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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
"ONE WORLD OR NOME
International Control
OF Atomic Energy
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

become the only instrument of civil
OBEDIENCE no prudent man
(would} choose to commit his hap
piness to it.'*
At the beginning Of this chapter
I said that the essential political
principle is known by which our
problem can be solved. There is no
mystery about it, and indeed it be-
comes self-evident once we real
ize clearly why collective security
is such a bad method of enforcing
laws and agreements. The prln-
ciple is to make individuals, not
sovereign states, the object OF the
See LIPPMANN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
CURIOUS. PERHAPS SPURIOUS

We have received, right out Of
blue sky, of which Wilmington
has a-plenty, most curious COM
munication.
To us it looks like a poem. But
the sender, who signs himself "An
Old Salt" says it is an old sea
chanty.
With the question, "Is this curl
OTIS communication spurious?" we
present it to you now for your
inspection:
Wild as the wind that blows it,
Swift as the running sea,
NV sailboat goes a-salllng,
And with it carries me.
NV sailboat loves not landfolk
who hesitate on shore,
Who put one foot upon the deck.
Then take it off once more.
You stand where the seaspray
shrouds you,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
BERRY PRICES SET
FOR 1916 SEASON
BY STATE OFFICE

RALEIGH. March 28-P)-
The State OPA said Thursday,
the ceiling price for strawber-
ries sold on North Carolina
growers markets would remain
$10.56 per 24-quart crate until
April Is.
The Tar Heel strawberry SELL
ing season will open next
month with leading markets at
Wallace, Chadbourn, and Tabor
City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
Eastern Standard Time)
North and South Carolina: Not much
change in temperature with occasional
showers.
(By u, S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. 81; 1880 am. So; 1880 pm. 81;
1880 pm. ga
MAXIMUM IS; Minimum S.; Mean 81;
Normal 56.
Humidity
1870 am 90; 1880 am. "a; 1870 pm. y;
1880 Pm. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
O.O1 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
1. 50 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published BY
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ------ $50 am. 80 am
7:09.pm. POI pm
Masonboro Inlet 4:33 am. loo am
4:51 pm. 11:13 pm
Sunrise SOB am; Sunset c:30 pm.
Moonrise 4:10 am; Moonset 2:46 p m.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am. Thursday, 9.6 feet.
| See THE WEATHER on Page
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
EXCUSE FOR MURDER
Older Men Stay Women
For Unrequited Loue

ST. LOUIS, March 28-P)-A
study of 200 murderers shows
that older men tend to slay
females for reasons such as I'M
requited love while younger
men kill other males for such
motives as: economic GAIN"
university psychologist said
Thursday.
Analysis Of Killers
DR.. Irwin A. Berg of the Uni
versity of Illinois told the
American Association for the
Advancement of Sciences 10TH
meeting that his conclusion was
based on an analysis of con-
victed killers-all men-incar-
cerated at the State prison of
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
CAPE FEAR JOB
GETS new LIFE

The ST, 465, 600 Cape Fear river
improvement appropriation, threat
ened with extinction two days ago
at the hands of ECONOMY minded"
Republican congressman, C a m e
back to life with full vigor yester-
day when the House of Representa-
tives voted unanimously to send
See RIVER on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29

Editors Note: This is the
third of a series of nine articles
reprinted by permission from
the book, Zone World or None"
while Mr.. Lippmann is on a
trip to Europe. The book is
published by Whittlesey House,
McGraw-Hill Book company,
incorporated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
iii

Our own experience with the
method Of collective security has
proved how right was Hamilton IN
saying that when "every breach
of the laws must involve a state OF
war and military execution must
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
and not much change in temper.t,,r.
with occasional showers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29

See QUESTIONS on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-29

See AUTHORITY On Page Three
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26
Save Price Control

W. kere shocked to read in the As
sociated Press reports that Representative
Rankin Of Mississippi helped lead the fight
to kill OPA. Rankin Is head of the commit
tee on veterans legislation. Doesn't he
know that the day OPA Is killed. prices
are going to head for the broad blue sky.
Cigarettes. clothing. food-everYthing that
veterans need now--ars going to double
in cost. and perhaps triple. But the small
fixed payments that veterans now receive
to go to school or for on-ths-job training.
or as pensions for wounds and disabilities.
are not going to increase. They are fixed by
law. II price control Ii abandoned. the vet,
eran's $50 a month maximum Il going to
become worth. eventually. something like
$40 month or less. The difference Is going
into the pockets OF some big Wholesaler
and manufacturer. rs .sa~s
1t is a shame that the man who helped to
lead this attack on OPA was chairman of the
committee on veterans legislation-and a
Mississippian. 1t looks to US that he is no
friend of the veteran, or of the average con-
sumer in Mississippi.
The damage that the house of representa-
tives did can still be stopped in the senate
providing the voters themselves let their
senators know they don't want initiation
rammed down their threats for the sake Of
the big wholesale merchants. Therefore we
urge our readers who oppose the killingsof
the OPA that they sit down and write a let
ter or a post card to Mississippi's senator's
Senator Bilbo and Senator Eastland, in
Washington, and urge them to save the OPA.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

We think the House of Representatives
did a very bad thing in crippling the oPA.
We hope the Senate will not accept the many
amendments passed by the house last week
which paralyze the machinery Of price con-
troll and make possible sky-rocketing prices
and a b~oom-and-bust initiation such as we saw
after The last war.
In trying to kill the OPA, the House was
not serving the best interests of the people
Of the United States; and it was acting con-
trary to the wishes of the vast majority of
people that the congressman are supposed
to represent. We all know that the average
man on the street, including the average
merchant on main street, understands clear
ly the reasons, the operations and the need
for price control in this unstable postwar
period. II is not the average merchant who
wants price control killed, but the huge
wholesale dealers and the manufacturers,
many of whom are sitting on top Of piles of
badly. needed commodities in loaded ware
houses, hoping and praying that congress
win kill price control SO they can milk the
consumer. These goods were produced at
existing prices and labor costs-therefore, if
all controls are knocked off, and bidding for
autos, refrigeraters, clothing, etc, goes sky
high, then these manufacturer and dealers
stand to make a tremendous profit on the
goods they already are holding in ware
houses. Let no one doubt that they have a
terrifically powerful lobby in Washington,
and that this is where the pressure is coming
from to kill the OPA-not from the people.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

ing about the station ilgnts-all
Of these great and little rythms
had changed very little here from
what they had once been in Al
older ana simpler day of Amer
lean experience.
II sensed for that moment fhe
broad and impefurbable flow
and sweep Of time. and knew
that we who were alive today
we're wifnsssiHs the end Of ere
Of the vast sras of the human
storY. and the beginning Of
another. These old and COM
monplacs seeass by the rail-
read bridge belonged to . Pc
Rod which was fading quick
ly into the past. even though
we who are alive today in
America are not offsn eble te
detect this change from one
particular day TO another. a
hundred years from now the
earth and IFS peopls-masters
then Of machines and 81 atorAis
principles which only flicker
dimly in our understanding
will look hack upon us q The
inhabitants Of the outer edges
of the Dark Age. These sncisnf
box-eays rumbling on the
tracks. This railroad across m
undeveioped marshy praixis.
This town with its shaded an.
cisnf courthouse and ~ main
sfreef--shess things win b Mt
ferly vanished In the irsmsn-
dous atomic age now dswning.
in which every human and
economic value thai we know
today win be proaondlY chang
ed--work. p~reduction. con-
sumption. poverty. wealth.
rank; government, religion.
pefhsps even the ancient In
siincts Of love and family life.
AS / thought of this. our lit
tie historic barriers between the
recent centuries disappeared, and
the present merged with the
past; our age In its entirety was
obsolete. a part OF history and
antiquity even before II was al
together over. And walking the
streets Of this town, or standing
at a crossing waiting for these
trains TO 60 by, I. knew that !
gazing upon a scene that
as much a part OF antiquity
as the great carriages which drew
the gentry Of the 18th century
the chariots of Caesar and Pom
peii. The coming or the atomic
the roads of England, or
had changed time itself.
II had made us roughly contem-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

might be. we have not grown
pale and siifled with sickness
Of tho great cities.
The people Of the tremendous
cities of the east and even of the
larger Southern cities like New
Orleans and Atlanta have been
cut off from too many simple and
fundamental experiences. Man
evolved as a creature of field and
forest, a hunter, a nomad wan
dering on the earth with his tents
and his oxen and his camels; a
farmer blowing in the fertile river
plains and cultivating Vineyards
in the hills. Those things have
been the natural background of his
species for many thousands OF
years. There is something in
mankind that is attuned to the
earth, and to the rhythm of sea-
sons. When he is cut off COM
pletely from such experiences, he
feels some instructive hunger for
them, although he may never real
ize il, and his spirit suffers from
the want of them, much as a man
may suffer sometimes from q
subtle vitamin deficiency al
though he is we'll fed. The re-
suit is a certain tenseness and
h~rittleness in city populations.
People in big cities always seem
to have the air Of being on their
way to some eternally impending
event which never happens. The
earth gives them no sustenance,
and the influence of climatic sea-
sons upon their lives is translated
largely into mechanical values
like clothing, tire-chains, kissing
steam radiators and overshoes,
Not one in a thousand knows
what 1t means to walk the streets
Of an obscure town, to ioiter in a
provincial railway station on a
summer evening, or to walk down
to the end of Main street and fish
all day in the sun.
In the field of intellectual stim-
ulation and curiosity and capacity
to learn. the city man lives, of
course. in a more productive at
mosphere-but this is another
subject and we have set out pri-
marty to discuss the frontier quail
ity of towns.
! had occasion to think about
these things one day this week
while waiting at the train cross
ing on Frederick street. | had
been walking slowly toward the
highway. bound for nowhere in
particular. when the big diesel
engine of the westbound passenger
train pulled squarely across the
street and came to a rumbling
and ominous stop. blocking the
way. Il was easy enough to walk
a little way down past the old
power plant toward the river
bridge and cross over in front OF
the engines as a few other pc
destrians We're doing. But I stood
there for 4 good quarter hour Just
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

their own count when they re-
turn.
The iucky people who own
camps at COINS are not only in
both unexcelled salt and fresh
water fishing territory but the
quail, duck, turkey, squirrel and
deer hunting is some of this sec
tion's best.
The indirect effects of the war,
which resulted in German prison
ers Of war being assigned the
task Of bo1stering the nations
acute paper shortage, is still being
felt in District 5 in northwestern
jackson county. Ten thousand
cords of the $4,000 units Of paper
wood which they cut on the
lands of the international Paper
Company and private individuals
in this area still remains in the
woods.
Palmer G. Murphy. dealer.
estimates that Il will take his
40 men and is trucks until
September TO get the wood to
the landing on Bluff Creek and
load Il on barges bound for the
mill in Moss Point and his
$4,000 q week payroll will go
on for at least that long. After
that. cutting will have to be
resumed and the business may
level off somewhat but Mr..
Murphy says wood will be
available as long as the mills
need IL since q crop of paper
wood will grow every six years
II fires are kept OUT and il is
ssisctivslY cut.
The payroll is a substantial one
now because the long underprivi-
legged wood workers have had
their income increased at least
500 percent-and in some cases,
as much as a 1000 pcrcent-by the
war.born labor shortage which
drew almost all of the woods
men to industry in the beginning.
Those VINO have cut, hauled, or
loaded barges or paper wood-and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

we have done all three-believe
it is the hardest work in the world
but in the bottom of the depres-
sion a man was indeed FORUM
ate if he could earn two dollars
for 10 hours of the work. A dol
lar, or even less, was nearer the
rule.
Now, MI. Murphy tells us, how
ever, that any husky person will
ing to work can make ten dol
lars a day at the same job. Stump
age paid to the timber owners
has advanced to $500 a unit also,
he said, which is a great deal
higher than it was formerly and
represents an increased income for
land owners.
This makes the fact that Mis-
sissippi had the nations highest
total Of forest fires occurring on
Erofedted lands in 1884 fhe
more appalling. With beth the
federal and state governments
and the industry striving 10 r
forest the lands, we r placed
In the position Of being the only
factors that prevents . full Q
turn on our land and the con-
ssrvation of cur resources for
the generations 10 come.
We take all precautions to
keep our barns and houses and
ears from catching fire be-
cause il would cause us material
loss and yet many of Us de-
liberatelY burn up the profits
from our woodlands with our
own hands.
An official of the Dantxler
Lumber Company. which owns
$4,000 acres Of land in south
Mississippi. tells US that tree
planting is impractical until
fire controls are better estab-
lished. And he agrees with US
that education is the only solu-
ton. sen
Before another fire SESSION
comes around. we hope 70 see
q concerted Stop Forest Fires
campaign completed in this
county and this newspaper
pledges its full support to any
campaign OF this nature.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

W 80
There is a good bit of the old
frontier still remaining in many oil
our Southern towns. and anyone
who has enough imagination and
the sense Of history to understand
what the frontier actually was
like, can see this quality on any
afternoon walk Town the main
street. He can loittr in a barber
shop and hear the echoes Of anoth-
er age. He can saunter from the
courthouse to the postoffice to the
railway station and sense it in a
dozen small scenes that catch the
eye-in the long row of one and
two story framed buildings; in
the rough and rugged look Of men
in work clothes; in the unhurried
simplicity and stolidity Of the
town itself. Our people are still
in closest contact with the forces
and topography of nature. The
river and forest are close by. Al
the end OF our town we can look
out upon endless miles Of bays
and marshes. Bramble thickets
grow along the roadsides. and
great trees lock branches above
We can watch herons and wild
ducks feeding in the bays beside
the highways. and gulls ride in
land over the town on every storm
wind. A man can walk down tc
the foot of the street. a few hum
dred yards from the center of the
towns business life, and fish from
the rough timbers of the railroad
bridge. At night we e the bea.
con lights blinking far out upor
the Gulf of Mexico. To the North
across the miles of marshes is
the dark green line of the pins
forest. Nothing hens US in. The
sea and the land and the sky
stretsf out before us as far as eye
a reach.
That sense of space, of the wild
and beautiful countryside that be-
gins at the end of every street
is part of the old frontier atmos.
phere that still fingers about such
towns as ours.
The quality I am talking
about has nothing to do with
cowboys and Indians. Our
streets are paved as hard as
the streets of New York. and
u merchants sell the same
refrigerators. radios. clothing.
and the other trade lines that
n buys in any big city. We
Q the same movies and lis
ten 10 the same radio pro-
grams. Our big difference is
that our fown Is still a rela-
lively quiet and simple place.
woven to the natural contours
of river and marsh and coast
line. No smoking. barren. ce-
meni city has risels here to cut
Is off from earth. the great
mother. II Night the darkness
still closes in upon us. and the
wilderness looms close. What
ever u other shortcomings
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26
COUNTY HICHLICHTS

a broke Chicago grocerymsn made
himself a job in the dark days Of
1882. The II cabins, all electri-
cally lighted and several with
running water and Butane gas,
which now make up Conn's Hunt
ing and Fishing Camp, belle its
modest beginning.
Bill Conn, . native of McHenry,
Miss, who had been In Chicago
for 10 years when the depression
wiped him out in 1892, came back
south and went up the Pascagou-
la River on a house boat-and
| found himself in business. Now,
his camp, located six miles east
of Vancleave, has grown into a
major enterprise for this section
with a unique arrangement with
upstate well-to-do business men.
After his modest beginning, Bill
had a vision and bought 320 acres
of land on a high ridge about
half a mile from the mouth of
Johns Bayou and began a unique
business. The business has grown
and he has further plans for its ex-
pansion to the point where he may
well become on = par financially
with his clients who are some
of the leading business men of
Hattiesburg, Laurel and Meridian.
He undoubtedly seems more for
tunate to them anyway since he
is one of those happy people who
has made their hobby their bust
ness.
On his ridge. where the cecil
breexes blow through the big
oaks on the hottest days. Bill
laid out camp sites and gave
longtime leases with options
for renewal TO fishermen from
upstate who could afford 80
build . camp for week ends
and vacations. Some went all
the way with elaborate struc-
lures and all modern conven-
fences and others kept their
sites more rustic but all flock
ed down. ut every opportunity
to fish the streams where Dream
and green frcut strike in sum-
mef and the salt wafer game
fish bite In winter.
Bill sells them bait, furnishes
boats and paddlers, and looks at
ter their camps while they are
away at their business. His peo-
pie are so honest that the watch
man job is for fires only, Bill
declares, and proves he believes
it by letting early-rising fishermen
take their own bait and pay by
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26

to watch the train. Entertainment
like this is very inexpensive, but
it is generally considerably more
interesting, for my tastes, at any
rate, than most movies with their
sitting studio scenery and general
remoteness from real life.
Herr they were, two tremendous
diesel engines straddling the street,
in q scene Of utmost commonplace
In any of cur coastal towns There
were no barriers, no guard rails,
no stern official signs telling pc
destrians 10 beware. II is quite a
different experience from waiting
on a platform In some under
ground railway station in the East.
Here were these powerful en-
gines on one of the streets of our
town. a sight too familiar even
to be noticed by many people. A
hundred yards ahead was the iron
river bridge, where the shoulders
of the roadbed were covered with
vines and weeds. Across the river
marshes to the west the darkness
was closing in, but there were red
streaks of light in the sky still and
over the town, and over the quiet
eddying water of the river, and
far ahead down the rails the deep
somber glow of the sky cast upon
everything the mysterious UNI
fathomable aura of oncoming
darkness.
The engines before me were
rumbling quietly, and in the clean
trim cabin the trainmen were
talking. One Of the crew dis
appeared for a moment then re-
appeared before a glass port-hole
farther down in the entrsils of the
engine squirting oil from an oil
can into the shining machinery.
AT last the engineer pressed a
button and the train bell began
to ring mechanically, The engines
ran a little faster. and then, with
consumate ease, smoethness like
a flowing stream. the whole train
eased slowly into motion, and the
sleek Pullman Ears came by the
crossing with the eternally fas-
cinating scenes of warmth and
richness and fine-living that one
catches in glimpses of the Pull
man interiors.
After the train had rumbled
away in the distance, the steam
engine of a freight which had
gone onto the siding came to life
with its rhythm of slow and then
explosive huffing. and the old
freight cars crossed onto the nam
track and started slowly over the
river bridge in the trail of the
diesel flyer. The freight stopped
for a while on the bridge while
a flagman walked back a few
paees with a brilliant signal
flare and rammed its steel point
into c~rosstie. Then the train huff
fed slowly outward over the river
bridge. The light Of the brilliant,
violent flare lit up the night and
threw ; glow upon the bridge.
One saw the two trains through
the glare. the passenger train
far out across the marshes, lis
lights growing smaller in the
distance.
The thought came to me that
this was railroading just as men
had been doing il since the Civil
War, and even before then. And
the life of this town. che scenes
about the little depot. even the
flicker of the summer bugs fly-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-26
BY NoLLE 7. aosERrs

On a trip to Vancleave this
week, we learned that that COM
munity will lose two of its most
honored citizens and the Chroni-
cle-Star and Advertiser one OF its
most faithful and best correspond
ents when Misses Susie and Fan
ME Vaughan move their resi-
dence to Biloxi. Miss Susie came
by to see Us recently when she
was in Pascagoula and we wrote
her a For Sale" ad for her home.
For selfish reasons, we half
hopel the little classified would
have less than the usual drawing
power but some n snapped-up
the offer to buy her home with its
ten acres of land and beautiful
azaleas and camellias, and Miss
Susie and Fannie will 90 to live
in Biloxi. With them win go the
love and best wishes of literally
thousands of jackson Countians
who were taught much more than
book learning by Miss Susie.
For hall . century. Miss Susie
taught in elementary schools
and many of those years were
In the Vancieave school where
she was an institution before
her retirement q few years ago.
As many a. three generations In
one family in the county have
felt Miss Susie's inflkience-
some physically by a slap on
the knuckles when they needed
it--snd perhaps no other per-
son in the county has effected
so many lives.
For Miss Susie instilled morals
and principles and the rudiments
of right living into her students
with the reading, writing and
arithmetic In the old Vancleave
school, which burned a few years
ago, her voice carried throughout
the curtain-partitions building and
many students not among her
fourth and fifth graders. heard
her admonitions to the Maynard
years before and after they came
directly under her teaching.
Where Johns Bayou meets
Bluff Creek in the heart of one of
the nations best fishing waters,
porary with other vanished ages.