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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Farmers To Do Own
Planning

Dissatisfaction with bureaucratic DONNA
ton, which has been so plainly seen in bust
ness and industrial circles, has spread to the
nations farm organizations. The National
Council of Farmer Co-operatives, represent
ing II 200 groups in rural communities, meet
ing in Chicago, has taken steps to launch a
program of non-governmental postwar plan
ming, similar in character to what the Com
mittee for Economic Development is doing
for industry.
The Council proposes to set up a committee
with a personnel of recognized agricultural
leaders-men of broad experience and equally
broad vision, capable of dealing with the grave
economic problems confronting the nation not
as theorists but as experts. The Council par
ticularly holds that this planning should not
be sponsored by the government. Its view is
neither narrow, provincial nor prejudiced, -
but deal with basic economic problems as
they affect rural populations.
Its first job will be study of the factors
which will contribute to the establishment of a
national economic foundation upon which the
fullest postwar employment and business ac-
tivity, with a minimum of government regula-
ton, may rest Among questions for which
it will seek the answer are: What national
farm income in terms of per cent of national
income is necessary for sound relationship
between agriculture and other branches of our
national economy, to establish purchasing pow
err and standard of living for farm people
equal to that of other citizens?"
These are things that governmental agen-
cies have failed to settle. They vital to
the success of the nations agriculture. It will
be noted that no reference is made to SUBJ
sides or bonuses, or race suicide for pigs,
or the blowing under of growing crops. The
Council places emphasis on the ability of the
country's farmers to do their own planning,
without dictation from Washington or crystal
gazing by Washington's soothsayers.
So sound is it's position that it deserves
congressional support should be promptly
forthcoming
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
The Pravda Canard

Pravda, the communist mouthpiece, has
stirred up hornets nest by publishing a
rumor from Cairo correspondent that two
British officials Cor former officials) had fore
gathered with the Nazi foreign minister, Won
Ribbentrop, to explore the possibilities of MAX
ing a separate peace with Germany
Unless Pravda seeks to drive wedge be-
tween the Moscow and the London govern
ments or wants fresh declarations of British
intention to fight until the Germans have
made the unconditional surrender set at Casa
blanca as the Allied goal in Europe it is
hard to see what it is driving at.
With the war in its present stage, with the
Russians stepping up their offensive on the
Eastern front and General Eisenhower pre-
pairing to launch the second front Russia has
been bowling for so long on the Western
'front.' with the principal Allied leaders, in
Guiding Stain, the chief of the communists,
reported to have arrived at mutual. agree
ment to continue the war until the Hitlerites
are crushed, it would appear that the party
organ OF the Reds should avoid doing any
thing to disturb the harmony among the Unit
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Manila His Objective

Although he was careful 10 explain that he
spoke for himself alone, Col. Charles H. Nor.
house undoubtedly voiced General MacAr
thurs view when he declared in Seattle that
the General would rather "set foot in Manila
than the White House.
Colonel Morhouse is General MacArthur's
personal physician Reasonably he may be
better acquainted with MacArthurs attitude
even than his military associates Further
has no political aspirations.
That ought to silence the hue and cry now
going out to draft him for the candidate Of
the Republican party in the forthcoming ma.
tional elections.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19

ed Nations which has been built up so pains
takingly
OF course the rumor is denied Lord Hall
fax, the British ambassador to the United
States, was quick to label it canard which
it undoubtedly is. Britain could not make a
separate peace with Germany il it wanted to,
not with its war program so closely inter-
woven with our own-and Russias. Any at.
tempt to do so would bring an end to the
British Empire
The publication of the vicious runnor could
not have been the act of an irresponsible
cub on Pravdas staff. AS the official organ
of the communist party, what appears in its
columns must have the approval of the party
leadership We must assume that this was
no mere accident. Why, then, was it pub.
lished? The reason may never be made clear.
but the incident cannot fail to impress Rus
sia's allies with the difficulties that lie ahead
for them in their relations with Moscow dur.
ing the years to come.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Bradley's Successor

Announcement that General Omar N. Brad
lev has been named senior officer of American
troops being organized for the invasion OF
western Europe will be welcomed by all per-
sons who followed his outstanding services in
Tunisia and Sicily. That he will occupy posi-
ton corresponding to that of General Mont.
gomery, who will head Britains invasion
forces, is taken for granted, although General
Eisenhower's brief reference to his change in
command did not include this specific infor-
nation.
General Bradley is typical American fight
ing man. Troops under his command may be
relied upon to give good account OF them
selves when the final thrust against Germany
is once under way. He possesses high quail
ty of leadership and an inspiring influence
upon his men.
His transfer from the Mediterranean theater
creates some speculation upon his successor
there The fact that General Patton was in
the Middle East recently may indicate that
he is being considered for that post. If he
has profted by his lesson in Sicily, that is,
if he has gained the mastery over his fiery
temper, it is to be doubted that better COM
mandant for American forces in the Medter-
ranean area could be selected, unless, per
haps, it might be General Clark who, be-
sides being a competent combat commander,
as his steady advance in Italy against the
most adverse circumstances proves, has a
cool head on his shoulders.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Preparations

It appears probable that Russia will exact
Preparations from Germany more onorous than
money payments The Russians realize-they
are always realistic-that money, especially
in the amounts Germany could raise, could
not go far in Transforming the scorched earth
of their country into productive fields and
villages.
So statisticans Of the Soviet Union are COM
piling the figures on farms destroyed, villages
wiped out factories looted. cities bombed and
manpower ravaged by the German advance
and retreat since Hitler ordered the Russian
frontier violated.
One statstcian, Professor Varga, recent
ly published in a Moscow paper an article
claiming 100000 Germans working ten hours
a day would require ten years to rebuild
Russia's devastated areas. Knowing the Rus
sian penchant for exaggeration it is not hard
to think that Professor Varga has over
stretched his estimate, but his announcement
gives broad hint of what Russia is thinking
about.
When the time comes for a settlement of
the debt Germany owes the Russians it seems
CeItdlu Tie CItulIOIS Will WANT deTIIldD LABOR
gangs, including technicians. They will want
German machinery and machine tools. They
will demand restoration of farm wealth and
factories destroyed by the Nazis.
In view of the use Germany has made OF
Red captives, the thousands of Russians forced
into slave labor within the Reich, there would
be poetic justice as well as hard common
sense in compelling Nazis to work in re.
habilitating Russia.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
The Literary Guidepost

markedly good opportunities to ex-
plore China backstage, and she
used them industriously. 1t is
doubtful, she thinks, whether all
history provides a more tangled
situation than that in China-a
totalitarian leader like Chang aim
ing through a one party govern
ment at Chinese version of de-
mocracy by way of dictatorial
methods. And the one party, the
Kuomintang, supports its own Ges-
tapo. she says, yet is riddled with
pro-Japanese elements and Ell
crusted with officials who were
more adept in the sequence" than
in anything else.
1t makes an xtraordinarily sad
picture, with many heroic and bril-
liant episodes to brighten it. 1t
makes, also, a picture that I sus-
pect cannot be understood by any
westerner, no matter how clever
he may be. An American will have
difficulty undertaking how the
Generalissimo could have for long
maintained the opium car of Chi
ma in power, as Miss Sues declares
he did. And she closes on rather
a painful chord Nine. Chang
late visit, which Mis- Sues be-
lleves was tragically mishandled
by Madame hers.ls
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Soldier Beauty Parlors

Beauty parlors for soldiers sound like sissy
things but they are proving the opposite. Set
up near the front in Italy they are one of the
best morale boosters ever thought up
After a hitch the battle line, mostly in
mud or slush, soldiers return to camp be-
draggled filthy, unshaved low in spirits, COM
pletely worn out, They flock in droves to the
beauty parlors, are showered and rubbed
down. shaved, dressed in fresh uniforms,
ready for the hearty meal awaiting them.
Any civilian who has gone through storm,
even lacking bullets, knows the comfort to be
found in a bath and clean ralment. How much
more must the men who face not only the
elements but the enenny's fire enjoy freshen.
ing up after days gruelling combat!
The genius who devised these beauty par
logy deserves orchids. ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Temperatures We're Below
Average For Past Week

Paul Hess, meterorelogist al ule
Weather Bureau, reports the wen,
ly weather and crop report ~
southeastern North Carolina u,
the. week ending January 10 a.
following: temperatures were ".
low the seasonal average throus -.
out the week, except normal "
slightly above on "Wednesday DIV
Saturday. At Wilmington the men
temperature was 40.6 degrees, "
Sc degrees below normal; htg'es
So on the eleventh, lowest ~ VI
the tenth. ~,
Precipitation, mostly IN 'nI
form of rain near the coast a ~.
rain and snow in the interior u,'
tricts, was heavy. At Wilmin@lo"
the total amount was ITO lnc9e''
or 0.99 inch more than norma,
Sunshine was somewhat oe"
cient. III
Low temperatures retarusr
growth of vegetation, and Vet!
little progress was made by %InIs-
crops. The condition of truck Il.
Guiding collards, cabbage, le''ulT Ii
ect., is only fair. Winter S'i'a az
grains are making SLOW efo".n
and stands in some feds az az
poor. The week was unfavoraoIe
for outdoor activities; winter WON
is now backward.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
BY JOHN SELBY

Sharks Fins and Mfllet, by
Llona Ralf Sues Little, Brown;
$3.)
Two pictures of China at war
are being published this week.
neither of which is the traditional
chrome of a brave and democratic
people fighting for their future. OF
these, the less pretentious is Llona
Ralf Sues Sharks Fins and Mil
let a title that comes from that
curious delicacy now so expensive
in China, the fin of the shark, and
from billet, which is the muddy
food of the very poor.
Mis- Sues worked for the opium
control forces in Geneva in the
days when the League of Nations
was still afloat. But she reached
a point where she could not bear
the Geneva atmosphere, and after
time she turned up in China.
Eventually she became a function
airy in the propaganda office at
Chiang's headquarters, working di-
rectly with E. H. Donald, whom
many have called the Richelieu OF
China. Donald was the adviser OF
Nine. Chang, of everybody, and
now nobody knows where he is, but
many suspect he has been muir
dered by the Japanese.
In any case, Miss Sues had re-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Raymond Clapper Says:
Some Boys Find 1t Hard
To Learn The Army Life

who told me the food was always
cold when it had to be carried on
trays to wards as far as a quarter
of a mile from the kitchen. Sc
they wangled this mobile kitchen
from the Australian Army, and
now they bring piping hot food tc
every patient.
The hospital streets are named
after nurses. There is a baseball
field, and there are movies five
nights a week. --.-.
They have just used the new
drug penicillin for the first time.
Tail Gunner Patrick Missita, Glens
Falls, NJ Y, had an internal alb
scess and they couldn't operate.
Penicillin saved him. He told me
he was leaving the next day to &c
back to his cunning.
The last thing I saw on leaving
the mess hall was a large poster:
Buy War Bonds
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Daily Prayer
FOR DIVINE INTERROGATION

Our hearts are sore, and our
spirits faint within us, o Father
in Heaven, as we contemplate the
awfulness of this war: it's sacrifice
of precious young lives; its de-
.struction of cities and homes; its
weight of woe upon innocent fami-
lies; its shattering Of normal re-
lationships, and its many-sided
charges upon today AMI tomorrow
Has not the time come, o patient
Ruler over all for Thee to inter-
pose Thy might, and bring to an
end of justice this inconceivable
horror? We dare to pray that right
speedily Thuo wilt assert Thy linn
ltless power, and bring peace to
pass. Hear the petitions that are
hourly arising to Thy throne from
broken homes, from parents and
wives and little children, that our
men may soon return home. In
Thine own way-for we cannot con-
ceive of the mysterious manne~ in
which Thou dost assert Thy
strength-break and still the pa
gan powers that have sought to
thwart Thy will for humanity. Vim
dictate Theyself in the ewes of al
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
FOOD DISCUSSED
AT ROTARY MEET

Food is a crucial war weapon
along with tanks and airplanes and
guns, Miss Cordelia Foster, home
service director of the Tide Water
Power company told members of
the Rotary club Tuesday. AS such
it merits highest respect, she said.
Miss Foster revealed that Amer
icas food is distributed ~ per cent
to the Allies; 10 per cent to the
Armed forces; two per cent to
friendly neighbors, and rs per cent
for home front consumption.
She discussed the developments
in the handling of foods, since the
war, and asked not only for econ
omy in use of food but for care in
the selection of the food served
The stamina of our fighting forces
is dependent upon what our serv.
icemen eat-not how much they
eat.
NO11lpd1 Gu Will pIc-WdI yCd1 ,,
food production in 1913 was one
third higher in this country, it was
shown.
The Rotarians participated in a
food quiz.
President Richard S. Rogers re-
ported that District Rotary Gov
ernor w. H. Chambers would pay
his official visit to the local club
next Tuesday. Directors and chair
men of the various committees
are requested to meet in a club
assembly at II o'clock in the pri-
vate dining room of the Friendly
restaurant.
It was also announced that the
regular meeting of the directors
would be held at the home of Paul
A. Wilson. Apt AS, Oleander
Court apartments, Friday night at
8 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
Not Our Quarrel

To understand the boundary quarrel be-
tween the Polish government in exile and the
Russians it is essential to know something
about the population OF the area Russia in
tends to hold
A letter recently appearing in the Christian
Science Monitor sheds light on this. Although
it was written by the executive director Of the
Massachusetts Council Of American-Soviet
Friendship, and consequently shows the au-
thor's understandable bias, the information it
contains both on the natives and their treat
ment by Poles is worth noting.
The writer, Dirk j. Struik, cites that the
region is inhabited by "a population mainly
non-Polish, ruled before 1899 by Polish land
lords who mercilessly exploited not only
Ukrainians and Byelo-Russians but also their
Polish countrymen. He adds:
These parts were forcibly taken away
from the Soviets at the Treaty Of Riga,
March II, 1921, against the wishes of the
peoples inhabiting them and were incorpo-
rated again into the Soviet Union after
September II, 1889, after a plebiscite and
by-elections to the Supreme Soviet
AS Lloyd George said at the time, Rus
sian armies marched into territories which
were not Polish and which were forcibly
annexed to Poland after the Great War
despite fierce protests and armed resist
ance by the inhabitants. This action of
the Soviets saved many millions of people
during the Nazi invasion of 1941, not only
Jews and Ukrainans but also Poles. More
over, it laid the foundation for the rebuild
ing of the Polish armies, part Of which
is now CALAMITY fighting with the Soviet
forces
During the period before the Naz inva-
sion, when the Western Ukraine and West
ern Byelo-Russia were actually part of the
Soviet Union, full protection was extended
to the cultural developmtnt not only Of
the Ukrainians and Russians but al
SO of the Polish minority, and great adj
vances were made in the promotion of the
economic welfore of these peoples. Re-
occupation of these territories by the So
viets will guarantee the speediest rehabili-
tation of the economic and cultural life
of all the inhabitants.
1t is seriously to be questioned whether the
United States could justify interference in a
dispute clearly centering in Moscow and any
group competent to speak for Poland, any
more than it would be qualified to lift a voice
in the constant wrangling between London
and people Of India.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER


SOMEWHERE IN NEW Gull
NEA,-(by Wireless)-I hope it
will give comfort to many parents,
wives and sweethearts at home to
know that, bad as conditions are
where the fighting must be done,
the wounded and ill il New Gui-
nea are in the more serious cases
evacuated back to station hospitals
which are the opposite of what I
had imagined jungle conditions
here to be.
1 visited the Hist station hospi-
tal near Port Moresby. 1t con-
sists of a large group of tents
out in an open valley, overlooking
the sparkling waters of the Coral
Sea and fringed around with hill
sides of brilliant flame trees in
luxurious blossom.
-Four days after we were given
this real estate, which was cover
ed with high kunai grass, we had
500 patients, said Lieut.. Col. C. T
Wilkinson, formerly a physician at
Wake Forest, N. C.
They had to bring in water from
miles away. There were Jap air
raids every night. Doctors did the
carpentry work for the operating
rooms, and nurses painted the
interior. Sawed-off coconut-tree
trunks were left standing as sup
ports for the second floor. In IA
months they have handled liza pa
tients, including a considerable
number of psychoneurosis cases,
most of whom have returned to
duty. Some of these are boys who
have been spoiled by easy luxury
at home and find it hard to adjust
to Army life, some are suffering
from plain Inconsistencies, some
from rear. Four pschiartrists work
with the patients.
The big thing about the hospital
is the bright open cheerful at
mosphere. When one group Of pa
tients came in after a long stretch
in the jungle at the front, under
severe conditions, one of them
said to nurse.
Gosh! White sheets, and wom-
en!''
Bright flowers are planted in lit
tie gardens all around the hospital
tents. Many of the boys are sent
seeds from home. I saw zinnias in
bloom, and marigolds, and ooppies
and native poinsettias, and morn
ing-glory vines over the nurses
tents. Everything possible is done
to help the men forget the grue-
some sights of the front.
Patients work a five-acre gar
den. Colonel Wilkinson picked Is
pound watermelon outside his tent
the day before I was there. Palms
provide shade over the tents.
I was walking along with Colonel
Wilkinson when suddenly we came
upon big open ward tent full of
kneeling men. 1 could see the back
of priest, in white vestments,
at an altar, and suddenly I realize
it was Sunday. You can't tell one
day from another out here, be-
cause everything goes on just the
same. The hospital has Catholic
and Protestant services on Sum-
days, Jewish services on Fridays,
Mormon services on Wednesdays.
ting in manual therapy using old
tieeeeeeeen manual therapy, U.s.
airplane metal and other scraps.
The patients have just made 200
screen-wire fly traps. They convert
shell packing cases into sinks, and
do other improvised work. But it
is gardening that seems most of
all to heal the soul.
/ They have a rolling Army kit
chen which they say is the only
one used by any hospital. It is in
charge of one of the nurses, Lieut.
Clara Palau. of Northfield, MINI,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
POSTMASTER WANTED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18--P~Ihs
Civil Service Commission announ,u,'
ed today it would receive appl;
cations until the close OF OU'.
ness February for the postmaS'
ership at Manning, S. c.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
TEMPORARY DUTY

CAMP DAVIS Jan. 18- tR -
Colonial Herbert T. Benz, COM
manding officer of the goth AAA
Group, Antiaircraft Artillery
School, will leave shortly on tenn
porary duty to observe the Army
maneuvers in Tennessee. The
colonel formerly was commanding
officer of the AAASchool Brigade.
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mankind. Come quickly to our help
Almighty Father, and the praise
for peace shall be all Thine. Amen.
w. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-19
APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-R--iAe
Senate has confirmed the appolut
ment of Luther L. Hadden as posi-
master at Duncan, 8 C.
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The profit system is the best means to
stimulate the individual to his greatest effort.
But to take that system for granted and not
labor for its constant Improvement is to in
vite another bust such as we experienced at
the end of the twinkling twenties.-Eric A.
Johnston president use of C.
We did not attain our present position in
the world by sitting the profit incentive. Con-
tinuation of the present taxes in peacetime
would seriously impair the whole economic
structure and lower our living Standards
Rep. Harold Knutson of Minnesota.
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Our Chief Aim
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The noblest character is stained by the
addition of pride. Claudlanus.
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