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Evening star., 1947-01-10

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
What A Changer

This new Council of Economic Ad-
visers has had very little of the bally-
hoo that used to accompany the birth of
federal bureaus, but if it sticks to two
of it's present concepts it will come to
play an important part in the business
life Of the country.
For one thing, it is a strong advocate
of competitive private enterprise.
For another, it visions the govern
ment not as an instrument of "controls,"
but cast in a "very carefully considered
complementary role" in helping to main
tain a stable national economy.
More power to it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
American Music

There is a growing sentiment for
more American music and more use of
what there is now. The sentiment is
creditable.
But the fact is that the total of
American music, save the kind adapted
to the needs of name bands, sister acts
and blues singers, is exceedingly small.
American composers have produced
some fine, even great, music. Stephen
Foster, Mcdowell, Nevin are names to
%conjur with. Some of the more nearly
contemporary composers, too, have pro-
duced works far above average. But we
still are too young a people to have
developed a distinct school of music
composition, with the exception of jazz
and it's derivatives and the marches of
Sousa.
Otherwise our music stems from Old
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
Welcome Awaits Mendoza

AlthoughSthere is deep regret among
Wilmingtoni5ns that the good old Modoc
has come to the end of its voyage and
must be decommissioned, a hearty well
come awaits the arrival of her success
sor, the Coast Guard Cutter Mendoza,
her officers and men, scheduled to ar
rivs on or about January Z.
There is indeed general qualification
over the news that Commander George
II. Bowerman of the Modoc is to be
transferred to the Mendoza, and that
the Modoc's entire crew will continue
under his command. Commander Bow
erman has a host of friends in Whining
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
Truman's New Years Gift

President Truman's New Years gift
to the ma lion is to declare the period
of hostilities at an end. He made his
announcement at a hastily summoned
press conference yesterday, declaring
his purpose "to bring our economy and
our government back to a peacetime
basis as quickly as possible"
By the reading of a simple document
some twenty wartime statutes are
brought to a summary end and thirty
three others, including the Smith-Con
nally Act affecting labor, will go out
of existence in six months unless Con-
gress, about to assemble, gives them
a new lease on life.
Emphasis is to be placed on the fact
that the Truman declaration applies only
to the period of hostilities." Neither
the state of emergency declared first
in 1889 by President Roosevelt and
again in 1911, nor the actual state of
war, is affected. Action on these can
be taken only by Congress. Mr.. Tru-
mar proposes to have something to say
to Congress shortly on both. Although
the Army had previously suspended
craft calls, the Presidents announce
ment brought Selective Service to an
immediate end.
Mr.. Truman, noting that through
sacrifice and devotion, courage and
perseverance," this nation and it's Allies
had "wrung final and unconditional sur
render from the enemy, we set about
building a "world in which justice shall
replace force" With the other United
Nations, he added, great gains have
been made in 'translating military vic
tory into permanent peace" Although
the state of war remains, he has found
it to be in the public interest to de-
clare that hostilities have ceased.
Grateful as the American people ma
turally are that this step has been
taken, they will as naturally expect the
cruel controls imposed while hostilities
continued to be wiped out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
Real Disarmament

Mr.. Bernard M. Baruch's determi-
nation that the United States not give
up the secret Of the atomic bomb unless
a treaty for %outlawing the weapon pro-
vides automatic punishment for coun-
tries which break it is a stand based
or good, common sense.
It is also the key to the United Ma
lions Atomic Energy commissions
program for world control of this great
power.
This plan provides specifically that
punishment of violators could not be
blocked by a Security Council veto, a
clause which last week drew vigorous
criticism from Soviet Russia.
The issue is an extremely simple
one.
1t is: Will the world legally outlaw
the atomic bomb or will the United
States give up it's secrets without as
surance that the weapon will not be-
come n that could be used against us.
Mr.. Baruch is fighting for the first
point. He will not have any hand in
surrendering the bomb unless the veto
Is ruled out.
The whole question resolves itself
into a test Of the nations sincerity on
disarmament. Obviously they are not
unanimous in the spirit of laying down
the means of war, despite their state
ments to the contrary. Until they are
there is but n thing for this country
to do-keep the atomic bomb.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
CarOlinians HonOred

The Carolinas figure prominently in
Washington official news. In three ap-
pointments President Truman has
chosen we'll.
First he chose former Governor o.
Max Gardner for the London ambassa-
dorshlp, having previously named him
undersecretary of the Treasury. Now
he selects a South C%arolinian, Archi-
bald L. M. Virgins, for this treasury
post.
Mr.. Virgins is a prominent banker
and businessman of our neighbor state,
former president of the American
Bankers Association, and accustomed
to dealing with Congress.
simultaneously, the White House an
nounces that Charles S.. Murphy, a
native son of Wallace, has been ap-
pointed an administrative assistant to
the President. A Duke University
graduate with A. B. and LII. B. degrees,
MIR. Murphy has made Washington his
home for some years, where he has
served as assistant legislative counsel
to the Senate. His training and ex
perience peculiarly fit him for his new
duties.
While we congratulate both Mr.. Wig
gins and Mr.. Murphy, we feel also that
President Truman is to be congratulate
led both for the availability of such
outstanding Carolinians and his good
Judgment in assigning them to these
important posts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01

OAKLAND, Calf, Dec. 31-U.H
-Distraught mammas and papas
whose sons have faced Juvenile
court for vandalism and assorted
damage-doing pranks during 1916
can enter the New Year without
fear that their offspring are born
criminals" headed for prison, DR..
Winfield Wickham said Tuesday.
The kids who break into mansions
and school houses, chop up desks
and tear the stuffing out of sofas
are not necessarily embarking on
a ca-eec of crime that will end in
the big House." said the doctor
who is phychiatrist for. the Alamo
da county juvenile court and proba-
ton office.
Wickham, whose statement was
motivated by a recent outbreak OF
juvenile vandalism, said it's ali
a matter of gang psychology, the
"shoW-off" spirit, and defiance Of
adult authority.
Individual members of the gang
may be nice intelligent boys who
can grow. up to be doctors and
psychiatrists and maybe even get
into the White House.
when we analyze the phenome-
non of group participation in ma
licious mischief, we find that it is
almost entirely confined to the
ad%olescent age group and to the
boys of that group" the phychia-
trist said.
Something of great psychologist
cal significance is added to make
gang behavior different from that
of the members taken singly," he
said.
Only in relatively few cases,
he said, is the behavior of individ-
aal youths conditioned on criminal
bents of vengeance and the desire
for material gain through break
ing, entering and stealing.
Rather, he said, there are five
factors which make a gang of boys
go wild with destruction and be-
have like sub-human beings. These
he listed as:
l. The element of competition.
z. The drive to show off, tc
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01

World sources, not intentionally imita-
tive, but showing European influence,
or, on the other hand, the intolerable
influence of African jungles.
One of Ralph Waldo Emerson's
biographers remarked that it took ten
generations Of preachers to produce our
"gentle ic~onoclast." Obviously some
thing Of the same process will be re-
to bring forth a composer of the
first water.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
Religion
DayByDay
CLOSING THE BOOK
BY T. ELLIS

LIE BOOA
Today we close the book of 1916.
What an incredible year it hcs
been, for the world and for individ-
ual lives. Many pages are stained
with blood and tears; and fear has
been the book-marker. Swift
change has been recorded in it's
pages, like an adventure novel.
World trends and life trends have
marched through the books pages
at a dizzy pace.
Golden pages there are, also in
the book that we TO- lay aside,
with mixed emotions of regret and
relief. There are chronicles of love,
and OF high hours of happiness and
OF spiritual ecstacy. Some growth.
too, is apparent on the pages, even
the darkest. Providence has brood
ed over the writing.
So we accept the Book OF 1947
with its clean, white pages, in the
confidence that a loving Father
will be its Author.
We have spent the year that is
gone, sometimes f~ooiishly, some
times gladly, sometimes penitent-
ly: but always, o God in the con-
seriousness that our times are Thy
hand. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
Written for NEA Service


On the plane flight from New
Orleans to Dallas there were
seven of us who had just attended
the New Orleans tournament,
among them Col. H. A. Cole OF
Dallas. At dinner in Dallas that
evening the Colonel brought up
today's hand.
Looking at all four hands, you
might say that declarer has nc
problem to make five-odd, but if
South ambitiously arrives at a five
spade contract, what is the correct
play after winning the opening
heart with the ace in dummy?
Should he lead the seven of spades
and let it ride if East plays the
four? Or should he play the jack
of spades from his w hand?
AS the cards lay, you can see
that he should let the seven-spot
ride, and he will lose only two
spade tricks; but is it the correct
percentage play?
Colonel Cole said that it was. "If
the spades break two-two," he
said, 'it does not make any diff
ference how you play them-you
will lose only two tricks. If the
singleton ten is in the West hand,
allowing the sever to ride will lose
to the ten, and the ace and king
will be lost. But against n chance
of losing to the ten, you have two
chances to win if the singleton is
the ace or king Therefore, mathe-
matically speaking, the finesse is
the correct play"
Regarding South's opening bid OF
two spades, l do not believe that
many experts would open this
hand with a two-bid unless they
were playing the ace-showing re-
Spouse which requires partner to
bid four no trump if he holds two
aces as North did on this hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01

achieve and hold status in the
group.
8. The urge to dare" to display
courage and perform spectacular
acts.
4. The impulse to exhibit a new
independence in defiance of adult
imposed standards of conduct.
5. The tendency of the gang
members to display a blind, I'm
reasoning loyalty to the leader.
"Obviously," Wickham said,
these are different motives from
the desire to take retribution,
avenge Sights, and to get even
with parents, unpopular teachers
and grouchy neighbors. 1t is diff
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
The Doctor Says
WRONG OINTMENTS
TO SKIN
Bv WILLIAM A. o'BRIEN, NJ. d.

Bv WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, NJ. d.
The application Of ointments in
the treatment Of bacterial infec-
tons of the skin frequently results
in reactions which prolong the ir-
ritation. A search for remedies
which will destroy the germs and
not irritate the skin has resulted,
in the discovery of several new
compounds.
DR.. Donald M. Pillsbury points
out in the Journal OF the Anleri-
can Medical Association that the
usefulness of p e n icillin appli-
cations in treating skin infections
is lessened by the fact that many
patients become sensitive to it.
Local treatment with penicillin
causes reactions in Is per cent of
patients, while sulfa.- ointments
produce reactions in many as
IS per cent Of those treated.
Penicillin is still of great value
in skin infection cases when it is
given by injection, and the sulfa
drugs remain useful when taken
by mouth.
Local applications of sulfa oint-
ment should be used in early
stage infections, and they SHOULD
be continued not longer than five
days. The average patient cannot
be trusted with sulfa ointment, for
he tends to overtreat himself.
Skin infections commonly result
from the presence On the skin OF
streptococcic and staphylococcic
bacteria. Local resistance TO these
germs is lowered by heat, mois-
ture and other skin disorders. In
the Army, infections Of the skin
with these bacteria caused more
disability than did fungus skin in
fections.
Certain types of skin are more
Vulnerable to injection than are
others. Resistance is lowered by
other skin diseases and by age.
Persons with a tendency toward
oiliness Of the skin, dandruff, and
eczema are more easily infected
IMAM are OtherS.
The normal human skin shelters
a large number of harmless
germs on the surface. From time
to time these germs are joined by
t%ransients which may be either
harmless or disease-producers.
Many skin disorders are compli-
Gated by germ injections which
must be treated before the origi-
nal difficulty is cured. In some
instances, part of the skin re-
action is a form of sensitivi5y to
the invading bacteria.
Thorough gentle cleansing Of the
involved site with soap and water
is indicated in every case.
There should be a gentle open
ing Of pimples and careful re-
moval of surface debris. If a
sterile dressing is applied after
ward, the skin injection may clear
up of its own accord.
Be certain that the ointment o
are using for your skin is not
making it worse. Report 20 your
physician at regular intervals for
examination.
/ QUESTION: What is the best
treatment f r chronic %intercostal
neuritis?
ANSWER: If the condition fol-
lows an attack Of shingles, tempo
rary pain relief may be obtained
by injecting the nerves with an
anesthetic solution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
Star Dust
Advertising Genius

Advertising Genius
A room-seeking young resident
Of St. GATHERINGS, Ont, speedily
solved his problem with the follow
ing advertisement: III n 6
trouble buying soap flakes, lard or
bacon? Young man, working in
large grocery establishment, re-
quires room, breakfast and dinner
six days a week, private home"
christian Science Monitor.
Time Marches On
1.-THE beauty shops, shoe shops,
hat shops and dress shops have
managed to take twenty years off
a woman's looks"
yeah, but you can't kid a long
flight of stairs" The Driller.
Desks OF Tomorrow
There's something heartening and
r%eassuring in news items these
days. The flagpole %sitters and ac-
rooatic oxen are still missing, it's
true, but a recent dispatch tends
to prove the nation is growing up.
Take the matter of the desk of
the future. Grand Rapids has a
justifiable reputation as an up and
coming metropolis. They know how
to make good furniture - and lots
of it.
Tomorrow's desk for the execu-
tive does everything but blow a
mans nose when he has a touch
of hay fever. 1t has a bar, ice box,
razor, dictaphone, electric heater
to warm his tootsies if his blood
is a bit thin and circulation poor,
radio, a few clocks, cigarette light.
er, television, S a + e, interna.
tional communication facilities,
fluorescent lamps and numerous
other gadgets. That's the way e
mans desk should be - complete
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01

and convenient. 1t should be cco
panied by a comfortable chair in
which a man can lean back and
catch forty winks after lunch. And
a secretary or a wife should under
stand that 1t doesn't need to be
cleaned oftener than spring and
fall. If the women folks will leave
1t alone a man can always find
what he needs.
Wall Street Journal.
Beautiful Innocence
rs this the Band-Box Clean
ers?" inquired a frantic voice on
the other end of the line.
The proprietor of the dry clean
ing establishment affirmed that it
was. Whereupon the feminine
voice said: please let me speak
to my husband. He told me he
was going to play cards, and he
hasn't been home all night"
"But why call here?" asked the
dry cleaner.
IT had to. My husband said his
friends would probably take him
to the cleaners, but he didn't say
which one, so I'm calling them
all.'-Tracks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
All Mischieuious Boys Not Headed
For Prison., Phychiatrist Says

ferent from the desire to gain
anything, to take something that
is wanted"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01

Payments on the debt should not be so
large as to require the continuation of opprcs-
sive war taxation upon our people in peace
time.
Rep. Daniel Reed (R) of New York.
An additional corporation tax based upon
the ability to pay will fall only on the profiteer.
Sen. Edwin C. johnson Cd of Colorado.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01

QUESTION: What is the best
treatment chronic intercostal
neuritis?
ANSWER: If the condition fol-
lows an attack Of shingles. tempo
rary pain relief may be obtained
by injecting the nerves with an
anesthetic solution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-01
TOP O. THE MORNING

: For bringing us this fair New Year
j.. We lift our love and praise.
Go with us, father, every mile,
And bless MS all the days.
Nancy Byrd Turner.
Evening star., 1947-10-20
kcLemore
Hties the Suffering
Of Movie Critics
BY Henry McLemore

No matter If they make SO much
money that they can afford to hire
lawyers to look for income tax loop
holes, movie critics are still the
Evening star., 1947-10-20

xAOI Cd lllCIE Is -DA""'
Red Army about seven times the
size of the skeleton divisions under
1t. Gen. John r. Hodge.
Korean Consta abulary Formed.
Since their arrival these troops
have been busy organizing Ko-
rean constabulary which is esti-
mated to number some 125, 900 men.
This force represents a number of
recruits who became trained soldiers
in the last two years But the nu-
cleus of the Northern Korean
Soviet Army is a group of about
10000 Koreans who had escaped in
the war days from their native land
and were made into well-trained
and disciplined auXiliaries of the
Red Army in Siberia. These men
were transported to Northern Korea
within three months after evacua-
tion Of that area by the Japanese
In the American zone we have
a native constabulary not
exceeding $4,000 men. Most of them
have been trained for police duty
by the Japanese and are competent
policemen but not real soldiers
Moreover, while the Koreans in the
Soviet zone have all modern army
equipment except airplanes those In
the American area have only
automatic pistols and in some in
stances rifles and submachine- guns.
Refugees Report Purges.
The few refugees who have man.
aged to escape from Northern Korea
say that the purges of those who
Evening star., 1947-10-20

always been the Dorothy Thompson.
instinct of vital peoples that volun-
tary subjection to a ruthless enemy
is worse than war.
War is thus Janus-faced. As 1t
has been the means of subjection,
so has it been the means-and the
ultimate means-of protection and
justice. 1t has been, at one and
the same time, the sword of the
oppressor and the shield of the
oppressed. And, in the ultimate
reasoning of international politics,
it has been the only shield.
Wars Character Changes.
Today, war has ceased to be a
reliable sword of conqeust or a
reliable shield of freedom.
The purpose of conquest is to sub
ject and use the capacities of other
societies for the enrichment of ones
own. II, however, the processes and
instruments of waging war are such
that all that one inherits is a
wilderness in condition Of ungov-
ernable anarchy. the conqueror has
possible liability instead of Ger
tain asset in conquest. Totalitarian
states have an advantage over
others. They can appropriate what
ever assets are undestroyed or in
the ground, and take the enemy for
slaves. For they also are willing
to enslave their own people Free
communities undo themselves by
such conquests.
Asa shield of freedom. war is de-
Evening star., 1947-10-20
to Man
Bp Harold T.. Tckes

While a hungry Western Europe
pulled its belt tighter last week,
Gov. Dewey draped the mantle of
demagogue about his well fed
Evening star., 1947-10-20

:, "dSli y any Sucn
thing as poor moving picture. At
that same age I would like to have
had nine or 10 chocolate sodas a
day. and wondered why grownups
ever sat down and rested when they
could very easily get up good rous-
ing game Of tag or prisoners base.
If I ever see movie critic who
laps up nine or 10 chocolate sodas
day, and is crazy about hide-and-
seek, then I'll take back what I
said in my first paragraph. But
until I do, I'll consider them worse
off than toilers in the salt mines,
miners without canary protection,
and Newport without a worthless
count.
Picking Doesn't Help.
I say all of this on the strength of
the few movies that 1 see a year.
I try to pick and choose. I call up
people who have seen the movie. I
read the reviews. I study the cast.
I make sure of the director and the
producer. Yet, with all this care,
most OF the movies I see make me
squirm with embarrassment for Hol-
lyWood, and I know nothing of pic
ture technique. What it must do
to critics who know the niceties, I
don't like to think about.
IT smoking hadn't been allowed
in the loge seats, I would have
walked out on THE Yearling," a
picture that is being mentioned for
an Academy Award.
If ever there was a picture that
should get reverse Oscar. that is
the one. Gregory Peck looked just
about as much like a Florida
Cracker as Anthony Eden, and If
Jody, in one sequence, had chased
that fawn five more seconds he
would have broken the Olympic
record for the marathon run.
A few nights ago I saw a mess of
celluloid called the The Red House"
I am perfectly willing to 60 on
record that THE Red House" Is the
worst motion picture ever made. As
I watched the thing unwind Won
dered how Edward G. Robinson and
Judith Anderson, who were fea-
tured, must have felt when they
took their, first look at this film.
Stage Performance Recalled.
Both have turned in magnificent
performances on the stage and
screen. Looking at Miss Anderson
in The Red House in which all
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Deweys Failure to Back European Aid
Seen Indicating Official L. S. Confusion

lease the amount saved. The sec
ond objective, of course, is to re-
duce the consumption of meats,
poultry and eggs. 1t is estimated
that this would cut down the con-
sumption of grain at the farm level,
with the hoped-for dual result that
more grain would become available
and that prices for both grain and
meats would be Debated. I do not
follow the reasoning in all of this
and no one has been able to ex-
plain 1t to me.
Livestock Feeding Vital.
Mr.. Luckman is diligently work.
ing at getting his organization set
up at the grass-roots level. This
may be expected to take consider
able time and great deal of ex-
pert co-ordinating of national and
State efforts. AS for the farmers
voluntarily curtailing the feeding
of grain to livestock, it seems to me
that the committee nlust realize
that this presents major difficulties.
Even II the farmers can be con-
vinced to forego their profits in the
emergency, 1t will not occur over
night. While the President is pull
ing the petals off the daisy, will I
or won't call Congress?" and Mr..
Luckman and his committee are
hard at work, millions of bushels
of wheat are going down the drain"
daily as feed for stock and other
nonessential uses. Preaching will
not plug the leak. Chance and the
weather will not do the business
either. If catastrophe Is to be
averted in Western Europe this
winter, President Truman will have
to stiffen his will and take over the
reins of leadership as he never mas
dons before.
fropvriobt 1ndsa
Evening star., 1947-10-20
By Dorothy THOMPSON

The central issue today is peace
or war.
On first thought. war appears as
the ultimate catastrophe. But his