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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29

tion would be for MI. Truman to keep
his political advisers at a distance and
completely revamp the upper bracket
If governmental executives without re-
gard to party and with respect of
ability alone.
AS chairman of the War Investigate
ING Committee, he showed courage and
zeal and ability to get at the facts he
sought. It might be that if he freed
himself of the shackles he has permitted
the politicians to bind him with, and
exercised an independence he has sup
pressed in the White House, he could
restore his administration to a
creditable position and wipe out much
of the uncertainty and disappointment
large in the country.
It would be worth trying, Mr.. Presi-
dent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
Shape A New Course

Much Of the official confusion and
the national disturbance, as ever his
friends must at last admit, is due n
President Truman's inability to select
fully capable men to conduct the fed
eral departments and bureaus. Instead
he has taken the ~expedient course, nav
ing old political debts with the appoint-
ment of men who helped him climb to
a high chair in the Senate to positions
demanding exceptional, instead of ordi-
nary leadership.
Whenever he has had the good for
tune to draw a truly "best mind" into
the government, the politicians have
descended upon him and convinced him
the selection was not only bad for the
country but for the party as we'll. Thus
we find both the President and thu
country in a deplorable condition, with
little If any prospect Of improvement
The only chance to better a bad situa
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
|PUSTERIA VALLEY
OLD TRADE ROUTE

The Pusteria valley Of the sors
Tyrol, which the Big Four forsirma
ministers refused to restore to AT sa
tria, has been important in so,,M
ern Europe's commerce ever sina.
Caesar built a road through =
1000 years ago, says the Natinrl !,
Geographic Society. ''
Known as the Pustertal IN A..
TRANS, the region is Italy's norris
most crown. It skirts the rortbol.
edge OF the scenic Dolomites on
and southeast of the Bremen nass
Italy gained the valley fro~'
Austria along with the rest NJ tLa
South Tryol and the Trent reo; as
by the peace-table decisions a Iol
World War I. When the Biz Fo1r
foreign ministers rejected Anstria1.
claim to the entire South Tyrol ~
the spring of 1916, Austria mo5 ~
fled her demands and sought r'
unsuccessfully only the PEstari.
valley.
The valley runs east and u0..
Two rivers rise in its heart noor
Dobbiaco austrian: Toblach, AZ
the Italian side of the border WIZ; vi
Austria. The Reinxa, the s,orton
river, flows westward past Brl,ni.
co to a junction with the Tgarcn
tributary of tie Adige at the VAL
ley's western limit, near Bresssl
none and Fortezza. The longor
brave flows eastward across ~
border to Lienz en- route to a i,,no
ton with the Danube.
In Roman times, the valley w,,
part of the trade route from AnIi'
LEILA, at the northern limit Of tbo
Adriatic, into the land beyond tbs
Alps. In medieval days, 1t was the
route from Venice to GERMANY
Some OF its earlier importance was
restored by a railroad begun dur,
ing World War I by the Austriaps
ana later completed by Italy,
A chief advantage Of the Pts,
terra route from the Adriatic north
is the fact that it by-passes the
difficult Isarco defile. From
Venice, railroad and highway run
north to Belimo. wind through Do.
lomite gaps past the resort centey
of Cortina, and reach the Pusteris
Valley at Dcbbiaco. From there
they run west to Fortezza. then
northwest to the Bremen pass.
Sheltered all around by high
mountains, the valley has a mild
climate that encourages settlers.
Austria's claim was based in part
on the regions strong Germanic
majority, built up over many cen.
turtles prior to World War l. 1t was
also based on the fact that the val,
ley is the most direct route from
the Austrian Tyrol to Villach, Kla-
genfurt, and other eentess in Aus.
trials southeast
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task of getting the tobacco to the
market, through the business OF
cultivation, harvesting, curing,
grading, and so on.
Whatever price the farmer gets
for his weed never seems enough to
me.
Now, having made my bow to the
farmer and it is a sincere bow
- let us pass along to the ware
houses in which the tobacco is sold
and the towns in which the ware
houses are located.
Talk about the superlatives that
Hollywood uses to tell you about
the latest super-colossal p%ictures!
These were mild compared to what
the drum-beaters - as the public
ity men are some times called -
use to extol the merits of their
particular tobacco markets.
Now, please don't get the notion
that I am making light of these
fancy efforts to have farmers bring
their tobacco to any particular
town for sale. I'm just not in the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
Nv JOHN SKIES

In a couple Of months now the
chant of the tobacco auctioneer
will be heard in Southeastern North
Carolina again. And I do not mean
the chant of the gentlemen who
have become the trademark OF a
rather well known cigaret radio
program.
I mean these auctioneers will be
heard in the flesh, or rather IN
the actual voice.
I'm reminded that the opening
of the Border Belt season is not
far off because of a lot Of mar
bingers. Every year about this
time. articles come out of the var
ious tobacco regions telling OF
crops that are running in the fields
for one, or maybe more, of several
reasons: % Scarcity Of labor. ~
Extended drought. 90 Lack of fuel
oil or wood or coal for curing. a.
Too many tobacco worms.
A day or so ago I read an article
in my favorite newspaper, that the
tobacco situation in Southeastern
North Carolina looks black because
labor wants $500 per day instead
Of the S. that the farmers feel like
they can pay. Isn't this 81 a far
cry from the days when 81 or 50,
Dr. ever less, could get the tobacco
crop harvested? That much per
day per laborer, that is.
Outside of tobacco farmers,
themselves, there is nobody who
sympathizes with these farmers
any more than I. 1t has been said
that tobacco is a 13-month-per-
year crop. In order to make that
sound a little more plausible, let
me explain that it really requires
something like 10 months to make
some tobacco crops.
AS soon as the farmer markets
his crop - which is something OF
a feat within itself in that it may
require two or three months - he
begins all over again. He starts
selecting his seed for the next
years crop and this is one of the
most careful items of the entire
business.
From then on, until the next
years crop is harvested, the farm
err goes through a tedious process;
preparing his plant beds. setting
them out, spraying for blue mold,
and on down the seemingly endless
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
Unknown
James Walker Expansion

During the brief and informal cere-
monies in opening the new service de-
partment of James Walker Memorial
hospital Thursday evening, when a
group of Wilmingtonians were guests
Of the board at dinner, Mr.. W. D. Nc
Caig made two significant announce
Nents.
He emissions destruction of the origi-
nal central unit and the Negro depart
ment and their replacement with build
jngs of the most modern hospital type
every bit as fine as the facility just
placed in operation.
Naturally Mr.. McCaig could fix no
date for the start of this great i'm
provement, but assured the guests it
would be undertaken in the mot too
distant future"
When funds became available for ex-
pansion of the James Walker plant dur
ing the war there was some thought
of wiping out the original hospital build
ing, long %antiquated and inadequate,
but the decision to use the money en-
tirely for new construction probably
was reached because of the, need for
additional accommodations. Now, it
appears, according to Mr.. McCaig's an
nouncement-and he was obviously
speaking for his fellow board members
the time has come to plan definitely
for this project and get it under way
as speedily as possible.
All southeastern North Carolina,
many of whose residents have been
compelled to travel to other hospitals
because they could not secure accom-
modations at the local plant, will well
come the day when James Walker has
been thoroughly modernized, in KEEN
ing with this new. service department..
and every requirement of finest hos
p~ltallzation can be offered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
1T WontBeL Long Now Till You Learn
Each Town Is Greatest Tobacco Market

mood today to have anybody mad
with ne.
But I have personally kidded
warehouse owners and sales super
visors - that last is the title the
tobacco towns have - about the
superlatives used in describing
their markets.
And these men, such as Roscoe
Coleman and Alton Carroll over in
Tabor City, have usually grinned
goodnaturedly and let it 60 at that
Have you ever noticed the bill
boards near tobacco towns? Each
and every one proclaims to the
world that this town is the worlds
best tobacco market. The signs for
the individual houses each pro-
claim that you ear always get the
high dollar in that particular house.
With this I have no fuss, either.
1t is simply the craftsmanship used
in the trade. 1t is the method by
which the tobacco towns and ware
houses drum up business with the
farmers.
Before long now I expect - and
will welcome - notes from Walter
Paramore, executive secretary Of
the Whiteville Merchants associa-
ton: w. Horace Carter, who holds
the same position in Tabor City;
and similar other gentlemen from
Fair Bluff, Fairmont, Elizabeth
town, Clarkton, Lumberton, Clin-
ton, and any other tobacco towns
in Southeastern North Carolina.
These notes will tell me how good
each town is.
It's going to be tough, impartial
as I am, to figure just which town
to lean toward.
So, you don't mind if I just get
astride a nice fence and say in
advance, before I'm asked to make
a choice. that they're all good
towns: The greatest towns in the
world in which to sell your tobacco.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
ourG1Rights
questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON - Congress very
soon is expected to make several
important chnges in National
Service Life Insurance. Here are
the important alterations which
veteran experts agree will almost
certainly be effected by Congress:
Beneficiaries will be allowed to
get what is coming to them in q
lump sum, If they want it that
way. At present the insurance is
paid IN small monthly payments,
The Gil or veteran will be able
to name any person he wants to
as a beneficiary. The wav if
stands now, only a limited num'
per II persons, all closely related
TO the insured, can be named &c
nene1lclarles. When the law is
changed the CT or veteran will ho
able to change the beneficiarv
wltnout approval of the original
beneficiary. Aiiai
me new law, when passed, will
permit conversion of the gonern
ment policies into endowments.
Ihese would include 2o-year naid.
up policies and provisions ~
paying up at the ages of IS and so
Another change would aid no1icn
aeloers who might become perm.'
nently disabled. They would re.
eelve 30 monthly for each s1ooo ~
Insurance. after six months of s,,eh
disability, and the face value of the
policy will remain unchanged. ''e
IN addition to these changes
WHICH ooth committees of Congrsss
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

During II years of writing bridge
articles I have rarely given the
name of a player who made a
mistake in bidding or play. 1 often
show how a particular player won
a good score by a certain bid OF
play, and then I receive stacks of
letters telling me how the oppon-
ents could have prevented it.
But experts are human and
subject to error, and they are al
ways trying to outwit each other.
You might find it hard to believe
what happened on today's hand
in the final round of the Wander
bilt Cup Tournament, one of the
greatest team-of-four events in
the world. At one table, when
South opened the bidding w i h
three clubs, West failed to overca.l
and as a result NORTH and South
made a plus score of $50 points.
At the other table the bidding
went as shown in the box. East's
four-club bid was a strategic at
tempt to prevent the opponents
from going to five clubs when his
side reached four hearts. When
North freely bid four spades,
South made the correct bid of five
spades.
South realized that his partner
must have strength in clubs and
diamonds, since he was willing to
risk four spades despite the purely
pre-emptive bid of three clubs.
Therefore with three trum p 5
and the void in hearts, South felt
hound to haln his hartman
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY JOE WING
A WORLD TREASURY OF
PROVERBS, by Henry David
off (Random House; S3)

VII N1tNlANVkAk 4AOA6O1 PoJ
This compendium Of $4,000 pro-
verbs COMPRISING the worlds wis
dom and misconceptions in phrases
no longer than 20 words each ought
to stack up pretty well on your
library shelf along with the diction'
airy and thesauruS and Bartletts
quotations.
It is a New York school teach
er's labor of love and the first and
most extensive of its kind, appar-
emily, in many a year. Davidotf
had drawn on Is languages but has
relied most heavily of course on
English and American folklore,
The author mas c%atalogued his
maxims neatly by subject and the
printer has used type that all can
read. Reading, one is impressed by
the fact that you can prove most
anything pro or con, with good
quotable proverbs.
NATIONAL SECURITY AND
THE GENERAL STAFF, by
Maj. Gen. Otto L. Nelson, Jr"
Infantry journal; $5.)
Subtitled ga study in organiza-
ton and administration" this book
surveys our errors as well as our
great achievements in two world
wars, and maintains that the gen
eral staff since its establishment in
1908 has "abundantly justified its
usefulness" W.G.R.
THE REST is SILENCE, by
Erico Verissimq, translated
from the Portuguese by L. c.
Kaplan MACMILLAN; $50.
Porto Allegro in Brazil is tae
place and a good Friday and Holy
Saturday the time of this earnest
but u~nexciting novel.
After a dramatic start, in which
a girl falls to her death, the story
introduces a handful of persons
who saw the incident or are al
fected by it to some degree. Ihey
are a retired judge, a JoblesS
typographer, a composer and MS
wife, a novelist, neWsboy, conSe[-
vative lawyer, spendthrift ouSl-
nessman and their families
friends, mistresses, %suitors.
The search for an explanation
for the suicide, murder or accl-
dent is carried on desultorily by
the plodding author against an
expanded description of the IN
terested characters. But tAey
aren't very interested. You aren!
either; the device has been used
before, and more effectively W.G.R'
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
Religion

By L T. ELLIS
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
BARBARA'S COMPLAINT

Little barbara, who loves all liz
ing things, has returned home from
our camp, where she had pet
ducks, a lame chicken, frogs, but
terflies. a turtle and even worms
to play with. Without pets, she was
diseensolate. Her father came upon
her weeping, and in an outburst OF
woe she cried that she knows God
is a boy, else He would understand
her troubles!
Poor Barbara - so early con-
fronted by the mysteries of life and
the need of comfort. Children, little
and big - maay of them gray
haired - reckon with God and Ma
lures vast scheme of things only
In terms of their personal expert
enees and needs. why did God
let my child die?" is one of the
cemmonest complaints hurled at
heaven.
Often we pit our little griefs
against Thy supreme wisdom, o
lied; and W. crave forgiveness for
our folIy. Amen
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
QUOTATIONS

Let me warn any nation or power that now
plans to subjugate the rest of the world eco
nomically or politically or militarily to look
for Hiter's glory in the depths of his bomDproot
shelter.-sen. Tom connally CD of Texas.
The simple truth is that war is no longer
a possible course of aet1oa open to mankind
Sen. Harley M. Kilgore CD OF West Virginia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29
TOP o. THE

Christianity is The only religion that
abounds in song. Atheism is songiess;
agnosticism has nothing to sing about; the
various forms of h4olatry are not tunefui;
but Judaism said, 80 come, let us sing
Unto the Lord;'' and when Christ came
the angels greeted His birth with praise,
and since then Christian song has gained
in f~u.lness and strength OF voice with each
century.
Unknown
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29

have agreed on, special
American Legion, Disabled Amer.
can Veterans, and Veterans OIL
Foreign Wars has been working
for the following amendments:
One granting the right of trial
by jury to veterans OF their bene'
ficiaries in suits arising out OF IL
surance claims.
One giving insurance benefits in
cases where servicemen died IN
line of duty before their policies
became effective.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-29

Bert Allerton, of Chicago, got him
self elected president of the Society Of
American Magicians. It's a good trick,
if you can do it
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

tees OF both the New York County and s.
Medical Societies. testified that the kck.bXl|
system among doctors was "a national problem.
At this hearing. William A. Ysnss. an Opt
clan. declared that the financial arrangement be
tween opticians and doctors affects "virtuall5
every person who wears glasses"
No who reads newspapers. and. in particu,
lar. my colleague. Westbrook Pegler. can doub|
that graft, chiseling and extortion reach thei
high in the labor unions.
DEGLER testified before Congressional coni
mittee that vast numbers OF American{
have been compelled to pay from S23 to $50
each TO join the union price OF Jobs at comI
mon pick and shovel labor on national defensd
projects" and that a union treasurer went I'd
prison for robbing the benefciaries OF deceased
members and yet remains in office"
The record of racketeering among labor lead
ers is one that would bring prompt measures for
correction in any nation less habituated to the
view of tainted money that the more taint the
more tbs.
AS matter of fact the most reg@ettable and
alarming part of the whole situation is publid
acceptance and indifference or even approval.
After the Seabury investigation in New York
had shown up a long list Of officials. high and
low. who, on small salaries had banked as much
as half a million In six years, Norman Thomas
declared that politics partakes of tn corruption
of society which has cynically accepted the
acquisition Of money as its god"
There is no valid answer to this s,-tement.
no LONG as most of US want money md
than we want anything else many OF us
having changed the proverbial honestly "a
possible" to honestly II there's no easier way
graft will be a national commonplace regardless
OF the fact that any nation of which hat Is true
has taken its first lonC, sure stride oward dis
integration.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06
MmMfMoI5j'@s;iibi5.;iii1@';i III bii1;y Palm p
by Claiming POIIOck

everyone does il. While you were at the hos.
ptal had lot Of muck taken out of my car.
bureter. The garage was crowded. and the boss
told me they couldn't get to me before next
Tuesday.
"How-come my jobs done and didn't keep
you waiting minute? 1t wasn't because the me-
chanic 1 spoke to liked the CLINT of my auburn
hair.
"The answer to trouble anywhere or about
anything nowadays is. What's in your pocket
and will il come out
" RAFT in our country is not confined to only
Y one class. Like Portals quality Of mercy.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest." perhaps,
and then "droppeth the gentle rain from
heaven" among the lowlest.
Relief" and rationing afforded great oppor-
tuniteS Recently. wholesale butcher confided
in me that IF you had the money I've paid Gov
ernment agents since the war, you'd be rich
man."
A few years ago in New York. the Bureau OF
Weights and Measures devoted day TO testing
the scales of 200 small neighborhood merchants.
Something like 80 percent of these were found to
be rugged"
great department store in New York sent
its customers a printed notice that This store
does not give commissions discounts either in
cash or merchandise to chauffeurs or other house
hold employees" thus suggesting the commonness
Of the practice.
TXCEPTING the clergy, no profession has
~ been immune from this contagion. friend
of mine asked his tailor to hurry fitting
as ne had to appear in court TO pay fine for
speeding The tailor said, Don't worry. make
that magistrates clothes free, and he'll listen to
reason" telephone message promptly fixed
the matter.
In December, 1943, David A. Kaliski. chair
man OF the Workmens Compensation Commit
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06
E4Tlf I

friend reported to me a conversation with George
that had taken place the very afternoon Of my
fruitleSs Journey Relating my own experience
asked "How did you get into the room?"
He answered. II slipped the nurse SO"
That completed the circuit thought; graft
in this country begins at the cradle and ends
only with the grave. There is practically nothing
that cannot be got, done or squared by slipping"
someone BILL
During an extended stay in the Orient, just
before the latest World War, concluded that the
art of palm.g greasing had reached its zenith In
China. Subsequent observation has persuaded me
that the man who wants to study this type of
crookedness accepted social usage, more ma.
tional than the scenery and more common than
the common cold must come TO the United States
of America.
TT OMEWARD bound in hired car the day
II of my attempt to call on my knsman, we
a truck standing at one side Of the
road while its driver discoursed with an officer
of the law AS we passed. the two clasped hands
and parted.
My chauffeur laughed. This is the third time
I've seen that happen within forty.eight hours"
he related "The cop says the truck carries more
than its legal load. the driver slips him two
dollars maybe five, and everythings hunky-
dory. A fellow know was stopped twice on the
same trip, but that was mistake. The second
cop was supposed to concentrate on trucks going
the other way"
The pilot OF my car is an old acquaintance
and thoroughly honest man. but he found
nothing remarkable or reprehensibe in this pro-
cedure.
"shucks." he responded to my comment
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

I HEN a near relative of mine was
dying in hospital in New York.
I came in from the country to see
him, and was told his condition
didn't permit visitors. At his
funeral, a week later, a mutual
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-06

Craft begins at the era
die, ends at the grave.
''-Slipping" someone
a bill can accom-
plish almost anything.
The Valley settler., 1946-10-17
A|RFRElGI4T MAY BE
 ADDED SAYS OPA

Mlo ska OPA okoys air froifht co st Sc"
 Innnodi ate approval ras granted to Aln ska merchants to odd to their selling prices on air shipped merchandise, tho additional
 costs of cir ire ight over GU stomary sh ip- ping costs.
 Tn their territory wide announcement of :. this okoy on oddit ional costs of cir
 froi fight or other non-customary means of |. acquiring goods, tho Alaska oPA stated
 such an emergency measure vas necessary 1e specially to prevent on unfair margin
 squeeze on those Ala ska merchants uho arc placing orders to be shipped by air to meet tho Torritoryss hoods during tho pro sent tran sportation cri si S..
 Effective October 10th, price for any com- modity ing a specific oPA dollars end cents ccili ing, or coiling stcbli shod by OPA formula of morkup ovor co st may be il- creased by the additional co st of air plano or other non-custQnnr ry moons of trnnspor- totion actually incurred ovor and abovo cost of customary tran sportot ion. oPA officog throughout tho Territory arc
 irtructing merchants on this emergency od-
 ju stnont- of prices, which will remain in effect only unt il tho first boat or train arrival following sott1 ono nt of tho ship p ing strike tho nnouncompnt stated. .. Merchants arc being required to koop record on air shipped commodities showing the quantity sold, tho froi ight roto paid and the amount of oigrt added to the c ceiling price. So Hers arc al so required to inform purchaser tho amount added on togs. OX SOC