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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
No More Advice, Please

Russia's rejection of the American effort
to arbitrate the differences between the Polish
government in exile and the Moscow regime
is disappointing in Washington, but under
standable, particularly as Russia has proved
its ability to settle its own quarrels in its
own way and has a strong indisposition to
brook interference from the outside.
There are many in this country who hold
the opinion that Washington's offer was i'll
advised and that Russia's snub was the best
that could be expected.
Phrased with careful regard for the nice
ties of diplomacy, the Moscow reply to Sec
rotary HulPs proposal can leave no doubt in
anyones mind that the Soviet Union intends
to paddle its own canoe through the rapids
and over the shoals in the stream of his
war without advice from the shore They
should be allowed to do so.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Let Them Vote

The members Of Congress who are fighting
President Roosevelts attempt to create leg
islation which will give all persons in the
armed forces and the Merchant Marine o.
portllnity to vote in the forthcoming national
elections without unnecessary complications in
correspondence or state primaries on the score
that he thus seeks to build up support for a
fourth term, are blinded by their own preiu-
dices.
The real issue is to set up machinery by
use of which men and women in the service
OF their country may exercise their franchise.
fourth term for President Roosevelt is of
secondary consideration. The main thing is
to give them the VOTE wherever they may be-
This is not to be n1isconstrued as an en-
dorsement of fourth term. 1t is intended
only to support cardinal principle of DEM
ocratic government, that the people shall
choose their president by popular election.
and to endorse national legislation giving vot-
ess in foreign service the means to do so
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Bottle Up Japan

Among the many proposals heard for the
postwar treatment of Japan, none commands
more serious consideration than that Of Ad-
miral Emory S. Land, the American ship
building chief Japan, says the Admiral must
be allowed to engage only in coastal trade
after the war, and her shipping restricted to
small and light vessels incapable Of going to
sea.
He pointed out, in testimony before Con-
gress for $6,776, 00o, 900 merchant ship con-
struction fund, that every tanker, cargo ship
and vessels of all types Japan has is literally
combat ship. If the Japanese are allowed
to build ea-going craft, he added, they would
be in position to convert them to fighting
ships almost at the drop of hat 'You had
better put screws on these boys and keer
them there a while,'' he urged
And he might have added, we think, that
we had better send no cargoes to Japan con-
tanning materials which could be used for
further war-naking. We Numbered grievous-
ly, and encouraged Japan in her war pro-
gram by sending petroleum and scrap metal
to her, even while we were expressing deep
sympathy lOf Lne OulneSG ana giving Lnem
our moral support in their logged resistance
to Japans attack.
It was commended that the moment we cut
off these supplies Japan would turn south
and seize them in the rich southwest Pacific
islands and start war, in which we inevita-
bly, would become involved. The folly of this
attitude was proved when Japan struck at
Pearl Harbor using our own metal for shells
and bombs and our petroleum to propel her
warships and her planes and turned south
anyway, defeating us in the Philippines, the
British in Singapore and the Dutch in the
East Indies, literally winning the empire she
set out to conquer before either the United
States or Great Britain could strike an ef-
fective blow.
Obviously, then, if Japan is to be thwarted
in further war-making, we will have to keep
her in her home and nearby coastal waters,
as Admiral Land advises, but also, and even
more emphatcaly, refuse to sell her materi-
ais out of which she could again build war
machine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Ickes Stumps His Toe

Secretary Of the Interior 1ckes, who is also
owned Petroleum Reserve Corporation, in a
signed article in the American magazine,
which discusses the. British oil industry, says:
Every British company is touchsd with a
national interest AS matter of fact, the
British government owns an actual stock in.
corporations that exploit the oil. If the
British oil industry and the British govern
ment are satisfied with an arrangement that
protects the oil interests and assures the Brit
ish government Of oil when it needs it most,
why might it not be possible to work out an
equally advantageous understanding between
the American government and the American
oil industry?''
Right here oil-rationed American citizens
should ask some questions: If the British
plan Of government in the oil business is so
successful, why must the United States fur
nish, as our people have been told the bulk
of the gasoline and fuel OIL requirements of
the Allies? How has private enterprise in
the oil industry in the United States, unham-
pered by government ownership, been able
to do this job when the British government
has failed, according to reports, to develop
its known oil reserves? Apparently the Brit
ish system does not supply England ''oil when
it needs it most. Why is there always pres
sure to get the United States, which has fur
nished the United Nations planes, tanks, ships,
oil and all manner of supplies, as the result
OF production by private enterprise, to scrap
the private enterprise system and adopt a
policy OF government ownership or partial
government ownership of. industry, in place
of system that has out-produced all others?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28

'of which rely for existence on low prices.
After the war, unless manufacturers and re-
tailers can offset rising costs with further inn
proved operating techniques, living standards
will decline.
However, manufacturers and retailers can.
not attain the impossible. No matter how pro.
gressive arrangements may be, if every move
toward greater efficiency or greater produc-
tive effort is continually countered with in
creased taxes or punitive political action, the
result cannot be other than disastrous for
the country
Mass production and mass distribution, as
conceived and operated by private enterprise,
are the sources Of Americas high standard
of living in peacetime, and Americas strength
in wartime. The sooner people wake up to
this fact, the sooner the country can look to-
ward the future with confidence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Price Trends

In the opinion Of auto manufacturers the
price of cars will be 40 per cent over 1871
pre-war standards, there will be no such thing
as cheap car. This illustrates the change
IN values being brought about by the war.
Our country has achieved unprecedented pro-
gress because our manufacturers and distrib-
utors made goods and services available at
prices everybody could pay. Mass production
and mass distribution revolutionized the iv-
Ing standards of America. The present trend
toward higher prices can become a threat to
mass production and mass distribution, both
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Raymond Clapper Says:
Casualties Very Lou
Among PIT Boat Cre1us

Others who never attended
church at home go to services
here. A regular Navy man, long
in the service, said:
"Only the hand of Almighty God
saves us sometimes"
The same thing was said in al
most identical words when I saw
Lieut.. Gen. Walter Kruger, COM
manding the Sixth Army. Kruger
was born in Germany. He rose
from buck private to senior lieu
tenant general. He has command
ed everything from a rookie squad
to an army. His men say he is a
precisionist, strict soldier.
General Kruger said you can
have the most perfect organiza-
ton, your supplies and everything
else can be ready, and you can
have an advantage over the enemy
in everything, but still the time
comes when you have to fight, and
that is the test. He said some
times he knows Almighty God has
laid his protecting hand over his
men and brought them through.
Almost every individual has
some little religious charm or 9TH
er good-luck token. Many wear a
little image of Saint Christopher,
the patron saint of travellers. Often
these are gifts. One man, a nom
Catholic, wears one given him by
his wife, who is a Catholic.
I'm not a religious man, but
find myself frequently taking out
tiny brown bear which my
daughter gave me as was leaving
last year for the European Thea
ter. Over here seven war CORE
spondents have been killed, most
ly in the last few months, and 1
never get in a plane anymore with
out brokn beat.
The PIT crews are living very
rugged life. They sleep on their
boats when these are tied up. How
ever, they have cut a fair camp
out of the New Guinea JUNGLE.
Their mess hall has an old piano,
probably the only one in New
Guinea. When I arrived for mess
it was being played by one of the
men in the unit, Ensign Roger
Bordman, concert pianist from
New York who used to be accom-
PIANIST for Gladys Swarthout. He
picked up the piano for $50 in
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
BOX
SAVE MARKET STREET
To The Editor:


Market street, which was once
restful residential street with
many noble mansions, is now a
national highway, with it's big
houses destined to disappear or be
converted to uses detrimental to
the streets prestige. The Colonial
Danes have rescued the Cornwall
lis house and the VIII. the Gov
ernor Steadman home. There are
at least three or four other homes
which should be preserved by civic
organizations and one of them con-
verified into public library, which
should be the city's proudest pos
session. Market street is appropri-
ate because of its accessibility and
the fact that most intelligent trav-
elers judge city by it's library
and its people by the contents of
and its people by the contents of
the library.
From Third street north Market
street should be protected from
the inroads of commerce. It at
present has dignity and character
and is stabilized by the impressive
school buildings, st. James church,
the Temple, the Baptist, Lutheran
and Methodist churches and the
Church of the Covenant. Pembroke
Jones park is a valuable asset
and should be extended by utiliz-
ing the land east and north of the
Church of the Covenant.
The above is respectfully SUBJ
mitted to our Planning Board and
to all public spirited citizens, with
the hope that public library and
a large park may be kept in mind
as attainable detectives.
Lindsay Russell
Wilmington, N. C.
Jan. q, 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Daily Prayer
FOR LIES UNEXPECTEDNESs

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In this all enfolding war we
know not what a day may bring
forth; so we pray to Thee, o sus-
tanning Lord, God of all power,
to fortify our souls for the unex-
pected. In the affairs of the great
world, in the movements of bat
tie, as well as in our private lives,
the unforeseen awaits us. Personal
bereavements may descend upon
us from the fighting fronts. Do
nestle disasters may befall, and
material needs may multiply.
Tragedy may invade our hearth
sides; and the serenity of home
and love may be disrupted. Vast
economic and social changes may
come, upsetting our personal
plans. Our prayer is that, what
ever befall, we may have heroic
hearts, and an unfailing faith that
in all Thy large designs T u
doest all things well. Lord, in
crease our faith. Give us meas
ure of the courage of the calm
eyed Christ, who accepted the Fa-
theirs will in all things. Thus may
we glorify Thee. and save our own
souls, Amen.-W.T.E
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Port improvement

Representative Clarks announcement that
legislation providing for the widening and Deep
ening of the Cape Fear river channel may be
expected within short time is good news.
When the work is done Wilmington will be
ready to absorb a part of world commerce
after the war in proportion to its effort in
competition with other Atlantic ports
In the meantime there is a mans size Job
to be done, in securing freight rate adjust
ments to tidewater by which shippers will
have no advantage in sending their merchan-
disc to other southern ports, and in building
terminals and other facilities for storing and
handling cargoes.
With adequate channel and harbor there
would seem to be no good reason why Will
mington should not have thriving port in
the postwar era if provision is made to at
tract cargoes inbound as well as outgoing;
and as every business and worker will be
advantaged by the success of such project
the work must not be left wholly to the Port
Commission and the Chamber of Commerce,
but shared by every individual whose pros
perity depends upon the prosperity of their
town.
The port is Wilnington's greatest asset. No
person. group club or organization can be
exempted from service in its DEVELOPMENT.
Representative Clarks encouraging message
ought to spark intensive effort for port i'm
provement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
By RAYMOND CLAPpER


EA,-(by wireless) - We were
called about 2::30 am. to board
our PIT boat for the run under
cover Of darkness to the Cape
Gloucester front on New Britain.
The weather finally forced us
back, but I got some idea Of what
these men 60 through. The crew
was bleary-eyed when we re.
turned, like men who have been
through a football game.
The PIT crews have remarkably
low casualties, considering the al
most point-blank range at which
they fight.
Out of this unit only seven men
have been killed in 10 months, and
some 20 Purple Hearts have been
awarded for wounds. But between
Sept. q and Christmas Day they
sank 104 Japanese barges and
damaged rs.
The PIT boats work close to
shore, where the Jap barges are
sneaking along. Their effectiveness
is suggested by the statement OF
an Australian general. officer that
the Japs had been forced to spread
their artillery along a stretch OF
SO miles to provide shore cover.
age for their barges against the
PTS, where as these guns might
otherwise have been used against
Australian troops. He said the PIT
damage to the Japs supplies
forced them to make three days
ration of rice last nine days, sup
plementing with native roots and
even slaughtering their pack ami
mails for food.
Our airmen work by daylight,
sighting the barges. and the PIT S
at night. They exchange informa-
ton, and this coordination ac-
counts for the excellent results.
During our night mission
talked with some of the crew, and
discovered a strong religious tend
ency among them. Ensign T. j.
Lovvorn, Stamford, Tex, told
about being attacked Dec. q by
Is or 80 Jap dive bombers. The
PTS got back. One had So STRAIT
ing holes but no one aboard her
was hurt.
That makes you believe in
God" said LoVvorn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
wilmington, N. {
Jan. q, 1914.

New York and fought it through
all the way out here, with every
body trying to swipe it en- route.
Now it gives a bright touch of
music in the damp, dark jungle ON
the shores of New Guinea. It is
the only soft touch of civilization
in this rugged base, where the
latrine is ladder made of small
tree trunks laid horizontally out
over the water at the end of a
2OO-yard jungle path.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
MULE TANNING
is AN ART

COLUMBIA, S. C.-'R-Capt,a tam
C. Rush of a state prison 81, rrJ
insists the ability OF III. stur
Southern Negro to hanole ,,1su,.
born and fractions mules Is
passed. T.. farrt
An unbroken mule on uIS ia nj
which officials believed Co IN fl
be tanned. was turned over re;ob
Negro prisoners for a la''''
try.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28
Fair Enough

(Iaiter's Nsts.-Ths Ssas and the News accepts 40
respsasibity fsr tie personal views Of Mr. PegIss.
tAd sften disagree WITH them nueh - many Of
his rsadera His artisss serve the gssd purpose q
asking people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28

Most of the tapioca used in the
United States is not used as
1000, but to make glue for boxes
and postage stamps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-28

Fur obtained from the common
rabbit can be treated and dyed
until it resembles that Of almost
any other animal.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-06-24
Africans And
Negroes Sense
Heritage Link
To Be Factor In
Shaping Peace,
Says Magazine

WASHINGTON - (ANP) -
Consciousness on the part of Ne
ere Americans that common
heritage and common tasks"
link them with the African people
is going to prove significant IN
the long-term adjustments be-
tween the United States and Al
RIGA. is the view set forth in an
article appearing in the May is
sue of Foreign Policy reports.
Titled Omitted States Rela-
ton with Africa" and written by
O. X. D. Ringwood and Grant S.
Mcclellan, the article goes on
to point out that "a new interest
in African affairs within the
United States, greater in breath
and diversity than at any time
within the past $50 years" has
developed.
The writers traced American
relations with the dark CONT
nent from the early days of the
Barbary coast through the col
onization of the republic of Ii
IBERIA. and more recently some
of the factors which led to the
establishment of an African At
fairs Division in the state de-
partment. This division is charg-
ed with initiating and coordinat-
ing policy and action with regard
to Ethiopia, Liberia, and all col
onies, protectorates, and man.
dated territories in Africa, ex-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-06-24
The Globe Trotter
The KIan Is Dead; It's Spirit Lives
ITALY

Dixon line. 1t pushed north
ward, enrolling and passing
out bedsheets and hoods to
thousands through Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa
and Minnesota. Its leaders
found themselves powerful
enough to control elections. 1t
gathered within its folds hun
dreds of petty little public OFF,
ciaIs. who closed their eyes at
the wholesale violence, kid
napings and murder committed
by the ever present khan strong
arm bows, the wrecking crew.
The intolerant spirit Of the khan
was spread in communities whose
residents never before had been
poisoned with the fascisic doctrine
it had kept alive in the section
where it was spawned. In Michi-
gan other little hate groups sprout-
ed from the seeds sown by klans-
men. The Black Legion sprang up
to disgrace the name of Michigan.
The legions members, curlouSly
enough. chose as its victims Ne
groes, Catholics, Jews and foreign
born, the same groups so thorough
ly despised by the khan.
REACTION SETS IN
Prosecution and a few convtc-
tiohs of Khan and Black Legion
members in Indiana, Michigan, ILL
nois and Ohio sounded the death
knell to open activities of the
organization. Public reaction set
in and fewer and fewer of Its
members dared parade in blood
stained badsheets behind fiery
crosses.
A desperate come back at
tempt was made in the middle
of the 1905 with the klan this
time spear heading the drive
of big industrialists against
the growing power of Organi-
zed labor. So desperate was the
attempt that khan wrecking
crews went to even greater
lengths i'm their acts Of terror
ism.
Union organizers were kidnapped
and killed. Flogging gangs were
organized and many helpless VIC
TINS were snatched from their
beds In the middle of the night
carried deep into lonely areas
stretched across tree stumps, and
left bleeding and dying from pain
full wounds inflicted by countless
lashes with heavy leather, steel
spiked straps.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-06-24
BY cliff Maekay
GOES UNDERGROUND

Vigorous prosecution of these
floggers in Atlanta, the MAN
headquarters of the khan, togeth-
er with exposure of the coalition
between the khan and the I'M
American Nazi Bund brought an
abrupt halt to the organizations
activities. Thousands of its mem
bers began hastily to get rid OF
their regalia. No more fiery cross
es were burned in lonely valleys
and mountain tops. The khan went
underground,
But we can take it from the
imperial wizard himself that
though the khan has officially
ceased to exist, its spirit Is
still abroad in the land, per-
haps stronger than ever before.
And the ex-hOrse dortOr in
this instance was making no
nnderstatement.
The seeds of hate were scatter
ed too widely and too well by the
khan for it's warped ideals to pass
overnight from the American scene
At the very time American boys
are dying on the beachheads OF
Europe to crush forever the super
race theology, believers in the
same theory in America are quiet
ly, but determinedly organizing to
porraf11ata If here
OTHER GROUPS EMERGE
They are enrolling in Eugene
Talmadge's vigilantes, Inc, in the
keystone Society, in the Fact
Finders and other little hate
groups with the aim of carrying
on with lash and tar bucket tn,
filthy activities begun by the Ku
Klux Khan
Some of them are working
under the sOrdid banner of
white supremacy dedicated to
the task of defying even the
United States Supreme Court
in their determined effort to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-06-24

that none can enjoy freedom from
fear unless all are free. Started
during Reconstruction days to
terrorize newly freed slaves, the
taste of human blood became SO
good to it's sadistic members 1t
was not long before the khan spread
out it's activities to cover multi
pie of hates.
MORE DOLLARS COME IN
Each new added hate meant
MANY more thousands of dollars
rolling into the greedy hands OF
it's originators and their heirs.
Moving from the comparatively
easy field of terrorizing helpless
black Americans, od-thirsty
klansmen began exercising their
nocturnal hates on Catholics, Jews
and foreign-born during the lush
period from 1915 to 1927.
It was during this era that
the khan gained its peak
strength. 1t no longer was
limited by the Mason and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-06-24
House Members
Lend Support
ToFEPCFight
Permanent Agency
Backing Revealed
During Hearings

WASHINGTON - (ANP) 49,
Two members of the house labor
committee took occasion during
questioning of witnesses last
week to announce their support
of legislation looking to the es~
Enlistment of a permanent +.
f. P. C.. For 10 days now the
house group has been holding
hearings on the Scanlon- Dawson
LaFollette bill.
Another congressman, Hugh
Scott (R) of Pennsylvania, APP
peared before the committee to
offer lengthy statement as to
why he favored this legislation.
He declared that "racial or rell-
gious discrimination has had an
economic base"
Scott saw the lack of a "great
middle class" among Negroes,
which has subjected them ito the
penalties of persons in a low
income status" He considered
that the experience of the pres
ent FEPC should "blaze the trail
for the job of re- employment of
men returning from war looking
mot for the old niche - because
this is not economic justice-but
to enable them to find the par
allel opportunity in the various
phases that go t. make up the
economic well-being of this coun-
try"
Rep. Stephen A. Day (R) of
Illinois observed the prejudice
must first be broken down "on
the economic base" and a per-
manent agency is the method of
doing this. He said, of course,
that once this is settled there
may be opposition con a higher
level = the social basis" but felt
confident that would not happen
early.