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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27

m1ur1Ce Jack SWeGAan0 IS start. ing another book about the First World War. His historical narra- tive, THESE MEN, will soon be set in type at the Military Service Publishing Company. Jack just cannot sit still. When he isn't crossing the country with 8 trailer in tow, he Is busy with a type writer.
 Smokey Jenson writes a card from Great Harrington and re- ports that he is on the way home. We knew that the deer season would fetch MT. Jensen. Hurry along, Old Timer, the lawns are fat.
 Man doesn't live by bread alone. Months ago we watched work man park his trailer down near Sand Corner and wondered if the man was quite sane. It looked like cold spot in late spring and a hot location in summer, but the lad didn't seem worried. Tonight, we drove home past the trailer beside-the-road and looked off at the sunset. Gosh! That lad knew what he was doing! He has a view that would part the hair of almost any movie executive who ever sought far horizons; he has beauty that you can get your teeth into. Lots of people are like that. They spend their lives just looking for things beautiful enough to be glad about. Sometimes, they find them ... sometimes.
 Red Cross activity slacks eff. Per- haps the naked have been clothed and perhaps some men can get a few buttons sewed on at home now. Domestic relief always ap- pealed to us as the most practical.
 Ever hear of the Piainville Pin nacle? It's a funny little sheet published by a woman, and 1t is due to go places. Hope Norman is the lady editor and star report CT of the Pinnacle. She started on hope and now she has the ad- vertisers.
 It's funny what men will do for a dime, or a dollar. We knew one old fellow who wouldn't harm a flea but who was so equipped with light fingers that the neighbor's Aaxxyorc rryosan
 Things are going tougher for the bug hunters. The latest is in- structiOns left beside the road on . fire-red slip. Maybe that cole Ored chit means ''Hustle!" '. Maybe it's just another way they have of telling g man he's fired.
 Horace Green is working over Roxbury way. We saw him driv- ing past Seth Warmers Monument the other day and the horse was just loafing along. Last winter when the wheeling was tough, Horace drove a motor car: now that travelling is easy, he drives a horse.
 Hodges Store in Roxbury is looking for a top flight eating house proprietor. It's q year. around spot. folks. and the rental is reasonable. We've tried to in- terest . few chefs in setting up . seafood lunch room there. Fea. aures such as pickled cells, frogs legs on toast. or diced brook suck CTS with potato chips might so strong with the transient trade.
 Eating habits change. Years ago, beef stew carried nourishment and baked beans sparkled with cai- orIes. Today, salads and light ra. tons get the nod. About the only old standby left is apple pie. we know c woman who baked 10000 apple pies last year.
 The Tqum Health OlIlesr has again made hls rounds and lH' speeied eating places in Bouth- bury. lIIs eeFlIlleallons aEe pEend. ~ hang Hhego ths patsons ean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27
calf weaners and everything.

Maurice Jack Swetland is start ing another book about the First World War. His historical narra- tive, THESE MEN, will soon be set in type at the Military Service Publishing Company. Jack just cannot sit still. When he isn't crossing the country with 8 trailer in tow, he is busy with a type writer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27

Yusosiavla has . shortage e farm woFksfs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27

Smokey Jerson writes a card from Great Harrington and re- ports that he is on the way home. We knew that the deer season would fetch MT. Jensen. Hurry along, Old Timer, the lawns are fat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27

A land purchaser who called here last week went home and got c plane to cruise over hls build Ing site fer . topslde view. Lets ef cur country is % rough it can. not be seen from the ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27

The TeWn Health OiIlesr has again lnnde hls rounds and Co. speeied eating places in South. bury. IIIs eeFllilcatlons aEe pEen6- ~ hang uhese ths petsens ean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-27

It's funny what men will do for a dime, or a dollar. We knew one old fellow who wouldn't harm a flea but who was so equipped with light fingers that the neighbor's flowers were unsafe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
More Pennies Needed

1t was not so many years ago that the penny
was not only despised but practically unknown
IN the western section of this country. Offered
five pennies in payment Of streetcar fare, more
than one conductor threw them out the window
and forced the passenger either to leave the
car or pay with a nickel. Unlawful? OF course.
But those were free and easy times in which
petty agents were much given to assuming the
authority Of executives.
In a large measure the penny was no more
elsewhere in the country. Mothers
do1ed them cut on Saturdays to good little chill
dren who had brought in the wood or chopped
the kinding without too much protest through
out the week. Few ~storekeepers welcomed
them, and their most popular use was at
schools where negro mammies peddled little
pies and goodies at lunch time. But that day
IS gone. Pennies are in great demand now,
Particularly have they been hunted by mer-
chants and banks since the new defense taxes
went into effect on July /.
Wilmington banks annouce that they are hav-
ing a hard time to keep up with the demand.
Their orders for pennies have been shaved and
the announcement is made that the minis, Ear
ticularly the mint at Philadelphia, is unable to
keep up with the demand even though it has
the working hours Of its staff. Will
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
His Power Waning

The belief that John L. Lewis speaks today
as he did in 1886 for the entire c. I. o. in po-
litical matters goes quickly overheard in the
face of the resolution adopted by the executive
committee of the United Automobile Workers
of America. This resolution refers to Presi-
dent Roosevelt as the greatest friend of labor
ever to hold office" and commits the U. A. w..
second largest of the c. I. o. afiliates, to sup
port of a third term.
In acting thus, the automobile union takes a
position Numerically opposed to that of Mr..
Lewis. The c. I. o. chieftain is not only MIR.
Roosevelt's political enemy now, but stands at
the head Of a movement to start a third party
with Senator Wheeler as the presidential can
didate.
Perhaps it is too much to say that Lewis has
lost all of his political influence but it must be
the fact that he cannot make good a promise
to deliver the c. +. o. to any party. The
U. A. W., incidentally, is only one of several
important C. I. o. unions which have refused
to follow their leader out of the Roosevelt
camp.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
Moving Ahead

Everyone recognizes by now that the great
armada of warplanes which the nation wants
cannot be turned out in a day or a month or
even for many months ahead. But the subse-
quent disbursement which many lave felt
about our ability to prepare ourselves in time
has been at Least partially dispelled by two an
nouncements-one from London and the other
from Washington.
In the British capital Lord Beaverbrook, min
lister of aircraft production told the House OF
Lords that 1.-THE Americans are up to date on
their program of producing planes ordered
by Britain. 'They have delivered to us so far
everything they have promised and they are a
little ahead of time"
This is a high tribute to American efficiency
in a field where speed is vitality important. And
it is clear enough that in pushing into mass
production on British orders the American air.
craft industry is also preparing itself and en-
task of turning out airplanes which Americas
defense forces need.
The second announcement was that Of the
National Defense Commission that 500, 600, 900
in plane contracts have been awarded since
July l.. 1t revealed at the same time that the
commission, the government, the army and
navy officials and private industry have been
working together in close cooperation on this
first job. Red tape has been cut to standardize
specifications and inspection work; loans for
plant expansion have been promptly provided;
conditions of manufacture and prices have
been agreed upon with a minimum of delay.
This same sort of cooperation will be needed
throughout the defense program. There are
innumerable tangles to be unraveled and diff
ficulties to be overcome, mile upon mile of red
tape is yet to be cut, before we shall see guam
titles of new guns on the field, new ships in
the water and more planes in the air. In doing
this job undue pessimism over our ability and
undue optimism will be equally fatal. There
is a tough job to be done and every American
must knuckle dow to it with all possible en-
ergy, intelligence and cooperation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
4-H Club Girls, Boys
Leave For Encampment

Twenty-eight New Hanover coun.
ty All club boys and girls left yes
terday to attend their annual en-
campment at White Lake neal
Elizabethtown.
Campers include: Edwin Marsh
burn, Barbara Leewenburg, Jean
Bostian, Rose Helen Groom, Clara
Marshburn, Jane Kern, Dorothy
Jones, Eva Conway, Hugh Van
Ness, Jr., Jim Billiard, Jr., John
Billiard, Charles F. Jones, Jacque-
line Hewette, Thetis L. Jones.
Ann Jordan, Jimmy Blake, Tom
my Needham, Floyd Blake, Earl
Johnson, Lennox Johnson, Lucy
Horne, Annie Mae Russ, Jerry
Winifred Biddle, Alval
Shirley Robertson, John
Marshburn, and Betty Whilden.
Leaders for the one week encamp-
ment include: r. W. Galphin, coun-
ty farm agent: Miss Ann Mason,
home demonstration agent; Miss
Gertrude Marshburn, and Miss
Collins.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
Hollywood Sights And Sounds
By Robin Coons.

HOLLYWOOD, July 15.-If any
body's thinking about laying out a
new college campus, here's tn e
place to come.
I never knew how a campus
should be lai6 out until I saw the
set of "Too Many Girls" which
offers the buildings and grounds
of dear old Pottawatomie Univer-
sity, mythically located at Stop
gap, New Mexico "a town which
also ain't).
The set will offer more ideas,
of course, if the youthful campus
cuties are decorating its environs
and p%arading solemnly through its
stately halls Of learning. I can't
guarantee any solemn academic
parades, however, for come to
think of it there isn't a hall of
learning in sight. This too is an
idea for campus layer-outers.
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What strikes you first about dear
old Pottawatomie is the way
they've provided for dance routines.
Take that pueblo-type adobe home
Of the college president. There's
a balcony on the second story and
you reach it by two wide flights
Of stairs, whereon the goods and
eds can-and do-practice theh
steps. In the patio in front there's
a big sundial, like half a drum, on
which you know Hal Leroy and
Ann Miller are going to tap a con-
ga. You're right, because that's
what they're doing now. They and
the other kids are warming up, in
the prexy's patio, to the strains of a
rhumba orchestra which plays
that hot bit called Give It Back
to the Indians"
The professor over there, e
tall, distinguished gent in the swea-
ter, is George Abbott, sometime
of Broadway, who is taking a fling
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
Churchill Speaks Plainly

Prime Minister Winston Churchill's address
to the British public broadcast from London on
Sunday, which was characterized by the pre-
mier's customary rugged phraseology, con-
tanned several statements of deep interest on
this side OF the ocean.
The war, he said, will be long drawn out.
Hitler undoubtedly has a plan for England, but
it will have to be recast. Hitler has never
faced a nation in war SO determined to with
stand him as he faces in England. This is as
the friends of Great Britain would expect the
Empires head of government to speak. But
we feel that the statements he made and the
hints he threw out were more than oratorical
gestures designed to bolster the morale of his
harried and perplexed people. They contain,
if we read his words Alright, the suggestion that
the war government of England has at last
reached a point of preparedness where it is
possible for its chief spokesman to shake the
spear under the nose of the Nazi fuehrer and
dare him to do his worst.
There was no open challenge in his address,
to be sure, but it is not difficult to read this
meaning into his words. The world beyond the
wal zone can but hope that both the meaning
ana LH0 1uVeIpIeIdIlOu Ol NI. SuuTCQlu S dQ-
dress are correct.
One other point was touched on which gives
the Western Hemisphere some comfort. So
long, he said, as French ships which escaped
the British remain in port and do not take part
in any attack on Britain the English will not
modest them. This is well calculated to set at
naught persistent rumors that a naval battle is
near off Martinique, where a few French war
vessels are located and where, we have been
told, the British intend to attack and sink
them.
Americas interest in this engagement, so
positively forecast, has lodged in the fact a
battle there would be in violation Of the inter-
American agreement and greatly complicate
the war situation. Mr.. ChurchiIs declaration
may be accepted as pledging the British navy
to hold off unless, of course, the French ships
should make a break with obvious intent to
surrender to Germany as required by the arm
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
Warning To Germany

Secretary Hulps warning to Germany to keep
hands off the conference of ~pan-AInerican gov.
ernments at Havana is a grim reminder of the
difficulties this parley faces from the start. For
the secretary of states statement is more than
a polite reminder to Hitler. It is also an open
recognition of the fact that the Nazis already
have their fingers deep in the Pan-American
pie.
Hitler knows as well as anyone else that the
and vulnerable to economic pressure, and his
agents are already putting on the screws.
There are swarms of German diplomatic
agents and commercial representatives in all
of these countries.
The United States is almost poWerless to in
terfere with the heavy pressure campaign of
these Nazi agents. In its more subtle form
this includes promises that the war in Europe
will soon be over and that Germany will be in
the market for vast quantities of South Ameri-
can goods. To this has been added a bitter
propaganda campaign against the United
States and a Pan-American economic union
and formal notes to the governments of certain
countries warning them against any action at
the forthcoming conference detrimental to Ger
many's economic interests.
If the Havana conference is to accomplish
anything at all Secretary Hull will have to find
some positive way of offsetting this Nazi cam
paign. It is not enough to assure the Latin
American republics that the United States is
ready to spring to their defense against for.
eign aggression, although the huge prepared
ness program on which this country has now
embarked will help to Offset the tremendous
impression made by German victories abroad.
It will also be necessary to persuade these ma
tons that their economic welfare will be
served better by cooperative action IN common
with the United States than by playing the
Nazi game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16

at movie-making. The associate
professor, stocky and dark, is Le-
roy Prinz, whose course is dan
cling. Between Abbott's direction
and Prinz's dance direction tn e
kids never get a peek at their
books. But they get the essentials
of a college education: Swing,
hot rhythm, rhumba and Conga
and song.
Campuses need walks and stair
ways to swing and tap on. Sum-
dials for steps. And-of course
youth.
TOO Many Girls" has all that.
Youngsters so young they make
an old Liam feel older. So active,
practicing taps and jitterbug stuff
even when they could be resting,
they wear you down! q called for
my cane and decided to grow a
beard, long and white, after Ann
Miller asked if I'd heard of the
Conga and had ever seen it. She
was very sweet about it, to be
sure, and respectful-as any child
of 10 would be to a patriarch OF
the Schottische and Polka era.)
Three of the principles-Ann and
Lucille Ball and Richard Carl
son - weren't in Abbott's stage
production. Most of the others Wers
including Desi Arnaz, the Cuban
youth whose rhumba and tango
have the local girls dithery.
Hal Leroy, the dancer, is max
ing a comeback to films. He was
in Harold Teen at Warmers
some years ago. Another come
hacker is Ann Miller-to the same
studio she left, after getting no
where in particular, for the stage.
She was a hit in George Whites
Scandals" and on opening night
she had five movie offers. Which
goes to show why local girls like
Broadway. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
RAIDED

MADRID, July 15.-P-Four air
raids on Gibraltar in two hours yes
terday were reported tonight in dis
patches from La Linea, Spanish
town near Britain'E "Rock." "a
statement by the British Broadcast
ing corporation. heard by NBC in
New York, denied that Gibraltar had
been bombed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
Compulsory Training
ADVOCATED By Metts

RALEIGH, July 15.-REAdj.
Gen. j. Van B. Nets told the
Raleigh Lions club today that in
his opinion the only way to III
crease ~personel Of the national
guard and regular army to war
strength would be through COM
pulsory military training.
The only way to increase the
size of the force is through COM
pulsory military training" S a i d
Nets. I'VE should train the men
and officers Immediately. In II
months the present crisis may be
over. We need trained officers
now ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
Sfar-News Program

Consolidated City.CoAnty Government
under CouncilMana0er Administrator
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside High1pay from Wrightsv'He
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF city Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear RiOer channel, 1a6
ey TURNING Basin, pith ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern oamE
south OF Wilmington.
Poved River Road to Southport, Ola
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Prod~c'
ton through sustatned-yield methods
throuohout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro-
Y.otional Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Ehipydrds and Drydock.
Neoro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
ADEQUATE hospital facilities for aohttes.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0rop1n0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern TNbeTcM1osis SGndtortNnt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
MRS. ROOSEVELT
ENTERS HOT ROW
Opposes Proposed Move To
Give Women Equal Legal
Rights With Men

CHICAGO, July 15.-tR-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt entered one
of the hottest controversies before
The democratic platform commit
tee today with a statement against
a proposed constitutional amend
ment to guarantee women equal
legal rights with men.
Several women's groups have
urged the committee to adopt a
platform plank endorsing the
amendment, which would give
women equally with men, legal
rights to sue, manage their proper
ty and control their children. Other
groups just as adamant have op-
posed adoption.
In a statement read to the COM
mittee by Mrs. Nan Wood Honey
man of Oregon, the First Lady
said that approval of the equal
rights amendment would be a
great mistake"
Until women r u%nioniZed to a
far greater extent than at pres
ent, she said, such an amendment
would work great hardships on
those employed in industry, whom
she described as composing the
largest group Of wage earning
women"
Therefore, at the present time
for us, as a party interested in the
w%ell-being and protection of the
workers, to put into our platform
an equal rights amendment would
be a grave mistake and in this I
think all the leaders of the work.
ers would concur" Mrs. Roose-
velt's statement said. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
TAX PR0FITEERS
WARNED BY U. 5.
Increases In Cost Must Not
Be Falsely Laid To
Defense Levies

If you are going to profiteer or
the national defense tax, you must
let the public know you are prof.
teering.
This was pointed out yesterday
by treasury departments bureau
of internal revenue, which said it
has had it's attention called to the
fact that in certain instances deal
ers in articles subject to the inter-
nal revenue taxes have raised the
prices on these products to con
sumers in amounts considerably in
excess of the defense taxes i'm
posed by the Revenue Act Of
1940'' which includes the national
defense taxes.
The bureau has also received
reports that a numbo-' of such
dealers have represented to their
consumers that such increases IN
prices are due solely to the impo-
sition of the defense taxes.
Says the bureau:
1.-The commissioner Of internal
revenue issued a warning today
that under section 1925 of the in
ternal revenue code, whoever IN
connection with the sales or lease,
or offer for sale or lease, of any
article, or, for the purpose of max
ing such sale or lease, makes any
statement, written or oral, intend
ed or calculated to lead any per-
son to believe that any part OF the
price at which such article is sold
or leased, or offered for sale or
lease, consists of a tax imposed
under the authority of the United
States, or ascribing a particular
part of such price to a tax impos-
ed under the authority of the
United States, knowing that such
statement is false or that the tax
is not SO great as the portion OF
such price ascribed to such tax,
shall be guilty of a nlisdeameanol
and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not more
than $1,000 or by imprisonment
not exceeding one year, or both.
This ruling is taken to mean
that retailers of beer cannot tell
their customers that the o%ne-cent
additional per bottle they are
on most brands of beer
is entirely due to the national de-
tense tax, but must instead make
clear that only one-third Of the
cent is due to the national defense
tax and that the other tWo-thlrdS
of a cent was added at their own
discretion.
1t also is taken to mean that the
county ABC boards which were
ordered to raise the price OF IL
quor must, in any statement made
on the matter, make it clear tina
more than a third OF the
recent rise in the price of liquor
is not due to the national defense
tax but is due to the system Oh
mark-up required by the stale
.BC board.
1t is further taken to mean thai
those stores which have raised
the price of cigarettes a cent a
pack must take care not to leau
a purchaser to believe the entire
cent rise in price is due to nation
al defense tax, and so on for other
TENS in which price rises nave
exceeded the amount of the tax.