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The midland journal., 1946-12-27
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,9H'E;ARI | 1 !; 81
By JAMES KTNsEY

"a wonderful party!" Susan
Blanke's eyes were shining as she
spoke. II can't imagine your I'm
Gle VIII giving party land on New
Years Eve, at thatl This is one
puzzle that has me sturnpedl"
Handsome Douglass Wilson, with
whom she was sitting out the dance,
nodded agreement. There was am
pie reason for Susan's bewilder-
ment. Never, until tonight, had his
Uncle Will demonstrated anything
but complete criticism for the
younger generation. Even the most
simple pleasures of youth had drawn
his frown. But tonight, for no ap-
parent reason, he had performed a
complete about-face and opened
his own home to Doug's friends. The
big, gloomy house, silent for years
save for the guarded tread of serv-
ants, rang tonight with gaiety and
laughterl
Returning from the city, Uncle
Will had brought horns, whistles,
silly caps and balloons for the party.
And most amazing of all, tonight
his usually grim face was wreathed
The midland journal., 1946-12-27

in smiles. He seemed to be enjoy
ing the evening like schoolboy.
''It's the most puzzling thing!"
Susan repeated.
She smiled as Doug pressed her
hand, remembering suddenly how
much she loved him, yet how diff
ficult Uncle Will had made their re-
lationship. Doug had lived there in
the big house since his parents died.
Now, grown up, he was managing
the estate.
"Uncle Will just began making
preparations for the psrty when he
came back from New York." Doug
said. "But he hasn't told me a
word. I'm as much in the dark as
you, Sue!"
They were silent moment. "Pm
afraid that tomorrow he'll turn back
into Uncle Crouch" he continued.
II just can't remember Uncle Will
ever smiling before. But let's
talk about you. Darling, don't
care if he is opposed to young peo-
Pile getting married. I'm going to
tell him the truth tomorrow. I don't
care if"
$50 you don't care, eh?" Uncle
Will was suddenly standing beside
them, his expression threatening.
you're willing to defy me?" In
the shadows they were unable to
see the twinkling in his eyes.
"Well, it's the only thing we can
do" Doug answered hotly. "You-
you're so hard about everything, we
have to defy you, since you put it
that way"
"You don't have to, son!" Uncle
Will had come closer and placed an
arm around each of their shoulders.
"You can marry Susan just as soon
as you want to-"
"But, we don't understand" Doug
gasped. "Why, only week ago you
said
II said those things deliberately,
children" Uncle Will interrupted.
"You see, there's something l
haven't been able to tell you until
tonight, Doug. When your father
died, making me your guardian,
he stipulated that you were to IN
herit his estate only if you remained
single until January ! this coming
year-that is, until midnight tonight.
At the same time, for some pecu-
liar reason, he stipulated that you
weren't to be told about this provi-
sion-so if I'd let you get married
sooner, you'd have lost everything.
It was a strange provision that he
made in his will," he concluded.
"But it's worked out satisfactor-
lily.
Doug was gasping. "And that's
why you've been so opposed to my
marrying Sue?" he asked.
"That's right, Doug" he nodded.
"I've wanted so badly to tell you
these past few months, but you see,
couldn't-until tonight"
He pulled himself loose from their
grasp. "Come along, you young
sters!" he shouted gayly. "Ive
thought of something to climax this
party. It's just two minutes to mid
night, and I'm going to announce
your engagement! Happy New
Year!"
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
q Point TO 7hat

Doctor" said the wild-eyed pa
tient, as he rose from the steps of
his farm homestead and rushed
down to meet the doctor's car,
"I'm in deuce of a pickle. Don't
know where to turn for relief.
You've got to, help me-"
"What's the trouble?" asked
the doctor.
1.-THE ghosts of my departed rel
atives come and perch on the tops
of the fence posts all round the
orchard" replied the patient.
EVERY night it's the same old
round-they just sit there, wait
ingS waiting, waiting. What can /
do to get rid of them?"
"Why, that's simple. Just shar-
en- the tops of the posts" the doc
tor prescribed, as he drove off.
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
KEEP IT QUIET
By G. KessIer

A wealthy woman asked an assist
ant in the wool~department of big
shop for instructions on how to make
dogs sweater.
''How big is the dog?" asked
the salesgirl. The woman's illustra-
tions were not very successful.
Maybe you'd better bring him
in," suggested the girl.
"Oh, can't do that" said the
woman. "It's to be a surprise for
him."
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
SMALL LOSS

The new minister was visiting an
aged parish member afflicted with
deafness. She expressed great re-
gret that she was unable to hear his
sermons.
Anxious to seem sympathetic, he
shouted into her ear trumpet:
"Oh, you don't miss much, Mrs.
Briggs"
$50 they tell me-" was her unex-
pected reply.
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
$6,O0O,O0O Film,

The most expensive motion pic
ture ever made was Wilson" re-
leased in 1914, whose production
and advertising amounted to more
than $4,000, 900, says Golfers.
The cost was due largely to
many spectacular scenes, one be-
ing the 1912 Democratic conven-
ton in Which the lighting con-
sumed enough power to service q
city the size of Lansing, Mich.
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
News -,
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Released by Western Newspaper Union.
LAWS TO CURB UNIONS WILL BE
FIRST BUSINESS OF CONGRESS

LAWS TO CURB UNIONS WILL BE
FIRST BUSINESS OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON. The trend of
affairs is worrying men who think
about the course of government.
They talk 1t among themselves, not
always directly, but sounding out
each other as to what each expects.
This Is not to say any agreement
exists on what will happen. Nor
should it imply the administration
has any plan Of action. Many au-
thorities here merely see unsettling
events ahead and at hand domesti-
cally and internationally, and are
not sure how these will all come
out.
The most common expectation
appears to be that the Repub-
licans soon will assume dOmes-
tic leadership in congress.
Some legislation like the Case
bill, to put the unions in line, is
anticipated for passage over
any veto (there may not be
veto this time). The legislation
certainly will take the line Of
making the unions responsible
for contracts and finances.
Almost surely it will open up
the exclusive trustlike combines Of
the unions and seek to restore to
men their right to work. One
union, for instance, charges $1,000
initiation fee and otherwise ex-
cludes anyone from joining or work.
ing without joining. A great many
union people want this reformed,
as was advocated by those union
workers whose homes were bombed
in Hollywood because they wished
to work during jurisdictional dis
pute.
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
Japan Celebrates New
Years Fourteen Days

At least IA days are needed in
japan to celebrate the coming Of
the new year. During the festival
streets are made lively by stilt-
walking, top-spinning or ball-playing.
While the youths are enjoying the
outdoor sports, the older people
write New Years poems or play
games. After two weeks of revelry
the burning of decorations end the
celebration.
The midland journal., 1946-12-27

By VIRGINIA VALE

By VIRGINIA VALE
AGNES MOOR EHE A D,
4 A who's heard frequently
on the CHS Suspense" Sc.
ries - she was brought back
four times to do the thrilling
"Sorry, Wrong Number" -
has been signed to play ''the
other woman" in opposition to Laur-
en- Bacall in the forthcoming film,
Ozark Passage" AS Lionel Barry
more's housekeeper in Mayor Of
the Town." she's made so many
friends that she now gets more fan
mail than any other radio actress
on the coast. Who'd believe that she
began her radio career as a stooge
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
SWIFT ACTION EXPECTED

pute.
SWIFT ACTION EXPECTED
The legislation might 60 further
and try to protect the public against
strikes in public utilities-strikes
which shut off light, heat OF pub
lie necessities like food distribution
and transportation.
Whatever reforms are to be
enacted may be pushed through
swiftly in the new congress-0r
Republican leaders will try to
push them swiftly. The truth is
congress is not a good place to
entrust leadership. By its very
nature it must give full pro-
lection to minority rights and
thus open the way for filibust-
ers, delays, stalls. Essentially
congress is more a balance
wheel than an affirmative
action body.
The union leaders not only are
rushing headlong to meet these
prospects, but also are actually pro-
voking an economic struggle. The
CIO wage policy committee is ex-
pected to work out a demand for
another wage increase of about 15
per cent. The figure is being based
on present prices, which govern
ment economists say will not last
in food but 80 to 60 days more,
and certainly are tending downward
for next year. The figure also is
based on what CIO expects the
companies to make next year in
"great" profits.
To meet this CLIO campaign for
which Lewis has been fronting in
his coal strike, Mr.. Truman has
fairly good economic advisers (de-
spite reports to the contrary. II
there is one thing Economic Stabili-
ger Steelman knows, it is labor re-
lations and unions. Furthermore,
the right-hand adviser is supposed
to be a aforementioned Missouri
lawyer.
FIRM LEADERSHIP LACKING
The old advisers, Treasury Secre-
tary Snyder and RFC Admins
traitor George Allen, are said to be
resting obscurely in house Of
CANNES as far as Mr.. Truman is
concerned. National Chairman Han
negan, whose health is not good,
can be led to suffer a relapse, it
is said, at any time the names Of
Allen and Snyder are currently
mentioned.
= No affirmative leadership is
available, however, to take
hold of the ravaging economic
elements and whittle them down
into q stable economy 49, to-
ward prices and wages which
will last more than a few
months, although this is what
labor needs more urgently than
another wage increase. The
nation needs it also because
strikes are proving to be cost
ly weapons to many strikers
who lose more in them than is
gained, and of course the nation
must have production to get back
on its feet. We are not talking
ourselves into depression" as
they try to say here now, but
we are drifting into one, inn
PEELED by lack Of constructive
leadership.
The largest hotel here has rooms
empty for the first time since the
war. A certain airline is not carry
ing enough passengers to make any
profit. The strikers on TWA cannot
all get their jobs back. In many
key spots the signs of drifting let
down are noticeable.
internationally the breaks of so
cialism toward the Communists in
Britain, France and Italy particu-
larly are weakening the coopera-
tion among politicians who oppose
communism. In both lines the fu-
ture will be determined by the out
come of events now in the making.
The midland journal., 1946-12-27
Gas on Stomach

EelI0Seu ID hlAltSS " uUuDS0 yoUf nl0ney back
When stomach acid causes painful. suffocat.
Ing gas sour stomach and heartburn doetors usually
prescribe the fastest-actiug nedicines known for
eymptomatic relief medicines like, ,thosein Bellans
Teblets. No laxative. Re-ans brings comfort Ia
iiffy double your money back On return OF bottlo
b Qs- &c ct all druggists.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04
Give Business A Chance

1t has been exceedingly gratifying
to note the effort of trade ~organiza-
tons to hold commodity prices at rea-
sonable levels. There are exceptions, as
there always are, but for the most part
business firms Individually and through
their associations have displayed a high
ly commendable attitude since the OPA
went out of existence at midnight last
Sunday.
In view of their fine stand, and de-
spite Chester Bowles' forecast that
prices will double in twenty days, it
is fair to think that with industry un-
shackled, and with capacity production,
the bugaboo of initiation will disappear.
Its disappearance will be accelerated,
Of course, if buyers refuse to pay ex-
horbitant prices.
It is being said in some quarters
that as long as the OPA has failed to
"hold the line" for the better part of
five years, but instead is to be blam-
ed for black markets, it is time that
business had a chance to solve it's own
problems without federal interference.
To a large extent apparently this is
the attitude of Congress.
It may well be worth the expert
ment to let business determine ceiling
prices for a time, especially on COM
modities. AS for rents, the ceiling can
generally be enforced by proclamation
by governors. 1t is to be noted that
Governor Cherry considers doing this
in North Carolina, having learned from
Attorney General Rhodes that he has
the authority under his war emergency
powers. Although real estate boards,
including Wilmington's, are urging
landlords to hold rents down, it is to
be hoped that the Governor will exer-
else his power to prevent ever isolated
Increases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04
Nick enney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

This is the third of a series of
hands from Albert A. Ostrow,
whose interesting book THE Com
plete Card Player was published
recently.
Here we have a defensive hand
in which East has two cards in
the suit opened by his partner.
Generally speaking, you do not
start an echo, or down and OUT
play, with an honor. The play of
the queen on the opening lead
should indicate a singleton; never
theless East played the queen, for
two reasons. First, he wanted his
partner to continue the suit. When
West cashed the ace of hearts and
East played the six-spot, West
came out with the jack of hearts.
Now East played the deuce of
clubs, telling his partner not to
lead a club.
With the king : queen : jack of
diamonds in dummy, West could
see nothing to be gained by lead
ing that suit, as South certainly
must have the ace of diamonds
to justify his bidding. Therefore,
East's play Of the deuce of clubs
on the third heart could mean
only one thing-that. he wanted
the fourth round of hearts led
even though it might give declarer
a ruff and a discard.
The continuation of the fourth
heart allowed East to ruff with
the queen of spades and establish
his partners jack.
When East played the queen and
then the six OF. hearts, he realized
that probably the only chance to
defeat the contract was to find
his partner with the jack and one
trump. Even if South had not ruff
fed the fourth heart in dummy,
East should ruff with the queen of
spades. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04
BY JOHN SKIES

This may stamp me as an lndl-
vidualist-rugged Or no-but all
the fuss about the OPA reminds
me, sadly, once again that we still
have a government which doesn't
trust the people. That is ironical,
it is true, because all my studies
in political science have led me
to believe that the government is
the People, or vice versa.
Furthermore, I've heard quite
a number of Public Servants while
they e out making the welkin
ring, out on the hustlings pleading
with the Peepul to send them
the Public Stewardship there to
Washington where they - these
same Public Servants-would see
to it personally that the voice Of
these Peepul would determine the
goings and comings of the govern
ment.
And I distinctly remember hear.
ing, many times over, these Public
Servants say, in tones Of abject
humility, that thu Peepul were
the Government.
Nah Friends" I have heard
them say, "send me as your hum
BILE servant to Washington and III
see the Government is returned to
you. Because, Nah Friends, you
are the Government"
Well, this is a pretty mixup. With
the People being the Government
I'm surprised to find that many
of those same Public Servants up
there in Washington today are say
ing, in effect, tit is our bounden
duty to say what the People will
buy and how much they will pay
for it."
Frankly, I've always been more
than a trifle surprised with the
Government. OF course, it may
just be my onery viewpoint, bur
it seems to me that, except in cleo
ton years, the Public Servants
sort of lose sight of the fact that,
according to the Declaration of In
dependence. the Bill of Rights, and
other such matters that we're cele.
brating today, the People r the
Government.
1t may seem reactionary, Union
Leaguish, and plain down dema-
gogic, but it seems to me that if the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04

people could be trusted to fight a
war, work sufficiently to raise the
taxes, and be called upon to foot
any and every kind of bill they
might also be trusted with doing
their own b%artering.
Don't misunderstood ne: I think
the OPA has been necessary be-
cause of the naturally small per
cent of us who are inclined to be
uncooperative and selfish and who
would take pecuniary advantage
of the rest of you who are coop
erative and unselfish. Too, l think
Mr.. Bowles is an earnest man who
has fought for what he thought was
right.
Still and all, I'm a little bit sur
prised at Mr.. Bowles. Before en-
tering the Government he was an
advertising man. 1t was his bust
ness to sell such products as
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04
Partly Right

Mr.. I. Mendez-Zebadua, Guatemalan
composer and trade expert connected
with his country's consulate in Boston,
declared in an interview at Durham, N.
H.. where he was to take part in the
New England Institute of international
Relations at the University of New
Hampshire, that love of beauti-
full scenery, music and the arts,
which are common to all people, is a
link in world unity.
These loves, he said, correctly
enough, have a habit of disregarding
national. boundaries and differences.
Common appreciation of these things
can do much to strengthen good neigh
Dor relationships, and build that sense
of underlying popular unity Of interests
which must be the foundation of last
ing solidarity in the Western Henri.
sphere.
It is a beautiful thought but we
could wish he had excluded 1--WE anc
swing in music and the surealist schoo
of art from his general statement. There
is no solidarity, but only insanity, il
their expression
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04
Today We Celebrate Our independence,
But Just o mdependentAre We Now?

Wheaties, Chux, Dainty Waters,
and any number of other important
items to the People through the
medium of national advertising.
I have an idea that before Mr..
Bowles went into the Government
he had a great faith in the people.
He believed he could trust them to
read his advertisements and then
go out and buy what they wished
to buy. Mr.. Bowles depended upon
selling the public for the success
of the products he advertised.
But, getting with the Govern
ment, Mr.. Bowles seemed to go
the way of all Public Servants and
decided the People must be made
to do things by rote.
Mr.. Bowles got me off Of what
I intended to say, if anything. The
pro-OPAers simply bear out what
I've believed all along; that our
Government doesn't trust us to
carry on our little economic lives
in the unfettered manner we'd
sort of grown accustomed to.
But if you've eve had a great
deal to do with the Government
you'll remember that we have a
suspicious government and perhaps
a jealous one. Have you ever ap-
piled to the government for a
loan, or maybe a seed catalog?
Have you ever filled out an ex-
pense account chargeable to the
Government?
If you have you know that you're
asked to swear a lot of solemn
oaths and then make out the whole
thing in nothing under quadrupli-
cate in order that a lot of boys
they call bureaucrats a check
and double check on your sworn
statements to see whether you
were lying in the first place.
And now they can't trust the
SlOSCl W hCSp Ills pIlCSS uOWLl GIN
they can't trust me not to buy from
him if he does go up unreasonably.
I know all this is a pretty sour
note to bring up today while we're
celebrating u Independence. 1t
may cause you to pause in setting
off that ceremonial firecracker.
But, darned if I don't wish Jim
my Byrnes and the rest of the
Government boys would use a little
of that suspicion and distrust on
Joe Stain and some of the rest of
those fellows who're talking from
the backs of their hands about
world peace, and put a little con-
fldence in the folks here at home.
This, of course, makes me a pro-
vincial Nationalist in your mind.
But I'm not going to argue with
you about it.
AS soon as l get the word from
Washington I'm going out and cele-
brate my Independence.
Whoopee! Valley Forge. Huzzah!
Yorktown.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-04
TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY DAVID TAYLOR MARKE
THE UNIVERSITY AT THE
CROSSROADS, by Henry E.
Sigerist. Henry Schuman;
60 SS\

If you welcome a vigorous
massaging of the intellect, this lit
tie collection of essays is just the
book for you.
DR.. Sigerist, doctor = educator Of
Johns Hopkins University, writes
simply, yet forcefully about the
reasons education today falls down
so badly and what an be done
about it. Out of a vast store Of
experience gained in universities
here and abroad he comes to the
conclusion that the university IS
the Nations research center and
its most sensitive instrument
What he has to say in such es-
says as university Education
War and Culture" '"The Uni
versity's Dilemma" and 1.-THE I'M
versity At The Crossroads" shou,d
go far toward crystallizing the
progressive lines of action for the
future.
Educators, parents with ready
f~or-college children and those gen
orally interested in lettering high
err education will find much to in
terest them here.
LOVE STORY INCIDENTAL,
by Sophie Kerr (Rinehart, 81.
Into an entertaining story
Sophie Kerr has packed two les
sons worth taking home. The tlrst
is: If you. don't like your life yo5
can always change it. The second
IS: Giving the younger generate
a chance to follow its own ideas
may pay better common sense
dividends than you expect.
Mamie Linton changed her life
by leaving her selfish, improvidea:
actor husband, Prince, and return.
ing to her small-town home with
her little daughter Ann. After a
l2-year silence Prince Linton nov
a Grade B motion picture star,
invites teen-age Ann to visit him
and much against her own xii
Mamie let's her bedazzled dauga-
ter go. TAe rest of Love Story
l~ncldental' deals with AIMS v.sit
TO Hollywood, the people sae
meets, and her final decision con.
corning her fathers life and her
own. The story is favored with
some novel sidelights on Holy
wood life, interesting characte-i-
zation and an incidental love st2ry
and makes a good book for va.
cation reading. AK.