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Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12


Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow Webb
were Thursday evening guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Donovan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rust were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Rust.
Jimmy and Shirley Mitchell
spent Friday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Donovan.
Little Leroy Rust has returned
home after undergoing an opera
ton in a Baltimore hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Burton were
Thursday evening guests of Mr..
and Mrs. George Forst.
There are about III million acres
of land in Texas.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12

Todt (Iron) Hill, 400 feet in ele-
vation, on Staten Island, New York,
is the highest point of the Atlantic
seacoast south of Maine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09

in mind, it is obviously important for
our security, and the security OF other
peace-loving nations, that this country
continue it's manufacture of atomic
bombs until such time as all nations
outlaw their use in war, as was done
with poison gas.
So long as the United States has a
large supply of atomic bombs there is
little chance. that any nation would
start an atomic war. Certainly the
United States never would do so.
Save in rare cases poison gas was
not employed in World War II for The
very good reason that the Axis well
knew we were prepared to wage
chemical warfare on a vaster scale
than it could match. By the same
token no major power would dare launch
an atomic attack while we were prepar-
ed to counter with a worse and more de-
structive campaign than it could
wage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Ammonium Nitrate

Las week Fire Commissioner Frank
Ouavle ordered. two freighters loadeo
with ammonium nitrate to leave the
Port of New York. This drastic action
was editorially approved by the New
York Times as a proper and Justltl-
able precaution."
It was ammonium nitrate that caus-
ed the Texas City disaster IN which
more than four hundred lives were lost.
Explosions on a nitrate-laden ship at
Rrest. France later caused the death OF
eight persons and injuries to more than
a hundred.
Ammonium nitrate has become a
source of alarm in all American ports
since these tragic blasts. There was
thought that it would be advisable to
prevent its admission to this port until
it was learned that none arrives by
water.
Competition for it is keen. Fertilizer
manufacturers are able to secure very
little of it. What they do get is trans
ported by train. This is the word of fer
tilizer men in the Wilmington district.
Whatever fear may have been felt
is thus removed. But it might be well
to safeguard the city against future
deliveries of this highly explosive ma
terial if a rule against it's entering the
port were established now, in case
larger supplies should become avail
able later on.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Editorial Comment
No SYNTHETIC RUBBER NRA

War-developed synthetic rubber capacity in
the United States must somehow be main
tanned. The synthetic plants are insurance
agains. future extortion by the natural rub
Der cartel. They are insurance against a sec
ond hostile cutting Of the supply lines which
might, as the first Pearl Harbor came so
near to doing, ruin us. The Army and Navy
Munitions Board is faithful to this security
consideration. but the means IT has proposed
are beyond the pale.
The board is sponsoring a bill to sell the
plants to private operators. To keep them in
operation in spite of the higher cost, the bill
also orders the industry to use at least one
third synthetic in its major products, although
synthetic rubber now costs four cents a pound
more than natural.
AT this the industry oalks, ealing it IAN
other NRA.', The industry is right. Such gov
.rnmental dictation Of product standards is
OF doubtful constitutionality and ba1 social
| policy.-st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
BY T EDISON

WASHINGTON, - Some time
next fall, the Department of Agrl-
culture hopes to present the House
Committee on Agriculture with its
recommendations for a brand-new,
long-range U. S. farm program.
Several months of hearings be-
fore this committee during the
last Congress brought out a lot Of
words on what U. S. farm prob
lens are. But they produced no
answers.
Chairman Clifford R. Hope OF
Kansas was frankly a little disap-
pointed that pressure of other leg
islative business kept his commit
tee from getting more done. IT
heard only from the farm organl-
cations and pressure groups. To
supplement the testimony Of these
lobbyists, a special subcommittee
under Charles B. Hoeven, of Iowa
will tour the country during the
congressional recess. Six weeks OF
hearings will be held in six re-
gions-New England, the South,
Midwest, Southwest, Pacific Coast
and Rocky Mountains. They viii
return to Washington for further
hearings in the fall.
In reviewing the evidence col
lected thus far, Hope says that
everyone is strong for soil conser-
vation and thinks the federal gov
eminent should do more to aid
farmers.
Without having any very definite
ideas, a majority would. like to
have the party formula revised.
One idea is to include labor costs,
but not on the old Pace amend
ment formula. This Grange has an
idea for a moving five-year index
that would automatically Adjust it
self to changing conditions. This
would not be a fixed, five year
plan. but a flexible program that
would not freeze production Of
crops that aren't needed.
There is some sentiment for TAX
ing the payment of farm benefits
out of the hands of the federal
government and giving it to the
states. Handling it on a matching
funds, grant-in-aid basis has been
suggested. This is in line with cur
rent Republican trends to decen-
%tralize administration of many
federal activities. as in the pro-
posed bills to aid education and
health, up next session.
The school lunch program and
Vermont Sen. George Aiken's plan
to revive the food stamp plan for
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09

endorsement by President Truman to
the extent Of affixing his signature
to the resolution. He pointed the dan
ger out when he issued a statement
criticizing the measure. It undoubtedly
will tend to increase the inflationary
spiral.
People who, know they cannot af-
ford some of the fine things now COM
ing into the market, but crave them as
a child Graves candy, will not resist
the temptation to buy on this easy pay
ment plan. This is the more likely be-
cause of the free spending habit con-
tracted during the wal years when it
was a case of easy come. easy go.
The money flowed in freely, and
flowed out for the most part just as
freely. And anybody who has once con-
tracted the habit of spending all he
or she makes as regularly as wages are
paid, cannot become savers any more
readily than a drunkard can stop drink
ing without a struggle,
There is plenty of reason to doubt
that Congress acted wisely in removing
these controls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Installment Buying

By signing a joint resolution of both
houses Of Congress lifting controls
from installment buying on November
/ next, President Truman has taken a
step to return mercL andising to it's
pre-war status, often miscalIed the easy
payment plan. When the present res
traints are lifted you may purchase
about anything you covet by making a
small down payment and mortgaging
YOUR earnings for a considerable time
to come.
The trouble with the easy payment
plan is that while the first payment
does actually seem easy you have to
sweat through many a long month
thereafter to raise or save the money
for subsequent payments, and when you
have finally laid the last dollar on the
line whatever it a you bought is
usually worn out and you have to start
all over again to replace it - unless
in the mean time, you have learned
that there is nothing easy about the
system and swear off. >
There is one economic danger ir
the action taken by Congress and its
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
BY G w. BABSON

mony' in this country, Charles
Luckman, points out that lowered
standards of living in today's Eu-
rope are clearly related to low
cred production on the part of in
dividual workers. The volume and
quality of production is an excel
lent barometer of a nations
strength. The standard of living is
not rising in this country if we
are to judge by the kind of product
and service the public is getting
today. Do we want our nation to
fall on the merits CT our present
restricted or declining Industrial
performance?
During the war housewives be-
came patient and fatalistic about
over parts that buckled under
heat and vitreous china sinks
which cracked so easily. They be-
lieved it would be different When
good materials were not all going
to war, when things got back to
normal. The American housewife,
who incidentally does over Is per
cent of the commodity buying in
the U. S., is now asking, Twill
things ever get back to normal::'
We still have to ask, "Will you
please clean the Windsnield?" The
delivery boy still loves to leave
the packages at the front door in
stead of the back. Often he will
leave them three flights down
stairs in the apartment house. The
third call to a reputable laundry
at last brings some action on
shirts misplaced by the laundry
three months before. An cleo
trician starts a small job: then
says he is so busy he must leave
it for a week. 1t takes him six
weeks to get back. No other cleo
trician, of course, will take on a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Democracy ussianStyl
An Editorial from the New York Times

From time 10 time we still hear,
from the dwindling company OF
fellow-travelers, that while com.
mun;sm is e. bit different from
our Western-s;yle democracy, we
would find that it is really a very
democratic system if we would
only take the trouble to under
stand it. The latest opportunity
to understand it is provided by
what is happening in Rumania.
Inc present government of Ru.
mania was established last No
vember in an election character.
lied by the Foreign Office of a
left-wing Labor Government in
Eng and as unfair and IRREGULAR
and by u own middle-of- the
road democratic Government as
marked by manipulation" and
Terrorism" AS a result of ter.
ror.sm and manipulation. the
Peasant party. which on the testi.
mony OF competent and disinter.
esteo foreign observers has long
represented large majority O.
the Rumanian people. found itself
IN possession Of fewer chan one.
tenth OF the seats in the new
Parliament.
But this was only the begin.
ming. The government created nv
this fraudulent election. held I'M
der the protecting bayonets of a
Russian army Of occupation. next
proceeded to suppress the news
papers of the majority party.
which 1t had defeated" at tho
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
The Customers Rights

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Aug. g.
For months we have been hearing
of nothing but management S
rights and labor's rights. The
rights Of another group have often
been forgotten in quarrels between
management and labor - those of
the general public.
1t is about time that all groups
begin to think in terms of national
well-being. Today, we are faced
with a great debt from pre-war,
war. and postwar spending. We
are carrying a heavy tax burden.
We are trying to help most of
the war-torn countries of the
world back onto their feet. This
cannot be done without the kind
of shoulder-to-shoulder effort and
capacity for work for which Amer
leans used to be famous and of
which America used to be proud.
Since the late tWenties we have
seen our economic structure grad
ually weakened. Business oppor-
tunities have been restricted; in
centive to make a million Gan
American slogan of my YOUTH or
even a tiny portion thereof has
been destroyed. We are warned by
many responsible thinkers that it
would not be too hard for us to
slide into Britain's kind of poor
financial position. This is not pes
simism. We must face the eco
nomic as well as the political
truth of u day If we are to
remain a free people in every
sense of the word. Is the Euro
pean or even Briton free-whose
standard of living is dropping so
low that a pair of stockings or a
can of corn is unexpected luxury?
An of industrial har-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
The Opening Gun

President Truman sounded what
could prove the opening gun in his
1913 campaign at his press conference
on Thursday. He told the reporters thai
he is unable to find any ground fol
the claim that Congress effected econ
omies to the amount set forth by re.
publican leaders and took a firm
stand" as the Associated Press re.
ports, against the Savings" alleged
to have been made in the 1913 budget
until all the facts are in"
The republicans have claimed cuts
in the Presidents budget requests
and from other sources totaling $780,.
900, 600. Mr.. Truman could not see il
that way. He pointed out some "shifts
ard changes" by Congress, but added
that a more important fact is that
none of the predictions l have seen
properly related congressional changes
in appropriations to estimated expendi-
lures for 1948."
Be this as it may, the people of the
United States are chiefly concerned
today with unfulfilled pledges of the
republican majority in Congress and
the political capital these failures will
provide for Mr.. Truman's use in the
campaign next year, if he is the demo-
cratic candidate for president, which
he apparently will be.
Mr.. Truman is making a detailed
and exhaustive study" of the congress
sional record and promises to have
more to say about it later. That there
is plenty to be said goes without say
ing. The opening session of the 80th.
Congress laid itself wide open to criti-
cism, and if President Truman has as
tute advice he will not lack opportunity
to exploit it's deficiencies when he goes
into action.
To be sure, Mr.. Truman has made
mistakes too. There have been errors
at the White House as well as on Cap
itol Hill. But in view of the fact that
he is again rising on a wave of popu-
larity, according to the latest charts
on public opinion, it would appear that
the people are less oppressed in mind
by bis failures than by those of Con-
gress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Just In Fun
Noble Ancestor

A recent story in The Wall Street
Journal on the tuna fishing boats
operating out Of San Diego remind
ed a reader, Sidney R. Kennedy, OF
a visit he once made to the office
of an insurance man in that city.
He says:
Sitting in the office was a hand
some youngish. dark-skinned mar
who manifestly followed the sea.
He spoke little English and l was
told he vas Portuguese. I learned
that he was the captain and prin-
cipal owner of an excellent tuna
boat, and it was natural for him
to be engaged in maritime work,
as he was a lineal descendant OF
Amerigo Vespucci,, the great mari
time discoverer, who lived from
1851 10 1912, and after whom
America was named."-Wall Street
Journal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Farm Policy Politics

aid to families with incomes under
$40 a week are both supported by
many farm organizations. They
view such plans as a solution for
possible Farm suplus problems.
Nobody seems to have any yen
TO bring back production controls.
Everybody wants full production,
with guaranteed markets. They
don't want the bottom to fall out
as it did in 1880. A few people
want all government controls and
support removed for a return to
an absolutely free farm economy.
There is no agreement on what
the new farm price support pro-
gram should be. Some want FULL
100 per cent parity price support.
Others think 80 is high enough.
Still others think both figures to
high. They believe that to freeze
support prices at too high levels
encourages overproduction. They
believe price supports should not
make farmers plant crops for
which there is no market de-
mand. But they do want supports
to provide a floor under prices.
to guarantee farmers their costs
of production. =
This issue is only n o. the DO
litical fights that lie ahead of the
farm program. Southern Demo
Gratis with cotton interests at heart
are getting more high-tariff mind
ed all the time. They are turning
away from the Democratic low.
tariff reciprocal trade program.
On the other hand. the wheat
bloc, which is normally Republi-
can and high-tariff minded, has
also shifted. Because wheat far.
mers must have export markets
for bumper crops, they have come
TO realize there must be imports
to pay for those exports. Therefore
they want freer trade and lower
tariffs.
There are q members of the
House Agriculture Committee. and
there are probably q ideas on this
whole range of subjects. Yet tnis
is the group which next year must
write Americas new farm pro.
gram. Obviously, they'll have to
compromise.
L prices stay high. there will
be a great temptation to do moth.
ing. Also, the politicians will be
inclined not to stir up c%ontrover.
sial farm issues in an election
year. It's an American tradition.
OF course, to do nothing until you
get in trouble.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09

competitors job in the meantime.
Buttons come off dresses and
shirts the first time they are worn.
Seams split in two or three places
almost Immediately. Many belts
won't wash or dry clean. How
many new cars run as well as
ten-year-old ones? The war has
been over several years, but hotel
bathrooms are not shining yet.
Management and labor are both
to blame when between them they
cannot manage to put out more
products or services that are of
high quality. Let US 60 back to
giving the customer his rights.
Mediocre effort put forth enough
times each day by enough people
can turn us into a mediocre ma
ton. 1t is self-delusion for any
man to think that he will earn
a better living by supporting any
politician or labor leader. Only
good quality products and services
can protect jobs and the future.
The hope of every reader of this
column lies not in getting higher
wages for his weeks work, but
rather in getting more food, cloth
ing and shelter therefor. The an
swer lies within each of US. Each
one OF us is a worker. no matter
how designated, who should work
by high personal standards. We
all must make better good and
more Of them each week. Only
then are there more to divide
amongst us all so that we all will
get more in food, clothing and
shelter for our weeks work.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
The Atomic Age

The world is rapidly moving toward
the atomic age. What this portends
can only be guessed, and some of the
guessing is distressing. Are we doing
the right thing in employing a cosmic
force, whether for the purposes of
peace Or war, or are we heading to-
ward destruction? The question is dis
turbing many and no one has found the
answer.
Noting that a dozen nations are
pressing forward with atomic re-
search" William H. Stringer, writing
in the Christian Science Monitor notes:
60. the United States to date has
spent more than $4,000, 900, 900 and cur
rently employs over 41,000 persons on
its atomic program. The British Com
monWealth of Nations is engaged CO.
-operatively in atomic research, center
ing it's experimentation at Harwell,
England; at the Canadian uranium pile
operating at Chalk River, Ontario; at
a larger p%lutonium pile to be construct
ed in northern England, and in Aus
tralia.
France has it's atomic village of
experimental works under Prof. Fred
eric Poliot-Curie. Denmark is at work
under Prof. Nils Bohr, who assisted the
American wartime program. And Rus
STA - who shall say exactly what Rus
STA may be doing"
Knowing Russia's militant attitude
in general and specifically Russia's ex-
pansionist program, it is difficult to
believe that her atomic research is not
directed toward war. But for this it
would be possible to believe the world
ready and willing to convert nuclea1
power into peacetime utilization. At the
same time, and with Russia's program
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09

polls, and to arrest mar.[ o.
members. On March "a ne 10.
er of the Peasant party to7s
with the leaders of the Ll0s
and the Independent Socidl D T.r.
Gratis. protested to the BIZ o.;
Council of Foreign N A-s', =!
against these arrests. o. APP" =, -
the arrests and the terrorism
creasing, a new protest vas nSo -.
On May 9 a memorandum ~ ~.
half OF the three ~persecute9r . pss
ties was given to the United &c. 2,...
diplomatic representative II ID
Arrest, appealing for Ameri'aD a. a,
in restoring some semolaaTs ri.
freedom in Rumania. To al +.
the stock reply of the Comma IA;
dominated regime in pow. o-aI
been that it's peasant ana H 3
opponents have engaged "
Fascist" conspiracy. me
Now. in a final unfolalh2 o. ated
story, the Communist : DONNIE .5e
regime has simply dissoI'e' he
Peasant party altogether On IA.
convenient ground that ~ al.
"~conspired with foreign my nj.
istic interests to impair the oor.
ereignty of the state" AS w. yes:
respondent on the scene oosead't to
This is a legal sep des'gIia r.
deprive the overwhelming led
ity of Rumanians of any ols NE
political means Of Opposing me
Government" In BuchareS q.
blessings o. "neW-style oeI'
cy" are complete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09

WANT TO BE SMART

1t seems that the Other d..
grown man was blowing ont NJ.
BILE gum bubbles just as ousjIv =,
any kid and twice as seriously. =.
kept at it until a grow mem5.'
OF his audience couldn't stard :.
any longer, and asked, What =,
earth do you think you are DOM
This is a new kind Of bn65Y.
gum, it sharpens your mind ,a
sWered the chewer. The ma,.
you chew it, the smarter you 80.
In a few minutes, now. a lot n
swell ideas will come to me-
"You think l believe a GRAVY
story like that" replied the m.,.
toner. Whats in it, anyhow. Som,
kind of dope?"
II dunno" said the chew,
again, but this gum has bes,
worth fifty bucks to me a'resdy
Fifty bucks! Say gi'me
stick"
mo gimme. For ten buck, III
sell you a stick"
"We-ell OK" The buyer starte,
chewing and blowing industr,
ously. Several minutes pass but
he doesn't feel any unusual sen,
sation.
Funny" he says. u don't teg
any different, and yel you say
you get smart from chewing
BY gollies, l think you're trying 10
pull a joke on me-"
See? What did l tell you!
You're getting smart already
Moral: the smart ones look.l
for suckers can always figure l5
a new angle for an old gyp gan.
-Goldsboro NeWs-ArgnS,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
WRITE YOUR OWN RULES

Fire, the servant, is also the Tn.
hidden companion. In the remain
ing summer months thousands q
vacationists will Wis the forests
Of Western North Carolina, Let
them write their own rules Of con-
duct from these simple but shock
ing facts reported by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture:
In the first six months Of hi
year 4,474 fires occurred on Ma
tional Forest Or adjacent lane.
Of these fires, $40 were caused
by lightning.
All of the rests, 955-were nan.
caused.
The estimated cost of quencr
ing these fires was 81 million, The
cost of timber burned, properly
damaged and vacation lands spct'
ed cannot be estimated.-Asaey.,
Citizen
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-09
Star

State ports with Wilmington favored
=, nronortjon With its resources, TO IN
chude public terminals. tobacco storage
warehouses. ship repair faclll'les' neal
by sites for heavy industry ana ''io
Cape Fear river channel
CITY auditorium large enough 10 meel
needs for years to come.
development Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re.
sources through better markets and 1000
processing. pup wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreatlon
ADVANTAGE. and improvement OF resort
accommodations.
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Cardinals farm-to-market and primary
dads. with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the Clfys IN
dustrial Agency to attract more IN
proper utilization OF Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service
DEVELOPMENT OF Southeastern Norm
Cardinals health facilities, especially IN
counties lacking hospitals. and lncluo
ing a Negro Health center.
announcement of the growth OF com
~r,ercial fishing,
Consolidation OF City ana County gov
ernments.
GOOD MORNING
To whom can riches give repate' or
trus., content, or pleasure, but the GOOD