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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
A Local AbattOir

This newspaper has long advocated the es-
tablishment of an abattoir in the Wilmington
area 1t is not quite clear that the city should
own and operate it, although there are sound
arguments for this method. Other cities are
said to operate abattoirs at a profit. Reason
ably Wilmington might do as well.
On the other hand there is the same OBJ
lection to city-owned industry that obtains
with respect of federaly owned plants. The
competition of any governmental unit with
private enterprise is not good thing 1t puts
restrictions upon the progressive spirit OF busl-
ness and generally deadens private Initiative,
which has been the keystone of American
business success.
In the present case, however, it is not now
so much a matter Of how an abattoir project
is launched as getting it started. IT 1t could
be undertaken by the city with the purpose
Of turning it over to private operators at
reasonable profit as soon as private tlrm
could be created for it's operation, that would
be a credtable step.
The Wilmington area has long neglected It's
opportunity in beef cattle and hog raising.
With year around pasturage the gilt OF pene-
ficent climate, there has been no good excuse
for sidetracking a great industry, aside from
the custom of concentrating upon soil crops,
except that all livestock has had to be tran
sported on the hoof, costly procedure with
profit to the grower problematical.
1t is reasonable to think that the areas
farmers would turn to livestock in big way,
even to the extent of financing drainage pro-
iects to make some millions of acres avail
abel for grazing and of planting grasses
known to do well in the region, If they could
deliver their stock to local slaughterhouse
for processing at a price profitable to them
selves, instead of having to put out good money
for freight bills.
The city council has done well to revive the
abbattoir subject It will do even better by
keeping it alive until the project is actually
started.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21

in his grave.
The coxswain of the boat (tha
guy who drives it, is Pfc. Arthur
Handy of Fellows, CAL. down in
the oil field district near Taft. Han
dy spent years learning how to be
a sailor by driving a truck in the
oil fields.
One of the "seamen' is Pfc.
Nicholas Kardos, of Q702 North
Damen Ave. Chicago. His nick
name is rabbit and he used to
be a punch-press operate"
The other is Pfc. William Lipic-
zky, of 7603 Rawlings Ave. Cleve-
land. His ancestry is combina-
ton of Russian and Hungarian, and
the others call him "Hunky." He
was a Welder.
When these soldiers first started
learning how to run a boat they
sometimes got seasick, but they
don't any more. And they have be-
come fairly Indifferent to shells too.
They don't even wear their steel
helmets half the time. When shells
begin coming too close, Private
Davis will remark:
For a month I've been telling
that fellow to take a furlough and
go to Rome and have himself a
time. But he doesn't seem to get
my message"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Daily Praye,
FOR THE SOLDIER SPIRIT

we thank Inee, y Infinite Spirit,
who ca-est for the souls of men,
that our soldier sons have shown
both valor and chivalry, and have
acted toward defeated foes with
magnanimity. In the face of hor-
rors committed by our pagan foes
upon prisoners and wounded and
civilian victims, they have not re-
taliated in kind. They are inner
emily too big and too Christian to
be drawn down to the level of
savages. Not for their foes as hu-
man beings, but for the conduct
and standards of those who flout
Thee do they have hatred. Grant
to us at home a similar high
standard of chivalry. Make us
great enough to be worthy of vic
tory in battle and victory in peace
Fix our eyes upon the goal of a
Warless world, wherein, in the spir-
1t OF righteousness and love we
may attain real and lasting
peace. May Christ's own passion
against oppression be mingled in
our hearts with His own spirit of
forgiveness and achieving love. We
LOOK to Thee, O all-enabling God.
TO enable us to be worthy Of the
mgh tasks to which Thou hast an
pointed us. Amen. W.T..
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Our Chief Aim
Damned With Faint Praise

What changes have come over the Nazi
dream since the days when Hitler was the
German god!
Yesterday the little paperhanger with the
misplaced eyebrow was fifty-five Instead of
voluntarily receiving the adulation and adora-
ton of the German people, his chief cohorts
had 10 drum UP public sentiment for him with
none too certain results.
Goebbels, his propaganda minister, pied
with the people to celebrate the Fuehrer S
birthday, adding that ''even the greatest lead.
ers of history will be faced with occasional
setbacks and defeats
This is hardly in keeping with the claims
made for him in days gone by that he was
invincible and all-conquering Gobbels even
admitted that many Germans may not ap-
prove of Hitler
AS far back as the reoccupation of the
Rineland, A German who made such state
nnen& would have been shot forthwith Now
Hltler's own henchman has the temerity to
concede disaffection among there German
people and probably will 60 unrebuked
1t is hard to analyze the German mind, but
it would seem that when hero has to have
the tontom beaten as the day of his nativity
approaches he is in reality hero no longer,
even to his former worshipers.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
By JOHN SELBY
"THE USE OF PRESIDENTIAL


POWER 17S9-1943," by George
Fort Milton little. Brown; SS.)
George Fort Milton is n o so
much interested in showing h o w
President Roosevelt has used the
power of his office as he is in
showing how the office has devel-
oped since George Washington, and
that this development is never a
straight. upward-swinging line on
the graph of history, but set of
waves followed Invariably by their
troughs. His book is called THE
Use of Presidential Power and
it is quiet, in perspective, we'll
reasoned and reasonably impair
tial. Only competent historian
could pass on its use of historical
fact and fungi, and I am not a
competent historian.
Washington, Mr.. Milton shows,
laid the foundation of presidential
power and then found himself as
tonished in his old age by the
fierceness of the partisans w h o
arose in the political setting. JEFF
fe1son was a more suave gentle
man with some command of phi
losophy, although perhaps not the
haloed creature worshipped bv the
current Jeffersonian cult. Jeffer-
son, Mr.. Milton shows, was die
tator of sorts-quite as much so
as Jackson o.. Lincoln.
Jackson managed a revolution
He saw the source of presidential
power as the wide and apparently
level field of the common man.
and he used his power sweeping
ly, kicking Nick Biddle's bank into
pulp, and establishing an organi-
zation which survived him, some
thing few presidents have done.
The next man of real Importance
was Of course Lincoln.
Lincoln probably was closer to
dictatorship than any other pres
ident, according to Mr.. Millions
evidence. His power as chief of
state he used with astounding eff
feet; suspension of the right of
habeas corpus and the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation are two exam
Piles without parallel in our his
tory. Cleveland, the next great
man, was a lesser height; Theo-
dore Roosevelt was the only presi-
dent, Mr.. Milton. thinks. who Gre
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
en- Copies OF Boards
Republic Are Given
Library By Maffit

A gift of ten copies Of The he
public by Charles Beard has 0esa
received by the New Hanover HlSI
School library from M'Kean A'F
fit superintendent of the MoNlcf
pal Water and Sewage Depd-'
ment. =.
In thanking Mr.. Maffitt Tor m
generous gift, Miss Weant, assn :,
tant librarian, said; I'VE wan !"
commend Mr.. Maffitt for MS m
terest in putting before the wy,
and girls this able dlscusStoa ~
our privileges and duties as OA-''
States citizens. IN,
The books will be used espe''s WI
by the American governnlen. p p,..
American history classes, lAs vi, IT.
ter is already using Beard =. 49,
tory of the United States a.
textbook. ,.r Nh
After reading The Republic. MI M.
Maffitt felt that it was sucn oil .5e
portant book that it should be a .,s
available to all the hl2h s''
students.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
At Cross Purposes

War Manpower Commissioner McNutt made
speech and the Owl issued a report both
on the same day. That in itself is not unusual
Mr.. McNutt makes lots of speeches. Owl is
sues even more reports.
On this particular day, however, Mr.. Nc
Mutt told his listeners that the manpower sit
uatton was relatively good'' and that labor
production than at any time in the past year.
The Owl said that 100000 more women
would be needed in war work or war-sup-
porting work by July. This in spite of the
Census Bureaus statement that 400, 600 women
who had been in such work were unemployed
in January, and the War Manpower Commits
son's estimate that this figure might rise to
$780, 900 by July-right when Owl says we
shall need 100000 additions to the 1,4OO,0
women now employed.
Also on this same day, Brig.-Gen. A. T.
Brown, New York state draft director, esti-
mated that about IS per cent of New York
registrants over 26 would be deferred because
their jobs are in a war supporting activity"
This announcement must have looked a lit
tie strange to the considerably more than
5 per cent of over-26 registrants in New York
and elsewhere who have recently gone into
service from jobs or businesses which I'M
doubted fell within that almost-all-embrac-
ing term of war supporting activity
That, for illustrative purposes, would seem
to be enough confusion for one day.
OF course, the obvious remedy would be for
everyone to get together-Army, Navy, VINO,
WPB and other departments concerned-and
decide upon as concerted and orderly a course
of action as the shifting demands of war will
permit
But in the meantime. it might be we'll if
owl worked little harder at one of its more
nublicized functions-that of clearing all gov
eminent speeches and releases with view
toward preventing violently opposed or con-
Trajectory statements of official policy, at
least on the same day.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
With Ernie Pyle
like the Anzio edition OF Cesar Ro-

like the Anzio edition OF Cesar Ro-
nero.
He calls himself the bad boy"
of his regiment. II get common
dalton one day and reprimand
the next" he says. 1.-The colonel
will commend me for good work
under dangerous conditions and
then I'll 60 to Naples and get
ticketed for having my hands in
my pockets" But that's the Army,
and Tousineau can take it.
The Lieutenant has crew of
four soldiers who run his boat. The
former crew, according to the Lieu
tenenant, got "Anzio anxiety" and
took off, so he picked his own men.
Volunteers for the boat job were
called for. Nobody volunteered. So
four men were assigned. Now that
they've got the hang of it, every
body else in the company is mad
at himself for not volunteering, for
it's a soft job. All they do all day
long is ride around in this boat and
dodge a shell now and then.
None of them knew anything
about boats before Anzio Thew
learned by trying. 1--WE didn't know
nothin' from sour apples about a
boat" said Pvt. James Davis, a
farm boy from Covert, Mich, "hut
we went along"
Later, as we lay alongside a
British ship, I heard Davis say,
Lets 20 ashore onto that boat. "
Such nautical sabotage as that
would turn Admiral Dewey over
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
A Despicable Racket

The War Department has revealed that sew
eral groups throughout the country nave Oeen
circulating false rumors about thousands OF
blinded soldiers, and then fradulently solicit
ing funds to aid them.
Actually, says the Army Medical Depart
ment, 70 men have suffered total Dllndness
in this war.
The War Department asks that the public
be on guard against these solicitors. 1urtne1
suggestion should be to report them lmmedl'
ately to police authorities.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
BY ERNIE PYLE

WITH FIFTH ARMY BEACH
HEAD FORCES IN ITALY, (by
wireless) Lieut.. Eugene Tousin-
eau of Detroit is the official greet
er for the new Anzio Chambe.. of
Commerce. He visits every ship as
soon as it drops anchor in Anzio
waters, and 'extends the key to
the city" Most of his guests would
prefer being ridden out of town on
a rail.
He's the guy who checks the
cargo of every incoming ship and
checks daily on the progress and
the quality of their unloading.
All day long he rides around in
an LCVP editors matchmaking
craft, vehicles, PERSONNEL climb
ing rope ladders up the sides of
ships, shaking back down on single
ropes-just holding on with his
hands while his bouncing steel boat
below tries to crush him. 1--WE got
$4,000 insurance, he laughs.
All day he is out there on the
water with shells speaking the
whole area. I wouldn't have his
job TO a million dollars. But he
enjoys it.
rode around with him one day
seeing how the ships unload, seeing
how it feels to be sitting there at
anchor aboard a ship full of ex-
plosives within range of enemy ar
tillery. 1t doesn't feel too good.
Lieutenant Tousineau has been
on this job for six weeks. He is an
ebullient fellow who insists on en-
joying whatever he does regard
less, because he gets a great kick
out of it.
He goes aboard ships and serves
notice to ships officers. He bawls
out some people even though he's
only second lieutenant, and COM
miserates with others who have
been bawled out by somebody that
matters.
If things aren't going we'll
enough on a certain ship, he'll say
to the Army officer in charge, mo
excuse for this, sir" and never bat
an eye. But that's the way wars
are won.
Riding around with us that day
was Lieut.. John Coyle, of 1882
Swain ST., Philadelphia. who is
learning the game. Our supply
shipping has become so thick that
the checking job is too much for
one man, SO the two will divide it
between them in the future.
Lieutenant Tousineau has had
dozens of Hairbreadth Harry es-
capes. Shells explode in the water.
bombs drop beside his house at
night. He has even climbed off
ship just few minutes before it
was hit.
Before the war, Lieutenant Tou-
slneau was a night-club manager,
a sandhog and numerous other
things. He is tall and dark, has
very long and narrow face and a
little pencil mustache, and looks
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
"Stop Him."

Thus far the Republicans seem to have
concentrated their chief energies in efforts to
stop somebody from getting the party's noml-
nation for the presidency. Stop Willkie. Stop
Dewey. Stop Macarthur. Probably if there
was any possibility OF their winning suoStan
tial strength at the forthcoming convention
there would also be movements to stop Stas
sen and Bricker.
On the other side there is also a movement
TO stop Roosevelt. But the difference Is that
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
New Air Mail Postal ,
Rates Are Explalns'

There is still mismdeFS ,sI INST.
by the public of the rates VI .rr r 9n
age on air mail, partlcota-'[s rrl.
air mail to members OF TAX oe o.
ed forces overseas, postol--'
ficials said yesterday. +m.
air mail postage rates "lYl-.' NJ,
United States are CEN. d.
ounce whether the man - ',be.
dressed to civilians or li'--'~
of the armed forces. NJ,
The overseas rate is ceNIs III
half ounce for members VI u
armed forces. This inc-uue' .rf
air mail letters addressed " M,
members of the armed Iv. ~.
through an Army or Navy sapO
office-that is, all who nave orsr
or FPO numbers as part o. "
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Short Course In History

Two widely-read magazines nave comm'tted
the same historical error IN commenting on
Princess Elizabeths 18th birthday: that when
and if she ascends the throne she will be the
second woman to rule England since Eliza
beth. She will be the third.
What the magazines did was overlook Queen
Ammo If isn't hard to do. Anne doesn't cut
much of a figure beside Tudor Elizabeth or
the Queen Empress Victoria - or beside the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21

interesting political literature and
IND new riches in their current
oenunciations, which they will be
unable to deny when I employ
them in debate hereafter, for !
snail then cite chapter and verse
and bow to their own authority. It
IS not really necessary to have
relations with stooges in the unions
TO keep aware of perfidy on the in,
SIDE. One merely goes to the file
and looks up what John Lewis said
ABOUT Green and Murray, what his
pompous self-adulation revealed
about himself and what Philip
Pearl, the minstrel of the Amer.
lean Federation OF Labor, has writ
ten about the CIO in the FRENZY OF
the long and ribald fight for power
over the bewildered American toll.
er and loot from his wages. They
speak with knowledge from the
thrones Of high authority.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
The Literary Guidepost

ated his own issues and acted on
them.
His appraisal of Wilson is very
high, and as he sorts out the acts
of President Roosevelt up to now,
there appears an astounding COM
bination of genius in foreign fields
with less impressive recent detail
at home. i found Mr.. Milton hard
to put down.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
OFF RATIONING

~ WASHINGTON, April &c. -(R-
me Office of Price Administration
To-Day announced the removal from
ratlonlng of concentrated citrus
Juices Used principally by bever-
age makers and for other indus.
trlal purposes, these juices, OPA
said, are in good supply because OF
expanded production facilities and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
ENROUTE TO WASHINGTON

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20
-(RHAustralia's Prime Minis
ter John Curtin and his party
of 16 military and diplomatic
aides were enroute today to
Washington for conferences
with President Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-04-21
Fair Enough

CEdiotr's Note.-Ths Star and the News accept
responsibility for the personal views of Mr.. Pegler,
and often disagree with them much many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
fSee POSTWAR, Page C-3D
By Ed,Oard C.. Carter.

(EdUdrd c. Carter, president of
Russian War Relief and secretary
general OF the Institute OF Pacific
Relations, recently returned from
39,000-n1ile tour to study the people
and problems OF Russia, China and
India. Here is his story of what he
tound.)
NEW YORK.-Millions of people in
China, India and Russia face the future
with hope and fortitude. The men.
women and children of these war-torn
lands look to unified postwar world
when they can develop their own re-
sources and live amicably with their
neighbors.
During my three month trip to these
three most populous countries / was
struck forcibly by the huge belt of
American industrial operations that
stretches from South America to Africa
India and China, thence to Iran toward
the Soviet Union.
Participating in this gigantic enter
prise are hundreds CT thousands O.
peasants who are learning new skills,
the use OF modern machines, new meth
DDS OF communication, sanitation and
epidemic control and the comforts OF
low-coSt housing. While adult education
is not the prime purpose OF these war
projects, the ever-increasing aptitude OF
indigenous labor may ultimately result
in wider industrialization, economic
growth and higher living standards.
Meanwhile, famine threatens or pre-
walls In several provinces Of China and
India. When Burma passed into Japa-
nese hands. 100000 tons of rice were
no longer available for the Indian mar
ket. Shortages resulted in some hoard
ing, and then came imitation. Rice in
Bengal now costs seven and eight times
what 1t did before the war, and the
general level Of Indian prices has in
creased between 100 and $50 per cent.
Serious Shortage in China.
A famine as terrible as the current one
in Bengal has also swept Honan and
Kwangtung Provinces Of China. The
Chinese are down to the bottom Of the
barrel: throughout the country food and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02

next to appear-Betty and Jean, bright
little girls aged 10 and 7, and Richard.
rather stunted, pathetic-looking boy
of IA. Solemnly the policewoman pro-
duced the evidence-two large paper
a small bottle of brilliantine, skipping
rope and some fancy handkerchits from
the counters of a department store.
The probation officers report gave the
home environment as satisfactory
neatly dressed, tired-looking mother
with small baby in her arms, sat be-
hind the children.
They are good kids really-I don't
know why they did it. Their father was
killed a year ago, and Betty and Jean
have just come back from the country
where they have been evacuated for
four years,
Perhaps you haven't had chance to
get into touch with them again proper
ly," said the magistrate kindly.
Excuses Are Easy.
There are so many excuses in war
time. It's easy, with the stringency of
rationing, for young mind to persuade
itself that taking something in short
supply isn't as bad as taking some
luxury. In recent QUESTIONABLE to
child delinqlents in Manchester, hardly
any boy answered that he thought it
really wrong to steal apples from an
orchard. Most of them rationalized
that if the apples weren't stolen they
might have gone to waste.
1.-The mothers make excuses, too" said
one probation officer. Grownups make
the war an excuse for ineficiency-
walters in hotels, shop assistants, tele-
phone operators, all inf1uriate customers
by the question, Don't you know there's
war on?" to cover any fault. 1t is
not surprising that the children have
picked it up.
A probation officer in another court
told me about five small boys. During
the blitz, the children, whose mothers
were often out working in the long
blackout evenings, used to go and play
ghosts" in the empty rooms of blitzed
or unoccupied homes Imagine the thrill
Of dark empty rooms and passages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
By Bara Wace,
Associated Press Writer.

britain, like the United States,
has juvenile delinquency problem.
Recently, it has become matter
for tront-pdge debate. This story
tells 1Uhy and details some of the
ramifcations of the problem, as the
British find it,
LONDON.-A small boy of 11-Dennis
. Craddock-stole some pencils from
school in his home town of Hereford;
with companions, he broke into furni-
lture store and stole and damaged
1 considerable amount of stock.
\ Not very great event-and yet his
1 sentences whipping and separation
from his parents in foster home chosen
by the court, his appeal to the high
court, the quashing of the proceedings
by the lord chief justice, the appoint
ment of public investigation for which
both houses of Parliament have passed
resolutions under the tribunals (of in
qulry) act, pushed some of the war news
CT the front pages of British news
papers.
The whole mighty machine of the law,
with its solemn majesty, has been set
in motion, the public conscience has been
stirred and many are asking themselves
just how much this war is responsible
for the rise in juvenile delinquency in
Britain. Just how far can the children
brought before magistrates in the juve-
nile courts be regarded as war casual
ties?
Typical Problems.
si1: In a London juvenile court in poor
) district the magistrate sympathetically
listened to the stammering excuses OF
an overgrown boy of 16, found drunk
near telephone booth. His father was
in the Middle East, the boy had grown
up an illiterate due to the lack of Sc
curity and interrupted education caused
by his evacuation to safe districts to es-
cape the bombing. Wartime conditions
whereby he was able to obtain a salary
very little less than that drawn by mis-
father in the Army, has proved too much
for him.
Three diminutive children were the