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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
BY o GALLUP
Director, American Institute
of Public Qhinion

PRINCETON, N. j., Dec. 49,
One tenant in every four, on the
average, thinks it would be fair
to let the landlord increase the
rent.
The tenant would probably avoid
telling the landlord that himself.
(There would be no point in DELHI
erately encouraging the landlord
to charge more). But in response
to questioning by interviewers for
the Institute in a survey of home
renters, "a per cent of renters said
that, considering the increase in
costs of operating and upkeep,
their landlords are entitled to more
rent.
How much more? Fifteen per
cent is the average increase men.
toned by those renters who think
a raise is justifiable.
Battle lines are forming in
Washington now FOR a Touchdown
fight over rets. One group in Con-
gress wants to eliminate rent con.
troll entirely. A second faction
favors taking rent control away
from the Federal government and
giving it to the states. A third
group would raise rents Is per
cent.
Meanwhile, organization Of ten
ants are forming to combat 'Iam-
pering' with rent controls.
With the new Congress slated
to take up the problem, the In.
stitute questioned a cr~oss-section
of tenants from coast to coast on
several aspects of the situation.
The first question was:
DO you think that the rent you
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
HI-Y MINSTREL
SCHEDULED FOR
FEBRUARY 28 HERE

The Hi-Y Minstrel will be pre-
sented in the New Hanover High
school auditorium, February %, it
was announced yesterday at a
Interclub Council meeting in the
YMCA.
. Miss Princess Stelling, president
of the co-ordinating committee,
said that a secretary will be elect
ed at the clubs next meeting,
January 9, to serve for the re-
mainder Of the year.
Members present were: Sara
Freed, Jackie Cowan, freshmaS
girls Hi-Y; Francis Casteen, sophie
more girls Hi-Y; Charles Alex
andeT, senior boys Hi-Y; Richard
Galphin, Bradford Virgins, Billy
Hill, junior boys Hi-Y; Rodney
Walters and Clifton Dixon, fresh
man boys Hi-Y.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20


Those indicating their belief that
a raise in rent would be justifiable
were asked, about how much
more a month would he be justified
in charging?"
The median average Of tina re-
plies was IS per cent.
X
EVEN THOUGH many tenants
are willing to stand rent boosts,
public sentiment is over whelming-
ly in favor of keeping government
controls over rent Cor a while yet.
Long after OPA price controls
over meat, other foods, and man.
ufactured products fell ito pub
lie disfavor, polls continued to
find a big majority e out of 3
voters in Favor of retaining rent
controls. Any drive in Congress
to remove these controls entirely
would likely meet with wide
spread opposition from the public.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20

NOTICE
EFFECTIVE THIS DATE I nave as
sumed complete control of The Eureka
Decorators, 400 Bladen Street, Whining
ton, N. c. l assume no responsibility for
any debts made by this firm except those
made through me. This 10th day Of
December, 1916.
Signed: +. M. CORBETT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
NOTICE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
The undersigned, having qualified as
e~xecutrix Of the estate Of Robert Lee
Piver. deceased, late of the County of
New Hanover, this is to notify all per-
sons having claims against said estate to
present them to the undersigned on or
before the 21st day Of November, 1947.
or this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This the 21st day of November, 1916
FLORENCE A. PIVER.
Executrix of the Estate of
ROBERT LEE PIvER,
Deceased.
G.. C.: MCINTYRE.
Attorney
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
One Tenant In + Thinks
Hike In Rent Justified

now have to pay is high, low, or
about right?"
The vote:
Evening star., 1946-02-01

of what the President used to call his
brain children"
-
There are many theories of how Mr..
Hopkins was useful to his Chief. One
is that he was yes man. Another is
that he was the Presidents severest
critic. The truth is somewhere between
these views. He made no bones about
disagreeing with the President on de-
tails. But, essentially, his philosophy
of state action was identical with Mr..
Roosevelt's. That policy was to keep
capitalism alive, give it plenty of verbal
and legislative managing, tax it well
and use the money to help the needy.
Mr.. Hopkins was not careful of his
expressions of opinion and often created
unfortunate impressions. His contacts
were largely with men of capitalist lean
ings. And he took certain delight in
telling them that the f1agellations of
the New Deal were really in the inter-
est of their preservation. It was sort
of this -hurtS-m more -than-it -doeS-you
business.
He was not, despite his tutelage under
great master, q good politician. He
badly handled the purge campaign. And
his performance at the Chicago conven-
ton in 1910 left much to be desired. His
sense Of political timing and his political
utteranceS were not notable.
OF his service to the President in war
years, there can be no difference of
opinion. He worked unreservedly for
victory. He got on well with Britain.
He lightened the Presidents long vigils
by banter. And no one did more to i'm
prove our very vital relations with
Russia.
All in all, Mr. Hopkins embodied the
period Of his ascendancy. There was
mixture of high but hazy idealism, trial
and error and warm concern for the less
fortunate. He wrote his name big on
that background, and his devotion to his
Chief will be bright historical tradi-
tion.
tReIeassd by the Associated Newspaper, NAL
Evening star., 1946-02-01

control and direction. The Egyp-
tians, however, claim the territory
in full sovereignty, basing their
claims upon its conquest by Mehe-
met Ali more than a century ago.
Since the destruction of Egyptian
rule by the Mahdists in the 188Os,
the Sudan has had little in common
with Egypt and the British claim
that its Inhabitants would not well
come the return of Egyptian rule.
Likewise British imperial interests
are SO bound up with the Sudan that
they. would not lightly abandon the
present arrangement. It is possible
that Britain will counter Egyptian
claims by an offer to put the Sudan
under a UNO trusteeship, as it has
offered to do with its present Afri-
can mandates under the League of
Nations.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
Harry Hopkins
By Ray,n nond MoIey

In many respects, the death of Harry
memorable chapter in American af-
fairs. In a singular way, Mr.. Hopkins
typifed the ,bold activity, the erratic
judgments, the far-flung foreign poll
cies, the personal politics and the col
orful, but often irrational domestic poll
cies of the Roosevelt ascendancy. With
a new set of conditions before us in
postwar America, the New Deal is an
anachronism.
Death has taken a heavy toll of Mr..
Hopkins earlier contemporaries. OF
the original 1888 White House circle,
Louis Howe, Will Woodin, Marvin Nc
Intyre, Admiral Grayson, Margaret Lee
Hand, Hugh johnson, Gus Generich,
the faithful bodyguard, and Mr.. Roose-
velt himself have all gone. The rest
are scattered geographically and ideo-
logically. Except for the unusually
heavy mortality after so short a period,
this disintegration of group Is natural.
The facts of national life change rap
idly, and ideas change with the facts.
Harry Hopkins really belonged to the
second and third, rather than to the
first New Deal. He was not active in
the 1892 campaign. when he was hard
at work on Governor Roosevelt's State
Relief Administration. Mr.. Roosevelt
hardly saw him from the spring of
1882 to March, 1933 He attracted Mr..
Roosevelt's interest as State official
by his bold and expeditions way of
distributing State relief funds. That
won him the job of performing relief
service in Washington. Even then, for
two or three years he was not active in
general White House policies. But the
skillful manner in which he collabo-
rated in Mr.. Roosevelt's trail-breaking
marked him for increasing influence
at the top. With the coming Of the
1937-40 period of making over govern
mental policies. he became, more and
more, the intimate receiver and shaper
Evening star., 1946-02-01
A Good Beginning

In requesting Russia and Iran to
resume direct bilateral negotiations
in an effort to settle their dispute
over Azerbaijan, the United Nations
Security Council has met its first
test-or at least the first phase of
its first test-in decidedly credita-
BILE and reassuring manner.
Not the least encouraging aspect
of the decision is that it was reached
with Russian concurrence after a
blunt and at times heated debate.
In this debate, although there was
general agreement on the idea
OF reSuming bilateral negotiations,
Soviet Vice Foreign Commissar
Vishinsky insisted that the Iranian
question ought not to remain on the
Councils agenda, holding that that
would imply distrust of Moscow's
good intentions in negotiating again
with Teheran. British Foreign Sec
retary Bevin, on the other hand
together with Mr.. Stettinius, our
American delegate-argued other
wise, until finally, in a friendly and
conciliatory spirit, all parties agreed
upon compromise under which the
Council, although removing the issue
from its agenda, will exercise con-
tinuing concern over it by retaining
"the right to request information on
the progress of the negotiations"
1t remains to be seen, of course,
how fruitful these negotiations will
be, but certainly the Security Coun-
Gil has acquitted itself well in the
way it has arranged for them. It
has met Mr.. Vishinsky's objection
up to a point, but it has made clear
at the same time with Russia
agreeing-that 1t has not washed its
hands Of the Azerbaijan dispute but
will follow the Moscow-Teheran
talks with lively interest and will
take appropriate informative action
should they bog down. In a word,
in every respect, the Council seems
to have adhered faithfully to the
letter and spirit of the United Ma
tions Charter in tackling its first
test, and it has thus enhanced its
own authority and prestige before
the eyes Of the world.
This is progress that must hearten
all the friends of the UNO in every
land. II now the Russians and
Iranians succeed in ending their
differences, and If the Greek and
Indonesian issues are similarly re-
solved, the pattern will be set for
the amicable settlement of other and
even more serious questions bound
to arise in the future. The members
of the Security Council are to be
commended. The worlds peace ma
chinery has been set of to a good
and hopeful start.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

The outcome of the elections in
Bavaria was to be expected. The coun-
try, like most agricultural communities
the world over, is conservative and, OF
course, Catholic. It voted largely as 1t
did before Hitler.
But there is another angle to German
public opinion. Despite the fact that
propaganda has presented Naziism as q
right wing" movement, 1t declared it
self to be, and so appeared in the
peoples eyes, as the German revo-
lution".
It's leaders were not conservatives, nor
bourgeois" nor did they emerge from
such ranks. They were either broken
down army officers or frustrated intel
lectuals. They attacked all previous
standards of values. They broke with
ancient German traditions. They re-
moved from important positions not
only Socialists and Communists, but the
carriers of traditional German culture.
They demolished independent courts of
law and substituted for the most i'm
portant cases their peoples tribunals"
They broke down parental authority.
They completely overturned moral values.
They split the Protestant church and
prosecuted the Catholic. They arrested
monks and nuns on trumped-up charges.
They forbade members of the SIS to
maintain membership in any Christian
church.
They terrorized dissenters among in
dustrialists equally with dissenters
among workers and made them both
subject to.a party-state whose DEGREES
took the place of legitimate law and
were the foundation of new morality"
Those who had espoused Naziism, In
advance of its coming to power, as a
conservative revolution as that
advocated by Zehrer and Fried of die
Tat" the writer, Ernst Juenger; the
official, Hermann Rauschning-rapidly
or eventually repudiated Naziism as
nihilistic Haunting of every conservative
value.
Nor did the opposition to Naziism-
the active, heroic opposition only
from the left. Karl Goerdeler, on whose
head Hitler set q price of 1000 900
marks, was. translated into American
terms, Willkie Republican. What he
thought we know, for he left a testa-
ment. A large group of active Hitler
opponents, many of whom paid for
their activities on the gallows, was
financed and supported by the Bosch
works, and included some Of its en-
gineers and executives.
The young Helmuth Won Moltke was
q liberal whose life had been devoted
to republican democratic government,
land reform, international law and
strong independent trade unions. He
died on the gallows, according to his
wife, "for Christian and European
civilization" He was a Protestant.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
Reconversion Controls
from the New York Post.

from the new YORK foSt.
Shortages and inf1ationary pressures
are expected to be more desperate this
year than during the war Steel, which
is basic to the whole economy, will be
critically short all year. But if the price
control program is allowed to weaken,
industry will be encouraged to hold back
and wait for shortages and the inflation-
ary pressure of goods-hungry public to
push ceilings up. For instance, the first
effect of the break in the ceiling price
of butter is likely to be a drastic butter
shortage, while dealers wait for still
higher prices. And wage rises tied to
price rises will not get the administration
out of the strike crisis. If higher wages
are automatically Cancelled out by higher
prices in the inflationary spiral, workers
will continue to press for more and more
wage rises in an endless chase to catch
up with the cost of living. The admin
istration should affirm the principle Of
settling wage demands within the
framework of the stabilization policy.
It should lay down stiff anti-inflation
program calling for early congressional
extension of price control and Of the
Second War Powers Act.
Evening star., 1946-02-01

agreement Is communicated to It's
members.
There is nothing in thesresolution to
indicate that II undue pressure is applied
by Russia on its weaker member, the
Teheran government can come back to
the Council. The matter has been taken
of the agenda as Commissar Vishinsky
had demanded.
The Iranian government is now fully
aware that 1t is best to comply with
everything its powerful neighbor de-
mands and Is reported to be prepared
to make all the necessary concessions
In order to maintain even q shadow of
sovereignty.
Moscow's principal interest In Iran
at this time Is to obtain exclusive con-
cessions in Azerbaijan and to maintain
military force in the area perma-
nently.
Although the British government has
accepted this solution, it is reported to
be far from easy.
1t has been reported that there has
been marked increase in the activities
OF the Tudeh party in Southern Iran
where the British have important oil
concessions. Russian newspapers such
as lzvestia and Pravda have already
started complaining about the undemo-
cratic attitude Of high Iranian officials
in that area, whom they describe-not
without some justice-as being in the
pay of international capitalists mean
ing the British
The British have no democratic
forces" at their disposal; neither do
they have the right to maintain "com-
pany guards" Whatever protection the
Anglo-Iranian oil fields need Is to be
provided in time of peace by Teheran.
As soon as the Russian government
decides to withdraw its regular army
from Northern Iran, the British must
follow suit. This would leave the pre-
cious oil fields and reflneries unprotect-
ed. The British are now convinced that
the new Teheran government will be
compelled to play the Soviet game and
would not interfere If democratic"
elements attempted to establish them
selves in Southern Iran.
Secretary Bevin has attempted off,
cially and in behind d-the-scenes con-
versations to avoid risking such a de-
velopment. But because Britain today
is weak militarily it had to accept the
Russian solution, which was approved
by the UNO Security Council.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
HuIifux Leuvinq

In 1941, when he succeeded the
Marquess of Lothian as British Am
bassador to the United States, Lord
Halifax-later raised to the rank of
earl-assumed a task which Prime
Minister Churchill then described
"as momentous as any that the
monarchy has intrusted to an Eng
lishman." This was no exaggera-
ton, for at that time America was
not yet in the war and Britain was
living through such dark hours that
few would have predicted with GER
tainty that it could survive as free
nation.
With admirable poise, tact, equa-
nimity Of spirit and personal charm,
however, Lord Halifax took over his
extremely difficult new duties and
quickly impressed the American
people with attributes rarely found
in most NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
diplomatic ability, an earnest, un-
assuming manner and an indefin-
able yet very real quality that
stamped him as a man of good
heart, good mind and unshakable
integrity. 1t was this, together with
his long and distinguished expert
ence in the service of his country,
that enabled him to do such excel
lent work in meeting his enormous
responsibilities, ranging all the way
from working out lease-lend agree
ments to taking a key part in the
tremendously complex negotiations
for the projected postwar loan from
the United States.
AS he prepares now to turn over
the ambassadorship on May !, to the
able Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Am
bassador to Moscow, his own coun-
trymen probably are fully aware of
how well the Earl of Halifax has
served them, and they will honor
him accordingly. AS for Americans,
great numbers of them will feel a
genuine sense of regret over his de-
parture, remembering that when he
was among them, he invariably
showed himself to be what so many
OF his biographers have said he is
an upright and conscientious Eng
lish patriot, scholar and an au-
thentic Christian gentleman.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
Anqlo-Eqyption Treuty

Inc exchange OF diplomatic notes
between the British and Egyptian
governments indicates that negotia-
tions can be expected in the near
future for a revision of the relations
of those two countries. The Egyp-
tian aim is the virtual termination
of the present Anglo Egyptian
treaty, signed in December, 1886,
and providing for renegotiation
after decade. which thus falls due
at the close OF the current year.
The existing treaty, while recog-
nizing Egypt's independence and
sovereignty, provides for an alliance
between the two countries under the
terms of which Britain has the right
to maintain garrisons of ground and
air forces for the protection of the
Suez Canal at all times, while during
wartime it can make use of Egyptian
territory including naval and air
bases. This exceptional position was,
of course, utilized to the full during
the late war, though the Egyptian
Army did not take part in active
hostilities.
The Egyptian government claims
that conditions have now so changed
that the country no longer needs
British protection, which wounds
the national dignity" and is Gin
terpreted by the Egyptian public as
a tangible sign of mistrust." 1t
therefore desires the complete evac-
uation of Egyptian territory by Brit
ish troops and the abrogation of
special rights in wartime.
There is much to substantiate the
Egyptian argument in this respect.
When the treaty was negotiated in
1886, Italy had overrun Ethiopia and
Egypt was caught between the pin
GERS of an aggressive imperialism
which it could not resist by it's own
forces. Today Italy and it's even
more aggressive Axis partner, Nazi
Germany, lie PROSTATE in the dust,
while Egypt, greatly increased in
wealth, is the leader of an Arab
League whose combined strength is
an important factor in world affairs.
Finally, Egypt is charter member
of UNO, designed to establish
world peace by international CO.
operation and combined action
against aggression from any quarter.
The probabilities are, therefore,
that Britain will not resist too stub
bornly diminution, or even the
total abrogation, of it's strategic
rights in Egypt. The most difficult
issue is likely to be over the status
OF the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. That
vast area of over 100000 square.
miles has had the legal status OF
an Anglo-Egyptian "condominium"
ever since its reconquest by British
arms from the Mahdist dervishes in
1899, though in practice it has been
under virtually complete British
Evening star., 1946-02-01

Uric Won HaSSell, who also was hanged.
believed in a federation of Europe and
a society based on revitalized Christian
and humane principles. Wilhelm
Leuschner was q radical reformer, but
a hater of government by purge.
Theodor Haubach, more radical So
cialist, came in the later years of his
life to believe above all in the restora-
tion of civilized values as q necessity
for any fruitful change. Ludwig Beck
was a professional Army officer who
believed that another war in Europe
would end European civilization.
The list is long and could be extended
to cover many columns, but suffice it to
say that the files of the SIS, Gestapo,
SD and other espionage organizations
consistently complain that the most
stubborn resistance and the resistance
hardest to deal with was that of the
churches.
Millions of Germans looked forward
to the end of Naziism as liquidation of
bloody regime of revolutionary lawless-
ness, and longed, above all else, for the
restoration of legitimate government, of
traditional law, of religious and intel
lectual freedom and standards, of family
llle, Oh OIQeF, OF serenity.
Three anti-Fascist movements are
emerging in Europe; social democracy,
Christian democracy and communism.
None Of them is capitalist" though the
first two want definitely to set limits
to state interference and control. Com
munism, except where Communist lead
ers have been intrenched by foreign
armies or backed by foreign pressures,
has made remarkably little headway
and has made most in the countries
farthest removed from the Red Army
for instance, in France.
It is an illusion, furthermore, to be-
lieve that economic reform and other
wise social conservatism are incompat-
ible. They are the left and right arms
of the same healthy organism.
There are as many things, perhaps
more things, that the Germans want
to 60 back to than things they want
never set up gas chambers for liquidat-
ing men, women and children, nor prac-
ticed scientific vivisection upon human
beings, nor set fire to synagogues, nor
preached the erotic principles of the
stud farm, nor organized youth into
sadistic thugs.
Naziism, on the other hand, did give
Germany planned economy, that idol
of the modern liberal and that idol for
which oceans of blood have been split,
and not only In Germany.
Dostoevsky once predicted "the
earth will weep for its old gods" Much
Of it already does, and especially those
countries which have looked closest into
the eyes Of some of the new gods.
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