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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-19
another shallow one, ideal for clean

another shallow one, ideal for clean.
ing equipment or card tables.
The kitchen Is carefully planned
for step saving and efficiency, and
beautiful to look 1t" as well With
q deep blue floor, gray equipment
and bright red geraniums on the
window sill.
From every angle, this house Is
outstanding. In delightful part OF
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many years. Now my oldest daugh-
ter is married and a mother at %;
my second shocked us all by an
elopement last Christmas; my
youngest is in college and we see
her only occasionally.
with the world in the state it is
I ought to be deeply grateful for
peace and security, know that. I
am not i'll, except in spirit. My
married daughter lives near and my
granddaughter is darling. But I
am so BLUE. Tears are always
near my eyes; nothing seems worth
while; don't sleep well. To be told
to busy myself with charities and
gardening and club work merely
maddens me. My appetite is poor;
and / look go years old. If my hus-
band suggests a movie or a walk
my inclination is to strike out at
him, to tell him to shut up and leave
me alonel
Fears IT'S In the Blood.
"The real trouble is this. My
mothers brother died in an institu-
ton for the feeble-minded, and my
fathers two first cousins were gem
uine cases Of melancholia. So you
see it is in our blood. Do you know
any physician who handles cases
like this; would travel anywhere to
find a cure"
Yes, I do know a Physician whose
treatments never fail in cases like
this. You don't have to travel any
where, physically, to find Him; you
may have to make something of a
spiritual journey. But I'll come to
that later.
Just now what you have to realize
is that q generation ago all fami-
lies had their mental cases, because
women dressed idiotically, never ex-
ercised, knew nothing of hygiene and
ate three times too much. Your Vic
torian relatives used to shut them
selves up in unaired houses, among
fringes and upholsteries and bead
portiers, and drink chocolate and
nibble "bon-bons" when they felt
blue. No wonder they went rnelan-
choly madl One woman knew used
to boast that she was always bilious
and used to cry for an hour every
morning
Ehecting a Cure.
So first see that your insides are
in order. Then walk two miles a
day. Then eat a very light dinner,
and wind up with two big, raw ap-
pies, eaten slowly while you read or
listen to the radio after dinner.
Secondly, ignore tomorrow and
forget yesterday. Live each hour
for that hour. The oldest man alive
has no more. The youngest baby
only has that hour. Perfect it and
polish it like a jewel. Make your
expression pleasant. Don't answer
the telephone as II speaking from the
tomb. Be bearer of good tidinRs.
Realize that you are going through
a change, amuse yourself, take life
easily. Forget sights, disappoint-
ments, ars,-forget yourself. In
stead try living, in your mind, your
husbands life for a day. See Just
how much fun and peace and pleas.
antness the old man is getting.
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Book S. Her urgent need at the
moment was, something to make
for Mother for Christmas.
Here is my suggestion. An ador-
able set of three corner shelves
made Of lid from a tin candy
box, one from a cracker can and
a coffee can put together with
wire, spools and two beads. These
shelves were painted cherry red
and hung up with a brass hook
to hold salt and pepper shakers,
vinegar cruet, and other things
for making salads. Any home
maker will think of dozen places
where this handy set of shelves
could be used. All the directions
are here in this sketch.
There Is time to make the hanging book
shelves in Book 3. or the end table In
Book >. before Christmas, IL you mail your
order for these booklets today. Send or
der to:
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS
tBen syndicate-wNU Service.

NNE of the unmistakable
marks Of approaching in
sanity, or incipient insan-
ity, or mental disturbance of
any serious sort, is what the
scientists call the egocentric at
titude.
Egocentric, of course, means
"centered in self" A woman
whose interests not conferred in
herself will not lose her mind.
Insanity doesn't seem to be my
usual topic. The questions / an
swered in this column are usually
the normal obvious questions of
girls unhappily in love, girls who
suppose themselves unpopular, girls
who want to shine In Hollywood, or
all the varying phases and angles of
marriage problems.
But for every letter that / answer
here answer hundred personally,
and destroy unanswered, for one
reason or another, hundred more.
Either because they were not writ
ten in good faith or because the an
sWer has been given q thousand
times, or because they are simply
kind and appreciative and / have to
leave them unacknowledged for
sheer lack Of time and energy.
Don't Center Interest In Self.
And in every hundred letters there
are three from women who are Ell
Their going into melancholia, or are
afraid Of it, or who have had some
relative who went insane, and when
] answer these letters / always re-
mind the writer's Of the truism with
which opened this article. A won-
an whose interest is not centered in
herself will not lose her mind. That
Is, unless some serious physical con-
dition exists. And usually, with the
women who write me, it doesn't.
They are women who are tired,
bored, losing youth, losing their old
close hold over their child or chill
dren, losing their keen affectionate
interest in the man of the family,
and perhaps approaching that time
OF physical change whose effects
have been so much exaggerated,
whose slight and unimportant dis
comforts have been built UP into an
actual tradition. Expecting to be-
come fretful, nervous, suspicious,
sensitive, jealous, lonely, restless,
sleepless, ugly, gray, wrinkled and
disagreeable at this time, many a
woman sinks into the role almost
willingly. The experience comes Just
at the wrong time, when in a sort
OF panic she realizes that youth and
bloom and love affairs and beauty
are all dying, and the combination of
miseries really does bring some
women close to the verge of mental
breakdown.
Everything Seems Ended.
Here is a typical letter:
My dear Mrs. Norris" writes
Helene, from Knoxville. when /
first began reading your weekly ar
tlcles my three girls were small chill
dren, and my problem was that of a
busy and distracted young mother.
In 10 years think have not missed
a dozen articles, and many q time
they have helped me. Those years
nave taken me from 81 to 46. And
ind myself at as with a fright
ened sense that everything is over.
what terrifies me is that there is no
reason for my feeling that way even
though life is not just what it was.
nave good, steady, if not particu-
iarly thrilling mate; we own our
nome; our faithful sigma has car
RED all domestic responsibilities for
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MELANCHOLId

Women i0ho consistently suffer from
melancholy haze only themselves to
blame, according to Kathleen Norris.
She explains that continually de-
pressed feeling is not natural. This
state OF mind results only rarely from,
physical deficiencies; almost always il
is caused by centering too much inter.
EST in the self. She advises toomen iUho
suffer from chronic n,elanchoIia TO de.
ueLoP outside activities, because they
offer the only cure.
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II FADING the U. S. governments
= = new flying wedge against Nazi
propaganda in Latin-American coun-
tries is the genial James w. Young,
chief Of the bureau Of foreign and
domestic commerce. Mr.. Young is
chairman Of the newly formed com
mittee on communications, with So
100000 to spend. Mr.. Young was
the first experienced business man
to head the above bureau. At the
age of AZ, he had retired with a
comfortable fortune as chairman Of
the board of the Lane Publishing
company of Chicago.
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He and 1

II a man should importune me
to give a reason why I loved my
friend, find it could not other
wise be expressed than by the an
swer, Because he was he; be-
cause I was I."-Montaigne.
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accessory Set for
Sports or Campus

CPORTS accessories like this are
- much in vogue among smart
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but also for campus and runabout.
Design No. 1853 includes weskit,
calot and chunky mittens, all of
which you can easily make for
yourseh-all, Of course, except the
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We Escape Many Evils

He shall deliver thee in six trou-
bles, yea, in seven, there shall no
evil touch thee.-Job SIG.
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A Generous SUNNY

My God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory
ny Christ Jesus.-Phil. 4:l9.
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Set of Shelves From
Spools and Can Lids
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS

THE other day / went to g
L Hobby Show and there, hang
ing on the wall with blue ribbon
pinned on it, were the spool
shelves from SEWING Book 3! OF
course, / searched out the proud
girl who had made them, and she
told me that she had also made
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AN ExACTING DIsCIPLEsHIP

LESSON TEXT-Luke 9:4o-61
GOLDEN TExT-No man, having put his
hand to the plough. and looking back, II at
TOR the kingdom Of God.-Luke 9:62
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Human Pity

More helpful than all wisdom
Is one draught of simple human
pity that will not forsake u.s.
George Eliot.
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Survival Of the Coon

The righteous also shall hold on
his way, and he that hath clean
hands shall be stronger and strong
er.-Job 1879.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, the
4 more internationally than nation
ally famous architect, sees the doom
Of the big city and the main hope for
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
Editorial Comment
THE GREEK DEFIANCE
N. Y. TeraId-Tribune

After all the false hopes raised IN earlier
battles of the war no one will read the reports
from the new fronts in Greece without severe
reservations and bitter realization Of how
quickly even ion-hearted resistance can be
crushed once the full forces of mechanical
power are deployed But the fact that eight
days after they courageously threw Musso-
lini's insulting ultimatu tum back in his face the
Greeks can still claim not only that their main
lines are unbreached but that they have thrust
an offensive spearhead into enemy territory
to threaten his rear communication is suffi-
GENTLY astonishing. One may be forgiven for
remembering Thermopylae and the Persian
hordes; one may be forgiven for asking wheth-
er it is not more Greeks and more of the spirit
they displaying which the anti-Nazi cause
has needed.
Eight days after the opening Of the May 10
offensive Holland had sued for peace. Antwerp
had fallen and the armored divisions were
deep in northern France. Eight days after
the treacherous spring on Norway all the prin-
cipal Norwegian ports had been secured and
consolidated, the Germans had virtually
completed their conquest of the whole popu-
lous southern part of the country and were
hurrying troops to meet the first British ad-
vance detachments, just landing at Namsos.
Mussolini's attempted assassination of Greece
has shown nothing like this, either in plan or
execution.
1t is true that the Soviet rape of Finland
| reminds that an offensive slowly and blum.
deringly begun can end in the remorseless
destruction of the bravest victim; and there
| is little doubt that if the Italians have the
time and freedom to organize the attack the
Greeks mountains will be as useless to them
as the Mannerheim line was to the Finns But
the Italians do not enjoy the Russians free
dom OF action. They are already fairly heav-
lily involved in Egypt and East Africa. To
reach Greece they must operate across wat
er barrier with the British Navy always close
| at hand; unlike the Germans they have failed
to seize at the beginning the ports and air
fields through which reinforcements can come;
in making their move they have laid some of
their own principal industrial centers and en-
barkation points open to direct British air
attack, and this time the British, though their
forces may be small, were fully ready and
are unlikely to repeat the laundering expedi
ents of Namsos and Narvik.
The Greek resistance may yet make his
tory. For, taking their courage in their hands,
they stood up and fought. Every chance seems
against them, but they have stood UP and
fought; and so far they have fought magni-
flcently. They may be soon crushed. They
may, on the other hand. open the first dam
aging cracks in the walls of Nazi-Fascist sue
cess; while it is only courage of this sor,
which can provide the lever which will ulti.
mately breach and overthrow them. Perhaps
Axis defeat will not begin in Greece. But il
will begin in those hearts which resolve,
wherever they may be, to 60 down fighting if
need be rather than to submit.
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in these perilous times that refutes the charge
so often heard of late, that the United States
is threatened with dictatorship.
AS long as the people can go to the polls
without fear of interference and voice. their
reason to fear that this nation will consent to
a dictator, nor will any ambitious dictator be
able to seize sole authority.
That is the difference between the United
States and the lands which in the last decade
have fallen into the hands Of despots. There
elections have been universally dictated. The
people have lost the right to vote as they
wish. They may vote only as they are told
to vote. Here, heaven be praised, we still
vote as we wish, and no man says us nay.
The time has come for all prejudices and
animosities, bred by the campaign which STIR
red the land SO violently, to be laid aside;
for all persons of all political faiths to put
away their differences; for unity throughout
the nation in all factions and groups, that the
land we love and whose principles are our
dear possessions, may come through the
crucial tests before us with heads erect and
shoulders back. We have tremendous task to
do. We do it efficiently if we will. But it
can be done only if every man and woman
joins in the job with good will
We must remember that rearmament is not
a political affair, but national necessity. In
union there is still strength, and in strength
there is victory. The nation will be strong and
victorious in any emergency if we unite to
make it strong.
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period of time. They are not ready to give
an answer, but for the most part are willing to
believe that the Toomer Creek facilities would
not have been allowed to deteriorate so great
" If Wilmington had an executive whose sole
duty was to see that their business and all
their public investments were guarded in a
strictly business-like manner.
They are also asking themselves If 1t is not
time that they did something to create con-
solidation of the city and county governments
and employ councilmanager to look after
their business. 1t is to be hoped that this
thought which is taking root now will be
cultivated and given opportunity to bear fruit
in the form of legislation and popular ap-
proval.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
BURCH ADDRESSES
ENGINEERS CLUB
Planning Engineer Of High
way Commission Tells How
Roads Are Mapped

The task of mapping highways of
the state and nation was explained
in a talk by James S. Burch, en-
gineer of planning and statistics
of the state highway and public
works commission, before men,
bers of the Wilmington Engineers
club at a supper at Eirkham's S
oyster roast on the sound a
night.
"Mapmaking and Statistical
compilation" was the subject Of
Burch's talk, which was sponsored
by the Bureau of Public Roads of
Washington, DC.
He outline the work Of road
building through state and federal
cooperation and explained the pur-
poses of surveys of highv :ys.
The talk was accompanied by
scenes from North Carolina high
ways, including colored views of
the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Burch has been with the state
highway commission in the busi-
ness of mapmaking for about 20
years.
About IS members of the Engi-
neers club attended the meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
Expert Water Advice

Now that the business of electing president
is disposed of, the attention of Wilmingtonians
reverts to the water situation as naturally as
night follws day. And, quite opportunely, the
city commission lets it be known that con-
sulting engineer, William c. Olsen of Raleigh,
with long and varied experience in his profess
sion, has arrived to survey available sources
OF domestic water which will be free from
salt infiltration, to study former surveys, and
make recommendations upon which, it is ex-
pected, the city commission will base its de-
cision.
Previously it had been announced that the
commission has proceeded with preliminary
steps to secure WPA grant of money and
for calling an election at which voters will be
given opportunity to approve bond issue for
financing the city's share in the cost of a
new water system.
Thus far the city commission seems to have
done what it could, at this late date, to correct
a long known bad condition. That it had done
nothing sooner is regrettable But that it is
now at work upon remedy is commendable
Subsequent steps toward the creation of facili.
ties which will assure Wilmington perpetual
supply Of pure water will be watched with
deep interest by consumers who have been
at considerable inconvenience and umcount
able expense for more than a month by the
presence of salt water in the mains.
| While there is no disposition on the part o1
these distressed citizens to demand that the
commission do the impossible they do expect
that all that can be done for quick and last
ing relief will be done. They are sternly op
posed to any unnecessary delay in remedyins
the bad water situation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
"A True American

Communist Candidate Browder, who faces
prison term for passport forgery, along with
Vice President Garner, Cotton Ed Smith
and other malcontents "abstained' from vot
ing in Tuesdays elections-for reasons, we
will kindly presume, best known to themselves
Other Americans, less well known and more
appreciative of the high privilege of suffrage
visited the polls by millions.
Among these Americans was one who served
his party and then his country loyalty and
faithfully. We refer to James A. Farley, chair
man of the National Democratic Executive
Committee during President Roosevelt's first
two campaigns, who resigned the post of Post
master General after being shunted to one
side at the Chicago convention that nominated
Roosevelt for a third term.
Mr.. Farley did not retire to sulk, nor did he
and his unparalleled contacts with precinct
leaders throughout the nation in an attempt
to commit verbal sabotage upon the Demo
cratic aspirations. Continuing in the post OF
New York state chairman he made last
minute appeal to party workers over his IA.
nous green ink signature that indubitably
played vital part in winning New Yorks A
electoral votes for President Roosevelt.
If this nation is in peril today and we be-
ieve that it is, the loyalty Of men like Farley
will save it. The soldiers at Valley Forge
whose rag-clothed feet impressed their blood
stained prints on the snow were the first to
tread the trail that loyal Americans took again
Tuesday when they visited the polls to play
their important part in free election. Wheth-
er they voted for Willkie or for Roosevelt
matters little; in fact the world will not long
remember how this or that individual voted.
But in this war-torn world Of totalitarian
greed, it will be remembered what they did:
They played their part in the fight to save De-
mocracy.
Mr.. Farley might well have rested upon his
oars Tuesday at nightfall, content that he had
done his duty to his party and to his country
But he did not rest. He took, at the moment
victory brought its first flush Of triumphant
feeling, the opportunity to tell his fellow Dem
ocrats that they, along with President Roose'
velt, had been handed new, more profound
responsibility. He called for a national unity
transcending party lines and he pointed ou1
that upon the victors rests the primary re-
sponsibility.
Every Democrat who shared in Tuesdays
triumph will do well to study his words.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-07
A PROGRAM
Charlotte News

Charles A. Lindbergh, the ex-hero, is within
his rights in setting out to launch a nation.
wide student movement Ito oppose our in
tervention in the European war;" But it is
important that the students should understand
clearly what it is he really proposes.
Lindbergh takes the line of arguing that we
have nothing to fear, that we have no stake
in the outcome of the war, and that it is
mere hysteria and party politics to suggest
that we have
That is uncandd. Fact is that Charles A.
Lindbergh has highly-developed Fascist SYM
pathies. He imbbed them partly from his old
patron, DR.. Alexis Carrel, with whom he
lived for number Of years on an island OF
Brittany. But he also got part of them from
direct contact with the Nazis.
And the people who are working with Lind.
bergh in the America First Committee are
mainly tarred with the same brush. Among
them are the names of the chief intellectual
leaders of Fascsm in America.
What they believe is what Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, an echo of her husband in this
matter, explicitly said in her recent book
that democracy is outworn, represents the
forces of the past and that Nazsm is the
necessary new order, represents the
forces of the future What they propose is
precisely what Adolf continually asks for
that the United States shall accept Nazism
as the master of Europe, abandon England.
and enter into active collaboration with it bv
making the necessary readjustnents for a
new world order" That last is vague, but.
and though Lindbergh and his coworkers try
to avoid confessing it, 1t can only mean the
adoption of Fascism for ourselves.
IF YOU accept all that, if you don't mind
human slavery, then it is quite true, as Lind
bergh says, that we have nothing to fear. But
it is not true under any other view of the
case.