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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Mr.. Pridgen Is Wrong

Mr.. Otto K. Pridgen jointly blames
the Star and the Junior Chamber of
Commerce for extending the city limits
and for increasing the tax rate. His
letter appears in another colummn on
this page.
Mr.. Pridgen is wrong in both cases.
The Star would like to take credit for
expanding Wilmington's boundaries,
which should have been done years be-
fore, and is sure the Jaycees would
like to share this credit. But the fact
is the voters in the old city and the
suburban areas proposed for annex
alton supported the movement in suf-
ficient numbers to win at the polls,
despite the opposition of Mr.. Pridgen
and others who sought to block it.
The Star and the Junior Chamber of
Commerce are proud that they backed
the proposal but it was the people who
carried it out.
Neither the Star nor the Junior
Chamber of Commerce had anything
to do with the increase in the, city tax
rate. The step was taken by the Coun-
Gil as the only means by which the city
could meet it's just obligations and
carry out it's pledges. The Star, and we
hope the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
accepts the Councils decision as
necessary in the interest of the city's
integrity and the city's progress.
We regret Mr.. Pridgen does not see
eye to eye with us, but he is we'll with
in his rights in the position he stead
fastly maintains against efforts to
send Wilmington ahead. Mr.. Pridgen
fails to differentiate between personal
gain and gains for the people of the
community.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Gen. James c.. Harbord
An Ed1torial From The New York Times

Ten years ago General Persh-
ing and General Harbord, even
tnen two aging men, stood togeth-
er once more on the immortal
1leld OF Belleau Wood and Cha
teau-Thierry. They looked again
across the slopes of the long
srave-dotted valley where Ameri.
can valor had flung back Luden-
oor11s veterans from the very
crest of victory. Their hearts
must have risen in the nemory
o. heroic work well done.
Inc tumultuous rush to victory
M tne last great war has some
what obscured the events of the
earlier conflict. But never in our
history was there a more stirring
pa,, o. oeelsive victory than that at
6eileau Wood and C.ateau-
~ erry. The Germans in their
,ast desperate offensive We're
Dieaklns the back of British and
french resistance. They were
plunglng straight on, threaten;no .
TO 10 split the Allied armies and nin
them against the sea. Once opra
,aey mad reached the banks of the
Marne, only thirty-seven miles
rom Paris. At this last noment
General Pershing, our Commend.
er IN Chief, threw in ou, best
available troops. General Harbord
v; was CHOSEN to lead them-the Ma
r,nes at Belleau Wood
'ooresches and vaux and e,e.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25

to do it's manifest duty which Judge
Sink knows about. Certainly he would
not have conducted his intensive fight
for so long time if he had no grounds
for his opposition to the grand jury
system.
What he has to say about grand
juries is not without application to
juries in general. All too often the peo-
pie find it impossible to square jury
verdicts with the testimony and a
judges instructions in summing up the
evidence. Too often, it would appear,
jurors base their verdicts on prejudices
or favoritism, in violation of the COM
mon law requirement that they have
neither while in the jury box.
It would be well if persons summon
ed for jury duty pondered the words
of former Chief Justice Harlan F.
Stone. Jury SERVICE" wrote Justice
Stone, "is one of the highest duties of
citizenship, for by it the citizen parti-
cipates in the administration of justice
between man and man and between
government and the Individual"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Russia's Potent Weapon

Delegates to the Security Confer
ence in San Francisco who opposed the
veto would have done the nations of
the world great and lasting service if
they had fought the proposal to the
bitter end. Having finally consented 20
it's inclusion in the United Nations
Charter they prepared the way for
Russia to impede the work of the
Security Council and dominate the
Councils most vital decisions respect
ing peace and postwar recovery.
Russia used the veto seven times
last week. In all Russia has blocked
the Councils essential decisions eight
e~n times. The tragic aspect Of this ia
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Star-News. 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 3o-1oo'
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
DEVELOPMENT OF Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re.
sources through better markets and 1000
processing. pulp wood production ana
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages ana improvement OF resort
accommoda
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Carolinas 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 Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
DEVELOPMENT Of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities. especially in
counties lacking hospitals. and includ'
ing a Negro Health center.
Encoura cement Of the growth Of COM
nerciai fishing.
Consolidation OF City and County gov
ernments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
It's Gymnodinium

Since Floridas Red Tide" first
buried beaches under millions of dead
fish scientists have sought the cause
in the hope that they might discover
means to prevent repetition. Research
has been going toward at the Univer-
sity of Miami, the Oceanographic Insti-
tute at Woods Hole, Mass, and the Uni
versity of CALIFORNIA; Institute of
Oceanography near San Diego.
So far the investigation has traced
the trouble to one-cell organism which
is not likely to find it's way into many
vocabularies because of it's unprounc-
ability. This little germ or whatever it
may be is known as gynnodiniunl. It is
redish. which accounts for calling its
presence "red tide"
When an air survey was made be-
tween Fort Myers and Tampa bay, it
was found to extend some sixty miles in
length and twenty-five in bredth. Be-
cause this mass has broken up into
small segments, with fewer signs of
dead fish, the "tide" is generally con-
sidered to be ebbing.
AS to the cause, the inquiry has
made small progress. The War Depart
ment is blamed by some Investigators
who claim that the dumping of mustard
gas is responsible. The department.
however, says no mustard gas has been
consigned to the sea since lS45-too
long ago to have caused the recent
epidemic. Thus the "red tide" continues
to be deep mystery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25

planners in the Kremlin believe
that the time is ripe.
At the other end of the pincers,
wiley old Ahmed Qavam, Premier
OF Iran, is under the tiercest pres
sure. Soviet Ambassador Sadji-
kov, who left in a huff some time
ago, is back. He has told Qavam
that the Soviet government will
hold him personally responsible
for Iranian acceptance of Soviet
terms for an oil contract in north
ern Iran.
At the same time Qavam is un-
der severe pressure from within
the Iranian parliament to resist
Sadjikov. There is no doubt that
the parliament will vote the Soviet
oil contract down. On purely COM
mercial grounds. this is quite I'M
derstandable. The proposed oil
contract is similar in terms to an
already existing Iranian Russian
contract for the exploitation of
1ranian fisheries. Ey means Of
this contract the Russians have so
arranged things that the Iranians
are obliged to pay them about
half million dollars a year for
the privilege Of allowing the Rus
slams to take away the Iranian
fish. But no one believes that the
Russian motives in regard to the
oil contract are purely commerce.
al. Last year the Soviets made
determined attempt TO capture the
lranian government, and failed.
They now, want a base, which the
oil contract would provide for
them, to try again.
When the 1ranian parliament re-
fuses to accept the Soviet con-
tract, violent Soviet reaction of
some sort is expected. The heat
will be turned full on. But the
heat already is full on in Greece.
Herschel Johnson's speech before
the Security Council last week.
which was reviewed at the highest
level in the State Department,
firmly committed the United
States not to abandon Greece. To
abandon Greece would mean a
catastrophe strategic defeat for
TINS county. That is why the
policy makers are not likely to
change taeir minds. And that is
why the next session of Congress
may be asked to approve the
sending of American troops to re-
place the British in Greece next
winter.
Copyright. 1947 N. Y.
Herald Tribune. Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
On The Right Path

The international Bank for Recon-
struction and Development, commonly
known as the World bank because it is
financed by forty-five nations, has just
made $40,000,000 loan to Denmark.
It will run twenty-five years and draw
interest at three and one-quarter per
cent. Because Denmark requires little
time to get her exports and imports in
to better balance, payments on the prin-
cipal will not start until 1853.
Two previous loans have been made
by the bank, one for $250,000,000 to
France in May and another to Holland
for $195, 100000 on August Z.
With only a lay understanding of
international finance, it is still reason
able, we believe, for world reconstruc-
tion to be financed by the bulk of the
worlds nations, rather than by the
United States alone, as so many govern
ments seem to believe should be done.
The United States is the largest con-
tributor to the World banks capital,
which is right as at the time the bank
was created the United States was bet
ter fixed than other nations to take on
the heaviest burden. But that fact it.
self should be sufficient to convince
countries in need of reconstruction that
the United States cannot be the worlds
good samaritan single handed without
jeopardizing it's power to give futher
aid in later possible emergencies.
The World bank was set up specific
ally for the purpose of aiding nations
hit hard by the war but capable of re-
establishing their economic security if
capital is placed at their disposal for
essential undertakings.
Here are three nations that have
found their way to it's doors. It would
be better if other nations travelled the
path to the bank instead of beating an
other path to the United States Treas
ury.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25

Then the secret pruning sessions
start.
Several of the agency's budget
officers gloomily predict that the
President has in mind cutting
down about 81 billion from this
year. 1t would mean about So
billion request from Congress,
apart from what might be done
with the Marshall plan. The vari-
Gus agency officials claim private
ly that they just don't know where
the cuts can be made. But then,
that's what they always say about
cuts.
If President Truman is success
full in handing a '49 budget to Con-
gress which is $33 billion, or any
where near it, where does that
leave Representative Taber and
the Republicans big economy
campaign issue?
With the Bureau of the Budgets
own report in it is now pretty
well established just how much
Representative Taber's efforts re-
duced spending. And many of his
committees exaggerations on
that score are pretty well spiked.
If nothing else. Taber's determi-
nation to cut costs at all costs
has certainly spurred the execu-
tive branch to do some econo-
mizing. This is good But it dilutes
the credit to Taber.
The 80 so-called TBI - Taber
Bureau of Investigation - men,
whom Representative Taber hired
to find, the "fat" in government
budgets, discovered just what a
tough job this is. Some agency
officials grudgingly admit they
did fair job of finding what they
did find, and it is possible that
with their experience they will be
able to do a better job next time.
But next year the federal spend
ing problems won't be much diff
ferent than they were this year.
And if the TB1-men only got mea-
ger results so far, the chances of
further reducing an already ex-
pertly-trimmed budget in the
coming year will be much worse.
And, finally, if by chance the
TB1-men do manage to find
places for cutting. screams that
essential services are being elimi-
mated will go up from the agencies
In twice as much volume this
year.
This is one political squeeze the
taxpayer can enjoy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25

ments of the Second Di'!S'0-
Chateau-Thierry. Ii was
kerque in reverse. TIE A.as:'Ss., a.,
fought furiously in the 2Pe" -,
out regard to losses. For :as' 1as'
days of carnage the dec.''o' .,-..
in doubt until the Germans With
ed toot-by-foot retrea" ..ae,.
two weeks we had them ~ u.'' ss
tered in the valley uaa,. .r,.,. rsr
slaughter of our guns ~ ~; ,.iu
er recovered their lost l','''. 1--we.
James Guthrie Haroo.u u,,astsL
met a situation he did no- tos+ .,,p d.
Pershing called him The oss, ooa,,rj,.
f;cer he ever knew, Jol1is n,ards, rd
ed him as an ab'er CONN.," ',, a.
than Ludendortf. But ne ~ day
ways good soldier from nriyats ,-
in 1889 he enlisted as d F.ucce:'
In business he was as sunny armr
full as he had been IN ,ns,.r,tioH ,ns
He joined the Radio lived i
Of America in 1923 ana ~ ot the
as president and chairn1ap, II, rs-.s'.
board through its period ..st y. It
est expansion. Until his .r' ,a ,xsc1'
tirement at 81 he was an 3..trs#
tive officer in dozen soo%
enterprises. He wrote '1l', =, Ea
and a prodieiou> null'U. rlth
cles. A forceful speaNs rs1,st
tart sense of humor ne csr ra'
ed a modest hero who "'
ed on past slorief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
The Heat Is On

WASHINGTON, A pincers move
ment initiated by the Soviet Union
is now in progress. One end Of the
pincers is closing in again on Iran.
The other is we'll into Greece. AS
result, there is serious specula-
ton that Congress may be asked,
perhaps in special session, to send
American troops TO Greece. Every
responsible official in Washington
is praying that no such decision
will be necessary. But the tempo
of the Soviet assault is such, that
the American policy makers may
be left with no alternative.
After high level conversations,
the hard-pressed British have
agreed to keep their few thousand
troops in Greece till the end of the
year. But the British have warned
that their troops will then proba-
bly, have to be withdrawn. The
United States may then have no
choice but to fill the vacuum.
Meanwhile a major assault has
been mounted in northern
Greece by Communist General
Markos, who announced in
broadcast from Yugoslavia the
formation of free Greek
government" What lends a SOM
Der significance to Markos' an
nouncement is the fact that the
Russians have withdrawn their
diplomatic representatives from
Athens. The Soviet embassy is
now in the hands of caretakers
and janitors. Yugoslavia has
obediently followed suit. MADAME
Tsakonovitch, wife of the Yugo-
slav attache, chose the occasion
to hurl insults at the "Monarcho-
Fascist Greeks from the airport.
What is feared, of course, is that
Russia and her three satellite
Sf,tec m Crooca'e portbor,, hor
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Letter Box
To the EDITOR:

To the Editor:
| ought to have more sens.
Es:s1 to write a letter to nswso,''' ,na
Editor, am not tollowi1r g''a
t. better judgment know H., my my
this morning you had such -. out
ly write up about Our ~g-,... ',,.''
'na' | Just must try to put t.n
Of my thoughts in words 10. az 'ss
they may be worth to You via, ID,
others. " AID
Yes we all have the tumnv ,,..
somenmes but this thing has ss.' ".
ten SO far out Of whack h., ,''s soS
come to the point am b,..'s .1as
an over. My head is acbj1a a' .-s .Il
feel sick on my stomasbs a,i,s an sad
l want to vomit. l think : '.A'
chl1s and fever. l did b,r. so
hard chill the other night figns,' s I
up what my future taxes ara u.;ns u
to be and wondering where 'ol.. ny
money was coming from ~ '-'
with while everything We bsya "A ~. :,
use as the essentials Of Ffs ~, i"
tlnues to go up by leaps ,,,
POUNDS. Its enough 10 make ras as
boiling hot and 60 a Iong .'l .'1
beyond the ordinary "gyipes. '''
So now after you have o.,
all in this mess and So dss. 90, "
debt that our childrens cbilSrsn
may hate US for what we left tb.~
to suffer and bear. you want a a.
to seek consolation with Jobs ro~'
forters the young men Of M tb.
Junior Chamber Of Cornmaro0' ,'
That's about the worst l have ava,
heard Of. 1t beats the bea...
Why do you think the people .nav,
forgotten who are 10 blame an,
Who must assume responsjb1nv
for the recent increase in cjtv t,v
rate and addition of another sot
job not needed in the Citv naN
You may think you are foolr,
them but they got your number
You wouldn't listen 70 us when ",
warned you about increasing II,
city limits and taking in NAV.
obligations than the citv cry
meet or afford, with the fur,
uncertain as to prices for ma.ers,
and labor. No you and the via
young men laughed US out Of r..
continued to agitate and fjnaly
got following sufficient 10 Al,
complish your purpose. Nov wha,
have we accomplished. How muci
better off are we. Well you heal
some people talking, but | hea
some too and it goes like the ai |
Bible story Of Dives and pr
Lazarus. among other thing
Abraham told old Dives who r. |
pented too late was Son Remen
ber." l think the people in p |
old city limits are beginning Il,
member. One time they forg |
to remember.
I agree with you completely, VI
do need a Wailing wall 10 shed tgt
tears and build our hopes al
promises for the future But CT |
forgive its not them wise yow
men they have about ruined us H
to now. What I think we ough' v
have real soon is a public NAV
meeting at the court house and
let we the people speak.
I don't care what you writ
about me this is all ! intend 70
write regardless how many ILL.,
truths you print.
Otto X. Pridsa
Wilmington, N. c.
Aug. %, 1947
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Penny Pinching
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON - A peculiar
race between President Truman
and Rep. John Taber, chairman
Of the House Appropriations Com
mittee, is, now under way, with
the President already about one
lap ahead.
The beauty OF this contest, no
matter who gets under the wire
first, is that the U. S. taxpayer
will be the real winner. The race
is to see who will get credit for
largest cutting Of the 1949 budget.
1t is the 1949 budget which will
be the real economy issue before
the public during the presidential
election Of 1948. All the arguing
and debating over the '48 budget
will mostly be forgotten in the
fight over the new one by that
time. The Presidents idea of
what it's going to cist to run the
government during Fiscal '49"
will be handed to the Both Con-
gress when it convenes for it's sec
ond regular session this coming
January. Then the fireworks start
in earnest.
President Truman, however, is
planning little surprise for the
boys. He has started by ;nstituting
a brand-new federal budgetary
procedure. In the past, the routine
has been for the agencies to start
preparing their estimates OF what
they will need for the next year,
as soon as the current years bud
get is settled. The only instruc-
tions they got from the Bureau of
the Budget were on the mechanics
Of preparing their estimates.
This year, however. the Bureau
Of the Budget, at the Presidents
request, has added to the mechan-
ical instructions a flat order that
no estimates can be more than
their present budgets. In h r
words, any savings that Congress
made in the cost of government
this year, plus the Presidents eco
Monies, are to be accepted as the
starting point for the Bureaus
pruning Of next years budget.
Agency officials aren't very
happy about this new arrange
ment. But they can't complain in
the open because, after all, you
don't argue with your boss in pub
lie and expect to keep your job.
Just how much the President and
the Budget officials will prune the
agency estimates remains to be
seen. The estimates for the 40
budget have to be in by Sept. IS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Sanitation
indispensable
By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M, D.

Many returning seryleemn
brought back amebic infection o.
the bowel and, as the disease Ha
prevalent throughout the county,
even before the war, it is nov @I
mated that nearly 10 per cent u
the population is affected
so-called "healtily" carriers az
the most important factors III
spreading amebic infection I'
widespread belief that ameoa ND!
live in the bowel without capSI, "
ulcers or that harmless sl9a. M
exists is without foundation on.
third of all patients who deVeps ,,s
amebic assesses of the INsl
have never bad bowel complains
The chief defense agalnSt aiI'
bic infection is good sanl'auO'
Modern purification of water s1g
plies and efficient sewage olSpos', p'.,
protect against infections "n.. ,
originate in the bowel. At the io.'
Worlds Fair in Chicago, 'Ae '1
lection was spread by the i'AI' ,
of the water and sewage SySte.'
in the hotels. and not the cale-'M
ness of food handlers. Those WIZ
handle and prepare our 1000 %.
prevent the spread Of ameo'c ~
lection by practicing proper Sd"
ta,ion.
The other means OF coHLoL.4.
the disease is TO treat all pa"J.4 5.,3
who have active infectioa-I'''.I,it, ",
ing carriers-since they Lean'
have the disease in mlld lO.'
When any variety Of the disease
discovered, drugs which des., ..
tho ameha sho1ld be given al on''
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
BY Joseph and Stewart Alsop

der will soon grant de facto recog-
nition to the Markos regime They
could then proceed, under the
color OF legality, to give Markos
open. all-out support.
If this happens, it will be the
elimination of a carefully planned
campaign. It is now known that
within the last few weeks the
three satellite leaders Yugosla-
Was Tito. Bulgaria Dimitrov
and Albania's Hocha not only
conferred among themselves, but
journeyed to Moscow. From the
Kremlin, they received their in
structions. Those instructions are
now being carreied out.
Nor were the instructions con-
fined to the three Balkan satel-
lites. Intelligence reports to the
American government from all
over Europe have relayed the in
formation that Communists are
being recruited for an ''interna-
tional brigade" to fight in Greece.
Other intelligence reports, based
on interviews with guerrillas cap
tured in the fighting few weeks
ago, bear this out. Before the
guerrillas were sent across the
Greek border they were told that
they were only the advance guard
and that they would be followed
by a powerful international force.
The brigade failed to materia-
lie. But meanwhile the intelli-
gence reports have continued, in
cluding names and identities of
those European Communists as
signed to the new force. The re-
ports have been trickling in from
many countries, but particularly
from France, Germany and Swe-
den. 1t requires no masterpiece of
deduction to guess that the bri-
gade is designed to bolster
Markos' free Greece" when the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25

FIRST Farmer: But. John. wnv
ala you give up nice clean dairy
farm to 60 into the skuok.raisin .
business?'
Second Farmer: "Well. I ,hought
maybe skunks would make the
government keep its nose out of
my business. Wall Street Jour.
nal,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
GOOD MORNING

One Of the hardest lessons we have to
learn in this life, and one that many per-
sons never learn, is to see the divine, the
celestial, the pure in the common, the
near At hand - to see that heaven lies
about us here In this world. - John Bur-
rouRhs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
An Idle Dram

Copyright. l947. N. Y.
Herald Tribune. Ine.