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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-09-21

read all those editorials you wrote
about our not getting into war;
Copyright, l943, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-09-21

they lived in those countries, but
did not keep it UP when they re-
turned home.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-09-21

Weather report: High, 40; low, 35.
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Washington
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Townsend Plan Awakens

The Social Security program NAV be all
enough, in the opinion of Russell Saville. ma.
tional director Of the Townsend Plan. which
apparently is awakening after its long sleep,
Mr.. Saville is having the House office build
ing canvassed to secure signatures for a nett
ton demanding that the Townsend Plan hill
be brought out OF committee, and claims that
twenty signatures were secured within few
minutes.
If this solicitation is successful and the
Townsend measure is passed, all persons
over sixty would be pensioned at the rate
of $50 a month. The idea is that if all the
ancients were retired AMI assured this com.
petence their places could be taken by return.
ing soldiers and the postwar unemployment
problem be largely solved.
Mr.. Saville says the plan would permit the
retirement of from ten to twelve million en-
ployes Immediately after the war
The fallacy of this lies in the fact that the
ancients are to be given no voice in their
future. Retirement would not be matter for
voluntary decision but a compulsory REQUIRE.
ment to be obeyed when time snail have car
ried all individuals across the sixty-mile mark
If it is Objectionable to MAKE young men
subject to dole system. can it be any less
objectionable to impose It upon persons of
greater age but still capable OF earning their
living and unwilling to sit dowr. ir comfort for
the rest of their lives at the expense of the
taxpayers?
Inc average man or woman who has lived
an active life, taken part in business. indus
trial and professional affairs, is not done at
sixty, and has no intention of quitting merely
because an old man in California proposes to
force them to live on handout from the
Treasury.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Rat determination

With ten recorded cases of typbus treated in
New Hanover county, it is time that some
thing be done to extermnate rats, as the City
Council indicated at it's Wednesday session
when it proposed to bear two-thirds of the cost
The County Commission cannot well turn a
cold shoulder of this proposal especially as
one of the patients lives outside the city.
The fact that there has been any controversy
over responsibility for Riding the county Of
rats, which spread typhus, is not only unfort-
innate. It offers fresh and indisputable proof
that the long-standing and Objectionable sys-
tenn under which city and county have oper-
ated in many undertakings icintly ought to be
abandoned with each required to operate sep
arately upon its own revenue and accepting its
own obligations. The only satisfactory alter
native is a single city-county government such
as San Francisco and Baltimore have.
To expect Wilmington taxpayers to go on
paying 60 per cent OF the operating costs Of
the county. in addition to their full 100 per cent
for city operation is unsound economics and
unfair on all counts.
In the present rat emergency the City Coun-
Gil cannot be condemned for offering to assume
the major burden for eradication particularly
as there has been so much reluctance on the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
It Must Be Done

Certainly the fact that it has been said be-
fore. in general terms, and is approved by all
sound reasoners in the state does not detract
one iota from the force and truth OF R. Gregg
Cherry's declaration, during his Armistice Day
address, that, IF we are to avoid repetition
of the postwar economic chaos we knew
quarter century ago, we must provide jobs
and security for our service men when they
come home, and we must do it without i'm
pairing out system of free, individual enter
prise
No truth loses by reiteration. In fact, the
oftener it is repeated the wider will its ac-
ceptance be. 1t would seem that this thought,
which has been proclaimed on all hands since
it became apparent that the time for postwar
planning had arrived, ought to become the
keynote of constructive thinking in every
city, town and village in Tarheela.
Those among our boys destined to come
home when the war is won must find jobs
awaiting them upon their arrival, and not
just any old job but one for which they
are especially fitted. They must not be worse
off or less independent economically or finan-
cially than when they put on their uniforms
and went forth to do battle for their country
and world security.
And this must be done in an orderly way so
that no interruption occurs in the states gen.
eral development or sacrifice of private initia-
tive. 1t can be done, and must be done, it, as
Mr.. Cherry points out we are to avoid the
chaos that followed the Armistice twenty-five
years ago.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
AS Others Say It
INTO BROADER FIELDS

The Baltimore Evening Sun an
nounces with regret that Gerald
w. Johnson, its distinguished Tar
Heel associate editor has resigned
his regular full time connection
with that newspaper. He will write
an occasional article for The Sun.
Mr.. Johnson, native of Thomas
vile in nearby Davidson county,
the son of the late Archibald John
son, for many years editor of Char
ity and Children, has scared to
fame in recent years as a novelist,
author of biographical and histor-
ical works, book reviewer a n d
magazine writer. His reputa ton
has extended far beyond Baltimore
and the Sun papers, just as it
extended beyond The Greensboro
News and North Carolina before
he left his native Tarheelia.
To many North Carolina editorial
writer's who have associated the
Baltimore Sun papers for years
with Mr.. Johnson, his retirement
from daily newspaper work will
also be greeted with regret, for
many of us have received constant
Inspiration from the day-by-d y
writings of this great journalist
Put it is pleasing to know that
Mr.. Johnson is to have more time
at his disposal to heighten his al.
ready distinguished achievements
III broader field.-Winston-Salem
journal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Feeding The Hungry

While the Senate has been debating our part
in preserving peace in the postwar world.
small group OF its members have been con-
corning themselves with a more immediate and
equally important problem. That is the prob
lem of getting food to millions of underfed
civilians in occupied Europe, who otherwise
may not live to see the day of liberation from
Naz bondage.
This action has been taken heiatedly. But
the group partly made up for the hardness
when they called upon Herbert Hoover to ap-
pear before foreign relations subcommittee
Mr.. Hoover, who was food administrator and
director of Belgian relief in the last war, has
been attempting to organize food relief for
occupied countries since well before our entry
into the war; His efforts have been disregard
ed and his advice has been too long unsought
But his statement to the subcommittee shows
that it is not too late to do this job even though
much time and many lives already are gone
These are the main points Of Hr. Hoover's
argument: We have a moral obligation to try
to save these millions of Europeans And
even if Germany should violate its agreement
which would be necessary for food relief
program, our obligation would still be dis
charged. Such program woul@ also increase
Europeans good will toward us, and create g
reception for our occupying troops which other
wise we could not hope for.
The relief program in Greece initiated by
Turkey and carried on by the Swiss, Swedish
and International Red Cross has been a sue
cess. Less than one-sxteenth of per cent of
food sent to Greece has been lost to the enemy.
The sending Of food to war prisoners has
not been interfered with. (NGr Hoover pointed
out the cynical fact that food car be sent to
French father if he is war prisoner, but not
to his hungry children)
Sweden has at least 350OOO tons of idle
shipping. Sweden and Switzerland have
agreed to undertake the supervisory work of a
food relief program. They would approach
the powers concerned, and there would be no
direct agreement between belligerents. The
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
BY JOHN SELBY
"LONG, LONG ago." by Alex


ander WOOlcOtt (Vlk1ngs SH.10).
The peculiar thing about the late
Alexander Woollcott is t h al
most nobody seems to have tried
though his style is the easiest to
caricature imaginable (indeed, it
makes continuous application to a
book of his almost impossible) al
it. The Woollcott style was always
a little over-decorated, inlaid, as
it were, with mother-of-Webster.
Woollcott's taste in manv matters
was suspect, as witness his infatu-
alton with Mr.. Chips. And as a
person, his colossal rudenes has
made his memory anathema in
divers communicative other day
in Cleveland I listened to a charm
ing woman blast him for IS Con-
secutive moments.
This last racteristic will,
suspect, be taken care Of by the
movies. If Hollywood does not let
up, Woollcott will come to be known
as Monte Woolley's model.
And the other matters mentioned
above are amply countered in an
other compilation of Woollcott
scraps entitled Long, Long Ago."
In spite of everything, this is the
hest bedside book of the fall.
It contains some of Woollcotts
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
The Literary Guidepost

New Yorker pieces, few broad
casts, some things from the slick
magazines Chow it must have de.
lighted the man to sell these
last many pieces which broke all
the formula rulesD, in fact a great
number of pieces sieved out Of the
years from 1880 on. 1t is amusing
that the best piece of the lot should
have been published first in the
Ladies' Home Journal in Septem-
Der, 1885. and to know that Wool
colt was perhaps the only creator
of prose in the word who could
have got the article into those
pages.
This remarkable piece is called
Quite Proposition" and it is
the compete story of The Green
Pastures" but not as that play
really was. When Woollcott really
fell in love with play it was in
stantly glorified in his mind, and
his enthusiasm gushed and bub.
ped. The merit Of the story would
be the same in literary sense no
matter what the subject; it hap
pens that here the subject is worth
the effort, and the result is there
fore the best prose ever written
about Marc Connelly's best play.
Read one installment night,
Long. Long ago" will last almost
until Christmas, and so it should
be read.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Raymond Clapper Says:
Food Subsidy Measure
May Bring Initiation

WASHINGTON.-The danger of
wild initiation is increased by the
action of a coalition OF Democrats
and Republicans in Congress to
stop payment of food subsidies.
These subsidies are one of the
means by which the Administra-
ton is trying to check the rising
cost of living. Sums are paid to
producers in certain lines of food
stuffs to encourage larger produc-
ton without higher prices to the
consumer.
1t is subject over which bar
bershop argument can continue in
definitely. The question is whether
to yield to more rapid initiation OF
prices, or whether t. continue the
rearguard action against it.
Subsidies, the Little Steel Wage
Formula, price control. rationing
are all brakes against the tremen-
dous momentum of initiation that
comes from the war. When IL, 900.
900 men are put into uniform, and
more than half of our production
facilities are given over to war,
shortages of goods anu manpoWer.
and abundance of spending power
create relentless force for infla-
ton.
About all we can hope to do is
to throw obstacles in the way,
slow it down, fight fol time, give
no ground without a struggle. That
is what the Administrat ton is try
inc to do now on food subsidies.
The trouble is tina large groups
such as cattle growers. and dairy
interests, want to gel rid of all
government controls They want
the lid off prices. They are fighting
to end the subsidies now. They
have lined up the big farm Or
carnations, the Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton and the National Grange.
Retail grocers are joining in.
Thus powerful political pressure
has been created on Congress. Re-
publicans have joined in. Several
Republicans on the Banking COM
mittee were understood to have
favored continuing subsidies, but
after having lunch with Rep. Joe
Martin. the Republican Leader of
the House, they went unanimously
against the Administration.
Off with price control. Let every
body collect all the traffic will
bear. That's the game that is about
to be put over in Washington.
The Democratic chairman Of the
House Banking Committee, Henry
B. Steagall, was buttered by the
opponents of subsidies They per-
mitted a provision to go into the
repeal legislation continuing SUBJ
sides on vegetable oils and fats.
That takes care OF the peanut
grower in Steagalls district. Hav-
inc been assured subsidies for his
growers, he had no further interest
in other subsidies and turne d
against the Administr alton.
That's the kind OF a fight it is.
A minority group on the House
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part of at least one member OF the County
Commission to appropriate county funds for it.
But the mere fact that it seems necessary for
the Council to take this step shows how impor-
tant it is to the greater communitys future
that the city either divorce the county COM
petely or that the two governments be con-
solidated.
Necessary bills for the next session of the
legislature should be ready fer presentation
when that august body reassembles.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
B0ugainville "Well In Hand'"'

Although the Japanese succeeded in landing
reinforcements on Bougainville. the American
Marines whose landing at Empress Augusta
bay took the enemy by s1rprise-as so many
Allied operations have been doing of late-are
reported to have killed off fully half of them
and are more than holding their own.
AS Bougainville is important strategically
and geographically to the success of General
MacArthur's northwsrd advance on Japan's
chief outposts-Rabaul and TruK-it may be
interesting to many to know what encycloped-
las and aliases say about it.
For one thing, it is shown that Empress
Augusta bay is less than an hours bomber
flight from Rabaul. 1t lies directly between
Rabaul and BUN, $50 miles southeast OF the
former, so miles northwest of the latter. Fur
thermore, at Bougainville, the Allied road
back in the reconquest Of the Solomons IS
nearing completion. Only one other island
tip of Bouganville) plus a few bv-passed and
d-threatened areas remain under the
Japanese shadow which once spread over the
70O-1nile length of the Solomons chain, The
New Britain and New Ireland territories still
in Japanese hands, on the northwest, are part
of the Bismarck archipelago
Empress Augusta bay is broad and open
ndentation on the southwest coast Of Bougain-
vile. 1t can accommodate big SHIPS although
its quick change of depth fror. $50 feet half
10 off 10 jc1o
presents navigation problems. Sheltered Ga
zelle harbor in the south of the bay provides
anchorages but it, too has its difficulties in
shoals and reefs
Framed by mangroves and backed by i'm
posing mountains, the Empress Augusta bay is
picturesque spot. Neighboring Mount Bagana
is $3.50 feet high 1t is an active volcano,
which six years ago erupted violently, raining
ashes over most of the island Beyond, the
sweeping skyline of the Crown Prince range
rises to peaks we'll over 1000 feet. The En-
peror range, in the northwest, tops these both
in title and grandeur, with height of more
than IL, 900 feet. Between the Allied-held posi-
ton and the japanese base at BUN, however,
the country is flat 1t is densely wooded and
often choked with jungle growth.
Bougainville is the largest Of the Solomon
Islands-about ITO miles long, and covers an
area roughly three-quarters as big as Connec-
ticut.
Because of the jungles the land battle is
liable to be protracted, but also because Ameri-
cans and Australians have leaned all Japan
ese jungle tricks and developed some of their
own which the japanese have not solved, it is
as certain as anything can be il these fright
full days that complete victory VIII be achiev-
ed on Rougainville as it has been on every
island invaded before it and the approach to
Tokyo, with Rabaul captured be brought an
other step nearer.
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owned by sanitation men who join
ed up and whose families had to
convert everything they could to
cash. He improved the machinery
and working methods and condi-
tons Of his department but, above
all, moved in among a class of
workers who never had any dig
nifty and recognized and treated
them as human beings. He is still
not merely admitted, but beloved
of his friends uptown; but his in
terests is the clerners and their
families and he will wear you down
telling you about them.
So we have Kaiser and Carey.
pretty much alike. That makes two
at least in world of men, angry,
st'ff-necked and afraid.
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mechanism of distribution through SOUP kitch-
ems is already set up in occupied areas,
1t is not misanthropic, however, to point out
that whatever the need of the peoples CONQUER.
ed by Germany, and however philanthropic
Mr.. Hoover's proposal, it would be bad for
Americas own future and Americas own neo.
pie, to give away so much food that hunger
would go unappeased at home.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12

Banking Committee is offering Con-
gress an alternative This group
includes Wright of Pennsylvania,
Monroney of Oklahoma, Ford of
California, Patman OF Texas, Fol-
ger of North Carolina, Sullivan of
Nevada, Spence of Kentucky and
Barry OF New York 1t suggests
continuing subsidies Or another
year. unless the Little Steel Wage
Formula is abandoned earlier.
That would give an incentive to
the Administration to fight all the
harder to hold the line On wages
and the Administration needs
every incentive that can be offer
ed because its grip is slipping
dang erously.
This minority says that the only
protection against increased wages
is maintenance of the present
price structure The Administra-
ton says without subsidies it can
not hold the Steel Wage Formula.
One simple consideration seems
persuasive. What happens if we
knock out subsidie- now after they
have been in operation for more
than year?
Take that safety valve out of
the price structure and the ceiling
blows off WAGE demands become
irresistible. The vicious cycle
would spin this country into an
uncontrolled ride of reckless prof
iteering and boarding of goods.
Such frantic scrambiing would soon
rend the home front into chaos.
AS President Roosevelt pointed
out in his message the subsidy
for the current yeat is equal to
the cost of the war for three days.
A dollar put into subsidies, when
it holds the price level and the
wage levels in check pays enor-
NOUS dividends in saving the gov
eminent and individuals from in
flation prices.
"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Daily Prays'
FOR WARMER HEARTS

With the whole Worl6 H. 4
confess, o God, to coldne"
heart. We have become cs. I'm
to even the sublimest news n
the battlefields. Our first y If
resolution for diviner 10, ID
human society has fada' .,tI
grown dim. We on the hone
have faltered in the great ''
the war. Our sense Of OH 4
and holy war aims has DS,
less vivid. We are NOT nov
fiery crusaders for l1gt'5 W., .t4
that we were at the oulSe' II
conflict. We confess tins gree 1
against our Country, as'I,-r. .rs,.
Cause and against Thee i ~. n,
us, o patient Father, tofg ll'r'r.tt
and amend us. Give US 0 ....Eg
hearts, and rekindled zeal h asos,.
us afresh to all the divlneI o- Kin
of this supreme struggle 10 VI Fl
Thy will to pass among men a-aios
Thine is the power and Ia-i'
the glory. Amen.-W l +
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
THE CUSTOMER

The shopkeeper's pre-war motto,
The customer is always right"
has given way to what might be
called the eeny-meeny-miney-mo
policy eff he hollers let him 60"
The Christian Science Monitor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
NOURISHING MINCE

This word 'nourishing' always
reminds me of the old South Shore
Massachusetts, woman (true story
who. well into the eighties, was
fond of downing a large slab of
cold mince pie each night before
going to bed. Her answer to all
queries was: Il can just feel that
pie a-layin' there and a-nourishin
me all night. Atlantic Monthly
Bulletin.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Fair Enough

Editors Note-The and the News aceepts no
responsibility for the personal views Of MI Pegier
tnd OFTEN disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu-
ton of the war to complete VIC
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Oh, gifts of gifts, Oh, grace of grace,
That God should condescend
To make thy heart His dwelling-place
And be thy daily friend.
Frederick L. Hosmer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12

Football scores are so lopsided
this season. that anything short of
a Appoint trouncing. says Zadok
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12

That sports page item predict
ing considerable shortage OF
golf balls next summer has its
bright side. 1t also means that
many a tired businessman may
be able to keep in good temper
over the Weekends.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12

The Kiska Japs, we cav Ho3'
their escape via subnaros,, y ;ap
merging it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-12

Civilians will get more citrus
fruit-especially oranges-in the
next IL months than they did in
1928 because of an increase Of
more than million boxes in this
seasons crop. They will get about
the same amount of canned grape.
ftuit juice as last year but again
they will be unable to buy canned
grapefruit segments, orange Juice
and blended citrus fruit uiceS.
These items 60 to the military and
to lend-lease zen TOTO"
Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27
2 Ships Lost

Washington (R)-The Navy reported that more than $50 per- sons, mostly service personnel, are dead or missing as the result of a submarine torpedoing 2 American passenger-cargo ships in the North Atlantic early in February.
 Both attacks occurred at night within 4 days of each other. Both ships sank within 30 min utes. Loss of life among the crewmen and passengers, the latter comprising civilian per sonnel of Army, Navy and Mar inc Corps, was heavy.
 More than 600 of the total of 900 were on the first vessel; more than half of the approx imately 800 on the second vessel are either known dead or miss ing.
 The next kin of the casualties have been notified
Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27
AirPower

Anthony Dimond, delegate to Congress from Alaska, offered the opinion recently that Gen eral MacArthur's comment with
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Kodiak mirror., 1943-02-27

In village Zubsov district of Russia villagers who turned after advancing Red Army had driven out the Nass found little left of their formerly beautiful village Here chimney stack sgnpos practically all that is left and two children shown searching the for anything that might be of value