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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-15
Good Behavior Code

Behavior codes for school pupils are peren-
NAL. Most of them are too difficult for ordinary
practice To observe all the rules, youngster
would have to be an intolerable prig or an in
sufferable sissy.
At last we have discovered the exception 1t
is code for junior high school pupils IN New
York City. 1t calls for plain common-sense
behavior; is realistic in high degree. Pupils.
for example, are not to park chewing gum
underneath chairs, or leave their footprints in
freshly laid pavements Leave the asphalt
along" says the code, and adds: why pre-
serve the footprints of jackass?"
Treat classmates kindly, the report admon-
ishes. Boys or girls who fall all over them
selves or even make laughable mistakes
should receive sympathy, not outlaws. AS re-
CARDS name-calling this advice is given: Keep
your temper and sense Of hunaor. You know
the things they say are untrue, and besides
you would help nobody by getting excited"
Pupils are urged to retain their balance,
even il a classmate walks or trips into them.
Cautions the manual: IF it was neither an
accident nor intended as joke, try to find
OuL Lie IllOLlVe. dix lIlISS OVcI, IL pOSSlUlS
Avoid fist fights, especially in crowded places
where panic may result and other people may
be injured
Other behavior problems discussed include
the prompt return of borrowed books, the re-
turn ct articles found at school, avoidance Of
comments on poorly dressed classmates and
care in shaking fountain pens.
It is noticeable that all it's subdivisions this
code deals with matters common in the daily
life of school children. 1t imposes no difficult
obligations. 1t is the most sensible behavior
code we have ever seen, and we'll deserved 10
be guide of junior high school pupils every
where, and of many men and women who have
not quite grown up
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The Borneo Campaign

An eight hundred mile circle centering in
the present field. of operations on Borneo
touches much of the Philippines, practically
all of Celebes, skirts Bali, traverses north.
cas- Java, bypasses Sumatra by narrow
margin, is within gunshot OF Singapore and
cuts French Indo-China squarely in two.
By this reckoning, the Australians are hit.
ting at the heart of Japan's chief sources
Of war supplies When they conquer Borneo,
the enemy's greatest storehouse of natural
resources in the southwest Pacific will have
fallen and the enemy's sea life line be c'.t.
Thereafter the Japanese will be able to
bring raw materials from still unconquered
territory for conversion into war tools at
plants in Japan and the upper rialniSnd OF
Asia by land routes only, and use Of such
routes is becoming more difficult with the
Allies increasing their areas Of oc ,upation in
Bur ma and the Chinese overruning larger re-
goas of south China.
The Battle of Borneo, therefore, assumes
greater significance than the capture of oil
fields helpful as that will be.
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Stretched To The Limit

During the past winter, unprecc :erted
storms held up normal movement ct fre15ht
with the result that the nations rail trans
portation system, which has been cunning or
close margin ever since Pearl Harbor. now
finds itself stretched as taut as fiddle string.
Crop movement demands from the West fave
been staggering. Even with a great increase
in loadings, there is box car shortage IN
the rain belt, where tons Of wheat lie on
the ground to rot, and in other sections OF
the country as WELL The fact is that the de-
1nand for box cars exceeds the supply. Not
only is more grain being loaded and shipped
in the West than ever before at this time OF
tt year, but the demand for box cars for
every type of loading is extraordinarily
heavy, and for the movement of military sup
plies for export. it is far beyond anything
ever known.
To meet this demand, there are 1851 few
err box cars in service than there were two
years ago Neither materials nor manpower
have been available for building more cars
or even for keeping the usual proportion Of
existing ones in suitable condition for such
high-type loadings as grain and flours.
the Association of American Railroads re-
ports that: With what equipment, materials
and men are available, however, the rail
roads, the Association of American Railroads,
the Office of Defense Transportation and the
interstat. Commerce Commission have done
the best they could to meet all demands to
the fullest possible extent. In doing so, they
have had the finest possible cooperation from
the government departments which use trans.
portaton end from other shippers. :"
But you can't put two carloads Of freight
into one car or two passengers in seat
for one Patience and continued cooperation
Of the shipping and travelling public are need
ed to conquer the present emergency until
new equipment and manpower are available.
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Kill Own Wounded

Dispatches telling of General Shepherds
Sixth Marine divisions smashing attack on
the Oroku peninsula pocket of resistance men,
ton the finding of hundred and fifty enemy
bodies in japanese hospital. The Associated
Press Correspondent, Left Erickson says the
bodies presumably were those OF wounded
"who were killed by the Japanese before they
withdrew. It is a matter OF policy for
japanese not to permit wounded to fall into
American hands,
When the japanese are willing to slaughter
their own wounded, lest hated Americans find
them. is it any wonder that they torture cap
tives and practice all the barbarities known
to fanatics upon all persons who fall into
their hands?
Obviously, as long as the military party is
In control at Tokyo the Pacific war will have
to be one of determination.
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Women To The Rescue

Through petitions being prepared 1Cr sigma
from the meat shortage in Wilmington may
be obtained The women of Charlotte did the
same thing and Charlottes meat supply was
increased Reasonably, it is believed, equal
benefits can follow a similar effort here.
There should be no difficulty in securing
the signatures Of an overwhelming majority
of Wilmington housewives. They are worn out
with looking at empty meat cases and beng
told to come back Thursday-We may have
p little them They are tired of listening to
excuses, which is the best the butchers can
do. Surely they are ready to sign up. or take
any other action which promises relief.
The fault seems to lie in the refusal OF
the OPA to renew licenses to slaughterers,
even with fair quantity of beef available
TO, processing.
1t is felt that the State Department OF Ag'
ricrlture should have jurisdiction, and not the
Gee of Price Administration, which has
Numbered so grievously from the day OF It's
organization. The State department is better
abe to judge the needs, and is not SUBJECT
to bureaucratic dictation.
An even better proposal is that the hcens-
ing of slaughterers be left to the county agent,
who knows the situation more intimately than
the state department. But it does not matter
so much who is given jurisdiction as long
rs mea- is available for Wilnington's din
ner tables.
BY banding together, the women Of the city
can exc t strong influence in accomplishing
this
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BY w. G.. ROGERS
FELIX MENDELSSOHN:
LETTERS edited by G. Sell
den-GOth fPantheon: $500.

No collection of Mendelssohn S
letters of size comparable to this
has been published in English, the
editor says, for more than 80
years. There's one good reason:
they are dull letters, lacking, as
does most of Mendelssohn' music,
Intensity and vigor
On the other hand, these letters
constitute a valuable record for
music students, and they interest
me most, as perhaps they will
you, by showing a man of an un-
commonly sweet and gentle ma
ture, as pure in deed as in
thought, a filial paragon who at
rs asked his fathers permission to
have horse and at 81, his moth
er's permission to have a wife.
Like great performers, great
composers have the reputation of
being tenpestuous, primitive char.
actersbehaving or misbehaving,
IN general as if family ties and
moral codes were something to
break.
Mendelssohn by comparison was
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-15
Lynch-Law In France

Lynchings are becoming so frequent in
France that two Paris newspapers have
adopted a standing headline for them: Sum-
marv executions Among the more recent
victims were a 53-year-old woman, hanged at
n railroad bridge and the shooting of vol
unteer worker just returned from Germany.
Lynch-law cannot be condoned anywhere,
even in the aftermath of the European war
during which so many Frenchmen were ruth
lessly murdered by the German Army and
the Nazs.
Too many pages Of American history are
Il ctted with The blood of its victims.
France and the otf,e1 lands occupied by
German forces will have to learn that what
ever the offense, however great the suffer
ing of their people, punishment must be adj
ministered by lawful sentence, if they are
ever to regain balanced and orderly life
The unbridled impulse to murder can lead
only to greater suffering and the loss OF sell
respect, without which no person or nation
can prosper.
Whatever lynching is supposed to avenge
lynchers commit a worse crime by sum
mary executions"
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WASHINGTON CALLING 6
by M..AM
MARQUIS CHILDS &1f11I]

WASHNGTON-T moment is
one of pause. 1t is the pause that
comes before gathering storm.
The delegates to the United Ma
tons conference at San Francisco
are completing their labors. T h e
worst obstacles have been over
come.
The charter of world organization
they are now completing is, as they
know better than anyone else, a
limited instrument. 1t has been
pared down by the fears and jeal-
ousies of a shattered and uncer-
tain world; by the powers that have
won victory by such hairline
margin.
But it is a start. 1t is a be-
ginning. Although the overwhelm-
ing majority of the American peo-
Pile want to make such a start.
as every poll of public opinion
shows, that will not prevent h e
storm of controversy from break
ing in the Senate of the United
States.
We should anticipate that storm.
We should brace ourselves for it.
We should know from which direc-
ton the wind will come
Word has reached me from
abroad that when Senator Burton K.
Wheeler returns from Europe and
the Middle East he will bring
with him what he intends to use
as ammunition in leading the fight
against ratification of the charter
of San Francisco. The isolationist
senator from Montana has been
collecting atrocity stories.
These, however. are atrocity
stories with difference. They are
atrocity stories about the French,
the Russians, the British-and not
about the Germans.
The prize story in Senator Wheel
er's collection has to do with the
taking of the German city Of Stuff
CART by the French. According to
this story, for which there is ap-
parently some basis of truth, Me-
gro troops from French Africa
were encouraged to rape and loot
in Stuttgart, following the fall Of
the city.
AS Senator Wheeler has repeated
this story to certain of our diplo-
matte representatives abroad, it is
full of the horror and degradation
of war, the dark and terrible ming
ling of blood and race. AS Sena-
tor Wheeler well knows, it would
be calculated to create the utmost
doubt and suspicion in this country.
But this is only one weapon in
his armory. He has, according to
reports from Europe. assembled
all possible information about the
conduct of the Russians in eastern
Germany. Again, there is some ba-
sis in fact for reports indicate that
the Russians have been ruthless in
liquidating those Germans who
would stand in the way of the So.
Wet determination to remake the
structure Of that part Of the world.
Hurled into the debate on rati.
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The Literary Guidepost

an angel Perhaps his unolemlS"'4
character was due to 'ne '''pI.
circumstances of being born INV
. family of means and OF "ln ,i.s
as a child prodigy success w." =.
did not forsake him 0o'h 1o,,,v
death in 1S47. He was fa 1.1G IN.
popular in England, and heiu .a n
rortant musical posts in se WEN
C ~. 11laI cities. His Elijah orltoIle,
Fingars Cave overture and 9'4 sr,.
and Italian symphonies a'7
quently heard today l.. sister
Fanny, to dear Father ID
Your Your Excellency" his fris gnu II.
Goethe, to the composer si' nh.
anist Ignatz Moscheles' anu .r.
ers. They are full of KISSES S rev.
braces. esteem, respect anu i.a Of
er a word of anger or Spl'
passion. N do,
The least critic ou8H' " in
I suppose, is to pay him 1l, pa'N has
his own coin. The publisher a D
included some photographs veil
reproductions of paintings as "r
as some sketches by the conip sy.
er. and done it all up III d.
reat r""'-"""
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fication, this can help to sow the
seeds of doubt and disunity. There
will be many sewers, many who
are already spreading distrust and
suspicion.
Under Wheeler's leadership, I'm
der the impact of such recitals of
brutality, horror and oppression,
the effort will be to coerce and
persuade us again to withdraw. The
effort will be to convince us that
we alone are virtUous, and that
therefore we must preserve o u r
virtue intact and alone.
1 believe America will reject this
holier-than-thou attitude. OF course,
all virtue and all merit are not
on our side, not by a long shot.
Wat is, in it's very nature, degrad-
ing and debasing. Fighting saw
age enemy, we do not escape con-
tamination from his savage~y.
1t is to prevent this debasement
that we are working today. We cam
not do it by withdrawal. We can
not do it by returning to what has
become an island of relative COM
fort and security in a world of
misery and destruction. No, not
even if we build the greatest mil
itary barricade in history around
that island.
The Senate Finance Committee
has made a bad start. Economic
isolation-and that is what h e
committee voted for in voting
against further tariff reduction-is
the other face of political isola-
ton. The two go together.
We must work within the new
organization. standing for what we
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Editorial Comment
ONE ON THE CENSOR

Have you heard the story about the sailor,
who upon returning from Jap-held territory
chat was) produced a rubber stamp he had ap-
propriated as a souvenir. Some of his mates
thought it would be sort Of a novelty to stamp
their home7bound letters with unknown char
acters. When the censor, very alert officer,
came Upon these undecipherable inscriptions he
brought out his mighty pair Of shears and cut
them out few days LATER to the censor s
surprise and embarrassment the stamped
notation was translated. It read: Passed by
the Novel rarrcr "-r-~~o~'s Weakly
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o give series of cocktail parties.
It makes no sense whatever ex-
cept that it demonstrates that
most of the Republicans in Con-
gress respond to local pressures.
in this case grossly exaggerated
and, except in small details, large
ly mistaken. Tie national leaders
of the Republican p rty have
shown that they know perfectly
we'll that the Congressional Repub-
licans have taken the wrong line,
and that the party can get 40
where in the nation as long as in
Congress it follows Messrs. Mar
tin and Taft rather than its ma
tional leaders.
Copyright, 1915, New York Tribune
Inc
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QUOTATIONS

The Soviet Union is a great, democratic
power capable Of assuring the security not
only of its own frontiers, but also of the
peoples Of Europe, and the sooner this is
recognized the better it will be for humanity
-Pravda, Moscow Communist Party newspa-
per.
He Roy Weatherly) was a funny little guy,
and I thought we were improving the club
when we let him go, But that was three years
ago-and we still haven't seen his equal in
center held-Lou Boudreau, manager, Cleve-
land Indians.
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TODAY and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN

that the Senate will deny to the
American government the means
to use its own economic power to
further the trade policies which all
Americans, who are not advanced
collectivists, believe in. Fer the
Republicans, after all they have
had to say about private enter
prise, to stand out against such a
measure to restore private enter
prise in international trade, is as
if the Anti-Saloon League started
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-15
Battle Of Kansas

NEW YORK. June 14.-lP-,r
men who fought the "Ba,tI
Kansas wear no camnoi a'ae Of
bons. But thanks to t5ar, TO-
promise to China was fulfil1aJ. 'I
B-29 Superfortresses would " IA mat
the China Burma-India tbo W a
ready fo1 combat, by June 19st
The story, an undisclosed cb ham,
of the war, is told by ThomsS '9 r'1
lison in his book, The snno. GOI'
tress Is Born" to be nnb gj-tO',
Friday DUEL, Sloan and pasaSa
Collision, assistant director n n'l
lie relations at the adver.;pp a0'
agency of N. Y. Aver and So ,S'ls
civilia co-ordinator Of jnforna.,; ~
OF the Boeing B-29 The book ' tall
the dramatic story of the s,Iner ,t~S
tress' conception, creation ~
Were changes dictated by TRAINING Gnu
and battle experience were inco1'
porated into the big ships. ''''
To make the changes at the "a,
tory, Collision explains, would bar.
led to confusion and decTos s.s
production. So B 29's were fopn u
to the mud center" and wv
changes made there, until tho i rl'
p-ovements could be incornorotoJ
at the start rather than in the MIA
die of the factory assembly linz
The four Kansas bases wero !,
bleak, open country, covered witb
snow and sleet. Thirty.four D.
29's were snow-bound ONLY Sv
Guild be accommodated in the fo,l,
hangers available. Headuuarters
were set up March 10, 1914. with
Maj. Gen. B. E. Meyers in charge
The men, many of whom were
or-lJ recently cotton pickers in tbs
| south, lived in squat, prefab-icat.
ed barracks.
There was work 10 do and I'm.
{ the most rigorous conditions"
writes Collision. This work must
be done in the open o.. Every man
was on his own. Every CT, mod.
fication technician and Army Of
ficer would eat and sleep when
he felt he must. At all other times
he would be on the job And
Gen. Meyers would personally
serve coffee and doughnuts at any
hour of day or night.
There was work to do new
flat glass to be installed in nose
sections E. . prop feathering pumps
to be relocated e.. new heavy-duty
engine generators to be installed
electrical circuits to be rewired
limit-taps to be changed on the
tail turrets changes growing
out of producing airplaneS con-
currently with the experimental
work for that airplane.
! Meanwhile, the combat crews
were busy being processed, attend.
ing briefing sessions nightly; re-.
ceiving shots in their arms and
writing good-byes.
Flying $685." Col. Frank Cook,
former production engineering Of
ficer at Wright field, took away
the first plane. Col. Leonard
(Jake) Harmon, B % flight test
officer from Wright field, was next,
This thing was working" re
lates Collision. much work lay
ahead but here was the irst pay
off With the coming Of April,
more and more SuperfortresseS
took off from the battle zones. -Four
or five B-29's left every dawn.
Then he disclosed ruse:
"Within As minutes after Cook s.
landing Cat a base in Europe a
high-flying German reconnaissance
airplane was over the base taking
photographs of the first Big to land
in the European war zone. This
had been anticipated and was
entirely according to plan.
1t was a feint and it worked, for
at no time did enemy aircraft
seek out and interfere with the
air train of Superfortresses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-15

MIR. Churcnlll eleCllOu ldIll-
festo, or party platform, contains
a statement about British COM
mercial policy which the Senate
is bound to consider ca fully. On
this subject Mr.. Churchill was cer-
tainly speaking for all British par
ties, and not solely for the Con-
sentative party. The manifesto
says that Britain will not give Ip
it's right ito safeguard our bal
ance of payments by whatever
means are necessary" To this sit
uation-not British alone-and to
this pledge and threat the trade
agreements bill and the Breton
Woods bill-both of which have
been passed by the House and are
now before the Senate-are ad-
dressed.
They are important and they
are urgent because the need to
safeguard the balance Of pay
ments will-if we do not intervene
lead the British to commit them
selves to government management
of international commerce. With
out the bargaining power which
the trade agreements bill and
Breton Woods give us, we could
not even argue with the British
about the desirability of preserv-
ing the system of private enter
prise in world commerce With
those measures we can talk and
we can be listened to, and we may
have good hope of keeping Britain
the greatest of the International
trading communication taking
the definite and perhaps irrevoca-
BILE turn toward barter, restric-
tons, monopoly, d government
control.
To ignore this paramount con-
sideration, and to discuss the
trade agreements bill as if 1t were
bill to lower the American tar
iff, is to miss the whole point. II
this were bill to lower the Amer
lean tariff, it would be waste
of precious time and energy to de.
bate it now. There are dozens and
dozens of things of far more M
portance than whether the tariff
duty on a few imports is little
higher or little lower But this
is not a bill to lower the Ameri-
can tariff. 1t is a bill to invest
the President, who conducts our
foreign relations, with economic
bargaining power to be used in
inducing the trading nations not to
abandon but to restore and pre-
serve the system Of private trad
ing.
What some of the opposition
have quite evidently not under
stood is how we could use access
to our market as a bargaining in.
strument, and yet run no risk
whatever of hurting American
producers. The answer is that the
American economy is so much
bigger than any other. is indeed
about equal TO all other national
economies combined. That being
the case, exports which fill a trl-
fling percentage of the huge Amer
lean market are of great econon1-
IT, importance in the much small
or economies of other nations
That is the reason why tariff adj
iustments which do not inJure
American producers have never
tbe1ess such great international
bargaining value.
IF is as a bargaining instrument
to promote and preserve the sys-
tenn of private trading that the
trade agreements bill has been
conceived. That is how the instru-
nent will be used bv President
Truman and by the officials.par-
tio,,1ar1v Messrs. Clayton, Ache
son and Charles Taft-who are re-
snonsible for shaping our foreign
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Health Board Adopts
New Budget Estimates

The City-County Board OF Healh
at their regular meeting held d.
the Health Center yesterday AMER
noon. tentatively adopted the ISi''
46 budget estimates and after d
few revisions, which were ordtl'
ed by the board are made 'ne
figures will be turned over 10 "I
Chairman of the County Board u
Commissioners and City Manage
A. C. Nichols, probably TO-DAY az
cording to a statement mace e'
the close of the meeting oy w.
A. H. Elliot, medical heal'n u
ficer. ,;.,,oo
Addison Hewlett, Jr., chai'll na
of the board, presided over rns
meeting and the budget Lsu ,cs
was the only matter of impoT'all''
discussed, DR.. Elliot said
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as Americans believe TO be riga l.
and lust, We must stand up asalls;
the forces of distrust and qiST Ths,
that are soon to be loosed' Ina ,
is our only choice in the n 'parld
ending search for a better a NG Fsa.
Copyright 1945 by United f''
+,,ra Syndicate, lnc.)
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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 peorle Think