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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24

tions except those submitted by public Off
Gals but as the money shark evil is SO extern
sive and oppressive to so many OF our people,
7 am glad to write you, hoping that THIS letter
may have some effect in suppresslng the evil
Those are the words of Attorney General
Mcmillan. He used them in a letter to a Char.
lotte attorney who requested the attorney
generals opinion on the common practice OF
small loan outfits.
What co they add up to and why DO we re-
peat them?
They add up to this, for one thing: The
states No, 1 law administrator, the attorney
general, says small loan outfits are charging
way in excess of the legal interest rate, that
they ought to be prosecuted, that he favors
rigid application Of the usury law which they
are violating, and that law enforcement Is all
that is required to put down an admitted evil.
One good reason for repeating them, we
think, is that when the No. l states attorney
publicly proclaims the existence OF a widespread
practice that is both evil and contrary to state
law, he thereby assumes responsibility for do
ing whatever he can to correct it by enforcing
the law he cites and by seeing that others do,
if he lacks the authority to do so.
Now we know very well that in this state
the attorney generals supervision over law en-
forcement agencies is more theoretical than
practical and we know that he is not obliged
to go out in the byways and see that solicit
tors, sheriffs and so on initiate proceedings
whenever and wherever law violation is sus-
pected.
We know very well, too, that if he had the
broadest ina ginable power, the state attorney
general could not handle his many. other duties
and also find time personally to bear down
on the money sharks.
But we know just as well that a system of
law administration and enforcement that gives
the theoretical head of that agency permission
to catalogue crimes and cite the law that pro-
hibits them but bars him from doing anything
about them is a mighty poor and mighty silly
system.
So, we say that having said what he has
about the money shark business, Attorney Cen
eral Mcmillan is required by his own state.
ment if not by his official duty, to go after
them or head-up a movement to fix things
so some one is specifically charged with that
responsibility. If that is not true, the attorney
generals statement stands as an official admis-
sion that we have about the worst law enforce
ment set-up ever created-one that embraces
plenty of laws and plenty of enforcement ma
chinery but nobody with authority to link the
two.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
BROTHERHOOD

The pessimistic view of these troubled
times is that the world is doing it's best to
20 to pot. With many nations in arms, with
fire and sword wrecking so much that civil
lization has built up, with children, invalids
and aged noncombatants slaughtered and
battlefields drenched in blood, the outlook is
indeed gloomy. And the settled belief OF a
large group of thinkers, that the hates, which
have risen to the top, will not be suppressed
as long as any armies are left to fight, does
not tend to brighten it.
But there is another view, the optimistic
view, that Notwithstanding the bloodshed, the
animosity and slaughter with which the days
are filled, there is still something to hope
for, something beautiful to achieve - the
brotherhood of man. With nothing to encour-
age it, nothing to justify it except a divine
Injunction, that goal is a shining mark, still
attainable.
Men have little now to spur them to friend
ship. Their governments won't permit it.
They have little to encourage them in klndll-
ness or helpfulness. Their governments place
guns in their hands and send them forth to
slay-or be slain. But for all this, and In
spite of it, brotherhood is still more than
a theory. It can be triumphant, even among
nations now at war-if men and nations heed
the divine command to love your neighbor,
and not hate him.
This was the thought Bishop DARsT brought
to his hearers at the brotherhood banquet
Thursday night, when Christians and Jews
gathered at the Masonic Temple in one of the
principal events on the program Of Brother
hood Week. 1t is a thought that should lie
close to the hearts of every mortal fortunate
enough to avoid death by any of the many
means employed in war during these parlous
times. Peace, decency, security will return tt
the earth as soon as the people, with one
voice and one demand insist that brotherhood
not enmity, he enthroned throughout thu
world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
FOR BETTER HEALTH

Not only poverty, but ignorance, says DR..
CARL V. REYNOLDS, state health officer, has
led to much i'll health in North Carolina. In
an effort to better the health situation among
the poorer classes of the population a general
committee will draft a program of education.
By this means it is hoped to teach the ignor.
ant what foods to eat to build up the resis-
tive powers of the body against diseases
stemming from low vitality,
Cooperating with the health department will
be Duke university, the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, Department Of Public Welfare, Depart.
ment Of Agriculture, State College Extension
division, North Carolina Medical society, the
College for Women and the University Of
North Carolina. With such a group enlisted
in the undertaking, the health of North Caro-.
linians should improve rapidly.
In the creation of a better understanding
Of health requirements the states unenlight-
ened will benefit without extra cost to them,
selves, for it is not so much what is spent
for food as what the food is that counts. I'm.
fortunately the jewellers in isolated sections,
lacking home economics courses and demon.
s%trations, have not been coached in the ad.
%vantages Of balanced diet, but have chung,
as their fathers did, to hog and hominy and
corn meal as principal food items, without
knowing that variety, a greater variety of
edibles, is literally the spice of life. Now, if
they are taught that the other foods needed
for health will cost them no more there is
no reason to doubt that they will not accept
diet expansion, with great improvement in
their physical well-being.
DR.. REYNOLDS has started something which
will give the state a new asset-sturdy bodies,
where sickly ones mostly grew before.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The best riot act
read to congressman yelping against economy
came from Rep. Clarence Cannon Of Missouri.
Members from the mountain and plains state
were riding all over him for supporting a $685..
900 cut that would abolish a flock of dry-land
and "dust-bowl' experiment stations. Said Mr..
Cannon:
"These dry-land stations are not worth the
money we are spending on them. They are
doing what ought not to be done. They are
duplicating each others work. They are tread
ing on each others toes, They are doing the
same work they have been doing for ten
years."
Representatives O'Connor of Montana and
Johnson of Oklahoma tried to break in on
his speech but he continued barking at them
so loud that the microphone hummed.
Il know" he said, turning on OConnor,
there is an experiment station in the gentle.
mans district that is being cut down and he is
trying to get it back in order to get votes"
Hee-haw, went the house.
mo, no." howled OConnor. THAT is not 1t"
II want to give you some advice that Speak.
er Cannon gave a new congressman who came
here" continued Cannon. HE came to see the
speaker and he said, I would like to come
back for at least one term and I want you to
tell me what to do
'"The speaker gave him a great deal of good
advice, which I do not have time to give here,
and some that was in too lurid language for
me to express on the floor; but among other
things he said:
Now, you think you have to get a whole
lot Of pork for your district. Ny experience
is that the fellow who gets the most pork
goes home and gets beaten. You come here
and vote for the interest Of the whole country.
You come here and be a statesman instead of
a politician. They will send you back here"
The house liked the story but still didn't like
the cut on agriculture. Tentatively the house
voted to restore the experiment stations.
Actually the real test Of congressional econ
omy spirit is in the agricultural appropriation
bill. On some Of the early roll calls the house
showed a disposition to trim farm spending.
dow-dressing. In times past the house has cut
farm appropriations, knowing the senate would
put them back. Don't be surprised this year if
it happens again.
The labor relations board estimates there are
5000, 900 to $500, 900 workers affiliated with
unions in the United States. The estimates are
based almost entirely on AFL and CLIO claims
over four Million" reports John l.. Lewis
for CLIO.
"4,O06,354," reports William Green of AFL,
right down to the last man.
That makes 5000, 0O0-plus The board esti
mates there are soc, 900 union men outside the
ALL and CLIO, the largest group being in the
rail labor organizations.
Before we quit we must get back to "Uncle
Joe" Cannon to report that the barber who
shaved and shingled him for nine years prior
to his retirement in 1923 is still shaving and
shingling EN- In the house. He is Bert Broden
and he has been keeping house members pre-
sentable for 20 years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
FOR BETTER FOOTBALL

W1LMINGTON's acceptance and support OF
w college football, during the two years
last past, has led to the formation Of a steer
ing committee with the purpose of securing
at least one and possibly two games the
second a post-season CLASSIFY at which fans
of southeastern North Carolina will be as
sured top-form play. The personnel OF the
committee, with HAROLD JETER as chairman,
assures the best in %gridiron performance a
non-college city can obtain.
With the valued support Of the entire dis
trict and increasing attendance, it is not at
all improbable that Wilmington in time may
be able to offer games between championship
squads of national reputation. This is the
secret hope of the committee, fulfillment OF
which, of course, depends entirely on public
support.
The football season Of 1910 is far ahead.
Just now basketball engages the interest OF
the athletic-minded. A little later it will be
baseball. But fall, despite chilly weather now,
is not so remote as to encourage delays in
planning for its support. 1t is therefore graft
flying and immensely encouraging to find
that athletic leadership in Wilmington is al
ready at work on a football program for next
autumn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
CITY HALL P E HOUSE

In his invitation to the public to visit the
repaired city hall when it is re-opened and
see what has been done to it to better fit it
for it's increasing requirements, Commissioner
of Public Works JAMES E. L. WADE calls par
ticular a~ttention to the Improvements in the
public library quarters.
The people Of Wilmington will be pleased,
he thinks, with the great improvements and
the new beauty Of the city's official home.
The city hall betterment project is among
the most important steps taken by the city
in its march Of progress. Wilmingtonians
will be glad to accept Mr.. WADE's invitation
to see how the work has been done and will
welcome the changes in equipment, especially
in the library which long has been under a
handicap through inadequate provisions for
its service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
TRIBUTE TO THE BRIGADE

It is a feather in the cap Of the Whining
ton Brigade Boys club that a group from
Charleston should come to investigate it's
workings and program as a preliminary step
to organizing a boys club in that city.
The club here has long ranked among Will
mington's most successful efforts to meet the
obligations to underprivileged youths. Organ
lied by the Kiwanis club, and later coming
under the wing of other civic organizations
when it outgrew the Kiwanis lap, it has been
the means of shaping the lives Of many Will
mington boys toward useful, gainful adult
activity. It has created a healthy respect for
good citizenship among a class which without
its guidance and help, would have been sad.
" likely to reach manhood unprepared for
the tasks, duties and responsibilities manhood
entails.
Now Charleston wants a similar club, with
similar detectives, and sends a delegation to
study it in all its ramifications, which, We
take it. is one of the richest rewards the
clubs sponsors have enjoyed. When the Bri.
gade's achievement is SO we'll recognized that
another city seeks to use it as an example,
1t proves its worth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24

No administration can survive majority dis
approval. Nor is that majority the preponder-
ance Of one party or another. Neither Repub-
leans nor Democrats have enough members In
their party to elect a Observation-Disclosures.
General James Farley.
Free enterprise and a government of men
cannot exist in the same country at the same
T. Weir, chairman OF the board,
National Steel Corporation.
1t is worth your while to consider whether
the "~ersatz'' progress of the New Deal is better
than our progress under individual freedom
and initiative.-Dist. Atty. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York, in Salt Lake City speech.
The Balkan powers are stronger than when
the war started-stronger in a military sense
and more united. We now feel that an attack
on one is an attack on all, and l am certain
we will act accordingly. Foreign Minister
Shukru Saracoglu of Turkey
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Mrs. Garrison Rites
To Be Conducted Today

Funeral services for Mrs. J. D.
Garrison, 60, who died at her home
Thursday afternoon at $50 O'Clock
after a short illness, will be held
from the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. D. G. Register, 1918 Carolina
avenue, this afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The Rev. C. D. Barclift and the
Rev. F. S. Johnson will conduct the
services. Interment will follow in
Oakdals cemetery.
Mrs. Garrison is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Register, Mrs. L.
E. Grant and Mrs. Audrey Bur-
nett, Of Wilmington. and Mrs.
George Burger, Of Pottsville, Pa;
one son, T. A. Garrison, of Will
mington; one sister, Mrs. j.. N.
knight, of Fort Myers, Fla; three
brothers, w. T. Brown, J. w.
Brown and J. T. Brown, Of Will
mington; and nine grandchildren.
Active paNbearers will be: 9. B.
Register, A. A. Lewis, T. A. Groom,
Henry Rhodes, Quinton Rhodes, and
w. K. Rhodes, Jr. Honorary pail
bearers will be: w. K. Rhodes, Q.
C. Hill, C. T. Walton, DR.. James M.
Hall, w. H. Biddle and John Wal
ton,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
CUARDIA RAPS
c. 0.P.CANDIDA7D
Mayor Announces He Is Filling
Defamation In Illinois
Primary April

NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-R-I4s
voluble mayor of New York, FA'
relic H. La Guardia, has come d
the conclusion, he said today, tn'
the present crop Of repubI:-l
presidential hopefuls is "a poi
one indeed" and added this tI'
Their comment: "Phooey.'
The mayors views were mac
in connection with his annolne7
ment that he was filing a decLn''
ton in the April 8 Illinois prelF-'
entail primaries, in which n
name was entered without III
knowledge as a candidate for @
republican nomination.
He was withdrawing, he 9'
planned, because he did not VAL
Ito divide the intelligent, pf0sE'F
sive Vote in that state and wy.
gested Illinois voters cast IR~
ballots for President Roosevelt
'"The purpose of this advls'I,
primary is to give the voters 90
opportunity of expressing 'AeD
selves" the mayor said, NOW o.
l have analysed the situation ~
voters in Illinois will have the W
portunity of expressing thelf ps
erence for a constructively ~.
gressive government by 'o..,
their preference for freS'..
Roosevelt who is entered III a.
primary, or they have 'aln
types of reactionaries among QUIZ
candidates. +.
The mayor named no NAMES
expressing his views.
La Guardia was elected u
gress as a republican, IS Nv"
member of the American
and has been genefaiv
pathetic to the New Deal .,I
He said today it was ms 'VI
ton that "you will see an emu
lev crop of candidates very 1
but he gave no indication Of VIM
he thought they might BE-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
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 Wrightsvile
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
S5toot Cape Fear River channel, Wid-
er Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Via
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
motional Agency, supported BY one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and DrydocE.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for phites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape gropUing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
MERGER OF NAVAL
BUREAUS IS URGED
Consolidation OF Construction
And Engineering Agen-
, cies Recommended

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s-R-A
merger Of two big bureaus of the
nations expanding navy has been
recommended, it was learned today,
by the navy's general board.
Under the plan, as laid before a
house naval subcommittee STUDYING
reorganization of the Navy depart
ment, the Bureau of Construction
and Repair would be consolidated
with the Bureau of Engineering.
Conflict of interest between these
two bureaus has been the subject of
criticism in congress for some time
and was aired most recently in testi-
mony dealing with the so called
"top-heavy" destroyers on which the
navy found it necessary to make ad.
iustments.
Generally speaking, the Bureau of
Construction and Repair has juris.
dictlon over the construction of
ships hulls, and the Bureau of Enei.
neering over construction and install
lation Of machinery.
A number of recommendations of
t'S 6NAASAo1 podlu, I1ldu0 up OF nigh
ranking naval officers charged with
serving the secretary of the navy in
an advisory capacity, will be before
the house subcommittee along with
those of the secretary and the chiefs
of the several bureaus when the
committee begins hearings Monday.
Some of the general boards ideas
seemed to differ from those express.
ed by President Roosevelt and Score.
tary Edison.
The board recommended that tho
chief of naval operations should he
the principal naval adviser and az.
ecutive to the secretary. He is
chared by law with the operations
of the naval forces and with their
preparation and readiness for use in
Under this proposal he also
would be charged with the direction
of the efforts of the various naval
professional bureaus and Offices If
the Navy department not directly
under the secretary, in relation +o
the readiness of the naval forces for
war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Persons Visit
Museum In January

Miss Ethel Williams, director NJ
the wilmington Museum of Art, re.
norted yesterday that January at.
tendance at the museum totaled 2.
662.
The January report comprised:
visitors to exhibitions, 1850; gal.
lery talks, 1895; lectures, 81; club
meetings, %; and art school, 14s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Man bout

Bv George tucker

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-I forget
the exact nature of the occasion,
hut late n night in n Of the
hotels the highly-paid entertainers
of the theatrical and musical
worlds began to c~ongregate, and be-
fore things had gone very far the
m. c, was dragging all the stars
of the stage and screen out on the
stage floor and each was making
a speech or doing pantomime, or
doing whatever their sp~ecialties
happened to be.
It was one of those unprogram-
med. unscheduled, unanticipated
windfalls that happen every now
and then on Broadway, and T can
remember being rather surprised
when somebody yelled to a man in
the booth, Throw that spot over
to the left -, put it on that man
over there"
By the time the spot reached
this man the m. C. had him by the
arm, and it turned out to be Harold
e. Hoffman, who had once been
the youngest captain in the U. S.
army and was a former governor
of New Jersey.
The ex-governor, having no say
in the matter, walked out into the
middle of the floor and proceeded
to give one Of the wittiest and fun.
NEST talks the crowd had ever
heard. Although he was preceded
and followed by stars whose sal.
aries run into five figures, people
who are highly paid because Of
their wit and their charm, Hoffman
walked off with the whole show.
Probably it is because of this
ability and also because he is presi.
dent of Saints and Sinners, and
because he knows practically every
one on this side of the river, that
Hoffman is almost as we'll known
on Broadway as he is in the poll
teal wards of Jersey.
He makes no bones about his am
bition to become governor of New
Jersey again. His career ran into
an unfortunate ramification Of the
Lindbergh-Hauptmann kidnap p n e
case several years back, and be.
cause of this he came up with
what the boys on the city desk
call a bad press" 1t was a sorry
turn for a man who only a few
years before was widely referred
to as presidential timber"
Well Hoffman is now A, after %
years in politics, and he has never
been defeated at the polls. He is
a liberal and his political enemies,
even in his own party, sometimes
make references to what they call
the "Hague-Hoffman alliance" His
answer to this on at least one pub
lie occasion was, my relations with
Hague are the same as they are
with Haig & Haig. I can take
either or let them alone"
In a way he is something like
Mayor LaGuardia in that he says
what he thinks, irrespective of
party. For instance, if Roosevelt
does something he likes, he says
so. Conversely, Republicans get the
bird when he does not approve Of
their policies.
What the political future holds
for this husky, quick-witted young
father of three daughters, l
wouldn't know. But I al tell you
this: If he yer wants a job he
can move over to Broadway and
make buns out of half the stars
who are elite on a street that, just
ly or not, is the most famous in
the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Wingate Junior College
Forensic Contest Opened

WINGATE, Feb. 23.-P)-The an.
nua1 Wingate Junior college forensic
tournament opened here today with
contestants entered from Winthrop.
Mars Hill, Virginia Tntermont and
Winsate colleges.
Contests were held in debating,
after dinner and extemporaneous
speaking. The tournament will end
tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Mrs. Amelia Lockamy
Rites Planned Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Amelia
M. Lockamy, wife of the late W.
o. Lockamy, who died at the Kath-
crime Kennedy home yesterday
morning at 4 o'clock, will held
from the chapel of Andrews NOR.
tuary this morning at $3.50 o'clock.
The Rev. G. D. Barclift, pastor of
the Fifth Avenue Methodist church.
will conduct the services. Burial will,
follow at Fayetteville.
Active pallbearers will be. T IT
Hawkins, W. H. schafer, ". r.
Dosher, W. F. LeGwin, Jarrell
Skinner. and L. H. Skinner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Rites For Mrs. Darden
To Be Conducted ! oaN

BURGAW, Feb. 23.-FuneIal -,
ices for Mrs. Bernice Spear a,
a member of the BurgaW sc-toS N
ulty, who died in a Kinstoh VA n.1i.
this morning at 5 o'clock i0n u. hi,
an attack of pneumonia VIII al
in Kinston Saturday Afternoon
o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
APPALACHIAN NlNo

CULLOWHEE, Feb. 23.-"
palachian's Mountaineers, lea MI
the race for the North oI"'' q,
ference crown, were given " M,
scare here tonight before w. .tg;;
back the challenge OF the
Carolina Teachers, so t.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-24
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH
Durham Herald

Persons who engage in the small loan bust
ness making charges at the rate Of 80 per cent
per annum or any other rate in excess Of six
per cent per annum are subject to the penal
ties provided In our usury laws.
1T Is my opinion that these laws ought to
be rigidly enforced to abate SO far as possible
this character Of imposition on the people of
the state.
Ordinarily this office cannot answer ques-