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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
SOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment cures spring up like weeds
in spring. Some have a grain of sense on
them. Many have nothing to account for their
existence except a wish to hurt the admin
istration.
One, however, is Sc simple it deserves
more than passing attention. 1t comes from
an Englewood, N. j., banker, Mr.. JAMES F.
MCKINNEY, who says he owes it to a sermon
he had previously heard at his ~favorite
church.
Mr.. MCKINNEY proposes that all employees
surrender twenty per cent of their wages or
salaries with the understanding that their
employers use it for employment of as many
additional workers as it will compensate at
the prevailing rate Of pay.
A fine plan. But it has one handicap. It
calls for a degree of unselfishness average
mortals are not prepared to practice.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

The national strength has been gradually
undermined by a governmental philosophy of
observation-disclosures E. Dewey, G.. O.. P. presi.
dental candidate.
I'd rather be called mister in this country
than count" in any other country you can
mention.-Count Fritz Don Juan Frederick Won
Bernstorff-Blenner when he became American
citizen and plain Fritz Bernstorff.
A husband arriving home and giving his wife
an Enrol Flynn kiss would probably send her
%hurrying to the lawyer. She would suspect her
husband of practicing elsewhere. Director
Michael Curtiz of Hollywood.
Only men of such mor:l stature will be able
to create the peace, that will compensate for
the incaculable sacrifices Of this war and clear
the way for a comfy of nations, fair to all,
efficacious and sustained by mutual confidence.
Pope Plus XII, in letter to President Roose-
welt.
RESPONSIBLE governments know we will re-
fuse any proposal of war participation and that
we intend. with all the means at our disposal,
to meet any attempt to violate our neutrality.
Premier Per Albin Hanson, of Sweden.
Our form of government and our form OF
liberties will be menaced until the new deal
theorists are replaced by those who believe IN
private enterprise and know how to make 1t
~work.-Frank E. Gannett, COP. candidate 1or
President.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

bosses Of the Leningrad party macnine' stano
out on the list. Also, if one is to oelleve any
thing OF the timo at the SOVIET treason
trials. 1t was in Leningrad that the real op'
positionist centers continued to exist.
Now that the international situation within
the Soviet Union is getting more precarlous,
and discomfort is repeatedly increasing among
the wide masses of the population, partlcu'
larly in Leningrad, where rising prices from
the war have also been accompanied by a
vast influx of wounded from the front, and
repressive G. P. U. restrictions 10 control oe-
serters. the temper of the Soviet population
in Leningrad is of great importance. Zhada-
nov, the No. man in the Soviet Union, is
said TO be in disgrace. He, too, is a boss Of the
Ieningrad party apparatus, and his custer, If
it follows the usual pattern, will be accompa-
MED nv a wholesale removal Of all his personal
friends and supporters. This will add to the
growing discomfort and restlessness OF the
Leningrad population a feeling OF insecurity
| among the party leaders and a Willingness at
least to consider the possibility of opposition to
Stain. if the leaders are going to be removed
anyhow, and have nothing to lose.
It is too early in the war for the Leningrad
nonulation to dare any open sign of discomfort
against the Stain regime. But as the dissatis-
faction at rising food prices continues to grow,
and if the war goes badly and the casualties
crowd back into Leningrad as they nave In
the past weeks, the field for antl-Stallnlst agl-
tation will become increasingly ripe. Leningrad
has always been the first to show its discomfort
against government by revolutionary outbreaks
and there is every indication that any new
disturbance would find far more support and
have more chance of spreading in the former
Russian capital than in any other city or Sec
tion of the Soviet Union.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
THE ULTIMATE PERIL

II may be that the alarmists exaggerate
Americas peril in the worlds present insan.
ity. At the same time it is impossible to wit.
ness the advance of totalitarian theology
without drawing certain depressing conclu.
sions.
One Of these is that defeat of Finland
would create a danger we could not hope to
escape. A Russian victory in Finland would
mean seizure of the Scandinavian countries
Holland and Belgium, by Germany and Rus.
STA and expose France and Britain to easier
attack by air and water. Were the d~ictators
victorious over these two powers, the East
Indies and Malaysia would be in Germany's
control. Japan then would have a free hand
in China and the Pacific. Unless we offered
armed interference, the Philippines would
drop into Tokyo's hands. With these rich
prizes won, what could keep the three totali
tartan powers from turning their united at
tention to the conquest of the United States
now the worlds richest prize?
I This is not a surrealist picture. It is a
clear print OF possibilities ahead. If it does
amy one thing, it shows that Finland. anf
the war now progressing there, is the foca.
point in world affairs. The Russo-Finnist
wal, starting in the wings, comes into thu
center Of the stage, preparatory to the china,
of the drama being enacted across the At
lantic. To believe that the United States ha,
no concern with it is to exhibit little under
standing Of the situation.
At the sam time, to believe the only wa,
we can serve our self interest would be tt
plunge into war now would show equal liz
norance Of fact. To take a hand in the fight
ing inevitably would rob us of our prope1
role in the final crisis-a role which will re
quire our greatest skill, our best talent, GU,
sanest thought, to keep the balance of powe,
where it is most certain to eliminate politi
cal brigandage.
But we have a duty to perform, despit,
Our isolation from the battle. II we find
way to combine with our national defens,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Robin Cooas-

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 28.-All the
rumblings from this vicinity aren't
earthquakes. Most of them are
Grumbles.
Maybe there's an actor who
doesn't have one. Maybe there's
an actor who doesn't give it out
but that's because, at the moment,
he's under the ether in a hospital
or under the table in a club.
Look at the Lamour girl in a sa.
rong, which is easy to do. Dorothy
no likee brown girl, Dottie wanna
be white American girl like true.
Dottie wanna kick off sarong and
get in real clothes. Dottie wanna
say bye-bye to Dottie's trademark
the couple of yards of figurel
cloth that made Lamour toujours
Lamour. Dottie happy now because,
in Dance With the Devil" she's a
dance-hall gal. She suits,
coats. sweaters, skirts, even a CLAM.
our-gown or two. She wears hats.
Dancing with the devil-or with
Tyrone Pt "er-she's dancing in
real, everyday clothes.
Turn your gaze on George Raft,
who was always crying about the
mugs he had to play. He hit the
lens as a mugg, and mugs made
Raft. So he leaves one studio to
quit playing mugs, and goes to
another and clicks double as a
mugg.
Listen to Alice Faye. Fave's the
top song'plugger, but Faye wants
drammy. She drammied in Holly.
woods Cavalcade," which was ~
the good. But Faye fans fought for
f~a-so-la-so-do. So furiously thew
called her back, after Little O,d
New York" was canned, to add a
tune.
Watch Zasu Pitts hands weav.
ing through her plant. Drunk
scenes-I draw one in everv n,c.
ture. I don't know why. Ny dauph.
ter watched me do m and she ,eft
very quietly, hating it. So do r
I don't drink and I don't like to
see women drunk WHY mnst 7
play trunk scenes?" Give her the
answer all together now: Because
ZaSu, your DRINKS are ~convu1s;en'
creators
Say Beautiful Bob to Tav1,r
ana ne sroans-if he doesn't nv !,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

quick punch. But all that kidding
about beauty" got Taylor more
publicity notice than a dozen
flickers like Lady of the Tropics
and did him less harm. Did him
good, in fact, because he learned
to take it grinning.
If you want to get Richard
Greene's goat, all you need to do
is discuss dimples. The dimples, on
the Greene pan, are as much a
trade mark as Chaplin's mustache,
Hitler's ditto, or Stains paunch.
But Greene sees red when he sees
dimples. Anybody got a good dim
ple-eradicator?
And Ann Sheridan-and Oomph.
Where would Annie be without
that Oomph %build-up? Where, for
that matter, is Annie with it? Here's
where: she's in a Louis Bromfield
yarn called And 1t All Came
True" and it's that chance she's
been needing to show What Oomph
could do in the way of acting.
Oomph, as far as Annie will allow,
has put her on the spot. And she
has something there - something
she's like to forget.
Annie's is one of the legitimate
squawks. Another was Peter Lor.
re's. Peter was a comedian abroad
until he made a horror picture call.
ed M" He hit Hollywood as a
bogepman and the fright wig stuck.
SO he squawked himself into COM
edy again-in IT Was an Adven.
turess," with Zorina and Won Stro.
helm.
Bob Montgomery had one, too.
Bob wanted "out" of play-boy
stuff into acting parts: Might
Must Fall" and Earl of Chicago"
And Sonia Henie does her
squawking to "stay in" her special.
(which is skating. Her last film
mad only one skate sequence. Son
= FIGHTS for mora
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

o~ AN oDSS4 SSAE
are right, the British and French
governments have decided to apply
the new economic triple play drasti
cally, and they must expect it tc
produce victory within a year, be.
cause it costs like all get out.
Smoke Gets In Our Eyes
At any rate, there must be fire
where there's so much smoke
ere r a few samples of the
smoke:
The A lea government is
charging discrimination in the Medi
terranean against American vessels
and favoring Italian vessels. The
The United States is protesting
the opening of American mail by
British censors. That brings tc
mind Secretary Lansing's impress
sion in the World war that British
censors were opening American
mail with the idea of passing on to
British and allied traders informa.
ton about potential markets for
their products. American shiploads
of goods meanwhile we're held for
examination in British ports.
And perhaps the best illustration
of the new British policy is the pur.
chase of the Australian and New
Zealand wool crops, and the price
guarantee to South African wool
growers.
BY those strokes the British gov.
eminent not only guaranteed that
strategic wool would not reach Ger.
many, but also avoided widespread
discomfort among the wool growers
in far-flung units of the empire. !
There's economic drama behind
the South African price guarantee.
too. On last August 81, the German
government contracted with South
African wool growers for 20, 900, 900
pounds of South African wool.
Three days later war was declared.
The South Africans debated whether
to declare war. The British v
ment guaranteed a wool price about
two cents above the world rnark of
figure. The South Africans declared
a Maybe the price guarantee
helped, maybe not. =
Buying Up German Morale?
The tobacco purchases from Tur.
key and the Balkans are also mart
and parcel of the economic double
play. Last year the British ex.
tended millions of pounds of credit
to the Turks. and got their SIGMA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Man About
Manhattan
ev George Tucker

NEW YORK, Jan. Isl have
always thought it would be a fine
+birg If small bronze plaques could
Iba n,aced on all the old houses in
New York where SO many famous
neople of the past have lived. There
are such houses, and sites all over
town. and yet every day thousands
of people pass them unrecognized,
little realizing that here lived a
|Clemenceau, there a Lafayette.
T was thinking of this today be-
cause sometime this year Sidney
Lanier will probably be elected to
the Hall of Fame, and for a brief
while Sidney Lanier lived at As
East Tenth street in New York.
Sidney Lanier, with the lone excep-
ton of Poe, is the greatest poet
the south ever had. He was a
Georgian, ard he fought all through
the War. Between the States, and
he died when he was only 80. He
was at Chickahominy and he was
with Lee at Malvern Hill. And
after that he became a scout, rid.
ing the tangled Virginia trails,
and duelling with Blue horsemen
under lonesome moons.
There has, in recent years, been
a growing awakening Of Lanier's
true importance, and only this
mcnth the Southern Literary Mes
senger has brought out a number
of hitherto unpublished letters OF
the poet, one of them being from
New York.
That was in 1869, and Sidney
was somewhat fascinated by the
Broadway crowds he observed from
his window. II sit here, My One
Friend" he wrote, late at night,
in my lonely lodging, above the
monstrous turmoil Of Broadway
while the endless mass of men and
women rolls on beneath; and a
torn-throated fire-bell blares out
its alarum with a marvellous braz'
en- gurgle." This letter is dated
May 4, and mex. day the papers
tell of a Laundry burning with
much showers Of sparks and
fares; and a gray-stone church
gazing out against me 49,.
The church Lanier has in MIND
is Grace church. Episcopal, which
today is newer much handsomel
than the one he knew.
"And I will say further that
am here on Business, and will be
here a matter Of weeks longer, and
that I would be greatly builded up
in my belief that honor is not
gone from among men and women
like a candle in a wind-gust-a
hard belief to cherish in this most
ingeniously perverted and exquis-
itely distorted Of all civilizations
which one finds in the New Yorker
AT NIGHT" The capitals are La.
nier's.
This was a long time ago, nearly
II years. His old lodging, of course.
is gone, and in its place stands a
six storied building, but blackened
and empty and dirty, with iron
fire escapes in front, and a Chi.
nese restaurant next door.
The corner of Broadway that
he beheld from his window still
holds Grace church, and just
across the street is a great de.
partment store (Wanamaker's);
diagonally across is a five-&-dime
store (Woolworth's). The mon.
strous turmoil has become a night
mare of taxi-cabs and buses, and
thousands of people pass there
every hour, little dreaming that
here too once lived a man Sc joy
Gus with life that he could not
help but exclaim, Il am lit with
the Sun"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
What It Means:
Britain's Anti-U. S. Moves
BY MORGAN M. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.- When
you read that British embargoes
are shutting off one-third Of our to
bacco export market and are hitting
our cotton, wheat, all fruit grow
ers, you're just getting new exam.
pies Of the fact that war is hell
even on people who aren't in it.
The moves that hit American
farmers where it hurts are part of
an economic triple play devised by
British economists to win the war
within a year. If American econo-
mists are right in their deductions,
the play works like this:
1. Naval blockade against
Germany.
2. Purchase of strategic MA
terials in the world markets 10
keep them from slipping through
to Germany, supplemented by
the usual rationing of the ring
of neutrals surrounding Ger
many.
3. Trade favors for the ring of
neutrals to keep down violent
protests against the strangula-
ton of trade, and to win them
over, eventually, as Franco
British allies.
American unofficial observers be-
lieve British economists have sold
the British government the eco.
nomic triple play IN the ground
that % the generals can offer no
practical plan now to break the
stalemate on the western front, and
(2) the World war was won
through economic strangulation of
Germany after four years Of trial
and error.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

ture on the dotted line as an ally
Tobacco is essential to German M
rale, and the Turkish leaf is lH
accessible. So Britain killed w
birds with one stone. She bou5-
up the tobacco to keep if oi u
German hands, and she may nav
avoided additional OUTLAWS OF no&'
by charging it up against the Iu'
ish governments credits,
The triple play also attordS q
explanation for the failure Of V"
American trade graph to write .
self upward off the trade chart
1t is true that in December LIKE
was an increase in American q
ports 20 foreign countries. We ~"
close to $500, O00, 900 worth OF gov
abroad.
But the increase vas accouD"
for by the allied purchase Of plan"
trucks, motors, machinery, macA~'
tools, petroleum and Lubricants
all war stocks, and none OF II "
being used in large quantities
Meanwhile, the allies are UNIV,
ing the normal trade expansion ~,
to war to other nations CLOS" =,
home. That will tend in TINE
build up trade lanes in 1oI1,
times between other nations d.
expense of American shlPpiH7
manufacturers.
The new British idea sprlhsS ~,
of World war experience, I'uiT.
that war economic blockade "', d
the start, purely suppieIi-eA'~
military warfare.
The primary energy Of the ~
ish empire was devoted to mt I'd
and painful military push Oh
western front. AS a conSeq't
German U-boat warfare came We"
in an ace of defeating the ecoA',
end of the British war e!loIt' y
German shippers found ways a'.
the ali:e'. blockade. Thus the! -.
piled their people with Ioou a
their soldiers with m2'eI'''
three long years. N
This time, the British under n w
leadership of such liberals y ".a
ston Churchill, r faVoflNe .,.,
naval blockade supplements ,t
the other screws Of the eCo""
triple play.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

the means which will enable Finland to ev1ct
the Russians, and thus administer needed
defeat to Stalinism, and indirectly to Hit
lerism, we will be meeting the gravest need
in our history.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
TOP o. HI

Cine us q W~atchUOrd for the hour,
A thrilling Word, q Uord Of poWer;
A tdtHe cry, q flaming breath,
That calls to conquest or to DEATH;
A acord to arouse the Church from rest,
To heed its Masters high behest;
The call is giuen, Ye hosts driSe;
our W~atchWord is EUdngelize!
QUOTED By DR.. GEORGE TRUETT
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
Star-News Program

L. Shipydrds.
e. Increase OF Port Facilities.
5. Adequate Hospital Facilities.
i. Annexation OF Suburbs.
s. Development OF Fort CasWeH as
Health Resort.
6. Promotion OF Canning lndusHy.
Z. city Expansion Commission.
8. Junior College.
ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
Stun Clearance.
Free bridge across the Cape Fear
river over Highway 30.
Free ceuseuay to Wrtghtsville Beach.
Recreation Centers.
Municipal auditorium.
Preservation OF Old city and THAI
ian Hall.
Ciutc Centre.
Organized industrial services for VIII
mington.
Adequate school facilities for WI
mington and New hanover county.
Ituftic signals on streets OF Whining
ton,
Thtty5oot channel from Wilmington
to Southport bar.
Construction OF third lock and dam
5etueen Wilmington and Fayettevth
on the upper Cape Fer rtver.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29

This graph shows the U. S. export situation. Notice that or trad
with other nations was better i'm 1887 than it was in wartime 1889
despite a December, 1889, squirt. Explanations: France and Enghn
are combining their purchases, outside of ornaments, to the nation
that usually supply Germany. That keeps raw materials away iron
Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-29
QUIET

BERLIN, Jan. aS.-CP-i"' Il
man high command commune"
day said: mo snecial e'en'-'
Washington Journal., 1940-02-23
&afee nad 9enti6lanO

Ole @eriorgung Der Jreunoe uno
Berpan0ten in 9eitti1lano nit Sal
fee lit elm Hroblem. Ni1t nitr bob
9euti1lono an &affee-&nappbeit lei-
oetl &affee lit iiberal in europa
duBerlt fnapp unO Die meiiten nen-
troIen eiropdii1en 2GnOer perbieten
einen @rport. 90 ). 8. Oarf BON
Soaano aus mir VI Bfuno per
81 8funo 8afet ~ausgefiibrt tper-
oen.
Grob oieier 3uftdnoe bietef Die
reidbaltige 2iebespafet-2ilte Der
n9berIeas, SEEM yorf~, Die iid nit
oerartigen @afetlenoungen idon lett
Sabren befaBt, cine @elegenbeit our
fiAeren Senoung bon Nob-Gaffee
mad 9eutihlano. Das &eiiebiiro
$. g. @infler, no Se6Ite StraBe,
@oromelt, oas Die uODerieas-2 iebes-
pafete" bier in @aibington Dertreibt,
erteilt ieoe Mustunft uno ~af5eptiert
Auftrdge.
IS fonnen folgenoe &offee entbal-
tenoe Nafete geliefert iDeroen:
8fO. &p6faffee, prima AnalitGt,
(@ersOllt frei 0eutIdlamS), $500
5 Yfb. MDbfaffee, pri1na Analttat,
5 8fb. 8aid-Seife, Wer5Olt frei
OemtIdlan0), $1,000.
10 Tfb. rSantOs" &Obfaffee,
prima AmalitGt, (llnper5Dlt fret
0entldlanb), $500.
Ser 8erfano erfolgt inter @eleb-
miquna Ser oeutiHen Mutboritdten.
Qieferung lit garantiert ODER &iid-
8ablung. @s lit angebradt, bon bic
Ter @~elegenbeit idneaitens @ebranb
al ma6eny on man ME tpeiB, Die
lange Die @enebmigung aufreht er-
bolten miro.
Ole Yreiie oieier &affeepofete err
Ideinen i'm erlten Moment, b~eionoers
i'm gergleid gu bieiigen &affeeprei-
len, borrent bod. Die umitdnoe
aber, Die oieie %2ieferungen mogli6
MAIDEN, gere6tfertigen Oieie @reiie,
3umaI ia &affee INNER NM. 800
uno mebr in 9eutihlano gefoitet bat.
Man mrB babel beriidiidtigen, oaB
oft ooppelte Eransportfoiten ltno
audi in pielen G6len Die 3abllng
ooppeIten 8ols n~OttuenOig tit; an9
Washington Journal., 1940-02-23

Sic idOn einen nenen
M5Onnenten einseianbt?
Washington Journal., 1940-02-23
geltene 9immelSs
"eri6einnngen
in @aibinstOn iidtbar.

@om %. 5ebrunr an uno oie gan-
&c erIte Mdr5po1e binourd meroen
mir bier in @aibington mobl gum
eritenmal uno aud gum .leBtenmal
@elegenbeit baben, cine gan5 merit
miiroige &immelseriheiming be-
oba9ten gu f0nnen. @ie foitbare
Suipelen zines SaIsbanos treffen am
meltli9en Mbenobimmel flint Blune-
ten unieres SonneniDitems auf if
rem @eg Inn Die Come 0ulammen.
I'm oiele ein8igartige Simmelser-
i6einung leidt anffinoen gu f0nnen,
gibt oas SDorograpbilbe Biiro Der
Marine folgenoe @in3elbeiten an:
Sonnenuntergong lit am 6reitag,
ben %. Sebrllar, nm flint llbr 55
Minuten. @enau Inn oiele 3eit err
i1eint i'm Giiomeiten, etipa IA @rao
iiber Dem Sori5ont, Der leu6tenoe
Ylanet .Merfur" fir Ieinen @eg
our6 Die 0adt. gtmns bober uno
mebr nod Siioen fommen 0ann Die
g~libernoen g6eliteine oes @immels
auf: Der nSupiter" in elmer Sobe bon
80 @rao uno auf elmer S0be bon 35
Grab Die u@enus". Damn eri6eint
pie elm getpobnli9er Stern Der eff
mas matte Blonet rSaturn" auf 46
GRAB Sobe. @aen oieien foIgt in eli
ter 9obe bon 81 @rao Der r0tli6e
Ylanet nMars".
9as 2idt Oes nMerfur" lit ftGrfer
ais oas zines Sterns eriter @r0Be;
man iiebt i'm ieoen MbenO fIr5 nod
Sonnemntergong I'M @elten ODER
fur5 Dor Sonnenaufgang an 0itli-
den Simmel.
&aben Sic Idpn einen neiterl
Washington Journal., 1940-02-23

&ein g~lGn5en6es &ilO fir England
Mngenommen es gel1nge Ser oelit-
I9en 6lottenleitung, i'm nneinge-
IdrGnften, nit Der 2uftpaffe ber-
~bunoenen unterieeboot- uno Minen-
friege inn glei1en MaBe S9iffe 5u
p~erIenfen pie in Dem 3eitraume BON
gpril Bis Mueuit 1917, 10 miir0e
oas einen idbrli1en Sdiffsraumaiis-
fad BON ungefdbr 8ebn Milioneu Ste.
giitriertonnen uno ieoenfaas oas
@noe oes &rieges beoeuten. 9ns
fdidIolI6tpere Sriibiabr nabt beran,
obne onB es einem einoigen 8eitungs-
ltrategen Bis ieBt ~gelltngen tpdre, ben
G9leier, Der Die 3ufunft berbiint,
MIR elm biB1en at Iiiften. Sbre
@orausiogrlngen betreffs elmer Nus-
breitung oes 3meiten @eltfrieges auf
Die lfanoinapil9en 2dnoer baben
lid Iotpeit nidt betpdbrt; uno 10 tDer-
zen ii6 tpobl ibre Bropbeaeiungen
iiber Die beboritebenoe nMusbunge.
rung~ Deutihlnn6s aud nidt be-
-ip~abrbeiten. Mlio abtparten un0 6anrl
Zee trinfenl