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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
Situation In India

Having offered India postwar dominion sta.
tus and reduced British representatives from
two to four on the executive council, the Lon.
don government awaits the action of native
party leaders, particularly of Mohandas X.
Gandhi, head of the All-1ndia Congress party.
and Mohamed Alt Jinnah, Moslem league
chief, who will be invited to discuss the or
ganizat!on Of new council. 1t is Gandhi
and Jinnah who will dominate the discussions,
and it is possible they will reject the re-
forms Britain offers.
Gandhi for years has advocated complete
independence for India. Dominion states is
not likely to prove satisfactory substitute,
in his opinion, as the British would still hold
the top position. The British Viceroy would
still have the veto power, and that could
easily block harmony. Jinnah not only wants
independence for India but advocates a sep
arate Moslem state
Because Of the attitude Of these two men
it would appear that the British will not Sue
coed in their proposal for India. But it is
something that the principles which Sir Stat
ford Grips tried to have adopted after his
visit to India are now largely embodied in
the new White Paper presented to Parlia-
ment. It. encourages belief that Britain and
1rdia ultimately will work out a program
mutually acceptable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
Cattle Starve; People Hungry

In recent years the cattle industry along
fertile strip in Florida stretching roughly from
Arcadia in the south to the Kissimnee in the
north has grown tremendously. Lush grass
provided pasture InnUmerable water holes
provided drink. Cowboys have been almost
as numerous as the tribe was in the west
before barbea wire fenced the ranges.
Cattle ranked high as an industrial asse:
of the state Now it is all but extinct A
Tampa reporter recently visited the
Within a mile along the highway north from
Arcadia he found the carcasses Of fifty cows.
There has been drought since last Novem-
Der. Tie pastures dried up. The fifty
dead cattle so near Arcadia are typical Of
the situation throughout the cattle belt.
And because the Office of Price Admins
tration has forbidden professors Of meat to
buy living cattle because the Utterly made
quate quota has been reached, more cattle
are dying daily. It is not Grade cattle, to
be sure. but it is beef on the hoof and edible.
The OPA obviously prefers to let it die
and the people of Florida 60 short on meat
instead Of fitting its rules to the specific case
under consideration
There is no more glazing example Of OPA
inefficiency and bunging, no palmer example
of bureaucratic misrule, anywhere.
The OPA contends its program is designed
to equalize distribution of food, supposedly for
a square deal for everybody. Instead its pro.
gram has given everybody a raw deal. Dying
cattle in Florida and hungry people every
where are proof Of it.
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Policing Lend-Lease

On the day that the Foreign Economic Ad-
ministration announced sharp curtailment
in the lend-lease program to France, the Army
newspaper Stars and Stripes reported that
French flyers in American lend-leased bomb
ers had carried out obliterating raids on Arab
villages in Algeria.
Apparently there was no connection between
the two announcements. Nevertheless, it is
good to know that usage of lend-lease material
Is now being scrutinized closely. With Ger
many beaten, lend-lease comes under the
heading OF expedient altruism. 1t is right that
this country should know its ultimate use.
Frances disheartening use Of arms con.
tributed to the common defense should serve
70 sharpen the vigilance Of lend-lease au'
thorities
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Editorial Comment
LIE DAY


AS General Pershing before him, Dwight D.
Eisenhower knows what it means for an Ameri-
can soldier to receive the honorary freedom
OF London" Yesterday that ancient city gave
its heart to General Ike" as it had done in
history to only four other Americans. The pro-
cession through the streets to Guildhall, where
the ailing Pitt celebrated Trafalgar in unfor-
gettable words was a triumph with an inescap-
able significance.
When Britain was passing through the
terrible days of Dunkirk, Dwight D. Eisen-
hover was yet an obscure colonel concerned
with our Armys peacetime maneuvers. Five
years later he is the victorious comm ander of
the greatest coalition army ever placed under
one man. The battle against Hitler which
britain carried forward alone for so long had
it's conclusion not only in the aid of American
arms and manpower but also in the direction
Of single genius alien to it's shores. Never
has so much power been entrusted to one
man.
General Eisenhower bears the honors which
come to him with grace and humility. His
winsome remarks yesterday in the fierce glare
of much praise are the clue to the secret
of General likes success. He directed coali-
ton war with so little friction among the
principals that professional diplomats must
wonder what manner of man they behold. Lon
don knew. -Asheville Citizen.
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Too Much Showmanship

General Patton has regained the confidence
and admiration Of the American people, if
the demonstrations accorded him in Boston
and Los Angeles are a fair gauge. And he
well deserves the role of hero. The exploits
of the American Third Army in Europe were
outstanding. His success as the Army's COM
manding officer was notable. Fearless, a
capable strategist, he had an important role
in the defeat of Germany.
Again in this country it was but natural
that civilians along the line OF his travels
Should greet him with loud hurrahs and in
other ways apply to him the motif if not the
tune OF the old song 10, the conquering
hero comes
But we cannot understand why he consid-
cred it necessary or even advisable to travel
hither and yon in his battle helmet and totins
a pistol. Surely he knew no enemy shrapnel
was likely to burst in his vicinity, or Hun
try to sneak upon him and afford him op.
portunity to demonstrate his quick draw and
accurate aim.
Whatever praise is General Patton's due,
and it is great, his showmanship is to be
deplored. Bradley, Hodges, Clark, Spaatz
Doolittle set an example in rainent and con.
duct he would have done well to follow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
BY KENNETH DIXON

OCCUPIED GERMANY -IRN-
Soldiers of all ranks throughout
this section of the Reichland are
getting more and more pointed in
their inquiries as to when the high
command is going to admit it made
a mistake and revoke the nonfrat'
ernization policy.
During the months since the al
lies entered Germany l have
questioned thousands of soldiers
including perhaps score Of gen.
erals-on the characterization po-
Icy. Their answer can be summed
up in one sentence:
1t is not working, never has
worked and probably never will.
Since such statements would lay
officers open to court martial, it
is impossible to quote them by
name, but they inevitably wax To-
ouacious in their efforts to prove
their point.
keeping the policy in force
merely means I have to punish my
men for being clumsy" a major
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Re-educating Germans

Among the gravest problems confronting oc.
cupation forces in Germany is to convince the
German people, after twelve years OF propa
aanda TO the contrary that they IRE not super
race
The Hitler theology was SO sedrlously taught
and gratefully absorbed by most Germans that
.ve,, in defeat and humiliation they cling to the
t.,se belief that no other people anywhere are
their equals. Many. particularly among the
Younger generation, are still mentally goose
stepping in arrogance and intolerance across
The face Of the earth, presumptive rulers OF all
they behold. ~ ...,;z.t;on -.
To bring them down to the realization that
thew are merely average human 0elnss ane
that their place in the world ID !" DC us'el
mined solely by their own conous' Anu. .n. so.'
!. ~ tremendous task facing 'n' "4'0 20"
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WASHINGTON CALLING s
by MlrEM
MARQUIS CH1LDS &91133

what had been set down as min
imum. A little latel UNRRA was
informed that insofar as certain
scarce foods went. only small frac'
tons of the greatly reduced quotas
would be available.
Is there any reason, in the light
of this experience. to believe the
amounts allocated to liberated
areas will be forthcoming? Not
unless someone with vigor and au-
thority is there to see that the
food is put on the ships.
Repeatedly the American people
have said they wanted this job
done. They said it through the
Gallup poll They've said it
through the press and in other
ways. The League of Women Vot-
ers is conducting an active cam.
paign to keep opinion alive to The
consequences OF failure.
But with delay, with the pas
sage of time, this good will evapo
rate.
People forget, or they have a
sense of Illustration and futility
about the whole thing. If nothing
is being done, then it must mean
that things can't be so bad.
Now, it seems 10 me, is the time
for Americans themselves to show
that we want this job done. Let S
not wait for government. If ii
we're put up to us properly l be.
lieve most of us would respond to
a voluntary appeal to save food
out of our own rations for Europe.
Surely, machinery could be
worked out to make such an ap.
i peal on a nationwide basis. Per.
haps it could he done in cooper.
alton with government. 1t might
enlist the services of such A lead.
er as Commander Harold Stassen,
whose ASSIGNMENT in San Francis.
co is nearly ended. He could en-.
nance an already impressive rep.
utation if he were to come IN and
dramatic this for the American
people.
1t takes no crystal-gazing to
write the headlines Of next Janu-
airy and February. Twenty dead
in Paris food riots" de Gaulle
government falls as hunger riots
continue. - Thousands starving in
Dutch Cities
We do a great deal of yapping
about what the communists are IN
to in Europe. We might better
spend our energy in doing some
thing constructive to help restore
democracy in western Europe.
Copyright 1945 by United Feature
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
By w. G. ROGERS
"A Sweep Of Dusk" by Will
liam Kehoe (Dutton; S2,75).

The great danger in picking or
binary people as characters for a
novel is that you'll get an ordinary
novel. Kehoe isn't the first writer
to tumble into this pitfall, out he
goes in deeper than most.
A boy named Curt tries to get
united from his mothers apron
strings. His two sisters have the
same trouble. The three OF them
balance precariously between be-
ing and not being virtuous, a n d
show principally an extraordi-
nary inability to interest me.
Though this novel won the Avery
Hopwood award, the writing is dull
and it all goes round and round
and comes out nowhere.
"Pardner of the Wind by
Jack Thorp as told to Neil Nc
Cullough Clark (Caxton; 81.
A sentimental account Of the
West, by the authors of Songs of
the Cowboys" and Tales of the
buck Wagon" Illustrated with
photos.
THE Wild Horse Of The
West" BY Walker d. Wyman
(Caxton; $3.50.
Wyman credits Columbus with in
Producing horses to the western
world. and traces their history.
This book, which wants the wild
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16

WASHINGTON-The weeks are
passing, and yet nothing suffl-
GENTLY positive or emphatic is be-
ing done about getting food to hun
cry Europe. The real pinch will
come, of course, next fall or next
winter. But if we do not get &C
ton, and action of a drastic char
acter now, it will be too late to
send over help when the crisis
comes.
There was a furry of interest
when Herbert Hoover came to the
White House. Hoover's chief pro-
posal was for a food committee
which would include not only sew
eral Cabinet officers, but at least
half dozen men from the out
side with thorough knowledge OF
the subject.
This suggestion has not won
much approval within the admin
istration. The feeling is that such
committee would be too unwield.
" and that little would be likely
to come out Of it.
The feeling, too, is thar lust
about all is being done that can
be done. An inter-departmenta al
committee has made ALLEGATIONS to
various liberated countries which
take into account fairly substan-
tial cutbacks in the Army's food
program. These will provide, the
| INQUIRER is told. minimum diet
sufficient to prevent starvation or
serious malnutrition.
No one could quarrel with that
if there was any real assurance
it would happen. But withou:
someone to fight for those alloca-
tions-someone armed with real
authority-they will be whitfield
down and whitfield down again.
Take, as an example, what hap
pened to UNRRA's food request.
| UNRRA is supplying relief to
Greece and Yugoslavia and, in a
lesser degree, to Poland and
Czechoslovakia. AS an information.
al organization, it functions only
| when requested to do so by a ma
ton seeking relief.
After lie n by elaboration,
UNRRA officials prepared esti-
mates of the minimum amounts of
essential foods needed for the
coming six months. Half of this
total was to come from the Unit
ed States.
The first thing that happened
was that this estimate was cut
more than halt. In other words,
UNRRA was told that we woult.
provide less than one-fourth of
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
WITH THE AEF
That Fraternization Argument

swaps cake of soap to get his
laundry done or gives a piece 81
candy" said one Pfc. Besides,
these kids are looking for leaders.
I don't know much about propa.
ganda but I'll bet a couple of GIs
here and there teaching German
kids American games and Ameri.
can fair play could do more good
than all your propaganda cam
paigns.
There isn't nearly as much sex
ual intimacy here as there's cen
in every other country we've been
in, but the venereal disease rate
is jumping way up" said a medi'
cal officer, because even though
it isn't being used as evidence
against them, boys still are afraid
to visit prophylactic stations.
"A lot of those kinds incidental
ly would be content just TO talk
to a girl, take them dancing OF
to show, just like back home, u
he added. but when you MAKE
even that kind of a meeting claa
,i"stine and drive them into the
woods, bedrooms and alleys, the
inevitable happens.
While it seems to be getting the
most attention back home, the Sc,
problem is not necessarily 'he
main difficulty. It's the matter o.
gregarious association and actua
occupation necessity.
american kids are naturally
friendly and we've encourage them
to get along with people in every
country" explained an intelli sence
officer. Nov they're supposed te
suddenly change their whole char
acters and start kicking people ir
the face"
II would like to see the guy:
who set that policy try to run 3
military government office in ons
of these towns without breaking {
dozen technical Characterization
rules a day." said another.
Hell, it didn't work last tine
I don't know why anybody figure.
it would this time" declared a We
teran of the last war.
The same goes for the British
asserted another. They're only
giving lip service to the nonfrater
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general said. "You can't keep them
from fraternizing-and I don't ne.
cessarily mean sexually eitaer-so
it becomes a question of some gett.
ing away with it and some not.
Il don't mind telling you that my
MPs have been instructed to look
the other way as much AS possible
except for fragrant cases or un
soldierly conduct. The men are moi
being punished for breaking the
law but merely for getting caught
at it. And l have to operate that
way or l would have had my di-
vision in the guardhouse.
1T is supposed to make the Ger
mans respect the American Army.
am told" said a major in mill
tarv government Instead it is
making the whole Army look IL
diculous and cheap. Even at first.
when there wasn't quite so much
fraternizing, all it did was make
the Germans resentful. Now they
are laughing up their sleeves.
Its making cheater and
| q liar out of every doughboy who
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16
The Literary Guidepost

horse saved, contain n1ucH !"
teresting information.
"If The Prospect Please''
The West the Guidebooks Nev'
er Mention" by Laid hay
stead university of OklanonS'
$3.50.
Haystead isn't so sure the "s >.
< t2e Promised Land, and " ,9'..,
repeat Greeley's famed c1eu .r,
with a lot of ifs and butts Farm
editor of Fortune magazine al ~
teresting writer, he discusses e.. .ts
lumber, oil, and mines 'oul ,oo,
race problems, and rlsK d ''
i''' . BE Our Green Man
sions." by Richard H; D.
Boerker Chapel Hill; s4l. .,,h.
American forests are the .,.S ,a
iect OF this inclusive volume VIZ" NJ.
records the wrong we w w. ,L,
woods and advises us how 70 li,'%
amends. Photographs gre exceils"'
text somewhat pedestrian ~.
"Oil painting For The p.
ginner," by Frederic Tau'e'
(Watson-Guptill; So, ..,, Il
An illustrated manual ""S oer.
really for the beginner :. Inc NOE
son equipped with nothing Ia,. 'r a[t.
than the itch to paint. Iauo.'' .,it0
lists as well as writer staf!s nj.
choice of canvas, brushes anu .rait,
ors and II has you painting po 'o,,'r
and still LIES by the time w.
finished.
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nization policy and winkins "
in practice" -,
These are but few of the mild
err remarks. The boys really warm
I'D to their work when they sta'.
discussing how easy it is tor Wns ma.
they say is some dreamy, ols'dN'
group of officials to lay down
bunch of unnatural laws tAa'
they themselves will never ia''
to keep. n
But unfortunately most OF lHo''
conversations are not quotaple'
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16

Military service has not submerged the
dignity Of the Individual Instead he has been
trained to apply initiative and imagination, the
greatest pair Of weapons he carried into
battle. -Ges, Omar N. Bradley.
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COMMENCEMENT

They call them commandments because
lot of the graduates will commence to dis
cover their parents are not half as dumb as
many of them have been thinking during the
past lew years.-Pelham (Ga.) Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16

When pressing on the wrong sloe
of a rayon garment. use very
light touch over buttons to preVeh'
damage to the fabric.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-16

TOP % THE MORNING
Buried in the mare of the commonplace
The pearl of true happiness lies
And he who rejoices in little things
Find the pathway that leads to the prize.
LUCY M. THOMPSON.
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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 as much as many OF his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think.)
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Hollywood News
in Brief
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Louise Randall Pierson, who
sprung to quick fame when past so
with her first book, Roughly
Speaking" is working on a story for
Ginger Rogers, The Gibson Cir" !"
Mrs. Pierson became so interested
in the research she's writing a novel
from the screen play and has pub
Usher for it. Charles O'Curran,
dance director on Sweet Georgia
Brown is looking for six dancers
who'll make UP like Burmese girls;
hitch is to get ones with long
enough necks to wear all those high
collar necklaces of brass rings which
are authentic Burmese costuming.
Studio engineers, who can do
anything once they put their minds
to it, have solved an ancient buga-
boo. They've finally got wagon
wheels to run forward instead of
backward in the camera, as they
have always done since the begin
ming of films. a rectifying disk is
attached to each wheel and now
everything including the wagon
spokes goes forward as it should
:. Lauritz Melchior, onetime men,
ber of the Royal Danish Guard,
holds reunion of five other local
ex-guardsmen at his home every SO
often, raising the Danish flag and
going through other sentimental
memories with them One of the
ex-guardsmen is local dry-cleaner.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Miss Dunham Dances, But
By Jack O'Brian.

Miss Dunham. The plot, what there
is of it, is slight and unbelievable,
about a corn planters wife who gets
herself killed by her husband for
some extracurricular amourS. Much
is made of mysterious rites, evident
ly of some voodoo persuasion, and
a tragic hex which chases the ILL
starred heroine.
The setting is Trinidad, which
gives Miss Dunham plenty of op-
portunity for her West Indian
dances but not much else.
Baldwin Bergersen composed ex-
actly one good tune for the show,
a delightful little lullaby called
sleep, Baby, Don't Cry" The book
and lyrics were written by William
Archibald, who in less scrivening
moments is a ballet dancer, an oc-.
cupation at which, I judge after
seeing him on two previous occa-
sions, he is far more proficient.
September's last offering was an
other theatrical Gloomy Gus,
verse drama by Dan Totheroh,
which sent first nighters cropping
their way out of the Belasco The
ater in a benumbed state. It was
called Live Life Again." and I use
the past tense advisedly. for Pro-
ducer S. S. Krellberg had the good
sense to bundle it off to Gains after
exactly two performances.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Mr.. Sherwood Is Angry
By Jay CWmodv

In the form which opened Monday night
Robert Sherwood The Rugged Path" good play In his
nearly four from normal medtave
wood has accumulated great deal of indignation
has angry They are highly
logical worthy states playwright hardly
the mood which constructed
most deeply
becoy reactionaryism must
feel that too bad that in losing his temper he also
technique
considerably however Sherwood is not
playwright be ignored What he has being
worth listening eoqunce pernence have
creating attention from de-
fects that would send another mpng
urday night
National last
week sad humans who denied Sherwood the right them
the opinion that THE Rugged Path"
Will Long Be Debated
Probably will into the play
quickly
long time and probably would without the
a Star brilliant Spencer Tracy.
In addition to its structural flaws THE
from the circumstance that has nothing to inject into the
pucs Sherwood
aiming neither of these contrary
something deeper and more elusive the ubic conscience
It quite likely that The Rugged Path" penetrate
that deeply the author already
evokng discomfort
ing spleen.
fortnight vestiges
already
familiar epithe internationally others
of which few other playwrghts are deemed worthy.
He Dared to
Rugged Path in its first week
IN that based upon the fact that its author has dared
to think Not that he has written awkwardy obscu
mans OF intelligence but that
thing
The heater his most vocerous critics
Idea 1t rather place where humans
presumably means to of fellows
teAo or Olsen and Johnson push each other
through rapdoor All possibly
characters ndugn banage
theatergon public downright menacng to the national
equilibrium
Mr. Sherwood in common with all other playwrighs
second thought has altogether different
ment Although he feels less
than does Bernard Shaw that
he has built himself the reputation
tive playwright.
But He's Always Interesting
doubtful that he will modify at this time
cause he arouses the the part of
types which disikes
There lot of other the same vpes and
Wne the may be disappointed in Sherwoods performance time
10 tne-as this department accuse
MIN OF Turing them into the theaer under
Even when they find him ntempeate
heren than he normally to be in THE
Rugged PATH they find him interesting They right
to think when they doubt
And they grant him. if in spirit friendly
right to write below his best when writing
goadng to the humans he thinks