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The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-23
RECENT INCREASES S

In u. ). Army pay may go a long
WAYS TO make a draft unneces-
sary. Now that services bring
more a month. many young men
Interested In any military career,
win help secure this nations pro-
lection. Base pay for q private is
SIS a month with clothing. food.
housing additional. AT the end Of
30 years. still a private, they re-
tire on an income of ss4.3s a
month. The Master or First Ser
geant with 20 years service re-
tires at sl07.25 a month. or 80
years with sls5. So. This income
would be hard TO equal In other
lines. A $4,000 income would
bring a man but $4,000, less than
A sergeant's retirement pay. Other
advantages offered by military
service appeal TO many young
men. This war has shown the
drawing power OF travel, OF see
Ing other peoples. seeing vast and
new lands. The added expense oi
increasing Army pay viii have to
be met by our government. but
there are few Americans any more
who do not believe in meeting the
cost Of preparedness ahead oi
time.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-23
ThE FARM ER rs

directly affected by removal OF
price ceilings, finding products of
his rising in value but discover
ing cost OF feed and such supplies
going up in a market that Is free
for the first time in a number OF
years. Al present. costs have not
gone up as fast as the price the
farmer gets but the time comes
when farm prices fall and costs
don't. In the same level. This
makes an unstable market and one
wonders about the receipts. Ag-
rieulture Is based on a long-range
planning and 10 change operations
in a hurry is practically impossi-
BILE. Naturally this all leads to a
state OF bewilderment among
farmers around Coolidge. As a re-
suit. many growers are sitting
tight TO see what next. Any smart
businessman would do the same.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-23
<he CdxoAI
Note Book
SEASONA6LE LABOR

seems just as difficult TO obtain
In New York's Hudson river
farming country as on the cotton
farms in Arizona. The Christian
Science Monitor editorializes on
the plight Of one farmer In upper
New York who advertises for
nearby city folks TO come pick
his berries for tree. lie just can't
hire anybody TO do the job even
al s. a day. The farmer. Autumn
Van Den Heuval. Is puzzled about
the whole thing.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-23
OUT HERE IN

Arizona we are Just as puzzled
and We, too. ask the same ques-
tkons as the Monitors editor who
wonders II there Is silll too much
money In America or II too many
men and women are still being
supported by government largess.
Whatever the reason may be the
end can't be too far off. Our only
hope Is that a plentiful supply OF
willing labor does not come upon
the nation al the same time a
break In prices and a general re-
cession OF things economic sets
IN
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-23
A FEW DAYS AGO

We read a news dispatch telling
us there had not been a bank fall
ure in this country for the past
g months. What change from
the days OF Herbert Hoover when
ones money was much less safe
In the average bank than M the
family sock or In a convenient can
below the back steps. II history
records no other good from the is
years OF government at the hands
Of the democrats other than the
safeguard Of ones savings In
Americas banks that alone would
De enough. Bank failures have
cost the people OF our nation more
money than even World War Two.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-23
UNTIL EARLY IN

October the Examiner will not
carry its weekly column of ten
years ago items. And the reason
Is that someone slipped back In
1886 and failed TO file copies OF
the paper from August 18th to
October End.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Shade Tree Values

1t is true enough that only God can
make a tree, but it takes a lot of human
understanding and appreciation to pre-
serve it.
Because Americans get their clearest
idea of value when they are reduced to
dollars and cents, several cities have
computed the worth of their shade trees
on the monetary basis, so that their
citizens may be less disposed to destroy
them in places where they do not actual
ly interfere with economic progress and
development.
Newark, New Jersey, for example,
is cited in a letter to the New York
Herald Tribune by a Mrs. Carrot Smith
Of Plainfield as among the communities
have to border the states highways
with them - preferably using water
oaks, which are hardy and evergreen
and to sponsor legislation to provide a
~Shade-tree Commission and an appro-
priation sufficient for maintenance.
that have appraised their shade trees.
Mrs. Smith says that Newark, using
500 as the basic value for a. single ma
ture tree, counts it's $4,000 as an asset
worth $6,000,0 900. Plainfield, the writer's
home city, using the same valuation,
counts it's 10000 trees as worth ST.
000,0 00. Greater New York, she adds,
has 100000 trees, with 1000 street
trees in Manhattan borough alone and
10000 in it's parks. 1T is increasingly
important" Mrs. Smith believes, "for
officials and the general public to know
the number and value of their trees"
Of course she is right. Trees do have
a monetary value, in addition to their
other attributes. What an opportunity
the women's clubs of North Carolina
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
American Trusteeship

With Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek's approval and communist distrust
a proposal is made for an American
t~rusteeship over disputed zones in China.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Marking, quoting an unidentified
spokesman, describes these areas as:
North Kiangsu Province, north OF
Marking and Shanghai, where the war
of words and exchange of shots are rag
ing hottest now.
Parts of the seaboard Province OF
Shantung. where the Government-Com-
munist skirmishing has at times eddleo
close to the U. S. Marine-based port OF
Tsingtao.
Parts of the mountainous but strate-
gic Province of Jehol lying between
Manchuria and the rest of China proper.
Chahar Province, adjoining Jehol on the
west in Inner Mongolia.
Inasmuch as American efforts have
failed to make any truce between the
national forces of Chang Kai-shek and
the communists in the north effective,
it must be apparent to everybody that
the additional responsibilities involved
in such a trusteeship would prove equal
ly unsuccessful and costly.
There is no reason to expect Chang
and the communists to compose their
differences until they find a common
ground of agreement. There certainly
is no reason to hope that American IN
terposition could be of material assls-
lance in developing that common
ground. On the other hand the United
States would have to maintain a large
clarical force on the scene, obviously at
it's own expense, and stand the chance
that one side or the other, both being
war-minded, would attack American Of
fees with accompanying loss of life.
The argument for an American
trusteeship is more than offset. by the
bitterness between the nationalist
communist factions which are extend
ing their civil wal to wider frontiers,
with violent fighting reported yester-
day from northern Manchuria to cen
trail Shansi.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
QUOTATIONS

Whence comes this talk of blocs? BY what
right do those who vote ballot after ballot with
the Soviet Union call those Of us who do not
always agree with the Soviet Union a bloc?
Secretary of State Byrnes.
I'm confident that before too long produc-
ton here in this country is really going to
take over and get in its own good ticks to
help the government keep prices at levels
everyone can afford. - OPA Administrato
Paul A. Porter.
There really is nothing of Europe in this
conference except for the English. 1t is a
conference of Slavs and Americans, with
scarcely anything of the European spirit in it.
DIR. Raoul Fernandez of Brazil, Peace Con
ference delegate
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27

The Talmadge suit was filed by
DR.. Cullen B. Gosnell, political sci.
ence professor at Emory univer'
sity, and Mrs. Robert Lee thurman,
former president Of the Atlanta
League of Women voters.
The court declared that there
is a "glaring inequality betwee-
application of the unit vote system
in Fulton and Chattahoochee coun.
ties, but said "the remedy for these
exceptional situations is to be
sought through changes in the law
rather than by appeal to courts OIL
equity to upset the law as ucon.
%stitutional because of a hardship
that has arisen.
Talmadge defeated young James
V. Carmichael, who had the back.
ing Of Governor Ellis Arnall, ir
the primary, although Carmichae
won the popular vote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Fifty Years Service

A subject the Star likes to dwell on
in season and out is faithfulness on the
job. It deserves more and more en-
phasis as s~teadfastness weakens in the
wake of the war. Employees in high posi-
lions and low find it less and less agree
able to stick fast in the economic and
social backwash Of the world conflict,
This is why it is so gratifying to
hear of men who have resisted all temp
tations to see what lies wei the hill.
Such a case is that of R. ]. Rivenbark,
general route agent Of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad, who was awarded a
fifty-year service emblem on Saturday
at appropriate ceremonies with the pre-
sentation made by W. D. McCaig, vice
president of the line.
Mr.. Rivenbark entered the roads
service in 1896 as relief operator in
Wilmington, and was later assistant
chief clerk in the general superinten-
dents office, later being transferred to
his present post at Jacksonville, Florida.
All praise to the mar who weathered
the aftermath of three wars and the
unsettling effect of each, to arrive final
ly at a desirable goal-half a century
on the job with a single employer. May
his example have a steadying effect
upon the young men of today, whether
in ACL service or any other service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Potato Market Glutted

A few weeks ago the Star, on in
formation from a news disseminating
bureau, commended grocers on the splen-
did manner in which they were moving
and disposing of the nations potato
crop. The information was either wrong
or applied only to distribution of the
early potatoes. Or, by way of variation,
the Agricultural Department may now
be 1ndulging in the type of exaggera-
ton that characterized the bulletins,
dlrectlves and plain propaganda spread
during the war by the bureaucrats.
However this may be, it is announc-
ed that the potato crop has run amok
someway. Note this excerpt from a
Washington dispatch:
"Although the Department of Agri-
culture has been trying to keep the
potato crops down, AS, O00, 900 bushels
were raised this year when the goal
was only 378, 0o0,o 900 bushels.
THE Government has had to buy
25,000,000 bushels in order to SUPPORT
prices. 1t has tried to dispose of these
N every way possible, offering them
to every famine-threatened nation
abroad, but with no results. Not one
bid has been received, according to the
Agriculture Secretary. Some of the
surplus has been sold to distillers as E
substitute for grain, he said"
This does not jibe with the earlier re
port. But what is more alarming is tina.
with the earth populated by many mil
lions of starving mortals a staple foot
& finding no takers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
TheLiterarv
Guidepost
BY w. G. ROGERS
BEHIND SOVIET POWER
- STAIN AND THE RUS
SLAMS NV Jerome naviS

SIANS, Dy DAVIS
(Reader's Press; $1l.
On the basis of visits to Russia
during and between World Wars
l and II, Davis, who speaks Rus.
sian, gives his impressions, favor.
able and friendly, of the Soviet I'm.
ion and its leader.
The material, much of it "a.
miliar, includes sketches of Stain
and his associates, pictures of life
in Russia, discussion of church,
culture, politics, five : year plans
and, more recently, Dor and the
Warsaw uprising, Iran, trade anc
the spread of Communism.
The Reds benefit from Davis
perspective. As some writer's see
it, Stain brought on the war by
signing up with Hitler; according
to others, Chamberlain brought il
on at Munich by selling out the
Czeohs. Davis longer memory
goes back to 1919 and 1920, wher
a dozen countries. including the
U. S. were dispatching troops te
attack Russians on Russian sol
and sow mistrust which has moi
yet disappeared.
The book has an introduction by
former Ambassador Davies.
FOR ALL MANKIND, by
Leon Blum, translated by w.
Pickles Viking; $3.50.
The former Popular Front
premier of France wrote this NOV.
ing expression of his faith in democ.
racy, with examples from his owr
unhappy country's recent history,
IN 1941 while he was a prisoner OF
the Vichy government, and added
the finishing touches after the Ri
ON trial.
A Socialist official, he remains
a Socialist writer. He condemns
scathingly Frances bourgeoisie
and the unstable Communists
who were reader to take orders
from Moscow than from Paris: he
defends the workers and points to
their needs; he has both praise and
blame for his party's prewar role.
1t is an honest, passionate and
inspiring book.
CONTRACT BRIDGE IN A
NUTSHELL, by Charles H.,
Goren Doubleday; s1.5u).
A book written by an expert and
printed IN a handy formal so you
can consult it right in the middle
d a game. If the other players
don't mind waiting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Federal Jurists Uphold Legality
9 of Georgia;s Old Unit Vote System

ATLANTA, Aug. 26.-R-Geor.
gia's unique county unit vote sys-
TEN, under which Eugene Talmadge
won a fourth term as governor
without popular approval, was up
held Monday by a three-judge fed
cral court which said it violated
no constitutional guar antees OF
equal rights.
Talmadges nomination in the July
II Democratic primary, tantamount
to election in one-party Georgia,
had been challenged by two citi-
ems Of populous Fulton and Dekalh
counties (Atlanta) on grounds that
the unit vote system denied them
equal voice in the electorate with
CITIZENS Of less populous counties.
Under the system, the candidate
carrying the county gets the unit
vote and the unit vote determines
the nomination. Fulton county, with
a population of 406, 1865, has siy
unit votes. Chattahoochee county
with 1,463 people has two unit votes.
Proponents of the system say il
prevents control of the state by
big city political machines.
The three judges, in a unanimous
opinion, said "our system of gov.
eminent, state and federal, has
never sought nor demanded that
each voter should have equal vot.
ing influence, though that might
seem an ideal of democracy.
In our federal government un.
der its constitution each state has
in the senate two unit votes Who'll.
ly regardless Of population, in the
making of all laws, and in con-
firming treaties and appointments
to federal office.
These unit votes also appear in
the electoral college in choosing a
president, so that there have been
presidents who did not receive a
majority of the popular vote.
The court, composed of Circuit
Judges Samuel H. Sibley and Dis
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Nick On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E, MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authoritv

To convince you that I did not
just dream up today's hand, let
me say that I actually saw Jon
Sanford of New York make the
bid and the contract. If you like
psychic bids, you will get a kick
out of what went on.
A great many players would
have opened South's hand with a
weak three heart bid, and GER
talnly most players would have
made a pre-emptive bid with West
holding after South's pass.
However, il this case both
South and West passed and North,
not bothering to pre-empt the dia-
monds, made a psychic spade bid.
Sanford (East) doubled, and why
South elected to stay out of the
bidding I do not know. West then
showed his long club suit and
North came in with another
psychic bid of three no trump.
He was not vulnerable and of
course he was going to run out
if he got doubled.
Sanford now reasoned that if
the two missing aces were in the
opponents hands, they were very
likely divided, and as neither Of
them had bid an honest suit, he
would make South guess about
the opening lead. That was why
he jumped to six no trump.
South knew that East had the
spade suit, even though North had
bid spades. He did not know
whether to lead diamonds or
hearts, but finally decided to play
safely and led the jack Of hearts.
Sanford won and spread the hand,
as he could count IA tricks.
While I do not recommend this
type of bidding and am sure that
Sanford does not, nevertheless it
puts you on your toes and makes
a game interesting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27

trict Judges Frank M. Scarlet and
Louie W. Strum. also declined to
interfere with the democratic pri.
mary result in the fifth congress
sional district where Earl P. Cook,
a college student, claimed mis- con-
stitutional rights had been violat-
ed.
Rep. Helen Douglas Mankin won
the popular vote in this race. but
Judge James c. Davis got the unit
vote majority. The State Democra-
tic Executive committee has order.
ed names Of both candidates on the
general election ballot in Novem-
Der. g.
Attorneys said the United States
Supreme court would be asked to
make a final ruling in both cases,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Letter Box
WANTS ADVICE

To the Editor:
Can you and the OPA tell Ill
where the niger is IN the W0'
pile"
1 have noticed in your paps
advertisements carried by VaE!0'
merchants;
BUTTER - Use ID. .
CARNATION MILK, Tall - j!
en-.
Packing houses and Jo0osts
purchase the above items rol
charge me as much or more, CAV
on the barrel head"
If l charge more, then my Gu
toners think l am r0bblng 'ns4
then they fail to pay me 4 IT,,
weekly bill, take my money r. -
railroad and bus fare, vl'l' ",
store with advertisement CAM
In box car letleIo, dIu -,
they get the bargain or may W
they, arrive too late, sorry '~
sold out" ..,,a
In the event they are "llck
and get their bargain start a. .,.,.
some slicker may pick up . viz,
package, and when they S ...i,
home, find they have 1851 wv d
"bargains." Then they CONF .,.-
legitimate mercahnt and tell ' nSrI
tale of woe, and usually ne w.
help the misguided neigh0o ~ ,n..
Why not be honest with .r vT
selves. Will some high-pfeSs',,T, ~,
merchant %enlighten those 'A''
not wise or up to date? .,,,.s
A "Yo6el" NeE'A'D'
Delco, N. C.
A,,o Ce 1Qd6
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27

ganda for the United Nations ;s
this attempt to throw a whole
nelghoorhood of people out Of the;r
homes to accommodate the build-
ers of the peace, manv Of whnua
nave been doing that way to mil
IONS OF guiltless victims b.cL
where they come from
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Doctor Says-
|JAUNDlCE REALLY
| ONLY A SYMPTOM
BY WILLIAM A. o,pprrv

BY WILLIAM A. o'BRJrv
The yellowish green disoo ''0'
ton OF the skin and tbs ss0loTa'
membrane in jaundice is r ss =
by an excess of bile in III. 'agSed
and tissues. blood
The usual cause is an ob.
ton to the flow of bile tbsu,'
the liver and gall ducts. Az
excessive destruction of rea an
cells. When bile fails to nss. 'iOod
the intestine, the excreta tss mo
a pale color. 'NAe On
The type of paundjce ,n.
varies with the age of the nst'.e
Newborn infants have the yari'%'
caused by excessive blood destr,!E
ton or anomalies Gmperfect u.
velopment), while in older psr,s w.
jaundice usually is caused bv '.as
struction in the bile ducts or I, w.
The whites of the eyes (cor t.,sf'
tivae) are first to show = Chung
IN color. They take on a veN1 Ss
hue. 'e10R
In advanced jaundice. the pc+;..
body varies in color from a r n,,s
yellow to a deep olive green sP'e
greenish black. All the tissre, y =, q
the body, including the blood .s ";
lymphs are d~iscolored. oily
'Jaundice is a symptom and NJ.
a disease, and the cause mus, ".
determined before effective trss,
ment can be begun. (The outcon,
also depends upon the causeI
Mild to moderately severe lam
dice can last a lifetime wi,bon,
apparently interfering with the M,
tents ability to work. Psta1t,
with severe jaundice, however. Ne,
ually complain of itching, and Hi,
condition may be SO severe tbs,
sleep is impossible.
In some families all the mem.
bers are jaundiced due to f~ragjliy
of the red cells, which are sbanej
like spheres instead of like bi.con.
cave discs. The spleen is enlar,.
ed; as the blood passes throug5
it, excessive numbers of red blood
cells are destroyed and extra blo
is produced (bile comes from De.
stroyed red cells.
If the spleen is removed, M
balance between blood Formation
and blood destruction is restored.
The jaundice then disappears.
4 contagious form of ~jaundice
is seen in inflammation Of The
liver.
Epidemics Of this jaundice vari
ETY. disable thousands Of men and
women annually, especially during
wartime. A common name for 4
is acute catarrhal jaundice. At one
time this was thought to be due "a
Inflammation and mucus ~cloggin:
the bile passages, but we nov
know that it is a virus infection
Of the liver.
Mechanical jaundice is caused
by a block in the ducts, by a
stone, or, in the liver, by scar
tissue (cirrhosis). New growths in
the liver and bile ducts may also
cause a mechanical block in al
elderly person.
QUESTION: Is it advisable Ia
boil ones drinking water 10 pre-
vent poliomyelitis? Our city'S Wa
ter is chlorinated, and it is said
to be safe.
ANSWER: 1t has not been prov
ed that nn1iomve1itiS is transmit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Back To The '20s.

Back To The eos. .,,a.
Latest report tells Oh ar.1ty
sitters beginning again APa ..tprtr
we're slowly but surely
ing to abnormalcy, r.oorst
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
HARKING BACK

To the Editor: trA
Apropos the consldera'i0 T rpcs!
street for a truck lane. o,p,
wildly the time it was j ps9' ,osn
to have the highway 0rIoss T.r;s.
the river at the foot OIL Irsysl.
street. Good iudgemen! ,e,jl.
ed then and no doubt WIZ c.-sse.
Wilmington, N. c.
Aug. 26, 1916
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
TOP O. THE

The best modern methods in which pres
ent-day educators take much prlde are
better exemplified in Jesus than in Teach
ers College. Columbia University.
Robert G.. Lee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27

QUESTION: Is it advisable Ia
boil ones drinking water 10 pre-
vent ~poliomyelitis? Our city'S Wa
ter is chlorinated, and it is said
to be safe.
ANSWER: It has not been prov
ed that poliomyelitis is transmit
ted by water. City water which
has been properly treated does mol
spread disease. Physicians recon-
mend boiling only that city water
which is given to a young INFANT
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27

As spiritual things are spiritual
ly ~discerned,' we would have orr
spirits ears healed and auickened
by Thee, o God, that we NAV
no longer be deaf to life's over.
tones and undertones. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-27
Religion

BY T. ELLIS
E TO THE pHoEnE

AAAI 4 A3OSOG
Since Boy Scout days, our physi-
clan Son has been an ornithologist.
AS we sat at dinner on the porch
OF our log cabin, he re-
marked, Listen to your phoebes"
- the birds that are rearing a
family under our caves. All listen
ed, and commented - except me.
I could hear nothing, though l have
normally keen ears.
So I shared attention with the
birds. We experime nted with my
ears again and again; until DR..
Mackinnon and his musician wife
decreed that I am deaf to the par
ticular tones of some birds.
Am I spiritually deaf also to the
timer notes of life, sounding all
about me? Do I miss the %
that other persons, and events. are
daily speaking to the dull ears Of
my soul?
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-05
st. Louis Negroes File Suit
Against Washington University

educational institution and entitled
to tax exemption.
The II colored citizens in their
intervening petition declare that
although 1875, 900 Negroes reside in
the university's area, it has refused
to open it's doors to the race; that
the tax bills of Negroes are higher
as a result of the exemption allowed
the university and that as taxpay-
ers they oppose the injunction.
Circuit Judge William S. Connor
granted the colored taxpayers the
right to intervene. The city recent
ly included the issue of Negro ex-
clusion in it's reply to the univer-
sity's injunction suit.