablis fled with his fam
lily to Masters house st. Pol" or
Monsieur and Madame Yvels and
their children have gone to Hue DE
Marseille 81, st. Pol
But when we reached st. POI we
realized that no one would find Mon
sieur or Madame Yvels in thai town
1t had been shelled in the mean
time and the civilian population re-
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1t is not impossible that the security of the
United States might ultimately depend on po
tatoes, or any of the other staple food stuffs
Thus it becomes imperative that We join agri'
culture with industry in our preparedness
program. The fertile soil of America must
be at capacity production no less than Amer.
ica's factories and navy yards. The farmer
must be marshaled alongside labor and tech.
meal skill. His crops, his beef and sheep and
hogs, must be as carefully boarded and strate-
gically distributed as aircraft, guns, NUM-
tions, tanks, warships and soldiers. A nation
defending itself against invasion cannot do
its job we'll unless it's food storehouses are
filled with inexhaustable supplies.
This union of industry and agriculture is
as natural in the south as the spring mating
of birds. Southern farms can produce food
far in excess of the regions own needs, just
as the awakened industry of the South can
provide military stores far beyond any re-
quirement for defense in the area.
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia agri-
culture is capable of performing as con-
s%picously in any emergency as the industry
~ ICE ~ IIuluSudm, WILL lS great
iron and coal reserves; Chattanooga, with its
hydro-electric resources centering in W.
projects; Atlanta, with its unmatched south
ern facilities for inland distribution, form a
perfect affinity with the soil of the entire
district to assure a tremendous defense asset.
1t but remains to bring them together in joint
effort.
In combination with a new military high
way system, which also must be provided for
mobile troops and for supplies the nation will
be advantaged by the south's contribution to
defense. And as it will be necessary to have
a coastal outlet and terminal, it is not diff
ficult to foresee Wilmington as the great
central point for coastal distribution.
Wilmington will be, too, if a new leader
ship, with a new vision, and a new power of
performance, seizes the opportunity which the
national preparedness program offers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-06
RELIGION AND PATRIOTISM

Dear Sir:
What real American is there who
should not thank his God every
day for the inestimable privilege
of being a citizen of this country
at this time?
And what real American is there
who should not prove his gratitude
10 his Heavenly Father and his
appreciation Of his country by
every conceivable act of loyalty?
And among all the other methods
of cooperation available now, is
there any which would more under
grid the strength of our country and
fortify it for whatever lies in the
future than the development to the
utmost of our every moral and
spiritual resource?
In other words, is there not a
growing need for q speedy and
thoroughgoing moral and spiritual
rearmament Immediately?
Should not all of us who profess
and call ourselves Christians give
unto our churches today the ut
most measure of love and loyalty?
1t is not true that the peoples
who r causing the most trouble
throughout the world at present
are the peoples who have either
never had the Bible or who have
practically lost it?
Should we not rejoice that in
Wilmington, as in many other
cities in our state and in other
states, the Bible is being taught
in public schools today in a
way which is in perfect keeping
with our fundamental law of the
separation of Church and state?
And should not everyone of US,
who wishes to see to it that the
many destructive isms which are
abroad in America at present are
kept out of the mind Of the rising
generation, have a part in advanc-
ing this teaching of the Bible in the
public schools.
Practically. have you made a
subscription to this cause? If not,
will you not send your check to
Walker Taylor, treasurer, at once?
A. D. p. GILMOUR
Wilmington, N. c.
June 5, 1910 2
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moved. Where Monsieur and Madame
Yvels had gone nobody knew.
In the headlong flight children h.
came separated from parents, hus,
bands from wives, brothers from
sisters, in utter tragedy.
Had I not Travelled for days and
days along main roads leading from
Cambria to Arras | wouldn't have
believed by own eyes.
Marching in one direction, and
having the right-of-way, were Ger
man troops with complete equipment,
including heavy artillery, soup ktch,
ems, supply trucks, reserves Of
horses, ambulances, soldiers on foot,
on bicycle, on motorcycle and in
armored cars.
You can imagine what dust those
marching columns kicked up. We
who Travelled behind and alongside
were black with dirt at the end Of
each journey.
And, Flooding through the dust
columns in opposite directions, were
hundreds of thousands of refugees
attempting to return home. They
always had to move far enough 70
one side to allow the German troops
to pass.
Moreover, when they reached scme
narrow emergency bridge, they mad
to wait until many miles Of the Ger
man troop columns had passed tha'
sometimes meant hours, durlns
which time the refugees could move
neither backward nor forward
Germany still is passing un'0p
reserves into northern France a1
columns 10 to Is miles long are U
uncommon sight.
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surfing her of the local organizations
cooperation.
To Be Circulated

Suflng ner OF the local organization 8
cooperation.
To Be Circulated
The resolution passed yesterday
morning will be circulated through
out this section to be signed and
endorsed by any persons interested,
And any person willing to volun-
teer as a circulator has been asked
to contact any members Of the
committee.
Macmillan said yesterday after
noon it was his belief similar DEM
~onstrations are being made in
other parts of the nation, but said
he did not know where.
Those present at the meeting
yesterday morning were: Judge
George Rountree, George Roun-
tree, Jr., John A. Stevens,
Arthur Diehl, DR.. Housto r.
Moore, John A. Orrell, Harriss New,
man, Thomas H. Wright, Louis T,
Moore, Roger Moore, Winder Hughes
Goodlet Thornton, Kenneth Bur
gwin, Tom Orrell, F. H. Fechtig
Lester Foy, J. v. Granger, R. D.
Cronly, Hargrove Bellamy, Herbert
Bluethenthal. Robert Strange, Add.
son Hewlett. ]. c. Roe, Hermon Ro
rison, Alan Marshall, Aaron Gold,
berg, DR.. John T. Hoggard, J. Walter
Webb, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hacker,
Henry Macmillan, Mrs. R. D. Cron.
ly and Mrs. Lucille M. Marvin.
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Star-News Program

Consolidated City-CoAnty Government
under CounciLM Manager Administrator
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
ShoWs.
Seaside High,oay from Wr1ghtsv'l1e
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear RiDer channel, tud'
er Turning Basin, With ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern odnS
south OF Wilmington.
Pared Rirer Road to Southport, v'd
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prodnc'
ton through sustoined-yieh methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motiona1 Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed dro1nd the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF natire crepe gro1o1n0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sdndtor1um.
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love CoURTSHIP
AND MARRIAGE
When Bills Come
|In---Thai's When
Romance Is Proven
BY ERNEST r. AND GLADYS H
GROVES
Noted Authorities on MarriaTe
Relations

Almost anyone can be romantic
at the beginning of marriage, but
this first wind Of easy romance
generally gives out as bills come
in, dust and drudgery gather, and
the business Of daily living cannot
longer be made to take second
place.
Then it is that these who are set
for a lifetime of romance must de.
velop their second wind.
This is what makes the differ.
ence between those marriages that
plod along mostly by habit, with
all enthusiasm gone, and the ones
that run in high gear, with little
friction or fuss, obviously going
places without much effort, and
providing mounting happiness for
their members. More than luck
decides which way a marriage will
60.
Those who win through to their
second romantic wind in marriage
look back on the first romantic
excitement Of their life together
as a childish apprenticeship + r
what was to follow.
Then they were merely intoxi-
Gated with each others nearness.
Now they are learning what it
means to live the whole Of their
life on two fronts-their own and
the mates.
Instead of daydreaming as to
what married life-and the mar
riage partner-will be like, each
one finds out o accurately
every day what sort of person he
or she has married, and what it
means to be married.
This ever unfolding reality calls
for new hopes and enthusiasms that
are the stuff Of which lasting ro-
nance is made.
Those who have depth of per-
sonality enough to keep up with
the changing conditions Of every
new stage Of married life, always
eager to e around the next cor
ner and to prove that they can
measure up to the new opportuni-
ties ahead, r getting their Sec
ond wind of romance. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-06
DRIVE ON PARIS

Having taken all channel ports closest to
England, HITLER now starts a direct thrust at
Paris on the defense line General WEYGAND
hastily prepared along the Somme and Aisne
rivers.
Along a hundred.miIe front inland from Al.
beyville, the German army is striking with
it's full mechanical might in what the nazi
commander confidently tells the German peo-
pie is the last phase of the continental war.
If his soldiers are successful, if they break
the Allied lines and march on Paris, if WEY.
GAND came into supreme Allied command too
late, the present campaign may, indeed, be
the final stage of the conflict so far as France
is concerned. If Paris falls France will be
eliminated, and Great Britain be left alone
to carry on as best she can against invasion
and possible overthrow.
It is a dark day for the Allies. but not
necessarily hopeless. The nazis face a differ
ent kind OF opposition than they have thus
Tar encountered. The Somme-Aisne line is
manned by seasoned troops equipped with
heavy tanks and big guns, and directing all
10 the little old Frenchman, WEYeANp. man of
steel, whose mind functions solely for the
purpose Of outguessing and outgeneraling
HITLER at his own game.
But the drive on Paris may not be all that
HITLER proclaims it. In fact it may be q feint
to distract attention from another drive
through Switzerland which, if ACCOMPLISHED
would make Frances conquest vastly easie,
and infinitely less costly in men and equip
ment.
Switzerland, the only neutral left in the i'm
mediate war area, has, like Belgium and Hol
land, hoped to escape. But HITLER, who has
shown 80 often that he has no respect fo,
neutrality when his own interests are con
cerned, is quite as likely to be preparing TO,
Its invasion by a tightening stroke as he was
Tor the invasion of Holland and Belgium
while he was creating a diversion in Norway
That ne will actually seize Switzerland il
pure speculation, depending perhaps on thu
outcome of his present offensive on the Som
me or a favorable opportunity for a surprise
move against the Swiss, but it is somethiA,
Z, J
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PRO-ALLY MEETING
SCHEDULED TODAY
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way of life would be endangered for
a generation at least"
Other plans in this connection
made at the meeting yesterday
morning called for kilograms to
President Roosevelt, to Vice-Presi-
dent Garner, to the speaker Of the
house and to North Cardinals SEN
ators and representatives. Several
such messages were sent by men,
bers of the organization yesterday
morning and others were being
prepared yesterday afternoon.
The replies from the legislation
Will probably be considered at the
mass meeting today.
Today's meeting was previous
~ set for the recorders court, but
Judge j. Paul Frizzelle agreed to re-.
cess civil court for the afternoon to
make way for the gathering.
Another telegram was to be sent
to Mrs. Morrow thanking her for her
remarks in this connection, and as.
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GERMANS BOMB
ENGLISH AREAS
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parently there were no casualties.
The Yorkshire Post said w o
bombs were dropped in the north
riding district of Yorkshire shortly
after midnight, starting two fires
which soon died out. No air raid
warning was sounded there. Brit
ish aircraft were in the air at the
time OF the attack and a large mum.
Der OF searchlights were active.
-Four bombs fell into the sea
about 300 yards from the pier at
an east coast port.
The text of the communicate:
1.-THE air ministry and the min
istry OF home security announce
that enemy aircraft d d a
number of incendiary bombs in
rural districts of Yorkshire. Lin
colnshire, Norfolk and on the
Thames side during the night, ap-
parently in an attempt to locate
n attack R. A. F. airdomes.
"Anti-aircraft defenses were in
action.
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NEW DANGER ZONE
IS SET BY ITALY
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consular or military authorities in
order to approach Italian coasts.
Failing to do so, they will ap.
proach Eat their own risk and per-
ill.,"
Ships now en- route to Italy must
give immediate notice of the exact
day and hour they will arrive in
the danger zone, and give their
position.
The government also ordered all
sirens in Italy to cease sounding
today since they would be used
solely for air raid alarms.
The order referred to fire sirens
and factory whistles.
Every Sunday morning at 10,
alarms will be sounded 10 minutes
for testing.
The communique announcing the
danger zone said:
"A strip II miles wide around
the coasts of the kingdom of Italy,
Albania and the empire of colonies
and possessions of Italy is danger.
Gus to navigation.
"Ships to reach port aforesaid
must be authorized and have had
the necessary instructions Fl o m
Italian consular or military author
tiles.
"Ships already in navigation di.
rected to such ports must immed'
lately give Italian port authorities
notice of the day and hour in which
they will enter limits of the danger
zone, indicating their approximate
positions.
"Ships which do not adhere to
these dispositions will do so at
their own risk and danger"
Blackout regulations against pos
sible air raids we're issued by the
government in further preparation
for war.
A student. demonstration against
the Allies was broken up before
the marchers reached the British
consulate, which for several hours
was guarded by a small detach-
ment of troops. /
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The Editors
LETTER BOX

The editor does not necessari.
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in this department. They repre-
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Objectionable. Letters on con.
reversal subjects will not be
published.
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FRENCH TRAP NAZl
ARMORED COLUMNS
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the deep French defenses on !"
Somme-in an offensive that lilo.
all but decide the war 50 L%
this old republic is c%oncerneo-4 ~,
ti-aircraft fire burst out II
southwestern outskirts OF ran, -,
A spokesman thus stn''Osu d
the French position at Inc e"u ..r..
this first day of the great Jaw
Favorable ,,a
Earlier, authorized sources n,
declared that the defenders y" W.
somme front were holding e's',
where with the exception OF Nv
points where a fall-back 10 NV.
favorable positions was molv Nova
adding that in such an operal .,r
there was nothing to VoF''
about"
1000, 900 Men Fight ,,.
The German steel-clad cars w.
attacking in great fleets at l., n' ~.
points along the front. NeaIN
ooo, 900 men were at grips ~,
Mermsn sources said the NJ
armv's right wing was ad'a"'
toward LIE Hacre and koueHy NJ
It was a struggle to death e.,s %
decision on a 125-mile-lons n,g
red with the fire of unc0un's
thousands of guns-a cll'', ,,na
roaring artillery, bomoefs'
and infantry action. :, {
The worst of it all was l" II,
bloody ~rectangle formed BY IL.
cities Of LIE Fere, Laon' Ai''''
Chateau and Chauny. ,r,ss
The Nazis centered the si. .acrot
of their efforts in the W .gp,
of Amiens and Laon with a ts5 r
porting attack all alons IN o,,b d
running east from the my rtyer~
the somme to the Aisns riS tss
lashing out from a pochs' NJ TIL
somm a,s'I at VI Amiens and down ,r o.
Disc valley on the hlgl'""
Laon to Scissors .pa IA:
It was a battlefield OIL ,a rg
war; and a battlefield ""e ,ah A.
had died in combat through
centuries.
H. |
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QUOTATIONS

What we had in mind was that people would
like to pay for the extraordinary armament
program.-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau.
The one most obvious lesson OF the present
war in Europe is the value OF the factor of
speed.-President Roosevelt.
Our democracy, if it is to survive must be
thought of every hour Of every day'-1ov. Her.
bert Lehman New York.