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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
Roosevelt's Strong Position

President Roosevelt's broadcast to the min
ers and the nation at large on Sunday night is
mistakenly viewed in some quarters as anti
climax. 1t was nothing of the sort. Even
though John L. Lewis jumped the gun by
declaring truce in the mine strike only
twenty minutes before Mr.. Roosevelt was
scheduled to go on the air, with obvious in
to rob the Chief Executives announcements
of their significance.
The chief point of interest is not that Lewis
ducks for cover when the United States gov
the mines. It is that President Roosevelt has
made his own and his governments position
clear. There must be no prolongation of the
strike. The war program must not be ham,
pered by any one Individual or by the leaders
of any one group II say to all miners
and to all Americans everywhere, at home
and abroad-the production of coal will not
stop. There can be no one among us-no one
faction-powerful enough to interrupt the for
ward march of our people to victory"
The broadcast cannot be reckoned anti
climactic in view of this plain speaking. Nor
is it merely that Mr.. Roosevelt thus throws
down the gauntlet. He implements his posi-
ton by adding that while the nation cannot
afford violence OF any kind at the mines or
in coal towns he has nevertheless made pro-
vision, if it becomes necessary, to have troops
placed "at the mine mouths or in coal towns
for the protection of working miners and
their families
When he added in closing, that tomorrow
the Stars and Stripes will fly over the coal
mines, I hope every miner will be at work
under that flag" he left no doubt in any
reasoning mind that he is quite capable Of
seeing to it that the flow of coal from the
mines will continue.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
japanese Menace FOreseen

There is among some Of our more thoughtful
citizens with a talent for digging beneath the
surface Of events growing belief that the
motive of attack on Pearl Harbor dates not
from the outbreak of the European war and
Japan's entrance into the Axis but is centuries
old, stemming from a religious tenet that
the Emperor of Japan is the son Of heaven
and entitled to rule the world.
These students may have the right of the
argument We wouldn't know. But we do
know that sound thinkers have for some years
recognized the growing peril in the Orient
and the danger Of war with Japan. This ref
erence is not so muNh to Hearst's hysterical
outcry over the yellow Peril" which seemed
to spring chiefly from a desire for more cir
culation for his newspapers. 1t is to Chief
Executive, President Theodore Roosevelt,
whose eyes were focused upon broader hor-
lions.
Forty years ago Teddy envisioned the
menace to the United States from japan and
laid the foundation for modern Navy, albeit
much OF his effort was undone in the dis
armament scramble following the former world
war. Dordon Carpenter .O'Gara, in his book.
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the
Modern Navy" writes that Roosevelt started
to build an adequate Navy from "disor-
ganized, molly collection of obsolete ships,
none OF whose officers and men had been
adequately trained in modern naval tactics"
and shows how well he succeeded by produc-
ing within eight years the second largest
Navy in the world Gt had been fifth).''
During his presidency, we told, Theo-
dore Roosevelt nearly doubled the enlisted
by 20 per cent. In his first annual address
to the Congress, in 1901, he said:
The American people must either build
and maintain an adequate Navy or else
make up their minds definitely to accept
a secondary position in international af-
fairs, not merely in political, but in COM
mercial matters.
We desire the peace that comes of right
to the just man armed; not the peace
granted to the craven and the weakling =.
few years later, in 1905, with the broader
vision that had come with closer association
with world conditions he wrote to Cecil Spring
Rice:
The German Kaiser . respects us
because we have pretty good Navy
with which to fight. I shall hope that on
these terms I can keep the respect not
merely of Berlin but of Tokyo
Germany was already preparing for the
First World war, and Roosevelt was among
the first men in the world to pierce the veil
|of Wilheln's secret ambitions. But we see
in this letter to his friend that he was not
unnindful of the continuing spectre of war
with Japan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
Raymond Clapper Says:
S1uedes Are Determined
To Maintain Neutrality

sia over bombs dropping near
Karlskrona, and one to the British
because of plane flying over Swe-
dish territory. But t e stiffest
notes were sent to Berlin over the
recent firing on a Swedish sub
marine. And the feeling is ac-
centuated because of Germany S
refusal to allow a resumption of
the safe-conduct arrangement
whereby five ships had been al
lowed to come in each m h
through the British and German
blockades, and an equal number
to 60 out. The Germans stopped
allowing ships to come in the first
OF the year, and Swedish ships
are now unable to get in with
wheat, leather and foodstuffs from
South America. There is much
resentment about this.
On the way here I saw four
such Swedish ships tied up at the
Azores and at Lisbon. The result
is beginning to be felt. The new
shoe ration allows one pair for
18 months. Food is bound to be
cut down.
Yet Sweden remains determined
to find a way to stay neutral.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
Selective Service In Reverse

Carl A. Gray, Connecticut manufacturer
and formerly War Production Board director
for that state, is convinced that the Selective
Service system, which has put so many men
into the armed service ought to be applied
in reverse for placing men in trade, business
Or profession when the postwar demobiliza-
ton period arrives. It will not be enough,
he declares, merely to plan jobs for soldiers
and sailors. Vocational training and guidance
should be provided to fit them for civilian life.
The machinery set up to put men into the
for peace-time pursuits. 1t is possible, he
says, to forecast trends in business and to
foresee manpower needs, even in specific cate
gories In an interview in the Christian Sci
ence Monitor he puts it this way:
''Men are being chosen every day in the
Army for the air forces, to drive tank, for
the Adjutant Generals office, to be ecom e
cooks infantrymen, or to 60 to officers cam
didate school. By reversing the process of
SeIective Service, we can make these things
come true in civil life. We can say with
q degree of gertrude that great many cooks,
truck drivers, tool makers, school teachers,
lawyers, physicians, clerks or textile machine
operators are going to be needed in a certain
area Then we must proceed to train our
demobilized troops who are not definitely and
certainly tied in with job or business.
MANY of these men, through former con-
nections, family or friends, will slide back
noiselessly into civilian life, but we must focus
our attention on those who otherwise would
be left adrift.
They should get as thorough going-ovel
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
BY JOHN SEIRy

Ihe Battle for Buenos Aires. /"
by Sax Bradford (Harcourt. Brace
$3.50. ave
Sax Bradford writes good
oouncy prose and apparently en-
Joys doing it. He came verv close
to burying the meat of THE Battle
Tor Buenos Aires" under his good
oouncy prose, and if he had It
would have been shame.
The book is one of the best ex.
pressions I have read of the IN.
DERIVING difficulties in Argentine
Those who write about that IN.
fortunate country from the point
OF view of long residence there
will, l am sure, point out that
MIR. Bradford was only in Areen.
tina a short while, and this is
true. But he is a good newspaper.
man, a careful observer, and he
has been willing to work. His
facts are usually accompanied by
the corroborative dates, names
and references, and they make
sense. I have read one or two
sober products on Argentina. writ
ten by sober gentlemen who have
lived quite spell in Buenos Aires.
and gotten much less solid nour-
1shment for my pains.
Mr.. Bradford makes the stu
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04

as they got when they went into the Army.
Aptitude tests must be given. Trained en-
ployment experts and psychologists must con-
suit with the soldier, talk to him about his
plans, and steer him into the right kind of
training"
Any one who remembers the pitiful plight
of tens of thousands Of soldiers after foreign
service following World War No. l will rec
ognize the advantages in this plan of the
Connecticut manufacturer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
You re
Telling Me

No wonder the big leagues gov
rid of that new slow joe basepaH.
It made those veterans the maJol
teams dug up this spring loon 90
old as they really are.
Grandpappy jenkins would lht ,t
to try out for left field but can i;
make up his mind whether to ole
his hair red, brown or black.
The early bird may catch tns
worm but it's the early 1lshei iii'''
who catches the cold.
False teeth are rationed IN slv usL,
many. Things are going SO Dsu1 o,'a,
for Fritz that now ne Can =
gnash his teeth over them
Tho o7d proverb about Better
late than never" is believed 4oiT w
everyone except, un1orl''ii''''
your boss.
Ordinary, minor colds coss So,1ors s
United States two billion 0o. Onoan
vaar1v what do they meaa
''minor?" SOUNDS IKE q
industry.
-! .,,nera.
A hen, we're told, IS 'e'np po,,y
mental But she doesnt ie~ oor
souawk until grabbed by the NV
Who Wouldn't
When the time comes 10 ~, al
those Jap brutalitarians we ~ ling
want to give a hand to the S
shift.
F.! N
The African ostrich, accoruiNs shan
Photographs, can run 1aslei Aha
60 miles an hour. That heau u ;rst
sand business, then, must oe
an act of undue modesty'
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
By RAYMOND CLAPpER

STOCKHOLM. - (by wireless)
Perhaps you can sense something
about Sweden, as I do, from the
fact that the most popular drama
here is John Steinbeck's 'T h
Moon Is Down.
The play opened seven weeks
ago. 1t moved later to a larger
theater, where it is still G i n g
strong, picturing each night to a
Swedish audience the Nazi occu-
patton of Norway. The dominant
theme of which makes sinificant
its great popularity in neutral Swe-
den, surrounded as it is by the
Axis.
I carried from America a copy
Of Wendell WILKES new book,
Zone World" which is to be re-
published in popular edition here
which also suggests something
regarding the people here. For ex-
tremely few books can be brought
over for republication, c~ing TO
the difficulties of transportation,
and the selections are accordingly
made with extreme care to hit
the popular mood.
1t would be a mistake to judge
the neutrality of Sweden by the
so-called neutrality of Spain. They
are two different kinds of neutrals.
We usually think of Spain as mere
ly a puppet of the Axis. Spain is
run by Fascist regime whose
future existence depends on Axis
victory. The downfall of the Nazi-
Fascist Axis will mean the down.
fall of the Fascist idea and of
Fascist regimes. Hence Francois
fate is wrapped up in Axis victory
Just the opposite is true in Swe.
den. This is a democratic coun-
try whose way of life would be
violently changed by a final Axis
victory. Sweden has next door the
horrible example of Norwa
whose democratic institutions have
been crushed under the Nazi oc-
cupation. The Swedes know from
these unhappy neighbors VIII t
that means. The people of Sweden
know that they can continue to
have their freedom only if the
United Nations win.
Americans here whose Judgment
is sound agree on that size-up.
as one OF the freest in the world.
The right of criticism is jealously
guarded.
The second point about Sweden
is that she is determined to re-
main neutral. That is her tradi-
tional policy. The experience of
, other small nations occupied by
Germany only strengthens the de-
termination of Sweden to remain
out Of war.
! That is where her difficulties be-
gin. There has been considerable
popular criticism of the govern
ment's policy of allowing the Ger
mans to send troops through Swe-
den into and out Of Norway-on
leave, so-called. Undoubtedly the
Germans use that privilege as a
mears of replac;r~ trnoos. Also,
trainloads of German war mate
rial move in as freight to Norway.
Recent student demonstrations at
Upsala university had their roots
IN the popular disapproval of the
use of Sweden as a traffic, route
for the Germans. Pro-Ally news
papers criticize the continuation of
this traffic. And recently Premier
Hanson said this traffic was one
OF the burdens Sweden was forced
to carry.
Sweden lies close to the paths
OF both belligerents and is com
pletely surrounded by the Axis.
Therefore she is constantly under
the necessity of protesting. as has
happened since I arrived here.
when protest was made to Rus
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
More Oil Next Winter

Price Administrator Prentiss Brown offers
fresh evidence of his sincere purpose to deal
as leniently with the American people as the
situation permits by promising more fuel oil
to occupants of the smaller homes next
winter. He is unable to say at this time
what increase will then be possible. Nobody
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
Civilian Defense
Timetable

BASIC TRAINING COURSE
New Hanover High school, room
109 at 8 p. m.
FIRE DEFENSE A
Monday, May 3rd and every two
weeks thereafter.
GENERAL COURSE
Tuesday, May 4th and every
two weeks thereafter.
GAS DEFENSE b
Wednesday, May 5th and every
two weeks thereafter.
If you hear or observe anything
suspicious in character report it
promptly to:
Wilmington Police, 5244.
Wrightsville Beach Police, 7504.
Carolina Beach Police, 2231.
Captain Of the Port, 2001.
County Defense Council, 1928.
Sheriff, 1852.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
BARBS

Wartime has made more and more
people turn UP their sleeves at work
and fewer their noses.
Loss of sleep ruins the complex
ion, says a beauty expert. So does
leaving compact at home.
The more raids you pull on your
pocketbook for War Bonds, the less
chance of raids on your country.
Before the X-ray was discovered,
women were the only ones who
could see through a man.
winds are produced by differ
ences IN atmospheric pressure or by
asking a man to run for office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the proseeu.
ti0n of the war to complete vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

It is through pain that God is getting
the most out Of us, for His glory and the
blessing of others.
COWman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04

Aadok Dumkopf isn't so sure he
Will like those proposed postwar
plastlc-bodied automobiles. z. D.
says It's bad enough listening to a
motor knock without seeing it. too.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-04

Great prosperity is predicted for
the postwar period. After the
bang-banging there'l be a big
boom.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-24
A Thought for Today


IA his talk TO midwestern governors
assembled in Des Moines, former Presi-
dent Hoover effectively emphasized
what threatens to become the major
weakness Of the United Nations war
effort. That Is, Of course, the food front.
Americans have been accustomed so
long to troublesome SURPRISES that even
progressive rationing has not impressed
us with the seriousness Of the farm sit
uation. Out OF the wealth Of long exper-
fence, and particularly out of his World
War background as Foods Admins
traitor, Mr.. Hoover points out how we are
drifting toward the same failure which
ruined first Russia and then Germany
IN that conflict Both those nations,
and also France, thought as we do now
that they could divert manpoWer, mater
ials and productive capacity entirely to
armament, munitions and fighting, and
let the food front look after itself, The
Kerensky revolution in Russia followed
and then, when his regime could not pro-
vide food, the Bolshevik revolution. Ger
many'S military collapse came after
bread riots. France was on her last legs
when we entered the war and saved her.
II do not contend" said Mr.. Hoover,
"that these collapses were wholly due to
food, but it was the largest factor"
Today we are following a similar path.
Needing more food than ever before, we
are about to plant much less. We gained
the appearance of meat plenty last year
by killing dairy cows and sheep for lack Of
labor to care for them. Last year we had
more farm nanpower than will be avail
able this year. Last year we had more
fertilizers, more protein feed for cattle,
farm machinery in better repair. Last
year we had smaller demand for food
atuffs. Yet even last year we could not
hold our own; we drifted into shortages
which XaeceSSitated the rationing now
being extended to new items.
Mr.. Hoover was not bitter, partisan or
carping In his criticisms. He gave Sec
rotary Of Agriculture Wickard more
credit than many others have. He mere
~ pointed out that the steps necessary
to assure against a breakdown In United
Nations food supply have not been taken
and that they must be taken very soon.
'"There Is no cause for ALARM" he said,
provided we set about to remedy, and
quickly. -. Unless we stop these degen-
erative forces we will weaken our mill
tary front"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-24

washington is often referred to these
DAYS as the Mecca of Lost Nations. We
lose sight Of the fact that those countries
which have lost their identities through
3nyaSion and subsection still have gov
ernmentS which are set up, practically all
of them In London. All Of these maintain
embassies in Washington. A writer on
the situation says, "the embassies repre-
sent the governments but the govern
ments represent nobody"
There are thirty-two United Nations,
and nine Of these are governments-in-
exile. The article in question says:
''Their seat is in London, which is the
capital Of ten countries, the headquarters
Of five kings and nine prime ministers.
"And as we said all of these have repre-
sentatives in Washington. The coun-
tries are Belgium, Holland, Greece, Nor
way, Poland, CzechoSlovakia, JugoSlavia,
Luxembourg, and the National Commit
tee Of the Free French. So we have
somewhat strange wartime international
capital.
The feeling of instability of the repre-
eentatives must be great; no awarenesS
any more Of permanence or Of country
that they can call their own. War does
this: brings about upheavals to such an
GAtGk1e bAA6t OV0A4s44SC VAAesV WIZ NAAJOyNA
q pleasant ordinary existence are now
without any particular foundation. If
the representatives and heads feel at a
loss, what must be the feeling of the
people who have stayed at home to ac-
cent the inevitable, or those who have
been transported elsewhere. It Is hard
thing to take. It is appalling to think
Of the children alone who have been
showed about and sent from their home
countries.
The government representatives. past
monarchs and ministers try, no doubt, 10
visualize O time when all Of this win be
over; when they can return TO their own
countries. Archduke Otto Of Hapsburg,
II Is said, Is dreaming Of an Austrian
monarchy, while other men OF otner
countries must have similar plans about
the day Of return to the homeland.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-24

MRS. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has
been paying US call here in Connecti-
cut. She was q speaker In Hartford
Monday evening at meeting devoted to
the Hartford Nelghborhood Plan. Arriv.
ing bit late the first lady took Il In her
stride and as q matter Of course and
Immediately fitted In to the program
which was already In progress. She urged
those present and not present, the
women Of the nation, to foster 1.-THE spirit
which makes the home front the battle
'front.'"
The difference here is that we are not
able to quite visualize battle front; that
Is as close to us. In England on the
contrary the home front and the battle
front, she explained are pretty close. The
entire meeting theme revolved around
this idea-the war effort on the home
front. It was urged by Mrs. Roosevelt
as well as other speakers at the gathering
to publicize the idea by passing 1t along
by way Of what has been termed by the
chairman, the "Tell-a-Woman" plan.
Mrs. Roosevelt planned to stay around
today, to visit the University Of Connecti-
cut at Storrs, thence on tour to speak
at various bond rallies. Hartford gave
the First Lady royal welcome yester-
day. She very often visits or passes
through the state privately, but has made
few public appearances In Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-24

against England. IN their deepest dis
tress the British people always felt that
they were not alone Ia the World-that
the United states was ready and able 70
help, that most Of the population OF the
world was sympathetic.
The Germans have no such comfort.
There Is nobody to help them willingly.
Nobody loves them. Even their allies
would gladly pick their bones II they had
opportunity. When things are going best,
the Germans still are sitting on an angry
volcano. Il must be hard on morale, TO
be bombed with block busters under such
circumstances.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-24

Our farming will be helped with the
arrival from the Bahamas Of 5000
workers to help gather Florida crops
This will help immeasurably in saving
the winter fruit and vegetable harvest.
Those products are now ready for pick
ing. For some weeks now strawberries
have been appearing in the markets, and
within the last week asparagus at fancy
price was there for you II you were desir-
Gus of doing business The labor supply
should have arrived at this writing. From
now on produce gradually moves north
ward; that is to say the states north OF
those termed Southern gradually begin
to produce the benefits Of their various
soils. New England ground will not pro-
duce much of anything until couple
of months hence.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-24

bust should be unveiled, When
George Q. Vournas, president OF
Ahepa, said that the unwilling
would be postponed until the
summer. Roosevelt heartily agreed.
"If you've ever been to Hyde
Park In the winter, youth under
stand why" he remarked. II
almost frOXe 20 death the last
time I was there"
Since the bust Is Of heroic
size and weighs half q ton, II
was not practical to bring Il to
washington from Russelrs stu
do In New York. So the PreSt-
dent was given, instead . mini
ture Of the work.
After presenting this, VOurnas
introduced six other Ahepa OF.
ficials, who were greatly im'
pressed by the Presidents MEM
CRY.
"YOu gentlemen were In the
delegation from Ahepa which
called on me last year." he
said. II remember you all quite
WELL"
When the question arose OF
transporting the bust from New
York to Hyde Park, the President
remarked that this could be ar
ranged easily.
"The librarian Is planning TO
come to New York sOOn," ne
said, "tO pick up some docu-
ments. He can bring down the
truck and get the bust at the