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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-12-09

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
CHAMPION
(New York Herald-Tribune)

Neither sleet nor rain nor heat nor bunions nor the creeping chills of old age stay MT. James H. Hook ing of Teaneck, N. J., from taking his annual hike. Last Monday on his eighty-ninth birthday, MT. Hook ing walked fifty-flve miles, from his home to Bear Mountain, in little more than eleven hours. Newspaper files show that Mir. Hooking has many astonishing walking feats to his credit. To many persons MT. Hockings pastime must seem pc. culiarly unexciting, and yet the sport of hiking has many devoteeS. Right here in mid-Manhattan there are softies who take great pride in walking over to Brooklyn for din- ner and then walking back--a stunt that would not cause MT. Hooking to draw deep breath. Connolsseurs of walking, as in most sports, are not yet willing to admit that MT. Hooking, for all his stamina and style, is the greatest walker ever produced in this country. Could the Teaneck wizard have outwalked the late Edward Payson Weston? Many oldti1ners scon at the very idea. And yet this Hooking fellow is not to be laughed of. He says he wants to walk 100 miles on his tooth birth- day, For that event may he have good road, Q clear sky and favor- able wind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
A Thought for Today
A Beacon Of Salvation

Tomorrow is Mission Sunday in all the Catholic churches of Waterbury and the nation On that day special collections will be taken up for the Society of the Propa gation of the Faith
 The contribution which Catholic missions have made during the in minsterng to the corporal well the spiritual needs of millions of the unfortunate is crystazed for Waterbury residents in the inspiring story of Rev. William R. Mccarthy of the Maryknoll Missions
 Father Mccarthy was captured at his mission on Cebu Island in the Philippines together with thousands of American fighting men. For thirty months he was held prisoner in the infamous Los Banos and Sano Tomas camps. While in prison he did much to maintain the morale the courage and the hope of the despaiing in terneeS.
 Despite the ordeal and its resultant impairment of his health upon liberation Father Mccarthy insisted turning to his mission and his work Even he is gagged in the task of rebuilding his mission at the time he is rehabitang the equally shattered morale and health of the natives.
 Today America is looked to by the oppressed of all na tons the of salvation and hope Mission Sunday has important part in the program for aiding these sufferers Its purpose obviously unselsh Its goal is without self-gain Catholics will need little urging to give generously in support of the efforts of such Father Mccarthy Those of other faiths may share the common brotherhood of generosity by sending contrbu ions to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith 1t it's New York offices located at 1O9 East 38h street
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20


 MacArthur and Patton, and, can scream as loudly as any when my copy gets cut, don't, at this point give double dinkum whose literary masterpieces were scissored out there or who wants to charge that truth was turned into thull All know ls that we won. That's the one truth I'm interested in.
 Both MacArthur and Patton won their battles and from away back here 1t looks as if they were the two fghtingest generals of the lot As result of their victories, won't starve out my days in some concentration camp, or die from Jap bullets against some post, my home wasn't bombed, my wife and daughters are safe. I've still got job. owe then and every other man who fought for this flag, my undying gratitude and does everybody else in these United States-my gratitude, respect and defense of their honor They defended my nfe and the lives of those who mean more to me than my own.
 think the American public feels the same way or will start to feel the same way, when it gets around to realizing what Is happening and that the little bylne Napoeos now solernnly assaulting great Americans on the strength of few weeks at some front, or in bunk on some battleshp, will be seen for what they are-a lot of oneppe katydids, trying from safe distance. to scold couple of broad shoudered buffaloes.
 But if MacArthurs press relations stank why not say MacArhurs press relations stank and whang the phials of criticism at the stinkers who comprised that departmentp It's cnch the general didn't sit there and personally censor the copy If anybody prove he gave orders to the effect that he was per sonalIy to be glorfied, let same advance two paces state his name rank and serial number. and produce
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
Business Loan To Britain

A month ago. when Lord Keynes arrived from Britain in search of American dollars for his government stated of some $6000000000 His statement didn't make much of hit over here, and the ensuing furry of nameca ing both sides of the Atlantic of particular help
 Nevertheless the American public had reason to thank Lord Keynes for stating his plan frankly and clearly be- fore he and Lord Halifax went into hudde with the State Department Now at last the public also has reason to be grateful to Assistant Secretary of State Clayton for speaking up win the official American view.
 It appears that, if the State Department has its way, Britain will get the money, though not much as she asked, and as loan and not grant. MT Clay ton gave some international business for his stand Even so there will probably be some cries of Uncle Sap
 Mr. Clayton sad in effect that the loan had nothing to do with the AngloAmerican partnership It pro- posed present and future benefit to the American people, and if it couldn't be justified that there was talking about it.
 Mir Clayton sees the loan helping to get world trade going again multilatera basis. The alternative su he says would be the continuation of present trade bocs the creation of ad since things can't be divorced the establishment of political blocs It likely that the United States will tie necessary economic and political strings to the loan. American
 military concessions at British bases have been mentioned also relaxation of Britans empire preference trade system.
 the pumpprmng class But it is foreseeable that it would help start the stream of dollars flowing again in world channels and give healthy boost to our business and industrial reconverson In 1889 exports to the British Empire amounted to than third of total export business They added up to well billion dollars which isn't hay by any sort of figuring
 Of course there people in this country and England who will insist bringing the alliance into the pie ure Some Britishers will claim to their dying day that them debt of dollars for holding off the NaziS in the dark days between the fall of France and the invasion of Russia. Some Americans will con- nue to regard lendeaSe shower of dollars into British laps rather than tools of and of subsistence which largely eaten up shot up and otherwise ex pended
 But the fact remains that all that is past and gone The is won, but the peace isn't And the goal of perman ent and prosperous world peace can't be reached through trade barriers and economic world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
KING FOR A DAY (Hartford Courant)

For one brief but joyous day State Senator Samuel H. Malkin of New Haven presided over the affairs and destinies of our great State as i Acting Governor. As our fashion editor might report it, the Acting ] Governor was suitably garbed for the occasion wearing a black pin- striped suit, lovely floral necktie and jaunty boutonniere. The whole ensemble was obviously the choice of a man with a flair for l that sort of thing. being neither 1 gaudy nor too subdued, but striking just the proper note of gubernator- ial sartorial restraint.
 Brief though the tenure was, the Acting Governor did find time to express himself as being flor the welfare of all the people of the State,' an expression of solicitude that should be reassuring in these trying times. Being for "all. the ! people" means of course, that the Acting Governor is himself includ- ed, a fact that seems to be corro- borated by his new position as curator of the James Melton collec- tion of old automobiles at a reas- onably plump salary There, in the near future, surrounded by vehicles of ancient vintage, the former Sem ator and Acting Governor may brood to his hearts content about the welfare of all the people of the state, to the tune of reported $6,00O a year of the taxpayers money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
Views Of The Press

1 to this the statement that the cost of collection from them is high. However, they utterly ignore the most important factor of tax con- SciouSneSS.
 | This lower bracket group, becom- ] ing taxpayers for the first time as 1 a result of wartime budgetary needs, ha gained a new realization of tax ing policies. They have become con- scious of the fact that unwise Gov- ernment fiscal policies increases the burden upon each individual citi- zen. They know that reckless Gov ernment spending takes money Aem their pockets. Accordingly, each of them, in recent years, has become a watchdog of the Treasury in a small way, an opponent of govern mental waste and inefficiency.
 Removed from the rolls, they are bound to swing to the other extreme, to become advocates of wild spend- ing schemes, voters for planned economy type of public works. Free ing them from taxation would pro- vide 6 course under which they would benefit, rather than suffer, from any such deficit financing schemes. .....
 If kept on the rolls, even un- der minimum payments, fair but not burdensone, their voices will be add- ed to those of that body of taxpay- CTS who realize that only through balancing the Federal budget can hope be held out for ultimate adop- ton of an equitable taxing program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
WELL SPOKEN, MIR. GEORGE
 (Nou TInvaT Pa0iqtnrl

Sen. Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is to be commended for his wisdom and courage in fighting against the House tax reduction action which would remove some 12-million per- sons altogether from the income tax rolls. He is on utterly solid ground when he contends that any such narrowing of the taxing base will place us upon dangerous budgetary standards should the nation, as is probable, find 1t necessary in the years immediately ahead to increase revenues rapidly. MT. George has rightfully stated that once removed from the rolls, 1t will be extremely difficult to bring about the return of these 12-millions of lowest brack- ct taxpayers. This represents posi- ton long advocated by The Register. It is to be hoped that the Senate, in It's consideration of the interim tax bill, will realize the wisdom of Senator Georges advice and act as- cordingly.
 Those who advocate removing these l2-million lowest bracket tax payers, and giving them a free ride at the expense of the remainder of the tax-paying public, have based their argument upon the fact that the total revenue collected from this group is relatively small. They add
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
Capital Face Lifting
By Peter EdS0n

system Pipes and ducts run through all the walls. But has never been connected to the central heat- ing system. If the heating system was connected 1t would eliminate the condensation nuisance.
 Just why this hasn't been done isn't too clear. It would require running pipes underground for about two blocks to do the tob Congress, apparently, has neglected to provide needed funds
 A similar but less serious problem of condenSa- ton exists in the Jefferson Memorial More of its surface is exposed to the sun
 All of the Capitals 76 lesser monuments are in bad need of cleaning. Mortar in the joints Of most of them has clipped out. When water gets in and freezes 1t cracks the marble. This has happened to several It is estimated 1t would take about S75O00 to do the basic job of restoring the Capital to normal
 The biggest blight is the hundreds of temporary buildings which almost fill the cnce-beauttful Mall and disfigure most of the parks Some temporary buildings are left from the first World War.
 It is up to each agency to tear down It's temporary office buildings and restore the landscape But office Federal Works Agency is trying to get money to build new permanent buildings. Congress IS consid- ertng that appropriation now.
 Some of the parks are being restored to their former beauty All of the antiaircraft gun emplace. ments have been removed The hastily erected camps for troops built the flats along the Potomac nave also been removed.
 Probably the most ambitious plan for the addi tional Identification of Washington is huge stadium Most persons agree that t should be built at the enc of the Mall opposite the Washington Monument.
 There have been many suggestions that this sta alum be made memorial to the late President Roose- velt.
 Whatever is needed, officials hope to have this tcwn as spic and span as 1t used to be- When the visitors and sghtseers start arriving in droves next spring. they want them to be proud of their Capital City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20

1nDernauOnal COmmlSSi0n reSpOn- sible to all mankind Farmer also proposed that the Commission have the right to acquire land in various parts of the world containing vital ores
 President Truman interrupted him at this point to remark that 1t would also be possible to produce atomic energy from sources other than uranium, for instance common clay.
 The Nashville attorney then told Truman about talks he had with Dr. Leo Szilard one of the physi- cists who worked the Einstein theory; also with Dr. E. U. Condon associate research director of the Westinghouse Laboratory.
 They informed me-" continued MT Farmer, "that already enough progress has been made for scientists to know that an atomic bomb could be produced much more cheaply. They also believe that the essential scientific investigation cannot be kept secret"
 That is true" admitted the President, "but we alone possess the physical resources and organizaona skill to do what has been done Do you realize that the bomb cost us $2oOOO0O0Oo2"
 MT. Farmer replied by showing the President a copy of Dr. Irving Langmur's statement in the Wash- ington Post that Russia would surpass the United States in development of the atomic bomb. Truman said he was familiar with Langmuir's statement.
 Then, MT. President, what 1t amounts to is this" emphasized Farmer. "The armament race is on. Is that right?"
 "Yes" acknowledged the President, but think we will stay ahead"
 "Of course I am not a scientist" continued Farmer land you of course, not scientist either You naturally relying on the advice of someone else Wll you tell me whose advice you are relying upon2"
 "vannevar Rush." replied Truman referring to the head of the National Research Defense Commit tee
 The President went to say that world govern ment was only theory and that the United States was about the only nation, with the exception of Great Britain plus France and Belgium before the war; where individuals enjoyed any freedom. The vast populations of India he sad together with the 400 900 people of China are not capable of as- stunning the responsibilities of world government. Tn Russia he added there is no individual freedom.
 Maybe we get world government in thousand years so," concluded the President.
 His Tennessee visitor was not so pessinistic He pointed out that just before the Declaration of 1nde pendence was signed few people in America ever Thomas Jeffersons letters predicting that it would take 200 years for civilization to reach the Mississippi river and 500 years for it to reach the Pacific Coast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
By .BiI Cunningham

his proof. If he's got that, he's got something but until then
 It's further charged that MacArthur announced the ends of campaigns before they really were ended that Americans were fighting and dying for weeks after he'd told the world certain occupations were completed The great injustice in this, his critics even giving their veS in such aftermath action, are deprived of battle awards and rewards because such fighting, officially, didn't exist.
 We'll that's Q matter that can be easily remedied, and no doubt will be remedied by the War Depart rnent or Congressional action. Nobody wants to rob anybody of credit that's due him. but look At the other and bigger side of It. MacArthur was trying to strike fear and Encouragement into the hearts of the Japs to give them comfort, and no reason to hold with the fact that their men were losing every fight and losing them in days instead of weeks, months instead Of years, that the Americans were indom. itable and were closing in their home islands like . hurricane despite every outpost attempt to hold them.
 They're still shooting 1t out with an occasional NaN or two or three of them, in the BavAElan hills. should we have waited until the last kraut was croaked before saying we'd whipped the Qermans9 MacArthur's premature announcements" may have saved us thousands if not hundreds of thousands Of lives.
 MacArthurs had "a bad presS because first of all he was considered strong Republican possibility to defeat Mr. Roosevelt in the last Presidential eec- ton The political smear agents started his trouble sundry syndicated columnists suddenly yanked away from the keyholes, mems rooms and night club bab- boons of both sexes that had been their sources and celebrities before the nation became interested in
 more serious things, transferred their technique to Washington and the war, and blossoned suddenly forth as pund1tS strategsts, insiders and lowadown- CTS These psmires began tc climb up the leg Of the generals horse and managed to cling for occasion- al minute as high as fetock. They helped. Like Patton, he WIS easy picking.
 Nuts to all of 'em. The man won his war, didn't he? He brought Hirohto in with his hat in hs hand, didn't her What have you got to be to deserve the gratitude Of peope7 No. more, % faF as this cltisen 6 concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
The Absent Senator

Right the country and the world seem to be in somewhat of We could all the good brains in public life that fnd and that goes for the Senate But there is needessly vacant in that historic chamber.
 It is reserved for Senator A. B. (Happy) Chandler. But Senator Chandler to be senator in name only He still has his desk and his office, and his $0000a year salary But Happy doesn't live there any He is basebas High Commissioner, at salary of around $5O00O year It's good job and presume he's done well in the several months that he's held it. But why waste the taxpayers money senator who isn't there?
 We've said it before, but the picture of High Com missioner Chandler throwing out the first ball at the World Series mpels to say it again. Resign, Happy, resignl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20

most or the FaCIfic, and every two-bit Richard Harding Davis who saw a Pacific censor's pencil laid across the Splendor of his deathless prose Is now informing his public that MacArthur was just a grandiloquent publicity hound, shooting always ct the headlines as much as at the Jap aneSe.
 I wasn't a war correspondent, but I am an American citizen, and, as such, I, for one, am etern-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
PERSONAL QUESTION

Whenever I'm not up to snuff, I wait. I do not take the stuff That makes good health a happy fact
 When coursing my digestive tract. If dandruff Snows upon my head, I do not rush to oils; instead,
 Unsantiarily I hatch
 And carry out a plan to scratch. I'm sure I'm lurking in the sums Of Fate; never brush my gums, However urgent is the need. I don't because I find they bleed. With many items good for me
 I adamantly disagree.
 For liver, lights and hearts and spleen,
 I never follow routine. Alas that my besetting sin Is the avoided vitamin! I sometimes wonder, as thrive However have kept alive.
 The WLB is clearing the decks for orderly liquidation" by the mid- de of December. Future students of miSnomers will wonder why the War Labor Board waited for q labor war as the signal for lowing out.
 In spite of a food shortage and the imminence of winter weather, Germans in the American zone of occupation are still slow about go- ing to work. Maybe we're going a little too fast with that process of educating them to democratic ways.
 The Navy has announced reduc- tions in point scores to speed up discharges. Maybe the admirals should make haste slowly; it's going to be little tougher to sell would- be recruits, in the years ahead, on the proposition of joining the Navy and seeing what's left of the world.
 President Trlman's request for authority to reorganize the Govern ment is meeting 8 cold shoulder in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has cut the proposed author ity to half-loaf size, according to word from Washington. The cash in value of MT. R0Osevelt's policies is still pretty low.
 The GIs who married British girls are having their trouble carrying out an old, established custom. The Atlantic is 8 pretty broad thresh- hold to carry them over.
 General Eisenhower says the German Communists now dominate the city government in Berlin. May be if he'd s""atch the Tartar, he'd find Russian. 4,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20

Senator vandenberg calls particular attention to the necessity for Congressional action preceding any con- elusive determination of the American position respecting either the development use, control of atomic energy Everybody in the National Government is anxious to keep the secret But at the time the best informed who actually produced the bomb believe that it is
 secret that cannot be kept for the specific that other nations can work out independent formulas of kheir Qwn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20

next year and to restore 1t as the nations showplace.
 Maintenance and repairs of the national shrineS and nnemori- als were drastically curtailed during the war. As result the weather and pigeons have made eyesores out of otherwise beauti- full buildings And monuments. Some of the restoration has al- ready begun.
 For the first time since the war the White House now can literally be called A white house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20

definitely drowned on Q world peace organization such as that proposed by ex-Justice Owen D. Roberts, and admitted quite frank iy that a new armament race was already started.
 Farmer, who has been an in- tensive promoter of international goodwill, called to urge Truman to go beyond the limited scope of the United Nations, cut out in- tense nationalism, and put the atom bomb ir the hands of an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20

It's getting a coat of dazzling white paint the gar- dens are being repanted and the fountains are turned on. One of the big mysteries of the White House gardens however, is the disappearance of a shipment of tulip bulbs. They supposed to have arrived weeks ago. gift from the Netherlands gov- ernnent. Investigation has failed to locate them.
 The Washington Monument needs most atten- tion The 098.step stairway to the top Is filthy. The memorial plaques and stones that line 1t covered with dust and grime. It also needs new elevator The present elevator perfectly safe but 1t only at half-speed It can't get the increasing number of visitors to the top during the hours the monument is open
 The Lincoln Memorial has stood up pretty well Only minor repairs needed. But the trouble that has plagued caretakers since 1t built tinues to bother them. The Memorial has Q small flood every morning When the sun comes out, 1t warns the air The marble walls inside don't get the sun and don't warm as fast the air This causes condensation If resulting water was not mopped up early visitors would get very soggy shoes.
 It is known by only few persons, but the Lin- coin Memorial was built with an elaborate heating
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-20
& Years Ago

A demonstration of the hand hoist was being given by a local manufacturer, Franklyn Smithes, who claimed that its simple opera ton was easily made possible even to member of the so-called weak CT sex"