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success of the campaign separ- ate E. B. Co. division has been set up in the general campaign or- ganiZation and much of the cam paign chairmans time will be giv- en to that division. An office has been set up for the United Welfare in the North Yard shipyard office building.
 1944 Pledge Card
 Some features of this years campaign have been definitely de- cided upon. The management will permit payroll deductions for the United Welfare and National War Fund up to maximum of twelve weeks.
 The pledge card will provide that if the contributor leaves the E. B. Go. his subscription is can celled. This year the pledge card will also give any contributor wishing to do so an opportunity to designate any agency Or agencies to which his money is not to go.
 Comment by Ferguson
 Asked to comment, the United Welfare chairman. stated, Final quotas for campaign divisions have not been set but the quota for the E. B. Go. division is. bound to be a big one. If work CTS at the E. B. Go. make their quota they will have done fine job.
 For a successful campaign those who work in the campaign have got to convince those who they are asking to give:
 l. That local agencies which make some charges for their ser- vices, the Visiting Nurse, the Y. M. c. A. the Day Nursery. etc. do not charge as much as these ser- vices cost and need public SUD- port to make both ends meet.
 2. That good work is done by the Child and Family Welfare which are supported en- tirely by contributions from the public.
 3. That the campaign and the welfare and war funds are effi- ciently and economically managed.
 4. That 1t saves time and money to have single combined drive and for everybody to make his contribution where he works.
 5. That $1 given to 8 combined drive is less than a nick1e each when divided among the different agencies in the drive and that when you give $5 to a combined drive you give less than you used to give when you gave $1 to sep arate Boy Scout campaign, then $1 to the Girl Scouts, and so on"
 The old Spanish mission at Santa Barbara, Cali, has been in use continuously since it's found-
The sub., 1944-09-28

The old Spanish mission at Santa Barbara, Cali, has been in use continuously since it's found- ing.
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Paris Fighting

Although it was reported yesterday that Gen
sral Eisenhower had declared Paris liberated.
later dispatches showed that fighting was still
in progress in and around the French capital
It will take some tall explaining-this being
caught off the bag second time. Who, for
example, took the responsibility of speaking
for General Eisenhower in the NBC broadcast?
Nor is this all that will need explaining in
connection with the Paris fighting. That first
report of the city's liberation which was spread
by the French prematurely, for instance and
particularly why the French commander in the
city took it upon himself to grant an armistice
to the enemy when he lacked authority to
do so.
The stock of France, which was high in the
market Of public esteem following the false
report. came very close 70 hitting bottom when
the truth came out That is true of General De
Gaulle's stock, too.
The record as it now stands shows that Al
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Individual RecOnversiOn

While so many elements Of the population
are giving their thought and effort to the re-
conversion of industry-a necessary under
taking in the interest of employment and the
nations economic welfare-it would be well
for individuals, separately and seriously, to
devote grave attention to personal reconver-
sion.
This is especially necessary in that neither
people nor nations can take up their manner
Of living where interrupted the customary
and orderly processes of earning livelihood
or finding entertainment or, in the case of
governments, negotiating treaties by which
they sought to benefit at the expense of other
governments and peoples.
Inevitably, life will be on a different plain
when peace returns. The old happy-go-lucky
days are gone forever. 1t will be necessary
in the interest of security and survival-and
here the reference is to individuals-for peo-
pie to take up new burdens. meet new obi
cations, assume new responsibilities, in every
action and contact, from day to day, with a
view of a neighbor's welfare as well as one
own.
With this ahead, it would be eminently help
ful for us to appraise our individual spiritual
tandards and where the need exists revive
them in accordance to the best principles of
existence, which, if we but take time to ex-
anime the facts, are still to be found in the
Sermon on the Mount
1t is not part of the function of the secular
press to be sermonesque. That duty properly
falls to the lot of the pulpit. Nor is it our
intention now to preach. But we would fail to
take advantages Of our privilege if we neglect
ed to point out that during this war period and
cnle1y because money has been easy we have
been living loosely with little consideration
OF the things that really count In our opinion,
1t is not political upheaval or labor unrest
serious as these are-that threaten our Sc
curlty as greatly as it is the lack of high
spiritual aspirations, the downright honesty Of
tnought and action that underle the Beatitudes.
IL Is not even that only per cent of church
members regularly attend services It is that
'he other % per cent, and probably part Of
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Southern Farmers

| Commenting on the changing rural South ,
the New York Times finds that the Second
World War has Increased the tempo OF the
AGRICULTURAL revolution in the South" Legumes
and limestone are working vast changes" in
Dixies traditional one-crop system OF farm
ing. Sponsored by the federal government and
backed by state colleges, extension services,
bankers and far-sighted press, tine program
has accomplished results which pretend more
prosperous rural areas with the logical con-
comitants Ia four-bit world Of increased in
come, better living and improved educational
opportunities.
The Times is strong for the 'L and L. COM
bination. Limestone it says, would sweet
en- the soil; legumes would restore essential
nitrogen and provide the hurnus making ma
terial to restore the WORKOUT land.'' And it
adds:
GAS extensive areas have been removed
from King Co!.on's domain under the Federal
program, new cash crops, grains, grasses
and legumes, and pasture areas have sup
planted cotton acreage. Many tenant farmers
in past years had small, Intellectual gardens.
Now there are tens of thousands of big, care
fully planned gardens for long-season use, plus
a sufficiency for canning and preserving. Small
farmers and tenants have discarded "salt meat
and corn meal food diet In addition to
home-raised fruits and vegetables, they are
growing beef poultry and pork for family
=.
projected increase OF community frozen food
locker plants will further increase the olive
on the farm'D program.
1.-The South agricultural revolution will ben
eft it's whole 100000 people. A prosperous,
stable farm program means farm income to
spend for industrial products A progressive
rural area supports local towns and villages"
Broadly this is all correct. The only COM
plant of it is that it is a generation late. For
more than thirty years southern farmers have
been up to every trick of their trade both in
soil treatment, crop rotation and other mod
ern methods of getting the best out of the
ground The Second World war is merely an
incident in the agricultural revolution, not
cause of it.
That the Southern farmer has not gotten
as far ahead as he might has not been due to
ignorance lack of industry or thrift, but to
market profiteering and high freight rates for
the most part, as result of which he has
had to find means of meeting deficiency freight
bills and high jobbers' costs or going out Of
business.
he hv iS
capable as his counterpart in any section of
the country. His chief need is a new deal in
markets and transportation.
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Will Fight Illiteracy

Lack of progress in Mexico has long been
,scribed in large measure to illiteracy among
the masses. The comparatively few educated
citizens with political aspirations have had
things very much their own way, just as ban
dts of the Villa type did for some years.
In an effort to overcome the handicap of
Ignorance among millions President Camacho
has started a campaign OF education. 1t is
impossible to build schools for everybody, and
equally impossible to get adults to attend
school, So President Camacho has hit upon
the novel plan of commissioning able bodied
citizens possessing rudimentary education
from 18 to go to teach at least one illiterate
Mexican between IA and 40 to read and write
Within six months it is the Presidents hope
tn have ten million books printed containing
the elementary teaching system. The primers
will be distributed through the cooperation of
the governors of the % states and municipal
authorities who will register the illiterates and
assign the citizen-teacher.
The teaching campaign will be started by
March l. next year and continue until March
1. 1916, when a check-up will be made to see
what progress has resulted The experiment
will be watched with interest not only be-
cause it promises to benefit so many south OF
the Rio Grande, but also because Of the un-
usual teaching method employed.
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lied forces were required to enter the city ano
90 on with the Job the French Force OF the
Interior had declared completed. 1t IS not
big job and may be quickly done. But the
troops that have to do it were called from
other vital operations.
There is in this portent of things to come
It will not be surprising if General Eisenhower
benceforth exercises with sterness the authority
vested in him and assigns no more serious un-
dertakings to the French without close super
vision, if not actual control.
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BY JOHN SELBY

Some books to keep the children
amused
Kay Stevens Foote has done a
first rate job of explaining Austria
liza and nearby territories to the
young, but not too young, of this
country. She calls the book walk
about Down-Under," a walkabout
being the term used about ''black-
fellows as they go from place to
place. Miss Foote'S prose is SIM
pie but not deliberately SO, and the
illustrations are particularly well
chosen. (Scribners; $3.50.
One of the m t intelligentlv
done novels of it's kind I've seen
is Paul Corey's 1.-THE Red Trac.
tor" Mr.. Corey's book deals, at
youthful level, with very real,
problem - the everlasting fight
between the small, independent
farmer and the enormous corpo-
rations which have gotten foot.
holds in many parts of the country
MIR. Corey's hero is a boy named
Stan Shield who can see that his
and his neighbor's only chance is
cooperation, and goes about secur-
ing it. Morrow; so
Stories from the Americas is
a group of 20 tales for younger
children drawn from the Latin
American countries. The editor is
Frank Henius, and he has chosen
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The Literary Guidepost

very well indeed. The illustrator
Leo Polltl, has drawn ably. But
the thing that makes the book is
the flavor of the stories them
selves, which is Latin mixed with
indian, and unique so far as I
know. (Scribners; So
Marion Billiard goes in for dog
stories, and ''C-Pilot Trott'' is up
TO her standard. Trott is a. Scot
hsh terrier who begins the book
unoer cloud-he is about to be
put down." because his Young
mistress is going to England to
I'VE. But Trott lives to become
ngure IN the news. (Dutton: $1.75)
jackson Scholz has written a
good many good sports stories for
of which "Pigskin War
Fl r1ors' is possibly mot exciting.
Inns time he has his collegiate foot
%. paIers graduate into the Pacific
war, and reach Guadalcanal bv
way Honolulu, still football-mind
ca. Inc kernel of the story has to
40 with personal rivalry solved
m an attack on Jap position on
Morrow; s2)
AND Constance Savery's 1.-THE
5000 Ship Red Lily is neatly
out period piece, set in
england against (of all things) a
background of religious differ.
ences. dongmas; $2.25)
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Mrs. Erva bikes Gets
Post At Beach USO

Mrs. Erva M. Dixie. who lolrJI
the USO division of the N@.t ooi,.
Young Women's Christian s 5?socto,
tons in October, l943, as u.s se.
of the USO club in hlsSl .la. n
Fla, has assumed her du', S ,nl
director of the Carolina Beacn .;,,.
of the United Service OIs'
ton. ,.,rl
The new director received III ohA
S. degree in sociology ana lpsorstn
ogy from St. Lawrence Uni' e-odt
Canton, N. Y, and later ola Min
ate work at the University u assp
nesota. Mrs. Dixie has 9een MINI.
ciated with the ST. Paul - sacre.
YWCA as personal service ..s and
tary, and has been a hosts' tor ID
director at the Soldiers Ce"'N
Oakdale, La.
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Daily Prayer

Do Thou, O Lord, whose power
reaches into every human hes.'
soften and sensitize our splllS
as we walk through these Gays
difficulty. Teach us to see ar an.
serve our brothers needs. May w
be comforters of the grlef-Snliuc.e..
and comrades of the lonely VI"
us understanding hearts, tha' W,
may be ministering serVali'S
our time and of Thee. forbla ,iis.
in this great hour, we shoulu "
enwrapped in littleness. May
Of our touch upon life be ike u. .a
the touch of Jesus, as he hlor W.
a midst the common people Vi II.
day. Increase in US deVouoN u.
Him, and to all the enoS -,
taught. Thus may victory 1lnu
in a mood worthy OF the pe"'"
Amen.-W.T.E
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Port Captains Office
Gets ID Spars As Aides

Fourteen Spars have been assign
ed to the captain of ports office
here to relieve men for sea duty,
it was announced yesterday by 1t.
S. B. Frink, executive officer and
assistant captain of the port.
The members of the Women S
Reserve of the Coast Guard, the
first to be on duty at the captain
OF the ports office, are serving as
Pharmacists mates, radio opera
tors, telephone and teletype opera
tors, yeomen, and storekeepers.
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Light And Shadow

John E. Hamm, economist of the Blow
company, New York, believes that this country
will enter period of unprecedented prosperity
after 1916.
The picture he paints Of the interim is not
so prepossessing.
M. Hamm was addressing the American
National Retail Jewelry Association recent
ly. He said among other things that on the
basis of four assumptions the intervening
period would see a possible drop In gross ma
tional products from 5000 900 600, 900 in middle
1914 to $1o5 o0oOOo,ooo by the end of 1896 I'm
employment, he forecast, would rise to II, 90,
900 despite the fact that 100000 workers
would probably leave the labor market.
After 1916, however, things will begin to
pick up and confidence be re-established ''to
the extent that spending on behalf of business
and individuals would be resumed, taking the
gross national products to an unprecedented
high level-at least SIS 00o, 0OO, 900 year high
err than anything we have known before in
peace tme''
them this way:
ID that the war in Europe would be over
in the last half of 1914 and that the Pa
cific war would terminate before the end Of
1915; (2) that military expenditures would
be cut from approximately 100000, 000-
900 to $500 0,00O 900 within months after
the end of the war in Europe, and from
$50 900 100000 to $4,000, 100000 shortly
after collapse Of Japan; (3) that a split
Congress "a Democratic House with Re-
publican Senate) would delay enactment
Of an overall recovery program, and a.
that despite unprecedented savings and ac-
eumulated needs, consumers would limit
their purchases to essentials until conf
dence in the future was established.
The first lesson aspiring reporter is re-
quired to learn is to dodge assumption and
take nothing for granted We pass Mr. Hamm' s
views on therefore for what they may be worth
10 the individual reader. If he should happen
tc be correct in the date he fixes for the re-
turn Of prosperity good many Of US will soon
be wondering how we'll make ends meet until
the end Of 1946.
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loved the man who had the heart
to be so wonderful.
AS they put the stretcher down
In the gravel road, waiting for the
]eep to turn around, one of the
armored division soldiers leaned
over the stretcher and said with
rough emotion:
IF you'd been a damn German
you'da been dead five days ago.
Christ, but you British have got
gutS!"
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With Ernie Pyle
ON THE WESTERN FRONT

ON THE WESTERN FRONT -
by wireless)-You may have Won
dered how that British pilot happen
ed to be found after lying for eight
days unnoticed, trapped in his
wrecked plane.
Well, as l told you, a bullet had
clipped the balls of his right-hand
forefingers, clear to the bone. He
had put his cream-colored hand
kerchief over them to stop the
bleeding. AS the wound dried, the
handkerchief stuck to his fingers,
and to pull it off would have been
painful. 1t still stuck to his fingers
all through the ordeal of getting
him out; 1t was still elapsed in his
hand as the ambulance jeep drove
away with him.
To go back, through the days of
his waiting he had that handker-
chiefed right hand stuck through
little hole in the planes side,
moving it slowly back and forth.
Just after had stopped that day
to talk to 1t. Ed. Sasson in the
field, two mechanics from an ar
mored division came down the road
in a jeep. They were looking at
the wrecked plane as they drove
along, and suddenly they saw this
slight movement. They stopped and
went over to make sure, and they
found inside there one of the brave
men of this war. That's when they
came running for us.
The two boys to whom this Brit
ish flight lieutenant owes his life
are Sgt. Milton Van Sickel of Brain
ard, Mimi, and Corp. William
Schinke of Gresham, Neb.
At last we had the pilot out of
the plane and on a stretcher under
wing. The doctor took some scis-
sors and started cutting away his
clothes. 1t must be hot in those
cockpits in flight, for the pilot wore
nothing but short trousers and a
blue shirt.
The doctor cut off the pants and
then the shirt. The pilot lay there
naked. He was a man of magnifi-
cent physicue.
The calves of his legs were large
and athletic. In the calf of the left
leg was a round hole as big as an
apple. But to our establishment,
there was no deterioration of flesh
around it. The wound was already
healing perfectly. The leg wasn't
even burned, as he had told US.
What then could it have been that
we smelled in the plane?
We turned him over and then we
saw. His back was burned by spill
ed gasoline, from his shoulders to
the end Of his spine. It was raw
and red.
He had been forced to lie on it
all the time, unable to move. At
last fostering had started, and then
gangrene. We could see the little
blue-green mouldy splotches. That
was what we had smelled. He didn't
know about that. The odor had de-
veloped inside his little cubbyhole
so gradually that he hadn't been
aware Of it. He was shocked by
the smell of fresh air, but he still
didn't know about the other. He
had been worried only about his
leg.
I don't know what the doctor
really thought. The pilot was OBJ
viuosly IN wonderful physical
shape. considering such an ordeal
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| The doctor told him so. But he
looked a long time at that gan
grenous back, and then they tenn
porarily bandaged it.
AS they were working on him, the
doctor asked if the pilot had a wal
let or any papers. He said yes, his
had been in his hip pocket. The
doctor lifted the blood smeared
pants and cut the wallet out with
a pair of scissors. From the other
pocket he cut silver cigaret case.
''That's good, old boy,' the pilot
said. I'm grateful that you found
that"
We asked him if he had wrist
watch. He said yes, but it had
fallen off and was probably in the
debris where he had been lying.
But we couldn't find it, and finally
gave it up.
AS he lay on his stomach on the
stretcher they tied a metal splint
around his wounded leg. While they
were doing this bathed his head
again in water from a canteen.
A soldier lit another cigaret and
gave it to him. It dropped through
his fingers onto the wet grass, and
became soaked. I lit another ono
and put it in his fingers.
He took long, deep drag, and
put his head down on the litter
and closed his eyes. The morphine
finally was making him groggy,
but it never did put him out.
The cigaret burned up almost to
his fingers. An officer said, cit S
going to burn him." and started
to pull it from between his fingers.
But the pilot heard and lazily open
ed his eyes, took another puff, and
with his thumb pushed to, cigaret
farther out in his fingers. Then he
closed his eyes again. He lay there
for a few minutes like that.
Then again he rolled those great
eyes up and said to me:
''What date did you say this
was?" I told him.
That's wonderful" he said. INV
wedding anniversary is just three
days away. I guess I'll be back in
England for it YETI
The needles were all through.
They covered the naked pilot with
blanket and carried him to the
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the per cent too, as well as non-chruchmen
fail to see need for better standards.
In the individual reconversion which is so
greatly needed, there must be deeper recog-
ni+ion of the eternal truth that something
Greater than mortal whim and emotion must
buttress our daily lives if we are to be truly
secure.
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just claimed, promised or attack
ed, with no facilities provided for
disproof.
Debate is abandoned in our poll
TICS, unless you count those squal-
ling radio forums in which the
speakers seldom have a chance
10 prepare arguments and are SUBJ
]ect TO hecklement, with loaded
questions.
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The Road To Berlin
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press)
Russian front: 322 miles measured
from eastern suburbs of Warsaw.
2-Northern France: 500 miles m1easured
from point just west OF Troyes).
3-Italian front: COL miles (measured
from northern outskirts of Florence).
4-Southern France: SOB miles measur-
ed from Grenoble).
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rs Years Ago
Today
(FROM THE FILES
OF THE STAR-NEWS)
AUGUST 26, 1919

Mrs. w. K. Stewart and young
son, William, of 708 Orange street,
are visiting Mrs. Stewards sister,
Mrs. Duffy in Bennettesville, S. c.
WASHINGTON. - In recognition
of General John J. Pershing's serv-
ice in the war, the House today
passed bill authorizing the presi-
dent to confer On him the perma-
nent rank of general. The measure
now goes to the Senate.
Delegates from here attending
the 34th annual convention of the
Woman's Missionary Synodical So
ciety of the Lutheran church OF
North Carolina near Salisbury
are: Mrs. L. Freimuth, Mrs. Henry
Often, Mrs. E. A. Stands, Miss EN-
ma Oterson, Mrs. F. A. Bissinger
Mrs. C. W. Mechanism and from
the children's society are: Misses
Catherine and Jessie Render.
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Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept NO
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Pegler.
and often disagree with them a. much ~ many Of
his readers His articles the good purpose Of
making people think