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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Centralized Purchasing

Looking over his business a prominent
manufacturer is said to lave found one of
his divisions ordering materials that other
divisions had in abundance. He Immediately
issued an order to all divisions to centrallze
their purchasing.
It is to be presumed that the unificatlon
of all United States military branchs will
lead to similar instructions from the Sec
rotary Of National Defense and the tax
payers be benefited as a result.
At least unification should bring an end
to, competitive buying among the branches
which characterized their activities during
the war at such heavy and unnecessary
cost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20

free agents and entitled to shape their own
course of procedure SO long as existing laws
were not violated in the process.
In contrast, and by their own action,
British workers next month will be harness
ed to an employment treadmill as securely
as German workers were under Hitler and,
from all that can be learned, Russian work.
ers are now harnessed by the communist
regime at Moscow.
# is notable that the workers alone are
affected by the new British regulation. Pro-
fessional, managerial and administrative EN-
ployes will be exempted.
This is what state socialism has done foz
the working people of England.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20

ROME - This unreal political
landscape resembles nothing SO
much as a hillside still brightly
flecked with sunshine in the in
slant before a great storm dark
ly descends. The light is de-
ceptive, and conclusions must
be tentative. Yet it is certainly
worth noting the clear probabili-
ty that the Kremlin has now
altered the directive Of the
Western European Communists
parties. After more than two
years of half measures, an i'm
mediate offensive in full force
seems to have been command
ed.
1t is appropriate that the first
signs of this great event should
become visible here in Italy
For it was also here in Italy
that the Western European
Communist line was established
for the immediate postwar
period. The story is dramatic.
Very briefly, the communist
groups of Italian partisans were
early organized by veterans of
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Bull And 10 Bears
By T EDISON

I The scene in Washington al
which this doctrine of non-ex-
pansion was revealed is one to
remember. Seated around a
table before Pennsylvania Re
publican Sen. Edward A. Mar
tins Small Business sub COM
committee to investigate the
steel shortage were IS of the
nations biggest steel makers.
Senator Martin made a
speech about how he was ali
for free. enterprise. He repeated
that idea half a dozen times.
None of the steel masters diff
fered with him on that. An OBJ.
server might have expected
that, in this great showing oil
the benefits of free enterprise,
there would be some manifesta-
ton of intense business rivalry
Of the cut-throat competition
that is supposed to beat dowr
prices and give the consumer
what he wants. But all was
brotherly love and 100 per cent
agreement on everything. Just
leave it to s'business as usual
and everything would be al
right.
Senators and other ordinary
citizens have no business disput.
ing the word of these experts,
however. Maybe they're right.
But Henry j. Kaiser has been
in Washington, preaching an en-
tirely different doctrine. His line
is that America doesn't have
enough iron and steel producing
capacity; that the country is
still growing; that the shortage
Of steel isn't going to be met
for four or five years; that U. S.
! steel production capacity has in
creased an average of 1900, DOC
tons a year ever since 1900, and
it should keep on growing. In
stead of 95 million tons capac-
ity-with four million tons ca
pacity abandoned after the war
American steel production to-
day, says Kaiser, should be 120
million tons!
The doctrine that Kaiser
breaches is the doctrine IF a
still-growing America with a
constantly expanding economy
under full employment.
The doctrine that the other Is
steel masters preached TO the
Senate was the doctrine If fear
fear of a depression, fear of
over-expansion, the economics
of scarcity, of high prices, of
selling America short.
It will be interesting to Gig I'm
this subject again-come 1949F
to see who was right. Bull Hen
ry Kaiser or the Is Big Bears
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
The Kremlin's New Line

school tie. In twenty-four hours
he made it clear that the Italian
comrades on the spot, lacking
the benefit Of his higher edu-
cation, had been misleading the
holy books. The presence of the
King, and the company Of
fascists in fancy dress, equally
ceased to be obstacles. The
communists, headed by Togliat-
ii, entered the government at
once. This set the pattern for
Western Europe as a whole.
It is now obvious that behind
this deeply significant event
there was an extremely hard
headed decision by the KEEN
lin. This decision may be out
lined as follows.
First, in Eastern Europe, a
gigantic, monolithic power cen
ter was to be organized, COM
posed of the Soviet Union and
its surrounding satellites. Here,
Of course, Soviet rule was to
be absolute. Second, however, a
more cautious policy was to be
followed in Western Europe.
The communists were not to
seek full power. They were
merely to infiltrate the various
Western European govern
ments, and to remain within
those governments by hook or
by crook, especially the latter.
This explains the many puz-
cling features of French and
Italian communist post : war
policy-the emphasis on COOP
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20

WASHINGTON,-The thing to
do with Big Steel's prediction
that the American shortage of
steel products will be all over
in a couple of years, is to file
it away for just that long. Then
along about Labor Day, l949, dig
it up and see how right or how
wrong it was.
This prediction is worth re-
membering because it is so like
the predictions that were heard
around Washington from the
same source in 1910, al and AZ.
Some of the long-haired boys,
visionaries and planners, were
then predicting there was going
to be a steel shortage and some
thing had better be done about
tipping production.
But the industry fought it off.
It had reached a record month
ly production of six and a half
million tons in October 1910. At
the end of the year, Ernest T.
Weir was saying, "There is no
need to expand plant facilities.
next year (1941) we will have
a capacity of IS million TONS"
Average consumption in the
depression decade, 1939-40, had
been SO million tons. In 1910 it
was &c million tons. U. S. pre-
paredness was going to take
three million tons and foreign
orders not more than 10 million
tons additional. Weir, and
others, Couldn't possibly see
any shortage"
Yet by September, 1871, there
was a government program to
increase capacity to SO million
tons a year. BY June of 1912,
| War Production Board Boss Don
Nelson was bemoaning a short
age. By February, 1913, the Sen
ate Truman committee report
ed, 1--WE will barely be able to
produce sufficient steel in 1943."
The committee blamed the
steel companies, WIPE snd the
armed services FOR undeIesti-
mating requirements and resist
in expansion. By June Of l943
Nelson estimated the shortage
at 26 per cent of requirements,
in spite of stop orders on pro
duction of hundreds Of civilian
items like bathtups, washing
machines, automobiles.
The fighting stopped two
years ago and the steel indus
try hasn't caught up with short
ages yet. The steel industry
leaders still say there is no need
to expand capacity, because
they hope to catch up In two
wears more.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
U~ndergirdingD Democracy
An Editorial From The Richmond Times Dispatch

laration Of the United Nato M
are included. Since the tram SI y
make 300 official stops IN a. . n
States, it is sure to WISH VIM YIN.
rnond and various othef hl
ginia cities and towns Inc y.
itinerary has not been D''0
public. thins,
have been said concerning 4 We.
Freedom Train, which wa saar,l
proposed by Attorney u el,
Tom C. Clark, and is sPors4 4.ss
by the American He 1..,s,
Foundation, of which Wl ~ : nj
W. Aldrich, chairman 81 i,, ii
board of the Chase N''''
Bank, is chairman. . d
Representative Hoffman ,, 4
Michigan, actually charged think lp5I
June that there was Solt a',, ths
political or subversive a p,'S1icss
whole plan. This hep0b sr,
statesman seems 10 4;c c1
a''l Communist plot in the Pr pr
posal to let the Amerlc &, Cc'1
Die see copies of Their oTn
s'l ht the Sll other extreme, y !
New York World 1'4le gds
ace exposer of Reds ff sot nd
Woltman, unveiled the c fa e ID
other day that the CG CONN d
have issued a memoranqur| ID
the faithful in this coun.r' prrII
nouncing the "reactlons.' .ppon1
poses of the Big Bu Ste ssto5g'i
sors" of the train. the ssStpred
Of Stain were directed nny
to stage "broadest prosl roi1,d
united front meetings" at PsSinc]
along the trains rouIe' il Of
the principles enunciatep RPigotA
Constitution and Bill Oh 1rssnI
are anathema in the n,ordstI
u mere - X Krem1in's underc0.+.11
violently opposed to ans rhsd
gram which would sEl' Anstt
these principles with the ,vs1
lean people. Conversely stas
will e Cooperate enthusia't.,,',p1 81
in this important ello .;ons
the founda'l0'D
American democracy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20

GRAFTON for national recons.,..
ton; the highly un-Maryis.U
tionalism suddenly flauntsd. n''
Togliatti's odd benson n N j..
Lateran pact in Italy; and a'
forth. "N u
Remaining within the sor.
ments was the prime mi,,i. a'
to which every Marxist s.al
mandment was boldly , ,..a'
feed. '''''
This in turn had two ,,,.
poses. From within the war;. S'
European governments a.
communists were to prs,s sa
any opposition. to Soviet torsira
policy. And they were aIso y
maintain a general condjtio, "
political disorg animation s,i
governmental feebleness which,
would, at length, reduce n.
Western European states to t H.
semblance of a mere heap ~ n
iron filings. Then, the arss.
power center in Eastern En-.
rope, having been triumphsnr,
completed, was to become ,
magnet irresistibly attractps
the iron filings to itself.
In planning this shrevd
strategy, the Kremlin omitted
two essential factors. Even n.
French and Italians, the worst
war sufferers in Western IN.
rope, retained unexpected yigm
and independence. And Til,
vigor and independence was
also unexpectedly stimulated BY
the clumsy but determined Cd.
position of the United States ia
the Soviets. At length the whole
strategy was defeated when|
Premier de Gasperi expelled
the communists from office iu|
Italy and Premier Ramadier|
kept them out in France. Worse
still, the United States an,
nounced the Marshall plan. Thi
held out the shocking danger
that instead of remaining dism.
ganized, Western Europe might
regain strength and health
might even, perish the thought,
begin to exercise an attraction
of it's own for the Soviet sateI
lites.
For the present, none the less
there is still disorganizatiOnI
there Is still hunger; there III
still little hope in Western Eu'|
rope.
The United States, which can
restore stability and hopeful
ness, is slow and ungalnly as!
usual. The Kremlin's opportuni'
ty is now. Hence the present
change in the party line. Col
operation in national recon
struction is at an end. Instead
the communist party's power M
the labor movement is beng
used for great political strii'
like those in northern Italy
Hesitation is at end also. Tho
communists are taking the o.,
fensive. If the paralysis n
American policy affords TIE
chance, the Western European
communist parties will now ny
to seize what they did not o.
fore desire-full power and Nl
responsibility. That Is soma
thing for the Washington ro,Ty
makers to null over fan''
prayerfully.
Herald Tribune Inc.
-Copyright, 1947, New Yoh
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Quotation

A nation which is backward in funda-
mental scientific knowledge which falls
behind others in the exploration of the
unknown-would be severely Handicapped
in any future war. - John r. Steelman,
Presidents Scientific Research Board.
I am confident that we all agree that
the state exists for the man, not the man
for the state.-Secretary of State Marshall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Marshall And The Charter

In his address before the General Assemb-
ly of the United Nations, Secretary OF State
Marshall said the United States is willing I
accept elimination of the unanimity re-
quirement in the Security Council, which
was a gentlemanly and diplomatic way Of
saying we want the veto power abrogated
Secretary MarshalPs second proposal was
the setting up an Interim Committee OF
Peace and Security" within the General AS
sembly to consider situations and disputes a:
defined in Articles II and IA Of the United
Nations Charter.
Because the Charter is for the most part
closed book to Americans it is deemed WORT
while to quote from the designated articles
inasmuch as we are destined to hear NOR
about the Marshall proposals during tn
present Assembly session.
The pertinent paragraphs from Article
II read:
l. The General Assembly may consider
the general principles of cooperation IN
the maintenance of international peace
and security, including the principles
governing disarmament and the reg
ulation of ornaments, and may make
recommendations with regard to such
principles to the Members or to the
Security Council or to both.
2. The General Assembly may dis
cuss any questions relating to the main
tenance~o of international peace and
security brought before it by any
Member of the United Nations, or by
the Security Council, or by a state which
is not a member of the United Nations
in accordance with Article IS, para
graph 2, and except as provided IN Ar
ticle IL, may make recommendations
with regard to n such questions to
the state or states concerned or to the
Security Council or to both. Any such
question on which action is necessary
shall be referred to the Security Council
by the General Assembly either before
or after discussion.
3. The General Assembly may call
the attention of the Security Council
to situations which are likely to en-
danger international peace and security.
4.The powers of the General AS
sembly set forth in this article snail
not limit the general scope of Article 10.
Article IA says:
Subject to the privisions of Article
y, the General Assembly may recon-
mend measures for the peaceful ad-
iustment of any situation, regardless OF
origin. which it deems likely to impair
the general walfare or friendly relations
among nations, including situations re-
sulting from a violation Of the provl-
sion of the present Chatter setting forth
the Purposes and Principles of the
United Nations"
The section of Article II, to which two
references are made, reads:
81. While the Security Council is ex-
ercising in respect of any dispute or sltua-
ton the functions assigned to it in the
present Charter, the General Assembly
shall not make any recommendations with
regard. to that dispute or situation unless
the Security Council so requests"
AS the framework of the United Nations
will be hotly debated and changes in the
Charter proposed before the Assembly adj
iourns, it would be helpful in. gaining a
fuller understanding of what may eventu-
ate to study the Charter in its entirity.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
Clerks So1va
Home Problesn

The
problem in Shanghai a. ,0usla,
slightly alleviated bv tb y only
tlce of junior Chinese AMP, psao'
using their offices AZ 'ltIpl0ga
But it does make the no3es,
feel a little better abou ,pIoys
small salary he receives ts
provides him with a lot and
Once the boss has clos VI TN,
office for the day, the seo h,
rises for the second ac, NUSsaa
The main thing is to a..
the "old man" or "ba1S Sss : hat
or "fat belly'-three tara neac'
quently used by Chinese He'
ferring to the person WIN III !. fe'
their rice bowls-gets int, alli
car and is safely on ths '0 =! NJ
home. Way
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-20
GOOD MORNING

Trust no secrets to a friend, WHICH,
il reported, would bring lnfamy'-
ThaleS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
Brief OF State National And World News During The Past Week
N. G. PIT. A. MEETING TO
BE HELD IN ASHEVILLE

SWannanoa.-The 9th annual
State convention of the North
Carolina Congress of Parents
and Teachers, to be held in Ashe-
vile April 1924 with headquar-
tiers in the Vanderbilt Hotel, will
feature as principal speakers Miss
Agnes Samuelson, of the National
Education Association staff in
Washington, D. c.; Judge Ca
mile Kelly, Juvenile Court Judge
at Memphis, Tenn; DR.. E. B.
Norton, United States deputy
commissioner of education, Wash
ington, D. c.; and DR.. c. C. Bur-
lingame. chairman of the COM
mittee of public education of the
American Psychiatric Associa-
ton, will be other speakers.
Following the theme, Build
ing For Tomorrow" the conven-
ton will stress the four-point
program of the national congress:
school education, health, world
understanding, and parent and
family life education.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
CONGRESS URGED TO
TAKE DRASTIC STEPS

Observation-Disclosures Robert
Nathan suggested that Congress
threaten to reimpose the excess
profits tax on industry unless it
cooperates with President Tru-
mans anti-inflation drive and
voluntarily lowers prices.
Nathan. one-time top New
Deal economist and former
deputy director of the Office of
War Mobilization and Reconver-
sion, said in a broadcast that
there was little Congress could
do to stop an inflationary spiral.
Il doubt the feasibility of even
thinking about reinstating con-
trolls like OPA." he said. But
they (the COngressmen) can
bring pressure to bear against ex-
cessive prices and can expose
profiteering where it exists"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
PFC. CECIL ID. PUGH
TO GET DISCHARGE

Pfc. Cecil D. Pugh, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Pugh, of Crump-
Ter, arrived home last Saturday
night en- route to get his dis
charge from the army.
Pfc. Pugh returned to a camp
in New Jersey Sunday where he
will receive his discharge and
will then return to his home at
Crumpler. He entered the serV-
ice in April, 1916.
the late Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. Dick
son.
Rev. w. c. Eastridge, pastor Of
the Helton charge, after de-
livering his regular monthly
sermon, administered the sac
rament at Trinity Methodist
church Sunday.
Paul Hamilton who has been
working somewhere in the mid
west for some time is visiting
home folks at present,
Mrs. Pearne Dickson and
daughters, Carolyn and Linda, Of
Winston-Salem; Mr.. and Mrs.
Zev. Dickson and daughters,
Linda and Jimmie Rhea, Of
Wilkesboro, spent Sunday in the
community.
Mr.. Dan Brooks and his son,
Burl, and his family spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
BleVins.
Mrs. Keith Roberts and Mrs.
Dunevant, of Johnson City, Tenn,
spent the week end with their
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Jones, of Grassy Creek,
Route 2, N. G.
Sergeant Charles E. Pratt,
an architect from Concord, N. c.,
is constructing a building for Mr..
j. R. Phipps.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
OIL BOOM is STARTED
IN LEE COUNTY, VA.

Ewing, Va.-A dozen oil wells
in operation, plus another dozen
in various stages of drilling, are
bringing an unprecedented boom
to parts of Lee county, Virginia's
first oil field.
Oil and gas rights to an esti-
mated $4,000 acres of land, run
ming down the Powell River val
ley across the Tennessee line,
have been leased by half a dozen
companies, spectators, and in
dependent drillers.
Operators of the existing wells
have offered no figures on pro-
duction, but local businessmen
and property owners who have
watched the drillings and pump
ing operations estimated that the
daily output is about 400 bar
rels.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
FRANCE AGREES TO A
NEW COAL ALLOTMENT

Moscow-An authoritative in
formant disclosed that behind
the-scenes negotiations had re-
suited in an agreement with
France on German coal allot-
ments, thus removing one of the
chief stumbling blocks at the
Foreign Ministers Conference.
This development came as the
ministers prepared today to take
up the American proposal for a
40-year four-poWer pact against
Germany. Most delegates agreed
that this represented climax in
the Moscow meeting.
Early in the conference, French
Foreign Minister Georges BIZ
dault declared that France was
not willing to agree on economic
unity of Germany until she was
assured of sufficient coal.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
Baptist Hour To
Be Heard Sunday

Dr.. c. E. Matthews will speak
Sunday at $50 a. m. on the Bap-
fist hour heard over stations
WING. WSOC, WPTF and
WSJS. His topic will be Gods
Universal Indictment"
Dr.. Matthews, now secretary of
evangelism of the Baptist Home
Mission Board, was for "a years
the pastor of the Travis Avenue
Baptist church of Fort WORTH
Texas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
NEAL TO ATTEND
CONVENTION IN CUBA

Raleigh. - Joe Neal, of
West jefferson, North Carolina,
will be among the top producers
Of the Occidental Life Insurance
company in attendance at the
company's annual convention in
Havana. Cuba, this week" stat
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17

Cd w. H. Trentman, executive
vice-president. here today. The
Havana convention of the top
producers of the company coin
cides with the formal opening of
the company's branch office in
Cuba.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17
Anniversary OF Roosevelt's
Death Observed On Saturday

Hyde Park, N. Y.-The second
anniversary of the death OF
Franklin D. Roosevelt was OBJ
served Saturday in ceremonies at
the ancestral Roosevelt home
here, with President Truman par
ticipating by radio from Kansas
City.
Speaking to the nation, as well
as the assemblage here, by ra-
dio (NBC, ABS, MBS), Mr.. Tru-
man said that uppermost in his
mind in remembering his prede-
cessor was that he brought hope
and courage to despairing hearts
when fear was destroying the
faith of the people, and that
through the most terrible war in
history he remained the symbol
of fortitude, justice and human
ity."
Participating in the broadcast
from Hyde Park were Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and former
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., lifelong friend
and neighbor of the late Presi-
dent.
Morgenthau, president of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial
Foundation, announced that as a
living memorial' the foundation
planned the establishment of a
system of international scholar
ships.
There Is Greater MemOriaP
Mr.. Truman recalled that q
year ago he visited the white
marble tomb Of the late Presl-
dent at Hyde Park and said that
there is another and greater me-
mortal to Franklin DelanO Roose-
welt which tells fuller story.
II have seen it in the eyes and
I have heard it in the words and
have read it in the hearts Of
men and women all over the
country. It is the natural human
response of people everywhere to
something in the character and
personality of Franklin ROOse-
Welt II is a response to his IN
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-04-17

Forty-nine Swain County farm
people recently ordered $500
strawberry plants of the Massey
variety.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

Baker, Mrs. John Holt Merchant
Mrs. Sedrick Saunders, Mrs. Edgar
e. Rohr, Mrs. Clark johnson, Mrs
John Beard. Mrs. Stewart McBryde,
jr.; Mrs. w. Hill Brown, jr.; Mrs.
r. Jackson Ratcliffe, Mrs. Eldon
Christopher, Mrs. Alan Mackenzie
Of Washington, Mrs. Lyle s. Rohr
Of Front Royal and Miss Jane Rey-
nolds OF Orange.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar G. Parrish
have returned from a trip to Rich
mond.
Mrs. Ashby White and her infant
son, Howard Lynn White, who was
born February 9 at the University
Hospital in Charlottesville, have re-
turned to their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Hurst are back
from stay Of several weeks in
Florida.
Mrs. Claude Cushing was hostess
at dinner party Monday.
Mrs. E. H. Hibbs is spending few
days in Fredericksburg.
Miss Jane Reynolds of Orange is
visiting her brother r-in-law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart McBryde,
jr., over the week end.