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Evening star., 1946-02-24

and feel the ongoing thrust Of his
example and spirit.
This past summer my cousin and
his wife had a story to tell me of a
happening to their 8-year-old son,
which illuminates this theme of Co
incidence or Providence?" Last win
ter young Donny, was recovering from
a cold. He was sitting up in bed and
working with his knife on some cary
ing. He had been carefully and prop
erly schooled in the use of the knife
but. just as sometimes we will jerk
back from an especially long step or
hard fall, Donny cut through the
wood and then pulled back in a sud-
den reflex on the knife, sending its
dull edge into one of his eyes. His
mother Immediately called their ply
sician, who recommended the sum-
moning of a specialist who, when he
came and examined the eye, imme-
diately asked for the boys father.
After explaining the injury. the
treatment was agreed upon-and by
nightfall the hurt member had been
removed. Fortunately, the child's
general health was good and there
was no nervous shock to his system,
but quite naturally his parents were
anxious about his reaction to the
loss of an eye.
Next day his mother gathered to-
gether several back issues of chill
dren's magazine, Jack and JILL" and
carried them to the hospital to read
to him. She read down the list of
contents and Donny selected an arti-
Gle entitled King of the Keys" His
mother testified that she went hot and
cold at the same time, for she was
positive what he would find the story
about. But she turned and read (was
1t coincidence or Providence?) the
story of Alec Templeton, blind wiz
ard Of the piano keys. 1t was the
story of man whose handicap has
not kept him from achieving emf
nence, and whose skill and humor
have entertained and inspired mil
lions of people on both sides of the
Atlantic.
This is not to say that God moved
out OF His heaven that morning to
compose and cause that article magi-
cally to be inserted in the magazine
at the appropriate moment. But it is
to say that there is purpose and pos
sible good for them who love God and
seek the good in everything.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
New Vussur President

When Matthew Vassar, the brewer,
whaling fleet operator and telegraph
system financier, first began to con-
slider creating a college for women,
he decided that the program of
studies to be pursued there must be
fully abreast of the highest stand
ards in similar educational inStitu-
tions for men. It was natural, there
fore, that he should choose a man
to be the earliest active president
OF the school he was founding The
position went to DR.. John Howard
Raymond, a native of New York
City, who had been trained as
boy by the grammarian, Goold
Brown, and later had studied at
Union in Schenectady and taught
at Madison (Colgate) Rochester and
Brooklyn Polytechnic. His work
started in 1864 with the selection
of the pioneer faculty and, even
more important, the development of
a balanced curriculum of classics,
modern languages, natural science
and mathematics.
DR.. Raymond's successor was DR..
Samuel Lunt Caldwell, a distin-
guished Baptist clergyman, born at
Newburyport, Massachusetts,, and
graduated at Waterville COLBY. He
had preached at Bangor and Provi-
dence and taught at Hampton Falls
and Newton. Though he served as
administrator of Vassar College only
seven years, he left his mark upon
the work. The same may be said
for DR.. James Ryland Kendrick, also
a Baptist minister, native of Ver-
mont and an alumnus of Brown, who
was president from 1885 to 1895 and
is remembered especially for de-
veloping the department of physical
science.
With DR.. James Monroe Taylor
as guiding genius, Vassar's expan-
sion went forward during three
fruitful decades. He, too, was a
Baptist preacher, born in Brooklyn
and educated at Rochester and
abroad. Gifts of more than a million
dollars were obtained by him for
needed new buildings and new
equipment. DR.. Henry Noble Mac
Cracken, native of Ohio, who had
been graduated at Harvard and been
on the faculties of Yale and Smith,
took up the executive burden in 1915
Evening star., 1946-02-24

hard bargainer seeming to demand con-
siderably more than it gives, suspicious
abound and the tendency is widespread
to think Of it as bent on making itself
and communism dominant in Europe
and Asia. Time may prove this view
to be justified, but there is another pos
sibility which also deserves the most
careful consideration-the possibility
that the Soviet Union, where there is a
great deal of war weariness and where
the standard of living is much lower
than ours, is primarily interested in
security and long era of peace so that
it can develop internally and exploit its
tremendous resources. In any case, no
effort to evaluate the present situation
can be complete unless due weight is
given to this point and to the changed
nature Of the world balance Of power.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
The Indianapolis Findings

The Navy Departments announce
ment of findings in the Indianapolis
sinking adds missing and presum-
ably closing chapter to an episode
that will 60 down in naval annals
as one OF the stranger and more
costly sea disasters of World War II.
The official statement serves to end
the mystery-left unsolved by the
court-marital of Captain McVay,
skipper OF the Inflated cruiser-as
to why five days elapsed before
rescue efforts began, and then only
after a patrol plane had happened
to spot survivors bobbing in the
rough waters of the Philippine Sea.
The trial of Captain McVay-who
was convicted of failing to zigzag
his ship in an area in which Japa-
nese submarines were known to be
operating, but whose sentence set
ting him back 100 numbers on the
promotion list was remitted by the
department on recommendation of
the court-had not touched on the
rescue delay angle. Public interest
in this phase has been intense, how
ever, because it was obvious that
many more lives would have been
saved had search and rescue opera
tions been started earlier. The
Navy announcement disclosed that
there was an amazing derelic-
ton OF duty on the part of certain
operations officers at Leyte-a fall
ure OF initiative and ordinary good
judgment" attributed in part to in
experience Of junior officers.
For example. Reserve lieutenant
whose duty it was to keep tab on
movements of the indianapolis was
aware that the ship was overdue at
Leyte but neglected to investigate
the matter or to notify his superiors
promptly. Although the lieutenant's
immediate superior, a lieutenant
commander, was not advised of the
nonarrival Of the ship on schedule.
1t was his duty to keep himself per-
sonally informed of the ships move
ments. the Navy pointed out. A
captain and a commodore, next in
line of command, were held ac-
countable for the failures of their
juniors. These failures were all the
more fragrant in view of the reyela-
tion that an intercepted japanese
radio message told OF the sinking of
a vessel in the approximate location
and on the same day of the Indian
apolis torpedoing.
Although Captain McVay's SEN
tence was remitted and he has been
restored to duty. the fact that he
lost his ship under circumstances
leading to his conviction on a
charge of negligence will have an
inevitably adverse effect on his fu-
ture in the Navy, just as the of1icial
reprlmands and "admonitions"
handed out to the four operations
officers will affect their naval ca
reers. Selection boards invariably
attach great weight to such entries
IN the records of men who become
eligible, by reason of seniority, for
promotion. The two junior officers
criticized in the report have re-
turned to inactive duty. but that
does not exclude them from being
considered, in due course, for next
hlgher rank. Thus, although the
indianapolis case is closed, it will
nave It's serious aftermath for the
officers whose records were be-
clouded
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Capital Sidelights
By Will p. Kennedu,

Service as House parliamentarian.
formerly designated as clerk at the
Speakers table," has been 4 sort of
open sesame" to becoming q member
OF Congress for more than half q con-
tury. Five out Of six incumbents have
made the grade, and the other one did
not seek election. This scoring has been
traced back to Forrest Goodwin of
Skowhegan, Me, who was clerk at the
Speakers table under Speaker Thomas
B. Reed, noted among other important
achievements for having taught all SUBJ
sequent Speakers to count a quorum"
Mr.. Goodwin served in the Fifty-flrst
Congress, 1889-1891. Later he was
President of the Maine Senate and
served in the Sixty y-third Congress from
March 4, 1918, less than three months
until his death May 2s. 1918.
The late Representative Charles r.
Crisp of Georgia was parliamentarian
OF the House 1891 1885, while his
father, Charles Frederick Crisp, was
Speaker in the Fifty second and Fifty
third Congresses. Charles r. Crisp was
then elected to succeed his father and
served out the unexpired term, from De-
cember 10, 1896, to March ), 1897, and
did not seek denomination. He WAS
again parliamentarian of the House in
the Sixty-second Congress, and Of the
Democratic National Convention in the
hectic sessions at Baltimore in 1912.
Mr.. Crisp was a member of the House
from 1918 to 1927, and subsequently 4
member of the American World War
Debt-funding Commission. He than was
reelected to the House
Then came the great parliamentarian,
Asher G. Kinds, who had been clerk in
Speaker Reeds ofIice and was promoted
to clerk at the Speakers desk, where
he served for 16 years, 18S5-19ll. He
was editor of the Rules, Manual and
Digest Of the House in 1899 and OF
Kinds Precedents of the House in 1908
and was elected to Congress and served
from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917,
when he voluntarily retired.
Former Senator, now Judge, Bennet
Champ Clark was House Parliamenta-
rian while his father, the late Champ
Clark, was Speaker O913-1D and after
service overseas in the First World War,
was appointed Senator for the unex-
pired term OF Harry B. Halves, February
3, 1888, and reelected until January 3,
1945. He was compiler of the Constitu-
ton, Manual and Digest of Practice for
the House In 1918, 1914, 1915 and 1916.
Next came Representative Clarence
Cannon, now chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, q product
also of Speaker Champ Clark's ONCE
He was Parliamentarian for many years
in the House and at successive Demo-
cratic national conventions and was
elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty ninth,
Seventieth. Seventy first and Seventy
second Congresses and from the Sventy-
fourth to the present Seventy-ninth
Congress. He has been author of a
Synopsis of Procedure, Procedure in the
House, Cannon's Precedents, bringing
Kinds Precedents up to date, and OF
the Manual and Digest of the House.
There since have been two other Par
liamentarians, Lehr Fess, who served
under Speaker Nicholas Longworth and
who resigned to practice law in Ohio,
and Lewis Deschler, who has been in
service at the Speakers table since
1926 and Parliamentarian since Janu-
ary, 1928.
Evening star., 1946-02-24

When people pass the monument
OF General Albert Pike on Indiana
avenue and perhaps wonder how it
happens that he is so commence
rated, they we'll might be told that
ne himself held memorials somewhat
lightly. His authentic philosophy
was expressed in the words: what
we have done for ourselves alone
dies with us; what we have done for
others and the world, remains and
Is immortal"
Evening star., 1946-02-24

The present revival of interest in
Henry James recalls the remark of
Oscar Wilde that he wrote fiction
as II 1t were a painful duty" But
perhaps better critique was George
Moore's: His whole book is one long
f1utter near to the one magical and
unique word, but the word is not
spoken; and for want of the word
his characters are never resolved out
OF the haze of nebulae."
Evening star., 1946-02-24

A lot OF people continue to wonder
why motorcycle or even a still
smaller motorized bicycle is per-
mitted, unmolested, to sound like a
battery Of machine guns, whereas
the driver of car making a tenth
OF that racket would be promptly
hauled UP.
Evening star., 1946-02-24

A textbook famine seems to be
looming up. To pupils in the lower
grades that news will rank just
below the announcement that the
schoolhouse is burning down.
Evening star., 1946-02-24
Coincidence or Pr0pidence.@

By the Req. Ho1Dard Stone Anderson, d. D..
Minister OF the First Congregational Church.
The people therefore that stood by and
thundeed Others said angel spake to hmJohn xii %
Evening star., 1946-02-24

Outcu SCdCes can De mucn greater Lnan
it is now, but nevertheless, though like
ly to be considerably less than ours,
Russian strength will be q thing of the
first magnitude-a power factor not
present in the world balance in times
past.
One of the first statesmen to COM
ment openly on this change was Pre-
mier Smuts of South Africa. While
the war was still on, he pointed to it as
development whose significance could
scarcely be exaggerated. Russia, he
said, was emerging as a colossus second
only to America, leaving Britain-which
once led ala relatively weak third.
Viewing it calmly, more or less as
historic inevitability. he went on to
suggest that this revolution in the
world balance of power would necessi-
tate deep and unique global adjust
ments, and as one such adjustment he
himself proposed that France and the
smaller democracies of Western Europe
pool their strength with the United
Kingdom by becoming members of the
British Commonwealth of Nations.
Whatever may be the merits of this
idea, 1t serves at least to emphasize one
of the reasons for all the international
maneuvering and guessing going on at
this time, with Soviet policy particularly
subject to anxious observation.
II Russia had pretty much the same
economic and political system as ours,
there probably would be less worry
about it's long-range designs But be-
cause it is totalitarian, because there is
lack Of mutual confidence between
itself and the West and because 1t Is q
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
TOP O. THE MORNING
Make Up Chest Deficiency

Still some $4,000 short of the goal
when the extended time for closing
it's campaign arrived Tuesday evening,
the Community Chest has again put
off the final count, this time until Sat-
urday evening, in the hope that the
sixty-three firms that have failed to
report will hasten to turn in their con-
tributions and that their gifts will
carry the fund over the top.
There is no reason to doubt that the
total amount asked, $106,204, can be
forthcoming by the end of the week,
as the unreported firms are in the
major" class. But in any event it is
important that all reports is submitted
in the remaining two days of the pro-
longed drive, that the Chest may close
its books and go forward with it's as
signed tasks.
While 5000 is but a small percentage
of the total, it would be unfortunate
for Wilmington to fail to contribute it,
not only because it's lack would i'm
pose some sacrifice on member institu-
tons but because Of the psychological
effect.
Wilmington has never failed to sup
port the Chest literally. To fail to do
so now would create a bad impression
Of the community at a time when it
needs a favorable attitude through
out the state and beyond the state bord-
ers as it never needed it before.
AS a matter of civic pride, the firms
still unreported are to be urged to get
in under the red feather now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31

how great a forward step. in education
the college would represent for all
southeastern North Carolina, as well
as those who know about the project
more intimately, are urged to be pres
ent, the former to learn more about,
the latter to support, the movement.
Wilmington's forward looking clti-
zens and educators have long looked
forward to the day when a school for
pupils above high school rating would
be established here for the hundreds
of young people now compelled to go
elsewhere for the specialized training
of a junior college. Now that the eff
fort has been revived the people of Will
mington have the best of all opportunl-
ties to give their time and support to
bring it to a successful issue.
The mass meeting tonight can be
largely instrumental in furthering the
movement. Let there be a large turn
out to hear Mr.. Clark on the subject.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
Occupation Officers Fear German
Disorders Despite Food Increases

cake (33 calories); a piece of fish
is big as two yeast cakes (29 cal
cries.; vegetable equivalent to
one-quarter of a turnip-11 cal
o%-ies); one-half cubic inch of
cheese Is caIories); SKINNED milk
equivalent to one and one half
inches in a quart bottle-43 cal
cries., and a teaspoon of artificial
coffee (no calories).
That is a sample ration for a
day-not just one meal-as dis
played officially in the Information
room of the British Military gov
eminent headquarters in Lub-
becke.
Germans who have been on the
diet since last winter have adopt
ed the wry slogan: Keep the
calories and give us something to
eat"
They insist the ration doesn't
give them enough to survive on
and that they are forced to deal
in the black market and to forage
for food.
Only recently extra guards yer
posted owe. Ruhr potato fields be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31

States was virtually without armament
in the thirt:a IS Hitler would never have
drafted his scheme of world conquest.
It was because he foresaw a possibility
of defeating Great Britain and turning
Britain's Anticipated Navy against this
country under a German warplane UNI
brella that he was encouraged to pro-
coed. And had the United States failed
to recognize the danger, when Hitler
marched into Poland, and started build
ing that magnificent "bridge of ships"
that conveyed the tools of war to Brit
ain and, as the campaigns progressed,
to the other Allied powers, including
Russia which now wants armament
abandoned, Hitler would ultimately
have ruled the world.
In the light Of past experience,
the United States cannot join another
disarmament program. 1t can, and glad
ly will, cooperate in atomic controls,
but it knows now, beyond p~eradventure
of doubt that eternal vigilance is the
price of peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
BY JAMES DEVLIN
Associated Press Staff
Correspondent

HAMBURG, Germany, Oct. 30.
-P-Fears of possible disorders
in Germany this winter still are
held by occupation officials al,
though they have been lessened
somewhat since announcement
that the basic ration will be in
creased to 1850 ~calories and that
fuel will be distributed for do
nestle heating.
The situation still is tense
enough so that John B. Hynd,
British parliamentary minister in
charge of the British zone, said
recently that the approaching
winter cannot be viewed with
eQuanimity.
The fact is that the fuel ration,
welcome as it is to Germans in
view of a previous announcement
that there would be none at al,
IS comparatively scanty, as is the
proposed increase in food.
Both represent an attempt to
offset the deterioration in the
average Germans position since
a year ago.
Many Germans went into last
winter with some food reserves
and with money to augment their
fare by black market purchases.
This winter the reserves are
gone for the most part, partlcu-
larly in the heavily : populated
cities; health has been weakened
by low rations during the summer,
and few Germans have enough
left of their savings to buy extra
food at black market prices.
The average German in the
British zone has been living on a
daily diet of 1907 calories, or
less than a person in a plentiful
ly-supplied country would have at
one meal.
In actual food his ration gave
MIN:
Four pieces of dark bread 1929
~calories, which makes up more
than half his ration; three pota-
toes Obs calories); two table
spoons of cereal U46 calories):
and these odds and ends: A cubic
irch of fat (53 calories); a tea
spoon of sugar (36 calories); a
teaspoon of jam (36 calories); a
piece of meat the size of a yeast
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
Your GIRights
Questions And Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
Bv DOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON-Here are some
general questions from veterans
and their relatives:
Q-When I got out of service l
applied for reinstatement in my old
job and was -ehired. l have been
working at the old job for more
than nine months now. But I have
been seriously considering re = en-
listing. This brings up the question
Of whether or not my job will be
given back to me when l get out
the second time. Will it? If so,
will my employer have to keep
me for a full year, just as he did
his time?
A-Selective Service says that
your job rights will be completely
protected if you re : enlist. This
means that after your second dis
charge your employer will have to
rehire you and keep you for a
year unless there is cause for
firing you.
Q-Must a man have served 80
full days after Sept. is. 1910, in or
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
It Just Can't Be Done

No nation, large or small, is more
anxious for h e establishment of
stable world peace than the United
States. It is composed of a peace-lov-
ing people. Not by the greatest stretch
of the imagination can it be consider
ed militaristic in policy or practice.
But it has learned to it's sorrow that
peace cannot be maintained by dis
armament.
After World War I it took the lead
ership in a disarmament movement, be-
ing host to the c~onferees assembled tc
work out and enforce a disarmament
limitations program, and exerting its
full power in it's behalf. The program
then adopted at Washington, and which
the participating nations thought would
lead to permanent peace, proved one OF
The chief underlying causes of Worlc
War II.
This is why the present Russia re-
newal of the disarmament proposal is
to be viewed with distrust, if not actua
alarm. The burned child avoids the
fire forever after. By the same toker
the world cannot hope for continuing
peace through disarming.
Had it not been that the United
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31

cause of the growing number of
night time thefts.
The new ration of 1850 calories
will add the equivalent of aboat
two or three pieces of bread 10
the daily ration.
Last winter no coal was allotted
for domestic purposes. This Win
ter, in an effort to stave off i'll
among people whose resist
ance has been lowered, fuel will
be provided under a plan where
by miners will work n Sunday
a month. A family of four will get
fuel equivalent to between one
half and three-quarters of a ton
of coal, with other families ge-
ting more or less depending on
their size.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-31
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority
Written for NEA Service

III oS1 WIZ
The group of eastern players
who Travelled to California a
few months ago complimented the
keen play of the Pacific coast
experts. Jack Ehrlenackb of Lis
Angeles. who played today's hand,
became Life Master No. Sc not so
long age.
In this hand Ehrlenback made
a play that is not employed as
often as it might be. When South
holds the queen of clubs. The
natural play for West seems to be
the king Of clubs; but then North
will ruff, return a heart, and de-
clarer must lose a heart and an
cher club.
Ehrlenback refused to play the
king on the club queen. South
continued with the jack of clubs,
which North ruffed. When he re-
turned a heart. Ehrlenback went
up with the ace, picked up the
trumps, ruffed a club and dis
carded dummy's losing heart On
the fifth club.
While the average player might
consider this a double dummy
play, it really is not. AS long as
North followed to one club, de-
clarer should see that he can set
up his fifth club for a valuable
discard. He must retain the tim
ing on the hand and South is
marked with the king of hearts
by his opening heart bid