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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Save The Grain

e. A number of years ago the food
stores staged producer = consumer
campaigns to move surplus crops. At
that time there was a surplus of nearly
everything. The retailers campaigns
to move these SURPRISES were in reality
drives to teach consumers to eat a
greater variety of foods, and more of
them. The efforts were a spectacular
success.
A gigantic producer-consumer cam
palgn is now being inaugurated to help
Indirectly with Europe's famine. This
country is raising a record crop of early
white potatoes-60 per cent above last
year, with nearly all areas from Cali
fornla to the Carolinas ready to harvest.
Also, onions are coming on the market
IN abundance, as we'll as a wide variety
OF vegetables and fruit. With old
fashioned enthusiasm and typical pro-
motional efficiency, the food stores
lave swung into the job of helping
move the record potato crop onto the
consumers dining table as an alternate
for bread. Other crops will be included
in the program.
If past experience is any criterion,
the organized assistance of the mass
food distributors in the present emer-
gency will prove effective. Thous-
ands of stores in every section of the
country will make it their business to
shove the sales of abundant food items
with every resource at their command.
This will automatically ease demand
Tor grain products essential to European
relief.
The program of the organized food
retailers is in accordance with recon-
mendations of the Presidents Famine
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

What do bridge players do when
they are on a vacation? They just
play bridge! Ivan Half of Pitts
burgh, Pa, who accompanied us on
the flight to California, is always
ready to play rubber bridge, even
after a full day of tournament
play. He introduced a new game
to the boys, a threeIhanded bridge
game in which the dealer is de-
%clarer, the odd hand is dummy.
and the contract is played at two
no trump doubled and redoubled.
I will not tell you about the faatas-
tic results.
Ivan came up with a fantastic
result on today's hand, which he
played in the national mixed pair
finals in San Francisco. One would
think that he would have to lose
at least two clubs and a couple of
t-umps, but he did not.
He won the opening diamond
lead with the ace and cashed the
ace of S p a d e S, getting the sad
news that West was out.
He led a small diamond and
let East ruff it. East returned the
five of hearts. Ivan won with the
ace, ruffed the three of hearts in
dummy and came back with an
other diamond. East ruffed and
returned another heart, on which
Ivan discarded the five of clubs,
ruffing in dummy.
He took another = d of
trumps, then let East ruff another
diamond. Thus East won Only
three trump tricks.
1t may be that East could have
defeated the contract by return
ing either a club or trump, but
it is always interesting to follow
a declarer's line of play on I'M
usual hands when he takes advan-
tage of a situation to make the
greatest possible number of tricks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09

OF yours in the grocery store
sided up to you and slid it into
your pocket.
You realize you've been riding
on synthetic tires for a long time
and you may even be riding on
them the rest of your days. My
reports, direct from the manufac-
turers with whom I naturally stand
in, indicate that all-rubber tires
may be as ante-dated as the eel
luloid collar. Seems that the
chemists have learned to make
rubber better than nature.
But, then, the chemists are
smart fellows in all fields. They'll
even tell you that sodium olginate
is tastier than real cherries and
far fuller of vitamins.
These items I've mentioned are
just a few of the ways the chem
lists and food professors are
changing our mode of living. I
haven't even told you about mock
chicken, mock turtle, mock oys-
tiers. and the other mock foods.
Nor the fact that for years and
years you've worn a derivative of
soy beans and all the time thought
you were wearing real mother-of-
pearl buttons. Nor that the per-
fume which watts over to you
from your best girl came, original
ly, out of a coal mine. l hadn't
meant to mention these things
because they're old stuff.
What I'm wondering about is
when somebody is going to develop
a substitute for some of the high
priced articles that are being sold
today. The other day I went into
the grocer's and paid before I
knew it - Is cents per pound for
rice. I remember when I spent
quite a spell over in Tabor City
that the farmers Whereabouts
thought nothing of coming into
town and buying a Is = pound sack
of rice at the time - and they
paid a total of IS cents for the Is
pounds.
Somebody, then, will come out
with the chemical equivalent Of
rice and sell it for a ridiculously
low figure and then the boys
who're getting Is cents per pound
for rice today will be sorry.
And this is why I'm not too
much worried about initiation. /
may starve in the meantime while
things are getting settled down and
the chemists and other wonder
workers are contriving ways OF
giving you substitutes at much
lower prices. But, if 1 don't starve,
there'I come a time when I can
walk right up to a counter and
get rice at just about my own
Meantime, this sodium solginate
really isn't so bad after all. And
would seem just as sensible for
Mr.. Vallee, if the old fellow is still
around, to sing a song about Life
being just a synthetic bowl of
cherries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
TOP O. THE MORNING
No one is useless in this world who hghtens
the BURDENS of it to anyone else.
From "Biblical Recorder"
Clark's Heartening Word

Representative Clark's belief that
deepening the Cape Fear channel will
not be seriously delayed by Reconstruct
ton Director Steelman's order hating
government construction not previously
under contract until October l is heart
ening.
Work on the channel could not have
started much before that date at best,
and as Mr.. Steelman has let it be known
that he will expedite his examination
of projects in the hope of having com
pleted the undertaking by then, it is not
too much to expect that because it is
essential the Cape Fear dredging job
will receive his attention and approval
within the specified time.
Mr.. Steelman is acting on instruc-
tions from President Truman with the
purpose of looping $500, 900, GOO from
federal works projects, in the interest
of the national economy. AS the Cape
Fear project is not strictly a public
works job but a part of the rivers and
harbors program and will have a value
in increased commerce ultimately ex-
ceeding the $500, Oo0, 900 saving Mr..
Truman wants, it's completion is well
justified, especially as sea traffic is on
the upturn.
Surely Mr.. Steelman will consider
the State Ports Authority's plans for the
construction of terminals, warehouses
and other facilities in Wilmington and
realize that without an adequate river
channel the Port of Wilmington and all
North Carolina would be under an in
surmountable handicap at the time of
it's greatest opportunity for progress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Religion
WHEN JACKALS HOWLED
By T. ELLIS

One of my closest shaves in
travel came when, with a young
companion, I adventured into the
sacred city of Kerbela, the shrine
of Shah Moslems in lower Meso-
patamia. Bandits had tried 10 hold
US up en- route; and when we ar
rived we were mobbed, and res
cueG by the Turkish garrison. Then
the food which III servant Shamu
| got from the baZars vas poisoned.
So we were a bit jumpy as we
settled down for the night in the
Cadi's court room, over the city
gate.
AS the night advanced, 1 began
to hear ominous sounds outside the
city wall. 1t was the familiar snarl
and oar of an angry mob. l turn
ed to Shamu for an explanation.
A puzzled look appeared on the
wrinkled face. You no savvy?
Them jackals, at graves"
Kerbela is surrounded by the
shallow graves Of pious Moslems,
brought from Persia. What l heard
was a pack of jacka!s, ravaging
the freshest graves.
I had pictured a blood = thirsty
mob: the reality was only a NOISY
lot of cowardly ours.
So as 1 listen to the turmoil of
u time, l recall Kerbela, and
wonder if the noise is not made
by a small pack Of ghoulisa Jack
ais, whose howls are mistaken
for the voice of the people.
Grant us, o Lord, ears to hear
in true significance the uproar of
our generation, so that we may dis
tlngulsh Jackal howls from the real
voice of the Nation. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Another Dream

If, as we are told, "We are such
stuff as dreams are made on" it can
do no harm to pass another n along,
and there is a faint possibility it might
put an honest dollar or two in several
pockets.
1t emissions the development of the
land now a part of the Country Club
golf course opposite Mimosa Place.
Sooner or later it will be abandoned and
an equal number of links substituted
on the opposite side of the Wrightsville
Highway so that chasers of the wilv
pellet will not have to cross that much
Travelled road while going out and com
ing back on the course The land involv-
ed is more or less egg-shaped and a
trifle low for dwellings.
The idea, or dream if that is what
it is, is to make a neighborhood trad
ing center of it, with stores along the
egg shell and driveway and parking
space at the front and parkway in the
center.
Because the vicinity is we'll populated
and the highway bears a heavy traffic
burden, it is reasonable to believe the
venture would be financially profitable
not only to the land purchasers and
owners of the buildings but the mer-
chants who would operate the stores as
well.
Fireproof construction in a modified
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
BY JOHN SKIES

I remember, ever if you are
too young to, when Rude Vallee
was all the rage among the
younger folks and sang a song
about Life being just a bowl OF
cherries. All, my friends. those
were the days; yes, the halycon
days. Mr.. Valee, one of the early
day crooners whose soothing, if
nasal, tones set feminine hearts
to beating with louder thumps
than the squeals of the BOBBY
soxers please, Madame Proof
reader, I'm an old man. Leave
that booby.) who swoon before Mr..
Sinatra's dulcet mouthings, sang
about the cherries that grow on
trees.
So what would he DO with the
kind of cherries that we have in
this synthetic day and age? These
are artificial cherries for eating
purposes and they're made. of all
things, out of sodium olginate,
colored pink, nodded to look
round, and sWeetened with dex-
trose or glucose or something.
Imagine going up to your favorite
lunch counter and ordering a slab
of sodium olginate pie.
Of course, I'm sure none Of the
restaurants around here serve
sodium olginate pie and tell you
it is cherry pie, because I've
checked with a lot of the restau-
rateuro and they assure me that
when they have cherry pie it is
cherry pie.
But there's no use fussing over
cherries because there are so
many synthetic items you're eat
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Life, 1t Turns Out, Has Become Just
A Large Bowl OF Synthetic Cherries

ing today as well as wearing. You
may not know it of course,
you did - but you may be wear
ing a suit Of clothes or a dress
made out of milk. Casein I be-
lieve they call it.
And every time you reach for
the pepper shaker you're probably
reaching for some synthetic SUBJ
stance that's been seasoning your
eggs ever since the war, and may
be before. Seems that the Japs,
or somebody, invaded the pepper
plantations in Java or Sumatra,
or some place like those, and you
haven't been able to get the real
Mccoy for quite some time. If
you do happen to pick UP a box
of real pepper it's because a friend
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09

Guidepost
BY JOHN L. SPRINGER
RHUBARB, by H. Alien

Smith Doubleday; ~ ,
Once upon a time H. Allen sml1
was a New York feature Writer
and he specialized in smelling ou'
queer people and writing luA"'
pieces about them.
Apparently the supply "
whacks is limitless, for they sup
piled him with material for three
books and now a fourth-a move.
about a cat who inherited ''
New York Looms, a baseball team,
and purred them on TO a penn'D'
and the worlds championship
"Rhubarb was an odd cat WHO
went on a hilarious catnlp pl2s'
and chased dogs. But he was N.
odder than the humans IN III
Smiths = oman collection. lne'
is Willy Bodfish, whose Tul ,.
passion was having his teeth l as'
at the dentists; "Bugle' W.,
calmly attributed his name 70 us
fact that his mother came HUE
Pennsylvania; Clarissa WOOD -.
cat lover who campaigned o!:es
ly against use OF the word 'Kl'
in poker games.
Rhubarb was capable Of genel@
ing a nation = wide frenzy loo 60
pecially when radio osss-
broadcasting his testimonials W.
canned fish. cedar chests, ND.
resses, worming pills, elscas
trains, soap, eye drops and a nv
definitive history of World war ~
Soon even society matrons ccnss1
his aerial trade mark OF ROW.
Hiss! Meow! ..,
Despite its whimsical ouall,N.
this is not a book for the kldo.ss
But the many answering o
fans, and even those WAo 1ou. II.
his previous connections delec'sYS
only in small portions, should H'
"Rhubarb' a tasty dish.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Consolidated Government

Robert Ksrmon, nominated for the
legislature at the primary election, did
we'll to direct attention to consolidation
of the city and county governments.
Mr.. Kermon was speaking at the ban
quet of the Police Department in cele-
bration of the weekly day off for men,
bers of the force which the City Coun-
Gil granted at its last session.
This consolidation has long been in
the minds of forward-looking residents
and civic leaders. 1t is all Of five years
since Roger Moore made a stirring ap-
peal for it at a Rotary club meeting.
He cited the success of unified admins
tration in Baltimore and naturally ON
cluded that if it could make good in the
Maryland metropolis and it's county
there is no good reason why it could
not do as well in New Hanover County
and the City Of Wilmington.
At that time, in commenting on Mr..
Moore's plea, the Star called attention
to a similar consolidation which had
been equally successful for much more
than a quarter century. The City and
County of San Francisco was brought
under the jurisdiction of 8 board of
supervisors equivalent to a city council
and a county board of commissioners
long before the earthquake and fire Of
1906 and save for the period of Abe
Rufus racketeering which finally land
ed him in San Quentin, the California
penitentiary, has gone along with gen.
eral satisfaction. 1t certainly has re-
suited in great saving of taxpayers
money, and the supervisors elected from
rural districts have seen to it that their
areas of control have not suffered for
lack of needed improvements. They
have thought too highly Of their posi-
ton on the board and remaining on it
to neglect any opportunity to further
CIlO SOlIlpOoIlS lltCIcStS VI ClclI JUL
stituencies.
Such a consolidation here would do
away with the dual taxation of Will
mington residents who now pay 60, per
cent of the county taxes in addition to
their regular city levy.
There is little reason to think that
the move could be made shortly. Will
mington moves slowly and legislation
also is a slow process if it involves
drastic changes. But the people of both
areas, within and without the city, could
do nothing for themselves that would
promise better returns in the long run
than force a measure through the State
Legislature setting up consolidated city
and county government.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Editorial Comment
"RUBE" GRAHAM

The editor of The Observer notes with regret
tho nassine of our old friend, "Rube' H. Ora
ham. division passenger of the Southern Rail
way. MIR, Graham was a man among men in
the railroad world, and outside Of it. Many
was the times he issued US passes to go places
in sthe good OF days. for printing railroad
schedules. He was a grand man in every
respect and his position with the Southern
will be bard - AA-Ae~aaa observer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
STAR Dust


Pearls of Great Price
One day someone admirinp Bill
Nye's lovely clean teeth, inquired
how he managed to keep them 50
white.
Oh, that's easy" the humorist
replied; all teeth will remain white
II they are properly taken care of.
VI course I never drink hot drinks.
always brush my teeth morning
and evening, avoid all acids what
ever. and, although 1 am forty
years old, my teeth are as good as
ever"
And that is all you do II pre-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
THE WILMINGTON MORNING STAR. WILMINGTON, N. C.

Emergency Committee, the Production
and Marketing Administration, and
other government agencies. 1t differs
from any previous %promotional effort in
one all-important respect-lives depend
upon it's success. If the public will keep
this point in mind, the efficient use of
American abundance will be assured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09
Doctor Says-
PHOSPHORUS Shots
REDUCE RED CELLS
By WILLIAM A, O'BRJEN NJ ,

a. 6KlEN, NJ. D,
Radio = active phosphoru, ~.
duced by the deuteron mmhp'S
ment OF either ordinary red n5.a
phorus upon a copper target n w.
external chamber Of tie cyclotr ~s
or of an iron phosphids nr.Sa
placed in a oeuteron stream wv
been successfully used in the t,a naS
mens of pclycythemia Qrcrean =.
red cells of the blood.
Other ar%titicially radio . ac.r.
chemical elements used in trs,,
ment are strontium and jodir.
Although radio : active cbsr,
Gals have bean restricted d'ria.
the process CT investigation, r..
patient with polycythemia o,s
obtain this treatment through NJ.
own physician,
In polycytnemia, the body nan
utactLres an excessive numbsr -,
red blood cells, for no pa.4icrs.
reason. The condition is II ~.
distinguished from temporary n.
creases in red cells due 10 = l,c,
Of oxygen, as in mountain clinb
ers or in persons who move tror,
a lower to a higher altitude (wbsn
they move back, the red blo,5
cells return to normal numberN.
In polycythemia the red boo.
marrow grows at the expense n
the yellow marrow, until all IN.
marrow spaces are filled witt, rei
marrow. The blood vessels are en-.
gorged with the extra blood, wbic,
gives the patient a striking appear.
ance - his skin is blush red.
The polycythemia victim is u,u.
ally distressed by the extra blood
in his system. He complains If
fullncss in the head and Of dizzj
ness.
The condition is not to be cor.
fused with that or ordinary ps.
thoric, red-faced, stout inljvid
uals, for they experience no in,
crease in the red blood cells.
1t has been known for some
time that X-rays and CERTAIN
chemicals will destroy that portion
Of the over-active bone marrow
which causes the increase in red
blood cells. The alternative treat
ment has been to bleed the patien.
when his blood vessels became too
full.
Radioactive phosphorus Is used
in treating polycythemia because
Of its Internal radiation effect
The solution, injected into the
vein, lodges in the bone marrow
and in the rapidly : growing red
blood cells, where it gives off It's
rays.
Radioactive phosphorus Is IDEAL
for internal use, too, because il
loses half its strength in the first
two weeks after manufacture, a
fact which permits 1t TO BE- han
died without danger.
Phosphorus is q natural ele
ment Of the body, AMI in meta.
bolism it Is broken down 10 sui
phuf, which is non-irritating.
After treatment with radioactive
phosphorus, the patient does no
feel the effect for 60 to 30 days
If he is troubled the the excessive
amount of blood in the int Val be
tween treatment and effect, he
may be blei.
The radio : active ~phosrhcr9'
treatment may be repeated If tn;
first dose i: rot effective.
While radioactive phophorui
has been used in other condition!
in which the x-ray also is o.
value, its most beneficial effect is
in polycythemia. 1t must De used
with care, but up to the present
time no serious reactions haV'
been observed in any case.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09

Spanish style would, we believe, add
to the attr~activeness of the neighbour
hood and prove a blessing to shoppers.
Here is another outlet for idle capt.
tai which promises a fair return on the
investment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-09

serve your teeth, is it?" asked ~'
other. -.
Eyes SIR" replied Bill, "tAs',
all - barring, perhaps, the ls a.
that I put them in a glass Of w,
water each night. wall St. '0D
nal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-09
THEATRE M0URNS
LAURETTE TAYLOR
Star Of "Peg o. My Heart"
Dies In New York After
Long Illness

NEW YORK, Dec. D. up -
Laurette Taylor, noted actress on
the American stage for nearly
four decades, died Saturday night
at the age of 81. She had been i'll
periodically for 10 years.
Miss Taylor's stage popularity be-
gan in 1910 in the play alias jim
my Valentine" and two years later
she achieved international star
dom for her performance in "Peg
o. My Heart"
Several times she deserted the
stage for a few years and then re-
turned to win new acclaim. Her
last staring role was in THE Glass
Menagerie," which opened in
Chicago in 1914 and closed here
several months ago.
In that production she played the
role Of a former Southern belle who
became a frowzy but ambitious
mother. Her performance won her
the "best actress of the year"
award last year in a poll spon-
sored by Variety, theatrical publ
cation.
Native New Yorker
A native of . New York, Miss
Taylor began acting in school pro-
grams and at the age of IL was
receiving S. and $40 for semi-pro-
fessional appearances. She play
ed in vaudeville briefly and in 1903,
at the age of 10 played her first
dramatic part - the title role in
1.-The Child Wife"
She married Charles A. Taylor,
author of "From Rags to Riches"
while she was playing in that pro-
duction, her second theatrical role.
They had two children, Marguerite
and Dwight. The latter has been a
Hollywood writer since 1890.
Miss Taylor's maiden name was
Cooney, but she became Miss
Taylor on the stage after her mar
riage. She was divorced from
Taylor in 1910. The following year
she married j. Hartley Manners.
a Broadway playwright. He died
in 1923.
Private funeral services will be
held Wednesda. She will be buried
at Woodlawn cemetery here be-
sides tn grave OF Manners.