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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-15
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Ivan Cankar: Zbrani spisi:
l. w, vsebina: Erotika, IL
daja 1902; Erotika, IL
daja 1899; Pesmi 1892
1898; Vinjete, bros. $1.50
vez. 200
II. week: Crtice in pove-
sti ter Kriticni in pole
micni spisi, bros. $1.50,
200
III. week: Jakob Ruda, Po-
tovanje Nikolaja Nikica,
Ia narodov blagor. CIR
tice ter Kriticni in pole
micni spisi, bros. $3.50,
VoZ. Z.UU
". zvezek: amiga "a la
hkomiselne ljudi in TUT
CT, vezana -.. 200
V. week: Kralj ma Betajno-
vi, Ma k~lancu, Crtice, O.
pombe, 1928 strani, bros,
$3.50, 200
VII. week: Mimo zivljenja,
Crtice in nOyele, Kriti-
chi spisi, Opombe, 391
strani, bros. $1.50, vez.-- 200
VIII. week: Gospa Judit, Kriz
ma gori, Potepuh Mako
in kralj Matjaz, Opombe,
BIT str, bros. $1.50, vez. 200
TX. week: V mesecini, Mar
tin Kacur, Nina, liz Ottak-
ringa V Oberhollabrurn,
Opombe, $50 str, bros.
$1.50, vez. ,----.-.- 200
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Luka, Kurent, Opombe,
$50 str. bros. $1.5O. vez. 200
XIV. week: Pesmi, Nioba, Or
tice, Novele, Hlapci, O.
pombe, 313 strani, bros.
$3.50, vez. ..--- 200
XIV. zvezek: Troje povesti, Or
tice, Opombe, 327 str,
bros. $1.5O, vez...- 200
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Milena, Mole zivljenje,
Grespik Lenart. Opombe,
$50 str, bros. $3.50, vez. 200
(Prvih 7 zvezKov v fini napol-
usnjevi vezavi po.,....... 2.75
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Zbrani spisi:
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II. week: In vendar ! So
% Pia, V Karlovcu, Gez
osem let, Tat, Gospod Gil
ril, Mrtva srca, $50 str,
bros. $1.50, vez. ..-. 200
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1000, V Zali, Izgubljeni
bog, Pomlad, 512 strani,
bros. $3.50, vez. ---- 200
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zgodovinski roman, bros.
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(Uredil DR.. Ivan Privately,
Bake in p~ovesti O Gorjancih.
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vi. knjiga, bros. s5c, vez..... 1856
VII. knjiga, bros. 85c, vez.....-. 1875
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Free Press

War has one virture 1t reawakens a people s
sense OF values. For example, in peace-time
everyone takes the local newspaper pretty
much for granted. Its valpe tc the communi-
ty and to the ideals of freedom which the edi-
tor .symbolizes with everv opinion he express
es, is almost wholly lost t. sight
In ordinary times the editor is painfully
reminded of the arbitrary value placed on
his services Advertising is hard to obtain.
When it is obtained it is strictly on basis of
getting so many customers &c. so-and SOS
gaoget ANY advertising manager who bought
space in newspapers with the partial objec-
tive OF encouraging a tree press and free
Enterprise would, few 5sars ago. have been
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
End Double Taxation

One of the major problems fer Which Will
rnington should find the solution this year
is the extraordinary burden imposed upon
city taxpayers for county obligations through
double taxation.
single example of how it works will suf-
flee to prove the injustice Of the system which
has been in effect for years. Under The 1912
43 budget New Hanover county contributed
S21, 900 to James Walker Memorial hospital
S12, 900 of which came nom Wilmington city
taxpayers, who pay 60 Ger cent of the conn.,
tvs taxes.
The city also contributed $21, 600 to the hos
pital, toward which the county contributed
nothing Of the total contributions to the hos.
pital, amounting to $4,000, the city's tax
payers paid $4,000 while taxpayers of the
county contributed cut So 400
The same proportion exists in all point eX-
penditures. In addition TO bearing its full 100
per cent, the city must put up 60 per cent
for the county.
This inequitable distribution of the tax
load can be corrected only by act of the legis-
lature, so far as governmental institutions.
such as the joint city and county tax office,
are concerned. Clearly If justice to Whining
ton taxpayers whatever legislation is required
should be passed at the forthcoming 1egis.
lature session. And in all cases which do not
require legislation, the city Cove! nment itself
ought to carry out necessary readjustments.
II will not do to beinoah the conditions
which have weighed SO heavily upon, the
citys taxpayers, and let il go al that. def
mite program OF correction ought to be franz
ed well in advance of the legislative session
and no candidate for the legislature favored
who it not committed to its support
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Unemployment

Men are being discharged from the armed
forces at the rate of 100000 a month. Eighty
per cent of them are ready to take jobs i'm
Employment Service Offices have been des-
ignated as demonstration centers for ex-
banded veterans counciling and placement
programs.
They are to be laboratories, says Mr.. Me-
Mutt, the manpower chief, 20 try out de-
tails. 'for increasing assistance to dis
charged members of the armed forces in
making a satisfactory adjustment to civil
liam life
The problem is complicated. however, by the
fact that Is per cent of the discharged vet
Grams refuse to return to theit cid jobs. This
may be attributed in part to the unsettling eff
feet of war service and perhaps more exte1-
sivev to the training many meE have receiv-
ed in new tasks. Many have become expert
electricians, radio men. mechanics. They
naturally do not enjoy The prospect of, say,
clerking in retail stores for the rest of their
lives. That was all right before the war, but
now. They must find jobs in new fields of Ell
deavor. And if they are TO be contented. pro-
ductive citizens jobs in these new fields must
be provided for them. Much Ct America S
postwar domestic prosperity VIII depend upon
how well this obligation is met
That it will be a tremendous undertaking is
easily understood. 1t is clea1 that demobili-
zation must be gradual and 10 more mep
brought home than can De put to work almost
upon arrival
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Less But Better Reading

The American Library Association announc-
es that patrons Of public Ii lta,1es are not
reading as much as before the war but the
quality of what they read is improving. It's
year-end survey shows an almost universal
drop in reading.
The survey also reveals that light novels
and nonfiction, read purely fer entertain
ment have lost their popularity but practi-
cal reading, although decreased in volume
has intensified.
Also there is greater popular interest in
world activities, rot only in war news but in
international politics.
The trend is toward serious reading, for a
nation busy at war has .1uno little time to
devote to light reading
The survey also disclosed tat aliases re.
ceived more usage in the last year than in
10 proceeding years, and maps, especially
with families of servicer-e en- are exceeding.
ly popular.
There is no slump in Use of libraries by
children and young people, despite the over
all decrease in library use, the Association
said. Teen-agers are reading everything they
can find about the war. Aviation books are
universal favorites.
Books about Japan, once in great demand
now are stagnant on library shelves in almost
every community and the sight of them in
many children's libraries has reused violent
resentment by the children.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
The Literary Guidepost

Victoria wants to be accepted, she
also wants to control the house
and those in it. For time she
appears to succeed, but in the
end the house wins. Just how this
is brought about you must learn
from Mr.. Bellaman, although it
will do no harm to hint that the
reason Victoria must be defeatea
is that she is unable to understand
the house, those about her, or for
that matter, herself.
Obviously, this is another $50
Red the Rose" sort of novel.
There are certain conventions to
be observed, and Mr.. Bellaman
observes them. He does not ex-
pect to be taken literally all the
time, and of course he is not.
He is writing escape, and very
good escape. The question to be
asked is whether the reader, for
time, is led out of his own pre-
sumably less attractive life into
that of the Grandolet clan, and I
think most readers will be so led
The Grandolets are a clan. Niles
Grandolet, who married Victoria
little too hastily, is the typical
Southerner of fiction who is a gen.
tleman because he was born that
way. His aunt is a Southern lady
Tor the same reason.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Government Comes High

II you own home ard pay taxes, or if
you are a renter and pay taxes through the
landlord you have a tremendous interest
today in the trend toward greater Federal
and municipal ownership OF property in every
community. You are interested for the simple
reason that every piece Of such publicily-own-
ed property is tax-exempt
To illustrate: The Federal government and
the San Francisco Housing Authority by &C.
QUESTION of almost 3 IL million dollars worth
cisco, have removed those prot Ell ties from the
assessment rolls of San Francisco and made
them tax exempt. This means that remaining
property in the city must carry an added tax
burden of S155.O00 formerly paid by the now
exempt properties.
mat IS just minor example of what is
taking place throughout the country In some
states, the amounts total hundreds of millions
of dollars
Every Federal and municipal venture into
the field of business, cuts three ways: First,
1t destroys existing tax-paying industries and
substitutes tax-subsidized properties; second.
it prevents the expansion and development of
new tax-paying properties in the field appro-
priated; and third, it adds to the burden of
the taxpayers by making Them liable for tax
obligations of the socialzed properties.
Government comes high when it is extend
ed beyond the function of governing.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Our Chief Aim
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Just having friends blngS happiness
That years can never Jim.
Jessie Il. EalrWeather.
Prepare For Peace
To aid in every way the prosecution Of
the war to complete Victory.

When the war is over It is safe to believe
no future Quizlings viii have u ghost OF a
chance 10 betray Norway The Norwegians
are training qusi-milita,y force in Sweden
which will take ove1 pJlice duties at home
when the Germans are driven out.
When the entire training program is COM
pleted 10, 900 or more young Norweglans will
constitute a wellt1ainet; physically tough
ened organization skillet IN the use of fire
arms and prepared for duties in wartorn and
reconstructed areas.
In recent weeks, many barracks have been
rushed to completion at Gottroera. at another
large camp and at sever al smaller camps in
other Swedish districts.
During last January February, and March,
about 5000 Norwegian refugees enrolled for
training in Free Norway police forces in
Sweden. They are gradually being assigned.
Near Stockholm, special police officer
and examiners school was started several
months ago. directed by Swedish and Norwe-
gian experts.
The Norwegian police camps are not under
the control of the Swedish Minister of De-
fense but of Home Secretary Gustav Moer,
who besides being Minister of Health and
Labor. is supreme chief OF al Swedish po-
lice Swedens leading Grim ologist, DR.. Harry
Soderman, is working win state police and
military police in training the Notwegians.
Instead of playing politics, General De
Gaulle might take tip rom tie Norwegians
and have an efficient force ready to take
over police duties in Flance when the Ger
mans go. There is ample room in French
African territory for sin1ital training camps
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Daily Prayer
FOR NATIONAL UNITY

Thou alone, 0 Infinite Spirit,
canst move upon the hearts OF
men. changing them into conform.
ity with Thy purposes. AS Thou
didst quiet the stormy Sea of Cali.
lee, so we humbly beseech Thee
to calm the turbulent spirit of OUR
beloved Country, abating all ran
cor, all class hatreds, all bitter
partisanship, all ruthless self-seek.
ing. May the greatness and sa-
credness of our war effort unity
us into a new oneness as a peo-
pie. On the anvil of a great ma.
tional struggle may our souls be
shaped into oneness that will
fit us for wars aftermath. For.
give our unworthy divisions and
make us great enough in spirit
to cooperate with Thee in the
sublime work of conforming our.
selves and all mankind into a new
brotherhood. That we may have
unity one with another may we
be given, by Thy grace, a living
unity with Thee. Amen.-W TIE.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

SAN FRANCISCO-Whatever the
war has done it has not slowed
down air travel. I was just II
hours getting here from Washing
ton, and we arrived 80 minutes
ahead of schedule. People do it
every day, yet it is still to me
an exciting and marvellous thing
that space and time can be re-
duced to such size, even though
it is a question whether the time
so saved is put TO any purpose
sufficiently useful to justify the
saving.
Anyway, I left Washington after
full days work and was at the
Bohemian Club mere making tele-
phone calls before 10 the next
morning.
The airInes have tried to keep
up their old standards in spite
Of the war They still ,have pretty
hostesses skipping up and down
the aisles, putting pillows under
the heads Of weary passengers
and tucking blankets around them.
Our stewardess said she would
become an Army nurse next
month and work on airplanes
evacuating wounded soldiers
Graduate nurses are leaving the
airlines to go into air-evacuation
nursing, and college girls are TAX
ing their places.
Sleeper planes have disappeared
for the ration, but the girls still
pass the chewing gum. You don't
get cigarets any more with your
meals, but the meals are up tc
pre-war standards. The steward
ess even hands around a fancy
printed dinner menu to make the
passengers mouth water while he
waits for his food. But they
couldn't match the beef-steak
had at the Chicago airport res
taurant. The waitress said they
had those thick, juicy steaks ev
cry day except on the two meat
less days week. What's the Chi
cago Tribune complaining about
anyway?
But the war has made changes.
Few civilians are riding trans
continental planes. We had only
two or three on the whole trip.
Women and babies have disap-
peared as familiar sights ON the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Raymond Clapper Says:
Airlines Try To Keep
Up Their Old Standards

airliners. In fact, if you don't
have a Government priority you
will have trouble on a transcon-
tinental trip. Some with low pri-
critics are not sure of going
through. At every stop there is
a recheck, and passengers with
low prioritias get nervous lest
they be put off.
Flying at night, sitting up, you
are awake a good deal but not
completely so, and the hours slide
by without being very distinct.
You know how much ground you
are covering by the changes in
the weather. You leave Washing
ton in mild weather and two hours
later at Toledo you get out in
an icy wind. At Cheyenne there
is snow on the field. Then a few
hours later you come down in
balmy. moist sunshine, at San
Francisco. Around the airport
here bright geraniums were in
bloom, and Gala lilies. It was
like a late spring morning in the
East. But when I called the San
Francisco News the telephone op-
orator was apologize and asked
how l liked the cold weather here
1 checked a little bit later with
a sailor who drives for the Navy.
He was wounded at Guadalcanal
and now is chauffeur for an ad-
miral. He didn't know whether
this was unusual weather or. not
but he said he liked Michigan
weather best.
San Francisco is classed as a
combat port, and the streets are
full OF the Army and Navy. Yet
it seems like a peacetime boom
town and the downtown streets
are packed with shoppers. 1 have
seen numerous women street-car
conductors. Like elevator girls,
they wear Stacks and high-heeled
shoes and somehow manage to
look completely out of place.
San Francisco is a kind of way
station between Washington and
the Pacific war. Brass hats are
constantly passing through. Their
presence may be known to many
but it never gets into print until
they are gone. Attention is wholly
absorbed with the Pacific war. In.
stantly here you begin to feel the
size of it. Literally dozens of is
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
Workers Not Blameless

It has been said countless times that the
strikes in war industries OF this nation were
the result of labor leadership and did not
represent the will of he individual work
man. The coal miners have proved that theory
doesn't hold water. And 'i,e railroad workers
have added proof
1t gives one sick ceiling to read the head
lines, $50 U. S Bombers and 800 Filters Lost
in Record Attack Miners SErike Spreads, -
'Walkout Closes Steel Furnace
There is something wrong with the thinking
of any man on the home front who enjoys
all the blessings Of personal liberty, and then
strikes in wartime instead OF staying on his
Job and backing the men on the war front
who risk their lives to preserve the liberty
he enjoys.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03

looked upon as light-headed by his colleagues.
But today circumstances have changed
The nation is at war. It is at war to restore
freedom to other nations and to perpetuate it
in this country. Our people have had abund-
ant opportunity to contemplate the horror of
nations where freedom is dead.
Our business men, all Of US lave observed
that in those nations disappearance OF per-
sonal liberty was accompanied by the disap-
pearance of the virulent free thinking and
free speaking editor After the disappearance
of the editor came the iron hand of dictator
ship. 1t is not surprising that we begin to
look upon the editor and the free press he
all costs in this country
Industry realizes at last that without our
free press there could be no free enterprise.
Industry realizes that if it wants to do
business at the same old stand after the war;
it will have to first help preserve a system
of government that will let private Enterprise
live. War has reaWakened industry to the
value of the editor. Its representatives have
discovered that the American press renders
a service far beyond selling a few wards Of
Blank Company's cheesecloth They are find.
ing out that this latter ssrvice-the keenine
alive OF freedom-cannot lie measured in dol
lars and cents, or bought by tie inch.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
BY JOHN SELBY
VICTORIA GRANDOLET," by
Henry Bellaman (SimOn & Schu-

"VICIORlA CHANDELIER by
Henry Bellaman (Simon G. Schu-
ster; $3.50.
Henry Bellaman is an apostle
and an advocate of fictional CLAM
or, and his Victoria Grandolet'
is the product of this tendency
and creed. 1t is successful, too.
Mr.. Bellaman is writing this
time of Louisiana, and his story
begins about 1900. 1t begins with
a New Hampshire girl who at
tends a Southern school for girls
of good family, and marries the
man with whom her school chum
is in love. She returns to Louisi-
ana with him and takes up her
position as mistress of great
house on the Mississippi's banks,
a place called White Cloud. At
this point Victoria Grandolet steps
out of her leading role in Mr..
Bellaman's novel, and White Cloud
takes over.
The place is not exactly haunt
ed, although Victoria hears muir
murlngs at certain place on the
second floor. But White Cloud is,
IN its inanimate way, the symbol
and the force behind the Grando-
lets-it accepts those it wishes to
accept. and it rejects the rest.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
You're Telling Me

The average Japanese, says the man at the
next desk, shouldn't worry too much about
what's going to happen to mis- house when the
Allied bombers come. After all it's just so
much paper.
There are no snakes in New Zealand, ac-
cordng to Photographs. And there probably
never will be anyhow that the threat of a
Japanese invasion there has long since been
dispelled.
A Michigan woman reports she aimed at
what she thought deer, fired, and hit
a duck. A male mimrod would, of course,
never do thing like that-or admit it.
1t might be smart move for the Ger
mans to send Rommel to the eastern front
His experience retreating through North
African sands should make him feel right
at home among the Russian snowdrifts.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICE

God" was the subject of the
lesson-sermon in all Christian Sci
ence churches and societies on
Sunday, January 2.
The golden text was from Reve.
lations 21:3. Behold, the taber-
nacle of God is with men. and
he will dwell with them, and they
shall be his people, and God him
self shall be with them, and be
their God"
Among the citations which COM
prised the lesson-sermon were the
following from the Bible: God
that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that he is
Lord of heaven and earth, dwell
eth not in temples made with
hands; Neither is worshipped with
mems hands, as though he need
ed any thing, seeing he givet1
to all life, and breath, and all
things" (Acts II: "a, 25).
The lesson-sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures by Mary Baker Ed
dy: God is infinite, the only Life.
substance, Spirit, or Soul, the only
intelligence of the universe. in.
Guiding man. The universe reflects
or expresses the divine substance
or Mind; therefore God is seen
only in the spiritual universe and
spiritual man, as the sun is seen
IN the ray Of light which goes
out from it, pages, $50. 9OO).
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03

lands scattered thousands Of
miles over the Pacific have been
converted from their native state
into busy naval bases. Outwardly
the Pacific war may seem to have
proceeded very slowly, but truly
staggering amount of preparatory
work in building bases and ac-
cunulating supplies has been
done.
That is thee first thing you get
here at the jurnping-off place for
the Pacific, at the end of an
overnight plane hop from Wash
ington.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
PROMOTIONS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-tR
- The War Department today
announced a list of temporary
promotions Of officers, includ-
ing these from North Carolina:
LIST 1t. to Capt:
Bryson City - Ernest Wood
row Fisher, M. C.
2nd 1t. to LIST 1t.
Hickory - Arthur Cleveland
Hunter, Jr., CE, 1921 18th st.
Murphy - Woodrow Wilson
Millsaps, Inf, Rt. 2.
Raleigh - Nelson e no c b
Greene, FA, 125 W. Cabarrus
St.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
LICORICE is VERSATILE

When used for candy, licorice is
colored black, but actually it is
brown. In addition to candy, it is
used as forming agent in beer,
for fire extinguisher liquids, as a
flavoring for bitter medicines, and
IN making cardboard boxes.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
MANx TONGUE DYING

The old tongue of Manx, ma
tive language of the Isle of Man.
is gradually dying out, Fewer
than 1000 of the islands 5o,ooo
population now have speaking
knowledge of it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-03
DOUBLE-BARREL CANNON

Inc public square of Athens,
"a, has a double-barreled can
non, built during the Civil War
ana resigned to shoot two balls
simultaneously, with chain con-
hectlng the balls. The chain was
supposed to NOV down the enc.
my.