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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14

sidered was promptly forgotten in
the press of more personal prob
lens. Revived from time to time
in the following quarter-century,
it was not until the full impact
of World War II-and popula-
ton of 70,000-was felt that "plan-
ming" in community sense again
came to the fore.
As the city's population, and
that of its immediate suburbs
grew in almost fantastic multiple
cation, attracted by war work and
military installations, the need be-
came acute for more stores, shops
and services to accommodate the
new population. In some sections,
the city and environs assumed an
air of a frontier gold-rush town.
Shacks of piano-box construction
became stores. Streets literally
piled high with parked automobiles
at night, and fairly crawled with
vehicles during the day.
Property Owners Alarmed
What had been adequate, even if
not wholly desirable, before the
war became terrific headache to
property owners and municipal Of
ficials, once the weight of the new
population made itself evident.
What, some foresighted property
owners and businessmen asked
themselves, would it be like if this
sort of thing went on indefinitely?
Among those aware of the portent
of things in 1912 and 1913 was the
then-mayor, the late Bruce B. Cam
eron, Sr.
A property owner, businessman
and a civic-minded citizen who took
his responsibilities with more than
ordinary seriousness, Mayor Cam
eron was convinced that the dis
organized, uncontrolled trend OF
the times was a serious economic
threat to the city. Others shared
the opinion, including a man whose
professional experience had given
him an exceptional inside view OF
like-problems in other cities, A. c.
Nichols, Wilmington's city man.
ager.
Conversations between the mayor
and city manager produced, in
June, 1943, City Planning board,
with consent and by action Of the
city council.
Taking its authority as granted
by the state in 1921, the City of
Wilmington created a City Plan
ming board Of five members, all to
serve without pay. with the fol-
lowing designation or definition of
duties:
ut shall be the function and
duty of the Planning Board to
make, and suggest for adoption
by the City Council, a master
plan for the physical develop
ment of the City of Wilmington,
including any areas outside
the boundaries of the said
City, which, in the Planning
Boards judgment, bear rela-
ton to the planning Of the
municipality. Such plan, with
the accompanying maps, plans,
charts and descriptive matter,
shall show the Planning Bo.rd's
recommendations for the de-
velopment of said territory and
may include, among other
things:
"(a) The general character,
location and extent Of
streets, bridges, parks,
waterways and other pub
lie ways, grounds and
spaces;
"(b) The general location of
public buildings, and other
public property;
"(c) The general location and
i extent of public utilities,
whether publicly or pri-
vately owned;
ed The removal, or suggest
ed removal, relocation,
widening, extension, mar
rowing, vacation. aban-
donment or change of use
of such existing or future
ways, grounds, spaces,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-14
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Evening star., 1946-09-20

mos. He saw the problem growing
more and more difficult to solve
Progress in science in his epoch led
to confusion rather than to simpli-
fication. What he accomplished
was an Interpretation of the newer
knowledge.
And the quality of his performance
was in itself considerable triumph.
Sir James Jeans guessed that the
universe is disintegrating, but he
was no pessimist The thought of
Creation, he trusted, would survive,
and the thought would be beautiful.
Thus he was reconciled to a philo-
sophie tolerance of disaster in the
manner of constructive fatalist.
In this way he completed the circle
of his philosophic experience, re-
turned to confidence in the scheme
OF things in which humanity is not
an inconsequential detail He
bridged one mystery to another
the riddle of life with the longing
for life more abundant. The fact
finder in him merged with the poet,
and the world is the gamer thereby.
Evening star., 1946-09-20
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

The American delegation in Paris is
suffering severe headache as q result
of the f1ve-day Wallace binee" in
Washington. The in-between stand
adopted by President Truman is re-
ported to have been interpreted by the
delegates of the other 20 nations as
proof that Secretary of State Byrnes
and his associates are behind the times
and represent policy which the Presi-
dent may have favored when they left
Washington. but no longer fully IN
dorses. This feeling is reported to be
prevalent particularly among the rep
resentatives of the other three major
powers and may seriously affect their
stand at the forthcoming major de-
bates
The European diplomats take little
stock in Official assurances and offcial
statements. They always look for what
is behind them.
In the present situation thew see t,lat
Mr.. Truman has not gone the whole
way to disavow Secretary of Commerce
Wallace and that Wallace has accepted
his temporary gag merely to avoid dis
avowing the official American delegates.
From the American point of view,
1t may appear understandable that the
President, for reasons of domestic poll
tics. should have been satisfied with the
Secretary's pledge to say nothing more
about foreign affairs until the end of
the Paris Conference. while maintaining
the views expressed at Madison Square
Garden and in his letter of last july.
Mr.. Wallaces utterances on foreign
affairs may be taken lightly by the
rank and file Of the American people.
But, because Of his high official posi-
ton, his views are significant to the
representatives of foreign governments.
The Soviet delegation. in particular. is
jubilant. The fact that Mr. Wallace still
is a member of President Trumans
ofhcial family, after having launched
two political atomic bombs, confirms
the advice Moscow has been receiving
for some time from its agents in this
country that the ''toughness' of Mr..
sByrnes and his associates must not be
taken too seriously.
Until September u. the date OF Mr..
Wallace's speech Mr.. Byrnes had vague
hopes that the attitude of the nations
which don't belong to any bloc-and
particularly those which are not men,
Evening star., 1946-09-20
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson


fessional script writer's for adaptation
to the screen or radio Any writer could
be blackballed by the refusal of these
adapters 10 handle their works.
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How did Goebbels establish thought
control in Germany? by the Fascist
variety Of syndicalism to which this
proposal belongs. He tablished an
authors authority-the Association of
German Writers-which barred from
publication all nonmembers. This asso-
citation became the sole agent through
which writer's could market their works
1t was then only necessary to keep 1t
Nazl-controlled to see that non- -Nazis,
or those OF dubious attitude, were eco
nomically strangled unless they con-
formed.
When this association was formed in
Germany many writer's were highly
critical Of Naziism, but it finished them
of in few months. And the German
people thus lost the articulate instru-
ments of their own doubts and criti-
cisms.
Theoretically. of course, the proposed
authority would be controlled by its
own membership In practice it would
be as subject to political manipulation
by closely organized minorities and con-
troll by its directors and paid leader as
the Petrlllo organization or the mari
time unions. An ambitious, disciplined,
firmly controlled minority could easily
capture it, especially as writer's are
notorious individualists primarily bent
on their own creative activities.
The result could be, and. in my belief
the aim of clique among the screen
writer's actually is, that the thoughts
OF America would be put under that
clique's influence or control
Screen writer's. like other writer's. have
fought for years against the outright
sale of their works and copyrights. But
what they have worked for is the re-
tention by themselves, as the creators
of work, of copyright. To turn copy
right over to monopolistic authority
and sole agent is not to-, realize their
aims but to pervert them.
This proposal should be compared
with the attempts of the Communist
party in France to win control over
public opinion through similar means,
with the fight going on in the American
Communist party to exercise political
control over even the nonpolitical
writings Of their own members, and
with the renewed discipline and con-
troll over Soviet writer's, leading to many
purges.
Fortunately, large numbers of Amer
lcan writer's, among them the most dis
tinguished, see clearly through this pro-
posal and are up in arms against it.
Relessed by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1946-09-20

The boldest and most unconscionable
danger to the sources of public opinion
in the United States lies in a plan
already accepted by the Screen Writer'S
Guild of Hollywood and now being
submitted by that guild. and by the
Radio Writers Guild which has like
wise adopted it, to all other organiza-
tions of American writers.
Perhaps by the time this column ap-
pears the Authors League of America.
the embracing organization of American
writers. will have rejected 1t decisively.
I hope so. Launched like blitzkrieg.
writers thus far-apart from screen
and radio writers-have insisted on
time TO study It, But in any case.
the American public should understand
this proposal thoroughly for, though it
may be laid aside today, it will almost
certainly wait underground for some
new chance of revival
1t holds the possibility of just such
suppression of freedom of thought as
was effected by DR.. Goebbels in Hitler
Germany, and has always existed in
the Soviet Union. 1t emanates from
the stronghold of Communism and
Communist sympathy among writer's
and artists in the United States: Holly
wood. This despite the fact that Holly
wood screen writers are by no means
the most struggling of American
authors.
Technically, it is much closer to the
Goebbels methods of thought control
than to the Communist.
A month ago the Screen Writer'S
Guild voted to create a monopoly to
be called American Authors Author
ity." Any American aspiring to sell
his works to the movies, radio maga-
zines, or book publishers would, under
the proposal of this stupendous plan.
be compelled to submit his work to the
AAA and to have it copyrighted in
the name of the AAA-neither in his
own name, nor the publishers or
producers.
The AAA would not deal with
any publishers, networks or producers
who would refuse to comply with the
basic agreements Of the authority The
authority would not permit writer's un-
der its jurisdiction to work on any
material not leased through it.
The authority would therefore exer-
else the same power over writers and
publishers and producers that Mr.
Petrillo exercises over musicians and
producers, but in an even more impor-
tant field-the field of the expression
of ideas.
Most novelists and dramatists look to
Hollywood for their great financial sue
cesses. Their works, Furthermore, usu-
ally go through the hands of the pro-
Evening star., 1946-09-20
Pains of a Hybrid Party
By Rarn ond Moley

The issue this fall may in many con-
gressional districts, come down to a SIM
pile question addressed to the Democratic
candidates: Are you Truman Demo-
crat or are you Wallace Democrat?"
This issue Messrs. Truman and Hanne-
gan will desperately try to avoid. But
Wallace is not so anxious to avoid 1t.
And that Is what makes 1t so serious.
The question whether we are to have
Democratic or Republican Congress
will not be decided on a Nationwide
basis 1t comes down to a few States
and to certain specific districts in those
States. An examination Of the 1914
vote shows that neither the Republican
nor the Democratic party needs to make
much of campaign in 40 of the United
States. The result in those States is
either a foregone conclusion now, or the
number OF seats at issue Is so small
that 1t could not possibly affect the
control Of the House. The fight will be
in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, New Jersey, New York and Penn
sylvania. Forty-eight seats in these
States were won by Republicans or
Democrats in 1914 by less than per
cent over half the major party vote.
These 48 seats constitute 10 per cent
Of the seats closely won In 1914. If
the Republicans are to win House ma
jority, their greatest inroads must be
made among those seats. For they cam
not win the South and they already have
most of the seats elsewhere.
This situation underlines, once more,
the fact that in 10 or II years a new
alignment OF parties has taken place in
this country. The South remains solidly
Democratic; the rural North and West
have become solidly Republican; the
heavily industrial sections OF cities are
solidly Democratic-New Deal. Political
uncertainty remains only where these
solid elements are mixed. That is
roughly in districts which are partly in
higher-priced residential sections of
cities, partly in suburban areas, partly
In rural areas and partly lower priced
city areas. Also. political uncertainty
exists in those districts where the North
and South meet. This stratification was
somewhat noticeable Is to so years ago.
But now 1t becomes fixed and distinct.
Evening star., 1946-09-20
Mr.. Trumun's Decision

Alter dlStreSSlngly erratlc week
the President has come to q final
decision between the policies ad-
vocated by his Secretary of Com
merce and those of his Secretary of
State.
Mr.. Wallace is out of the cabinet.
Mr.. Byrnes is assured that he has
the Presidents full confidence. He
has, furthermore, the assurance that
the President now recognizes the
Fundamental conflict" between the
foreign policy advocated by Mr.
Wallace and the foreign policy which
Mr.. Byrnes has been pursuing. In
this clash of views, Mr.. Truman
stands firmly with Mr.. Byrnes, and
In doing so he asserts his con-
f1dence that "the great body of our
citizens are in agreement with the
Byrnes' position.
This puts a welcome period to an
Incredible episode. For coming to
this decision, and announcing it
publicly in unequivocal terms, Mr..
Truman deserves the warmest COM
mendation. 1t could not have been
an easy thing for him to do. His
statement that there is a funda-
mental conflict between the policies
OF Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. Byrnes is
Numerically opposed to his state
n1ent last week that he could see
no conflict between the two. Thus,
the President, in effect, confesses
his error, and it takes courage for
man in his position to do this.
There is the further fact that the
request for Mr.. Wallaces resigna-
tion may be expected to hurt the
Democratic party politically, and of
this, too, the President was fully
aware.
But there was larger considera-
ton involved than personal pride
or partisan politics. The President
summed 1t up when he said that
I'VE could not permit this conflict
to jeopardize our position in rela-
ton to other countries" That is
the important thing. And now that
the President has done his painful
duty, 1t is the obligation of the
American people to rally behind him
and present to the world a united
front on this most vital issue Of our
time.
Evening star., 1946-09-20

bers of the Soviet bloc-might persuade
the Russians to make some minor con-
cessions which would enable the speed
ing up OF the peace conference. These
hopes are vanishing. Not only Is the
Soviet delegation more exacting than
formerly. but the representatives of
many other countries are now taking
stock of the new situation and wonder
whether it would not be advisable to
change their policies
This applies particularly to France,
one OF the Big Four countries While
flirting mildly with the Russian repre-
sentatives Foreign Minister Bidault was
outside the Slavic bloc on all ma jor
issues. The French frankly admit in
private that they are scared; they fear
that should there be another war In
Europe. France would be among the
early sufferers Bidault is extremely
worried over his country's domestic situa-
ton. The French Communists have lost
ground in recent months because the
French people felt that they might have
America on their side in case of trouble
Socialism Is in the ascendancy in France
because 1t does not deprive the in
dividual of his freedom. But Com
munism may be favored If the average
Frenchman feels that it is the only way
to avoid trouble from the east
And how France goes so goes the rest
of Western Europe. Belgium, Holland
and Norway. small nations which have
been able to put their own houses in
order quickly despite great difficulties,
are worried and will be compelled to
follow, France by necessity.
Secretary Byrnes has displayed re-
markable diplomatic skill in the last
few months. His aim was to do away
with camps. blocs and groups.
BY placing the United States on a
plane above land and gold grabbing Mr..
Byrnes expected at least a temporary
success. His policy was predicated, how
ever, on solid official support from the
home front and especially on an un-
wavering attitude on the part of the
Chief Executive. The here it is and
here it isn't" attitude of the White
House in regard to Mr.. Wallace's
speech and the limited gagging-obvi-
ously for foreign consumption-of the
Secretary of Commerce may have COM
pletely jeopardized the efforts of the
Secretary of State.
Evening star., 1946-09-20
Sir james Jeans

The name of Sir James Hopwood
Jeans will survive in association
With those OF the great physicists
and mathematicians who were his
contemporaries. But he also will
be remembered for a talent which
not many of them possessed-his
skill as a master of English prose.
The best clue to an explanation of
MS success in fields crowded with
competitors Of distinction is to be
found In his natural gift for putting
words together attractively. Even
II he had not been a rst-rate
thinker, he still might have won
1ame and a comfortable degree of
fortune in the art of literature. 1t
was by accident perhaps that he
devoted his ability as a writer to
astronomy and its connotations.
Had he chosen biology OF geology or
archaeology instead, his achievement
might have been even more notably
popular than in fact it was.
But Sir James preference for the
exploration Of the heavens was de-
lloerate and purposeful. He stuck
to celestial research and analysis
when he might have used his ener-
gies In pursuit Of the rich rewards
OF chemistry, for example, or medi-
cine. The supposition is that he was
happy studying stars, making them
reasonably Ineligible to the lay
public, theorizing about the meaning
OF a yet incompletely explored Co.'S
Evening star., 1946-09-20
Interstate Cab Fares

Chairman Flanagan of the Public
Utilities Commission has opened the
way for possible solution of Wash
ington's interstate taxicab fare
problem by his proposal for a uni
form rate agreement between Dis
trict and suburban authorities. In
fact no other approach to the vexing
problem seems to offer any hope,
pending expected congressional con-
sideration of special legislation to
deal with the situation.
AS had been predicted, the PUG
abandonment last month OF control
over taxi rates to the Pentagon, Ma
tional Airport and other Federal
areas across the Potomac River was
followed by a chaotic imitation of
cab rates which varied according to
the fancies OF the company or inde-
pendent driver concerned. The for
mer PUC-approved airport fare was
discarded in favor of a $1.5O rate in
the case of one company, of $l.25 for
another group Of cabs and of vir-
tually anything the traffic will bear
In the case of many individual
owner-drivers disposed to take unfair
advantage Of the new "sky-is-the-
limit freedom. Similarly. charges
for taxi service into Maryland coun-
ties also lack uniformity.
This Is a situation that is contrary
TO the best interests not only of the
taxlcab-riding public but OF the
taxicab business as well. Exorbitant
charges made by a few unscrupulous
drivers tend to give a black eye to
the whole industry. 1t would be dis
tinctly to the advantage of all drivers
to have an orderly rate schedule as
a guide. Such 4 schedule presup-
poses a cooperative understanding
between District and county officials
respecting interstate cab fares. With
out this voluntary cooperation of
agencies and co-ordinat ton of rates
there can be little prospect of an
early return to sanity in over-the
boundary taxi charges,
Evening star., 1946-09-20
Farm in September

This is September, and gentle air
Broods on the t0aters OF the tUaySide
stream,
And all the quiet landscape seems to
dream,
After the rout OF summers gypsy fair;
Nature the eUer-bountitul sets free
A treasure hidden in the Dayside sod
Wild carrot. teathery purple, golden.
rod,
And the pale maiden blue OF chicory.
Noto for space our hands may idle lie.
With all the busy tasks OF August
done;
With placid gaze Ue look on field and
sky,
And mark the measured progress o.
the sun,
SaUor this peace, With deeper charm
in,bued
Because 1t Is but feetino interiude.
HELEN CONNOLLY.
Evening star., 1946-09-20

The Roosevelt Deal appeals to class
over the years have had their effect.
So we cannot, as was the case before
+. D. r., reckon on a gentle swing from
Republican to Democratic and from
Democratic to Republican majorities in
Congress. In the main, the normal pic
ture is Democratic control. Only two
big factors can change it. The first is
a severe economic upset for depres-
slonS cut class lines. The second is
wide split in the Democrat tic Labor
coalition
There is little prospect of general
depression before election. There may
oe some easing of soon and more eco
nomlc slowing up later. But it will take
more than the recent stock market
break to affect the election seriously
The second factor Democratic
labor break-may we'll be involved in
the Wallace episode. Mr. Wallace
specialist in hybrid corn and, it is said,
in the cross-breeding of poultry-is him.
self political hybrid. He has deep
emotional feelings about international
and domestic issues. He brought these
with him to Washington in 1888. Mr..
Wallaces sympathies are implemented
by an active and somewhat extensive
intellectual curiosity.
His years in Washington have given
him some of the qualities of q mass
political leader. He has learned how to
appeal to prejudice He has learned the
politicians bent for invective and ex-
aggeration. Henry Wallace, loose and on
his own, could be menace to the as
sorted following Of the Truman ad-
ministration. This following is a party
only in name. In any event, 1t will hold
together only during those few minutes
while the new Congress votes to organ
ize itself. After that, we shall see the
coalition of the past session resume.
But a break between Truman and WAL
lace could we'll drive this division into
the electorate and tip the balance in
the close districts mentioned above.
That is why Republicans have so
quickly seized upon this sign Of dis
sension,
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