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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
THIRD STREET

Dear Sir:
The recent editorial in the Star
News entitled Third Street" has
aroused a considerable amount OF
comment and interest among your
readers.
The subject Of widening South
Third. street from Dock to Castle
streets by narrowing the plazas is
a verv serious one and many citi.
zens in Wilmington are dismayed
that such a plan is contemplated.
AS I understand this subject, to
widen this street by cutting down
the width of the plazas means that
MANY of the fine old oak trees nee
essarily will be killed. Even those
trees which are not directly on the
proposed new line will be seriously
damaged and will die because the
roots of old trees cannot be disturb
ed without. great danger of killing
the trees.
Many citizens consider that these
veteran oak trees on South Third
street are among the chief glories
and assets of Wilmington. Once de-
stroyed, the beauty and dignity of
this fine old residential street will
be greatly impaired.
In these days when historic south
ern cities r doing their utmost
Ito preserve distinctive features and
beauties of the past, and when one
considers that this street has the
very beautiful First Presbyterian
church; the CORVALLIS House, now
the property of the Colonial Danes;
fine old st. James church; the Con.
tederate Monument, it seems ex-
tremely short-sighted to sacrifice
|any unusual charm Of this street.
Many persons think that buses
and trucks can be diverted to other
streets. The modern idea is strong
for routing buses and trucks on the
outskirts of cities, rather than
through residential districts.
Surely Wilmingtonians have pride
in the beauty Of their city and wish
to preserve and increase rather than
destroy it.
LUCILLE MURCHISON MARVIN.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
EMPLOYER RELATIONSHIPS
Greensboro Daily News

all knowledge of solicitation of funds among
highway patrolmen for his gubernatorial chest
and Governor Hoey's disavowal, after designa.
ton of the admitted Suggestions as "improp.
er and ill.advised." that there would be nc
further solicitation among the patrol or any
other employees" of the state, it is presumed
that last weeks revelation, precipitating con.
ference between revenue commissioner.candi
date and governor. is a closed incident insofar
as official action is concerned.
That does not mean, however. that 1t will
not continue to cause talk Or. have its effect
IN the campaign which is just now starting.
Its very occurrence may nevertheless serve to
quite salutary purpose in that it has shown
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
SUBURBS AND DEMOCRACY?
Christian Science Monitor

Some thousnt-provoking points project from
the Rev. Stanley Manning's recent sermon in
West Hartford, Connecticut, under the arrest.
ing title, "Is West Hartford a Menace to Civil.
lization" The reverend gentleman contends
that this cultured, prosperously-populated proto.
type of the Newtons in Boston, Cleveland
Heights, Ohio; New Rochelle, N. Y; Lake
Forest, Ill, and Pasadena, Calf, threatens
democracy.
Like most other upper and middle.class
American suburbs, West Hartford is an ideal
home community. But Mr.. Manning believes
that it's %aloofness Is unfair to its struggling,
parent city.
This fact Of political separation but economic
unity deprives the parent city of much resi-.
dence tax revenue from those best able to pay;
eliminates from participation in certain public
affairs many individuals well qualified to serve,
and tends to leave the parent city with an
increasingly large proportion Of low-income
population to pay ever mounting costs.
Attempts to amalgamate satellite cities with
their primary sphere usually arouse the most
intense opposition. Suburbanites want nothing
to do with the politics Of the big city, nor to
have their schools under city influences.
Yet, as a question Of democracy. it Is Just
as essential to suburbanites as to city dwellers
that the whole community express a civic
consciousness Of the kind that makes for
wholesome government, that the schools offer
uniformly good opportunities, and that condi.
lions be attractive to the business that sup.
ports both the parent city and the suburbs.
Whether these ends can be forwarded by
Jumping these communities into one political
unit is a question not susceptible to a simple
answer. How can the high moral tone, finan.
clal responsibility, and community pride in
their suburbs be brought into the service of
cities without damage to suburbs?
In Boston, a partial solution was found
through the Metropolitan District commission,
which operates a system of parks, highways,
water systems, and sewers for a group of cities
and towns In the area. This idea has been
duplicated lsewhere.
1t may be that extension Of such supra-gov.
ernmental agencies will offer one way for
American communities gradually to transcend
political boundaries in a way that would dem.
onstrate a more practical democracy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
new NAzI THRUST
HALTED BY FRENQ
Section Of Infantry Make
Another Stab AT Lines West
Of The Saar River

PARIS, Feb. 14.-LH--A srt
of German infantry made anNdi
stab at French lines west o. 4
Saar river in sub-zero weather tod
but the French high command 81
the thrust crumpled before Frel
counter-fire.
At the same time the French a
nounced that a German cargo BIZ
the name of which was not g0s
had been captured by French La
blockade forces and escorted to
French port.
The night communique said:
"An enemy raid failed west
the Saar. A German cargo III
has been captured and taken int
French port.
German patrol activity on q
western front increased, acconEl
led by isolated attempts to pinch
French outposts to gain infoEn'
ton on Allied intentions and trl
dispositions on the northeast
flank of the front.
In the Bitche area German 4
tillery fire drew return fire t1
French guns. Military sources v
there was no apparent reason \
the German bombardment, VIZ
was of a local nature. IesteNl
the fire of French automatic VI
pons repulsed a frontier rad
about SO Germans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
.SIDELIGHT ON THE CENSUS

With completion by April l of the bust
the federal census, and the job is now sixty
per cent lone, says Mr.. HAROLD H. JETER, who
is in charge, the count of population and the
gathering of other information to be included
in the tabulations will get under way.
1t is good to know that the work is pro-
crossing so satisfactorily, but not so nice to
learn, as a sidelight on the local unemploy-
ment situation. that more than $50 eligibles
have applied for the II jobs to be open then
for enumerators. This is far in excess Of the
normal demand for work, and indicates that
Wilmington shares the lot of the country at
large in inability to give employment to all
who need it and are capable of working.
In an address delivered for political pur.
poses, and is thus t~inctured with criticism
but otherwise probably quite accurate as to
facts. former President HOOVER recently cited
that fully ten million workers are still idle
despite our boast of recovery, as showing the
failure of the administration to meet its OBJ
legation toward labor. The political twist Civ.
en- by Mr.. HOOVER to his remarks is accept
able to members of his party, but does not
change the fundamental fact that business
and industry have not gone to extremes In
restoring prosperity but have held back in tho
hope OF forcing the administration to favor
their interests at the cost Of others. Al the
same time, his words emphasize the fact that
there can be no solution of the unemployment
problem as long as ten million workers can.
not find jobs.
When $50 here seek ~ available jobs, Will.
mington is shown to have as serious a prob
lem on its hands as exists in any community
in the country. How to solve it is something
Wilmington must devote thought to at once.
A SPLENDID VENTURE
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
Missing Woman Found
In Critical Condh

TRYON, Feb. 14.-LP-Mfs'
Bradley, 27, mother of three
dren, was found in a critical cA
ton from exposure in the mouhs
near her home about $3.50 o."
this afternoon after a lSl
search by members of the snF''
department and a score or NUT
Polk county citizens. u.
Mrs. Bradley disappeared !
her home in the foothills OF
mountains above Tryon a0o',
o'clock this morning. she '
dressed in light clothing and INV
coat.
When found by Deputy Sn',.
Melton and Hall, Mrs, BradIe. ,
in an almost unconscious conI'r,
with feet and legs badly ~
and swollen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
One Man Injured In
English Bomb Blast

BIRMINGHAM, Eng, Feb. 10
(Thursday).-R-A time bomb ex-
ploded in the doorway Of a shoe
shop in the center Of Birmingham
just before midnight last night, in
1uring n man. Police, .suspcctjng
Irish republican army bomb.plAnt-
ers, Immediately stopped all auto
mobiles leaving the area.
Two young members of the l. R.
A., James Richards and Peter
Barnes, were hanged in Birming.
ham on February Z for a bomt. ex.
plosion which killed five persons in
Coventry last August. The execu.
ton aroused many protests in Ire.
land.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
WANT TO TRADE?

GRAND FORKS, N. D., Feb.
14-(R-Want to trade q farm
for q Stradivarius violin?
So queried Leroy Turner,
Verndale, Mimi, to a Minnea-
polls land agency, which turned
the letter over to C. A. Veblen,
Grand Forks field man for a
Minneapolis bank.
Said Turner:
II have looked at several Of
your farms. l have my fathers
old, genuine Stadivarius violin
in safe keeping. 1 see by the
paper one was sold for $4,000
by a man at Faribault, MINI.
If you want fathers violin for a
good farm 1 would like to make
deal with you."
The John l.. Larson Land
Co., wrote Veblen:
eve have sold many q farm
for a song but this is the first
time we have been offered a fid-
die for one. How would you like
to buy q nice fiddler"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
L. H. TurbiviHe Dies
Home Near RoulA

Feb. Id. d. i.
Vile, about 60, widely-kno"h -~
of the Gaddy's Mill section >.
here, died suddenly of a near
tack at his home early TO-DAY -.
Funeral rites will be coi'g VI,
Thursday morning at u w. ~,
from Ashpole Presbyterian 'D. :,
with interment in the churcH
terry. =.
Surviving are his Wldo"' n
sons, Bruce, Hinton and jams d,
biville, and one daushteI'
Sarah Turbiville, all OF 'H' 4,
Several brothers and sls1el'
survive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
The Editors
BOX

The Editor does not necessar-
~ endorse any article appear
inc in this department.. They
renresent the views OF the In
dividual readers. Correspondents
are warned that all commune
cations must contain the correct
name and address for our rec
ords. though the letter may DO
signed as the writer sees fit.
The Star-News reserves the
right to alter any text that for
n reason IL Objectionable.
Letters on controversial sub
iects will not be published.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
-Four Persons Die When
Auto Falls Through Ice

SANDUSKY, O., Feb. IA Up -
An automobile plunged through thin
Lake Erie ice today carrying Dir.
George j. Edam, SO, his wife and
two small children to death in 80
feet of water off Middle Bass island,
five miles north of the Ohio main.
land.
The bodies Of DR.. Edam and his
wife, Noretta, 80, were recovered by
Captain Lee Miller, harbor master
at Punt-In-Bay, as they floated on
the surface of the lake. Those of
the children, Barbara, 2, and George,
Jr., 8, were not recovered imnedi-
ately.
Postmistress Mildred Mccain of
Middle Bass island saw the car
plunge into the lake and summoned
aid. DR.. Edam, Put-In-Bay physic-
ian, was answering a call on Middle
Bass Island, and was driving off the
usual over-the-ice path between the
two islands.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
Reports On Iron Lung
Drive Given To Ciuitans

Members Of the Wilmington Civil.
tan club yesterday heard reports OF
the progress Of the campaign now
under way to raise funds for the
purchase of an iron lung, for viii.
mington.
Plans yer made for a continual
tlon OF the drive until sufficient
runos are raised to insure purchase
OF the lung which will be available
TO All people in Wilmington and
viclnlty for treatment Of such af-
1ilctlons as infantile PARALYSIS.
browning, electric shock, acute al
cohollsm and other maladies affect.
ing the respiratory system.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
-bx Robin Cooss


HOLLYWOOD, Feb. IA. - Young
Tom Edison was facing an embar
RAISING moment, and Spencer Tracy
was playing it in the quiet way.
Edison then was working in
Newark, N. j., and he wasn't making
much money. Today he had dropped
into a lunch house for a cup of cof-
fee, for which he had the dime, and
while he was there the attractive
Miss Mary Stilwell came in and or
dered the 35-cent lunch. Edison
had met her, and before he knew 1t
he had insisted on taking her check.
The scene now was at the cashiers
counter, and the cashier was saying,
|"No!" very decidedly as Tracy di-
son asked for credit. Miss Stilwel]
Rita Johnson) solved the dilemma
by dropping a silver dollar to the
floor. You dropped that, Mr.. Ed.
son." she remarked demurely, as
became his future helpmeet.
This is a bit of fiction in the film
version of the great inventors
llife-an incident that could have hap.
|pened ven if it didn't.
The movies are more considerate
than life. If such an incident red.
dened Thomas A. Edison's face in
fact, the inventor had simply to grin
and bear it. Tracy-Edison now, in
the same situation, has merely to
turn his head and see, two years in
the future and a few miles away, the
scene of his future exploits.
For the lunch-house set in New
ark Is less than so feet from the Edi.
son laboratory in Menlo Park a set
in Edison The Man" constructed
with a passion for accuracy that
would doubtless please the Menlo
wizard were he alive,
Making doubly sure of this is the
presence of William A. Simonds,
curator of Henry Ford's Greenfield
Village near Dearborn. The labora-
tory as it was in Edison's day has
been duplicated again in Hollywood
from a dozen reels of film shot
at Greenfield, from scores Of still
pictures, from blueprints, from work.
ing models OF original Edison in.
|%ventions.
This set is on the second floor, of
the Edison laboratory. Downstairs
ION mother set) is the Edison ma.
chine shop, but here, in the barn.
like wooden structure lit bv kero-
sene. lamps and gas Jets, is where
Edison developed the phonoeraph.
the electr1c light, and other great
discoveries.
ITS amazing" Simonds saws.
"the way these boys have made these
models-and they work."
Edison's early phonograph. hand.
operated by a crank, is on a work.
bench near the inventors h,,nooro,,s
ly conceived but extremely practical
"waker-upper" for tired assistants-
a wooden scraping clapper which
when cranked emits an unsod,v
noise. All his equipment for eiectrio
light experiments with which Trao,,
must work) is there; at one end ths
pipe organ on which. he played ~
relaxation; and his own version Of
Bells telephone.
His first important invention
the n that never sold, is thera
too. It's a v~ote-recorder for leris.
lative bodies. Edison took it to
Washington and found no interest
in electric. vote-recording.
1t may e odd, in a movie about
Edison. that his work on the movies
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
HERO HEINIE

DENVER, Feb. 14.-G9-lN ,,,,.a
of Heinie, a Dachshunu nsrfs
aroused five members OF MD
family asleep in a smoke lllls, "
today. Mrs. Burt W. hH .hatsl
mother-in-law and her three ID
all escaped unframed. HEM
of suffocation,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
Man bout
Manhattan
BY George Tucker

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE Irish
are a great people and I know Goo
loves them, but after this I am go
ing to eschew any further revivals
or new plays by Sean OCasey, OF
Liam O'F1aherty, or any of thei,
distinguished colleagues for the
purely personal reason that they
leave me with the willies.
Ever since I can remember the
Irish song writer's have been in.
sisting that ireland must be Heaven
and the Irish dramatists have beer
doing their best to make liars Out
of them. At least the O'Caseys anG
the O'Flahertys have. There Is no
thing angelic about the people they
write about. When the first curtain
rises they are about on a level that
Tobacco Road jewellers would regard
as poor white trash, and they &c
down from there.
There is on Broadway at this
moment a highly successful revival
Of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the
Paycock." After three acts Of this
I wondered why even the optimists
in the audience didn't go home and
open a vein. This play is billed as a
comedy and the critics called it up
roariously funny" but the only mes
sage I got out of it was that life is
futile and that man begins to decay
the moment he is born.
Juno and the Paycock" is the
story Of a family that rocks to OBJ.
livion from the dizzy heights of the
gutter. There are four people-the
mother, the father, the sister and
the brother. The father is the Pay
cock, a liar and a drunk who will
not work. The brother is a fear
crazed weakling who is finally
executed by some free.Ireland-or-
perish fanatics. The sister turns out
to be a girl who falls by the way.
SIDE" leaving only the mother to
attempt in some way to hold the
raveled strands of the family to-
gether.
All o. their acquaintences and
friends are liars who excel only in
invective and who doublecross each
other during and between the acts.
The final curtain falls on a dead
son, a betrayed daughter, a drunken
father who plans to horse.whip his
for soiling the family name
and the mother, who is now a hu'-
died heap Of misery in the center of
a bare stage, all of the furniture
been taken away for lack of
payment.
These r the sort Of people
OCasey writes about, and therefore
one must assume that they repre-.
sent his point of view, or at least his
Idea of Ireland. None of his char.
.cters ever reaches the happy end
Ing. They are always born m a sort
semi-purgatory Of horror and
their lives are always turned into a
series of convulsive illiads.
But; probably I am all wrong. For
2 generation critics on. both sides #
the ocean have called O'Casey a
magnificent playwright, and they
should know. Once Il song writer
said that ireland was something like
heaven. ALL can say is that If
oCasey's Ireland is this Heaven, I
VIII take Helsinki.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15

Is not touched. It isn't odd. Edison's
contributions to the screen came aft.
81 MS days of struggle were ended.
a screen drama, even about the man
VINO made modern movies possible,
must have struggle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-15
TOP o. THE MORNING

Service is a wondrous privilege. No life is
complete or natural aoithont it. Yet the serv'
ice is a1uays less than the life or prayer.
S. D. GORDON
Nogales international., 1940-03-09
The April 9th Democratic Conclave

WITH the Democratic State convention set for April
Gin Phoenix practical politicians are deep in con-
lecture, wondering which band wagon will lead the
National parade.
Purpose of the convention is to name National
Committeeman and National CommitteewOman; Sc
lect delegates to the Democratic national conventions
and possibly instruct the delegation on behalf OF some
presidential candidate
Because President Roosevelt may be drafted by the
national convention to head the ticket for third
term many Of the party leaders in Arizona, despite
their personal preference for other candidates. are
loath to commit the delegation by definite instruc-
tons Also some Of them feel that with Arizona sec
ond on the roll call the delegation is in excellent
position to dicker for favors if it goes unstructed
Despite rumors to the contrary there is little doubt
that Arizona will favor Roosevelt if he desires to run
or should be drafted by the convention. Considering
it's population and small congressional membership,
the Baby State has been highly favored by the New
Deal.
Should Roosevelt decline the hardships Of another
term-and that is unquestiOnably his own wish -
three candidates are apparently in the best position
to capture Arizonas convention vote. They are John
N Garner Paul V. McNutt and Burton K. Wheeler
Viewed from present sentiment their comparative
strength in the state is about in the order named
Nogales international., 1940-03-09
The Death OF Cyrus Marsteller

MO death in many years has caused more profound
~ sorrow than that of Chief of Police Cyrus Mar
stelIer who passed away very suddenly Wednesday
night.
A Virginian by BIRTH Mr. Marsteller, like most
southeners courteous, kind polite and the sort
of man who was known real gentleman at all
times and a man who quickly made friends
He made fine record as chief of police, liberal in
his views yet an officer who enforced the law with
fairness toward all.
He was real friend Of children and knew We all
do that small boys apt to be mischevous at times
Just week ago six boys arrested for plndering
automobiles parked about the high school gymnasi-
um representative of this paper asked for details
They were given but with the request of Chief Mar
steer that no names be published He believed in pro-
tectng children and realized that publication of names
might hurt the reputation of the youths who may
never again get into trouble.
On Wednesday, the day he died. the writer was ask
ed by '"The Chief what had been done about meet
ing to consider the holding of the annual La Fiesta
Mexicana, project that Mr.. Marsteller felt was
good thing in bringing crowds here each year.
When told that the meeting is being planned for
Tuesday night in the council chambers he replied: III
that room is too large I'll have it arranged the
sion can be held in larger quarters upstairs In the Fire
men-Legion Hall He was always willing to cooperate
toward the success of worthwhile projects.
To Mr. Marstellers fine mily-his wife and beau
tful young daughter and other relatives Inter
national extends sympathy in their hour OF bereave
ment The community has lost citizen and an officer
whose place will be hard to fill a who was loved
by all of his friends and acquantances.
Nogales international., 1940-03-09
Political
Announcements
For Senator

For Senator
1 hereby announce myself as
a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for State Senator,
subject to the decision of the
voters at the Democratic pri-
maries in September.
JAMES A. HARRISON