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Evening star., 1946-05-08
Flight From Coal
By Raymond Molev

Everybody talks about John L. Lewis,
but nobody does anything about him.
Threats of dire punishments are of no
Importance to him. His personal dar-
ing and intelligence, his power over his
miners, the weakness of the operators
and the incapacity of the Government
have made his going easy. The prob
lem of John L. Lewis is the problem OF
coal. If our economy were not so
tightly funneled through the coal in
dustry, no man, even with the advan-
tages of Mr.. Lewis, could throw us into
an economic brownout
One way to lessen the Lewis threat
is to grow less dependent upon coal.
We can, with some safety, adapt our
fuel-consuming machinery more gen.
orally to the alternative use of oil, nat
ural gas and water power. This par
tisl solution for our dependence on coal
will probably be pursued as the danger
OF recurrent coal strikes is more deeply
impressed on big users. The coal in
dustry realizes this fact and greatly
fears what it calls "a flight from coal"
On the labor side, it is clear that
labor forces needed for coal are rela-
lively greater than for substitutes.
In Russia and in the Western United
States oil is major alternative to coal.
Possibilities for our use of oil are prom
ising, for old and woeful predictions
about exhausting the oil supply are now
proved to be overstatementS,
There is limit to the expansion of
water power as substitute for coal.
The best engineering judgment tells
us that water power grows less eff-
cient, while coal grows more eficient
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Tourist Camp Problem

Elimination from the Interior De-
partment supply bill of a 100000
item for construction of a new and
enlarged tourist camp in East Poto-
mac Park presumably means the
death of this highly controversial
project in its present form. 1t was
the form of the proposal. not the
plan for a new camp itself, which
had evoked vigorous objections from
the District Recreation Board and
from the District Commissioners
as well as from many of the Cap
itals citizens. AS contemplated by
Government Services, Inc, operator
of the present tourist camp. the
greatly enlarged new tourist haven
would have taken over a large area
of land in East Potomac Park here
tofore reserved for recreational uses.
The project also would have ignored
the 1941 report of the Co-ordinating
Committee on Recreation Plans,
which recommended complete re-
moval of the tourist camp from East
Potomac Park so that the area
might be restored to its original
status as park and playground
area for residents of Washington.
Killing of the item does not. of
course, mean that Congress is un-
mindful of the fact that Washing
ton should have larger and more
modern parking ground for motor
lists visiting the Nations Capital.
The old camp is totally inadequate,
both as to size and equipment. The
preWar plan was to move the
camp to a new site in the Arlington
Farm vicinity, but the wartime
building developments across the
river blocked that proposal. The
House Appropriations Committee
made it plain that new camp is
necessary-but that a site more
suitable than that in East Potomac
Park should be selected. One site
on Federal property near the Mount
Vernon Boulevard has been sug-
gested. A study by park authorities
should determine the practicability
OF this or other sites. Certainly
every effort should be made by the
proper officials to find more appro-
pirate location for the new camp
than the exposed, limited recrea-
tional area in East Potomac Park.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Cancer Campaign Footnote

John Everett Millais was one of
those men who seem to be sent into
the world to make life more beauti-
full. Thousands of people are famil-
lar with his pictures as they hang
In the public galleries of England.
A still larger company knows them
In the form of printed and engraved
reproductions. The artist began to
exhibit exactly century ago. His
premier canvas was "Pizarro Selling
the Inca of Peru" Professional
critics doubted that it could be the
work of a lad only seventeen years
of age, yet such was the fact.
The authentic, inborn genius of
Millais, however, was even more
convincingly demonstrated in 1850
when he displayed his Christ in
the House of His Parents" It was
a composition marking a conscious
and deliberate return to nature.
The creator of it had shared with
Holman Hunt and later Dante
Gabriel Rossetti the credit for
founding the so-called "Pre- -Rapha-
elite Brotherhood" whose members
pledged themselves to the faithful
representation of line and color as
they are, not as they might be
imagined or interpreted"
A long list of tremendously popu-
lar pictures came from Millais' pencil
and brush in reaffirmation of "the
greater magic" of reality. "The Boy
hood of Raleigh" and 'The Little
Princes in the Tower" are but two
of the number widely circulated.
Others included: "Ophelia," "The
Huguenot," "The Order of Release"
"The Blind Girl" "The Vale of Rest"
'"The Knight Errant" and particu-
larly "The Northwest Passage"
Ordinary citizens understood and
warmly appreciated these efforts.
Honors were heaped on their author.
In 1885 he was named a baronet,
Oxford and Durham Universities
gave him degrees, the academies
of Vienna, Antwerp and Madrid and
the Institute of France voted him
admission to their respective circles.
Finally on January Is, 1896, the
richest prize to which he might
aspire was voted him unanimously
he was chosen president of the Royal
Academy in succession to Lord
Leighton.
Then, at the apex of his powers
and probably the most notably and
deservedly famous artist in Europe,
Millais suddenly was struck down.
An irritation in his throat developed
into cancer. BY August 13, 1896, he
was dead. His beloved wife sue
cumbed to the same frightful
disease in 1897. The group OF
physicians who yesterday asked
Evening star., 1946-05-08

Secretary of State Byrnes Is no longer
worried about what the country might
say II he returned empty-handed from
the Big Four Foreign Ministers Confer
ence in Paris.
The Secretary-who has learned di-
plomacy the hard way" in less than
a year-has not swerved since the first
meeting with his colleagues from the
point OF view that this country cannot
become party to bartering human be-
ings for the sake of political expediency.
In the past, the American and British
governments frequently yielded on def
mite principles for the sake of ephemeral
and temporary diplomatic success. But
Mr.. Byrnes is now aware that he will
receive warmer welcome when he re-
turns from the French capital without
having again appeased any nation on
major matters, and will not need any
window dressing to report to the Amer
ican people any important decisions be-
cause he endeavored to obtain a peace
based on justice.
The vital question of Italian-Yugo-
slav boundaries is definitely stale
mated. There is little hope that For
eign Minister Molotov of Russia or the
American and British Secretaries of
State will recede from their positions.
The Soviet offer to relinquish its claim
on $500 100000 in cash as part of Italys
reparations made little impression on
Mr.. Byrnes This matter had already
been discussed last summer at Potsdam
when both President Truman and Mr..
Byrnes rejected the Russian demand
by saying that the monies involved
would eventually have to come from the
American Treasury and this country
sees no reason why it should pay a war
indemnity to the U. S. S. R. The same
argument has been reiterated in Paris.
The territorial settlement in regard
to Romania never presented any diff
flculties, so long as the Romanians did
not claim the return of their prewar
frontiers in the east and the north.
Russia approved the restoration of
Transylvania and Dobrudja to the
Romanlans as long as the question
Of Bessarabia and Bukovina-two Ro-
manian provinces which had been
granted to Russia by the Hitler-Stalin
agreement Of 1939-was not brought up
for discussion.
More trouble is expected, however, re-
garding the settlement of the Bulgarian
boundaries in the south The Bull
garian government, supported by Mos
cow. is demanding an outlet to the
Aegean Sea and is claiming Western
Thrace, together with the port of Dede
Agatch. Moscow is reported to have
promised to support the Sofia puppet
governments claims as a compensation
for Bulgarias willingness to yield Do
brudja to the Romanian puppet regime.
None Of the other foreign ministers
can indorse such claim. Greece was
an ally during the war and fought the
Nazis; Bulgaria, regardless Of the rea-
Evening star., 1946-05-08
ScurecroWs

There is considerable difference
of opinion among countrymen re-
garding the efficacy of these man.
made objects that stand in corn
fields and gardens. Webster in his
usual succinct and impersonal way
simply says: An object, usually sug-
gesting a human figure, set up to
frighten crows, ETC., away from
crops; hence, anything terrifying
without danger. So far as the crows
are concerned that seems salts
factory definition. But it is not the
whole story-not from a farmers
point of view who enjoys building
a scarecrow that will give pleasure
to his neighbors and cause comment
among members of the family.
If a man likes to putter in the
Uttered, comfortable farm shop,
there are days in early spring as
rains lash the land when it is good
fun to devise a new scarecrow. We
are told that adult modern educa-
ton should stress the opportunities
for creative expression, and a new
scarecrow gives man a chance to
let himself go. It is possible to
build framework so that arms and
legs can be attached at different
and unusual angles. With sturdy
hardwood 111n,her o,oe con h,,ild co
that the object which terrifies with
out danger will last for many spring
seasons.
But it is in the creation of the
heads that a man can really let
himself go. With soft wood one
can imagine himself a sculptor.
There should be a couple full faces
and necks that can be bolted to the
Evening star., 1946-05-08

upright, there should be at least two
profiles, one of them with a goatee.
If a man has the creative touch in
his fingers he can jigsaw a profile
with recognizable likeness to Uncle
Fred or second cousin Adoniram-
or perhaps good neighbor who lives
up the road. Naturally, one will not
argue with Webster regarding the
main purpose of the creation. But
long experience leads the country
man to believe that while scarecrows
have little effect on the big,
black, willy birds, they do afford a
man-and the family-considera
pleasure.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Sharp Question

OHdI y OuGStlOl
To the Editor OF The Star:
vote to give the country back to the
Indians before giving it to Lewis and
gang.
Three and one-half years IN the Navy
and for what? STANTON KOLB.
Graphic Suggestion Offered
TO the Editor of The Star:
have a suggestion by means of
which believe The Star, with the
help of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., may be able to assist materially
In the campaign to reduce consumption
OF electric power for the duration of the
coal strike. -
Each day a recording meter, at one
of the company's central stations, au-
tomatically makes pen-and-ink chart
showing the variation in electric power
consumption over the 24-hour period.
If The Star, with the companys per-
mission, copied and published this chart
on its front page each day, together
with copy of the similar chart for the
same weekday before the "brownout"
started, the most offhand comparison
OF the two charts would provide a
graphic demonstration of how much
power and coal were being saved.
I believe that such graphic presen-
tation Of results would stimulate public
interest and active cooperation. 1t is
much more ''fun" to join in concerted
public effort when the results can be
seen" day by day. L. v. BLAKE.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Grief

The weeks had been an endless chain
OF days
Bound to each other BY some fragile
link,
Yet each had blurred into siluer haze:
She had been stunned. her mind
refused to think,
But noao the haze aDould lift; beyond
her po1cer
Time aDould resume, precisioned,
f1ultleSS, SloD-
And she herself ,Dould be the creeping
hour,
Moving, implaccable, NTH no place
to 90.
Yet even the sharp return OF time wos
good;
The stab OF light, the coming back
to pain;
These Dere the tanoibles she under.
stood
The link had snapped; here ,pas the
broken chain
That she could gather-mdke the pieces
fit,
And dtn,ly. she became dwdre of Il.
MAE wINKLER GOODMAN.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
One Week to Go

The fact that the Senate has
refused to invoke cloture to cut
off debate on the British loan issue
comes as no great surprise and is
not necessarily indicative of what
the Senate's final attitude toward
the measure will be. But it serves
as an ominous reminder that time
is running out-that the Senate has
but one week in which to dispose
OF the loan legislation and also to
take up, pass and reach agreement
with the House on a bill to extend
the Selective Service Act.
If the Senate fails to meet this
deadline it will have been deplorably
neglectful of its duty. And those
members who have been resentful-
often properly so-of past COM
plants to the effect that Congress
has failed the country in vital mat
ters will find themselves with little
to say in behalf of the upper branch
OF the National Legislature. For
the undeniable fact is that Senators
opposed to the loan have fiagrantly
abused the Senate's traditional free
dom Of debate and the Senate as
whole has acquiesced in this abuse
at the expense OF the national
welfare.
This condition cannot be permit
ted to continue without serious
impairment of public confidence in
the willingness and ability OF the
Senate to function effectively. Nor
can it be permitted to continue
without serious injury to the ma
tional interests. This being the case,
1t is to be expected that the men,
bers of the Senate will call an i'm
mediate halt to pointless, time
wasting debate on a matter that has
long since been fully debated. Their
obligation is to vote on the i'm
portant issues confronting them.
and it is time that they were living
up to that responsibility.
Evening star., 1946-05-08

Congress to provide funds for q
Federal campaign against cancer
did not mention this tragedy, but a
brief retelling of it may give point
t. the appeal. Seventeen million
individuals, it has been testified, will
perish as Sir John Everett and Lady
Millais did "in our lifetime" unless
a cure is discovered.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Starving People Do Not Reason
By David Laurence
From the Ottawa journal.

from the Ottawa journal.
1t is becoming increasingly apparent
that millions in Europe, to say nothing
OF those other hundreds of millions u,
Asia, are today not nearly as keen about
what we term democracy as they were a
few months ago. They feel that the de-
mocracies have failed them and the
siarmlng food situation is often given a.
the basic cause of this change of feeling,
just to argue that responsibility for pro-.
viding food is up to the people of liber-
ated countries, or former enemies, Is to
evade the issue. Starving people do no.
think nationally and it is easy to SOW
among them the seeds for future wars
Rightly or wrongly ways and means
must be found to ship more food over.
seas, and the way to achieve such goal
in Canada has yet to be found.
Evening star., 1946-05-08

The vast majority of Americans
look forward with longing to the
day on which. when a strike para
lyzes the industry and threatens the
safety of their country, strong Gov
ernment action will follow about as
rapidly as thunder does lightning.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
And Impotence!

From the New Orleans Times -Picayune.
About the only things we've plenty
of, 1t now appears, are bad tempers and
war spirit on the industrial front,
Evening star., 1946-05-08

The weatherman tells us that
summer begins on or about June
81, but it is not really official here
until the last Halloween soap mark
ings are gone from the last auto
mobile
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17
Glib
Plans Parties
For This Week

The Cape Fear Country club will
hold the weekly bridge luncheon
for members and their out-of-town
guests on Thursday from IL until
3 o'clock at the popular clubhouse.
Bridge is put aside at l o'clock
for luncheon. and again resumed
until 3 o'clock.
Reservations may be made by
calling Mrs. Boehm at the club
house. On Tuesday evening the
club will hold the third in a series
of duplicate bridge tournaments.
No reservations are necessary for
this event. Members playing in the
game are requested to be on time
as the game begins promptly at
B O'Clock.
On Saturday evening, November
% the club will entertain with a
dinner dance at which time Virgil
West and his orchestra will furnish
the music for dancing. Reserva-
lions are necessary for this event
and may be made by calling Mrs.
Boehm at the clubhouse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17

for East and West were Mrs. A.
B.. Cheatham and Mrs. Richard
Rogers. Mrs. Sam Nash, Jr., the
directress, has announced that In
future the scores will be posted
on the following Tuesday night,
with the names of the two winners
on each side appearing in the
papers the day after the tourna-
ment, rather than keep the score
keeper and a few interested play.
ers at the clubhouse for several
hours after II pm. while the tabu-
lation is going on.
Mrs. R. Bryant Hare, Jr.. and
Mrs. P. R. Smith returned yester-
day by motor from Richmond
where they spent the past two
days. ..
Mrs. T. E. Brown is expected
home this week from Fon Du Lac
and S%heboygan, Wis, d from
Chicago where for the past month
she has been visiting relatives.
The, greater part of her stay was
spent in Fon Du Lac with her
sister and brother-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Conlin. In Chicago
Mrs. Brown visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Querin Dorschel.
OF paramount interest to local
society this week is the announce
ment made today by Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Strange of the engagement
of their daughter, May Strange to
Thomas l.. Morton, son of Mrs.
Julian Morton and the late Julian
Morton of Wilmington. "Midge,"
as she is affectionately known, is
one of the loveliest and most
popular of Dur debutantes. Add to
that a fine mind and a radiant
smile and you will have a fair
picture of the petite young lady
VINO is serious minded enough to
grace her fathers office in the
role of private secretary this fall.
Tommy Morton who is the sec
rotary treasure of Hugh MacRae
and Co., is tall, blond, good look
ing, and we'll liked.
I must sign off now, Peg. until
next week. With love for the finest
girl 1 know. Always the same,
VIRGINIA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17
YWCA Staff Meet
Opens Week S Events

The weekly schedule OF the
YWCA, Third a n d Grace street,
has been announced as follows:
November 10, 10 am. Staff
meeting, 2:15 pm. Carolina Beach
Little Y-Sisters, 4 pm. art class,
4 pm. Y-Teen Committee meet
ing. Z. pm. R e S i d e n C e Girls
vespers, 7:3O pm. Leather craft.
November 10, 2:15 pm. Caro-
lima Beach Y-Teens, 4 pm. Jr.,
Y-Teens, 7:30 pm. Business girls
club, election of officers, bridge,
8 pm. Bird club.
November 20, 2:30 pm. Tileston
Y-Teens, $3.50 pm. Sunset Park
Y-Teens, 4 pm. Freshman Y
Teens, 6 pm. Sr. Y-Teens, 7 pm
YWCA Bowling team at Ingrams.
November 81, 4 pm. Y-Teen
Senior 1nterclub council, 7:30 pm.
Art club. 7:15 pm. World Affairs
class to meet at Y and attend
DR.. Graham's lecture at High
school.
November %, $3.50 pm. Sophie
more Y-Teens, $3.50 pm. Wrignts-
boro Y-Teens.
November %, 2 pm. Chestnut
street Y-Teens, 7 to 1920 pm.
Senior Y-Teens party at Y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17
Miss Mckinney,
Owen Smith To
Wed In December

Miss Shirley Mckinney, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Nc
Kinney of Shelby, has completed
plans for her wedding to Owen B.
Smith, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. B. Smith of Wilmington.
The wedding will take place on
Saturday afternoon, December 7
at 4:30 o'clock in the First Baptist
church in Wilmington with the
Rev. Charles A. Madry officiating.
Nuptial music will be presented
by Henri Emurian, organist, and
soloist.
Mrs. H. E. Mckinney of Black
Mountain, sister in-law of the
bride-elect, will be matron : Of
honor and Miss leila Boyd of Will
mington will be maid-of-honor.
Miss Mckinney will be given in
marriage by her brother, H. E.
Mckinney of Black Mountain and
Mr.. Smith will have his father as
his best man. Ushers will be
Parks Low and Bill Meyland.
Friends of the couple are cor
daily invited to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17

Announcement was 1ioue See
,.sany bv E. L. White, recently
alanointed President Of the Cape
eoar country club for 1s4e-47, that
w. second dinner dance Of the
VIC ,on at the popular clubhouse
s ssy take place on Saturday eve
VIZ November %, from 9 until
ai1 aS7c1ock. Music for dancing will
furnished by Virgil West and
De orche5t r Reservations for
i;nner must be made at least "a
s s in advance by telephoning
w. club. Informal dress will be
t a,e order of the evening and a
t seIishtful time is anticipated by
large number of interested
r,erobers who have signified their
mention of attending.
Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy is ex-
,octpd home today from New
York city where she spent the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Parrish have
rot,xned to thei rhome at 1920
vIein road after a visit of two
meeks to Mr.. Parrish's former
home in northern Alabama. Mrs.
parrish is none other than the eff
ticient. cooperative, pleasant,
friendly IN i S Mary whom
everyone knows and likes, if they
over visit The Grocerteria.
Mrs. J.. Laurence Sprunt spent
tbp past ten days in Washington
with her sister and brother-in-law,
General and Mrs. Albert Cox.
Mrs. M. L. Wright of Silver
Springs, Md. arrived on Tuesday
IN visit her daughter and soa-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew H.
Harriss, Jr., at their apartment
6Oo Dock street. Mrs. Harriss was
the former Louise Wright of Sill
yer Springs.
A month or so ago several
couples were dining at Greenville
Manor on Greenville Sound one
evening and as they were leav.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17
Slightly Off The Record
Continued from Page One)

j. defense Mechanism" again, but on a higher plane. And 81 wa
TO IA On OF endlessly, but the whole trouble lies in the fact that wa
e c@9mopoERNs ire not even honest with ourselves. We talk to suit the
Moa+nna and very often in turning On extra strong blast of defense
stunhansm" we are careless of the feelings of others, which is abso-
n Em are guilty of in 1916 is dissatisfaction and the feeling that
Ill., mo wi do not agree with every word W utter r dead wrong.
no. i. someone once very httingly said: when we. think we are the
As stast is always the time when we are dumbest". However
sshmapespeare summed the matter up very beautifully in his immortal
I uanlt when he wrote:
nam ITO thine w self be true, ~ s*r-
And it must follow, as the night the dav. - %
Thou canst not then be false to ay man..
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17
Woman's Auxiliary
Will Meet Monday

The Woman's Auxiliary Of St.
Andrews Covenant Presbyterian
church will meet Monday, Novem-
Der ID, at $3.50 o'clock in the
Kenan building.
The program, What Is My
Church D ding About Making
America Christian" will be pre-
sented by Miss Elizabeth Nc
Whorter, director OF religious edu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17

cation at the First Presbyterian,
church.
Mrs. /. j. Sutton will lead the
devotional, and members OF the
Girl Scout Troop of St. Andrews
Covenant will offer special music
accompanied by Mrs. Elizabeth
Emory. Every member OF the
auxiliary is urged to be present
at the meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-17
UB CLOCK

quested to meet at the church
at 7 o'clock where tran5porta-
ton will be available.
The Audubon Home Demon
stration club will meet Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o'clock with
Mrs. Claude Jewell in High
wood Park.
Stewardship night will be
observed at Calvary Baptist
church on Wednesday evening
at 7:30 o'clock. The program
will be given by the young
people of the church. A play
will be presented.
The Junior G.. AS, R. AS
and Sunbeams of the Sunset
Park Baptist church will meet
at the church on Tuesday, No.
vember 10 at 8 o'clock.
The Private Duty Section of
District Nine, N. C. Nurses
association will hold the regu-
lar meeting on Wednesday aft
ernoon at 3:15 o'clock at the
Nurses home of James Wal
ker Memorial hospital. Miss
Hazel Golf, director of nurses
of James Walker, will be the
guest speaker. All members
are urged to attend.