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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Put A Check On MASTERS

In the opinion of some unofficial observers,
the problem of postwar employment is being
too heavily focused upon the returning SOL
diers and too little upon industrial workers.
They contend that men in the armed services
abroad will know how to take care Of them.
selves when they get home, if not at once
at least before their mustering-out money is
gone And certainly if they have not acquired
self-reliance and self-suffciency in their pres
ent tasks, their performance in battle bellies
them.
On the other hand, industrial workers as a
class are making more money than ever be-
fore and for the most part wasting it as
quickly as it comes into their possession.
There are some, of course, who are living
economically, and spending carefully, in full
realization that the present lush times cannot
last forever and they will have need for cap
ital when lean days arrive. But for the most
part, particularly among workers who have
had no previous experience with bullying pay
envelopes, it is case Of easy come easy go.
For these the future can hold only want
and suffering. Jobs, when this war is over,
will not only pay less but be abolished by
: ; me tens Of thousands, and present wasters
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
By JOHN SELRy
"The Amer can House," by Vir
ginia Chase DUEL. Sloan &

The American House." by Vir-
GINA Chase DUEL, Sloan &
Pearce; S2.75).
Virginia Chase says that ''The
American House" is not autobio-
graphical, and that all but three
characters are pure magination.
It's too bad, for the world would
be better if her fictional figures
had been alive at one time or an
other.
The book is not novel, but a
long and imaginative narrative
about things that might have hap
pened., Miss Chase uses a young
girl as narrator, and pretends that
the girls father was a good doctor
who wanted to be business man.
One day father learned that the
closed hotel in his Maine village
could be bought for $500, and that
was equivalent to saying that he
intended to buy it. He did, he in.
stalled a manager provided by an
agency, and the whole thing went
to pot. Then the doctor, his wife
and his three daughters moved in
to salvage what they could.
The hotel was minor monstrosi-
ty, but never dull. The family de-
cided to capitalize on the new
gravel road BY providing shore din
ners for motorists (this was 1909.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Plan Gardens Now

1t might seem little precipitate to discuss
gardens while winter is still far from past
were it not for the fact that the days slip
by with incredible speed and spring will be
here before anybody realizes it.
There is none too much time left for pre-
Hminary garden planning if back yard and
vacant lot paintings are to provide a full
measure of relief in the world food shortage
which is becoming more acute from month
to month.
There is so much more to successful city
gardening than deciding to set out few to-
mato plants planting a few early radish
seeds, that ambitious Victory gardeners ought
in very earnest to be on the job today.
There's the matter Of determining if available
soil is capable OF producing crop and it not
what must be- done to bring it up to par
what chemicals to add what type of fertilizer
to use, and particularly what kind of vege-
tables will do best in it. These are matters
amateurs cannot settle without the advice of
experienced growers. Farmer friends and
county agents ought to be consulted soon il
normal yields to be harvested.
1t would be sad waste of labor and seed
to plant and tend vegetables in ground that
cannot produce satisfactorily and with so
much of the world to be fed because OF the
Wastefulness of war, and with backs aching
from many other tasks, it would be fruitless
indeed to sacrifice seed and labor for nothing.
Wilmingtonians who contemplate participant
ing in the Victory garden movement when
spring rolls around are urged to seek COM
petent advice, if they lack experience, and
Start treating their soil in time to make it
ready for early harvest And they are to be
encouraged to expand their operations to the
far corners of their property. The more vege-
tables they produce for home consumption
and canning the less will they be likely to
go short, and the more will they relieve the
pressure for food among the war-ravaged peo-
pies whom it is duty and privilege to
help tide over the period of rehabilitation
following the war; Their needs are growing
constantly as the war reaches wider frontiers.
We cannot sidestep our responsibility to help
them maintain life or our obligation to re-
store them to self-support
We cannot feed the world. but we would
fail in a major duty if we did not share
our food resources with the wars unwilling
victims. To this extent we must play good
Samaritan. We can do it best if we produce
in our own gardens the largest vegetable
crops our soil can yield and so leave a part
OF farm production for distribution where food
is scarce.
Let's have many Victory gardens, this
spring-more than ever before But let's be
sure we plant wisely in soil prepared to do
its best
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
The Spotless Germans

When General Alexander, protesting the
German bombing of an Allied hospital ship.
called the Germans Huns he gave Berlin 2
slap in a tender spot The Huns were cruel
tribe-ruthless, given to atrocities, barbarous
to the core The modern Germans don't like
to be compared to people like that.
The German Transocean news agency
promptly announced that competent Germ an
quarters had said the complaint would be
properly investigated" by the Supreme Com
nand, and added that the British general had
mot the slightest right to speak of Germans
as Huns Germany's conduct of warfare
said Transocean, has at all times been
marked by the greatest chivalry toward her
opponents"
To be sure. They proved it when they
slaughtered a few million refugees in Holland
and Belgium and France and few more
million noncombatants in Poland. And they
gave additional evidence of it when they 60
into Russia. Can there be. any greater proc
of chivalry than to murder unarmed men ant
women. especially if they are old, and little
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Daily Prayer
FOR GODLIKE AIMS

We are on our knees; lilou ~"
on Thy throne, o Eternal fa. ,,nG
In the humility of unaesei', ,ol
suppliants we address Thee, 5 soo
confident that Thou art nol , .o
high to be concerned for full"a
needs. We come praying lot ,s
mind in unity with Thy pufpo S,,,
and hearts seeking only to DO lily ny
will. We pray in boldnesS, IN
taught by Thy Son, for boon' +be
accord with Thy mind - 1ol . NV
triumph of truth, for the VIcIo a1
of righteousness, for the CONN" Il
of peace and for kingdom 9.
Heaven world. Make clear to ou-
eyes tn sacredness Of the o0 tSis
tives for which we fight III ut
war. Grant us crusading he"i w,
Put Thine own victorious @- n
about our fighting men, glVlH .hov
them all the consciousness thai 'rs NV
are soldiers of God against d b b.
gan foe that has declared lis no d
tired and enmity toward Ifee ,: go,
Thy Son and Thy Church. Dell. .o.
up from all low puli p s,or,
and from all selfish aims ana !o M
all craven fears. In my Hive 40
may we defend the right. Il!' n ""
ask for the sake of sutferlls i ,ory
kind, and for the sake of Thy gl0'"
Amen.-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
The Literary Guidepost

But a car ran away, and the city
fathers banned machines. The
most successful evangelist the vii
lage had ever heard charmed eve.
rybody, but got drunk in the hotel
parlor. A troupe of actors destroy
ed number of illusions, and one
day the Doctor came home with a
hotel clerk who did nothing. literal
ly nothing, but spirit away the
kerosene in lamps and stoves.
Two gentlemen and derbes ar
rived, and convulsed the natives
by paying up to dollar fo.. a
cherry bed, and sometimes is
cents for jelly dish of Sandwich
glass. When the villagers discov-
cred they had been hornswoggled,
they blamed the strangers less
than the one villager who had held
out against them. The furnace was
a menace. Cousin Victoria arrived
with several volumes of her Jour-
nal and sheep was stranded in a
oizzard on an island off-shore.
fousin Victoria went home in a
huff, the furnace could be watch.
ed, but the Doctor and the HUI
name Society representative had
to rescue the sheep personally, on
christmas Eve. The Humane So
ciety lady cussed, toasted her feet
on the office stove and smoked
cigars, by the way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
LETTER BOX
REYNOLDS SHOULD RECOGNISED
Err.
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Our Junior senator Robert R.
Reynolds, should reconsider his
move not to run for the Senate this
year. He has been Senator long
enough to command an outstand-
ing position in that body. His posi-
ton on the Foreign Relations Com
mittee and being chairman mill
tary Committee show his high
standing in the U. S. Senate. Too,
his extensive foreign travels have
given him a wide understanding
of many pressing elements of the
various international problems
which our country has to consider.
Now is when we need men with
his training and fighting ability to
cape with the intricate interna-
tional and domestic problems fac
ing our country. Now is the time
to hold on to men in public office
who, like Senator Reynolds, have
had much to do with shaping the
military policy of our government.
Senator Reynolds should be urged
to keep in harness, he should keep
on pulling.
Let's insist that Senator Reynolds
run again for the United States
Senate Let's re-elect him to aid
our country to achieve victory and
to help establish the many safe
guards to insure lasting peace.
S. N. JOHNSTON
Wilmington, N. c.
February 2, 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
The Marshalls Invasion

The Allied attack on the Marshall Islands
carries the war a long step nearer defeat
for the Japanese. The campaign probably will
be long. Certainly it will be costly. The Japa-
nese are too we'll intrenched there for our
forces to clean them out quickly or easily
Guadalcanal was a picnic compared with
what lies ahead in the Marshalls, and every
body knows how difficult it was to take that
enemy stronghold in the Solomons. After long
months. there is still resistance on Bougan-
yet taken. On none of these islands were the
Japanese as firmly established as in the Mar
shalls, where they have had years to build
their defenses in secret and where it is re-
ported the flower OF Japans force is sta
toned.
The Marshalls will be captured, ultimately
lust as the enemy will be driven from his
every position in the Pacific, but the world
has been offered too many examples of jap
anese tenacity to justify the thought that the
end of the land battle which started there in
earnest on Monday can be won without heavy
sacrifices in men and equipment Americans
must steel themselves for bitter news from
the Marshalls.
This may be the easier, albeit it cannot
lessen the grief in households where the losses
will strike hardest, by reason Of the fact that
not even the tremendous naval attack which
preceded the landing could draw the japanese
fleet from it's hiding place. By refusing COM
bat when their great outpost was under naval
assault. the Tokyo warmakers showed what
well may be definite, shivering fear OF the
American fleet. and intention to await the
final attack on Japan itself before risking a
major naval engagement. Their shipping and
naval losses at the hands of our undersea
surface and air forces have shown them the
handwriting on the WALL and what they read
is not consoling.
With the Marshalls taken there will remain
but one great barrier in the road to Tokyo
from the west. Truk, Japans equivalent to
our Hawaii, is athwart that road It is gen.
orally believed that the main Japanese fleet
is there. Truk has long been Japan's chief
base of supplies for her forces in southern
Pacific areas. 1t is clear that it will be de-
Tended as stubbornly as any base the Japa-
nese hold, or as Japan itself.
But Truk, too, will succumb. Now that the
Battle of the Pacific is under way on major
scale, there can be no half measures, no
questionable successes. The victory must be
complete: every barrier in the Way must
topple.
1t is not too much to say that Trunks doom
was sealed when the first marines landed in
the Marshalls. The present engagement, there
in the Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03

will have no resources then-only remorse for
their foolishness and rags.
That there is large segment of highly-paid
labor spending as fast as the dollars come in
is proved by the long queues that line up
daily at the post office to submit their war
bonds for payment. They engage to buy bonds
on the payroll deduction basis, and as fast as
the bonds are delivered to them, hotfoot it to
the post office to get their money back, not
as a rule because they need it to meet a
domestic emergency but to spend needlessly
At the most they are devoting but 10 per
cent of their wages to bond purchases. 1t is
live comfortably on the remaining 80 per
cent. Therefore, if they must have the 10 per
cent they invest in bonds back to squander it
is not unfair to assume that they are squand-
ering the other 80 per. cent too
What is to become of them, how are they
to get along, when they have no jobs or are
working for much less money than they get
now? Truly they, much more than returning
members of the armed forces, present ar
economic problem demanding solution. 1t
might be solved, at least in part, by COM
polling them to hold their bonds against
maturity, save in provable emergencies. BY
allowing them to cash them after sixty days
from purchase, the Treasury is but encourag-
ing them in their thriftlessness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

AN ADVANCED FIGHTER
BASE, Somewhere in New Guinea,
-(by wlreless)-We were 10 hours
getting back by LIST from New
Britain, but our fighters get to
New Britain from here in 20 min
uteS.
This is our most advanced fight
err field-it is only about 20 min
utes from Japs on two sides of us.
Yet bright lights are burning all
night long, which is the best indi-
cation 1 can give you of the Japs'
weakness in the air, out here and
the contempt of the Americans for
the Japs' airpower.
The big fighter outfit that has
been here since Dec. has had
only four nuisance raids. l have
been within range of Jap fighters
and bombers for ten days, and al
though there have been several
alerts not a bomb has been
dropped.
Evidently, the Japs have gone
on the defensive in the air, like
the Germans. and are producing
fighters rather than bombers.
They are using bombers little, at
least in this area. Unfortunately,
however, the chances are that ia
pan is producing more fighters
than we are destroying, although
.he record of this advanced fighter
echelon of the Fifth Air Force is
remarkable. In the month it has
been operating from here it has
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Raymond Clapper Says:
.JQpQnese Are Not USING
Bic Bombers Very Much

shot down Ill Jap planes with a
loss of only two. That seems in
credible. From the time this out
fit came to New Guinea in July
it has destroyed 1854 Jap planes,
with only four lost.
The explanation of that dispro.
portion is not clear to me. The
Jap planes are more maneuver'
able than ours, but our tactics are
devised to take full advantage Of
our far superior construction
There is much rivalry between
Thunderbolt pilots and Lightning
pilots, with many gags back anc
forth. For instance, Lightning pi
lots say the Thunderbolt makes
loud noise. is preceded by Light
ming, and does no damage"
Nevertheless, the Thunderbolts
are bossing the air around here
One of their chief boosters is Maj
John Hykes, Massillon, O., an old
timer who flew with Glenn Cur
tiss in 1914 at Hammondspoct, N
Y. At the age of So his ambition
is to be the oldest living fighter
pilot.
During the evening I sat al
camp talking with Col. Bradford
A. Shaw, commander of this field
Shaw got on the subject of his
60-acre cranberry bog, which he
farms commercially on Cape Cod
He quoted wholesale cranberry
prices, which he follows way Out
here. Cranberry sauce hereafter
will always remind me of this
steaming tropical evening in New
Guinea, talking with Colonel Shaw
and his associates, Maj. Skeets
Gallagher, of Rogers Park, Chica
go, and Lieut.. Julian R. Atkins
Shreveport, La.
This is the first Thunderbolt out
fit in the Southwest Pacific. L
keeps constantly on the move as
the front advances, so the mer
always live primitively. Theil
tents are up on stills, with foxholes
directly under the wooden floor
On the whole it is quiet here
II is hard to realize that the Japs
are only rs miles or so across or
New Britain, and also up the New
Guinea coast. The only bombing
we have seen has been our own
an attack on Jap barges along the
New Guinea coast yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
PENSION SUIT
WILL Be FILED

The friendly suit planned by
employees of the Consolidated Board
of Health against officials of the
City Pension Board, to determine
whether or not they are eligible
for coverage under the city's re-
tirement fund. an action that has
been in the offing for the past sew
eral months, is expected to be filed
within the next week, R. M. Ker-
mon, attorney representing the
employees, said Wednesday.
Mr.. Kermon said the proceed
ings would be of the mandamus
nature-designed to compel the
officials to accept proportionate
Part of four per cent of the health
employees monthly salaries to be
applied toward retirement priv.
leges.
The board of trustees Of the New
Hanover county retirement sys'
tenn has recognized the eligibility
OF the health employees to partici,
pate in the county plan, and there
fore will not be made party to the
action against the city officials
Kermon revealed.
The case must be considered by
superior court judge, but fol
lowing the inevitable appeal to his
decision, the state supreme cour1
is expected to handle the case al
it's spring term-probably May 2
Kermon declared.
Both city and county retirement
systems became effective July l.
1913. after they were authorized
by action of the state Legislature
early last year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03

UP, our street. But at "A, Dewey
has served a trick as governor of
a state of tremendous interests and
problems and all with a sure,
confident hand and no faltering
and has shown disposition and
the ability to reduce taxes and
prevent squandering and to treat
the people as citizens, not wards
o. the state or subjects of a ruler.
That soldier vote will be great
handicap, though. They don't know
him, they live from day to day in
misery and doubt and it is natural
to suppose that they will vote for
the commander-in-ch even for
fourth term, provided by Novem-
her the war still goes as we'll as
it does now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Choral Clinic Planned
At Woman's College

GREENSBORO, Feb. - -
high school choral clinic, Sp ~,
sored by the music education ' 10
of Woman's College here ana o .l'
Greensboro unit Of in-aIl'- q, he
tri-cities music educators, VIII
held at the college Feb. ~, .i,a
The clinic is intended to luiin .ic
teachers and directors OF h'~ IN.
in schools and churches an 4 W
portunity to discuss their rn .oaoo
problems. Noble Cain, C"i. ,. Nv
choral director. will be consul ,..c.
at the clinic. Gain is choral an
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
ATRoCITE REPORT PUBLISHED

MOSCOW, Feb. 2-lR-The So
Wet press published today the re-
port by the U. S. Army and Navy
on Japanese treatment of Ameri-
can prisoners in the Philippines,
giving full details of the atrocities
and the death march"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Fair Enough

Editors Nsts.-Ths star the News accepts
respsnsibity fer the personal views Of Mr Psxisr.
md eften disagree with them mach many Of
his rsaaera His Articles serve the good purpose Of
making people think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
DEBATES

CHAPEL HILL, Feb. Up =
The Sind annual triangular de-
bates sponsored by the North Car
DINA high school debating union
will be conducted March 1918.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-03
Our Chief Aim

TOP OF THE MORNING
There is no case in the New Testament
of our Lords discouraging any one.
DIR. Egbert Smith.
Arkansas State press., 1944-11-03
ABOUT PEOPLE WE KNOW

IT, Finley sisters Of North Little Rock gave their
sister Mrs James Thorpe Birthday party on the 18th
ting mail from Tomme in the Aleutian Islands and Henry
somewhere In England Tomme sends "Cheero and Henry
wants to exchange cold weather with sunshine for sun
shin with friends back home Mrs. Marie Dunn, 2719
manager of Dunn Victory Cleaners and is doing an-up
job in the absence of her proprietor husband who in the
service OF his country G. C. Mackey of Texarkana
in the city this week attending the Arkansas Resau
rant Association that held in the Ballroom Of the Hotel
Marion October 303l Mr. Maeley is proprietor of Mac
keys Cafe Marion Perry of Pine Bluff in the city
Monday III the interest of the American Federation Of
Labor Mr. Perry spoke Monday to the members of the Unit
ed Furniture Workers Mrs. Mary Branch of Los An
gees Calf house guest of Mr. and Mrs Socrates Cherry
1859 Pulaski St. Mrs. Branch will be here indefinitely
band at Camp Swift Texas Rev " Bowers Mrs Irene
Robinson H. White of SCOTS and Mrs Hattie Cannon at
tended the A. NJ f. Annual Conference at Fort Smith last
week Mrs: Edward Moore and two daughters Mamie
Peoples and Margaret eopes, of Mansfield Ohio spent
their fall vacation here house guests of Mr. and Mrs
Eugene Sales While here Mrs Moore visited Hope and Ida
Bill Okla Cpl. Samuel Sales of Camp Claiborne La
was mere on THROUGH VISITING his parents the Sales Nr
VINO recently underwent operation one of the local
hospitals on the road to recovery the delight of her
many friends =: Mrs. Azelee Reed and young nece of
they were house guests of Mr. and Mrs Sterling 1918 State
St Mrs Reed the wife of Prof c. L. Reed and both are
teaches OF Desha County and representatives of the Good
Tanaftans w. o Hill spent the week end in Texarkana
Texas Mrs Rufus Mack GOT W. 10th has returned from
months vacation in the east In Chicago she was house guest
OF her sister Mrs Ethel Mack She also visited relatives and
friends IN Detroit Washington T. c. and New York While
away Mrs Mack went sight seeing in Canada Nrs
George Scribner O. Cid W 10th spent the week apd i;
Pine Bluff as guest Of her brother and ssterinay Mr.
and Mrs. Leander Scrbner and Miss Rosie Lee Tavborn
VINO Is attending State College :. Miss Ida Mae Clark
was quietly married to William NJ Pump at the home Of
her parents, on West 10th st Rev. William II Ceoroe Of
nclated John Howard died at his home in Texarkana
Arkansas State press., 1944-11-03
The PRESSES Year
recently He the husband of the former Miss Julia
Fisher.
MUST for all of us that are eligible to vote don't for
get GENERAL ELECTION DAY which is the 7th
CLUB NOTES
The Woman's Society OF
VICTORY BOND SALE

VICTORY BOND SALE The Woman's Society of
Christian Service at the Wesley Methodist Church in
the chick Of it, in their Victory Bond Sale sponsored to
aid in quidatng the church debt 1t is hoped that every
member and we'll visher Of Wesley will purchase Victory
Bond. The Drive will through November 10Th when
Ill divisions will report the amount sold THE PROVI-
DENCE RELIEF CHARITY CLUB met with Mrs L. M.
Mcmillan, 1919 High St last month with most of the
iors present Next meeting will be held at the home of
Mrs Calvin Whitmore 292S Ringo ST., November 10th.
h. C"b is planning entertainment to be held at the
horc Of Mrs NJ. F.. LOckhart. l70S High St the 28th
'"r's VIII he given get your tickets early The
COMMUNITY CHARITY CLUB met at the home of Mrs.
Sp,e} 572 f. 2nd St. the first week of October with Mrs
'ar,v President presiding. After brief business
on N" Porter presented program That enjoyed by
Ill., Mines Jeffrey, Porter Mann and Spjyey entertained
the members and friends Next meeting will be with Mrs
D. d. James, 220l Commerce Sunday. November 9Th.
e.. Ncahborhood program was held at the St John Bap
.t Church last Sunday -Four captains were selected