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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15
NICHOLS EXPLAINS
MANAGERS WORK

A. c. Nichols, city manager, dis
cussed the duties and functions Of
a city manager in speech TO the
Rotary club at its weekly meeting
yesterday at the Friendly dining
room.
1.-THE first city to adopt the city
manager form of government was
Sumpter, S. C. in 1912, Mr.. Mich.
OILS revealed.
Six hundred cities and counties
are now under this type Of control,
he added.
At the request OF H. A. Marks.
program chairman, Mr.. Nichols
told the club a little about his
educational background and his LIE
before he came to Wilmington
He passed city organization
charts around so that club mem
bers might see how the city gov
eminent of Wilmington works
Some of the many duties OF the
city manager are to see that NE
ordinances of the city are obeyeo,
to scrutinize all bills, to see lAS'
the city lives within its budget' %
be responsible for the physical az
poets and facilities of the CITY, anu
to listen to all complaints and SUI
gestions and evaluate them lOi
possible action, he disclosed
The Wilmington form is se.
eral plan, under which the ely ely
manager is the admlnlstfaInii
head of the city and is appol1'ta
by the city council ir regafo "
merit only, he continued. IN,
Mr.. Nichols emphasized the ia.'
that the relationships Of the man.,
ager and the council need 10 W
very close and sympathetic s4a
the city manager is expected III, n
attend all meetings Of the c cou. +ss
and to keep it advised as !le . WI,
financial condition OF the Guy CIV
possible future expense .,...
The manager serves at the pee
sure of the council, he went vi
say. .ooro m
The councils duties are more more,
the order of Legislative Responsive
tiles, such as passing budgelS a., az,
ordinances deemed desirao!e he
the good of the comill'uD'''
added. ..e Mn
Nichols told of a few of the 'nl NJ,
done by his office fuIln l,., w. r.
month, and read some unusaa1 d
quests that have been maos cid
b pur''' At w. various times, he s il.,
he has been called upon TO %, , Ss-,j
the the servant problem, reco conn ~.
sne po se5 '1 laundry, prevent the ,,. r.
r a geIu Of brick sidewalks vn IL.
complainant thought adae 5S.n ~ ani
scenic beauty of wilmington legaI
to to saw whether or not it was arch ly
for a man to sit on his ff0n' ~
without his shirt Ion Is 70
In answer to question ., q, Mn
postwar plans of the cry Io4s q
Nichols said, There are ord try
things we are working on on '' bit 81
ING to do something about ~ p' sgr
faT we haven't formulated ally
cific plans. ,uore Tracy
Walker of Clinton, R, r. p d. Dsrt,
Bill Beery, Jr., U. s. N r. 1,5 D
H. H.. Howes, III, and C. NJ l"'''
son. cIover pre-
sided in the absence Of dFt Lived 10
A. S. Grist, who is e0'1'''
the hospital.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15
TOP o. THE MORNING

It has been said, and with truth, that
Christianity is the only religion that can
deal with mans past. God can restore
the years that the locust hath eaten;
He will do this when we put the whole sit
uation and ourselves unreservedly and be-
lievingly into his hands. Not because OF
what we are but because of what He is
Streams in the Desert.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15
Fair Enough

Editors. note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers Hi sarticles serve the good purpose
of making people Think
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15

nearance of Capitalization remains to be de-
,oonstrated, They are submitted here merely
as a current Washington view"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15

Do not thaw out tr0z en-, WI
tables be be before cooking z ., You Do
loose loose the vitamin c II you ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

doubts that he will ever &C.
company you to the altar.
And on the other hand, I feel
confident that IL marriage
should come to pass, you would
live TO learn that your court
ship worries were Just the be-
ginning of a dreary dream of
endless anxiety and disappoint-
ment.
To judge by your story,
he is a man of devious mind
and uncertain purpose, given to
ambiguous utterances and in
determined performance.
In my opinion, his elusive
skirmishing on the subject of
money is not an isolated in
stance of foolish inconsistency
on the part of simple fellow
unsehooled in managing finances.
Rather. / think 1t gives the
measure of a casually dishonest
character. confirmed in the
habit of making excuses for do
ing whatever he wants TO do.
And as ! see your beau. he
does not want 10 practice
thrift; nor does he intend TO
subscribe TO tenets of teamwork
In relation TO you.
His negligent failure to save
money for marriage, after
warning you that he could not
consider marriage until he had
amassed a bank roll, signifies
that he does not, and never did,
sincerely and seriously second
your purpose to be married to
him.
For the present, he enjoys
your company and your adula-
ton; and the sweetheart rela-
tionship is all he desires.
NJ. H.
EDITORS NOTE-Mary Ha-
North eounseis through her coll
umn; not by mail or personal
inter0iew. Write her in care Of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
WASHINGTON Scene
By George Dixon

a justice Of the u. s. Circuit
Court of Appeals out on the
West Coast, so he ought TO
know his constitutional law.
Ridiculous" said senator
Bone. Lots of people have run
for Office under aliases. Look at
Runt Bishop, Pass-the-Biscuits
O'Daniel, and even Ham Fish.
"You can even get married
under a phoney name and the
law makes IL stick. Surprising
you had given the name John
Doe when you were married ?"
But 1 didn't" ] said. IL
wasn't thinking fast enough
at wouldn't have mattered,"
said Senator Bone. "The law Is
specific on that point. Your wife
didn't marry your name. She
married your corporate body"
"She did," ! shuddered. "How
unromanticw
"Yes," agreed Senator Bone.
"and she stuck with IL. She can't
even sell the pelt."
So l guess / haven't found a
way yet TO keep Truman out of
the vice presidency. Bricker
will have to do it!
WHEN / came back 10 the
w office today, after keeping
a date TO autograph a dozen
eggs for a Plymouth Rock, Miss
Reid said:
81 am taking time off TO vote
on election day, but 10 Is not to
be considered a wage or salary
increase"
Miss Reid" / snarled. 81 am
In no mood for your bloody glib
berish. Please explain what you
mean before I report you to the
federal trade commission for
unfair business practices"
1T Is very simple, really" re-
piled Miss Reid. "You will not
be considered In violation of the
wage STERILIZATION program"
/ picked up a paperweight,
but before / could heave IL, Miss
Reid thrust a document at me.
Just read this II you think
I am babbling." she said. cit is
a release from the Office Of War
Information. I will have water
and an aspirin ready after you
have finished"
So help me, his is what the
handout said:
1.-THE National War Labor
Board announced adoption of
the following resolution:
employers who grant their
employees time of on election
day I'm order TO vote, without
deductions from their pay, will
not be considered to have
granted wage or salary In
creases I'm violation of the wage
sterilization program"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

I am getting pretty discour-
aged, waiting.
He won't tell me how much
he has saved, but ! know he
isn't saving industriously.
DEAR v. D.:
THE title Of this picture seems
l. to be, you can lead a
horse to water, but you cannot
make him drink"
Who promoted this engage
ment, anyway?
Confess now, wasn't 1t your
idea?
Reading between the lines of
your letter, ! get the impression
OF a determined, not too sensi-
tive young woman trying 10
shove a lethargic admirer into
a set of double harness he has
no wish TO wear.
The spectacle is not reassur-
ing.
l feel you are engaged in
losing struggle. whatever hap
pens.
On the one hand, I have grave
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
THESE DAYS
By George E.
Sokolsky

ing on the horizon Of the COM
ing peace. Nor did the fact that
the most devastating panic In
the nations history had oc-
Cured under Republican aus
pices indicate that a return to
the days of freer, IL not free,
enterprise, still yearned for in
nostalgia circles, offered any
better prospects, even II it was
feasible"
But Frank Sinatra and Orson
Welles are sure. They know.
Their experience on stage and
screen makes them positive.
In what field Of human en-
deavor has Frank Sinatra
proved himself an expert?"
The fact that these theatre
cal folk are on the White House
list as amusing guests makes
them nothing more than anus
ing guests.
II does not make them stu
dents of affairs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
JACK PICKERING

number of times, once when he
was laden with cookies and.
think, an orange or an apple.
That was in the midst of a ma
chine gun problem out in the
Morrisville Hills, and how he
got the cookies out there
don't quite know. He was in
D Company.
IN A Company, there was r.
L wing Lewis, who was inter-
ested in digging up items for
The Cycle, the camp newspaper,
and inasmuch as they've tackled
the job of battalion reporter
onto me, I had some contact
with Lewis. He did some writ
ing back home for one of the
JAW papers, the Eye-Opener,
of Local 2, at Murray.
He had some hopes of playing
baseball here. until he found
how little time anybody had for
such things. Even at that, ne
was one of the five or six who
turned out TO try to form d
team, but they couldn't get
enough others TO make a team.
He was signed by the New York
Yankees and farmed out to FL
Paso, so the team would have
had a capable pitcher if they
could have found the rest.
SUPPOSE we take one of our
~ evenings and devote it to
finding somebody in the 31st
Battalion, or the Seventh, or
some other battalion. 1t takes
most of the evening to 60 from
here to there and back, and find
q man Oy, ton 0f that Uhep
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

couldn't help IL. You're the
image Of my Mid brother-he
was I'm the same outfit rs yours.
He was killed near Aachen last
week-and ] just couldn't stop
looking ut YOU"
BROADWAY BANTER: The
- thrill of the night: Reading
that Edward Banta was con-
victed of framing the author of
Under Cover" on that girls
charge. which she confessed was
a frame.
1t. True Davis Is now free.
Mrs. Davis won a st. Louis d.
vorce recently.
Joan Mitchell, the show girl
(often itemed as "Cugat's bay
bee") is In H'wod. where she is
now Ann Marshall.
The bereaved family Of Happy
Orville (the Ink Spot who died
the other day. returned home
after the funeral to find II ran
sacked.
Norman Corwin has been
signed by Mervyn Leroy to as
sist in scripting The Robe"
One hundred thousand cases
OF Scotch arrived the other day.
Dealers expect 100000 cases
by New Years.
NEW YORK NOVELETTE,:
~ His name is Tom Ross
He is a veteran of the stage.
Once renowned In several
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
Letters From
A Soldier

we're in the Fort, the other
fellow may be on bivouac out at
Choccolocco or Morrisville. Or
if we're not working on a given
night, he's out learning to fol-
low a compass course at night,
or crawling through the in
filtration course, or doing KIP
duty. The odds are very slim
that we'll find him.
So-we have learned not to
try to find people, and it's
mostly by luck that we run
across people from home. 1t.
Arthur Cerre is here, or was,
but I haven't been able to find
him. And on the other hand,
you meet some home-towners
by chance. Boxing is pretty
popular in our regiment, and I
was covering some fights only
last week. Some men from the
Ninth Battalion came over to
fight, and one Of them was a
Wyandotte boy, Jerry Kenney,
who used to live in Detroit, too.
He won his fight, by the way,
and looked so good doing il that
we were all surprised to learn
that IT was the first time he
had had gloves on in three
years. He smashed his arm
that long ago.
But there are so many others
that you never get to see, and
it's rather annoying, to know
that there are men from home
all around and you never get to
see them. But that's the army,
and a sergeant I knew, who
had been in the army for about
three years, said that in all
that time he'd met only one
person that he'd known before.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

DEAR MARY HAWORTH:
I HAVE been engaged nearly q
L year TO a very fine fellow,
with whom I am very much In
love.
He is 26 and am "a.
He Is a civilian, military ex-
empt, with an average war job.
When we first fell In love, he
told me he must save his money
and have certain amount in
the bank before getting married.
I agreed that this was a fine
idea, and said I would wait
kpntil he could afford to marry.
But he is hardly saving at all.
Now he says that just because
he is going to get married
doesn't mean that he should
scrimp and save every single
penny; but that he should put
away whatever he can.
He is very proud and won't
accept help from any one, not
even me.
I am working and saving now,
but he says this money will go
for my own personal things, not
10 get married on, etc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
THE most oppressive fact in
Il this campaign is the absence

III AA4OSN OPRANooifN AoNt az
Il this campaign is the absence
of a full-dress debate on the
basic problems of the nation.
There is nothing of the
Lincoln-Douglas debates. MOTH
ing of Webster-Hayne, nothing
even of the currency discussion
of the McKinley-Bryan debate.
We are reduced TO the word,
Justification" 1t is a distress
ing spectacle of the moral deg
radiation of the political process.
Mr.. Dewey in his first
three speeches, attempted to
raise the level of discussion to
basic issues, but that concept
of campaigning was thrown into
the discard after Mr.. Roose-
velt's teamsters speech, which
was a trifiing cream puff of a
speech-with the cream soured.
classification" has since be-
come the issue.
In the Foreign Policy Asso-
citation speech, the President
did not tell the whole truth as
il appears in reference books,
even some issued by his own
administration. He laid himself
open to the charge Of distor-
ton.
TNHERE is a further degenera-
l. ton of debate.
The principal articulators,
apart from the candidates, are
not great governors, outstand-
ing senators. noted publicists,
professors of universities. nor
are they even businessmen or
labor leaders.
The loudest speeches are be-
ing made by actors and act
reSses.
They are Helen Gahagan,
Orson Welles and Frank Sim
atra.
Miss Gahagan is a candidate
for Congress.
OrSon WelleS established his
reputation by a silly broadcast
frightening his listeners and has
since been most notable for his
heterodox publicity.
Frank Sinatra's genius is an
ability to make little girls
swoon as a result of mob sex
excitation when he sings.
Yet, these are campaign ora
tors in a year when the prob
lens facing the United States
are so intricate that even Such
an experienced and eclectic his
torian ends his Basic History
of the United States" in a tone
Of considerable uncertainty and
doubt. He says:
"! the New Deal had
failed TO solve the problem of
unemployment between 1888
and 1899, that Is, before the war
boom started; for there were
still FIVE or six million men
and women without steady en-
ployment In 1888. And there
was nothing In experience to
indicate that the New Deal
could solve the still greater
problem Of unemployment loom
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

original "seven wonders of the
world?" II you can't answer
that cease calling yourself a
well informed person. Also
what do you consider the seven
wonders of the modern world?
Pvt. Alfred Lowey of the
British army Is four feet four
and a half inches tall. II he
isn't the smallest soldier in the
armed forces of the United Ma
tons, who is?
QUERIES from clients. @.
0 What was the date of the
closing of the Oriental Hotel,
Manhattan Beach?
A. You have me stopped, sir.
But you have awakened memo
ries. When a Kid l dreamed of
the day 1 would grow up and
take my girl to the Brighton
Beach race track i'm the after
noon and then with the money
1 had won from the boOkies 1
would take her to the Oriental
Hotel at Manhattan Beach for
dinner.
But when i became a man
both these places were no longer
In existence.
THERE certainly is no short
l. age of advice for wives
whose husbands are absent with
our armed forces.
This type of advice seems a
favorite sub ject of female
writers.
Our feminine scribe dealing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
WALTER WINCHEIL R,, On

TIVE Orchid Garden: George
L Jean Nsthan's new Theater
Book of the Year. A breezy
record Jerome Kern's score
for Cant Help Singing and
Universals Deanna Durbin.
Virginia North's smarticle
about Mrs. A. Hummert In
She" the mag. /t/ 4
Mark Sandrich's IT Love a
Soldier" "Blues by Basic"
the new Columbia album of the
Counts pianostics.
Bertica Serrano and her hota-
male routine ut Havana Madrid.
Strange Affair" the flicker.
Warmers new short subject,
"Jammin' the Blues" which in
PRODUCES a new sort OF. camera
teknik.
MIDTOWN vignette: He was
uA a soldier who had imbibed
a little too much He was
Laying against the bar at Ice
land.
A pretty gal down the way
stared and stared at him
And when she realized he was
staring back-she smiled
So he went over and spoke to
her.
After a while he got pretty
obvious 1t made her cry -.
Angrily. he wanted to know why
she had bothered to give him
the come-on.
But / didn't" she said. 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

THERE is a lot of unproduc-
Il tive work in getting out a
column, and / often wish some
body appreciated il. All kinds
OF time is wasted on cuckoo
tips.
For instance. an excited party
(who refused 10 give his name
and / don't wonder, now
called up yesterday.
1T think I have something
terrific" he Spluttered. 81 was
crossing on Staten Island
ferry the other day and I over
heard two lawyers talking. At
least I think they were lawyers.
They had brief cases.
do you know what they
said: There's n law prohibiting
any one from running for public
office under an alias!
sect the significance? IL
means Senator Harry s. Tru-
man can't run for vice president
because that isn't his right
name. It's only Harry Truman.
He just made up the 'S'w
The thing was just daffy
enough 10 get me agitated. So
spent hours trying to contact
authorities.
l finally got Senator Homer
T. Bone of Washington. He was
about to leave here to become
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

Broadway hits The last few
years have been tough for him.
Tough?
He's been penniless and just
couldn't impose on the many
friends he has.
He won't go hungry for a
long time, though He can
dwell in the nicer places too.
>. A sister died the other
weekend And left him a
$4,000 a year annuity. two
cars, several homes, ETC.!
MANHATTAN Murals: The
IVA slightly over-animated name
for a Lenox avenue funeral
chapel: "Mickeys Carolina
Home"
The gaunt. white-faced
woman who walks Gas II in a
dream) through the midtown
hustle-garbed in a picture hat
and ankle-length frock (of 1914
vintage)-and leaves a scent of
lavender and old lace in her
wake.
The half-an-alley Of houses
tucked into East. 36th street
(between Lexington and Third
"a replica of London's cheaper
urbania at Park avenues snoot-
lest rentals.
The gray-haired lady cab
driver (No. 477,837 who has her
soldier sons photo on the wind
shield.
Copyright by Daily Mirror. Inc. -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
Dexoit Timel
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer :

It's open hunting season today in state You are
allowed one bear. The bear is also allowed you.
The way to catch bear to put yourself in his place
Whatever you do allow him to put himself in your
place
This is bad season for bears. trapped four before
l got one with horns.
They must be than year old. You cannot get
license to shoot them unless you q. 1t makes
for better understanding of things when you get to-
gether in hollow tree and compare birth certificates.
Here's thing didn't know about bear campaigns
in state. They may be shot only between breakfast
and supper, Eastern War Time.
can spot the difference between breakfast and sup
per snake by the Jumps. But can't bear.
The season is from Nov. to 30 in Essex, Oswego,
Saratoga and Warren counties north of the New York
Central tracks in Herkmer and Oneida Now, they have
consulting time tables wrist watches and bngo cards
by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

ONE Of the greatest Of VIC
" tories in the present war
has not made the headlines TO
any extent.
II has been a quiet battle. con-
Quoted behind the lines by an
army Of unsung heroes who
never get decorated but contin-
uously and unrelentingly and
with great intelligence and all
the resources Of modern science
conducted the campaign for pub
lie health for the civilian popu-
lation.
It appears 10 have come as a
surprise 10 publicists and news
paper editorial writers when-
ever the news from this cam
paign did reach status 10 be
worthy OF a column or two of
news print, that the health OF
the general population has been
even better during the war than
Il was in some OF the piping
times OF peace.
But In spite of rationing and
travel restrictions, or perhaps
partly because Of those neceS-
\fary impositionS. in spite Of the
Eension and tenseness Of life. in
spite OF the enormous amount of
attention paid TO the health Of
members of the armed forces,
our civil population has remained
in wonderful health. Infant NOR
tally is down. there is no. or
little typhoid. school children
diseases are at a minimum and
the death rate everywhere in
civil life is down.
For all this, due credit should
be given 10 the public health
administration. federal, state.
county and city. all over the
land.
Our health problems are not
all solved by any means. With
the return OF soldiers and sailors
some Of them incapacitated
either by injury or disease, some
Of them in mental states that
are far from cooperative, we
have a real job to do to get them
back into condition so they will
be healthy. able and self-respect-
ing with abilities to be self-sup-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02

IL know a couple who, soon
after marriage, began to hate
each other. The baby came.
Each loved II, but in his own
way. Two years later. 1t con-
tracted rheumatic fever. The
child fingered. often screaming
with pain. It's suffering broke
down the barriers between its
parents because IL made them
work together for great
spiritual goal. The answer TO
the question is, Yes.
I rs tudying arithmetic,
especially If you make yourself
like IL, improves your person
atty more than any other study,
because II adds TO your skill in
figuring out how TO deal with
other people.
3-Not necessarily because
there are several kinds of lead
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
On the
Side

with the how to handle the abb
sent husband situation" says
there is no reason why a wife
should not accept an invitation
10 90 TO the theater with a
male friend of the family or
one of her husbands pals. ~
However, she should be care I
full not 10 create an intimate
atmosphere"
II she invites the man TO her
house or apartment she should
not have a fire in a wood burn
ing fireplace.
This, says the feminine scribe
is IAN emotional hazard"
Especially when the lights
are low.
1t puts those watching the
fire in a mood for love.
Our Horses a. Women de-
partment is checking this claim.
THE ROBERTS WELRY
Il STORE has been in business
in Pittsburgh, Pa. for lip years.
Sounds like a record for jewelry
stores. Wonder how many we'd
ding rings they sold in that time.
During World War I, the 369th
Infantry of New York, a Negro
regiment, was at the fighting
fronts for 191 days.
A Pittsburgh, Pa, bowler
rolled a score of 1894. One pin
broke in half on the final roll.
And half of it remained stand
ing.