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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11

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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY W. G. ROGERS

BY W. G.. ROGERS
THE MEETING OF EAST AND
WEST: AN INQUIRY CON
CORNING WORLD, UNDER
STANDING, by F. S. c. North
rop Macmillan; S6.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
CPA Committee Needed

Because commercial building was
brought to a practical standstill by
the Civilian Production Administra-
TONS broad order that the nations
housing shortage, particularly for vet
Grams, should be met first, the Whining
ton Chamber of Commences effort to
have a CPA district construction COM
mittee set up this week to recommend
specific needs is a truly constructive
step. Too many commercial building
projects have been halted, particularly
as there has been no housing construc-
ton started commensurate with this
loss. The result is that the building
trade, including dealers in materials and
workers, is suffering a heavy loss.
Such a committee as the chamber
contemplates can be of material as
sistance in presenting the local con-
struction picture clearly before the
Washington authorities, with hope of
changing the program and securing re-
lease of necessary materials for the
industrial and business expansion
already started or about to start when
the building ban was issued.
When the committee is at work, it
is to be hoped that it will recommend
the construction not only of exclusive
ly industrial and commercial building,
but of standard apartments and hotel
apartments, for the accommodation of
residents who have long put up with
unsatisfactory living quarters and can
not be content in public housing prof
ects where vacancies exist.
There is local capital available for
this type of building as soon as the
CPA lifts the ban on materials, and
hundreds of Wilnfngtonians are ready
to move in as soon as the painters
move out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
A

More than once the cause OF peace has been
betrayed by it's friends. This is what may be
happening now if we 90 not bring to the
strategy of peace the study and hard work we
bro,oht to the strategy of war. DR.. James
r Shotwel, Carnegie Endowment for Inter.
national Peace.
If the principle of the bla ckout in science
shall prevail in war and in peace. science be-
comes not an instrument of understandina h"-+
an instrument of additional suspicion and fear
- DR.. Anton j. Carlson, ex-president Ameri.
can Association FOR the Advancement Of
Science. VI
This country was built I'D on e.noh1ina
speculation. There is nothing wrona nr;th ano
EDWARD \. Carr, president Home Builders A.
soc'a"0n Oh Metropolitan Washington, D. c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

munity is too great to warrant such a
course.
Among organizations coveting it's
use, if not actual ownership, are the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. The City
Recreation Department also looks at it
with longing in it's eyes. Also is would
make a fine "armcry" for underprivileg-
ed girls, for whom no major project
is under way. Then, too, the Y. W..
C. A., which is in .cramped quarters,
could greatly expand it's activities there.
There are so many undertakings
for which it is admirably adapted, the
Council, which must take over for the
present, will be hard pressed to de-
termine which is best.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Adios, USO

For the first time since it was built
the Second and Orange USO is closed.
It is the last Of the units which operat-
ed in Wilmington throughout the war
period for the comfort and convenience
of the enlisted personnel. How great
a part it played in entertaining service
men will never be fully known, but
when Camp Davis was pouring ten and
twenty thousand uniformed men into
the city for week-ends it's popularity
was never in doubt. They swarmed
through it's doors for dances, lectures.
picture shows, concerts, or to read and
write letters. Now it's work is finished.
To what use it is to be put is an
unsolved problem. The city owns the
land and the adjoining lot. The gov
eminent owns the building. 1t is re-
ported that the City Council is unpre-
pared to meet the price at which the
building is held. Certainly the govern
ment, which has no further use for it,
will not continue to hold it at such a
high price that it must remain closed
indefinitely. Its value to the COM
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
"Made In Japan"

Shortly after Pearl Harbor a Will
mington civic club was holding an es>
pecially festive affair with patriotism
the keynote. Naturally quantities of
American flags in miniature were dis
played on all tables and in most hands.
Then somebody discovered a tiny label
on n saying made in Japan"
Not so long afterwards the annual
campaign was launched for China re-
lief funds. One medium for catching
stray dimes was piggy banks, in stores
and restaurants. They filled rapidly, for
emma was in sore straits and Whining
ton people are sympathetic and liberal.
One donor, after dropping his dime
IN one, picked the bank up to guess
the amount of money in it and let it
fall. 1t lit on it's back and there it
was again-Made in Japan-in plain
printing on the pigs tummy.
AS the war in the Pacific grew hot
Ter the miscellaneous things we had
been buying with the same inscription
became n with the dodo bird. We
have even heard of fine Chinaware from
Japan being destroyed.
The point to all this is that with con-
sent of Allied Headquarters in Tokyo
some three tons of sample items, "from
bathtub toys and Christmas tree orna-
ments to ivory carvings" are soon to
be shipped to this country-all dis
playing the old lakeland offered for
sale in American stores.
Proceeds from the sales, says ar
Associated Press dispatch from Tokyo
will be placed in a fund against which
Japan may draw for purchasing fooe
and materials in this country.
How easy it is to forget!
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Mihailovic Fored0omed

IL "oI1d u Y ~
knowing the details of the Chetnik
leader, Mihailovic's, career, but it is
not to be forgotten that when Hitler
was sweeping through the Balkins and
carrying all before him, in his deter
mination to conquer Europe, overrun
the Middle East and ultimately shake
|Hirohito's hand in India, it was Mihai-
lovic, commanding guerrilla forces in
the Yugoslav highlands, that immobi-
lized up to twenty-five divisions of Nazi
troops which the fuehrer needed to
carry out his program.
It was not until the Yugoslav COM
munists, organized from Moscow under
Tito, Stains man, and engaged the
Chetniks in civil war, that rumors be-
gan to spread that Mihailovic was
collaborating with the Nazis. Now, be-
cause of Russia's assistance and be-
cause Moscow has every intention of
dominating southeastern Europe,
Mihailovic is brought to trial for
treason and so far as can be estimated
is prejudged and condemned.
That the trial is one-sided is clearly
evidenced by the courts refusal to al
low American airmen and officers who
served on Mihailovic's staff to testify.
The proceedings are so similar to the
methods used before the war to purge
the Russian army and Civil government
of alleged traitors, it is impossible to
assume the trial will follow a different
course.
Mihailovic is doomed - has been
doomed from the start-and there is
nothing we can do about it as Russia
has no conception of what constitutes
a fair trial as defined by the common
law of the Western world.
The question is how long Russia
is to be permitted to rule beyond her
borders with a despotism outstripping
Germany's while Hitler was at his
worst. The Mihailovic trial is but one
more sign that Russia and the Allies
that gave Russia the strength to turn
Hitler back from the gates of Moscow
and the foothills of the Caucasus can
not hope to find a common ground for
peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Lotteries Were Used In The Old Days
To Finance Educatio nal Institutions

sentiment and progressive spirit,
which, through State administra-
ton and public taxes, now provide
fine schools for their children.
Another lottery described in
the papers in full detail was
carried out by the State of Mary
land, to build a canal in the city
of Washington, the cost approx
mating $50, 900.
"a port item carried in the
Herald says that The brig Alexis,
Capt. Allison, arrived here on Mon
day last, is 40 days from Green
ock. There came passengers, about
forty Highlanders, all in good
health
THE business mar of 1896 had
his troubles and worries following
inability to collect accounts, just
as befalls the lot of the merchant
of 1916, M hundred and fifty
years later. The phrasing of the
following advertisement, while
stilted and altogether foreign to
modern expression, nevertheless
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
BY JOHN SKIES

Continuing Mr.. Moore's account
of the rather ancient newspapers
he owns. Incidentally, he keeps
these in his safety deposit vault,
a precaution for which l do not
blame him.
Mr.. Moore:
The present generation will
probably be astonished somewhat
to learn that lotteries, now legally
prohibited, were used in those an
Gent times to accumulate funds
for various purposes, such as
building canals, schools, etc.
"One of the lotteries was en-.
titled-'Smithville Mow South.
porD Lottery No. One. Authorized
by Act of the Assembly to enable
the Trustees of Smithville Acad-
envy to raise the sum of seven
thousand dollars for the promotion
of Learning in the County of Bruins
wick
THE scheme of the lottery is
outlined, showing the procedure
followed in the sale of tickets,
allotment of prizes, etc. Then fol
lows a paragraph which says-'The
drawing of the lottery is contem-
plated to commence in Wilmington
during the sitting of the ensuing
Superior Court, or thereafter as
the sale of tickets will permit
with the following argument as to
why the lottery ticket sale should
be generously supported
The great inconvenience which
the Citizens of Brunswick County
and the District Generally expert
ence from the want of a proper
Seminary of Learning, and the
purposes of education, will it is
hoped, stimulate them to lend their
fostering protection to an Institu'
ton SO highly important to the
Welfare and Happiness of a free
and independent State Citizens
of the splendid town Of Southport
and the fine county Of Brunswick
now will probably smile with
amusement over the foregoing
record. They can well dismiss it
as of a bygone day-no longer
needed-in view of an enlightened
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Nick enney On
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

There may be better bridge
games than those at the New York
Athletic club, but none more spirit
ed. One of the boys who play there
is John Whitney Richmond, dep
uty manager of the Treasury's
Departments New York office of
the War Finance Committee. Re-
Gently he Was seeking continued
cooperation of the American Con-
tract Bridge league on sale of U.
s.. Savings bonds, and at the same
time he gave me today's hand,
which he said broke up the game
at the club the other night.
zRlchmond (South) trumped the
opening spade lead with the nine
OF hearts, cashed the ace and led
the jack. When West went into a
huddle and finally played the six,
Richmond let it ride, then picked
up the last heart with the king.
He remembered, he said, my
often repeated theory, When in
doubt, play the queen over the
jack" I myself might have hest
tated to follow the theory this
time, as Vests three-spade bid
could have indicated a short heart
suit.
The diamond suit was still a
problem. When the queen was
led, East refused to cover, real
izing that declarer must have at
least the ace-jack to go to seven.
John let it ride, and when the club
suit broke, it was the end of the
hand-and the end of the game.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Doctor Says
RESERVE ORGANS
HELP MEET CRISES
BY WILLIAM A.. O'Brjer

Prisoners who survived cootfo.
ment in concentration cams
der conditions which Womb
ordinary men to falter and dras
by the wayside had that ras aUp
power which, for want of = bat..s
name, is known as the .,r;T ''9F
live" The body also is for,i+. %
physically by extra organ str,o+naa
which can be called on in finn.
need. This reserve CORRESPONDS "
the factors CT safety which Nv
built into engines and bridges ~
meet unusual stress or strain "
cording to the Journal NJ a..
American Medical Association.
Paired organs Gidneys lvn,,
eyes, ears etc. represent excs..
of tissue COR safety purposes sns
for greater efficiency. 1t is M.
sible to get along with u org.r
of a pair.)
Three : fourths of all kidney ti,.
sue can be destroyed before diff
Guilty is experienced. If a kidnan
is removed in early life the onno
site kidney enlarges, and If tba
operation is performed in latsr
life, the remaining kidney develon,
a more efficient manner of lisina
its available structures.
When the gallbladder is "a.
moved, the bile ducts from tbs
liver can enlarge and act az
reservoir for the bile, replacing
the gallbladder. whose main fjrr'
tion is storing bile and concentrat.
ing it for future use, MANY AMI.
mails do not have a gallbladder
and it is not an organ essential
for life.
The spleen is a part Of a general
system of the body in which idpn.
teal tissues are found in the bone
marrow and lymph modes. The
spleen can be removed because of
disease or injury and the indiyid.
ual will not suffer any loss, as the
other tissues in the body which
perform the same function then
take over.
The heart has great reserve
power. At enc time it was be-
lieved that circulation through The
heart muscle (coronary arteries
was not connected through the
various branches of the system.
The recovery of patients who de-
velop clots in the circulation (cor-
onary thrombosis is bought
about by the better utilization Of
existing, or development of new.
channels.
The heart also has the power to
become stronger in athletes, and
larger and heaviers in persons SUI
fering with high blood pressure.
thus meeting the demands Of the
body.
Certain cells in the body have
great capacity 10 develop new
cells. The liver cells grow like
wildfire when a portion of the
liver is destroyed. The outer skin
cells develop from the base in re-
spouse to routine loss Of tie sur
face or destruction following in
juries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

carries with it an appeal, since il
portrays the financial reverses
that caused this particular man
to retire from business or to make
an honorable retreat as he So
aptly phrases it
Saddle and Harness Making
George Reed respectfully informs
the Public that he intends de-
clining business in the course of
the summer, on account of the
many difficulties he is obliged to
encounter occasioned by backward
payments. He cannot pass over in
silence the gratitude he owes to
those whose punctuality has
hitherto been his support; and as
sures them that he shall not relax
in his endeavors to please, during
the short time he may continue in
business. Having no other object
to detain him but that of collect
ing what monies are due to him,
in order to be enabled to make an
honorable retreat, he trusts that
consideration alone will operate
with those indebted to him, as a
sufficient incentive to discharge
their respective accounts
Market reports, it may be Of
interest to note, we're carried for
the information of the public in
those days of 1896, a century and
a half ago. Under the head Of
Wilmington Prices Current: Mer-
charitable Produce, quotations in
pounds, shillings, and pence are
carried on tobacco, rice, flaxseed,
flour, pork, beef, tar, pitch, tur-
pentine, bees wax, butter, tallow,
lard, bacon, lumber, shingles,
slaves, corn, peas, molasses, Mus
covado sugar, coffee, salt, and
other items These reports, of
course, could only be given week
ly, and there is no intimation as
to the %fluctuation of quotations,
due to market or supply conditions.
Probably the most expert de-
tective in the Federal Bureau of
Investigation today would have had
a hard time locating the porperty-
holder sought in the following ad-
vertlsement, as the clue given, to
say the least, is of exceedingly
scant nature
Advertisement - Charles La
Place, matchmaker, after having
left this town wrote to me re-
questing me to redeem a certain
GOLD WATCH, the property of a
person who had put it into his
hands, in order to be repaired. but
whose name he could not recol-
lect. The owner thereof NAV have
it by proving his property, and
paying expenses. Apply to P.
Mangeon.'
The third and last installment
of Mr.. Moore's account will ap-
pear in Wednesdays Star.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
Religion
THE NIGHT OF POWER"
Bv l. T.. ELLIS

Once in Damascus, and once in
St. Sophia, Constantinople, I wit
! messed the Moslem celebration OF
the Might of Power" when ten
thousand men prayed in concert.
The uniform rising and falling OF
their genuflections; the clear voice
of the leader and the thunderous
responses were unforgettable.
I am not wholly sur why this
anniversary is called the might
of Power; but l am sure that
every time of united prayer is a
time of power. Would that l
see ten thousand Christians sinful
taneously engrossed in prayer,
with equal ardor!
Yet God sees ten thousand times
ten thousand of His children in
prayer, scattered over all the
earth, speaking every language,
and revealing a myriad needs.
What an infinite God, to be able
to hear and heed and answer the
volume of prayer that is forever
rising.
We would mediate today upon
the fellowship of prayer; and upon
the company, whom no man can
number, who are necessarily cry
ing to God. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

Here's a book likely 10 sell all
of 600 or 300 copies, it is a pre-
found Investigation into the varl-
Gus philosophical systems underly'
ing rival modern states ara
though the author has wit. ne does
not make a concession anywhere
in his $50 pages to the tired DUST
nessman who works for profit anu
doesn't care to read FOR profit loo
Yet it's not surprising that this
is written in $64 words, since Il
poses $64 questions and Though IL
may not reacn a wide audience J.
is the sort OF volume capable "
changing the face Of the world
Northrop, a professor at Yale'
is the most oldfa shioned OF acau.
emicians in the sense that he r.
CARDS ideas as dynamic and para,
mount. They have made us "oa'
we are today. he says.
It's because we are too satisfied
with what they've made u.s. anu
too suspicious of what the i'e''
of other people have made tnsI.
that he digs back to then soul'''
in Aristotle, Locke Newton,
Fichte, Marx, Confucius and SO VI
to discover where we started and
how we got this way. Each peop+
has its own coed, and one does '''
necessarily exclude til e other.
Northrop's object is to find SON.
method of reconciling these s3Ps
fically hostile PHILOSOPHERS
bring together in fundamentals ne
medieval and modern, Cornn5.~
ism and Democracy, C~at7o-Tls+
and Protestantism. East and "s''
Out of Aristotelin Thomlan
came the Roman Catholic ouI,lrsi
out of Locke's mental and natef3s.
substances. Anglo = American az
mocracy and ProstestanLism' ~
of Hegel, the Kaiser's GefolI VI.
out Of Fichte plus Nietzehs' II"
Germany.
The relation between Fn .%,
mother PHILOSOPHERS and fas. ne
lures is traced brilliantly, ana wv
author suggests each has so oacs
thing it should discard ard eau
something it should presei IN.
communism, for instance IL
sistence on man as part Of a 'o'j ID.
organism and democracy .Lduat
sistenee on man as "a hdIF''"""
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18

The third and last installment
of M. Moore's account will ap-
pear in Wednesdays Star.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
TOP O. THE

Let me give raiment, shelter, food, or gold,
If these are, through Thy bounty, lii my
keeping.
But greater than such ~fIeeting treasures,
may
give my faith and hope and cheerfulness,
Belief and dreams of joy and laughter gay,
Some lonely soul to bless.
Mary Carolyn Davies
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-18
STAR Dust


Two farmers, jealous of each 9TH
er's early rising, became boastfu1
One allowed as how he got up be
fore 3 am. His rival; hoping IN
catch him in a fib, rose at two the
next morning and went to call on
his Dragging neighbor.
When the latter's wife answered
the door and asked where her h,1s-
oand was she replied: "Dunno-but
ne was around early this morn
lng.'-Journal of Education,
Candid Comment
We like a man who comes right
out and says what he thinks-when
he agrees with us.
When you buy things for a song
watch out for the accompaniment
sunshine Magazine.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-23
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHAT ABOUT THE
 SMALLER TOWNS

WTangell this week had it's first freight boat in 23 days. The North Sea arrived Tuesday evening with zOO tons of freight which was more than the normal load, but Tor weeks before it's arrival stores had been short of merchandise and fresh meat, along with some other commodities, had been some thing only to dream about.
 The matter Of lack of boat ser vice for WrangelI was discussed thoroughly yesterday noon at the Chamber of Commerce meeting. President James Nolan pointed out the tremendous lose to mer- chants, especially to grocers and hardware dealers, when articles which they could sell, and which people need and want, are lying on the dock in Seattle instead of being on the .sheYIes. As he en- phasized, it is not scarcity of items which causes the JOSS, it Is the inability of getting them ship ped up. Merchants here often re ceiVe invoices for goods, ordered six weeks previously, but the in voices beat the goous to Mrangeu by month or sometimes more A glance at boat schedules in the Juneau and Ketchikan papers Will show that they have from six rto eight boats a week. Neither town has had to go without meat CT other merchandise for any period of time for lack of boat service - except, perhaps, during times of tie-ups.
 A point was raised at the Cham Der meeting-would Wrangell and
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-08-23

lhe smaller towns warrant the business if, say, the Alaska line served us with a weekly schedule? We agree with the answer given by Jack Waters, give us the boats and we'll create the business. Leo Mccormack pointed out the hard ship suffered by logging camps which are beginning operations around Wrangell. If a part of machinery breaks down it takes
 rom three to six weeks to get a new part with only the North Sea every three weeks coming in with
 freight
 President Nolan also pointed out the congestion caused by the pre- sent set-up. Every trip of the North Sea the dock is loaded with freight. Merchants are cluttered with boxes and bales and no place to store the excess. If We had a boat week the merchant could order more frequently and keep his stock in better condition.
 Wrangen Chamber is going to put up a fight for better boat service. It is going to wire the War Shipping Administration and the heads of the Alaska Line and Northland line to ask for a boat week, at least during the busy summer season. It IS also going to wire the Petersburg, Sitka and Skagway Chambers to do the same It is up to the small towns to demand recognition and perhaps by pulling together this can be brought about. It Is to the adyan- tage of every person in every smaller Southeastern Alaska town to get behind the effort, not only for the thousands of dollars lost by lack of service but also Tor their own convenience and benefit A town cannot build up and flour ish withuot steady trade.