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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Christmas Gift Wrappings

A warning was issued by the Agricultural
Department before Christmas to burn the
wrappings and packing material Of all holiday
gifts from abroad, lest they contain insects,
insect eggs or disease germs which being
freed might cause widespread damage.
This warning does not apply to wrappings
of Christmas packages of domestic origin. The
tons of paper and cardboard consumed in
preparing gifts for mail and express delivery
are needed for reprocessing. Everybody is
urged to save it as carefully as they boarded
paper while the salvage campaign was at
its height.
Notwithstanding that Winningtons crusade
for waste paper yielded approximately double
the quantity set as a goal ali this Christmas
paper should be gathered into bundles con-
Venient for handling and delivered to the Bri-
gade Boys Club, the Junior Rec Cross or any
junk yard, that it nay be added to the ma
TONS depleted stockpile
If it is inconvenient to MAKO the delivery
yourself, call the Brigade Boys Club and ar
rangements for its collection will be promptly
made.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Steel Strike Halted

The threat of a general strike in the steel
industry is removed by the action of the War
Labor Board, which has announced any pay
adjustment will be m@de retroactive to the
expiration Of contracts
In instructing the ITO 900 or more members
OF the CLIO who had waL.et off the lob to
return to their posts Philip Murray, the CLOS
president stresses the Importance of avoiding
a breakdown in production and the disastrous
effect it would have on the war effort.
1t is strange indeed that this should have
been called to the workers attention by their
chieftain only when of the principal points
at issue in their dspute--the retroactive pay
proposal-had been settled in their favor
If many persons take this as indicating the
workers willingness to support the war effort
as long as they can have their own way. and
to lay down their tools If they can't, Mr..
Murray's statement will justify IL.
1t is doubtful if more baldfaced declar.
ton of selfishness has ever beer made
What the boys IN the foxholes will think
OF it can only be guessed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
"Tip' A Diminutive

Peglers dissertation tipping draws at
tentlon to the origin Of the word tip 1t is
said that in old inns in England recepticle
was placed in the tap room with the words
ito insure promptness' above or below it.
Guests were supposed to deposit coins in it
for the employees.
Eventually, and presumably because paint
efs were too lazy to spell out the words, the
three initial letters only were used-TLP
And as the printers grew lazier the periods
disappeared, leaving only the letters, and be-
cause they formed word easy tc pronounce
the language was enriched as were the inn
servants Tip took it's place in common par.
lance, and finally found its way into diction
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
BY JOHN SELRY

1.-THE TEN COMM ND.
MENTS." edited by Ann Rob-
inson Simon g. Schuster; $S).
The Ten Commandments" is
the result Of one Of those marve.
lous ideas that does not quite come
off.
Armin L. Robinson, the Austrian
publisher, had one day a CONVEX
sation with Herman Rauschning,
and out of this chat grew pro.
ject in which ten well known
writer's were asked to write short
pieces showing how Hitler h a $
tried to live up to one of his I'M
tial purposes-to break each of the
Ten Commandments, and to sup
press relentlessly the code they re-
present. This has been done, and
a strangely assorted group of sto-
ries is now published.
The ten writer's are: Thomas
Man Rebecca West. Franz Wer-
fel, John Erskine, Bruno Frank,
Jules Romans, Andre Maurois,
Slgrid Undset, Hendrix Willem
van Loon and Louis Bromfield
They are cohesive as writing
group in only one particular,
which is that excepting Brom-
fleld) they are not specialists in
the slick magazine field. and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Marshall's Status

General Marshalls inspection tour of the
Pacific war area may be accepted as indi
eating % that, despite President Roosevelt
failure to say what his position is to be, he
probably will continue as chief of staff. and
~ that the Pacific offensive will quickly he
accelerated.
It would hardly have been necessary and
certainly not advisable for him to travel 50
far and see much, after the Teheran con.
ference, if he was to be Sicietracked. Nor
would it have been good policy to send him
into the Pacific battle zone to confer with
General Macarthur, Admiral Ni1nitz, Admiral
Hasey and other American and Allied COM
manders, if another man was to supercede
him.
If this is indeed the TRUE state of affairs.
the Allied world and this country especially.
is to be congratulated, for General Marshall
has been extraordinarily successful in fitting
the United States Army for its tremendous
task in the conflict which has engulfed the
globe and, if rumors are correct, has also
exercised restraining influence in war coun-
ellis when representatives of other nations.
particularly of Great Britain, have made de-
mands which his forces could rot meet
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Salute To Editor

News men who were brought 70 in a school
of journalism which recognized only one car
dnal rule-to do what needed doing regardless
Of the time it took-and have difficulty &C.
customng themselves to 42-hour week, will
pin a spiritual rose on H w. Garrett. editor
of the Doerun, Ga. Courier.
Mr.. Garrett has been publishing the weekly
for "a years. Obviously he is not youngster.
But we have heard of no young man DOS
sessing more endurance. The Associated Press
reports that he published 28-page Christmas
edition without any help.
He sold the advertising, wrYs. the news
and editorials and set all the type ny hand
He read the proofs, made up the forms and
operated the press. Then he wrapped. adj
dressed and mailed the newspapers. Now he
IS taking few days rest.
Whenever we have hall of fame for news.
papermen, Mr.. Garrett de- erves to be frs,
nominee for place in it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
The Railroad Seizure

President Roosevet's prompt and unexpect
ed action in ordering the railroads operated
by the government forestal1s the strike which
threatened to tie up all lines in the country
tomorrow.
The executive order is justified Oh the
ground that even with seventeen Of the twenty
unions willing to accept the Chief Executive
as sole arbitrator in their dispute with man.
agemeht' no tram could run. with three unions
out on strike.
These three unions, the fire,aen and en-
ginemen, the conductors and the switchroen
cannot very well strike against the govern.
ment with the nation at critical stage in
its war program and it is consequently reason.
able to think that so far as the workere aro
concerned there viii be no nterruption in
rail service.
1t remains to be seen if the Customary Of.
ficiency OF rail operation can be maintained
under federal administration. With the Army
in control, ard its chief of transportation
Maj. Gen. c. P Gross. in charge, it would
seem that far as discipline affects eff
cheney, there should be no let down in the
service.
1t is unfortunate that the step had to b.
taken. There has been so much regimentatio,
slnce the war came upon us, such concen
ration of authority in government and in
rlngement upon the normal rights of privat
enterprise, it would have beer far better
the railroads might have escaped seizure. Blu
6ree recalcitrant unions made that imposSi
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
The Literary Guidepost

Bromfield has written in that
field, and out of it as well.
Perhaps there is similarity in
another department. 1t seems to
me that all ten of the writer's, ex-
cepting only Undset, are a bit
sef-conscious about the project.
Mann, for example, writes another
of his glittering Biblical p ara.
phases in the manner of the JOS
eph saga. The first commandment
is Mann's, the story is a good piece
OF Mannish writing, but the APP.
paratus seems little elaborate
for the cold purpose it is presumed
to serve.
Only Undset has remained en-.
tirely herself. She has written the
story of Norwegian family I'M
DER the encroaching terror, and
especially the story of an old
norwegian woman whose fierce
dignity defeats the invader in spite
OF the fact that she is physically
IN his power. Thou shalt o
steal is her assignment, and so
1ar as l can see, it is perfectly
realized.
The ten pieces are called short
novels and one or two of them
are that. Most of them, however.
are sketches or expanded short
stories and in the case of Brom
ilelds Thou shalt not covet" this
form is an advantage.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Daily Prayer
FOR WARTIME VIRTUES

In this universal war, we wan
to be good soldiers of God. Eaa
of us in his own place-be 1t IN
battlefront, the factory or III
home-we would carry on as e.
listed warriors who serve uAoF
the banner of the King Of ha
We believe that Thou hast '','
designs for all Thy children u
this war for Righteousness 1FeS,
dom and peace. SO we would sen
to conform our lives 10 my ~
vealed purposes. Teach us 10 w.
lift the level of our Nation P~
poses by our own noblef llVlnz,
In Thy great mercy, enable uS Nv
conform to the standards Sc ",
the Crucified One. who gave in
all to the greatest Cause, Cie', .'
our hearts from pettiness ana s W,
didness and selfishnesS. fni', ~
our imaginations to perceive
real issues at stake in TINS "s
Enable us. we plead that sif2as
ened by Thee, we may oecoD"
whatever our station. true ,,;rs
riors of God. So may Thy h nans
dom come, and Thy will De w.
in us and for the world Alll''
VIE.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
You're
Telling Me

The German junkers, according
to one report, plan to throw Hitler
overheard. Here's hoping they
don't throw him into such deep
water that Adolf can't be fished
up and put on trial.
And then there was the Scotch
man who told his kids Santa Claus
couldn't show up this Christmas
Eve because he was working on
the swing shift.
In view of the current liquor
shortage, the cherry at the bot
tom of a Manhattan cocktail mus
feel like a plutocrat.
E! !
Hitler's war, writer points
out, has outlasted that staged by
the late Kaiser. However, the Kais.
er had the better of it-for he iv.
ed many years after he lost his
fight.
Grandpappy Jenkins fears that
at wars end Gabby Joe Goebbles
may attempt to flee to the African
jungles disguished as a monkey.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Raymond Clapper Says:
Much Is Still Needed
To Insure World Peace

CARELESS of the disappearance Of
one or more of the partners.
The domestic political failure Of
President Roosevelt to leave be.
hind him a party and an organi.
cation and new leaders who can
carry on for him suggests the dan.
ger on the world stage where he
now moves.
We must not be left at the end
of the war, dependent for future
peace and security on team OF
four tired old men which may be
broken up at any moment by
death or political defeat.
Need of creating a United Ma
than when some of us were calling
tons council is far more urgent
for it against deaf ears year or
two age.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
BAR BIS

1t doesn't take long to discover that con.
slant worry is something to worry about.
Despite Hitlers paper pemg suspended the
people of Berlin still are getting plenty OF
reports.
If your barber is strangely silent maybe
he has been cutting women IS hair.
An Indiana police official warns that d,r.
ing the holiday season more thieves arc
out for all they can get Ari eventually in
for it, too.
What a lot of people would like is a case
of what they can't get for use in curing csse
of flu
There has been slight drop in the hia
cost of living-but the cost of high Twins lsh
mains the same
The epidemic OF influenza is Sometime J..
sneeze about but not at. 70
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Red Cross Auditorium
At Fl. Fisher Opened

FORT FISHER. Dec. % The
Red Cross Auditorium at Fort
Fishers new Station Hospital was
Officially opened recently when the
Fourth Antiaircraft Artillery
Training Center Band, under the
direction of Warrant Officer Dan
iel Wolfsie, presented the first in
series of light concerts for the
patients and members Of the hos
pital staff.
According to 1t. Irving E. New
ton. hospital adjutant, who greet
ed the audience with a briet word
Of welcome, arrangements have
been made to bring number of
recreational facilities here through
the efforts of Alex c. Proven,
Field Director of the Red Cross
at Fort Fisher. In addition to the
concerts. motion pictures will also
be made available for showing al
the hospital at frequent intervals.
With 1t. James L. Griffith,
Camp Special Service Officer act
ing as commentator, the program
opened with the National Anthem
Presented on this weeks pro-
gram were:
The Marriage of Figaro-Mo-
Fart.
American Patrol-Meacham.
Prelude to La Traviata-Verdi
Medley of Foster Melodies-Fos.
ter.
None But the Lonely Heart
Tschaikowski.
Southern Roses Waltz-Strauss.
Orpheus Overture-Offenbach.
Intro to Third Act of Lohengrin
Following the concert, the audi.
ence participated in community
sing composed of both old and new
favorites selected from the Spe.
cial Service Divisions Hit Kit"
and led by a quartet from the
band.
The next in this series of con.
certs, which will run for several
week, will be a special Christ.
mas program to be offered next
Friday, Dec. "a, at 10 a. m.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, - In his Christ
mas Eve broadcast President
Roosevelt emphasized how much
he, Churchill, Stain and Chang
Kai-shek wanted to establish a
peace that would last for many
generations.
He said that at Cairo and Tehe-
ran they discussed big, broad OBJ
jectives, rather than details. The
four leaders, in the Presidents
phrase, got along fine
But to insure peace for genera
tons to come is a task too big
to rest on the accident of four
powerful leaders who get along
fine.
We have the fortunate accident
that those four leaders are on
hand. We hope Churchill will re-
cover fully and be able to work
for many years. Nobody knows
whether Roosevelt will be in the
combination after year from now
or whether some Republican of un-
known convictions about foreign
affairs might take over.
The peace of the world can not
safely be left to the chance that
the health and political fortunes of
four leaders of the four big pow
ers will continue on the plus side.
Roosevelt's Christmas Eve ad-
dress itself indicates that work
must be done which requires
something more substantial in the
way of organization than the oc.
casional meetings of four men.
Roosevelt says the four big pow
ers must be united with and must
cooperate with all freedom-loving
peoples, and that the rights of all
nations large and small must be
jealousy respected and guarded.
That can't be done bv the tour
meeting every once in a while.
Roosevelt says international
force will be applied to keep in
ternational peace as long as may
be necessary. Although the bulk of
that force will come from the four
big powers. it would be unhealthy
indeed to leave the world simply
at the mercy of occasional con-
ferences of the big four military
and political leaders. Other ma
tons will not be content to have
affairs controlled for long through
such occasional meetings as those
at Cairo and Teheran.
Roosevelt says the big four con-
cerned themselves with broad OBJ
jectives rather than details. Who
will handle the details? Some
machinery more dependable than
the occasional meetings of the big
four will be required
Roosevelt has been president for
nearly twelve vears. He took over
! the Democratic party in 1882.
when it was a wreck left over
from the debacle of Al Smiths
campaign. After twelve years it
still is wreck
What other Democrat is there
except Roosevelt? The party is
Roosevelt and nothing else. He has
not encouraged building of a par
ty organization or the development
OF a new generation to carry on
his work when he is obliged to
give it up. When Roosevelt goes it
will all go and the Republicans
will take over with only bank
rupt opposition which they can
safely ignore for a while.
Ii there is to be any world Sc
curlty, it must rest on some ar
engagements that will outlive
Roosevelt and the three other vir-
tual dictators with whom he is
molnentarily in such successful
i,ai'nershlp. A partnership is an
l nHeure arrangement. We need a
Noipofatlonn that will live on re-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
TOP OF THE MORNING

I'd like to do the big things and the
splendid things for you.
To brush the gray out of your skies and
leave them only blue.
Pm wishing at this Christmas time that
I could but repay
A portion of the gladness that you've
streWn my way;
And could have one wish, this year, this
only would it be,
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you
have been to me!
Selected
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29

BILE. Government operation of one more great
industry in the war emergency must be borne
with.
But while it is in progress the American
people must prepare themselves for whatever
measures are necessary through congressional
action to restore their constitutional rights
when the emergency has passed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
CLUB HOUSE

ATLANTIC, Dec. 20 Up The
Manly Fulcher home is now open
here as a USO clubhouse for serv-
ice men, under direction of Carly
SWartz, director of the U. S. O. club
at Morehead CITY
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The star and the Nsws accepts no
fesponsibilty for the personal views Of Mr. Pesler.
md sften disagree with them mleh many Of
Ills readers. His articles the good purpose Of
naking people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-29

The islands of AraWe, IS-' ~.
and Taroa all figure If yer! a
cent news dispatches oou .-t
like the announcement of the o.
Of triplets.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09

shall not believe in communism,
because that is an inherent right
of every citizen. but 1 believe it
is right to say to them, and to
say TO the government:
you have no right to take
the hard-earned tax money Of
the loyal, patriotic people in my
district, and to give IL to people
who are on record against the
very government that Is sup
porting them"
NOW let us take the case Of
~ Paul r. Porter. This man
is chief of the shipbuilding sta
bilization branch Of. WPB at a
salary of $4,000 a year.
Throughout most of his adult
hood, Paul r. Porter has been a
Socialist, one of the leading So
cialists in the United States.
Porter has made no secret about
his socialism. To cite only a
single passage from his prolific
Socialist writings, he has said:
Nothing less than a Socialist
revolution will free labor from
insecurity and industrial serf-
DOM"
Furthermore, here Is a copy
of the New Republics supple
ment, issued jointly by that
magazine and the Union for
Democratic Action, which at
tackled the Congress of the
United States and was used as
Campaign Document No. 1 in
the purge organizations efforts
to defeat a large part of this
House in the recent elections.
A million copies were scat
tered over this whole country.
Replete with lies and libels, it
sought TO undermine the conf
dence Of the people of this coun-
try in the legislative branch of
their government.
1 also have here a copy Of
the letterhead of the Union for
Democratic Action, the organi-
zation which prepared this sour
rilous attack upon Congress. On
this . letterhead the name of
Paul Porter appears as men,
Der of the national executive
committee of the Union for
Democratic Action.
l also hold in my hand two
kilograms from the national Of
flee of the Union for Democratic
Action which show that Mrs.
Paul r. Porter was in charge Of
the Washington office Of the
Union for Democratic Action.
NOV I want 90 know how long
y we are going to sit here
supinely and vote billions of dol
lars, much of which is used for
the payment Of large salaries TO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
BY Representative
Martin Dies

government bureaucrats who are
working to smear Congress and
the members of Congress.
In the case of another member
of this gigantic government bu-
reaucracy, / want you to try to
guess who made the following
statement:
"T believe In the abolition OF
the capitalist system. / believe
In the necessity Of the destruc-
ton Of this system of exploita-
ton by the might Of workers
organizations"
Do you think that statement
was made by Earl Browder? Or
Karl Marx? Or Lenin, possibly?
No; that statement comes from
the pen of the principal business
consultant in the Office of Co
ordinator OF Inter-American Af-
fairs! His name is John Herling.
He draws an annual salary OF
$500 as principal business con-
sultant.
Let US take up the case Of Paul
F. Brissenden, who is employed
as a consultant in the shipbuild-
ing sterilization committee OF
the War Production Board at
salary of $1,000 a year.
IN MARCH, 1941, when the
Il whole country, including Off
cial Washington, was becoming
aroused over the Communicated
sabotage strikes on our major
defense industries, Paul Brissen-
den and others issued a defense
of the Communist Party which
filled almost an entire page OF
the Daily Worker.
Brissenden also signed a
public manifesto supporting the
appointment of the avowed
Communist, Simon Gerson, as
assistant to the borough presi-
dent of Manhattan.
Furthermore, Brissenden was
a member of the national COM
mittee Of the international Ju-
ridical Association, a Communist
front organization whose leaders
were mostly well-known Com
munists and Communist fellow
travellers.
Brissenden was also a sponsor
of the National Congress for
Unemployment and Social In
surance, an organization which
was led by the well-known and
avowed Communist Party leader,
Herbert Benjamin. Associated
with Brissenden as sponsors OF
this organization were Earl
Browder, William z. Foster.
Israel Amter, and many other
equally well-known Communists.
Despite whatever pretension
OF liberalism Brissenden may
make, the record shows that he
has been a longtime defender
of the Communist Party and a
frequent sponsor of the party's
fronts. Now we confer upon
him the distinction of an $1,000
position in the War Production
Board.
ITO Be Continued)