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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
EXPRESSES THANKS

Dear Sir:
The Ministering Circle wishes to
extend to you and your paper its
very sincere thanks for your con
+inued courtesy towards this Or
~ganization in its use of space in
your papers.
The kind consideration Of our
friends and patrons are invaluable
to us in u efforts to provide the
necessary funds to meet the sal
aries of our two district nurses;
the ma~intainence of our Memorial
Room at the James Walker Me-
mortal hospital; and other charit-
able detectives. For your continued
support and encouragement, we
send our thanks and appreciation.
Sincerely yours,
MRS. WALTER SPRUNT
Corresponding Secretary.
April %, 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
QUOTATIONS

I am hopeful of peace soon because Germany
is not going to ask anything of England or
France except free access to raw materials on
a competitive basis, and free trade and ey.
change along the lines of the Hull plan.-Dr,
Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German commercial
counsellor in Washington.
Let school lie be a period of calm, in order
that children may. with the same calm and
equanimity, face the confusion and turmoil of
later years.-C. Harold Caulfield, president. San
Francisco board of education.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Man bout
Manhattan
BY George Tucker

NEW YORK, April 23.-This ISM
a very pleasant theme. l suppose
one could complain that it is en-
tirely uncalled for. I will not hold
it against you if, after a few para.
graphs, you turn elsewhere. Some
people do not care to read about
unpleasant subjects. But this is a
real, if minor, part of New York
life, and 1 should be less than hon.
est if l omitted it.
This is about Jumpers. Do You
know what a Jumper is? If You
walk up to any New York hotel
man and say, There's just been
a Jumper" he will turn pale.
a Jumper is one who ends his
life by jumping from a hotel Win
dow.
There are sometimes five or six
Jumpers in a single week in New
York. But if this seems high, con
slider that they were only five or
six out of seven millions.
Hotels in this town have Jump
Ell squads. They have special Jump
er equipment. The news of a Jump
er is bad news indeed for any hotel.
1t hurts business. Many people
will not stay in a hotel where some
headline figure recently has ended
his life Yet suicide is news; and
news must find it's way into the
newspapers.
The hotel people minimize this
news as best they can. The news
papers govern themselves by the
newsworthiness of the name,
Jumper equipment consists of a
large canvas cloth, usually eight by
eight. A Jumper is not a very pref
ty spectacle, after he has jumped
The moment the alarm is given one
squad hurries outside to V the
remains and keep the crowd NOV
ing. Most Broadway cops are old
hands at Jumper situations. They
know all the hotel people by sight.
A word or a nod is sufficient.
While the ground squad is thus
occupied. another begins a swift,
systematic search of the hotel.
The room from which the accident
occurred, and the identity of the
Jumper must be ascertained at
once.
Usually, this requires only a
few moments. Jumpers almost in
variably are people who have reg
istered alone, in single rooms, and
nine of ten are women. The first
move is to check these guests, then
go to those rooms. A careful search
of these rooms is made. Frequently
farewell notes are in evidence, di-
recting the nearest of kin be ad-
vised. When there are no notes, no
identifying clues, the work is turn
ed over to the police.
Frequently old letters, or DltS
of paper with names written on
them, are found. When possible,
these names are identified and turn
ed ove to the cops. The police
send out a call for these people.
Only sever of ten Jumpers
leave notes, and only in three cases
of seven are these notes coherent,
or even complete. Five of seven
notes give only a first name.
The suicide dockets of the police ar
chives list scores of motives, but
with Jumpers, unhappy love affairs
are the dominant theme.
There was a Jumper in New York
only yesterday. She was g.. The
police I very accurate at deter
mining ages. She was blonde, and
pretty, and alone. There We're no
notes, no names, no clues. She
checked into her hotel at $3.50 in
the afternoon. BY seven o'clock, she
was a nameless blot on the police
docket, and an item in the newspa-
pers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Faison Lions To Hold
Celebration On May z

FAISON, April ga number oil
surprise entertainment features are
being arranged for the Faison Lions
club ladies night celebration On
Thursday night, May 2.
All of the candidates for governor
in both parties have been invited 10
attend. The wives of the candidates
are also extended an invitation
The dinner will be prepared en-
tirely from local grown produces
and will be served by the Faison Sc
same club.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
flaw" RETURNS

WASHINGTON. April 23.-LR
-The claw" has returned to the
Boring sea.
The coast guard announced
that its annual patrol of the
area around Alaska has got un-
derway. bringing to some of the
remote islands the only legal ma
chlnery that they ever see.
Officers OH the coast guard
cutters do everything from PRO.
tectlns seals to marrying cou.
pies and Furnishing criminals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
TOP O. THE MORNING

There arc many signs of the dec1cn8ion Of
the soul, its rest7eSSness: its Uqnt Of interest
in the concerns Of ChristS Kingdom; its m
utility to testify for christ, or against sin !:
its uvincing beneath The contact Nth the
Word Of God 1aithtu1ly preached, and qgih
the experience of others who are lining in
sOul-heulth. T. B.. MEYER
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Shipping News

IN PORT
Dredge
Henry Bacon, q. S. army o's'
neers dredge, dredging in the luI"'
coastal waterway.
Barge
Monocacy, TAO tons, loading cal-7
of lumber at the J. Herbert D"'
Lumber company.
Yacht
Semloh, $50 tons. u%nderGol17 ol'''
hauling on Stones RailW1y pVL0''
proceeding north.
Steamers
Volobba, 2,S9S tons, and Lu.7'
2,554 tons, loading cargoes OF SeI''
iron, Cape Fear Shipping corhpa"'
agents.
Motor Vessel
City of Salisbury, 279 tons, oS
cargo of petroleum NV
ducts at Southeastern SniIt'I7
Service docks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

cation. 1t is a
civic sin for any
community to al
low these dread
diseases to de-
stroy child life,
Smallpox was
the first com
municabie disease
to be brought I'M
der control by
immunization. Ed
ward Jenner in
rural England in
1898 proved small
poN could be pre-
vented by vacci-
nation. Since his
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Hunt, Fish. Pay Taxes

It's principal industries are whaling, sealing,
hunting, fishing, and mining cryolite in the
mines at Ivigut. Cryolite is an almost translu-
cent mineral, among the by.products of which
is aluminium.
The prices Of everything in Greenland are
fixed. One-siXth Of the onesale price of all
outgoing products is taken for government.
There's no other tax.
Umanak is the most southern settlement and
one of the most northern in the world. Up
there, in summer, the gardens grow radishes,
broccoli. lettuce and sometimes turnips but
no parsley.
Unlike spots I could name, Greenland ad-
mits that its weather is always uncertain.
Dense fogs blot out the sunshine while your
back is turned. The transforms are hellbenders.
And the billiards we'll, just Arctic.
The people are kindly, jovial, honest and in
t~elligent. Crime is so close to unknown that
there's not a policeman in the land. The only
DRINKS are sailors who come on the boats that
visit Greenland from May to November. The
main social function is the faffemik-coffe
party. To the Greenlander, it's cocktails at the
Ritz.
Greenland costs Denmark about $780, 900 a
year.
But if somebody doesn't send boats up there
this Gunner, Greenland's population won't hold
a blubber candle TO Okmulgee's by 1871.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
BY RICHARD ARTHUR BOLT
NJ. d.. DR.. p. III.
Secretary, Maternal and Child
Health Section of American
Public Health Association

Smallpox and diphtheria were
formerly scourges of childhood.
Today they can be prevented by
safe and simple means of immuni-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

At a speed of 60 miles an hour a.
automobile uses about 60 per eV''
Of it's power in ~overcoming af 10
sistance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

enees cheering and Par3lho''%
surprised but happy, talking
bigger and better things.
Il just did what the djLe'.g.
said to do" Master Lee VIII u.
miss that feat of acting. OF oou.s,
when the dog was dying, IL I we.
so real I guess l forgot IT "8s
a picture and-well, you kll9"
it is"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
INWARD BOUND
Cutter

Cutter
Modoc, U. S. coast guard c9t."'
from routine cruise along the co0s''
Steamer
West GamboIt, Ais tons, 'Io''
Tocopilla, Chile, with cargo Oh
trate of soda, Pryde For"aFu-D'
company, agents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24

DAYBOOK
nv JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, April 23.-NeWs Item: Pres
ident Roosevelt expresses approval OF people o
the limited States who snow an interest," i
studying up on Greenland.
Reason mostly capital conJecture): Green
land belongs to Denmark. The Germans tax
over Denmark. Greenland is IN the western
ben,isnhere might be included In lands il
which the United States would resist Iorelgl
invasion should the Monroe Doctrine be in
yoked. Also some situation might develop sim:
lar to that in the Virgin islands IN 1916 Whel
the United States told the Danes they would b
mighty smart to sell them to us Tor $4,000,
900. The Danes thought so, too.
Okmulgee Has More Folks
Greenland, an area of S27,275 square miles
vou1d inst fit over the states of Texas, New
Nexico. Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, North an
south Dakota has a total population o
16 $40. slightly less than the last official popu
lation of Okmulgee, Okla. Of these, 408 ar
Danes, the rest Eskimos and half-breeds.
The whole interior of Greenland is covered
with ice. in some places a mile to a mile-and-;
half thick. It's western shore the habltabl
.area) is divided into two inspectorates. GOD
thaab is capital of the southern; Godhavn, o
the northern.
Julianshaab is it's most southern town. From
there it's only a seven-to-nine hour bonnie
flight to the coasts of Canada, northeastern
United States, and Great Britain.
One of my sources says it has about 6
another says it has about It's
Take your pick.
The Danes and a few of the Eskimo high
mucky-mucks live in wooden houses. The res
in huts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-24
Flowers and Icebergs

The whole of the isltnI (f you can call a
hunk of land like thai an island) has two
monthly newspapers. They are printed in
Greenlandish, which is outlandish Eskimo.
The summers (but don't park your parka)
last from April to September. Mostly, the
whole summer is daylight. There are flowers
then lots of them about 400 kinds.
With some of its better glaciers running from
Is to so miles across, Greenland is the home
Of the icebergs that float down the Labrador
current to worry shippers in the north At
lantic.
It's also the home of the aux. Ditto the cid
er (for eiderdown) ducks, seals, reindeer and
snow-going jackrabbits. 1t also has a good
share of the worlds polar bears that are not
in ZOOS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
WOMEN DRIVERS SAFER

Most men have the idea that they are
better automobile drivers than women, and
many wise cracks have been made about
the supposed menace of lady drivers to
traffic safety But according to a recent
report by DIR. Harry De Silva of Yale, the
shoe is on the other foot
As director of the drivers research
bureau of the university, DIR. De Silva made
a survey covering 5000 motorists of both
sexes, as result CT which he concluded
that women are safer drivers than men. He
said in an address before training school
for license examiners:
I'VE found that while women drive
about half the mileage of men, they have
only one-third as many accidents. This
shows that women are still safer drivers,
and that they do not have fewer accidents
merely because there are fewer women
drivers"
He also declared that young drivers
have more accidents in proportion to the
miles driven than older ones. For example,
motorists between the ages of 20 and 25
had three times as many accidents as those
over 40 years Of age.
Those driving alone were found to
drive faster than those having other per-
SONS in the car, and those driving slowest
were generally fathers who had members
of their own families as passengers.
DIR. De Silva's findings appear to have
been made as the result of an impartial
and scientific study Of driving habits. In
spite of tfis, however, a good many men
will probably remain uncoRvinced that a
woman is safer driver than male of the
species
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
STATE ADVERTISING

Until about five years ago only six
states of the Union officially engaged in
advertising campaigns for the purpose of
attracting tourists, obtaining new indus
tries and promoting sales of the states own
products. This year SO states are con-
Quoting such campaigns.
Besides these 80 states which have
appropriated state funds for advertising
purposes, eight others will benefit through
being advertised by counties, municipal
ties or private organizations. This leaves
the state of Delaware as the only one not
engaged in some form of promotional ae-
tivity.
The largest state advertising approp-
riatien is that of Florida, which will spend
$825, 600 this year, followed by New
York's $500, 900, Pennsylvania $394, 900
and Names $500, 600.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

Roy Schroeder wouldn't commit him.
self, or be quoted in full on some of his re-
marks, but the general trend of his con-
velsatior in an interview with The Citizen
last weekend was to the effect that Key
West could look forward to better times in
the labor situation come July first and the
beginning of the new Federal fiscal year.
1t is to be recalled that the new relief
program calls for record expenditures over
a nine-months' period. The shortened
period was provided at the time Congress
was struggling to mold expenditures down
so that the national debt wouldn't go over
the statutory limit of 45-billion dollars.
Since-however, that limit has been raised
in the face of large appropriations for de-
Tense purposes, which, in effect, will pro-
vide for an increase in labor-hiring nation
wide, and corresponding decrease in the
load to be carried by relief agencies.
Key Vests part in the defense pro-
gram, in proportion, will call for consider
able employment of labor. Mr.. Schroeder
pointed out that perhaps many of the
nOn-military projects would have to be
curtailed or discontinued entirely to make
way for new WPA projects aiding the gov
eminent plans for home defenses. The
curtailments, however, will be far offset by
the employment of more laboring classes
than are now at work here, ard that, as
K>y West will agree, is good news.
Key West has a good friend in Roy
Schroeder He has consistently agreed that
our problems are different than any other
city in the state, or in the whole nation, for
that matter An understanding sympathy
has been displayed by him in discussions
of our problems, and, in all cases, the most
that could possibly be done under existing
circumstances has been forthcoming.
Increased employment, WPA or
otherwise, is vital need for this city dur
irg the coming summer months. 1t is safe
tc state that Roy Schroeder will do much to
bring that to pass, especially during the
new fiscal year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
Tears Are Not Enough

they could not eat Their feet
were swollen and when the last
shred of stockings was removed.
their feet were bathed in clean
water. They flung themselves
upon cots and slept for the first
time to heal their tired bodies.
There was an old man who
died, and there was a mother who
clutched her dead child while her
soul bled with grief. There were
some who had brought money,
but they, too, were hungry be-
cause in their flight there had
been no food for their money to
buy.
The disheartening plight of
these millions has deeply moved
the heart of every American Yet
we cannot be content with mere
sympathies- The cry for food and
clothing and for clean surgical
dressings to bind wounds cannot
be answered with laments. Tears
are not enough.
Our thankfulneSs for peace and
security must be translated into
tangible assistance. We can do
this through the American Red
Cross. Already millions Of Amer
lean dollars have purchased Red
Cross mercy supplies that have
been needed 50 urgently IN Fin
land. Poland and other war
stricken nations. This greater
need that grows hourly in France
must be met with greater res
ponse. And remember that this
response must be prompt and
generous
Give what you can and give
quickly through the Red Cross.
Your contribution large or small,
whatever you can afford, is vital
IL answering this challenge
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
Today S Birthdays

U. S. Senator Robert r. Rey-
nolds of North Carolina, born at
Asheville, N. c., Sc years ago.
U. S. Senator Prentiss NJ
Brown of Michigan, born at St.
Ignace. Mich. 81 years ago
James Montgomery Flagg of
New York, famed -iIlustra-
tor, born at Pelham Manor, N.
Y, 63 years ago.
Carolyn Wells Of New York.
noted mystery story writer, born
at Railway. N. J.. II years ago.
DR. George ". McClelland, pro-
vost of the University of Penn
sylvania, born at Dobbs Ferry.
N Y, go years ago
Raymond B. Stevens, chair
man, u. s. Tariff Commission.
born at Binghampton, n. Y, Sc
years ago.
DR.. Herman A Spoehr Of Stan
ford University's Carnegie In
stitute. noted chemist, born in
Chicago, So years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

They came out of The Neither
lands from Luxembourg and out
of northern France. For two days
it rained, cold drizzle that
slanted into the dust. And the
dust became mud And this
slowed them in their flight, eaked
the wheels of their carts, seeped
through the shoes of those on
/ foot.
There were five million of
them. NeWsmen who watched
their flight wrote of river of
misery" These people were not
strong, because the strong had
stayed to fight for their homes.
They were women. children and
the aged.
They looked furtively over
their shoulders for a last glimpse.
Those who were there remem-
bered how the low-hanging
clouds reflected the flash of ar
tiIIeryfire into their tOrmented
faces. At night they took to the
woods and attempted to doze in
wet, makeShift shelters. And be-
cause the rumble of guns made
IT impossible to sleep or even rest,
they moved on.
Coming UP from the south
were troops advancing to join
against the enemy. So they took
to one SIDE of the road, crowding
into the ditch where horses In
their traces lay exhausted and
where automobiles lay abandoned
with empty fuel tanks.
The next day was clear, menac-
ingly clear. and the soldiers kept
looking TO the sky. And that
which they feared happened. AT
first it was a distant hum. Then
! the small black dots in the sky
grew larger and before they
knew II these planes swept down
upon them to strsfe with ma
chinegun-fIre the northbound
troops But there was no use In
screaming to the sky that they
bore no arms, that they wanted
no part of this war.
They trod on. through Tours.
+ Poiters, Limoges, Vichy. on to
Beurges and to Nevers. And by
that time they saw this flag. II
was red cross on q clean field
of white. Many wept They were
so hungry. tired and harassed
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mOuthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue,
commend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

There are two sides to every question
including the business side. For instance.
the 16S,399 common stockholders who
own United States Steel, which includes
many dependent women and children, got
nothing, absolutely nothing from a years
operation, but the overnment-federal
stats and loeal-got almost 40 millions of
dollars. Even the most hateful individual
will call such one-sided division most un-
fair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

HOPKINSONTILLE. Ky Ju1e
12-They sent for . plzz1erE
when a wall IN = loczl rgtzu-
rant began 70 bulge
The plasterer Discovers =
tree, seven inches N dizzete-
growing inside the wall
What puzzled him was 1he
fact that the tree. despite an
sence of soil or sunlight WaS
growing five feet above 1he
ground
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

Power is not only the most intoxieat-
ing wine man aver drank, but if abused is
a poison that drives men mad. Napoleon's
desire was to put one of his brothers on
the chief thrones in Europe; Alexander
wept because there were no more worlds
to conquer; Hitler, in his madness, wants
to rule vast areas now and the world later.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
THE MAIL GETS THROUGH
LOS ANGELES. - KIN

-
ness 70 dogs Is reducing the
bites inflicted On nz1 czr-
riers. Says Honer Hos1z.
chairman Of fhe mzilnszs
committee On the dog prnb-
lem So far this YssE snlY Is
mzilnsn have been bitten.
far below the rate fer Ere
vious years
Hobbs said one carrier had
made friends with . viGsus
dog by bringinq il . boDs- In
vestisation showed that the
dcg's aversion g mz1l ear
riers dated from the time q
pcstman had sprayed II via
an ammonia gun-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
MINOR TRAGEDY

CRESTLNE. GA set Of
false teeth DELAYED a Big -Four
freight Is minutes TraInnen
said the conductor lost the sci
while leaning over the czboose
platform He stopped the tram
for a futile search a telegraph
operator found the teeth MI
dav.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

Dictators, of the modern stripe, are
not as crazy as sane people think they
are; all of them have nice sum sailed
away in another country. so win or lose
they can live in luxury for the remainder
IF their lives.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

Japan, we suspect, wants the status
quo of the Netherlands Indies preserved
until she can decide whether it will be safe
to take them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

Fasting for Is days viii restore ones
basic metabolic rate, according to a ply
stefan. If you are interested in that sort
of thing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18
NOW YOU TELL ONE


LOUISVILLE KF-A pizk-
pocket went 20 church. D.
, william T Brxner rspa<1a6
sadly 70 police. While x1zz6-
ing In receivins in~ - sz-
tend the hand C tsL1w-
ship 30 new neEhsrz. ID
Bruner sid he wzs Rwea
q shcwe fru<n behind SooE
afferwzrd he missed Is wai-
lei and S11-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

Now historian declares that early
American settlers taught the Indians to
scalp their foes. Anyway, they probably
gave them some pointers on how to skin a
customer
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-06-18

simplified vocabulary called Basic
English" contains only $50 words Inas-
much as it makes no distinction in the use
of will and SHALL" we are in favor of it.