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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-02

formed student of the nations mill
tary machine. A few years ago Col
Inns drew up average-age tables for
the army. The figures he got then
are roughly accurate for tocay's
army as well. They show:
Average age of major generals, SO
years; brigadier generals, 60; coli
onels, So; lieutenant colonies, 81;
majors, A; captains, AZ; first lieu
tenants, "a, and second leutenants,
26.
These age averages are high, not
because the army likes its officers
old, but because it is enmeshed in
promotion system which makes
high ages in the upper ranks in
evitable.
The army promotes by seniority,
up to and including the rank of
colonel After three years, second
lieutenant becomes a first lieuten-
ant; seven years later becomes a
captain. There he may stagnate for
dozen years; finally he becomes a
colonel and only then does his ad-
vancement depend on his own quail
if1cations.
It is only fair to add that the
army is seeking to shorten the Pc
RODS each officer must spend in the
ranks between captain and colonel
But the seniority system remains
untouched.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
RIM. Alumnae Give
Tea for Wives of
Diplomatic Group

The Washington Alumnae OF
Randolph Macon Woman's College
were hostesses yesterday at tea to
wives of the chiefs of the Latin
American Embassies and Legations.
The tea, which was given by the
alumnae in accordance with their
program to further cultural rela-
lions with Latin American women,
was held at the Admiral Club.
Among those present were Sonora
de Boyd of Panama, Sonora de
Guachalla of Bolivia, Sonora de
Recinos of Guatemala, Sonora de
Baron of Cuba, Sonora de De Bayle
of Nicaragua, Sonora de Caceres of
Honduras and Sonora de Vega of
the Dominican Republic.
Mrs. Norment Doniphan Haw-
kins, the president, received, as
sisted by Mrs. Warren Sager. Miss
Rebecca st. Clair, Mrs. Edward
Sheffey, Miss jeanne Mccoy, Miss
Margaret F1ory, Mrs N. w. Blankin-
ship, Mrs. A. S. Gardiner. jr: Miss
Lucille Stevens and Mrs. Casey
Jones.
Tea was served at an attractively
appointed table with floral arrange
ment of yellow chrysanthemums
and silver candelabra with yellow
tapers. Assisting at the tea table
were Miss Susan Richmond, Mrs.
). M. Howorth, Mrs. Ezra Brainerd,
Mrs. Daniel c. Roper, Mrs. Eliza
beth Magruder, Mrs. Roy Head
and Mrs. j. P. Shearer.
A program of music was featured
by Miss Ruth Shepsle and Miss
Jurine Wann.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
Appeals Court UphoIds
Head of Family RuIinq

To be considered the head Of a
family" for Federal tax exemption
purposes, a person must support and
maintain in one household one or
more closely-related individuals, the
United States Court of Appeals de-
cided today.
In affirming finding of the Board
of Tax Appeals, the court ruled that
Percy Wade, residing with distant
relative by marriage. was not the
head of family. Internal Revenue
Commissioner Guy T. Helvering had
so held.
Mr.. Wade claimed the $500
exemption allowed the head of
family, in filing an income tax re-
turn, but the commissioner allowed
the petitioner only $400 for one
dependent. The board Endorsed the
ruling, which held the relationship
was too distant for exemption pur-
poses.
The Government was represented
in the case by Assistant Attorney
General Samuel o. Clark, jr., and
Attorneys Sewall Key, j. P. Wenchel,
Robert L. Williams and Louise
Foster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
Bridge arty Set
By Housekeepers

The Housekeepers' Alliance will
have a busy program during the
next two weeks with benefit bridge
party for the Welfare Departments
Christmas fund as one of its prin-
cipal activities.
The bridge party will be held
Friday from 2 to 5 in the after
noon, and in the evening from to
IL o'clock. at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. L. C. Ashcraft, 1904 @ street
NV. Prizes will be awarded at each
table. Mrs. Ashcraft, chairman of
the War Veterans Committee, is in
charge of reservations.
Tomorrow and Tuesday, the al
lance will assist the bazaar at the
Americanization School. It also will
help the American Legion Auxiliary
at the gift shop at Mount Alto Hos
pital December 16 and at Walter
Reed Hospital later in the month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02

nipeg and the Djenne, arrived yes
terday at Toulon with 1,7o0 French
sailors and naval officers repatriated
from Britain.
The 8,379-ton Winnipeg, which
traded between Europe and South
America before the war, left New
Orleans last october 81 for Liver
pool. The French liner Oregon left
there also for Liverpool on Octo-
her Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02

and prominent in mining circles,
Mr.. Barclay was serving his eighth
term as head of the Stock Exchange
and his 18th two-year term as a
member of Its Board of Governors.
A native of Scotland, Mr.. Bar
clay came to the United States in
1893 and before entering the securi-
ties business in Salt Lake City, was
associated with a newspaper at Pu-
ehlO Colo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
U. S. VIII Measure Up
To Tasks, Baxter Says

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, Dec. 1.-THE United
States will measure up to the re-
sponsibilities expected of her." DR..
James P. Baxter, president of Will
liams College, Williamstown, Mass,
told the final meeting of confer
ence on Canadian-American rela-
tions here Saturday. The long con-
ference was held under the auspices
of the Montreal branch of the Ca
madam Institute of International
Relations.
1--WE are going through a great
travail of spirit, as you did" DR..
Baxter said. But those who know
us we'll know that we still come up
to scratch, and one of the reasons
Is the magnificent example set by
Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02

at his home yesterday. He had been
Ill two weeks.
DR.. Copeland retired from the
active ministry in 1919 after found
ing four Methodist churches in Buff
falo and serving % pastorates.
Two hymns by DR.. Copeland were
included in the new Methodist
Church Hymnal. In 1885 he wrote
an additional stanza to America"
stressing the ideal of world peace,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
Mothers Luncheon

The Mothers Club of the I'M
maculate Conception Academy
Eigth and @ streets NV, will hold
a luncheon tomorrow from II am.
to pm, in the school lunch room.
The affair will be given for the
benefit of the school and tickets
may be obtained from Sister Adele
at the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
AIonzo KeudIe Killed

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 2 (P).
-Alonzo Keadle, AZ. of Holidays
Cove, w. Va, head of the Weirton
Steel Co.'S public relations depart
ment, was killed yesterday in COL
lision of his automobile with a
freight train on a crossing in Steu-
benville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
Head of Salt Lake
Stock Exchange Dies
By the Associated Press.

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. John
A. Barclay. 70, president of the Salt
Lake Stock Exchange, died yester-
day.
President also of j. A. Barclay g.
Co., Salt Lake City brokerage firm,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
Benjamin Copeland Dies;
Minister and Poet
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 1.-THE
Rev. Benjamin Copeland, So, prom
inent Methodist minister and poet
and a direct descendant of John
Alden and Priscilla Mullins, died
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02

and the following year he published
a revised version of the Lords
Prayer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
LOO More Frenchmen
Return From Britain

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Dec. 1.-Two
French passenger vessels, the Win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-02
Coal
This is
Your
Event
9.7)

X coots with SILVER FOX
X coats with GENUINE MINK
X coots with PERSIAN LAMB
X ooots with FINE BEAVER
You never dreamed Of finding
such coats under SlOO! Heoped
high with precious furs, styled
of Americas finest wooIens,
Manufactured down to the lost
hem, and With the Raleigh label.
Choose great collar Of Silver,
collar and cuffs Of Beaver, collar
and pockets Of Mink, ebony
collars Of silky Persian Lamb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
SCIENCE M LABOR

FIFTEEN Southern plants, representing al
1 investment of $780, 900, 900, produce 7:
ner cent of the nations rayon output. The
figures are from the Manufacturers RECORD
Now comes nylon, another cloth substitute
which promises even greater things than ray
on, with the South in line for its manufac
ture.
Paralleling the development of substitutes
for natural products is the decrease in op
nortunitv for labor. Fewer and fewer tasks
for hands and Drawn is the order Of the
times in which we live. Beginning even be
fore the harvester performed the work OF q
dozen men, the machine age had begun tc
make the finding of jobs more difficult. Fac
tories previously employing many laborers
installed 1abor-saving devices, with consequent
staff reductions. America acquired, without
quite realizing what was going on, an army
of floating labor-men travelling hither and
yon in pursuit of day work where they could
find it, and never able to hold one job long
not because they were incompetent but be-
cause some machine could do their work bet
ter and at lower cost.
Among the last frontiers of labor is the
cotton field, still offering seasonal employment
to many thousand pickers; but with the de-
velopment of a cotton-picking machine even
this frontier is threatened. A step even IN
advance of the cotton-picker, as far as elm
mating hand labor is concerned, is a machine
soon to be available, which will suck up the
entire cotton plant and turn it into c%ellulose,
another triumph of science, without the touch
of human hand. It's Introduction will cut
more workers off payrolls.
And the class of labor it will deprive Of
earnings is not fitted to turn quickly to 9TH
er pursuits. The Southern negro generally
adaptability, cannot hope to find en-
ployment in other, more exacting employ
ment.
This increase in idleness is a price for
scientific advancement we must do something
about, or our labor-saving and money-saving
discoveries will be more costly than we can
afford. While scientists are making great
the economists have a job cut out
for them, in the performance Of which our
national security is a vital stake.
Until the unemployment problem is solved
our scientific progress will not have achieved
it's rightful goal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
HAS JUSTIFIED S
Raleigh News and Observer

The senate has agreed to give consideration
next week to the annual agricultural appropri-
alton bill. Many efforts will be made to in
crease the appropriations contained in the bill
as passed by the house. There is always a dis
position under such circumstances for amend
ments to be considered as a whole and for
votes to be cast for or against them with scant
consideration of the merits or dement's of any
particular amendment. If that sort of situa-
ton develops in respect to the pending bill
and as a result thereof an amendment to pro-
vide funds for the Surplus Commodity Credit
corporation is defeated, the result may be
tragic to tobacco growers, who already face a
difficult situation due to conditions over which
they have no control.
Each amendment to the appropriation bill
should be considered on it's own merits. This
is particularly true of that one amendment.
The appropriation item was included in the
budget and was defeated in the house not
upon it's merits but upon a technicality, which
made it's consideration subject to a point of Or
der. For it to be defeated again in the senate,
not because of it's merits but because of an
u~ndiscriminating desire for economy, would
mean that the proposal had twice been re-
jected without any consideration OF It's merit.
If merits are taken into account, the case
for the appropriation is clear enough. The
corporation has fully justified its existence in
the services it has rendered to farmers in
every section of the country. It has also justi-
fled it's existence in making commodities avail
able to people unable to purchase them. AS
far as North Carolina is concerned, the most
important service was in taking off the market
temporarily the tobacco which would normally
have gone to the British trade in 1889, but
which British buyers were unwilling to pur-
chase because Of war conditions. The money
so expended will in all prooaplllty not be a
loss hit T. has impaired the capital of the
corporation and that capital must be replen-
ished if similar purchases are to be made
during the 1910 marketing season.
But tobacco is only one OF a large list of
farm commodities producers OF which have
how .ided materially by the corporation. Some
Of those other producers, notably those who
crow notatoes. also reside in North Carolina.
whether from the standpoint of growers or
underprivileged consumers, the CORPORATION has
fully justified its existence ana failure to pro-
] constitute false econou"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
PROPOSES

Republican candidates for the presidency
forms, pointing out errors in administrative
policies, and telling the world what they'll
do to create Utopia when they are elected.
Among the more voluble is FRANK GANNErr
enemy of the ROOSEVELT regime throughout
it's troubled existence, and who seeks nomi
nation to the highest office in the gift of the
voters despite the fact that THOMAS DEWEY
is also a New Yorker and had his hat in thu
ring first.
Mr.. GANNETT proposes several reforms, not
able among which are:
Solve the unemployment problem and
give every willing worker a job at a
fair wage.
Restore to the farmer his normal in
come so that he can buy products of in
dustry.
Provide for those on relief a higher
standard Of living without additional cost
to the government.
AS soon as possible, without restricting
recovery by higher taxes or by arbitrary
curtailment of relief, balance the budget.
How it Is going to do all this is left tt
the imagination of the people who hear him
To our unenlightened mind it appears tina
he proposes a millennium; and we are no
ready for that yet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
A NOTABLE

Property owners along the waterfront at
Myrtle Beach have signed up for a twelve
foot concrete walk on the shore between the
pavilion and Ocean Plaza. There will be rail.
ings and adequate lights, and altogether the
project promises a substantial addition to the
South Carolina beach's attractiveness for Wis
itors. Obviously, Myrtle Beach believes it has
passed beyond the boardwalk" stage and pro
poses to set UP on a scale more nearly re
sembling Atlantic City than it dared attempt
before.
What this means, of course, is that Myrtle
Beach has set it's cap for the vacationist in
a big way. Something Of the sort would give
Wilmington's beaches an impetus, too. We
contemplate a beach drive between Wrlghts
vile and ~Carolina-much longer than Myrtle
Beach's project-and this would seem the
proper time to get busy with it.
1t must be remembered that Myrtle Beach
is not far away, and if it outstrips US in pub
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
Claims Early Action
On Wagner Labor Act Possibk

WASHINGTON, March 1O.-R-
Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich) declared to
day the house could revise the dis
puted Wagner labor act within a
week if a majority would sign a
petition to force amending legisla-
ton out of commit and into
position for house debate and vote,
'So-called labor leaders, who
"bluffed congress by threats of DO.
htical reprisals" are to blame for
delay thus far. Hoffman asserted
in a statement.
One of the most persistent critics
OF the labor relations board, which
administers the Wagner act, Hoff.
man endorsed the 17.point program
recommended by a special house
committee for amending the act al.
though he said it failed to deal with
several "vital points,"
Urging advocates of amendments
TO the act to sign a petition which
ne filed last month to bring to the
mouse floor his bill to change the
labor law, Hoffman said the pro.
posals Of the special committee
could be substituted on the floor.
I am not particular what we
ride In Hoffman said, "as long as
we reach our destination-the firing
OF the present labor board and the
amendment of the act.
VIII congress listen to the voice
OF the people Of does it intend.
during the coming weeks, to per.
nnt Jonn L. Lewis and the CLIO to
preven an amendment of this act?"
Hoffman said earlier that a Of
Inc required 21S members had
signed his petition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
Star-News Program

Consolidated City.County Government.
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsOiAe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5.toot Cape Fear River channel. wid-
er Turning Basin, Uih ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Dtd
orion Plantation.
Developm emit OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency. supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development of native grape 0ro1ctng
throuqhout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis sanatoriam.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
Princeton Freshman
Injured In Effort
To Get Bell Clappsf

PRINCETON, N. j., March H."
"A Princeton freshman, who lna''
a traditional attempt to OBTAIN 'N
clapper in the bell atop Nassau hdH'
received serious back injuries la'
night when he fell 50 feet from ''
UNCOVERED walls of the historic 'u
ministration building. =,
John C. seed, IS, of Oak Farm lI
fell to a board walk at the lo0, ~.
the building when he slipped %i..,
attempting to reach the beliry' '.,
ior Proctor Francis X. Hogally on,
DR.. Wilbur H. York SAID GEE" II
fractures of the first ana se''
lumbar vertebrate. H.
The clapper-pilfering tradltlon -,
gan in the eighteenth century " .r,s
students were "bothered by lns ''
morning ringing of the bell
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
What 1t Means:
Welles' Trip To Europe

clash on the other side of the vste,
this spring will be:
a. Whether there may be a
world holocaust, and a public DE-.
mand for a third term.
Or (2.) whether the war will wal,
low along in its economic trough
and Americans will turn entirely to
domestic affairs.
Or maybe Mr.. Welles won't 10
able to figure out the answers.
Either way, Messrs. Roosevelt
and Hull will be able to tell them
selves that they have done every
thing they can to help guide the
course of the American ship Of
state in critical times - and Incl.
dentally, to steer the course Of the
democratic party.
For Mr. Welles' trip is building
up for the President the politica.
answer to a political cry-"he IS
leading us toward war" In naming
Myron Taylor as personal ambaSSa'
dor to the Vatican, and in sending
Mr.. Welles to Europe, Mr.. RoOse.
welt is incidentally making it pos
sible for his supporters to chirp IN
reply: mo; he tried to lead tho
world toward peace"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
ATTITUDE EXPLAINED

In an effort to prepare the British mind
for a favorable attitude toward American
business and industry in advance of the visit
Of Undersecretary of State SUMNER WELLEs,
who is in London this week, Ambassador
JOSEPH KENNEDY told a press conference that
the United States is not setting itself up as
a SHYLocK, reaping vast war profits, while
Great Britain does the fighting. While a few
chosen industries are supplying the British
war machine the great majority Of industries
are suffering actual losses because Of the
war through interrupted trade, and that the
British censorship Of American mails, with
the delays this seizure and search involves,
increases these losses. There can be no syn
thetic prosperity" because Of the war, he
said, and the idea which has got abroad that
the United States would make a good thing
out Of the conflict is "cockeyed.'
There can be no doubt that the great ma
jority Of English people resent American
aloofness-or neutrality, if that seems better
holding that We should have thrown in our
lot with the Allies upon the declaration of
war, and that our chief reason for staying out
is the possibility Of piling up great fortunes
on the sidelines. Perhaps we should feel the
same way toward the British If we were in
their place. But the fact is that war profits
are restricted to a very few industries, as
Mr.. KENNEDY pointed out, and that the bulk
of the American people, who are supposed to
be fattening on the spoils of war, are having
as hard a time to make a livelihood now as
before war came. The people over here can,
not understand the war, and their sole con.
clusion is that the less the United States gets
involved in it the better it will be.
There is no point in British Indignation"
the ambassador explained. THAT wouldn't
accomplish anything" The sentiments of the
American masses preponderantly favor the
British. But there is no reason to base a be.
lief on this that they would encourage the
government to enter the war, or change the
present national policy, unless, perhaps, to
demand more respect for American ommerc
1t is difficult to foresee what effect Mr.
KENNEDYs plain statement will have upon
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11

| American government in genera
! don't have any of the answers or
the war. Their information from
abroad must be conflicting, sparse,
and obviously erroneous in many
respects.
1t also means that the Roosevelt
administration does not want to &c
into a critical campaign year and a
critical period in history without
doing its utmost to try to make
some sense out of the European
struggle from the American point
Of view.
Mr.. Welles is without question
the sharpest diplomatic tack in the
state department. In the past he
has often been able to find out the
answers to tough questions, more by
what other people didn't say, or do,
than by what they did say, or
did do.
It is possible he may be able to
get more out of what Hitler. Cham
berlain, Daladier, and their satel.
lites don't tell him, than by what
they do.
Political Angle
Maybe MI. Roosevelt will find out
from Mr.. Wel1es how seriors the