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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10
Daily Prayer
A PRAYER FOR CoMRADEsH1p

In the brotherhood of battle our
men are learning new lessons Of
comradeship and cooperation; and
we, O Lord, would share their ex-
perience. Quicken our interest IN
our fellow men our nelghbors,
and our chance-met acquaintance.
Make strong in our spirits the ba-
sic human ties. Help us to realize
the unity Of human brotherhood.
Deliver us, we pray, from all pride
and suspicion and criticism and
other unloveliness. May we con-
front these difficult days in the
spirit of our Comrade, Christ, who
walked through His time friend
to all except those who were foes
OF Thine. Vivify our understanding,
that we may appreciate OUR broth
er man at his best. Fill our hearts
with love and our hands with help
fulnss, in obedience to our Saw
ours command to love one anoth-
er. Amen.-W.T.E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10
The Literary Guidepost

comfort to him; she knows ne
is tired not only of the tiredness
of the body.
1t is for the reason of prapa.
ganda by the Tedeschi that Mayor
LaGuardia enters this story
There has been a madness in
Italy. The son of uncle Gennaro
was afflicted by it; ne was of poll.
tics, but not so Gennaro.
Awake" said other Italians to
Ricardo, once a tenente himself.
"the war is ended for you" But
would he? He would not. ALWAYS
had he been of evil.
1t is ali of a romantic ending
that is beyond belief. But tae
ending is of distance beyond
the beginning that will be too
vast for most Americans.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10
UNANIMOUS!

The House Committee on the Judiciary No
l yesterday rendered real service to the
State and acted in manner most creditable
to the members of the committee by report
ing unfavorably, without dissenting voice,
the two bills before it to loosen still further
the already too loose North Carolina divorce
from two years to one, and by offering easy
divorce to military personnel stationed in
the State for six months
Earlier in the week representatives of all
religious faiths and civic organizations had
made an impressive showing before the com
mittee against the bills.
These proposals should not be heard Of
again in this or any succeeding General AS,
sembly. On the other hand, members OF the
General Assembly should consult with Super
or Court judges, who have more intimate
knowledge of the divorce question than any
other citizens and should draft bill which
will strengthen the divorce laws.-The Raj
egh News and Observer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10
StraWs In the Wind

Representative LeGrands proposal to ex
empt sums paid on federal income tax from
state income tax payments didn't get any
where, was forecast, but there is some
recognition of the principle. Four changes IN
the states tax laws have been favorably ap.
proved by the Assemblys joint committee
OF finance. Two of them are for exemptions
from state income tax. One allows 5000 exemp.
ton for a dependent regularly enrolled for
fulltime study in college of other institution.
The other allows for medical care expense
deduction, for illness of accident or funeral
expenses.
Some day the Assembly will kill the tax on
a tax. The state collects income tax on in
come that the taxpayer never Sees never
has and which he never spends, saves or
throws away. That is the federal income tax
1t is withheld; the wage Garner never sees
it. 1t is not income. 1t never comes in.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. sJ5pso,.
Associated Press W sun

Associated Press War soN
line Inc Brit BI:ltish-reinforced t csaes'.
fried Line defenses -, st;nl5 Sisg,
tn taat no General Eisenhower is mop a99.
t tHe cer1 partially checkmatee5S Of .:
cember. 'se IN De-,
1t It still is too early. howsv., .
even German staff experts ,S :, so'
thrust off to a good starr r@n az
NORTH nc tn or he combined ops = m ne
OF the American Frs e Operations
Armies, working their wsy " - o@:a
neaowaters of the Roer and y ~, IN
rivers to the south, constj+y lr V1t
nam nam front of the Allied '' gs,. ne
Both could be prelimins~ri.~s 'ys
greater 8; blows in the cen+ q, les S.s y:
the American Ninth Army AND ~"s e.
British Second Army lie ., ono he
west banks Of the Roer 'I anJ he
Mas, already deep within ,ba !, ne
tifications of the siegfried DE ,o',
wall. ue1eASe
If the Canadian drive is "
dlversionary attack to draw r gaA
man reserves northward i W.
ready achieving that purno, - d.
some extent. Allied air Scout, H., .
port heavy enemy troop mor.
ments behind the lines 70 ''' "
Kleve sector i'll which the r.r VIZ
dams are attacking. A stages a',
toll OF wrecked Nazi motori,a3
equipment and rail vehicles ~.'
reported by Allied fliers. Ars sS
air power was thrown into cnvs'
age action on the Canadian fra,t
to supplement and extend the mn,
ing field gun barrage BLASTING o-.
route of advance for groprd
troops. 1-'n
1t seems obvious in view Of well
confirmed reports Of heavy Ger.
man Withdrawals on the Wet
Front to back up the Oder line
n the east, tottering under Rms,
sian blows, that only by thinnjg,
|out reserves on the Roer and Ne
Mas could troops be found quick;
Ily enough to prevent a decisive
canadian break-through. It is ais,
highly significant that the Cana.
dams went into action lust al
American forces well to the south
were closing in on the last and
biggest Roer reservoir and il,
dam.
So long as any of the major
dams impounding flood waters a,
the head of the Roer or the Ur,
remain in enemy hands, they Of.
fer a grave threat to attempts
farther north by the Ninth Army
or British Second Army to cross
the Roer or the Mas in force.
Floods released by blown dam,
could wash out Allied attacks in
the center of the line in a twink.
ling, preventing their renewal IN.
til the run-off was over at least
The crests would reach Roermond,
where the Roer enters the Mas,
only a few hours after the dam
went down.
On the Canadian front southeas:
of Nijmegen in the Rhine benz .oy.
ner of Holland, such floods offer 10
serious obstacle. Flood waters
would have lost much of their me.
mace and be largely dissipated via
Dutch canal systems by the time
they reached SO far north. That
fact made the German hold on
the Roer dams immaterial and
probably accounted for the fact
that the Canadians were selected
to make the second but probabl?
not the final move in the deadly
chess game Eisenhower has open
ed against the last German defeni'
es guarding the Rhine,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10

known overseas; they are people
who write to tell me their sons are
dead: they are people who want
help in something they're doing for
the war; people who have a part
in this pattern of war that has
grown up around me.
Yes, 80 per cent of the destruc-
ton of my private life is from
pure goodness and sincerity in peo-
pie, and from unavoidable duties
that have become as much a part
of my job as the job itself.
l have never aspired to be IA
nous. If l had, then I could say
to myself "All right brother, you
made your own bed, so now lie in
it."
But this thing just happened 1t
came without planning or aspira-
ton. 1 guess it comes in the cate
CORY of an Act of God, like a
blizzard or slipping on a banana
peel.
You have to adjust yourself to
this new condition, or else you're
lost. You can't fight it, you can't
ignore it, you can't run away from
it. You've got to accept it. 1 do
accept it as graciously as l can,
but feel sad about it.
l feel sad because it has given
me the big things of life, and taken
away the precious little things.
1t has given me money, yet
dread to hear the telephone ring.
1t has brought me measure
Of renown, yet made me afraid to
go into restaurant because peo-
pie whisper and stare, and feel
Self-cOnSciO11S.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10
Hearing On Local Firms
In OPA Charges Delayed

RALEIGH, Feb. 9.-CR-Hssa+,
ings before U. S. District 'a@ -
johnson j. Hayes of Temporal!
straining orders against four 0I ,J
boro and four Wilmington - ~:
sellers from violating OPA ce 5..,
prices, will be heard at la'e, I npl
the Raleigh district office o. "
announced tonight. r,;,,.
Originally scheduled at H ina
beth City this week, the hea-I ~!
were postponed and shifted TO w.
eigh. ~,
OPA seeks recovery in dame Dame:
claims of $50, 500 following chs 5.ssi
that the eight food sellers Vlo-9'
OPA selling prices.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10

Giving the news out, when it is news, woulo
stimulate the morale of the folks at hom1
They want to know what is going on and they
are entitled to it.-Adml. Harry f.. Yarneh'
retired, foHner Asiatic Fleet chief.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10

No doubt the Hitler gangsters would like to
fight to the last German-Under Secretary Of
War Robert P. Patterson. =
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10

There are $4,000 barn o"H :.
England and Wales, accoraIAa
estimates.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-10

Chinas postwar policy may we'll be summed
up IN one phrase-that is to build up strong
democracy through national reconstruction
That primarily involves industrializaton e
the country with the object of raising the
standard of living of the people.-Dr. Choh-
Ming Ii, Chinese Breton Woods delegate
All Americans should support our men to
the utmost, which means also to stop worcy
| sniping at our Allies. Even the worst blunders
made by any Of the Allied nations fade into
relative insignificance when compared with
the conduct Of our enernies.-Vice President
Harry S. Truman
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
TAX EXEMPTIONS
EXPLAINED

In response to numerous inqui.
ries arising from new provisions
of the individual income tax law
relating to exemptions for hus-
bands, and wives, and the income OF
minors, Joseph ID. Nunan, DR.,
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue.
made the following statement to-
day:
Husband and Wife Exemptions
The new law requires that if a
husband and wife file separate re-
turns, each must take his own ex-
emptions OH his or her owr return.
Both exemptions can be claimed on
the same return only If (a) they
file a joint return, or (b) if one of
them had no taxable income and
was not the dependent of another
taxpayer. In applying this rule to
wives of men in the armed forces,
it should be borne in mind that the
tax laws exempt and disregard the
first $1,000 Of active service pay
received each year by a member of
| the armed forces. The result is that
most members of the armed forces
have no taxable income, in which
case their exemptions can be
claimed by their wives.
"Income of Minors The new
law provides that the earnings of
children shall be considered to be-
long to the children, and not to
their parents, for purposes of the
federal income tax. AS result,
minors who had $500 or more in
come last year must file income
tax returns the same as adults.
Therefore, parents need no longer
include in their own income tax re-
turns the earnings of their child
rem.
Tncome under $500 : Persons
whose income last year was less
than $500 are not required to file
income tax returns, but frequently
will find it advisable to file. In the
case of single person who has
less than $500 income from which
tax was withheld, the filing of a
return will bring a refund of the
tax which was withheld. In the
case of a married person who had
less than $500 income, whether or
not any tax was withheld from it,
the person should file a joint oil
combined return with her husband
| Tor his wife) SO as to get the full
benefit of their exemptions"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
The Price Of War

THE latest figures on American
combat casualties, since the
beginning of the war, show that
they have reached 764,584, with
those killed NUMBERING 163,458
The number of Americans, now
held as prisoners of war, is
63,359 and ,349 are included
in the category missing" Some
Of this latter group win be To-
Gated, others are undoubtedly
prisoners and some of them have
been unfortunately killed.
Secretary Stimson also reports
that there are now 959,2S8 pris-
oners of war held at camps in
this country, including 3O5, 1867
Germans, 5O,551 Italians and
2,820 Japanese. He reiteiNtes
that there is mo pannpering" Of
prisoners Of war. It is unneces-
sary To add that there is no bitn-
tally practiced against them.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
CIVILIANS AT WAR

The Government needs and asks
its citizens in this 168th week of
the war to:
/. Hold series "A"bonds (the
"baby bonds" that went on sale in
1880 and reinvest the proceeds
when they, begin maturing March
LIST. War Bonds offer the same in
terest = 81 for every So invested.
2. Look for dollar-and-eents price
ceilings posted in your shoe repair
shop. Such services are now under
oPA price control.
3. Place specific orders now for
fertilizers and insecticides for
farms and Victory gardens. Trans
portation and manpower shortages
may seriously delay deliveries.
4. Use V-Mail and help share
overseas cargo space. Shipments of
whole blood and typhus vaccine
urgently need the plane facilities
V-Mail will save.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
Lend-Lease Pays
Dividends
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand

AUSTRALIA and New Zealand
are now providing ninety
per cent Of the food for Ameri-
can forces in the South and Cen
trail Pacific, declares Oscar Cox,
General Counsel for the Lend
Lease Administration, who points
out that, for the first time since
the war began, supplies from
these countries now exceed u. S.
Lend-Lease shipments to them.
5, This is an interesting state
ment because the delivery Of food
supplies by Australia and New
Zealand eases the shipping prob
lem and thus serves the cause of
the United Nations everywhere.
Even if the nation did not re-
ceive supplies through reverse
Lend-Lease the war effort of the
United States has been greatly
simplified by the PRONUNCIATION of
that policy. Certainly the sup
plies which we have sent TO the
Soviet Government, assisting the
Red Army in carrying its often
sive sweep against the Germans,
have served the war purposes Of
the United States and, in addi-
ton, saved the lives of thousands
of American fighting men.
Obviously, the cheapest way to
fight a war, so, far as human life
is concerned, is to provide equip
ment, weapons and supplies to
other nations and let their armies
fight the battles. While this is
not the policy of the United
States, which is making it's full
contribution to the war in fight
ing men, it is the way Lend
Lease has worked.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
1900 Miles An Hour

THE PREDICTION that air
craft will travel 1000 ito 1900
miles per hour, within the next
ten or fifteen years., comes from
Peyton Magruder, who designed
the BIG Marauder medium
bomber.
The engineer points out that
the German We goes much fast
er than fifteen hundred miles per
hour and travels sixty miles
high. He is confident that tech
nical difficulties will be licked
and asks "what would prevent
you from putting passengers in
il and sending them off on a
trip"
We have no answer. Such
speed through the air win event
ually arrive and it will be dis
covered that the human body is
constructed to stake it."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
Mail To Men Overseas

ANSWERING complaints from
troops and folks at home that
parcels sent overseas are not de-
livered, the Army says that the
Zig trouble is that the packages
are not wrapped up properly,
being put into light containers
or no containers at all.
The military does not deny
that some packages are lost
through pilfering, but reports an
Investigation which showed that
only a fraction of one per cent
Of mail has been lost through
theft. Practically all Of this
occurs at terminal transfer points
outside the United States.
Correspondents and officials
seem to agree that one of the
best morale boosters is the re-
ceipt of mail from home by serv-
ices.men overseas. This factor
seems to be appreciated by the
folks at home, who have flooded
the mails with letters and pack
ages for their boys abroad.
We hear numerous complaints
from individuals on the home
front as to the irwegularity of
mail from overseas. Relatives
whip fail to hear from men abroad
attribute it to faulty mail serv-
ice. When they get letters from
their men, as they often do, say
ing that the serviceman has not
received letters and packages
from here, this is likewise at
tributed to failure of the Army
or Navy postal service.
The question is of considera-
able interest, both to men on the
fighting fronts, on land and sea,
and to their loved ones at home.
Anxiety and disappointment are
not relieved by difficulties that
sensible people know make inn
possible prompter service.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
. NOkZNC
y AAE4D
sy GEORGE S. BENSON
Hssfaest5 }anslag folzeye
SeaAgE slrkalEsas
Labor's Lever

Americas 80 million non-farm en-
ployees last year drew about 80 bill
hon dollars in their pay envelopes
--three-fifths of our national income.
These people have power to make
their country prosperous or plunge
1t into chaos. They hold the lever
and the best thing they can ever do
for this nation is to act for their
own best interests, seriously.
American workers will not toll for
Q few cents a day like Japs; they
must not. Lowering Labor's living
standards always damages Ameri-
can prosperity by just that much.
lndustry's only hope to compete in
all markets, at home and abroad, Is
on a basis Of manufacturing efficien-
cy Producing more marketable
merchandise per worker per day
spells prosperity to employer and
employee both.
Making Jobs Pay
Last week in this column l showed
how employment might be put at
a safe, economic level after the
war. Briefly the achievement will
cost industry about $4,000 per job
plus some good, sound planning.
But this will be only a start. The
jobs themselves must pay good
wages and interest on investment.
Otherwise they will be temporary
jobs, not worth providing, not worth
accepting. Only secure jobs are good
jobs.
Cheap foreign labor has long been
a challenge to American efficiency.
There was a time when American
workers felt directly the competition
Of immigrants glad to work for less
than an Americans living wage. The
world was at peace then and iinmi-
grafton easy. Those conditions have
changed, but cheap foreign labor
still exists and it constitutes q Sc
rious threat.
Indirect Competition
Aliens may never under-bid Amer
lean citizens for work on u. S. soil
again; their competition will be in
direct. The hazard is that European
and Asiatic manufacturers win use
their cheap help to initiate Ameri-
can goods and then sell the rubbish
in America and elsewhere. Such a
degrading of world markets will
mean less business for American
plants and fewer jobs for American
workers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
$4,000 Tons A Month
By Air!

THE OPENING of highway
to China, will, no doubt, ia
cilitate the delivery Of war sup
plies to the embattled Chinese
armies but few Americans appre-
ciate the extent of the assistance
given the Chinese by air trans
ports.
Brighten. William II. Turner
reports that the Air Transport
Command carried $4,000 tons Of
war materials from India to
China during January. This was
double the tonnage carried by the
old Burma road at its peak. He
says that a China-bound plane
crossed the mountainous hump
every two and a half minutes,
twenty-four hours a day, during
the month.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
What About The
Mikado?

WHILE there is general agree
ment that Adolf Hitler should
be brought to trial as a war
criminal, there is no such gen.
eral application of the same pol
cy to the leaders of the Japa-
nese war effort.
The Chinese delegation to the
World Trade Union Congress,
now meeting in London, insists
that the Emperor of Japan be
tried as ''the real leader of Jap
anese aggression" The Chinese
spokesman says that "the whole
system Of Mikado must be routed
out"
For some reason, the United
States has been treading lightly
upon the Mikado, with many of
our publicists suggesting that,
since the Japanese practically
worship their Emperor as a God,
it is the wisest course to pursue.
There is difference of opinion.
Some Americans think that the
best way to make the Japanese
realize this country and other
Western powers mean business
would be to subject the Mikado
to the same rules that presum-
ably viii apply to Adolf Hitler.
1t may be that such treatment
of the Japanese God Emperor
will shock the peoples of Japan
but it is probable that such a
shock is what the Japanese need.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY %, 1915.

thinks that there will be helter-
SHELTER rush to be the first ITO
reconvert" and the first to get
peace-time jobs.
This is danger that should
be apparent in view of the ex.
perience of the nation last sum-
mer when industrial leaders
clamored for reconversion and
some laborers left high-paying
war production jobs to get work
in what they considered would
be peace-time employment.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-02-22

The Cuppers are about the hap
piest married couple in our
town. Comfortable off, too, after
Dee's fifty years of honest work.
But their two most priced pos
sessions are an old beer mug and
an 1890 Floradora hat.
When they were first married,
Dee allows he couldn't stand the
hat; while Jane turned her nose
up privately at Dee's fondness
for a friendly glass of beer from
time to time. But each figured it
was the others right :. SO they
lived and let live.
And as time went by, they