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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Greece Needs Aid

Greece, says Maj. George Fielding Eliot,
who sees with expert eyes the trends in the
fighting in Europe, needs substantial aid in
her glorious battle against the Italians in
Albania, if she is to drive Mussolini's forces
home. Starting with a pitifully inadequate
army, she is now unable to implement addi-
tional divisions from her reserve quotas to
complete the job of defeating the Roman
Legions'' the Duce sent against them.
This seems to put it up to the United States
to give whatever Greece needs to such extent
as it can be spared from our WI defense
requirements and Britain's aid. We cannot
afford to let Greece down now, if not because
she is fighting for the things we hold dearest,
then because we consent to any stiffening OF
Italian morale which would result from a
Greek failure.
President Roosevelt visions this country as
the arsenal OF Democracy. Let us not forget
that Greece's fight is as much a part Of
democracy's conflict as is Britain's.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Political Sidesh0ws

Despite everything, politics is still being
played to the hilt in this country. Two exam
pies showing just how seriously the great
game is taken are to be found in Missouri
and West Virginia.
Out in the state where people have to be
shown, the Democrats have refused to seat
Republican Governor-elect Forrest c. Donnell
Of st. Louis, elected last fall by a majority
Of 3,613 over his opponent. The result is that
the governor who should now be out of office
is still there while the legislature is proceed
ing with routine matters and the contest is
being settled.
In West Virginia retiring Governor Holt.
Just before he left office, filled a senatorial
vacancy. The new governor, as his first Off
cial action, appointed another man to the
post. Consequently, the United States senate
will have to decide between the rival nominees,
both Democrats.
So it goes. Whatever happens, apparently,
the struggle for political power never ends.
But if such spectacles as these are somewhat
discencerting for al these who believe in
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
. Editorial Comment
IMPORTANT HERE TOO
Lumbert0n R0besOnian

Lumberton Robesonian
Wilmington's proposed big port development
and expansion of warehouse facilities is OF
great Importance to the entire state and par
ticularly to this coastal plains section.
Mr.. J. W. Priddy, prominent Lumberton
tobacconist, has aroused interest here by in
telligent presentation to several groups Of
what it would mean to have adequate facilities
for warehousing tobacco and other products
at Wilmington.
There are 300, 900, 900 pounds of tobacco,
much of it shipped from Robson and other
counties of the Border belt, in storage at
Norfolk, Va, at greater cost than it could
have been shipped to Wilmington. But it could
not be shipped to Wilmington because Of lack
of adequate facilities there for storing it.
A Norfolk truck concern that handles to-
bacco from this area to Norfolk did a $50, 900
business during one season, it is understood.
With storing space available at Wilmington,
that business could go to truck people of this
section at less cost, and other classes of
business and labor also would profit.
North Carolina business has been a large
factor in building some prosperous Virginia
cities. The proposed port development at Will
mington not only would help to build a greater
Wilmington but would contribute materially
to the section; adjacent to that city. S
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
FEC Gives Ruling On
Radio Stations Rights

WASHINGTON, Jan. II Up -
A declaration that a radio station
''can not be an advocate" but
must present "all sides OF i'm
portant public questions fairly, OBJ
jectively and without bias" came
today from the Federal Communl-
cations Commission.
It reprimanded station WAAB OF
Boston '.for past PRACTICES" but
renewed its license because, it said,
John Shepard, 3rd, president of the
Yankee Network, Inc, the licen.
see, had pledged not to color OF
editorialize" news in the future.
Beginning early in 1887 and con.
tinuing through September, 1888.
the commission said, it was the
policy Of station WAAB ito broad
cast so-called editorials from time
to time urging the election of va.
rious candidates for political office
or supporting one side or anothe,
in various questions in public con.
~troversy."
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Albert
S%paulding is the most gracious OF
great musicians. When he gets
ready to play he makes a little
speech, saying he is grateful for
being permitted to add his "bit" to
the occasion. Annoy, China,
is an outpost" and is so tough
that white crews r warned not to
60 ashore there. Joe MeilZiner,
the scenic designer, is the brother
Of Kenneth MacKenna, who used
to be married to Kay Francis.
You can get bouillabaisse in sew
eral Manhattan restaurants, but it
is not the same as the bouilla-
baisse famous in France. The diff.
ference is the type of fish. In the
original only fish from the Medi-
terranean are used.
One wonders what has happened
to Sidney Kingsley, who won a
Pulitzer prize for Men in White
and then came back with several
other important plays. He seems
to have dropped out of the Rialto
Judith Anderson dimes only on
milk toast between matinee and
evening performances. There
will always be a shortage Of Lillian
|Gish's fragile type of beauty on
Broadway. You can ransack the
rolls of Equity, which hold thou
sands of names, without finding
more than three or four names
who suggest her type.
Dawn Powell, the novelist, is a
native midwesterner. In private
life she is Mrs. Joe Gousha.
Booth Harrington used to smoke
enormous cigarets which were
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

Because Of its bearing on the struggle in the
Mediterranean and on the whole question OF air
power against sea power, the correct answer
to the puzzle is important.
According to Italian accounts, great damage
was inflicted on the British warships escortlng
a convoy by a combined German-Italian air
force including dive bombers, and it is a fact
that the heavy British cruiser Southampton
was so greatly damaged that its crew decided
to sink it while being towed to port. Italian
estimates of the results are so glowing, indeed,
that they seem to force the conclusion that
henceforth the British will not be able to send
achievements and supplies through the Med
~iterranean.
On the other hand the British, while ad-
hitting damage and casualties to an aircraft
carried in addition to the Southampton, point
out that the convoy did not suffer. They also
assert that at least - German and Italian
planes were destroyed in the fight. Unofficially
they say that such losses will tend to dis
courage further assaults on the same order.
Whether this conclusion is justified will ap-
pear later, but it can be said now that the
British report IS the more convincing OF the
two. This is SO because the Italian commune
que made no %allusion whatever to the convoy
and also because the British are in a better
position to know what the results were than
anyone else.
Besides. the history of the struggle in the
Mediterranean, as written in official Italian
communicates, does not dovetail with the plain
fact that they had to have German help to
bomb a British convoy proceeding through
the Sicilian strait.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Thrift and Defense

In a recent address Walter S. McLucas,
chairman Of the board of directors of the
National Bank of Detroit, has given a well.
balanced statement of the part that thrift
can play in national defense.
Mr.. McLucas' advice is directed primarily
at the individual, and individuals, as we
know, are all too prone to swing to one ex-
IRENE or the other. He makes the sound
point that we should spend but not waste,
guard against waste Of money, material, time
and energy but at the same time not let
this go to the extreme of a buyers strike.
Saving he recommends, of course, but not
saving that is carried to the extent of boarding
generated by fear.
These points are well made because they
come at a time when heavy governmental
expenditures promise a swift business upturn.
Waste, extravaganza and o~ver-expansion are
too often characteristic of such times. They
arise from the inability or unwillingness OF
most individuals to look beyond the immediate
present to the deflation that inevitably follows
economic excess.
II people could be persuaded to follow Mr..
McLucas' wise counsel the nation would have
two potent brakes against o~ver-expansion dur
ing the current defense boom.
There is a third way, as he points out, in
which they can safeguard both their own
future nj that of the national community
as well. A boom offers a temptation to people
to get into debt beyond their ability to pay.
The best way to avoid this and the tragedy
and disaster which may follow is to remem.
Der that boom-inflated wages and incomes
are temporary at best and the bulk Of the
debt may have to be met with the sharply
reduced wages and incomes of a ~subsequen,
period, of readjustment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
To Register Women

The Sorosis club has undertaken a mag.
nificent work in its project to register all
women in the county according to their skils
and their desire to acquire new ability for
service in any emergency that might arise.
AS Mrs. George L.. Clendenin told the clubs
registration committee, in stating the case
on broad lines, "a flu epidemic or any COM
munity catastrophe could rapidly be brought
under control with the women, listed accord
ing to their abilities, on the job.
Registration is not compulsory. No woman
is. required to fill the card. But with so many
opportunities for service, locally and national
ly, it seems improbable that any will refuse.
The card itself is so designed that in the
aggregate the club will have a thorough index
and be prepared to staff any project within
women's sphere of usefulness practically at
a moments notice. On one side the registrant
will list her skills, however varied. On the
other she will jot Town her ability for leader
ship or teaching together with the skills she
feels herself best fitted to acquire. This last,
of course, is to show what training can be
given in special courses with quickest and
best results.
Never backward in offering itself for any
worthwhile endeavor, the Sorosis club probab-
ly has never set its hand to a more valuable
or, in. view of what may lay ahead for this
a more essential service than this
registration project.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

|monogrammed and especially
made for him. But whether he
does now I do not know. He al
most never comes to New York.
p~referring to remain in his adopted
home town of Kennebunkport, Me.
The return to Manhattan of the
late Leon Trotsky's secretary re-
calls that that little man with the
steel : trimmed spectacles used to
plot the Russian revolution in an
eastside cafe. He also lived in a
little house in the Bronx, not far
from the cottage where Poe used
to live.
At IL East 18th Street is a build
ing that ought to be preserved as a
shrine to the birth of the movies.
It was here that the old Biograph
company made some of the earliest
films. Early one day 81 years ago,
a man named D. W. Griffith came
in with a 'crazy" idea. He want
ed to make films a thousand feet
long-and he proposed that "real''
writer's be hired, and, more inn
portant, be paid real money. Some
of the early moguls were aghast.
But from this start the movies
grew, and the name of Griffith will
live as long as there are motion
pictures.
If there's anything you want to
lock up in a hurry, go to Colum-
bia University's school of journal.
ism. More than a million news.
paper clippings are filed there. . .
Central Park, pride of all New
Workers, covers 875 acres. It
is valued at close to a BILLION
dollars. The late Willard Mack
often told cub reporters that he
wrote 40 plays before he had one
accented. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Star-News Program

Consolidated Otty.CoAnty Governme int
Under CounciLMdnager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected TrNck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shoes.
Seaside Htghwdy from WrtghtsVtHe
Beech to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF CITY Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, ptd-
er Turning Basin, Wtth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to. Southport, 1to
Orton Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Production
through sustaine d-yfeld methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial M Resort Promo.
tsonal Agency. supported BY one county.
aDide tar.
shtpyards and DrYdocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital -ilties for Whites.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape grototno
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtortnn,.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
FORT BRAGG FARM
MART FUND VOTED
Another Step Taken to Pro.
vide Central Agency to
Handle N. C.. Products

RALEIGH, Jan. 17.-Governol
J. M. Broughton said today the
council of state had agreed to the
use of whatever amount is neces.
sary'' from the states contingency
and emergency fund for establish
ment of central marketing ma.
chinery for the sale of local farm
produce to the artillery post al
Fort Bragg.
At the same time the State De-
partment of Agriculture took fur
tier steps in its efforts to arrange
a market at Bragg for produce
grown in the state.
George Ross, marketing special.
ist Of the department, continued
conferences with officers at the
pest in an effort to determine
what marketing machinery will be
necessary to assure an adequate
farm food supply to the post.
The Governor said the cost Of
necessary machinery was not ex'
pected to be large.
Randall B. Etheridge, markets
division chief, said that he ani
Ross were making all efforts te
determine what regulations mus
be met in the sale Of produce tt
the army.
The department will attempt tt
assure orderly marketing" with
the view to eliminating risk or
the part of the farmer in tx pre-
paration of commodities which
must conform with army regula
tons.
There are 70, 900 men at Bragg
A satisfactory arrangement fol
the sale of farm foods would be
like mama from heaven" to Tai
Heel farmers, the Governor said
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Captured Young Italians Curse
War, SicknessAnd Officers

Flying so high that they were
mere silvery specks, the Fascist
planes dropped more til a 300
bombs.
Hugging the earth and sweating
with the nervousness that even vet
Grams feel when the bombs scream
down, some of these young pris-
oners prayed repeatedly Will e
buildings were S m a S h e d into
matchwood a few hundred feet
away.
When the attack paused at dusk
they shuffled aboard the t r a m p
freighter, carrying slabs of brown
bread, moist white cheese and or.
anges the Greeks had given them.
For these Alpine troops - among
the finest in the Italian armies
this prison ship offered a welcome
refuge.
Conscripts in the early twenties,
reared from childhood under Fas.
cism, the Italians arrived in Al.
bania two days before Christmas
and were thrown Immediately
against the Greeks in the Klisura
sector. Their resistance at tn e
front line was tough, superior to
anything heretofore shown by the
blackshirt companies. Yet, the
Greek charges broke them.
Now, on a voyage through the
minefields, their war WEAKNESS
was expressed in a single word:
Enough"
The Greeks treat them well, and
give the wounded extra blankets
and the best sleeping spaces.
The squat merchant captain,
standing beside a machinegun on
his bomb damaged bridge, tells
you:
1T is in the Greek heart to hate
lfiercely in battle and then pity the
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
BY N I DEUCE

OFF THE GRE:
CLAN COAST, Jan. 17.-R-A
group of young Italians, their
frayed uniforms still soiled with
blood from the lost battle of Xii
sura, r squeezed in the dark hold
of a Greek prison ship nearing
Firaeus.
Whispering below noise of en-
gines, they curse the war. their
sickness from bad Albanian water.
their high officers who let them be
caught in a Greek trap. But they
are glad to be alive.
Sixty hours ago Italian bombers
very nearly killed them all, as they
|huddled in a dugout near the docks
curing a raid on a small northern
Greek port.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Willkie Answers Thomas

Wendell L.. Willkie grows in stature with
leader, during the '"Town Meeting of the Air"
when he called upon all Americans to give
President Roosevelt the power he needs so
that we can debate with him again in another
free election"
Norman Thomas, in his address, supported
the viewpoint of other isolationists. He opposed
the Presidents aid-to-Britain program, claim
ing that no one man. should be trusted with
the powers Mr.. Roosevelt seeks and that 10
grant them would lay the foundation for a
dictatorship in the United States. Mr.. 'Willkie
replied, when called upon from the floor, that
we shall not preserve this great standard Of
living in America by withdrawing within our.
selves"
we may be pardoned for foreseeing that il
ne continues to grow as he has in recent
months. MIR. Willkie will come before the
American electorate in a much stronger DO
sltlon four years hence than he occupied in the
last national political campaign and election
Few men succeed, as Mr.. Willkie is sue
ceeding, in learning from his defeats. Will
Mr.. Roosevelt out of the picture in 1914, tn,
Democrats will be hard pressed to compel,
with Wilkes leadership if he continues dur
ing the interval to develop as at present
which means, we take it, that today is non,
too soon to start training for that campaign i
they are to retain their power.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

democracy, they have their brighter side. Al
least, the issues will not be decided by force
The law will be called in, and even it ways
are found around it and the decision is made
on purely political grounds, it will later be
corrected.
These are s%ideshows, after all. In the main
tent the performance goes on as usual. In the
long run the people rule.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

bank he passed a laundry-and
from there on it was no trick at
all.
PRESSED FOUR TIMES
Now, in the basement of Ar
chives is a machine that carries
old records down 30 feet oil 95-
humidity atmosphere and then
presses them four times between
mangles. IT'S far more delicate and
finely adjusted than laundry ma
chimes, but the idea is the same.
The machine can turn out about
&c, 1000 pieces of letter-size paper a
day.
If you r wondering why the
necessity for all this quantity nro.
duction, start your computations
this way: Recently added to A..
chive records were pension claims
not including the Revolution or the
World war, which numbered we'll
lover lis, ooo, 900 sheets Of paper.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
WILL ASK PROBE

KANSAS CITY, Kas., Jan. IL
R-The federal bureau of lnVesti'
cation will be asked to study the uh-
explained sinking of two boat .
brought here to help build a Missouri
river flood dixie for a $9,OOo'Voo
bomber plant. Sheriff Frank Hil.
mer said today he planned 10 asA
the FBI to look into the case.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
? Washington Daybook
By A c STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-This is the story
Of what is probably the greatest cleaning and
pressing establishment in the world. It can
handle 10000 pieces a day-pieces of paper,
not coats, pants nor dresses.
The phenomenal thing about it is that Milady
never donned a gown more valuable nor a
frock more fragile than some of the scraps
Of paper which National Archives cleans,
presses and puts into files every day. Here
are the priceless documents of American his
tory, from the Versailles treaty right on back
to the Revolutionary war alliance with France,
the hand-inscribed minutes Of the Continental
Congress-, and the Treaty with England which
recognized the independence of the United
States.
National Archives is less than 10 years old,
but already its officials kick like steers when
someone tries to pour an avalanche of records
into their files (as for example when the war
department recently limited that it might send
over the records of the 1918 drafts. AL
though the building covers a generous city
block, it soon will be ramme to it's rafters
with invaluable papers which have made
American history.
USE BIG FIGURES
The Archivists measure filing in hundreds
of thousands of cubic feet and bother with
nothing in between. Thus, in 1880, when the
most accurate survey was made, they figured
that without records of the legislative (Which
would go to the Library of Congress) and
judicial branches of government, 1900, 900 GU.
bic feet Of filing space was needed and at the
rate of zoo, 900 cubic feet a year. They reck-
oned without the New Deal. Since advent of
the present administration, from the copy
right on the Blue Eagle (remember?) to the
wax recording of President Roosevelt's latest
'fireside chat" there undoubtedly have been
piled up more records than in the whole history
of government before the World war. If you
have any doubts about that, check it with
Archivist R. D. W.. Conner or that veteran
of the legislative tables, his assistant admin
~istrative secretary, James D. Preston.
To get back to the cleaning and pressing:
Some time ago, it was discovered that the
old system of legal and public record filing
folding sheets bound with a red ribbon ane
placed upright in oblong cardboard boxes)
infringed on space limitations more than Scar
lett OHara's hoop skirts would crowd a mod
ern kitchenette-apartment.
INSPIRED BY A FLOOD
So Conner and his boys figured that all re
cords must be filed flat in f~ireproof stee
drawers. That reduced cubic feet to cubic
inches, but still there was the problem o.
Strengthening out all the folded records.
On that score, the bow must go to a youns
fellow named Arthur E. Kimberly, whose
Little at Archives is chief Of repair and pres
~ervation. Kimberly knew that in order tt
~latten the creases in old paper Cor new, to-
that matter) it is necessary to dampen II. III
; also knew that modern inks and paper wouldn'
take a wetting. He was bordering this pro
blem when he was called out to an Ohl
river valley town to save some bank record
that had bern in a flood. On the way 70 u
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
CCC DRILL

PHOENNIX, Ariz., Jan. 17.-U'-
Close order army drill is peile
taught CCC enrollees in Arizona o'
a voluntary basis, 1t. Col. RANDOM
Gordon, district commander, Nc ~.
day. The drill is taught during leis
ure hours for recreation only ""
onel Gordon emphasized. Z
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
WORLD MUST WAIT

LONDON, Jan. 17.-R-Mrs Pat.
rick Campbell, the famous actress
directed in her will made public to.
day that love letters written to her
by George Bernard Shaw be publish.
ed if the authors permission were
obtained. But Shaw ruled tonight
that the world must wait,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
Answer Is Important

Once again and upon further reflection, now
that both sides have claimed victory in the
~air-sea battle that took place a few days ago
off the coast of Sicily, we are in the familiar
Of trying to decide which to believe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18
TOP o. H. MORNING

When the soul to sin has died,
True and beautiful and sound,
Then all earth is sanctsfed
Up springs Paradise around.
JEFFERSON
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-18

enemy when he is helpless. These
prisoners are only boys who obeyed
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