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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Oil And The Weather

With gasoline so large a factor in Whining.
TONS economic welfare, interest here naturally
centers in all information concerning petrol.
cum output, distribution and reserves. This
item from the New York Herald Tribune sheds
light on some phases of the industry:
The latest statistics of the oil industry
clearly reflect the weather conditions
which obtained throughout the country.
Stocks of gas, oil and distillates dropped
1910 0 barrels during the week, while
supplies of heavy fuel oils were off $780,
600. At the same time there was the Sec
ond increase of the year in motor fuel
stocks, a small one of q, 600 barrels. This
addition to stocks would nave been much
greater had the refining end of the in.
dustry not c~urtailed crude runs to stills.
In the latest week, daily average runs
were down 10000 barrels, and total gaso.
line production for the period was $751;
600 barrels lower than in the preceding
period. Had the industry operated at the
previous periods higher rate, the increase
in gasoline supplies might have been SUBJ
stantial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29

verified into paved pedestrian ways? They ought
not to move into the streets. and in fact
paved streets are no better adapted to some
forms of juvenile entertainment than paved
sidewalks.
This seems to indicate both a need for and
an cpportunity to create small neighborhood
Fairgrounds, projects which have been dis
cussed in these columns before and in the
EAST have engaged the attention Of at least
one civic club With the announcement OF Ire
city commission that most of the unimproved
sidewalks will be speedily paved, there IS
need for some group OF groups to lake up this
interrupted movement with new vigor and
provide places for the youngsters of the city
to play, near their homes-if only on a vacant
lot-where they will be safe from traffic haz-
ards and create no hazards for traffic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Editorial Comment
AN EXAMPLE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
N. Y. Herald Tribune

The sentencing of eight divinity students to
a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary
for refusal to register under the selective serv-
ice act is the necessary-if unpleasant-result
of what the great majority of Americans must
consider a vain and wrong-headed gesture on
the part of the young men concerned. It is not
necessary to question the sincerity of the stu
dents or even to appraise the rights and
wrongs of conscription objection in order to
reach this conclusion. The s~elective service
act made every concession to the consciences
Of Americas youth. Itself a product of the
democratic system, it allows great latitude
to sincere dissenters. In refusing to comply
with the elementary requirement OF allowing
their names to be placed on the lists, the stu
dents went out of their way to bring them
selves within the penalties of the law.
Doubtless they would argue either that this
course has dramatized their opposition to war
and all it's works. or that any submission to
the machinery of the act, however formal.
was to bow in the house of Rirnmon But these
motives, in their turn, bring up the whole
dilemma of civil disobedience-at what point
is individual rejection of the acts of a state
reduced to absurdity? Thoreau and Bronson
Alcott refused to pay poll taxes because the
United States government recognized slavery,
and Thoreau carried his rejection of the state
to the extent of sojourning at Walden Pond in
an isolation that did not, however, carry him
very far from the Emerson kitchen. Whether
this course contributed perceptibly to the onset
of emancipation, and what adjustments Tho
reau made between his conscience and the
state at the expiration of his stay at Walden
are difficult to determine. But the logical up
shot of any theory of conduct such as Thoreau
expressed, and the divinity students have car
ried into practice-namely, individual adher-
ence to a set of laws which contradict those of
the community as a Whole-is anarchy. And
the state has no recourse, when confronted by
such manifestations, but to exercise it's police
powers. A breach of the law may be no less
detrimental to the common interest when COM
mitted from the highest motives than when
actuated by the lowest. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Military Highways

When the Star-NeWs published a special
map prepared by Lieut.. Col. George w. Gill
lette showing the c~oastline of the Carollnas
and the rich industrial areas of the two states,
which would play an important part in pro-
visioning and arming the country's defense
forces in event of war, the accompanying ar
ticle pointed out the necessity of creating de-
tense bases which would adequately protect
the area from an attacking force.
The government departments with defense
in charge are moving to provide these bases.
One for this vicinity-the anti-aircraft training
base at Holly Ridge-has already been an
nounced and others are soon to follow. But
the bases themselves are only a start in the
necessary program to utilize to full advantage
the resources and production of the area. I'm
ii! a system of military highways, b o d
enough and firm enough to carry the load OF
mechanical war equipment and the steady
stream of supplies from the industrial dis
tricts to seaboard and camp, are built, the
Carolinas will not have been given their COM
plete chance to serve the nations need in any
military emergency which the future may have
in store.
The need is not only for a few roads over
which guns, tanks and other equipment used
in combat may be quickly transported from
bases to points facing attack. They are es-
sential, of course. But there must be other
roads, equally essential, for the transport OF
provisions, manufactured articles required by
both military and civilian hordes, and the in
creasing burden of civilian traffic and there
must be roads for the evacuation of civilian
populations, should that be necessary, without
impeding the movements of armored forces.
One of the reasons given by some authori-
ties for the easy conquest of France, Hol-
land and Belgium, once the Maginot line had
been thanked, was the blockade of highways
by refugees while the highways were needed
for bringing up French forces and big guns
when stubborn resistance would have at least
delayed the Nazi juggernaut. It is not easy
to foresee that a similar situation could de-
velop in the Carolinas, but it is not difficult
to understand that a lack of adequate high
ways could lessen the efficient defense of the
region were an enemy to land on this coast.
While we are g~ratified that the government
is taking steps to protect the area with mill
tary and air bases, it is pertinent to urge
deeper study Of the highway situation, with
its improvement in view.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Sidewalk Paving

That a city the size of Wilmington should
have gone without sidewalks on stretches Of
so many streets is hard to understand except
on~the. score that motor traffic has to a large
extent removed the need for them. As more
and more persons have resorted to the auto
mobile the percentage of pedestrians has
steadily decreased.
But sidewalks are still a public necessity
ard convenience. and it is gratifying to have
tie city commission finally include them II,
the present street improvement projects. Once
laid, they will remove one more hazard of
accident by relieving persons afoot of the
necessity of walking in the street.
But that is not the whole story. The rest
ri it has to do with children long accustomed
to PLAYING in the areas reserved for sidewalks
but rnimpl owed. The dirt surface has been
fine for marble shooting, hop-scotch and other
of the less strenuous games. What are thew
tesdo when their favorite Fairgrounds are Con
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
HOLLYWOOD SIGHTS And Sounds
By Robin Coons-

newspapers in Los Angeles. You
get used to a deadline and to turn.
ing out copy. I had four and
a half years in radio before l got
into pictures. Kept on with a
weekly radio script for IA months
after that. 49,.
mo, I don't go crazy with plots.
T just treat writing like a bust.
ness. When 1 finish a piece, /
close up my typewriter and forget
all about it
"The plots are usually easy. For
this new Saint I wrote a nine.
page synopsis and built the screen
play from it. Certain incidents sug-
gested certain others and it prac-
tlcally wrote itself. fell to.
gether of its own accord. 1 had
to meet a deadline on it, so I
set myself a goal of 20 pages a
day, but it was so easy I wrote
~ instead. Took three days, or Sd
hours writing time.
The toughest script I've tack
led was my own original, Play
g,rl.' The story fell together all
right but it meant a special lob
OF dialogue because the charac-
tiers are more important than the
story. l wrote myself into trouble
and then had to write myself out
again. Took about 10 weeks, off
and on, to set it straight" 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Aid To Britain

There can be no question that British pleas
ally on sympathetic ears. The America pub
lie is genuinely anxious to speed up the pro.
duction of planes and munitions for British
use; a proposal to sell Britain ships to aug
ment her dwindling merchant fleet Woul d
meet no serious protest. Although strenuous
objections have been raised to lifting the bars
on financial aid, it is hardly likely that we
would refuse loans after having gone so far
already to aid the British cause.
The issue is complicated, however, by the
fact that the American public has no ac-
.curate knowledge of what Britain's real needs
are. Without this it is nearly impossible to
form an accurate judgment of what this coun-
try should or can do. Many of the steps now
urged, such as the transfer of additional war;
ships or allowing Britain to take a still larger
proportion of our plane production, would
mean a serious sacrifice of American defen-
sive strength. No one can say, without specific
knowledge of Britain's present position. how
much this would mean to the British or how
much it might endanger our own security.
Unfortunately precise information is exact
ly what Britain cannot afford to give. She
cannot broadcast to the world the effect Ger
man bombings have had on her industrial pro-
%duction, the ability or lack of ability of her
navy to cope with the U-boat menace, how
close she is to the end of her rope in financial
resources or in shipping. Most of these are
military secrets of the first order. Perhaps
Lord Lothian unburdened himself to Pres1-
dent Roosevelt at their recent conference, but
more likely the British ambassador painted
the picture that his government wants the
United States to see.
The point remains that American willing
ness to aid Britain is still coupled with a
good deal Of uncertainty about what Britain
wants and needs. Until that uncertainty: is at
least partially ~dispelled Britain cannot look
for much more help than she is receiving how.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
BY GEORGE C X

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Copaca-
bana is a Portuguese word with
no literal meaning. yet to those
who know Rio it means soft lights
and romance; it means white din
ner jackets and beautiful women;
it means murmuring trade winds
and white hot stars hanging low
over the blue velvet harbor of Rio
de Janeiro.
Actually Copacabana is one of
the beach districts of Rio-an ex-
elusive and well bred district in
the sense that Hyde Park or Edge
water beach is exclusive. Break
the word down, and you have copa,
meaning cup; and cabana, mean
ing house. Put them together and
they mean nothing that can be
translated into English.
We were a little concerned about
this because Copacabana is also a
new night club in New York. 1t is
on East Goth street in an old base
ment of a hotel-a basement that
stood empty and abandoned for
more than ten years. 1t was here
that Rudy Vallee augmented his
fame II years ago and founded
the Villa Vallee; a popular spot
back in the days when F. Scott
Fitzgerald was the hero of the
flapper age and college boys wore
coonskin coats.
We want to tell you a little about
this club because it has the odd
distinction of being in good taste.
Its color scheme is white, rust,
and green. White is important this
year.
This basement is supported by
several large hideous posts. When
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Star-News Program

Consolidated Oity-Co1nty Government
under Council Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvi1e
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Hid.
sr Turning Basin, NTH snip lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, pto
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc.
ton through sustained-yieM methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported BY n
countrywide tdz
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center 1or Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
adequate hospital facilities TO, Dhites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape 0ro,otn0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
The Editors
LETTER BOX

The editor does cot necessarily
endorse n article appearing in
this department. They represent the
views of the individual readers. Cor
respondents are n e d that all
communications IN contain the
correct name and address for u
records, though the latter may be
signed as the writer sees fit. The
Star-News reserves the right to alter
any text that for any reason is OBJ.
jectionable. Letters on controversial
subjects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
CHRISTMAS SEALS
To The Star:

IL Liz old1
There is one letter that most of
us accept as a tradition of Christ
mas. 1t is the letter that brings
us our Christmas Seals. Year
after year, we receive that letter.
We send our money. We do this
because we know that something
worthwhile is being done with our
money.
Few of us, though, take an
active interest in how u money
is spent to combat one of our most
dreadful enemies tuberculosis.
The horror of tuberculosis is fad
ing gradually. That is enough for
most of us. We read each year OF
the declining death rate. Per-
haps, we even know the fact that
the death rate from tuberculosis
among people of all ages has been
cut th%ree-fourths since 1907, the
first year of the Seal Sale.
We have forgotten the despair
that n struck us whenever we
heard the verdict-consumption.
We know now that tuberculosis, if
discovered in time, can be cured.
We know that the X-ray can find
early tuberculosis IN time to cure
it.
This year, as in other years re-
Gently, the tuberculosis associa-
tons are asking us to do one more
thing in addition to giving our
dollars. Their request is reason
able. Their having to make such
a request is ironical. They are
forced to ask us TO drop our at
titude. of complacency toward
tuberculosis. Great though the VIC
tories of the past are. tuberculo-
sis is not under control in this
country. 1t is our lives and our
children's lives the tuberculosis
associations are fighting for.
WILMINGTONIAN.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Man About Manhattan
EEA Service, Il
.By Georqe Tucker

Monte Proser, who owns the club,
inspected it, he sent for Clark
Robinson, the lean, moustached,
gray-templed scenic designer who
designed all the Translux theaters
in New York.
"These posts" muttered Monte.
do something with them. Make
them into palm trees but make
them different. Almost every
body has palm trees now.
These palm trees" now are
snow white and in plaster. g.
The white coconuts are lights. =.
The leaves are enormous, cover
ing the ceiling. Back of the bar in
panorama is the harbor Of Rio,
"modeled'' in plaster also. .
modelled in relief. 1t is a mix
ture of mirrors and lights and
plaster. . . The lights and the
colors blend so subtly that some
times it is difficult to tell where
one leaves off and the other be-
gins.
The results tend to show that,
for success, you can have, first of
all, an owner who knows abso-
Iutely nothing about lights and
color. Monte Proser admits know
ing nothing about either.
Then you call in a man who
knows scenic designing, and tell
him what you want. If the design
er is an imaginative fellow with a
flair for sensing what you would
like to have, but are unable to ex-
press-say a fellow like Clark
Robinson, who has been to Rio
why, it's in the bag. All you do is
tell him to write his own defin-
ton of Copacabana, and there you
.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
BY ROBIN COONS
Nov. q


''Screenplay by Jerry Cady."
You see it a great deal in the
movie credits. You see it so much
that it's worth a look to see what
makes Jerry Cady, a sort of mar
athon movie writer, click.
In the % months Jerry has
been under contract to RKO he
has turned in IA completed screen
plays. Since a script averages 100
pages and 675 speeches, Jerry has
put about 1000 speeches into the
mouths of actors. Wordage to a
page runs about $50. so Cady has
pounded out about 500. 900 words
and he does his own tipping.
That's a heap of writing in any
language, especially in the cryp-
tic code Of the film writer.
Jerry Cady is 80, vigorous. with
crisp. close-cropped reddish hair
and a square chin. He works in a
studio office with a secretary out
side. One thing he likes about RKO
is that they don't care where he
writes so long IS he gets things
done. He has divided his working
time between the studio, Catalina
island. the deck of his boat (be-
fore he sold it,, a dude ranch in
Arizona. and his home. Right now
he's working on four scripts at
once-"Playgirl." 1.-THE Saint in
Palm Springs" Montana" a n d
"They Met in Argentina"
It's not so much" he starts off,
because % months is a long
time. It's not as much as I used
to do, working on radio serials.
Yeah, cliffhangers. I used to keep
up Six 5-day-a-week serials, or 80
episodes a week, spending an hour
on each episode. Sometimes I'd
get the characters mixed. but not
TOO seriously. 1t meant turning out
about 60 pages a day, but l was
used to a grind after working on
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
CHANGES MIND

NEW YORK, Nov. 28-R-An-
gelo Mongiore, 23-year-old janitor
who was sentenced last week to 10
months in prison for refusing to
register for selective service,
changed his mind oday and regist-
cred at the federal house of deten-
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
TO VOTE ON DRIVE

LONDON, Nov. 20-LP- iaIe,r.
tional committee Of the AA .Fbo;
ated Engineering unIoh' ,o5
members are mainly ehsas ,to
war work, agreed today 10 o. al
work for a half day Dec II rss:
a test vote on 6 wage
campaign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
Night Parking Ban Lifted

The city commissions repeal of the night
parking prohibition carries a proviso which
places the responsibility for it's continuance
upon motor vehicle owners. In the city hall
announcement it is stated: IF the public will
cooperate with the commissioners in prevent
ing undue congestion by night parking i.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
INTERMEDIARY

NEW YORK, Nov. 28-RAThree.
year-old Desmond Horton asked
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt TODAY
to be his intermediary with Santa
Claus-to tell Santa to be sure to
leave a toy car for Desmond on
Christmas. The child made his plea
after edging up to Mrs. Roosevelt's
side as she was Christmas shop
ping here. The First Lady said
she'd do her best.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29

cent are citizens of the United
States. immigration of male jap
anese was prohibited after 1908 and
there has been no immigration of
or female-since
1924. Thus, of the "a, 6 Japanese
aliens still in Hawaii, there would
be only a very, very small mum,
Der OF males who could possibly be
OF the dangerous age'' from a
military standpoint, even if all of
them were sympathetic to japan.
which many observers insist thew
are not.
SEE ANOTHER TRIP
some facetious fellows here.
aoouts say that the upshot of it
probably will be another congress.
slonal Junket to Hawaii, like that In
1883; that the congressman will
vote TO inspect" the Islands again:
take a pleasant journey out that
way at a seasonable time of year:
return and report that they would
an De very happy to see Hawaii
liz 19eh state and there let the
rest at least until the
world settles down
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29
TOP o. H MORNING

As Thy prospecting hand hath blest,
May We give Thee of our best;
And by deeds of kindly love
For Thy mercies grateful prove.
ANNA L. BARRAULD
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-29

Adding molasses ana o,,r. .
products of the sugar ilo" n.,.
the soil has successt'I> If
alkalinity and increased '
ductiou.
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