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Evening star., 1940-03-24
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Evening star., 1940-03-24
NOW HIS NAME
IS LANGUAGE

In MASSACHUSETTS about 13O years
ago, the Federalist and Democratic
Republican parties used to poll an
almost even number of votes. Once.
however, the Democratic-Republi-
cans happened to have a majority
in the state senate. The party leaders
took advantage of a constitutional
prerogative that had never before
been evoked. and passed bill redi-
viding the state into new senatorial
districts. Their scheme was to put
those sections that normally returned
preponderant number of Federalist
votes into single district. The Demo-
cratic-Republican governor Elbridge
Gerry reluctantly signed the bill.
When the boundaries of one of the
new districts, Essex County, were
drawn up. it looked like a salamander;
and newspaperman of the time COM
bined this word with the Governors
name to coin the term gerrynsd''de1.
The new word strongly appealed to the
popular imagination. and finally came
to mean any political maneuvering
that was designed to give a party an
unfair and unnatural advantage.
However the next year the wrathful
Federalists elected their own gover-
nor and had the law repealed, but the
word - and the practice - linger on.
-NORMAk LEWIS
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Continued from pogs eight

ture, II Was a Spy" won her the
English equivalent of an American
Academy Award. Then the stage
claimed her again.
Feted, invited everywhere. she
found herself one night at party in
the magnificent town house of Cap
tain Philip Ashley. of the famous
Life Guards. 1t was a ball for Russian
Evening star., 1940-03-24

an introduction. Id been warned about
pitfalls. Now this wicked man.
She stared straight to sea. answered
nothing. After three rebuffs, her
''suitor" said. my dear, if you are
interested in the theater, | must talk
with you have been interested in it
all my life"
I'm my lonely heart" Miss Carroll
remembers, Il suddenly didn't care.
l had to talk to somebody. told
him all"
Come and have tea with me
Thursday afternoon" the old man
s1id Il want you to read part"
When she slipped out Of the school
Thursday. she left scrawled note:
Il am going to 27 Claymore Street. to
meet a man named Reddy. If do not
return by six. please search"
Twenty-seven Claymore Street was
obscure and shabby. The bright
haired girl plodded up three dark
flights Of stairs. The old man waited
at door. smiling. Sinister! An angelic
old lady, Mrs. Reddy, served tea,
and Madeleine was cast in the lead
of an amateur play.
The play was actually produced
(for one performance only and she
managed to appear in it without the
schools discovering her perfdy.
After the final curtain an old lady
in wheel chair spoke to her. Il was
once famous, DEAR" she said. "You
have talent. am going to write to a
great producer about YOU" Madeleine
thanked her and forgot the matter.
The next day she started home for
the Christmas holidays. taking with
her every penny of her three months
teaching salary - less than $l0O.
The last night of December Made
leine was getting ready to 60 to a
New Years Eve party at the home of
an old school friend. Mr.. Carroll
wanted it understood that she was
not to be escorted home by any
young man, but by the elderly father
of the host. Furthermore" Mr..
Carroll said, II am writing him
note that l am permitting you to 60
on condition that you will be back
in this house by ten o'clock"
Father! On New Years Eve"
That is my decision"
Madeleine paled. Il am not child.
l am eighteen and earning my living.
If you write such a note l shall leave
this house and never return"
John Carroll was equally melodra-
matte: "If you do l shall forbid your
name ever to be mentioned here"
He wrote the note. Madeleine went
to the party - and caught the mid
night train to Birmingham.
She wrote her mother. The third
day Mrs. Carroll slipped over to
Birmingham. "A letter, darling -
from London" The old lady in the
wheel chair, at Brighton, had really
written her producer friend. Her rec
ommendation had never reached the
great man himself, but third assis-
tant who organized ION tour" plays
had become interested in the girl.
Madeleine went up to London and
became leading lady of a road COM
pany at two pounds ten week.
Shortly afterwards motion-pic-
ture search for the perfect British
girl. comparable to our Scarlett
O'Hara scramble. won her the lead in
1.-THE Guns of Loos." A second pic
Evening star., 1940-03-24

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Evening star., 1940-03-24

IT DON'T KNOW boqu l could
i ever bave been such fool,
Betsy such a careless, sntl'inking
idiot 49,"
"Don't say that, darling. 1t zuas
partly my fault, too. l should bave
told you . said something. Bit its
such an embarrassing subject to talk
abom-a persons breath! I didn't
knozu bozp to tell y0u."
"hU never happen again, dearesf.
Pee learned my lesson-plenty.
Thank beaven Bill sa4u the qvay
things quere going qvitb us. And did
be giue me the deeil about it, too!
-. Told me point blank zvlat the
trouble 4vas, and asked me boqu l
expected any girl to stay in love
zatb man 4ub0 constantly offended
that 4vay.'"
Many offend Without Realizing 1t
What else can ruin romance SO
quickly as halitosis' dad breath)?
And the worst of it is that if you
yourself have this insidious condi-
ton you may not even know it,.
or even realize that you are Of
Tending.
In some cases halitosis is due to
systemic conditions which call for
treatment by your doctor. But usu-
ally and fortunately. bad breath
is due, say some authorities, to the
fermentation of tiny food particles
on tooth, gum, and mouth surfaces.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
DICTATOR DOWNED

1t is perhaps too soon to conclude that
Governor LONG has been deposed in Louis
lana, but with his opponent $1,000 ahead
when this was written, the New Orleans vote
counted, and SAM HOUSTON JONES gaining, as
scattered precincts turn in their reports, it
is fairly certain that the forces of sound gov.
eminent will emerge with a victory for their
splendid effort.
Thus Americans again demonstrate that
they will not long abide dictatorship. EARL
LONG, who appears to be headed for defeat,
is the political heir of his brother, HUEY,
the Kingfish, governor, senator and would-be
dictator. Starting as necktie peddler, pos.
sessed of crude eloquence and undisputed
magnetism, HUEY built up a despotism in his
state. He did not have concentration camps,
nor did he send the ashes of his enemies
home for the family to weep over. But he
ruled with as despotic power as HITLER held
in the earlier days of his German chancel-
lorship.
When an assassin's bullet removed him, his
political machine continued and, as HITLER
is doing now, enriched itself at the cost of
the people. WIN tnleVeTy ana COnHlVduCe, the
LONG henchmen, entrenched behind the de-
lenses HUEY built up, proceeded to pile uI
fortunes for themselves the extent of which
is still unknown, after careful investigation
by grand juries and federal examiners.
This machine began to crumble when the
gates Of states prison swung back to receive
members Of the gang. Convictions brought
an end to the LONG racket. Strangely enough
they were secured without THOMAS E
DEwEY's aid. The chief racket-buster had
nothing to do with it. Then came Tuesdays
election in which it appears safe to think the
LONG dictatorship went down to defeat, its
Wanted supremacy Notwithstanding.
There are several reasons for this. In the
first place EARL LONG is not HUEY. He tried
to be, in gesture and bluff and hard words.
But HUEY was a leader and EARL a poor ape
A more potent factor in the probable out
come of the election, however, is the fact
that the people of Louisiana wearied of the
load the LONG dictatorship imposed upon
them and came to the Inevitable conclusion,
where true Americans are involved, that de-
mocracy is the only form of government
they will live under. Fortunately, it was
proved with votes, not bullets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
ROTARY AT T~HIRTY-FIVE

| WHEN the century was young and America
W felt the urge for service not previously
cultivated, a group of Chicago businessmen
met to draft some kind of program by which
they hoped to benefit themselves and help
others.
Out of that meeting came Rotary. Thirty
five years ago a mere handful of men started
it. Today it is international in scope, has
21O, 900 members in 5000 clubs in so coun'
tries.
Rotary, originally, was the product OF a
it was b~asically sound. In the vernacular OF
the street, Rotary had something.
Fellowship, friendship, tolerance, good will,
international Observation-Disclosures are the
pillars on which it rests. There are none
better.
This week Rotary is celebrating it's 35th
anniversary. At Tuesdays luncheon meeting
ton and reconsecrated it's effort to greater
achievement. In a broadcast, Rotarians were
reminded of their objectives, with the COM
ment that what Rotary seeks and has done,
nations may also do, even in this tremendous
emergency of war.
1t is pertinent to suggest in this connection
that had there been friendship and tolerance
abroad the war emergency would not have
arisen. But that is water over the dam. What
matters now is that the example of Rotary
must ultimately affect international relations,
however long delayed.
Rotary is sowing seed which cannot all fall
on stony ground. Sooner or later it is bound
to sprout, and blossom, and the world will
be the better for that meeting of Chicago
businessmen 35 years ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
Ry PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. Git is evident from
the freshly published debates in the senate for.
eign relations committee that the administra-
ton grabbed at the rising popularity of the
Finnish loan to help open the door for a new
loan to China.
AS the bill came out of the finance commit.
tee, it limited Export-Import bank loans to any
one country to $500 900, 900. China has already
borrowed s25, 600, 900, so credit would have been
almost wiped out. Then came the final day of
secret hearings before the senate foreign rela.
tons committee.
Off the Record
Evidently the first part of that day was off
the record, for the published report begins
with a string of asterisks. Then Senator Harri-
son of Mississippi spoke out in language that
indicates aid for China had been discussed.
Il had understood" he said, that the state
department had objected to the $500 900, 900 pro.
vision, because it restricts them presumably
China) from getting a little more. :"
Jesse Jones, federal loan administrator, evi.
IDENTIFY had a part in the state department
show, for as he went to attend the final ses-
sion Of hearings, he pencilled an amendment
that deity permitted China to get an addition
al $25, 900, 900. He did it by simply inserting
that loans hereafter made would be limited
to % million. The committee trimmed it to
$40, 900, 000-and shot it out to the senate
that way.
Can Trade Food For Guns
Also the hearings disclose that the cagey
Jesse Jones is not going to stand in the way
if Finland buys %non-military goods here with
the money-the only kind permitted with the
loans-and trades them to England for fight.
ing goods, such as planes and shells.
1t would be a neat way for Finland to get
around restrictions on use of the loans. The
net result would be that American money
would be used to buy British planes and guns
for Finland.
Senator Clark of Missouri, evidently quite
pleased with the idea, asked:
There is nothing in the provisions of the
loan or in the act which would prevent such a
thing as that, is there?'
Nothing" said Jones. I'VE could not pre-.
vent that"
eff that were discovered" asked Senator
Wagner Of New York, somewha appalled, at
such international shenanigans, would not
that justify you in cutting off their credit"
ct might" said Jones.
None For Denmark
Already Jones has extended credit of So
OOO,C0 to Finland and a like amount to Sweden
and Norway, both Of whom are literally aid.
ing Finland. But Denmark, also a Scandinavian
country that in a mild way is helping Fin
land, is too closely pinned to Germany's apron
strings to get any Yankee money.
Denmark has been wanting to borrow"
Jones told the committee, but added, "they have
not been encouraged to believe that they could
have any credit"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
HEART OPERATIONS

Another operation on the human heart is
reported from Chicago. In an hour and a
half, surgeons removed a five-inch nail file
and tweezers from the pump of a robbery
suspect, who is given a fifty-fifty chance to
recover.
Similar operations are comparatively fire.
quent, and with familiarity breed Indifference
on the part Of the reading public. But the
first one still is mentioned with awe and al
most generation in medical circles. It was
performed by DR.. L. L.. HILL Of Montgomery,
Alabama, father of Senator LISTER HILL, who,
incidentally, acquired his first name because
OF his fathers friendship with LISTER, the
great English surgeon and pioneer in anti
septic Surgery.
Doctor HILL sewed up a heart which had
been pierced by a dagger, penetrating the car
diac cavity for the first time in medical his
tory successfully and welding his needle on
palpitating muscle in a negro shack lighted
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
SPRING AT THE DOOR

Spring is at the door. A bold statement, for
sooth, but justified by Information that Orion
Plantation is to start daffodil shipments this
week.
Camillias are not so far advanced. Janu-
ary's cold weather held them back. But with
northern regions still sluggish under winters
blankets, the delay will not be costly, or
even noticeable. They'll get to market before
the delay becomes burdensome.
AS for ~azaleas, they had not begun to bud
when winter came, and so have escaped its
blight. In March they'll be blooming their
heads off, to the delight of appreciative eyes.
With tulips already bursting their shells
and hyacinths not far behind, we repeat
spring is at the door, knocking for admission
Wilmington and it's great back country will
be a garden spot in another month not to
be rivaled in a weeks journey. And it's beau.
ty will not be restricted to flowers. Fields are
already showing the grateful sheen of youne
lettuce and onions-acres of them-spreadina
their lacy patterns in massed loneliness.
Truly, it is a time for rejoicing, and fol-
hoping that winter does not stage a come
back.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
RURAL LIBRARY SERVICE

When Brunswick county's board of educa
ton decided to establish rural library serv
ice it took a step of great potential value to
the people of the hinterland.
The start is only Unconstitutional, through
sponsorship of the WPA, but the people who
will reap the benefits of the service may be
expected to encourage the school board in Its
perpetuation.
Some 1850 volumes are in the loan library
which will be taken daily to convenient
places where school children and adults may
make their selections for the weeks reading
During the eight weeks of the demonstration
residents will have ample opportunity tt
learn the comfort of having a book at the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22

only by a burning chunk of pitch pine. And
the patient recovered.
The second case, probably, was one in the
Los Angeles county hospital, IN which DIR.
BART WRIGHT followed Doctor HILLS routine
for q similar wound. But this patient died
after five days.
The HILL operation was remarkable, not
only because it was the first OF It's Kind, but
because it was performed under the most diff
ficult and unhygienic conditions.
It shows what daring and skill can accom-
plish when challenged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
British Began Censorship
OF y. S. Mail On Jan. Is

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-P-The
British began censorship of United
states air mails at Bermuda on
January IS by selling $500 pounds
OF letters from a Pan-American
Always Clipper at bayonet point,
it was learned from a reliable
source tonight.
Capt. Charles A. Lorber of Balti.
more, in command of the flying
boat plying between the United
States and Lisbon via Bermuda
not only ordered British censorship
officials off his craft but also re-.
fused to surrender the mail unit,
the British made a show of armed
force.
The incident is only part Of the
story of censorship in the British
colony, which has been cloaked in
official silence for more than a
month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
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 WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
3Jfoot Cane Fear River channel, uid-
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south of Wilmington.
Paved Riuer Road to Southport, via
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motioma1 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 vhites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development Of native grape gro1ging
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
Davidson Board Fails
To Name Successor 10
President W. L. Lng['

DAVIDSON, Feb. 21-CP-Da'h
son college trustees adjourned tH'.
midwinter meeting today Wll.0o.
naming a successor to PfeS'u'A'
Walter L. Lingle. ..,
A special session of the 0Oa -,
may be called before the lesu ~,
meeting in June, when DR.. LlnS''
resignation becomes effective
S. A. Robinson of Gastohla'
rotary Of the trustees, eSpla ..,
that a committee appointed IT..
summer to nominate another pJ
ident had not reached a flnai nv y,
sion. The committee is heaoeu !"
J. A. Cannon of Concord ,-.
Earlier the trustees passed d in,
posal, sponsored by the s'ai| mr
committee on physical edu'a
which placed D~avidson's a.i,'d
association under the direcIioH
the college administration
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
TAFT WILL SPEAK
AT UNC TONIGHT
Republican Candidate To Dis
cuss industrial Future
'Of The South

CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 21- Up -
Senator Robert A. Taft, a candidate
for the presidential nomination on
the republican ticket, will speak on
THE Industrial Future Of the
South at a public appearance n
Memorial Hall at the University Of
North Carolina tomorrow night al.
$3.50 o'clock.
Senator Taft, whose address here
is being sponsored by the Carolina
Political Union, non-partisan student
organization, will be guest of honor
at a dinner given by the young re.
publicans club a. the Carolina Inn
at $50. Following his address he
will be entertained at a reception BY
the CPU in Graham Memorial.
CPU Chairman Harry Cation an
nounced today the addition Of two
more speakers to the spring pro-
gram. Governor Lloyd c. Stark, OIL
Missouri, who gained national
prominence when he broke the
Boss Pendergast ring, and FRANK
Gannett, New York state neWspapsF
publisher, who has announced IT'S
candidacy for the republican pr!es'
Dental nomination, have accepted
invitations to speak here the ate!
part Of April or early May.
Federal Security Administered
Paul V. McNutt is scheduled to az
pear here April 2 and Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler of Montana VIII
speak on April 90.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
TOP O. THE MORNING

IT life seems futile and meaningless, has 1t
occurred to you that something may be
Wrong NTH you rather than Nth life? TO
him Who is blind there is no bedutu in q
sunset, and to the deaf music can haUe no
appeal. II "getting and spending We lay
Wdste our pouers,' life can haze no eternal
value for us. Our life can take on increasing
meaning only as We throW 1T array in un.
selfish service to God and man.
REV. EUGENE CARSON BLAKE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22

lshed. Courts must be placed above
reproach. Our schools must he re.
vitalized. =.
"Even-handed justice will he met.
ed out in Louisiana while I am
governor. The guilty will be Dur.
ished, and the innocent protected.
There will be. prosecution wherever
the evidence justifies, but there
Will not be any persecution under
me-
Jones said he had but an inkling
OF the financial problems to be fac.
ed, because many state records are
secret under law.
The rout of the machine was
complete. Longs slate of second
airy officers went down with him
oy even greater majorities. Admin.
lstratlon membership in the old
Long potato legislature" so.called
because Huey once boosted he
bought legislators like sacks of
potatoes" was cut from almost 100
per cent to well under so per cent.
Jones said he would go west on
vacation, probably to visit relatives
IN Tucson, Ariz., and in California,
before plunging into his work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
Barton Fauors Huls
Reciprocal Trade SetpP

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-+ =,
Rep. Barton (R-NY) joined .,i ~.
house democratic majority Wi
in the fight to continue 1hs M.
reciprocal trade system for @"'"
In a speech prepared for deliver 81.
to the Federation of louN5 Nh
publican Groups Of Greater a,A.
York, Barton pictured the tinr
cutting pacts as a means OF s'| n.
lating two-way trade between
United States and other na'Iol.. +,
1--WE need to export in of'S, M.
keep our economic machine. h
ming at maximum efficleA'S oot
said. "Tt is a matter OF c9,n.sfJ
sense that we should take ..Iss
goods-rather than. to us. aort.
exchange for our mE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-22
REHABILITATION OF
LOUISIANA PLANNED
BY SAM M. JONES
Continued from Page One)

o6S o1lS/
ton leaders to Baton Rouge for a
conference.
He refused to concede defeat, al.
though unofficial returns tonight
showed 1851 of LOB precincts gave
Jones 27S,593 votes, Long 257,s29
Mayor Robert S. Maestri, of New
Orleans, the machine leader, how.
ever, extended Jones his congratu.
lations, despite the fact Jones pledg.
ed on the stump to prosecute
Maestri, for the recovery of more
than a million dollars the portly
mayor mad in an oil deal the fed.
eral government has questioned.
people Have Spoken"
"sam Jones has been nominated
governor and I congratulate him."
Maestri said in a statement. ..The
people have spoken and all good
citizens should abide by the result"
Jones today put forward a com.
plete "house-cleaning" program de.
signed TO sweep out many mich.
criticised practices developed dur.
ing the u years in which Huev or
his political heirs ruled the state
The federal government alleges
many topflight politicians pilla eed
the state in recent years. Nunoar.
GUS prosecutions are under wav
"The necessary legislative safe.
guards must be enacted to prevent
forever the recurrence of tbe 10.
bauchery, the shame and the cor.
|ruption of these past few wears -
louisiana" Jones said.
'Dictatorial laws must ha .,o,