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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Master Blunderer

Harold Ickes the petroleum dsorganizer,
is reported as saying that this state and sew
eral others are to receive no more railway
tank-car deliveries of oil, but must depend
upon pipeline service, at the same time he
acknowledges that because something went
wrong in the finishing the $35 900 900 Texas
Illinois pipeline will be idle for at least a
month after it is completed next week.
If the petroleum distribution problem were
less serious, it would be possible to laugh
at this kind of reasoning. Or even if this
were the first time Honest Harold had slipped
we could even help him up But the situation
is not only serious. 1t is desperate. And it
is far from the first time Ickes has shown
astounding incompetence.
He proposes to call rail leaders into con.
ference, to see what can be done about di-
verting tank cars from wine and other de-
liveries and put them exclusively in the oil
business. If the chiefs of American railroads
have no more confidence in him than has
the American public, he'll not get far with
them.
There is very sad aspect to Ickes' blum
dering, and not his alone, but the blunderings
Of other eabineteers and bureaucrats. It is
that because of the incompetents President
Roosevelt has placed in positions of trust
and national importance the administration
itself is coming into dsfavor, whereas it
should have the complete confidence of the
people both in its war and domestic policies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Well Done

The Red Cross production rooms have set
a high mark, as the report of Miss Allie
Fechtig, manager of this vital branch of Red
Cross work, proves.
The completion of 1880 surgical dressings
and 2,180 garments and other articles in two
months is a notable achievement OF which
the workers and the city may well be proud,
and is the more remarkable because it has
all. been done by the exceedingly small num-
ber of volunteers engaged in the undertaking.
Because there have been few women steadi-
ly on the job, one item in the Stars article
telling of the production rooms output is
misleading. A total of $50 women, says the
article, worked 1927 hours in October. This
is not literally the fact. The truth of the
matter is that when one woman works five
days in the week she becomes, for the pur-
pose of the report, five women.
If it were actually true. that $50 separate
women were doing work at the production
rooms the total output would be far greater
and the Wilmington Red Cross chapter would
lead all others in cities of similar population.
It is to be hoped that when work is re-
sumed after New Years, following two
week holiday suspension, the small working
force will be greatly augmented, for the need
of our armed forces and of our Allies in
war, for the articles made at the work rooms,
is growing greater daily.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Air Transport

When the day comes to write the history
Of these strange and troubled times soroe
historian will find material for Volume of
absorbing interest and great worth in the
performance of pilots and planes engaged in
air transport.
Much Of the fighting now taking place in
far-away corners OF the globe, in steamng
jungles and on minute islands, primarily is
to determine who shall control the strateo;c
air routes Of the future. Fortunately for this
country, the commercial airlnes had nro.
Sressed far ahead of any other nation. and
with the arrival Of hostilities were in posi-
uon to render invaluable service.
II is largely airline pilots who. in close
cooperation with the Air Transport Command
Of the Army under the leadership of Major
Harold Lee George, are blazing trails over
the seven seas and all the continents These
pilots and the arrangements back of them
who built the airlines, can rest assured that
the dangers and tribulations they suffered in
pioneering air operations were not in vain.
AS the u S. News observes: 'The number
of planes leaving each day for Alaska. for
England, for South America, for Africa for
India, for China and for Australia is mill
tary secret. But it is no secret that the
schedule calls for hundreds of flights everv
day, and that the number is growing swiftly.
It is no secret that the fleet of hundreds
Of cargo planes in service this year is ex-
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
BY JOHN SELBY
lree little books on India


To the average American the
most incomprehensible theory in
the world is Gandhi's idea that
his non-violence' could be an
piled against the Japanese if only
Britain would get out of India and
give it a chance. However you
define non-violence it still means
what the word means. Gandhi has
backed and filled, and has con.
tradicted himself over and over,
as all three of the recent books
on him and his ideas freely admit.
But the immediate threat to India
is Japan, and the little brown men
have been notably unimpressed by
other little brown men sitting in
huts wrapped in sheets.
What Does Gandhi Want?" T.
A. Raman calls his book. Raman
is a longtime friend and syrnpa-
thetic interpreter of Gandhi, vet
the gist of ''What Does Gandhi
Want?" is that although the Ma
natma is no fifth columnist, it
would be tragic to allow him to
oppose non-violence to the Japs.
AND he also shows that although
Gandhl is the most publicized
man in India, he is not even one
with all of his own party, and has
twice, in July, 1910, and January,
Is4z, been relieved publicly
OF his leadership. (Orford: $1.25j.
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The Literary Guidpost

Louis Fischer's "A Week With
Gandhi' lnterprets Gandhi's incon-
slstency differently. Mr.. Fischer
spent only week with him. but
ne was much impressed. He be-
neVes the Mahatma merely thinks
alouo; 1t is as if a writer were
to publish all the drafts of a novel
exposing thereby the entire Gre
atlVe process as well as the end
result. He does not, however. ex-
PLAIN why the end result itself is
SO often contradictory - as when
Gandhi wrote that the first thing
ne would do in free India would
De 10 negotiate with the Japs, and
then declared that, of course that
would be impossible. Nor does Mr.
flscher show in what way pub
llshlng all the drafts of a novel
wou1o he!p reader, author, or in
oeed anybody but the printing and
olndlng trade. Duell, Sloan and
Pearce: $2) "'-~'
And there is also a small book
complled from Gandhi's writing
from April 26 to July 26 of this
year by Anand T. Hingorani. I
am sure those more lavishly lac
quered with the Mahatma's phil
osophy' than I will be able to
make sense out of this compilation.
but l have failed ignominiously.
The title is my Appeal to the
British" (John Day: $1.25).
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can decide that all the workers
at your place must be discharged,
which would mean, of course, that
your boss would be put out of
business. The rival firm need not
be disturbed.
These are some of the hidden
meanings of the manpower execu-
tive order which came out in spite
of the fact that strikes and slow
downs and union rules and con.
tracts are wasting a great portion
of manpower of the nation. Such
contracts, incidentally, include
one which provides that an i'm
portant steel center shall be idle
on the opening days of the hunt
ing and fishing season, in addition
OF course, to the usual standard
holidays.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON.-A few months
ago, when President Roosevelt was
fumbling, we were hearing com
plants that he was too soft, anc
that if Washington would only tel
the country what was needed, peo
pie would respond gladly.
But Mr.. Roosevelt finally got a
grip on himself, and now that
Washington is saying what is need.
ed, some people are responding
with anything except willingness.
Railroad employees respond to
the policy of holding down wage
increases by asking a 80 per cent
increase-and they don't offer in
return to give up any of the feath-
erbed practices that spread the
work.
The farm-bloc stooges in Con-
gress respond to tn policy of
checki: G inflationary prices by
new threats. They are trying to
hook price jacks on essential ap-
preparation bills so that the Presi-
dent could not veto them.
C. 1. o. steel workers have re-
sporded to the wage stabilizatior
policy by walking out of Bethle.
hem plate mills, causing shut.
down in production of plates for
warshjps.
Montgomery Ward, the mail-or'
der house, is buying page news
paper advertising to carry on re-
sistance to the War Labor Board
and presidential order, with a
line that recalls the old Liberty
League fight against collective-bar'
gaining legislation.
That is the way some are re-
spending to the effort to carry on
the hardest war we h ave ever
fought. That is the news that is
reported at the same time Lieut.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold is saying
that the battle for air superiority
in Africa is nip and tuck, with
Hitler throwing in his very best
planes in struggle which may
lead into the all-out air battles
that must come to clear the Ger.
mans from the sky.
This is the time picked by sell
fish groups, such as those just
named, to buck their own govern
ment and sock it in the rear. 1t
is to be hoped that the censor is
not allowing this kind of news to
reach our fighting forces. Those
tank forces of ours, trying to hold
vivors of the 10th Bombardment
Group, back from across the Pa
cific. They were at Clark Field,
Manila, the morning the Jap S
came over year ago. For months
they fought. a retreating action,
taking up their planes without
proper servicing, sometimes going
up with only three engines work
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Raymond Clapper Says:
WithFDR 7oughening Up,
Cooperation Slowing Up

ing. They couldn't refuse to 20 up
just because we didn't have spare
parts and ground crews on hand
to put their planes into proper con-
dition. They had to go up any,
way. They not only went up but
they shot down. over weeks of
most dangerous fighting, some 800
Jap planes.
Ihey were present here when
General Arnold said that while we
are getting planes in impressive
quantities we are not getting them
in satisfactory quantities. They
have. been in total war and they
know that it takes everything they
have and everything we have at
home to give them.
Some people seem to think that
we can go on with this war and
still give everybody everything he
wants. President Roosevelt, Nc
Mutt, Wickard, Ickes, Henderson.
WPB, the War Labor Board, and
others who have the job of back
ing up the armed forces can't
make it their first job to keep
everybody happy at home. They
have duties which are extremely
difficult and unpleasant.
Pilots of the 10Th Bombardment
the Germans until we get enough
air up in Tunisia, would hardly be
encouraged in their grim work to
know that at home labor groups
are demanding 80 per cent in
creases, and walking out, that
farm lobbyists are continuing their
fight with the threat of blocking
war appropriations until they put
their shakedown across.
At the War Department this
week some of us talked with sur
Group had to work with what thew
had. They would have preferred
better service thar they got. But
they knew it coilldi.'t be heiped.
so they made the best of it. They
knew you can't have everything
you want in war We can't have
everything we want at home either
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Must Become Realists

1t is Senator Norris thought that when
peace is restored the Allied nations should
and Italy to make sure that disarmament
is complete and that no new movement SIM
liar to Hitler's be allowed to incubate among
the people, He says the United Nations should
approach the peace table with no thought of
revenge or hatred, and should draft a peace
based on equality and freedom for all, ex-
tending food and other relief to Axis coun-
tries as well as other nations.
There can be no disagreement with the
Senator on his proposal for adequately policing
the lands of the war-makers. We question
the advisability of extending such aid to the
Axis nations as we naturally would give to
their victims. To do so would, in the last
analysis. be to reward them for making war
on the rest of the world
We should, of course, go to the peace
table without any thought of revenge or hatred.
We should, within proper bounds, see that
the fundamental principles of self determina-
ton are assured the peoples of the Axis
powers But aid to Germany and to Italy and
to Japan must be made contingent upon en-
forceable pledges made by their governments
to keep within the provisions of new code
Of decency in international affairs Certainly,
as far as Germany is concerned, and in view
covery should be administered by an inter-
national tribunal set up for that purpose and
supplemented by such a police force as can
enforce it's decision.
For two thousand years the Germans have
been war-makers. If there is ever to be
lasting peace. it will have to be forced upon
the warlike elements in that nation.
Even more necessary, if possible, will be
the policing of Japan, cock-sure nation which
is SO certain it can beat the world it will
stop at nothing certainly not at treachery,
to obtain its ends. We must not forget, when
the peace negotiations are opened that we
were aiding Japan in preparation for her
war against u.s. during the years we were
selling her scrap metal and petroleum.
Italy, the unfortunate victim of a breast.
ptulCHIuS 1ooI, is not quite IN the same class,
but it would be foolish to do anything for
the Italians, though they are our friends at
heart, until the whole gang at Mussolni's
heels are kicked out and their progeny with
them.
This does not mean that there ought to
be either thoughts of revenge or a hint of
hatred in fixing the terms of peace But it
does mean that for once in our lives we
must stop being sentmentalists and become
realists. We lost the last peace after VIM
ming the last war, because we permitted
hatred to overrule sound judgment at Ver-
sailles. This time, we must insist that a
middle course be found in which our enemies
will receive justice, but nothing more and
that our Allies in victory demand neither
economic nor geographical gains.
We must be prepared to take the leader
ship at the peace table, especially as the
heaviest part of policing the Axis and re-
storing the worlds commerce must fall upon
our shoulders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. srMpeo,,

II Is moot question n,l
Hitler's most recent high cor,, liel
shakeup is due exclusively 'snd ia al
appointments in Russia or partisr' ls'
to fear of more sinister oi.a ''ls
ST., stances brewing for him at boull cun'
There is no doubt, hovevar" nome
his present hand picked ana. mat
noss, the politico-militallst caa,lly, army
Kurt zeitzler, is on a hott,T ',s''sFal
than any of the predeces.ar,,. seat
ed by Hitler. DICK.
Zeitzler took over two noo,..L
more ago, although his e1a5'as.or .'''S Or
to chief of the general slsfs s"on
succeed the dismissed OF dc'ao.Ioo 1[ 10
General Halder of the old c,er,, c,,lo.s1
army caste is only now co7f,rr.ll, wa,
by Berlin. At the time of '.Su .S
change in command, things uo.e ole
going none too well for Hitlar we're
Russia. A row with his cmef 49,. .a
erals for projection of the g4sIa ,I;.'
grad attack into the win'er soo1D
ed to be the occasion for h,, I'll.
switch. ole
Events in the Stalingrad zor.
since then have well prove, s 4h
generals sounder in military ivdo. ,'
ment than either Hitler's n7jiit,rr
intuition or his yes-man zAn7,].
Staiingrad has not been taken !.
is The besieging Axis army N ,b,
Stal'rgrad salient, itself under Bns
sian near-encirclement SIC 30 tb..
ncv is in peril.
1t can be assumed that 7si,,'.r.
assignment was to liqaidars No
Sta'jpgrad situation quickly in Ht
ler's favor. To do that, oy Filters
own pronouncement to his peon,e
he hao to take the rlliAed civ
that became a Russian f9nS-e,s
Hitler had said its occupatior
was vital to his whole war nro.
gram in Russia, and that the OH.
jective had been achieved excent
for few points of continued re.
sistance. He could not repeat that
today with much hope of foolio.
even German listeners. Zeitzlet's
task has become the liquidation O.
what could become a disastrous
Nazi defeat, not victory H.
must wonder whether his master
is not already eyeing him as a
future sacrifice.
In addition to the Russian car.
paign muddle, he now has the A >
lied second-front in Africa to vex
his slumbers. That developed at,
ter, not before, Zeitzler took over.
1t takes no great stretch of imagi.
nation to see Halder on Won Brau.
chitsch, who stubbed his toe in
Russia last year, and all the rest
of the out-of-favor Prussian mill.
tary hierarchy laughing in their
sleeves at their up-start blackshir
rival. He has the worst mess on
his hands of any German general
of this war.
There have been rumors ape4v
for MOI tbs of widening rift bt.
tween Hitler and the army Od
guard. 1t is at least possible that
the Jurfers of the military cas''
who originally accepted Hitler. as
did German industria;js.s as
means 20 their own ends, always
expected some day to ge: rid of
hirn-art Hitler knows it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Your re
Telling Me

After the war, predicts a mems
fashion designer, trousers will
have detachable cuffs. So they
can be placed for safekeeping un.
der the pillow by wary husbands?
BY this time the Japs should
be convinced there is a ready
made name for this globaI can
flict-the Boomerang war!
Hot air, scientists tell us, travels
much faster than cold. This NAV
explain the rapid spread of those
false war rumors.
Grandpappy Jenkins says the
human race doesn't know how
lucky it was that when Noah's
Ark was riding the high seas
there were no enemy SUBS
lurking about.
1t takes seven years constant
practice to play the bagpipe ex-
pertly, we read. To the neighbors
II naturally must seem lige seven
centuries.
Body of a fly which died 10,
cOO,OOO years ago has been
found in a piece of amber. Who
swatted it?
Photograph says that seaweed
often grows to quarter of a mile
In length. Or, adds Zadok Dunn
kopf, half as long as a string of
spaghetti.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12

are about the size of blusJ"
but more slender. Their mosI "
culiar feature is the long tan "
the middle pair OF teal'F-.
are longer than the rest and A',
a peculiar shape which has Cav.
them to be called racket tealA7t"
The plumage is very brillan'
A night fighter needs SOU Ail.
Of vitamin A per day to aid "s-'
vision.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
tion of the war to complete vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR,TODAY

Some speak despairingly about the dis
illusionment that will follow this war. Per-
haps exactly the reverse will happen. Ma
tions which have been absorbed in mas
tering the technical details of production
and fighting will turn with great creativity
to learn how to live with each other and
God.
FORWARD.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Photographs

The howler monkeys are remark
abe for their weird chies, and in
intelligence they are classed among
The lowest of the American mon.
keys.
fhe motmot is a bird of tropi-
ca America, only one of the 20
cdd species coming as far north
as the Mexican boundary They
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
FAIR ENOUGH

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the sonal views Of Mr. Pegler
and often disagree with Them much many o1
his readers His articles the good purpose OF
making people think)
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Defense
Timetable

BASIC TRAINING COURSES
High School Room 109, at p. NJ.
Fire Defense A: Every Monday,
General Course: Every Tuesday.
Gas Defense B: Every Wednes-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
SCATTERED SHOT

"Incompetents in Wash ngtoh
must go'" cried the new Amer
can Legion commander AS N'
ramed no names, not creature
stirred. Milwaukee Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
Suggesting A jump ofs

Suggesting A Jump on -,
Mussolini used TO get "a III"
out Of the Italian people by peas
ing his breast on balcony. Inc!
probably get an even bigger Ai'H
now if he'd go to that 0alcoI;
and jump off.-Greenville o. "
News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
AS Others Say 1t
LIGHT ON A DARK CONTINENT

Paradoxical as it may Ill.,
some of the brightest of the cUrrei'
war news comes from the Dam
|Continent " - Greenville IS. W
eWs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12
FIRST AID 10 HOURS

TITNSI AID ~ IIOtNS
New Hanover High School, Room
1O6.
First Lesson: Every Monday.
Second Lesson: Every Tuesday.
Third Lesson: Every "Wednesday
Fourth Lesson: Every Thursday
Final Lesson: Every Friday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12

If you hear or observe anything
suspicious in character report II
promptly to:
Wilmington Police, 5244.
Wrightsville Beach Police. ioO4'
Carolina Beach Police 200l.
Captain of the Port, 2-2270.
County Defense Council, 3l25'
Sheriff. 1852.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12

between military leaders and man-power au-
thorities, if American agriculture is to benefit
materially from the services of farm young
sters of the revised draft age.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-12

SPECIAL COURSES
Police Course: Every TUESDAY,
High School Room 109, at 8 p M
Evening star., 1942-07-09

Mr.. Henderson. ing inspector
for the District Board Of Fire Un-
derWriters. He was affiliated with
the Washington Permanent Build
ing Association for 20 years, hold
ing successfully the positions Of
appraiser, estimator. director and
vice president. He also served as a
manual training instructor in Dis
trict Schools.
A member Of the National City
Christian Church, Mr.. Henderson
was past master of the New
Jerusalem Masonic Lodge.
Following the death of his first
wife, the former Belle Mannakee,
in 1925, Mr.. Henderson married
her sister, Clara. She died last
September. Surviving are daugh-
ter by the first marriage, Mrs.
Richard w. Wheat, and a brother,
James B. Henderson. A son, John
Clifton Henderson, died in 1888, and
another son, Charles Wilson Hen
derson, died two years ago.
Funeral services for Mr.. Hen
derson will be held at 10:30 am.
tomorrow at the S. H. Hines Funeral
home, 2701 Fourteenth street NV
Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery
Evening star., 1942-07-09
Three Men Drown as Flood
Sweeps Eastern Kentucky
e! the Associated Press.

e! the Associated Press.
HAZARD. KY, July 9.-Three men
were reported drowned yesterday as
flood waters swept Eastern Ken
lucky. washing away small houses,
blocking highways and railroad
tracks and causing heavy damage to
crops.
Ercel Hall, about 35, drowned while
trying to cross Boone Fork of the
Kentucky River, ordinarily a small
stream feeding into the Kentucky
River, but swollen by extraordinarily
heavy rains yesterday.
A man identified as James Rut-
ledge, %, drowned at Sassafrass,
near here, while he was trying to
rescue a family marooned In its
home on Yellow Creek.
At Vicco, a young colored man who
was not identified drowned while at
tempting to assist several persons in
a flooded store.
Traffic was halted on many roads
and at several points on railroads,
but most places were cleared last
night and water in the many noun
tain streams which flow into the
Kentucky and Big Sandy Rivers was
reporting subsiding.
Evening star., 1942-07-09
Wi|heImshaven Base
Attacked by Strong
RAF Bomber Fleet
Port Of Wesermuende
Also British Target,
4 Germans Disclose
z, the Associated Press.

z, the Associated Press.
LONDON, July ga strong
force of Royal Air Force bombers
attacked Wilhelmshaven. Ger
man naval base and submarine
building center, last night, their
first attack on Germany since
the night of July 2, the Air Min
istry announced today.
Four bombers were missing, ii
added.
A Royal Canadian Air Force re.
port on the operation said some
Canadian planes in the attack car
ried extra special" bomb loads
This was not explained. but may
have meant bombs of super size
like those dropped before on Ger
many.
Fighter command aircraft at the
same time attacked enemy air.
dromes and other objectives in Oc-
cupied France. The Air Ministry
said they intercepted and destroyed
two German bombers.
The raid on Germany followed
five nights of bad weather The
only other raid there this month
was the July 2 attack on Bremen.