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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-21

3o6 BRUNSWICK ST., 7-RoOM BUN.
galow, at the old price. H. r. Wilder
Phone 4932.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-21
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Fl, 1e4b

WE WISH TO THANK our
AMY FRIENDS FOR THE KIND
M MT'ss SHOWN US DURING THE
nnEECcFNT ILLNESS AND DEATE
~ OUR MOTHER, MRS. MARY
". EDWARDS.
W. 1.-THE Family
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
BY the United Press

When a nation is plunging
ahead into a new era and there
fore uncomfortable era, lis peo-
pie develop new and warm ar
fections for the familiar marks
and scenes of their past. Thus
they stabilize themselves and
march into the future with re-
newed assurance Of the heri-
tages they had taken for granted
in the placid days when 6 per
cent was a low rate of interest
and there was a huge roast for
dinner every Sunday.
Such landmark is the City
Of Philadelphia. If ever a great
city was taken for granted by
those who lived in it, summed
by travellers, the. butt of unkind
humor, it was and still is in
some degree, the city founded
by William Penn.
But in recent years 1t has been
rediscovered by numerous writ
ers who, with much success for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
HOME NURSE
Written for NEA Service

The toys of young child
should bring his imagination
and muscles into play a. the
same time. He needs toys that
he can do something with -
carts that he can load with
imaginary materials and haul to
market; boxes and baskets into
which he can put things to car
ry; dolls to make his play
house come alive; large blocks
for building his houses and fac
tories.
The home nurse will save her
self much annoyance if she will
substitute miniature household
articles for the things that are
so attractive to her runabout in
the kitchen. Give him something
of his own that he can use, and
establish property rights early
in life. Members of the family
can make doll houses and furni-
ture from odds and ends, bright
ening them with gay paint and
some decalcomania transfer pic
lures; dolls can be made from
clothespins and corn silks.
CONSTRUCTIVE PLAY
Packing boxes, orange crates.
cereal boxes. berry baskets,
spools, tin cans with edges well
flattened, provide endless oppor-
tunities for constructive play. A
sw lg made from a strong rope
suspended from the branch OF
a tree, or a horizontal bar low
enough for the child, help to de-
velop the large muscles and
teach him how to balance him.
self.
A discarded automobile tire
suspended from a rope makes
an excellent swing, and one that
is comparatively safe. Ladders
and steps, made with hand rails,
are helpful in teaching a child
to 60 up and down steps and
satisfy the climbing instinct.
Although children should be
encouraged to play independ-
emily and to amuse themselves
without the help of an adult, it
should be remembered that &C.
cidents may happen with any
kind of play equipment. A ma
ture person should always be
near enough to meet an emer-
gency.
For the baby, toys should be
washable and free from sharp
points or edges with which he
might hurt himself. Watch out
for hinges or joints that might
pinch fingers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

suit directing play by leading
the deuce of diamonds for West
to ruff.
In rubber bridge, at this point
West should cash his ace of clubs
and set the contract. But the re-
turn of the deuce Of diamonds
indicated to West that his part
ner held probable in-card, 50
West led back a club which East
won with the king, and was now
able to lead the queen of dia-
monds which West could ruff,
thus defeating the contract two
tricks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
THE FUTURE OF OUR MERCHANT FLEET

The retiring chairman Of the Liverpool Steam
ship Owners Association hos declared that the bulk
Of American shipping built since the war began
should be scropped with the coming Of peoce He
soys its presence in the world freight market would
be disastrous for all maritime nations
Before we begin domnng the British for inter-
ference inerotitude, and what have you it might
be we'll to take look OF our wartime merchant fleet
The bulk Of our shipping today consists Of Liberty
ships. They we're Wortne fesovers capable of quick
construction. But their design more than SO years
old They ore far too slow to compete with modern
vessels in the peocetne shipping morket Especially
in view Of the high wages thot American seon,en re-
ceive, we must have fost ships in order to compete at
all.
American shipping officials have never. SO for
os we know, considered keeping our whole wortime
cargo fleet in otter hostiIities end But neither
has there been much talk Of scroppinq the Libert,
fleet The most recent plans for TYING it up and
with the help Of new and improved preservotives
keeping it in seoworthy condition oqoinst onothe
emergency.
Maybe the retiring chairman Of the lverpoo
Steamship Owners Association should read the %
pss before offering weII-meont but erotutous I'D
vice.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
. BARBS

Women are being taught gum
merry in some colleges. Domestic
science?
Put all war rumor-spreading
people behind the bars, suggests
a Judge. AT least they wouldn't
be at liberty to speak.
If we all abide by Uncle
Sans request that we stay at
home for vacation, summer re-
sort mosquitoes will have to 60
on rations, too.
A tip for everyone who feels
that their wealth is a burden:
drop il into War Bonds!
One of the answers to how
to keep we'll is. hide it in the
cupboard and don't tell your
friends.
A hotel association official
says it's 400 to l against your
getting a steak in restaurant.
II you don't it's tough - and
maybe, even ( you do.
Because of strike of news
paper delivery workers in New
York, Mayor LaGuardia read
the funnies over the radio. Any
thing for a laugh!
Military requirements o W
take 20. out of every hundred
matches made-leaving IL like
ly to be borrowed
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
, IN HOLLYWOOD

ing and general appearance have
long inspired feminine envy.
Betty Hutton's thick make
up?-Why, the amount of screen
makeup used on Betty wouldn't
cover your thumbnail.'
(Here l made a mental note
to scrape my thumbnail over
Betty's face the next time / meet
her on the set)
EXPERIMENT PERILOUS
Perc continued:
Katie Hepburn's monotonus
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
ABUNDANCE FROM SHORTAGE

Not Iona ooo we came across an editorial winch
took the cool industry to task for making SO many
voried products from the scarce fuel and eVen' IN
the midst of the existing shortage. having the nerve
to boast about it,
perhops in the heat of his Indignation, the ou-
thor of that editorial didn't stop to think that most
of the products he was complaining about we're reo-
" byproducts In foct the high consumption OF cool
is oqicoI and legitimate reason in itself tor the
abundance Of these byproducts.
At the beginning Of the national emergency
there we're about II 900 byproduct coke ovens in
this country. Since 1910 nearly 1000 more have been
built to meet the steel industrys increasing demand
for coke.
Chemical byproducts are obtoined from these
coke ovens by the recovery Of gases and vopors from
the smoke by distIIing and washing. Among them
ore:
PhenoI, used in the making Of picrc ocd for ex-
posves, and in the production Of Plostos, d'sn-
fectont and aspirin
Nophtholene, another source Of explosives, also
of paint for war equipment plosticzer for synthetic
rubber, insect repellent, dyes insectoide (moth
fIokes). perfumes and plostic-tyPe paints.
Ammonia which is another ingredient Of explos
ives and oIso source of ammonium sup hote for fer
tiIizer
Other coke byproducts ore suIfo drugs NICOTINE
mide lone Of the vitomns) ont-freeze mixtures,
Photographic developers Iooquers and enonoes roof
ina and paving materials ard dry cleaning fluids
And the smoke is still solvoeeoble otter the
chemicals are removed For the residue is cool eos
which can be used as industrial fuel or piPed into
city Mains Lost years production Of ooke-oven gos
was about 200 million cubic feet greater than in
lo4O
Not all cool products snatehed out Of thin
air and thick SMOKE of course Nylon = remember
- is one Of them that is made directly from COOL
But no civilian who has shopped around for that
elusive synthetic in the past three years CON-
plain thot the coal which goes into its manufacture
is being put to frivolous
One would hardly think Of including most Of the
byproducts listed obove among the creature COM
forts that the war has made scarce But their mill
tory value cannot be rinimized And, although op-
porentIy great reserves Of these byproducts have
been accumulated they have met most cviIion needs
in addition to filling demonds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
High|ights from the Latest Books

themselves and benefit to the
rest of us have been ploughing
through the Annals Of John F..
Watson, the history of Scharf &
WeScott, the rich weller of ma
terial in DIR. Franklin's Lii
brary' and exposing such mater
ial about Philadelphia as must
make the native of the place
proud and little ashamed all
al once because he did not know
these wonderful things about his
own city and the outlander
wonders if it would not be
worthwhile to tarry next time
he passes that way just to see If
ae-could not run down for him.
self some of the ancient atmoS-
phere that still fingers in many
quiet streets of the great me-
tropolis, once the Greene
Countrie Towne."
(Let him start from Indepen.
dcnce Hall on a long summer
evening and wander east in the
area between Market and Locust
Streets. He will find it. There
are other places, too.)
Latest of the books about the
Quaker City is Struthers Bur:'s
Philadelphia - Holy Expert
rnent' Doubleday, Doran). Burt
has written what he calls a civic
biography, zone of those novel;
istic biographies where you treat
the hero as a human being and
try TO find out what he is and
how he got that way 1t is sort
Of case history and psychoanaly-
SIS of lone of the queerst and
most iteresting and most nostal-
gic cities you ever saw"
Burt writes from the vantage
point of ranch in Wyoming. He
is at his best, as any exiled Phil
uelphian would be, in writing
about such things as the "Phila-
delphia Sunday" from which
the majority of visitors TO the
city flee, taking trains to New
York, as from the plague; and
about the taste of the city's
water, topic Of conversation
standing in importance next
TO the weather; about Philadel.
phia cookery, which has disap.
peared from all Philadelphia
restaurants except one, but i!
preserved in private homes.
He has done a particular serv
ice in painting Benjamin Frank
lin as rebel and poet, not ;
cautious, careful old man Twin,
out the rather Grabbed maxim
Of Poor Richards Almanac. /
Is doubtful, though, how Phila
oelphians will take this treat
ment of their household GOO
They do not take kindly, in tn
. main, either to rebellion or poet
, ry. That is why they cast Frank
: lin in their own image--a kind
, IT,, lovable, frugal old man, VIII
: did great good for his city an
his country and who by goin
: early to bed and being early {
!. rise became healthy, wealth
and wise.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD 1t seems I
stuck my neck out. Or rather
Mary Davis, Hollywood's teacher
Of body dramatics, stuck her
neck out.
A few days ago we did a
piece about Mary, in which she
tore apart-limb from limb
all the famous screen bodies.
Among other things, she said
that Bette Davis walk reminded
her of a giraffe Shat Ginger
Rogers swings her hips too much
that Betty Hutton wears too
much makeup that Betty
CRADLES smile is more of sheer
that Rita Hayworth's hair is
a ''mess" shat Katherine Hep
burns voice is monotonous and
that Claudette Colberts head is
too big for her body.
We sent in our yarn and then
dug out our air raid warden he'll
met, put it on and sat back
waiting for the repercussions.
They we're quick coming, led
by Perc Westmore, the Holly
wood beauty expert and head of
Warner Bros. makeup depart
ment.
Nestmore Vas boiling.
We couldn't get in word
edgewise
SO we'll just let Perc do the
talking.
WALK TO TOP
Miss Davis talks Bette
Davis and criticizes her walk, "
stormed Westmore. Bette,s
method of locomotion has been
so bad that she has walked her.
self into the position of first
lady of the screen. Bette's walk,
when not playing character
role, suits her looks and person
ality well. When she plays
character role, her walk be-
comes that of the individual she
is portraying. Maybe Mary got
her legs and personality inter-
probation mixed
IF Bette didn't bend her
knees TO change her walk she
certainly wouldn't be able to do
the great characterizations she
has given TO motion picture au-
diences. When playing a girl
of her own age, she has an at
tractive, youthful walk. When
playing character roles her walk
changes. / disagree with Miss
Davis in that | think this Is in
depreciation and understanding
of your body.
las for Ginger Rogers swing
ing hips show me a producer,
or any man, that wouldn't will
ingly wait outside any window
TO catch glimpse of Ginger"
Westmore paused to draw a
breath, then shifted into high.
Rita Hayworth started the
hair shade known as'strawberry
blonde She without doub,
has one of the most beautiful
heads of hair in the film indus.
try, and il is a length that !!
ideal for any type of hair styl
ing. Further, when Rita wears
it in a long bob, it balances hel
height perfectly.
Speaking of Betty Cradle
smile, l think Daryl Zanucl
and a few million GIs are mucl
better judges than Mary Davis
II takes something other than
sheer to make a pinup girl.
"Gaudette Colberts head,
.Perc continued, lis not too bi
Tor her body. Through actua
height, weight and body meas
urement. she comes very nea
to being the perfectly proper
toned woman. Her figure, bear
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

NEA Washington Corresponds

NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON-Like a re-
freshing breeze off snow-cap-
ped Mt. Rainier, Judge L. B. Sch
wellenbach swept into torrid
Washington. Things began to
hum. For the first time in years
the ". S. had a Secretary Of
Labor-one who looked a.
though he could carry and throw
his weight around with tough
skinned labor leader or indus
trialist.
Judge Schwellenbach stands
six -feet-two or better, and he
weighs in now at 100, which is
20 pounds lighter than when he
left Washington as senator in
October, 1910, to take what he
calls the best job In the world,
a Federal judgeship. Today he
looks fit, he looks you in the
eye, and when he doesn't know
an answer, instead of showing
off lot of fancy evasive SPAR
ring, he shoots straight from the
shoulder and says honestly, II
don't know" If you think that
isn't refreshingly different, you
just don't know your Washing
ton.
He says he has no preconceiv-
ed ideas and no prejudices where
TABOR is concerned.
He doesn't know what he will
recommend on postwar wages
and hours. For the period of
war contract cutbacks and re-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
by WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

In rubber bridge II may be
enough to defeat a contract. but
In duplicate bridge you have 70
get all of the tricks possible to
get a good score. For example,
II. today's hand, when the Jack
OF diamonds won the opening
trick, East cashed the ace of
diamonds and then made a nice
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

voice?-w IL, I'm no voice
teacher, but Ill lay you a little
bet. would like to place Mary
Davis and Katie side by in a
drawing room full of men and
see who would draw the mems
Standardization or no in
lection"
Wow,
If Mary and Perc ever meet
they're cinch to Guido the bal
cony scene from Dorsey and
Hail."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20

Within the next 10 years you
will sec the face of American
poetry and English, change
completely. - j. Donald Adams,
New York CITY
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
. SO THEY SAY

Within the next 10 years you
will sec the face Of American
poetry and English, change
completely. - j Donald Adams,
New York City
Jails, at best, are schools of
crime for juveniles ~ Grace
Matheson, secretary w. c. r. U.
The Charter by itself is moth
ing if it fails to rally the 10y
atty of the major powers who
alone can give it body and life.
London Times.
American employers have nei-
Their the desire nor the intention
10 deny r turning veterans al
possible consideration - Y. S
Chamber of Commerce report.
We must never, never forge
the revolving, savage cruelty o
the Japs. They must never bt
allowed TO escape this war will
only a military defeat. - Mai.
Gen. Robert S. Beightler at Ma
Mia.
Let us keep our perspective
and ruthlessly resist anythin
which will make us frittcr ava
the fruits of our victory in thi
war as we did those of the fas
war. Arthur Swcetscr, pres
ident Woodrow Wilson Founds
ton.
With the advent of peace, W
will need a tremendous sales 10
- the best selling and ADVERT.
ing brains of the nation -
sell a large segment Of the n;
ton q go ahead" spirit instea
: of a "wait and see" policy. =
j. j. Newman. vice president
F. Goodrich Co.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-20
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What is 50 unusual about
the flag of New York City?
A-Colors are Dutch - blue,
white and orange in perpendic-
ular bars, the same which float
ed over Manhattan more than
800 years ago.
Q-How does Iran rank a. an
oil-producing nation?
AIN 1O40 it ranked fourth.
It's wells average 100000 bar
rels day.
Q-What is the origin OF the
name Gordon?
A-From the Gaelic and
Welsh, meaning q fine man or a
strong man.
(Which nations are known
as Middle America?
An xico, Guatemala, FL
Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Costa RIGA, Panama, and the
three Caribbean island repub-
lics-Cuba, Haiti, and the Do
minican Republic.
Q-What percentage Of the
worlds silver 10 produced In
Mexico?
American mines produce
nearly half the worlds silver
output.
Q-Does the membership Of
the newly elected Canadian
House of Commons include any
women?
Ayes, one. She is Mrs.
Gladys Strum, 38, a farm wife
of Saskatchewan, a CCF party
member.
Q-Are China and India
linked by telephone?
A-The first such telephone
line was put in service recently
between Running, China, and
Calcutta, India, an approximate
distance of 1850 miles.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

II would break his heart If he went
into a Brooklyn saloon and saw six
or seven women in overalls swinging
on the horizontal bar. l remember
one day around 1900 Buttermilk
Mike. the copper asked Ma. Have
YOU seen the old man lately?"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

So. every night you could see Pa
and Ma coming home. When they
were first married they strolled arm
in arm. But in later years Ma got
higher grip on Pas ear. She found he
Steered better that way
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

mo gentleman would take his
wife into a barroom," Pa used TO say.
But there was no law against his
wife coming in after him.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

And when a little girl staggered
into the malt museum and sang
Father. dear father. come home with
me now" she could switch into The
Face on the Barroom Floor" with IL
lustrstionS There were faces on the
barroom floor and she could have
her pick.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

That was quite joke in our neigh
borhood for a good many years. But
termilk Mike was a very funny man
but even he would not have liked to
see ladies in barrooms.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

Every time Pa went on an er'
rand. he got lost or foseinatsd.
floor. do you wax floors" Ma asked
Tim, by banging a mans head on
them?"
Sure" said Tim, The wax Is in
his ears"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

Anyway. she went down to Shines
10 see Pa helping TO wax the floors
and she heard a fight going on. She
looked under the swinging doors.
There was a fight going on between
Pa and Tim Shine And reading
from left to right. Pa was on the
bottom.
Tim was banging Pas head on the
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

Pa used to fog up the barroom mir.
ror with his breath at six feet. He
was the originator OF the Banzai
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

In those good old days beyond ref.
erendum and recall there was beer
parlor on every corner We lived al
place called Five Corners.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09
charge on the free lunch.

The reason that Pa objected TO hav.
ing ladies in barroom was this He
said. Il will not take off my hat
in a fight"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

That gentleman was always her
errant husband. They called him that
because every time. Ma sent Pa on
an errand he got lost. stolen or fas.
cinated
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

Pa used 10 say, "No matter how
bad a spraln or bruise Is you can
cure II with Saloons Liniment."
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

Every time they throw him out"
Ma said
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

Hes working down at the corner
saloon" Buttermilk said. NO" Ma
replied, ut only seems that way"
Well" Buttermilk said. Il was
speaking TO Tim Shine and Tim says
your old man is helping him to wax
the floor"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

That floor" SAID Ma. would be
too slippery for the old man If it had
a foot OF crushed rock on il and was
uphill. both ways"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

II gentleman hollered that in the
old days six or seven husky throw
backs would take up his option
quicker than a professor could read
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

We lived right next door TO a
saloon So We saw papa quite often.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

walk Spanish to the saloon. They
would purchase ten cents worth OF
beer and walk home trying to look as
II they had books under their arms
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

No ladies were permitted inside
the bar There was side door
marked Ladies Entrance" The wo.
men would. butter growler, slash
II under their Paisley shawls and
pRhMLNes sY MschA RICHER
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

But In those days a lady would be
ostracized II she sagwayed up TO
bar. guzzled a snort. wiped her mouth
with the back OF her hand and yelled.
Il can walIop the roofing materials
out OF any anthropoid in the joint"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

CoaynShi. I'4s. KING FeN,uv s,ndies'e. lne.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09
BY ARTHUR 'Bues' sAER

A MoNG the occupational diseases recognized BY
IA the workingman's compensation Is house
IN maids knee. Naturally 1t Is double indemnity
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

D Which is why insist that. matter how home
like they make the corner saloon woman's plac
Is still somewhere else.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

1t is even more complicated now that the gals
are getting 1t in tha elbows from hanging on bars.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

When about chin high to a kick In the face
the definition of lady woman who went into
q saloon by herself and came out
with a gentleman