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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-19

two wears. These plans were subscribed
to BY more than 100000 people as Of
September Ia Jump Of As per cent since
the start Of 1916.
The support that the medical profession
is giving the plans is shown by the fact
that $4,000 doctors, more than halt OF all
physicians in private practice, are partic-
ipaiing. furthermore, coverage will soon
reach almost the entire countrY-as Of a
recent date, only three small states had
no medical care plan in operation or prep
aration. And it is estimated that the
number Of people eligible for coverage will
reach 100, OOO, 600.
Here is the answer TO those who say
that private medicine has done little TO
make its services available, at reasonable
cost, to the rank and file Of the people.
While the cost of prepaid medicine varies
from state to state, in all cases 1t is re-
markably Iowa few dollars a month
for the average family. The extent Of the
service offered has also been steadily in
creased. Prepaid, voluntary medicine is
the best solution yet suggested to what
ever medical care problems we have.
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A CAM0UFLACE VOTE

When the Senate voted to extend lux
urY taxes the action was not final.
1t appears that the republican leader
ship took the step with tongue. in check,
as it were, and without intention TO stand
by its decision.
Rather, it blocked possible controversy,
with the purpose Of waiting a more
suspicious time for dealing with luxury
taxes item by item when it settles down
in earnest 10 pare President Trumaa's
budget and determine what can be done
about reducing personal income taxes,
If anything.
II may be good strategy, but there is
no assurance that the Senate position will
be approved by the House, where all legis.
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PRESIDENTIAL TERM

Separate bills in the Senate and the
House would limit the terms Of regularly
elected presidents TO two tour-Year Terms
but part company there
Under the Senate bill a vice president
succeeding TO the office might be elected
to two full Terms if the change should
occur at or during the last year OF the
deceased or removed presidents tenure
By this means a president might hold
office nine years.
The House bill provides but one full
term, so that a vice president succeeding
TO the presidency might be restricted TO
five years in the White House, if elevated
in the final year Of his. predecessors
term, Of seven and a fraction years II ne
took over in the first year.
These differences would have to be dis
posed Of before the necessary enabling
act could be approved. And that might
we'll consume considerable time. 1t would
be but a first step in a worthy effort 10
prevent what happened when, with q war
on its hands, the country set aside a
tradition siemming from George Washing
tons refusal Of a third term and continued
President Roosevelt in the presidency
even into a fourth term.
After agreement between the Senate and
House on one point, there would re-
main to be determined whether national
ratification would be established through
three-fourths consent Of state conventions,
as the Senate resolution calls tor, or
through state legislatures as provided by
the House.
Agreement here would still leave the
adoption Of the constitutional amendment
up TO the states which, as the record
shows, is a tedious and prolonged process.
Because the proposal is fundamentally
sound ii is TO be hoped that, despite the
many vital issues and major problems
before Congress, that august body will
proceed with all speed TO submit it TO the
people, whether by the convention or the
legislative route.
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laiion pertaining TO appropriations and
money constitutionallY originates, so thai
the step taken in the upper branch Of Con-
qress really represents c%amouflage. What
is hidden behind the camouflage is moi
clear.
One conclusion is permissible. The Sen
ate republican membership obviously is
threshing around TO find. out what il
wants. In the meantime Mr.. Trumans re-
quest for continuation Of the wartime lux
ury taxes, which possibly are needed, and
possibly not, stand as is"
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Your Income Tax

G. My husband is employed as
IN insurance adjuster and l man.
age a small apartment hotel. There
are six apartments and 4 hotel
rooms. The owner pays me $50
a month and supplies us as addi-
tional compensation an apartment
which, if we didn't live in it. would
rent for ST. 300 a year. We are al
ways doing things for the apart
ment tenants and the hotel rooms
change hands every few weeks. Is
the value of the apartment taxable
income?
A. No because it's necessary
for you to live on your employers
premises in order to fulfill your
duties. The point is covered on
page 2 Of the Treasury's 1896" In
structions for Form 1910, Indivi-
dual Income Tax Return, as fol-
lows: IF it is necessary for you
to live on your employers
premises in order to fulfill your
duties. do not include the value OF
the board and room furnish
ed you"
9. Can I claim a $500 exemption
for my son born on October 20,
1916?
A. Yes. The fact that your de-
pendent was not in existence the
entire year no longer makes any
difference. If your son had died
three days after he was born you
could still claim an exemption for
him.
@. Technically my salary is $50
a week but after my employer gets
through deducting for income tax
es, social security, war bonds, un-
ion duts and a few dozen other mis-
cellaneous items my ''take-home"
pay is only SAL SO. Now, what I'm
getting at is do l pay income lax
on the 500 a week (so-eAlled) or the
Sal. SO? =
A. Your income subject to tax is
$50 a week that's the amount
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THE PHILIPPINES DID IT

II is far cry from the days when men
pushing %wheelbarrows walked the streets
calling out like %peddlers for Fat and
hickory ashes" with which TO manufac-
ture what was then accepted as soap, and
the use Of copra for the same purpose.
But there was a time not so long ago
that soap fat and hickory ashes would
have been welcomed by the s~oap-making
industry. The wal in the Pacific stopped
copra shipments and not only this country
but other lands as we'll came too close
for cleanliness TO actual soap famine.
How famine was prevented is an inter,
esting story. The Agriculture Department,
facing grave risks, encouraged copra ship
ments from the Philippines before the
japanese were driven from the islands.
The American Army and Navy and the
Philippine government lent a hand, with
result that copra deliveries were raised
from 5000 TO $4,000 tons annually, and
the business is reported TO have Melted a
profit of 1900, 900 within a year. The
impoverished Philippines could use ST.
100000 to good purpose.
Ii is claimed thai a fourth Of the worlds
copra supply comes from the Philippines.
Obviously the coconut groves Of the
islands are TO be credited with the incrsas-
ing display Of coaps on store shelves.
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Department: - Famous People
THE SOUTH POLE MEN-(3
Shacke1ton and MawsOn

We have told you of Robert Fal
con SCOTS first expedition from
England to the Antarctic in 1901
1904, when he discovered ano
named King Edward VII Land
and as a result OF a perilous
sledge journey, discovered a way
to the South Pole itself.
Another Englishman, Ernest
Henry Shackleton, who had &C
companied Scott, was the next ex-
plorer tc lead an Antarctic expe-
dition. As commander Of the ship
Nimrod he reached Cape Royds
toward the close of the Antarctic
summer in 1903. He was compelled
to land there for the winter as he
found the path 10 King Edward
VII Land blocked by ice.
The seemingly solid ice on
which stores were landed sudden
ly broke up under the swell Of the
sea. A gale nearly wrecked the
ship. However, such things are
part of the everyday life OF the
Antarctic.
Shackleton adopted SCOTS route
for the Pole, and would have gain
ed it at the first dash but for one
fatal error. He relied on Mongoliar
ponies instead Of dogs. The ponies,
lacking the salt which they were
accustomed to lick on their native
steppes, ate the salt sand, and il
killed four of them. So the pulling
power of the party was INSULT
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PREPAID MEDICAL CARE

Prepaid medical care plans Of one kind
or another are making spectacular prog
ress, according TO a survey published in
Medical Economics.
The leader in the field is naturally the
old established Blue Cross organization,
which started in 1884. On September !
last, its coverage toialed $4,000, 900 people.
The most rapid growth is being made
by state medical care plans approved by
medical societies. They are Of recent
origin for the most pari-ot 81 in operation
on September l, q started during the last
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him with it, sometimes into ere
vases.
Once he dropped six feet into
one Of these yawning Cnasms,
hanging by his harness. He man.
aged to pull himself up. bit on
reaching the top, fell again, fresz-
ing. exhausted. Once more he
hauled himself out.
When he had only two pounds
of food left, he came upon a depot
of supplies left by men who had
departed only six hours before
There followed 4 frightful journey
down over the ice plateau.
At last he reached the base-to
find that his ship had sailed. leav-
ing five men and stores to sustain
him during the approaching win
ter. Finally, in the spring Of 1914,
he returned to civilization after
one of the most appalling expert
ences any mar ever lived to tell.
/. TOMORROW: What Is the Fast
est Living Thing?
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Religion
DayByDay
BY L T. L L
ITTI,E LOYALTIES AND LARGE

LITTLE LOYALTIES AND LARGE
Listen to the casual conversation
of men and you will be impressed
by their apparent indifferences to
the crisis in which the world now
finds itself.
In a time graver than any other
that civilization has ever before UNI
dergone, the people as a whole are
concerned with lesser interests.
To judge by the advertisements.
one could call this the cosmetic
iewelry-fur coat era.
Restaurants and places of enter
tsinment and sports events are
crowded as never before.
Lies lesser loyalties seem to be
growing. while the major loyalties
to Country, to Home, to Church
and to the tested standards of life,
are said by many to be diminish
ing.
!. so, everybody needs to 60 into
executive session with himself to
challenge the days drift. For if we
r subordinating life's larger 10y
altles to the smalle~-giving the
incidental right of way over the es-
sentlal then we are headed
towards disaster.
ny Thy mysterious. mighty
spirit Q God, turn and shape our
ives so that We shall ever "covet
earnestly the best gifts" Amen.
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The Book OF knowledge


cient and progress too slow tor
the food supply.
Nevertheless, Shackleton and his
party made 4 superb march and
on January 8, 1909, reached, on
King Edward VII Plateau, 4 posi-
ton 42O miles south of previous
records. They were within " miles
Of the Pole, but Il furious gale
nearly killed them all. Food was
short, vitality was ebbing. So the
party turned back and reached the
base just alive.
In the meantime, a second party
from the expedition, including
Douglas Mawson, had made a ter
rifle journey owe glaciers and
treacherous ice-fields. On January
Is, 1909, in u degrees 25' South
Latitude, l55 degrees 16' East
Longitude, they had discovered
the South Magnetic Pole.
Here we must tell Of another of
the adventures Of Sir Douglas
Mawson, as he later became. A
Yorkshire boy, he went to Aus
tralia in his youth and became a
brilliant scientist. In 1911, he led
the Australian expedition to Adele
Land in the ship Aurora. His con-
tribution was the discovery and
exploration OF what he called King
George V Land. But We must fol-
low him in a sledge journey Of
extraordinary difficulty.
In the summer of 1912, he set
out with two dog teams. His COM
panions were Xavier Mertz of
Switzerland and a young English
man, Lieutenant MINIS.
The little party progressed with
difficulty over land covered with
ice and snow. Everywhere ere
vases abounded, covered by snow,
and descending hundreds, even
thousands of feet. When they had
covered 315 agonizing miles, Min
mis- suddenly disappeared down
one of these %crevasses. With him
went the best dog team. the sledge
on which was nearly all the food
for the men, all the food for the
dogs, and nearly all the nipple
mentS.
All that day Mawson and Mertz
endeavored to reach their lost
comrade. But their ropes were far
too short to reach down to where
MINIS must have fallen. There
was no sound from him. Death
must have come with merciful
suddenness.
The survivors turned homeWard
in a desperate plight. One by one.
the starving dogs died. Then poor
Mertz sickened and died.
Mawson was alone in that hor-
rible land, with 4 hundred miles
to 20, a few handfuls Of raisins
and the carcass Of a dog for food.
The sledge had to be dragged
single-handed, up and down ice
hills. Again ana again it pulled
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III CLUB FOUNDER DEAD

Probably no youth movement, here or
abroad, has been more fruitful than the
All clubs Certainly this organization
ranks al the side Of the Boy Scouts, not
in membership perhaps but assuredlY in
accomplishment. What Baden-Powell and
Dan Beard did in training boys for good
citizenship, W. H. Smith, father Of the All
club movement, did in teaching them self
reliance, the importance Of self-support
and the value Of making two grains Of
corn grow where there had been but one
before.
Mr.. Smith is dead at eighty-one. The
end came after a long illness in a Jack
son, Mississippi hospital. He was born in
Alabama, but removed 10 Mississippi 10
teach in a Clay county school. 1t was
there that he conceived the plan Of agri-
cultural clubs for boys. AT first they were
known as corn clubs. As usually when
a worthwhile project starts, the idea took
hold, became statewide, expanded into
Louisiana and finally into the national
All Clubs Of America.
The clubs have grown 10 great numbers
in farm belts. Many a lad has provided
for his own higher education on the money
he made out Of the products Of his own
production. Many have created herds Of
championship cattle, flocks Of purebred,
blus-ribbon poultry and farm products Of
the highest quality.
AT the same time girl members have
not been idle. They have shared honors
with the boys at state and national ex-
hibitions, particularly in needlework,
baking, cooking, preserving and activi-
Ties connected with home-makinq and
housekeeping.
They were especially helpful during the
years Of dust bowl impoverishment,
clothing themselves and the younger
children Of the household in raiment
fashioned from flour sacks, when they
could get them, and even sugar and salt
bags, caring for surviving livestock, in
GLIDING chickens, and generally having
as much 10 do with the family welfare
as their elders.
Truly the idea born in the mind Of W.
Il. Smith was inspired above average. Ii
is impossible 10 think Of the All clubs, as
Of the Boy Scouts, without comparing their
achievements with the Hitler youth move
ment, which had as its chief objective the
physical development Of adolescents that
they might be the better fitted for war.
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~
criticized.
Calamity might not have struck
Mrs. Griffin as it did if South had
opened with a tWo-bid. Nav
players would have done So With
South s holding, although l do ~
favor it,
There is r school of
thought that would not do,h1a
with the West hand. They wo',id
try to get both suits in, iirst BID
ding two diamonds, then the sn.d.
suit on the next round. The ~
verse would show a verv strona
fnand.
In the play of the hand so,,.L
made seven odd. He trumned ~
opening spade lead in dummy iad
a trump 70 the king Of hesrts
ruffed anot'e. spade, came back
to his hand wit, tie ace of hearts
and ruffed the last spade %
When the club suit. brok.
ltook tie balance OF the tr;eL. NJ
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MCKINNEY
On BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E.. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

Mrs. J. P. Griffin of Short Hills,
N. j., writes that little did she
realize when she came in with the
bid of four spades on today's hand
that dire calamity was going to
happen.
Mrs. Griffin is a woman who is
willing to accept the blame for
a mistake. She admits that the
bid of four spades over four hearts
was not justified, but it was a
mistake that any player might
make.
West doubled the opening bid
Of n heart, and North tried to
make a shut-out bid with four
hearts. The reason that Mrs. Grit
fins four spade bid was wrong is
that she did not have a chance
to make four spades unless her
partners hand was strong enough
to bid four spades over four hearts.
Afor tho fo1I~ cr-1e Ii1 Vests
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TIME TO CASH IA,

To the Editor:
The cold weather last wssk
GRATED more deeply b%ecsva. ps en-
Like the shorn lamb or t5s S oan
whose blanket has been iers n'fs.
we shivered. Mark Twain ,a Of
people talked but d. 1,u mat
about the weather, but "oA1l
have added that much can !, '.snt
with it where natures kjnG " oon'
DEGREES it, l0Ay law
Ninety days has winter
not more than a dozen d.y, Oh,
perhaps a few more nights !, 4 M
weather very cold. AceorSin.n'
Uncle Sans authority-Mr y
we have had here, over Asa
Rod Of four years, an aver. Pc
twenty nights, when tho mss ms
dropped below 80 degrees. M s so;
er, hunter or rider need SUI
many days on account Of co iG'"
OF course we have some bonju
ty, as all coastal cities so I
temperature of 40 degree.
should reach for a gabardins
or other closely woven garrr .va'
and not overhead our homea
public halls. A Colorado vo,,.
who lives here and brings sunsbia.
with her, tells me that thew i.
so little humidity in Denver tb,.
a temperature of 40 is scarcely
noted.
Consolation may be found in ".
fact that when it is cold here i !,
cold in Florida, and this seaso,
they had snow While we had non.
There they suffer more and esnS
cially tourists who dress like M,
hatma Ghandi. A few years aa
this deponent slept in golf stock.
ings and a sweater at DAYTON,
Beach, and John D. Rocketelr
suspended golf.
A railway president parked Nj,
private car on a siding at IA,
Everglades and at midnight called
for a switch engine to pump steam
into his ear.
Some may ask why, if we ar,
so favored by nature as Mid.SouA
recreation area, the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway has not helped NOR.
to develop it? Why did it bypass
us fifty years ago and route it,
fast tourist train via Fayetteville,
The answer is that railways follow
the crow - the shortest, quickest
way. Moreover the long haul from
New York to Florida vas more
profitable than the shorg haul 10
Wilmington. Like a merchant
transporting goods or the farmer
hauling to market, they did not
choose to spill their beans hall
way.
The best endorsement Of our eli.
mate is that most Coast Line o.
ticials live here. A family which
owns part of a railway and vast
hotels and tourist facilities, livsi
part time in Wilmington. Several
families from Florida and Caiifo.
MIA lived on Greenville Sound dur
ing the war and regarded 1t AZ
superior and still look upon ii a.
a Paradise lost. Two gentlemen
who will soon become generals Cor
the reversed contemplate New
Hanover as their final happy hunt
ing ground. Discriminating faml'
lies here who were free to choose
a retirement or recreation region
will testify to the superiority Of
our all-the-year climate.
Let us all unite and through 4
Recreation Authority give contln'
uity of thought to our inheritance
Some states and many regions
have enriched themselves on less
than we have in New Hanover
county. -
Lindsay Russell
Wilmington. N. C..
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Wilmington. N. C.
Februs ~ II. 1947,

you have to report on your Tax ~
turn.
As you know. you get credil W
the money withheld from your pa'
for taxes. .,
The amount deduced Tor soclA
security is not deductible in an!
way, but if you want to use m'
long form tax return you can w
duct the amount paid Tor u'''O.
dues under ''MiscellaneouS VII
page 3 of the return.
Don't be too concerned aou.
your weekly salary. In compu-a!
your tax take as your starting Po..
your total compensation Tor "a"
year as indicated by your snPiuyy
err on the withholding Staleflsn.
he was supposed TO give you INV
later than January 81.
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Letter Boz
BROADCAST Apppr~
To the Editor: iAIE

~ t1lC GO-lOI. U
We, the Board of Count
mlssioners wish 10 eynr Con-,
gratitude to you for b01pn leSs os
county in your recent hrols on
We realize the value -, o's't
oroaocasts, not only to the,
opment of our county, hue Ine osvs,
u Wv aou'ileSs'ern North CaroliioS, ~
We feel greatly indebted ''
and if We can be Of snS o 10 YOU
please feel free to cali service,
any time. Upon Us a
R: o. Lewis. cb.t.
S. ]. Mintz, Commiaagmaa,
M. B. Chinnis. Commissssione';
A. j. Walton, Clerk To rna 5n5ons';
Southport, N. C. "s Board.
Feb. II, 1947.
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Blind Spot
She cannot see the mote Wll'H
Her eye for she's myop'c, -.
But looking for the beam III Hin
Her visions microscopic
Louise Shaw.
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GOOD MORNING

GOOD MORNING
1t Is not helps, but obstacles, not facili-
ties but difficulties, that make men.-W.
Mathews.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-07
Real Estate Lobby Probe
Asked BY Senator Taylor

Washington, ID. C. - Senator
Glen II. Taylor Of Idaho asked the
Senate to investigate the real es-
tate lobby denounced by President
Truman as "selfish and short
sighted group"
Senator Taylor introduced a
resolution calling for an inquiry by
the Senate Banking Committee
headed by Senator Charles w.
Tobey. Mr.. Truman asked for a
full investigation" when he sign
ed the rent control bill.
The resolution would authorize
the committee to look into the
activities, connections, methods
and financing of all organizations
and groups commonly known as
the real estate lobby" 1t would
provide for $4,000 expenses and
require a report by January /. 1t
also would provide for investiga-
tion of groups (which are seeking
to influence Legislative or executive
action detrimental to the mainten-
ance of fair and stable rents and
prices for new housing"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-07
Harrison. Wright
On RoiIwoyPoneI

Chicago.-Hearings on the de-
mands Of II Incorporating" rail
road unions for a 20-cent-an-hour
wage increase commenced before
the 6-man arbitration board ap-
pointed to settle the dispute.
George M. Harrison, president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks,
and George Wright, yice-president
of the International Brotherhood of
Firemen and Oilers, represent un-
ions of the board.
The agreement to arbitrate was
entered into after week of nego-
tiations between the unions and
carriers. The board is composed of
two representatives each from the
unions and carriers and two "neut-
ral' members.
The neutral" positions on the
board are filled by DR.. William NJ.
Leiserson, former chairman of the
National Mediation Beard, and DR..
Robert d. Calkins, vice-president
of the General Education Board
and endowed foundation which
seeks to promote educational facil-
tiles. Both men have had consider
able experience in the field of rail
way labor matters.