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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
acsAre Pleased
With Mohdn1n1ed'

"Mohammed' has definitely
found the brighter side of dogs
life c'Mohammed pelng pat
riotic puppy! Lest you feel that
"Mohammed", who now makes
his home with the WACs in North
Africa, is leading too soft a life.
let us assure you that this parti-
cular pups past makes his pre-
sent comfort well-deserved.
Originally, "Mohammed' was at
tached to the First Division, which
has rung up brilliant battle re-
cord in North Africa and Sicily.
However, recent indispQsition
made transfer necessary and
"Mohammed' was "debarked'' on
the steps of the WAC barracks in
North Africa. When found, his or
ders read: Patient for WAC in
Urinary" "Mohammed" is very
happy with his transfer and the
Wacs are just as pleased.
"Mohammed'', now the North
African Wac's official mascot, is
of uncertain age and lineage.
Although it is well known that
there are now 239 vital Army jobs
available to Wacs, "Mohammed"
has created a new one unofficial
ly) for we find no listing for mas
cot valet"
'Mohammed" though small and
docile, is a fighter from way back
because he'll have bone to pick
with anybody who'll give him a
chance!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Globular Aim
By PETER EDISON

The United States is coming out OF this war
with more power than it ever had betore-the
greatest economic and military machine in
the world.
AS strength breeds enemies, the United
States is going to need friends.
People in government have therefore begun
to think about the postwar problem OF main
tanning good relations with the rest OF the
world Specifically, the Department OF State
has asked the President to ask Congress to
amend the "good neighbor act'' of 1889, so that
more of this same good neighborliness may
be extended to other nations of the world,
outside Latin America.
Hearings on this proposal are scheduled to
open soon before the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs and Rep. James W. Wads-
worth of New York is already promising Re
nublican opposition. So what's it all about?
The charge will be made that this is another
scheme to spend lot of money and spread
the New Deal all over the world. It will be
called an international WPA. 1t may be brand
ed an effort to perpetuate UNRRA or set up
a new co-ordinator not of just Inter American,
but of World Affairs. In short, it will be call
ed globaloney.
When you ask at the Department of State
for specific examples of what this broadened
good neighbor policy may get the United
States into, you come up with definite re-
quests that have already been made to the
United States by foreign governments.
Afghanstan asks for the lean of a hydro
ell ctric engineer, to replace Jap who has
been kicked out.
There are six non-sectarian American col
leges in the Middle East, some of them going
back to the 1905 Robert College in Turkey
has asked to expand American engineering
training for the Turkish army Beirut College
in Syria seeks to improve its course In agrl-
culture.
Ethiopia has asked for military engineer,
road builder, and a plant breeder, to aid IN
national reconstruction.
India has asked for Reclamation Service
engineer for a project in the Punjab. This man
will 60 on to China.
China itself has asked for 80 techncians.
And SO on.
All such requests are now being met by
appropriations from the Presidents emer-
gency funds The idea for postwar develop
m It is simply to center all such activities in
the cultural relations program OF the Depart
ment of State, give the work a definite appro-
p-iation every year, and keep it subject to
control by Congress
The exchange of technicians represents only
one phase of the cultural relations work that
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27

to the Red Cross and our wreck workers
have seized this opportunity to set up a
program that is adaptable to every type
OF patient, both as to his stage of con-
valescence or treatment, and as to his
ability or inclination to enjoy such activi-
ties.
All day long from the Recreation De-
parment of our Red Cross buildings there
rises note of relaxed enjoyment, and one
knows that wholesome diversion is help
ing our patients to pass the time of in
activity and restriction made necessary
by their wounds or sicknesses. A veritable
anvil chorus may be coming from the
Craft Shop, while in our library only the
quiet sound OF pages turning may reveal
that Robert Benchley or another favorite
writer is entertaining a patient. Through
my office door I catch snatches of CONVEX
sations and greetings which testify to the
value of this phase of our work. l have
watched patients enter the Recreation
Hall on one of the evenings that we hold our
weekly jam sessions and before the eve
ming is over have observed them beating
on the back of a metal chair with drum
sticks to keep time to the rhythm of the
sax as one of our Recreation workers leads
the swing band. 1t is happy hall and the
families of all these men would rejoice
to hear the laughter and fun that rings
throughout it's broad expanse.
Then the writer modestly tells of her ow
services which in addition to the heavy grin
Of secretarial duties include writing letter
for patients and performing innumberabl
services which our own Gray Ladies ar
familiar with.
If this kind of work, and all the othe
valuable services performed by the Red eros
are to continue, we people at home mus
loosen up, as the children say when the
approach their parents for money, and put thi
fund we'll across the goal line. Through Satu1
day only little more than one-third OF tn
.ounty's quota of $500 had been raised.
Let's give the other two-thirds this week
and then some.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Daily Prayer
FOR MORE COMRADEsHIP

From the brotherhood in arms
that has developed among our
fighting men, may we at home
learn new fraternity, o Lord our
Teacher We thank Thee for all
the noble comradeship that has
been shown in the services; for
the heroic selfsa critics. of man in
behalf of man. May this unity ex-
tend to us on the home front, wip-
ing out all the unlovely and hurt
full clashes of class against class,
creed against creed, color against
color, interest against interest.
Send Thy Spirit sweeping in clean
sing power through our spirits,
that we may know ourselves as
brothers of one another, because
children of one Father. Grant us
hearts too high for hate, and a
mind of tolerance, forbearance
and sympathy. Draw us into I'M
Outstanding fellowship with Jesus
Christ, that in Him we may find
fraternity with all our fellows.
Thus out of war may there emerge
the great peace for all the world.
Amen-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27

or even parenrnood OF a single offspring an
expensive luxury for income tax purposes.
Under the present schedule, a couple gets
$1,000 exemption, and $3.50 for each minor child
But with exemptions at $500 apiece, a child
less couple would be out 5000 exemption and
$50 loser with only one. Not until there are
two youngsters does the family start cashing
in, with $4,000 exemption as against $1,000 at
present And the prolific parents of 10 would
save $1,000 on the return. 1t may be that, with
stroke Of the pen, the Ways and Means
Committee has banished all fears of a de-
clining birth rate.
Another interesting tax sidelight is provided
by recent Gallup poll, which found that SIS
per cent of those questioned favored a sales
tax over higher income taxes Last May a
similar poll found only ~ per cent for
sales tax Perhaps the subsequent shock of
the March Is payoff may have changed their
minds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
The Literary Guidepost

ma. There are at least four main
threads, and a hundred lesser
ones, each of them Clearly hand
led and clear. First there is the
story of st. Francis of Assist,
whose Brothers Minor really be-
lieved in the precepts of Jesus
and lived by them. Francis was
not a successful man as we I'M
derstand the term, but he man.
aged to save an army from the
Sultan of Egypt just the same.
There is the story of the great
mistake known as the Children s
Crusade, one of the most pitiful
Of all narratives. The love story
of Jean de Brienne and Blanche
of Champagne is in the book, and
the fourth thread is the story of
the magnificent, tragic, exciting
and sometimes stupendously stu
pid events in Asia Minor and
Egypt early in the 18th century.
Although really a crowded tap
estry, the overall effect is oddly
simple. a strange fact when one
remembers that Francis is the cen
trail figure and that his simplicity
is the sort that seems complex
to the modern mind. Nine. Kos
sak's book is long and certainly
the product Of industry and re-
search But it seems spontaneous,
rather as if the author had lived
n those remote years.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Our Chief Aim
TO aid in every way the prosecution q,
the war to complete Victory.
Federal Controls

The people of the United States are proper
" concerned at the gradual extension of fed.
eral controls. They contend that if the present
trend is permitted to continue private enter
prise will be eliminated and industry and
business come under complete government
bureau domination at the head of which will be
men who know little or nothing about the Job
they undertake.
A certain amount of government control
obviously was necessary at the start of the war
TO get industry and business geared for war
production. If the governments activities had
stopped there we could have no complaint but
it lid not stop there. Instead it overstepped
the mark. 1t reached further and further until
il las all but taken over the nations product
WHY. If it goes much further the people will be
working for the Government, and we will have
totalitarian regime.
This is what happened in Germany. It was
thought in Germany that government and in
,usry could go into partnership without in
. Sing the liberties of the people or chang
nj he nature of government. A trend was set
u otion that could not be stopped. 1t ended
in the complete destruction of German
edom and a second World War.
Fortunately OF late the eyes of Congress
have been opened to the menace of bureau
cracy Steps, however faltering, have been
taken to restore the Constitution and give the
people their constitutional rights. But there is
danger that Congress, having been lax in
its du les, may 60 to the other extreme, now
that its eyes are open, and work as great
hardship on business and industry as the ad-
mnstration did while Congress was sleeping
and the administration had clear field and
free hand.
Il is inconceivab1e that the administration
can be wrong in its every decision and under
takng. Yet there is growing feeling in Con-
gr"ss that nothing it does can be right. The
opposition, with its increased strength, is pre-
disposed to combat the Administrations every
project This is as wrong as the administration
has too often BEEN In the present crisis 1t is
Incumbent upon Congress to weigh its decl-
sions with extreme care lest it undermine
public confidence in government ITSELF
There is safe middle course, in following
which Congress can restore the faith OF the
people in their government.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Interpreting
The War
BY ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press War Analyst

Prime Minister Churchilrs dis
closure that a powerful battle
fleet of Great Britain is ready in
the west if japanese naval forces
decline battle With the Americans
and tu-n that way assumes deep
significance in view of the United
States Naval push across the Pa
cific.
/ Churchill, in his address yester-
day, said the British naval con-
centration was sin Indian waters. :"
He did not elaborate on the refer
ence to turning westward" that
left it unclear whether he con-
templated an enemy attempt to
move its fleet or part Of it beyond
Singapore and into the Indian
Ocean or whether there exists the
possibility that the British might
venture through the Indies or the
Straits of Malaga to close the
western jaw O. a naval pincers.
There also is the chance that any
further withdrawal of Japanese
naval strength will be to the north,
nearer to home island bases, in
stead of westward or southwest
ward to nav-l bases captured in
the original conquest of Malaga,
the Indies and the Philippines.
Whatever the details of the plan
and the contingencies, it now is
apparent that the strategy was
part of the global campaign map
ped out by President Roosevelt
and the Prime Minister in the con-
ferences at Quebec last summer.
In his address, Churchill referred
to the fact that the Burma land
operations now in progress were
planned at the Quebec conference
meeting attended by Lord Louis
Mountbatten, the supreme Allied
commander for Southeast Asia.
On their face, Churchill's words
might suggest only the possibility
that changing circumstances might
make feasible a move of British
naval forces eastward out of the
Indian ocean. That, however, would
assume that something was done
about land-based Japanese aviation
in the Malaga peninsula and the
Indies.
Perhaps there is some connection
between this now-disclosed broad
naval stately and a recent an
nouncement by the Netherlands
East Indies government, in resi-
dence in Australia, that the Dutch
administration will be ready by
next June to begin moving back
into areas now held by the Japa-
nese.
Although it had been known for
some time that British naval
strength was being augmented in
the Indian Ocean, this was the
first time that a high official had
formally described the force as
powerful battle fleet.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Polygamy And Dependency

Maybe it's just coincidence that the roundup
of members of the polygamous "Funda-
mentalist'' sect in Utah was made after Selec-
tive Service started taking fathers. But we
shall always have our suspicious that the law
descended upon this religious cult after one
of those ambitious fathers with six wives and
80 children was put in la and put in claim
for dependency allowance after his induction.
Let's see-$50 apiece for the wives would
he 5000. with $50 monh for the first child
~ each and $40 a month for the other 27.
That would make 5000 a month
Anyway, as taxpayers we applaud the gen
darmes for catching this expensive matrl-
monial practice before it spread any farther.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
The Old Shell Game

The more we observe Soviet diplomacy, the
less we envy such publications as the Daily
Worker and the New Masses both trying
desperately to hang onto the American end
of the party line. The latest case in point was
RECOGNITION by the u. S. S. R. of the Badoglio
government when these two American Com
munists organs had just finished polishing OH
Badoglio and Mr.. Churchill in language bitter
and uncompromising.
The editors, trying to guess Marshal Sta
Inns next move, must feel good deal like
the farm boy at the county fair trying to guess
under which walnut shell he would find the
dried pea.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Tire And Tube Stocks
To Be Limited By OPA

WASHINGTON, March 26-tR-
The number of new tires and tubes
a dealer may carry in stock will
be limited beginning next Saturday
only by the number Of ration GER
tificates received from custo
mers, the Office of Price Admins.
tration announced today.
At present dealer may mo-
build up his inventory to a higher
level and his total sales during the
preceding 60 days or to one-thiro
of his sales during the preceding
$50 days.
OPA said that these controls, put
into effect last October, have &C.
complished better distribution Of
obselete-sized tires as intended and
may now be lifted.
The agency also announced that
its quarterly survey of dealers
inventories of tires and tubes is
being put on rationing sampling
basis, revealing more than 10000
merchants of requirements of fill
ing report forms regularly every
three months. Hereafter only deal
ers to whom forms are mailed
need report.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Tax Surprises

March IS with all its tax horrors is past
Since then there have been some surprises
for taxpayers, and some of them have been
pleasant
Now that the Ides of March are past 1t may
seem like reopening old wounds to orlng up
the matter of taxes. But the tussle with orni
lO4OEs is just around the corner, and the last
few days have brought enough surprises
most of them pleasant to make the palnIui
subject timely once again. So shuooer aiio
turn aside if you will-here goes.
First of all there is proof, in the proposed
new simplifying law, that 50 million 1aApay-
erS can't be ignored. This year Form lo4o
visited almost every American home. NE"
multitudes had first taste Of searching their
brains and receipted bills for deductions, ana
pulling over the choice of something OF Soi'ie-
thing else( whichever is larger).
A great crv went up throughout the lano.
Congress heard, and needed. For ~ years 'i'0
income tax regulations had been GROWING III
creasingly complex But in two months 'ln'e
the House Ways and Means Committee mas
cleared away considerable confusion. rioo'
ably the job could have been done more qo.eA
ly for the basic principles OF the tax Id"
have not been changed. Many inequlues re-
main. But if the pill is still bitter the sugar.
coating is thicker At least the privilege u
doing it the easy way is now extenoeo W
persons making. up to $4,000 a year.
And the suggested exemption scheoule u
500 per person may have far-reacnlng ei
fects that the Ways and Me;0 Committee
didn't think of. For it makes childlessness'
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
BY JOHN SELBY
BLESSED ARE THE MEEK" by
Zofia Kossak (Roy; S3).

Somewhere in Poland one of that
country's best known writer's is
fighting to keep body and soul to-
gether until the Germans are driv-
en- out, and her husband, now in
concentration camp, can return to
her. She is probably in rags and
hungry, yet her novel is the April
Book-of-the- Month and many thou
sands of dollars are held for her
in this country. With more being
added daily.
The author is Zofia Kossak, one
OF whose projects has been a set
OF novels about the Crusades, no.
wells in which the qualities of spi-
ritual experience are richly ex-
pressed. BLESSED Are the Meek"
is the fifth of this set, and the
first to be put into English. 1t is
Nine. Kossak's good luck that the
translator, Rulka LANCER, is an ar
fist in her own right, so that the
book emerges in easy and elastic
prose in spite of the fact that Pol
ish often translates badly.
Blessed Are the Meek" is a
tapestry in which the various
threads of action merge to form
the background-there is no for
NAL cyclorama to the Kossak dra-
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Increased Air Cover
Saving Allied Ships;
None Sunk Last Week
By The Associated Press

The extent of increased air cover
given Allied shipping on the seven
seas was indicated last week in
statement by Navy Secretary Knox
that 88 escort carriers now were
in American and British naval
service.
Knox said that 38 of the new
plane carriers, for the most part
converted merchantmen, had been
turned over to the British under
lend-lease and that approximately
so were in the United States anti
submarine forces.
In the western Atlantic, where
many of the carriers operate, no
sinkings of Allied or neutral ship
ping were announced last week. An
Associated Press tabulation shows
that at least FOL Allied and neutral
cargo carriers have been sunk by
U-boats in those waters since
Pearl Harbor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27

has been carried on since the good
neighbor act was authorized in
1899.
Primary emphasis has been
placed on increase of mutual I'm
derstanding through exchange of
students, professors, journalists,
doctors, leaders of thought in all
fields. Many of these exchanges
are privately financed.
American cultural centers have
been established in number Of
Latin American countries, where
English is taught, American music
and documentary films seen and
heard. Aid has been given to trans
lation of American books into
Spanish and Portuguese, and vice
versa. The whole program, in fact,
has been carried out on a recipro-
cal basis, even to the sharing of
expenses.
From a materialistic viewpoint
it can be shown that such cultural
exchanges pay dividends. Techni-
clans trained in American meth
DDS want American equipment. Cul-
tural centers spread knowledge of
American scientific developments,
help raise the standard of living
in other countries, create a de-
mand for American goods.
The presentation is made that.
this is not charity, but security. 1t
is not benevolence, but insurance.
1t is not propaganda, but service.
Even Sen. Hugh A. Butler of Ne
braska, who toured Latin-America
and lambasted U. S. spending
there, has put his approval on the
cultural relations program-even
at cost of $50, 1000, 900 a year. Ac-
tually, it has not yet cos+ the De-
partment of State even $5,000,000
year, but that is another story.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-27
Personal Affairs Branch
Is Set Up At Camp Davis

his romantic ailments. Or that
baby might be on its way and the
nervous father-to.be wants a full
medical program outlined so that
his wife will have no qualms away
from home. Then there is always
the possibility that Cpl. Tom Bum
stead will ask in due time why
those Brooklyn Dodgers can't win
ball game.
1t all adds up to combination
Salvation Army-Red Cross-Good
Samaritan organization and who
knows but that soon 1t. Candy
will become better known as the
Camp Davis "Gloom Chaser, par
ticularly when he goes about ask
ing, ANY problems today?"-and
solving them with Informative
finesse.
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CAMP DAVIS, March 26 - Al
most every conceivable problem
past, present and future-affecting
Camp Davis soldiers and their de-
pendents will now be handled by
a personal Affairs Branch set up
in Post Headquarters under the
direct supervision of 1t. George A.
Candy. The latter has served ten
months as Legal Assistance Officer
at Davis in the Post Judge Advo-
Gates Office and will continue such
function.
The Davis Personal Affairs
branch is but one of a vast Army
network whose source of authority
is vested in Personal Affairs
Division, chief of which is the Di-
rector of Personnel, Army Service
Forces. Mainly designed as an in
formation bureau the Division will
maintaine liaison with G-I and ap-
propiate agencies of the Army
Ground Forces.
So al-encompassing is the aid
that can be rendered under the P.
A personal Affairs) system that
1t. Candy emissions a constant
steram of G. I. visitors, a task
which he is prepared to tackle in
painstaking fashion.
Such brain-teasers as emergen-
cy financial relief, 6 months gra-
tuity pay, allowances, arrears in
pay, war bonds, government and
commercial insurance, pensions,
legal Amusement, employment,
vocational rehabili+ ation, hospitali-
cation, local housing facilities,
personal effects, and other worri-
ments, are expected to transform
1t. Candy in to, the camps 'Mr.
Anthony.
A Mississippi rney of 10
years standing, 1t. Candy is we'll
equipped to welcome his C. I.
clietele. And although the P. A.
branch is still in it's infancy and
certain matters remain to be cor
related at present, 1t. Candy is
nevertheless convinced that posers
will be put to him, demanding all
the wisdom of Solomon.
For instance, the lieutenant hint
ed, a soldier nigh run into finan-
cial trouble the morning following
payday, as soldiers are apt to do,
and the question of why No. 7
comes up more often than other
numbers in a certain game of
chance is likely to arise. Or Pvt.
Joe Smooch might have had
run-in with his favorite Whining
ton gal and demand a cure-all for