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Evening star., 1940-05-22

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portable electric fan to switch on
you may stir up quite a breeze.
For cool walls and floors there
Is tile, linoleum and rubber, any of
which may be purchased in color
and with a washable surface. Mir
ror panels in the walls give a spaci-
Gus effect and even less expensive
than these are the washable fabric
wall coverings and paint. Wash
able fabric or wallpaper, no matter
how water-yesistant, is not practical
close to a shower or tub. If the
shower stall or inclosure for the
tub is lined with tile, wallpaper will
do very well for the rest of the room,
but If placed directly over the tub,
the steam from warm water will
cause the paste on the back of the
paper to disintegrate and in a very
short time it will curl and separate
from the wall. Also, it is almost
impossible to keep it looking neat,
as soap and the splash from run
ming water will cause q stain no
matter how quickly it is removed.
There are delightful shower cur
tains and draperies for your bath
room shown in the shops this year.
Not only are the colors new and
different, but there are several novel
fabrics which are soft and silky and
treated to shed water. This process
makes it possible to waterproof
almost any kind of material and
consequently there is a much wider
variety Of colors and designs in use
than heretofore.
New rubber-covered hooks which
slide silently on your shower bar
add their own distinctive color to
the decoration Of the room and
there are rubber mats to match |
them. All accessories for the bath !
Evening star., 1940-05-22
BY BARBARA BELL.

It's q real morning glory, . per-
feet way to start busy day right
this trim, slim button-front frock,
easy to make, to put on, to work in
and tc iron! Those clever waistnne
sections, cut on the bias, make design
No. 1975-B hug In at the waist with
the smoothness Of your summer CIR
die. And yet, slim as it looks, this
beltless style is completely unham-
pering when you want to reach,
stretch, stoop and sweep.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1975-B is
designed for sizes IL, II, is, 18, 20;
Evening star., 1940-05-22
Cool and Comfortable Atmosphere Achieved Through Color Schemes
White and a Bright Tone
Advised for Equipment
Used in the Bathroom
Proper Ventilation Is Helpful;
New Accessories Emphasize
Beauty as Well as Utility
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

shining surfaces Of your bathroom equipment
COOL appearance IN summer If
your favor and beyond that by thought may
Datnroom That cool and inviting and materially
ting you through the dg days If
in Turkish bath in to not
comfort. - " =" - ~ " "' Ao
cold color gives the GOODNESS
nere notng that quite with
bathroom stationary equipment white selecting
one clear crisp color with it. If
white towels The
sharp contrast aids and abe
GOODNESS. ~-~' e~~' "A'"
~ your bathroom is small and has tendency seamy
ne SINAI electric fans that installed aid
hen nese are used with venetian blinds
Joy on those days when
when a bath with two wndovs
installation Of venetian blinds makes
Evening star., 1940-05-22

40 and ~. Corresponding bust meas
urements 30, 81, "a, 36, 80, 40 and a.
Size II (32) requires ~ yards of
35-inch material without nap: AZ
yards of braid.
Evening star., 1940-05-22

COTTON il dramatic for EVENING" The Maid of
wardrobe includes this hbiscus-red print with white
flowers. "Beieve me-" she says, "all my cottons will
be cared for with new, quick Lux"
LEADING STORES are featuring the Maid of
Cotton" and her smart all-cotton wardrobe.
Like Miss Porter, these stores advise Lux care
because smart cottons-like washable rayons
and silks-need inefabric treatment.
Lux cottons often to be sure of daintiness.
It's easy! In water as cool as your hand, new,
quick LAX dissolves times as fast az any of
10 other leading soaps tested. It goes further,
too-gives more suds ounce for ounce than
these other soaps, even in hard water. OF
course. it's mild and gentle-safe for every.
thing safe in water alone.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
3 REGISTRATION

\ NEW registration of all eligible voters IN
New Hanover county is not only deslraoie
but essential. The last legislature provided 1or
it or a relisting of voters. Anything less would
constitute violation of the law.
What it means is that every elector IN the
county must call at his registrars Office be
tween April 81 and May II and enter MS OF
her name on the new election rolls, even ii
if was on the old rolls for fifty years. Unless
this is done in the prescribed time, negligent
citizens will find themselves unable to cast a
ballot, not only in the primary but in the fol-
lowing election.
The new registration will be inconvenient,
doubtless, for many particularly for those ad'
vanced in years, but it cannot be lodged, II
one wishes to continue in the right to vote.
Outweighing the hardship it will impose on
anyone, the benefit of a new poll list is OBJ
vious. 1t will contain the names only OF per
sons entitled to participate in elections at
this time, with the names of all residents who
have moved away or died since the last list
ings were made eliminated; and all eligibles
listed in the correct precinct.
In these times, we are too likely to consider
voting a nuisance. Taking time to visit the
polls is in itself an annoyance-as we see it
It interferes with our work or our other en-
gagements, and we just haven't time for it.
But it remains a duty all Americans should
perform, nevertheless. 1t is the only means OF
holding elections to their original purpose
majority rule. Electors, therefore, are encour
aged to get their names on the rolls in the
time set apart for it, that they may have a
voice in selecting candidates at the primary
and in electing their standard bearers by q
later ballot. This duty should be performed
this year, especially as a national election is
coming next fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
JUNIORS TO ORGANIZE

The efficient campaign of the Youths Forum
for a junior chamber of commerce for Will
mington is to eliminate tonight in the organi-
cation of such a body. All citizens between 81
and 30 years of age are urged to attend the
organization meeting at the Y. M. C. A.. at S
O'Clock, when steps necessary to the securing
Of a charter will be taken.
The value of a junior chamber of
is inestimable. 1t can do tremendous things for
the city and county, according to the way it
shapes its program and secures capable leader,
ship.
IL Will have the advantage of a young out.
look and young ambition for performance. It's
membership will be composed of persons with
irresistible urge to do something worthwhile
Tor the community; and young America in this
frame of mind usually gets what it sets out for
Wilmington should feel the influence of such
an organization almost from the day of its
establishing.
The charter enrolment will be watched
closely, not so much to learn who joins as to
know If any eligible Wilmingtonian stays out,
Here is an opportunity for constructive service
which should draw every young person in the
city.
Inc roster Of membership should contain
the name of everyone whose vision is wide
enough to see that Wilmington and New Han.
over county needs the best work he, or she,
is capable of doing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
FOR WORKERS HEALTH

With Is million employed by heavy industry
in the United States and absences from the
Job because of illness averaging eight days for
men and twelve for women, the cost to manu-
facturers is estimated at 900 million dollars
a year. Industry is crippled to this amount
because America has failed to perfect some
plan under which workers may keep well
throughout the year.
The loss is so heavy that industrial leaders
have at last decided to do something to cut it
down. The Air Hygiene Foundation has under.
taken a survey upon which Z health program
may be undertaken, in association with the
United States Public Health service and the
Association of Industrial Physicians and Sur.
geons.
Just what the survey will lead to is un.
practicable, but it is to be hoped that a pro.
gram of preventive medicine" will emerge
from the studies by which workers will gain
better understanding of their own obligation to
keep well and the necessary measures they
must employ to preserve health, and the manu-
f%acturers learn what safeguards they must
use to protect their workers from escapablc
illness.
An ounce of prevention is still worth more
thana pound of cure. The manufacturers are
learning that health insurance is likely to be
cheaper than any form of disqualification in.
surance they may share with their employees;
hence their support of the proposed survey:
Hopefully workers everywhere will share in
the awakening the manufacturers are under.
going.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
RIGHT OR WRONG ABOUT PEOPLE
Does |tPayfo Talk
About Our Troubles!
BY DONALD A. LAIRD
Ph.D., Sci.D.
Author of "How to Improve Your
Brain Power

There are actually millions of PEG.
pie with troubles they would like to
get off their chests. Unfortunately,
most of these folks keep the troubles
to themselves for lack of frankness
to talk them over or from lack of
confidence in finding the right per.
son they "a trust.
Great troubles grow from little
ones, and if we can get them cleared
away while still small, life becomes
roster and mental poise improves.
Mental experts use the talking
cure more than any other single
method. This is little more than tell
ing troubles to a person who under
stands human nature, who is sym.
pathetic, who helps restore perspec.
tive SO a small trouble does not be-
come unduly enlarged by a worried
imagination.
This talking cure has prevented
thousands of nervous breakdowns
and APPARENTLY cured cases of actual
mental disorder.
When troubles are kept to ones
self, they keep growing, cause a dis.
torted perspective. and may drive
the person to distraction.
But telling anybody and everybody
the troubles does not help a bit. For
n thing, people will likely be bored
stiff by the recital. For another
thing, they will likely agree with the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government,
under CounciLM anager Adm'n1s"a1'om'
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena tor Sports and Industrial!
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsvtHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
s5.toot Cape Fear River channel, ~to
er Turning Basin. uith ship lanes INTO
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, ma
Orton plantation.
Developmen emit OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained.yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motionaz Agency, supported by one'
countrywide tar.
~Shipyards and Drydock.
Neoro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
ADEQUATE hospital facilities TOR 1ohttes.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse TOR Export Buyers.
Developmen OF ndtive grape 0roa1tn9
t~hrouohout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatortum1.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Whiteuiue Merchants
Glue Pigs To Youths

WHITEVILLE, March 25.-In-
augurating what it is hoped will be
the most far reaching program that
Columbus county and surrounding
territories have. experienced in a
long time, % pigs were given away
here Saturday afternoon by the
Whlteville Merchants association to
members of the vocation agriculture
classes of Columbus and a part of
Brunswick.
d. V. Vestal, swine. extension
specialist of Raleigh, was here for
the occasion, and at II o'clock Sat
urday morning made a brief talk
TO the young students who were to
receive the pigs. N. B. Chestnut, dis.
trlct vocational agriculture director,
County Farm Agent S. G. Oliver,
and M. S. Smith, secretary of the
merchants association, also made
brief talks.
The meeting was held in the az.
rlculture building here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26

something to it. even though the
thing that. works may disagree with
even your own pet belief.
DR.. Laird's background is not
that of a pedagogue whose sole in
terest is education. A native Hoosi-
er, he started out from scratch and
made his first salary-fifty cents a
week-helping out in the printing
end of a country weekly.
AT college he began by specialize
ing in chemistry; then he switched
to biology and physics, and finally
he chose the field of psychology for
his doctors thesis. Thus he brought
to his study of people and their re-
actions to circumstances a practical,
scientific background.
In recent years he has not only
been successfully connected with a
long list of universities as a men,
Der of the faculty, including Wyom.
ing, Iowa, Northwestern, Colgate
and Yale, as well as giving lectures
at Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Stevens
Institute of Technology, Army
War College, Lafayette, Hobart and
the Wharton School of the Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania. For IA years
he was director of the famed psy.
Geological laboratories at COLGATE
university.
Gives Tin Teaching
About a year ago, DR.. Laird de.
cided to give up teaching and de.
vote his entire time to in
order to find out all he could about
human nature in business and Thus
help an even greater number of per
sons than heretofore.
He moved to Philadelphia where.
like Benjamin Franklin, he is now
equipped to give people advice based
on years of observation and a con
stantly increasing body of facts as
well as speedily mounting figures
and facts collected in detailed re-
search studies of what people eniov
and read and think and believe.
DIR. Laird is perhaps best known
for his books, 'The Psychology of
Selecting Employees" 'How to Rest
and Sleep Better" Psychology and
Proflts,' Increasing Personal Eff.
cheney" How to Improve Your
Brain Power" "How to Make People
Like YOU More Test for Life"
How to Use Psychology in Busi.
ness and What Makes Peon1e
Buy" 0p4e
DR.. Laird's articles will appear in
the Wilmington Morning Star un.
der the general title of "Riebt or
Wrong About People"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Mrs. Borah Intends To
Continue Mates Fight

LOS ANGELES, March 25.-H'
Mrs. William T.. Borah, widow OF
che Idaho senator, said today she
planned to 'keep on with her hus,
bands lifelong fight.
perhaps a lone woman can't do
much, but l mean to keep on with
his fight. I'm afraid America is
moving away from the isolation he
favored"
Mrs. Borah, accompanied by her
sister, Mrs. Max Lueddemann, sail
ed from San Francisco for Honolulu
Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Rev. R. E. Clontz Offers
Resignation To In"

March 20
Rev. r. G. Clontz YESTERDAY 'S'', ~,
his resignation as pastor Of the T..
Presbyterian church here Two ", w.
ago, he resigned the pas'0'' >s.
the the chadDourn Presbyterian e tss
which he served Jointly VII"
cal church. ,osv
A congregational meeting a .ss ..
ordered for next SUNDAY loi i.irrat
pose of considering the l''
of Mr.. Clontz. nj.
Mr.. Clontz has reen pastor
church here since 1880
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Editorial Comments
From Other Ano|es
IT'S F. d. X.
Dothan (AIa.) Eagle

Fred Taylor, Birmingham News staff writer,
presents one of the brightest interviews printed
IN an Alabama newspaper in many months,
when he quotes Burns Parker, member of the
State Democratic Executive Committee and
one-time member Of the Legislature, on the
third-term campaign. The most rabidly fanatic
New Dealer will find this interview stimulat-
ing, as will those who believe that the perpet.
uation of Roosevelt threatens to make of this
a nation of bins. Mr.. Parker said:
Mr.. Roosevelt has built 81 court houses and
81 jails in Alabama. He has done the same for
the other Al states. He has built city halls in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
TOP o. THE MORNING

Apart from Ne ye can do nothing. By an
means let as be conscious OF our hn1ltdtaonS'
Let us accent our limitations. Denying them
isn't the policy Of the Christian rehg1on,-
denuinq them and ~proclaiming that all you
lack is q little confidence in yourself. That
is avhat some psychoanalists sag; 1t asn1
yhat the uorlds enangelists tell you. They tell
you to haze faith in God. and instead OF
stopping rhere you can't go on to begin there;
for it is there and there only, that God De-
gins,-1ohere q men kneelS!
-ScHERER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
STOP THIS UNDERTAKING

Pedestrian disregard of traffic signals prom
Uses to become a city-wide phobia unless the
present epidemic is controlled. A few moments
spent at any intersection where red and green
lights are installed will convince any observer
that, so far as pedestrian obedience to them
is concerned, they might as we'll be torn down
and thrown into the swamps. They are no
more effective in restraining most persons
afoot than if they wild not exist.
the police could stop it by tagging offenders,
as they do drivers for overparking Or other
violations of the traffic rules, and bringing
them into court to pay a fine. The experiment
at least, could do no harm, and might bring
about a much needed improvement. Richmond
has found it a good way to stop the habit. We
could count on as fine results. Nobody has dol
lars to spare for fine-paying, especially when
It is easily avoided.
It is suggested that lack of a traffic court
is a drawback to such a campaign. Well. the
legislature is to meet soon. A bill providing a
traffic court, which did not also seek to parallel
the duties Of the recorders court, would have
a better chance of passage than a former one
had. Or, it might be possible for the senior
police officer on duty at the time to act as
traffic judge, deal with such cases and imnose
fines without the setting up of a new iudicia,
office. This could be determined by the cit,
attorney. The suggestion is advanced only as
possible means of correcting an evil which
is becoming a greater menace to safety daily.
What Wilmington needs is volume enforce
ment of the jaywalking and signal CRASHING
rules. How it is done is not as important as
that something be done-and done speedily. II
the failure to do something continues we arf
bound to witness the death of some offender
It would be infinitely better to take necessary
steps now, before a tragedy, than to wait I'm
til a life has been crushed out because no ster
had been taken.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Mrs. Lula P. Poweu
Dies At Clinton Home

CLINTON, March 25.-Mrs. Lula
peterson Powell, 70, widow of w
j. Powell, 70, widow of w. J. Powell
dleo at her home here today after
a short illness.
Funeral services will he hello
the home of Edwin and Elliott
peterson Tuesday afternoon at $3.50
O'Clock, with the Rev. Louis Nor
gam Jr., pastor of the Clinton Bap-
list church, officiating.
lnterment will follow in the Beu.
lab cemetery.
Mrs. Powell is survived by two
SISTERS Mrs. S. A. Sommers and
Mrs. 4ancey Boney, ST., both of
linton; and the following step
cAiioren' Mrs. G. M. Cooper, of Ra-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
WASHINGTON

BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, March 25.-When a com.
mittee OF congress gets to sleuthing, boy does
it sleuth.
That's how come a house appropriations sub.
committee the other day pored over newspaper
accounts of the now apparently dead romance
of Greta Carlo and Leopold Stokowski.
II this sort of thing goes on, one of the re-
qulrements to a seat in congress will be an
annual subscription to all the Hollywood and
New York gossip columns.
What the legislators expected to learn from
any published reports about Carlo is a little
beyond me. Any movie fan this side of Homo
lulu could have told them in one two-syllable
word: Nothing. But read the accounts they
did and here's how it happened:
It's just routine for any committee or sub
committee, before making any recommendation
on any matter, to go into it as thoroughly as
possible. II personalities are involved, the back
ground and character of those persons are put
under as much of a microscope as the lecis.
lators can find. That's good. We, the people,
deserve every ounce of that protection.
Somebody Said Whoa"
When the appropriations ubcommitt came
to that phase Of its appropriations concerning
the National Youth administration they noticed
an item (reported to be about So, 5000 for pre-
l1minary additions for the all-American youth
orchestra, which Mr.. Stokowski plans to take
on a goodwill tour of Latin America next July.
Somebody must have said: whoa, who's
S~tokoWskl?' And one thing must have led to
another until the clerk was instructed to go
to the Congressional library and get the reports
of that Stokowski-Garbo romance of the spring
OF 1888. fOh, yes, the clippings were there.
Your be dumbfounded at half the things you
can find in the Library of Congress.)
Mind you, this was all very secret +. SO
secret, in fact, that the matter wasn't even
written into the subcommittee records With
secret sessions like that, you can't pull {" public
report out of a member with a pair of dentists
pliers. But the picture of an austere subcom-
mittee of the house, scanning the items con-
corning the conjectured romance of lovely
Greta and the colorful baton-waver of symphony
orchestras, was a little too good for someone
to keep to himself.
We All Laugh
Aubrey Williams, National Youth administra-
tor, was called before the committee earlier
in the week. but whether this had anything to
do With investigation in the romance matter
couldn't be determined. One reliable source
WHISPERED that Mr.. Williams was asked only
about the extent of funds expended on the
goodwill musical junket.
After that the clerk was sent on his secret
mission to the congressional library and on
a Saturday morning the committee went into
the romantic articles.
Nothing came of it. Nothing could.
We can almost see the bewilderment of the
committee when they finally came to that in
eyitable full stop which La Carlo always sup
plies. "Ah, Mr.. Sto-kov-v-V-skl' we are just
good friends
IF Garbo's press agents want a new line,
thew might say: "Garbo laushs-Stokowski.
too-and the rest of u.s..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
LEGISLATION PLANNED

SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 25-R-
Legislation for complete mobilization
on the economic front in event of
emergency will be introduced in the
bulgarian Parliament tomorrow by
General Theodossy Daskaloff, min
isler OIL war. The program contains
provisions for collectivized farming,
capital punishment for speculatc-rs
ana hoarders and strict price con.
troll.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
ELECTED

WICHITA, Kas.. March 25.-CP'
Fifth district republicans today
elected Tom C. Johnson of Wichita
and John T. Stewart, Jr., of Well
inston delegates to the national
convention. They endorsed Alf Nj.
Landon, John D. NJ. Hamilton, Mrs.
Will G. West, Mcpherson, and
George Houston, Wichita, as dele
gates-at-large to the national con
vention. The big four will be Sc.
lected at the state convention here
next month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
LEWIS APPEALS

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Pe
John L.. Lewis, CLIO president, APP.
pealed to democratic and republican
house leaders today to save the la.
Dor board and the wage-hour admin.
istratlon appropriations from the
economy knife. In letters to Rep.
Rayburn D-Texy and Rep. Martin
(R-Massl Lewis declared that the
cuts recommended by the house ap,
preparations committee would "scut-
tie basic labor legislation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-26
Damage To Strawberry y,
Crop May Be 0''

MAJ" sai1
ty Farm Agent :. C oll'sl .or,r.
morning that from .epo- ne dan
him, he did MOI believe Inc ut n
to the strawberry cIoP rrpst,
from the extreme cold was a:
evinced some anPre'' .w TEN
what tonight's predicted 10"
atures may bring