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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
BY JOHN SKIES

In nutshell, it would be just
as logical to legislate socialized
groceries into existence as it would
be to legislate socialized medicine
into existence.
That, at least, is what a doctor
friend of mine here thinks. I'm
not going to name him, because
he'd just as soon not have the
publicity. He isn't ashamed of his
opinion, but he doesn't want any
body to get the notion he's trying
to speak for the entire medical
profession in New Hanover coun-
ty. He is, however, an official of
the New Hanover Medical Society.
Socialized medicine, so-called,
happens to be a most serious SUBJ
ject now. President Truman has
come out for it. A lot of other
important people in the country
favor it.
But, generally speaking, doctors
Of medicine are opposed to it.
There are many phases to So
cialized medicine and it would be
naturally impossible to 60 into
comprehensive discussion of it
here. Therefore, I'm going to con-
fine myself to a few,-a few I dis
cussed with my doctor friend yes
terday.
In the first place we agreed that
you cannot place a yardstick on a
profession like medicine and say
that here is a standard by which
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
Two Christian Gentlemen

The birthday of one great Southern
err was yesterday, of another tomor-
row. Robert Edward Lee was born on
January 10, 1907, Thomas Jonathan
(StonewalD Jackson on January 81,
1924.
Each left the imprint of his person
atty imperishably upon the history of
this nation.
We usually think Of them as out
standing military leaders, and they
were; but in addition we are coming
more and more to recognize them for
another attribute which is disappearing
all too fast.
They were typically gentlemen of
the old Southern school, who could no
more do an unkindly thing or conscious
ly cause another to suffer than be gull
ty of military blunder.
Lee, the great strategist, and Jack
son, the great field commander, exem-
plified the highest standard of citizen
ship in their private lives and public
contacts, so that it is impossible to con-
slider their military genius without find
ing it interviewer with the gentleness
and kindness and fine conduct of sin
cere Christian men.
The biographies of both are too well
known to call for their exploits for the
Confederacy here. It is their human
side we would emphasize. Young Amer
lea has no better example Of the true
worth of Christian living to initiate.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
STATES PAYROLL
NOW 60 MILLIONS
BY BLOTS BRITT

RALEIGH, Jan. 11-(R)-speak.
Ing OF salaries and payrolls: The
state of North Carolina pays out
something like $6O,OOOOOO every
year IN salaries and wages to more
than $4,000 employees.
That includes nearly $4,000 off.
Gals, specialists and just plain
stenographers. Added to that are
approximately 10000 school teach.
ers and employees who draw their
state money through city and coun.
try administrative units.
Actually, however, the burden
was almost as heavy back in 1898,
when the state was just beginning
to recover its equilibrium after the
depression. Then, there were 14,576
non-school employees, and some.
thing like $4,000 school workers.
The total payroll wasn't as high,
but neither was the states abilityto
pay.
The states huge payroll is made
up OF several divisions, with the
general fund cacthing the bulk Of
the load as usual. Others include the
highway division, the motor We
hlcles and highway patrol, and
special funds for public health
game and inland fisheries, and un
employment compensation.
Figures show that during the last
fiscal year, the nine months school
fund paid out $34, 256, 632 in salaries
OF which $32, 1872 went for teach
ers and principals. Janitors drew
1921 900, school bus drivers, $685.
200. and mechanics, $579,60
The 1872 non-school employs
drew base salaries totalling SV'
o06, 1920. To that was added 81 lA
ooo representing a war bonus
a total of S22, ,926. AS a
comparison, there were 1875 en-
ployes in non-school work at the emu
OF the 1898 fiscal Ear, VINO
drew SIG, 609,296 in salaries. 1heI'
was NO bonus.
The 1944-45 war bonus, incidental
ly, was made a part Of the oaS'
salary of all employees drawing les'
than 33,600.yearly by the l949 lesls
lature. In addition, that Augus'
group passed law setting up a.
an emergency salary schedule
80 a month applicable to all el,
ployes who formerly drew the Wa
bonus.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
Why Not Haze Socialized Groceries
IF You Want Socialized Medicine?

I may be going too strong on this,
but whatever happens to us, pei
sonally, I want to be done on a
basis of whoever looks after us
sticking around to the bitter end.
Well, guess that was bit emo
tional and I wouldn't like to be
that way when we're trying to
figure out something that's i'm
portant.
But, let's get down to figures:
Already we have about 10000 600
ex-servicemen who will receive
medical benefits from the govern
nent. They and their families.
That's about 100000 people. Add
to this the fact that lot of folks
are going to get free hospitaliza-
ton because they can't pay for it.
That leaves, if you follow me,
only the weather. class-and those
of us in between. The weather.
class can do their own paying
for.
We in betweens are the ones
who matter.
Then why can't we, as in-be-
tweens, buy ourselves some insur-
ance on voluntary basis to pay
for the doctor and the hospital?
Really, I'm asking you.
Personally, I'd rather have a
personal doctor messing around
with my lungs than some guy who
would knock off just about the
time he was getting into the in
teresting details of those spots
that'd knock me off.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20

we can judge everything concern
ing the medical profession. Could
you, for instance, establish by rote
a standard for artists? Could you
say-that you'd pay Thomas Hart
Benton so much per inch for paint
ing you a picture?
Well, then, can you say to DR..
Jones that you'll pay him so much
per year-or, to get right down to
bedrock, so much per luag-for
x-rays of your chest when you are
not feeling so good?
However much it will be denied,
socialized medicine amounts to
about that. Doctors would be regi-
mentized. They would be told, in
effect: you will work eight hours
per day. You will take on what
ever diseases come up before you.
You will diagnose such cases and
you will prescribe accordingly. At
the end of your eight-hour day
you will go on home and go out
fishing or you will play golf. The
rest of the cases will be taken up
by the next shift.
Forgetting about this doctor
friend of mine, I do not like this.
| want the same doctor who started
out on my lungs or my child's
measles, or my fathers kidneys,
or my sisters baby, in the first
place to stick around and see
what happens. do not wish to
feel that our ills are something
that has anything to do with shifts.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20

The News
BY JAMES d, WHIT,
Associated Press ST.. Z

SAN FRANCISCO, ian WI Writer
One of the deeper myste t, iis-.P~
China is why the Chinese t b7Sui about
insult each other over ' tbo o0 ny and
, Foreigners long have woa paons
now 1t is that this ancient T'u Ss
the telephone manners IT u,splaM
sergeant with hangover drill
1t goes like this:
The phone rings, and = w.,
picks up a receiver. He hSnheN
rude equivalent of "bell os'M
hello" using term wbicb o nelo
better be translated as 'bar might
lug" Aey, you
No One Asks
Ihls lrritates the person NJ A.
other end of the line, so hs a. ~. h'
back with another hello o Snap map
your" where al,
Gust why he doesn't ask ",s.
are you?" isn't clear. No ono VINO
that until both parties have w rSs
ed themselves up into a fI,rv S0IS'
Eventually one side does givo
and admit where" he is. S'e Up
He does this, literally, BY GO,
ing he is where he works, 'dy'
Foreigners never get uso,
this. Often when thus cornersJ a a %
the telephone, I have confesS ~ G's e,
am the Associated Press" h..
never without feeling that IN.
AP might some day find out, Vic
One party now has gained ~.
upper hand. He pushes his advo u.s
tage, and it can be a bitter ~,
perience, especially when the bro v%
beater, after extracting from ' WV,
intimate business and family wv \.
tails, snarls wrong number nv. r
hangs up with bang as if if war a
all your fault. Only in Chinese ( ~
they act this way. w
In Chinese life there is no nreo.
dent for the sort of churlishness ev
cept the attitude of servants ard
other unrefined elements towar5
each other. The indications NV
that it was their servants who "a,
the Chinese to talking to each o SS
er over the phone as they wonI
never dream of talking face to facs
The telephone came to China ~,
latively late and to the wealtby
few, dignified masters (secretiy
dubious about this foreign inven.
ton any way had their servants nn+
through their calls and answer tbo
phone. '''
Each servant was ID scared q,
the phone, CD at the same fine
pulled up at being assigned such
important new business, and a,
determined to uphold his master,
and his own prestige. So he would
give no ground to a probable ser.
want at the other end of the tele.
phone line.
A master making his own call
assumed he would be answered BY
a servant, and spoke accordingly
30 rudeness became standard.
Anyway, you don't have to be
polite IN China to an unknown Der.
son who can't see you. The impor.
tant thing is never to let him learn
who you are first.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
LETTER BOX
MOVE THE MUSEUM
To The Editor:

l. " Ing 1o4cS1s
am sure your interest in things
of value to the city of Wilmington
includes our County Museum,
which contains a great many relics
and pictures and other articles
connected with the historical past
of our community.
The curator, Miss Mary Lem
Boykin, says that more than a
thousand visitors came to the mu-
scum last year, including a large
number of school children, as well
as guests from other parts of the
country.
Occasionally one of the latter
has shown special interest and ex.
pressed a wish that more could
be done to add to the attractive
ness of the display. Major Job, OF
the Fort Fisher camp, is particu-
larly remembered for his interest
and help.
1 wish you would lend your aid
in bringing the value of our mu-
scum more generally to the atten-
ton of our citizens; for I know
that our city and county govern
ments would respond to the desires
of the people. A considerable num-
Der. particularly of school children,
who have had the guidance of our
excellent teachers Of history, would
receive a much greater education
al advantage from the institutions
if it were better housed and ar.
ranged.
7 would like to see that, in the
various projects that are being
considered for our now progressive
city an adequate provision is made
for the museum.
One of its present drawbacks is
the necessity to climb to the third
floor of the courthouse. Many
people cannot make the journey so
far upward, and therefore cannot
visit the museum. Also it is true
that while the room occupied by
Bit is light and comfortable, it does
not afford room enough. So that
we need lower quarters and more
space.
A second room, which holds
large number of articles from
many parts Of the world, includ-
ing souvenirs presented by DIR. and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
BISHOP SEES NEED
FOR BOLD PROGRAM

The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst,
retired Episcopal Bishop of the
East Carolina diocese, addressed
members of the st. James con.
gregation in the parish house,
Thursday night, challenging them
to "arise to this great opportunity
in this high hour of human des.
tiny"
Bishop Darst's speech, delivered
TO a large crowd, launched the
drive locally for contributions to
the Reconstruction and Advance
fund in the parish. The meeting
was called by the St. James
vestry.
The Episcopal church is seeking
$685., 500 in a nationwide cam
paign, and the quota for the East
Carolina diocese has been set at
10000.
The supper meeting Thursday
night was presided over by Robert
Strange, junior warden of the
church. He presented Bishop
Darst who chose as his text, Let
Us Rise Up and Build"
After describing the devasta-
ton wrought by World War II,
Darst told his audience
that it was their duty not only to
rebuild devastated areas, but to
build a new world. The program
Of the church, he asserted, must
be designed along bold lines to
lead the world to the adoption of
peace, happiness and
goodwill.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
In Behalf Of Museum

Star-NeWs readers are urged to read
the letter from the Rev. Andrew j.
Howell, chairman of the New Hanover
Historical Commission, elsewhere on
this page, regarding the need for more
adequate and accessible quarters for the
County Museum. Mr.. Howell properly
feels that if public pressure is brought
to bear the needed changes will be more
readily made by the city and the coun-
ty governments, and the museum be-
come the community asset it deserves
to be.
At present, as he notes, the museum
is confined to one room on the third
floor of the court house. Formerly it
occupied two rooms, but one has been
turned over to another organization
though some exhibits still remain in it.
The collection in the single room has
CREST interest, not only to Wilmington
visitors, but to school children, who
have been benefited by it in their
studies.
But the percentage of people who
can climb to the third floor of the court
house is small indeed. Obviously other
quarters ought to be provided. Mr..
Howell feels both governments would
be willing to contribute more generous
" to the museums support if adequate
quarters were found for it.
One suggestion has been heard that
# the City should turn the present city
hall over to cultural efforts and erects
a new building more appropriate for the
City's business, quarters for the mus
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
Emergency Housing
Conference Called

ATLANTA, Jan. 49, R An
emergency housing conference has
been called to weigh the need of
asking for an expansion of the Fed
eral Housing program in the south
east.
Lon Sullivan, Georgia Housing
expediter, announced governors Of
nine southeastern states have been
invited to send representatives to
the conference here Jan. %.
Regional representatives of Fed
eral Agencies have also been ask
ed to attend, he said, and the aim
is Ito determine just what is 60
ing to be done by the respective
agencies to help relieve the short
age"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20

Mrs. A.D.P. Gilmour and by Miss
lda Black. missionary to Africa, as
other collections, can not now he
used, because it has been given
over by the county government to
other organizations.
There is one thing we should
pear in mind! there are very few
cues that can display the relics
Oh me past that our old city can
produce. Many of our local relics
nave n In former days been sent to
the State museum in Raleigh b1,t
W can keep them hereafter: and
the museum. that houses them
should be one of the special fea-
lures OF our community life.
Will you kindly cooperate ~
1urthering the objects I have indi
Gated? We are counting on tho
help OF the Star-News.
... ANDREW ]. HOWELL
Chairman, New Hanover Historic.1
WIZ, Commission
Wilmington NC
January 19 ~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
PLANS TO WED

NEW YORK, Jan. 1e.-W.p-Lt.
Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, command.
ing general of the Third air force,
Will be married to Mrs. Zena A.
Groves OF London, England, at the
Mitchell Field, N. Y, Chapel Jan.
"a, 1t was announced today. Brere-
ION, 80, met Mrs. Groves, "a in
England while he was Commander
of the Ninth air force.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
NEW YoRK's UNsUNG SIDE

What do you think was the big show in the
heart of New York recently? poultry show
And what do you suppose was the voice of
the big city around Broadway and the Fifties?
That of the gagster, the hot musician; the
playboy, the Snowman? No, the cluck-clucks
OF 5000 chickens.-H l. Phillips, New York
columnist. in the Durham Herald.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
Pfc. Thad Walker In US.
After Overseas Serpice

Pfc. Thad Walker, Jr., 81, a for
mer newsboy for the Star-News, has
returned to the United States after
2 months overseas with the U. s.
Marines. He was radar operator.
Son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. o. Walk.
er, I'D Nesbitt Courts, Walker was
manager of the New Hanover High
school football team and prior to
entering the Army he was employ.
ed by AJant' Coast Line railroad
conpAnv.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
DESTROY MATERIAL

HONOLULU, Jan. II. - N
U. S. Marines on the japanese, N N
land Of Kyushu have completed ~
per cent of their primary nlsSIoh,
the disposition of enemy war ma 5.
rial-Maj. Gen. Harry Schil,iu w.
commanding the Fifth Marine A-''
phibious Corps, said today.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
Flamboyant Statements

FlambOyant Statements
Since the strike wave began to rise
in the United States, it has been noted
many times that labor's leaders have
written their denunciations of industry
and their speakers have spoken at
meetings and interviews in violent
terms. They have carefully avoided
sound argument, resorting instead to
highsounding and threatening phrasi-
ology implying that they alone are on
the side of right and justice and be-
cause they stand for high ideals, in con-
trast with industry's low purpose to
grind workers into the dust, their will
must prevail.
In setting the steel strike for tomor-
row morning, following U. S. Steers re-
lection of President Truman's wage in
crease proposal, it is to be noted that
Philip Murray, CLIO president, employs
the same inflammatory buncombe. The
evil conspiracy among American big
business has been unmasked." Its
clear aim is to exact unconditional sur
render of the American-people and the
United States government" It must be
stopped 'if the sacred principles for
which we fought in our struggle to de-
stroy Nazism are to (leave) the Ameri-
can people in peace" american indus
try have deliberately set out to de-
stroy labor unions, to provoke strikes
and economic chaos, and hijack the
American people through uncontrolled
profits and initiation" "They are de-
termined to accomplish their objective
regardless of the risk to our nation"
This is the kind of talk that red
flag wavers have been shouting in
Union Square and Columbus Circle, New
York. at Market street and Grant Ave-
nue., San Francisco, and probably where
ever they could place their soap boxes
throughout the country for half a CEN
tury. We personally heard Jack London
speaking similar balderdash in Oakland
when he was an occasional pupil at the
University of California in Berkeley,
before he knew anything about eco
Monies.
MIR. Murray's statement cannot help
the cause of organized labor in the long
run. Too many among the American
people are awake to the fact that the
"evil conspiracy" against which he in
Weighs is more evident in labor's own
course than anywhere else, that it is
they, primarily, who threaten the "sac-
red principles" for which the United
States fought, that they are driving the
nation nearer and nearer to uncontrolled
initiation. Too many among the Ameri-
can people want new automobiles, want
telephone service relieved Of it's strike
threat, want meat, want electricians on
the job, want reconversion to progress
at normal pace, to swallow this flam-
boyant language.
The strike in steel will virtually tie
up every industry, as steel is the basic
material of most manufactured goods.
The only effective action to halt it must
come from Congress. Legislation which
will be equally effective with industry
and labor, legislation which will save
the nation from further initiation en-
croachments, must not be delayed un-
less, forsooth, Congress is willing to
surrender the government" to the die
tatorship of labor's leadership.
Editorial Comment
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
Editorial Comment
FORESTRY DEPARTMENTS

AS politely as it knows how, the News and
Courier inquiries of authority on the subject
whether or not deforestration which involves
scarcity of willow and hickory withes, or
switches, is related to the increase in juvenile
delinquency reported from various quarters
of the n1ightiest and most civilized country
on earth.-Charleston News and Courier.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20
TOP o. THE MORNING

He hdth femenDercu, Psalm IUos 0tu
HE never forgets" is Moffatt's transla-
ton Who is this that "never forgets?"
All my friends are forgetful to an entent.
The only one who never forgets is God. He
never forgets single child of His. He
never forgets the Most laundering effort of
that child to serve Him. In fact the only
thing that God ever forgets is your sin and
mine. His forgetfulness of our sin and His
remembrance of ourselves-these are the
sure foundation of our hope.-Clovis G.
ChappelI.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20

One of the secrets of success,
mountain climbing is taxing ond
trail with slow steady steps a."
frequent rest periods
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-20


ing quick trip home-at the out-of-town
newstands in Times Square . The out-of-
this-world book shop on Lexington near 23rd
Street. You walk down one flight into the life
and times of Dickens. The glamorous
Rockettes Fastening to the Music Hall for
rehearsals every 7:30 am. . Ell Flamenco,
the Spanish eatery on Sind near 7th. The
owner is talented Juan Martinez, one OF the
finest flamenco dancers in the world. little
horsefaced fellow, who became beautiful the
moment he used to step onto the LaConga
floor. The parking lot attendant on DIST
Street who awes the Broadway rltf-ratf with
quotations from Tennyson Shelley and Keats.
The Late Watch Clark Cables steadlest
companion is Virginia Grey. The reports INK
ing him with this and that gal are strictly
'fllers'' Big furore in Washington over
Gen. Ike's shakeup at the Pentagon. Ihey re
the lads 'who flew desk" largely because
socially ambitious wives couldn't live any.
where else'' Hotels will be jammed until
next December without let-up. Conventions,
h1,verc etc The Burke-Van Heusen score
in .eNellie Bly, is rated goody. Groucho
Marx,s dehtr, Miriam, has switched from a
newsnoag las copy gaD to an am. paper as
cuh renorter already. Carol Stone resumes
&C lead in the touring Dark Of the Moon
~ fancy increase. Macoco is coocoo
aho,,t Marie Hayden, the modelovely.
Cesar Romero is out of the hosp. >. Joan
r,aRoche (Chet's daughter) has Joined the
penobility Tip-oH on the night spot biz
at Miami Many checks are bouncing.
Sound the Russian Kretchma Night: "She's
80 type thew nsAS in heaeiliner -
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-16
AIeuiian Construction
 Workers Claim They
 Were Held, Siotkades

SEATTLE, Jan. Is. Thirteen civilian construction workers have filed suit for $195,000 damages in Superior Court here on complaints the men were illegally retained in Army stockades on several Aleutian Islands
 Five construction companies were named as defendants. They were The Morrison -Knudsen Company, S. Birch and Sons Construction Co.,, The Guy s. Atkinson Co.,, The Pu- get Sound Bridge and Dredging Co.,, and the Macco Construction Go.
 U. s. and Army legal officials re- presented the defendants, explain ing that the construction contracts were on cost-plus basis and. any damages would be added to the fixed fee paid by the Government.
 Col. lS w. Waddell, resident en- gineer at Amchitka, testified the men were placed in casual camps for reasons of military security and control until transportation was available, the complaints said the men were detained in Army stock ades from 10 to SO days after their work was completed.