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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1944-04-20
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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1944-04-20
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
Stop Yawping

The Justice Department has recently blast
ed American railroads because OF the higher
freight rates which prevail in the south and
west on several types of commodities. 1t talks
of Transportation monopoly" and private con-
spiracies' and discriminatory rates. And
while there may be much truth and much
righteous anger in what the department says
there certainly isn't much that is new.
These higher rates have existed for a long
time. So has the debate as to whether they
are just plain evil or necessary one Nu-
merous efforts have been made to correct the
discrepancies, including a conference of
southern and western governors which got
nowhere.
Last year the Justice Department made SUBJ
stantially the same charges against the rail-
roads it is making now. Apparently nothing
was done. And there is little if any new evil
dence in the current statement by Assistant
Attorney General Wendell Berge except hint
that secret private agreements of monop-
olistic nature have been discovered.
What are these secret agreements and what
is being done about them? Mr.. Berge says
that "either the log jam must be broken by
mandatory governmental orders prescribing
lower rates, or else the industrys power to
maintain its monopoly pricing must be
broken"
Certainly the government has power to do
either where illegalites are involved One
might wonder where the Interstate Commerce
Commission has been during all this. The ICC
fixes maximum freight rates. If the railroads
are violating these rate ceilings and have
been these many years, it would seem that
the time for TRADES is past and the time for
action is here.
Mr.. Berge puts the chief blame for the in
dustrial under-development of the west anc
the south on The railroads. He charges thai
their high freight rates have precluded indus
trial expansion and have so hamstrung presen
industry as to maintain low living standard
1t is hard to discover any logical reason fo
the railroads doing this, since it obviousl.
would threaten their future prosperity.
l American railroads have done tremendou
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gotten over the demand for Macarthur on
some presidential ticket, despite his definite
early declaration that he had no political aspi-
rations.
Now Montgomery is being subjected to much
the same sort of thing. They ought to let
him alone, just as we should have let Mac
Arthur alone considering the size Of the job
he has on his hands.
Furthermore, the British might take leaf
from our notebook. If they did they would find
that military leaders do not necessarily pos
sess the highest qualifications for political
leadership. Jackson was our notable exception.
But it was not so many years after his ad-
ministration that we elected Grant, and his
administration was not an outstanding success
Montgomery deserves better of the British
than to be the subject of political controversy
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
Daily Prayer
FOR HIGH LEVEL PATRIOTISM

Beneath the strain CT the DAY 5
monotony our spirits and zeal
tend to lag; and our hearts are
calloused by the awful news from
the battlefronts. We would De
sustained by a contemplation Oh
Thine unwearied patience and by
Thine unflagging purpose U ever
constant Lord, over all. Thy love
and Thy providences never grow
YEARLY. Forty our SOU,
Father, with Thy steadfast oplll.
Kindle to undimmed brightness
our hearts flame Of patrlollSln
and of concern for the "n0ls
world'a welfare. May time NOV
dim our loyalty to our sons oil.
daughters in service. Inspired 10
to nobler living by an eVef-gioI
ing consciousness Of the sacleu.
ness of our Cause. Make ~
aware of the greatness o. ~.
privilege in being alive In TINS o ID,
of world-changing opportuhlIy' -,
all the events and circums'si''.
of life, draw us ever nearer
Thyself, O loving Father anu ~,
an acceptance of Thy holy VIII i''
us. Amen.-W.T.E E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
Different Now

An article in yesterdays newspapers from
The Associated Press correspondent at Allied
Headoua~ter in France, describing the general
situation around Paris, contains this signlti-
cant paragraph:
"Allied reconnaissance pilots from seats above
the capital watched Germans flee the city IN
such Tremendous exodus that they were
bumper to bumper in a road east OF Paris.
What contrast this is to the scene around
Paris when the Germans were moving IN
Then it was not reconnaissance pilots but
machines unners in German planes, and they
were not watching the exodus of French civil
ians. Instead they were swooping down upon
them with guns blasting killing innocent
thousands whose only offense was that they
sought to escape worse death in the city
All the way from the Low Countries and
Belgium to far south of Paris, German fhers
held high holiday filling highways with piles OF
slaughtered refugees.
Now the Germans who have been living in
Paris since it's occupation on the run, bent
only on getting out Of range of Allied fire.
And Allied airmen sent aloft to observe the
situation, withhold their fire. It is no part of
Allied strategy to commit cold murder, even
on people who have no claim to consideration
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
Plan SanitOrium Now

| Postwar planning for the community is, IN
its lesser way as necessary for Wilmington as
the conference of the power now in progress
at Warrington for world security. There is as
great need for meeting Of minds here as
at the National Capital. A definite program is
quite as essential for the future development
and security Of this immediate vicinity as for
the nations which must be preserved in the
brave new world after the war;
There are many projects which Wilmington
as the chief point of population, capital and
opportunity in the area, should be drafting
now so that when the fighting ends, when
wartime restrictions on materials are renov-
ed and price levels return to normal, they
may be ready for actual operation either in
the construction or the performing stage.
Among the most important Of these is
a tubercular sanato-ium, which Wilmington and
it's area has been forced to do without so
long. definite program for the creation of
new sanatorium ought in all reason to be
adopted so that no delay need occur when
building operations may be resumed, hopefully
in the near future
Buildings of the most modern type, equip
ment of the best standard, should be in the
blueprint stage, and whatever financial ar
engagements that may be necessary for con-
struction and maintenance be drawn up, even
to the drafting of a bond election, if that is
necessary.
Setting sentiment aside for the moment and
viewing a tuberculosis sanatorium strictly
from an economic viewpoint Wilmington, with
heavy responsibility for the security of south
eastern North Carolina, must make provision
for the saving of lives from the great white
plague on the score that persons thus pre-
once they are retored to health and able to
take gainful employment. 1t is impossible to
place a definite monetary value on human
life, but no one can doubt that an individual
capable of earning d living Is an economic
asset whereas an invalid is a community
liability.
When you add to this the fact that tubercular
patients are entitled to their chance Of even
partial recovery through arresting the disease,
it must be obvious to everybody that the lack
of refuge and haven for them and particular
ly for persons on whom the disease has not
made serious progress should not continue
longer than the duration of the war.
Let thi be among Wilmington's major post
war projects.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
Return Of Prodigal Prodigies

Well we see where the Physical Fitness
Boys, late of the Office Of Civilian Defense,
have popped up again in the Federal Security
Agency with plan to save the nation, and
request for 235, 1858 taxpayers dollars These
are the same bcptal lads whose missionary
zeal was frustrated three years ago when the
public loudly questioned the value Of the serv-
ices of Miss Mayris CLANCY, the dancer, in
our fight for national survival.
According to the FSA muscle builders, what
this country needs is physical fitness year.
which, according to their plan, will Il )correct
correctable physical fitness defects, G) pre-
vent preventable defects, and 90 educate for
better development.
This obviously will Danish the threat Of So
cialized medicine and practically finish off the
medical profession as it exists today. For once
we are corrected, prevented educated,
once we start leaping to our daily tasks from
our compulsory, regimented calisthenics like a
doctor is to bandage an occasional cut finger
It will be wonderful. And there's only one
obstacle between these perfect specimens and
m American created in their image. That is a
group of physically imperfect uncorrected, un-
prevented congressman who control the nation
nj purse strings
rotund representatives and sedentary senator's
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The Literary Guidepost

it indicates Mr.. Panetta's light
hearted method. None of the rules
concern Mr.. Panetta
The Caparuta family must have
been uncomfortable to live near.
They always shrieked, they never
conformed,' their fights were in
variably conducted in public. The
cardinal virtues were as dust to
the Caparutas. No matter what
one of them did, Papa (and
MamaD stood by. Papa could
neither read nor write. He and
Nam worked out credit
jumping syst e m under which
they lived for many years.
They had Ii we'd before that by
borrowing from immigrants and
never paying back. Papa had a
dress factory, once, which he
cheerfully bankrupted, and then
conspired with his brother to
burn down. But Papa, while
venal, was also stupid. He did not
know that in order to collect
money on such fire, he had to
have insurance.
Papa cheated at poker, par
ticularly his own boys, and habit
ually stole his daughters church
money. Some of the boys took
after him. The wonder is that
the police didn't follow suit. eve
Ride n White Donkey is good for
a great many laughs.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
BY JOHN lSELBY

eve Ride a White Donkey" by
George Panetta Harcourt, Brace;
So.
I'VE Ride a White Donkey is a
book about one of those wild Italian
families, by George Panetta. Mr..
Panetta's Caparuta family is al
most exactly like Saroyan's Arme-
MAN families, for example, except
they speak a different dialect, one
that Mr.. Panetta reproduces Won
derfully we'll. And after explaining
the title, we shall 60 on to some
other matters about the book.
The title is taken from Gala
brian saw; in Calabria you are
said to be putting a person or a
family on a white donkey when
you make it or them CONSPICUOUS
by talking too much about them.
The Caparuta family stays on the
donkey for 1856 pages.
The book is extremely funny.
The Caparuta family lived some
where in what the service
clubs" would call Greater New
York, but exactly where I don't
know-they seemed to be in the
neighborhood Of Broome street on
Manhattan most Of the time, but
when they started out for a pic.
mic, they started from Brooklyn.
This is important only because
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
LETTER BOX
EXPORT CITY THEN

To the Editor: 1 read, with a
great deal of interest, in the Aug
ust goth issue of the Sunday Star
News, your article on the North
Carolina Business Directory of 1872
and the Wilmington City Directory
of 1897. I have a copy of a book
entitled Wilmington-Tne Met-opo-
lis and Port of North Carolina
It's Advantages and Interests 1912.
This 32-year-old paper bound edi-
ton runs to 112 pages. 1t states
that Wilmington's population is in
excess of 10000 people. 1t lists fer
tilizer as being the most impor-
tant industry, which is closely fol-
lowed in importance by cotton
manufacturing.
One of the photographs shows a
man sitting in a orse-drawn car
riage, which is parked on the side
of the road at Castle Haynes -
the horse calmly gazing off into
space.
The book states that in 1909 Will
mington exported more t h n
Charleston, Norfolk, Newport-News
and Portsmouth combined. A
drawing of the old steamer Will
mington appears. This directory
states that the Wilmington runs be-
tween the city of Wilmington d
Southport, making numerous stops
at landings in between these two
points.
Henry Sternberger
Wilmington, N. C.
August %, 1914.
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That's all I remember for a
while" he told us. When I came
to, they were Smelling all around
me-"
Thus began the eight days. He
had crashed right between the Ger
mans and Americans in a sort Of
pastoral no-man's land.
For days afterwards the field in
which he lay surged back and forth
between German hands and ours.
His pasture was pocked with hun
dreds of shell craters. Many Of
them were only yards away. One
was right at the end Of his wing.
The metal sides of the plane were
speckled with hundreds of shrapnel
holes.
He lay there, trapped in the midst
of this Inferno of explosions. The
fields around him gradually be-
came Uttered with dead. At last
American strength pushed the Ger
mans back, and silence came. But
no help. Because, you see, it was
in that vacuum behind the battle:
and only a few people were left.
The days passed. He thirsted
terribly. He slept some; part of the
time he was unconscious; part of
the time he undoubtedly was de-
lirious. But he never gave up hope.
After we had finally got him out,
he said as he lay on the stretcher
under wing, us it possible that
I've been out of this plane since
1 crashed?"
Everybody chuckled. The doctor
who had arrived said, mot the
remotest possibility. You were seal
ed in there and it took men with
tools half an hour to make an
opening. And your leg was broken
and youS foot was pinned there.
No, you haven't been out"
II didn't think it was possible, )"
the pilot said, land yet it seems
in my mind that was out once
and back in again.
That little memory of delirium
was the only word said by that
remarkable man in the whole hour
of his rescue that wasn't as dis
passionate and matter-of-fact as
though he had been sitting COM
fortably at the end of the day in
front of his own fireplace.
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commissioners, interested Clul. s,
and members of the Unlteo D'07'
tiers of Confederacy,
Out of these meetings gre"
Fort Fisher Ground ComnlL.ee
the State Division United Do'9 nj
tiers of Confederacy. The ola.' ~
vision United Daughters Of y.
federacy solicited funds eIee's NY,
surrounding the monument Plan
were drawn up by a no'eo 10
scape architect and were co., ',os+ed
be fulfilled when the war pre- Tj,,
further activities in that IIHe, N,
was an understanding win NV ~
County Commissioners thai ..sr n,
would maintain this acre a s!a.;o,.
completion of this neaulll+' oad,
There was also an attempt I n,p
to acquire most of the land s aro.,rt
the Fort Fisher battle g ~ e.
which was found impossiV'e
cure at that time, ,be re-
We are well cognizant OF lns hi
sponsibility for preserVlns For
torical characteristics u o+het
Fisher and its environs. NJ c+s,ss
organization in the Unt-e' ~ Fort
realize the historical value TT-rited
Fisher more than the sn5 i
Daughters of confederacy anu
CONTINUED on Page 0
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Let Him Alone

In the best American tradition they re
already talking about General Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery for some kind of party leader
In England some touting him to the skies.
others condenning him chiefly, it would SEEM
because he has flair for strange raiment
and wear a beret.
This is part of the price successful mill
tarv men must pay for their prominence, but
the British have not in the past been so much
siven to the practice as their American
cousins. Over here we made regular custom
of picking generals for candidates whether
they agree or not. Remember the tremendous
boom for 'Pershing for President just after
the former World war? And we have hardly
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. Simpson.
Associated Press NO.

Synchronizing with Allied Fs
operations in the west, mighty f p,,i
sian armies apparently h.. Nu''
mounted a eliminating doubls ~
tack in the east aimed at wa. sI
and the Danzig corridor in tS
north and at the Galat pa,sn "s
to the Danube valley and the poi
kans in the south. o''
The Russians have CAPTURED Ia,
key outpost on the Prutb ri Hsi'
above the vital Galati gan F .ser
collapse of the German fjanE
the Black Sea to split Bu1a r ~
off from the Axis must follow
Russian break through Of tb.s
point. There is likely to be CO.. r'
man retiremet from the whole Bsl.
kan peninsula in due course ''
Northeast Of Warsaw the mat,
Russian drive has dug deem IN"
the Bug Vistula triangle cast ~,
the confluence Of the two rivero
There are indications that the Bm,
already has been crossed bv tbs
Russians somewhere in the Now
Dwor Wyszkow stretch Ia wy
flank Warsaw from the north -.
it is already outflanked to tbs
south by Russian bridgeheads ovos
the Vistula. The river repressrt.
the last natural defense line NV
tecting the Danzig corridor ro,,t.
above the Vistula from Russ;os
march to the Baltic which wonT
cut off all East Prussia and III,
Baltic states from GERMANY
Bulgarian collapse as an Ax;,
partner inevitably would follow
Russian surge into the Danube val,
ley via the Galati gap. The fate
not only of Warsaw but
of all German armies north Of fl.
westward curve of the vishl,
around the Polish capital to f bs
Baltic, seems no less hinged on
Russian break through over tho
Bug.
The final squeeze of the Gigantic
Allied Russian multiple pincer al.
tack to end the war this year an.
pears to have started.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-23
FORT FISHER PARK

To the Editor: Referring to the
Wilmington Star-News Sunday, Jul
ly 9, 1914 in regards to the pro-
posed bill to include Fort Fisher
as a State Park. At a meeting of
the Cape Fear Chapter, United
Daughters OF. Confederacy it was
decided to call attention to the fact
that this effort has been made sew
eral times.
Full credit should be given to
Captain Edgar Williams for tn e
original idea and through him spon-
sored by the United Daughters of
Confederacy.
Various meetings have been held
and attended by the owners, mem
bers of the New Hanover Histori-
cal Commission, city and county
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job these past three years in getting men and
supplies from camp and factory to. seaport
and thence to battle. They have done this in
spite of shortages
This is fact, and not an attempt to forgive
them any illegal practices But it does seem
as if the Justice Department should either
translate their accusations into specific charges
and do something about them, or else resist
the temptation to yell monopoly and let it
90 at that.