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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
TOte-a-Lunch

The Pilot Club of Jacksonville. Florida, has
opened a Tote-a-Lunch center, where workers
of all grades may assemble and enjoy their
midday meal in comfort and at ease.
Club members surveyed what was going on
at noontime and found that lunches brought
from home were consumed in rest rooms
storage rooms, halls, Easements, behind type
writer's, and any other spot available
Thereupon they adopted a plan which has
proved successful in certain western cities and
launched their center, but carried the project
to greater lengths than the others they imi-
tated.
They added coffee and milk for patrons at
minimum prices installed telephones, provid-
ed a lounge and reading room.
Now the people of Jacksonville who haven't
time or inclination to patronize overcrowded
restaurants and have been gobbling their pack
aged lunches where and when they could may
enjoy the conveniences provided by the Pilot
club, with benefit to their digestion, their dis
positions and employers.
We wonder if a similar project might NOT
be equally helpful here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
The Value Of A Life

With accident deaths in the United States still
exceeding those OF our armed forces in combat,
there is some discussion of the value of hui
man life. 1t cannot well be appraised of
course, but the potential productivity can be
measured.
The State Police director of Texas. Mr.
Homer Garrison, has offered one yard stick
He recalls that 539 persons were killed in traf-
fic accidents in that state during the first six
months of this year. In years time he
figures, they could have assembled all tor
pedo bombers, or produced more than five
times as much of the sulfa drugs as all the
armed forces of the United Nations need.
This is we'll worth remembering when tenn.
tation comes to take chance in traffic
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Tempest In A Samovar

The commentators have been in a diplomatic
tlzzy since it was learned that Mr.. Stain.
hurrying home to Moscow to greet his guests.
called on MIR. Eden before he did on Mr.. Hull.
Some circles hadn't been so upest since the
leuo between Mrs. Gam and Mrs Longworth
over olnner-table protocol ruffled the placid
surface OF the Hoover administration.
Is the understanding among the three states
men now comforting in Moscow in such delicate
balance that fancied snub could send it top
ping? If it is, this is time tc do some serious
worrying. If it isn't let us stop pouting re-
move the chip from shoulder, give Mr..
Hull credit for the common sense that he
possesses, and allow the gentlemen to proceed
with the important business at hand without
any more distracting attacks of vapors from
the onlookers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Daily Prayer
FOR MY SON

From under my heart came TINS
son who now wears his Country
uniform. The best of my life mas
gone INTO him. The years-all 100
short-that I have spent in tram
ing and serving him have been my
career. Thou, o God, who mast
a Father heart, canst understand
how dear this son is to me- LII
this strong man I will see the
baby that I once cuddled in my
arms; and I long still to protec,,
him. But I can only write ana
pray; and leave him in Thy Fam
er care. Do Thou protect MN
from hurt of body and stain OIL
soul. May none of the noble IN
stincts that I have implanted III
him grow less in this time OF test
ing and service. Grant him tne
boon of an uncontaminated SOUL,
In action may he be valorous ana
chivalrous, a fit representative o.
our Country. l thank Thee that
have been permitted to give OF my
best to Cause that is surrey
Thine; and I pray that l, too may
be a good soldier at home. Amen
w. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Pre-Induction Training

Illinois has initiated pre-lnductlon program
which promises to give the Army corps OF
motor vehicle operators well grounded in the
rudiments of an exacting task. The state IS
training so, 900 high school pupils to make them
competent drivers of military trucks, ETC.,
when they are called up for service The
course is the states answer to request from
the office of the quartermaste- general
For number of years Illinois has been
among the leading states in the number OF
high schools including driver training pro-
grams in their curricula, and many OF these
schools have already started teaching the spe-
cial course in pre-induction driving. The pro-
gram Incorporates much of the material COW
cred previously in driver training classes, but
the new course goes somewhat further to in
clude preventive maintenance of vehicles, map
reading, motor marches, driver qualifications,
motor vehicle construction and operation, ad-
vanced driving practices and special driving
techniques.
Throughout the school year members of the
traffic safety section will visit ali schools in
the state to assist in teaching the courses. The
men will give assembly talks and show pic
lures giving visual aid on subjects relating to
safety.
Though the pre-nduction course does not
require nd-the-wheel training, this will be
included where local conditions permit Main
ly the school training program is to acquant
the pre-nduction student with theoretical as
poets. Military information ir the course is
military training division of the office of the
uuartermaster general
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
SOCIALIZZED MEDICINE

Indiana physicians meeting in
Indianapolis had a good deal to say
in opposition to the New Deal eff
fort to socialize the healing art.
They took the Wagner-Murray-Din-
gell bill under fire and blasted
away at it on the ground that if it
should become law the freedom
of medical practice would be de-
stroyed and the relationship of ply
stefan and patient would be deter
mined by Federal edicts, directives
and regulations having the force
of law.
The doctors are right and they
are justified in their alarm. In
leading the opposition, however,
they inevitably give the impression
that they are protecting their in
terest rather than the public in
terest. Since the leadership de-
wolves upon them, both in the pro-
lection of their profession and in
the protection of the people, this
is hard to avoid. But
the truth is that their fight is be-
ing conducted primarily in the pub
lie interest. The people as voters
should make more of a fight to
protect themselves from political
That is the real is
Sue.-lndlanapoliS News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
The Literary Guidepost

but instead makes it seem that
coWardice and a huge contempt
for the dark skins of the Chinese
were the reasons.
This seems more like libel than
fiction to me. For the story of
Cheng and Mayli, and their oddly
expressed love, is founded on an
equally ruthless simplification. 1t
is that China is fundamentally
suffering but all good. Mrs. Buck S
Chinese are fighting for free
DOM and she does not explain
what this freedom may have been
like in the past. Her fictional ver-
sion of Chang is a simple, noble
idea-at no time does she sug-
gest the devious tif perhaps I'M
avoidable) route by which he
reached power.
The story of THE Promise is
simply that. Cheng, a self-made
Chinese Officer, and the Ameri-
can-trained Mayli 60 to the Bur-
mese C mpa ign by different
routes. Mayli is amusing, Cheng
is the sort of man who would kick
d small dog, as he does at one
point. The Chinese are defeated,
and on the retreat Cheng and
Mayli come together. So much is
the thread, and by it hangs vast
deal Of propaganda.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01

Observation-Disclosures morale
may be bad as some of the Allied
prisoners report after their re-
lease from captivity, but we are
fortunately basing no plans on an
early end of the war.
Our preparations are on the ba-
sis of carrying on the war indie
finitely.
We are sending no. only finished
war equipment to Russia, but also
industrial plants, such as aviation
fuel and synthetic rubber plants
which will require a year Or more
to construct. We are expanding
our own production facilities, es-
pecially in aviation fuel, so as to
meet rate of consumption far
heavier than at present. We are
developing Middle East oil resour-
ces with facilities that will be
ready in a year or so to expand the
fuel supply for operations against
Japan.
Stockpiles of critical and strate-
gic materials which are being ac
cumulated by the United States
ere of enormous proportions. Pur-
chases by the Metals Reserve
Corp. have amounted to more than
II million tons. We have spent
billion and a quarter dollars to
assemble those materials and have
sold about $771 100000 of them to
war industry. Jesse Jones says
that not once has there been a de-
lay in making a single cartridge
for lack of copper This has been
one of the highest metals but we
maintain a working margin in our
stockpile. The Metals Reserv eCorp.
has financed new mining produc-
ton or made it possible to resume
operation of old high-cost mining
properties in $3.50 instances. That
all looks toward a long war.
Because We are determined to
exploit our advantage in air pow
err, it is significant that everything
in that field still is on steadily
rising curve with no end in sight.
We are going into larger bombers.
Behind these, even larger cnes are
on the way. We are going into i'm
proved fighters. Such favorites as
the Lightning P-38 and the Mus
tang will be constantly improved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
QUOTATIONS

Buying new topcoat instead of digging
out the old one is fine-but there's no chance
of finding a dime tucked away in a pocket.
Too bad but the scarcity of soap won't cut
down the number of soap-box orators.
Joe KirkWood, famed golfer, had his gas
coupon books revoked for driving on golfing
tours. He should have stuck to the fairWay!
No one ever climbs to real success merely
by being boosted up the family tree.
Seeing that babies get plenty of milk, re-
CARELESS of shortage, will protect our most
important infant industry.
we can be thankful that the season is about
over when mosquitoes like our skin-and lump
it, too
we realize that nation, like an individual,
las an obligation to other nations. But we
i -, STOP at, charity and not join with them
"a any kind Of super government William J.
aiace OF the Republican Revival Committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
20 And Do Likewise

I'LL, uonen's Missionary Society OF the First
po,+is+ church has started movement lor
49, entertainment of youngsters which well de-
,,as emulation by other churches and clubs.
r. - ;s widely shared there is good reason TO
.birl that the unrest among children IN these
t.,,s,,-+nrvv times will at least be reduced, II
Il cannot be wholly eradicated.
These women are to open the recreation room
of the First Baptist church from 3:30 to y
o'clock on Tuesdays, starting next week, to all
o,1nesters from IL to Is years and watch over
all who attend to see that they get the most
thew can out of bowling and table tennis and
other games available and don't go hungry
while they play. There will be refreshments
at an appropriate time.
1t can only be hoped that the start thus
prepared will achieve such splendid results
that instead of one day week, the program
will become a daily affair and tnat as sug-
gested, other organizations will start up SINH
lar project The more wholesome fun young
folks of this age are offered the less likely are
anv of them to get into trouble.
The movement cannot fail to have helpful
effect wherever it is tried out. We know
of no way in which the city's recreation pro-
gram can be better supplemented.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Ry JOHN SELBY
'"The Promise" by Pearl S. Buck
John Day; $3.50.

line PROMISE, ny REAR .. DUCK
John Day; $3.50.
One of Pearl S. Bucks func-
lions in the literary world has
been to simplify Kings. She has
developed style of her own, based
on remarkably ruthless elm
ination of detail she considers
non-essential, and she has taken
this system on into the realm of
ideas. And with equal ruthless
ness.
The underlying idea Of 1.-THE
Promise her latest novel, is sim
ply that the Orient can't trust
the British. 1t is an idea that
could not be called pretty, these
days, but she sticks to it through
out the book. Occasionally she is
willing to gran, the British sin
cerity and honor according to
their code. but she constantly re-
iterates the major thesis that their
code is untrustworthy. And not
very subtly she attempts to show
this by having Them blow up 2
Burmese bridge after their forces
have crossed, but before their
Chinese allies can follow them
She does not even advance a stra.
tegic reason for the dynamiting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Franklin Saw The Need

Congress is in other postwar peace
proposals, whether the United States shall 60
all out in it's maintenance or hedge a bit in
participation.
The Connally resolution has been torn to
shreds and darned and ripped asunf- again;
counter proposals in the air; time is
lost and still no definite statement of post
war aims is drafted.
These gentlemen in the hall OF Congress, and
in committee rooms, might find help and
comfort in discussion of this subject, in its
broader aspects, by Benjamin Franklin who,
though he died many years ago: might have
been among the disputants today, so clearly
did he see the present situation.
Note what he said: Il have always thought
that one man of tolerable abilities may work
great changes, and accomplish great affairs
among mankind if he first forms good
plan. and makes the execution of that same
plan his sole study and business. L. There
seems to me at present to be great occasion
for raising United Party of Virtue, by form
ing the virtuous and good men OF all nations
into regular body to be governed by suit
able good and wise rules. :"
Perhaps the trouble is that we can't find
s1hat one man Of tolerable Abilities
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Chief Megal0maniac

Hitler is reputed to have told the German
people in 1886: ut is the miracle of our
times that you have found me found me
among SO many millions. And it Is Germany's
good fortune that have found you''
History offers no better example of megalo-
mania. Some day history will show that Hit
Ter went the way of all megalomaniacs. But
the world is paying terrible price to get rid
Of him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Raymond Clapper Says:
America Is Preparing
For Extended Warfare

The Petroleum Administration
says that production of high oc-
tame aviation gasoline is four
times what it was early in 1912.
Within few months it will be
eight times greater. Present pro-
duction is larger than we had aim
ed at for next year when the
scheN<a of requirements was
made up in the spring Of 1912.
Since Pearl Harbor, II major
high octane construction projects
have begun, and all will be fin
ished in four months. An additional
% more are scheduled for next
year.
This week l spent a day around
the new Marcus Hook Refinery of
the Sun Oil Co. Every week this
maze of pipes, valves and giant
''cat crackers" is producing enough
aviation gasoline to send 1000
Fortresses or Liberators from Eng
land to Berlin and back. This plant
cost S13,000,000 and was year
building.
We used more than a million
gallons of aviation gasoline in one
days operations in North Africa.
Production necessary to sustain
the large expansion Of air war
that is coming in tho next few
months is almost beyond compre-
hension. An Air Force officer says
that we soon will be producing one
airplane every five minutes around
the clock.
1t is not only in Europe that
air war eats up the gasoline. The
Navy today in combat and train
ing is flying $4,000 planes and is
expanding some 1000 planes
month.
If we had not begun to expand
gasoline capacity, it would be i'm
possible to carry on air war on
the scale contemplated. Two years
ago, Secretary Ickes says, our
daily high octane capacity was
just enough to carry a thousand
heavy bombers on a single five
hour raid.
Also they are doing things to
gasoline to give it super-poWer,
which not only makes a gallon
of gasoline 60 farther but makes
more room for bomb loads, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
AS Others Say It
CECHOSLOVAKIA'S BIRTHDAY

Today is the twenty-fiftl anniver-
sary of the birthday of the Czecho-
slovak state. On Oct. %, 1918, the
National Council took over the gov
eminent of Bohemia, Moravia, ST.
lesia and Slovakia. On Nov. IA,
1918, the National Assembly declar-
ed that state a republic. For tWen-
ty prosperous years it was one of
the most enlightened of democratic
governments. Its financial and eco
nomic policies were sound. 1t had
a great and growing foreign trade.
1t introduced reforms.
1t fell by no fault of its own but
by the treachery and irresistible
violence of the Nazis. The agony of
it's people has been long, but it has
been bravely borne; and, if slowly,
the strength of the oppressors is
clearly waning. The Czechoslovaks
have fought in Africa and Rus
STA and in the British Air Force.
1t was in this country that the first
Czechoslovak declaration of indie
pendence was first pubIShed. we
have heard and seen Sasaryk and
Benes. The latter spoke to both
houses of Congress last spring and
has been temporarily resident
in the United States. Our consid-
cradle population of Czechoslovak
origin, well represented in the
armed forces and of tried value
as citizens, is another cause of
American interest in the sober and
sagacious republic that awaits it's
hour of resurrection.
The immortal sorrow of Lidice
endears Czechoslovakia to all the
free world. May the restoration
of that wise and happy democracy
be soon.-NeW York Times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Growing Boys

The clothing and haberdashery men may be
in for an unexpected postwar boom. The
Army has discovered that, while the CON-
posite' recruit is five feet eight weighs IA,
has SO 1-4-inch chest and wears I'D shoe,
he tends to grow after few months IN the
service. Weight goes up the chest fills out and,
thanks to those long hikes, he wears half
size bigger shoe.
Looks like new outfits all around
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01

enables a fighter plane to stay
in action longer, or go farther in
pursuit of the enemy, or to accom-
pany our own bombers.
That's the kind of talk you hear
in a day around an oil refinery.
1t testifies to the appalling waste
of war. Yet it leaves me more
hopeful of the future than does
the Senate's exhibition of futility
over the Connally double-talk reso-
luton on foreign policy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
FROsOLONE EVACUATED

LONDON, Oct. 81. -(P- The
German news agency DNB de-
clared today that Nazi forces had
evacuated Frosolone, IL miles due
east of the Isenia stronghold of
their mountain line in Italy. Froso-
lone is just northwest of San Elena,
and southwest of Molise, both in
Allied hands.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-01
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete VIC
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

An when 1 dinna clearly see
I always own l dinna ken,
And that's the way O. wisest men!
ALLEN RAMSAY.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-29
TELLS OF ALASKA

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-(AP)- Hank Borowy, New York Yankee pitcher, on a tour with baseball dignitarieS in Alaska, wrote a letter from Kodiak to Ed Barrow. president of the Tanks, describ- ing fishing in the Territory.
 According to the writer you don't need fishing tackle here to catch salmon"
 The star twirler of the Tanks informed his boss, They are so thick you can get all you want with a baseball bat"
 Borowy also wrote that service men were eager for baseball news and that he had spent nine days in Anchorage and had made 13 appearances, and must have answered 800 questions at each performance.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-29
QUARANTINE
 TO BE LIFTED

Nome comes into it's own again tomorrow morning when the ban of meetings of all kinds will be lifted from the city, according to an announcement made today by Dr. Dr. Thomas Morcom, city health officer.
 At the time of going to press, The Nugget had not been inform ed of the schedule of events which will follow the lifting of the ban, other than that the Dream Theatre would reopen tomorrow evening, offering to the public MT. Bugs Goes to Town" feature length cartoon, and "Unusual Occupations"
 Dr. Morcom advised further that every precaution should be taken to prevent any further con- tagion.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-29
Plane Accident
 On Nome Beach

Taking off on his return trip to Kotzebue in the Curtis-Robin plane he was flying, Pilot Clar- ence Goza, flying for the Fergu- son Airways of that city, wrecked his plane at 1l:30 this morning on the iced landing field on the beach of this city.
 Pilot GoZa, after finding that he was unable to take off from the runway, tried vainly to right hhs plane after it had struck a hummock on the ice which had ripped off the left ski of the plane. a
 The vehicle swerved first one way then another, resulting in the wings tips being badly de- molished and the underStructure torn from the plane.
 fence without injury, as did also Tommy Johnson, a passenger in the plane.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-29
BOMBERS IN
 RAID ON WATJE

PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 29.- (AP)-Heavy bombers of the Ameican Seventh Army air for ces, dropped more than 50 tons of bombs on Waite Island in the Marshall group, according to Admiral Chester Nimitiz.
 The announcement said this was one of the heaviest raids yet made on the Japanese bases on the Marshall islands.
 Wotje, one of the enemy's six strongest points on the islands, has an air base as good as An chorage's.
 Six Zeros rose to intercept the raiding party, and two of our bombers were lost.
 It was also announced that a low altitude attack had been made on Jaluit and Atoll shipping on December 26 by raiding par ty made up of Ventura bombers and Rellcat fighters of Fleet Air Wing No. 2. All the planes re- turned to their base.
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-29
FORECASTS
 'CERMANY'S DESTRUCTION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-(AP) Vice President Henry Wallace forcasted destruction of Ger many war might within a few months after crossing of the English Channel in the invasion of Europe.
 He said: Such a drive coordi- mates full scale offensive with the Russians offensive and our own troops in Italy and will quickly place the Germans in an impossible position.
 Wallace, in a radio interview, praised the nationls war effort in l943, and asserted a greater civ ilian sacrifice would be needed next year.
 Looking beyond the war, Wal lace said the United States must keep the people fully employed" to pay off the war debts and ''have a standard of living high CT than the decade of the thir- ties"
The Nome nugget., 1943-12-29
SINK THREE
 DESTROYERS

LONDON, Dec. 29.-(AP)- A brilliant new victory of the British navy's campaign destroy ed the last effective strength of the German fleet in sinking by combined warsh;p and air action, of three German destroyers in the Bay of Biscay and crippling others, it was announced by a communique which followed by only a few hours, publication of the full story of the sinking of the Scharnhofst.
 Full details of the Bay of Biscay action are yet to be told, but it is plainly large scale enterprise and one which perhaps is still continuing.
 Other details were awaited, !" according to the communicate, which said it had been assumed from the wording of the commun- ique the German naval vessels may have been escorting an enemy convoy through the Bay of Biscay, which lies west of France and due north of Spain.