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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Editorial Comment
OLD-TIME DISCIPLINE NEEDED
Charlotte Observer

OQdElOtt6 OUSCTtcT
The first virtue Of the old-time schoolmaster,
his right arm in his work, was discipline, He
might know little, might keep just one lesson
ahead of his higher Scholars, but if he
could maintain order and command respect
he was regarded as a successful teacher, and
he was that very thing.
Of course we now laugh at the old field
school, with its one teacher, it's all-day session
lasting until sEndown-the moderns now say
sunset-but some very rugged individuals
came through those doors and, having learned
discipline, rose in the world, developed a great
civilized, educated, cultured nation and fur
nished the means for the big, modern school.
The modern school too often lacks that
old-time discipline. A case in point is the
strike of 200 to 260 pupils in the Weaverville
school. The strikers didn't like the choice made
by the school board in electing a principal.
So, Undisciplined, the strikers marched in
protest, cut telephone wires and otherwise
adopted modern strike methods.
They did this so thoroughly that Buncombe
county school authorities requested the State
Highway patrol to send officers to control
the situation, Just as when an industrial strike
gets out of hand. This is a modern age.
| Which is better, tas discipline of the old
field school teacher, with his limited know
ledge of everything but discipline, or the
discipline of State Troopers; the respect that
arises from strength of the individual or that
! enforced by lmen with guns on their hlps?
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21

out increased responsibilities in the
feeding of the nation in 1941.
The report reveals that during
the year 1910 Swift and company
employed $500 more men in the
United States and Canadian plants
than it did in 1889. Since the close
of the 1910 fiscal year on October
26 there has been an additional in
crease Of 1000 on the payrolls of
the company. On the pension rolls
of the company r 2,088 former
employees and 1861 widows and mi
nors dependents. During 1910 ST.
687, 1886 was paid out in pensions.
Employees do not contribute to the
pension fund. Over 40, 900 employees
are covered by group life insur-
ance policies with $158, 900, 900 of
Insurance in force.
The company's earnings for the
year were $11, 1873, 484 and accord
ing to the report employees received
$lo2, 417,0 oil in wages and salaries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Shipyard Site Chosen

Announcement that a site has been chosen
for shipyards at Wilmington and only that
minor legal details remain to be settled before
actual construction of the plant will be started,
effectually ends rumors that a hitch had
arisen and that Wilmington might lose this
great defense project. 1t was a foolish rurnor,
to begin with, and it shows how runaors with
no fact to support them may be inflated
through r%etelling until they seem to be true
and depress people who ought to know better
than listen to them at an.
1t is now definitely known that at least six
and possibly eight ways will be in operation
here on property overlapping both oil terminal
property and the Sunset Park tract and that
"a cargo ships will be built as a part of the
administration program.
Furthermore, the project will attract a large
number of workers who, because of these ex-
tended operations, will bring their families
and become citizens of Wilmington. 1t is esti-
mated that at least 1000 men will be on the
Job at the peak, which means that probably
Wilmington's population will increase by, con-
servatively, 0 1000 persons through this under.
taking alone. This influx, in combination with
the additional population to be absorbed with
the opening of Camp Davis at Holly Ridge,
and the other defense projects likely to be es.
.tablished in the Wilmington trade area, i'm.
poses a tremendous obligation upon the people
of the city to prepare for their reception.
They will need not only houses, but schools
and Fairgrounds and recreation facilities tar
in excess Of those now existing. And it will be
necessary for stores, banks, restaurants, and
other places of business to increase their
stats to keep moving at a smooth pace. Ii
all the requirements of additional population
are to be met, it seems imperative for Viii.
mingtonians to draft an expansion program
promptly and start, without loss of time, upon
that programs operation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Credit Unions

The report of the Advisory Budget Com.
mission to the general assembly contains nc
provision for credit unions and recommend
that no appropriation be made for them from
the states general fund during the next two
years. The proposal is to put credit union
audits on a fee basis.
AS the credit unions are the most effective
safeguard against loan sharks and usurious
rates of interest by credit firms, it seems that
the commission, in an attempt to make short
cuts to economy, has offered only a new
means of robbing Peter to pay Paul, and that
if its plan is adopted by the legislature many
unfortunate borrowers and installment pur-
chasers will be in line for an Unprecedented
fleeing. If the fee system is employed there
can, be no doubt that many small credit
unions, unable to pay for audits will be
crowded out of business.
The North Carolina Credit Union League
has taken up the fight for an appropriation
of $4,000 for continuing it's helpful, if not
actually necessary, operations, and is urging
the people of the state to reinforce its effort
with letters and kilograms to the appropr1a.
ions committee at Raleigh which will open
hearings tomorrow afternoon. Even better than
communicating by mail or wire would be
personal appearance at the committee hearing
the more effectually to impress the committee
with the weight of public opposition to the
commissions proposal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
The Inaugural Address

It was a solemn summation of all tn
drives America forward to preserve Democra
CIV, whether at home or in the lands under
more immediate threat from its enemies,
which President Roosevelt uttered yesterday m
his third inaugural address, when he declared:
1.-The life of a nation is the fullness OF the
measure of its will to live"
And when, near the close, Mr.. Roosevelt
said: IF the spirit of America were killed,
even though the nations body and mind, con-
stricted in an alien world, lived on, the Ameri-
ca we know would have perished," we find
the keynote not only of the inaugural thought
for the people but the lett motif of the ad-
ministration just starting.
Eight years ago this man whom the Ameri-
can people set aside a treasured tradition to
retain in the highest office for a third term
stood where he stood yesterday to take the
same oath, to put into practice certain re-
forms he considered best calculated to bring
America back from the slough of depression.
Then, he told the people 1--WE have nothing to
fear but fear" Again, on yesterday, chastened
and hardened by experience and service, older,
sterner in his faith in the the principles upon
which his country was established, he again
babe the people to be of good cheer, despite
the bitterness and ruthlessness and despotism
stalking the earth, because: 1--WE do not re-
treat. We are not content to stand still. .
We 60 forward. in the service of our coun-
try, by the will of God"
To call this inaugural address great would
be to do it scant justice. 1t was great, to be
sure. but its greatness was not confined to the
Presidents choice of words, or to his tanned
delivery, or to the ceremonial spectacle that
it, but to its revelation of the mind,
the honesty, the deep spiritual dedication to
the Democracy on which our whole right to
existence rests.
preting this passage from the address as
President Roosevelt's confession of faith:
Democracy is not dying.
We know it because we have seen 1t
revive-and grow.
We know it cannot die-because it is
built on the ~unhampered initiative of in
dividual men and women joined together
in a common enterprise-an enterprise un-
dertaken and carried through by the free
expression of a free majority.
We know it because democracy alone,
of all forms of government, enlists h e
full force of mems enlightened will.
We know it because, if we look below
the surface, we sense it still spreading
on every c~ontinent-for its is the most
humane, the most advanced, and in the
end the most unconquerable of all forms
of human society.
We know it because democracy alone
has constructed an unlimited civilization
capable of infinite progress in the i'm
provement of human life. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Varied Docket Heard
In Recorders Court

Louis Tyson, 1112 North Sixth
street, charged with an assault on
a female, was given a directed
verdict of not guilty.
Howard Willis, of New Brooklyn
Homes, charged with an assault
on a female, was found not guilty.
Levi Baldwin. of Leland, charged
with hit and run driving and with
damage to property was given a
directed verdict of not guilty when
the court learned there was no
one in the car which his C a r
struck to whom he could have
given his name, address and other
information as required by law.
C. E. Taylor, of 208 South Third
street, was tried on a charge of
driving while under the influence
of intoxicants and was given a
preliminary hearing on a charge
of hit and run driving where in
juries resulted during a long es-
sion of recorders court yesterday.
Judge Alton A. Lennon found
him guilty on the charge of oper-
ating an automobile while under
the influence of intoxicants but
dismissed a charge of hit and run
driving for want of probable
cause.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Moving Eastward

Acknowledging that medical authorities re-
fuse to be quoted on the point, news dis
patches chart the course of the present intlu
enza epidemic from Hawaii to the Pacific
Coast to the East and predict that its next
stop will be Europe.
The assumption seems reasonable enough,
for though the progress of the disease has
not been steady in the United States there can
be little doubt of its direction. First reports
of widespread cases came from California.
Later ones came from the South and the
middle West. Now community after commun-
ity up and down the Atlantic seaboard is re-
porting epidemics.
Fortunately this particular type of influenza
seems to be nothing like the dread .scourge
that took thousands of lives during the last
World war. 1t is mild by comparison and it is
not a forerunner of pneumonia in most cases.
More encouraging, since the World war
science has made considerable progress in
combating diseases of this kind. There is no
panacea yet in sight, but methods of treat
ment have been improved. Moreover, there
are now available new drugs that are effective
in dealing with pneumonia.
Despite all this, Americans will hope that the
ocean will prove a barrier to the further ad-
vance of this epidemic. Europe has enough
troubles now, with war and impending famine
to deal with. 1t will be a cause of satisfaction
if it is spared influenza, even though this all
ment can hardly be called pestilence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty.County Government
Under CounctlManage Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Morketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial sho1s.
Seaside Ht0hpay from Wrightsvile
Beech to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, utd-
er Turning Basin. Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved Rtver Road to Southport, Via
Orton Plantation.
Developmen t OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustaine ID yield methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo.
tional Agency. supported by ono county
Wtde tar.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina. developed around the
Community Hospital
adequate hospital ~iNties for Whftes.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF ndtive grape 0roWtn0
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis SanatoTiunt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Jan. 20-Lay this
morning a long time, having beer
Weakened near dawn by my son,
who hath a tooth out, and who,
finding that no fairies had come
in the night to retrieve it from
his pillow and replace it with a
dime. set up such a howl as had
not been heard since the wind blew
shut the door on the cat Cynthia's
tail, pinching it off.
So pen nell into his quarters,
and I slipped a coin v~der his pill
low, though not very adroitly, and
he skeptical at first, and then
scornful, and this, methinks, for
him marks the end of a thrilling
adolescent illusion.
So back to bed, where I have
lain these eight days past, and so
made a breakfast of coffee and
figs; and there came a cheerful
note from Lanny Ross, and an
other from John Cairns, the ad-
vertising executive, who funs me
with a merry ballad about my
mumps, which he composed him
self. And there was one, too, from
Fay Thomas, whom I used to know
in Cleveland and who is now at
the Hotel New Yorker; and an
other from Mel Graft, the artist,
who has sent me a book on fish
ing by Ray Bergman, who, like
Graft, lives in Nyack, N. Y, which
is where the actress Helen Hayes
also lives.
So all morning reading from
John w. Thomason's biography of
Jeb Stuart, which I found mighty
fascinating, though I have already
read it three or four times, and
I much moved by the rich beauty
of the last few passages which
summarize Stuart's passing, thus
ly:
so in the thirty-second year of
his life, and in the fourth year of
his country's independence, as he
would say it, passed Jeb Stuart.
All his life he was fortunate. It
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21

was given to him to toll greatly,
and to enjoy greatly, and to taste
no little fame from the works Of
his hands, and to drink the best Of
the cup of living. He died while
there vac still a thread of hope
for victory. He was spared the
grinding agony of the nine months
siege, the bleak months that
brought eliminating disasters, and
the laying down of swords, at Ap-
pomattox. He took his death-wound
in the front of battle, as he wanted
it, and he was granted some brief
hours to press the hands of men
who loved him, and to arrange
himself in order to report before
the God of Battles, Whom he
served"
l think in these words you will
find the pattern of a magnificent
life, and if l had them on parch-
ment I would frame them, and
look at them every day; for there
was only one Stuart, and he rode
to war with a plume in his hat,
and a French sword over his gold
cavalry sash, and when he fell, at
Yellow Tavern, a color and a
CLEAN went out of the Southern
armies that never came back
again.
By post in the late afternoon
came news from observers along
the r~ialto, and the new drama by
Tennessee Williams, which hath
Miriam Hopkins for its star, has
closed down for repairs on the
road, and it will be five weeks
at least before it comes to Broad
way.
Bedtimes hungry, and ate a fine
dinner of hot spoon-bread and fish
roe, which l like, and a salad
which I care not for but which 1
was compelled to take, and some
date-nut loaf which was mighty
elegant, and coffee, without which
no meal however simple al be
worth a fig; and 1 hope you re-
member this if I am eve invited
to your house.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Two Months?

Although the program discussed by Hitler
and Mussolini in their Sunday conference IS
jealousy withheld in Berlin at the time this
is written, it is obviously with authority tfat
the Duce's editors announce a tremendous
offensive may be expected within two months.
The time thus approximately set might be
correct. At least better weather may be ex-
pected then than now prevails in Europe. At
the same time, the Fascist editors may have
set the date so far ahead in the hope OF de-
ceiving the Greek and British allies. If this
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
|CRANCE PRESENTS
TAX PROPOSITION
Would Partially Exempt
Homes Occupied by Owners
From Ad-Val0rem Levy

RALEIGH, Jan. 20-R- The
State Grange executive committee
today endorsed a proposal which
would partially exempt from the
ad-valorem tax all homes occupied
by their owners.
Under the Grange recommended
ton, an owner-occupied home
would be taxed at one-half the pre-
vailing rate on the first $1,000 Of
valuation. This would neal that g
home on the tax books for $4,000
would be taxed as if it were valued
at 81, 500; a home on the books for
81, 1000 would be taxed as if it were
valued at $500.
The committee also voted in ia
vor of returning all receipts from
the intangibles tax to the local
governments, but this was en-.
dorsed on condition that partial
homestead exemption be granted.
The intangibles tax receipts for the
local governments would serve as
a means of ''equalizing the tax
load and granting justice to home
owners" the committee said. ,
The Grange group also endorsed
proposals to: ID Match federal
funds available for extension work
and vocational education. ca Add
a 18th grade to the public school
system and 60 Give farmers
representation on all state boards
and commissions dealing with
problems affecting the rural vel
fare.
Commenting on the Homestead
exemption position, Harry B. Cald-
well, of Greensboro, state master,
asserted that the new proposal to
apply half the tax on oWner-oc-
cupied homes up to $1,000 would
answer an objection previously
raised that exemption of low-cost
homes would create a tax.free
group,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Docket for Civil Court
Term Is Arranged Here

The calendar committee of the
New Hanover county bar associa'
ton met yesterday at the office OF
T. A. Henderson, clerk of court,
and arranged the docket of cases
for the two weeks civil term OF
court opening here Monday morn,
ing, February 8.
Judgs r. Hunt Parker, of Roa-
noke Rapids, will preside. The
docket includes 40 civil actions, q
the first week, and 10 the second
week. Uncontested divorce cases
VIII be heard on the opening day
of court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
Q~uartermaster's Agent
Inspects Work At camp

Harry Fish, of the construct,
division Ut the office Of the Qua
master general of the u at
in Washington was a Vlsl'o'
Camp Davis yesterday. IT,
The visit is his secolu ,,il
$40. OoO, 900 camp which soon
house 10000 men
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
TOP o. THE

Our character is the stamp on our souls OF
the three choices of good and eUu We haze
made through life.
-GEIKIE
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21

A westerner is reported to have invented an
airplane which goes up and down like an
elevator. Hope the pilots won't have to memo
rize on what floor are kitchen utensils, ready
10 wear and mems O coats.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21

All vehicles of three-ton capacity
or more account for less than |
per cent of all vehicle mileage Oh
county and secondary roads 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21

One more week and DAD can quietly put
aside all those Christmas ties without the CIV
ers Noticing their absence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-21
' F air Enouuh
BY WESTBROOK pFC1rp

The Star wishes its reader,
to know that views and onin
ions expressed in this article
are those of the author M
may not always harmoni7a
with its position.-The Editor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Develop!
Easier Tone;;
Boy Beans Dip
,2IICAGO. Aug. 16.-Wheat de-
AAA Ane., -. o..

|,&IICAGO. Aug. 16.-Wheat de-
ed an easy tone in today'S
/ .ydealings and closed * to &c
pr, around the low for the day.
Prices backed and filled in =
hervous trade early. then turned
downward. September closed sc
bff at $1.11h.
Soy beans also were under pres
lure late and closed u 10 &c off
bitter losing early gains of as much
|bs lac.
Corn finished * 10 sc off. oats
sc off and rye y 10 sc off.
Attracting attention in wheat
MAS a Washington dispatch quot
ing price administrator Leon Hen
|ierson to the effect that while
be is in favor of the 10 per cent
Pf parity ceiling he does not eX-
beet farm prices 10 rise 10 such
high levels.
The early bulge in soy beans
|Tas based on the tight cash situa-
ion and an upturn in soy bean
neal prices.
Country offerings OF corn were
ight and the belt was devoid OF
hoisture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
FOREIGN CANNON FODDER

OhfLON tANNON fODDER
Sir feet deep IN Flanders
soil, an
American soldier lag,
Coffined, and Where they
placed him,
To oWdit the Judgment
Day.
TWenty-tWo gears he's lain
there.
Alone on an alien shore,
And undiSturbed until
they came,
Again lOith the cOnnOn'S
roar.
Remember the day they tore
the boy,
From the home he lOred 50
nell.
And flung him NTH reekleS,
abandon,
Into that pit Of Hell.
Remember 1tten they ratified
ham off, ~'
Under the CdpitOlS dome
SO he'd hare to fight fOl
Europe.
.-H-a-a 4eAteA-4eeR-it
alone.
We drilled and trained an
armed HIM,
And taught him hOaC t
hate.
And 1chen ace shipped hin
OUerSeGS,
To qCrestle and end lCit
fate,
We somehow failed to tell hi
folks"
What their boy w0S fight
ing for,
Three thQtsond miles from
America,
In an alien poCer 1Cdr.
The Winters came, and tn
Winters 1Cent,
For ttCo and tWenty gears
And once they sag his mothe
came, and
Wdtered his Craze NTH he
tears.
And sic feet do1cn in THO
alien mud,
Are thousands more Of on
youth,
Who 1Could hare liUed as Go,
meant them to,
II ne had but told the truth
And once again the armie
march, DER
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Canadian Filler Caught

OTTAWA. Ont, Aug. 10
GNS)-National defense head
quarters announced today that
Pilot Peter Robert Ian Pine,
serving with the Royal Canadian
Air Force overseas. is a prisoner
of war. His mother lives in New
York CITY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Farmers Market

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f. i, 5o8i7s. Roman heans NJ j.
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CELERY RooT-No. l. 75eaS
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cUUcuMBERsGNo rBcsrs, 75cayi
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c & !. $3.50 2i-qusr,
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RADIsHEs- Red. 40 .. 351s soc dozen
chs; No. ?, Csc ions white, 80. 350
20 dozen punches
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RHUBARB@No. I. 2509sc do1. bchs
RUTABAGAs-No J. 75c 81 hu
SQUASH Summer. No. 81 40c 81
pa No. 2. Csc. table queen squash. No.
iai.25 bu. Italian, fancy. 81 peck
,asket; No I, 65 n soc. No. 2, soc. Hub
bard. No. 4 c0Si.
SWEET CORN NO. !. s5cdSi :-doz
ToNAToEs~Fanoy. soc 1t-Ib. basket.
10 1, asa 35c; No g. zoe
TURNIPs-No. l. 40 SOC dor. bchs,
ia1.25 <,ushel,
VEGETABLE GREENS Romano. 4oa
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10 - - NsHH
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u: mustard. No. !. 75c n 81 25 hu. tur-
|ips. No, 1. $50 75c bu.: spinach No !,
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