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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
THE JOB

To the query of an old neighbor from back
home, How does it feel to be president of
the United States?' Lincoln could answer.
"You have heard about the man tarred and
feathered and ridden out of town on a rail?
A man ill the crowd asked him how he liked
it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for
the honor of the thing, he would much prefer
walking" Carl SandburS. in the Atlantic
Monthly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
GOOD MORNING

Every great scientific truth goes through
three stages: First, people say it conflicts
with the Bible. Next they say it had been
discovered before. Lastly they say they al
ways believed it.-Agassiz.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
DARIO: 1925-1945, A FICTITIOUS
"REMINISCENCES, by Percy
Winnef (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50

W1nne (f1arCOurt, race; SE.oUl
The author. equipped with an
unusually comprehensive journal.
istic experience in Europe, has
made a novel out of his own edu-
cation in the strange ways of a
Fascist.
Dario Duvolti is several rungs
up the ladder when Winner, who
tells the story in the first person,
calls to interview him in his office
in Rome. After some initial en-.
tagonism, the two men take q
liking for each other. and their
paths cross repeatedly as history's
PAGES unroll darkly.
Politely speaking. Dario the
Dolitico is an opportunist. but in
brutal truth he is a turncoat. and
the last side he turns out, as re-
vealed in the short "epilogue'
prologue" which not only ends
the novel but also presages an
other career for him. is a big sur
prise.
AS idea. I find it ingenious; as
| novel, stilted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

The Changing World
In former days
Collegiate ways
Suggested days of frolic.
Now college lads,
CThe G.. l. dads
Stay up with baby's collie.
Ina S. Stovan
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Psychiatry ~Psymplified

Psychiatry Psymplified
Fsychiatry shows that a man
who's ferocious.
Is merely a victim of psyche
%neurosis.
That fear is a phobia, a mental
protuberance
Which yields to the power of in
telligent students.
That love with its pleasures Or
panied agitation
Is no more Or less than a simple
fixation.
Yet l find as they weaken the
phobia that's hurting.
They strengthen a couple with
which I've been flirting.
Merle Benyon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Wooden You Know 1t

| Wooden You Know 1t
"Wai r, this is outrageous! You
We raised the price of cottage pud
ding ten cents a portion.
Sorry, sir, but you know how
the price of building material
have been going up"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01

THE AVIATION ANNUAL OF
1947. edited by Reginald Cleve-
land Harper; $5).
Army, naval and civilian ala
ton, domestic and foreign, manu-.
featuring and research are among
the topics considered il this illus
trated annual.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01


Utpatel (Pellegrini & Cudahy;
$3.25.)
Birds, beasts and people, extra
ordinary, ordinary and ornery, are
shown in these honest. if not al
ways exciting, pages: Owls fly
over the house, minnoWs blacken
the brook, a bullsnake devours a
rabbit, the cat has to be fixed"
the uncle laid out in his coffin,
the harness makers gossip listen
ed to, the banquet or dance at
tended. These and other stories of
the Wisconsin countryside have
driven Derleth to prose, or occa-
sionally inspired him to verse.
New York publishers might ass
this new Chicago house where it
finds its fine grade paper.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-01
Literary
Guidepost

BY w. G.. ROGERS
VILLAGE DAYBOOK: A SAC
PRAIRIE JOURNAL, by August
.Derleth, illustrated by Frank
Utpatel (Pellegrini & Cudahy;
S3.I51
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Trieste's Future

The United Nations Security Council Is
trying once again to make some progress
toward choosing governor for the Free
Territory of Trieste. The search for a
man acceptable to all parties has been
seems about as elusive as ever. The reason
for this is not hard to find. 1t stems
directly from the global division existing
between the Soviet Union and the west.
Under the Italian peace treaty-which
is now in force-the once prosperous
Adriatic port area has become kind OF
ward of the United Nations. Taken away
from Italy, but not given to Yugoslavia, 1t
is supposed to rule itself under the U. N.
governor. But its prospects along this line,
wholly apart from its economic difficulties,
are something less than reassuring. This
is so primarily because of the east-west
split and because that split, with the
Yugoslav dictatorship acting in the Krem-
Inns behalf, can create explosive pressures
within the Trieste territory.
AS matter of fact there has been ten
sion in the territory for months past. OF
its population of 350,0O0 some 80 per cent
is Italian-speaking. the balance being
made up of Slovenes and Croats. About
30 per cent of the total is tied to the
Communist line, which is the line OF the
Tito government in Yugoslavia, which is
in turn a servile satellite of Russia. The
propaganda and counterpropaganda -
faithfully rejecting the east-west divi-
sion-are intense, and the overall temper
of the place is scarcely promising as far
as the outlook for orderly self-government
is concerned.
Geographically moreover. the Free Ter
ritory of Trieste is mere splinter within
the body of Yugoslavia. Surrounded on
all sides by the Tito dictatorship, it is
extremely vulnerable to the danger that
that dictatorship might one day try to
absorb it. It is relatively secure now only
because 5000 American troops and 5000
British troops are stationed there as a
trust" force along with 5000 Yugoslav
troops. But If Tito, acting for the Kremlin,
wanted to take Trieste he has an army
more than big enough to do 1t. assuming
his willingness to risk large-scale war
possibility that seems remote at the
moment, though 1t is nonetheless real in
terms of the future.
In such circumstances. the appointment
of a governor-though sorely needed-can-
not of itself do much to insure the inde
pendence of the free territory. It can be
helpful to that end in limited sense, but
the real insurance will be dependent on
the long-term good faith of Yugoslavia
and the Soviet Union. Without that, with
Evening star., 1947-12-21

mdSGlQt.
It is the festival Of the Child. The startling
news of any day is always in its birth columns
not in its obituary notices. Baby hands hold
all the keys which fit the locks OF destiny
Ill-will withers at cradle. So again the
bells as they answer each other through the
mists of suspicion and misunderstanding.
Chimes seem to be voices waited from the
bending sky as they give tongues to faith and
prophesy universal peace. They sing and
shout in a wordless certainty which mocks
cynical disbelief. Always they are bells OF
unity. For they can never be fenced in by any
belfry A belfry may belong to one church,
but not the bells. Their dulcet tones wander
up and down the streets and steal into rooms
with melody and minstrelsy even when the
doors are shut.
Bells are not sectarian. They remind us
that religion Is bigger than any separate church
or sect Pealing above a shattered world,
plowed with woe, bare with famine and bleak
with cold they plead that religion grow great
enough to cast aside all pettiness and bigotry
and speak glowing words about God and man,
life and duty, lest mems hearts turn to water
in them and their strength be gone.
But not only are the Christmas bells Ginning
of unity that knows nothing of border or
breed or birth They are bells of amity. The
Bethlehem bells are proclaiming the only
peace the earth will ever know, peace to men of
good will This is the only formula that will
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Peter and the Scientists

Out at the University of California some
adventurous scientists have exposed them
selves for almost fifteen minutes to an
ordeal of unbelievably hot weather. They
have sat in a little metal chamber amid
terrible temperatures up to $50 degrees
ahrenheit-thirty-e EIGHT degrees above
boiling They have done so under the aus
pices of the United States Air Force in
order to determine how much of this sort
of thing the human body can stand. The
fact that they have survived, after having
temporarily suffered feelings of suffoca-
ton and nausea, is expected to be of con-
siderable value in preparing man for the
day of supersonic flight
That is to say, the experiment has been
designed to help solve the problem of cop
ing with the intense heat that will be
generated inside tomorrow's planes when
they fly faster, than sound. The optimist
must therefore hail the test as another
significant step forward in the march OF
progress The less CHEEKY among us, how
ever, having in mind what could happen
If lot of supersonic planes should cut
loose some day with lot of atomic bombs,
will be more inclined to relate the whole
business to these words from the Second
Evening star., 1947-12-21
A Fraud Against the People

With butter selling at dollar and more
pound, Senator Fulbright's bill to repeal
the Federal tax and license fees on oleo-
margarine is timely indeed. 1t would be
timely whenever he introduced it. For
these discriminatory levies stand for taxa
ton at its worst. They represent an un-
mitigated fraud on the American people.
They have been imposed for many years
under the pressure of the dairy interests,
whose spokesmen make no bones about the
fact that they want to eliminate competi
tion from margarine altogether. Sixty
years ago, when tax was first placed on
margarine, the tax was rationalized by
the fact that margarine was being mis-
represented as butter That argument no
longer exists. Margarine is sold for what
it is. 1t has become accepted as salts
factory substitute for butter, no longer
within the price range of millions of citi-
zenS It's nutritive value-for it is now for
titled with vitamins-is equal to and per-
haps exceeds that of butter. When col
ored the coloring matter is no more arti-
ficial than the coloring matter used in
butter. And 1t is more honest. Artificially
indication of the power of the dairy
interests.
The tax and fees on margarine represent
stupid economic thinking. 1t is the sort of
thinking that might have retarded de-
velopment of the automobile, had the livery
stable interests been able to place puni-
tive tax on the horseless carriage as COM
petitor. Furthermore, it has utterly failed
of its purpose. The price differential be-
tween butter and margarine is so great
that many shoppers no longer have free
choice. The taxes remain as nuisance,
as an evil use of the taxing power and as
a wholly unnecessary item in the cost of
living at time when every other profiteer
is condemned as rascal
Senator Fulbright made some interest
ing observations in presenting his bill.
Discriminatory taxes on margarine, he
said, have no place in the United States.
They are foreign to our outlook. They are
directly opposed to the spirit of free enter
prise. They represent the only case in the
entire structure of taxation where a tax
is levied on one domestic product to favor
a competing product. They are imitation
ary and they lead to SenSeless waste of
precious fats-a waste estimated at 1,00O,-
900 pounds year which results from
forcing the housewife to color margarine
herself
Three years ago Senator Maybank of
South Carolina tried to get rid of the mar
garine tax. The dairy people beat him.
Senator Fulbright's measure is more far
roochjpo will y inf fo fch
its progress. There is not single ra-
tional argument in support of the mar
garine taxes. The taxes are a conspiracy
against the people between a special in
terest and the men elected to make the
laws. 1t has no place on our statute
books.
Evening star., 1947-12-21

Epistle{of Peter: "But the day Of the Lord
will come as a thief In the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burned up"
Everything considered, progress being
what it is and our modern gadgets and in
ventions being what they are, it certainly
would be preparedness of a handy and
farsighted sort, in view of Peters prophecy,
for all of us to learn how to sit around
in tremendously high temperatures. The
scientists ought to remember that they
are dealing here with something that in
wolves the comfort and survival not of su-
personic pilots alone but of all the. worlds
groundlings. Poor groundlings, whittier
are we drifting?
Evening star., 1947-12-21
The Finnish Debt

There is much merit in the proposal
that further payments on F1nlandS
World War I debt to the United States
be used to finance the education OF Fin
nish youths here. A joint resolution to
this effect was introduced in the Senate
Monday under the names of six Repub-
licanS and five Democrats. 1t should win
speedy approval This is the best solu-
ton yet advanced to the problem OF the
long suffering Firms and their twenty
eight-year debt to us. They have paid
back s7,SO5 ,89868 of the $8,28l 926.l7 they
borrowed originally-but interest mean
while has mounted up to the point where
they still owe us $8,154, ,595.98. Their lone
some effort to discharge the obligation has
been heroic, and the time clearly has come
when we must recognize the heroism IN
some other way than by pocketing the
money.
Finland and the United States both
would benefit it, as the resolution con-
templates, scholarship and maintenance
fund for Firms wanting to study here
were esta blished from future payments on
the debt. The resolution points out
rightly, that such an act on our part
would be one of abiding friendship and
good will" 1t also would be sensible
extension of the Marshall plan philosophy
on the intellectual level. Finland has
been sucked into the Russian orbit, but
she is demonstrating an unusual will and
ability to hold to the spirit OF. her inde-
pendence. She can use all the help we
can give her in rebuilding her war-torn
country, and this certainly is help we can
give. 1t u.s. too, the sort of unexception-
able probing at the fringe of the iron
curtain which we should undertake when
ever the opportunity presents itself.
Soviet Russia has always been eager to
educate Europeans on its own terms. In
their present need, we can teach them
more things, and better things, here.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
OImsted Papers

DR.. Luther H. Evans. Librarian of Con-
gress, has announced acquisition OF the
personal and professional papers OF Fred
erick Law Olmsted by gift OF his son, the
present bearer of the same honored name.
Between twenty and thirty thousand pieces
comprise the collection. Its chronological
range is from 1919 to 1928 Among famous
persons whose letters are included are
Washington Irving, Henry Adams Robert
Dale Owen, Henry Ward Beecher, James
Russell Lowell, William Cullen Bryant,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Carl Schurz, Will
liam L. Garrison, George W. Curtis and
Charles Eliot Norton.
But more important than these docu-
ments are Mr. Olmsted's own manuscripts.
The journals of his travels through the
South just prior to the War Between the
States are precious for the economic and
social data they contain. Similarly, mate
rial accumulated when he was secretary OF
the United States Sanitary Commission is
valuable. The letters and diaries penned
while he was manager of Gen.. John C..
Fremont's Mariposa mining properties are
rich in impressions of California in pioneer
days. So much for the historical aspect
of the deposit.
The papers dated from 1865 to 1895 have
a larger practical significance because they
deal with city planning and public park
designing problems with which living
generations still are laboring. Mr.. Ohm
sted often has been called Americas great
est artist in the remaking of natural
landscape beauty. What is proved by his
files is the fact that he also was prophet.
His work in Washington may be seen IN
the Capitol Grounds, at Gallaudet College
and American University. He created Cen
trail Park in New York as 1t now appears.
The preservation of Niagara Falls largely
was due to his efforts. Boston's system OF
parks and Fairgrounds and Prospect Park
in Brooklyn are monuments of sort to
his genius. Likewise credited to him are
Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Belle Isle
Park in Detroit, Yosemite National Park
in California and the garden city OF Palo
Alto. One of his friends refers to him as
having striven to answer the needs and
give expression to the life of our immense
and miscellaneous democracy" Without
his intervention, 1t is possible that many
of the most popular recreational areas in
the United States never would have been
set aside, developed or managed to pay
dividends in terms of health and happi-
ness for multitudes.
Mr.. Olmsted's papers should be in the
Nations Library. 1t is good they are.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Square Doughnuts

One readily admits major share OF the
Nations high standard of living is due to
the efficiency of businessmen. They have
perfected systems of turning out large
quantities of good-quality articles. The
assembly-line technique is one of the great
inventions of all time and there is no
doubt that the future will see remarkable
refinements of contemporary methods.
But one should reserve judgment on the
latest proposal toward mechanical i'm
provement of an established product.
There is something about the idea of a
square doughnut that instinctively arouSes
skepticism Webster's definition does not
help the cause of those who believe that
an integral part of doughnut is the hole.
The book of words in alphabetical sequence
merely asserts in its customary terseness:
"A friedcake, specif. one OF yeast-leayened
dough-"
The doughnut is subject to sufficient
indignities now. They roll it in. all sorts
OF sugar combinations; they dip it in
melted honey; they gid the lily by crown
ing it with frosting; they pierce it with a
needle and inject blob of jelly. The time
has come for good men to take position
in this theological controversy. A dough-
nut is not doughnut unless it is round
and has a hole in the center. The
extraneous doodaddish additions are mon
strous perversities against solid Amer
ican traditional food. It may be that the
scientific minded experts are technically
correct. Perhaps square doughnuts can be
made faster and more efficiently. But
here is one place where man can say
that life Is more than speed and efficiency.
Evening star., 1947-12-21

work. Pacts, treaties, charters, United Nations
Assemblies, Ministers Conferences, all will end
in futiity unless they become the channels
for genuine and growing good will Calling
names, which is an interna tional pastime these
days, and bitter billingsgate, which is the last
resort of intellectual and moral exhaustion,
are symptoms of fear and strangle good will
Arrogance is the strut of a little soul. Good
will requires that somehow we get beneath the
other mans skin and look at life through his
eyes.
This Christmas our own Liberty Bell is ring
ing out anew that doctrine of the golden rule.
OF that bell, as never before since it first rang
in I776, a shattered world is ecstatically ex-
claiming, Again the Bell" A tumult of JOY
stirs millions to new hope because that bell
is not mute. OF the great day of the procla-
nation of American independence one wrote:
And as the star which rose in Bethlehem
18 centuries before proclaimed the glad
tidings of mans salvation, so this star beamed
forth the signal light to tell mankind OF his
civil and political redemption. Far, far away,
across the dark waters of the Atlantic the
longing gaze of the down. -trodden serf was
riveted upon the bright rays of this great
luminary of freedom, and his chains felt softer,
his pulse beat higher and his heart grew
lighter. For with prophetic spirit he beheld
the day. not far distant when its fervent heat
would melt the manacles from his limbs"
This glad day is that rhapsody being fulfilled
by the overwhelming will of the American peo-
pie as expressed by their Congress. The decree
has gone out that the bell shall ring again
That the American Liberty Bell is pealing forth
this Christmastide across the woe and want OF
a stricken earth is the greatest single fact in
the contemporary world. AS its message is
heard around the earth tyranny trembles and
multitudes in shadowed, threatened lands see
blazing star of hope For the people who sit
in darkness, chains feel softer, pulses beat
higher and hearts grow lighter as. with ears
tuned to this Land of the Free, they rapturously
cry, Again the bell' And though
"Hate is strong and nrocks the song
OF peace on earth, good ,DiH to men.
There 'peals the bell' more loud and Deep
God is not dead! Nor does He sleep.
The Wrong shall JAIL the right prepau,
With peace on earth, good ,0iH to men,"
Evening star., 1947-12-21

in holly, breathed in
letters, emblazoned on
cards, tied in packages,
hung on trees, caroled
in song. pealing in
bells-everywhere, ev-
erywhere Christmas!
Even near relatives
of Scrooge, secret, soli-
tary a nd self-con-
tanned as an oyster,
who usually carry their
own low temperature
with them are thawed
out by the balmy
breezes of the Christ
Evening star., 1947-12-21

out fidelity all around to the Italian treaty
and the principles of the United Nations,
the future of Trieste will be full OF question
marks and explosive potentialities. Right
now, certainly, there is little ground for
optimism on that score.
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Spires Of the Spirit
Again the Bells
Their Ringing Once More Sends Hopeful Message Over
an Earth Stricken With Woe
Spires of the Spirit


Again the bells of Christmas How the
jaded heart of the weary world welcomes the
birthday Of the Babe whose coming broke the
ages in two.
Christmas comes wreathed in smiles, framed
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Rebarafions for Je,cs?

LONDON.-One Of the first steps the govern
ment of Jewish Palestine is expected to take
after coming into existence next June is to
claim reparations from Germany. The claims,
to be placed with the Inter-Allied Reparations
Agency in Brussels, Belgium, will be based on
the murder and other sufferings and losses the
Jewish people suffered under HITLER. Any
reparations received would be used to settle
grants
Evening star., 1947-12-21
Greek GnerriHas

The United States Military Mission to Greece
now feels that the only way to end civil strife
in that country is by a complete victory by
the Greek Army over the guerrilla forces
Advices reaching State Department officials
say that the amnesty offer to the guerrillas
was failure The objective now is to whip
the Greek Army into shape to launch knock
out blow.
Frefab Losses
Evening star., 1947-12-21

The Reconstruction Finance Corp. RFC)
figures it will take net loss of $3,650O00
on the guarantees 1t gave to manufac-
turers of prefabricated houses RFC says
it made the deals with 20 manufacturers Of
prefabs because it was directed to by Wilson
Wyatt when he was housing chief-and that
Evening star., 1947-12-21
T ooL;pr Aheod Some Shadoavs of Coming Events
1OOk1llS AllCdu Are Noted Here and Abroad
(By the World Staff of the Associated Press)

there wasn't lot it could do about it, Chair
man John D. Goodloe says the deals were for
the manufacturers to make $4,000 units and for
RFC to guarantee market for 63 900 of them
The dollar guarantee was $200,250,0 900. Sub
sequently, Mr.. Goodloe says RFC paid $7,173,-
600 to prefab makers who couldn't sell their
products within reasonable period" but later
recovered $3,522,0o0
Reb0rafi0ns f0r Je1ys$
Evening star., 1947-12-21

PARIS.-Highly placed political informants
expect a period of relative calm in France.
possibly for as long as six months. These
informants say the government expects the
new Communist Information Bureau Comm
form to concentrate its attention on Italy
because of the failure of the recent French
strike wave and a growing French feeling
against social disorder. They added, however,
that the government has no illusions that 1t
will not be plagued again with violence and
strike epidemic. Premier Schuman is expected
to use the expected breathing spell to prepare
for the future
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