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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
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MENTAL HYGIENE AT DUKE
The Durham Herald

President Few's announcement, in connection
with a meeting Of the institutions board of
trustees, that Duke university plans to add a
department of mental hygiene to it's medical
school with the opening Of the next scholastic
year is in keeping with the growing emphasis
on mental diseases and their treatment.
Side by side with a stable stock of uncom-
plimentary jokes about and jibes at psychiatry
and psychiatrists there has developed, and is
developing, a broader understanding Of and
saner attitude toward the whole problem of
mental sickness.
Unfortunately, there is still widespread al
legiance to the embedded notion that mental
sickness carries with it an unerasable disgrace
but physical sickness is something to be ex
pected and carries no stigma. And with that
gradually fading notion, Is the equally as re
gretable attitude that medical science has done
and can do a lot to combat and cure physical
sickness, but is uncercerned with mental sick
ness and rightly so.
Happily for all of US, the lay public is adopt.
ing a more enlightening attitude and the medi.
cal folk are capitalizing on the change at every
turn. Proof of that is found in the expansion o.
psychiatry schools, clinics and so on in al
parts Of the country which, Of course. accounts
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
ROMEO ADDRESSES
EXCHANGE meeting
Explains What Social Security
Program Means To Insur.
ance Beneficiaries

The Wilmington Exchange club
at it's meeting yesterday at the
Cape Fear hotel, heard an explana
ton of what the social security
program means to insurance benz
ficiaries by Robert Romeo, mana
ger of the local office of the Metro
politan Life Insurance company,
The program, n of the mos, in
teresting presented in recent morth
before the club showed the mem
bers of the club Just what the
could expect to receive. from TIL
program if they work in coyert.
employment.
Romeo was introduced by 0SCa
Simpson, who was in charge OF tilt
program for the day.
At the opening Of the meetiE:
Jack Russell, state president, in
Quoted Whit Benton and Jack Ir5
den into membership in the clue
Romeo's talk was illustrated Will
blackboard figures which took q
typical case of a man earning So.
a month who was 80 years Of a9
when the act went into effect a1l
showed (1) What he would rece''
if he retired at 65; (2) What A:
wife and three children Would re
ceive if he should die now; ~
What his wife would receive eacl
year, the amounts changing as Ill
children became of age,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
IN

Tn loving memory of u dear son
and brother who departed this life
n year ago today, February 3,
1889:
One year ago today
Our dear loved one went away,
Left sudden without warning,
To a better land we pray.
The light Of his dear life went down
AS sinks behind a hill,
The glory Of a setting star,
Clear. suddenly, and still.
A precious n from us has gone
A voice we loved is still,
A place is vacant in u home
That never can be filled.
We loved you Lewis, Oh so much,
You were our only boy,
With such a clean and quiet life
You were a pride and joy.
Fold him, o Father in Thine arms
And let him henceforth be
A messenger Of love between
Our human hearts and Thee.
Alone unto our Fathers will,
One thought hath reconciled;
That He whose love exceedeth ours
Hath taken home His child.
Father, Mother and Sisters
Of Lewis C. Pickett.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
WILHELM SPEAKS

WILHELM, former kaiser Of Germany, who
once feared he might share the fate of ALEX
ANDEB and cry for more worlds to conquer,
and so started a var which ended in his
flight, breaks his long silence at Doom to
inform his biogra. her PouLrNEY B1GELow,
that Germany, Franc and England should
make a hasty peace and combine for the
overthrow of Russia. The letter in which the
aged ex-emperor unburdened himself expressed
highest praise for the Firms. 'The magnifi.
cent stand Of the Firms has smashed the
nimbus of bolshevism and set people thinking,
gaining ground"
The retired and retiring Mr.. HoHENzoLLERN,
in retreat in Holland, said something there.
But suppose Germany, France and England
do not make peace but go on fighting until
one side or the other falls in its tracks; and
suppose Germany, in its effort to gain a mill
tary advantage violates Hollands neutrality
and crosses it's frontiers, as it is thought she
might do in emergency. What would be the
result of his diatribe against Russia, the
good friend" Of Mr.. HITLER? The German
fuehrer has shown no inclination to be len
lent with persons who hold, or voice, opin
ions contrary to his own. Would he suddenly
acquire tolerance for the Old Man Of Doom
and merely smile at his outburst? or treat
him as he has been treating other Germans
who dared oppose him?
The question is not vital, by any means
but it provokes speculation that some sac
morning the heirs might be advised by mai
to call at the postoffice for a small urn o.
ashes. That is the custom in Berlin. Why mo-
at Doom?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
for the announcement President Few made last

for the announcement President Few made last
Wednesday. 49,,
No one contends, of course, that all mental
sickness is durable or that the establishment
of mental hygiene schools will depopulate in
s%titutions for the mentally diseased. No such
claim is advanced in behalf of the doctors OF
diseases of the body, as all Of us well know.
But more and more it is coming to be rec
ognized that diseases of the mind ana diseases
of the body are sometimes interrelated and
unite often the one is the cause Of the other.
Practitioners, under a different rame perhaps,
have p~racticed psychiatry for years and most
of them now devote as much time and attention
to the mental conditions of patients as to their
physical condition.
So, in real sense the mental hygiene depart
ment President Few announces is simply the
rounding out of a complete hospital and medi-
cal training school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
SCHOOL BUS SAFETY

| Lear SIr.-
I think that it is about time for
the State of North Carolina to
awake out of it's slumber and put
mature and responsible men at the
wheel of all school buses, the money
that is saved by having students
control these buses cannot pay for
the life Of one child that is killed.
I believe that most parents feel
as I do about this matter, and that
is that the life Of my child is worth
more to me than the entire cost Of
the educational system in this
state. There are some states that
require the driver of a school bus
to take an examination both ply
steal and mental, the position is
placed under civil service, and the
man receiving the highest marks
gets the position. All this is done
for the protection Of children that
are forced to attend school under
the state law. Now, what I would
like to know is this; is the life Of
a child more important in one sec.
ton Of these United States than It
Is in the other.
I honestly believe in the utmost
economy in operating any branch
Of our local. state or federal govern.
ment, but not the kind of economy
that will cost the life Of our chill
dren. Let's get together and do
something about this d%eplorable
condition that now exists in the
operation Of our school buses. Your
child may be the next one to be
mourned.
I have been operating the W.P.A.
safe driving school in this city since
the first day Of May 1889, and as
yet I have not had one school bus
driver sent to me for any instruc.
tons that I may be able to give
them, I feel that I am in a posi-
ton to help this situation if allow
ed to do SO, as 1 have had more
than eleven years experience in
actual operation and teaching oper-
ators of buses in the largest cities
in the country.
AS a citizen and a lover Of my
home state Of North Carolina, 1
offer my services in any capacity
to eliminate entirely all accidents
that could possibly happen to our
citizens and especially our chill
IDREN.
GEORGE w. SMITH,
Director and Instructor W.
P. A. Safe driving school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03

lean efforts in international affairs.
l have been taught that the Mon
roe Doctrine maintains a high place
IN the records of international re-
latlons. 1 have been taught also. in
our schools, that Washington, JEFF
ferson, Calhoun, Webster-ad infini'
to be ranked among the
great statesmen of the world. How
ever, far be it from me to become
too contentious with a man of Mr..
Pltkin's proportions. This is my
small contribution in defense Of the
good points which I believe exist in
u school system. And I am not
a school teacher.
S. A. TROY. JR.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM

To the Editor of the Star:
I am submitting the following
which I shall appreciate if you will
publish in your Letters to the Edi-
tor column.
Thursday night, I heard the most
scathing denunciation of our pres
ent educational system it has ever
been my lot to hear. Mr.. Walter
Pitkin was the speaker, and from
stem to stern of his talk, there was
no mention of any good or worthy
feature in our elementary, graded
or college institutions. OF course, we
can agree that our schools and col
leges are far from perfect, and we
will also reluctantly admit much
too far. But I will deny that there
exists in any land today. operating
on the large scale that our schools
operate, an educational system that
can parallel that here in this coun-
try either in quality or quantity.
The lecturer stated that we made
education too easy for the student.
I have always heard it stated that
there is no short cut to knowledge
81 it must necessarily follow thai
however comfortable the existing
surroundings, the fact remains that
knowledge and learning can onlv he
procured by hard work and diligent
study. Mr.. Pitkin also brought the
teachers on the mat for their share
Of punishment. Now we all know
that the teacher a carry the stu.
dent only so far and from h
point he must carry on alone. Can
it be possible that the teachers are
working with a product which. if
inferior, is the result of imnroner
training in the home? Let's not Law
too much blame on a noble and un-
derpaid profession.
While off on a tangent. the sneak.
er, who admitted to a residence in
Germany and France for some
years, stated that foreign diplomat.
ISIS made a laughing stock of Amer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Nv Robin Cooas.

HOLLY WOOD, Feb. z. - Inc
backgrounds Of fame are quicker
vanishing than fame itself. Artists
and artisans work for days to
frame an actors work. It takes the
crew half an hour or less to
"strike a set" when the actors
work is done.
Today Lewis Seller is directing
Jessie Busley and Aldrich Bowker
in a rectory scene for "And 1t
All Came True" Una O'Connor is
in it too, but her closeup is fin
ished, and she's just waiting. The
rectory is a convincing background
-book-lined walls, faded flowered
carpet, a prie-dieu with a holy
statue and candles.
The scene is done. "Stage 49,,
calls Russ Saunders, the assistant
director, and the furry begins. It's
like a gnomish Gene from a Dis
ney picture, the gnomes of the
crew having no truck with make
believe. They're tearer-downers,
breaker-uppers, m%over-overs.
Seller walks over to 16, and
Saunders, and Ernest Halter, the
head lenser, and Bill Shurr, the
Operative cameraman." It's Frank
Claudio, the second camera, who
sees to getting the camera hauled
to the new scene of activities.
Saunders no SOONER has called
stage is" than the crew is in
action. Electricians are suffering
their lamps, wheeling them over
to waiting trucks. Grips are fold
ing back the carpet, to make slid
ing space for wheels. Other grips
are toting out a section of wild
wall"-the wall with the rectory
window. Propmen are there to re-
claim the prie-dieu, the statue, the
candles, the chairs. Grips are load
ing stools, canvas chairs, ladders,
and assorted movable parapher.
MALTA on to a truck at the big
stage door. Jessie Busley, her
days work finished, is saying good
Dyes -.
A small tractor shuffles in, hooks
on to the mammoth blue
truck, shuffles out again and down
the studio street between the high
grey walls of the stages In
20 minutes there isn't a sign of
the rectory set.
On Stage is the hegira is COM.
pleted. The camera is there, and
the lights are already set up, and
the mike is ready It's a precinct
police court, and the coppers are
sitting around, awaiting the call
to action. The grips and the cleo
tricians are busy setting up what
they've just torn down-arrang-
ing the "baby spots" exactly, dis
posing Of canvas chairs and stools
and ladders out of camera range
zaSu Pitts is there, in a red wig
and net evening dress and blue
cape,-ready to give the police
her champagne-drun1, report ON
Humphrey Bogart's ga~ngsterish
threats.
During all the moving and rat
ting and bang:ng-it's like sprins
housekeeping day at home-saun-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
Mississippi Ice Gorge
~Endangers Three Boat

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 2'-lf'
A multi-tonned ice gorge, one y
four ice packs on the MissIsSIpp
southern half, started its cfusl'4
down-river movement today, ellu@'
gering three boats at Helena Al"
They are the Pelican, huge u'-.
fer boat operated by the llI4s,
Central railway to move iIet5,
cars and locomotives between M ~
ena and the Mississippi slde' y.
Helena-Friar Point ferry boat q.
the Curly, a small toWooat "Ai W.
hull was damaged badly as 's y
movement started. FL.
An inland waterways teEl'I ,,
loading barge was in the way u "A
ice, but other craft were thous,
to have been shifted out Of Gale"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
Man bout
Manhattan
BY George Tucker

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE din.
ner and reunion of the 165th infan.
try (69th N. W of the Rainbow
Division and the preview showing
of the motion picture 1.-THE Fight.
ing 69th" was lots of fun.
If you can imagine a reunion of
two thousand men in one big room,
with an accompaniment of shout.
ing, greeting, handshaking and
back-slapping, together with the
huzzahs and a dozen or so barber
shop quartets, a regimental brass
band, plus the noise 200 walters
were making, you will have some
idea of what the affair was like.
Governor Lehman and Pat O'Brien
and James Cagney, and Colonel
Donovan, and many people high in
military and civil life were there,
paying tribute to Father Duffy,
famed priest of the 69th, whose
statue today adorns Times Square.
The best impromptu speech of
the night was by a Staten Island
priest, Father John White, who
clambered up to the stage, grabbed
the microphone and yelled, Listen,
I'm a Catholic and I want all you
Protestants to quiet down. If you
don't I'm going to take up a col
lection"
The 69th is a proud regiment and
its history is studded with bold and
gallant actions. 1t fought all
through the War Between the
States (notably Fredericksburg
and Gettysburg), and it did plenty
in France. 1t was its activities in
the World war about which the
film story unfolds, but as you viii
be seeing this yourself very short
ly there is no need to unfold the
plot here.
This was the regiment that had
Joyce Kilmer, the poet, who wrote
Trees" and the well known Rouge
Bouquet" and Kilmer, like 10
many of his companions, died in
France.
But perhaps the unusual thing Of
the night was the behavior Of the
high dignitaries, who frankly
shame stage-struck 17-year-old kids
when it comes to clamoring for
autographs. Cagney was mobbed
and eventually, under guard, led
from the banquet hall. O'Brien
wrote his fingers stiff. The regi.
mental officers were mobbed by
the men, and for a while it seem.
ed as if those officers Of the fight.
ing 69th-a little older now, a little
rounder at the waist, and perhaps
a little short of breath-would have
to fall back to cover.
They rallied, however, in true 69th
fashion, and spent a busy three
hours scribbling their signatures
on the backs of programs.
Asides: That pleased grin on the
face Of J. L. Fitzpatrick is explain.
ed thusly: Mr.. Fitzpatrick is presi.
dent Of the New York Bell Tele.
phone company, and this company
is celebrating the 25th anniversary
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not n~ecessara-
~ endorse any article appear
Ing in this department. Ihey
represent the views OF the In
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all com1nun1-
cations must contain the correct
name and address for our rec
ords, though the letter may be
signed as the writer sees fit.
The Star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that for
anv SOL Is Objectionable.
Letters on controversial sub
tects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03

of the first transcontinental line,
linking New York with the coast.
|. Wanna hear a new song, a
honey, IN angel? It's Angel" writ
ten by old Peter Deep Purple" De
Rose, and if you want to hear it
played and sung as it should be,
ask for the record by Mitchell
Ayres. . News item: ELSA Max.
well may fill Marie Dressler's
shoes" I have a bunch she
won't. :. She's fat, like Marie, and
she's got lots of spunk, like Marie.
But there the similarity ends.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Neither John L.
Lewis of the CIO nor William Green of the
AFL can swing the vote of his labor organiza-
ton this way or that way like so many pota-
toes in a bag.
This view is held by many observers in
Washington. John L. claims to have swung
the vote of his labor clans to Roosevelt in
1886. But everybody knows now that if he
hadn't swung them that way they would have
trampled him in the stampede.
At the convention in Columbus of the United
Mine Workers, Lewis said President Roosevelt
could not be elected to a third term, and left
a haunting impression that he would oppose
the President if he tried it. Immediately Presi-
dents Dubinsky and Hillman of the two pow
erful and populous needle-trades organizations
indicated their belief that Lewis was speaking
too fast and also through his hat. Hillman's
organization is CLIO; Dubinsky's used to be.
Best guess: Lewis has more certain influence
over his Mine Workers than over the CLIO in
general. Because of that he can swing a mean
pick in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, par.
ticularly in choosing House members. But he
can't make the million or more mine workers
jump from the Roosevelt of 1886 to-, say, a
Taft, McNutt or Garner of 1910, just by tell
ing them to.
AS to Mr.. Green, he heads a house politically
divided within itself, so he has cagily ducked
any solid commitments, for or against anybody.
Because Lewis at the moment is looking ad-
miringly at Senator Wheeler of Montana, F
sentiment likely will be against him-but not
altogether. Daniel Tobin's teamsters and George
M. Harrison's railway clerks like Wheeler's
senatorial record.
On the other hand, William Hutcheson, presi-
dent Of the international Brotherhood of Car
%penters, and Matthew Woll, another AFL big
stick, will be plugging for no Democrats what.
ever, since they are Republicans.
Farm Security: 1t this moment the be-
deviled peasants in northern Rumania don't
know who will harvest their next summer
crops, and it doesn't seem to matter to
them much. Part of Germany's trade agree
ment with Rumania was to plant soy beans
and other crops in Bessarabia at Nazl ex-
pense. Now they don't know whether to
plant, for fear the Russians will get the
crop. If the Allies move in, they will get
it. If nothing happens, Germany will get
the crop.
One thing certain, the peasants will have
little say as to where it goes, peace or
war. 1t is already bargained away before
ever the farmer sets pillow to his land.
Remember that: Senator D. Worth Clark,
aged 81, is senior senator from Idaho. John
Thomas, who was a senator when Clark was
fresh out of college, is Junior senator at o6-
because he has to start from scratch a1ter
an absence. Less than a third OF our colo
is buried at Fort Knox, KY, the rest oelns
in Federal Reserve banks and minis at NE"
York, Philadelphia, Denver and San FRANCISCO
There isn't a pound in the treasury at WASH
ington. And part of the gold almost Ger
tainly is Inca or Maya gold, snatched from
these early Americans and siphoned for foul
centuries through the marts Of trade.
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ders and Seller go over tAe a
logue with the police chief ana ". W.
Pitts. By the time things art
IL settled into quiet, ten lillian ~,
later, they're rehearsing the i,
at the bar of justice-lntefI 0p IN
themselves twice for a pro-
that strikes the outsiders as sl'7'
loco. II
This is when Miss Busley' i.,i
ed before she got away aot
under a mike and gaSps ~.
and "Ohr and again on ~
merely making sound-trach
scene she finished days oeLoi. ',tr
Half an ~hour-and an .,d
film troupe has made the n,
ton from the rectory 10 ''t n,s
lice station. The rectory IS snn
gone, dead, preserved only On d
Tomorrow, or the next oa' a
the day after, the ne"
follow it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
TOP o. HI

1T 1Ue could see, it 1e could knop,"
We often say,
But God in loUe q yell doth throD
Across " 11dy;
We cannot see Wh1t lies before,
And so ae cling to Him the more,
He leads US till this lite is Ger;
Trust and obey.
-HAvERGAL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
Star-News Program

4 1. shtpyards.
N 2. Increase OF Port Facilities.
A. 5. Adequate Hospital Facilities.
j. Annexation OF Suburbs.
5. Development OF Fort CdsUeH as
Health Resort.
6. Promotion OF Coming Industry.
7. City Expansion Commission.
8. Junior College.
ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
slxm Clearance.
Free bridge across the Cape Fear
river over Highwoy 90.
Free ccuseway to Wriohtsvt11e Beech
Recreation Centers.
Municipal Auditorium.
Preservation OF Old City and Thai
tan Hall.
Civic Centre.
Organized industrial services for WI
mington.
Adequate school facilities for VII
mington n Ne1o Hanover county.
Traffic signals on streets OF Whining
ton.
T%hirty.toot channel from Wilmington
to Southport bar.
Construction OF third lock and dam
between Wilmington and FayettevtM
on the upper Cape Fer riper.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03

What we fear most is the more destructive
enemy-the enemy from within the ranks
inter.union quarrels.-The Rev. DR.. John P
Boland, chairman, New York State Labor Re.
lations Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
ELECTIONS POSTPONED

BELFAST, Northern lie'a u
Feb. 2.-tR}-Northern lrelaHu =
into line today with the res'
the United Kingdom by postpO'.,
local government elections loi =
duration of the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03

There are at least 5000 girls between the
ages of Is and % hitch-hiking across the ma
ton and swarming through hooo 1unsles'
They're the greatest menace to American ~
ciety.-Jeff Davis, king of the hobnA"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03

The hysteria engendered by the Dies com
mittee will get us into war.-Representativ'
Vito Marcantonio (Rep., N. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03

During all the moving and rat
ting and bang:ng-it's like sprins
housekeeping day at home-Saun-