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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Food, Not Politics

1t is reasonable to believe that if the
British mission now in India were deal
ing with a united people agreed on a
common policy it might hope to find
a way leading to independence for that
land. But India is not united nor does
it seem possible that however clever
and adroit the mission, it will succeed
in achieving unity among antagonistic
factions, which are forever quarreling
among themselves and all of which
dread, and many hate, the British.
In dispatch to the Christian Science
Monitor from New Delhi, C. K. Cum
ming sums up the elementary factors
1. Congress leaders dislike the Mos
lem League incomparably more than
they do the British.
2. Moslem League leaders dislike
the Congress incomparably more than
they do the British.
8. Congress fears and breads, above
all things, Pakistan, of the division
of India.
a. The Moslem League fears and
breads, above all things, being domi-
mated by what it calls the Hindu Raj
5. Beneath the sound and fury, both
sides actually hope the mission may
enact the role of "deus ex machina'
and somehow produce miraculous
solution that will reconcile apparently
irreconcilable points of view.
Here. we think, are complications
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Better Than The Bronx

Six auto accidents on Saturday do
not speak we'll for the drivers observ-
ance of traffic rules. It is for the police
to determine where the fault lies and
the court to administer judgement. But
it is possible here to observe that the
odds are a hundred to one that the
practice of common courtesy and alert
ness to the immediate traffic situation
would have greatly reduced the total.
Few motor vehicle accidents are un-
avoidable.
However, it is something to know
that none of the accidents was the
result of intent to commit murder, and
so Wilmington has an advantage over
the Bronx, which is a geographical sub
division of the sprawling city of New
York and not merely the name of an
obnoxious cheer or an Intoxicating
drink.
Two Bronx motorists appeared in
Magistrates court the other day &C.
cused of trying to run down persons
afoot. In one case the offender was
said to have aimed his car at his wife
because she had left him and taker
their child with her. In the other ar
irate fellow chose detective for his
target.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

In our delegation of eastern play
ers who will attend Bridge Week in
California in May, Pittsburgh will
be represented by Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Thoma and Ivan Half. On a
recent visit to Pittsburgh 1 played
few rubbers of bridge at Thoma's
home, and when Paul reached four
hearts on today's hand. West could
not be criticized for doubling him.
Nevertheless Thoma made the
contract
When the opening diamond lead
held, West shifted to the jack of
USE WITH CUT ~. =. .. ....
clubs, which Toma won with the
ace. He ruffed a diamond in
dummy, and then made very
nice play. He led the queen of
clubs from dummy, East covered
with the king and Thoma ruffed,
then ruffed another diamond in
dummy.
He reasoned that West must
have all OF the adverse high cards,
so at this point he led the nine of
clubs from dummy and discarded
spade from his own hand. West
ruffed with the three of hearts
and led the nine of spades. Thoma
won with dummy's queen and led
the seven of clubs, trumped with
the four of hearts and West over.
ruffed with the seven-spot. He
exited with q spade, which Thoma
won.
Now two rounds of hearts were
taken, and dummy's clubs were
good.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Bikini Tests

According to the Gallop poll on the
atomic bomb tests scheduled to be
held off Bikini, the public is almost
equally divided. That is to say, AZ per
cent of the persons queried approve,
81 per cent disapprove, and 20 per
cent are undecided.
Despite the heavy volume of dis
patches in which the tests and the
bombs have been discussed, these fig
ures do not seem to represent seasoned
and well informed views. The subject
is one on which the great bulk of the
public is still very much at sea, partic-
ularly on the scientific side.
The probability is that the vast
majority of the people who expressed
an opinion lack the intimate knowledge,
not of the surface but of the underly-
ing purposes of the tests.
The 20 per cent that acknowledged
they could not make up their minds
seem to be nearer the truth than most
of these who responded in favor or
against them. For once, it appears prob
able that the results of the Gallop poll
are in error, not in the count of re-
sponses, but the understanding of the
people responding on the issues involv-
ed in the project.
However this may be, it is evidently
the intention to proceed with the tests,
by which it is sought to learn what the
effect of atomic bomb attack will, or
would, have on naval craft as now
constructed, and what changes the
explosion of those bombs may suggest
as essential in naval construction of
the future.
1t cost two billion dollars to perfect
the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima
It will cost a hundred million dollars
to hold the Bikini tests. AS long as
the Hiroshima bomb introduced a new
era in warfare, it would seem that the
two billions expended to perfect it, in
the long run would prove a definite
waste of money without the employ
ment of this additional hundred mil
lions to discover how our navies may be
kept afloat in any future conflict when
atomic bombs will certainly be the chief
weapon of offense.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Doctor Says
IPUCILISTS RISK
| GRAVE INJURIES
BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN n

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, D. n.
Boxing accidents caused bv fall,
may be prevented by thicker floor
padding. The ropes should be- in
good condition, and the space ont.
side the ring should be wild.
enough to prevent boxers from
falling off the platform. We'll.
padded gloves should be used NV
amateurs, and thick head-guards
should be worn in training, even
though they do not prevent All
brain accidents.
Boxers should be placed under
medical supervision of physicians
familiar With athletic dangers. and
every effort should be made to
avoid injuries by enforcing the
rules.
The most frequent cause Of
knockout is blow on the chin de-
llivered slightly from the side and
upward rather than directly from
the front. A boxer may regain
consciousness Immediately and
continue fighting, or he may re.
main unconscious for hours.
Those who have been knocked
out by blow on the chin insist
that it is painless. The idea that
a knockout is caused by ramming
the jaw back against the arteries
in the neck, or by hitting special
nerve in the jaw, is no longer be-
lieved.
Loss of consciousness following
a blow on the jaw results from
conclusion of the brain, which
varies from a simple jar to
Lcontusion (hemorrhage.)
Solar plexus knockouts follow a
blow delivered over the upper por-
ton of the abdomen. Many box
ers are able to protect their stom-
achs by training or muscular
development. Severe pain, suffo-
cation, and loss of muscular
strength follow a blow to the alb
domen, but seldom does loss of
consciousness occur.
Conclusion of the heart Gar
ring) may follow blow delivered
lover the left side Of the chest, es-
lpecially one struck on the far left
and from below, and the effect
lmay last for some time.
A blow on the side of the neck
may cause loss of consciousness
when it strikes the carotid sinus,
which is a special set of nerves
resembling the solar plexus attach
ed to the carotid artery.
Punches below the belt can in
jure the genital organs and may
! cause loss of consciousness, but
: permanent damage seldom fol-
lows. Kidney punches are much
, less dangerous than is usually be-
lieved.
Permanent mental damage-the
:, celebrated 'punch-drunk" condi-
, !, tion-results from brain injury.
Boxers who have been knocked out
: many times. or those who have
! won most of their fights by close
decisions, may have sustained
great brain injury.
Brain injury may follow sin
gle blow, yet some boxers escape
!, it despitesyears in the ring.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

much weigh. unless, to be punaish
would prove to him there was
more versa in ray intent than vice.
Well, to go on: Mr.. Via is a
creature. mot unlike us all, Of habit.
For some years he'd made 1t a
point to leave his home in the
Oleander section at exactly $40
each morning to betake himself to
the shipyard. Last Tuesday mcrn-
ing, if my dates are correct, some
impelling force caused him to
leave his home at 6:34, what turned
out to be six Hateful minutes be-
fore his accustomed hour.
I never was one to remember
streets. Get me off Front and
can't rightfully tell you whether
I'm On Dock or Grace. Therefore,
I won't even attempt to tell you the
exact route Mr. Via projected on
the Tuesday morning to the yard.
Anyway, he was trundling along in
his machine, as they called them
back in the days of goggles and
busters and which, in view of the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
Religion
Day By Day
N THE VOLCANOES DEPTHS
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS

IN THE VOLCANOES DEPTHS
NV mind keeps turning back,
as 1 ponder these dangerous days,
to my experience with Asama
Yama, Japan's largest volcano. I
cannot cast off sense of parallel
and portent.
With few friends, we had climb
ed to the edge of the crater, from
which the yellow fumes of sulphur
constantly pour. BY happy
chance, the direction of the wind
changed, and our side of the
crater was left clear, so that we
could see straight down to the
bottom.
1t was a fearsome sight. Far
down at the base of the crater
pulsed and blinked the lake of
fire. It seemed like some menac-
ing monster, grumbling and growl-
ing in its sleep.
Then two danger-fraught things
happened.
The wind veered, and the deadly
fumes of the sulphur swept to-
ward us, so that we ran for our
lives.
Then with a giant roar, the vol
cano erupted, and stones, some
of them weighing more than a
ton, were shoWered about us. To
add to our danger, darkness had
come on, and we were lost on the
mountainside.
Today the world is wandering on
a volcano, with little sense of the
ominousness of the situation. Sub
terranean fires are burning in
the great mass of human society,
We have had minor eruptions. but
the greater eruption portends. The
hour has come for escape.
Only the Almighty, who holds
the universe in His hand, can de-
liver mankind from such social
and political commissions as man
never before has known.
We cry to Thee, o Ruler of
all the universe, for deliverence
from impending disaster. Save
Thy world, for the Kingdoms
sake. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
.heLiterarv
Guidepost
LAFCADIO HEARN, by Vera Nc
Williams lHoughton Mifflin: So
BY w. G. ROGERS

LAFCADIO HEARN, by Vera Nc
Williams Houghton Mifflin; S3.)
There probably never was an
American neWspaperman like LAT
cadio Hearn, shy, diminutive,
nearly blind reporter for the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, the Commercial,
the New Orleans Item and the
Times-Democrat back in 1920.
AS temperamental as an opera
star, he fought copy desks as ne
would later fight tooth and nail
the publishing-house editors who
revised, sometimes callously, his
precise, colorful, romantic prose.
Exotic little nonconformist,"
this painstaking biographer calls
him, and the idyl of fair-sized
generation of Americans was In
deed an odd stick, solitary, hus-
band once of Cincinnati mulatto
land later of a japanese woman,
owner of one of this countrys
''most exotic private libraries,
experimental photographer of the
nude. But no biography is needed
to prove how sensuouS he was
his lush writing alone shows it,
Inheriting warm blood, born IL
the Mediterranean climate
brought up by women relatives,
he was a lifelong exile, first IN
England. where his father aban-
doned him. later in this country
the West Indies, even Japan where
he was teaching English when III
1904, with hi wife, Setsuko ana
their children at hand, ne Geo
OF New York he said: "This Guy
drives me crazy, or, if you prefer,
crazier." He always wanted ~
be where the wasn't, and !nls
restlessness, which led him often
to give up the sure thing for Inc
untried, exacted a heavy price ne
came as close to starving as Any
creative writer in recent times
Among his friends for longer u
shorter periods were Henry h[s.
biel, George Cable. and of course
George Gould, who sourly oeg 5;a
his biography: "Of Lac , 1u..
Hearn there has been, and me- me-.
will be, no excuse for any DUE
raphy whatever" Ice.
Mrs. McWilliams, who as SUI
dent at Columbia had Japans;; ~
teacher who had known Hear0 nh N
Tokyo. proves how mistaken l.o', ~
was. She does not seem to me ~
communicate what must naJ,
been the unique thrill of heaLn Nv
personal existence INV NV
to connect closely enough the MAJ ras
and the writer, but she makes ~
want to return to his books
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
IT Seems Here Is A Case OF A Man
Setting Out To Haze HIMSELF Wreck

present vintage of motor cars, they
probably should still call them, and
he noted, fleetingly, a Red Cross
ambulance parked in driveway.
He nulled earlingrnorningly over
this and trundled on.
AS he started to make the turn
into an abutting street panel
truck came along and smacked
him, or his car, right amidships.
They practically had to use a can
opener to extricate Mr.. Via from
the machine. But, extricating HIM,
they laid him out upon the ground.
I'm as bad about names as I am
about streets so I cannot identity
here the theys. But the driver OF
the truck had his wife with him
and his wife was, and is, register
ed nurse at James Walker hospital
and the gentleman driving the
truck was taking her to her daily
duties at the hospital.
Well, to go on again: While Mr..
Via was lying on the ground at the
scene another gentleman drove
up and expressed some amazement
at the indemnity of the gentleman
lying on the ground. Something
perhaps stronger than my-good-
Observation-Disclosures. I can
not be exact in his uttered amaze
|ment because We-The Star-are
daily guests in homes in which
much stronger language is not only
not tolerated but not allowed at
all.
But the amazed gentleman was
Mr.. James Monk, a fellow execu-
tive OF Mr.. Was at the shipyard.
There was the nurse, there was
the friend, and there was the Red
Cross ambulance Mr.. Via had seen
not so far to the stern from where
the truck smacked into the ma
chine.
In a trice, arrangements were
made to place Mr.. Via into the Red
cross ambulance, with skilled nurs-
ing service enroute, and the matter
OF getting in touch with the Mrs.
and saying observation-disclosures
had-been-smacked into and-is-do-
ing-as-Well-as-could be-expected.
Observation-Disclosures.
And in a matter of some three
minutes-pernaps I'm using poetic
license on the three minutes bust
ness in my effort to show you how
precisely everything clicked and il
may have been four minutes-Mr.
Via was being looked into, or his
injuries were, at the hospital.
I'm not going to be so dogmatic
as to say that Mr.. Was accident
and the events leading up to and
surrounding it are so much differ
ent from ones that happen thou
sands OF times each week as to
place it in the category of the
extremely unusual, For all l know
such facilities as Mr.. Via found
at hand when he had his fifth verte-
bra cracked may be in the offins
at the scene of lots and lots Of
accidents.
But l cannot help making the
observation that if ever have
run across case of a man setting
out deliberateiy-with the uncon-
promising aid of the fates - to
stake himself to an accident, this
one was it.
Incidentally, as we say in the
City Briefs, friends will be inter.
esting in learning that the con
dltion of George E. Via, Time
Study chief at the North Carolina
Shipbuilding company, who was
painfully injured in an automobile
accident last Tuesday, was de-
scrlbed last night by James Walk
er hospital attaches as being
satisfactory"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22
TOP O. THE MORNING

The reason the Christian faith SO swiftly
grinned a decadent world was not its ethl-
cal teaching. High idealisn was not ne"
10 the Jews or Greeks or Romans. Inc
reason the new religion ran like rlVu-
let of fire around the Mediterranean Dor
ders was that it said, There is no death!
-JOwett.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

Illinois police nabbed as a vagrant a man
who was wearing 10 shirts, 10 coats, 10
pairs of pants and four caps, and carrying a
whiskbroou and a Chinese newspaper. The
newspaper was the clue-the whole thing was
a Chinese puzzle to the cops.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

The word restaurant in AmeI.1s
was first applied to the dnl. ai.
rooms of the better class OF no'Ia
and to a few high class Ia cal"
restaurants.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

The Anne rican eating
places were patterned after the
inns, taverns and coffee-houses in
England and on the Continent.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

In England the amusement tax has been re,
moved from tickets for chess games The
English, apparently, have dec;ded-and right
~ so-that watching a chess game is work,
not fun
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

The folk who used to brag about the nilea q
they got out of their ola car now boast of no,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

highly elastic nylon has been produced
However, don't get your hopes up girls-eve,
with the new fabric you can't stretch one nal,
into two.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

A Romanian has confessed he murdered %
taxi drivers and chauffeurs in wear VIII.
was he trying to do-make the world safe for
pedestrians.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-04-22

We cry to Thee, o Ruler of
all the universe, for deliverence
from impending disaster. Save
Thy world, for the Kingdoms
sake. Amen.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-11-15
Cherries S. Johnson Fisk's New President

.
Of DR. Charles s. Johnson noted scooHist 70
University. the hrst history OF
that a Negro has been chosen as ITS head
considerable controversy among the alumni ana
Of the right man Tor the post the
should dspe all apprehension ana TOT
has all the requisite intellectual equipment al"
administrative do frst-class )oo at FISK
He is in fact far qualified by both ana ecu
of Nashville institution than all the
previous presidents that Fisk has had He has built himself
reputation field Of sociology and as director OF
brought Fisk University academic
scholarship Of which few schools OF M KIND
boast We congratulate the trustees Tor heu wise
wishes Dr. johnson for the development OF
greater serviceable Fisk University, NJ,
1t will take of whewash to whie"ash Dido Ine wv"
capable the
unless public opinion is arousd-Pitts-
burgh Courier
ties Of artculate and resoue organizations uch as e
Ku kux Khan Americas counter
wiped there WI" be no doneS
the South while survives openly OF
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-11-15

tomorrow is foretold by what we
individually and collectively are do
ing to develop finer human beings
to build a better world. Youth
must not walk in front or behind
adults, but by their side-forward.
and great race with too many men
sending women out to do what we
ought to do. The biblical account
has it that God gave the laws to
Adam and not to Eve; that He sent
Moses to lead the children of Israel
out from under Pharaoh's yoke of
slavery; Noah to build the ark, and
His son to die on the cross that
you and | might live, grow and
be happy; love mankind, serve
humanity and work for universal
peace and universal brotherhood.
That is the plan when men falter
in this, they fail to carry their re-
possibilities.
A white woman social agency d.
rector stated that in her COM
munity when the time comes to
raise the community fund, big
white men form teams and call on
other men of their strata, that they
would not think of sending a white
woman to solicit a white man. She
was aware Of the fact that too
often it is the other way round
insofar as some colOred men and
their women are concerend. That
is one of the things they mean when
thew talk of white superiority.
They will assume civic response
bilities and execute them volun-
tarily in a far greater degree than
colored people.
South Needs COnsecrated Leaders
The greatest need in the South
today is for consecrated leaders
leaders who will assume the re-
sponsibility of training leaders to
assume and execute responsibilities
voluntarily. Building better men
and women is far more important
than merely exposing them to the
type of education that is like the
whitewash that marks the spot
where a dead man is.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-11-15
Outside the Home
In Our Minnesota



home highly personal institution The father the head
decline
He may his guests bridge
those the books the
neghbors reasonably The home
private that largely beyond the of civil law
OUTSIDE THE HOME
Restaurants and hotels quite different They were
established shelter
from home They public places and expected all
able and willing Men and who
solely
hardship In they
humiliation which
which democracy should
applicable o
Within his home be seecve he chooses.
his home shelter
rights of other citizens the
Such is the American tradition.