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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
The T1uo Doctors
By HOWARD FLIEGER

WASHINGTON = Reporters on the White
House beat were more than little startled
the other day when President Roosevelt I'M
folded his Parable of the Two Doctors the
A-B-C story he used to discard the New Deal
tag in favor of Win-The-War slogan
One of the veterans called the news con-
ference 1.-The best fireside chat the President
ever gave Many others expressed surprise
at the performance. New hands at the bust
ness of covering the President wondered, a
bit perplexed, what they'd gotten into.
The reason for the reaction is obvious
The Presidents story an allegorical
tale of how DR.. New Deal, called into the
case IN 1892 to treat the United States for in
ternal illnesses, had stepped aside for
Dr Wln-The-War, gent who knows all about
bone surgery and external wounds which the
patient suffered in the smash-up at Pearl
Harbor.
The subject was pure, unadulterated poll
tics. In fact, the President himself so de-
scribed it. And politics has been taboo at
presidential press conferences since the war
began. Any hint of political implications in
recent questions has brought the questioner
his prompt come-uppance for talking about
such things in time of war.
But the President expecting - and
ready - to talk politics at the conference
which produced THE Parable of the Two
Doctors
One simple question opened the monologue.
MIR. Roosevelt-in obvious good humor-said
the subject was puerile and political. but
reporters knew at glance he was all set to
go into it fully. On the desk before him were
three sheets of paper, chronology of the do
ings of his administration since 1882 With
little preliminary, he unfolded the story of the
New Deal and why he thought it should step
aside now for a Win-The-War slogan
Only the scratching sound of pencils on
note paper interrupted his voice as he re-
viewed the things he'd done since his first
election. Occasionally he looked away from
his own notes to take a crack at New Deal
critics. For IS minutes he talked on what
had come to be forbidden subject. politics.
Small wonder one reporter, at the end of
the story, asked the President if the whole
thing added up to four-term declaration.
the room.
1t brought a momentary break in the presi-
Dental good hunor (the President said the
question was picayune and had nothing to do
with what he was talking about but the re-
action was milder than some of Mr. Roose-
velt's listeners might have expected.
A few minutes later the reporters were
filing out of the White House with a top
political story scrawled into their hurried
notes. No wonder some of them recalled the
day four years ago when an inquiry about
Mr.. RooseveIts third term intentions brought
the presidential reply: the asker of such
question ought to don a Ounce cap.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
TIE Literary Guidepost

Sonora Santayana was married
twice. One husband died-he was
a Boston Sturgis. The other was
Georges father, a strange Span.
lard who became used to shelter
ing himself behind his deafness
and lived apart from his wife
with the best results. This nus
band made no objection when
George was named for his prede-
cessor. 1t is probably true that if
George Santayana had not poly
chromed his story with so much
colorful material about the fam
lily and its friends, the frame
work would be clear enough. 1t is
also true that the least excuse
sends him into interminable di-
gressions of the sort that readers
of his ''The Last Puritan will
remember, probably with pleas
ure. These clog the flow of nara
tive like boulders in the path of
a brook, and make it almost i'm
possible to chart the many tiny
channels thus created.
Some channels are fabulous.
Uncle Samuel Sturg1s is one-he
was mad and he was elegant and
he made more sense than most in
spite of it all. Oddly for man
of philosophy, the books charm
is that Of a tumbled and tousled
woman, beautiful in spite Of being
hooked up all wrong.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
Daily Prayer
FOR POWER FOR VICTORY

In reverent expectation, we turn
to Thee, Lord God of Hosts, and
to all Thy heavenly legions, for
swift and complete victory in this
war. Make bare Thy mighty arm.
Confound the enemies whose aims
are evil; succor the forces which
seek to establish justice and lib
erty and peace on earth. We are
imperfect servants of Thine. o
King Eternal, but we have avowed
the aims which we have learned
from Thy word; and in our heart
OF hearts, as United Nations, we
seek the ends that Thou seekest.
Now we wait for a display of Thy
mysterious and 2ighty Power.
Move upon the hearts of the ma
lions against whom we fight, and
turn them to water. Make clear
to all men Thy displeasures with
workers of oppression, cruelty and
Wreckage of mans free spirit.
Send a peace of victory in our
time, O God, our sure reliance and
hope; and reign over a world
made new by the acceptance of
Thy will. Amen-W.T.E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
BY JOHN SELBY
"PERSONS AND PLACES" by
George Santayana (Scribners;
$3.50.

$3.50.
1t seems to me that the Book
of-the-Month Club made an odd
selection when It chose George
Santayana's persons and Places
as one of its January contribu-
tions to the. literary life of its
members Che other is a nice,
though occasionally wordy, novel
by e. Arnot Robertson called THE
Signpost"D.
Santayana's book is the first
section of his autobiography, lead
ing from the cradle to the day
he was graduated from Harvard.
At least it is called autobiogra-
ply. Actually it is rambling
review of his family and his time
in which the emphasis is always
on other people and the author
himself is seen chiefly by reflec-
ton. This method is doubtless de-
liberately chosen, and probably it
is the right method for Santayana
even though it produces vast
number of obscurities. am not
unpracticed at reading books, but
although l read word for word
and not by the hop, skip and
Jump method, I still am confused
oy the santayana background.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
The Rocket Gun" Coast

ana
knows where any more than when, the ac-
tual invasion of continental Europe will come
from the west. But it is probable than when
the about push is once under way to drive
the spearhead of this war across the Ger
man frontier the so-called rocket gum coast
Because it is nearest to England it may even
be the chief bridgehead. The water gap is
only twenty miles at the narrowest point
Something OF its lay and history may be
interesting. The National Geographic Society
has looked into the matter and offers this
information.
Nearness to England has brought this re-
gion repeated invasions in wartime and traf-
fic in peacetime for more than 1900 years
From the eastern edge of Frances coastal
bulge the heroic evacuation of trapped Allied
forces from Dunkerque took place at the end
of May in 1910. Before the war between three
and five million travellers a year crossed
the threshold of France at Calais on the tin
of the bulge.
Calais is only % miles (six minutes by
bomber flight from the port Of Dover on Eng.
lands southeast shores on the opposite side
of the English Channel Boulogne is onlv 30
miles q IL or minutes) from England's
coast; Dieppe, 66 miles GIG minutes). These
cities, with Dunkerque to the east, in peace
time are four of the six busiest ports on
Frances Channel coast
Actually, the coastal points nearest to Eng
land are pair of bold headlands six miles
apart: Cap Blanc Nez Cape White Nose).
white chalk cliff five miles west of Calais.
and Cap Girls Nez (Cape Gray Nose), gray
sandstone bluff rising 1877 feet above the
choppy Channel waters. These stone walls of
France resemble England's white cliffs of
Dover on the opposite side of the Channel cleft.
Northeast OF the two capes stretches the
shorellne of French Flanders, similar to that
OF Belgium and the Netherlands with it's salt
marshes, stretches of sand dunes, dikes and
wlndmills. Dunkerque Ounkirk) owes its
name to an old church (''kirk'') among these
dunes. Inland spread the Flanders fields of
World War l backgrounds where ..nopnies
blow between the crosses, row on row., Of
soldiers graves.
Roman leglons started the fateful succession
OF lnvasions that have crossed the Channel at
Frances northeast bulge The Romans set
sail against England in 43 A. D.. from what
IS now Boulogne. William the Conqueror,
turned back by bad weather farther west
launched his victorious attack on ENGLAND
IN September, 1866, from St. Valerysur-som-
me- between Boulogne and Dieppe. In 18o4-5
Napoleon massed around Boulogne the forces
lor an invasion he never dared to attempt.
Meanwhile British armies demonstrated the
convenience of this area for invasions-incom
ing as well as outgoing. Boulogne was cap
tured by the British in 1914 and held until t,e
rrench ransomed it back six years later.
Calals was British from 1347 to 1858, more
IMAM TWO centuries. The British held Joan of
ARC captive at LIE Crotoy, south of Boulogne
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,
-(by wireless)-Our Navy freight
plane came down in Australia at
twilight after covering $4,000 miles
III three days and three nights of
flying from Washington.
Short stopovers have given me
a general view of our biggest war
theater, where the fighting will be
the hardest and the longest. will
work my way back more slowly,
III order to get a closer look at
the Pacific war.
1 have been flying with the Navy,
Some of the crews were straight
Navy, others were from Pan-Am-
erican Always, flying under con-
tract. There are several planes
daily each way, plus several for
high-priority cargo moving across
the Pacific by air.
The Navy's air transport has not
lost single plane in this oper-
alton, and only one has been fore
ed down. This is the backbone of
our communications system for
the war in the Pacific, giving speed
and flexibility where they are
needed while vast number of
ships carry the volume.
1 have already visited some of
the bases and seen acres or sup.
plies. Even the first quick glance
shows that preparations for the
Pacific war are far more advanc-
&c than I had realized. Certainly
cur forces in the Pacific are not
being starved. On the contrary,
there has been long period of
building up.
Our transport lines are far be-
yond the Japs' present striking
range, and some of the air trans
rort crews complain that they have
q dull life. They would like to be
closer to it. Yet many of these
filters have had their moments.
For instance, one Pan-American
pilot. F. S. Ralph, of Berkeley,
Cal, who was captain of our ship
for part of the way, was flying
that Clipper that was caught in
the water at Hong Kong on Dec.
8, 1941. The plane was riddled.
Ralph came back via Chungking
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
Why They Advertise

Many persons have expressed wonder that
national business concerns should 60 to the
expense OF advertising the limitations placed
upon their service by the war and urging the
public to use their facilities as little as pos
slple This type of advertising has been par
tcularly notable in the case of telephone COM
panies.
The situation may not be the same in all
cases, but so far as the telephone operators
are concerned, the reason is to be found in
the load imposed upon them since the war
effort became the chief concern of the nation
The New York Times has this to say of the
state OF their business at the close of 1913:
Inc Bell System carried its heaviest
load IN communications history in 1943
as all previous records toppled before
lhe mounting tide of official war bust
ness and attendant civilian activity. The
crowded conditions of long distance lines
remained the systems most serious prob
lem, as average daily toll conversations
hit new high of $500, 900, an increase of
nearly 100000 completed calls daily over
the 1912 average. Long-distance messages
handled over the wires of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, par
ent concern of the system, numbered l5O,-
oo0,OO0, compared with $4,000, 900 in 1912,
the company reported yesterday. At the
end OF l943, a force of 1876, 900 operators
the largest in history-was employed
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
Raymond Clapper Says:
Pacific Soldiers Want
Strikers Sent Out There

ard around the world. He has been
on the Pacific run now for 18
months. When 1 asked what he
wanted to do, he said:
Il want to fly the first plane into
Manila.
We have been using a big four
engine Consolidated PB2Y3 Coro-
nado, type which is used also as
Navy bomber. There has been
scarcely a bump in the whole jour-
ney. These planes are doing for
the Navy the job that the old
truck-horse Douglas C-53 has been
doing for the Army in the Mediter-
ranean campaign.
One of the crew said it was our
ship that was forced down with
engine trouble near Pacific is
land base some time ago. The skip
per, j. H. Hamilton, had Clipper
al Wake when the Japs came, and
got it out under fire. This time
he sat in the ply on the water
for two days. A destroyer came
alongside to take off the passen-
gers, but it wasn't necessary. Re-
Pair parts were flown down by
another plane, and both took off
in a fairly high sea, using new
technique which is like surfboard-
ing on high waves.
Life aboard an airplane for two
nights and three days is not as
hard as one might think. You
sleep a lot. even though you sit up
all night. The galley is going all
the time, and coffee and fruit
juice and sandwiches are always
available. Members of the crew
who are off duty play cribbage or
poker.
The crew members make pas
sengers feel important by getting
their signatures on Short Shorter
bills. They flash crude Fiji Island
money, and currency of almost
every other country on earth, on
which they have collected the sig
natures of everyone from Eleanor
Roosevelt to General Marshall.
My favorite autograph is that of
Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith, who sign
ed mine: maxim taken" He was
there.
At one fueling point on the way
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we were met by Col. James Doyle
Bamaroneck, N. Y, who is col
lecting autographs for his 13-year-
old boy. This was his fourth Christ
mas away from home, he said. Ev-
en- though that is long time, he
would rather be out here helping
than being miserable in the States,
feeling he was not doing his part.
"Of course I'm long way from
the 'front.'" he said, "but the
wounded come back through here
and I talk to the boys, and I get
a feeling of being close to it, so /
shouldn't be unhappy
He is m1ddle-aged man, but
he has the same spirit as the young
junior-grade naval officer who has
been on shore duty after six
months on Guadalcanal and who
worked on one of our party for a
transfer nearer to the front.
1 asked one man what he and the
others thought about things at
home.
We're not interested in poll
TICS" he said. "Just send us the
stuff to fight with"
What about the strikes?" l ask
ed him.
what we say" he replied, 'is
send the strikers here and let us
go home"
That was when we were riding
through coconut grove at place
where the Seabees and Army en-
gineer battalions have made vast
model military base in just one
year, with 300 miles of road and
accommodations for many thou
sands of men.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
You're
Telling Me

Some Japanese tWo-man SUBJ
marines, says a report, are dis
gulsed as whales. Don't expect
the whale to return the compIi.
ment. Too dangerous.
Those retreating Nazis in Po-
Land, says ,/Betcha Dollar DYER,
are showing lot of early foot but
he's betting they'll be collared in
the stretch.
!!
Grandpappy Jenkins says he
Will devote the next II months to
planning a revenge on the rela-
tlves who gave Junior a tool set
for Christmas.
A Pennsylvania woman claims
she has worked $4,000 hours dur.
Ing the last Is years solving cross.
word puzzles. The union of cross.
word puzzle maker uppers should
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
Cut The Leading Strings

Thousands of individual enterprises nrob.
ably tens of thousands of them, are man
ping plans for postwar operation. Collectively
they will determine the future OF this conn.
try The public is entitled to know something
of what is going forward in little business
if for no other reason than to spike the as.
sumption that planning is the sole privilege
of political office holders.
Typical of the alertness and hope CONTROL.
ing the thoughts of many business men is the
stasSment Of member Of the distribution
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
QUOTATIONS

The war is approaching a decision in the
will have to pay dearly. The Russians might
eventually engulf Hungary.-Hungarian Chief
of Staff Gen. Francis Szombathelyi.
In the early days of uphill struggle
against submarines, the prisoners we man.
were cocky then, but in recent weeks, we've
noted an appreciate loss in their spirit. They
are beginning to realize their cause is prac-
tically lost.-Vice Adrnl. Jonas H. Ingram.
Bckering results when there is denial after
marriage of the little courtesies observed
during courtship A distaste for companion
ship often occurs when there is a lack OF
continuing tenderness and respect.-Judge Ar
thur H. Day of Cleveland.
Sweden started rearming much 100 late, but
our defense has grown so strong that an in
vader would meet very efficient resistance.
Maj Gen. Hedge Jung of the Swedish army.
Anyone who fails to work or fails to dc mis-
job has given cause for having his occupa-
tional deferment canceled.-William McMa-
hon. Columbus, O., draft board chairman.
We are going into the most intense and most
time for anybody, whether business man,
farm leader, or Washington bureaucrat, to de-
eide that he has done all he needed to do
owl Director Elmer Davis.
The nations consumers may reasonably ex-
pect that the 1914 food supply will equal or
exceed the near record of 1943.-John A. Hart.
ford, president Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Co.
l doubt if there's great deal more pron1is-
Guilty than there used to be. It's just that we
talk about it more-Dr Lawson Lowery,
New York phychiatrist and editor
When the war has continued one year, it
certainly is lessened by one year. but this
fact is not likely to comfort us since we are
completely uncertain how long the war still
must continue and what we will have to en-
dure.-Finnish Prime Minister Edwin Linko-
mics.
The Jap is retreating. His boastful spirit
is also on the run. Where he used to taunt
us to come out and fight he Whines
that our preponderance of power is superior
almost to the point of unfairness. -Adanl.
William F. .Halsey.
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by Bell Telephone companies, while more
than $4,000 new operators were hired in
the course of the year to meet the heavy
turnover in personnel During the first
three quarters of 1943 A. T. & T. reported,
the average speed Of service on long-dis-
lance calls was 81 minutes, compared
with rs minutes in 1912 and 1.6 minutes
in 1871
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10

hand her suitable reWard-So...
an emu, or at least, a prIhle'
measure.
Berlin has been ralded NV
times. But in this case 49, as III.
Berliners will discover - the 1'Is,
100 will prove not nearly as f1ai0
to take as the next.
Folks of a Canadian town can"
they saw a butterfly this WeeN'
Zadok Dumkopf thinks it was Jus'
a snowflake camouflag ed.
Even that nimble-tongued AM.
ace, Herr Doktor Goebbels. nluS'
be having a devil of time eN
planning to the Germans how u.'
Russian front happens to be !"
Poland.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
TOP OF THE MORNING

This land Of the free, is free for thee
Live in it, work in it, love in it, weep in it,
Laugh in it, sing in it, die in it, sleep in
it,
For its free and for thee and for me.
The fairest, the rarest
That man ever trod
Twixt the sky and the sod
And its mine
And its thine
Thank God.
ANON.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-10
Our Chief Aim

To aid in every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.
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The war is approaching a decision in the
new year, a decision for which everybody
will have to pay dearly. The Russians might
eventually engulf Hungary Chief
of Staff Gen. Francis Szombathelyi
Nogales international., 1944-02-04
LEST WE FORGET

JAMES w. HORROCKS
w. OLIVER WHITE
FRANK A. REED
JOHN A. (JACK) TITCOMB
SERGIO FRIAS
RUSSELL @. LEATHERMAN
ROBERT w. MCCLURE, JR.
GILBERTO C. ESTRADA
WARREN HENRY WOOD
ROBERT M. FRAZIER
Nogales international., 1944-02-04

MANUEL HUMBERTO RAMIREZ
ORLANDO LOERA
LOUIS VELASQUEZ
THOMAS ZEPEDA CLARK
HARRY N. RENSHAW
RAY C. FORTNER
LAWRENCE S. COLLINS
JOE ARTNO
Nogales international., 1944-02-04
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY MEN AND WOMEN
SERVING In U.S.. ARMED FORCES

There several others who have enlisted from Santa Cruz county but
have received official notice them this time Anyone
knowing the Of from the county, whose not listed be-
please notify the glad
addition.
Nogales international., 1944-02-04

Cannon. Raymond Lockney
Cano, Ramon Palomares
Capin, Samuel A.
Capps, Ferril
Cardenas, Enrique
Carey, Tom
Carrasco, Julio
Carrillo, Edward
Carter, Franklin
Carter, Leon
Castellano, Adolpho
Castellano, Louis D.
Castillo, FREDERICK M.
Castillo, Jose G.
Castillo, Manuel G.
Castillo, Roberto
Castro, Daniel
Castro, I. J.
Castro, Robert
Chacon, Antonio Moreno
Chamberlain, George
Chamberlain, Richard
Chamberlain, Thos. DAME
Chavarria, Juan
Chavez, Jesus Tapia
Chavez, Raul Garcia
Chavez, RoSendo
Chenoweth, VIM. f.
Chernin, Homer
CisneroS, GonZalo
Cisneros, Jose Manuel
Cisneros, Leonard
Cisneros, Sammy
Citizen, Theodor
Clark, Wellington
Coffin, Alto D.
Coley, Paul Rodney
Collins, Fred
Collins, Henry Edward
Colunga, Jr., Francisco
Contrares, Francisco
Contreras, Edward l..
Contreras, Jesus r.
Contreres, Manuel
Coppola, Luis B.
Corley. Warren
Cornwall, O. L.
Coronado, Leonard M.
Corrales, Alexandra
Corrales, Arturo
CorraleS, ISmaei
Cortez, Rodolfo Esplnosa
Gotta, Alphonso Ruiz
Gotta, Ignacio
Gotta, Jr., Joe M.
Gotta, Julio M.
Cox, Robert
Crawford, Harold
Crawford, Herman A.
Creamer, William
Cruz, Arnold
Cumming, Kendall,
Cutburth, Joseph Henry
Cypert, Oris N.
Dale, Floyd D.
Dalton. Woodrow Wilson
Daniels, Jack
Daniel, Lewis Webster
Damn, Don
Davey, William r.
Davila, Adalberto
Davis. Harvey
Dawson, Fred
Dawson, Robert
Dawson, George
Dawson, William
Dawson, William
De la Ossa, Antonio
De La Ossa, Carlos Teodore
De La Cruz, Manuel M.
De La Fuente, Carlos A.
Deering. Robert z.
Delgado, Oscar
Deliman, Henry
De Sass, George
DeVaughr-, Jimmy
Diaz, Alfonso Ybarra
Diehl, Jr., Louis E.
Dilton, Tom
Diorio, Edward G.
Dean, Leslie Joe
Dojaquez, Frank E.
1t :, Robert
Dojaqu 2, Ray.
Dominouez. Benjamin
Dominique, Jose
Dominguez, Louie
Drake. Charles Edward
Drew, Cedric L.
Duarte. ErneSto
Duarte. Jose Chalmers
Duarte, Leonides
Duarte, Manuel
Duggie. Wilbur S.
Duncan, Ben
Dunham, Chester
Dunham, Louis Donald
Dupuy, Frank
Durazo, Jr., Alex
Durazo, Juan P.
Ducasse, Abel
Dysart, Sam r.
Eakin, William
Eames, Raoul Severno
Easley, Howard
Echevarria, Frank L.
Echevarria, GregOrio