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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Daily Prayer
FOR CLEAR THINKING

Thou hast given us minds with
which to think Thy thoughts after
Thee, o Eternal Creator. That is
Thy father heritage to Thy sons.
In this day of confusion and tur-
mol, we pray for the power to
think clearly, always measuring
our decisions by TIL y revealed
word. Some of us are thinking
only as members of a class or as
race or as a privileged group
We put personal prejudices n d
profit ahead of our Country's well
fare and of a world remade. We
confess to the sin of smallness and
selfishness. God forgive us and
amend us, and clarity our minds
to an understanding of the sheer
and simple loyalties. Teach us
that right is forever right; and
that the common welfare of all
mankind is a goal of God. Deliver
us from the blight of any political
partisanship or personal prejudice.
Enable us to think in Thy Mind,
as guided by Thy word. Amen
WIFE.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Two Phases Of Annexation

Two phases Of city expansion must be
threshed out in advance of the next legisla.
tive session, and the time is none too early
to start on them
One concerns the territory to lie annexed
IL a. bill which can win later approval at
the polls is to be introduced there must be
complete agreement among leaders in the
present city and its chief suburbs upon the
proposed frontiers. With leaders in business
and professional life within and without the
city in harmony on this point, success at the
polls may be counted upon. Without it any
proposal to extend the city limits is fore
doomed to failure.
The other, and it is no less vital to annex
atlon, is the representative chosen from this
legislative district He must be business
man OF broad vision, diplomatic, skilled
lparhamentarian, of unquestioned integrity
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Reach For Fewer Fags

Ten of every ten cigarette smokers will con-
fess, if cornered, that they smoke too many.
But like the weather. none of them do anything
about it.
Now cigarette manufac turers propose to ra-
ton their product on quota basis in the
hope of equalzing distribution The plan Of
fers the best of opportunities for consumers
to cut down bit on the daily supply
Even a few less in each twenty -four hours
would be beneficial And unless quotas are
lowered more stringently than low seems
probable voluntary reductions in consumption
would be one means of assuring sufficient
stocks to draw upon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
BY JOHN SELBY

"Count On Two Daye," by Man.
nix Walker Dodd, Mead) $3.50 -.
Two really runny books in one
month is high percentage for
these days. There was my Fam
lily, Right or Wrong" by John
Philip Sousa, Ill, a little earlier,
now there is M n n i x Walker S
Count On Two Days" which is
exactly what the publisher calls
it-a two-day bedlam. But full of
belly laughs. From a casual re-
mark on the jacket, I take it Man.
nix Walker is a man. He would
be a good chap to have around
in these days.
Count On Two Days" is a de-
hberately carpentered farce, as
precisely constructed as good
mystery or a good play. Its set
ting is a Beacon street house in
Boston whose occupants are at the
beginning the strictly stage varie-
ty of Bostonians-Mrs. Dowell, a
determined and intellectual wild
ow; her sister Charlotte, who is
undecided whether her trouble is
claustrophobia or dipsomania;
Mrs. Dowell's Harvard son, who
is in love with New York's No. l
glamor girl but can't remember
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
You're
Telling Me

Bees, according to Photographs,
cannot fly in the dark. The
thoughts bit unseasonal-but
the bee is one insect from which
the mosquito could learn at least
one good habit.
Grandpappy Jenkins says he
can remember way back when you
needed a basket to carry S. worth
of groceries home.
A plastic engineer predicts that
postwar volumes will be printed
on edible paper. Fine-on the
cooks day off we can just eat
her book.
Bears on the track stall two
Canadian trains. Stand-ins, no
doubt for those oh-so-scarce COWS.
4!
The United States has more au-
tomobiles and more telephones
than the rest of the world which
is all the more reason we should
use them more sparingly.
Zadok Dumkopf announces that
while he is 100 per cent for the
Chinese this should not be con-
strued in sny way as an endorse
ment OF chOp SlleY or NAH iOn9p
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Buckingham Groups
Help With Bond Drive

Credit for contributing SUI,
stantially" toward achleVias =,
record in war bond purchases ~ ~
North Carolina Building ana I Nv,
associations was given muse :,
to five Wilmington institutions !,
Croson B. Miller, Aloeli'-''
league president. a.
Purchases of war bonds 10 y,
extent of 209 per cent Of the sla' M
quota is the record of stale 0'' =,
ing and loan associations az 5Es;rd
Sept. 30, in the national "'
War Loan campaign. ia.
Local building and loan as'o'' ss
tons participating in the dTl'S ~ \.
bond issuing agencies were ", VI,
Carolina, Citizens, Cooperate
Hanover. and Peoples.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Raymond Clapper Says:
We Must Haze Men Able
To Think With Courage

few who think with courage. Some,
yes. Willkie. Sumner Welles. Sen
ator Ball and his three associates.
Men who will take the risks for
peace as unfailingly as those air
force kids of General Spaatz take
risks every day to win the war.
1t is hard for most of us. We
are all timid inside. But we must
overcome it, if our side is to hold
this coming victory. We must think
with courage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22

WASHINGTON. - Down in one
corner of the paper was the small
headline, ROLAND, Author, Dies.
A later dispatch says the Nazls
have him in concentration camp,
but that is only worse KIND OF
death for free spirit such as his.
1t may mean nothing to you,
and if so I'm sorry, but have
to talk about it because Jean
CHRISTOPHER was one of the most
exciting events of my life. That's
the way with books. One mans
meat puts another to sleep.
Only last Saturday I was broWs-
ing over my bookshelves, which
is the true way to enjoy your ia
vorite books. That is when they
hit your mind with the hardest
impact. You open a book which
YOU had read and marked long
ago and a sentence leaps out at
YOU and grabs you and shakes you
around.
7 happened to take down my
CODY of "Jean-Christophe." And l
found passages I had marked When
I read the book a few years ago.
That was at Rehoboth Beach,
Del, in the days of our trouoleo
neace when we thought war could
be avoided. All except redhead-
cd Air Corps colonel who would
NAV ribald songs on his guitar IN
the evening. At other times some
body would begin to talk ABOUT
Hitler and Chamberlain, and the
Air Corps colonel's eyes Woulo
flash with fire and he would oe-
mand to know why we dldnt all
realize there was going to be war
and why didn't we get some ar
nlanes He woulG become so angry
that he couldn't talk. All he could
do would be to bang his guitar
the harder.
That red-headed Air Corps colo
mol is row Lieutenant General Carl
A spaatz. and his job has been
70 command the American Air
Force in North Africa. Just three
months ago we sat in the evening
on the shores of the Mediterranean
near Carthage, talking about the
war. And he stopped and asked
if the time would come again when
we could all go back to Rehoooth
and enjoy the kind of vacations
we used to enjoy with our friends
| there.
He was a long way from that
kind of a world, out there in Africa
sending American boys and Amer
lean planes over Europe.
It was hard to believe that the
neaceful seaside vacation life IN
America would ever come back
again. and in fact it was difficult
ever to imagine myself back IN
the luxurious life of Washington,
where the chief hardships re
shortages of gasoline and liquor.
OF course I don't think that
vacation at the beach is the goal.
But it is part of it. That coast
now is under armed patrol. Sub
09Tln6S CIulSCu l1COI ~ LII AAASNAAJ
months sinking our ships. Europe $
war edged over to that beach and
wreckage sometimes floated up.
Survivors from torpedoed tankers
were brought to the Coast Guard
station nearby.
There can be no security inside
America until that coast is secure.
That coast cannot be sure until
the Atlantic is secure, until there
is peace on the other side of the
Atlantic, until any enemy can be
prevented from sending out h S
attacking submarines r m the
ports of the west coast of Europe.
When 1 began thumbing through
"Jean-C hristophe" last Saturday,
one underscored sentence came up
on an open page. Just three
words: Think with courage"
We have thousands of men now
acting with courage. We have too
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
THE BEST is YET TO BE

Judge I. M. Meekins anflouao5
that he will retire on his seVei'' .oo,
birthday anniversary, which col-''
on February -, 1945. eo.
The judge does not mean ' A..
he will quit work, the Dally , ha
vance is certain, but mercy ' -,
he will not longer PRESIDE wv
federal court sessions. lin
And this newspaper WlShes - a-a.
the last years of his lie 1,'[ n
February 10, 1915, with pienN nd
time for farming and WrltlHs a a,p
talking to his friends, ana ,.i,,s
can't quite fancy him as grown" yiiy
old grouchily or pesslnalS'l'"-'' '
Elizabeth City Advance
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete VIC
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Sunrise and morning star,
And one clear call to give;
And may there be no clouding OF the sky
While set out to live.
For tho into maze of toll anu strhe
NV task may turn my way,
I hone to meet my Master, life to n1e'
As l shall live today.
WILLIAM HIRAM FOULKES
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
NORTH CAROLINA AT WAR
NEW TAX CROP SURPLUS

The principle of reduction in
acreage might be profitably ap-
Piled to taxation also. When the
farmer INDUCES in overproduction
he gets into the realm of diminish
ing returns and when taxes are
increased collection becomes more
difficult, but in regard to the tax
crop there is hardly ever any sur
plus regardless of the volume Of
production.-Cl Clinton IS. c. Chron-
icle,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22

and faithful to the trust and duties conferred
upon him.
The Wilmington community is not lacking
in men with these qualifications. 1t is up
to the people to draft one of them for this
important service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accepts NO
responsibility for the personal views OF Mr.. PexIer
md often disagree with them much a. many Of
his readers. His articles serve tho good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-22
AS Others Say 1t
YEARS

If you want to live to a ripe old
age, take up your habitation in
the South.
According to the U. S. census
bureau the IL states in Dixie are
among the first is containing the
largest number of centenarians-
folks who reach their Tooth year.
Probably the reason Southerners
live longer than folks up North is
that the Northerns worry them
selves to death about h W the
South should conduct its AFFAIRS
Charleston IS. c. Evening Post.
NORTH CAROLINA AT WAR
Being the first at Bethel, the
farthest at Gettysburg, and the
last at Appomattox, Tar H e l
troops in World War Two just nat
urally maintain their standing as
fighters and ready responders in
wartime. This fact is emphasized
by the statement of Adjutant Cen
eral Nets, Director of State Sc
lective Service, that there are now
100000 North Carolina men serv-
ing in the armed forces, in addi-
ton to our women in UNIFORM
Raleigh Times.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
Excess Profits

The Junior Chamber Of Commerce is con-
vinced that some merchants and business men
in Wilmington are not observing price cell
ings 1t is SO sure Of its ground that it sent
wires to the OPA and to Governor Broughton
urging that something be done about it. Gov
ernor Broughton promptly replied, saying that
he would add his voice to that of the jos,
but to date, it is reported, the OPA has neither
replied to the protest or taken visible action
If the complaint is justified, it is reasonable
to assume that the offending business men
are seeking extra profits in the war emer-
gency. We know nothing of the true situation,
but if this claim is correct the offenders over
look the fact that any profits thus acquired
would be subject to excess profits taxes and
that the revenue branch of the Treasury de-
partment has its own ways for discovering
tax defalcations. The "revenuers'' are a
shreWd group. Once their attention is at
tracted to specific case there is little chance
Of escape if an offense has been committed.
| The internal revenue bureau is fundamen.
tally different from the OPA 1t has existed
so long that its procedure is well established
and its operatives skilled in their calling
Extra wartime profits must be hidden well
indeed to escape their eye.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16

Remember when the government asked
farmers in the early spring to plant food
crops and cut down on tobacco and cotton
acreage?
This is what happened to one farmer who
did it.
1t should be explained, first that he him.
self is not dirt farmer but operates large
farm with competent foreman in charge.
When he proposed to reduce his tobacco
acreage his foreman kicked like gored
steer, but the government wanted food crops
and food crops it should have.
The foreman complained that even if he
planted vegetables he could not get his prod
ucts to market because he had no truck. The
owner, credulous soul, promised to take care
Of that. So in early May tomatoes, beans
and potatoes went into the soil, and the owner
started his search for truck
Failing to find one hereabouts, and being
due for trip into Virginia he continued the
hunt there. On May u he located truck
in a Virginia salesroom and agreed to buy
it, having a check drawn in Wilmington to
cover the cost. Then the dealer said he could
not deliver the truck until a priority was is
sued for it,
Necessary forms were filled out and sent
in, whereupon the customary routine proceed
ed. The forms were incorrect The inforrr1a-
ton was inadequate. The need was not suf-
fciently established. And in addition the ap-
plicant must give the names of six neighbors
who could also use the truck. if a priority
should be granted.
The forms went back and forth, with some
thing wrong each time they were submitted
Meanwhile, the tomatoes were ripening-
and rotting. BY hook and crook the owner
succeeded in sending enough OF them to mar
ket to bring in $500, instead of the $4,000
which the crop would have yielded if there
had been way to move it. The difference
in money. some 50, 900, was not only a dead
loss. The food value of the spolage was
lost too.
Lacking means Of moving his beans, they
were fed to the hogs, and the potatoes are
still on the ground, going to waste.
About the middle Of August the farm owner.
who had done exactly what farmers generally
were asked to do received final notice that
he had no need for d truck and was not en-
titled to a priority to buy one Which was
perfectly true as he had no crops to move.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
Hunting Excuses

The Civil Aeronautics Boards announcement
that Wilmington and other coastal communi-
ties must get along without plane service for
an indeterminate time, while a long-range
view is taken of inter-Anerican air COMMUNE
cations, is to be accepted with a grain of
salt.
There must be another reason, which CAB
has no intention of revealing since inter-
American air service is being maintained by
Pan-American Always in what has generally
been accepted as an adequate and satisfactory
manner for years.
With arlines connecting with Pan-American
planes at Miami from all quarters of the
country, except this Atlantic coast section,
the Pan-American sending it's clippers over
the greatest network Of airlanes in the world.
it hardly seems reasonable that a resurvey
OF inter- American air communications is need
ed can be related even remotely to the
establishment of air service along this sea-
board
The CAB has placed itself on a spot it
would have difficulty in wriggling off Of if it
were not a part of the bureaucratic system
which rules so widely with despotic power
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
A Real Second Front

Kirk Simpson, in his analysis of the Euro
pean war situation in yesterdays papers, cites
a Swiss report that up to seventy divisions
are being Withdrawn from the Russian front
to bolster the Axis forces in Italy and to re.
inforce Balkan defenses.
If this report even approximates the mum.
Der of Germans being transported to other
fronts the Russians can have no reason longer
to minimize the Battle Of Italy or refuse to
recognize it as an actual second front for
which Stain has been calling for m n y
months.
With seventy divisions, or even sixty or
fifty, quitting the Eastern front, Moscow must
change its tune
Mr.. Simpson obviously places considerable
reliance in the Swiss report, as he attributes
the fall Of Bryansk to the withdrawal of Nazi
forces and the German decision to put more
power into the fighting in Italy and in prep
aration for battles expected in the Balkans.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
The Literary Guidepost

Inelghbors are similar, and how
they differ. He wants us to see
clearly that the coming dominant
strain In most of the countries is
the indian strain, mixed of course
with other blood. If we are to
have any workable relations with
Latin America, we must take the
trouble to learn some Fundamental
facts.
Latin America is, Mr.. Beals in.
olcates, suffering two major and
perhaps healthy shifts of view
point. She no longer feels closer
to Europe and the Orient than to
North America, nor are the vari.
Gus countries refusing to see each
other as they once did.
Nh. Beals believes that in spite
OF the colossal stupidity of some
OF our emissaries, we are maxim Q
progress. He thinks we could ever
solve the Argentinian question if
we would approach her economic
problems realistically. Latin Amer
lea needs to know" that we will
no longer treat her as a ragged
step-child, and that after the war
we will neither patronize her nor
exploit her as kind of raw ma
terlals warehouse to which we hold
the key
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
Daily Prayer
FOR UPLOOK

Though the outlook may be darl,
the uplook is bright. So we pray
that we may keep our eyes uplifted
to Thee, o Infinite and Eternal
Ruler of the universe. All things
are in Thy hands; Thou overrulest
all events and makest the wrath
Of men to praise Thee. In our
own weakness, which we h V e
learned by bitter experience, we
turn to Thee, for our help is in
the name of the Lord. Our self
pride has been hu1nbled by the
victories OF our enemies. We con-
fess our pride and arrogance and
vanity. and the mood of self-suf-
ficiency which has forgotten Thee
Now. chastened into humility. we
turn again to Thee. 0 patient Fa-
the, to plead for Thy succor. Vain
are all our own efforts. unless
sustained by Thee. Impart to us.
We beseech Thee. the spirit OF
simple trust and of believing pray.
er. Thou art God. our help in
ages past and Thou canst turn
and overturn to bring to pass Thy
will and Thy Kingdom. Lord save
Thy people. And whatever Thy
wisdom may decree for us. may
we not lose our childlike trust in
Thee and in Thy love. Amen
WIFE.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16

Mo OTduuc 10 cape HON., Dy
Carleton Beals (Houghton Mifflin:
$3.50.
Probably Carleton Beals' Rio
Grande to Cape Horn" is the sort
OF book we have needed on Latin
America, in spite Of his tendency
to throw in gratuitous anti-New
Deal comment once in while.
Mi. Beals has. of course, right
to his political opinions, but they
probably would be more useful out
side this book. He speaks con-
temptuously. of Washington's plan
to establish milk routes at every
jungle crossroads, and then cuts
under his own argument by in
slstlng that this same Washington
mas done more for hemisphere
solidarity than any other Washing
ton.
what he has to say about Latin
america does make sense. The
average American knows more
ABOUT Bali than he does about Ar
gen!lha. And when he thinks about
Iatn America, he Jumps all the
countries In one. much to Mr..
1eais disgust. His book is an eff
AoAt 70 show wherein our good
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
Encourages Laziness

There are rumors in Washington that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will demand that Social Sc
curity be expanded to provide degree of
ease and comfort from the. cradle TO tn
grave for everybody.
Without mincing matters it may be said
creating a nation of loafers and shirkers Nor
would it be possible to apply any policy capa-
BILE Of destroying self-respect in equal degree.
Conceding there are thousands of persons
who cannot support themselves and whose
relatives cannot provide for them, who must
4 be cared for by the state, it is still unrsason
able to expect the great mass of workers tc
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
Raymond Clapper Says:
CordeH Hull Repeated
Stand On Solid Peace

ministration on the basic idea of
working with other nations to pre-
vent aggression. Yet the Presi-
dent was knocking in his press
conference comment and sought
to belittle the whole effort of the
Republicans.
AS Congress is returning this
week, opportunity, is afforded for
renewing contact between the ex-
ecutive and the legislative. Never
was it more important that Con-
gress and the public be told as
much as possible about the war
and the hopes to follow. The ap-
proach of another presidential
campaign introduces a new cause
of dissension. That makes more
urgent a closer partnership of the
White House, Congress and the
American people in the essentials
which must prevail without regard
to partisan politics. and personaIl-
ties.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-16
Timely Encouragement

Mayor Bruce B. Cameron sounded a timely
word of encoura cement for city expansion be-
fore the Rotary club saying that though he
did not recognize the need for it while still
in private life since he has had opportunity
to study municipal affairs from the inside
as mayor he has come to see it as an essential
step in the areas development
He struck a note that cannot fail to vbrate
tremendously for every Wilmington dWeler
when he said that the city government is
more severely criticized by suburban resi-
dents than by the people of the city itself
The natural question is that if the outsiders
know so well what ought to be done to make
Wilmington a better place of residence, why
don't they come in and take hand in the
administration? Why do they continue to live
outside do business downtown, earn their liv-
ing and shop here and contribute nothing to
the support of the city, but still find fault
with the citys official conduct?
Mr.. Caneron's support, thus publicly pro-
claimed, could well become the signal for
launching a new annexation campaign with
eye specifically focused upon the selection
Of legislator who may be depended upon
to present a sound annexation proposal dur.
ing the next legislative session, with the in.
tegrity and diplomacy to engineer its adop.
ton 1t is none too soon to give serious
thought to who shall represent Wilmington
in the legislature. Another fasco such as
characterized the annexation proposal at the
last session in Raleigh could have the effect
Of postponing the citys development for years
to come.
AS noted previously in these columns, the
selection of sound legislator is doubly i'm
portant now, because Wilmington will have
but one member in the next session. Under
an antiquated arrangement, which in tseh
is stumbling block to the areas progress
the senator who should be from New Hanover
county, will be elected from another. With
but one man to depend on, the choice mus
be wisely made.