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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
Editorial Comment
PREPAID MEDICINE

Inc grandlose plans for a national svstero
OF compulsory sickness insurance. as en-
nooled IN the Wagner-M urray-Din bill. will
nave 10 De viewed more and more in the light
OF what can be accomplished by voluntary
fnetnoos For there is evidence that prepared
meolcal service facilities are expanding rap
ioly' ootn IN benefits offered and in subscrit
ers: Inc existence of adequate opportunities
LOT insurance against illness will make the
estaolisn1nent OF regimentiing unsupported
government system less necessary.
The field of industrial group insurance is
widening SO rapidly that it has become
commonplace item in labor-management ne.
eoIat1ons. Usually underwritten by one Of the
Insurance companies, the programs often in
clude sickness and disability benefits. surei
CAL and obstetrical care, ana hospital az.
penses for both employees and dependents
There is also the Blue Cross hospital ins,r.
ance which has grown from 700, 900 members
IN 1897 TO present 10000, 600. And youngest
OF the three, but growing rapidly, are the med.
lcal service and indemnity plans sponsored
mostly by county and State medical oreani.
cations
The first Of these latter was set up in 1917
IN Pierce county in the State Of Washington.
Ihelr expansion is matter of the last dec.
ade. The % now in existence have 2.240 ,O0O
members, offer various types Of medical, sur.
glcal, dlagnostic, and hospital benefits mostly
cater TO the low-income groups and charge
from 81 cents to SITS month, the higher
rates being for full family coverage.
The prepayment of sickness costs is ne.
cesslty in any social program but If it ear
be done, as apparently 1t can, with out govern
mental compulsion, 10 much the better.-Bos
ton Herald.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
FACE
CRITICAL WINTER

The people of Europe face crit
cal fall and winter, and whether
they are on the way to normal life
by next spring depends to great
extent on the help Americans give
them during the next few months,
according to Winthrop W. Aldrich,
President of the National War
Fund
Mr.. Aldrich made this statement
in a report to H. A. Marks, Cam
paign Chairman of the Community
War Chest, following his return
from a trip to England, France
Holland, Czechoslovakia and Ger
many.
There will be great suffering un-
less the people are provided with
more Of the mere necessities OF
life in addition to essential food
and clothing said Mr.. Aldrich'
''These minimum necessities are
the things which the National war
Fund agencies are seeking to pro-
vide.
"Some people ask why private
relief is needed, and if governments
are not meeting the needs OF their
people. The fact is that govern
ments and government agencies
are striving desperately to restore
the basic economy - to provioe
transportation, coal and mass 90
supplies, to reopen ports and SET
up means of distribution. We must
bear in mind that many of the I'D,
Grated countries of Europe existed
under military government loi
weeks after their liberation. Also
the assets and resources of gov
eminent are not always ready
freed after war.
Nothing is normal in country
that has been in the path of great
war. The economy is far from
normal. The health of the people u
far below normal, and the psycnol'
ogy of the people is distinctly SUD,
normal. For instance; ! attefloeu
dinner in the Hague where every
man present had been held IN Jan
by the Nazis for at least two years
1.-The work Of the privately sup
ported relief agencies of the Natloh'
al War Fund is enormously import
ant, and in my opinion the extent OIL
their work within the next le"
months may fix the pattern OF NV
ing in Europe next spring. The peo,
pie of Europe who have been aloeu
by voluntary American philah,
thropy are well aware OF the help
they have received. And they are
most grateful.
II am convincved that the WoIS
being done by National War ltH.
agencies in no way duplicates 'A''
Of UNRRA."
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CTS Find Tales OF Clamor Places
Only Ring True After They Leave


about far places is our own fault.
We form fantastic preconceived
notions about what we will find
there and then are so busy being
bitter about not finding them that
we don't bother to look around for
what is to be found.
Already I'm remembering the
brilliant beauty of those blood red
sunsets through the palm trees.
And the way the full moon hung
high and white over Diamond
Head. And that spectacular mo-
tion-frozen appearances OF surf
board riders skimming the crest
of waves into Waikiki Beach
Even Waikiki itself already is a
pleasant memory for it was a
good place to swim. And there
were women there-beautiful wo-
men in bathing suits. True, for
most OF US they were just there
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
DailyPrayer
FOR THOUGHTS THAT sUsTAu

rOh 1hOUGHIS THAT SUSTAIN
when I remember Thee upon
my bed, and mediate upon Thee
in the night Watches" my soul is
satisfied with Thy goodness and
greatness. o Father-God. recall
Thy past providences; the dark
valleys through which Thou hast
led me to uplands OF peace; Thy
ways that were once obscure bit
became clear with the passing
years. So now, in days of difficulty
and darkness, / pray for Thy sus.
tanning power; that my thoughts
may be thoughts OF faith, Of pa.
t1ence and OF sure victory for what
ever pertains to Thy Kingdom.
Grant me a buoyant soul. Let me
move amidst my fellows with
serenity and with smiles. Bestow
upon me the gift of being an in.
splrer and an encourager Nav
my faith in our Cause be 81
clear and strong that it will in.
crease the morale of every life
! n a | may by any means
touch. With infectious loyalty. let
me do patriots part in this time
especially by quickening the faith
OF others in the God Of our Fathers.
Amen.-W.T.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
BY w. G. ROGERS

THE GERMAN TALKS BACK,
by Heinrich Hauser (Holt; $2.50)
This is a unique book: the pub.
Usher hopes the critics will blast
it page by page. And | am glad to
oblige.
Hollis editors set the example,
first in a Notice to the Reader
asserting this is mot a document
written in the spirit OF fair play"
and next in an introduction and
footnotes by a Chicago professor
who refutes Hauser's general the
sis and answers numerous prepos-
ferrous claims.
Hauser approves of Prussianism,
but is not Nazl, though perhaps
the only reason he is not is that
his wife is Jew. A writer of con-
siderable reputation in his own
country, ne came here just before
war started and has now decided
to wash his hands of us and return
with his family.
ne u Sl1hcS QSIllOSl oSy. AAC NC
lieves in the land of his birth and
though he dfears it's finished, he
prefers to throw in his lot with his
people. That's a noble sentiment,
but the reasons for it. if they may
be called reasons, are ridiculous.
Though he regards h mself as one
Of Germany's intelligentsia, it's
hard to imagine Germany's intelli-
gent ment and women agreeing
with him.
In SENTENCES bristling with scorn,
he attacks our 'gadget" civil:za-
ton, our movies, radios and So
called soft people. II there's
grain of truth in these charges,
there's none in dismissing Ameri-
cans as what Alexander Hamilton
branded beast" or canaille and
irresponsible masses, and none IN
charging that will become warlike
and aggressive.
While he lambastes us mercilAss-
", he finds little fault with the
Vaterland. There is little sense OF
guilt for the six years war, hardly
a word condemning Nazi brutal-ties
to fellow Germans, no apparent
awareness of the irrefutable histor-
ical fact that it was Germany
that invaded Poland, not Poland
that invaded Germany.
After admitting German atSoci-
ties were the most shameful
event in our national history" he
protests that we can't expect to
punish the war criminals. The
book abornds in monstrous con-
tradictions. for Hauser is a man
with a mad on and can't bother
with reason.
Maybe many Germans share his
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
QUOTATIONS
All during the cigaret storage it was the
good old well-smoked pipe that took the cake.

All during the cigaret storage it was the
good old well-smoked pipe that took the cake.
This is the season when cold germs don't
seem to care anything about how important
you are.
be cashed.
This seems like pretty good time to prune
the national budget by pulling OF rev plums.
The corn crop looks pretty good this year
especially to the corn borer.
It's odd how quickly people can reduce ex-
penses when merchants refuse credit
The best mattresses in the summer resort
hotels were the inn-experinced.
Most pople who take Things as they come
don't know what to do with tnem.
rt's harder to get men to church because
thew don't care what the other men are wear
ing.
Now we can begin feeling sorry for the
fisherman who didn't even catch one to lie
about.
A ian;tor in an Indiana bank stole Slooo'
p.hh1u ~. hest he ever cleaned up.
A pessimist is any polltic11an oiscusSins
the other side has accoi''p'
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
Notables Of The Past

What is it that makes great men great? OF,
hand we should say because they possess one
talent in greater proportions than their fellows
and have the good judgment sedulously to cul-
tivate it. Otherwise, and in the normal re-
lations of life, they are much the same as
Tom, Dick and Harry, unless they also are
overly tehperamental, in which case they are
intolerable.
It was an interesting talk DR.. Frederick
Lewis, pastor of St. Andrews-Covenant church.
made before the Junior Chamber OF Com
merce on some of the great men he has been
privileged to know, to wit, William Allen
White. Woodrow Wilson and Mark Twain.
OF the three it has always been matter of
puzzled speculation why Wilmington has done
so little to memorabilia Woodrow Wilson, who
not only spent a part of his life here while
his father was pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church but lost no opportunity to revisit the
city and mingle with old friends during his
crowded years. It takes no exceptional mind
to understand that his talent was for govern
ment and that his teaching and writings were
but earlier manifestations thereof.
William Allen White, Emporia, Kas., Gazette
editor, who jumped overnight into nationwide
fame with his editorial, Whats the Matter
with Kansas?' was not so much the writer
as the leader. This was proved by the way in
which national political leaders sought him out
for advice. In addition, he was among the
friendilest souls in the nation-another in
alienable attribute of leadership
Everybody has had trouble trying to orient
Mark Twain, but for the most part the men
who have made the effort agree that funda-
n entally, and despite certain counter-currents
in his life, he was the writer. Charming in
after-dinner talks irrepressible jokester, lee.
turer of some ability, he still was dominated
by the incentive to get his thoughts into the
written form.
Among the three, he probably was the most
temperamental, but it was the temperament
Oh the funster, not the prima donna The writer
remembers seeing him in a glorious rage in
the Century office shortly after his return
from abroad when he cleared his old publish.
ing house Of debt in mitch the same way
Walter Scott had done before him. and before
any Of his auditors knew it had turned the
whole thing into joke with everybody laugh.
ing. And when Harpers had tied him fast
to an exclusive contract shortly afterwards
there was the whole episode in print He had
this way Of trying out his ideas on living
audience before trusting them to public pc.
rusal. He was always, under all circum.
stances, the writer.
Doctor Lewis may have more stars in his
memory If he has, it would be selfish to
keep them Under cover
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
Switzerland City Honor.
Resident Of New Rern

NEW BERN. Sept. 2s-r.sa.
Robert King Davis, son of Mrs
D. R. Davis of New Bern. recent.
~ received a hearty welcome dur
ing weeks furlcugh visi. In
Bern, Switzerland. for which his
home town was named 235 wears
ago.
A Bern newspaper. Der Bund.
dug into its records and drew some
comparisons between the Swiss
capital and its namesake. The local
aldermen, they found. are elected
by the people, like the 'gen1ein.
derat" Of Bern. And the American
town adopted the bear" standard
OF the European capital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
By DOROTHY BREFSp

By DOROTHY BREEsE
LONDON, Sept. 26-0lplN
month now 1 have been trvin VI
pit my talents as a cook $3.50 .S 70
the regular rations avajlabis a'lS'
Britain. N
In that 80 days, the first tbi,u
l learned was to throw awav na
fine American cook book Fsr NY
much of what the cook book saw wv
goes into meal is not TO be bss
in Britain. ''u
There are three main classes ~
food available: basic rstionS
point rations and unrationed food
The basic ration for one person
each week consists of enough bnt
ter to spread six slices of bread.
twice that much margarine.
square of cheese about the size ef
that which was once served in
Hors D'Oeuvre in the United
States; tea enough for six potsful
cup of sugar; four strips of ba.
con a dab of lard, and % cents
worth of meat.
Every two to four weeks, each
person gets one fresh egg. A tin
of jam must last a month. Twice
a week the milkman leaves sam.
pie just to remind the housewife
that there still is such product
The ration board gives you 20
points month for canned goods,
cereals and cookies. Right now,
point values are at the place
where 20 points, a month supply,
would yield q half-pound of cook.
les, two cans of peas and a box
of oatmeal. At 16 points, a can of
prepared pork hash ruins the
menu.
Not rationed are fresh fruit and
vegetables fowl and fish. You run
into long lines of persons waiting
for unrationed goods. A little liver
or fish or perhaps rabbit means
waiting about an hour.
Most noticeable are the limited
variety and quantity, We had two
friends as dinner guests one night
and served lamb chops. The
weeks ration made one square
meal.
The diet inevitably is on the
starchy side. Desserts don't seem
to taste more than half sweet. Rice
has disappeared, and macaroni
and spaghetti are hard to find.
Condiments are scarce, salt rare,
Grocer's shelves for the goods
which seemed indispensable back
in the States stand empty and
bare.
Folks in the Queues say that
next year may be just the same.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27

to look at. not even to talk to, for
each one was surrounded by
wo- lld-be SWANS before we ever
reached the beach.
But something tells me there S
many an atoll farther west where
CPS would give six months pay
just to spend a couple of after
Moons lying on Waikiki's sands
watching the surfboarders come
S, eping in from the sea and
especially watching the smooth
looking babes 60 sweeping by.
So okay Oahu. You're letting me
get away without a single lei and
there's no hula band on Hickman
Fields black-topped runway. But
nostalgia's fatal spell, which al
ways goes hand in hand with a
farewell, already is working and
I'll come back someday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
BY KENNETH DIXON

WESIBOUND FROM HOMO
LULU, -(P)-There's an old say
ing among GTs that the Ameri-
can soldier isn't really at home
any place overseas until ne has
come to hate that particular for
eign spot with passion peculiar
to the unwanting wanderer.
And the second half Of that say
ing is that he never learns to like
a place until he has his orders to
leave.
Both are true. But it is especi-
ally of the latter that I'm think
ing at the moment. For now I've
left Hawaii-the place where
stopped to make a phone call and
stayed month-and although
I've been itching to leave all that
time, suddenly l now find myself
already waxing tentatively nos
talgic about Oahu.
Since it meant missing chance
to help cover the surrender cere-
monies in Tokyo bay, l wasn't too
happy about Hawaii from the out
set. Then l began to run into serv-
icemen who'd been stationed there
for many months and they gave
me the business.
Pearl of the Pacific, huh?"
They'd exclaim with tones OF men
who have just been played for
suckers by circus sideshow bark
ers. boy, just wait unit we get
back and tell those steamship
lines off"
Or else they'd 60 into detailed
lurid discussions Of their opinions
OF the much publicizeo Waikiki
Beach-usually comparing it un-
favorably with some swimming
hole or two-by-four strip of sand
along the Atlantic coast.
Women" they'd say women
for whom?" And they had legiti-
mate grippe there Nobody has is
sued any official figures on the
ratio of women to men in Homo
lulu, but with servicemen jam
ming the city about one to 81
seems a fair estimate.
Most restaurants, cafes and sa-
looms were off limits at least I'M
til recently. Movie theaters were
so packed that they required re-
servations hours and sometimes
days ahead if a good show was
playing
And everything closed SO early
that after dark there was literally
nothing for the drifting service
men to do.
Or course if they had swimming
trunks and a place to change they
could try out Waikiki Beach. But
most of them had gotten such err
roneous and hifaluting impressions
from travel folders and the like
that the Pacific's most famed
dunking spot turned out to be a
terrific disappointment.
But looking back at it now 1t
seems to this correspondent that
such preconceived wanderings in
the war just ended.
l seem to recall it was that way
in Africa where the CTS thought
they'd find only hot weather-but
froze their feet all winter in Tu.
nisia. And Sunny Italy, unleashed
TRADES OF bitterness from every
rain-soaked, frost-bitten dough-
boy outside Casino.
Even the Isle of Capri was a let
down to many a soldier because
it failed to live up to the dreams
ne q Duait :. from popular songs.
MayDs 49,, !! mat way with Hawaii.
Any fireman still stationed
u tne re r p.o5aoiy will blow his top
Il 1,:..sa saus this but still I'm in
c.a Gu ~ suspect half the reason
iio 10 were So disillusionedI
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
HEADS COMMITTEE

NEW BERN, Sept. rs = opecIdI'
gifts mml. ees, headed by l; -,
row an, began work this week ~
raise Craven county's goal OF 81.
900 for the United War Fund inc
cam proper will open oclo,
b 2. Herman Mattocks is cou!iy
chairman, wit. George G Sn1l'H,
last years campaign chairman d.
co-ch irman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27

prove the nylon market and stimulate nome
industry.
Perhaps the loss Of their silk industry WILL
come as near to convincing the japanese that
they lost the war as any measure thus far en-
ployed or in contemplation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
The Literary Guidep0st

point of view, Of which you will
disapprove but with which you
should be familiar Holt performs a
real service in putting in print.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views Of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many Of his read.
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people Think
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-27
APLENTY
FOR AMERICAN tn
TABLE IN BRITAIN

EDITORS NOTE = The writer
the following dispatch, wife - VI
United Press staff correspondent -.
rived IN London over mont d.
She presents an account of bar ego
I LOTS 10 set up housekeeping :,
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School

Continued from Page one)
postwar plans Of the l. 5. De
partment of Labor and L. :. De.
partment Of Agriculture, the pro--
poets Of postwar foreign trade and
it's effect on agriculture, and the
relationship between soil fertility
and profitable farming
Adult Chorus, Miss Beth McLel-
Ian:
The time will be spent In sing
Ing. In listening to music and stud.
wing 1t. according to the desires OF
the group. \ short program may
be presented at the close Of night
school
Typcwriting, Miss Elizabeth Kie,.
fer:
Eighteen typewriters are avail.
able, which means that eighteen
persons can he given instruction
The class will he carefully taught.
and It will be necessary that all
enrollees attend every session.
Shop, J. II. Turubull:
During the night school session
the Lincoln School shop will offer
fundamentals Of forging, acety lene
welding, arc welding, furniture re-
pair, small tool repair. wood turn
ing, rope splicing, and demonstra'
ton of the proper method Of mix.
Ing cement for concrete.
These courses will he open n
all adults in the community for a
period Of eight weeks.
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Killing

Continued from Page One)
seat as though he had been riding
there until the shooting.
In addition, the officers said
Hooper overnight bag was found
on the seat al his left. as though
II had rested between two passen-
gers.
Footprints Found
But most compelling. Hansen
said. were the footprints 10 the
snow. indicating a man had step
ped from the drivers side OF the
machine and run around the front
OF the car and onto the road. There
was a total lapse OF footprints
leading to the car.
Conceiyably Hansen said. one
or more men could have ridden in
the back seat-one. OF them keep.
ing Hooper covered with gun In
an observation-disclosures these men
could have stepped from the right
rear door OF the car into the road,
on which there was no snow 10
show their footprints The car was
only parity on tue Ipdu anu OH
the wrong side OF the highway.
Hansen also said the driver
could have been alone with Hooper
and committed the murder.
An absence OF reports that pedes.
TRANS were seen on the road after
the shooting might mean that a
tail" car had been following
Hooper's machine 10 pick up the
slayer after the crime.
Hooper rarely allowed any other
person to drive his car, Mrs Hoop
err said. and rarely gave rides TO
persons he did not know we'll
Bullets Recovered
Two SIS callbre revolver bullets.
recovered in an autopsy, were sent
to the state crime detection labora-
tory here for study, along with
Hooper's clothing and other effects
for microscopic examination,
The death car, which the police
believe caught fire from Hooper's
cigarette after the shooting, was
due for inch by inch search for
hngerprints, impossible yesterday
because the interior was still damp
from melted snow.
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Europe

Continued from Page oue)
iurcd Langlir. seven miles mort
OF tn main Ma. communicated
base at Houffalize
The Germans abandoned coud
less pieces OF artillery aud arm}
in an area o. approximately II
square miles Already they hal
lost about 100000 men The y.
Third Army alone accounted n
$4,000 killed wounded o. csptur(
since Dec. %. There was sou
indications that Field Marshal Vi
Rundstedt might attempt "A stat
short ~ tho sic gfried line. perhai
anchoring his positions at st. vid
four miles inside BELGIUM. He'd
quarters Acknowledged he had pu|
ed the bulk OF his nrmOr hack
the Ourthe River Valley.
Seventh Driven Out
on the Alsatlan front the L.
Seventh Army was driven out
Oeting. nvo miles southwest
blackened Saarbruckcn. But In u
Hitche salient In the Maginot III
the east the seventh reoccupi(
Atheru. six miles south OF Bitch
There were no major chang|
yesterday In positions around Strd
bourg. whose defense has been d
trusted 10 the French First Arnj
The Berlln.reported Russian 1
fensive IN Poland was said by u
Nazis TO have started at dan
yesterday about 100 miles beld
Warsaw 4 Berlin report VI
Stockholm said the Red Army I
tackled with 300 guns. two I
fleets. several tank armies and |
Vulnerable Infantry divisions,
When the Russian summed Old
slvc ground 10 n halt In Augu(
the Red Army held position orl
20 miles south OF Kielce. rail toI|
connecting Warsaw with Krako|
Kielce and Krakow would he u
likely detectives of the new 1
sault, at the threshold Of Germt
SileSia, n NAIi arsenal
Mails liquldated
Inside burning Budapest, u
Russians announced. remnants
the NaH garrison have been col
pressed into nvc.square.ml
pocket and that Systematic liquid
ton continued. Hungarian pat
OTIS, Moscow said, were firing on q
Germans fror cellars and rooftot
Northwest Of the capital fresh ca
man attempts TO break the Russi
siege are were smashed.
The fronts In Italy remained "a
orally quiet.