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China Beset By Troubles

With the japanese starting what Washing
ton is inclined to appraise as great gamble
to knock China out of the war through their
drive on Chenghsien, and keep Allied for
ces from launching great assault upon their
homeland from bases in China, attention
turns to China's domestic and military situa-
ton with more than mild misgiving. Many
capable observers view the trend toward to-
talitarianism as serious menace to China's
development, no less than her effective parti-
cipation in the war itself
They see a small clique Of Chinese assun-
ing more and more power, and while there is
no grave criticism of Chang Kai-shek it is
the increasing burdens he has been compelled
noted that in the war emergency and with
to shoulder, he has lost contact to large ex-
tent with the multitude of problems on which
he must make decisions. Also, it is observed,
he has retained too many of his old Off
Gals and allowed too many of them to enlarge
their powers.
His personal integrity is beyond reproach
and his leadership exceeds that of any other
Chinese but it is complained of him that he
has turned a deaf ear to cries of turn the
rascals out" with result that powers which
should rest with him. at least in directorial
capacity, have been seized by far from COM
petent men.
Chang Kai-shek may have fallen into the
same pitfall with President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill, who have under.
taken to manage the government individual.
lys in domestic and foreign affairs as well as
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CLAY IS GOING
TO ACTIVE DUTY

DURHAM, April "a 8 -D De,
parting for active service Cap .do5
A. T Clay, U, S. N, concLg sso.
nearly three years as commanaa man,
of the Duke University naval ua al,
ing units today. Students IN lux, .a'
N. R. o. T. C. standing al Sa =, ~
in a long double line from W. w..
headquarters to the captains Ca. a.
gave their former commahoa'' u
fetal farewell. r, 6
Captain C. P. McFeateIs' w. ..o
NJ, who comes to Duke from III. u'
post of commander, fleet ope-a
tional training command A'la, .5,
Fleet, Bird Naval District, SuccI .st,
Captain Clay and has ALREADY %"
en- over his new duties, .,,
Members of the adrainistfa,. .,a
staff of the University at noon w.; N
hosts at an informal luncheon u
honor of Captain and Mrs C .ss.
President Robert L. Flowers Pi ~.
siding, expressed gratiflca}lol , 81
the cooperative spirit whlcg o, EN-,
ed between the retiring Cap r,,c.
and the administrative and ills''''
tional stats of the UNIVERSITY
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me war program, ana are proving, as any
man must, incapable of doing it all; with re-
suit that incompetents have imposed upon
them and are undermining their usefulness.
Totalitarianism has sprung up in the United
States under the guise of bureaucracy. There
is strong tendency toward the same thing
in England Chang Kai-shek has an example
before him of its evil, particularly in this
country 1t would be well if his eyes could be
opened to its consequences before China comes
under the domination of the small group
which is steadily encroaching upon the rights
Of the Chinese people
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Farley On jefferson

James A. Farley had several things to say
addressing guests attending the Jefferson day
dinner of the National Democratic Club in New
York that deserve more than passing public
attention.
If this country is to get back to the prin-
ciples of democracy which the founding faith
ers set up, the people have great need to
know more about Thomas Jefferson, who ex-
ercised tremendous influence in establishing
these principles
And because Mr.. Farley is chairman of the
New York State Democratic organization and
will have considerable power at the forth.
coming democratic convention which will NOM
mate the party's candidate for the presidency,
what he says about Jefferson carries weight
In his address he pointed out that Jefferson
stood for tolerance, faith in the judgment of
the people, an Independent judiciary and a
proper distribution of power among the feder-
al state and local governments. Jefferson also
contended that the less interference by law in
the private affairs of each individual the less
danger Of tyrrany.
What Mr.. Farley said further concerning the
political faith of Jefferson merits repeating
here Perhaps if enough Americans can have
their memories refreshed on Jeffersonan de-
mocracy they will find their way out of the
bureaucratic morass into which they have been
led under President Roosevelt
Note these excerpts from Mr. Farleys ad-
dress:
There are those who hail him because Of
his humanitarian services; there are others
who hail him because he believed in limiting
the powers Of government; there are others
who hail him because he believed in educa-
ton; there are others who hail him because
he was so intensely an American; there are
still others who hail him because he believed in
reasonable cooperation with the rest of the
JeHerson's sympathies and understanding
were so universal that he believed that a
mans political views should not be narrow
and intolerant
Jefferson believed that it was better for
humanity to progress slowly, to learn from
leo oWll HllSIdkeS, tndn 10 take from tne aver
age man the liberty to make decisions for him
SELF He saw that, while a dictator might for
short time provide great benefits and
bounties for the people, ultimately the inter-
ests of dictator and the interests of the peo-
pie were deadly enemies. He would rather
make progress slowly and be sure that it
ended in security than to seek the illusion of
security through the dictation of any one per-
son or any small group.
Moreover, he believed that an infinite num-
Der Of services should be reserved for the
communities and the States. He believed that
proper distribution of power between the
States and the nation and between the States
and their subdivisions was essential not only
to liberty but to efficient government
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CuStr1eS maze before the New YORK ELECTRICAL
Society.
newspaper article telling of Doctor Cald-
wells address has this to say:
postwar automobiles, profiting from war;
time eiectronics, can be equipped to print
little newspapers by facsimile radio, receive
newsreel scenes by television, heed road in
structions from radio police, turn on lights at
darkness automatically, and observe red and
green traffic signals on the dashboard-with
sound effects of music to focus attention"
Which makes us wonder what may happen
while the driver is reading his auto news
paper or watching television. Will he heed the
road instructions from highway p e, or
climb tree? Will he obey the red and green
signals on his dashboard, or pile up with an
other car? Will the music intended to focus
his attention on signals distract him instead?
Will the music be a Sanatra record and will
it give him commissions?
Here is one forecast that portends disaster
instead Ut safety.
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By ERNIE PYLE

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACH
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY,-(by
wireless)-In addition to its regu-
lar job of furnishing food and cloth
ing to the troops, the Quartermas-
ter Corps of the Fifth Army beach
head runs the bakery, a laundry
for the hospitals, a big salvage de-
pot of old equipment, and the mill
tary cemetery.
Hospital pillows and sheets are
the only laundry done on the beach
head by the Army. Everything else
the individual soldiers eitlle. wash
themselves or hire Italian farm
women to do. People like me just
60 dirty and enjoy it.
he Army laundry is on several
big mobile trucks hidden under the
sharp slope of low hill. They are
so well camouflaged that a photog-
raphe1. who went out to take some
pictures came away without any
he said the pictures wouldn't show
anything.
This laundry can turn out 5000
pieces in 10 hours of work. About
80 m.n are in the laundry platoon.
They are dug in and live fairly
nicely.
Laundrymen have been killed in
other campaigns, but so fa1, they've
escaped up here. Their worst dis
aster was that the little shower
bath building they built for them
selves has been destroyed three
times by ducks" which got out of
control when their brakes failed
and came plunging over the bluff.
Continuing with "ducks'' for a
moment, in one company all these
amphibian trucks have been given
names. The men have stenciled the
names on the sides in big white
letters, and every name starts
with "A.' There are such names
as "Avalon' and Ark Royal. Some
bitter soul named his duck "Ata-
bine,' and an even bitterer one
called his "Assinine' '-misspelling
the word, with two SIS, just to rub
it in.
Our salvage dump is touching
place. Every day five or six truck
loads of assorted personal stuff are
dumped on the ground in an open
space near town. 1t is mostly the
clothing of soldiers VINO have been
killed or wounded. 1t is mudcaked
and often bloody.
Negro soldiers sort it out and
classify it for cleaning. They poke
through great heap, picking out
shoes Of the same size to put to-
gether, picking out knives and
forks and leggings and underwear
and cans of C ration and goggles
and canteens and sorting them into
different piles.
Everything that can be used
again is returned to the issue bins
as it is or sent to Naples for re-
pair.
They find many odd things in
the pockets of the discarded cloth
ing. And they have to watch out.
for pockets sometimes carry hand
grenades.
You feel sad and tightlipped
when you look closely through the
great pile. Inanimate things can
sometimes speak so forcefully-a
helmet with a bullet hole in the
front, one overshoe all ripped with
shrapnel. a portable typewriter pit
fully and irreparably smashed. a
pair of muddy pants, bloody and
one leg gone.
The cemetery is neat and it's
white - and it is very big. All
the American dead of the beach
head are buried in one cemetery.
Trucks bring the bodies in daily.
Italian civilians and American SOL
dlers dig the graves They try to
keep ahead by SO graves or so.
Only once or twice have they been
swamped. Each man is buried in
white mattress cover,
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amins as long as they last; when
they are exhausted, we will simply
praise the Lord to pass the fat
back molasses and cornbread. We
will take a chance on there being
either of those commodities left.
But what of it? Well have plenty
OF ten dollar bills, or even fifties
and instead of the great seal print
ed upon them to make them regu-
lar the new order currency will
be "skirpt" bearing gold-colored
catfish holding forget-me-not of
brilliant red, a contrast which no
doubt would make nice old
scheme on the walls of any beach
cottage. We had Just as well have
real big party Mr.. Editor, so on
with the show.
Raymond D. Christman
Wilmington, N. C.
April "a, 1914.
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Daily Prayer
FOR THE PERsECUTED

Our hearts 60 out in '95 5.y
sympathy and yearning, AAl'5 III
Father of us all, toward INC f ny,
lions of victims of pagan ' ca,.
who languish in prisons al" ne
centration camps, OF WaH1.- ,,a.
earth, desolate, homeless all" +sst
CRY. May we in spirit snare III ry
plight, though Thou mast ~ ,ncs
great mercy, spared us iron, ,.~ in.
disasters. Keep these SUES, MI
comrades in our prayers, u o5ossd
sympathy and in our gus, t 4g
Thy gentlest peace to all OF 5 'a
and to our own sons and 34S a1 -ae.:
tiers in captivity. AmeAFa,e o '
sufferings, we pray; ana MAJ
deliverance soon by victory and and
we never forget those neaI ,n,or
far, who suffer in our GoNt h
cause. Their hope and help
Thee. Amen.-WT.F
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The War
By KlRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Ana,,.s.

Associated Press War Anal,
There is deadly new mensc.
Japan's shaken hold not o,,,. W
the Philippines but upon the c,., ''
Pacific gateway to the Chm.
itself in the Allied 5o0-mfIe
vance along the New Guines o.,.
way.
Immediate physical results a.
dramatic forward Iunge Nv ~
teamed-up Pacific and soutbwo..
Pacific commands into tba nn.s
end of the spraying island w.
obvious. 1t brought Allied IanJ arg
ed heavy bombers of todav w; 49,
striking distance of Mindanao -. -1
even closer to Palau atoll tbo Iat
enemy held barrier in the Carolin.
Sea corridor that leads 70 be
Philippines, the Celebres Sea snS
the Sulu Archipelago. '"0
No japanese position Within
thousand miles of the Hollands .;s
fields, once they are restored r.
service, is secure now from air ~
tack. And any day may see tbo
super-bombers long in prepara+ioH
in this country join the attack ia
the Pacific to carry the air tbr.a
even deeper into the NetherIanG'
Indies, into Borneo, over all Min
danao and to Guam.
Those enemy built air fields "
western New Guinea are of vital
consequence in the Allied strateoic
design now beginning to unfold
They are so important 10 Japan.
csc defense of the SOUTHERN an.
proaches to the China Sea that
their loss at negligible cost in Al.
lied casualties must deeply con,
Germ Tokyo.
The Macarthur planned and led
stroke trapped another estimated
1000 Japanese troops to their Ger.
tain extinction. Added to those
previously by-passed and isolated
in the Solomons and New Britain
it means that substantially quar-
ter of a million NipponeSe first
line troops have been fruitlessly
sacrificed in the Southwestern Pa.
cific theater, victims of wounds
disease and starvation or utterly
cut off from relief.
That is a grave loss for Tokyo
Yet the skill and precision behind
the new advance up the New GU,
nea causeway provides even gray.
err will follow it up. There is little
prospect as Allied sea and air pow.
er expends both in the Pacific
and in the Indian ocean simultane
ously that Tokyo's war lords can
find the means to halt the Allied
advance from the east short Of a
last ditch stand on Borneo and in
the Philippines to guard the Sul
entrance to the China Sea.
Conqu est of all Netherlands New
Guinea by MacArthur's forces
would bring his troops within lit
tie more than 600 miles Of the
southeastern tip Of Mindanao. 1t is
only that far from Berau peninsula
to the most southerly of the Phi
lippine group and it is less than
500 miles from Hollandia to Berau'
General Macarthur is that far back
on his road to the Philippines.
The complete success OF the leap
frog sea-borne oper a tlor tha'
caught Japanese garrisons al Ho-'
landia and elsewhere by complete
surprise appears to have been Que
primarily to the preliminary III
bombardment of enemy air bases
on a vile arc. That air-bllndeo lle
foe. He was left guessing unlll u.v
last as to where the attack Wouu
fall even if he knew that 1t WAY
impending as combined OPP
ton of Admiral Nimitz mighty Pa'
cific fleet task forces ana NAV
Arthur's command.
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QUOTATIONS

Unless management and labor can de-
wise the instruments for pacific settlement
of disputes the public will insist-and right
ly so-on settlement by legislative compul-
sion.
Eric A. johnson, president y. S. c. OF c.
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Autos Of The Future

The postwar automobile is to be able to do
everything but give itself new coat Of paint
Or so 1t would seem from forecasts Of Dr.
Orestes H. Caldwell, editor OF Electronics In
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Fair Enough

CEdiotrs Note-Ths Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views OF Mr. Pesier
and often disagree with them much many OF
his readers His articles serve the good purpose OF
making people think.
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Pouring concrete for the deck
Of ship, 1861, was begun today at
the Liberty shipyard and the work
will he completed tomorrow morn
ing at 4 o'clock.
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The 9th district of the North
Carolina Federation of Women S
clubs held a most successful meet
ing in the Presbyterian church at
Faison Tuesday. DR.. ]. w. Pur-
chell gave the invocation and Mrs.
Marshall Williams, district presi-
dent, presided.
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FrOm the files
Of the Star-News)

Paris-Wireless telephone across
the Atlantic will never supersede
the wireless telegraph and cable
for commercial use, in the opinion
of prominent officials of the
United States Signal Corps. THE
trans-oceanic phone will never be
more than a stunt" said one of
the officers.
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Miss Lenora CantwelPs regular
Saturday night dance will be given
this Saturday at Lumina. These
dances will continue through May.
This is the first of the season to
be held at Lunima and will be
greatly anticipated by the young
er set.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04
ChiIdren's Festival

THE CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL,
which is being sponsored by the
Public Library and the Institute
of Arts. accepts as its underlying
belief the theory that a child will
make a swifter progress in the
mastery Of his craftsmanship If
he is encouraged 10 express him.
self untrammeled in any of the
arts before he is subjected TO
the rules of procedure of that
art"
The festival will consist Of a
series of exhibits and concerts
from literature written for and by
children. the first Of these pro-
grams 10 be under the direction of
Mary Carrick and 10 take place
in the auditorium of the Main
Library Feb. a.
Karl Kruger is dcdicating the
Saturday morning School Chill
dren's Concert, Feb. ,. 10 this
festival and is using a program
which will include music which
Mozart and MendelsSohn wrote
when they were 10 and l6 years
old.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04
Hope White
Charming
Beginner
By IRMENGARD POHRT

HOPE TOWNSEND WHITE 5
f1fe-w1rh tIeT father had fTtttE CON
nection with her role in Life
With Father for though he was
the famous white Studio photog-
rapher, he was determined 10 keep
his daughter off the stage and
packed her off 10 Sarah Lawrence
College at the tender age of II
According 10 this Della of the
current production at the CaSS,
however. you can't keep an actress
out of the theater if she decides
She. d fAatifef-tt1e III IT. ARD Mr.
White whose little Hope had re-
fused 20 leave the theater when
she had seen her first play at the
age of four, found that putting her
into Sarah Lawrence was Just the
thing 10 give her practice IN anna
teur tfeatr-icais.
Btit tifotetr- she since danced
with Weidmann's Group and AT
bertha Rasch and done consider
able work with stock companies.
Miss White woaid rather you d
not call her an actress.
sertafnfy wHntt0 be one,
sf1e Gays. ''but I'm really more
OF an understudy now. The role
OF Julia in Life With Father
doesn't cover more than few
lines, 80 I pour my energies into
understanding Cousin Cora,
Maggie and Nora and hope I'll
be good enough TO come through
n one OF the real actresses
breaks a leg"
Off the record, she's been good
on more than one such occasion
can boast in addition. OF poems
published in Good Housekeeping.
Cosmopolitan and Cue magazines
was Powers model for a time.
Let's watch her rise. if that's only
a beginning.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04
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Schkolnik Is SoIoist With Symphony

early American folk songs. but IT
can hardly be called a symphony.
It's construction is too weak 10
carry such a title and IT. impressed
US more as a suite. which could be
just as much after Gertrude Stein
as il could Walt Whitman The
second movement is the best from
a standpoint Of form and melodic
development.
For a really thrilling finale,
Kruger chose the inspiring Rich
ard Strauss Tone Poem, Death
and TRANSPORTATION which was
magniiicently played.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04
RIGHT EMPHASIS

The concert opened with Res
pighi'S transcription of the monu-
mental Bach C-minor PasSacaglia,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04

which fully exploits the total
wealth OF this great work without
the over-emphasis which marks
other transcriptions.
Following the intermiSSion De-
Lamarter appeared. although IL
had been previously announced
that he could not fin this en-
gagement, To conduct ms own
symphony. after Walt Whitman "
which is dedicated 10 Karl Krue-
ger.
REALLY 4 SUITE
II proved 10 be an interesting
treatment of several well known
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04
by CHARLES GENTRY

DIRECTOR KARL KRUGER
and the Detroit Symphony Or
chestra chalked up another plus
mark ON the score of pleasing pro-
grams this year with a varied and
very entertaining concert last
night n Masonic Auditorium.
The two assisting artists were
Eric De Lamarter, a native Of
Michigan. and Ilya Schkolnik. our
own concert-maSter, who has been
with the orchestra for so long
that he's practically a native.
Schkolnik performed the solo
part of the Beethoven Violin
Concerto and never has ne played
any better 1t was truly a beau
uful performance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-04
Awards Given

TTTE MUSIC department of the
Council Of Social Agencies held
It's annual lnter-Setflement scale
contest Jan. q Winners in the
three grades were Ruth Kruger
~ Salvation ARMY CHTldrcns
Home Evelyn Pappas ~ Dodge
Community House and Jessie
Donaldson OF ST. ElzabethS Com
muniy House.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

ing New Guinea maior aerodromes at Sor-
one textreme tip) and at Fakfak, Babo and
Kaimsna. on the south coast. are high pri-
ority targets and Ione-ranee, land-based
bomber operations from HolIandia now
threaten Paau, HaImahera, Ternste, lid
ore, the excellent Dutch naval base at
Amboina and the Ceram aerodromes.
Kenney's bombers have demoralized
Jap shipping that based in the Schoutens,
blocking supply or rescue Of the Jap
Eighteenth Army. msrooned on either
side of Wewak. Geelvink Bay, whose
mouth is dominated by the Schoutens. is
no longer safe for Jap vessels.
MacArthur's excellent tacticians are
probably planning the next move after
the Eighteenth Army is killed or starved
out. II may be TO Manokwari or the ex-
IRENE northwest Tip Of New Guinea.
Many believe it may be bold sweep.
dominated by our fleet and air, against
Halmahera and Ternate, whose fine bays
and airfields would put General MaeAr-
thur less than 500 miles from Daveo, the
repufed pre-Pearl Harbor arsenal for Jap
conquest Of the Philippines.