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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
QUOTATIONS

cleveland fnancler says no one should make
a profit out of war. It's no time to exercise
the gift of grab.
One of the Treasury statements that we
want to dispute is that the average dollar
bill lasts nine months
Trouble with Hollywood marriage failures
is that too many couples wait till after they're
married to get acquainted.
If Mussolini hasn't lost his life he at least
has lost everything else.
Space has no limits-but did you ever see
a woman try to park a car in 60-foot open
ing?
1913. If you can't get your spirits down, you
at least can keep them UP!
Anybody can buy all the war bonds they
can. real patriot buys some he cant"
People who drive at break-neck speed are
liable to!
Statistics that show the average woman
eats less than the average man aren't always
backed up by figures.
We are told to conserve electricity. And
we know OF certain ex-paper hanger we'd
like see burned with what we save.
More and more autos stay in garages over
the Weekend but Americans continue to go
places-ln war production.
The arrival of hunting season always makes
the old hound dog the scenter of attraction.
Add boring facts: this is the season for
tomato worms.
With Himmler ruling on the home front.
there should be fewer Germans for us to
contend with.
Many good cooks now are working in the
machne shops of war plants. From soup to
nuts!
You san avoid being a fall guy by taking
tumble in advance.
.. oon waste time chewing the fat-give it
TO Your Upcle Sam.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
There's A Catch In 1t

Point values changed periodically with
the explanation that it was necessary in Or
der to adjust demand to meet dwindling
supply.
For example, if, in the opinion of the ration
ing authorities, too many people want to buy
certain item, it is a simple matter to raise
the point price of that item. Demand prompt
ly falls off. 1t works smoothly and quickly
10 all appearances, the old-fashioned laws of
supply and demand become crude by COM
parison.
But there is one catch. Under the old
natural laws merchants knew what to expect
from consumers. They knew that the public
would buy SO many shoes, so many barrels
OF flour, or SO many tons of canned goods
And they planned the operation of their bust
ness accordingly. The larger the retailer, the
greater became his contractual commitments
to manufacturers and producers. BY planning
and shrewd calculation of future consumer de-
mand, the American distribution system was
brought to state of unequaled perfection
Under the present method of juggling the
laws of supply and demand, the merchant is
helpless. If he agrees to purchase quantity
of goods from a producer at substantial
saving. he has no way of knowing whether
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Martins Words Give Hope

It appears with increasing clarity that what
ever new tax legislation is finally approved
by Congress will so on the statute books only
after a searching investigation Of existing ap-
preparations and expenditures and, probably
the elimination of considerable waste OF the
public funds This is forecast in the oeclara-
ton of Representative Martin of Massachu-
sets, the minority leader, who is quoted as
saying in Washington on Saturday that I'VE
are not going to let them strangle the pubic
with new taxes without an effort to cut down
expenses within the government"
This is something the administration should
be doing It has the authority and the pres
tige. A thorough study of federal spending
and the pursuit of ways and means to curtail
it properly should be its prime enterprise. Ger
tainly it could make greater progress because
of it's better knowledge of existing extrava-
gance in its departments and bureaus, than
the minority party. But as it has made no ap-
parent effort to this end. and instead has con-
tinued to multiply the sources of waste, it is
only right that the opposition in Congress
should exert its full power to stop unnecessary
outflow of public money before it consents to
the creation of new levies.
1t is unfortunate that this condition should
arise But since it is here the taxpayers of
the United States can only hope that the view
voiced by Representative Martin gathers suf-
ficent followers to be effective in blocking
further confiscation of the peoples resources
until every non-essential expenditure has been
stopped.
The people have no complaint against the
levying of taxes to pay war costs and es-
sential government operational bills, but they
justly complain of having to go 10 the bottom
of their pockets for money the government
does not actually need but wants chiefly be-
cause the habit of wasting is chronic with its
leadership.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Daily Prayer
FOR OPEN VISION

AS news of victory comes 10 Us
from all quarters of the world, We
turn to Thee, o Father OF al
mankind, with prayer for mIlloS
that can rise to the opportunity
Increase and consolidate all OF QUIZ
purposes of patriotism and ideal
ism, that we may be equal to 'ns
testing time of triumph. May no
small or selfish thought lntfuoe
to mar The glory of the success
which Thou hast given to Our
arms. Restrain, we plea, the PEI
tiness of politicians and the poT
poses of plundering profiteers. Lei
Thine anger descend upon all MEL
in public or in private life, |n'
would pervert the new world o.,
der to their personal or natlona!
advantage. Make mighty IL tne
minds of men everywhere the puf,
pose to have done with the OH
ways of greed and pride. and "
bring in an era of peace and goo'
will based upon Thy Teachings
Grant US all the open vision o.
human possibilities under DiVlAs
favor. May Thy Kingdom c0laS
and Thy will be done. Amen
WIFE,
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Fears

A recent advertisement shows the picture
of wife blowing in 1777, while her husband
was away fighting for their countrys indie
pendence. The advertisement then stressed
that by building up certain financial reserves,
one can gain freedom from the ugliest fear
of all-want."
Nowhere was the point made that the woman
blowing was doing a job to help free herself
and her husband and her country of fear
much greater than that of financial want,
namely, fear of tyranny fear of oppression,
fear of injustice.
Freedom from fear and freedom from
want" as they are generally presented to our
people today, seem to be based entirely on
material things, as if easy living and full
stomach were the principal guarantees which
we should worry about.
The right to be independent and free of
domination by any government, any king, or
any bureaucracy, is what the 1777 woman and
her husband were fighting for. A full stom-
ach or financial security were the least of
their fears.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
The Guffey Coal Act

The Guffey Coal act is now history Dur
ing it's troubled existence it is charged that
it legalized monopolies in restraint of trade and
compelled mine owners to combine and fix
prices below which no operator could sell ex-
cept at heavy penalties.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce gives
some reasons, in addition to these why the
Guffey act should not be sanctioned by Con-
gress. more Important says the Journal
1.-THE law was passed upon false assumption
that the way to Stabilize an industry was to
stabilize its prices-i. e., cut out price COM
petition.
'Some OF the operators testfying on the
Guffey Act said it kept them from meeting all
sorts of competitive conditions. Higher prices
simply increased pressure on consumers to
find ways of reducing their coal consumption
or to find substitute fuels.
1.-THE act was an unhealthy precedent. It
said TO the business world that the only sci.
,ntific' way of fixing prices is by combination
Of producers working under government per-
mission. The fact that open competition
among coal producers, and between coal and
competitive fuels-all in the open market
is the soundest and most scientific method
of fixing prices, was forgotten.
But II such price fixing is permanently
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
SHORTER ARTICLES

Most newspapers are reducing
the length of editorial articles as
part of the general condensation
necessitated by the shortage of pa
per. All except three of the daily
newspapers of Virginia have con-
Guided, apparently, that this is a
wise move and that they will be
rendering a service. rather than a
dis-service, by boiling down their
comment. 1t is not an easy thing to
do, but it is worth the doing. The
essential is to get the outline of
the article clearly in mind and
then to plunge Immediately into the
presentation. New writer's often
are told by experienced editors
that the way to begin an editorial
is to write the first two para
graphs and then to eliminate the
opening one. Nowadays all pre-
lmlnaries must be disregarded. In
$50 or 300 words there is not space
to say good morning and to talk
OF the weather before getting down
to the subject. A writer has to
be direct without appearing to be
brusque. This, all in all, is the
most difficult and the most fasci-
mating of the many tasks that are
posed for the newspaper profess
sion by the reduction in available
neWsprint. Our belief is that the
result is going to be better, more
readable and most Informative
newspapers. - Richmond (Va.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
The Literary Guidepost

leave any one adjective alone, but
must modify it and then modify
the modifier until sometimes the
result is bewildering. Also, his
people hail mostly from Glouces-
ter, but they speak Old Testament
dialogue, which may, for all |
know, be literal TRANSCRIPTION of
their speech, but which some
times strains ones credulity a bill
And finally, Mr.. Gilligan is
great one to stick to last. He has
an Indian in THE Hinged Hori.
zon named Ira Earlywine who
never wears a shirt, who spends
nearly all his time high in the
rigging, whose every speech is a
prophecy. l, for one, had a WASH
yen to pull Ira out Of the rigging
and ask him for cigarette. or
something equally prosaic
But '"The Hinged Horizon"
makes its effect. It is essentially
a chase story - bold Sebastian
Bannon on the trail of a Hitler
ian U-boat-and no matter how
impatient I got with the author
and his inability to let the sun
rise or the waves roll in simple
prose. I simply could not stop
reading THE hinged Horizon" It
is a whale Of story, completely
surrounded by pretty little her
ring words.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Raymond Clapper Says:
Solons Should Be AUare:
OF Perils OF Initiation

selling at SO a bushel and water
melons for $3.50 each.
Every man in Congress must
know we are on the edge of a
break in the dixie. Whether it holds,
or whether we break down into
reckless initiation may depend
largely on how firm Congress is
now in inflicting higher taxes.
All big wars have brought dis
astrous initiation, not because the
danger was not foreseen but be-
cause no action was taken. Some
times it was impossible to take
action. In the Revolutionary War,
the people were poor and the Con-
tinental Congress lacked suffic-
lent taxing authority. In the Civil
War we went into greenback infla-
ton to finance the war because it
was quick and easy at the time,
although bankers and merchants
knew it was dangerous and oppos-
ed the issue of fiat money bitterly.
Likewise we know now that if
Congress fails to act and shows
apathy toward increasing taxes,
the dixie is likely to break, as it has
broken in every big war of our his
tory.
But now, as so many times be-
fore. there is reluctance to act.
The House Ways and Means
Committee does not like the Ad-
ministration tax program. Let it
propose an alternative, such as
the sales tax This is period when
the important thing is to collect
the money. Questions of equity
which are important in normal
times, count less now. The rule
should be to lay on all that the trat-
fic can bear everywhere.
The Administration still opposes
the sales tax. Judge Vinson tells
the House committee that it will
encourage initiation by pyramiding
prices and leading to new wage de-
mands. When you buy gasoline,
the sign on the pump states the
price of the gasoline, and it states
as separate item the amount of
the tax.
The sales tax is the one. big
source of untapped revenue left.
We can squeeze the income tax
somewhat more, all up and down
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Slow Advance In Italy

DESPITE the steady progress of General
Clark's Fifth Army north of Naples and OF
General Montgomery's Eighth Army in the
Adriatic sector, the Germans in Italy possess
certain advantages which seem to indicate
that the delaying operation they are engaged
in can be protracted for weeks before the
Allies can move into and relieve Rome.
Among the Nazi advantages is the presence
of seasoned German divisions in north Italy
which can be moved southwark almost at
will and the forced use of Italian labor in
building new defenses north of the Volturno.
One Allied spokesman believes the Germans
will be able TO fight three major battles as
they retire. before our forces can reach and
cross the TiDer.
There appears no doubt that Clark and
Montgomery will overcome enemy resistance
at each point chosen for a s.ard-up fight,
but it is certain that Rome cannot be entered
quickly, and that from the Eternal City on.
ward to the northern provinces the same type
of resistance will be encountered.
This can be overcome to some extent by air
pressure behind the German lines, which
probably can be increased as more bases are
activated by the Allies. Disruption of COM
munications and supply lines north of Rome
will slow down enemy movements southwark,
the delivery of supplies and equipment, and
the arrival of reinforcements. But it is obvi-
GUS that the Germans will give up their hold
on Italy only when they are completely whip
ped. With the war going so badly for them
in Russia, Italy must be held while their re.
treat on the Eastern front is in progress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Disability Discharges

Since Pearl Harbor almost 900 men have
been set free by the Army because of physical
disability The largest groups suffered from
nervous, heart vision and pulmonary defects,
or were disabled by wounds. Neuro-psychia-
trio discharges are on the increase.
Relatively few Of the discharges thus far
are direct results of war, judging from this
record. Most of them are because of flaws
Shown up by the strenuous nature of Army
service. The casualty lists have yet to over
balance this structure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
By JOHN SELBY
"The Hinged Horizon" by Ed
,nund Gilligan (Scribbers; $3.50

lnund Gilligan (ScrlbberS; S2.5O) ,
Edmund Gilligan is one of
this reviewers favorite literary
puzzles. and his new novel is pei
haps the best expression of Mr..
Gilligan's remarkable paradox SO
so far.
As most people know, Mr.. Gil
ligan writes romances of the sea
All his men are tough, salty chaps
most at home when the fishing is
toughest on the Banks, when the
salt spray cuts their leathery
hides like a succession of sharp
knives. and the cod almost freeze
as they are yanked off the barbed
hooks. His women. are almost
without exception Junos of thu
sea, and Judith in The hinged
Horizon" is even a little more
than that-si1e is introduced run
ming naked along a beach, and
she steers difficult course from
that page until the very last.
But-and the but is important
- Mr.. Gilligan writes the most
purple prose of any practitioner T
know, these days. His paragraphs
have a rocco construction that
sometimes battles the reader. and
he is apparently unwilling to
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
INVASION THREAT

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 1O-lRJ-Ja"
returned from an officially-spoI
sored trip through Hungary IN IN
Stockholms Tidningen said lo9s. .
that Hungarians had told him - -
danger of invasion of the BalN'''
this year is over
1T is too late to start belus
next spring, when a new crisis va
hang over the Balkans he quo',.<
Hungaris MS as saying. "Bu u
then the situation may have cila. ~
ed so much Hungarians won | A''
to face it." 4
He and other correspondents '' :,
the Hungarian people wanted
get out of the war, and Were .rs
signed, feeling that 'for us 'lr ,,s
is only one question-who Will '0 4ss
first, Germany, Russia Oh
Anglo-Americana
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11

adonted for one competitive industry. why
MT for every industry? Private enterprise
in these days is watching the government
with much concern-and properly So 1t sees
al tho DANGEROUS tendencies of governmental
control slowly being developed in Washington.
"If business wants to stay free of Federal
interference after the war; it should steer away
from all Federal findings in the form Of laws
which permit price fixing and other such IL
lusory aids"
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
LIES LITTLE IRONIES

OF the ironies is that rice must
be allotted to the citizens of South
Carolina-of South Cal olina where
seeds from Madagascar" of the
1lnest quality On earth were raised
south Carolina the colony was one
OF the Wealthiest in the world and
Sharleston 200 years ago was per-
maps the wealthiest town in II
colonies. Rice, the swamp CROP"
was the main source of the wealth.
ana now rice to the South Caro-
nnlans, to the Low-countryman es-
peclaHy, is luxury of which thew
must eat sparingly
:. some day. and our guess is that
II is not far distant, rice planting
VIII come back to South Caro-.
INA nna.-Charleston (S.C.) News and
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the line. Probably the corporations
can be squeezed little more al
though there is always the threat
of a strike against production if
they are pressed too hard. 1t ought
not be that way but they can get
away with it, and just refuse to
produce if there is not enough prof
it in it. So the corporations have
to be babied.
That makes it all the more nee
essary that the levies bear down
on individuals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON Surely there
can be no member of the House
or Senate who is unaware of the
danger of further initiation.
The evidence is all around us.
Rapid price increases are taking
place where no price control ex-
lists. Judge Fred M. Vinson, direc-
tor of Economic Sterilization, calls
attention of the House Ways and
Means Committee to the obvious
facts.
In the coming year, American
citizens will have about 1856 billion
dollars to spend-for go billion dol
lars in goods and services. That is
46 billion dollars of excess money.
Although part of that will go into
life insurance, into payment of
debts, and into other non-inflation-
airy uses, many billions will be left
to be used in bidding up prices
for a limited amount of goods.
Higher taxes, or new taxes such
as a general sales tax, and GER
tainly increased taxes on luxuries
and on items such as tobacco, LID
uor, entertainment, travel, tele-
phone and telegraph all will help.
Every interest which it is pro-
posed to tax will scream to high
heaven that it is being crucified,
that it cannot stand any more tax
If the House Ways and Means Com
mittee took all of the screaming
seriously, we would have no taxes
at all.
The current moves are not en-
couraging. The Administration is
proposing through repeal of the
Victory tax, to relieve 100000
persons from direct federal taxa
ton, and the House Ways and
Means Committee appears to be
afraid to increase anyone's taxes.
Chairman Doughton and all the Re-
publicans on the Ways and Means
Committee are moaning that peo-
pie cannot pay any more taxes,
which is odd when you hear about
oranges bringing ST a dozen here
and the luxury counters of stores
everywhere being crowded. Judge
Vinson called the attention of the
House committee to retail symp-
toms of inflation-fresh peaches
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Interpreting
The War
BY ELTON c. FAY

The Russians are getting read,
to cooperate with the Germans
shortening the Nazis' aasto
front.
This operation, if successs,
should have the appreciation of d,
German militarists who now f;,,
it more and more necessary,
explain to themselves ard the a..
man people the advantages Of s,..
tegic withdrawal, breaking contao.
with the enemy and falling back -
previously prepared positions
The setting apparently chosen g..
the line shortening, at least Nv.
Marshal Stain of Russia ;s ~. Wy
southern end of the German fro Aie
There the line now runs soutbes".
ward along the upper part of ~,
great bend in the Dnieper rive"
then drops south overland n ~
vicinity of Melitopol and the Sa ,'
of Azov. And, as an extension
the line, is the German positin,,
Crimea, to which he was driraa
when the Fed army swept him o '4
of the Kuban area.
Two developments point deen;
tely to Russian intention ia ,I
hurl the Nazis out of the Germa 9o
peninsula. In an order of the d',,
proclaiming the final victory -
the Kuban bridgehead. Stain an
nounced that the fallen stronuboI5
there protected the Crime ="
This suggests the Russians intend
to cross Kerch strait into tba ~,
mean peninsula.
But a second operation in am
nection with the campaign is enn
gested in the German SUNDAY com
munique that "the enemy resum
ed his attacks after having brongb4
up fresh forces at a point nopf5
of Melitopol. 1t is over a rail linz
extending south from Metonol
that the Germans bring in Dart #
the supplies to the Crimea. A scr,
ond rail line now runs from Tho
Crimea rorthWestWard to Grass.
ing at the Dnieper river about IN
miles from its mouth. Il was com.
structed by the Germans after thew
occupied the area.
The fall of the Crimea, involving
a Russian advance from the Nell.
topol area, would mean that the
great eastern salient at the south
end of the front would recede Ger.
tainly as far as the lower Dnieper
and its mouth.
The advantages of the retaking
of both the Crimea and the land
west of the Dnieper's mouth would
be manifold.
Sevastopol, in the Crimea, is tie
normal home port of the Russian
Black sea fleet which since the fall
| VI tl1dI pCIllIIS C1d lldo OpC1 dllu OUl
of smaller and inadequate ports
at the eastern extremity of the
Black sea. One of the few ad,
vantages in that situation was tina.
a pipe line runs conveniently from
tie Caucasian oil fields solving the
fuel problem for the Black sea
Aleet.
! One of the greatest menaces 10
the fleet has been small Nazi sub
marines, shipped in knockdoWl
sections to Constanza, on the RI.
manian coast, and assembled there
for operations against the Russians
With airfields moved up into the
Crimea and westward to the Dniep,
er's mouth, the Soviets would be
in position to give Constanza fire.
quent bombings.
Moreover, the advanced air bases
would bring much nearer the Gre&
Nazi fuel and lubricating oil py
duction center at Ploest. RWna4a,
which had its most recent anu
heaviest blasting from American
bombers making long and some
what costly flight from the Mloole
East.
V--
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he will be permitted to dispose of those goods
as in the past They may be rationed and
the point value set so high that they will be
frozen on his shelves indefinitely. All the ex-
pense saving efforts of the distribution indus
try. which have so long benefited the con.
sumner, can now be wiped out with a scratch
of an official pen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
PROMISE OR THREAT

German Propaganda Minister Jo-
seph Goebbels threatened to "cut
off the head" of any German who
endangered the Nazi war effort by
"disloy alty." With the headaches
now rampant in Germany the
prospect of having ones head cut
off may actually seem to offer re-
lief. Strong Cigar in The
Charleston (S.C.( Evening Post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
AS Others Say 1t
PROTEST

The Hoboes of America adopted
a resolution at their Seattle con-
vention asking for measures 20
curb the wandering Of thousa. ds
of girls, who apparently we
cluttering traffic - New York
Herald Tribune.
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Fair Enough

tKditor's Nete.-fhe Star and the News accepts no
responsibity for the personal views Of Mr. PeKier.
IA often disarres with them much - many Of
lid readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people thinS
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-10-11
Our Chief Aim
TO aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

A good word is an easy obligation, but
not to speak ill., requires only our silence
which costs Us nothing.
-TILLOTSON.