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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

One very pertinent question is
omitted from the blank for income
tax estimates-"How much do you
have left?"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

When the wrinkles on q mans
face win tell his age, the bumps on
his head viii indicate bis talent
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

British canteens are going to serve
coffee American style" Gosh! They
must be intending to put Il II cups.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10
KEEP ON.
..RsekssvzE<Azsss</,,
WITH WAR BONDS

Friends on an airship should never
fall out.
The Yugoslav price Of S5 cents on
a traitors head sounds like more
cut-throat competition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

The Ladies Auxiliary Of Perryville
Fire Company realized 500 by the
recent chicken supper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

Your money goes into battle every
time you invest in War Bonds-goes
up to the German lines in the form of
tanks, planes, assault boats as pic
tured here in the Mediterranean
area.
Success Of our troops depends upon
the help they get from the home
front. Bullets fred yesterday won't
win tomorrow's battle. War Bonds
bought last month won't pay for
our next offensive. Give your dol
lars action. Buy More War Bonds.
n. S. Treasury Departments
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

plane Uses Gasoline Produced
from Coal headline. Some of that
pre-striks coal. Of COURSE
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

Axis leaders may be tried after
the war but they're not exactly free
from trials now.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10

and furnish information to farmers and live
stock producers. Swift & Company depends
upon research to develop new produces and
methods. Thus research makes practical
Investigation possible. Research and diver
si6cation provide more and better outlets for
the producers livestock, and improve living
conditions for consumers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21

AS the political situation grows more con.
fused there is springing up school of thought
which leans strongly to the opinion that both
major parties, as such, nave outlived their
usefulness
1t is pointed out that there is grave division
within the ranks of each-thai the democrats
are split by new deal and conservative ele.
ments and the republicans suffer equal cleav-
age in the ranks. This is pretty well proved
by the definite trend away from Roosevelt
among Democrats and from Willkie among
Republicans.
And as neither faction with n either party
situation it appears obvious that the forth
coming election can result only in COM
promise, possibly with as disastrous conse-
quences as developed when Harding became
Chief Executive.
The way out OF the difficulty, IN the opinion
of those who foresee political disaster if we
continue to drift in the cross currents, is to
form new parties composed Of the liberal
and conservative elements in both parties as
they now exist. With Liberal and Con-
servative party, they maintain. old allegiances
would fade out and voters might cast their
ballots with clear consclences according to
their faith. They say, and are probably cor
rect in so holding, that the South will not
vote for a Republican as such. despite the
increasing dissatisfaction with the dominant
new deal faction OF the Democratic party
BY the same token, it is reasonable to believe
that the conservative element in the Republi-
can party in all sections OF the country would
not support the liberal WiJlllie, OF he should
win the partys nomination. or any other sue
cessful candidate with similar views nor
would it vote for a Democrat.
The time is probably too short to energize
new parties before the national campaigns
are in full swing. We probably will 60 through
the 1914 elections with many voters in each
party refusing to vote at all. and have an
administration which does not represent the
majority sentiment but that OF the strongest
minority, which BODIES no good for the nation
in its greatest peace emergency.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Roosevelt On McNutt

President Roosevelt took occasion at his
press conference to explain tt.at by signing
the father draft bill he do no! consign Man
power Boss Paul V. MtNutt to the dog house.
The bill, he said, contains some wise provi-
siors and others that are reprehenslble, and
whatever the purpose Of Congress may have
been, whether to discredit Mr.. McNutt or not,
that gentleman still enjoys his high esteem.
He will do something about the unwise pro-
visions of the bill. perhaps by directive, and
there the matter rests.
II this means anything it indicates that
President Roosevelt as usual proposes to stand
BY his appointees to the end, as he has done
by Secretaries Ickes and Perkins, setting his
own judgment against th;.t o. a large ma
jor.ty Of the people. In this, as in many
ether things Mr. Roosevelt gives fresh evil
eience of inflexibili.y which from the start
has bred dissatisfaction even among his best
friends, and created Z bciief N many quar-
tiers that his dominant purpose i; 10 exercise
tie powers of dictator.
If Mr. McNutt is, as the President claims
a capable executive the people have been
sadly misled by his manifest r;luddling.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Amazing Insularity

New York Newspapers feature the fact that
three women are operating buses in Brooklyn
The trio has completed d six-week training
constant observation OF super vsors and when
they are considered sufficiently skilled will
be given regular runs
This may be big news in the great city but
is old stuff here. Women have been operating
buses in Wilnn gton IL these many months
and doing good joo too.
1t is hard to convince a Gothamite that
everything worthwhile does not actually have
inception within their borough confines, but
it is true nevertheless, and the fact that thew
can't believe it merely proves t,eir nsularitv.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Foreign Policy Breakfasts

The State Department has announced that
on three successive Saturdays, beginning Jan
uary 8, it will go on the air TO acouaint the
public more fully with tine role of the de-
partment in carrying foreign policy into eff
feet.
In case there any who do not know
the State Department has set out to do "some
job. Not the least aspect of its undertaking
will be to explain how this country happens
to be in cahoots, so to speak, with so many
dictator states while it remains to all ntents
if not all purposes democracy.
With the single exception of Great Britain.
the United States has no democratic ally in
the war in Europe, for France has not vet
won it's right to be counted an ally despite
still satellite of Germany.
In the last analysis. the United States and
Great Britain have espoused the cause of one
group OF dictators to overthrow the greatest
of them all-Hitler. And unless there has
been some agreement at one of the recent
Allied conferences, from lEoscow to Teheran
the strongest power in Continental Europe
after the war will be the dictatorship of Rus
STA, which, there is now no reason to believe.
will fail to expand its frontiers to include
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Besseraba slice
of Finland and all territory it has occupied
in recent years. There is also good reason
to think that it will exercise the dominant
influence in postwar Germany and possibly
in France.
Yes, the State Department has stable
job ahead
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
The Literary Guidepost

a. himself, and in addition a
woman wholly without gifts or
principles. And there is the fur
Their and amazing fact of his long,
long correspondence with Nine.
Won Meek, from whom he took
great sums of money, and with
whom he shared his emotional life
for many years without ever
meeting her.
Relationships industry was fit
full, but enormous. What he real
ly disliked was routine, and his
years at Nokolay Rubinstein's con-
servatory in Moscow were years
Ct suffering. He had a gift for
friendship, nevertheless. although
these friendships land especially
tie erotic ones) changed rapidly
Like most shy people, he was also
stubborn at times; he was in
clined to value his latest compost
ton highest, and yet he usually
arrived eventually at a Just esti-
mate.
obviously, the temptation to
oser-emphasize the curious facts
OF Relationships life would be
g,eat, as would the temptation to
s!oSs' over some others. Mr.. Vein
STOCK has kept his balance per-
1ectly, his musical judgment is
Eeen, and his writing is a very
real iov.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
You're
Telling Me

One. of Juniors Christina, &c.
this year is railroad train car rUn
from a solid block Of wood NY wv
will have a tough time irvine
ruin that!
!
Life becomes ever more n,i,..
able for Hitler. Now he finds :.
tough to locate a rug for chew y
that isn't product of Iran ny Tug Tug
key. '''
The Jap propagandlst is ~
tough spot. How can he contir,,'
to lie about the Hundreds" -,
our ships sunk and yet insist oIs
naval production is way beln".
expectations?
One of the gunners of a Germ.,
bomber downed in the fighting W.
Italy is said to have turned ont "a
be a girl. The Nazis must beEoro
in that old adage of the female a,
the species being the deadliest.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Price Ceilings In 1776

How slow we to learn from the expert
ence of others.
When this country was in process Of being
born there was a scarcity OF consumer goods
and a surplus of money with consequent in
crease in price Levers TIE Continental Con-
gress felt that it had 10 do something about it.
and made an experiment in fixing price cell
ure. Yet here we are again repeating the
experiment. with little reason tc expect better
results
DR. Benjamin Rush Philadephian. who
was among the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, had this to say about it in
his diary:
In the winter of ITS was elected men,
Der OF what was chen called committee
OF inspection for carrying into execution
the resolves of the Congress- From
the increase in the quantity of money
and the scarcity OF some articles of 1ner-
chandlse, there was a great increase in
their price. The committee attempted to
restrain this evil, but published an order
limiting provisions and imported goods to
their old prices. 10 show its i'm
practicability I lead passage from
Hume's History of England in which sim
liar attempts to subjec1 the articles of
trade to legislative prices, had not only
failed Of success, tut produced scarcity
OF provisions that bordered upon famine.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
What Of The Axis?

It is not amiss to question il the Axis is
not now more myth than fact
To be sure. while Mussolini was supreme
in Italy that benignted country followed Hit
ler's lead to it's sorrow. But Italy is now in
different war category. having withdrawn
from Hitler's fold to become bloody battle
field. The sole powerful AXIS partner in Eu-
rope is Germany
So far as Japan IS concerned it is seriously
to be doubted if Tokyo ever truly made COM
mon cause with the Germans despite their
pact of mutual aid and Germany's rush to
declare war on the United States after Pearl
Harbor. Evidence accuululates that Japan
intended to make wer against US as well as
the powers with possessions in the Orient,
at her own time, and merely used the war
in Europe to cover her feverish and increas-
ing war preparations. Hitler seemed to think
he had secured an invaluable ally when. in
fact Japan used him and converted his war
into a weapon for her own employment
Knowing all too well thai the Pearl Harbor
attack would bring declar atitn of war from
Germany upon the United States, the Japa-
nese believed that by having TO participate
in the European conflict ON big scale we
would have neither men, production or time
to engage in major corok at against them
Japan's one and only objective was, not te
aid Germany, but to improve her own chance
TO dominate eastern Asia.
If any bonds ever actually existed between
Berlin and Tokyo, they must have been strain
ed, if not severed, when the Germans sui
fered their defeat at Sta,ingrad. 1t is at leas
apparent, in the records available of bot
German and Japanese activities since then
that Japans campaigns liave been shape
with complete disregard Of Gernianys. In ott
er Words, Japan has been playing lone han
for all of year and probably more. IT ther
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Meaty Statistics

During the first ten months Of this wear
only IL per cent OF the country's total n1eat
supply was exported mcsr end-lease. OFF.
setting this, the Foreign Economic Admins.
tration reveals, Substantial quantities nj
beef. veal, lamb anc mutton were received
from Australia and New Zealand
With this exchange. although the amount
of our imports is not specified il. pounds or
TONS it is hard indeed to account for our own
shortage of meats on any grounds excent
oyer-buying for the military forces and the
general bunglipg OF OPA.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
BY JOHN SELBY
ETchaikovsky," by Herbert
Knonf. SKY.

Wc1uStOCk huOpIs 90)s
Herbert Weinstock's Tchaikov-
sky is another triumph for the
tell-it-all school Of biography. That
is, Mr.. Weinstock's merhod is to
begin at the beginning, and pro.
coed chronologically and without
confusing flashbacks to the end,
including all the relevant detail in
It's proper place.
Tchaikovsky is still the most
popular Russian composer. There
is Moussorgsky cult and a
Shostakovich cult and so on it
never has been necessary to have
a Tchaikovsky cult, because that
composer spoke directly to his au-
oiences from the beginning. At
fl, st, as Mr.. Welnstock points out,
the audiences cid not hear him,
The speech was direct, neverthe-
less.
The great Russian was strange
man. He disliked any sort OF IN
timacy with women, and fought
his homosexuaIity unsue cessfully,
He was mercuric. happy when ms
work went well, and almost on the
verge of suicide when it failed.
His marriage was stupid to oegm
with. and tragic in outcome
only Tchaikovskyt would be trap
ped by a woma. as unbalanced
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Inside
Washington
BY HELEN ESSARY

WASHINGTON. - And now
Christmas!
Another Christmas in which to
try to be merry.
Preachers of The Gospel will rise
ir their pulpits and speak of
Peace on Earth and Good Will
Toward Men" They will struggle
with vague phrases to hide the
glief which they as men of God
must feel as they contemplate hui
man beings, millions of human
beings. Historically working to Gre
ate a hell on earth for each other,
aid calling the he'll, progress.
A desperate day, this Christmas
will be in the all out war. And
yet through the thick despair you
may catch as l did. the light Of
hope and kindness. Like a gooc
candle shining in a dark and wick
ed world
I found my candle yesterday in
the story of a wounded seaman
at the National Naval Medical Cen.
ter at Nearby Bethesda. Md. and
III the music that gave him back
his reason and the wish to live.
The seaman, we will call him
Seaman johnson was one of those
cases described in this war as the
mentally depressed. The m u S {
that saved his mind was made on
The Little Brown Piano." a gift
tc the Red Cross Society and given
hy the society to the medical cen.
ter. The piano has a role in my
Christmas story. If this were a
classic drama it would be the deus
ex machina.
The story began the day the
piano was wheeled into one of the
mental wards On it's tour of good
will. From another wing of the
hospital another patient we shall
name him Seaman Miller, was in
vited to play for the mentally de.
pressed. For the mentally depress-
ed, understand there is no set
treatment. Sometimes kindness
and encoura gement-which is kind
ness-restores their war shocked
nerves. Sometimes chance word,
music, the sound Of voice, lifts
the distress tina: is clouding the
spirit of the man who has seen
more of misery than his soul can
endure.
Miller, the patient from the out
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
QUOTATIONS

There is economic dynamite in your grocery
Dill and IN the prices you pay for clothing
and rents and house f,;rnishings--dyn that
can blow is all sky-high-OPA Administrators.
Bowles.
Inc old Europe has gone We shall have r.
40 great deal of fundamental thinking and
scrappmg OF old points of view before we find
our way through that new continent which no,,,
~nflstlan Shuts. Union OF South Africa.
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was any close relationship between these two
powers, Japan would have opened a front
in Siberia to draw off Russian pressure from
the Eastern front when the battle began to
60 against the Germans. They did not do it.
but gave the Axis the go-by then and there,
AS for the German satellites. they never
did and never can count, save that the Ger.
mans have forced their rncn into battle and
confiscated their wealth and resources.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Daily Prayer
FOR LIES SURPRISES

In Thine inscrutable providence,
o Infinite Ruler of the universe,
Thou hast appointed to US to live
in a time which is the turning
point of all history. Deep changes
are coming to human lite. Unex-
pectedness MARKS our routine liv-
ing and our profound purposes.
Each day brings some surprise
and difficulty. Thou art giving us
victories in battle everywhere, but
al cost which rends our hearts.
We dimly foresee the revolution
that is overtaking all human plans
and processes. We walk through
days crowded with portentous
CT ange. So, in our blindness and
uncertainty, we turn to Thee, our
Heavenly Father. to entreat new
consciousness of the supreme truth
that Thou art working Thy pru-
poses out. Prepare us for what
Thou art preparing for us. AS
docile children, may we trust Thee
unwaveringly, whatever surprises
befall the world. Amen.--W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Raymond Clapper Says:
laps Firmly Entrenched
On Many Pacific Isles

Sapin was liquit.ating, Germany
bought them at the bargain price
of 81, 100000
But within two months after the
first world war began, Japan leap
ed like a vulture On these islands,
and took them anc the Marshalls
and the Marianas under control.
At the end of the war she got a
mandate from the League of
Nations. Germany and Japan al
ways knew the value of these is
lands. Yet they got them for moth
ing. Why? Because we were all
asleep. Now we shall have to buy
them at a high price.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, - We shouldn t
get the wrong idea from reports
that the Jap fleet won't come out
to fight. The Japs are sitting back
with the idea that if we want what
they have, we must go in and take
it by hard fighting.
Recently Capt. John H. Cassidy
took the Saratoga ana another car
rier fairly near to Truk, the Jap
anese Pearl Harbo1. The purpose
was to draw tne Japs out for a
fight with our forces, which we
believe superior. But the Japs
stayed behind their nets in the
harbor, Captain Cassidy said
That is likely to be the way
with good deal Of it in the
Pacific. japan is en5renched. The
Jap game is what it was at Tara
waist tight and force us to come
in We have the advantage in ma
val and air strength. The Japs
have the advantage of position.
Truk is one of the best natural
fortresses IN the world. 1t is an
atoll, a group Of islands surround
ed by circular barrier reef some
thirty miles in diameter. A bar
rier reef is something fearful to
penetrate. as we learned at Tara
wa.
Only in the central Pacific is
this strange coral barrier reef
found The Truk rect. partly under
water and partly exposed, COM
pletely ancircles the islands with
only a few natural gateways.
These have presumably been
heavily defended by the Japs.
To attack with big ships through
those entrances would be almost
impossible. So the Japs sit tight
inside and wait.
That is what they are doing in
the Marshall ISLANDS and in the
other strong points. When you read
that the Jsps will not come out
and fight, it does not mean they
are softening no. Or the contrary,
it means we are having trouble
getting at them. 1t means probably
that another job of hand-to-hand
fighting on the beaches is neces-
sary.
And another thing about Truk.
After you get inside the reef, the
islands are almost without sandy
beaches. They are mountainous
growth extends down into the wa
ter. That makes the hardest pos
sible kind of Landing. coast.
At Tarawa, at Salerno and at
Guadalcanal as in Sicily there was
beach on which to land. That
makes it easier. But some Navy
hands, who have been in the Pacif-
ic, say that Guadalcanal can be
counted among the easiest of our
Pacific landings.
Nobody wants to do this job is
land by island, bet there is no
way to avoid a considerable
amount of that. We must get rid
of Japanese air fielas and Jap
anese harbors on Our routes to
Toxic. We leave the enemy strong
in our rear. Men back from out
there see no way to avoid con-
siderable hard infsntry fighting.
because they do no, think Jap 20
sitions can be taken any other
way.
We can now see how blind we
have been as compared with other
powers. We thought these were
worthless islands, but other pow-
ers struggled hard to get them.
Nearly IS years ago Spain and
Germany contested for possession
of the Caroline islands which in
clude the TruA group and Spain
got them through an arbitration
award. But Germany never took
her eyes off Of them. After the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
BEAUTY HINTS.

The best Beauty treatment for
girls and women is plenty of out
door physical eXercise-and more
mental exercise. Incidentally, the
same treatment is fine thing for
boys and men, Raleigh Times.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Christmas Stocking
Must Be In By Todo,

All Christmas. stockings which
are being filled by local churc5
members must be in today Mon.
day was the day set for these n
have been in, but several are stn
out, and Mrs. Ida Speiden, execn
tive secretary of Red Cross will
accept them today or the Motor
Corps will call for them if il i,
impossible to have them brougbt
in.
Electric bulbs and decorations
are still needed if the Christmas
trees at the local hospitals are IA
hold their season cheer for tho
patients. Anyone desiring to con.
tribute these may call the Red
Cross headquarters today or bripg
them in.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-21
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.

THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
If the power to do hard work IS not
talent. it is the. best possible substitute Tor
II JAMES A. GARFIELD.
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Liberal VS.. Conservative

AS the political situation grows more con.
fused there is springing up school of thought
which leans strongly to the opinion that both
major parties as such, nave outlved their