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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
BY JOHN SKIES

A few days ago 1 related to
you that I had in the back of
my mind passing along to you an
interview with Miss Mary Jarman
who, having won the starry crow
in the Jaycees' recent competition,
is the current queen of the beau
ties hereabouts.
Without botaering to drop around
and call in person upon Miss Jar
man 1 proceeded to set forth some
fortyish and fogeyish notions 1
have about beauty queens in gen.
eral. These notions, l believe, we're
none too complimentary. Not I'M
complimentary to Miss Jarman,
but uncomplimentary to the gen.
eral run of beauty queens.
Ever ready to gorge myself with
crow and be humb1y regretful,
I herewith make my deepest bow,
to Miss Jarman. And hasten, as
rapidly as my two fingers can hit
the keys of this typewriter, to tell
you that Miss Jarman is by no
means a beauty queen in general.
AS you've probably read some
where beforeI believe my col
league. Mrs. Rogers, has told you
about this-Miss Jarman has been
president of a Fourth club. What
is more, the only contest she won
before becoming the current reign
ing beauty was in a sewing contest.
But this isn't all. Miss Jarman
is probably the only beauty queen
in the history of beauty queens
who knows how to milk a COW.
Miss Jarman came around IN see
me day before yesterday. (There
will be a slight pause while youse
guys gnash your teeth and get
your color back after turning green
with envy.) She didn't, I must
admit. come around to see me for
myself alone. Her visit was Just
another example of her gracious
ness and her accommodation and
her thoughtfulness to overworked
neWspapermen who must keep tab
on her goings and comings. And
when I told her I was pretty busy.
but that I would like to mention
her in an item she said, with
refreshing ~naturalness and frank
ness, she'd be glad to come by
and see mt.
Skipping my thought that moth
ing seems impossible any more,
Miss Jarman dropped in.
That is when I learned she knows
how to milk a COW. You see, she
learned this bit of honey domes-
ITCHY on her fathers farm out
from Verona. Yes, Verona. just this
side of Jacksonville, is her home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
University Of The Air

In addition to the 1877 registrants
IN file at New Hanover High school
for the University of North Carolina
freshman courses to open in Septem-
Der, another university course is to
start in Wilmington-this time a uni
versity of the air which will be conduc-
ted on the same terms for veterans as
they have at other universities and
colleges under the CT Bill of Rights.
The federal government will pay
all tuition charges and make the same
cash allowances as to pupils at other
schools. James and Warren Pennington,
assisted by AL and Kenneth Wooten,
will give ex-service men and women
full course of ground training and
when this is completed, as thorough
going training in flying.
With aviation making such tremend-
Gus strides in public approval, and the
demand for pilots keeping the same
pace, it is not to be doubted that ex-
service people in this vicinity will take
advantage of this opportunity.
The Pennington brothers, who have
conducted a flying school for several
years, are to be congratulated for ex-
panding their activities, in behalf OF
veterans. AS the present proposal has
the endorsement of the local Civil Aero
nautics Administration Inspector, it is
q reasonable expectation that Washing
toms approval will be forthcoming in
a few days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25

support. But it may be said in its de-
tense that by bringing all agencies en-
gagged in veteran service into a single
operating unit much of the duplication
of effort which now exists and which
is blamed for the general confusion IN
veteran affairs that has been so widely
condemned would be eliminated.
Both the City of Wilmington n
New Hanover county W a great deDt
to their ex-service men and women.
The money asked for maintaining a
service center where their personal dill
ficulties and unemployment problems
could be dealt with in a single office
is little enough to give toward dis
charging that debt.
Further, veterans in need OF any
of the services now performed by or
CARNATIONS widely scattered downtown
would be materially benefited by having
their cases handled through the pro-
posed GENERALIZATION of all units con-
cerned. Surely this is sufficient to offset
any antagonistic arguments that could
be offered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
QUOTATIONS

The only plan for peace which ever worked
was Jesus demand that each individual be
born again. Everyone believes Him but wants
someone else to be awakened first and born
anew. -Eriscopal Bishop Austin pardue of
Pittsburgh.
There is no hope for government by majority
in the Congress until the rules are thoroughly
overhau.ed to free the House and Senate from
the legislative tyranny of a willful minority in
either tranch.-Sen. Wayne Morse R of Ore
gon.
The world, a high diffusion of learning .oes
hand in hand with greater prosperity and
with a sound, happy national life. The spending
of money on education is the best of all
expenditures.-Gov. Thomas f. Dewey of New
York.
Since the United States is several irmns
ahead o. the Russians in the DEVELOPMENT
Of the atomic bomb, let us keep ahead. Joe
Stain is tie type who mistakes another nation,s
kindness for owardice.-Chie Justice George
W. Maxey of Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
7own Comes Up With Beauty Queen
ThatW Stay The He adline Writers

/ I feel as mean as a by-dog about
telling you all this because Of
what I thought was a cute little
remark Miss Jarman made to me.
"Don't,' she said, make me
out too domestic because some
body might get the idea I'm try
ing to get myself married. And
I'm not"
She was very definite about this.
I could 60 into paeans about the
young lady. 1 really know the
words to put down and I'm con-
WINGED she deserves them. But
there are times when restraint
must be exercised. If I started
putting down those words I know
to say about Miss Jarman I'm
afraid I'd get owe = enthusiastic
and somebody might think me
biased. And 1 do not wish to be
thought biased, even if 1 am.
All l can say to you is this:
If the judges at Wilson, in the
State = wide beauty competition
Aug. 3, and at Atlantic City later,
should happen to pick Miss Jar
man, the country will have a
completely new deal in its Miss
America, one who'll give the news
paper boys all over the nation
plenty to clatter about on their
ty%pewriters.
Imagine the headlines: Hoe to
Hollywood" "Plow to Powers;"
Cow to Conover;'' "Sews to
Stage and Screen"
Please forgive me, Miss JAR
man, for giving away your domes-
tic secrets. q really didn't tell you
l wouldn't.) But if you do win
those State and National contests,
you might as well brace yourself
and be ready to make the best Of
it. Because that's exactly what
you'll be reading about yourself
in the tabloids. It's the price you
must pay for being nationally
beautiful.
And if you should happen to win
these contests?
why, I'd just about die!" Miss
Jarman tells you.
Yes, Miss Jarman. You Just
about would.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
TheLiterarv
Guidepost
By w. G.. ROGERS
INDEPENDENT PEOPLE,
by Halldor Laxness, translated
from the Icelandic by J. A.
Thompson (hnopf; S3).


The indefatigable Bjartur, as
hard a worker as literature has
seen. at a guess, since the ancient
days of the labors of Hercules. is
the hero Of THIS novel set in a re-
mote lcelandic valley.
With exemplary obstinacy Biar-
tur aspites 10 Independence, ira
ditional ideal OF western peoples.
For Is years he slaves for the
Ballltf of Myri, skimping to buy
his raltry acres, called Summer
houses, where he plans to raise
sheep. For II more years he him.
self is his own drudge to his own
master while he struggles to paw
of the mortgage. He feeds his
family on fish and porridge, deny
ing them milk and meat; he tramps
the Wild mountainsides to rescue
wandering lambs; he's on the 90
from before sun-up to late at
night; he works his wives. first
Rosa and then Finna, to death.
bJartur is Iceland's contribution
10 the cause Of rugged individual
ISM. other men may demean
themselves to borrow hay, but his
pride never bends; a housekeeper
VINO fondly uses her own money
to stock his larder is fired forth
with, for tina, reflects on his indie
pendence. A daughter yields to a
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
WAKE

To The Editor:
The proposal to move Wake
Forest college to Winston Salem
resolves into a definite BETRAYAL
of the trust Of those who founded
it, and others who have struggled
to make it what it is TODAY in
richness of spirit, ideals and trad,
itions.
Before accepting the Reynolds Of.
fered, at best far from ADEQUATE
for such a move, North Carolina
Baptists should consider the values
involved, and not be misled by the
sudden clink of millions making a
false jingle in ones pocket! The
distinct personality of the college
created by individual sacrifices
and struggles for achievement
throughout the years can no easier
be transplanted than the soul Of
one individual to the body Of an
other.
Statistics have proved that the
greater the endowment of a COL
lege, the higher the cost 10 the
student. Duke university, with its
millions, recently raised students
fees by an additional hundred dol,
lars per year. If our college is
moved it is reasonable 10 expec.
the yearly cost of education in the
new location to increase. The
dreams of its founders who made
higher education in a Christian
environment possible at small cost
in Wake Forest would thereby be
shattered.
1t amounts to selling ones soul
for a mess of pottage bought with
easy" money! Can one imagine
such men as DR.. William Louis
Poteat, DR.. William B, Royal
DR.. Sledd and other teachers OF
thei: caliber who helped to create
the real Wake Forest entertaining
such a thought?
I call upon all those who have
the true, sacred interest Of Wake
Forest college at heart to rally "
this cause; to leave its ideals un'
touched, where 1t is, where 1t mas
been growing in grace and chfl'' !,
ian leadership for over a hunofsa
and twelve years. and where oy
all rights Of tradition and inherit
ance it should forever remain
Louise Holding Smoot !
Wake Forest, N. c.
July "a, 1916.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

There is no question that the
flight of the eastern bridge pay
ecs to the pacific coast for Bridge
Week will bring the two groups
of the American Contract Bridge
League into closer cooperation.
Already players from the west
ern division have made reServa-
tons to play in the summer ma
tlonal tournament at the Hotel St.
George in Brooklyn the week be-
ginning Aug. 4, and it would not
be surprising to see a large dele
cation fly from the Pacific coast
to the winter national tournament
in Florida.
One of the newcomers to tourna-
ment bridge who d i d himself
proud in the west was Fred Hirsch
of New York. He won the Ely
Culbertson pair event with L. J.
Kabakjian of Philadelphia, and.
finished in a tie for second place
in the All-Western team-of-four
event.
He made a nice bid on today's
hand and as a result although
every North-South pair in the
room got to six diamonds, Hirsch
and his partner were the only
pair who defeated the contract.
His well-timed f%our-heart bid
caused West to open the jack of
hearts. Hirsch won and returned
a heart, giving West a ruff.
Without the heart bid West was
bound to make the natural open
ing of the king of clubs, which
South would trump, and he then
would have to lose only n heart
trick. A double of the three-heart
bid by Hirsch would not be wise.
as it might cause his partner to
double a makeable slam contract.
Hirsch had only one message to
get across, and that was, Partner
if you are on the lead, open a
With his singleton heart,
West then could double safely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
MIHAILOVIC-SYMBOL

Few, if any, Americans wanted to see Cen
eral Mihailovic die.
1t is rot only that his Chetniks rescued
American filters forced t. land in Yugoslavia.
1t is not only that in the early days Of the war,
King Peter, for whom Mihailovic has shown
unwavering devotion made a brave decision
to bring Yugoslavia into Allied ranks.
Certainly these two facts convince Americans
that Mihailovic was something better than a
mere tool of the Na7ls. But even without
benefit Ct these recollections, Mihailovic looked
less like a man found clearly guilty of crime
than like a victim of the pitiless complexities
of histcry.-The Christian Science Monitor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
LETTER BOX
WHY PASS THE BUcV,
To The Editor:

To The Editor:
Have noticed in your last ,,,.,
paper that the city fathers ane ssA'
highway people are consida,t ne
changing the heavy traffic ~"
Third to Seventh street. Of co n..'
I am not an authority on tr..s'
but common sense tells ma n
they are going from bad IA n,os ss'
1t seems that they want IN tr.
fer the hot potato from Thi,s ANY,
Seventh streets lap.
Just imagine one Of iba
five thousand gallon oil trucE ,ass
ploding on the corner Of Ssr,s ss'
and Market or Dock streets (y5i,a
is about the highest Level in ", Ny,
mington and is about center =, ~ %'
city,. The gasoline would run 5o rs
hill in four different dirsc 4;sa
and set the whole town an s..
Third street already has fl. I IL,
potato in her lap-why pas, ~.
to Seventh street? I wish IN n,! vi
out to you that Third street is r,'a'
than twice the width Of sava ss
street; it is already commerc;,l
lied and has a straight direct rom,,
to bridges while Seventh s4,.,,
has no bridge connections ANA
a strictly residential, thickIv M.
ulated, narrow street (some nar..
twenty-seven feet wide). Tb...
must be some other wav ,a
Couldn't it be a way to cover ~ ~,
the old McCumbers ditch and 4. u
two birds with one shot Or br Ia
ing another bridge starting sorrs
where in the shipyard and E,S
ing it up with the old Soutbnnr.
road? 1t strikes me while We ~.
talking about deepening the riv.-
river and build a road on Brn,.
wick side of the river. Sooner -,
why not use the dirt from +bs
later Wilmington will be forced N
have another bridge wbv ma,
now? Also consider the cbeans,,
way out now will cost us mrcb
more later.
Jake DlVgin.
Wilmington, N. c.
July "a, 1916.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25

That is, it was her ~postoffice ad-
dress. Actually, she lived on a
farm out from Verona before she
and her mother came to Whining
ton to live five years ago.
NoW-you may as well hold on
to your neWspaper-the girl not
only knows how to milk a COW,
but she has ploughed a mule. She
kept Fostering her father to let
her have a hand at this manly
chore and when he wouldn't hear
to it she just went out and hitch
ed Maude to a pillow herself and
took off. She admits she got a bit
tangled up in the trace chains.
But the point is she did Try to
plough.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
Religion
BED = ROCK
By T. ELLIS

VIVA OONAA
God lives: God rules; God cares.
This is the foundation of all our
faith, and tire source of our COM
fort.
We may not understand His
workings, and we find it hard to
wait patiently for Him whose
thoughts are not our thoughts, and
whose ways are not our ways.
That is what Faith is for, to en-
able us to do and to endure when
we cannot see. Anything else would
not be faith.
So through these changeful, IN
certain days, we simply plant our
lives on the three-fold foundation
that God is, and that He is sover-
eign over all of life. and that His
love extends to the needs of every
last one of His children.
"Lord increase our faith" Give
us a trust in Thee, our Father.
that will carry u through the dark
days. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25

rheumy schoolteacher, and nv
sons succumo to other temp'a
tons. But Bjartur won't DO"
fate.
His love is the old peasant w..
for the land. Wives, cnLalS;
neighbors, the changing "o..
mean nothing to him. he Hno~.
his sheep better than he H'g ~,
Rosa, Finna, Asia, GVendoI. ~
sole pleasures are strong coI-e'
memory for cid poetry and oil
clination to recite it.
Book-of-the Month for A0g
this is a combination of sA.I
technique and modern mess.
Conceived on q vast scale, dfl'..
home a worthy and peneFa
comment on contemporary i,
ology, it's a novel that appeg" 10.
the conscience of us all, 4
serves to be read.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
Veterans Service Center

The proposed establishment of a Vet
o,ons Service Center in Wilmington has
been holly argued pro and con, and
s+ill has to be decided one way or
the other as neither the City Council
nor the County Board of Commissioners
has been pledged to contribute to its
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
He'll On Earth

By whatever name either may have
been known throughout the ages and
by different peoples, the philosophers
have always been right in saying that
we make our own heaven and our own
hell. And whether it be n or the 9TH
err, we create it in life. Unfortunately,
too often, by accident or Indifference,
we make for ourselves a hell on earth.
This is the subject Roe Fulkerson
discusses in the current issue of the
Kiwanis Magazine - He'll on Earth.
"Any time any man or woman breaks
the fundamental laws of God, of mar
and of good citizenship, he pays by
catching hell here on EARTH" he writes.
II know because I have so offended"
And he proceeds to tell the story
of a strange automobile accident. He
was en- route to dinner and turning a
corner he and his companions saw what
seemed a bundle of old clothes in the
street. He was too near to stop. The
street was to narrow to swerve to
either side. The only way to avoid
running oyer it was to straddle it.
There was a slight bump. The passen-
ger on the rear seat screamed they had
run over a child.
With a grinding of brakes the car
was stopped, the weeping young
ster gathered up in tender arms and
rushed to a hospital where it was found
the child had suffered only a scratched
knee and foot. "That was a year ago."
writes Mr.. Fulkerson. Il still wake up
in the middle of the night in the hor-
rors of a nightmare involving the kill
ing of a child in an automobile accident.
Il have friends who multiply this
hell on earth of mine a thousand-fold
because they have actually killed a child
or grownup with an automobile. All the
rest of their lives they carry with them
a small hell of remembrance"
After citing that automobile deaths
reached a total of $1,000 in 1871 and
that through the war years we Ameri-
cans killed more of our fellow Ameri-
cans than Germany and Japan combined,
he continues:
81 am not worrying that you or I
will be killed in an automobile accident.
The person killed is lucky compared
with the killer, who must live on and on
with his horror, his hell on earth.
mo man doubts that there is a hell
on earth when he has had to pick up
the limp body of a child whose little life
he has snuffed out because he was in
too big a hurry to get somewhere"
With the customary directness that
has given him a high place among writ
ers who devote their talent to realism.
he concludes:
when you are driving your car,
you are in supreme control of the most
deadly weapon now in common use.
Handle that weapon as carefully as YOU
handle a loaded gun or a charge of
dynamite. 1t car do much more DAM
age, not only to other people, but to
your eternal peace of mind"
Here is something to think about
with as much concern as we give the
Russians and the atomic bomb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
STAR Dust
Only Par

Only Par
Down in the small southern t''A
where he lives people are al "
kind and indulgent with Unc'
Nose that the ancient darky ID,
become a little spoiled. One %.
Uncle Nose presented a cheek NJ ~
$1s.42 at the local bank. The on
man took the money from me ~
Ter, counted it, then ~re-coun'eo j."
He didn't seem to be satisfied.
whats the matter, Uh'.'
Mose?" the teller asked. Ism d"
right" J..
"Yes,' was the grudging fspF'
but it jes barely Is" -.
Wall St. Journa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-25
TOP O. THE MORNING

Dr. s. is a positive, hard-driving, pushing
your ~back-tothe-waIl type of Christian
leacer. But with all that dynamic enterprise
Of his character, when he finds himself in
the wrong, he has the grit and grace to
say With an engaging smile, "Wel, 1 was
wrong about that"
presbyterian Outlook"
Arizona sun., 1946-05-31

minutes, to head off the issue while
congressman favoring the legisla-
tion tride to outsit the opposition
tactics.
Arizona sun., 1946-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY

Once year it the custom to set aside day as
Memorial Day.
This was originally to keep the memory of those
who had died in
The day has expanded it's purpose, however, and has
come to include those who have died from any cause.
1t is of human nature to die.
No man escape the penalty OF the common lot;
Victor Hugo says in his tremendous Nous SOM
mes tous condemnes." We are all under sentence of
death and awaiting the excutoner.
That nation has advanced far in civilization that
spects the works achievements of it's ancestors The
of any people may be known by the character
of its tombs We all living upon dead mems labors
The discovery of the sewing machine, the electric tee-
graph and other wonders is due to men now dead.
We standing upon the shoulders of preceding
generations
Confucius said that the beginning of knowledge is
to acquaint ones self with what has gone before lit
tie study of history would help many who thinks
he has discovered truth.
1t would do him harm and his fellows less, to
know that thousand years before he born others
had enunciated his idea and tried to carry it out.
The past is great of wisdom from which we
may all draw water Of do not have to as
far the Chinese and set up ancestor worship but is
cessors
To those who have gone before it is but right
that we should give their due Their wisdom and their
experience may be of benefit to But should live
for the future
Americans accused of over valuing their progeny
and negecting their ancestors There is such thing as
living for those who to come at the same time not
neglecting those who have preceded u.s.
Therefore the tulip and the may well blush to-
day the dead while out of their mould comes the
lily and the hyacinth for those who are still to come
Arizona sun., 1946-05-31
Labor Backs OPA

Phoenix, May 30-(ALO-Labor
organizations of Arizona are re-
questing the continuance of price
control on meat for the simple sea-
son that removal of controls at this
time would create undue hardship
on the average wage Garner.
Office of Price Administration
records in Phoenix show that dur
ing 1945 more than 100000
pounds of meat were sold in the
state.
The American Meat Institute,
which is recommending the remov-
al of price control, admits there
would be an increase of 20 per cent
in meat prices. OPA officials doubt
if the price hike would be held as
low as 20 per cent.
If the average price of meat in
creased 10 cents per pound, the
OPA explains, the same amount OF
meat in 1916, would cost the con-
sumers more than $8,40O,0OO in ex-
cess of 1945 prices.
This increase would only be the
beginning. The removal of price
ceilings in meat would encourage
feeding cattle to heavier weights.
This would draw more and more
of our limited feed supply from
dairy and poultry industries and
the industries making products
from grain. This scramble for grain
would increase the price pressures
on dairy products and such grain
products as bread and breakfast
foods which make up another Is
per cent of the average family liv-
ing costs and price increases in
these products would be inevitable.
Arizona sun., 1946-05-31
Vets Prefer School
To Federal Loans

Washington, May 30-(FP)-
One fourth of the veterans taking
advantage of the government edu-
cational and training laws are par
ticipating in on-the-job-training
programs, the Veterans Admins
tration announced May %.
At the end of April, 10000 were
taking job training, about one sixth
of whom were disabled men. A
half million were in college or
school. Only one veteran out of
every 100 has already used his loan
privilege to get loan for a home,
farm or business, the VA said.