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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
CHURCH DESTROYED

FOREST CITY, Feb. 10 VI
The Methodist church at Hem
was destroyed today by l'l0 q,
started around the furnace ~
Of fire-fighting equipment Prev. III
volunteers from saving the ,
ing. The loss was estlm"Ie'
$40, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
CASTLEMAN SIGNS

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 16-R-Man-
ager Bill Terry announced today
that Pitchers Clydell Castleman
and Ace Adams had signed their
contracts with the New York
Giants.
Terry said this left II Giants
still unsigned, including Catcher
Harry banning. Castleman has
lei With the Giants several
years, while Adams was a mound
star Tor Nashville of the Southern
association last season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17

lotte, Greensboro, Raleigh and o+h
er cues became very much sold
on the southport gulf fishing last
year; with the outlook for these
North Carolinians to return IN
greatly increased numbers, it is
very gratifying that literal1v tho,, %
sands of out-of-state snortsnoen a.e
oeepiy
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
ONEo

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-RNThe
British radio in a report heard
here by CHS tonight announced
that the Bucharest radio warned
that "Rumanian territorial waters
around the port of Constanta have
been declared a zone dangerous
for shipping" S
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
FATALLY INJURED

SANFORD, Feb. 16.- Up Cleo
Defee, %, a member of the Sanford
Fire department., died early today
of injuries he received a few hours
when his automobile left the
highway and struck a tree.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
MATHEWS WINS

DAYTONA BEACH. Fla, Feb. 16.
-P-A hard-riding Canadian, Billy
Mathews of Hamilton, Ontario, set
today to win the American Motorcy-
Gle associations 200. mile national
championship road race,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
RUSS GETS DEC1s1oN

Aloert Russ, of the Isaac Bear
S-B boxing team, won a decision over
Charles Mitchell, of Isaac Bear "a
IN d oout held Saturday morning in
the school gymnasium !"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
EARTHQUAKE

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. TO- an u,
An earthquake shook houses ,rer
ratified dishes today. There ""
no reports of damage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
PLAY TO TIE

PINEHURST, Feb. 16.-CP-The
Yellow Jackets and the Red Jackets,
teams of the Pinehurst Polo club,
played to a 80 tie today,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-17
DRAFT IS MAKING
REFEREES SCARCE
Kentucky Coaches Are Hav-
ing Hard Time Getting
Officials for Games
By ROMNEY

ATLANTA, Feb. 16.-RNKen-
lucky coaches are nursing a peeve
about the defense boom it's
causing an embarrassing shortage
of basketball referees . i'm
proved business conditions and
Uncle Sans army have combined
to dry up the supply n
coach walls that he contacted "a
prospects before landing a whistle
blower Freddie Roster OF
Louisville worked a couple of doz-
en- games in January, Dalton Will
liams of Lexington nearly as many
even Bernie Shively, Univer-
sity of Kentucky athletic director,
was coaxed out of retirement OF
three years to do a bit OF offlclat-
ing.
Prophet: Sports editor Jack Troy
of the Atlanta Constitution is taking
a few bows for calling the turn on
Frank Leahy's transfer from Bos-
ton college to Notre Dame
without the aid of crystal ball,
tahle-rapping or ouija board, Jack
wrote Jan. 4, 1941: ut is the
opinion of this corner that Frank
Leahy, who has enjoyed unusual
success in his two seasons at Bos-
ton college, will be the next head
coach at Notre Dame Irish
followers are not satisfied and it
is the opinion of more than one
observer that a coaching change
is due"
Recount: Tommy Tatum, Nash
Vile pitcher, wants a recount
Southern association statistics list
Al Jurisich of New Orleans as the
leagues most effective pitcher
but Tommy says he should be at
the top because last Aug. "a he
pitched the last two innings against
Atlanta. the record: No hits,
no runs for his only Southern Lea
que appearance add baseball
woes-just when the Southeastern
League seemed all set for an eight
club circuit, along comes sporto-
grapher Max Moseley of the Mont
gomery Advertiser with word that
Selma's entry looks shaky two
men, he says, took a financial bust
on the nose last season and can't
afford to go it again without help.
People: Ralph Kercheval, one of
Kentucky's grid greats, is now a
lieutenant with the army's remount
service at Fort Robinson, (Neb.)
he formerly worked with the
Coldstream Stud near Lexington
for downright pessimism, we'll
take lanky Elmer Lampe, Univer-
slty of Georgia basketball coach
You can count on u.s." he
told followers, not to Win the
southeastern c~onference) cham
pionshi2 which ties right In
with Kentucky's Adolph Rupp, who
sounded off: Every team has a
really good chance to win ex-
cept us this league is getting
too tough for us poor little noun
tain boys" Note: Kentucky
won the 1910 tournament, with
Georgia runner-up. S
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
No Dumping Here

DETROIT has been handed rich gift by the state
l. land board 1t comprises 525 parcels of taxdeed
land within the city limits.
They already have been allocated follows: 62
parcels for school purposes 80 for parks and play
grounds; "a for police purposes four to the fire depart
ment; three to the DSR-and 329 as dumping grounds
That is way to treat generous gift, con-
verting most of it into dumping grounds
Certainly these valuable lots could benefit the city
more as Fairgrounds gardens by just lying
falow.
Those on the outskirts should be conserved as
eventual sites for schools fire houses police stations
while the city is expanding.
Moreover unsghtly disease breeding heaps of refuse
and junk will certainly not be relshed by neghbors and
passing motorists
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Don't Look Now

A POLICEMAN'S advice to Nevada residents
a who complained of too many accidents in their
neighborhood to pull down your windowshades so you
won't see the accidents is intriguing innovation IN
the maintenance of law and order
We trust other city departments will quickly seize
on the new thinking and develop it along their lines
The fire department might supply every householder
with dark glasses that bothersome fires won't be dis
covered often.
Perhaps the DPW could prevail upon citizens to stop
driving their holes in the pavements will not DE
noticed.
Receiving Hospital nurses might be equipped with
cotton to stuff in their They would thus not hear
the of the sick and injured and hundreds OF dol
lars worth of medicine would be saved
The police department itself could help further by
requesting sorekpers not to notice the appearance of
those who hold them up thus obvating the necessity
of costly court trials and expensive jails.
The policeman who made that suggestion to the
people out in Nevada should be hunted out He
is of the worlds original thinkers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
It's Time to Punish

MAYOR JEFFRIES has announced that ne VIII call
wi all his traffic heads to conference December
at which he will read them the riot act about the growing
traffic death toll on Detroit streets.
This is not enough.
The mayor has before him open and shut case of
official negligence in the of the two who were
killed early Sunday morning at Michigan avenue and
twenty third street
just six DAYS earlier Traffic Engineer D. Grant
Mickle had issued emphatic public warning that this
avenue dangerous IN its present condition and should
not be open to traffic
He made this statement at session of the mayors
traffic committee which composed of every single city
department head who is concerned with traffic, in
addition TO a representative of the state highway
department.
NET not one Of these officials who heard this warning
made it his business to that this section of
Michigan avenue was closed and kept closed.
The for Wrist-sapping conferences is over.
The mayors plain duty is to that the guilty
official is punished.
Mckle did not just say once that this section of
Michigan avenue was unsafe. He said it and over
again and he denounced the opening of the in
uncertain terms He quoted chapter and in listing
the things that wrong with the street in its
pleted condition.
INSPECTOR FRED W. JUERGENS, director of traffic,
/ and the police department representative the
ntee was present and heard this
Harold OBrien. district traffic engineer for the state
highway department, present and heard this.
Jan Schmedding, superintendent of paving for the
department of public works and the representative of
Commissioner William NJ. Walker Jr. present and
heard this.
This newly completed section of the Michigan avenue
widening not properly lighted the necessary traffic
signs and signals had been installed and there
protected safety street where the public has
come to expect safety zones
GONE city state official had the cearcut response
- bilty for seeing that either these things were
Immediately corrected the street kept closed to traffic
Somebody failed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26

IN AN earlier column ] DIS
i cussed strange attitude OF
fatalism, or at least of calm &C
ceptance of the likelihood OF
death without much glory, as IT
exists among our own men. and
especially among young officers
who are being currently edu-
Gated in the dreadful things that
are going on abroad | think
that whatever virus is response
bic for this feeling among the
soldiers of the world, has
taken" among our own.
There has been lot of talk
about the high percentage OF
army reflections especially IN the
draft. for physical causes. and
some speculation about the de-
cline in bodily standards among
our Young men since 1918.
This seems strange 10 one who
has had an opportunity TO see
al first hand the crop Of recruits
for both the first World War
and for this one.
1t is not nearly so strange, in
fact, il is shown TO be of no
significance. if you examine the
relative requirements in the reg
ulations for physical examination
in the last war and in this one.
NOR some reasons, which /
L think are arbitrary and even
perverse. the regulations have
been so frightened up that no
fair comparison can be made.
This is especially true in the
tolerances for defective teeth.
Also the psychiatrists have
gotten busy. due TO the large
number Of "shell-shock' cases
from the last war. AS one Off
Ger said to me the other day:
"Tt Is only necessary to look a
little cock-eyed to get exempted
from this war for physical dis
ability"
To sum all this up, il seems
10 me that this new army Of
ours morally. physically and in
the quality of indomitable fight
ing courage, is likely TO be the
best we ever produced.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Timely Waning

u ARENTS of older children warned by the State
| Health Department to the diphtheria
which has mmunzed them from the dread disease since
childhood.
1t has been found that dphtheria has struck children
IN higher grades who had had an Election of
.oxoid The health officers deduce that the
off with years and dose is sufficient protect the
child throughout school.
This is timely warning which all should heed If
some years have elapsed since the child mmunzed
take him her TO your physician for renewal Of the
toxoid and safeguard the future.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
| e If ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
7 HAVE a plan which l think
i would eliminate our traffic
Jams during rush hours and
thereby cut down our traffic &C
cidents.
It's up to our police officials
TO put il over. I'm merely maxi
ing the suggestion
Contact the officials of our
various large factories, get them
TO cooperate by releasing their
employees at various times in
stead of all factories letting their
employees out at the same time
of day.
Four-thirty is usually the
quitting hour. Why not adjust
this so factories would quit at
different hours instead of all
quitting at the same time?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
FRANK RILEY,
9472 Dearborn avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
DICTATOR Lewis has reason
~ to fear the open shop, Many
men will cease TO pay dues 10
the Go if permitted to work
without doing so.
But what is unfair in defense
production is also unfair in nom
defense industries. Many work
ers believe themselves capable of
bargaining personally with their
employers.
MIR. Pegfer and others have
shown us where a large part of
the union dues have been spent.
Let the majority rule as to gov
eminent of the union. but allow
the minority 10 earn a living.
u. w. CARNAL,
327 r. 9-Mile road,
Ferndale, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Americans Asked to Lead
World to New Society
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON

4 WARNING. Political STRAIT
egists seek to sell an idea
TO other nations, instead of to
comprehend what is in the mind
of other peoples and find the
synthesis between their ideas
and our own.
The basic structure of Euro
pean society is not horizontal
and democratic, in our sense Of
the word democratic. 1t is
hierarchical. This is strongest,
of course, in the Catholic coun-
tries.
The character of nations. and
the conditions of happiness for
the peoples in nations, depend
upon social inheritanceS. The
roots of Europe are deep and
the soil in which those roots
grow has been MANFRED by
blood.
The European mind is tough,
not tender; it has been condi-
toned by an inheritance differ
ent from ours. And it feels at
home in a different air from
ours.
Europe is, in essence, an arls-
tocratic civilization. The word
has connotations of privilege in
the American mind that it does
not deserve.
European society - in the
largest sense of the word so
ciety"-is a structure of graded
values, of ascending castles. and
characterization in Europe con-
sists of freeing the flow between
the castles. so that no man is
condemned TO remain In any
one of them, but may rise or
fall according to his merits.
IN THE European countries
L that have been most Euro
IEdI -lIldl nave iilubt' 'puN -
10 say, the deepest impression
upon Europe; France, Italy.
Spain and the Germany of the
Rhinelands. the South and Aus
tria-the idea of the nobleman
is indigenous.
1t is not the class idea, which
has arisen out of modern indus
trialism and plutocracy 1t is
far more delicate and individual.
But, the European mind diff
ferentiates between types OF
persons Indeed. the whole Gull
ture of Europe does not seek TO
level, but to adjust and to build
upward.
Thus the revolt OF European
master craftsmen against the
trade unionism that seeks 10
lump workers together into the
category of masses. Thus the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26

reverence accorded by true Eu-
ropeans 10 distinguished artists,
writer's and intellectuals. Thus
the instant recognition by the
true European of an individual
of superior breeding, gifts or
character.
CONTRARY TO many Ameri-
cans, who are wont to re-
mark that Europe is finished"
and that everything worth
while in Europe has passed TO
the United States" -hape-aI4
instinct that we are going TO
see, through a birth of blood
and sweat and tears, the emer-
gence of a European renaissance.
And, unless misread the
signs of the times. the spirit OF
that renaissance will be con-
sentative.
For the horizontal democracy
of Europe is precisely what has
failed. The vulgariZation of
everything, from art TO politics,
has produced an almost nau-
seated reaction all over the
continent.
The apotheosis of this vul-
garization is, of course, Hitler,
preaching a pseudo-aristocratic
theory in the language of the
half-educated and creating elite
masses of tow-headed super
men" who claim leadership on
the basis of their Germanie
chromosomes-thinking to make
nobleman out of brown
shirt and a blackjack. and Gre
ating instead either a. thug or
a briefly enthused soldier who
winces at a French girls shrug,
and wishes people liked him.
IN A sense we are more scared
i of Hitler than Europe is,
even Europe bleeding under his
heel, because Europe knows
better than we do, that he
doesn't belong
But, when either a personality
or culture is shaken 10 its
foundations, its true character
asserts itself, and it is only by
its truest character that il can
save itself. Europe, | am con-
WINGED, will rebuild itself as an
hierarchal social structure.
In the general overturn much
that has been thought gold will
turn out TO have been dross,
and much that was thought
dross will be gold.
The saints and heroes may
come out of the plainest middle
class homeS-or out of the gut
ter for that matter-and a title,
decorations and elegant man.
ners may prove 10 cover a
craven spirit.
Yet, il is worth remarklng
that Churchills most famous
phrase, and most memorable
because most true, was Seldom
in history have so many owed
so much 10 so few.
THE old school ties in the for
Il eign office are no particu-
lar badge of nobility in Britain
today, but the Raj wings are.
The world is crying for leader
ship-leadership that asserts IT.
self by sacrifice and willingness
TO take responsibility although
il wants none of despots, it
yearns for heroes.
Although IT is destroying YES
ted privileges right and left, 1T
is creating new castles of the
superior.
And both in Europe and in
England, | suspect that the New
Democracy will not desire 10
put everybody in the same
grade. 1t will recognize equal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Goodwill in ReCeT.Se
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

BY ARTHUR Bugs BAER
There such thing formal declaration OF war;
War itself is a good will tour in bad mood
All commercial and the list of killed, wounded
and missing is bookkeeping for sales resistance.
This isn't shooting but the pup will grow up to its
yet.
There middle of the road slack wire And when
mHgg coming the other there is gong TO be
trouble frost in Vermont
We've captured Axis boat two and they've torpedoed
of ours Well may not be playing checkers but
in the king
y News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
New Army's
Spirit Is
Remarkable
johnson Thinks We Have
a Splendid Force
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

A S was remarked here earlier,
"A every time this column steps
over into the alley of my sports
writing colleagues and talks
about football and the like, II
usually makes a boner through
insufficient information and just
as frequently gets properly
called for ii.
But l am so full of dope about
the war and army organization,
and problems of industrial mo-
bilization and supply, that If
the customers are as tired of
columns on these subjects as l
am, they must be pretty weary.
Furthermore, this column is
going TO be only incidentally
about sports and, as | can see
il coming on now. will inevitably
wind up with something about
the war.
But il seems to me that the
quality of this years football
games, both collegiate and pro-
fessional, has a new aspect. For
example, being momentarily bed
ridden, I listened 10 two of them
last week, besides reading about
nearly all of them. The two l
heard over the radio wereSthe
Notre Dame-Southern California
and the Michigan-Ohio State
games.
The new quality that / seemed
TO have noticed elsewhere. as
we'll as in these games, was that
this years teams seem not to
know when they are licked, and
very few games can even be pre-
dicted until the last gun is fired
TT is hard TO emphasize this
L as clearly as II appears 10
me, but / think II indicates "A
new quality of fighting spirit
that is so indomitable as hardly
10 be credible. ReyerseS. even
of the most disastrous appear
ance. far from dlsheartenlng
that spirit. increase it.
Since the first French disas-
tiers lust before Dunkirk exactly
the same quality has distln-
guished most of the fighting IN
this war. When its history IS
written and compared with that
of the past. ! think II VIII show
the greatest disregard OF soldiers
on both attack and defense for
their own lives in all the bloody
story of battles.
/ don't attempt TO explain ~
-hl4t-it-is- aF-ebpfettS- fact. ne
greatest surprises and miscalcu-
lation of high army commands
have been in putting too much
confidence in the records through
the past, of morale broken by
staggering losses.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
NoU. rs, 1916

British warships off Sandy
Hook warn incoming ships Of
German submarines off the
United States coast.
Teuton armies, under Falken-
hayn and Mackensen, join forces
about so miles from Bucharest
10 begin their drive on the
Rumanian capital.
Italians fighting the Austrians
make progress toward Trnova,
near the Monastir-Presba Lake
road.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-26
Congress
Legislature
Counterfeit
Waits Presidents Nod TO
Make any Move
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
TO THE Congress of the
If~.toI

TO THE Congress of the
i United States:
1t is the custom of our pres
idents TO address you now and
again on the state of the nation,
but presidents leave much I'M
said and | take the liberty OF
calling certain matters TO your
attention.
l want to impress upon all
of you of both houses that you
are collectively just now, and
have been for the last eight
years and more, sorry coun-
terfeit of a legislative body in
a republic.
You have impaired and near
destroyed your own prestige and
with it the American form of
government which requires that
the national legislature has a
solemn duty to enact our laws
subject to no mans permission
or forbearance, except the pres
idential veto. You have quit
cold under political threats
from the White House and
turned the legislative function
over TO the President and 10 his
appointees on the Supreme
Court.
THAT sounds pretty bad,
L doesn't 1t? But il isn't
news TO you. You have been
SAYING yourselves that II is i'm
possible TO pass any laws to put
down the brazen rascalities and
plots of the crooked unioneers
because the President won't let
you.
Isn't that Confession
from men who are supposed 70
represent the civic honor :
courage of the people of grtV
republic? The President won't
let you and you not only stand
for that but have the gall TO
offer that excuse TO the people.
You can't even realize that this
admission cancels your status as
a legislature
You know the files OF the FB1
and Of the Dies Committee con-
tain the criminal and political
records of thousands of rotten
crooks and Muscovite conspira-
tors against the American gov
eminent and you know that
thousands OF these vermln are
spotted around in the unions
and in government positions, but
YOU haven't done anything about
IT. The President won't let you.
You use our dough TO support
the FBI. but you file those Grim
inal records away under seal
and make II necessary for the
newspapers 10 do, by slow and
laborious means and at the risk
of grave penalties orLthe-SllgAt-
est error. the delousing police
job that should be done by the
Department of Justice under
laws which you should pass.
Dies recently told the attor-
ney general about more than a
thousand Communists who have
been planted IN our government
and that is the last we heard or
ever Will hear OF the matter be-
cause you are afraid the Presi-
dent would get sore.
IN THE House. little over a
i week ago YOU passed the
neutrality thing on the Presi-
dents specific promise that
this coal must be mined IN
order 10 keep the essential steel
mills al work" and that the
government proposes 10 see ~
thing through
Well. the boss unioneer GN
call out the miners. the coal
wasn't mined and the mills lost
vast production OF steel. But
you won't pass any anti-strike or
anti-terrorism laws or any laws
10 restrict the extortioners be-
cause the President doesn't give
his permission.
Well. you have got away with
that whine long enough
You can't duck your RESPONSE