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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
Japanese Reparations

That the original Japanese repara-
tons program has begged down is in
dicated by the decision to send possibly
as many as twenty-five American con-
sulting engineers to Tokyo to check
%reparations equipment and make such
recommendations as the group con.
cludes will better meet conditions and
needs as they exist today.
As first planned the occupation au
thorltles set a time schedule of one
year - June 1916 to June 1947 - for
japanese plants earmarked for repara-
tons to be shut down. Although the
year has passed the program has not
been put into effect, for what reason
is not clear.
In the meantime Japanese business
men have been allocating the bulk Of
their raw materials to Preparations
plants, and have cornered a large share
of American procurement contracts fol
these plants. Perhaps this astute move
has had as much to do with deferment
of the dismantling and removal OF rep.
arations factories as anything else
However this may be, the fact remains
that the reparations pragram is stale
mated, and plants not on the repara'
tons list have had to shut down because
thew could not get raw material alloca
tons from the Japanese government.
Now we are sending engineers tt
look the situation over and determine
what can be done to implement repara'
tjons payments on a different basis
The prevailing thought, apparently, il
that instead Of removing industrial
plants, reservations should be collects'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
Star Program

sts+. norts with Wilmington favored
IN proportion with its resources
cI,de public terminals. tobacco s'osas'
warehouses. ship repair faeilltles' near.
nv sites for heavy industry ana S'o0'
Can. Fea- river channel.
CITY auditorium large enough 70 meet
needs for year. to come.
Development Of Southeastern Norm
Carolina agricultural and inoustflal re,
Io1rces through better markets inc 1000
processing, pulp wood production ana
factories. .
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantage. ana Improvement OF resort
accommodations.
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Cardinals farnn-to-market and primary
-oads. with 4 paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the Clty's IN
dustrial Agency to attract more IN
dustries.
proper utilization Of Bluethenthal air
mort for expanding air service
development Of Southeastern norm
Cardinals health facilities, especlally IN
counties lacking hospitals. and lac4uo'
;ng = Negro Health center.
ENCOURAGEMENT Of the growth OF COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and County gov
srrments.
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The Problem Is Here"

been under discussion for some
weeks among Marsnall's staff. 1t
is even possible that Marshall
may speak before going to Rio.
Whatever may be the chosen tim
ing, it already is fairly apparent
what Marshall must say. First,
this country cannot afford to carry
the relief burden of a world on
the verge Of starvation. Second,
this country is equally unable to
afford the certain cost of sustain
ing its prosperity and assuring it's
defense in a world which has
plunged into ultimate chaos.
Therefore. sound business dictates
American support for genuine.
b~usinesslike, cooperative, and
above all, permanent European
reconstruction.
The British and European ma
tons must join to help one an
other, with American aid to under
write their deficits. This is the
cheapest way out, and soundest.
II Marshall says this plainly to
the country, and adds that the
Administration means to offer a
program for the purpose to the
next Congress. what is happening
here and abroad will become un-
derstandable to everyone.
If Marshall says this. moreover.
it will be n more instance of
the equal collaboration between
such wise Republicans as Vanden-
berg, and such Administration
leaders Is Marshall. The Republi-
can isolationists are now trying 10
pretend that this equal colIabora-
ton does not exist. 1t is being
whispered that Vandenberg is a
rubber stamp. In a recent sarill
little speech, approved by the fat
uous Brazilla Carroll Recess Re-
publican National Committee,
Rep. Charles Halleck took this
line.
For Vandenberg. the facts an
sWer Halleck. Vandenberg himself
suggested the Four-Power pact
against renewed German aggres-
sion, which is now the basis of
United States German policy. He
and John Foster Dulles were per-
sonally responsible for several of
the most significant provisions of
the United Nations charter. Van
denberg has direct responsibility
for recent Developments. in United
States policy in China and South
America. He struck the note of
resistance to Soviet aggression
before Secretary Byrnes. He
rescued the Greek-Turkey aid pro-
gram. almost single-handed. by
correcting President Truman's
previous neglect of the United Ma
tons. And it was he who demand
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can hardly pass without producing
a final agreement between the two
men on the really crucial point,
This is how to awaken the country
to the realities Of the world situa-
ton, and how thereafter to pre-.
sent the Marshall plan to the
country and the Congress.
As previously reported in this
space, it has been tentatively de.
cided to begin hearings on the
plan before the Senate Foreign
Relations and House Foreign AT
fairs Committees as soon as the
details Of the pan have beer
roughed in. This will be some time
in October. But Vandenberg is fur.
Their understood to consider il
unWise to call his committee into
session unless a much greater eff.
fort has first been made to inform
the country about the underlying
issues.
The first thing that is obviously
needed is a clear statement Of the
administrations purposes. Thus
far, the country has heard only
a kind Of general hint from Mar
shall at Harvard. The hint has
thrown all Europe into turmoil
and activity. Already. by respond
ing to the hint. the leaders Of the
western European democracies
have bravely bet their futures.
and perhaps even their personal
safeties upon Secretary Marshall.
Eut Marshall's hint was too un-
clear, too much aimed at Euro
pean ears, to be understood COM
pletely by the mass of people in
the United States. whose support
for Marshall is so essential.
The State Department is as
aware as V~ardenberg of the need
to elaborate upon Marshall's hint.
A major foreign policy speech has
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
Sea Trip Good
For Hay Fever
By WILLIAM A. O'Rp,rn

A,.La,., "oAhN, Nm
Although air-borne poller
commonest cause of bsy !. II.
any pollen can produce Isre;,
II present in sufficient cooe.ssccaoa
tlon' Rsgweed pollen is .,a'
responsible for the bsv '4lsfly
which starts in Angus lever
with the frost. ''1 md,
Main symptoms of hsy t.,.
cur in the eye, palate, my. s' Dc
throat: Itching, c~ongestio9 9Ss and
irritation of the eyes am .lsa'
ing are the chief connIsir s-se2'
though in a certain perez. a,
patents asthma is also prss Se q
Relief Of hay fever syr (sea''
can be obtained by gojng P,O1l'
part Of a country free fron+ 70 4
tending pollen. Even this ,r. .'s o.
bring complete freedom. i not
wind is blowing from the dir M
OF a heavy pollen TERRITORY 4 '.oa
voyage is the only wav of va
pletely escaping flying pollen l''''
Last year many patients VIII,
experienced trouble with Ia.s lla'
mer and fall. pollen stated ,s%,
desensltlzation treatments 49,.
the frost. Although it is po,~ s,
TO get some relief by begir.S4s
now, chances for success,
greater if the injections arc
mlnlstered over a longer ns. ~
II proper skin tests are nads Yu
II injections r given on schs5 III.
IN progressively larger doses t~o'
80 to IS per cent of hav fever vii
Tins will be free of all diffic' Gs,
during their hay fever spason
Stay-at-homes who failed to t.L.
their injections during he n ~.'
year may obtain relief of svm. nv
toms in IS per cent Of case, :.
taking either benadryI or NV "
benzamine. BenadryI should /.
used with care because il NV
also cause sleepiness and S,,nor
Housewives with hav feyer =,
avoid many symptoms by stayisr
indoors and keeping their win
dows shut and doors closed ~,
OF each day during the height 4,
their season. busting Should /,
avoided as dust may i~rritate 4,
nose and throat and make ar :.
tack worse. A trip to a movie
the theater washes and filters II.
air which goes through its air co,.
ditioning apparatus. is a sirr.
way OF escaping pollen,
QUESTION: My 1~4-year-old tr
has started to smoke. What ca,,
do to make him stop? VIII NJ
harm him.
ANSWER: Smoking a. "A i,,
sign of poor social adjustment II
man whom the boy admlGes cal
talk to him and get him 10 stop N
you can't.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
The Dutch-Indonesian Case

The Security Councils call upon
Dutch and Indonesian military force!
to suspend hostilities at once and abri'
trate their differences constitutes
test of the Councils power. It wa,
within its rights as defined by thu
United Nations Charter, but the &C
ton wal without precedent. The effect
Its demand will have on the Neither
lands and Indonesian governments vii
20 far to determine the future of the
United Nations OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
it will prove an effective force fol-
peace in international disputes or
gradually become impotent as the
League of Nations did.
Aside from this the vote of Council
members, or the failure of certain dele
gates to vote at all, points up the case
against the veto and the value of ma
jority decisions. When the ballot was
taken the representatives of Belgium,
England and France refrained from
voting. Britain explained its abstention
was not to be construed as a veto. M.
Parodi of France said he would have
preferred to oppose the proposal but
as his negative vote would have been
counted as a veto, he remained silent
rathr than kill the proposal.
How much more progress could have
been made toward world peace, how
much more efficient the United Ma
tons could have been in functioning
for restoration of the worlds economy,
# the Soviet Union had taken the same
view on major measures advanced by
other member nations, instead of in
voking the veto so often, can only be
surmised. But Russia is to be commend
ed for their broader understanding of
the veto power in this case.
1t is to be noted that the Council
set aside Hollands complaint that
Indonesia was not entitled to Council
recognition inasmuch as it is not an in
dependent country, at least from the
Dutch viewpoint. The decision is sig
nificant in that it carries out one of the
cardinal principles of the United Ma
tons, to wit, that the small and weak
peoples of the world should have UN
support.
The Councils resolution demands
that the Dutch and Indonesian troops
retire to their original positions as a
first step toward settlement of their
differences. Their quarrel could not
we'll be composed unless this is done. In
the interest of both governments it is
to be hoped the Councils demand is
met.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04

If North Carolina is in most
respects the most progressive
Southern state" as John Gunther
says in INSIDE U.S.A." how did
it get that way and what is it do
ing to preserve that reputation?
That its spiritual father was the
liberal philosopher John Locke,
one of the early exponents OF the
gentle art OF keeping the citizen
free by keeping the state divided,
is fortuitous. What is more peril
nent is that North Carolina from
the beginning to the present has
been nodded mainly by people Of
English, Scotch or ~so-called
Scotch-IriSh extraction who be-
lieved first and last in liberty un-
der the law, but liberty anyway.
A strong sense Of justice accom-
panied by a nagging conscience
has generally in the end forced
the average North Carolinian to
admit that a fair share Of that
liberty which he claims for him
self ought to 80 to the other fell
low too.
Thus liberalism flourished in
North Carolina before the people
had a word for it. The Regula-
tors got it by main force and
awkWardness into a nutshell when
they wrote: Though there is a
few men who have the gift or art
OF reasoning. vet every man has
a feeling and knows when he has
justice done him as well as the
most learned" 1t is what class
government and special privilege
always forget to their ultimate
destruction.
Perhaps the halcyon. days Of lib
eralism in North Carolina were
back in the time of Willie Jones
O. E- County and Nat Macon
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
BY Joseph and Stewart Alsop

WASHINGTON-The last of the
congressional grandees to leave
the Capitol was Sen, Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Michigan. He went
neither home to mend fences, nor
into the country to hunt delegates,
but merely to Atlantic City for a
Well-earned rest before the Pan
American conference at Rio De
Janeiro. His parting words, as re-
ported by those close to him, were
brief and to the point: The pro-
blem is here"
BY this the Senator meant that
against the dark, gigantic back
ground Of the world drama, the
Indifference still widely prevailing
in this country stands out in sharp
and very worrying relief. If tne
Senator himself is worried, it is
not surprising. For it is he who
must pilot through the next Con-
gress the Marshall plan - the
American sponsored program for
averting the onset Of chaos-for
which the Congress is as yet I'M
prepared.
Under the circumstances, it is
reasonable to expect that the Rio
conference will be the scene of
developments in American foreign
policy embracing a much larger
scene than the Western Henri
sphere. Secretary of State George
c. Marshall, assistant Secretary
Norman Armour and Senator Van
denberg leave for Rio together in
less than a fortnight, and will be
there for two weeks, probably re-
turning on the battlestlip Missouri.
This will be the first opportunity
Marshall and Vandenberg have
had to work together continuously
and intimately owe a period Of
many davs SIlch an onnort11nity
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
BY T S

WASHINGTON - R e C G =. t an
nouncement that the U. = now has
over so million employed workers
brings back some funny memories.
l. recalls the days, two years ago,
when the full employment dea
was first being con. cred in Con-
eress. There was a lot of stuff
! flying around then about how silly
it was to expect that there would
ever be go million employed in
this country.
There is of course only one right
way to deal with economic pre-
dictions. That is to file EN- away
and forget 'em. Then, a couple
of years later, dig EN- out and see
how wrong they yer
Anyone who will take the trouble
to dig back in the morgue on the
60-million-jobs subject should profit
b the experience. For a lot OF
predictions of boom and bust are
being made today. Properly ap-
praised they are all guesses. No
body knows what's going to hap
pen in the future as the following
old testimony by experts should
prove:
The origin of the mystical 60
million number a. be traced
back to S. Morris Livingston, chief
of the National Economics unit In
the Department of Commerce. In
1943 he estimated that after the
war there would be between SO
and 60 million people in the labor
force. He thought there might be
between two and three million UNI
employed from time to time. He
set 81 million as a goal for full
employment by 194S.
AS usual when people play the
numbers game, this figure got
rounded out to 60 million jobs. In
the 1914 campaign, President
Roosevelt promised 60 million
jobs, if reelected.
At first that was too much for
even Henry Wallace. who wired
F.D.R. Your goal Of 60 million
jobs is perhaps high, but I glory in
your daring" Henry thought Lily
ingston's 81 million va about
right. But later Wallace revised
the figure upward and wrote a
book "sixty Million Jobs" Every
body said he was crazy.
An economist named DR.. John
Lee Coulter, working for the Com
mittee of Americans, Inc, proved
automatically that go million
jobs was impossible. He took The
trends in population growth, mum
Der of women workers, increased
age expectancy increase In col
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
Sixty Million Jobs Balony

lege enrolment, subtracted a
couple million for the armed forces
and three million unemployed. He
came up with the prediction that
the labor supply in the postwar
year would be only SO million plus.
He said that would give us I'M
eXampled abundance.
The National Association OF
Manufacturers, which should know
about these things, said in Janu-
airy. 1915. that after the war pri-
vate business could furnish jobs
for only % million 'kers, plus
II million agricultural Workers.
total of SO million.
NAM experts said that if so mil.
lion were employed, the other y
million would have to be given
government jobs.
They said that unnamed govern
ment planners were actually figur-
ing on employing two million PEG.
pie on a federal housing program,
two milli,n on a youth program.
five million On a public roads pro-
| gram, nine million on a new wal
ley" plans like IVA, and four mil
lion on other government employ
ment.
In case you wish to compare this
prediction with the way it worked
out, As million are now employed
in private industry. In round num-
bers, agriculture is employing 10
million, the armed forces l.. mil
lion, the Federal government two
million, state and local govern
ments 81 million. and there are
c.5 million unemployed.
There is no youth program, no
road program, no valley program
and no housing program.
Citizens National Committee.
Inc. whose principal angel is John
W. Hanes, put out a pamphlet
against the idea of full. employ.
ment in 1915. Among other things.
ii said:
"Of course, it VIC " be possible
to PROVIDE eAtensiv oployment
if something akin to lime con-
ditions were perpetus by adop-
tien Of a totalitarian &c, ,my such
as exists in Russia or formerl. ex-
listed in Germany. It is diff
ficult, however, to conceive of how
full employment can be arrived
at short of such a step"
Well, full employment is here,
but is this a totalitarian govern
ment?
If there are any morals in this
flash-back, they are: 1. 1t doesn't
pay to be a prophet. :, Never sell
America short.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
Just In Fun
POETIC JUSTICE

A red-faced, exceedingly anry
gentleman entered the office d
the local street car company sni
seeking out the superintenden
shouted, Il have come here 10 ps
justice, sir, simple justice. Yei
terday as my wife was leayl,l
one of your cars she caught he
sleeve on a carelessly placed pro
lection and tore off a portion .
her sleeve
Il am sorry TO hear it, n
joined the superintendent, keep
ing cool and collected. What d
you expect us to do? Get her
new dress"
MOT on your t~in-type!' barks
the angry patron. Nothing
simple as that
He reached into his pocket Ar
brought out a small scrap Of silk
Laying it on the superintendent
desk, he made his demand.
"Justice-that's what ! war;
he cried. You just 60 out ait
match that piece of silk Wa
Street Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
O Is 9Th South
An Editorial from The Greensboro News

of Warren. In that simple ss' O.,
an economy their sole concern w
to keep the free man 1fee Nv :,
tie state, which meant ue ;,
gatherer. Outside of thai, al u
free Tar Heel had to do W. 4
keep out of bowling range
neighbor's dog. ..,s.
Liberalism had a hsccef wv 4,sr
pillow in the 1865. IAcn .rs-
were a lot of Negroes mo W.
not free and also q lot Of W.T. W..
men who were not free s,.rs
because they didn't own Nq ~.
and couldn't compete In az 4
nomic system with those %s os i
own them. A group Of po, =.
sprang up and attacked So i
at a time when it wss no. 4ss-
to do so, among
Daniel r. Goodloe, Benla5;!4r o- .
Hedrick, William Swain, eo!''t Hr
the Greensboro Patriot anaaaisr
ton R. Hepler, whose i'c5 vi
THE Impending CRISIS ,I-ca
made a felony to own OF
late. uei
Liberalism was pretty hi
burned up in the Civil W." sbs s:1
it arose phoenix-like from NV tx
es of Reconstruction in me- .;si 4
Walter Hines Page VINO # hi
shake off the dead lana waite,
past or men like Judge vain,
L.. Clark, who struggle%aa onopolf
the grasping hand OF nl0i Aycoc.
or men like Charles b al:
who fought against i%llltet tiIossophy
racial prejudice. Their pun beis
is contained in Aycoch. ~. II:
that every child must I . a
equal opportunity to des md il
the good there is in nm g.Tc'rocrs..:
fai;h TIT given the pow.
freejv ,~--n will act r1gHu''
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ed an American balance snss.
before he would considet the Va
shall plan. This is not ne FsVg ".
Of a rubber stamp, as the N
publican snipers hint, / * u
record of a man who has o0.'
is doing. and will continue +" y
a great and constructive JOB
Copyright, 1947. New YORK Hs-~
Tribune LIZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
COR HTMOR

Ny brother received : jef'N
today and it said: I understaHt
that you have been running aroUIi
with my wife. Please call at MY
office and we'll discuss this mat
ter. -,
What did your brother do
He answered it promptly. ~
said: Received your circular le'
ter and l shall be pleased 10 "
tend the meeting.-Stand By.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04

As a whole, women are e pernicious influ-
ence il politics. They are always house
clearing the same way as they do at home.
Pose Wilder Lane, novelist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04

A world parliament and world disarrna.
r.en+ would open the only path to permaneit
p~esce.-Robert M. Hutchins. chancellor at The
| Univ. Of Chicago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
GOOD MORNING

Jealousy rs The sister 81 love, a. the
.,;, i. the brother Of angels.-Boutfiers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-04
GOALS TO NEWCASTLE

Bubble gum is an aid IN deya,
oping childrens voices, accoro~i
to a Philadelphia school-teacAs
who thinks children's voices new
developing.
Evening star., 1947-11-12

left to right:
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black, beige, brown. Sizes 10 to
ROSENFELD FULLSKIRTED SHIRTWAsT DRESS, of Raylaine
(6096 woo pastel shades Sizes 10 to 18195
ROSENFELD SHANCLLA RAYON CREPE DRESS with graceful
unc bracelet sleeves In black red brown Sizes 1918 25
ROSENFED BAERNA DRESS melting pastel shades Jewel
necklne pepu cnchedn belt full full full skirt Sizes 10 to 49,
OF Raynne (6o% rayon-4096
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-27

ticians for the Democratic and
Republican parties in the flu
ture 10 select the best posi-
BILE candidates" not just
the most powerful and pliable
political hacks.
3. II would &orce divorce
judges TO interest themselves
more deeply in the social dis
locations caused by the mount
ing divorce rate which I'm the
past four years has made $4,000
children suffer from broken
homes"
4. 1t would save business
men the loss of assets in re-
ownership cases. by freeing the
courts from "scheming poll
ticians" who use pressure to
get valuable property at ridicu-
lousy low prices.
S. II would help labor. by
putting impartial. democratic
ally minded judges on the Su-
perior Court bench in place of
the nsistentlY anti-labor
judges now sitting there.
6. II would hit at restrictive
covenants. by placing such
cases in the hands of liberal
judges who could use their
power of equity against the
racisf pact.
eve can win all that"
Rosenberg says, "by winning in
November. We've got to win!"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-27

there led him to join with
other lawyers in taking the
lead to organize an opposition
ticket in the coming judicial
election.
JUDGES should be free
from political influence" he
maintains. when both parties
get together on one ticket, the
people have no choice in the
election.
Actually, tn e m a hine
judges are not elected-they
are appointed by the politi-
clans. If the people really
elected them, they might feel
more responsibility to the peo-
pie, instead of the politicians"
Rosenberg, one of the city's
leading Zionists, is known for
his interest in problems of civil
rights, restrictive covenants,
anti-labor injunctions, and
other vital issues.
HE FEELS that the election
of liberal jurists, such as those
on the Progressive Party slate,
would result in six achieve
ments toward greater democ-
racy:
l. If would end boss rule and
set up an Independent judici-
AIRY.
2. II would force the poll