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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
DEMONSTRATION

A canning demonstration for
tomatoes and tomato juices
will be given this morn
ing at 10 O'Clock in room 104
of New Hanover High school.
Misses Mary Elizabeth Grow
erman and Katherine Gray
will be. instructors. The public
is urged to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
HEALTH MEET

The Healthy Family Living
group, of which william Bl0unt
is chairman, will meet to-
day at S p. m. in the Isaac
Bear school building. E. Regi-
maid Swain, of the Health de-
partment, will speak on his
work in connection with the
venereal disease program
here. All interested Negro par
ents and teachers are invited.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
SERVICE TONIGHT

Rev. Phillip Corey, pastor Of the
Cape Fear Presbyterian church,
will conduct prayer meeting SER
vice at the st. Andrew s-Covenant
merged church tonight at 1880 p.
m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
p.v cHECKs UNDELIvERED
INSPECTORS TO MEET

INSPECTORS III MEE1
Tire inspectors in this dis
trict will meet in the court
house Friday at 8 p. m. it was
announced yesterday by Off
Gals of the tire division of the
War Price and. Ration Board.
State Tire Inspector w. G.
Nixon will be present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
FEW TO TAKE EXAM

RALEIGH, June 2O.-(P)-Four-
teen North Carolinians have ap-
piled to take the annual bar ex-
animation Aug. l, Secretary Ed
ward L. Cannon of the board of
law examiners announced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
ATTENDING INSTITUTE


Walter j. Cartier, executive
secretary of the Chamber Of
Commerce, is attending the
Southeastern In titute at
Greensboro this week. The in
stitute is a school for CONNER
cial secretaries and maintains
headquarters in Atlanta, Ga.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
City Briefs
GOING TO FIT. JACKSON

GOING TO FIT. JACKSON
Pre-induction examinations
will be given rs Negro men ON
July II at Fort Jackson ,.
G.. in answer to a call recelv-
ed Yesterday from State Selec-
tive Service headquarters by
CITY Draft Board No. l. Fewer
men were asked for this call
than in any the draft board has
received since the pre-induc-
ton exams were begun.
PAY CHECKS UNDELlVERED
Mustering-out pay checks for
two Wilmington men have been
returned to the Army Service
Forces Finance office in Charl-
eston, City Draft Board No. !;
announced yesterday. The
checks returned because OF
non-deIivery were mailed to
Sylvester Lambert at IL IL S.
End St., his last known address,
and to James Patterson at y
No. 18th St.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
FOR RENT

Space for restaurant or lunch room adjacent 10
new City Wholesale Market, corner 18th and As
streets Offers of monthly rental desired from CON-
petent operators and under following conditions:
Adequate lunch room service shall be provided dur.
ing hours of operation of the market If any other
business is operation in conjunction with this must
not interfere with this requirement.
Toilets provided will be available for use but lessee
will maintain during periods other than market hours
Water for toilets to be provided by City, electricity for
same by lessee
Fixtures inside building to be provided and install
ed by lessee, whose property they shall remain. All
maintenance of painting, fixtures, and shall
be done by lessee but initial interior painting will be
done by City as desired by lessee.
Sealed proposals are requested to be in the hands
of the City Clerk before 1000 A. NJ, Monday June g.
and at that time they will be publicly opened in the
office of the City Manager and be passed by the
City Council Wednesday,, June %.
]. r. BENSON
City Clerk
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21
COUNCIL TO MEET

The New Hanover Fedora
ton County council of home
demonstration clubs will hold
a regular summer meeting on
Monday, June rs, at 10 o'clock
in the home agents office. All
officers of local home demon
stratiOn clubs are urged to at
tend. Mrs. M. S. Emmart,
president of the county cour-
Gil, will preside.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21

81 Curacao 3a1aso consists of two .....
OF p islands Is, about 500 miles lio s 1s
Egypt. In Upper
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-21

NATURALIZATION PLANS
Jennings OFT, naturalization
examiner, will go to Fayette-
vile Saturday to naturalize
about so aliens at a ceremony
in Superior court.
Evening star., 1944-08-08

Dental sections OF the town were
on two rocky hills rising from the
waters edge. Most OF the important
streets crossed the Rue de Siam, an
artery OF trafic connecting with the
Rue Jean Jaures, so named in re-
membrance of the socialist t-pacifist
assassinated July 81, 1914. Tall elm
trees lined the main thoroughfares.
Political feeling on occasion has
run very high in the vicinity. The
Musee contains many paintings
representing incidents in the Revo-
luton, and the old castle, sold by
King Richard II, is famous for gate
way towers in which twenty six
Girondin Deputies were imprisoned
before their hasty execution In the
Terror Of 1893. The memorial to
American Navy's achievements OF
twenty-seven years ago will be more
attractive to American soldiers in
Brest. A tall, square tower of
Brittany granite, 1t looms above the
bay like a giant arm and hand
upraised against the sky.
Evening star., 1944-08-08

longtime capital uses The undistrib-
uted profits tax had forced companies
to pay out their earnings, which not
only weakened their position. but added
TO the lnflationary trend. The Federal
Reserve Board, alarmed, raised reserve
requirements. Business and agriculture
needed credit, and banks, to meet the
demand, sold Government bonds. That
weakened the bond market The CIO
drive and the sit-down strikes disturbed
industrial conditions and accelerated
the rise in wages. Companies began
losing money, took fright and stopped
buying.
All this suggests how synthetic was
the prosperity upon which Mr.. Roose-
welt won his election in 1896. It was
not recovery, but phony substitute
for recovery. The remedies applied
were equally synthetic. Margin require
ments were cut and, in April, 1898, the
treasury "desterilized" large amount
OF gold. Mr.. Roosevelt rushed to the
front with vast plans for new spending,
and the administration. through Sem
ator OMahoney's Temporary National
economic Committee, began trouncing
business
Gov. Dewey is perfectly right in say
ing that it took the war to save the
administration and the country from
the consequences of this long stretch
OF irregular and badly handled Gov
eminent management of the economic
cycle
And now, since the basis of the So
called plans Of the administration to
save us from postwar deflation is, ap-
parently. to be the same sort of spas
modic tinkering with Government ac-
celerators and brakes, it may be well
to concentrate on applying the tradi-
tional means Of recovery, forgotten over
the years of the new economics. That
apparently, is what the Governors told
us at st. Louis
Released by the Associated Newspapers Inc,
Evening star., 1944-08-08
No Clear Objective

When Chairman D'AleSandro OF
the Health Subcommittee of the
House District Committee asks for
opinions on modern municipal
medical center" for the District after
the war. Commissioner Mason and
Health Officer Rutland naturally
want to know what he means.
A great many other people want
to know the same thing. Is it to be
built with local or national public
funds? Is it to be publicly operated,
for paying as well as INDECENT
patients? Is it to replace private
hospitals, or to supplement their
services? Is it to take the place OF
Gallinger, or does it mean an ex-
pansion of services now offered by
Gallinger? Is it to be new expert
ment in "socialized" medicine, along
lines yet to be defined?
MIR. D'Alesandro's purpose may be
to throw out the subject for discus
sion and see what comes of it. His
request to Federal and District
authorities to survey (more properly,
to resurvey) the hospital problem in
Washington may add to the sub
stantial amount of factual material
already available on the subject. But
as far as any clear-cut idea of what
Mr.. D'Alesandro has in mind con-
corning modern municipal medi-
cal center" for Washington, yester-
days opening hearing revealed no
light.
There is definite and easily
demonstrable need in Washington
for more adequate hospital facilities
than now exist. The private hospi-
tails, or most of them, need funds for
expansion and modernization and
it may be that public funds will be
made available to single hospitals or
combinations of hospitals after the
war under conditions yet to be de-
termined. The United States Public
Health Service undoubtedly will
work for postwar hospital construc-
ton, which probably will come
through Federal grants in aid.
Gallinger Hospital, representing
public investment of at least six and
half million dollars, needs modern
ization and additions which will cost
more millions. Neighborhood health
centers and clinics, either as extern
sions of public service by private
hospitals or purely as public enter
prises, are being discussed constantly
in medical circles. If there is a
trend, it seems to point toward de-
Capitalization, rather than CEN
tralization, of community hospital
facilities.
Chairman D'Alesandro's hearings
would be helpful if they served to
stimulate more discussion along
such lines; more helpful still if they
furnished medium for some agree
ment on desirable plans and objec-
tives. They are being held at a time,
however, when the shape of things
to come in the field of medical care
is vague and uncertain, yet to take
tangible form.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Who Are the CuIprits?
From the London Daily telegraph.

Efoln the Lonoon Daily telegraph.
Apart from any controversy as to the
value OF trade unions, there Is the CUES
ton OF the cause Of these strikes. Do
the instigators against whom the reRu-
lation is directed exist? Mr.. Bevan saws
they do not. Mr.. Bevin says they do,
and he was supported recently by the
convincing evidence Of Mr.. Glanville. a
miner fresh from the Durham pits.
Somebody or something had induced
nearly 100000 men in essential in
: dustries to strike or threaten strike
action at moment when the men In
the most essential occupations of all
the lighting services-were riskine. or
about to risk, their lives The contrast
in the sense of responsibility among the
two sections was too glaring and the
very least the government could do was
to put up warning signal" such as
this regulation. AS Mr.. Bevin said.
these strikes were causing great bitter
ness among the services-at least "A
important as any bitterness among the
strikers,
Evening star., 1944-08-08
The Capitol Guides

If members of Congress feel that
it Is proper to charge an admittance
fee at the Capitol to meet the ex-
penSe Of maintaining a competent
guide service for sightseeing citi-
zens, the system should be author
lied by law, the fees collected should
be subject to regular audit and the
guides should be Government en-
ployes, under civil service.
The existing arrangement is i'm
proper from every point of view. A
small group of private individuals
enjoys the exclusive concession of
showing visiting citizens around
their Capitol for fee Of twenty-flv
cents per visitor. They split the
take" among themselves. They are
not Government employees, there is
no official audit of the money they
collect from citizens, there Is no law
authorizing them to do what they
do. The fact that the practice is n
old one merely emphasizes the need
for ending it. The legislators per-
nit the existence of racket at the
Capitol that would set them yelling
to high heaven for an investigation
If they discovered it anywhere else
on Government property. It is high
time that 1t be abandoned in favor
Of a lawfully established and main
tained service for the convenience
and education of the tens of thou
sands Of visitors who visit their
Capitol every year.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Germuny's Black Day.

If Adolf Hitler has time for re-
Election today, his mood cannot be
a happy one. For this is a fateful
day in German military history-a
dual anniversary date which is
reminiscent of nothing but defeat
and disaster.
Twenty-six years ago-on August
8, 19l8-Erich Won Ludendorf, chief
of the German high command, saw
the unmistakable handwriting on
the battle smoke that drifted across
the Marne. The German commander
had opened the Second Battle of the
Marine on July is of that year. With
some, the hope of victory was still
high, for the spring and summer
offensive had seemed to go well and
there were many who thought that
the French, British and American
Armies in France and Belgium were
threatened with disaster.
But General Ludendorf knew bet
ter. He knew that his army, which
had totaled more than 4,600, 900 men
in March, was worn to the point of
exhaustion by four months of re-
peated advances His reserves were
few in number and of poor quality
battle-tire veterans, former prison.
ers of war released from Siberian
camps, and the 1919 class of poor
spirited conscripts. German supplies
of war materials also were far
smaller than those of the Allies and
there was no possibility of over
coming this deficiency.
1t was in these circumstances that
the tide of battle turned decisively.
BY July 10 the Germans had been
thrown back, and they were never
able to regain the initiative. General
Ludendorf wrote that August 8, when
the Second Battle Of the Marns
Evening star., 1944-08-08
The Roosevelt Depression
By Raym ond Moley

Gov. Dewey's allusion in Pittsburgh
TO the Roosevelt depression Of 1888 to
1910" brings up a subject which will
provoke lot Of argument in this cam
paign. New Deal supporters will say
hotly that 1888 to 1897 marked period
Of unprecedented recovery. all due to
Mr.. Roosevelts policies, although they
Will admit so-called recession" in
1878. Administration orators said at
that time the drop in 1887 was due to
strike Of capital or capitalists. That
was silly charge, Of course After an
election which gave Mr.. Roosevelt an
other term, the wicked capitalists OBJ
viously would not cut OF their noses
to spite man who was safely in Office
for nearly three years more.
Gov. Dewey was clearly correct in his
general charge. for we had no genuine
recovery in that whole period Of seven
years. and nothing so plainly showed
that we had not solved our problems as
the recession" of 1887
1t may be we'll to think back to the
break in 1887. There were many ex-
plantations at the time. aside from the
false partisan charge mentioned above.
The 1887 break was sharp and unex-
pected. We now know that it began
suddenly. the day after Labor Day. Ap-
parently, when the manufacturers of
durable goods looked over their order
books after they had returned from
their holiday, they gave out orders to
sell and to cancel orders for materials.
The steel mills were laying off men
before September was over.
BY December. consensus OF reliable
economists as to the causes of the de-
cline ran something like this
We had experienced four years Of an
inflationary trend, because of Govern
ment spending, including bonus pay
ments to veterans There had been
sharp rises in material and labor costs.
Money was cheap, but hard to get for
Evening star., 1944-08-08

1t is easy to understand why the
Germans decided to make a serious
attempt to keep the harbor and
fortress of Brest. The westernmost
objective of the Allied drive into
Brittany is prize which normally
the enemy ought to try to hold.
Meanwhile, the occupation of
Brest is especially important to the
United States. It is the entrance
to France nearest America. That
was why it was used so much in
1917 and 1918. Hundreds of thou
sands of members of the AEF saw
for themselves the value of its tre-
mendous installations. Nature con-
spired with men centuries ago to
develop the Penfeld and the bay,
the "rade," basins" and ports.
United States Army engineers who
labored in the neighborhood during
the First World War were but one
group of many that have spent their
genius on the improvement of works
begun in the Middle Ages. King
Edward III took the ancient town in
1912, and it remained English until
ransomed in 1897. Passing to the
French crown with the marriage of
Anne of Brittany to King Charles
VIII in 1491, the harbor enterprises
thereafter were a matter of royal
concern. Cardinal Richelieu was
the founder" of the modern dock
yard system. His undertakings,
started in 1881. were improved and
supplemented by those of Colbert,
Duquesne and De Seuil. The de-
fensive equipment owes much to
Vauban. AS seen before the outbreak
of the prevailing contest, Brest was
a vast network OF shipyards, piers,
arsenals, warehouses, hospitals,
schools and government Offices. 1t
was the Annapolis of France plus
facilities for the construction of
battleships of every class. A fine
motor highway led from the city
east to Paris. The principal resi-
Evening star., 1944-08-08

The British reserve pool has not been
exhausted yet. But Gen. Sir Bernard
Montgomery's forces in France need re-
placements and 1t is doubtful, In view
Of the possibility Of the opening Of an
other front In case Turkey is attacked
or decides to move into the Balkans,
that any large number OF British and
Imperial troops from the Middle East
could be sent to Italy.
The United States alone among the
Allies which are fighting in western and
southern Europe Is in position to send
reinforcements to both fronts. AL
though large number Of men are re-
quired in western Europe where Gen.
Omar Bradley intends to push the ad-
vantages gained so far, our own re-
serves in America are sufdciently large
to permit the dispatch Of additional
divisions to Italy
From the purely strategic point Of
view. we could be satisfied with the
gains obtained SO far in Italy. But in
view Of the militarily and politically
shaky situation Of the Reich, 1t is
deemed advisable to keep fighting re-
lentlessly on all fronts The Russians,
in spite Of the present logistic advan-
tages, intend to continue their blitz
against the German armies in the east
until sound strategy requires tempor-
ary halt.
In the west, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Is rushing men and war material into
France at rapid pace In spite of
the inevitable fatigue of our men who
have been fighting without interruption
since D-day the Germans are not being
given any respite. The Allied strate-
gists do not want to allow Hitler and
his new generals the necessary time to
reorganize the army into a purely ma
tional socialist force and thus consoli-
date his position.
BY adding powerful blows by land
and air the reorganization now reported
to be in process in the Reich will be
affected and the disintegration of the
German armies might be hastened. The
majority Of the military men at home
and in the field do not believe in a
complete surrender or a demand for
an armistice based on unconditional
surrender as in the World War. They
all expect gradual disintegration of
the Germans with pockets OF resistance
holding out here and there.
Wherever the local commanders are
fanatical and can inspire the men under
their order the resistance will be pro-
longed. But when the commanding off,
Ger Is either unknown to his men. or
does not inspire the necessary conf
dence, we may see a quick dissolution
OF the forces. This may be hastened
considerably by the Allies punching in
cessantly at the enemy, and it is for
this reason that strong continuation
OF the campaign in Italy regardless of
the German resistance is considered
NECESSARY
Evening star., 1944-08-08
New Man

With boyhood panished as the sand.
Under inevitable tide,
As sure as the morning sun he seems.
Ouer the toorld, deep Dide.
High oper the ,Dorld on silper wings
He sings.
o this is the ,ody OF bold, ne,p man,
And this his sign
Shadows OF ptngs that he kno,ns will
change
The ,Dorld's design,
As through and above the clouds he hies-
With d0untless eyes.
Forever lost is the teen-aoe lad :,
The trosting pan
He licked ioos melted to make wsxos
For this neaD man,
Identified BY the tinds that qua6
Hts ready laugh. MARY B. WARD.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
This Changing World
By Consf0nfine Bro,yn

Unless the political developments in
the Reich, where the hunt" continues
for those connected with the "Potsdam
plot" to kill Hitler, has affected the
armies Of Marshal Albert Kesselring, the
Allies again are facing q hard road in
Italy.
Some time ago the Germans COM
pleted new and powerful line OF forti-
fcations between Rimini on the Adriatic
and Pisa close to the Ligurian Sea- This
new line is bolstered BY the Apennine
mountains In the same manner the road
to Rome was barred to our forces by
the mountains and hills In front of
Casino.
About 800 900 Italians were conscripted
for q period of several months and
forced by the Nazis to build strong pill
boxes and forts in these mountains.
They have now been completed. The
Kesselring forces have suffered heavy
losses in the powerful Allied drive which
has pushed them beyond Rome. But
large proportion of the losses have been
replaced by new troops sent from the
Balkans and the Reich. 1t is possible
that further reinforcements soon may
be made available from Southern
France, in the event the Germans decide
to evacuate the major part OF that terri
tory which has lost all strategic value
to them.
From the military point Of view and
without considering the effect of the
internal situation in the Reich on the
morale of the troops at the front, the
Kesselring army still Is capable of a
good deal of fighting. The Luftwaffe
has reappeared at the front and has
been opposing the Allied aviation sue
cessfully. In recent days the German
fighters and divebombers have begun to
Strafe the Allied forces. While the dam
age has not been considerable, their
temperance has boosted the German
morale considerably.
The battle for Florence is likely to be
bloody. We have driven into that an
cient city as far as the Arno River. On
the other bank Of the Arno, across the
famous Michelangelo Bridge, begin the
German defenses, and there is no indi-
cation that the Germans will give up
that strategic position without a fight.
But to the rear of the old city begins
the really heavily fortified German de-
fensive positions.
The brunt of the battle is likely to fall
on American troops. The Polish forces
OF Gen. Wladyslaw Anders have done an
excellent Job. But they have lost heavily.
Their casualty list is said to have
reached 1000 men and no requirements
are available. The French, who have
fought with equal courage, are in about
the same position. They have had long
casualty lists since Casino and it is
questionable whether requirements will
be sent from North Africa. The forces
Gen. de Gaulle still has available may
have to be used for other purposes not
connected with the Italian campaign.