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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06

contiguous lands. presumably for
some trinkets which won his adj
miration. Watcoosa also presented
to Hilton two OF his handsome
daughters, for whom the explorer
promised to return in a day or
two; but he set said for the re-
turn trip to Barbados without full
filling his promise. The visit to
Watcoosa was on Dec. l, 1868.
1.-THE report of tn exploring par
ty to their friends back nome was
most favorable, and the next year
John Vassa1l and many colonists
came over from Barbados to set
tie. They landed on May 20, 1864
In 1865 Sir John Yeamans follow
ed with many others; and to the
town which. was established he
gave the name of Charlestown. 1t
was peopled with about 300
colonistS.
"Charlestown existed for about
six years, and in 1871 the settlers
abandoned their new home and
sailed to the south, where they
founded new Charlestown, which
became Charlestown, IN South
Carolina. 1t has never been clear
ly known why the colony was aban-
doned. The appointment of Sir
province would hardly account for
province would hardly account for
the abon6onmen of the entire set
Element. 1t has been stated, how.
ever, that a few OF the settlers
remained along the Cape Fear,
and their children becam citizens
of old Brunswick and other locali-
ties.
Brunswick, another town, which
was located about Is miles below
Wilmington, and on the west side
of the river, came into existence
as town in 1925. In that wear
Maurice Moore, a grandson of Sir
John Yeamans, received from the
Lords Proprietors a grant of 1900
acres of Land and he laid out from
it a town site o. 800 acres. The
town was Brunswick. Moore had
come to the region from South
Carolina two years before, having
brought with him a natural interes
in the location first selected ~
Carolina.
brunswick became the chief
port of the colony of North Caro-.
lima. 1t was for while it's capital
and was the home of at least two
of its governors, Arthur Dobbs and
William Tryon. And it was a town
of enterprising and intelligent citi-
zens who figures largely in the at
fairs of the American colonies.
'The governors residence at
Brunswick was just to the north
of the town itself, and was called
'Russellborough', it having been
established in October, ISL bv
Captain John Russell, of the Rr;-
fish sloop-of-war Scorpion. Russell
died in December. 1852.
1T would be another history n
detail the story of Brunswick
which has been tod by many and
which never fails to captivate the
minds of those who are interested
In the romance of history. Suffice
1t to say that the town seems -
have nearly reached the enc of ito
existence at about the time Of the
Stamp Act resistance, although it's
struggling life continued as late
as ITS. when it was bombarded
by the British who came into the
harbor, bringing with them dis
tinguished officer, Lord Charles
CORVALLIS, for mis- first visit to tho
Cape Fear"
The account will be concluded tn
morrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06
TOP O. THE MORNING

Frances Willard when but a child found
the following pledge, pasted it in her Bible
and insisted that every member of her
family should sign it, including the SER
wants:
"a pledge we make no wine to take,
Nor brandy red that turns the head,
Nor fiery rum that ruins home,
Nor brewers beer, for that we fear;
Nor cider, too, will never do,
To querch our thirst, we'll always bring,
Cold water from the well and spring
So here we pledge perpetual hate
To all that can intoxicate.
From R. Of c. w.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06
Editorial Comment
Sheep Raising Pays

In June 1s41, Fletcher Dalbey of Nodaway
county, Missouri, bought one hundred 2-year-
old ewes from northwestern range states At
the same time he bought three registered
Shropshire rams. Since then he has sold 81 600
worth of lambs and WOOL and he still has the
85 of the original ewes and all the rams left
In the heart of a hog and cattle feeding coua-
try Salbey says he will put his sheep up against
anybodys livestock in profit race and come
out ahead-Farm Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06

1.-The cclonists were also present
ed by the king with IL pieces Of
cannon and considerable amount
of ammunition to Use in them. So
that, altogether. they would be
duly fortified against attack. One
Of these old cannon remained at
the first town site until modern
days.
"These declarations and propos-
ais attracted the attention particu-
larly of the settlers in Barbados
island, and they were fired with
a great desire to enter the new
territory of Carolina and there &C.
quire wealth in its promising COM
merce.
Accordingly, an Investigate
ing party was sent out from Bar
bados to the Cape Fear region. The
leading man was William Hilton,
and he had many companions,
among whom have been mentioned
Anthony Long and Peter Fabian.
They came over in 1868, and sailed
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06
QUOTATIONS.

Ii we Americans believe in freedom and
the democratic way of life, then we must be
strong and stand up for it all over the world
Rep. Frances P. Bolton (R) of Ohio.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06
BY JOHN SKIES

This is the second of three in.
stallnents taken from Andrew J
Howell's book, 1.-THE Book of Will
mington", on the beginnings Of
Wilmington and the Cape Fear
country.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06

I
The first signs of starvation - yellow faces
and detection - are apparent among many
people on the streets. They are getting lust
like the Dutch were, and think it will be
worse here. - British medical officer at Ham.
burg, Germany.
We do know that the physical and especially
the mental well-being of the man or woman
over go is impaired unless his day is occu.
pied with activities either of a social or per.
sonal value preferably an occupation with a
wage = DR.. George Lawtoa, Director New
York Old Age Connecting Center.
We must work with the liberals and thew
won't come out from the hedgerows if thew
think we will depart in say five years, leav.
ing them to become the prosecuted Quislings
Brig Gen, Ken R. Dyke, Civil Information
and Education Section chief in Tokyo
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-06
Advertising Greenfield

Star readers will remember the let
ter published on this page a few days
ago from Charles F. Jones in which
Mr.. Jones directed attention to the
beauties of Greenfield Park and men
toned that his firm, the Wilmington
Electrical Supply Company, had de-
signed a stamp which was placed on
all outgoing mail.
The stamp says:
LLIOIT I'D I1LlA1LIILlI n III
Evening star., 1946-03-31
New Biography on Dickens Is Welcomed
For q Generation Which Knows Him Not

panegyric. She writes a genuine
Dickens life, noting failures and &C.
centricities. What she dwells on is
the intense vitality with which he
did everything. The solemn, be-
whiskered effigy of the frontispieces
becomes, under her treatment, q
vivid, mercuric human being, full OF
charm, inconsistency and demonic
energy.
AS to his celebrated love OF the
proletariat, she denies 1t, saying that
he never regarded the people as
proletarians. The people to him
were always individuals, and his
wrath against the inhuman social
institutions of his time was aroused
precisely because those institutions
denied individuality. He opposed
the caste system not because he
preferred a lower caste to a higher
but because he opposed regimentine
humanity on any grounds whatever
The book gives great attention to
Dickens relations to his family and
friends and does not gloss over the
genius failures in these connections.
1t puts his sins, however, down to
greatness rather than to pettiness
1t is good, strong, IF not particu-
larly subtle, picture of a magnificent
artist, and, as I said. hold its ap-
pearance at this time to be an ex-
cellent thing. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, MARCH 81. 1916.
Atom Scientists Repeat Their Warnings
Of the Terrible Force They Let Loose

stunning effect has disappeared.
Few people in the world are able
to digest the idea of power, for
destruction at least, of new order
Of magnitude. There is a tendency
toward ostrichlike hiding of heads
in the sand.
Thus the constant warnings Of
those who know most about atomic
energy-the only people, in fact.
who know anything about it-thas
possible destruction of the world
by this new agent is no fantasy
have failed to create the impression
they deserve. In this book group
of men whose authority to speak
nobody can question-including five
or six Of the foremost men of science
in the wotld-repeat the warning.
They report to the public on "the
full meaning of the atomic bomb. I"
They include Albert Einstein. Ar
thur H. Compton, Hans Bethe,
Irving Langmuir, Harlow Shapley.
Harold Urey and Nils Bohr. Each
writes on the phase of the subject
with which he is most familiar.
Their names are almost household
words in the United States
The motif of the book stands out
clearly. These wisest men of our
generation are worried over the
forces for evil let loose-not hys-
terically worried as are so many
of their fellow countrymen but
philosophically worried in the face
of dangers they see so clearly.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
HISTORY.

France, A Short History, by Albert
Guerard (Norton) Greatly COM
pressed coverage of French history
From the earliest times to the pres
ent in 259 pages.
Greece, by A. w. CONNIE (Oxford
University Press) A brief survey
of Greek history from 1881 to 1910
One of Oxford's World Today
series.
RELIGION.
Marching Order for a New Day
Essential Books.) A collection OF
over 10 passages from the Bible
selected by the chaplains, pastors
and men and women of the armed
forces at the request of the Amer
lean Bible Society.
The Ten Commandments, by Jo-
seph Lewis. CFreethought Press. }
A study of the Decalogue apparently
designed to show how it's laws cor
respond to the superstitions of many
primitive people and how the Com
mandments have been used to de-
fend bigotry and backward practices.
WORLD SITUATION.
Social Democracy Versus Com
munism, by Karl Kautsky. CRand
School Press) A collection of papers
taken from the writings of Kari
Kautsky. They defend genuine
Socialism and attack the current
tyranny of Russia.
Hebrew Independence, by Isaac
Zaar. tAmerican League for a Free
Palestine) Study of the situation
among the Jews today and the con-
clusion that the Jewish people must
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Book Reviews in Brief

be given Palestine as national
home
In the Name of Sanity, by Ray
mond Swing (Harper'sJ The COL
lected speeches which Mr. Swing
has broadcast since the dropping
of the first atomic bomb.
BUSINESS.
The Engineer in Society, by John
Mills. ID. Van Nostrand) A study
of the place of the engineer and
scientist in contemporary and fu-
ture society, emphasizing its i'm
portance in the worlds of industry,
finance and politics.
Commonsense Business Leader
ship, by G. E. Fosbroke. Essential
Books) Pretty much a how-to-rise-
in-the-w world text-instructions on
how to attain leadership" in busi-
ness affairs.
MYSTERIES
The Whitebird Murders, by Thom-
as B. Black. (Reynal & Hitchcock
Tough school of mystery writing.
Seven die and a city detective
carries on.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
CHARLES DICKENS
By Una Pope-Hennessy. (Ho,1-
. ell SOSkin. 81

CIV boShtt, Sf./
Nothing better could happen, 1t
seems to me, than that there should
be good biography of Charles
Dickens published at this time
There is a generation growing up
which knows him not. He is in
danger of becoming an assignment
in freshman English. But he was q
great artist, an immortal, and he
should come into his own as such
The time when he was revered for
championing the right of orphans
to Christmas pudding is past. The
time when he was Knocked as a
sentimentalist and a "caricaturist'
is also over. He remains to be esti>
mated as a great literary performer
magnificent stylist. a master OF
novel form and an unequaled por-
trayer of individuals. That is lot
of superlatives-yes. But I mean
them all And, meaning them, ]
naturally welcome this new biog-
raphy.
1t is a good, lively piece of writing
into which an impressive fund of
scholarship has been poured. It's
point of view. to be sure, inclines
toward the enthusiastic. Dame Una
Pope -Hennessy holds the view that
Dickens was great man as well
as a great novelist. He was all
genius, she believes. There was
none of the dull clay of ordinary
humanity in him. AS a sort of text
in her introduction, she quotes his
statement that his inventive fac
ulty must be allowed to master his
whole existence.
Her book, however, Is no mere
Evening star., 1946-03-31

cile an exuberant love of life with
his troubled quest for moral self
perfection, Tolstoy finally renounced
life for the theoretical meaning of it.
After two perfunctory and unorig-
inal, if appreciative, chapters on
Tolstoy's art, Prof. Lavrin devotes
the remainder of his approach" to
deploring Tolstoy's choice. To turn
Prof. Lavrin's own criticism OF Toll
stoy against him: "It all sounds
smooth and plausible-at first. But
when one looks into the matter thor
oughly. one is astonished at the
other aspects ignored" The
professor misses the real significance
Of the great Russian writer's inner
conflict. He fails to grasp that Toll
stoy's very articulateness and artis-
try fitted him to symbolic a dual
ism as fundamental to man 1000
years ago as it is characteristic and
modern today.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
kyle Tenant, the Australian Genius,
Writes in the Spirit of Mark Twain

complete Australianness-and I lived
among the identical people in my
own Appalachian Mountain youth
Miss Tenants genius is not the
kind which effaces its author
identity. No more than Mark Twain
can she be separated from her
material. Like him, she has a vast
appreciation of the constant ludi-
crousness of life. She breathes that
into her style with the force of a
cheerful cyclone. She understands
her characters, she believes in them
she loves them. But she will not
sentimentalize over them or idealize
their frailties. This is how it was
she says. Tragic momentarily but
in the wide view, absurd. Every
thing is absurd. Aren't we all? She
blows the man down.
If by that I have given you a
concept of her message and method
I have really done enough and
should not go on to talk about her
plot" For when a reviewer talks
about novels plot, it is usually
because the novel has nothing but
a plot to commend it. But for the
die-hards who like to get an idea
Of what the story is" when they
read book review, I will say this
of the plot of Lost Haven't is
concerned with showing how some
half dozen of these rural individual
lists, male and. female, go their own
gait, refusing compromise, in q
manner which brings them finally
into head-on collision. And
where her genius is most impressive
is in her ability to make the reader
feel a lasting emotion when the
collision occurs. She sweeps on
herself The death of her finest
character. the manning of her most
lovable-these do not detain her
force. But, even as she ruthlessly
bowls her puppets over, she creates,
in the reader, pity far more pro-
found than would have resulted if
she had stopped to weep herself.
She exalts and cleanSes the soul.
That is something no weak artist has
ever accomplished. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
LOST HAVEN

By Kyle Tenant. (Macmil-
Ian, $3.)
Ever since I read her first Ameri-
can-published novel, The Battlers,' y
1 have been a kyle Tenant en-
thusiast. That work excited me so,
I remember, that I sent a telegram
off to the publisher asking for de-
tails about the tome unknown Aus
tralian genius. I got a publishers
routine answer.
1t did not tell me a great deal.
Miss Tenant, it said, was regarded
in her own land as a writer of
promise. She was married She
was the sort of author who, when
she set out to write novel about
vagabonds, would become a vaga-
bond herself. She had won a prize
two prizes. All right, thought
That is all publisher is under
obligation to tell any one. I will
now do my own telling So I wrote
that kyle Tenant seemed to me
to be in line for inheritance of some
part of the spirit of Mark Twain.
Than which there is no higher
praise.
Miss Tennant, since then, has
had two more novels published in
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Jacket design for Lost
HaUen," by Kyle Tenant.

JuChot ucotyH JOf LOSL
HaUen," by Kyle Tenant.
this country. Neither bore out her
promise fully, but neither was a
complete falling away They we're
Time Enough Later" which was
an incidental sort of comedy on
puppy love in a young girl and
Ride On Stranger" a more mature
thing on a women who had an
identity as human being. In
both the authors powerful ex-
uberance and gift for deep humor
were still apparent but a taste for
bizarre episodes somewhat hindered
the flow of those faculties. I began
to worry about Miss Tenant. 1t
was not necessary. In Lost Haven"
she makes up for the past aber-
rations. Lost Haven is a really
magnificent book.
No Routine.
AS its title indicates, it is a
novel about a place. We have had
a lot of novels about places lately.
One, conspicuously, has been award
ed a prize the size of an old-style
national debt. It-and its pre-
vailing kind-precedes on the theory
that, if you want to write about
a town, you describe the public
square and slums, furnish the place
with some completely routine
characters-rich man, poor man,
beggar man, thief-and then tell a
routine story. Miss Tenant obvi-
ously takes the view that a town
which produces only routine chara-
acters is not worth writing about
in the first place. And as for a
routine story-well, I have already
said she is a genius.
In Lost Haven" she has set
out to portray a community of COM
plete individualists. Since her
locale is Australia, her individual
lists are individualists of the
Anglo Saxon breed. Beyond that,
however, they are just individual
lists. Lost Haven is little place,
a mere village, inhabited by few
large families of well-established
characteristics. It had once had
a period of prosperity and it still
has a lumber mill, a slip for build
ing boats and a desultory fishing
industry.
But in the main, its inhabitants
just do not want to be bothered
They do not want to work at any
thing unless they happen to want to
work at it. Prosperity, progress,
thrift, plans for getting on. or any
plans at all, are detestable to them
as interferences with the human
right to be human. Any one who
has lived in an old American rural
community of the beaten track will
feel perfectly at home with these
Lost Haveners. I do not doubt their
Evening star., 1946-03-31
By Jone Eods
Associated Press Stoff Writer

Blase Washington unrolled the
red carpet and put on its most high
brow airs when a former school
teacher from a small hill town in
Chile came to call.
Since Gabriela Mistral received
the 1945 Nobel Prize for Literature
in Sweden she has reaped world
homage. She was received here by
President Truman and feted by the
Board of Governors of the Pan
American Union and the Chilean
Ambassador.
Senorita Mistral was here en- route
to Los Angeles, where she is to serve
as Chilean consul. In the mean
time, she had been named Chilean
delegate to the United Nations SUBJ
committee on the Status of Women.
Among the many who were eager
to meet Senorita Mistral was Kath-
crime Garrison Chaplin, a distin-
guished poet herself, who translated
some of the Chilean woman's poems
into English.
Katherine Garrison Chaplin is bet
ter known to the nonliterary group
as Mrs. Francis Biddle, wife Of the
former United States Attorney Gen.
eral.
She had never seen Senorita
Mistral, who incidentally is the
fifth woman to win the Nobel award
in literature-the other four being
Pearl Buck, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid
Undset and Selma Lagerlof.
Il only knew her on paper" ex-
planned Mrs. Biddle.
Senorita Mistral is strong,
handsome woman. widely travelled
and cosmopolitan in views. Her
real name is Lucila Godoy Alcaya.
She was born in the town of Vicuna
in the Province Of Coguimbo, where
her father was a country school,
master.
When news Of. the great honor
that had come to her was received,
not only Vicuna put out flags, but
Evening star., 1946-03-31
GobrieIo MistroI, Nobel Prize Winner,
is Given Royal Washington Welcome

all of Chile greeted the event as
second in Importance to the dec
laration of independence.
The poet began teaching at the
age of Is. Also at that time she
began working on "Sonetos de la
Minerte," for which she was award
ed national prize in 1914.
Later she was named director of
several schools and represented the
Chilean government on several mis-
sions to other countries. In 1925
special law was passed by the
republic which gives her the title of
Chilean consul for life, entitled to
take post of her own choosing.
She is best known, however, for
her lyric poetry. She says she first
felt the Irresistible necessity" to
write poem at the age of 7, when
she heard hay cart passing.
The Mabel Prize for Literature has
the cash value of $43, 900.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Among
the Authors
By CoroIyn Coeeins
BETTY MCDONALD

One OF the authors I most wanted
to see in Seattle was Betty Mac
Donald, who wrote The Egg and T."
I have approached that city so
many times breathlessly admiring
the mountains from the sky, and
as 1 few in this time 1 remem-
bered her description:
q. the great range OF Olympic
Mountains obhgingly uisible in
all their snotDy mognifcence.
These Olympics hdue none of the
soft curUes and girlisi plump
ness OF Eastern mountains. They
are ooddesses, tuH-breasted,
brodd-hipped, toDering and un-
touchdble. They are also conn.,
placent in the knowledge that,
they look Just as mountains
should"
I was disappointed to learn she
was in New York. However, Seattle
is not so very large and every one
1 met seemed to know Betty Mac
Evening star., 1946-03-31
JOSEPH HARRISON

The other writing gentleman was
Joseph B. Harrison. His book, IF
Men Want Peace" is out now and is
creating quite a stir If I am to be-
lieve the Book-of- the Month Club
magazine and the Scientific book
listing as well. The best authorities
on the faculty at the State of Wash
irgton's University gave thought
and discussion to the problems to be
solved "if men want peace"
"To solve the political problems,
you must solve the economic pro-
blems =. and If you are to solve
the economic problems, the social
ones must be solved. Since their
solution depends upon also solving
those problems presented by science,
religion, and even the psychological
aspect of living, 1t is just one thing
after another" This merry-go-
round is brought under some control
in their book, and is there for any
thoughtful person who cares to know
more of the headaches confronting
our governing bodies. The book
also gives some useful clues about
where to lend ones weight In these
questions.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Wild Calendar
By Libbie Block. (AJred A.
KnOpf;. S275.J
Reviewed by
MIRIAM GUTENBERG

4N44t4[nN4 ~ L 4I4NoE1N1
Maud Eames liked to think of her
self as a normal girl who wanted
only to get married and lead q nor
NAL, happy life. The utter selfish
ness of that apparently simple want
is the theme Of Miss Blocks first
novel. .
Maud is not an attractive girl. Her
best friend describes her as pale
blue" Fearful that she cannot
attract a man of her choice, she
agrees to marry a distant cousin
twice her age. The man has wealth,
out she doesn't want wealth. She
wants a child and finally gets one
When she finds herself tempted to
kill her sick husband, she demands
and gets divorce.
She next falls in love with a man
Of her own age but she likes to pre-
tend that they are having the boy
girl relationship she missed before
When they marry their love is not
enough to make up to Maud for the
fact that her husband is poor. She
didn't want money before. Now she
does. With money from her first
husband she buys hotel, thereby
driving her second husband into the
Army. She figures he is in for just
a year and that she knows a way
to get him back. She would have
succeeded, too, If the date her plans
matured hadn't been a week before
Pearl Harbor.
Through all this, Maud keeps in
sisting that all she wants is to be
happy. Miss Block doesn't condemn
Maud. Hers is an honest and almost
wholly objective report of an appar-
emily average American woman with
an average woman's dreams. She
leaves the reader to wonder whether
Maud-and women like her-ever
realize that happiness is not one
way street.