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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-20
Bruce Cations
In Washington
Star-News' Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON-A little noticed ruling by
Attorney General Jackson has put the National
Labor Relations Board in the drivers seat in
connection with the defense program.
In response to a request from the defense
commission, Jackson ruled in effect that q
firm is in violation of the Wagner act when
the board says it is, rather than when the
boards decision is passed on by the courts.
Jackson was asked to rule because the de
tense commission has just decreed that nc
army or navy contracts for defense materials
will be negotiated with any firm which is vic.
lating any of the governments labor laws.
Naturally the question at once arose, who de-
c1deS when a given company is violating one
of these laws-tbe Wagner act, for instance?
TWO MEMBERS
NOW AT ODDS
Hereafter, then, the labor board can shut any
corporation out of the defense program by
finding, in a case brought before it, that the
corporation is violating the Wagner act. Jack.
sons ruling said a company would become
elibible again if the circuit court should re-
verse a labor board finding against it; but
between the labor boards ruling and the circuit
courts decision many months may elapse.
Right now the labor board is a two-man
affair, the two men being Edwin S. Smith and
Dr. William Leiserson, who oppose each other
bitterly on practically all points. The term OF
the third member, j. Warren Madden, expired
some weeks ago-and it is no exaggeration,
in view of the Jackson ruling, to say the ap-
pointment of his successor is of vast i'm
portance to the defense program.
Smith and Madden teamed together. Because
that was SO, the board today-in its person
mel, it's policies and its outlook-very largely
reflects the social and economic viewpoint of
Smith.
And the point to remember is that Smith
for a long time has come about as close to
being a fellow traveller of the Communists as
any official in Washington.
CLEANUP HINGES
ON THIRD MAN
Smiths closest associates on the board are
it's secretary, Nathan Witt, and its associate
general counsel Thomas I. Emerson. A solid
nucleus has been built up within the board of
key position employees who see eye to eye
with these three. Regional officers in the
field are excepted.
The result is that a group all but openly
identified with the famous party line has
been in a position to run the labor board.
The congressional committee that has spent
a year investigating the labor board missed
all this completely. 1t identified ordinarily
liberal and pro-labor people as Communists,
and never once got into the real problem
which has been common gossip in the capital
for at least a year by my own knowledge.
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Book Highlights

In his introduction, H. G.. Wells
calls his BABES in the Barking
Woods" (Alliance: $2.75), a NOV.
ell of IDEAS" stresses the fact thai
here are real characters from life,
who talk as you would expect them
to talk, who live and hope in. the
England of 1910.
The novel bears out Wells pre-.
diction in full. But he might have
termed it Conversation piece"
for his characters discuss, in ade-
quate detail, a multitude of topics
ranging from love and sex to phi
losophy, education and the future
of the world.
The story is incidental. The
thoughts, the ideas are the au-
thor's chief concern. His charac-
tiers move through various events,
but only to provide opportunity of
expression, and a setting for ex-
pounding facts and theories.
Briefly, the framework on which
Wells ties his arguments concerns
Stella and Gemini, two educated,
young English people, discovered
spending a holiday together with
out benefit of clergy. Their affair
Interrupted, Gemini goes to the
continent, is in Poland during the
invasion, in Finland during the
Russian war. He is wounded,
when a munitions train explodes.
returns home broken and disil-
lusioned.
With Stella's help, he returns to
normal as Hitler marches into the
lowlands. The story closes with
Genini on a mine-sweeper and
Stella working as a nurse.
But the worth of the novel is in
the ideas it expounds. For exam
pie, consider Gemini's lengthy dis.
cussion on the future of the world
after the war.
1nere must be an ArmiStice,
Gemini argues, imposed by neces-
sity, fostered by neutrals, proba-
bly, America and Russia, then a
world federation, ruled by inter-
national commissions controlling
effective disarmament, repara-
tons, restoration of displaced pop
ulations, air and general trans
port. restoration of production,
through readjustment of money
and barter. The federation must
put an end to air war forever.
There's more to Gemini's theory,
but you'll have to read the novel
to appreciate it. Here is a work
well worth your perusal. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-20
O ROOSEVELT

Dear SIT.
When we see men who had been
decorated by Hitler and who are in
sympathy with Germany in this
war, as Lindbergh was and is;
when we see them pleading for the
election of Wilkie, as Lindbergh
does; it is time for our red-blooded
young men and for their fathers,
mothers, wives and s~weethearts to
work for and vote for Roosevelt.
w. B. KEZIAH
Southport, N. G.. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-20
TOP o. THE MORNING

PoWer belongs to God. And poUer can be re-
leased for the service of men. The Church ON
her knees is the Church of pouer. The task to
be done is the world to be a0on. No halthedrt-
ed efforts wiN bring the wor1d back to sanity.
1t will need the dyaa1ing together of all the
forces of God and OF right.
From "FORWARD."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-20

IS needed in the diet because it
prevents ricketts,, and does so by
laying down calcium salts in the
long bones. When fed in excess
ms Qualification goes forward at
kidney stones and similar deposits
all over the body.
tomorrow: Body Growth and
Eject Of Diet on Physique. 1
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Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. M. D.

Vitamins, as I intimated yester-
day, r the fertilizers of the hui
man body. We need only small
amounts of them and they act
subtly to influence our well being,
our growth, hardness (resist-
ance to in~fections) Just as fertil-
ers affect the same general fea-
lures Of plants.
The question arises-and a very
natural one it is in view of the
prevalent craze to get all sorts of
extra vitamins in concentrated
form and Observation-Disclosures we
can get too much vitamins. Plants
get too much fertilizer sometimes.
Can we overdo the vitamin bust
ness?
Most of what we hear is just the
opposite kind of advice-here is
Surgeon : General Parran, of the
Public Health Service, telling us
that there is a new Starvation
in the United States that hits two
out of five citizens, resulting in
faulty nutrition. More than 40 per
cent of the people in the country
are not getting a diet adequate to
maintain good health and vigor."
writes DR.. Parran.
Deficiency Diseases Rare
l gave reasons in the first arti-
Gle this week for believing that
this sort of talk is grossly exag-
gerated. Physicians who see pa.
tlents in charity clinics are famil-
lar with conditions in all walks OF
GEOGRAPHICALLY those walks of
life where food is not abundant
and yet they find that deficiency
diseases r still rare
But people are undoubtedly TAX
ing vitamin products in large
quantities. So the question is per
tinent-does this do any harm?
Experiments have been carried
out to determine this, and the re-
suit OF them seems to be that
there is no ground to fear that ex-
cept in n instance, any ill effects
come from overdosage. vitamin
A is obtained by the body on the
average American dietary in the
amount of about 5000 units daily.
McBeth gave large quantities of
the vltamin to school children up
to $4,000 units a day. The age Of
the children was from 8 to ID
years. No outward results were
observed from this large dosage.
Thlamine chloride, which is the
crystalline form of Vitamin B is
required by the body in the amount
OF about 30 units for children and
200 units for adults per day. Tween.
ty-seven thousand units were taken
by a laboratory worker in a single
dose. And the same man took
twenty times the needed dose da;lv
for quite a period of time. No III
effects were observed from the ex.
periments.
Too Much vitamin
Riboflavin, which is the cb.r,,-
cal name for Vitamin B.two. Can
be taken in 1000 times the needed
amount without producing toxic ef.
fects.
Vitamin c is destroyed or ex.
creted from the body very rapidly.
In experimental work on animals
five times the ordinary amount
taken IN daily by the body was
given and no ill effects observed
and no changes found in the liver
heart, kidneys or lungs in the ami.
mails after they were killed.
The only vitamin that can do
any harm when taken in large
amounts is Vitamin D. It normaHw
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-20
THANKS
Dear Sir:

The Sorosis Garden club wishes
to thank you for the splendid pub
licity and the cooperation Of the
public in their annual flower show.
MRS. E. E.. HUNTER,
Secretary.
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Hickory Grove Low-Down

A kind Of horseback opinion on
what is wrong with this country
it is, we have gotten away from
eating breakfast.
A faint nibble of toast is about
all our tired inwards will now
stand for at 7 am.
This country when it was grow
ing up, it would swap some stori
es in the evening, around the
lireside-with a bushel of apples
close at hand-and by 8 or 10
it would be in bed.
And at 6 in the morning, the
aroma of bacon ard the other
grand kitchen smells, they
would watt in, and they meant
something. They got the house
hold together, a clear-eyed and
clearheaded, and in cheerful
MOOD. SOufpuSSeS at breakfast
time-they did not have them.
But today it is vice versa
nothing gets steamed up until
around midnight. And the next
day. with a fuzzy tongue and a
muddled noggin, we are ripe for
any duck who happens along
with some new ism or receipt for
government where everybody
basks in the shade-and pros
pers. This country needs more
bacon and eggs for breakfast.
10 Sierra. -r-
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No oobwsbA In His Bruln J

~John Nance Garner was born IN
NOV. ~. as near Thanksgiving as SO
modest and wise a person would
choose to be. His countrymen can't
help numbering him among their
blessings this week." said an editorial
IN the New York Times a year or so
ago in commenting upon the vice.
presidents birthday. "He holds play
fully" said the editorial, that the
books have got the year of his birth
wrong. They say it was 1868. He pre-
fers SO. For us it is SO until he selects
some other date Commemoration of
his birthday should be movable
feast Early to bed and early to rise
has had its proverbial effects. On his
anniversary Monday he was out of
bed at 7:45 a. m; into it again at ID. m.
lie has been at Washington for
nearly 35 years. There he is an insti
tuition. Young folks little careless
with their geography yet with an in
stinctlve sense of the higher pro.
prieties are apt to think OF Uvalde as
the capital of Texas. He has minded
Lis own business perfectly. He has
minded the nations affairs carefully
and competently.
He can be patient with policies
that he disapproves. A sort of Ben
Franklin he has no cobwebs in his
Drain. lie can be exposed freely TO
fantaslsts and fanatics and keep the
peace. II is lucky for his own that he
is philosopher. The fluctuations Of
his colleagues dove him from thu
chamber. Politicians who habituallv
spread their ears upon the ground
can admire man given to forming
his own opinions.
He is wise by nature and long ex-
perience. without prctcnse. pedantry
or solemnity. he is a good man. an
able man. full Of humor and a good
fellow. If he doesn't mako his wear,
a round hundred. trat VII i've the first
time that he h.. disappointed ,as
public hope"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-03-15

A MEXICAN farm products pur-
1 \ chased by the brewing indus
try since beers relegalization in
1888 have reached a total Of rs bill.
lion pounds. enough to fill a freight
train extending from Los Angeles
to Detroit.
More than three million acres of
farm land must be cultivated each
year to raise the billions of pounds
OF barley. corn, rice and hops for
which brewers pay approximately
$100.000.000 annually.
In 1889 alone nearly four billion
pounds Of these products were used
to make the 65,191. 103 barrels of
beer, which the United States Blu.
reau Of Internal Revenue reports
were produced last year.
These are among the develop
ments recorded by the United
Brewers Industrial Foundation in
Its annual survey of the brewing
industry. .
The past year also witnessed
rapid expansion Of the industry's
program Of active cooperation with
local law enforcement officials to
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eliminate anti social conditions
wherever they may surround the
sale OF beer. The number of states
In which industry committees dedi-
Gated to this purpose are in opera
tion increased from one to nine.
Similar programs are to be in
stalled In additional states during
the coming year.
Direct taxes collected on the 1899
sale Of beer totaled 1896, 78O and
averaged $3.50 per barrel on the
52.76S,S1S barrels withdrawn for
sale. This revenue is sar-marked
for old age pensions. educational
institutions. public health, aids 10
agriculture and other special pur.
poses In many states and munich
palities. The remainder. including
the Federal Governments share Of
S267 .G42.983. is allocated TO general
expense funds.
The 1899 payments bring the to-
tal tax revenue collected by Fed.
e.al, State and local agcncies'-sirce
beers relegalization 10 approx
mately TWO and a quarter billion
dollars.
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continuously. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon
vanilla over top and fold in with
two or three strokes. Sift -four
and sugar mixture over egg mix
ture and fold in with as few
strokes as possible. (Too RAINY
strokes cut down volume of cake
and tougher it, Pour batter into
angel food pan and bake
in a slow oven (275o F. for 80
then increase heat to
325' y. and continue baking 30
minutes longer. Remove from oven
and invert pan for 1 hour or until
cold. BE sure pan has been thor
oughly washed in hot soap suds,
rinsed in ho5 water and dried each
time before using. Frost cake with
a white frosting. Using n pastry
tube, make festoons OF frosting
around the sides of the cake and
conceal a low vase in the center
hole. Fill this vase with a lovely
grouping Of white or delicately coll
bred flowers that will extend over
the top Of the cake.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-03-15

That C0ntented Dispositaoa
Some peoples idea Of q content.
ed disposition" said Uncle Eben.
els bein' wfIlm' TO sit down dom.
Portable an wait fob meal times
while somebody else does Ill de-
~oEh s~.;:, 4&zs;ss:e f.: :siss,s r
Belruk ATA
Beirut, syria. hoen6 G - Anetf.
can college of ne m me. r. On tho
Lebaness republic.
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White Calle-Cream n cup but
, ter, add / cup sugar and cream
together thoroughly. Add / tea
spoon vanilla. Silt together twice
2 cups pastry flour (sifted once be-
fore measuring), 2 teaspoons bak-
Inc powder and "a teaspoon salt,
end add 10 butter mixture alter
na:ely with u cup milk. Fold in
8 stifay beaten egg whites. Pour
into two lightly CREASED layer cake
PANS, the bottoms Of which hay
been lined with waved paper, al.
bake in moderate oven $3.50 F.)
fer 20 to Is minutes. Cake will
spring back whom touched lightly
with finger, if done. Cover cake
With white fcosting and with a
pastry tube write the brides init
ials in the center Of the cako. Then,
using the pastry tube again, place
q futed ring Of icing around the
top edge Of the cake. Set the cake
On q low fat cake plato covered
with q lace edged papCr dolly 20
the lace frill VII surround the cake. |
Mince Meat Frui: Cake - To |
IL i lb. tins or jars 5iirc9 Ecst |!
cdd IL cups raisins, Ia cups LC.
meats, ~ cups sugar, 3. cup but
ter, melted, 2 teaspoons vanilla and |
3 eggs, then beat thoroughly. Silt
. , ups all-purpose flour (sifted
once before measuring) with 2k
teaspoons baking powder, y tea
rroon soda and "a teaspoon salt,
then sift and fold into the Hinee
Meat mixture. Pour into one 9-inch
tube cake pan and bake in q slow
oven 1925 IT, for 1 X hours. Frost
prettily with a fluffy white frost
Ing and place cake in the center OF
The table. Arrange a ring Of del
icate greenery, smilax, ferns or
other leaves around the cake. Then
hero and there AMONG the grsenery
scatter dainty stems Of lilies-of-
the-valley and white dogvood.
Angel Food Cake-Sift cup
pastry flour (sifted once before
measuring) and Y cup sifted sugar
together four times. Sift 1 moro
cup sugar four times. Beat IL
cups egg whites until foamy. Add
4 teaspoon solt, teaspoon cream
Of tartar and 1 teaspoon Distilled
White Vinegar and continue beat
ing 8 until egg whites arc stiff
enough to hold up in peaks. Sift
IN the 1 cup sugar slowly, folding
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Then Read WHY
Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Is
Real"l1nman,s EriandUI
Wedding Cakes for Bridal Table

McST ALL OF US at this year know bride who
her wedding breakfast luncheon reception
may be- One OF the hrs problems
decorate the important wedding sometimes handled v
the local baker, ofr ae bride a family
cpe and made hoe though few the
frs that make wedding cake festive really
quite easy to do attractive decorations yourself
the art Of the with one we'll in ad
start praccng cakes wedding da
comes will be able achieve triumph
numerous to decorate the wedding cake simple
elaborate of
here will make elegant cenpese wedding table or s
yyeIE ran0iya cebro
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TIRED A Az TIME,
COULD NOT SLEEP

Ga1ax, Va.
"My entire con-
stitution was
very much run
down. besides
other troubles /
was completely
tired out all the
time, and was so
nervous / could
not lie ep at
night. Eyery-
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thing / ate seemed to upset me and
/ suffered terribly in different ways,
but after taking two bottles each of
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
and Golden Medical Discovery, al
ternately, l was feeling greatly i'm
proved. | cannot say too much for
what it has meant to me."-Mrs. H.
H. Hampton. Dealers everywhere. .
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Kidneys Must
Clean lli Aids

blood arc sSlu Ts % On y .ny
delicate Kidnsy IT, Of mite fiters. And NOM ss
organic and nop-1yDtamic disorders Of the
fSiiansyc or 6ad0gk may cause Getting Up
Get Eyes, Otssinetas 8ackache. Swollen
ankles % Huxntn Sasages. In many such
caess the oiureetq e41pn Of the Doctors pre-
Scriptlon Cyseex hapo the Kidneys clean out
Excess Acids. Thte Dtu4 the palliative work Of
SysteH may eaeuY make you feel like q new
the guarantee % mQney back unless COM
pietely satisned. Cy1eex costs only Sc q dose
ut druggists and the guarantee protects you.
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Mitchell Asks COngess for
$4,000 Grant for American
Negro Exposition this Year

900 to help defray the cost of
the American Negro exposition
to be held here July a to Sept.
2, was introduced Thursday in
the House of Representatives
at Washington by Arthur w.
Mitchell, Congressman from Hi
nois' first district, it was learned
here Saturday.
Favorable action by both the
house and senate is expected,
thus providing a federal grant
equalling the $4,000 already
appropriated by the state of
Illinois last year for the forth
coming exposition depicting the
progress of the Negro during
the Is years since emancipation.
Federal agencies are already
getting together exhibits for
what promises to be the most
stupendous fair in the races
history. 49,, r-,
The American Negro exposi-
ton, through murals, diarmas
and exhibits, will trace the Ne
groes' history from his first
mass landing at Jamestown in
1919 through the Revolutionary
war and emancipation, stress
ing his achievements and contri-
buttons to the nation from Re-
construction to the present day.
More than 100000 persons
are expected to see the exposi-
ton, to be held at the Coliseum
from Independence Day through
Labor Day. 1t will be similar in
purpose but larger in scope to-
the fair held in Chicago 25
years ago celebrating SO years
of emancipation. At that time
there were 274,OOO admissions
to the smaller Is day show.
Government agencies are CO.
operating fully with the federal
departments planning their ex-
hibitS to show their relationship
ture has expressed deep person
al interest and is having the
FSA, AAA and u. S. Extension
Service prepare large and COM
prehensive exhibits. Gov. Paul
McNutt of the Federal Security
Administration has ordered ex-
Mbits prepared by the NYA, &C
Social Security Board and De-
partment of Education and Pub
Tic Health Service. Under Adj
tninistrator John armody of the
FWA, exhibits are being prepar
ed for the USHA, WPA and PWA
while Secretary of Labor Fran
ces Perkins is arranging for a
labor exhibit fianked by show.
ing of women's and childrens
bureau activities. There will be
also a section devoted to the
Civic Aeronautics authority
and patents prepared by the
Department of Commerce.
Education and Health exhibits
are being developed through CO.
operation with Negro colleges
universities and state depart
ments of education and thu
julius Rosenwald fund through
DIR. M. o. Bousfeld, Negro
health director, the Genera
Education Board is also expect
ed to cooperate
The races business in3titu
tons, both individual and thru
such organizations as the Nation
al Negro Business League, Ma
tional Negro Insurance organiza
tons and the National Negrc
Bankers Association, will SHOW
their progress and achievemer
in special section.
Three of the leading sororite,
have also asked and obtained
space. They are Zeta Phi Beta
Alpha KAPPA Alpha and Delt;
Sigma Theta. 1t is expected thai
the other national sororitie.
an fraternities will also be re.
presented. The national associa.
ton of college women is also co.
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Harmon foundation end director
Herring of Howard University
art school. .... ......
Other eXhipits arc being pre-
pared for religion, press, stage
literature music. industry and
all phases of Negro life.
Management of the American
Negro Exposition is in the hands
of the Diamond jubilee EXPOSE
ton authority. James w. Wash
ington, who conceived the idea,
is president with Atty. Truman
X. Gibson, Jr., executive direct
or. and A. w. Williams, secre-
tary-treasurer. Othem members
of the authority are l.. l.. Fur
guson, Robert Bishop, asst. to
Governor Horner of Illinois,
and Claude Barnett
Cooperating with the Afra-Meri-
can Emancipation Exposition
authority, to which the state
grant was originally made, is a
special Governors Commission
appointed by Governor Horner
and including Civil Service Com
missioner Wendell f. Green, DR..
M. o Bousefield, Dr.. E Nj A
handler, Major r. A. Byrd and
the Reverend A. A. Grimm. A
number of other distinguished
citizens of both races, including
members of the State General
Assembly, are on supporting com
mittees Mayor Kelly also has a
special committee working with
the exposition authority.
Congressman Mitchell's bill
provides that the $4,000 appro
priation shall be expended by an
auxiliary commission composed
OF three persons to be appoint
ed by President Roosevelt. One
would be- from the senate and
one from the house and the Bird
selected by the nations chief
executive. This commission
would work with the Diamond
Jubilee authority now establish
ed. 49,
The Name Illinois