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

The eyes of the nation turned to-
ward Winston-Salem last night when
Harold E. Stassen addressed the State
Republican convention.
Mr.. Stassen, former governor OF
Minnesota, naval officer, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt's choice as one of the
United States representatives at the
San Francisco Security Conference, is
the likeliest Republican candidate for
the presidency in 1948.
What he said will be weighed by
members of both leading parties with
his eligibility for that office in mind
His every word will be under the
microscope, by his own party to de-
termine whether he merits backing
and by the Democrats to learn what
holes exist in his arrnor.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11

started the refineries offered a 13-cent
hourly advance in wages to their work
ers. The unions demanded Is cents.
When the refineries failed to meet this
demand the unions increased the ante
to IS IL cents, which seems to be the
governments standard under it's pre-
posterous wage price program.
It is not impossible to GO without
sugar, of course. But it is all so need
less. The whole wave of strikes, in
Guiding this in sugar refineries, would
never have happened if Congress had
enacted proper labor control legislation
when union leaders first set out to
dominate the land.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
The Meat Situation

A COPY of an interview with w. R..
Sinclair, president of Kingan and Co.,
appearing in the Indianapolis News of
March %, has reached this department.
Kingan and Co. is a slaughtering and
processing firm with headquarters in
indianapolis and additional plants in
Richmond, Va, Orangeburg, S. c., and
Dothan, Ala. In normal time it's plants
produce 100000 pounds of meat week.
ly. At the time of the Sinclair inter-
view the total had dropped off 2,OOO,-
900 pounds.
This is of particular interest in that
it furnishes basis of comparison with
the larger firms in the same business
which operate many more plants and
whose normal production is many times
larger than Kingan's.
Mr.. Sinclair told the indianapolis
News reporter that in the week of the
interview the indianapolis plant would
slaughter 500 cattle, instead of it's
normal $500 to 2,700. He added that
$50 production employees had been laid
off, that $50 sales routes had been clos
ed and many others reduced to an every
other-week schedule.
The price of cattle, he declared,
was from so to Is cents per hundred
pounds over the limit it would pay and
keep within the price ceiling. The situa-
ton in the company's other plants was
similar.
At the same time meat "bootleg-
gers" were operating with little or no
restraint, distributing their black
market product at exorbitant prices.
The existence of a black market is well
known but for the most part its opera.
tors are successful in lodging the law.
The consequence is that law-abiding
retail dealers and housewives have on
the one hand no stock in trade and on
the other meatless tables much of the
time.
The cure, says Mr.. Sinclair, lies in
the removal of OPA controls and CELL
lngs. If the high prices of black mar
ket products are considered, he is un-
doubtedly right. No price resulting
from this removal could be as high
with the country's meat supply NOV
ing in legitimate channels from slauqh-
ter pens to consumer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Religion
Day By Day
Moody's Brave Brusqueness
BY WILLIAM I. ELLIS

NVOUuE ave uSIOCNCSS
Once. in Boston, I was attend
ing a Moody meeting which the
great evangelist had opened to
testimonies. One man stool up on
the platform and BEGAN rambling
and fanatical talk, whereupon
Moody stepped forward, and
took him by the arm, SAYING "Sit
down? You're crazy!"
I am sure some super-sensitive
saints were shocked by Moody
brusqueness. Yet the effect upon
the meeting was electric and
stimulating. 1t cleared the air of
conventional piosity.
Often have longed Cor an out
spoken and blunt Moody, as / have
watched gatherings wrecked by flu
tile or fanatical speakers. When I
hear devout Christians being
harrangued by some crank, expon-
en- OF one of the many religious
aDoerations of the day, 1 wish for
d modern Moody in the chair, who
VIII say. "Sit down. You're
crazy" Such drastic treatment
.iight even mean the restoration
J" sanity of the offende. himself
Let us not be timorous slaves
-, u;,ohVentlonality as we engage IL
my work, o Lord. Make us brav,
a contend for truth and order.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM f. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

apen pair championship with
open pair championship with
Harold Harkavy, Ambrose Casne1
OF New York became Life Master
No. SO. While Andy" is not
well known around the country
he has long been recognized in
New as a fine player.
The caliber of a player is best
demonstrated when he holds Door
cards. Most East players would
nave become discouraged with the
cards Casner held in the hand
SHOWN; but when West opened the
KING OF spades, Casner decided to
do something unusual as his onlv
nope OF contributing towards the
defeat of the four-heart contra ct
he played the nine of spades. on
the tlrst trick, and when West
continued with the ace of spades
Casner dropped the deuce This
was demand for a continue tion
and generally signifies the ability
TO ruff the next lead of the suit
therefore, when West PLAYED
the live of spades, declarer thou ght
mat Casner was now void Of
spades, and put on dummy's ten
spot. Casner's jack wons the trick
and as West still had to oct =
heart trick, the contract was de-
feated,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Time For Showdown

Despite Russia's demand that the
lranian case be dropped from the Sc
curity Council agenda, Iran urges it
be taken up and both sides of the con-
troversy aired at the council table. In
asmuch as Russia got what it wanted
there appears little reason to do 50.
unless the Council is prepared to force
showdown on Russia's revolutionary
conduct.
1t cannot be forgotten that the Sow
let Union advanced perilously near the
verge of aggression in Iran at the
start, nor can it be overlooked that
by Keeping an army in Iran long after
the date for it's withdrawal it probably
had it's way with the Iranian govern
ment by means of actual aggression.
That is what puts the Security
Council on the spot, for the United
Nations Charter, which is supposed to
bring peace again into the world, spe-
officially prohibits aggression in any
form. The Council, therefore, cannot
go into the Iranian case from all an
giles without being ready to impose
whatever punishment is provided for
such offenses if it finds that Russia
is the offender, as it is sure to do.
It would have been better to bring
Russia to terms when the Moscow pre-
disposition to rule or ruin was first
manifested. Having failed on 50 many
occasions, in the delusion that appease-
ment would produce harmony, the
Council must either ignore Trans plea,
and so admit it's impotence, or go to
the mat with Russia in final show
down.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11

know some mothers who spend
long hours teaching little Mary
how to make a neat curtsey so
she can impress Aunt Susie when
she comes around.
And, so far as I'm a judge,
Jacqueline is just as natural as
the next child. Nothing abnormal
about her. She can frow a kiss at
the nice mans just like your little
girl.
She started this business as soon
as she started to move around on
the floor She was Is morths old
April and she weighs about 81
pounds and she's maybe a couple
Ct feet high. I've really forgotten
now to tell peoples height, even
babies, without a tape measure
and l didn't have one when
Jacqueline came in to see me.
That's about all I can tell you
about Jacqueline right now We've
been trying to get some pictures
Of her so you could see what I'm
talking about. In few days may
be we will.
You know how taking baby pic
lures is. You just sort Of Rave to
wait around and catch them when
they're in the right mood ard pose.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Draft Extension

If the vote in the House Military
Committee is the proper gauge, the
draft will be extended for nine months.
The committee vote was fifteenth eight.
The Senate committee still has to
act, and obviously is reluctant to do so
in this election year as recurrant post
ponements indicate. The delay this time
is for but two days, but in view of the
pressure for extension by the military
establishment, coupled with the neces-
sity of filling the ranks of the Army,
the Navy and the Air Forces during
these parlous times and the require
ments for occupation force replace
ments, it seems probable that favorable
action will be taken.
Thus again we may note that while
the war is over the duration is not.
However the proposal approved by the
House committee is milder in many
provisions than originally intended.
Service, for example, would be limited
to eighteen months, fathers would be
exempted, and inductions limited to the
minimum need above voluntary enlist
ments.
The objective on July 1, 1947 is an
Army Of 100000, a Navy of $4,000
and Marine Corps of 100000. In COM
parison with the figures for each dur
ing the height of the war, the totals
appear very small. In view of the fact
that Russia is creating an army above
five million, the question is if it NAV
not be too small.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Balerinas Practice All Their Lives
On Tricks Jackie Was Born Doing

ct this old friend of ours is that
l was SO crestfallen when l learned
Mr.. Parks hadn't come to see me
Tor myself alone I forget whether
the party is to be a surprise or
not.)
But this is a long way from
babies, and even farther away
from little Jacqueline Kennedy.
So let's get back to Jacqueline.
Jacquel1ne has, for want of d
hetter name, elasticity Of joints.
That should be fairly simple for
you to figure out. But just in case
you can't: "Jackie'' has a tenden-
cy to move sideways as much as
forwards. She can do what is
known il the ballerina trade as a
split" without even trying. When
she plays on the floor she sits in
the split position about as much
as she does in the regular position.
Furthermore, "Jackie'o'' as
soon eat her Farina with both feet
over her ears as not. When she
IS playing on the floor and decides
she wants to take herself a little
snooze sire just lays her head over
ter feet and lets it go at that.
Parenthetically, and to think
that the ballet gals like Vera 70
rina spent years and wears and
even more years learning the split
And so laboriously!
Well. it turns out that little
Jacqueline was just born that way.
She hasn't the slightest notion
she's being cute when sna lifts a
left foot and catches it behind her
right ear. And nobody has ever
TAUGHT her the tricks. She came
oy them naturally. Mrs. Kennedy,
Ter mother, is Justly proud of the
tricks little Jacoueline car do. But
think of having a child WHO can
DE- all manner Of tricks without
even having to bother TO teach
them t. her. You certainly must
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Sugar Refinery Strike

Some eight thousand workers in
seven sugar refineries propose to cut
off 70 per cent of the nations cane
sugar production by striking on Satur-
day. They are members of the AFL
and the CLIO.
Thus union labor tightens it's grip
on the nation and the remainder of
the population, all the millions who
make up the United States, can do
nothing about it.
When wage controversy was first
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
Doctor Says
FINCER-SUCKlNC
| DAMAGES teeth
By WILLIAM A. O'BRIFN NJ

80 H.
Irregularity of the teeth final.
clusion0 results from a y5riat,
causes. If this were not the ~. -"
all children who suck their fin0.
would have crooked teeth. s''
Most dentists who speeisIiz,
the corrections OF children's ta,&
believe that if a child stops sn. WV
ing his fingers after the third WAY
of age, little permanent dama9a'''.
the teeth results. The habit sbon,g
not be forcibly broken d. any i'm,
as the child may substitute sno.
Ell habit which is more difiicuI :,
control and which causes mo,.
damage-lip sucking.
If a child does not acquire fl,
habit of sucking his fingers Ss
fore he is a year old, he is ma
likely to dc so.
If a baby's sucking needs ~,
satisfied in feeding, usually N
does not resort to finger-suc =,
Children who get their food IA,
easily from the mothers breast Nv
from a feeding bottle with lar,
holes in the nipple develop il.
habit mere readily than CO tbou
who have to work for their fond
Physicians and dentists Uniform,
1y advise parents not to forcyy
stop child from sucking Until
they learn why he does it, for itii
more important to remove The
cause than it is to try to cure he
result. Most older childfen who
continue to suck their fingers wish
to stop, but the sucking has be.
came so habitual that it is pract.
cally impossible for them to quit.
Some children who are thumb,
suckers apparently are bored. L
they are given suitable play ma.
teria1s, they gradually abandon
the habit, for it is impossible for
them to paint or build with blocks
while sucking their fingers,
Other children need playmate;
and it is better to spend time in
encouraging the child to play with
ether children than in trying 70
stop him from Misunderstanding.
Mechanical devices upset child
So much that when they are taken
off he Immediately goes back 10
sucking his fingers. AS this dis.
pleases his parents, he Is then
more disturbed than ever.
Most children have the Urge to
bite before and during the erup,
ton of the teeth. Since the gums
are not in contact in the earlier
stages of mouth development, the
fingers are inserted as substitutes,
Stop talking about the habit in
front of the child, give him plenr
OF rest and food, do not punish
HIM or make him wear RESTRAIN.
ing devices, help him to find il
terests in life, praise him fo
everything he does well. These
thing will help him to drop his
infanti1e habits.
Don't forget that a child en-.
Joys being the center of attention
and fingersucking may be an
ideal way of attracting attention
Parents are wise, therefore, not to
act disturbed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11

tried to be skeptic when l was a
Young man, but my mothers life was too
much for me, Cecil.
Earnest WORKER
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
.heLiterary
Guidepost
BY W. G. ROGERS

Camus, translated by stuaI'
Gilbert (Knop) So.
There's never any knowing
what one may come 10, me
young Meursault reflects as TINS
unusual novel, and also his LIE
his perverse but innocent life, aP
proach their dramatic close.
The story is told in the flFs
person by an Algiers resident he
holds an office job, has a glll
friend Marie; he knows CeleSs
who runs a restaurant, Raymon1
who gets money out of women VIM
gets money out of men, Slamah0
who loves the NANCY dog ne
abuses.
At the start, Meursault's NONE.
has died in the Home to WilCl
she was admitted when it became
apparent that the ties between me- IL,
and her son were slight and ina
he didn't earn enough 10 srppoh
her. On two-day leave from WON
to attend the funeral, ne fails "
measure up to the conventions, ~
makes no parade of grief, declls.
to view the body, responds 10 ~.
need for coffee and the desire i"
a cigarette.
Throughout the rest Of the %
citing book he continues 10 dem
onstrate this detachment NJ
stands aside while life PUSHES IL
exorably past. a..
But his misfortune is that u,
refused to allow him to enjoy I'll,
aloofness and Indifference; ~
may turn up his nose at IT. u W., W.
not turf. up its nose at him II,
more he stands aside, the nor,
he moves into the middle o.
things; the more he ignores II
chains of the normal, Involve.
existence, the tighter they "t''
around him.
He is as helpless as the charas
ter in Creek tragedy, or the luck
less German hero, "SeIgeG.
Grischa." But he is more, for =.
is sublimely Indifferent; he tal.
be bothered with trying TO aN-r
cis fate, and can't even take az
interest in it.
The author, welcoming Ike "
zero the benign indifference y
he universe" is on the ole nan
a fatalist. but on the other Te0.'
,gainst the notion that society
made for man, or man for socle4,
Iamus was editor of Ffen..
underground newspaper, and ln'
,ook may be the first by q new
generation Frenchman youv hdN
chance to read. It's chance
Oh shouldn't miss.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11


atomic development has by no means ceased,
and dissemination of all the facts today would
as Mr.. Henle notes, merely put competition
on a different plane, and every government
will Immediately proceed to expend time and
money in perfecting more deadly bomb than
any other government possesses"
But as l.. N. Ridenour has written in the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago:
I'VE can make an analogy Gin our secret
policies) with the way other weapons are
handled. The design Of guns is kept conf
dental yet the netallurgy of steel is dealt
with in the usual way. Military aircraft are
designed in secret yet the aerodynamic pri.1-
ciples on which they are based, and even
techniques such as flush riveting, are freely
published and available to all. 1t is thus that
scientific and engineering progress is made
While we must guard our essential secrets,
until the necessity for national strength and
national secrecy has been eliminated by in
ternational organization, we must be careful
that we classify secret only highly i'm
portant information, and that our attempts to
preserve secrecy do not infringe on demo-
cratic processes. The experience of history
has been that military secrets can long
be kept in any case, there is nearly always
IA definite time limit or their Importance
/ We can, therefore, in attempting to define
secrecy too broadly, grasp at a straw of Sc
curity at the risk of importing those things
we are attempting to secure. Today, there is
still an aftermath of 'over- secrecy left from
the war. But 1t applies not only to the atomic
bomb. Russian naval officer is arrested,
at least ostensibly, for attempting to secure
the secrets OF destroyer-tender-a ship
that at best has picayune secrets to offer.
The Armyt has announced that it would no
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-11
By JOHN SKIES

~~~A.~
1t is probably the way I have
with babies although I have never
run for d public office and, there
fore, have never professionally
kissed the little tykes.
But, to repeat, it must be the
way I have with them. Because
Just day before yesterday Mrs. j.
M Kennedy, who lives here,
brought her 18-months-old Jacque-
line - Who is naturally called
Jackie lin to see me.
And, the little fl t er r.,
Jackie" did not act as i I were
ali ogling monster when made
what passes as googly-goos in my
vocabulary at her. She even cot
toned up to me, as the boys say.
Maybe l would make good poll
tlcian, "a that.
Well, I'm not here just to tell
you that a little girl going on two
years old came in to see me. No.
Nothing so simple as that And
nothing so lovely.
No. It turns out that little babies
don't just come in to see me for
nc reason at all: like grandbabies
&C to see grandpappies so the lat
tel NAV goo over the former.
There always has to be reason
Why babies come to see me. Fact
iy, there's always got to be rea-
son why anvhodv comes to see me.
Makes me feel downright lone
some at times. Just TO think that
nobody, not even babies. lust come
10 see mo for myself alone It is
discouraging and it is cynical.
Just as my business tycoon
friend Russ Parks came in TO see
me the other day. I was all flat
tered ard flustered to think that
he would Just drop by. mavhe huv
me coke. That wasn't it. He
wanted me to act as treasurer of
a movement to Give nartv II e~-
other old friend of Ours v-'~~'~
eaving town prettv soon (The
reason | don't mention ire name
onger make public, officially, the
whereabouts of units of divisional
size or above.
But the worst manifestation so
ar of the secrecy complex that
every now and again assails our
democracy was recommendation
made recently to the Senate
Atomic Energy committee. It rec
commended that the espionage
laws be frightened by making it
crime for an7 official to reveal,
without authority, any military
secrets" and for any reporter,
radio commentator or publisher to
publish or broadcast such informa-
ton. The definitions, as reported,
were broad enough to include I'm
der military secrets" many class
fications of news of vital import
ance to the public and to the ma
ton.
This sweeping attempt to dam
he source of news is not new the
same measure has been advocated
in much the same form at many
previous times by the military or
the Department of Justice. There
is no doubt that such an act would
facilitate the task of convictlng
spies, but it would also tremend-
ously, extend the power of govern
ment and might well result in re-
stricting greatly the flow Of legiti-
mate news. For the act might ap-
nlv to all official information If al
most any character, and under the
cloak of such secrecy the checks
and balances that free press and
free public opinion provide might
well be eliminated. No such act
should be passed or even consider
led. 1t is truer than ever, in the
atomic age that eternal vigilance
lis the price Of freedom. New
York Times -.
Milford chronicle., 1946-11-08

Dr.. NJ Dalema Draper was in
New York City for the week end.
returning home on Monday.
Miss Elizabeth Ann Houston. a
student of Southern Seminary,
Buena Vista, Virginia, is spending
this weekend with her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. A. G. Houston.
Mrs. Richard Wilson spent a few
days in Philadelphia attending the
dinner and reunion in honor of the
Goth anniversary Of the Nurses
Alumnae of the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Wilbur Bennett accOmpani-
ed by her daughter-in-law and
niece, Mrs. Norman Bennett, and
Mrs. Russell Stanton of Newark
and Wilmington. were in Phila-
delphia last Wednesday evening.
While there they attended the Ora
toria of st Francis of Assist" Civ
en- by the Philadelphia Orchestra
and the Westminster Choir at the
Academy of Music. Eugene Or
mandy conducted. Miss Florence
member of the Westminster
Choir took part in the mixed Choir
MS.
Milford chronicle., 1946-11-08
Masons Will Meet
Here This Evening
AFFAIR viii Be Designated As An
Open Night

Temple Lodge No. 8, Ancient
Free and Accepted Mason of Mil
ford will hold a stated communi
cation this Friday night, November
s, in the temple on n. w. Front
street, at eight o'clock.
Due to conditions confronting
all fraternities this fall, brought
about by good weather and the
many outdoor activities that has
greatly curtailed the attendance,
this evening has been designated as
an open night in charge of the en-
tertainment committee under the
personal direction of Past Masters
Warren T. Moore, Fred S. Bailey
and Fred Ireland, who have ar
ranged an interesting program OF
particular interest to every Temple
Lodge member. A speaker Of note,
prominent in the Masonic frater-
nifty will make short address ON
everyday problems. The evening
will then be thrown open for II
general discussion of masonry, Il
social chat. and exchange OF pleas
antries among the brethren.
W0rshipful Master Aifeld and
| his officers are requesting Il large
attendance. Refreshments vii
( close the program