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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
"A Poor Substitute

A cold comparison of figures, appearing in
the United States News, shows that clothing,
while declining in quality, has risen substan-
TALLY in price since the beginning OF war,
Notwithstanding price ceilings and mountain
of regulations. According to the News, manu-
facturers have found they can profitably stop
making lower priced items and switch to
those with higher price ceilings. The lower
quality of material and workmanship OF the
abandoned low priced clothing can be found
in the new and more expensive lines.
Cotton dresses that sold for 1895 before the
war. now sell for 1925 and up. Good quality
items Of children's clothing, when available
are up rs to so per cent. The rise in mens
clothing has been less spectacular-up 10 or
IS per cent but quality is down. And so it
goes with practically everything the consumer
buys.
Our elaborate wartime system Of production
AID distribution controls has proved it would
be a poor substitute for the free competitive
system. in peacetine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22

means nearly all Of us-must do SO out of
savings, and any movement-no matter how
grandly labelled-which deprives the owners
of the tools Of wage for the use Of their
work without wages. It is not without reason
that in those forms of society where all power
is lodged il the state and there are no individ-
ual rights, the CONSUMPTION of property is only
a stage in the CONSUMPTION Of people.
'The> union leaders, in spite of their pro-
testations to the contrary, are really urging
you to grant to them the right to copscript
the wages of the owners Of the United States
Steel Corporation, leaving to the owners the
empty shell of legal ownership. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Coal For Winter

The people are urged by the Solid Fuels
Administrator to not depend upon government
coal stockpiling, now under consideration. It
will not relieve consumers of the necessity of
building their own storage of coal as far as
supplies permit.
mo governmental stockpiling program can
give the consumer the protection he will Sc
cure by having his own coal in storage says
Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator Charles J.
Potter.
1.-THE retail dealer or the industrial consumer
who relies upon purchases of coal by the gov
eminent to see him through next winter not
only will be taking a long chance of getting
the coal he wants. but can expect to pay a
higher-price because Of stockpilling and hand
ling costs incurred by the government"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
'Veteran-Training

General Hines, head Of the Veterans Ad-
rninistration, has announced that veterans Of
this war will have the benefit Of special train
ing at colleges and universities, initiated
through rehabilitation centers the first of
which will be opened at the College Of the
City of New York. EVERY veteran who as
a result Of his military or naval service has
acquired disease or an injury which handi-
caps him is entitled to the very best of guild
ance service to help re-establish him as a
normal and useful member Of society," is the
way General Hines tells the broad detectives
Of the program
The Veterans Administration, he adds, at
no cost to the veteran, will provide profession.
al advice from vocational councillors. Apti-
tude tests will be given. And veterans will
be given special training at the college most
suitable to prepare him for the occupation he
is best fitted to undertake AS far as possible
lob training will be provided in the veterans
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Our Chief Ain,
Million Miles In Safety

Perhaps it is their large size as much as
anything else that average motorists dread
to meet truck on a highway. We have heard
one timorous person say he would rather see
children at play in the road or pass rural
school during recess, than have truck come
numbering toward him either from behind or
ahead, and though it causes him consider
able delay he never attempts to pass one
even when it is creeping along and the way
is clear of other traffic.
That the fear of trucks is not fully justified
is proved by the fact that a large majority
of highway collisions are between motor cars
and for the most part when one is between
car and truck investigation shows the car
driver at fault. Truck drivers are chosen for
their skill and competence. They must have
keen sense of responsibility or find another
job. Too much capital investment in vehicle
and cargo is in their charge for employers
to take chances with careless drivers.
We hold no brief for truck drivers, but il
does seem that by and large they are IN
warrantably maligned. Here is one, for ex
ample, who has driven million miles with
out accident His name is Ralph Robey. He
works for ALI States Freight, Inc. His EN-.
ployers have presented him with safety
trophy and a war bo1d in recognition OF his
outstanding performance.
What America needs is more Robeys behine
ehe steering wheels Of automobiles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Has It Come At Last?

The United States Navy has been hunting
Nimitz has offered challenge after challenge
to it.
Heretofore these challenges have gone I'M
needed Instead Of coming out to fight the
enemy has steadily Withdrawn to safer an
chorage nearer its home waters. American at
lines have been practically uaopposed by enc
my naval craft.
1t was not until the American Navy launched
the present assault on the Marianas that the
Japanese fleet came out of hiding.
Now Tokyo announces great naval en-
gagement is under way, and Admiral Nimitz
says something of major importance may be
doing in the waters between Saipan and the
Philippines. The destruction of three hundred
carrier borne japanese warplanes, sent out
to stem the attack on Saipan and save that
islands airfields obviously indicated the pres
ence of strong Japanese naval force
Admiral Nirnitz has said the attack on Sal
pan was started, among other things to force
the japanese fleet into battle 1t begins to look
as if this latest challenge has to be accepted.
The Americans were getting too close for ia
pan to dodge the issue longer. He further has
said that in preparing the Saipan attack he
packed enough power into the challenging fleet
to meet the best the japanese have afleat.
II indeed there is major naval battle in
progress in far Pacific waters it marks the
elimination of the American Nays cherished
hope. Ever since the japanese, following the
capture Of the Philippines, churlishly asked
Where is the American Navy" It has been
the Nays ambition to build up fire power
and air strength to meet the Japanese fleet
in open battle and answer the question with
shells and bombs.
Yet it appears improbable that Tokyo woule
send all its naval strength into a single bat
tie. If it did so, and lost the battle, it woulc
have no means of defending Japaa's owr
? shores from a mighty assault from the west
The best we are entitled to hope for is tina
TOTO has sent considerable naval force GU
+ to meet the American fleet near the Marianas
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
BY JOHN SELBY

"Counterfeiting: Crime Against
the People," by Laurence Dwight
Smith Morton; $3.50. 2 2
# Laurence Dwight Smith had
written the book at all, since most
OF information it contains came
from the government, and until
seven years ago, the government
was not disclosing any of the
secrets Of counterfeiting or its de-
lection.
Actually, the government often
was pretty absurd about it all. It
once seized large rug which some
peasant in Anatolia had woven, af-
ter being delighted with the design
of one-dollar bill. Movies showing
genuine currency were cut, and
in theory a child who drew an
approximation of bill on his
slate was liable to fine of $4,000
Imprisonment for IS years, or both.
Seven years ago the whole thing
was reversed. The Secret Service
continued to go after counter
feiters, but instead of ignoring the
victim, it began to educate him.
Test areas were given the course.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Empty Shell Left

Flatly asserting that the Steelworkers union
is really claiming that the susteaance Of its
members is a national duty, Enders M. Voor-
hees, chairman Of the finance committee of
U. S. Steel Corporation, before panel Of the
War Labor Board, subjected the union de-
mands to what he called the simple arithmetic
of the Corporations books THE demand is
therefore not on U. S. Steel; it is on the ma
tion," declared Mr.. Voorhees,. Taking the I'M
IONS wage and guaranty demands as whole,
they emerge from analysis as kind Of steel
workers w. P. A. 80.
Those who provide the tools-and that
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
The Literary Guidepost

and the results were so good that
the process is still being enlarg-
ed, although nowadays the increas-
ed prosperity Of .the country and
the. fact that war has dislocated
and dispersed so many gangs has
cut the danger enormously. Mr..
Smiths book quite likely will have
some effect. too, since it is both
Informative and pleasant reading.
It is, he points out, invariably
the public which suffers. When a
cashier accepts bad bill, it comes
out of her pay-check; a bank, even
if responsible, is only a collection
of shareholders and these shoulder
the loss. For this reason M. Smith
has gone deeply into the history
Of counterfeiting and it's methods.
He explains exactly what the diffe-
ence between good and bad bills is,
and how an ordinary man can
quite easily tell one fom the othe.
There are a great many illustra-
tons, including some very telling
ones in which the same design is
half good, half counterfeit. If II
were a bank teller l should buy
Mr.. Smiths book next payday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
RULING
PUT IN EFFECT

The board of TRUSTEES OF the nr'
tirement board Of the City OF WIZ
mington yesterday recognized 'n7
North Carolina supreme cour'
ruling that employees OF the Guy
library and Consolidated Board oi
Health were eligible for beneh's
provided by the Retirement ac'
and authorized the secretary 10 d..
cept deductions from members u
the two organizations.
City Clerk j. Z. Benson, seer
tary of the board, said YESTERDAY
deductions were acceptable lnl,
mediately, retroatice to July ! lS11
this means that employees W !
have to pay into the fund the os II.
Quoted amounts for the II 'mohl1
PERIOD" he said.
Benson said he would ask an,
ployes of the board of health ana
library today for their payments.
which amount to four per cent u
the workers salary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Leaf Growers Protest
Reduction In Buyers

LUMBERTON, June 21.-Tobac-
co growers in this section of North
Carolina are protesting through
their own organization against a
proposal that seeks 10 cut one set
of buyers from all major flue-cured
auction markets and reduce daily
selling time below that followed for
the last several years on all mar
kets The farmers have asked for
an opportunity to appear before the
sales committe OF the Tobacco As
sociation of the United States to
voice their protest.
Resolutions outlining objections
and reasons therefore were passed
at membership meeting of the
North Carolina Border Belt Tobac-
co Farmers, Inc, he'd in Lumber
ton. David H. Fuller, attorney and
tobacco grower Of Lumberton, is
president of this recently formed
farmers corporation, which has as
its objective the promotion of flue-
cured tobacco growing and the i'm
provement of marketing facilities
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
With Ernie Pyle

of the blanket. Our burden got
pretty heavy, and we rested cou-
pie of times. The boys made wise
cracks along the way to cover up
their distaste for the job.
When we got to the field we
weren't sure just where the lieu
tenant wanted the cemetery start-
ed. So we put our man down on
the ground and went back for in
structions. And as we walked away
the funny guy of the group turned
and shook a finger at the dead Ger
man and said:
Nov don't you run away while
we're gone"
The Germans leave snipers be-
hind when they retreat, SO ali
American bivouac areas are keavi-
ly guarded by sentries at night,
and the sentries really mean bust.
ness.
The other night a pretty irnpor-
tant general whom I know was
working late, as all our staff Of
ficers do these days. About mid.
night he left his tent to go to
another generals tent and I "a k
something over.
He had gone only about 20 feet
when sentry challenged him.
And just at that moment the gen
eral, cropping around in the dark
fell headlong into a deep slit
trench.
1t was funny, even to the general,
but there was nothing humorous
about it to the sentry. He suspect
ed monkey business. He rushed up
to the trench, pointed his gun at
the general, and in a tone that
was mixture of terror and intent
to kill he yelled:
"Git out of there and git recog.
nized, you"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Daily Prayer
FOR IMAGINATION

Shackles of material interests,
mostly trivial, keep up from NOV
ing out into fee understanding
of Thy great plans, o Master Su-
preme. We cannot see Thy ban
ners waving over our Cause, or
hear Thy trumpets calling us to
vast and unified devotion. Forgive
us, o patient Father, for all our
pettiness and selfishness and dull
ness. Pour Thy Spirit into our lives
that we may have eyes to see,
ears to hear and hearts of con-
secration. Quicken our sluggard
immaginations that we may under
stand Alright the greatness and
comprehensiveness of this war. So
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
IS Years Ago
Today
(From the files
of the Star-News)
JUNE q, 1919

JUNE EH, 1913 -.
Passage of a curfew law requir-
ing children to be off the streets
after a certain hour at night is
strongly advocated by Major w.
N. Harriss. clerk of superior court
and county juvenile judge. He sug-
gests 9 o'clock as the proper hour.
1t would mean that children abroad
later would have to be accompa-
MED by their parents, guardian or
some responsible person.
w. A. MCGOWAN, deputy collector
of internal revenue for the eastern
district of North Carolina, has
opened an office in room "a on
the first floor of the customhouse,
Market street entrance.
Hugh MacRae and daughter,
Miss Agnes MacRae, motored to
Linville last Thursday to join Mrs.
MacRae, who has already arrived
in Linville to open their mountain
cottage for the summer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
LAW EXAMINATIONS

RALEIGH, June 81 up ire
state board of law examiners VIII
give its annual examination for
adrnittance to the bar here Aug
ust l. Secretary Edward L. Cam
non said fourteen North Carolln'
ians had applied to take the ex'
animation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Interpreting
The War
By JAMES D. WHITE
Associated Press Staff VII
Substituting For kirk tef
SinnSor\

n, VI AiTke L.,
Simpsor)
Despite the amazing demons+,.
lions of United Nations bat+s
power in Normandy and N g.;
pan, the Allied line says tbre.+s
ingly in China.
American military autbori,io,
are watching with concern 't ~
Japanese moves in the remote S sie
important Chinese theater, WI
These developments focus M
Japanese drive southwark frons
Hankow to capture the rsilwsn .
to Canton. The Japs have take, take,
Caangsha in their fourth try for
that battle-scared city and n tUa
are within IS mile of the INV INV
portant Chinese rail junction u.
Hengyang. !"
The obvious japanese nnrnosa
is to cut off the east China bulgs
American military sources row.
firm that this time the japanese
show every evidence of beino
really determined
Although the drive might So.
cure the railway line to Canton
for japanese use, it is thought
here that two other purpose,
probably motivate them more
strongly than desire to bolste,
their harried shipping lanes off
the China coast by an overland
supply route.
First they want to neutrslize
American air bases along the rail.
way and to east and west Of it.
And, they want to obtain these
same bases-or some of them
to build up their defenses against
the American drive from the Pa.
cific which Admiral Nimitz plan.
ly has forecast would come against
the China coast.
It was empha sized here by mill.
tary observers hiatt in spite Of
China's immense manpower and
a will to resist which has been
demonstrated now for nearly
seven years, the Chinese simply
do not have the material or the
firepower necessary to halt the
; Japs.
Il The Japanese army, like the
Germans il France in 1910, literal
| ly can 60 anywhere in China they
want to if they are willing to pay
the price.
Once they 60 through region,
they can hold it with relatively
little strength because of their
repirsals against the people. The
Japs worked out the technique Of
Lidice long ago in North China
where countless villages have
been oblitecated.
i. Under this ruthless policy, the
Chinese victims simply cannot be
expected to work actively againSt
their co1querors.
The Japanese drive southwark
: is regarded here as very logical
one, especially since the Ame-i-
can drive in the Marianas soor
will produce bases from which
, bombers can strike directly a
, Japan and be fueled from tanker
5 coming directly across the Pa
cific.
Indeed, this American pressure
is considered likely to reinforc'
japanese determination to cut Of
the Allied salient in the Chin
bulge and put it to their own use
in developing a continental de
tense.
, Another reason for Japanes
urgency is the failure of thel
Burma-Assam campaign to Gu
off supplies to the American all
forces they knew were building
up in China.
Japanese success in China this
summer would mean further anc
costly delay in mounting the ina
! Allied assault against. Japan from
Chinese bases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22

own home town or nearby. Transportation to
rehabilitation centers will be provided, as will
meals, lodging and medical care.
The Veterans Administration could under
take no more constructive program It will
be expensive to be sure. but there is 40
reason to fear American taxpayers will be-
grudge a penny of its cost, provided only
II is administered without waste.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Jap Council Given
Report On u. S. Raid

NEW YORK, June 21- Up
The Tokyo radio said the Japa-
nese privy council heard a fepoi'
today by Home Minister KEN
saburo Ando Sin connection WIZ
the damages suffered by the ~
cent air raid on northern kyushu.
the Japanese mainland area nv
last week by American SUPERIOR
resses.
U. S. government monitors re-
ported the broadcast, which "as
beamed to Japanese areas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE-by
wireless)-The war is constantly
producing funny things as well as
tragic things, so I might as well
tell you some of our lighter inc;-
dents.
For example, the first night we
spent in France one of the Colonies
who slept with us under an apple
tree was an army observer from
Washington. Usually we don't care
for observers from Washington
but this colonel was a very nice
guy and a good field soldier too,
and everybody liked him.
While we were eating our K ra-
lions next morning he said he had
slept fine for the first hour, before
we had moved in under our jeap
for protection from the flax. He
said that before he moved he had
found a nice little mound of earth
to put his head on for a pillow.
He said that all his life he had
had to have pillow of some kind
After moving under the jeep he
couldn't find anything to put his
head on.
With that he walked over a few
feet to show us the nice mound Of
earth. When he looked down he
started laughing. His excellent pill.
low Of the night before had turned
out in the light of day to be a pile
Of horse manure.
Another story concerns master.
full piece of wartime unde--state-
ment by one of our truck drivers
Pvt. Carl Vanhonor of Cooperstown
N. Y. He had pulled into an apple
orchard adjoining ours the night
before, parked his truck in the
darkness, spread his blankets or
the ground in front of the truck
and gone to sleep.
When he woke up at daylight
Vonhorn looked about him sleepi
ly. And there on the ground righ
beside him, within arms reach
was a dead German soldier, ane
when he looked on the other side
there, equally close were two pc
tato Washers hand grenades-
Private Vonhorn got up very quick
ly.
Later he was telling his officer.
about his startling experience, ane
he ended the description with thi.
philosophical remark:
ut was very distasteful'
Everybody thought that was SC
fuHny it spread around the camp
like fire, and now the phrase ''It'.
very distasteful'' has become
practically by word.
After breakfast that first NOR
ming we had to round up abou
SO dead Germans and American.
in the series of orchards where we
were camping, and carry them tt
a central spot in a pasture ane
bury them.
helped carry one corpse acros.
couple of fields. l did it partly
because the group needed an extra
man, and partly because I wa:
forcing myself to get used to it
for you can't run from death wher
you're in war.
This German was just a kid
surely not over IS. Hig face haC
already turned black, but 70,
could sense his youth through thu
death distorted features.
1 The boys spi cad a blanket or
tie ground aside him. Thsa w,
lifted him owe onto it. One soldier
and I each look hold of a toot
ard two othels took his arms. One
o. the two soldiers in front wa,
hesitant about touching the corpse
Whereupon the other soldier eaic
to him:
go on, take hold of him. dam.
init. You might as well get usad
to it now, for you'll, be 'carryine
plenty of dead ones from now on
Hell, you may even be Carving
me one Of these days"
So we carried him across two
fields, each Of US holding a corner
s,asss.s,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
Fair Enough

tEdiotrs Note.-The Stas and the News accent m
sesponxbihty for the personal views Of Mr.. Pegler
ana often disagree with them much a. many Of
his readers His articles serve the good purpo:s Of
making people think N
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22

lift us out of our old selves, our
smallness and sordidness, that we
may every one, in his own place,
become consecrated soldier.
Amen. - WIFE.
Evening star., 1944-05-19
Postwar Protection
For Small Business
Urged al Conference

Protection of small business and
clear, cool-headed leadership of
both management and labor were
emphasized as prime essentials for
postwar prosperity by speakers at
the two-day conference on Better
Management Now and in the POST
war Period" which ended yesterday
at the Statler Hotel.
War Labor Board Chairman Will
liam H. Davis told his audience the
board should retire after the war
and leave settlements of industrial
problems to the interested parties,
but that it would be unable to do
so unless labor and management
improved their relationship be-
tween now and then.
Outlines 5-Point Plan.
Later, Chairman Maury Maverick
of Smaller War Plants Corp. out
lined five point plan for assisting
small business, featuring financial
assistance, chronological advice and
aid, and securing access to surplus
properties and materials.
Mr.. Davis said it was his opinion
that "if the controls are removed
and management and labor have
not found a field of mutual agree
ment within which they can oper-
ate, public opinion will not tolerate
a return of Jungle law in Ameri-
can industry" after the war. To
solve the problem he suggested the
creation of grievance machinery
that will carry the confidence and
good will of both sides to arbitrate
their disputes.
Mr.. Maverick, comparing small
business competing with major in
dustries to guerrillas fighting an
organized panzer division, said the
former should have the protection
of Government and must not be
left to be "the single-handed, un-
prepared, unarmed little victims of
mechanical, regimented cartels
Evening star., 1944-05-19

hinged on catering to the needs OF
a host of other manufacturers.
Quincy Adams, chief of the Divi-
sion of Small Business, Commerce
Department, summed up the prob
lens of current concern to small
business as paper work, taxation,
labor and shortage of merchandise
illustrates Volume of Work.
Illustrating the huge volume of
paper work now required, where
these firms did very little before, he
recounted his experience in visiting
a small hardware store owner.
"He had just completed the Fed
eral income tax return and an
interim financial statement for
OPA," Mr.. Adams said. "He was
about to start work on the Federal
1914 estimate and the Maryland
State tax return. Ahead of him
were the social security return, the
first quarterly withholding report