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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Work On The Side

The City Council took a commendable step
when it rescinded previous order prohibiting
members of the police and fire departments
from accepting outside employment when off
duty.
The salaries of these employees are SO low,
despite the recent salary increase, that they
can barely support their families. What little
they may earn on the side is like pennies from
Heaven
OF the departments to adhere strictly to the
rules governing outside jobs, lest they inter-
fere with the discharge of duties in the pres
ervation of the peace and the prevention and
subduing of fires.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Playing Cops

1t happened North Fifth. The afternoon
was waning. Traffic was spotty. Otherwise
it might have been serious.
Three boys, two wearing Sam Brown belts
and the third displaying smudy badge were
ION duty in the middle of the traffic way.
One held up his hand in the familiar signal
of the efficient boy cops who guard intersec-
tons near schools The one with the badge
ran toward the center of the intersecting
street, waving an arm wildly and widely and
uttering indistinguishable commands. The
third took up his post near the curb and was
more spectator than participant.
They were having great good fun playing
traffic officers, but the possibility of their
being run down by an unobservant driver
was too great to be passed up. An accident
might easily have happened, because t h e
scene was far from school and the hour
long after school time.
What will probably interest the regular po-
lice is where the two got their Sam Brown
belts, for it was obvious that none Of the
trio was on the schoolboy traffic force.
Aside from the danger of accident the cpl
sode was harmless. BY contrast the young
sters might have been PLAYING bandits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
More Paper Cuts

The War Production Board has announced
an additional per cent cut in newsprint for
the American press on October l, and adds
there is a strong probability that further,
far deeper curtailment is in prospect for
next year.
Lack of manpower for cutting pulp wood
in Canada and the United States is to blame
for the shortage, says Donald NJ Nelson, the
boards chairman, who adds that even if
any Of the several remedies now under study,
including using prison help in the woods were
to be adopted no material relief could be ex-
pected for from ten to eighteen months
If this is the true situation, is it unfair to
dition which might have been prevented by
adequate planning in time?
Ever since the war sucked the United States
IN there has been continual talk of a paper
shortage. 1t is not new. There has been am
pie time to overcome it. But instead of see
ing to it that the cut of pulp wood was kept
at normal level by freezing the necessary
labor on the job, manpower has been per-
mltted to drift into other industries and has
been drafted for the armed forces. with the
result that newspapers officially declared the
medium of an essential industry, face fresh
reductions in their paper supply and probable
extinction for many
Heavy as the burden thus imposed upon
newspaper publishers is, the chief loss will
fall upon the government which, with sus.
pensions OF publication and necessary reduc-
lions of space in papers which survive. will
find itself without its best medium for pro.
noting such necessary undertakings as war
bond campaigns, for example, to which much
more space has been devoted without cost
than has been paid for as advertising.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
QUOTATIONS

Only by intelligent and effective postwar
planning can we prevent crime wave Of
major proportions. S. Firestone, rub.
Der manufa cturer.
They (Axis nations) still seek to divide and
conquer allies who refuse to be divided just
as cheerfully as they refuse to be conquered.
President Roosevelt
The bitter lessons of the last quarter-cen--
turv have proved that we have gone beyond
the point where we can be indifferent to
what happens beyond our own borders in
carving out our economic policy-Navy Sec
rotary Frank Knox.
Fifteen years ago all the business m n
thought he had to know was Nam street.
Now he finds that acquaintance with Pennsyl-
vania avenue, both ends, IS - indispensable
Eric A. Johnston, president use OF C..
Mankind has now all the power and sub
stance available for universal plerty and well
being beyond the dream o. aIy cevlooS age
and he is wasting it all in deS'roc'lon'-H' e.
Wells, author.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Baruch's Summation

Bernard M. Baruch, the silver-haired Nestol
Of Washington's park benches, who can think
out the solution of abstract and concrete prob
lens of state while watching the antics OF
squirrels better than his best competitor IN
an office and who at last has been drawn
into consultative position in the national
administration, delivered the ultimate sum-
nation of the war need while offering the
final testimony in the draft hearings con-
Quoted bv the Senate and House Military Com
mittees sitting jointly at the capital
Saying that General Marshall should be CIV
en- the military manpower he demands for
a victorious fighting job or else be thrown
out" Mr.. Baruch urged first that we I'M
prove our efficiency (which we can do in all
fields of endeavor" and secondly that we
take from the civilians as much as IS nee
essary but leave them at least their needs
mot their fancied wants"
If this last proposal were followed in detail,
we are convinced, much Of the distress ana
nne-tenths of the grumbling would be elirni-
mated. There is no reason to doubt that the
people, by and large, are willing to give up
everything they have been accustomed to en-
JOY, if in the sacrifice they can shorten the
war, and count themselves fortunate to have
such an effective role in victory. But they
properly feel themselves imposed upon when
they are deprived Of their essential needs
mot their fancied Wants> through the Op-
preksive edcts of bureaucratic dictators.
In his first proposal, to increase efficiency
Mr.. Baruch implies that improvement is pos
sible not only in war production and civilian
effort but among the bureaucrats as we'll
There is plenty Of room for reform and it is
comforting to find that he does not let the
burden rest upon the people alone. More ef
ficiency at the top would produce amazing
results all along the line.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Farm Prices

The attention of Congress has been chiefly
focused upon the drafting of fathers since the
session convened on September IA, but the
prospect is that prices, particularly of farm
products, will come to the fore on Capitol
Hill shortly, perhaps, even, as early as next
week.
If prevailing prices of farm products are
fair gauge of the national situation it is
time for Congress to take regulatory hand
On the word of Wilmington restaurant pro-
pretor, Padison Pretlow, the advances In
vegetable prices during the last year are
tremendous, some as great as 300 per cent
and even more. Beans, he says. which were
purchasable at So a bushel in August of last
year now may be bought only al from Sc to
81. Tomatoes, then selling at $1.25 a bushel,
have gone up to 81 and S.. These are out
standing examples he cites to show that ar.
titicial controls set up by federal agencies are
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24

not affording the relief they were created for
Laymen have no right to question what IS
going on in the price field, being ignorant OF
the BACKGROUND and conditions which have led
IN nrice increases. But the Congress has that
right and hopefully will familiarize itself with
every phase of the increasing cost Of living
and discover ways and means to stop the
advance and also to roll prices back to a
level in exact proportion with the increase in
the cost Of production.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
BY JOHN SELBY


Sophie HALENCZIK AMER.
1CAN," by Rose C. Field Little,
Brown; sly.
Rose c. Field is another who has
managed to best the formulate and
the caprices of the New Yorker,
and to produce set of New York
er pieces which lack the monot.
onous cast of most such products.
Readers of the magazine will
most likely, remember Miss
Felds delightful Czech cleaning
woman, and be pleased that her
exploits have been collected into
a book she calls Sophie Halen-
elk, American"
The author has done something
more than win her battle with a
magazine pattern. 1t is extraor-
dlnarily difficult to write about
people who are innately good"
without dropping into slush and
sentlmentality-why, don't ask me
~ IS simply fact. Miss FIELDS
sophie IS good, basically. Given
cnolce OF decisions, Sophie auto
~ and instantly will choose
elle one which fits best into the
pattern OF right living. And ye+
sue IS salty. shrewd, occasional
~ crafty little woman one remem-
oers as a person rather than as a
nn: one Is Cor literary purposes)
MISS teld's cleaning woman She
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24

and thus help to devalue their own
savings as we'll as those of the
lads in service?
Very few loyal Americans would
care to acknowledge doing any of
these things. Yet a citizen does
all of them every time he patron
ICES the black market in the mis-
taken belief that he might as we'll
do it as the next fellow, or that
it is harmless bit of hush-hush
purchase diplomacy.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
said: potentially the black mar
kets represent not only lawless-
ness but a threat to one of our
most vital weapons of war. A
waste of our food resources now
may prolong the war and will
cause the death Of thousands upon
thousands of American boys"
The same thing is true of the
gasoline supply, so vital to the
progress OF the war m h n e
abroad. Every sale of gas ra-
ton stamp has been rightly called
stab in the back, not only of
civilians, but soldiers"
Many Americans are aware of
these dangers. But too many still
are seriously sabotaging the war
effort through their black-market
transactions. Christian Science
Monitor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
The Literary Guidepost

lives in Connecticut, close to
Bridgeport, just as Miss Field
does. Sophie has not been long in
the United States-she came over
when Steve, her husband. died,
and she brought her several chill
dren with her. A true peasant, she
at once struck out for a private
vine and fig tree, and now she
has them. Her son is good
hearted young goof, apt to spend
more time Wenching than is strict
ly necessary. One or two of So
phie's daughters managed to pro-
create without the previous min
lstrations of the priest. Some OF
sophie's Astounding energy goes
into getting the proper man to do
his duty, some into adopting the
girl her son ruined" together
with her baby.
But this is a small bit of So
phie's job. What mostly occupies
Sophie is being an American She
chose America, and was not born
into it. She can, and does, put the
village fascist in his place. She
can help trap pseudo-Czerh
patriot" in Nazi pay, she can
sell bonds, she can fascinate the
vlllages's most important woman.
raise the best garden-do any
thing.
Sophie is, in short, the best lit
erary example to date of the i'm.
migrant We need more of
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
News OF Patton

brief news item from Boston says that
Mrs. George Patton, wife of the doughty gen.
eral. has announced the sale of a 81, 900 war
bond with an envelope addressed to her by
her husband as premium. He writes me
often" she said. IF he knew each precious
envelope would buy a war bond l believe
he'd write me every day." We are sure he
would and when she tells him of this incident
he probably will. He's that kind Of guy.
The item has two particular points OF in
terest One is that Wilmington is not ap-
preaching its war bond goal at fully credit
able pace. Purchases are Tagging and if we
don't speed up the campaign will end before
we cross the line.
The other is that General Pattons Seventh
Army has been conspicuous by its absence
from the news since the Sicilian campaign
closed. The New York Times contained a
picture a few days ago showing some OF the
troops at a seaside resort in Sicily but we
find it hard to think that the Seventh is
merely playing in the SURF
It's fair guess that the period of recuper-
alton allotted it after the Sicilian battle is
about up Well be hearing from it soon, and
its members will not be in swimming trunks
when we do.
1t will be remembered that there was a
time in the African campaign when Patton
and his army were similarly out of the news,
only to turn up on Sicilian beaches with full
fighting equipment ready for the attack that
carried them the full length OF the island in
some Of the hardest fighting Of the war to
date. 1t is a fair assumption that something
of the sort will be taking place shortly And
when it does, the enemy will know it is in
a tough spot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Daily Prays'
FOR FIDELITY

1t is not easy, 0 patient f'- A.
for us to maintain throu3a "a
dreary days the high splfl' ~, n,
purpose and passion which pun y,
in our hearts in the time o. ,r
first excitement OF the wal. y Nv +
tines monotony and drag Pun a
down. Our once clear-cut '@
grows dim. The restrctioS, \
wartime irk us. So we cum, .,g
Thee. who grantest Thy s s.,s
freely to all seekers, win ~. ri b
er for more stcadfast fide-' j
our lives. AS service men r.
women, and as soldiers OIL I'M.
production front, we crave ..rgt
power to endure and 10 NJ Ma
faithfully and cheertuIlE M
there be no 1et-doWn IN o+' ,.,,,
rale; but, instead, a fuller a. Of
ness of the Significance, o,a.:
personal part in this WORTH ID
ing war. Keep us true 10 W. '3.ri.
and to our individual S'9 7[av v
whatever fate befallS US W., nj
live and die as patriots WIZ cs,rtry
fail our Country, or our 00'
God. Amen.-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
AS Others Say 1t
DANGER TO THE WAR EFFORT

For Americans on the h m e
front, husband, son, brother, and
neighbor have given up the COM
forts of home to risk everything
they have in fighting on far-away
shores. Would any American then.
for the sake of material comforts
or pleasures, deliberately impede
the success of that fighting eff
fort? Would he knowingly do any.
thing to
Aid the enemy,
Imperil the men at the front.
Deplete their country's resource
eS,
Encourage and abet racketeers
and other criminals.
Cheat not only their neighbors,
but their soldiers and sailors.
Increase the danger of initiation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
By RAYMOND CLAPPER-

WASHINGTON. - Two careful
and long-experienced writers on
foreign affairs, Walter Lippmann
of the New York Herald-Tribune
and William Philip Sinms of the
Scripps-HoWard newspapers, have
appeared in print on the same day,
saying in naked words that unless
the United States and Great Brit
ain get together with Russia, an
other great war is inevitable.
A new war is dangled in front
of our eyes. And this one is not
vet over.
These two writer's, who view the
world from somewhat different out
looks, happen on the same day to
speak out the anxiety that lies in
so many minds now. This CHANGED
tc be on the same day that Church
i'll revealed again his preoccupa-
ton with Russian relations, and
! in his long address to Commons
again made WOO to Stain as he
did at Quebec and as Roosevelt
did in his war report to Congress
last week.
Mr. Roosevelt is concerned about
Russian relations and he has, to-
gether with Churchill worked per-
sistently and patiently to bring
about better relations. Especially
he and Churchill have tried re-
peatedly to bring about meeting
with Stain They have offered to
accommodate themselves to Sta
Inns wishes as to time and place.
Repeatedly these efforts have fail
ed to bring about the meeting but
they have never been abandoned.
No question of pride or personal
convenience will be allowed to
stande in the way.
Unquestionably, the Russian gov
eminent is difficult to deal with
in some respects. Allowances must
be made and are being made for
the different ways of the Russians
and the western peoples. We are
trying on our side. That is certain.
The preliminary meeting of for
eign ministers or their represent
tatives, which is being arranged
now, will be general survey dis
cussion. That conference will have
no plenary power and will mainly
clear the way for the meeting it
is hoped to bring about between
the Big Three
Nothing can take the place of
a personal meeting between Roose-
welt, Churchill and Stain. Mat
tiers of the highest policy must
be discussed and settled. Only by
talking face to face can these three
men come to understand each 9TH
er sufficiently to insure unified
handling of the German problem,
for instance. What are the Allies
going to do when Germany sur
renders? Specific plans must be
ready for that one cannot be kick
ed around the way the italian
business was improvised.
We do not know what Stain
wants to do about Germany. Prop
uganda out of Russia does no
square with Anglo-American talk
in all respects, but how much is
propaganda and how much is hard
policy? Only intimate conversa-
tons can be adequate to the many
problems to be decided.
We insist on unconditional SUR
render, but the terms after III a.
are open, as in the surrender of
Lee to Grant. That one, too, was
unconditional. Then Lee a Ike d
about the horses which were the
personal property of the Confed-
crate officers. Grant suggested
that they keep their horses as they
blowing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Fair Enough

Editors Note-Ths Star and the News accepts no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr. PeKer.
md often disagree with them - much u many Of
his readers. His articles the good purpose Of
making people thint.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
MOVIE BANNED

DUBLIN, Sept. 23.-(P,-The
American movie, "A Yank In the
RAF,' was banned by the minis
ter of justice today after running
one week at the Savoy theater,
where it had been booked for a
tWo-Weeks run.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24

Glasses for the General, Gas
Defense, and Fire Defense will
begin as soon as classes are form
ed to justify them. See Your War
denS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds.
BACON.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Civilian Defense
Timetable
BASIC TRAINING COURSES
Isaac Bear School Building Room
203, at 1880
FIRST AID 10 HOURS

Beginning Monday night, Sep
TENDER 20 and each night through
Friday. Glasses from 7:3O to $50
Mrs. Bishop Willis, instructor.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25
Simple pe++ern

That's a simple menu pattern.
isn't - BY following il for
six months she changed her
weight from It's 20 135 pounds
Obviously. this change IN food
habits was for the better. Other
wise, the improvement in her
health would not be reflected IN
her hair.
Every now and then one Of
our lead ne scientists comes out
with news of a member Of the
3 complex which has 10 do with
tho color Of the hair Doctors
generally. however. urge a well
balanced diet as the best inSur-
ancc for everything - health,
hair. skin. eyes and even nails.
Naturally. our hard working
reducer exercised every day.
She took backward arm swing
ing and c.rciing 20 tone the pee
toral muscles which support the
bust, stretching. twisting and
side bending 10 slim the waist.
and rolling and kicking 10 take
down me hpS And here is
what She did for her figure:
bust. from - 90 35 waist.
from 81 10 T, and hips, from
i3 10 3S
Now. there is your before and
after story Let's SOC II YOU
can't make II come true for YOU.
C1piught. 1853 by King Features
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25

OF COURSE you can re-up-
holster your own furniture. And
what a saving! Send today for
these clear step-by-S'cp dircc-
tions get busy on tn a I
shabby chair
You yourself can Lift itS Saggy
springs, repair its webbing, ITS
lumpy padding, recover j, and
make il good as new,
Instructions 80 give dlrec-
tionS for repairing and uphol-
SterInE
Send II cents in coins for this
pattern 10 the Laura Wheeler
Pattern Department. 1925 Times
Square. DcHelt 81 Mich
Due Ia slOWnesS of the mails
and other conditions beyond our
control. pattern deliveries are
being DELAYED. Please be patient.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25
Pep U p Wartime Menus
With Regional Recipes
By PRUDENCE PENNY

MEM VARIFTY ie ono of
thr Most important thing, a
hauenaFer can practice And
It is more fren u,t changing
thc color %. fnc vegetable
served. tho ot oi rae w.af or
the type OF fruit These ln their
own way arc effective. 700, bar
another way 10 hold menu n-
tereSt IS 20 employ new methods
of food preparation.
Today especially it's inpor-
tant TO know all the cooking
tricks that can change an age
old food into something differ
ent and special For with the
food selection more scarce than
ever before ltS up % yol 20
use Your imagination and .n-
EenWty INTO Ncung up your
mc2.e.
Put new faces on Old familiar
food hy tJrgaW.n- regional
recipes from other parts of the
country. Who for example.
would SCOrn tender pieces OF
golden fried chicken a Ia Mary
land, no matter how many other
times this fowl had found ITS
way 20 The dinner table.
Chicken a Ia Maryland
Clean and di~joiut Young
chickens, leaving the breasts
whole. Put the ncckS and glib
lets into cold water and simmer
to obtain cup of stock for the
gravy. Sprinkle each piece OK
chicken with salt and pepper.
-d--4--+s4ll 4-.---. -.-4!-
crumbs and place in a CREASED
pan.
Bake in a hot oven AS0 de-
Erecsl from 80 10 40 minutes.
baSting frequently With one
fourth cup of fat melted in one
fourth cup of hot water.
When The chicken is done.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25
How to Gather a Library
Told by Detroit Lawyer
BY IRENE VI HAWKINS
Women's Editor, The Detroit Times

! AM completely charmed
with book entitled. "On the
Gathering Of a Library, writ
len by Hal II. Smith, a Detroit
man, and prompted / take H.
hy the sheer pleasure he has
derived from his own collection
of books. He makes you feel
- he writes. that they continue
90 hc such a source of ENJOY
mont 10 hlm o.. he must share
them with you
II you've always been a book
worm OF course. you need no
one 20 tell YOU how 10 gather
library. Quite the contrary
YOU need only a place 70
pat an the books that have
somehow overrun your house
o.. in spite Of you.
But for those who have not
been especially bookish, but TAX
ing more and more interest
i'm them thinking perhaps
in the terms of a library .
here is not only a guiding Ight
but =. a gem.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25
Hair Care

When the hair is composed Of
brittle shafts. the scalp is also
dry. inclined 10 flake. All this
is due TO the fact that the
sebaceouS glands aren't eXuding
enough oil.
Dry hair should be brushed
vigorously once a day 70 coax
the glands into action. Massage
is also helful. Spread out fin
gers and thumbs, draw the flesh
away from tho skull The pur-
pose is 10 send the blood
streams about their business.
They keep the hair growing.
create new shafts when old
ones fall.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25
'Gatherinal'

Mr. Smith starts out by say
Ing L use the word gath
ering' not collecting nor the
word assembling l use if
Intentionally Gathering implies
sort Uf 1UyUus ScfcctiUri /.
now, collecting might apply 10
anything such as postage stamps,
ord eggs or match folders.
A library says the author,
must he gathered slowly, low
inCly tenderly .. il II is 10 be
a pleasure 10 YOU and some
times az a sacrifice.
You need not be a J p. Nor
gan, he says e. still, the thing
does run into money and Some-
times YOU must 90 without
something else TO acquire a
coveted volume. The books
youll love most, he adds. are
those for which YOU perhaps
had 10 forcgo a pair Of shoes,
a new suit or even a two weeks
vacation.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-25
Perfect Choice

70 Perfect answer 70 this prob
lem is sketched today. It's a
two-piece suit effect dress
first love of every young thing.
But what takes this costume
out of the ordinary is the com
bination OF materials-pin vale
corduroy and checked rayon
taifeta
The fitted corduroy jacket is
cut 10 college girl specifications
note It's length its smooth fit
and the snap given 10 II by the
scroll applique Of checked tat
fnfa