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Evening star., 1947-03-01
Radio School Purchases
10Th Street BuiIdino

The National Academy Of Broad
casting. Inc, has purchased the
building ct 33S8 Sixteenth street
NV. occupied until recently BY the
Soviet Purchasing Commission. The
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
GOOD MORNING

Meditation is the nurse of thought, and
thought the food for meditation.-C. Sim
mons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

the last nineteen weeks automotive
companies recently have announced
plants shut down because of lack of
sheet steel. The shortage is not a real
one. however, as evidenced by the fact
that production of sheet and strip steel,
used chiefly by the automotlve in
dustry, has been pushed to new high
records in the last three months. With
the automotive industry likewise at
tanning the best production records
since the end of the war, the demand
for steel has been intensified. Attempt
ing to explain the situation, The Iron
Age, national Woodworking publica-
ton, assigned the unbalance in steel in
~ventories as the principal u of au-
tomotive company ~shut-downs. 1t also
said that the overall demand for steel
and pressure for deliveries are so great
that periodically some temporary
shut-downs in fabricating plants are
bound to occur" Once these dlstrlDu-
ton problems are settled and the steel
industry can install more OF its pro-
duction . improving facilities, steel
will be plentiful"
If negotiations between q United
Mine Workers committee, headed by
John L. Lewis, and n represent
ing mine operators producing three
fourths of the nations coal, led by
Charles O'Neill of the Central Pennsyl-
vania Producers Association, which
opened in a friendly manner, leads to
a mutually satisfactory contract and
a July 1 strike is avoided, steel pro-
duction should be sufficient to meet
all industrial requirements within a
short time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

at home characterized by impartiality
continuity and authority. Because hi
is not in sympathy with the present
government it was not surprising that
he added the present republic contra
diets these requirements.
This is not to be a discussion of his
political views, but to note his defini.
ton of a "strong state" What he
meant, he explained, is what others
"mean in reference to themselves -
for example in Moscow and Washing
ton - a state whose chief is a chief and
in which no confusion of powers ham
pers or dilutes responsibility"
Of all explanations of the relations
and differences between Washington
and Moscow, it remained for the stormy
petrol of French politics to find SINH
larity in these two "'strong" states.
No less apt comparison could be
found for, whereas Moscow's strength
stems from totalitarianism more op-
pressive than that practiced by Hitler
and Mussolini, whatever strength ex
lists in Washington is by gift of the peo-
pie who through free elections may
change chiefs at definite periods. as
they see fit.
In Russia the people are governed
without their consent. In this country
the government exists with consent of
the governed. That is one of our card
inal principles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
The Book OF KNOWLEDGE
~GRAVITATION HOLDS


Take a pencil in your fingers.
Let it go. 1t will fall to the floor.
Water runs downhill. An automo-
bile will coast downhill, with the
engine turned off; but you need
the engines power to send the car
uphill.
All things on earth are being
pulled toward the center of the
globe by a force which we call
gravitation. Through this force,
the earth is attracting all things
that are on it; and all things on
it are attracting the earth. Not
only that, but every object on
earth attracts every other object,
no matter how small they are or
how far apart they are.
This attraction is extremely
small between ordinary bodies.
But the masses of the sun and
earth are so big that, ever at a
distance of SO, 900, 900 miles. they
attract each other with a force OF
4, 0O0, 600, 900, 600, 900, 900 tons. Great
err bodies have greater attracting
force than lesser bodies, as In A
tug of war.
The same force works through
out the universe. The moon and
earth attract each other; and they
are attracted by the sun. and,
with their feebler force, also at
tract the sun. All the other plan
cts and bits of matter that wheel
around the sun do so because of
the attracting force of gravitation.
Farther out in space, all the stars
in the sky attract each other.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
In proportion with its resources. to in
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses. ship repair facilities, near
by sites for heavy Industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and Industrial re-
sources through better markets and food
processing. pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages and improvement OF resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Cardinals farm-to-market and primary
roads. with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization OF Bluetnenthal air.
port for expanding air service.
Development OF Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities. especially in
counties lacking hospitals. and includ-
ing a Negro Health center
Encouragement of the growth of COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and County
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
The Steel ~"Shortage"
Back it to the limit.

Shortage in the steel supply, which
has been cited in press dispatches of
late, appears to be less serious than
some articles suggest. If it is indeed
of minor proportions and short dura-
ton, the steel industry and the Ameri-
can people generally will be CRATE
full, as steel is a primary item in our
national economy.
The Wall Street column of the New
York Times on Friday explained the sit
uation thus:
"Although the domestic steel in
dustry has operated above 80 per cent
of it's capacity for production oil year
and above "a per cent during twelve OF
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Up To Joint

AS of today the, prospect of new
labor legislation rests not so much with
President Truman as with the Joint
committee now in conference with the
object OF bringing agreement or accep-
table revision of the Senate's Taft-Ives
bill and the Hartley bill passed by the
House.
That is to say, if the House confer
ees succeed in including some of the
Hartley bills sterner provisions into
the joint bill it is doubtful if the Sen.
ate could muster the necessary two.
thirds vote to pass it over a presi.
dental veto. On the other hand. if the
House conferees accept the milder Taft.
Ives measure and it is approved by
the House itself, then both branches
OF Congress undoubtedly would nullify
a veto and put the legislation through
While the two bills are in agree.
ment on some fourteen major provi.
sions, the Hartley measure goes far tc
correct additional evils in existing
labor laws. It is these the Senate con.
ferees are believed unwilling to accept
Among them is a near blanket ban
on industry-wide bargaining and crea-
ton of a labor-management board to
supercede the National Labor Rela-
tons Board. 1t also would prohibit mass
picketing and violence in picketing
Furthermore, it would outlaw unreason.
able union dues and initiation fees.
ban sit-down strikes and use of union
funds for national elections and pri-
maries, and prohibit Feather bedding
by which employers are forced to EN-,
ploy more men than are needed for a
Job.
As union workers would be the chief
beneficiaries in the long run from &C.
ceptance of these provisions it is hard
to understand why there should be
any opposition in the Senate.
But it is these provisions that the
Washington prophets believe might pre-.
vent %two-thirds Senate support of E
bill containing them and so jeopardize
final passage over Mr.. Truman's veto
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

approaches the earth. The air
plane pilot acting on this knowl-
edge when he balls out" He can
safely fall for a few seconds with
out opening his parachute. for the
rate of falling is not great at first.
Until the great scientist Calico
disproved it. people thought that
a heavy body would fall to the
earth faster than a light body.
Calico applied some clever rea-
soning and showed that all bodies,
light and heavy. must fall to the
Garth at the same rate.
He reasoned as follows: if a
light body is attached to a heavy
body. then the sum Of the two
is still Observation-Disclosures the com.
bined bodies should fall at a fast.
er rate than the heavy body alone.
But if a light body falls more
slowly than a heavy body. il
should have a slowing-up effect or
the heavy body. Now. the two
statements contradict each other.
Therefore the idea that a heavy
body falls faster than a light body
must be wrong.
Calico actually proved that all
bodies fall with the same speed
by dropping two bodies of unequal
weights from the Leaning Tower
Of Pisa. They hit the earth at the
same time. This famous demon
stration was the beginning of ex-
perlmental physics.
OF course, the air will resist for
a while the fall of such things as
feathers. But barring the resist
ance of the air, which can be TO
ticed only in the case of very light
things, all objects, regardless OF
their mass, fall toward earth at
the same rate of speed. which
steadily increases. This gain in
speed is called the a%cceleration
of gravitation.
Copyright, 1916, by The Grolier
Society Inc, based upon the Book
of Knowledge)
distributed by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
TOMORROW:-What Center of
G~aVity'' Means.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
NAM And CLIO Newses

brags it has distributed half a mil
lion copies of a phamplet called
defend Your Union and a quart
er of a million copies of Phil Muir
rays Crisis" warning that anti
labor legislation is the first real
step toward U. S. Fascism.
Yet on the first page of the same
issue, NAM banners a story about
it's drive to collect So million for
a dynamic public relations pro-
gram to carry industry's message
to the American people" While
complaining about this NAM prop
uganda. the CT ONews still thinks
it's all right to collect a slush fund
to help defeat pending labor bills.
OF course, each of these parties
is convinced of its W exclusive
rightness. Saying so, forcefully,
may be freedom of the press. the
democratic right of opponents in
any argument to state their case
and good clean fun besides. But
they ought to cut it out.
Labor and management aren't
going to get along any better if
they keep jawing at each other in
this kind of cheap journalism.
Competing newspapers used to
do this, years ago, and considered
it smart. Today it's bad taste and
bad business.
Good newspapers today know
that they have to give both sides.
If an editor follows a conservative
policy. he hires a liberal columnist
or two. And vice versa. Present
ing both sides of an argument is
the best way to help the public de-
eide which is best.
This is an idea which both labor
and management house organs
could adept with profit. The great
est Improvement which the labor
press could make would be to
make some boss a guest contribut-
or every issue. The greatest i'm
provement the managerial press
could make would be to hire
SOIllG SOOQ 1dOOT ShdlC do d wi
umnist.
Neither of them will ever do
any such thing. But it's still a
good idea. If adopted. there might
be some possibility that some day
labor and management might be-
gin to understand that they have
a common problem and the only
way they are going to solve it
is by working together.
While what has been said here
has been confined to NAM and
CLIO, it applies equally to Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and U. S.
Chamber of Commerce. They
handle news for their members
differently. AFL PUTS out a month
lv MAGAZINE ard a wee'lv clip
sheet. USCC puts out a monthly
magazine and a weekly business
letter. They're AL biased in every
| thing they say. and pretty bad.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
By T EDISON

WASHINGTON The National
Association of Manufacturers Views
and the Congress of Industrial
Organization News both hit the
desk on the same day. Both are
weekly tabloid newspapers Of
about eight pages. NAM News is
printed on slicker paper though
it's a little duller in content.
Both are must reading fol
anyone trying to keep up on Wash
! ington Affairs and wanting to know
what the labor and management
Hobbies are up to. Both go in for
poison pen journalism. Both make
i anyone who reads them rellglously
sick at his stomach. Waaaa!
Each is extremely critical Of
the others point of view. If you
take the trouble to compare thelI
coverage of the same story, It's
almost impossible to recognize that
they're trying to tell you about
the same thing. All they have in
common is that they both seem
to hate the government, bad.
Here's a sample, on the current
high price situation:
Says CLIO News under a head
ing Reaction, Recession, Threat
en- America" quoting Ralph Hell
| stein of the Packinghouse Workers:
1--WE were promised that norma
competitive forces would bring
prices down once OPA was de.
stroyed. Since OPA was destroyed,
living costs have risen 20 per cent
and the government as yet has
not taken any firm action agains'
unlimited ~profiteering. The pres.
sent disparity between wages ane
prices contains the seed for ar
economic catastrouhe which would
exceed any experienced by our ma
tion."
Saws the NAM News under
the heading, Bunting Fixes
Price Blame" quoting NAN
President Earl Bunting: MIR
Truman himself can do more
than anyone else to reduce
initiation by cutting government
spending and reducing taxes. Flow
can businessmen help by careful
planning when no prudent bust
nessman can plan safely with any
knowledge of what his wage, ma
~terial, or other costs may be "a
hours ahead? Why not put the
great influence Of the administra-
ton behind labor legislation te
remove the major uncertainties in
present-day costs?"
When it comes to glazing in
consistencies, both of these scandal
sheets rate a couple of pew-l;tze1
prizes.
NAM News says CLIO is conduct
ing an amazing campaign of in
timidation. NAM News views with
alarm the fact that CLIO News
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
De Gaulle Off The Beam

M. Charles deGaulle, former presi-
dent of France, who is credited by
many with having held together a
working unit of his fellow countrymen
while in London after the fall of Paris,
was speaking the other day in Bor-
deaux.
He argued that to retain her Empire
France must. create a "strong state
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Star Dust
Skunks for Pets

SkunkS for Pets
For sometime we have Under,
stood that skunks make excelsn
pets. We've read that thew are Il
fectlonate, gentle and plavhl
Those who know. assure a skprf
cal world that it is a simple MAJ;
ter to de-odorize the black. white
striped kitties and that only trad,
tional, unreasoning antipathy Or,
vents general public acceptance 0
the animal in our households
Skunk boosters claim. and viii
some degree of validity, that
thoroughly rain-soaEed long-hair
ed dog brings an aroma into tht
living room that is pungent AM
far-reaching.
Perhaps the introduction 0
skunks as pets offers a vocatiOna
opportunity for those who dream
of a little place in the country
A skunk farm has possibilities tia
cannot be lightly dismissed, A FEY
score of breeders and many score
of little baby skunks runnl1i
around a field should be a YER
appealing and distinctive sight !
one had a roadside stand and
few skunks in a pen before t
there would be an eXcele'
chance to study peoples reaction
when they realized the situatGf
If a man could take %photograti
of peoples expressions when ts
first stepped up to the pen, N
could sell pictures as a slde'I0e
1t appeals to us that skunks-'n
photos-would be an mteresn'
combination.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
live Year Safety Program

When Governor Cherry called a state
traffic safety conference in June, 1916,
a steering committee headed by Cole
man w. Roberts, president of the Car
DINA Motor Club, was named. MIR. Rob-
erts' group then organized the State
Committee for Traffic Safety. Inc,
with E. L. White selected as member
from this area. Officers and members
of the Board of Governors serve with
out pay.
With the groundwork completed
the committee has adopted a twelve
point platform for a five-year program
and is ready to launch the project, with
the moral and financial support of the
people of the state. 1t is proposed that
all business firms within the Old North
States boundaries contribute n dol
lar per employee. Certainly business
firms which suffer annual losses in
highway and street accidents far in
excess of the gifts requested, may be
relied upon to back the program with
their dollars as we'll as their sympathy.
The program itself proposes:
l. A mobilization for traffic safety.
2. Teaching adults and students how
to drive.
8. Conducting safe driving courses
in schools.
4. Driver testing with accurate de-
vices.
5. Providing technical service to
communities.
6. The renewal of drivers licenses
after examination.
Z. The inspection of all motor We
hicles.
8. The building of safety into high
ways.
9. The certainty of punishment for
traffic violators.
1O. improvement Ol SldCS dLu lOCdl
traffic laws.
II. Increased state highway patrol
and local traffic forces.
II. Recognition for the best traffic
safety records.
In a statement to the public, Gov
ernor Cherry notes, on the basis of
past experience, that success of the
program will mean an economic saving
to corporations and workers, profess
slonal iterest and others of at least
$40, 625, 900. 1t will be the means of
saving 1926 lives and of preventing
1880 personal injury accidents.
These figures, necessarily are only
approximations. They stem from the
records of the past five years and the
probable improvement to be expected
in the next half decade.
But whether they are at fault or
not, no n can reasonably deny that
individual adoption of the program by
all drivers of motor vehicles, after re-
ceiving whatever training they require,
will lessen the death and accident toll
materially.
Back it to the limit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

Thus we see that gravitation is
the force by which the universe is
balanced and held together. Crawl
tation' acts according to a. law
which was discovered by Isaac
Newton in the 18th century.
The law may be stated in this
way: Every body of matter in
the universe attracts every other
body along a straight line between
them. The force is greater be-
tween large. heavy bodies than be-
tween small ones 1t is greater
between near objects than be-
tween things farther away.
When a thing starts to fall, it
falls faster and ever faster as it
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
The Doctor Says
PUBLIC HEAL1Bg
IMPORTANT TO Al
BY A. O,Rpn>

Since public health cono. MI.
self with all people, its s' Dsras i.
are most effective wbsn pI0grari
eo-operates with the beslts@ sVsfya,
tiles. A low standard y. sqtap
is a menace to the couptp W as'e
Parents should not becons
when their child brings a ' noe aasql
school about his physical t'O'e tloS
If any irregularity is t.0la'4a
a health examination F'ec'et ,
further is done except +, a0tli
mend that parents take t w Ie'os,
to a family physician Or ,is.t CHI;
tne condition is not serious ,s> /
should o. be grateful, not p0 ind p'at'aa
wnen a search for tuDerassa1'aat
is made in a community, ~. ta''4
9ect is to keep the sick t, NE d,
fecting the well. This from i,
S ,o aiSo enables the infects, :.
dlvldual to receive p-oner 20 =
Children should he pyS sass.
against smallpox, 6in Lu,es's
whooping cough, and at stsaa
the FIRST year of Lie and 'a' \
before they start TO school, a,q ss'a
parents fail to do so, the rs,a !. ID
bility is theirs. 'eSpa,
Health officials are co,.
drives all over the c [Ol.aas'al
clean up dirty eating nlaa:, d
protect the public from css., b
contagious diseases. Msnv | s.st
eating place operators e tb p-'.'
not understand sanitary prine5,I %
or are too indifferent 10 p1 nr n
them. They should not reses t"' '
spectors' visits as thew ~i,s D. D.
help the owners prevent S'sa ID
Rural districts require i ir'. H.
efficient health services A. 'T 80 d
senters. Diseases can essiI L'' y
spread from the farm IN t5a 4, "
through food. Most civ W.T.. w
supplies originate in the co "ssl
Yet we find many farmers o,,,.
ing establishment Of local S t.s,,
units through which the nsa a
can improve their own bealtb 's ,'
ditions. V00
QUESTION: I have had a by,,
hemorrhage. Will the operss,
you described in a recent co'',,
help me? ''"'
ANSWER: Clots between a,
brain and the skull can be !,
moved, but not those which =,
IN the brain itself. Ask your pr
slclan which kind you have.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Well, He Tried.

Well, He Tried.
Dear" remarked Mrs. Bla;
well, looking up from the evenl
paper, ''here's something lnle'e'
ing. It's reported here that y
United States Treasury says IN
a dollar bill lasts nine monlh!'
Mr.. Blackwell said nothing U
a thoughtful expression stole wv
his countenance. ..
"Darling," he finally eXclaI',,
you'd like to be patrio'lc' *0''
MT your ..
"Why, certainly, dear ME-
replied. =,
"Then,' said Mr.. B. yer. q.
ly and very persuasiyely' WV 4
YOU please try to avoid making u
Government out d liar
Hot Stuff
"Grace tells me she's tahl'. .
baths regularly to get her "'S
down." .M
Eyes, she calls it the s'0f'D'
girth policy"
Once in a Lifetime Thrill
It's fun to make
A hole in one
But more to tell
lust how twas done
Helen Van Duseh
Smyrna times., 1947-07-10
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Report of Church Services For
Next Sunday

First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Wilmington, at Park Place and
Van Buren Street: morning service
IL a. m, Sunday School, IL a. m.
Christian Science Society. Milford.
meets at Grange Hall: Morning
service IL a. m; Sunday School IL
a. m, also meets first Wednesday
evening of each month at 8 D. m
Subject for Sunday, July 13, is:
Sacrament. Golden Text: Cor
inthians 5:s. Let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, neither with
the leaven of malice and wicked
ness; but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth. A
Bible citation from the lesson-ser-
mon is: Lam. 3: "a, 80, Al. The
Lord is my portion, saith my soul;
therefore will I hope in him. Let
us search and try our ways, and
turn again to the Lord. Let us
lift up our heart with our hands
unto God in the heavens. A COR
relative passage from the Text
book Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" by Mary
Baker Eddy is: (p. PAIL. The sub
stance of all devotion is the re-
Election and demonstration of di-
Smyrna times., 1947-07-10
z Johnson for Nabb in 9th.
zz Scully for Hall in 4th.

Johnson for Nabb in 9th.
zz Scully for Hall in 4th.
Smyrna -012 20 8 1 2 o DO
Midtown 20 2 900 900 q
Errors: Janeman; Nabb 2.
Runs batted in: Price 2; Lovegrove
5; R. Handsberry 8; Grier 1, R.
Jacobs 1.
Two-base hits: Hutchinson, Price;
R. Handsberry, Lovegrove.
Stolen bases: r. Jacobs, G. Hands
berry.
Double plays; R. Handsberry to G.
Eandsberry.
Left on bases: Middletown 8;
Smyrna 13.
Bases on balls: off Hall 2; off Scul-
ly 4, off Powell 1.
Strike-outs: by Hall /; by Scully
10; by Powell 8.
Hits off: Powell for 2 runs in 6
innings; Hall 5 for 4 runs in 8;
Scnlly 10 for . 1uns in 3.
Hit by pitcher, by: Powell, Ban
ming.
Winning pitcher: Powell.
Umpire: Beck.
On Saturday afternoon, July 5
Townsend visited Smyrna and was
defeated by 10 to 9 score in q
free-hitting game. Townsend got
off to a 6 to 2 lead in the first -four
innings. But at this point the
Smyrna team began to hit the ball
and finally went ahead by one
run margin in the ninth inning.
Gene Handsberry and Sam Jac-
obs each got three hits for five
Seward got two for three, and
Richard Handsberry got two for
five. ]. Wiley, playing left field
for Townsend, got hit by a thrown
ball when he stepped in front OF
Carson, who was trying to COM
plete double play. However, the
damage to Wiley was limited to
cut over his eye. When this was
dressed, he returned and finished
out the game at first base.
Smyrna will go to Townsend for
a return game on Saturday after
noon, July 10.
The box score follows: