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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-02-07

he finds out on his fortieth birthday that his wife
talks much GOssips much has like Nell Russell
screechow At forty acquire stomach
lose his hair both to
in the opposite sex In direct proportion to these two item. The more
stomach and the hair the his nelnAtons
particularly towards females under thirty
Nying
fairly
excursions but he the leash in the
bet by the time the 6year mark rolls around he'll
all prmd the and into the field find
whether " the looks the other side
Of the fence,
marriage had better for the coming battle Some
ladies' obse barrcade
headache pills and liver extRcOns Rather than Rrde
glamour hard they find easier make various
old playing
the Of bedside But there's anything that will send
brother keedaddng after prigher it's being married
bundle It's bad when itchy
aiding and abctng his wandcrust by driving him of with
a constant parade Of pills and potions
suppose many along birthday
dinner the fact that his wife apparently interested what
going in the house next door than in his dmcO As the Little
Woman him with the details Smith, door
supposed be with awful girl
friend husband suddenly realizes that the rRuRh which has been
blowing him for has from whes
babbg mouth That realization probably helped
restless male cut loose from the marriage SnehornEs without too
qualms Of conscience.
The clergyman who thirty becoming
settled" the forgot
Satisfied Thirty likely lead % Hectic Forty
who has been oy twenty
like Of measles, suddenly
Watch it, ladies, watch it.
Bells place the Minneapolis loop by
Butus Cassu Of DeamAnd
the cafe from Clarence Bell several let
the where the Anticipated actually
Spnsrs from the
and jab point
good seated plunk booth shmmy The
cafe gloomy and rRmhacke practically long ago
stopped patrOniEing the place.
The proprietor he modern
we'll appointed restaurant He has already ordered equipment
The wobby old wooden booths will
and redecorating done, he promises.
II these easily
become twocy rendezvous RedecoRnR"
and here past
lights installed and paint job hastily slapped Maybe
hung at the windoWS booths
indirect lighting modern apparently
I've been predicting along that
along who believes something
they spend and the first really
establishment he will have revolving place
accommodate the rush Of trade Then watch
housekeeping their jernts the competition
Meanwhile wouldn't it be elegant liquor
white cluster by the hAdoEen spots the town
while there isn't Negroowned the city,
tended so that reputable business could cenHs
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USO Still Functions

Most Americans, including perhaps
several million yeterans, may have
pretty much forgotten the USO and its
camp shows. But the wartime enter
tainers are still going strong, nearly
two years since the war ended. And to
the almost 20, 000, 900 who saw their
performances last year their job prob
ably seems as important as ever
There are now 80 USO units over
seas - % in the Pacific areas and two
in Alaska - to entertain men who are
safe from bullets but not from bore
dom. There are % companies in this
country performing at 1872 veterans
hospitals.
The overseas circuit includes Japan,
Korea, China, the Ryukyus, the Phil
ippines, Guam, Tinian, Kwajalein, the
Johnson Islands. Playing that circuit
can't be the most comfortable or CLAM
orous trouping in the world, so we think
the USO boys and girls deserve a cheer
as another theatrical season rolls by and
the good work goes on.
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saws he sent out some thousands Of
rubber rings to his statesmen for pro-
motion purposes, and. that if they were
filled with helium they would fly at
such speed as the wind saw fit to carry
them. He further says the disks were
about two feet in diameter.
Then comes the story about the
weather balloons, one of which ground
ed somewhere in New Mexico. An Army
warrant officer says every Army
weather station sends four up every
day, that they are made Of fifty-inch
synthetic rubber, and can rise to some
go, 900 or 10000 feet.
The advertising disks are two feet
across, the balloons about twice as
large. What does this do to the saucer
spectators evidence that what they
saw, or may still be seeing, were as big
as airplanes or even bigger, up to a
five-room house?
Incidentally it would require a
powerful camera lens to catch a disk
moving at 500 miles an hour at 10000
feet altitude.
We don't want to be pessimistic,
Ibut it does seem that all these nice folk
who see or account for flying saucers
could get together and sort Of syn
|chronize their stories.
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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 So-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs fer years to come.
Development. Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re-
sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production ana
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 Bluethenthaa air.
port for expanding air service.
)e> elopment Of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities. especially in
counties lacking hospitals. and includ-
INK a Negro Health center
ENCOURAGEMENT Of the growth Of COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and County
governments.
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radical party for any prolonged period
as long as a substantial Republican
minority and a substantial Democrat
|ic minority form a majority coalition
in Congress, placing principle above
lpetty political advantage and partisan
ship"
Mr.. Lawrence's recognition of the
part Southern Democrats are playing
both in Congress and in business and
Industry is the more welcome because
there has grown up a considerable
school of thought in the National Cap
ital that consistently belittles the
South's Importance in national recovery
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The Doctor Says
IRRITATION
/ WORSE IN SUMM[|
BY WILLIAM A, o'BRIEN, Mn

D1 UlAAAfAIA a. DAAAEaAt, NJ, D.
Redness of the skin (erythena
may result from external in.
tants or internal disease. 81,
may become generally red "
there may be patches Of redns
sometimes with raised edges
regular or irregular patterns,
If skin redness is due to an A.
ternal irritant, condition usu.,
is limited to that part Of N.
body which is not covered /,
clothes. Sunlight, heat, chemicsl
plant poisons, insect bites are I.
Usual causes.
When redness stems from il
ternal causes, it may be the result
of eating a food Which is Irritating
(allergy), taking Of drugs, Or an
internal disease.
A special variety OF red skin
disease is called erythema null,
forme. Condition is most common
in the spring and fall and its ar
pearance is striking. Most q lit
reaction occurs on the back Of IA,
neck, cheeks, arms, legs and backs
of hands and feet.
Skin is bright red in spots while
in other places the condition II
sembles hives or pimples. Blists'
may formsand burning and itching
are felt. The mouth may be AZ
fscted with a similar eruption.
AS no two patients with e%rythen,
multiforme ever show the sane
kind Of eruption, it is usually
necessary to consult a physical
1or a diagnosis. .
Patients ill with erythema rnI'
t;forme may have mild fever si
a few aching pains. AS a genera
rule the disease runs its colra
within a few days or from two y
three weeks. But there is a ten
dency for it to recur every spfAl
and fall unless the underlying con-
dition is corrected.
Cause Of erythema multiform'
varies in different individual
In some it results from a focus d
infection within the body, wills
in others it seems to develop non
eating certain foods. Wet, change
able weather favors its appear
ance. .,
Patients with erythema mul''
forme should go to bed a. The be-
ginning of the infection. As soon
as they feel better they can BE T
and about. Sedatives for acres
and pains make the patient mo'
comfortable.
Local skin treatments consist "
applying simple busting powder o'
spongingi the affected areas VIA
weak solutions Of alcohol, ooH'
acid or soda. Soap and other ff,'
tating applications should "
avoided. ;,
QUESTION: How does one DC
tect a lump in the breast, Hn-''
may be cancer? d.
ANSWER: II a definite lump
detected by pressing the bfss.
against the chest wall win u!
flat Of the hand, a physician s1o.'
be consulted for a n examinat".
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Advertising Helps

Resorts in the Wilmington area
enjoyed greater patronage over the
independence Day weekend than at
any previous similar period Of time
Estimates of the number Of visitors are
necessarily indefinite. So is the gross
"take" of hotels, roomlng houses,
restaurants, concessions. But that both
were large is indisputable.
One need only have visited any OF
the beaches or only have Travelled the
highways to conclude that no more
prosperous holiday has been celebrated
hereabouts.
To what shall this exceptionally
large influx of visitors be attributed :!
This is as hard to determine as the
exact number of visitors.
But we may ascribe it at least in
part to the advertising Wilmington
and its resorts have had, first through
the national attention drawn by last
years fishing rodeo, magazine and
newspaper publicity reaching millions
Of readers throughout the country
and secondly by the distribution of fold
ers to all AAA offices and most rail
road and hotel racks from Florida to
Maine and east Of the Mississippi.
Twenty thousand of these folders
about Wilmington have been so dis
tributed. In addition ten thousand each
have gone out through the same chan
nels telling soout Wrightsville Beach
and Carolina Beach. It is reported that
the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
is receiving up to one hundred in
quiries daily from potential visitors
who make direct reference to the fold
ers.
In the abstract, advertising may be
Intangible, but here is proof positive
that direct results are obtainable
through lis medium.
Because of this proof, it becomes
harder and harder to understand why
there is hesitation in some quarters to
back this years fishing rodeo finan-
cially.
All money contributed toward its
success cannot fail to come back with
interest.
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Cut Taxes Now

With the tax reduction bill again
approved by the House of Representa-
tives, with the effective date changed
to January l, 1913, speculation is rife
on what action the Senate will take,
and particularly whether enough sena-
tors would rally to it's repassage if
President Truman should veto it, as he
did when the original bill was sent to
the White House.
That bill did not reach the Senate a
second time as the veto was sustained
in the House by two votes. Although
it is impossible accurately to forecast
what the House will do in any circum-
stances the twenty-six votes in excess
Of the required majority polled on Tues
day would seem to indicate that it
would override a second veto.
The measure as it stands meets at
least one Of Mr.. Truman's objections.
In his veto message he declared the
bill provided for the wrong kind of tax
reduction at the wrong time.
AS he had previously indicated his
belief that reductions might safely be
made next year, the substitute effec-
tice date appears to overcome this adj
Verse argument.
Whether OF not the bill offers the
right or the wrong kind of tax reduc-
ton is as much a matter for the Con-
gress to decide as for the President.
Certainly relief for the taxpayers
who have carried too heavy a load too
long, chiefly to meet federal extrav-
agance, is not to be set aside lightly.
Rather, it is up to the government to
wipe out the waste and get the ma
tons finances on a sound basis.
With a surplus in the Treasury
amounting to all of three-quarters of
a billion dollars, another of Mr.. Tru-
mans arguments, (that provision
should be made to reduce the national
debt before taxes are cut,) is no long
er valid.
What the Congress and the Presi-
dent need to consider is that if there is
no revision downward in the peoples
tax bills before adjournment the bet
ter part of another year will pass before
another tax bill can be introduced and
still longer before it can be approved.
and the people must continue carry
ing the burden under which they have
grown round-shouldered.
Relief should be Forthcoming not
only from the Capitol but the White
House also.
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Department.
WONDER QUESTIONS)
HOW EARTH WOULD LOOK
FROM MOON

The earth is a ball, and anyone
looking out from the surface Of
that ball gets the notion, Of
course, that he is in the center
of all things hung in the sky on
all sides of him. We lei things
up in the sky and not down in
the sky because the earth inter
feres with our view. If the earth
were transparent, we would see
the sun and moon when they are
down in the sky, underneath our
feet, just as now we see them ur
in the sky.
This must be true not only Of
the earth but Of any other heav.
emily body. Cup" and down
have no real meaning in thera-
selves, but merely refer to our
point Of view.
The earth, seen ''up in the sky
from the moon, would appear far
larger than the moon does to us,
and CORE spondingly bright. There
would be no mistaking the differ
ence between land and ocean.
Through telescopes the largest
buildings Of a city could be made
out.
The greatest difference would
be, perhaps, that IN observer or
the rnoon would often lind the
details Of the earth hidden by
clouds. AS the neon has practi.
cany no atmosphere, her face is
never clouded to u view; moi
even to the very slight extent that
Mars sometimes is. But anyone
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Thanks, Mr.. Lawrence

1.-The nation owes a debt of gratitude
to the innate craftsmanship of the
Southern leaders in Congress who place
the public interest above special in.
terest and principle above party. This
is genuine Americanism."
This tribute comes from the wide
ly-read columnist and editor of the
United States News, David Lawrence.
who adds that the Solid South holds the
balance Of power today in America.
Further, Mr.. Lawrence declares the
Solid South has saved America "from
|radicalism of either the communistic
or the fascistic sort;" and; "Without
the preventive power of the Southern
Democrats, America today would be in
the throes Of industrial disintegration."
This latest bulletin from Mr.. Law
%rence's pen draws the fine distinction
between "liberaI' and radical ele-
ments in the population and adequately
absolves Southern Democrats of be-
ing r~eactionaries which is heard now
and then over the radio. Defeat in the
congressional elections last fall "was a
blow only at the radical leadership of
the Democratic party in the North" he
writes.
"The Democratic party canno+ he 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-10
BY T s

WASHINGTON - One Of the
most devastating b%roadsides ever
fired against the U. S. Navy's So
cial caste system and its silly eti-
quette has just come booming off
the presses in a work called "OE
My Sea Chest" by Lewis H. Con-
arroe.
The author is a Philadelphia
Mainliner who probably had NO
business in the Navy in the first
place. He was underweight even
after two overstuffed meals and
several quarts Of water. But he
used his drag and a couple trips
to see the RICH. people in Wash
ington and they made him an VI
ficer.
His first assignment was to a
cruiser in drydocK. Here Navy
tried to make him into a gentle
man. There was a war on, he
points out, and something had to
be done East to give him enough
social polish to associate with the
Regulars.
A lieutenant commander set up
a Little Annapolis and proceeded
to teach the ~reservists how to
pay formal calls, cow to write a
letter, when to wear gray gloves.
when not to wear 'em.
Instruction on how to eat was
contained in a paper which quot.
ed literally from Emily Post. It
was marked, Confidential. Off
GERS only" It contained such
gems as Drinking coffee with the
spoon left in the cup -. Is an
unforgivable ofense."
Like nearly all r~eservists 1t
(j.g.) Conarroe takes a dim view
Of Annapolis glanio- and grads.
''As if their bloatsd egos were not
already turkey size," he writes,
there is bred into them a lofty
intolerance and disdain for the
uEdisciplined world outside tneil
gates, and a sense Of snobbish-
ness that makes Princeton look
like reform school," .
He tells about one, whom he
calls Lieutenant Prisgish," who
cnce told him, Il resent anyone
who consciously or unconscious1y
makes me feel that I must con-
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Letter Box
OUT OF HURRICANE zos,
To The Editor:

VI HURRICANE ION,
To The Editor:
AS any yacht owner can +on
marine Insurance consist "
considerable portion Of tbo leg
expense necessary to the ys'q
Of any Yacht. "pf:,
l wonder if it is generally ,,.
that some time back the N NJ
Line was changed, from NJ
head City to as far south =, s9s
port. Do you realize v,b wv
means? "'at /
It officially places the D.,
Wilmington out Of the b,l uut
danger zone, as designated Nv
powers that be in the ins,,~s.'l
business.
The differential in safe ana
ger zone rates is great NV y
seems to the writer that W;ln,.
ton should take advantage Of !.
opportunity to publicize the
ent ruling and invite yachtr, wv
make this. the Port of Win
ton, q safe fresh water ancbn,!'
for their summer storage,
Facilities are already hers .
their needed repair and outf~'s
needs.
Think what it would me.,
both prestige aid monetary =,
for Wilmington to have a rs y
display of so or more beam.
yachts, lying peacefully at ann,
on OUR waterfront, all durin, g
summer months.
The writer will endeavor +, h.
start the ball rolling by inserS
an article covering the above "A,
in our forthcoming publicssn
''The Inland Waterway Guide"
Wilmington N. C..
July 8. 1947
NORMAN B. KING
Marina Publishing HON
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Brass, Braid And Red Tape

slider his feelings before 1 can act
on my own impulses" Later this
same "Priggish' told the author,
Il find your assumption of friend
ship presumptuous. Friendship is
not one of my weaknesses"
Conarroe writes that he tried to
get administrative jobs for which
he was fitted by business expert
ence, but the Navy would have
rome Of that.
AT Norfolk he busted a tooth
just before he was to go to sea on
convoy duty. He couldn't get it
fixed because he couldn't find the
base dental officer and chief Of
stat to sign Form G-oN CA
Tor him.
The Navy, he learned, sis like
a cumbersome cement mixer in
which, once the machinery is set
in action, Individual ambition has
no more chance than a pebble
tossed into it's revolving drum.
The cement mixer is, in turn, only
an Incidental unit of the far more
complex, far more costly machin-
cry the demands of waging war
had set UP at Washington, D. C.
Nc one brain, I dare say, has ever
grasped the. extent and FULL poten-
tial Of Naval CHG on the Poto-
mac"
He tells a lot about R.H.I.P.-
Rank Has Its Privileges. There
was, for instance, the case Of the
sail locker room that was made
secure for 48 hours and couldn't
work on asbestos gloves for the
hot shell men because the sail
maker had been ordered TO work
On chintz curtains for the cap
tain's cabin.
He learned about cumshaw -
the petty gratis and rackets. Like
that of the top officers on one
ship who gave their wives shop
ping lists to the wardroom mess
treasurer, who bought groceries
with the mess red and blue points
and delivered them in the ships
station wagon. .
There are classic stories about
one Admiral who lost his corset
and a description Of another Ad-
miral's party-paid tor by forced
.fcollections from officers of lower
rank.
At one time in his career Con-
arroe was made cigar mess treas
urer on a gunnery training snip
that never left Potomac bay.
For the enlisted man in the
Navy, the Lieu:enant's cap goes
off. HE had to live not only al
the bottom of the social ladder
he writes, "but also at the foot
CT the steel one leading down
from regions of fresh air and sun
light. Sometimes his bunk and
locker were 20 or 80 frames apart
end on different decks"
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BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority
Written For NEA Service

Tt4lllS11 hSAAA wv
There are a couple OF mistakes
in today's hand which might
easily be made by a careless
player. First South's bid of three
clubs is very bad. He has only q
minimum opening bid, and his cor
rect response over two diamonds
is two hearts. Then he will not
find himself in a four heart con-
tract. Secondly, his strong bid
ding should enable the opponents
to defend the hand correctly.
Declarer plays the queen OF
spades from dummy On the open
ing lead, and East goes up with the
ace. A spade is returned, 50 West
cashes the ten and king of spades.
Now why should he lead?.
South's strong bidding should
tell him that his only possible
chance for a trick is to continue
with the fourth spade. Then if he
finds his partner. with the jack Of
hearts, a heart trick will be estab-
lished for West.
A careful d~eclarer would never
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but who could trust Roosevelt
after he said that? Roosevelt knew
his stuff and Murphy was a new
deal governor and these were new
deal goons. Lewis was their Gau-
letter and Roosevelt their fuehrer.
They created the CLIO. as an aux
iliary of Roosevelt's party. ano
from the CLIO. there issued the
Political Action Committee. They
contributed insupecable millions
for the party funds which elected
Roosevelt for a fourth term.
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cover the jack OF spades win !
queen, nor should the quee"
played when West continues W..
the ten-spot. 1t would take ",
smart defense for East to VIII y
second spade with the ace ana , !,
turn the third spade. Thus y
~clarer's careless play TO the ~
trick placed the whole naho
jeopardy. -.
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The Book OF knowledge.

on Mars or the moon would Won
der what it was Like to live on a
world so often covered with thick
clouds as ours is. .
Why Do Farmers Rotate"
Crops?
In early times it was discover
led that, if. wheat were grown year
after year on the same soil in
the same field. the crop became
poorer as time went on. The Ro-
mans knew this, and therefore
they made a practice of leaving
a field bare, or falloW, in some
years, to give it time to recover.
The Romans introduced this clev-
err practice into Britain. which be-
came a province Of the Roman
Empire in the LIST century A. D.
In the 18th century, however,
it was discovered that it was I'M
necessary to leave a field fallow
for a year, because a different
crop could be cultivated which,
instead of injuring the wheat crop
Of the following year, helped it.
Among such crops the beautiful
plant called clover holds a high
place. Clover is a valuable food
for animals, and has the quality
Of adding to the nitrogen in the
soil-which wheat requires.
Therefore, when clover is grown
Che year and wheat the next, we
get two useful crops, the first OF
which helps the second. This
method Of alternate planting is
called the rotation of crops. One
method is called the Norfolk no.
tation, and takes four years to
run. The crops Of the four sue
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-10
Something Wrong

50 these skyshooting saucsrs are
Just toys, o else weather balloons.
They are not disembodied spirits or
visitors from Mars, after all.
But there is something wrong
somewhere.
For example an enterprising toy
manufacturer, who values advertising.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-10
GOOD MORNING

The soundest argument will produce nc
more conviction in an empty head than the
most superficial defamation; a feather and
vacuum.-Colton.