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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Washington Daybook

WASHINGTON.-There probably isn't lad
going off to the wars these days who isn't
packing something or using something that
was made in this country's prisons.
Already more than 100 prisons (and at least
one in each of the 48 states) are going all
out on war materials. Prison farms a d
dairies are contributing to the food production
program. Prison shops and machines are
turning out hundreds of articles that go into
the sinews of war: tent stakes, camouflage
cloth, airplane castings, bomb parts, ammu-
milton boxes, tool chests, and what not.
The prison industries section is part of the
War Production Board. 1t was organized by
Maury Maverick, chief of the bureau of gov
ernmental requirements, and is one of the
pets of the former congressman and San An
tonic mayor. 1t is directed by Dan Turner
former governor of Iowa.
Having had to overcome the hurdle which
prison labor is always up against of not in
frlnging on the rights of organized labor,
prison war production still is in its infancy.
1t has, however, been given the green light
by Presidential directive just issued. This
removes some of the legal obstacles surround
ding the sale of prison made goods.
The point is that everything turned out by
the prisons now operating under the program
goes directly to the Army, Navy, or lend.
lease. Maverick and Turner hope eventually
to put the whole force of 1863 600 prison labor
ers, many of them skilled mechanics and
machine tool operators, back of the war effort.
There are, for example, cotton spindles op-
Grated by state prisons capable of turning
out 20000000 yards of IL ounce fabric a
year Jute, no longer available from India,
is being replaced by osnaburg cloth fabri-
Gated from cotton grown on prison farms in
the SOUTH This is turned into camoufla ge
cloth and sand bags. Vegetables and fruits
from thousands of acres of prison farms are
being canned in prison canneries. Maverick
can reel off all the figures, but he likes to
talk most about what all this is doing to
prison morale. One of his favorite stories
is about young man serving life sentence
in Georgia prison.
It's the young fellows first stretch Almost
the first day of his sentence, he went berserk.
Within a few weeks, he had drawn every
kind of punishment the prison could mete
out. He was bad one and considered almost
incurable. When Pearl Harbor came he was
doing long stretch in solitary confinement
He heard the news and asked to be taken
to the warden. He pleaded. The interview
work on war materials. The warden couldn't
believe his ears, but he gave the fellow a
chance. For nearly ten months, the young
man has been a model prisoner.
This, says Maverick is one of hundreds
of such cases that have been called to his
attention. He's convinced that there is no
group anywhere more eager to do their part
in licking the Axis than the ''men in STIR"
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
The Literary Guidepost

Sungkiang and at last account he
still was there-he and the Japa-
nese. He made a bad start by Of
Tending Chinese custom in a
strange way. Some paper wi t h
writing on it was discovered to be
defiled by the farmer who bought
the mission night-soil, and this
showed disrespect for learning and
almost caused riot. But Burke
won.
He found himself forced to be
doctor and dentist as we'll as
preacher. He kept opium suicides
alive by shocking them with a
homemade battery and coil he
pulled teeth with a pair of pleirs
and poured calomel, quinnie and
castor oil down thousands of
throats. Once he frightened awav
some river pirates by emerging
with yells and grimaces from he,
meath a photographers cloth and
again ne made himself persona
grata with the local officials hu
a 81. simple job of firefighting.
The old gentleman knew Charlie
soon IN America. and he kept on
showing him through the d avs
when, his name again made cb;s
nese as Soong,' he was the fo,,ndar
oi the remarkable dynasty so M.
ts,,s.a ts,,. .ooay IN Chinese affairs. He
"a taught' ne preached, and above all
ne ne ioved the Chinese-not blindlv
~ Du' heip1ully. He helps them todav
In their trouble, 'o""S
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
BY JOHN SELBY.
James Burke (Farrar and Rhine.
hart: S..

James Burke's my Father in
China is among the best books,
in two classifications. It is one of
the best of the father books, p"
and it is close to tops as a study
OF Chinese manners and activity
through the last so years.
Fortunately, Mr.. Burke did not
caricature his father, as Clarence
Day did. The elder Burke is a
Southern Methodist missionary of
great capacity, commanding ply
sique, deeply held sympathies. But
it is easy to caricature mis-
sionary and I imagine it is hard
to resist the opportunity eve n
when the subject is your own IA
ther. Mr.. Burke has. It is just as
easy to be funny about Chinese
habits of life, they being the anti
thesis of our own. But here again
our author has been content to tell
the truth with good hunor and ap-
probation. He must be a pretty
balanced person.
The elder Burke went out TO
China from southern Georgia. He
would have gone as a doctor had
not his superiors in their wisdom
insisted the denomination had plen.
ty of doctors-which was not the
fact, After a brief interval, in
Shanghai. Burke Senior went. to
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Blackout Tonight

Too much emphasis cannot be placed on
the importance of complete cooperation in
the blackout scheduled for tonight.
Everyone is urged particularly to under
stand that ''blackout means just that-not
dimout. No light must be visible from the
outside If it is, if any householder or tenant
is negligent, air raid wardens will be fully
justified in forcibly extinguishing it. At the
same time, Wardens are cautioned not to
break into any property without first learning
beyond peradventure of doubt that no means
exist for putting it out from outside the build
ing.
Residents should understand that this prac-
tice blackout is in every detail dress re-
hearsal for actual enemy attack. There can
be no reasonable excuse for any person to
violate the regulations set up for it. The rules
have been widely and fully publcized. No one
will be justified in pleading ignorance for
failure to obey them. Nor can any one reason
ably claim that the test, or any that may
follow, is waste of time and effort because
''it can't happen here
1t can. An air raid is definitely possible.
OulteQ OIdteS ullllIdIy dOIIlOIlIlCS, VIII UcSI
know the enemys program, have declared
that the Nazs will attempt attacks on the
Atlantic seaboard, and we know that, be-
cause of it's exposed situation, the Carolina
coast is among areas most likely to be Wis
ited Wilrnington's industrial importance lends
itself to attack
The only way, then, that we can be pre-
pared for an air raid, whenever it may come,
is for every person to rehearse his part, even
though this part be only to put out all lights
and remain indoors during the blackout.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

Guinea and the Solomons, which serve the
purpose of observation flights as well as for
the destruction Of japanese shipping, bases
and attacking units. General Stilwell, obvi-
ously reinforced with fliers and planes, has
renewed his assaults in southern China and
in Burma with similar results.
They, at least know that ultimate success
in the Pacific rests upon their being forever
on the alert and also upon their ability to
keep the enemy so harassed that seeming
Japanese idleness cannot cloak large mobili-
cations for major thrusts in the areas they
defend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Raymond Clapper Says:
Farmers Real Trouble
Is Shortage OF Labor

problems connected with produc.
ton of war goods and simply are
unable to devote adequate atten-
ton to training persons as future
substitutes. The Tolan committee
has recommended that the Man
power Commission set up a staff
of specialists in labor utilization to
assist employers in mastering their
manpoWer difficulties.
With respect to semi-skilled la
Dor, the Tolan Committee has sew
eral suggestions. 1t would expand
vocational training for groups
hitherto largely excluded from in
dustrial employment, such as wo-
men, the aged, handicapped, col
ored and other minorities. 1t would
subsidize trainees and finance
their transfer to areas where they
were needed. 1t would have a
civilian defense campaign in areas
OF general labor shortage to draw
into the labor market persons liv-
ing there who are not ordinarily
employed such as housewives.
Many other detailed suggestions of
the same type are offered, some
OF them drawn from the British ex
perlence with manpower shortage.
The point of the Tolan Commit
tee recommendations is that most
OF them could be put into effect
by the Manpower Commission or
other Government agencies with
cut legislation and without regard
to what may be done about the
proposed National Service Law.
Most of those who are studying
the manpoWer problem believe
that 1t is rapidly reaching an ex-
plosive point. 1t is reaching into
carrying, and we may be forced to
ration milk unless farm labor is
provided somehow.
While the Tolan Committee pro.
gram would help, and much of If
Will nave to be undertaken in any
case, 1t is not likely to be suffi-
clent. 1t offers little to relieve the
farm labor shortage.
The administration must soon
face the real task, which is to
nflng about balance in the whole
war program. That means balanc-
ing at the top-fitting strategy.
military needs, labor supply, agri-
culture, materials and plant cana
clty into relation with each other.
so that essential nrod,,c+;or :, -.
lnterfered with by the draft nor
ny unnecessary production. Are
you going to slow down ship pro.
ouctlon so that draft quotas NAV
ne met? Or are you going to SLOW
Gown the draft quotas until the
shlps to move the men are built?
Such questions need the attention
OF a topside clearing house and
lnere IS no such clearing house
YET Why? Just because Mr..
roosevelt hasn't got around to do
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 - Ihe
real trouble farmers are in is not
from prices but from a shortage
of labor.
The labor shortage has weaved
in and out of the initiation fight as
an argument in favor of boosting
the parity basis for farm prices.
Farmers are losing help for two
reasons. One is that the draft and
enistments are taking large num-
bers from the farms. The other is
that the high wages paid in air.
craft and shipbuilding plants are
drawing labor from the farm. The
draft is rapidly on the way to be-
coming the big factor. 1t is bound
to hit industrial labor very hard
within the next two or three
months.
Although the farm labor short
age has been used as an argument
for boosting farm prices, it really
is an argument for something else
AN overhauling of the whole man.
power problem.
Several things can be done be-
fore the question of Government
control over all manpower is de-
cjded. The Tolan committee of the
House has given much study to
these possible moves short of man.
power control.
One of the most important is to
make the most efficient use Of
existing manpower. Those who
have studied this problem say that
som e employers, anticipating
labor shortage and loss of men to
the draft, have overhired to be
sure of a cushion. This boarding
Of labor is one field which the
Tolan committee believes the
Government should attack. An
other is the training of older men
and women for requirements. A
third is the use of men at their
highest skills. These are matters
of intricate personnel management
which in normal times the forces
OF competition take care of through
regular management operation.
But present conditions are chaotic.
Employers do not know how many
men they will lose and how rapid
ly. Anyway they are deep in new
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Photographs

Inc labor law of Mexico obliges
employers to contract directly with
the unions for their help: recog.
nizes the right to strike. and the
right of strikers to close a business
until the issue is settled. It also
oohges employers to provide hy.
glenlc living quarter for their en-
ployes, and stipulates that 80 per
cent OF the employees of all indus
'Ilai and commercial concerns
Shali be Mexican citizens.
Musical instruments were hung
on the walls of barber shops in
l1th century Europe for patrons
VINO wished to play while waiting
for shave.
ohe-half ton of coal will provide
'ne energy to make the steel for
one-ton aerial bomb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

equal rights and an equal footing in world
affairs with the nations it has attacked.
What the world will need is sef-deternin-
alton for all nations and peoples. The right
to live securely within its own borders, to
trade with such countries as it wishes, to
live under its favorite form Of government
and practice its preferred domestic customs,
so long as it makes no hostile move against
a neighbor, must be the postwar program
for all nations if the peace for which all
peoples pray is to be lasting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Civilian Defense
Timetable

BASIC TRAINING COURSES
High School Room 109, at 8 p. M.
Fire Defense A.: Every Mon
day.
General Course: No meeting
Sept. 10Th
Gas Defense B: Every Wednes.
Gay
FIRST AID TEN HOURS
No classes during the week Of
28th.
SPECIAL COURSES
Police course: Every Thursday
High School room 109. at 8 p. m
II you hear or observe anything
suspicious in character report il
promptly to:
Wilmington Police, 5244
Wrightsville Beach Police, 1904
Carolina Beach Police, 2,,0l.
Captain OF the Port, 2-2278.
County Defense Council, 1923.
Sheriff. 1852.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
You're
Telling Me

A Midwesterner has returned
book he borrowed 50 years ago
Probably came to the conclusion
he'd never find the time to reao IT,
Speaking of tough birds. the
crested flycatcher must be apou'
tops. 1t lines its nest with snake
skins.
A reader asks How fast can
gnu travel? Well, it jumps from
crossword puzzle to crossword puz'
zle in a days time.
And then there are the Com
mando raids staged by enthusIaSuc
high school students on the defeat
ed teams goal posts.
It's odd but the woman =" ho
can't add lip a bridge score usu'
ally knows exactly how many days
there are until Christmas.
With the grease that housewives
are now saving for the war effort,
one might ask, What's cookln'.
Unnecessary phone calls are be-
ing discouraged. 1t seems too 5ood
to be true but, perhaps, al long
last we see the passing Of tna'
Guess-Who-This-Is pest.
Railway travellers on Canadian
National railways dining cars are
partial to beef AS part OF the
for the 2,369 eVV
meals served on these roads din.
ers required 775,00O pounds o'i
meat during a year Of tAsI
beef in the form of IONS
ribs and other cups, represents
$50. 600 pounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Quotations

We feel that there as just got to be more
revenue and that there will have to be some
kind of legislation as deterrent on spending
by the public and an incentive to save.-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
1t was just like shooting sleeve targets
Lieut.. Robert E. Macleod U. S. Marine pilot,
after Solomons battle
There will be no easy Versailles treaty for
us if we ose.-Undersecretary of War Rob-
ert p Patterson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
IN PERSON

When the group of actors who
transformed the country to raise
money for the U. S. o. got to
Philadelphia, house-wifely-look-
ing lady standing on a curbstone
recognized Cary Grant going by
in a car and raised a glad cry
of ITS Cary Grant" She watched
him out of sight, then murmured,
My, it looks just like him, too."
The New Yorker.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
AS Others Say 1t
WARTIME WASHINGTON

Washington these days is t h e
source of more cock-eyed schemes
for nearly every real and imagin-
able evil that does or does not ex-
ist than it has been before. Maybe
that oughtn't to be said, but the
saying seems to be borne out by
the record.-Henderson Daily Dis
patch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
CHURCH ATTENDANCE NOTE

The circumstance that a Los Angeles preach
er has invited his next Sundays congregation
to take dinner with him bears out the general
understanding that church crowds in that city
can normally be accommodated in telephone
booth.-Charlotte Observer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
TOP % THE MORNING

happy and victorious Christian is one
who enjoys his religion rather than en-
dures it.
Calendar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
HAPPY ASSURANCE

Whatever else may happen to
us we are assured of enough to
eat, maybe something to wear and
place to sleep-quite impressive
social gains to be held for the
duration.-Kansas City Times.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-26
0nl y Two More Home
Games For RedIegs

Only two more home games re-
main on the Reds schedule for
this season. The club is due to meet
the Pittsburgh Pirates in ladies
day game Saturday Sept. 26, then
close the season with these same
Pirates the following afternoon.
Until the Reds return home, they
will be touring through the Ma
fsional Leagues western SEXTON.
with successive series scheduled al
Pittsburgh, Chicago, and ST Louis
The two games at st. Louis on
Wednesday night, Sept. %. and
Thursday afternoon Sept. "A will
Immediately precede the Reds re-
turn to their home diamond.
This final road trip the Reds are
now on has proved one thing to
Bill McKechnie and it is
that Max Marshall's best position
is centerfield Max came up as
played left, and now
is in the position he belongs in, in
the opinion of McKechnie. What's
more, his hitting has picked up
since he moved into his new spot.
Being a left-handed pull hitter,
lle was particularly effective at
Field, Brooklyn, and the
Polo Grounds, New York, where
hitterS of his type have the adj
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-26

Crosley Field because of the dis
tant rightfield barrier.
During the week the Reds pur-
chased a new catcher for I943 de-
livery. He is Ray Mueller who has
been with tee Braves and. Pirates
in the National League. Mueller
has had a great season on the Pa
cific Coast with Sacramento, and
is considered by far the peer of his
leagues catchers. He has worked
all but a dozen of his teams
games, has hit consistently over
300, and has done a fine all
around job. A new catcher is q
necessity with the Reds, because
Ray Lamanno probably will be in
the armed forces before the next
season rolls around.
Tickets for the Reds final two
games are now ON sale at the down.
town office at 307 Vine st.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-26

Six more conference teams will
play either seven Or eight games,
namely, Alabama A.. and M. Col
lege, Clark College, Knoxville Col
lege, Morehouse College, South
Carolina State College, and Tus-
kegee Institute.
AS previously announced, Fort
Valley State College, Fisk Univer-
sity, LeMoyne College, and ITALIA
dega College have dropped the
greatest of all outdoor games for
the duration.
All of the GAS team will play
at least five conference games,
but the Alabama State Hornets
with eight games listed will face
more Southern intercollegiate
Athletic Association rivals than
any other team in the loop. The
only non-conference game to be
played by Alabama Tigers will be
against Lincoln University of
Missouri.
The Clark University Panthers
and Florida A. &c M. Rattlers are
scheduled to meet seven confer
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-26
Piigskirl Banned
At Bishop
For TheDuration

MARSHALL. Texas-(S N 81 -
Speaking to the faculty and stu
dents of Bishop College at the
SiXty-Second Fall convocation,
Friday morning, President Joseph
j. Rhoads announced that -tfootball
as an intercollegiate sport will be
discontinued for the duration Of
the war"
The president stated that 'the
increasing demand of the war on
the manpoWer and educational
services of the college, and the
growing insistence that students
shorten the time normally allotted
to college attendance, by applying
themselves with the greatest pos
Sible diligence, have rendered foot
ball temporarily impractical for
U.S."
However, the president stated
the college will retain its member
ship in the Southwestern Athletic
Conference and participate in all
other conference sports, including
basketball and track.
Bishop viii emphasize intra-
mural sports as phase of it's phy-
steal fitness program for all of its
students, and expand greatly ita
Department of Health and Physical
Education. Entrance physical exa-
limitations and immumization against
prevalent contagious and infectious
diseases were initiated last week,
and an extensive follow-up system
of health supervision and educa-
ton was adapted.
New quarters have been Develop
ed for the department., with fully
equipped offices for two part-time
employed dentist, and a full-time
employed dentist and full-time
registered nurse.
The departments staff members
are: DR.. o. w. Phillips, dentist:
Drs. o. L. Bledsoe and CT. T. Cole
man, physicians; Mildred R. Smith,
Registered Nurse; and Leroy T.
Walker, MA, director of Physical
Education and Coach.
-
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the backfield which is going to
miss Chuck Thomas.
GUILD AT HARVARD


The situation at Harvard, in spite
+ heavy material losses, is not as
bad as it seems. Excellent line re-
placements are being discovered
and a younger, faster backfield APP
pears to be in the making. A fast
er offense will be tailor made for
fleet running halfbacks like Ray
Guild, the ex-Carnbridge school,
hoy star and a college back who
hasn't been able to hit his stride
due to injuries. Ray is acknowledge
ed to be one of the fastest backs
at Harvard. He has played on the
Harvard freshman, junior varsity
and varsity in successive years
which proves he is not lacking the
stuff to make good. One of the
athletics sons of the state NAACP
president, Ray Guild, Jr., is now in
his senior year. He may be one of
the Harvard seniors to face Yale
this fall. Other colored grid pros
poets? There are bound to be
many, in spite Of war.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-26
Billy Blows Top
About Knocking
Out Sergeant Joe

RUMSON, N. Us N SIT was
Billy Conn, the Irish kid of Pitts
burgh, talking Saturday, and he
blew long and loudly that he'd
knock out Joe Louis, the cham
pion, at New York's Yankee
Stadium on October II.
1t will be a fight between Ser
geant Louis and Private Conn, thus
being a natural between prin-
cipals of a standing grudge in IN
Gle Sans Army.
Conn opined that he would mot
only whip Joe, I'll knock him out"
The Pittsburger said he had learn
ed is lesson about hot-headedness
and that he would be waiting" for
Louis.
Conn said he would not try to
trade punches with the champion in
close. He did say he'd tear Joe loose
down around the stomach, get him
in trouble ana move in for the fin
ishing punch.
vantage. He is at a disadvantage at