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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Civil War In France

Sensitive persons cannot contemplate inter-
This applies as well to the future as the pres
ent.
Civil war appears inevitable In fact. it is
widely believed to be in progress now. Fac
ton is arrayed against faction. No mans life
is safe. What the Germans leave undone is
ably carried out by Frenchmen. Death stalks
the streets of all cities.
A wireless dispatch to the New York Times
places the blame chiefly upon Pierre Laval.
the chief of government at Vichy. Says this
dispatch:
For months the regimented press was
instructed to stress terrorism to justi-
fly repression on the part of Vichy- and
the Gestapo The picture of general law
1essness thus painted now is having reper
cussions Every organized group whether
for or against Vichy, is taking the law
into its own hands. So much IS this so that
the newspapers are now Instructed to
cease the ''terroriSt'' campaign
One of the consequences is that human
life is held so cheaply thai throughout the
country guns are Tired indiscriminately.
whether by patriots Or collaborationists,
with the lurking suspicion that many of
the attacks are the work of agents provo
catuers, French or German.
One reason for all this is that there is
virtually no recognized authority. All
Vichy's enactments are iiouted especially
since Marshal Henri Phi.ippo Petains de-
sire for the return of democratic forms
has become known, while German regula-
lions are systematically resisted.
Clearly the task CT restoring order in Fance.
once the Gennans are driven Out, constitutes
a major problem which, in view of his past
performance cannot safely be LETT to General
De Gaulle. 1t 10 not impossible that condi-
tons Immediately following the war will be so
deplorable that the United Nations will have
to send an army of occupation to France as
well as to Germany and maintain a thorough
going police force in the country for some
years to come
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Save Paper

It is too early to announce the schedule to
De set up in Wilmington fol the forthcoming
waste-paper crusade, but none to soon to urge
residents to save every scrap Of all descrip-
tons that comes their way.
1t will all be needed. In fact, it is said
that only with the complete cooperation Of
the public can the country meet the paper
needs of the war effort
Conditions for storing and moving waste
have been materially inpr owed since the first
campaign for its collection. There will be no
breakdown this time. say the persons with
project in charge. It is anticipated that the
undertaking will produce as splendid results
as the scrap metal drive sponsor ed by Ameri-
can newspapers.
Save your newspapers, save your maya
zines. Save the scraps that 60 into your waste
baskets. Find convenient place in the cellar
or on the back porch. Spread newspapers flat
and tie into bundles of approximately one
hundred each. Tie magazines in bundles of
twenty. Empty waste baskets into cartons,
which are easily obtained at your grocer's,
calls for it, sometime in December.
II you keep store, the wrappers on your
Christmas stock will do lot toward making
The campaign a success. And you can aid by
Eattening excess cartons and saving them too.
All forms of paper can be reprocessed and
put to good use.
Save it all.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Bibles For All

In connection with Universal Bible Sunday
it is interesting TO note that some part of
this greatest of all books has been translated
INTO more than one thousand languages and
the whole of it into one hundred eighty -four.
In three years one-haf million Bibles, Tesla
ments and the Gospels in thi,ty-four langu-
ages, have been distributed to prisoners of
war and refugees in Germany, Italy, France,
India, South Africa, Egypt the West Indies,
Canada and the United States. During the
same time, 2,043,521 Testaments have been
given to service men ard women in our armed
forces and merchant marine.
80 much for the past. At present, merchant
marine and naval lfeboats and RATS are be-.
ing equipped with Testaments, Testament
Is going to every American prisoner whose
ii'iiie ana camp address are available, and a
eoii'iilulng supply in many languages is pro-
Vloeo Tor prisoners Of war in many parts of
'ne world on both sides of the battle line.
Ihls IS the statistical side of the picture. The
other side has to do with the spiritual awaken.
ing among the armed forces, not of our own
land alone but of all peoples. 1t is the univers-
al testimony Of chaplains and those among
o11lcers who observe the psychological reac-
ton OF war of their troops that the men in
UNIFORM everywhere have an increasing con-
Germ for the spiritual welfare and heard more
closely the teachings of Haly Writ. Even at
home in civilian circles it is noted that the
Bible is read and studied more closely than
in the preceding peace era.
1t would be well if the practice became
more general. The world would be a better
place to live in if more people knew more
about the Bible and followed it; recommends
tons. Those who do not read it are missing
something they ought to know. There IS so
lace for the heavy-hearted courage for tht
Respondent help for the needy, between 1t'
covers. And for those with literary oent
there is not to be found such great writing
any other book.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
The Literary Guidepost

There is Peter Cooper, risking
his future on the Atlantic cable,
making the best glue in America,
setting strange grocer up in bus
mess after a fire, founding the
Cooper Union. And Grandmother
Cooper inventing pickpocket-
catcher, an arrangement of fish
hooks in her pocket that caught
the hand of the thief so she could
walk him to the police station. And
Father Hewitt as Mayor of New
York, borrowing some suspicious
checks made out to the governor
in order to force that worthy to
sign park bill. And Mr.. Hewitt's
wife caring for Buffalo Bill, drunk
at ladies' dinner-party.
There is Mr.. Hewitt himself
working with Hiram Maxim on a
flying machine years before the
Wrights or Langley, eating din
ner in Turkey at which the ma
tiveS came down with verdigris
poisoning, hanging a skeleton at
Princeton so that the authorities
could not reach it, being piped in
to dinner at Skibo Castle, going
broke as a manufacturer Of motor
cars in England, hearing Andrew
Carnegie wall to himself because
he could have got another hun
dred million for his business.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Raymond Clapper Says:
Destruction Of Berlin
Regretful But Necessary

Persons who saw working shifts
change at these factories found
that large portion of the work
men were drafted labor from the
occupied countries. Each wore a
large identification badge on his
lapel indicating his nationality.
Many were Poles.
Conversation was much more in
dependent than previously. Mus
solini had fallen and there were
street comments that if it could
happen in Italy there was hope it
might happen in Germany. Sour
ces in which I have confidence
size up homefront morale as being
extremely low. The people are
spiritless and overcome with a
sense of hopelessness.
Still, these same sources think
the Germans will continue to fight
until well into next summer, and
in personal betting prefer August
as the month of the surrender.
Questions are raised as to whe-
Their our unconditional surrender
war aim should not be explained.
Should we give the Germans some
idea of what kind of a peace they
might expect? The Nazi propagan-
da holds the German people in the
war by telling them that the suf-
fering of war is nothing to what
the punishment will be after the
surrender. They are saying more
Germans will die in a month, at
the hands of outraged conquered
peoples than would die in battle
in a similar period.
They drive that point home by
citing our unconditional surrender
slogan.
Our side has been considering
the policy to be applied after Ger
many surrenders. Possibly very
shortly some attempt will be made
to get across to the German peo-
pie that they can escape continu-
alton Of this savage air attack by
ending the war. Otherwise land
invasion is certain to follow the
pulverizing blows from the air.
There won't be much conscience
about it either. What Hitler has
done has been too horrible. More
Allied deaths will only increase
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Daily Praye,
FOR MAGNANIMOUS SPIRITS

We pray today, 0 almighty and
eternal God, ruler of all that the
universe contains, that we may
not be little souls in a great time.
May the vastness of the issues of
this global war seep into our pet
ty spirits. Deliver us from the
blight of small and ignorant fault
finding with our leaders and our
neighbors. Save us from the mean
spirit of criticism. Make us mag
unanimous in all the attitudes and
actions and conversation of life
So often we hurt our fellows by
loose talk and thereby hurt our
own souls. God be merciful to us
in our meanness, and make us
Worthier of our times. Help us to
be true to our real love and lov-
atty and patriotism; and not to be
hinderers but helpers of all, who
IN any position. serve the great
Cause. Amen.-W.T.E
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON. - We can re.
greet that it is necessary to bomb
Berlin to partial destruction. But
more appropriately we can thank
God that the Raj is able to do
the job.
We can feel sorry for the fami-
lies in Berlin, and especially for
the children who are lost. They
might have grown up to make
Germany a better member of the
family of nations.
But we can more appropriately
regret the loss of brave Raj fiji
ers on these missions, and the
losses of American filters in other
missions that are pounding Ger
many to defeat.
We need have no bad conscience
about giving Berlin something like
what Hitler gave to Rotterdam
and Warsaw and countless other
localities.
If you heard the radio premiere
of Noel Coward's ironical song,
Lets Don't Be Beastly to the
Germans" you know what I
mean.
Germany must be defeated so
convincingly this time that the
German people will cease to glo-
rify war as means of national
salvation. They have to learn it
the hard way. With air attack,
the war, fortunately, is being car
ried right into the heart of Ger
many and the old trick of quit
ting before the enemy invades is
not working this time.
l have talked with a person who
has been in Germany in the last
few months. After some of the
heavy bombing, Berlin became
somewhat deserted city. People
by the thousands crowded the
trains in panic evacuation.
Many of the government offices
moved away. At that time there
had been little damage in the
heart of the city, in the area
around the Adlon hotel. Only
few windows we're out. But outly-
ing industrial areas were badly
hit and factories showed the ef-
fectS of it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
TRAGIC PRESENT
NAILS LEAVE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bomb
ers raided an East Anglican vii
lage and left a tragic present at
the birthday party of 4-year-old
John Whiting.
When the siren sounded, John
and his fourteen guests left the
tea table, with its birthday cake
and four pink candles, for rthe
homemade shelter in the garden.
Shortly after a direct hit de-
stroyed the shelter, killing John
his sister Betty, 5, his grand
mother, both his grandfathers,
and two cousins, 5 and 6.
American soldiers, passing in
!eeps when the bombs fell. dug
into the debris with bare hands
and saved Johns father, mother,
ana two sisters, all critically in
Jured but alive.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29

the severity of the retribution. No
body will worry much about the
bomb victims. When you're up
there over the target, you are
not thinking about the people down
below but only of getting back
home. 1t is impersonal. Nothing
that air raids can do will be any
more brutal than the slow torture
and mental anguish as well, which
the Nazis have inflicted upon mil
lions of people.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
You're
Telling Me

Grandpappy jenkins says he
knows a veteran hitchhlker VINO
now refers to himself as a share
tne-ride home front soldier.
With liquor scare, Zadok Dunn
kopf has taken the paddock OFT TIE
lcebox and attached it to the GEL
lar door.
Russia plans to repay icase-lend
food with food frem that nation
Tough on the taxpayer who doeSn
care for caviar.
A Canadian farmer has found
one of his COWS killed by an ar
row. Just another Indian pro0aoy,
initiating the ways Of the Pas
Faces.
All some candidates now toSSLg5
their hats into the preSldenua5
rings will get out Of 1t IS hedu
cold from the exposure.
The man at the next desk Know
fellow so patriotic he did ns
Christmas shopping before giVnS
Thanksgiving turkey though"
In New York a bag containing a.
QUO nickels fell to the sloe"olo
and broke, scattering the COM COM
everywhere. 1t gave the pasSeEW
a glimpse of what we hear ll''-'
ton would be like.
The drawback to that first lo'T S!
snowflake is that it has COUSINS y
the shovel full.
.! Il
There's real spy scare ~
our house-Junior was causH,
trying to get into ioche~
closet suspected of coh'aln'"'
Christmas packages.
We're all for that pos1-"1'
motor car if the finance cOl"
pany payments will be s'reN"
lined, too.
.n
a. - r., .-.,o7 o nv VIII
have a surplus of but one co'"
modity-swastika arm BANGS
IL,
If liquor gets any scarcef Wv
playboy may find it neceS' .,ro
to reserve his highbau y"
weeks in advance. !.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Interpreting
The War
By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press War AnaI,st

0es war Analyst
Suggestions that Chinas Ieado,
may meet at a conference +sbi.
with the chiefs of the British 1rr;t
ed States and Russian COW r,
ments stir the keenest in+ero..
among those who watch the c,,r'
Gus peace between the Soviet, w.
the Japanese. '''''
Reports from overseas ms7t;o,
the likelihood that General; Hon
Chang Kai-shek may atter5
meeting of Prime Minister w..
chill, President Roosevelt r ar5
Marshal Stain. anu
For Roosevelt and Churcbiu T.
get Stain and Chang at the garoS
war conference table would h. n,'s
political and military acbisvo
ment of the first magnitude S-'T
a meeting would Imply thai 04 +
Russians feel they have reached 5Ds
point in their battle with Gern1o,
where two-front war-uitb '' ~
pan and the Reich - no lonaar ' b.
avoided. oe
This is not to say that the init,
act of belligerency neces ,;.-riIt
would be by Russia. But if w T'i
suggest in the strongest n,an w ,~
Gas indeed it presumably wonIJ - [
intended by the Allied Doves e S9
that Russia is ready if LAM,
wants to make something NJ ~.
situation. 1''
The actual presence of rbi.nu
at such a conference or even n,ars
reports of his presence, could ba ~
the utmost value to Britain and t5a
United States in their war with H.
pan. Notice that Russia no longor
is pressed by military necessity r.
avoid conflict with Japan conJd
only aggravate the problem for
the Nipponese.
He must look to his position IN
Manchoukuo, along the Siberia
border. Even short Of actual war
and worsening of relations with
Russia would require stroroo"
forces not only on the Sibersr
border but in the Japanese home.
land, to be ready for either de-.
fensive or offensive onersfoo,
And whatever reinforcements arc
given those areas must be drawn
from the perimeter of Japan's arc
of conquest in the Pacific and IN
China.
The strength of the Japanese
army in Manchoukuo is one Of the
many present mysteries about ia.
pan. Estimates range from a halt
million to a million men and from
a few hundred to several thou.
sand planes. Reinforcement Of the
air force would be CT less concern
than sudden demand for man,
power. Planes could be flown
from even distant fronts in far
less time than large masses Of
men could be moved by ship and
rail and highway.
Both Japan and Russia have
reasons for war. Beyond the fact
that Russia must remember her
defeat by Japan early in this CEN
fury, there are many modern-day
circumstances to irk the Reds.
Not the least Of them is the fact
that Japan controls the main
route to the open Pacific through
which Russian ships sail from the
great Siberian port Of V8Idiv0s-
tok, eastern end Of the TRANSIT
berian railroad. For her part, ia.
pan must feel the menace TO her
Greater East Asia program in
the presence of Russian armies
on her northern flank and in Rus
sian airfields within Reasonable
bombing distance of the japanese
mainland.
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
LUCKIER CLOVER LEAF

RICHMOND, Va. -LR- So you
nave hard time finding four
lea1 clovers? Mrs. J. L. Clark
doesn't bother with four-leaf ones
noW-she discovered one with six
leaves,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Blessed are the children who have par
ents and gradparents VINO can relate the
stories of their own pasts and SO connect
the younger with the older memories,
lighting a taper in the imagination that
never goes out.
Grace E. King
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
AS Others Say 1t
IN FULL SWING

Following very brief adjourn.
ment, politics has reassembled for
full and unbroken session ex-
tending up to November of AZ
Kansas City Star.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
BUSINESS NOTE

These are the days when some
shoppers say to the clerk: III
take it. What is it?" Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accepts
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Pexler
ind sften disagree with them mueh many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-29

how wv swinging into play In the Southland is
mentM tne game that required little eauip.
&c" SHOES and couple of chews.
The union times., 1943-05-01
LITTLE LUTHER

We'll never win the long that man in the White House insists putting social reform ahead everything else Mr. DiwOrth fumed from behind evening Gazette editorial page.
 What reform talking about, Father? Little Luther asked.
 business of ordering roback of prices He leaves wages alone and strikes blow the very foundation of private enterprise In fact he deying of man and nature by trying to bring prices down.
 "Isn't it law of that what goes up must come dOwn?"
 Profits and prices different boy, and this fellow Roosevelt is inviting disaster when he with then'
 Mom sora thinks it's good idea with pork chops costing what they are."
 Your mother, boy, is like Roosevelt. She won't these things good sound businessmen men that Prenss Brown brought into O.P.A do away with crackpO theorists"
 YOu sound men like Lou Maxon who sell bum wiches to wOrkers?'
 Ihe worm will turn of these days boy and when it does those crackpots in Washington will find business is still running this country-'
 Even if they have to put Hitler in the White House?"
The union times., 1943-05-01
NEW HAVEN, CONN, SATURDAY, MAY I, 1e4s
Wages and Lewis

When ALL members of the War Labor Board insist that inequalities must be recognized basis for wage justmens they thinking of wages terms of more money for the sake of money They thinking in terms of the necessities of e of maintaining ing production of doing away with grievances which hinder top efficiency for the effort They acting as patriotic Americans determined aid country to win the war;
 When John L. Lewis attacks the Presidents order and the WLB and saddle the justified grievances of the miners and rides them into battle against the and the effort he is thinking how he smash up the Presidents stabizaion program and how and slow down the effort This when he joins hands with the profteers in attack the whole stabza. ton.
 We know that AFL leaders will insist that real sablizaOn be made work They will wage controls must be accompanied by real price They demand that prices be rolled back and They will ask that fair tax program based ability pay be enacted that profits be taxed away
 Responsible labor will support the President-wi urge and encourage him swift and bold world front and in establishing stabilized economy the home front
 -BuiLding Trades Union Press
The union times., 1943-05-01

jensen, Republican, Hartford, and Mead, told the Senate that the Gov ernOr planned to scrap his War Or der on the restoration of the chief executives emergency power to grant indefinite extensions of longer work days and wOrk-week.
 LEADS FIGHT
 Sen. Ceelan, who with Sen. MOr- jensen and Sen. RisCassi, has lead the battle to set limits on the hours of employment for women after the issuance of Gov. BaIdwin's War Order No. 2, offered resolution to set aside the War Order. This was voted down.
 Ceelan, however, put up a deter mined and dogged struggle to in- duce the Senate to adopt his amendment to preclude children from working more than 48-hOurs a week, to provide transportation for women night workers, and to provide a day of rest every week. Despite the prestige and the thun- derOus opposition of Majority Lead CT Mead, Ceelan came within two votes of having his amendment passed.
 Mortensen paid a fine compliment to Geelan in his stand, by comparing the New Havener's fight for the workers to a similar one made years ago by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was a member of the New York General Assembly.
The union times., 1943-05-01
As We See It. by The Staff

THE ACME of frankness was reached in this classified ad in the Los Angeles Examiner:
 WICKED old desert trader, sole
 owner of l4-lb. ham, desires meet
 pleasant, unattached lady with
 cook stove. Object, picnic. Box
 K6466, Examiner.
 ABSENTEEISM IS tiny bub- ble on the great tidal wave of the American war effort, according to WIPE. Director Donald M. Nell son, who says that ''IabOr and management throughout the nation are staying on the job voluntarily and working in cooperation with the government to win this war;" A fair answer to those newspaper and congressman, not to mention a well-knOwn airlines president. who have been trying to inflate the bubble.
 PITTSBURGH BANKERS WERE given some good advice recently by radio analyst William S. Cailmor. who asked them to take the lead ln combating anti-union Iegisla- ton If free enterprise is to be preserved" Cailmor told the Iron City chapter of the American In- stitute of Banking, ''then labor and capital must fight as aIlies.''
 NOW THAT the hullaballo over absenteeism has quieted down, it is evident that the only thing absent from the front pages during that hysterlcal campaign was - The truth!
 OSCAR DIMWIT: Maybe we ought to negotiate peace.
 JOE UNIONMAN: And be left in pieces?