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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-14
BROUCHTON TO SPEAK
TO | WANIS CLUB

Former Governor j. Melville
Broughton of Raleigh will be the
speaker at the weekly luncheon
meeting of the Wilmington Kwan-
is clus today at the Friendly.
Broughton will be introduced to
the club by Aaron Goldberg, pro-
gram chairman for May and he
promises that the speaker will
have an interesting message for
KiWanians.
F. L. Emmert Of the advertising
staff of the Star-News will sing
a solo during the program hour.
Themeeting will convene at LILO
pm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-14
NEGh GIVEN RETRIEVE

RALEIGH, My 3--R-Wooi-
row Brown, Negro, scheduled to
die Friday for the criminal as
sault Of an elderly Wake county
white woman, was given a 30-day
reprieve today by Governor Cher
~, according to Paroles Commits
sioner Hathaway Cross. Cross said
that the stay was granted in order
to give attorneys time to file a
motion for a new trial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-14
OFF LIST

DURHAM, lay 13@R- Five
residents of La%urinburg, thre- Of
them university students, one a
former student, and a secretary
in the Duke Physics departr~ ent,
all injured in IN automobile wreck
near Chapel Hill Sunday night
which killed William Roy (Ce :on)
Sutherland, %, North Carolina foot
ball star, today we're reporte off
the dan, r list at Watts hospital.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
n Harris, D. d., Lit. D.

ing fingers which point above the ground. A
wise thinker with his eye on history declares
that morality cannot survive its divorce from
religion for more than three generations Many
of the graces and virtues which still adorn
the life Of today are fast fading because they
are cut flowers; they have no roots.
The present world crisis Is, at the heart of
1t, moral and spiritual. Our blackened world
ought now to be in chastened mood to listen
to the last message Of Woodrow Wilson, so
soon to die, as, gazing at the spires of the
spirit, he declared: Our civilization can never
be redeemed materially until it is redeemed
spiritually"
Just when we we're assuming that we were
on moving escalator of automatic progress,
with everything in every way and every day
getting better and better, with Utopia just
around the corner, suddenly in our world of
radios and motors and airplanes came rude
shattering Of the polished veneer. We stand
aghast at what we have seen and see, the gleam
Of devils In the eyes OF modern man. The
paramount problem confronting us all is how to
fashion the kind of human stature that can
safely be trusted with the knowledge and power
science has now put into human hands. Blue
prints of a better world are futile without white
character. Crooked things cannot be made
straight by crooked people. The Utopian plan
demands the Utopian man.
Without the spires of the spirit that is, with
out the moral and spiritual convictions and
lnsights which only the church at its best can
furnish, there are already signs of attempted
social readjustments on nothing but the false
basis OF cynicism and selfshness the same
sinking sand on which the world blindly
thought 1t could build the so-called peace OF a
generation ago. But that is to cry peace when
there Is no peace. 1t is only spires than can
stab sneers
John Maseheld suggests that the signs Of the
faith which at last cannot be denied may blaze
even more clearly in the darkness, as he sings:
I'VE trauel the dusty road
Till the light OF the day is dim,
AND the sunset sIo,us US spires
A1DdN on the 1pide 1norld,s rim
Evening star., 1947-12-14

announcement was warmly cheered in
Commons, not only by Labor members but
also by the Conservative and Liberal oppo-
sition. Britain's financial and commercial
necessities are so pressing that any notable
improvement in its foreign-trade situation
is bound to be popular, regardless of party
lines. Moscow holds some good economic
trumps in its diplomatic hand. II it
chooses to play one Of them in its COM
mercial negotiations with Britain at time
when it breaks of similar negotiations
with France and is waging cold war"
against the Marshall plan, a political
motive is logically indicated.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
No Politics for Mr.. ForrestoI

The selection of candidate for the vice
presidency promises to be about the only
exciting feature of next years Democratic
National Convention. In some respects, in
fact, it calls for at least as much guess
who speculation as does the race for the
Republican presidential nomination. But
there is one man who can be counted out
right now. Most definitely, Defense Secre-
tary Forrestal is not going to be Presi-
dent Trumans running mate.
Mr. Forrestal has made this unmistak-
ably clear. Like Secretary of State
Marshall-indeed, using the Secretarys
own words on the subject-he has let it
be known to all and sundry that II think
this is as good time and place as any
to terminate these speculations regarding
me in political way. The popular
conception that no matter what a man
says he can be drafted as a candidate for
some political Office would be without any
force and effect in regard to me. never
could be drafted"
Then, using his own words, Mr.. Forrestal
is charged with the responsibility of trying
to integrate" the Army, Navy and Air
Force should have one track mind. Any
one trying to handle these administrative
functions should not be distracted by po-
litical considerations" Though consider
ably wordier than General Sherman's IA
nous disavowal this is not less clear-cut
The Defense Secretary has spoken his
piece, and there are no loopholes in it as
far as the eye can see.
Moreover, the piece is timely one in
the sense of reassuring any American in
need of such reinsurance that the leader
ship Of our national defense establish
ment is divorced entirely from the Develop
In race for high Office. Just as Secretary
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Entirely Legal

Edwin w. Pauley, former treasurer OF
the Democratic National Committee and
close friend of President Truman, is cor
rect when he says that his dealings in
grain, food and other commodities were
entirely legal"
It is one thing, however, for man who
has had an important place in Govern
ment to stay within the law. 1t is a
different thing to have feeling for the
finer ethical considerations which should
govern the activities of those in whom
public trust has been reposed. In this
latter respect, MIR. Pauley seems to be
singularly insensible.
In all fairness to Mr.. Pauley 1t should
be stated that when he was asked to take
his post as special assistant to the Secre-
tary of the Army he disclosed his large
holdings in commodities. And, pursuant
to his agreement with Secretary Royal,
who appointed Mr.. Pauley with full knoWl-
edge Of his activities, he has been divestlng
himself of these holdings. Furthermore,
there is no evidence that he took improper
advantage of any information acquired in
an official capacity.
What, then, is left as basis for pubic
censure? Mr.. Pauley protests that his &C
tivities should not be described as gam
bling. One can agree, If he means by this
that he was playing a sure thing, that he
took little if any risk of loss. In connec-
ton with the liquidation of his holdings
after entering the Department OF the Army,
Mr.. Pauley speaks, with an air OF self
righteousness of having suffered very
great personal loss," of being more than
100000 worse off currently than If I had
retained the grain" But all this means is
that he made less profit than he would
have made if he had continued to specu-
late after taking the post in the Army De-
partment. He comedies, however, that he
"did rather we'll" in the market.
Is this basis for criticism? In radio
address on October President Truman
denounced gambling in grain as contrib
uting factor to high food prices. He added
that the cost of living must not be made
"a football to be kicked about by gamblers
in grain" And Attorney General Clark,
who is supposed to be investigating the
grain markets, has described grain specu-
lating as "prof1teering in human misery"
This does not settle the question wheth-
er Mr.. Pauley's activities were morally right
or morally wrong 1t is clear however,
that, at the least, he was riding the infla-
tionary wave and reaping his profits as
the price of food mounted in the face OF
worldwide hunger and starvation
If the congressional committee which
has turned up this case is conscious of its
obligation to the people, it will keep dig
ging. The whole story of this unsavory
business should be brought out, and no
one should be shielded, whether he be in
the administration, in Congress or else
where
Evening star., 1947-12-14
NobIesse Obiiae
from the Christian science Monitor.

from the Christian science Monitor.
To some Americans royalty and hereditary
titles spell only one thing: Special privilege.
Here is something for them to consider:
The daughter of Spanish nobleman who
long supported Franco, though he is now in the
camp of the Spanish pretender, Don Juan, was
married recently. Against the national back
ground of widespread hunger and hardship, her
$4,000 wedding, her 81 800 600 jewels, her mag
nifcent wedding gifts, stood forth with con-
spicuous splendor.
Princess Elizabeth of England is also to be
married. Against national background in
which there is plenty Of hardship but less dire
hunger than In Spain, her wedding will have
considerably less than the traditional splendor.
Her wardrobe is to be augmented only by q
wedding dress and going-away costume. From
all parts Of the empire. food parcels for needy
British families are pouring in as the most ac-
ceptabe sort Of gifts for the young bride.
It Is evident that monarchy may come to
symbolic democratic responsibility as well as
feudal privilege.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Anqlo-Soviet Trade Agreement

Announcement in the House OF Com
mons by T. Harold Wilson, President of
the Board of Trade, that basis of agree
ment' had been arrived at for COM
mercial arrangement between Britain and
the Soviet Union has important implica-
tions, not confined to the economic field.
Where Moscow is concerned, foreign trade
is so much an instrument of policy that
it is seldom divorced from political con-
siderations
The current understanding arrived at
between Moscow and London is certainly
at sharp variance with the virtual break
down of commercial negotiations last July.
At that time, an impasse occurred because
the Russians drove an intolerably hard
bargain. The British wanted Russian grain
and timber, both of which Moscow could
readily supply. In contrast to most of
good, yielding considerable exportable
surplus AS for timber, Russia has an
almost limitless amount at all times cut
cheaply by slave" labor. In return for
these and other raw materials Britain
offered a wide variety of manufactured
goods and machinery which Russia badly
needs. From strictly economic point of
view, there appeared to be the basis for a
mutually profitable barter deal
However, last summer, Britain was very
much in Moscows black book because of
Its adherence to the Marshall plan and
other actions opposing Moscow's political
aims. So the Russian negotiators priced
their grain so high that Britain could not
have balanced the books with its industrial
exports and would have had to cover the
difference in dollars. The deal therefore
fell through.
Still, negotiations were not entirely rup-
tured, and after proceeding in desultory
fashion during the autumn they have sud-
denly taken a favorable turn. The actual
understanding arrived at u.s. to be sure, of
a limited character. 1t is restricted to an
exchange of coarse Russian grains chiefly
useful for animal feed in return for British
engineering and electrical equipment
sorely needed for Russias expanding in
dustry. However, Mr.. Wilson states that
the foundations have been laid for much
broader agreement on a longterm basis,
including Russian wheat shipments IN
quantity.
It is interes ing to note that Mr.. Wilson'S
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Closing the Books

CygnuS, the Swan, Is Scudding across
the sky these December nights. Bare and
sere are the level meadows and sidehill
pastures. The swamp lies open and naked
where few months ago all was dim and
concealed. Muted is the music of brooks
and creeks and the waters move slowly
downward to the sea. Fences and walls
are brown-gray stitching on the landscape
and the trees on the hardwood ridges are
starkly silhouetted against the sky.
Windrows of sodden leaves are packed
against the sides of barns and corn cribs
Black pennants of smoke idle upward from
farmhouse chimneys and drift slowly
away-hyphens on Decembers gray pages
The hollow ringing of axe blows echoes
from the woodlot above the orchard and
the long, thin, lonesome whistle of the
train travels far over the countryside in
the still air. Gone now is the shrill rant
ing of the blue jays. The winter staying
birds come around the farmstead A few
lonesome crows walk slowly among the
tepees Of corn stalks.
Gray is the last month of the year. The
stratus and nimbus clouds hang low over
fields and hills. Earth is patiently waiting
for snow to cover her hard breast. He who
is sensitive can almost feel the mood of
expectancy. Short are the hours of day
light and sudden the dropping of dark
ness. Stand on hillside on quiet
last month day and wait for the first
flakes to come. wandering down through
the air. At first there are only few,
meandering irregularly to their resting
place. Minute by minute the numbers
increase. Hills across the valley are shut
from view The storm closes In. Nature
is closing her book4
Evening star., 1947-12-14

Marshall has done as regards his work in
the State Department, Mr.. Forrestal has
left no room for doubt that presidential
politics will not distract him from the
highly significant effort to achieve the in
tegration Of our armed forces. With his
mind fully on the job, he will let others
do the racing in both parties-an admi-
rable way to inspire public confidence in
an undertaking of vital Importance to the
Nations security.
Evening star., 1947-12-14

to God. In the
m l d s t Of the
seen and tenn
poral they are
graceful sy M
bols of the un-
S e e n a n d
eternal.
While BURST
ing bombs have
le1t IN r u / n S
untold temples
and altars of all
faiths in war
desolated lands,
across our priv
ileged America
not one church
has been de-
moliShed. The
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Radar Eyes

Although experiments will continue, leading
eye doctors say the blind should not be too
hopeful for early development OF radar EYE"
to replace the white cane. Scientists OF the
National Academy of Science and the National
Research Council have been working on It.
They say they are not discouraged but several
problems continue to baffe them such as how
to transmit radar impulses to the brain (per-
haps by chest or head instrument); how to
warn the blind person he is approaching step
or drop: how to enable him to distinguish be-
tween obstacles and passers-by
Evening star., 1947-12-14
New Food Drive

The administration will plug harder for vol
untary food saving. 1t is preparing new and
much extended drive to tell Americans just how
needy Europe is and what American help will
mean. The new drive will enlist two-men teams
from each State to spread the gospel. They
will probably be brought to Washington during
January for briehng before the campaign
starts.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
oo17;-o ALo,d Some Shadows of Coming Events
AOOh11lS 1Al1Ndu Are Noted Here and abroad


George McGhee of Dallas, Tex 35-year- old
co-ordinator of the Greek Turkish aid program,
is being discussed in administration circles for
the job of directing both the emergency and
the long-range European aid programs. Mr..
McGhees hackers contend he is the only high
Government official with experience in direct
ing foreign aid program. He is a close friend
and former assistant to William L. Clayton,
former Undersecretary OF State.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Achievement

From the New York Herald Tribune.
The function of an editorial page is to point
with pride, view with alarm and occasionally
recommend. Accordingly, we have our gloomy
moments, for too often our pride and alarm are
not shared and our recommendations are
ignored. Days pass at times. without so much
as q minor success. We do not like such days
We view them. we might even say. with alarm.
But then comes the compensation: A matter
We recommended heartily Il acted uponi We
live for such laaya
Evening star., 1947-12-14
British Fair

LONDON-Britain has abandoned plans Tor
worlds fair Git can't afford to put up the
buildings for it,, but Deputy Prime Minister
Morrison says it will hold in 1851 national
fair illustrating the British contribution to
civilization, past and present, in the arts IN
science and technology and in industrial de-
sign"
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Moscow Information

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.-Although U. N. in
ssts it only wants to collect comment and
reaction to U. N. Developments, it's still
question how much information may be ST.
phoned out of Russia through the information
center to be set up in Moscow January l5
One factor considered important is whether
the six-member staff will be all-Russian or
International 1t is settled that the head man
is to be Russian U. N. already has such bu-
reaus in IL world cities.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
The ITU Case

The labor law case of the Nations newspaper
publishers VS.. the International Typographical
Union won't really get going until January. A
parade of newspaper executives will start testi-
flying at that time. Some of the preliminary
legal questions were disposed of December 8 IN
Indianapolis. Others will be disposed OF here
Friday Then the hearing, before trial ex-
aminer for the National Labor Relations Board,
will be adjourned until early in January. The
place: Probably Indianapolis, but 1t hasn't been
decided.
Evening star., 1947-12-14

spires still point upward. On this first day of
the week, as on no other day dedicated to keep
ing the things of the spirit alive we thank
the God of whose constancy and majesty the
spires speak, for the unbombed churches of
our Nation.
One of our great national leaders, whose
name is household word has just declared:
LAS the lengthening shadow Of despair falls
across the world we Americans are at
a crossroads. We will either turn and follow
the road upward, toward the abiding faith of
our fathers or we will follow the road of
secularism downward toward the demigods of
tyranny"
1t Is to the spires of the spirit that We must
lift our eyes, For in our highest hours we
know that the significance of our way bf life
is not in its towering skyscrapers, but in its
pointing spires. The strength Of America is
not in It's wheels and wings, but In the religious
aspiration which from the beginning has reared
its altars and raised the white steeples Of faith
against the expanding horizons Of continent
These spires Of the spirit suggest the message
Of religion to our troubled day. Democracy,
as we interpret it, Is doomed without the guild
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Imitation Fight

Some new figures about to be released oy
the Labor Department will add fuel to the
controversy over proposed imitation controls.
These figures are the result OF two-year
study by the departments Bureau OF LABOR
Statistics on how much it takes to support the
average city dwellers family of four. Congress
asked for the study, and the figures are being
held up until congressional committees call
Labor statistics Commissioner Evan Clague to
present them in person.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
British Trade Tour

LONDON.-Ofacials say 1t will be at least
two weeks before the scope Of the Forthcoming
trade promotion tour of Paymaster General
Hilary Adair Marquand will be made known
opinion has been expressed here that Mr.. Mar
quand will emphasize to Latin American and
other countries Britains need for food and
supplies rather than her need for dollars.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Tough Nut for Airmen

Toughest decision for President Truman,s Air
Policy Commission is how to revamp the re-
sponsibilities of the Government aviation agen-
cies Some significant changes are likely to
be recommended. This section Of the commits
slons fve-part report will be the last to be
finally drafted.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Poles in Canada

CALGARY.-The newspaper Albertan says
the immigration Of Polish war veterans to this
section OF Canada 'is rapidly approaching
hasco." The paper says the Poles signed con-
tracts to stay on the farms for two years but
are walking OF wholesale. The paper blames
certain Folish- Canadians for telling the 1ew
arrivals they are not paid enough. II q ds,
Evening star., 1947-12-14
No Giraffe

Carl r. Gray, jr, nominated by President
Truman to succeed Gen. Omar Bradley as vet
erans administrator. has let 1t be known he
won't even visit VA headquarters until Con-
gress has confirmed He doesn't want any one
to say he is taking on powers before they are
granted.
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Spires of the Spirit
Without the Influence of Religion the Reconstruction of the
World Is Based on Foundations Offering No Security
By the Reg. Frederc Bromn Harri. D. D D
By the Req. Frederick Br,

Spires are sacraments Of things high and
holy. They are mans emblems lifted from the
GOD, to climb their straight and certain WAY
Evening star., 1947-12-14

however, that farmers feel the Department of
Labor has "let them (the Polish workers) think
their contract Is meaningless"
Evening star., 1947-12-14
Zionist Council Meeting

JERUSALEM-The General Zionist Council
parliamentary body Of the proposed Jewish
state, is to meet here in convention January II.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
William ConneI| Dies;
Public Building Guard

Requiem high mass for William
E. Connell, 68, Spanish-American
War veteran who had been a guard
at public buildings here for the last
Is years, will be sung at o am. to-
morrow at Holy Name Catholic
Church, $40 Eleventh street NE.
Mr.. Connell died Wednesday at
Glenn Dale Sanatorium after an ILL.,
ness of almost q year. Burial will
be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
A native. Of Marysville, Ohio, Mr..
Connell served as a private in the
Philippines during the Spanish
American War. After his discharge
he returned to the Pennsylvania
Railroad as brakeman on the Gin
cinnati division.
He had been yardmaster at the
station in Indianapolis for 20 years
before he came to Washington in
1892.
At the time Of his death Mr.. Con-
nell was guard at the Veterans
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Chest Votes Increase
OF 509b in Rate Paid
Hospitals for Patients
A new agreement setting a rate of

A new agreement setting rate of
$3.50 a day for Community Chest
aided hospital patients-a so per
cent increase over last years rates
has been approved by the Executive
Committee of the Chest Federation,
It was announced yesterday.
Daniel w. Bell, federation presi-
dent, said signing Of the agreement
on the higher rate In the midst Of
the campaign emphasizes the good
faith of the federation In regard
to the hospital relationship"
The agreement, expected to be In
full effect by January l, 1948, sets
forth the manner In which the 20
hospitals cooperating with the
Health Security Administration
and the Chest Federation will be
reimbursed.
The new rate of $3.50 per In
patient day of care furnished those
of low income by the cooperating
hospitals is $3.50 more than the rate
at which 1947 claims of the hospitals
are being met, according to Chester
Morrill,. chairman of the tri-partite
conference which drafted the agree
ment.
Mr.. Morrill,, it was announced,
served as chairman of the body
which worked for nine months to
draft a contract acceptable to the
Hospital Councils delegates, fedora
ton representatives and those rep
resenting the Health Security Ad-
ministration.
The Health Security Administra-
ton is the agency authorized by the
member Community Chests COM
posing the federation and by the
federation itself to administer hos
pitaization funds set aside by the
Chest federation every year.
Mr.. Morrill, said he believed the
rate of $3.50 agreed to by the fed
eration's Executive Committee COM
piled with the recommendations of
the tri-partite conferences sub
committee on hospital costs and
rates. The agreement supersedes a
previous contract made in 1914.