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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
BabsOn's Advice

Roger w. Babson says that until the peoples
loose change and folding money, amounting
to seventy-five billion dollars, We'll have, first
period Of exceptional prosperity with plenty
OF employment and home contruction:
secondly, disturbing period of inflatien which
can be viewed only with alarm, and finally
buyers strike which will reduce production
cause widespread idleness and much suffering
AS means Of easing the shock. he SAYS
the government ought to reduce bureaucratic
spending, encourage production and subsidize
the unselfish development of foreign trade. In
addition, he says, if he were economic direc-
tor of the United States he would reasonable
the scientists and put them to work develop.
ing atomic energy for everyday uses.
iaere is, OF course, nothing new in Mr.. Bah.
sons forecasts or conclusions. II they have
any weight it attaches to the fact that they
bear his name which is prominent in economic
circles.
His advice is sound: It can only be hoped
that it reaches the ears of men who could
do something about applying it to our national
policy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Britain In Sore Straits

Because the United States is confronted With
a grave lag in national legislation, an auto
motive industry strike which constitutes
serious handicap to the reconversion program
a bottleneck in bringing home and discharg'
ing the armed forces and the rising, tide OF
imitation, the American people are inclined
generally to view their own national situation
as exceptional and disheartening. They would
do better to realize that conditions prevail
ing at home are more or less typical Of the
state OF the world and that other nations are
equally it not more beset with the troubles
that follow war.
There is, for example, Great Britain, where
in at least one respect the government is in
even harder straits because OF the change in
administrative principles which were SO re.
Gently approved in a national election but
which are accepted grudgingly by large
section of the economic community and are
proving under par in ability to restore the
even pace OF production and business trans.
action as was so confidently anticipated by
the party that triumphed at the polls-the
Labor party which installed Clement Attlee
as Prime Minister and instituted specialization
OF vital utilities
Premier Attlee, who recently returned to
London from his conference with President
Truman at Washington with the atomic bomb
as chief subject of discussion, faces two tasks
He must satisfy the House Of Commons on
his Washington mission and its outcome, and,
as London dispatch adds, calm the
oh
home while he was away. The same dispatch,
summing up problems he is expected to solve
declares that seven months after the end of
the European war, and four months after the
end of the Japanese war, there would be lar
less in British shops than at any time during
the war; that food would be shorter; that
houses for returning soldiers are not getting
built; that the wheels Of industry would hard
ly have begun to turn again; that you literal.
ly cannot buy pair of mems shoes in Lon
don in trek round dozen Shops that the
strength Of Britain's military and auxiliary
fighting services has been reduced only by
100000 in six months from the peak figure
Of just over 100000 in midyear.
It was realized that large-scale nationali-
cation Of Britain's industry would be diff
ficult job, but it is not probable that any
Of the leaders who laid the foundation for it
in the political campaign realized its hard.
ships and difficulties in advance
There'n always be an England, to be sure,
but it is going through severe test just
now. that inevitably will be dwelt upon ex-
tensively when the question Of extending
American credits is presented for confirmation
to Congress for confirmation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Streamlming Government

There is both favor and opposition in Con.
gress to President Humans proposal for
streamlining the "sprawling'' federal govern.
ment, as Senator Abe Murdoch of Utah calls
1t. but from present indications it appears that
sufficient strength will be forthcoming to SUI,
port the Presidents plans when the showdown
comes on bills passed by House and Senate
after the conference committee has ironed out
differences in those measures
It is certainly to be hoped that this is true,
as there are some hundred or more depart
treading on each others heels, duplicating
each others work and naintining superfulous
payrolls at heavy expense to the taxpayers.
The committees report is expected before this
month ends.
Differences in the bills are thus explained
by the Associated Press:
In ali IS agencies were placed on the presi.
Dental mustn't touch' list by the Senate,
They include the General Accounting Office:
District of Columbia Municipal Government:
Federal Land Bank System; Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporations; Army Engineers;
three agencies dealing with railway labor and
these federal commissions: Interstate Com
merce; Communications; Power; Securities
and Exchange; Trade; Tariff; and Maritime.
The House handled its exemptions in dif
ferent manner. 1t did not list the District Of
Columbia Government or the Maritime Com
mission, but it voted to restrict action on the
Veterans Administration and Civil Service
Commission
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
CITY GETS HALF
OF PLANS AWARD

The City of Wilmington yester.
day received a check for $4,000
from the Federal Works admins
tration representing one-half the
cost Of the preparation Of plans
and specifications for the project.
ed community building.
Work on the plans is scheduled
to begin in the immediate future,
it was indicated at the City Hall
The $4,000 check was received
by the City finance department
from the office of the Division En-
gineer, Atlanta, Ca, Bureau OF
Community Facilities, FWA.
The Federal funds were appro-
priated to defray cost of plans and
specifications for armory and au-
ditoriun facilities for Wilmington.
Cost OF the completed building has
been estimated at approximately
$500, 900.
The City council, in initiating the
campaign for a community build.
ing last June, indicated that the
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
TODAY and TOMORROW
by WALTER LIPPMANN

that the majority of the Frenct
who voted Communist in the re
cent election meant to have the
Communist party support what
ever foreign policy is determined
upon in Moscow. An analysis o.
the votes shows that a very con
siderable part of the new Com
munist vote in France came from
the non-industrial regions. This
is reasonably clear indication
that these were votes of protest
and in favor of radical internal
measures, rather than for inter
national Communism. But the
party leaders, who were not nom
mated though they were elected
by the voters, do follow the Mos
COW line in Paris just as 1.-THE
Daily Worker" and Mr.. Foster fol
low it in New York.
It is. therefore, highly signifi.
cant that they have now chal
ienged the national leadership oil
General De Gaulle, presenting
precisely those demands to him
which a nationtal leader of France
could not accept in the present
alignment of the world. To &C.
cept them would be to bring the
Soviet diplomatic power right
across Europe, and to make it i'm.
possible for the French govern.
ment to act with any true indie.
pendence of Moscow. The naked
meaning of this move cannot be
disguised by any sort of conten.
ton that the Soviets have as good
a right to have influence in Paris
as Britain or the United States.
For the record is plain that
General De Gaulle has never com.
promised the independence Of
France in favor of Britain or the
United States. This truly remark.
able man risked the wrath Of
Churchill and Roosevelt in the
darkest days of French history
rather than compromise the indie.
pendence of France, and he is in.
vulnerable when now he refuses
to compromise French independ.
ence at the demand of M. Thorez,
There will be many to say that
the aggressive turn in Soviet
policy is nothing new: that this
was always the Soviet policy, and
that the only new thing about il
is that the war is over and there.
fore the opportunity to follow it is
greater. Perhaps so. But their
case would be clearer if British
and American policy had been
more consistent: If we had not
opposed the conception of Soviet
sphere of influence in eastern
Europe by active political inter.
vention within it while in the
Mediterranean, the Middle East
and in Japan we have insisted
upon spheres of influence from
which the Soviet Union was ex.
cluded.
In any event the British-Ameri.
can policy has not resulted in
effective Intervention in the Soviet
sphere, and it has now been fol.
lowed by indications and threats
OF Soviet Intervention outside the
Soviet sphere.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM r. ELLIS
IN PARTNERSHIP

Strange is memory, WIN ~. ~,
series of indelible flashes dPo, ~ ...
screen of the human NINA ,,, =.
call that as a young man, l wa ~
once caught in terrific storm Ina. i.
a forest. The elements we're lu1 .i
at their widest - ram ""'
thunder and lightning. lid
There came to me in The ffll 10,
of it all an exultant conscloa'" .ri
that these ministers OF Goa .s sT.
I were on the same MISSION ' VII,
ing the same Master. 1t was . S.~
singing, shouting lips MAJ M VA /,
through the storm, win b NJ,
thought Of danger. never ' ssr,.
or since have l felt such u"
OF w vh1'y should Mlsh not this STATE ~:
mind ma' be normal? Al Of Goa. CO..
manifestations are His MN .'' Vi,
servants. And we, too are .s nn
We are all engaged IN ''V ,,bor
Big Business. For we are law
ers together with God.
o Infinite Father. who 81 h pss1
the winds in Thy fist, ana ~ y,
all creation yields 00eols'IE. nsa,.
would be exalted by me ;.s Tu
edge that we, too, are d0A'S
will. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
BRITISH HOUSE
MEMBERS HAVE
PENSION NEED
BY ALEX SINGLETON.

LONDON, Nov. 2s.-1pNn -
Der the row in the U. S. a fs nelnen'
back over pension for I con! ysaa
men? Over here in Britain 'S !,
pears that similar epjdar1 II ap'
headaches may develop for Of
1 oers OF parliament. A Quiet men, m,
persistent Campaign Nv N p. out
lawmakers for pay boosts S'' ISL
more government privless and an
brought from the new ,ab Ss has
eminent the promise NJ W goy'
elal inquiry to see what ~, O1l'
done. Van De
But the idea hasn't been r...,
ed too well by John Bull se enssN'
ly-especially with taxs s''e s''!'
high, prices ditto, vases ST.. sui
and the government seekira Tween
tension of wartime controls : s ss'
another five years. ''S 'o'
"Bllmey,' said PHYLLIS
barmaid, they'll be voting tb. se
selves free drink next!H "'''''
oo Even so, the NJ. P.s have
No longer can the Borss :,
Commons be called a rick VI
club - not with some of its nas
labor members fresh from ' ~,
farms and docks, or Just IN tr "s
the coal pits. ''V''
The house is not - and b.s
been for several years sir ,'
cure for a few politicians sr,
gentlemen who want Seat ~
parliament to increase their e.. ~
cial standing. 81
Like the average American nm.
gresham, the British lawmaksr,
work a long day - committss
hearings in the morning listen.
ing to the woes of constifnen,,
by mail and in person, daily So.
sions which begin in early sfpn
noon and frequently last until near
midnight.
In the war years, they mad Il,
holidays. Now that peac. IA,
come, and with it a renewal Of
partisan strife, party whips have
intensified their efforts TO kee,
members from slipping off for a
few days rest in the country.
Even the labor party, with an
overwhelming majority, must re.
main on its toes for, under The
British system, the conservative,
could overthrow the government
by a snap" vote if they found
themselves with a temporary ma.
jority on the floor.
Nor are the members Of com.
mons highly rewarded for their
labors. In contrast to the $1,000
salary of U. S. senators and rep.
resentatives, British lawmakers
receive 800 pounds (S2,4OW 0.
which 100 pounds is tax exemp.
That doesn't 60 very far in Lon.
don where the cost of comfor
table room runs from SIS week
Up.
Unlike congressman, British NJ
P.'s have no offices Of their own
and no government-paid Secye'
taries to handle correspondents
which, since the advent Of the
new government has been the
heaviest in parliament's history
They buy their own STATIONERY
and, until a short time ago, they
furnished all the postage, TOO
recently the government relaxed
a bit to provide franking privi'
eyes on official mail, but 10 eor
eminent departments only.
The new labor government hal
put through enc other CONCESSION
to the pinched pocketbooks Q,
some of its members. II cut the
prices of meals and eliminated TIP
ping in the House of Commons oln'
ing room, once regarded as one
of the finest in the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
CONVICT DROPS DEAF

Ao5okN, N. Y, Nov. 23.-RH
S S HAL, 5oyear-old convict,
cropped dead yesterday while
playing the organ during Thanks.
giving day services at Auburn
State prison. Some 200 inmates
saw Hall slump to the floor, and
watched him being, carried from
the auditorium on a stretcher az
another convict played Crock OF
Ages" on the organ.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

!
is happening in the inner councils
of the Soviet government, a pat
tern can now be discerned in its
actions abroad. 1t is clear that to-
ward the end Of the second week
Of the London Conference-about
Sept. 22-there was a decision in
Moscow to reduce to minimum
the business of settling affairs by
means of international conferences.
There was no formal rupture.
But contact between Moscow Lon
don, and Washington became too
slight and too uninformative for
the practical purposes of policy
making and negotiation. There
was no break in diplomatic rela-
tons but there has been what
is tantamount to a break in diplo.
matte intercourse. Soviet diplo.
matte officials abroad took line
which came very near to being
one of non-participation in the
machinery of international action
which exists to deal with the cost
war world.
1t appeared a h Soviet
Union had dug in, and was in
tending to wait. But there are
now indications that during these
weeks of darkness and obscurity,
decision has been made in Mos
COW to take the initiative, not only
as in the latter stages of the war
in the Soviet sphere of influence
in Europe but beyond it. The up.
rising in northern Iran against
the Teheran government could
hardly have occurred without at
least the tacit approval of local
Soviet officials. This will give the
British government another criti-
cal question to worry about along
with the Indonesian rebellion, the
agitation in Burma, the dangerous
tension in the Middle East, the
situation in India and in Egypt.
The 1ranian uprising is neatly
timed as the prelude to the nego.
tiations in which Great Britain is
backing the Turks in opposing the
Soviet demands at the Oar.
danelles.
1t is highly probable that here
is in part at least Moscow's retort
to what it regards as Mr.. Bevin's
intrusion in the Soviet sphere of
influence in the Balkans. It con-
sists in an intrusion by Moscow
into the British sphere of influ.
ence.
But that is not the whole picture
Of what has been happening since
the failure of the London Confer.
ence-during the weeks marked
by the Presidents Navy Day
speech, his remarks about the
atomic bomb, and so forth and so
forth. The action of the Com.
munist party in France is an in
lternational event of great signifi-
canoe, and it is impossible to sup.
pose that it is unconnected with
the general deterioration of AL.
lied affairs.
1t is not necessary to argue
whether M. Thorez acted on ex-
plicit instructions from Moscow
when he demanded that President
De Gaulle give the Communist
party the Ministry of Foreign Al
fairs, or National Defense, or the
Ministry of the Interior, which
controls the internal police and
the machinery of elections, M.
Thorez has been close enough to
Moscow, and is sufficiently well
trained and indoctrinated, to In
vent his own instructions, and to
know just when to make the claim
which was best calculated to
create the maximum embarass-
ment for the French government
There is no reason to think
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

structure would be erec' ~, ST.
old Marine base hospital
Eighth and Nun s'ree.s, .so,. she
City Manager A. c. Nlc i.', 'b,os,3
was authorized b. the &c, c,H -sia.ir:
to negotiate with the + va nsil
to the securing of fun as m
available to munlc1pa II tcSt
such projects, was ou' ,G today.
and could not be contac.e '.- taa:
It is understood, h J; re ss5r,rsags
he has been instructed 10 - a. soecl'
for the drafting of plans DIV
fications by architects
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

There are two kinds of hunger in Europe
today. One is physical But sometimes
think the awful blackout over Europe is
creating a great spiritual hunger.
Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
Editorial Comment
AUTHORS, DON'T

There are three kinds of authors, according
to Schopenhauer. First come those who write
without thinking. They write from full
from "reminiscences; it may even
be straight out of peoples books. This class
is the most numerous.
'Then come those who do their own think.
ing-while they are writing. They think in
order 10 write, and there Is no lack of them.
Last of all come those authors who think
before they write. They are rare. "-Counter.
points.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

10 remove mud and sand from
youngsters snow suit, let drv
then clean with a vacuum cleaner
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
COB HUMOR

The British barmaid was hirt, and when
the corporal went out to buy a paper, she
pursed her lips invitingly and leaned over the
bar toward the shy young private. Putting
her face against his, she whispered: Now
your chance, darling"
The private looked around the empty room.
$50 it is" he remarked and gulped down
the corporars beer.-Corsair, Naval Air Sta.
ton, Green Cove, Fla.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24
SHE SWALLOWED THE INSULT

her drink, but being lady, she swallowed
the insult.-U. S. CoAst Guard Magazine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

Old shower curtains ~ p ID
aprons, bids, place ['!a,Y
curtains for the bathroom.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-11-24

There is no reason to think
Evening star., 1945-08-01
Signs at Potsdam
By Mai. George Fielding Eliot

There are signs that an announce
ment of unusual Importance Is about
to be issued at Potsdam.
The conference is not quite over, but
1t is obviously winding up. For the past
two days, censorship has been sharply
tightened; have just been handed a
United Press report which says that tine
censors have gone to the length of put
ting an armed guard in the broadcasting
room to see to it that broadcasters 90
not depart in any way whatever from
the text of previously censored scripts,
and I do not recall hearing Of this
ever having been done before.
There have been some delays-due
to the British elections and more recent
ly to slight indisposition of Marshal
Stalins. But now the call of duty at
home must be more and more insistent
for all of the Big Three. The confer
ence, if not actually at an end, is very
nearly so.
* * *
For one thing it is clear that Allied
control of Germany was early on the
agenda. The fact that the Allied Con-
troll Commission has met and has an
nounced schedule of future meetings,
indicates that the Big Three reached
definite conclusions with regard to
combined policy toward Germany which
has permitted them to give the Control
Commission the long-awaited general
directive Now it can begin to function.
Very likely something will be said
in the final communique about the fu-
ture attitude of the three governments
toward the Franco regime in Spain.
The change of government in Britain
brings into power ministers who regard
Franco with particular bitterness, as
he has long been regarded in Moscow,
and there seems no reason for MIR.
Truman to befriend him. So Franco, as
our British friends would put it, is on
a very poor wicket just now.
But neither the adjustment of Big
Three policy regarding the government
of Germany, nor new policy toward
Spain, would appear to be matter OF
such earth-shaking Importance as to
require the extraordinary precautions
which have been taken during the past
few days to prevent premature leak
ages of news from Potsdam. It is pretty
clear that something is now being pre-
pared for release, and that the delay
is to enable release to be made simul-
taneously from all three capitals-and
guess that this news concerns the war
in the Pacific, and specifically change
in the Russian position regarding that
war.
If we will look back q little We see
Evening star., 1945-08-01
A Fifth 'Donoe'2

1ile ASSOcldCed PreSS correspond
ent in Amsterdam reports what he
properly describes as IAN art dis
covery that would be fabulous if
true"-namely, the finding of a
hitherto unknown painting by
Tiziano Vecelli of Pieve di Cadore.
commonly called Titan, one of the
greatest masters of form and color
who ever has lived.
Four similar pictures have been
exhibited for many years in galleries
in Naples, Vienna, Madrid and Len
ingrad. The first, it has been
charged, was stolen by the Nazis
not long ago and still is missing.
But the owner of the Amsterdam
canvas denies that his property is
the lost" Naples composition. In
stead, he contends that he has in
his possession a fifth example of
Titian's preoccupation with the
celebrated Greek legend of Danae
and the shower of gold.
The >artist unquestionably was
enamored of that particular theme.
His Interpretation of it in the Ma
tlonal Museum in Naples, as repro
duced in the GowanS series of hand
books, features on the right a full
length figure of Cupid which should
serve to identify it when finally it
is found. The Hermitage copy
includes an old woman with heavy
bunch of keys, an embroidered shawl
and an. outspread apron. Executed
in Rome in 1545 or 1916 and COM
mented on by Michelangelo, the
missing" "Danae" has been ap-
praised at half a million dollars.
The Madrid equivalent, painted for
Philip II, is supposed to have been
the second of the series, produced
about 1854.
But Titan lived more than
twenty years after he turned out
his Madrid impression of the golden
shower, and it is conceivable that
he continued to accept commissions
for additional pictures of the same
subject as long as they were offered
to him. He was nearly century
old when at last he died of the
plague in Venice, August 27, 1876,
but he was at work up to the moment
when he was stricken-painting
Pieta for the Church of the Frari.
With his eye as clear as ever and
his hand as steady, he could have
done a "Danae" as easily and with
as much genius as any other work.