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Evening star., 1940-06-19
Bedtime Stories
Ry THORNTON W RIIRGESs

BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
When Peter Rabbit looked up into
the big pine tree to see what had
made the pine cone drop on his
nose he was so surprised by the
sight Of Baby Possum up there that
he could hardly get his breath
Baby Possum was laughing at him
mt to kill himself, but Peter Rabbit
didn't mind that. He hoped te
his feet and beckoned for Baby
Fossum to come down. At the same
time Peter Rabbit put one hand on
his lips and shook his head.
At first this puzzled Baby Pos
sum. Then he understood that
Peter Rabbit was asking him tc
come down, but not to speak and
to make no noise. Baby Possum
remembered the gentleman in rec
hiding behind the thick young hem
lock tree and guessed that the
funny little fellow with long ears
didn't want the gentleman in red
to hear. So Baby Possum climbed
down until he was near enough to
lean over and ask in loud whisper
who are you?"
I'm a friend and my name l.
Peter Rabbit" replied Peter, in 4
whisper. Baby Possum smiled and
smiled. "Ah reckon NAH daddy
knows yo' ALL" said he. "Ai reckon
yo' all gave us a surprise party
when nah nanny came up to the
Green Meadows"
Peter Rabbit grinned good ma
turedly and nodded his head. Come
over here" he whispered.
Baby Possum hesitated. Then
very slowly he climbed down beside
Peter Rabbit.
Don't make a bit Of noise. not
the teeniest, weeniest bit," whis-
pered Peter Rabbit.
why not?" asked Baby Possum
in very tiny whisper.
Because Reddy Fox might hear
you and he is waiting to gobble you
up," replied Peter Rabbit.
Baby Possum looked this way and
that way and his little black eye.
grew round with fear. "Who-whc
Is Reddy Fox?" he asked.
There he is," replied Peter Rab.
bit in a whisper, pointing over t<
the thick young hemlock tree. Baby
Posslm looked and there lay tn,
fine gentleman in red, who hae
tried to get him to come down ou'
OF the black birch tree.
"You must never believe anything
that Reddy Fox tells you," continued
Peter Rabbit. THAT is why shool
my head at you when you startee
down the black birch tree. for
knew that all he wanted was Il
get you down on the ground, where
he could gobble you up. You com.
with me and we'll fool him, for HI
still thinks that you are up in tn.
black birch tree. Come on, but b.
very, very careful not to make (
bit Of noise"
At first, Baby Possum was afraie
to go. but when he remembered
how dreadfully lonesome he hae
been, he was more afraid to b,
left. So off through the Greer
Forest stole Peter Rabbit, Baby
Possum right at his heels. Petel
took the greatest care always tt
have big tree between them ane
Reddy Fox, so that Reddy WOULDN'T
see them and both took the creates,
care not to make the teeniest
weeniest noise: not 50 much a!
the rustic OF q leaf.
And all this time Reddy Fox lay
fiat on his stomach behind the thici
young hemlock tree watching tn,
black birch tree where he thought
Baby Possum was hiding in thu
safe, snug little hollow. "I1l gel
him when he comes down." sale
Reddy Fox over and over to him.
self.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
JOLLY POLLY

a Little. Chat on Etiquette
BY JOSEPH ]. FRISCH.
E. B-Cake, like bread. should be
broken into suitable mouthfuls as
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL

THE senate committee, Oh WHICH
L Senator JOSIAH W. BAILEY is chairman
has decided to do something about neeoeo
rivers and harbors work this year after all
Knowing that the major projects upon WHICH
it had previously set its heart are doomed
this year, it has voted to trim its bill to COM
narative1v small undertakings, eliminate flood
control, and report it out of committee.
AS hope has a way of springing eternally
in the human heart, Wilmington today IS cuo-
ding the hope that its needs may be among
the Small undertakings" listed in the revised
and emasculated measure to emerge from the
committee. To Wilmington, at least, the
and deepening of the Cape Fear
river channel and enlargement OF the turning
basin are not small. On the contrary, they
are tremendous factors in the development
Wilmington's commerce and in the fulfill
ment of it's opportunity in shlp-borne trade
small they may be in the national
nicture, they loom above all other undertak-
ings in assuring Wilmington economic Sc
curity.
Neither Senator BA1LEY's letter to the
Chamber of Commerce nor Associated Press
dispatches reveal how deeply the committee
proposes to cut into the heart of the original
bill, but it is something to know that it has
1t last decided upon a definite course Of &C
ion, with the hope that its revised measure
nay meet approval both by congress and by
he White House, and an enabling act under
actual work may be started will speed
ly follow.
1t will be even better to learn that the Will
nington project has survived the whiting
low in process.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
CMTC CAMPS

With New Hanover county allotted but
seven men in the Citizens Military Training
Corps program for the coming summer en-
campments, it is to be expected that many
applicants will have to be rejected.
Young men have come to realize the ad-
v%antages in discipline and orderly training
these CMTC camps offer, and know that
what they learn during the periods they
spend in camps will be of great value to
them in their later years.
Right now, with American parents shun.
ming all thought Of war for their sons, it
will cause an Involuntary shock in most
gagged in instructing maturing youth in the
principles of warfare. These parents may
find solace in the knowledge that their sons
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
LINER MAURITANIA
ENTERS NEW ROLE
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to pick up more crew members
from the British Lancashire, arriv.
ing in mid-morning from Canada.
All seamen had been ordered to
report back to the ship by mid.
night, however, and instructions
We're issued to cut the water lines
between the ship and its pier at S
a. m. (EST). Longshoremen worked
under floodlights tonight loading
final supplies.
Targets whose hitting would mean
an Iron Cross and Nazi immor.
tally for the successful German
submarine trapshooter, the passen-
ger liners-turned transports were
gambling on their speed to carry
Britain's colonial troops safely into
the arena of European war.
Although official silence yelled
their immediate destination, mem
bers of their crews believed both
would call first at Halifax and there
be armed for a long and potentially
perilous voyage to Australia.
"Limey" sailors said that by rip.
ping out the Queens peacetime fin
cry, the normal passenger capacity
of about 1000 had been stepped 81
to 21,OO0.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
GOOD WORD FOR FARLEY

President ROOSEVELT places the seal of de-
NAL on an alleged interview, retailed by Err
NEST K. LINDLEY, columnist, in which the
chief executive was quoted as telling an In,
innate that he would not consider a third
term; that Secretary of State HULL would be
a good candidate, and that Postmaster Cen
eral FARLEY would not do for the vice presi-
dency because of his religion.
The LINDLEY article has attracted wide at
tention because Mr.. ROOSEVELT had let it go
unchallenged. The reference to FARLEY, in
light of the Presidents silence, was pounced
on by the opposition press, because of his
campaign services to the President. Silence
was accepted as a poor return for the friend
ship the chief of the postal service and chair
man of the national democratic committee
had for him, and had employed so sedulously
for him in times past.
Now the President says there is no word
of truth in the L1NDLEY article, that he had
never talked along that line to any distin'
guished statesman from any point of the com
pass. Furthermore, he defended his good
friend FARLEY for his political tolerance, and
explained his previous silence by saying he
had not read LINDLEY's outburst at the time
of its appearance in print and that his con
finement with q cold prevented earlier denial
of it's authenticity.
That closes the matter. FARLEY and RoosE
WELT are still friends, and that's a good thing
for the democratic party, to which we owe al
legiance, whatever the ultimate decision on a
third term may be.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
H~ORSESENSE AND HOKUM
Raleigh News and Observer

A Grade-A North Carolina magnolia to the
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce for holding a
dinner of businessmen and farmers which made
sense for both Of them and for the community
OF which both are essential parts!
1t ought not to be any secret by this time
that one of the most painful and least produc-
tive occasions in any small city's year is often
one of those rural-urban get-togethers where
city men and farmers like strangers eat side
by side. Too often on such occasions city men
are deliberately engaged in a half-hearted soft
soaping Of the farmers for their trade. And
the farmers, in pay for their suppers, have to
listen to borabastic lectures on the glories of
farmers and farming by some asphalt agricul-
turist who could not be pulled by mules to
earning his bread by farming the land. Prob
ably such occasions, as they convince both the
farmer and the business man that the other
is a solemn fool, do more harm than good.
But at the dinner in Raleigh on, Thursday
evening in an entire absence of soft-soap and
rhetoric, farmers and business men were shown
by agricultural experts that in Wake county
they are this year in the same hole. And both
groups showed a neighborliness in intelligence
in the will to get out of it. The problem is
important Though beside the point made here):
Even II farmers get as much in 1910 for
their tobacco as they got in 1889 under their
allotments, they will get 50, 000,0 900 less. But
there are possibilities in cotton, which Wake
county has too much abandoned for tobacco,
which sound speakers pointed. "a Hoke county
cotton planter, =. B. Upchurch, Jr. talking
technically about intelligent cotton culture,
made the best and most interesting speech Ra-
leigh business men had heard in a long time.)
The program under discussion was impor-
tant. Its adoption by farmers should serve
both farmers and business men in Wake coun-
ty. But what is emphasized here is the meet
ing at which it was discussed where horsesense
was substituted for hokum in the gathering to-
gether of men from the town and the land.
A lot of time has been wasted in a process of
rural-urban back-scratching. What is needed is
what was done at this meeting-a working
together in realization that the rural-urban re-
lationship is real and not rhetorical. The best
way to build town and country understanding
is to forget town and country differences in
working in terms of towns and countrys COM
mon interest in a common destiny. If we can
get down to the facts under the old flattery
if we can -ismiss the rhetoric for the reality,
we may escape from the old deluslon that two
different peoples live on two sides OF lines call
ed city limits. Then, and not sooner, we Will
begin to get somewhere in an agricultural
South where all men-town men ana country
men-live on the land and the crops Which
grow from it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
HULL WILL STUDY
CROMWELL'S TALK
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american is%olationists," Represen-
tative Sweeney (D-Ohio) said:
eff our playboy minister to Canada
wants to fight for the British En-
pire I respectfully suggest that he
join the ranks of such distinguished
American expatriates as Lady Aston
and Kermit Roosevelt, 80 that he
may carry on for the Empire.
we should have the courage to
tell Cromwell and his lawfully-wed-
ded fortune, Doris Duke, to get the
hell out of this republic"
Under Sweeney's resolution, the
house foreign affairs committee
would be directed to recommend the
recall of Cromwell, if reports of the
speech were found to be true. Sen
ator Clark (D-Mo) had previously
said that Cromwell should be recall
ed because of his Outrageous"
speech.
Rep. Barry (D-NY) called Crom-
we'll a "garrilous young man" and
said his "chief, if not sole, qualifica-
ton for the position he holds is his
ability to contribute to the financial
support of a political party"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
WATERWAY ASSOCIATION

The movement to establish a North Caro-
lima Waterways association deserves CONNER.
dation and cooperation.
Cities along navigable streams and those
on the coast may expect to obtain greater
improvements and larger mme by pull
ing together than by Juggling along separate
ly, which so often creates competitive i'll
Will and obstructive cross-currents in en-
deavor-and failure of accomplishment.
North Carolina has not reached the peak in
waterway progress, probably because it lack
ed just such an association as this. If direc-
ton of it's affairs is vested in proved and
energetic leadership, it's success should go
without saying.
Wilmington can well afford to participate
in the associations program, and its backing
for Wilmington's commercial endeavors will
be of inestimable value. Even if we get fed.
eral funds for completion of channel and
harbor improvements, there will be much still
to do to attract cargoes and industries to
supply cargoes.
In this, the proposed waterways association
will be able to lend 4 hand, and in return
Wilmington will be able to forward similar
undertakings in other cities Of the state
served by water transport.
The account between Wilmington and other
state ports could be kept in perfect balance
through the association. Organization plans
should be perfected, and quickly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
WHERE BLAME LODGES

How large a part human fallibility plays in
highway accidents is shown by the fact that
SO per cent of traffic fatalities in North
Carolina last year were directly attributable
to faulty driving and only seven per cent to
defective motor vehicle equipment. KEITH
SAUNDERS, highway division safety represen-
tative, drew attention to this in an interview
with Mayor COOPER yesterday. Mr.. SAUNDERS
Is abroad in the state as a missionary to
spread the gospel Of safe driving.
Automotive engineers have made motoring
safe as it can be mechanically made with
present knowledge. Until ingenius inventors
discover new ways to safeguard motor We
hicles from mechanical hazards, we must be-
lieve that the present level of security is
high enough to serve all reasonable demands.
If accidents are blameable on equipment
they usually can be traced to neglect of rou-
tine inspection of brakes, headlights. wind
shield wipers and Oil and gas lines: and not
to fundamental mechanical faults. Even here,
the responsibility rests on the driver, or own.
er, who has not given his vehicle the care
ordinary common sense dictates it should
have.
Among human frailties to which the vast
majority of accidents may be traced is a pre-
disposition, all too general, to believe oneself
an efficient driver and to take chances in
traffic for that reason. 1t would help if every
person behind a steering wheel admitted that
he or she is quite capable of faulty Judgment
in a pinch and avoid emergencies which call
for instant correct thinking. If we avoid
tight places, keep out of the pinches, and
travel the highways with an eye to safety
in all circumstances, that SO per cent re.
sponsibility for deaths in traffic will soon be
cut down. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

70 bring Frances var force to q
maximum and to carry the war to
victory in close accord with orr al.
lies" w" "i
But about 300 deputies declined to
vote the total chamber membership
IS 55l) and that meant that the ma.
]or1ty, while not voting against him.
nevertheless withheld approval.
Still Daladier could have carried
on.
his radical-socialist party in par.
lament unanimously voted an order
OF tne day declaring Daladier had
leo the nation in war with "wisdom
ana firmness" and that he merited
confidence more today than ever"
me party demanded that the record
OF tuesdays secret debate, in which
Daiadler explained his governments
conouct OF the war, be made public
~ enllghten the nation"
Daladier first instituted his gov.
eminent on April 10, 1898, and the
government which went out was
the same, although it was
revised on Aug. %, 1898, and on
sept. IL, 1889, after the war broke
OUT Daladier, as premier, foreign
war minister and minister
OF defense, had of late had virtually
d1ctatorial powers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
BURCAW BAPTlSTS
PLAN new CHURCH
Campaign To Raise $4,000
For Construction Of New
Building Started.

BURGAW, March 2G.-Plans for
remodeling or building a new Bap-
fist church here were discussed at
a church conference held at the
close of services Sunday morning.
Members of the Burgaw Baptist
church adopted a resolution calling
for the beginning Of a campaign
to raise $1,000 toward a new
church.
A committee has been comforting
with architects for some time rela-
tive to either a new building or
r%emodeling of the present struc-
ture, which Vas termed too small
to properly care for the Sunday
school and church services.
No specific plans have been ap-
proved as to the new building it.
self, but it will be a brick veneer
structure with a seating capacity
of 300 in the main auditorium, with
the Sunday school plant large
enough to care for ar attendance
of from $50 to 300 persons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
TOP O. THE

"Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not
the things Which I say."-Luke GIG. We
knoW Christ in the spending OF ourselves.
1t would seem that none knel0 Him so little as
those rhO concerned righteousness to be hdrn1-
1~essness. No sinner seems to haze been so
intolerab1e to Him as those SpineleSS pdSslte
souls uho like the unfaithfu1 S%erudnt, eTpect-
ed commentator for doing nothing. Chr1sts
most startling and Wjthering rebukes we're
delivered consistently to one group those
achO stopped 1cih negative righteousness.
Prom TODAY
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
STANLEY ATTACKS
AMERICAN CRITICS
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after a good dinner and urge two
fighters to tear each other to pieces.
He warned that an ocean may be
good barrier to aircraft, but it is
no barrier to IDEAS" and said Britain
was fighting to end German ideals,
those of Attila the Hun"
They may be lucky" said Stan
ley. I'VE may fight their battles
for them. But do they (neutrals)
think that if we lose, life a go
on as they know it?' If Britain
had not gone to war people in the
United States would have said, why
aren't you fighting?' Today they
are saying, we can't understand the
war;
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Star-News Program

Consolidated ty-County Government.
under CouncilManager administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena TOR Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviAe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-toot Cape Fear River channel. Wfd-
er Turning Basin, nth ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, v1d
Orton Plantation.
Developm emit OF Pulp Wood Prodnc-
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motiona1 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 1chites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF nattve grape groutng
th~roughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis sdnatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
GERMANY ANSWERS
BRITISH ATTACK
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INV
planes was damaged, authorities IN
sisted.
This rapid retaliatory action tst
the siX-hour royal air force smash
at the NaZi air base on Sylt served
to heighten reports that the British
are ready to pit their air fleet
against German submarine nests
and shipyards in the Baltic itself,
The German accounts Of las.
nights raid placed the scene Of ar
ton off Scapa Flow. A German at.
tack on this island naval base last
Saturday precipitated the 45.plane
Sylt raids of Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning.
The raid, the biggest Britain has
made in this war, brought author
tative predictions that a new phase
in Britain's aerial attack had been
ushered in.
Punctuating the daring Of tA'
new tactics, British filters today re-
turned to the scene TO take photo
graphs of the damage they hal
done and to drop a few more 0ontS
on detectives that had not 1sa
destroyed in the long bombing d
the night before. j..
Among the gleeful statements o.
the British was that OF the he!S-
which said scores of German
most valuable aircraft - seapal''
and bombers-were destroyed
1.-THE attack had been delayea y
that it should take place when Wv
maximum number Of GeEAa4
planes was concentrated on the ~
land. For some time the A.'.
command had known that the ll.
authorities were feverishly burning
hangers on Sylt-and storing H-
dreds of planes there .
To-day a number OF those ia.
are in ruins FlIo'' "
turning told of wrecked 0aFI' .a.
blazing oil tanks, crippled N~
ways" ,,,
Air ministry sources, in caa''2 ",
language, said they believed -.,
sylt raid showed the Raj s w.
ready for Operations more CIV, 4
tive than the preliminary S'S7' '
observation" "a.
Most British flights over ". :.
many have been OF Q puIS'
connaissance nature. "a,
At any rate, the raid anu d,
follow-up flight today prove ID.
immediate tonic for the Brllis" ~, s
lie. Critics of the government a ..,,
been clamoring for Britain u a
the initiative away from German nsL%
and the raid came only a rev . NON
after Prime Minister Chamo.. s,,
had told the house OF coi'D
that 1--WE intcny to fight
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
GAIN in BUILDING
ACTIVITY REPORTED
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Continued From Page One)
Inc new movie house are received,
1t is expected to amount to more
than 500, 900.
Yates figures do not include
much residential construction in
sunset Park, Winter Park, Forest
Hills, oleander and other suburbs
outside the city limits.
He also said that the heaviest
building months during the year
are probably March and April. and
predlcted these, too, will show a
worthwhile gain.
In conclusion, he added that those
contemplating any construction or
repairs to their homes or other
buildings are required by the state
laws to secure a building permit
before it can be carried out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
County Managers Named
By Three Candidates

RALEIGH, March 20.-R-Three
gubernatorial candidates, A. J. Max,
we'll, w. P. Horton and ]. NJ,
Broughton, announced additional
appointments today of county cam
palgn managers. The managers fol.
low:
For Maxwell-calvin Graves, Jr.
forsyth; Mrs. Myrtle Ellis, Mitch.
ell.
For Horton Fred M. Arrowood,
CASTOR.
for Broughton - Ralph Ramsey,
Jr., Pennsylvania; Wade e. Brown,
Boone; Clifton Moore, Pender; M.
A. Matthew's, Hyde; Otis Powers,
henderson; P. S. Younger Davie.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
THREAT TO RlVERS
LIFTED BY COOkl
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tanned a writ of s~upersedeas sta at,:
lover federal court action I,- PSr' II.
further orders from the H-5D
bunal. sa.'
court action on the dismissal. o. r. r.
L, Miller seriously chal-e"s ss,, :
r RI: tiiil of the federal sos s1..
judge samuel H. sioley, in n a M " b.
half half of the appellate court T., anu COW:
Gated all proceedings in '"S
of Judge beaver. .hat tt'
Judge sibley announced ID, 'a u her,
case would be ASSIGNED 40. 5. a a pie.
ing here just as soon IN, ~ crca;
could be arranged on '"s
court docket. that ~
United States circuit cQu.. s.sssi
peals at New orleans n2f II
the federal court pi9'''d ~
the governor
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Police Radio Studied
At Aero Club Meeting

Inc Wilmington Aero club held its
,n1llls last night at the city pc.
nee headquarters, studying the man.
operated. "oio sSs'eni -
ahe police system is similar to
that used in airplanes.
a. n . model club will meet tonight
. O'CLOCK at st. James Parish
attend. s oeeh urged TO
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, March 20. - up -
Weather bureau records of tempera-
ture and rainfall for the "a hours end
ing 8 p. M, in the principal cotton
growing areas and elsewhere.