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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Bureaucratic Immunity

New York housewife hired a young Wo-
nan as part-tirne maid through the United
States Employment Service. A few minutes
after the maid reported for work the house
wife went up to the roof for a sun bath. When
she returned both her maid and purse con-
tanning $18 were gone.
The housewife. who had forgotten the maid S
name, called the USES. She was told that it
would be against regulations to tell either the
name or address. Only in the event of an in
fraction Of the Social Security Act. violation
OF the Federal Income Tax law. forging So
cial Security benefit check, or illegal action
by Social Security employe could that in
formation be given out. Not even the FBI could
bulge USES from that firm stand which was
backed up by the War Manpower Commission.
Mayor LeGuardia called the regulation
"cock-eyed.' We agree. and then some. We
also think that the regulation should be amend
cd before someone, tempted by this bureau
cratic immunity commits a more serious
crime than the theft of $18.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Federal Payrolls

More and more, as D-day nears, Americans
The thinking concerns not only what can be
done to guard the world against another up
heaval of war and how nations and peoples
impoverished by this war can be helped to
become self-supporting and useful It also
is directed to ways and means for restoring
this nations resources and freeing the people
from the incubus of an astronomical debt
which had in part to be contracted to defeat the
gangsters of Europe and the Orient but was
allowed to grow unnecessarily large through
waste and extravaganza.
With the cessation Of hostilities it will be
essential for the future of the United States to
cut off innumerable sources Of waste, and
husband our assets until they again become
productive of sound revenues with which regu-
lar and substantial reductions in the debt may
be made 1t is intolerable to think that through
future carelessness are Indifference in expendi-
lures our great great grandchildren might
still be sweating under the debt burden we Of
this generation are shouldering.
There are many ways by which an early
improvement in the debt situation might be
affected One in particular engages our at
tenton. It concerns the tremendous payrolls Of
the federal government, all of which are met
with money obtained from the people by tax.
alton. 1t is said on good authority that one
civilian in every ten now lives off the federal
payroll-more than work for all state and city
governments combined.
It is not only the tremendous expense OF
maintaining this payroll that is to be con-
sidered The loss in initiative and business and
industrial expansion because tens of thousands
of Americans are drawing easy pay instead
of shifting for themselves and developing
skins they little suspect they possess that
creates grave alarm.
The money paid out in salaries for clerical
services by the federal government is not only
financial drain. 1t also represents an eco
nomic loss. Many among the throngs now in
soft jobs, with no incentive to make the best
Of their opportunities because beneficect
government keeps them in food and clothing,
would, we are convinced, do something to i'm
prove their lot and so benefit the nation, if
thrown upon their own resources.
The present tendency of the government is
to destroy initiative. Postwar planners could
no nothing more constructive for the nations
internal batterment than eliminate unneces-
sary federal agencies and force their employees
to exert themselves in their own behalf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
The Literary Guidepost

is beautifully handled fantasy in
Ia living husband and a dead wife
who comes back at intervals, this
last by Ira Wolfert, Mr.. Wright S
unfortunate habit of underwriting
his own argument by overstating
1t was never better shown than in
The Man VINO Lived Under
ground" not even in Native Son. :"
AS Mr.. Seaver says in his intro
ductlon, a great number of the
manuscripts have to do with ra-
clal injustice, and particularly with
the NEGRO problem" He was in
terested to find that there were
few about the Jewish problem. +"
and that few submissions were bas-
ed on the current war, although a
good many of the contributions
concerned the fascist invasion of
Spain. He thinks it very likely that
writer's are still mulling over the
events leading up to the war. and
are not yet quite ready to write
about the war itself.
There is little or no reporting
in the book, perhaps because there
is a ready market for that COM
modify elsewhere, and Mr.. Seaver
found few young, or at least I'M
published, writers of criticism. He
is more disturbed about that than
am
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
By JOHN SELBY
"CROSS-SECTION," edited by E,
win SeaVer FISCHER: S2.5Ql.

win Seaver FISCHER; $3.50.
Early last summer Edwin Seave,
sent out call for material by new
writer's OR at least unpublished
writing by Americans. He had the
idea that there was lot of gooo
writing (which for one reason OF
another was not getting published,
a number of young authors who
deserved hearing" As he used it,
the word new" did not mean
experimental, but simply unpub-
lished, and the word American
simply meant what it said.
MIR. Seaver had thought it would
De necessary to send out other
notices, but he was wrong. One
announcement produced well over
Thousand manuscripts, and made
the job of choosing 81 for inclu-
sion in ''Cross-Section' very diff
cult. So on November / of last
year he called off the hounds and
got to work on his job of selec-
tlon. He made a good Job of it.
too.
It is true that the two most
striking of the long pieces are not
by unknown writers-one is Bit
ter castigation of the white race
by Richard Wright, and the other
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

from the ground. There was a
great deal of shooting, and one
theory is that it was directed al
him, but majority opinion ruled
differently and the boys believe he
is o. K"
Wick Fowler of The Dallas News
was a close friend of Eds. We
used to sit around indulging in idi.
otto talk and Ed was always talk.
ing about how funny it would be
to telephone Rome for hotel reser.
vations and throw the Germans in.
to panic.
After I left Italy Eds oil line
stopped up one day on mission
near Rome and he was certain he
would have to bail out. Later he
told Wick that while he was in
trouble and sure he'd have to jump
he got to thinking about that tele.
phone idea and had to laugh to
himself.
And now that he really has bail
ed out, Wick sends along tn S
thought in a letter:
eds time was short at 1900 but
I have a bunch the telephone idea
came to him again on the way
down.
If Ed did call up Rome for reser-
vations l hope the Germans gave
him the royal suite, for he's the
best there is.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Right To Worship

brief dispatch from Stockholm says the
Nazi-dominated church department in Norway
threatens police action against lay officials
of the Lutheran church who INTERFERE with
government church oppointees. The Quizling
bulletin instructs administration supporters to
call the police if new church councils are pre-
vented from performing their legal tasks by
councils previously in charge of congregational
affairs.
How little the Nazis have learned from his
story! How blind they have been to the lessons
it teaches! If they were not obsessed by their
own dreams of domination they would recall
that slaughter of early Christian martyrs, the
fortunes of the Spanish inquisition or any later
persecution by the state of religious orders fail
ed utterly to do away with the religion they
sought to Stamp out On the contrary, perse-
cution has always strengthened the faith and
zealousness of devotees
It was persecution at home that sent the Pill
grims to Plymouth rock and French Hugue-
nots to Georgia. Persecution did not do away
with the Puritans or Huguenots. Instead it sent
them to land of promise Nothing they en-
dured at home on American Soil weakened
their faith or their determination to worship
as their consciences dictated.
Hitler and his stooge Quilting are playing
with fire they cannot quench when they tam
per with the religion or the religious practices
of the people of Norway or of any land under
occupation. They are, in fact, but stirring the
fire to greater heat. The right to worship in
their own way, one of the cardinal principles
of American democracy, is inherent in all
peoples. Woe betide the man or men who seek
to abrogate it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
With Ernie Pyle

LONDON, May 28.-(by wire
less)-The good news from Italy
has been tinged with bad for some
of us who still have strong roots
and half our hearts in that cruel
battle-ground.
The name of Roderick MacDon.
aid means nothing to you in Amer.
lea, but it meant much to many
of us who marched with the wars
in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. For
Mac was one of our bunch-a war
correspondent-and he was killed
the other day at Casino.
Mac was Scot. His family emf
grated to Australia and he was
schoo,ed there and eventually went
to work for the Sydney Morning
Herald. He left Australia in 1871
and followed the wars in Chiya,
the near East and all through Afri-
ca.
We first knew him in Tunisia.
Just after Tunis fell he came down
with savage recurrence of ma
laria and spent three weeks in a
hospital. Finally he got strong
enough to get back to Algiers dur
ing that peaceful interval between
Tunisia and Sicily.
During that time our public-re-
lations section was set up in a
camp on the sandy and gentle
shore of the Mediterranean, some
20 miles outside Algiers. That's
where 1 used up those six weeds
OF peace-one of the grandest six
weeks of my life, just loiiing in
my tent, eating well, working a
little, reading a lot, mostly loafing
and being wonderfully warm.
Roderick Macdonald sent word
that he was in a hotel at Algiers
and l got a jeep and went and
picked him up. He was so weak
he couldn't even carry his bedroll.
We brought him out to camp and
put him in the tent next to mise.
For days he lay listlessly, with
strength enough only to get up for
meals. The sun was broiling and he
would strip down to his shorts and
lie there in the hot sand, baking
his body sleek brown, Gradually
life began to flow into him again,
his face filled out, the glaze left his
eyes, and the famous Macdonald
smile and Macdonald barbed re-
tort began to return.
Mac had everything to live for,
and he loved being alive. He was
young, tall, handsome, brilliant, en-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
GERMANY CHANGES
PRISONER POLICY

STOCKHOLM, May 28.-R)-
German propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels, writing in t h e
Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beo-
bachter, declared today that Allied
airmen bailing out over Germany
no longer would have Nazi police
and military protection against
German civilians.
Aftonbladet's Berlin correspond
ent worte that Goebbels' article
could be interpreted as meaning
that American airmen who save
themselves by parachute can con-
slider themselves at the mercy of
the people who find them, under
the old rule, eye for eye and tooth
for tooth -
1T doesn't seem possible for us
any more to interpose German po-
lice and the military against the
German people when they are
treating child killers as they de-
serve" Goebbels' article said.
These Anglo-American war meth
DDS must be stopped. Airmen can
not contend they are acting as SOL
diers under orders. There is no law
OF war which says that a soldier
engaging in crimes Of this nature
is entitled to freedom from punish.
ment, particularly when their or
ders e opposed to all human
morals and laws of war.
1.-THE enemy has confused t h e
limits OF war and crime and it is
too much for him to ask us to con-
sent to this bottomless barbarism.
Our people who have defended
themselves bravely do not deserve
to be the target Of enemy hunting"
The Goebbels article referred to
recent widespread fighter sweeps
deep in Germany which, he as
serted, were not aimed at military
detectives but rather at civilians
working in fields and women and
children riding on trains.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
rs Years Ago
Today
(From the files
of the Star-News)
MAY 20, 1919

MAY 20, 1919
Brunswick, Georgia, dispatches
received here make it plain that
the big concrete ship, the Atlantic,
first of its kind built in America,
is, so far as can be determined,
a splendid success. The Atlantic,
built at the Brunswick yards Of
the Liberty Shipbuilding company
cleared there early Wednesday tor
Wilmington.
Mrs. Charles E. Borden Of Rich
mond, Va, arrived in the city yes
treday and is the guest of Mrs. W.
H. Pemberton.
Mrs. Pembroke Jones, who has
been spending so<e time at Aef
home, Airlie, Wrightsville Sound
returned last night to New York
wild CaD division, now are home
Brest-All the troops of the 6ISl
ward bound. The last contingent
sailed this morning on the steam
ers Won Steuben and Finlstefe'
Major-General C. ]. Bailey coA'
mander of the division, is on 'A7
former vessel. The two steamers
are bound for Newport News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
MONDAY, MAY %. 1914 ,
Interpreting
The War
BY ELTON C. KAY
AP War ANALYST

For those who wonder abo,,.
prospects for peace, there is HI,
statement of Secretary Of wsr
Henry L. Stimson:
This war has long vav -
We are just entering upon its cT ~.
cial phase and victory lies ta ~
ahead beyond many bloody bat.
ties" '0''
Stimson is expressing the nroo-
teal military view, reflecting ~.
cold, precise reckoning of 6enor
ais who expect to defeat the ono
my by force of arms alone so5
who do not include in their row
slderatlons such clancy factors &C
a possible collapse of German or
japanese morale or general revolt
by the people of Axis-conouered
| nations.
His SOLDERING statement comes ~
the midst of rising talk about post.
war plans, about reconversjon a,
war industries and the imminerco
OF invasion (Which has come TO NO
xiewed in some quarters as an
immediate prelude to peace
There are trends on both the nro.
duction and war fronts that are
in line with this officially indicated
attitude.
Orders have gone out for a vaet
expansion in production of beavv
ordnance material, both guns and
ammunition. Here is evidence t5at
the military leaders are maxine
preparations for blasting ont
road to Berlin should the Nazis,
war machine and morale survive
aerial and invasion pounding,
The tremendous program for
producing landing craft of all cate.
gories continues. While these craft
are highly expenrable and REQUIRE
provisions for quick replacement
the cope of the program obviously
extends beyond mere replacement
quantities. The invasion of Japan
is in the future.
The tempo of war in Italy and
in the Pacific islands has quicken.
ed. Allied forces in Italy surge
forward after months of stalemate
and in the southwest Pacifis the
fround-sea-air war machine of the
United States and Britain moves
forward in long strides north and
1 west toward Japan's inner de-
! lenses.
| But on the Asiatic mainland the
| going is slower. China remains is.
| olated from her allies except by
| air.
The reopening of the land route
| to Chungking is nearer but not
close. Military men, asked to guess
when the junction of the Ledo road
from India with the Chinese-con.
rolled portion of the Burma road
might be possible, mention dates
late this year. There are immense
construction difficulties in thu
| jungles and mountains of Burma
monsoon rains that will drown
the countryside until next fall
But most of all, there are Japa.
nese who must be beaten back
yard by yard as the roadhead il.
advanced. They give way stub.
bornly. The have chung to portions
OF Myitkyina, astride the road in
Burma, for almost two weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
DailyPrayer
FOR BIGGER THOUGHTS


Deliver us, O patient Fatael,
from the sin of mean thou8N,s
and mean lives in a great tllAe,
Lies Titles bulk so large with u
that we are prone to miss 'a'
greatness of this day OF deAEe-
ance for the whole world. IH'
everydayness of life, with us III ~,
mute concerns, besets and oe2ll-le'
US. So we entreat Thee, q S"'
tanning Father, that we may nav,
larger minds and more cohSlSIe.'
purposes. Reverentiy pefsl9'eaa,,,,
ly, with Thy word in hand a ma,
we think Thy thoughts after l I.t
thoughts of the whole world ' 5a
Thou lowest; thoughts Of my a..
signs for our daily living; thousll..
for our service men affair; tfousn,,s
of Christ on the cross IN all man.
behalf. Thus would we nave w.
spirits patterned after the 1aS-l!o od
set by Thee, and our souls saIs1
from the horrible pit OF SENS"
ness. Amen.-W'T.E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

gaging. He had a sensitive mind
and he would have been a novels
had there been no war.
Among Americans he was the
best liked British correspondent
have ever known. With his Scot
fish and Australian heritage he I'm.
derstood us. He would kid the pants
off us about the way we talked
and mimic our flat pronunciation
in his yarns. He in turn took the
same razzing about his Oxford &C.
cent. He had never been to Amer.
lea but it was his one ambition tc
go there.
Like most correspondents, Mac
felt that he had to write a book.
He had about two-t thirds finished
when he came to our camp to recu-
perate. During the latter days OF
his stay, when his strength had
returned, he tapped away belliger-
emily on his little typewriter, cuss-
ing the day he ever started the
book, resenting the deadline his
London publishers were heckl 'hg
him with. But he did finish it.
The day I arrived in London
from Italy went into bookstore,
and I noticed Macs book. bought
it just because l knew Mac, and
brought it home and put it on the
table, but never did read it.
Now I will read it. What an
ironic world, that only the com
pulsion of death makes us do for
OUR friends in more ways than
merely reading a book-what we
should have done while they still
lived.
1 suppose my best friend in Italy
was Lieut.. Col. Ed Bland, a dive
bomber squadron leader. He was
a tall, blond Westerner of %, who
looked much older than he was
and who had the open honesty and
good humor of the West. Word has
just come that he has been shot
down.
Probably the story has been told
already in America, for Ed was
popular w t h all the correspond
ents. The letter that brought the
word to me said this:
ED was strafing about 30 feet
above the ground when a small
shell set his plane afire under
meath. Ed didn't know it until his
wing man radioed him. Then he
climbed to 1900 feet and bailed out.
1.-THE sing man said his chute
didn't open till he was 200 feet
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

The United States has % air.
way traffic control centers into
which flows information about
planes in flight, relayed by tele-
phone from radio communication
stations in the area of the control
center.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

The New York Department of
Sanitation places heavy chalk
marks on the sides of the tires of
ITS vehicles to record careless rub
bling OF tires against curbs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Fair Enough

Ediotrs Note.-Ths Sta, and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views OF MI Pegler
and often disagree with them much many OF
his readers. His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

The first practical use OF je'
propulsion was proposed in l0Oo o.!
Sir Isaac Newton, Who mounted
steam operated jet device on
r-Wheeled cart
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Our Chief Aim

To aid in every way the prosecution OF
the war to complete Victory.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-26


CleS you are Interested IN are
ifep'uS AmerleahuS and Leptlts
Tfi'ahs. 10 you, they are Just
pam cniggerS'
Chiggers are found pretty
much all over the United States.
except, perhaps, in the Pacific
Coast region. | have never heard
of them out there. but they may
be. They are found in the Atlantic
seaboard states from New York
to Georgia, and IN those regions
there is only one species. In
southern and midwcstcrn states.
as far north as Minnesota and
Wisconsin, another species is
n;Ia1m 49, - ~ ','o'J
am sticking to the regions where
scientific study has identified
them.
Their favoritp local habitat Is
in woodlands where there * a
considerable growth Of ouderbgsh
Blackberry bushes are thoir as-
pecialIv favorite haunts. They are
not found in cultivated fields or in
we'll kept lawns and parks. Pic
nickinp sites are dandy for them.
as We all know only foe uaII
river banks, around lovely little
nv H.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-26
Chiggers Real Pest
To Picnickers

lay down SO as to give them .
good chance.
They are verv small $50 mi
crons, about twenty times as big
as a human red blood cell -lnvls-
Iblc to the naked eye though they
can be seen with q hand lens. They
pass through the weave of any
ordinary clothing.
Attached TO Skin
They do not hurroW into the
skin, but sink their pincorIke
Jaws into the skin and stay at
tachcd. They 7 especially likely
to seize the skin at the edge Of a
hair f%ollicle as a goo place to get
a grip.
The itching to a sensitive indi-
yidual from a set of chigger bites
is almost i~ntolerable. 1t Is worst
ON the third day, but lasts unless
treated for about eight days. 4
widespread and serious Iufesta-
ton will cause a fever and pros
tration although death has never
been reported. In Japan, however,
a similar mite causes the fatal
japanese river fever.
For treatment any autI~eptic
that will kill the creature, or any
auti-itching lotion is helpful. \
small bottle of straight carbolic
DO
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-26
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. VI. d.

THEY BELONG to the family
Of the TrombIdudae. They are of
the genus Lcptas and the two spc-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-26

DR.. Clendening Will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-07-26

6. W. NJ; Is there a permanent
cure other than operation for a
ruptured intervertebral disk?
Answer: Most of them get well
or adjust with time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
HeovyPIones es 

London, Aug. i5-(UP) -AneTi- can heavy bombers nearly 1000 strong attacked seven enemy air force bases and three airdrones in Germany, Belgium and Holland to- day as the Allies continued their aerial campaign to neutralize the Luftwafie over the twin invasion areas Of France.
 The Allied campaign to smash en- emy aircraft bases was coupled with widespread attacks by the Btll Air Force against German battle front communications and an at' tack last niught by the RPA coastal eommand on enemy garships in the 6ironde river.
 Explosions We're seen on one de' stroyer and fires were started or an escort yesse! and several traYl- CTS.
 Smashing blows were delivered against LuftWaife bases at Cologne Osthein, Wiesbaden EFhenheim, Frankfort -Esehborn, Witlmund-Ar- dOlf, zWisehenahm, Veehta and Handorf, the first three along the Rhine river and the others in north west Germany,
 The three airdr0mes attacked were at TWente- -Ensehede in oecu- pied Holland, PloTennes in Bel- gium and Venlo in Holland,
 Thunderbolt and Musiage fighters in great strength accompanied the b0mbers, an of which were permit ted by clear weather tO bomb yiss ually with general good to ekoelE lent results, the U 6 Second TaeE ticAl Air Force announced,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-15
Nozis Slow In
 Reporting News

T7le invasion of southern France caught the hRd propaganda mas chine mapping today, and the Allies gained a tgo'h0uT beat tn report ing it,
 me Nagis were first in announe. l. ing the Normandy landing and other big developments of the war but lloundeFed badly with t0day'f big story, although they had been predicting it for days
 Allied news services carried the Hash at $40 a, El,, EWT, but the official, German DNB AReney's first mention of t was at 7'2S a, m, EWT, when it directed an English language wireless dispatch to the Par East, the VCC reported,
 In tha dispatch the ha2ls said that "a part 'Of the landing f0Tef had been smashed" and admitted that fighting was iFl progress elSe' where, FNCc reported,
 The announcement to the German people, PCC reported, was in a bTiel paragraph Co today's German high command cOmmnnlque, read ovel tho German home radio at . .. m,l HWg