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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
A Scion Dies

Like his distinguished father, Grove L.
johnson, in his day the leading criminal law
yer of the Pacific Coast, Senator Hiram john
son, who died at the Naval hospital in Wash
ington yesterday, never turned from fight,
whatever the odds. Old timers who remember
when he and Senator Borah were new to the
Senate are wont to compare them, without
favor to either, to Senator Daniels of Virginia
whose eloquence never failed to fill the gal
leres and start stampede of fellow Senators
from cloakrooms when word went forth that
Daniels was speaking.
Few men in public life had more action
packed career than Johnson. From his cleo
ton as governor of California in 1910 until his
death. he played an important role in nat onal
affairs.
Perhaps the high point Of his career was
reached when he and handful OF other
'irreconciabes' led a successful fight
against the League OF Nations in the Senate
in 1920 He believed that the United States
had no business IN affairs outside the Western
Hemisphere
His feeling about the United States role in
world affairs was we'll demonstrated immedi-
ately after Pearl Harbor. bill was pending
n the Senate to remove the ban on sending
American troops outside the Western Aemis-
phere. 1t required unanimous consent OF the
Senate to consider the bill Immediately. When
that request was made, johnson arose slowly
from the seat he had occupied since 1916.
II was tense moment. War had just been
declared This was proposal to make it pos
sible for American soldiers to fight again on
European SOIL
Johnson in his deliberate way, looked from
one Senator to another. II object" he said.
That was all. But that was enough to delay
passage of the bill for one day.
When he turned to politics he allied himself
with the Progressives of his state. He toured
date for governor on platform of kick the
Southern Pacific Railroad out OF California
politics.
He sponsored workmen's compensation laws
women's suffrage, strict regulation of public
utilities, blue sky laws, an eight-hour day law
for women, and laws designed to eliminate
the spons system.
I'm 1920 he was offered the Republican vice
presidential nomination, but he felt that he
should have headed his party's ticket and de.
clined to take second place. Had johnson ac
eepted the vice presidential nomination, VIII; oh
went instead to Calvin Coolidge. he woulc
have succeeded to the presidency when Pres
dent Harding died in 1922.
One Of the legislative acts for which he
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
Charlotte Minister
Will Conduct Revival

Revival services, which began
yesterday at the 9th Street Free
Will Baptist Church, of which Rev
R. H. Mills is pastor, will continue
through next Sunday.
Rev. w. H. Vause of Charlotte
who conducted his first revival
at the Free Will church here thirty
five years ago, will conduct the
services, to be held every. evening
this week at 8 o'clock. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
Medicine for Faith HcaIers
Copyright, 1915, by King Features syndi,

The faith healers didn't take at all kindly
n The Intervention of the state police to hreaI
No their understanding ceremony Sunday.
Sometimes we are inclined to think that Gov.
ernor Darden made a mistake in not lett;no
the sect go right on fondling its rattlesnake
nlaymates. That might have solved evervth;na
nicely.-Roanoke Va.) Times. -e
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
SHEAFFER DIVIDEND

FORT MADISON, Iowa, Aug. 6.
of the w. A. Sheaf-
fer Pen Company today declared
a quarterly dividend of so cents
per share and an extra dividend of
Is cents per share, to be paid
August q to stockholders on record
at the close of business August
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
They Failed to Sound the Alarm

When the Japs at last surrender, they should
be reminded that they started the Pacific
aspect Of this double war; by refusing 10
heed the civilized practice of nations when
about to engage in hostilities: Ye shall blow
an alarm with the trumpets" See Numbers
10.9-Washngto Evening Star.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
MUNITIONS EXPLODE

TROYES, France, Aug. Orr
Three carloads of munitions
ploded last night. woundlns ~ ~
persons and causing wldeSpi e1 ~,
damage last night in this c-'y y,
So, 900 about IS miles sou1heaS' y,
Paris. Set ab]aze by the eXpl0s,v,'
were 1903 cars carrying nluch'i''
ed wool and cotton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07
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., 1945-08-07

criticism of many of its points ~. Il
Senator Taft R.-Ohio'. lai. W.
reporters he agreed that felsi nd
ces to press freedom in Polan a and
the Balkan areas were Vas"'
ought to be cleared UP.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-07

TOP o. THE MORNING
And Obstinacy's ne'er so stiff
As when its in wrong belief.
Butler.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04

SOMETHING (don't ask WHAT
apparently has turned the clock
- back TO the time when women
were AmaZonS and men were the
gentleF seX-at least in the movies.
A psychologist at the. University
of Chicago says so, although (maybe
for self.preservation) he won't per
NIT himself to be named.
In his own words
It's been coming for a long, long
time, and now, finally, it's here in
full bloom-this frightening realiZa.
ton that women are worshiping at
the shrine of the fragile, the frail.
Il refer, of course, to the Sina-
trapathicS and the Van JohnsoniteS.
Contrarily, in the distaff depart
ment, there are such rough-and-
tumble characters of the screen as
Lauren Bacall, Betty Hutton, Claire
Trevor, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stan
wyck, Marlene Dietrich, ct al.
Time was when women were
epitomized in, such bits of frilly
femininity as Mary Pickford, Lillian
Gish and Billie Burke.
There's been a mctamorphoSis in
the motion pictures from he-nen to
he-women.
The Chicago gentleman isn't op.
timistic either Quite the opposite.
The clinging.vine type of woman,
/ fear, will never return" he predicts
Gloomily, because there's nothing
for her to cling TO-"
Or is that bad for men?
q November 4, 1915
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
Our Cemeteries Abroad

Assurance has been given Congress that
cemeteries in France and Belgium containing
the dead of the First World war were not
desecreated by the retreating German army.
More than 10000 Americans sleep in them. If
they could have heard the battle raging around
them they would have wondered about their
Sacrifices whether they had been in vain.
The fighting about the cemeteries resulted
in very little damage the officer in charge
of the American Battle Monuments commits
sion told the House appropriations committee
It is reassuring to know that the cemeteries
were not ravaged by artillery fire. that their
occupants were left in peace. that no vandals
harmed them
This should be the last time that America
goes into the cemetery business in Europe.
This is our last chance to demand that the
deadly business Of war every generation
stop. Somehow, America must take the lead
against war; compel peace if there is no other
way
This is our second crop Of cemeteries
abroad, and this time we have them in Asia
and Africa, as well as in Europe. Our dead
lie in England, in almost every corner of
the globe. We must take stern stand of
peace, international peace, and measure to
produce it, unless we plan to 60 further into
the cemetery industry in all parts of the
world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09

in hand except that he bemoans
the CPS have no appreciation OF
medieval handicraft.
The towns greatest art prize has
been declared "off limits 1t is
known as Rotes Haus (red house,
because of its red exterior. The
founder of the Scheibler dynasty
built it early in the 18th century.
Its proudest treasure is hand
carved winding staircase, executed
over many years by Jesuit fathers.
The late Kaiser Wilhelm was ready
to pay two million marks for it in
1911. But Hans Karl Scheibler re-
piled, your majesty, then h S
house would no longer be what it
is"
The W al h Of hand carved
dressers, cabinets, closets, desks,
bedsteads and Venetian glass can
delabra would make an antique
dealers heart beat faster. The
roof, however, took direct bomb
hit and the succeed ceilings are
falling down.
A chief civilian executive o r
Monschau county was appointed,
with the title of Landrat. He told
me he is trying to salvage what
is possible from the ancient church
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
Another Tour

With a subcommittee of the General AS
sembly's joint appropriation committee max
ing tour of inspection of the state hospital at
Morganton, following wholesale inspection OF
the Dix Hill institution at Raleigh on two oc-
casions, the things getting commonplace. Too
much will spoil the effect.
But by now the legislators should know some
thing of the needs, which roughly seem to be
more room for the patients, more doctors,
nurses and attendants, and expansion to take
care of the waiting lists. Some of the legisla-
tors were worked up over the matter, calling
the situation "deplorable" and "disgraceful''
1t is generally expected that something will
be done about it. Unless the General Assembly
does act to bring about improvement, some of
the patients in the institutions for mental
eases might take a notion to tour the state
eapial while the legislature is in session to
what is wrong there
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
Wait a While

General Charles de Gaulle, speaking for
France, says that the nation will not be bound
by any inter Allied decisions unless it has
an equal voice in framing those decisions
That sounds reasonable.
But the General should remember that the
United States is fighting two major wars just
now, something no other country has attempt
ed since Napoleon had Russia, England and
Germany on his hands at one time. America
can't stop now to wet nurse France. We will
do the right thing by her, but don't be SO
much trouble just now.
Thousands of Americans sleep under French
soil today because it was necessary to liberate
France from the Germans. More are being
killed every day. They are the victims Of a
system with which they had nothing to do. 1t
comes with poor grace to accuse Americans
of trying to beat France out of something.
The United States would be vastly better off
if there were no such thing as Europe. We
want nothing she has.
There is a class that is always too much
trouble to other peopoe, always finding fault
needing attention. De Gaulle seems to be one
of them. Just now the. American armies are
ybusy with something else. Later they will have
time to listen to his complaints
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
Patriotism Revived

It seems rash and impairment to attempt
any commentator on what is PROBABLY the
wars most eloquent and inspiring story. And
yet we cannot refrain from calling attention
to the reaction of two of the American prisoners
an camp on LuZon.
One of them shouted God bless America y
The other, before he gave way to his emo
tons, said, ''It cut right through me - the
flag
We should imagine that few americans read
those words, in the stories of the rescue, with
out feeling of pride and an honest lump in
their Threats. And we should also imagine
that with that feeling, perhaps, the emotion
of patriotism regained much of its former
pretige.
In the sophisticated America of the last 30
or 40 years, one just didn't spontaneously in
woke Gods blessing upon America. Rather,
one was inclined to magnify Americas faults
an dto dismiss her virtues simple as so many
manifestations of materialistic prosperity Ano
one left all expression of feeling at the sight
of the flag to Francis Scott Key and the
Fourth of July orators
That at least was the reaction of most of
our intellectually leaders, particularly in the
Twenties. And there was some excuse for it.
Many OF their fellow Americans were con-
WINGED OF Americas perfection, and defended
that complacent conviction fiercely
But the reaction defeated it's purpose. Such
phrases as these soldiers used would have
been laughed off stage, sneered at in books.
picked to pieces in conversation. In MANY
circles patriotism was actually something ia
be ashamed OF.
But the war has shown us all that civiliza-
ton itslef has largely been preserved bv DUR
once-derided materialism. 1t has shown us
that we could have spiritual as well as ma
terial growth in time Of emergency And we
have now come back to the day when a bow
can cry God bless America - and another
can weep on seeing the flag, after painful
ordeal of learning, day after hungry weary
day. what the absence of that flag can mean
And we can all share their emotion and be
moved by it.
Some may fear that many soldiers, feeling
as these lads on Luzon felt, will come home
they left it, and thus encourage reactionism
or strife.
But patriotism can be rivised as well as
revived. 1t need not degenerate into chauvis-
ism and foreign bias as long as our national
life is governed by decency and unity We
have seen, for all our inperfections, too many
instances of those virtues during the war to
doubt that
In the meantime, it is good to welcome
back little old-fashioned, unabashed patri.
otism after all these cynical years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
''Be It Ever So Humble"

THE right of ownership is more important
than ownership itself!
'True enough " says W. J. Blake, owner
of the Putnam County, New York, Republican.
"Yet how important is ownership-something
tangible and of benefit to the family Give
me a family-or, even, only an Individual
whose fixed objective is home, house and
some land of their own, and 1 will then see
reason to hope for the future of the family.
Better nation of such families than one
of any other dominating form Of prosperity.
BE it ever so humble, there's no place like
home Millions who live in rented quarters
houses, hall rooms, and what not-are an un-
stabilizing force in our national life. The cry
is-or should be-rnore home ownership and
less hoboism in the American ways Of living.
To that end let press pulpit and the schools
of our beloved land raise united voice.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
Largest Convoy

Some late statistics the record-breaking
convoy Of 1877 merchant ships that crossed
safely to England some weeks ago serve to
illustrate again the remarkable success of the
anti-submarine war, the efficiency of Allied
escort and the splendid work of the merchant
marine of ours and other nations
More than a billion tons of cargo were ship
ped in this one trip, including 10000 trucks
and other vehicles, and variety of materials
that ranged from food and lumber to locomo
tives and explosives.
These same statistics reveal that rs of these
1877 vessels (43 per cent of the convoy were
American. This too is remarkable, considering
the dispersal Of our shipping to the various
theaters Of war, and the state OF our mer-
chant marine at the wars outbreak. And it
is another tribute to the skill and tlreless in
dustry of the shpbuilders who made it pos
sible
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
"Overdue"

Men who serve in the Nays submarines
seldom hear the cheers of the croW4s. Their
work is done in darkness, under the surface.
1t is highly important Our submarines have
destroyed a great amount of Jap shipping
without much notice. They have Travelled tc
the very shores of Japan to loose their torpe-
does.
Now and then you read of one missing. over
due, given up for lost. The crews die they
lived-quietly There is none to mark their
going Their ship is their tomb, brief notice
and that's all They went down to the sea and
didn't return.
1t takes a brave man to do that, to die
in the dark shell of ship under water, un-
noticed, unsung. These are men who fight in
our submarines and who die in them
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
TODAY and TOMORROW
By WALTER LIPPMANN

therefore, the most difficult hour
through which the troops and the
war workers will pass. We e
perhaps at the beginning of it now.
This time of moral testing will last
through the final battles in Eur
ope, will continue into the exceed
ingly difficult period of pacifica-
ton and occupation, and will not
be over until the final strategical
plan for the defeat of Japan has
been adopted and is in operation.
During this time millions of troops
at the front, millions of civilians
at home, will be betWixt and be.
tween war and peace, and that
will be the supreme moment Of
personal crisis when all of us will
need to be held firmly in steady
resolution.
We must summon up the imagi.
nation to see that this world war
differs from the first World War,
and from any other war in our
experience, in that it cannot have
simple conclusion. 1t is two great
wars that we're closely connected
in their beginnings. The japanese
aggression began before the Ger.
man aggression. But it spread be-
cause the German power was so
much greater and SO much more
lnn~1,r fhrn 10 w.;
lization that for long adequate
force could not be spared to
check Japan. AS result Japan
has become so we'll entrenched in
Gina, and mas overrun so many
large territories, that after the
fall of Germany it is an enormous
undertaking to subdue Japan.
Never before have we, or indeed
any of our allies, been in posi-
ton where after winning one great
war we had to go right on to the
most difficult part of another great
war.
Moreover, in winning the Euro
pean war against the German Ar
my, we face at once a task Of
peculiar military difficulty. 1t is
usually supposed that when the Or
ganized German resistance comes
to an end, our troops will ride into
Germany and settle down and con-
duct an Occupation. Almost GER
tainly it will not be like that. For
some time to come we shall be
engaged in work that can best
be described as the pacification of
Germany.
This will be 81 active military
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
With The AEF:
Monschau--A Special Problem For AMG

es and various patrician houses
erected in the Middle Ages.
Captain Gotscheus, of Dutch ar.
cestry, says there has been no
trouble in governing the little town.
Its two silk and six wooden mills
could operate at any moment if
coal and labor were available. The
Nazis took with them many able
bodied workers, but 1900 residents
remained. Another 1,500 came here
as refugees.
The town is living on accumulat-
ed canned goods processed last
summer. AS soon as the battle
front moves farther east the towns
people h o pc to get some farm
products, including potatoes still in
the ground. There also is some
lean and scrawny livestock.
Having virtually no money, h e
town barriers with neighboring COM
munities and farmers. The citizens
plan intensive gardening in h e
spring, for even if food is available
elsewhere, transportation will be a
problem. The towns rolling stock
consists Of two trucks and one pas
senger car. Vehicles requiring
horses are useless since Nazi SIS
units tool all the horses,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09

operation, W h lily different, of
course, from breaking through the
Siegfried line, but one requiring
great judgment on the part of the
commanders and an especial dis
cipline and morale among the
troops. 1t will be the period when
the German Army is being demo-
bilized, German industry demil-
itzrized, the debris of the German
state de-Nazified, the guerrillas
and conspiratorial gangs tracked
down, the war criminals arrested,
the Allied prisoners and deportees
liberated and returned to their
homes, the loot recovered or in
some measure replaced, and in the
general wreck of German society
the beginnings of new and bet
ter order or things protected and
encouraged.
All this will have to be carried
on while the japanese war is be-
ing carried to its conclusion. To do
it successfully will be a tremen-
dous task. To do it all we cannot
afford to let the home front be-
come disorganized by a private
Rehabilitation of war workers,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
The Literary Guidepost

consular official in Trlpon' ne T,' I'D
known Yusuf, and haa p.o "a
with Yusuf's brothe. Ha'Il.. ~.
raise the latter to the Oa'i''
post. a.rry
and the Navy were al ooaS. -se-,
ly old enough to fig o-As .,,sr'
they scrapped with eaaA o, .sat
While Eaton managed by l,'I n,
bribery and cajolery to ao& x, r.
miniature AEF togethcl' me -, 81,
and the consul general 81 A-s ~,
fooled him. No sooner hao ~ .;cs1,
,t,red Derna than fellow Arle !:.sosi
signed a peace with Yusll, W. o.ys.
Eaton 30 abandon Hanlet nj,
and flee. He ended his lie III
country in dissipation. ,;..oJ
l. would be hard to find gi' M,
more completely ficticDlzeo Caa
i. is here. At times Mrs, o,;,rn;
gives The appearance OF Fact +.eti
throushout. she abides by the Jaw"
! am sure. .,srsd t
Vet she has, oddly, temp >, and
all. What was raw and r-"'@d -
nasty comes out pleasau. 4l.' hi,
fined. She doesn't romahIl'lItl and
she does take good red nlee ,.,S /
serve it we'll done. She w BG
sow's ear into SIX put 'I,. no
some people might detinI'e''
fer the sow's ear,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
so THEY SAY

Even with the work that has already been
done by Congress, our taxing system SUN rep
resents patchwork which has been Duli' up
over the years.-Rep. Joseph w. Martln' IT,
(R) OF Massachusetts.
China has the capacity and the oesle ~
develop herself industrially with American ai ~
If that aid is realistically planned. and If ii
nancial arrangements are put on souno Ousl-
ness basis, China should soon after tlie war
begin to replace japan as the leadlns 1 H1ous-
trial nation of the Orient.-Donald M' NsiSoii'
There is no question that the japanese nave
improved their planes ana the margli - ~ ~
periority in American aircraft over the enc
my's will grow less as we get nearer Japan:
-Artemus a. Gates, Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy for Air
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-09
BY w. G. ROGERS
written in Sand" by Josephine
Young Case (Houghton Mifflin; s2).

Eight uniformed Marines,
a midshipman and soldier who
by his own leave took the rank
of general marched 500 miles
across the African desert and
threw out of Derna, not Germans
and Italians, but the motley forces
of Yusuf Bashaw Of Trlpoh.
1t wasn't a very big band 10 DC
immortalized in the song ABOUT
the sands of Tripoli'' but II was
momentous event. 1t occurred
while Napoleon was emperor and
Jefferson was President and Mad
ison was secretary of state. We
were at war with the pirates OF
the Barbary coast. Part of our OBJ
jective was the release Of 800 men
enslaved by Yusuf after the loss
of the U.S.S. Philadelphia-later
burned by Decatur in Tripoli har-
Dor.
To support the ten Americans
were hundreds of French, Greeks
and indispensable Arab mercen-
aries. There were also a couple OF
memo war that fired shells weigh
ing as much as "a pounds.
The general was William Eaton
a man convinced that it was better
to 60 to war than pay tribute. AS