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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

Lizard eggs are elliptical at
both ends and are enclosed in a
1eathery shell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

The maybe belongs to the crow
family.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-19

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Evening star., 1946-12-22
Holiday Fire Hazards

While the subject OF fire hazards
is still fresh in the public's mind.
note of precaution regarding Christ
mas decorations should receive more
than ordinary attention. While the
use of lighted candles and paper
chains and ornaments for Christmas
tree decorations has become a vir-
tually obsolete practice. the threat
of fire from short-circuited lights
still remains. Each year the news
papers carry reports of holiday trag-
edies attributed to combination OF
defective wiring and dry. combus-
tible evergreens.
The fire marshals office urges all
householders to keep the base OF
their Christmas trees immersed IN
water throughout the holiday sea-
son. If calcium chloride or am
monium sulphate is added to the
water, it will help the tree to stay
greener longer and hence will tend
to make it more fire-resistant. The
fire experts say that there is no
practicable way of rendering a tree
completely fireproof, however. so
that care should be exercised at all
times to keep flames or sparks away
from the tree.
District fire regulations forbid the
use of lighted candles on Christmas
trees. Electric lights are supposed
to conform with safety standards
set by the underwriters, but all too
frequently such lights are repaired
or otherwise tampered with by the
man of the house or his wife. Short
circuits are likely to occur, with dan
gerous results.
The Fire Department has another
timely word of caution-for amateur
Santa Clauses: Avoid costumes that
have not been fameproofed. Cotton
Evening star., 1946-12-22
4 Christmas Message
BIZ the Right Req. John X. Cartwright,
St. Matthew's Cathedrdl

condition of our lowliness. He turned
our sorrows into JOY, our sin into
holiness, our vague aspirations into
certain hopes, our i1timatlons OF
immortality into the confidence that
comes from the handclasp OF the
divine. He put his sanction upon
human merit by associating 1t with
His example. The "sinless years be-
side the Galflean blue" began on the
first Christmas and have lived since
in mems memory with unrivaled
splendor and in mems hearts with
unrivaled love and devotion. No
other story has been SO beautiful as
that Of Bethlehem and no other life
SO significant to souls as that which
there unfolded, because through that
birth and through that life mankind
is made conscious of the direction
in which his own life tends and of
the answer in divine purpose to all
that would otherwise be mortal con-
fusion and futility. Through expert
ence we know what we are. Through
Christ we know what we may be,
children of God as His brethren and
',eirs with Him of everlasting life.
ktA
Christmas is therefore the feast Of
human dignity. The event of the
first Christmas is the event Of all
events. From that day we date our
.-ears. From that festival in annual
'-currence begins the. springtime of
ne soul.
God make it for everybody merry
.,oliday. Let everybody make it
high holy day, the feast of human
dignity through divine love.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
SesquicentenniuI Planning

The first steps have been taken
toward an appropriate celebration
of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the establishment of
the permanent seat of Government
in the District of Columbia. A
committee of fifteen civic leaders
has been appointed to supervise the
details of an inclusive plan for the
observance of the sesquicentennial.
This follows the precedent. estab-
lished in October, 1898, when w. S.
Mexican, Charles B. Bayly, James
G. Berret, Charles J. Bell, John Joy
Edison, Myron M. Parker, A. T. Brit
ton, John w. Thompson, Lawrence
Gardner, Theodore w. Noyes and
r. Ross Perry accepted responsibility
for the management of the cente-
nary commemoration.
November q, 1900, was the date
of the first meeting of the National
Legislature in Washington, and
November %, 1850, is an obvious
choice for the beginning of the one
hundred and fiftieth birthday pro-
gram. The period intervening be-
tween the present moment and the
actual anniversary is considerable,
but it will be needed for the de-
velopment of celebration in keep
ing with the Importance of the event.
Legislation to provide for the Gov
ernment's share of the plan Is to be
introduced as soon as Congress
convenes next month. Many public,
semipublic and private institutions
and organizations likewise shortly
are TO start work on their own
respective portions of the overall
design.
The benefit to the Nation, and
especially to the Capital, of course,
is bound to be effective in the ratio
of the effort put into the celebration.
Washington, both as the seat of the
Government and in its character
as a residential community, will
profit by the sesquicentennial as it
did by. the centennial, if the same
enthusiasm, the same devotion and
the same generous willingness to
labor constructiyely for a common
purpose which were manifested in
the former case again are demon
strated in the latter.
It should be everybody's task, every
body's duty, everybody's achievement
In 1850 Just as 1t was IN 1900.
Il
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Where the BIume Lies

attorney General Clark'S an
nouncement that the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation will continue
its efforts to get to the bottom OF
the Georgia quadruple lyncning
mystery is reassuring. As the Ma
tion's top-rankfhg law-enforcement
officer, obligated to protect the civil
rights of all citizens, Mr.. Clark is
underStandably reluctant to accept
as final the report of the Federal
grand jury in Athens that it could
not identify any of the lynchers. 1t
would be deplorable If the Federal
Government, having gone as far as it
has gone in this case, announced its
own defeat.
There is no reason to question the
thoroughness of the grand jury's in
vestigation. 1t had before it the
findings of corps of FBI agents
who are said to have interviewed
more than two thousand persons in
the area where two Negroes and
their wives were shot to death in a
roadside ambush by about twenty
white men last July. During the
three-week inquiry the jury exam
ined approximately hundred per-
sons. The FBI succeeded, through
the science of ballistics, in identify
ing the type of guns used in the
massacre-at least one of which is
reported to have been of foreign
make-hut no trace of the guns was
found. It is worth noting that the
grand jury which unanimously rem
dered the negative report included
two colored men.
But this sordid case cannot, in
good conscience, be closed until the
murderers are brought to justice.
Presumably the search for the miss
ing guns-and their owners-will go
on, as it should. The grand jury
will remain subject to recall. Even
if the identity of the lynchers should
be discovered, however, the Govern
ment has no authority to prosecute
them except for a possible violation
of the Federal civil rights law. And
it has been held in the past that this
law applies solely to law-enforce-..
ment ofhcers-Federal State and
locaI-who fail to accord citizens the
protection guaranteed by the Con-
stitution. Perhaps the Georgia case
might develop into a test of the
applicability of this statute to pri-
vate citizens who, as members of
mob, violate the civil rights of 9TH
ers. If such a test is feasible, the
Walton County outrage would be a
good one to try it on. In any event,
any additional Federal evidence
should be made available to State
authorities.
1t must not be forgotten that the
basic responsibility for preventing
and investigating such crimes rests
not upon the Federal Government,
but upon the States. And any blame
for failure to see that justice is done
must be placed where it belongs
upon State, county and local law
enforcement officers.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
u. N. Balkan Inquiry

The Security Council OLD ltSeI
credit when it set up a board OF
inquiry with instructions to go to
the Balkans and make an on-the-
SPOT investigation of the border war
fare which has set Greece and it's
northern neighbors by the ears.
The Council has been hearing
complex charges and countercharges
by the representatives of the Balkan
nations concerned, with little profit,
because they were so widely at vari-
ance and so obviously surchsrged
with emotion and propaganda. The
obvious deduction is the necessity to
get at the facts of the case in order
to fix responsibilities for a situation
threatening international peace, and
thereby enable the Council to have
the factual basis for constructive
decision in the matter.
This method was strongly advo-
Gated by our representative, Herschel
v. Johnson, who emphasized both its
immediate and ultimate Importance
when he said: "In our opinion, this
case is exactly the type of case which
the Security Council was created to
deal with and I cannot overempha-
size the Importance, for the future
of the United Nations, of our ability
to arrive at a satisfactory solution
of it."
The difficulty was to get the Coun-
Gil to act favorably on the proposal.
Last September the United States
had made similar proposal, only to
have it vetoed by the Soviet Union.
And as the present motion was
argued, apprehensions arose of SINH
lar action. The Soviet bloc wanted
the inquiry restricted on the border
incidents but Widened into general
investigation of the whole Greek
political situation: whereas Britain
demanded wide investigation into
Greece's Balkan neighbors. This
provoked reciprocal "abstentions"
from voting by the Soviet and Brit
tsh representatives. And that, in
turn, raised the ambiguous proce-
dural question as to whether such
abstention was equivalent to a veto.
Happily, in this instance, both rep
Evening star., 1946-12-22

The holidays" are beginning.
The holidays are built around
holy day. In fact the two words
once were one. Their divergence in
meaning has great deal of signifi-
canoe. The truth is that, for a good
many people, Christmas is a holiday
and by no means holy day. For
such 1t can degenerate into a merely
materialistic celebration, and some-
times into coarseness as many OF the
cards suggest. Or at best it can be
d simply secular rejoicing, gladness
not for any fundamental motive in
reality, but simply because gladness
must have its turn with sadness and
because the time for gladness has
come. To some there is no deeper
reason for joy than this. AS some
peoples humor is said to consist in
laughing at stated intervals SO is it
with many peoples happiness. 1t
is merry Christmas because every
body says you should be merry come
December 25.
X 4 X
In a world full of SO much un-
happiness and pain and terror We
shall all welcome even such super
flcial forms Of happiness as. rest upon
mere distraction from our griefs.
But it is better to rejoice for reason
if there be reason. And reason
there is.
For Christmas is holy da''
whether we know it or not. 1t i
the anniversary of Gods. coming
down to earth, of His being with us
and of us and for us. At Bethlehem
La 4<,oI. ..,,o,, rIic l,aa ,Leplxt oln1.u the
Evening star., 1946-12-22

resentatives made It clear that their
veto power was not involved. There
fore the American proposal carried,
and commission of the Security
Council is authorized to proceed to
the Balkans in January with au-
thority to investigate anywhere it
pleases in the whole area involved.
Since this is the first such commits
sion set up by the Council, it is a
precedent-msking event of the first
Importance an6 is a most hopeful
augury.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

that such material was important "in
business transactions" President and
Mrs. Cleveland contributed to his album.
So did many other notabilities who
momentarily agreed that thumb prints
were autographs of sort. Mr.. Jefferson
reminded his friends that in the play
"Pudd 'nhead Wilson" a murderer is de-
tected by identification ofs a mark left
by his thumb. The Jefferson book Of
prints ought to have been preserved by
somebody. Does any reader know where
1t is? II so, It might be good idea to
tell J. Edgar Hoover.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
The Price of Security

| sibly founded tendency to
discount the words of Winston
+. Churchill when he hurls the charge
| of tyranny" at Britain's Labor
government in connection with its
plan for, controlled British agri-
culture. Yet even those who may
feel that the former Prime Minister
is too harsh in his choice of words
can hardly fail to see that the Labor
government will attain its goal of a
planned economy only at the price
of some sacrifice of personal liberty.
The ultimate extent of this loss of
freedom remains to be determined.
But the evidence points to the con-
clusion that as each planned step
is taken, some element of tradi-
tionally free society is lost.
It is the British farmer who now
learns in detail what planning" for
agriculture will mean to him. The
government promises him many
things-a "more stable and efficient
agricultural industry" guaranteed
prices and assured markets. But
this planned protection has it's price.
In return for promise of economic
security, the farmer must surrender
the right to cultivate his land as
he pleases. Some government bu-
reau will tell him what to plant, and
will advise him as to the use OF
scientific methods and equipment.
Nor will the farmer be free to accept
or reject this advice as he sees fit,
for the government reserves the
right in the case of nonconformers
to buy up their land and evict them
from their farms. In other words,
the British farmer is promised
security at the price of his freedom.
The government is entirely frank
about this, and dt is only fair to
say that the proposal was outlined
during the election campaign which
resulted in the triumph of the Labor
Party and the defeat of the Church
ill government. There is also the
undeniable fact that Britain's eco
nomic position is serious-perhaps
the day is gone when Englishmen
could afford to indulge in the luxury
of doing as they pleased with their
own affairs. In any event the shape
of the future is clear. Although
denying that the Government was
engaged on mission to dispossess
farmers, the Minister of Agriculture,
Tom Williams, candidly stated at
a news conference: "You cannot
expect society to guarantee prices
and markets if you have not a
guarantee Of efficiency in some form
or others : The fewer people,
who are stubborn Or unreasonable,
the better we shall like It," =,
That Sets out the proposition m
a nutshell. The price; of security is
efficiency - an efficiency, to be
achieved by measure of state con-
troll over the individual which is
certain to increase as the area of
planning expands. And there is no
place in that scheme for stubborn
ness or unreasonableness. The in
dividual will conform, or else.
Those Americans who clamor for
more and more planning" in this
country would be well advised to
follow the unfolding of the British
experiment with close attention, and
to remember that once the decisive
steps have been taken it is virtually
impossible to turn back.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

batting and other material properly
treated to resist fire may be obtained
in most stores, for costume use or for
other ornamental purposes. The
wise householder will act on the
foregoing sound advice from those
who know, from stark experience,
how quickly holiday merrymaking
may be turned into tragedy by
fires that could easily have been
prevented.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

lasting mark upon the agencies in which
they served.
Undoubtedly, any extensive system Of
Federal regulation will be resisted by
some of the individualists among the
operators. While some of them, it is
true, can make out a plausible case for
showing that Government intervention
i'll the past has contributed to their in
ability to cope with John L. Lewis and
his powerful union, it must be remem-
bered that the public has always had
too great stake in the continuous OPP
Grafton of the mines to permit pro-
tracted Interruptions.
Moreover, despite the widespread pop
ular impression that the use of natural
gas and oil will gradually displace coal
as the basic fuel, the Importance of BIZ
luminous coal to our national economy
is likely to increase rather than diminish
in the next few years. Petroleum re-
serves in this country were dangerously
depleted by the war. Unless new oil
fields are brought in at much greater
rate than geologists expect, the con-
sumption of petroleum in the United
States in another five years will have
to be supplemented heavily by imports
from abroad.
During the war it was demonstrated
that synthetic oils, manufactured from
coal products, offer feasible substitute
for low-grade gasoline. At the present
time the higher cost of producing such
synthetics keeps them from the market.
This will not be the case, however, when
the scarcity Of petroleum is reflected In
higher prices for gasoline and fuel oils.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

Under those circumstances the need for
synthetic substitutes will maintain the
demand for coal at high level
It is therefore essential to the public
safety that both political parties should
cooperate In the new Congress In .
fundamental solution Of the problems Of
the mining industry.
Evening star., 1946-10-12

headline from Hollywood:
aNobel Wins Academy Award"
Even such q rugged individualist
| as Warner Bros. Carlyle Jones, a
writer's writer among the studio
press departments, has succumbed
to that word 4'level." It appears for
the first time in Jones' usual in
violable vocabulary in his descrip-
tion Of the picture. stallion Road. "
OF 1t Jones says it is "a story OF
writing and horse raising at the
society level"
That is the level at the top OF
the contemporary success line and
you can bet 1t will come out as q
glossy thing.
These serials which once were
regular movie fare are laid aside
for SO long q time now that some
| Of them are forgotten by the fans.
But not by the producing studios.
This is disclosed. in memo from
Metro ; Goldwyn Mayer concerning
| the casting Of the next "Dr. Gil
lespie" picture, an outgrowth OF the
"Dr. kildare" series. The memo
says that Van johnson viii not be
the young surgeon hero Of the mar
rative hereafter. He is too big at the
boxoffice to be allowed to do any
more such pictures. Minor budget
things, vou know.
But II johnson Is not available,
that Is just an opening for James
Craig. He is a fine, steady fellow
for q steady job on the staff Of old
DR.. Gillespie. And, come to think OF
it, already has built up quite q prac-
tice, or following, among movie
goers.
There is no joke about 1t, every
body is coming back to Broadway
this year. Latest to announce that
admirable intention Is Groucho
Marx.
Groucho who will be the only
Marx in it is co-author OF comedy
called Garden Of Eden" His col
laborator is Norman Krasna, best
known for some Of Jean Aurthur's
best comedies, and for last seasons
stage hit. Dear Ruth"
Groucho will be the star Of the
play.
They are busy people, some Of the
leading participants in Eugene
ONeill's newest triumph, "1he Ice
Man Cometh." Now that the play
Evening star., 1946-10-12
HOLLYWOOD

| HOLLY WOOL.
Kathryn Grayson tells me In an
exclusive interview that she Will
marry Johnny Johnston in the ca
thedral- like living room OF her New
York home In Brentwood The
ceremony takes place Just as soon
as Johnny's divorce is final. Mean
while, Katie and Johnny are plan
ming q joint singing-personal ap-
pearance tour to start In November.
And they should do very well TO-
gether.
Katharine Hepburn's piano-play-
| ing double In IA Love Song" viii be
Artur Rubenstein, who played Tor
Catherine Mcleod In 1--WE Always
Loved You" at Republic. Horo-
witz was among those considered
for Katie, but choice Of Rubenstein
is now definite.
Cornel Wilde received q token
payment Of 81 for his cherished
story on Lord Byron. Cornell was
so anxious for his brain child to
be made by goth Century-Fox that
he begged Daryl Zanuck to take
his story for nothing, on condition
Of course that Cornell be starred.
And he viii be. In case you are
curious about the dollar, 1t was
spent to register Mr.. Wilde's ver-
sion of England's romantic poet
with the Johnston Office.
Margaret O,Brien's house In Bev-
erly Hills is now up for sale-the
price tag is $4,000 Mrs. Enrol
Flynn leaves "The Zaca" at Pam
anna and flies back to Hollywood.
I can't wait to hear her version OF
the John Decker Female Captain
Bligh" incident.
Clark Gable has lost 16 pounds,
and Van johnson, who had dropped
Is, Is now writing his memoirs, OF
all things. His autobiography is
called, "A Young Actor Looks
Back" Van is 80.
Virginia Field will marry a Ger
tain Mr.. Squire-they met in Las
Vegas where they were divorcing
their respective mates. Las Vegas
seems to be taking over from Reno
as q place to shed and find a mate
Paul Henreid calls himself the
one-man band. He played the cello
in Deception" and pounds piano
in "a Love Story"
Bob Hope in "The Connecticut
Yankee? That's the deal as it
stands now. Warmers traded the
old VIII Rogers movie to Paramount,
and In exchange received the rights
Evening star., 1946-10-12

!, has been set as one OF the out
standing dramatic works OF the gem
Grafton, Director Eddie DoWling Is
ready to return to The Glass Mem
agerie." If SO. and when he does,
| the Tennessee williams prize play
will tour, with Washington book
ing possible.
And, now that he Is set as one Of
the principal actors in THE Ice
Man Cometh, !" Dudley Digges soon
win get himself busy directing the
second O,Nei1l play Of the season.
"A Moon for the Misbegotten" is its
title. It is q far less complex play
than "The Ice Man." and, It could
be, one rather more musicaly
named.
Dennis Hoey, English actor who
has been making career and q
fine name for himself since coming
to America to play opposite Kath-
arine Hepburn in "Jane Eyre, Is
another player turned author. Re-
hearsals already have started on
his mystery drama, 'The Raven, !"
which will come to the National
Theater the week of october %.
There viii be three tune-up per-
formances Of the play in Whining
ton on Friday and Saturday Of the
preceding week.
Hoey has been in Washington
several times since he played Mr..
Rochester opposite Miss Hepburn
at the National.
Peter Lynd Hayes, the postwar
periods most sensational comedy
discovery, did not have to wait long
to find musical co-starring himself
and his wife, Mary Healey. As
yet untitled, the musical Is the
work Of Draper Lewis, lately OF the
Army Air Forces, and well known
as a radio writer. Elaine Caring
ton viii produce.
Miss Healey, last seen here in
Spring in Brazil" and a many
time visitor to the Earle before
that, was most recently engaged in
Around the World"
Around the World" in case you
had forgotten was the huge produc-
ton which last season revolved
around Orson Welles. And revolved
dizzily enough to create a lot Of
argument between those who
thought 1t was marvellous and those
who said 1t made them Ill.
It may become a movie some day,
in case any one cares.
Evening star., 1946-10-12

crets: 1880 am. i:3o. SIS, S:35,
TAO. e:1 and 11:45 pm.
Palace - Three Little Girls "a
Blue: 1f::25 an. 1:30, $50, 5:35
TAO, 9:45 and 11:50 pm.
Pfx--"Kid Millions: i:10, sos,
$40. Z, Sos, 11:10 pm. and 1:05 am
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 1918 am.
Britain has an acute shortage Of
eyeglass lenses.
Evening star., 1946-10-12
Where and When
Current Thsater Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National - Present Laughter:
2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol THE Cockeyed Miracle.
1890 am, los, 3:45. Gas. 9:05 and
11:40 pm. Stage shows: 1926, BIS
5:55, 8:35 and u:10 pm.
Columbia Claudia and David.
|11:50 am, l:50, $50, b:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Earle" Cloak and Dagger: 10:3(
an, i2:45. 3. 5:15. 7:30 and $50 pm
and 12:O5 am.
Hippodrome-.Alibi':: 2:26, 4, 5:35
7:l0, s:45 and 1918 pm.
Keith's-"The Stranger: l1:45
am, I:5o. 3:55. 8, 8:o5, 1910 pm
and 1915 am.
LittIe-"Mary Louise: II am.
Los. Sis. $40. 7:30 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan Her Sisters Sc.