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affiliated institutions possessed capital re"
sources worth $233, ,063,835.
In politics Doctor Butler was republl-
can. He was the party's candidate for the
vice presidency on the ticket with VILLAIN
Howard Taft in 1912, when MIR. Taft fall
ed to be reelected. During the stormy
convention which finally awarded the pre-
sidential nomination to Warren G. Harding
Doctor Butler, as New York's "favorlte
son." received sixty-nine and one-half
votes He served as president of the Car
negie Endowment for World Peace for
twenty years, a position he resigned in
1945 only because of failing health. He had
implicit faith in the League of Nations and
the World Court as the instruments Tor
world peace. In 1881 he shared the Nobel
Peace Prize with Jane Adams. Even IN
his last years, after World War II, he used
his influence in an effort to establish inter-
national cooperation in the restoration OF
world peace.
Any fair estimate of his life must place
his achievements at Columbia side by side
with his accomplishments as political and
civic leader.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1947
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
- nronortion with it's resources, 10 IN
cl,,de 81 public terminals, tobacco stor-
ace warehouses, ship repair facll.les;
nearby sites for heavy industry anu
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
Citv auditorium large enough 70
meet needs for years to come.
development of Southeastern Notth
Carolina agricultural and indus'lia,
resources through better markets anu
food processing, pulp wood produc1ioh
T Eronhasis on the regions recrea.
+;on advantages and Improvement o'
resort accommodations. r.x
Improvement of Southeastern NORM
rorolina's farm-to-market and prl-
marv roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head Is
land. =,
dustries. a,.,.h,,
Proper utilization of Bluethenthai
airport for expanding air service
Development of Southeastern NORM
Cardinals health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and IN
Guiding Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth OF
Consolidation Of City and County
governments.
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The Marshall Plan
By STEWART ALSOP

with the foreign aspects Of the
program-the ALLEGATION and ad-
ministration of the dollars and
goods for the European countries.
The new agency would be button
ed into the rest of the government
by a complicated committee
system. One committee on which
the State Department would be
represented would be RESPONSE
BILE for co-ordinating the work of
the agency with American for
eign policy. Other committees
with representatives of the Com
merce Treasury and Agricul-
ture Departments would deal
with the impact of the program
on the domestic economy. The
idea of a board of directors to
work with the Administration
has been tentatively discarded
as unworkable.
The cumbersome committee
system envisaged in this plan
has in the past tended to bring
in its train a rich crop CT rows
and jurisdictional disputes and
an elephantine slowness of act
ion. The plan may be greatly
revised before it is submitted to
Congress. And under any cir
c11mstances CONGRESS is pretty
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The Wilmington News, in a re-
cent editorial, quoted a member
of North Carolina State Ports
Authority, after he had viewed
deep water terminal facilities in
Savannah and Charleston, as
saying:
"I had no idea they were so
far ahead of us in port develop
ment and utilization. :"
Undoubtedly, thousands OF
other North Carolinians would
comment likewise if they saw
what the other South Atlantic
ports have done.
There is an intense, highly
competitive race on for the wa
ter-borne commerce of this rich
section of the United States.
Those ports with modern facili-
ties, sound promotion and regu-
lar steamship service, are going
to get this traffic. Those who lag
behind will eventually drop out
of the competition. No matter
what they've done in the past,
today's accomplishments are
what count.
AS others forge ahead, they
give the citizens Of their states
the advantage of better rates,
provide additional employment,
bring in fresh dollars and, most
important of all, extend real
invitation to the establishment OF
heavy industry. AS an exam
pie of the latter, the port facili-
ties of Savannah were the de-
Gliding factor in location of
$11, 1000, 900 paper factory there:
The port is Wilmington's
greatest natural asset.
But if we delay much longer
in it's development, then Charles
ton, Norfolk and Savannah will
not only get the business right
fully belonging to us but will
keep it. Deep-water transporta-
ton is a conservative business
and once ties are made, they are
hard to break.
There is no doubt that inspect
ion of the modern and expand
ing facilities at Savannah and
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certain to treat it with scant re-
spect since Congress is clearly
determined to make up its own
mind on how the program is to
be administered.
More interesting than the Of
flcial Administration version of
how the foreign aid program is
to be organized is the fact that
the great majority of the tech
nicians who have been studying
the European needs have reach
ed much the same disturbing
conclusions. First they doubt
that the enormous job of trans
forming western Europe into a
going concern can be accom-
plished in short four years.
Some estimates of the time ac-
tually required are as high as
ten years. Second they are pri-
vately convinced that the official
figures for the overall amount
required - between sixteen and
twenty billion dollars-just will
not do the job. The statistics
seem to many of these techni-
clans to indicate that the cost
to this country of an economical
ly and politically healthy Europe
may come in tn e end to not
much less than thirty billion
dollars.
That is where the second great
issue which now confronts the
Congress the price issue bears
so heavily on the European re-
covery program. For the polltl-
cal pressure inherent in the
price issue is wholly in the dl-
rection of a sharp reduction IN
whatever sum the Administra-
ton asks for the European pro-
gram. And that pressure is very
great indeed. AS one of the Dem
ocratic party's shreWder panJan-
drums has rem arked "Polltlcs
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
The Tragic Traffic Situation

The Associated Press reports seven au-
ltombile accident deaths in North Carolina
over last weekend.
One of the mysteries Of this day and age
is the disregard of odinarily careful and
alert persons for the common rules
of safety when they are behind the steering
wheel Of motor vehicle. They will give
due consideration to the security Of others
and their own safety in their homes and
offices and factories, but as soon as they
put a foot on the starter of a car or truck
and bear down on the throttle they dlsobey
the very rules they are so careful to prac-
tce in all other circumstances.
i If there is any doubt of this it is set
aside by a statement from Col. l.. G. Ros-
ser, state commissioner Of motor vehicles,
in which he notes that since the first OF
the present year hundred fatal accidents
have been caused by driving on the wrong
side of the road Furthermore, Colonel
Rosser reports that "a per cent of all acci-
dents in the same period of time happened
on straight roads, and rs per cent of the
fatal accidents were also on straight roads,
proving that winding or curving roads are
not big factor in the high accident rate.
Obviously the human ele m mt plays
tragic part in motor traffic accidents.
Note what Colonel Rosser says in his re-
port Through the third quarter OF 1947, he
shows, 595 persons lost their lives and 4,50l
were injured in 1852 traffic accidents. Dur
ing the nine months period, which includes
this third quarter, 184 persons were killed
when their vehicles overturned or ran off
the roadway; 173 died in collisions; 148 pc
destrians were killed; % met death when
their bicycles collided with motor vehicles:
% were killed in motor vehicle-train col
lisons, and "a from non-collision accidents.
Some 1886 drivers were involved, and
so per cent of them were breaking traffic
regulation.
| It is not as if there was marked differ
ence in traffic regulations in different
areas On the contrary, traffic rules are
very nearly alike everywhere. Certainly
the cardinal rules are alike. How are we
going to bring drivers as a whole to full
retaliation of their obligation to observe
the rules?
| Perhaps it would help to speed up the
examination of drivers and eliminate the
incapable among them at a much faster
rate than is contemplated under the pres
ent program. And when this work is COM
pleted, it might help some more if the
courts were not lenient with offenders
with drivers involved in accidents upon
whom responsibility for an accident can
be justly fastened.
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| WASHINGTON The official
administration version of the
Marshall plan is now being
whipped into final shape. Ac-
cording to present intentions 1t
will be submitted to the Con-
gress as soon as the interim aid
program has been passed. For
some weeks in an atmosphere of
considerable confusion a num-
ber of committees composed of
representatives of the interested
government departments have
been busily combing over the
sixteen-nation Paris report in an
attempt to revise it in terms of
American availabihties. Other
committees have bee attempt
ing to draw up blueprint of the
organization which is to be
chars ged with administering the
program. President Truman will
shortly unveil the results of all
this effort.
There may be last minute
changes but the chances now
are that the President will call
for a large separate government
agency to be headed by single
administr ator directly response
BILE only to the. President. This
agency would be charged only
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
By PETER EDISON

WASHINGTON-How the Rus
slams in 1916 compiled a three
volume, 5OOOpage "Catalogue of
American Engineering and in
dustry," which today looks like
an index to strategic bombing
and sabotage targets in the Unit
er States, is a little known story.
But is particularly appropriate
now, because of all the pressure
in Congress to stop exports and
to have the Department OF Com
merce report on U. S. firms
that have sold goods to Russia
in the past.
Compiling this Russian cata-
logue on American industry is
unquestionably one of the smart
est jobs of intelligence gather
ing ever put over. If the U. S.
Air Force had had comparable
information on Germany, the
task of the strategic bombers
would have been much simpler.
The Russians now have COM
plete information on the U. S.,
catalogued for ready reference
when needed.
On it's face, the Russian cata.
|1ogue looks as innocent as
Sears-Roebuck job, only for a
different line of merchandise.
Where to buy steam shovels, tur-
ret 1athes, mining machinery,
rolling mills, petroleum refin-
cries, food processing machin-
ery-any and every kind of in
dustrial equipment. How to build
a school, a house, a sewage sys-
tenn, an auto plant, railroad
shops, assembly lines for the
mass production of airplanes.
Strictly speaking, there are no
military secrets in these three
big, fat, slick paper volumes,
each weighing over five pounds.
All the information they contain
could be duplicated in a good set
of text = books for a technical
school and in countless trade
publications. But they give mill
tary intelligence men the creeps.
The job of compiling this vast
work on American industry was
done by Amtorg Trading Corpor-
alton. This is the Soviet purchas-
ing agent in the U. S. for all
goods going from "America to
Russian government which
gives the outfit it's name.
Amtorg began to compile an
annual catalogue of American
Engineering and Industry" in
1889. The idea was to make a
report on American technology,
manufacturing methods, and
machine and architectural de-
signing.
The first half dozen volumes
seem to have been routine af-
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A Fast One

fairs. But, at the end of the war,
while the Russians still had big
purchasing mission" staff
in this country ordering up
Lend Lease supplies, they ap-
parently decided to do a super
colossal job for the next year.
Bear in mind what the politi-
cal situation was at that time.
Russia was still an ally. Every
one was counting on a glorious
era of peace ahead. There was
talk of a one billion or even a
three billion dollar loan to Rus
sia for reconstruction.
Naturally, every American
manufacturer wanted piece of
the Russian business. Amtorg
approached all the American
concerns with which it had done
business. They were solicited to
take full-page ads in the back Of
the catalogue. Six hundred and
eighty-five of them did. Some
took two and three pages. The
result is that 1867 of the 5000
pages are ads.
The advertisers represent the
blue book of American industry.
All the big firms are there,
from Allis Chalmers right
through the alphabet to Yale
locks. Proceeds of the ads un-
questionably paid for printing
and binding in neat blue cloth
boards, with gold letters. So Am
torg got it's catalogue free of
charge.
The $500 pages of reading mat
ter, in Russian text save for the
names and addresses of Ameri-
can firms, are profusely illus
trated.
There are air views of fac
tories, industrial areas, port
facilities, bridges, public build
ings. Not only that, there are
maps and engineers drawings
of many key industrial factory
layouts.
For instance, there is a fine
scale plan of the big new Gene
va Steel plant at Provo, Utah,
with railroad yards and build
ings labeled. At a glance, any
one could see just where the
bomb ought to be dropped to put
the plant out of business.
There is no using censuring
the American firms for having
contributed to this catalogue,
just as there is no point in criti-
cizing any that may have been
exporting to Russia. There
are no laws against it. The in
form alton furnished is common
knowledge in the free enterpris-
ing U. S., where it's good busi-
ness to cooperate with prospec-
tive customers. But it hurts to
be made q sucker.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
Tagging Behind
An Editorial from the Gastonia Gazette

Charleston inspired the mem
hnrs Of the State Ports Adtf'Tl'
tv to greater effort. I9e' ..o. az,
Termination te is stronger taaa
ever to obtain a portion o. 'as
now idle North Carolina snIP,
,,am uard for conversion lnta te.1al'
: nails and allied industrial sues ss
15Tr' Pnt this his as vel as other plans,
cannot be realized unless Az
Statewide enlt,sov bod is gen 1....' ne
Carolina, c; l,c especially the P.s1 F.,sl5.
mont. which stands s', %. |
them the most from establishment Z"
real state ports. ....a's |
limited d only in 7en-... l'... =. - |
M[lmleefon, otben ceemm,uoi.ics 5555 rrwas n.
f1na1 n1neT water vot,lll-f -tfransoa4 ,ss.., ..s.l
ties ties .7,nsoys Tnsg d$s..15 q NJ 1 5ss
linians. Gl1i Thst such has so..s o
rgfn1ina fogtnGqalnT a55 v.ss.a.. has o,.a .s.
the real reason 1or Ire q. t..as.
vancement Of the'r water
portation facilities ,- ben
NORTH Norsd bnt I'tS.. tSa. IS n9. sno9sa l5,.
Now must core z osy.-', . otss
ton to keep Pa-- W.T. :, IS n:
South Atlantic ports 3. ..at,ya,es
not n offered and .lI aa'ls so #: IA
then hue Wiimingtoa Vim 9a.l l.e.1I 5al, So i :.
behind t, that it is aoao'-. .ss-t9ls
viii ever sgsa be a .ssre hare Q.
competitor for It's la ~
water-borne comn's.,ssf. X The hal
Castor 7.s35ds count ~r1anhac.a'-t.iia495 r1 '-.i49
counties in the STATE. .s.,sr Is Of sa
jntssnosnt jntereStsa IN and d.. dc,slo2"%s%%:. %%.r
our principal aIl,Ips..J.at po@5J5. #. Of he Gs ,s
zens National Bank a'l' aemos
+i1os INCORPORATED IS for u
Of the port AUTHORITY i-., has fa
ps past year or two. two ii 6's sse r.
much time to St9ay .,y.aninat' ~
ef s5'sss!op oaS potsaaisl saa al facilities i III
respect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
GOOD MORNING

No amount of ability is of the slight
est avail without honor. ANDRE"
Carnegie.
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Dehydration
Is Dangerous
BY WILLIAM A. o'BRrEN. MD.

1f1h IA. O'BRIEN, MD.
Dlarrheal diseases are still
in the first year Of life. Rates
vary from Oregon and Maine,
where " the condition is rare to
MEXICO and Arizonia, where it is
common.
Why diarrheal diseases are
disappearing in certain parts Of
the country, and not IN others
Is difficult to explain, unless one
takes into account the influence
of sanitation.
Diarrheal diseases CAUSE the
most difficulty during the first
two years Of lie ard during the
newborn period in uade~nourish.
ed infants. Paeats should he in
structed as to tha Inaoortance of
giving their children clean food.
ii diarrheal diseases are to be
prevented.
Treatment OF Jiarrhea7 III.
seases in infants consists of nrs-
venting or overcomirr oe,vdra.
ton, the loss o water and NM
erals. Although MANY dio+e
have been tried fer infants with
these diseases. lhe onir ms
which has stood tie test Of time
is the administration Of watrr
and minerals as long as minerals
are being lost. MIX and other
foods always aggr ayate the con.
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4 nllpol tol1 ;.: 10 "''''''oid lood' Il
et; ;liete - Eoni.'ilN' s anu 10 give M
Sess1oi'9 J' 49,, ~ "! !''e' ana minerals
uiiuel 'lie sN,N. Il u'efe is NO
W son,,i'nls' n,, ~ 1--WE M~'ya ~ ana minerals
h'ay We glten ny mou'n,
80 aAali'-ilosi0it l, ., y! tissue t'ulaS OIL
aSi,,.S, aan a,ss sly" @ INA. Po'@S>'u1l ana
sooioili ~ e'l '''e 'l,'I'tl@lS "hIe@
a. io't IA elV9'e5' ail'oul''a'
Auoii1s tnese I'Iil'q' SiS 10 IAe wa
,. eel Has 0eea urea WIN sooo re-
Su1es'
Dlaillle@ f may oeNelop III ciui'
oreh from inlec'loi's IN various
pdl's VI tlle oopy' nIlHoUs''
tiea'iiieliI 'taF " ai''leV d'
these nletlIo'Is' ~ ''le oe'ls
ora'ion IIeas'ileI'' S''ou'o "'S' Dc
aolnlnlseeIeo,
today is the price OF pork chops
and nothing else"
That explains why M Demo
cratic political circles these
days there is an atmosphere of
slightly nervous iubilauon ia
marked contrast to the aura oil
the tomb which prevailed only
a wear ago. For the Democratic
strategists are pretty confident
that whether or not that was
his intention the Pesident s
stand on the price issue has
neatly draped the Republicans
over a barrel. There are many
Republicans who dolefully gree,
The danger and it is a very
real dangers that the Repub-
licans will succumb to the temp
European recovery program to
tation to retaliate by cutting the
shreds. Obviously the mos inn
mediatelv painless way to pre-
vent S. wheat is to stop sending
wheat to Europe No doubt 1T
was this danger which was pre-
sent in the minds OF such Pres"
dental advisers as Secretaries
Hartman and Forrestal when
thew q, urged him not to 60 the
,'-ho1e s wav for rationlng and
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-03-29
CATHOLICS PRESENT
RACE RELATION PANEL

The Catholic Church ard the
Negro gas the subject % pa-
mol discussion az The ROYAL Oak
Knieh,> of Colawhus open house
~ Thursday cvcnicg
Speakers we're Father Hubert
Roberee, CHARLES r a Smith.
and Arthur ) Droste
All ,hrcc arc 8ctUe n the
Catholic Inlolraeal Council ~
Detroit, and have presented this
forum before many audiences
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VALAIDA SNOW HITS
JACKPOT AT BENEFI

NEW YORK Valalda s
international SINGING faVo
ran off with the artistic "a
ln 4 benefit show az the
dorf Astoria hero last s
night Artists appearing or
bill included such rem
names as Peter Donald
Martin Carmen Cavallete
Monroe Grace Ba,uc, 4
Berlin. and a numbcr Of
OF equal stature The ocg
was a Sl00-a plate dinuc
the jewish ConSumptive +
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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-09-24
LETTER FROM
ISABEL CAMPBELL
OUR AFRICAN MISSIONARY
CONTINUED from page u

Continued from page II
a long time for meals. Were
really learning how to be pa
tient with these slow-moving
natives. One has toy The boy
that waits on us and takes care
of the house (called a house
boy) just moves when he gets
ready to. He is fine boy. His
name is Malengoti Ga real
Christian). He smiles all the
time it seems. He is very neat
and clean and is honest in
everything. He knows some
English but won't let you know
it, if he can help it. Of course,
it will help us more in our Ian
guage study, if he doesn't
speak to us in anything except
Kiswahili.-. Here we eat large
breakfasts - three courses,
mind you. First we have fruit
oh, the fruit is lovely-all
we want; then we have por-
ridge or cold cereal with ba-
nanas if we wish; then eggs,
toast, jam and coffee. How's
that for man-sized meal? I
don't know how [ get the ap-
petite for it, but somehow I
sure can eat when meal time
comes.
After breakfast we have a
scripture and prayer before we
start our studies. Mr.. Lichty
usually leaves us alone for
awhile after breakfast, and we
review our previous days stu
dy while he gets the work-boys
settled in their jobs for the
day. (They have to be told
Thousand times" how to do q
job and then to keep at it till
it's done). There are as many
as 20 boys working some days.
They have been cutting some
of the tall jungle grass that
has gotten ahead of us. ,.#....
Bob then goes over our past
studies with us and then gives
us some new things to learn
if we are ready for them. The
study, of course, is getting
more difficult as we go on, al
though we are beginning to
comprehend more of the first
things as we delve deeper in
to it. One has to learn how to
study and concentrate once
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more after being out of school
for a while, like l have. Then
too, we have to recall all our
English Grammar in order to
know how to correlate our
English with the Kiswahili.
The verbs have about cum
teen" prefixes and suffixes
tackled on them so that you
can hardly find the original
stem of the word itself. Then
the nouns are in certain class
es up to 10. Then each class
has certain letters for prefixes
in the singular and the plural.
There are 20 forms for each
noun and each noun prefix is
attached to the adjectives that
modify that noun, SO we have
some fun figuring it all out and
memorizing each word.
Example:
ki-kombe xxi is the prefix;
the word is "cups"O.
vi-kombe wi is the prefix;
the word is "cupD.
ki-doga xxi is the prefix;
the word is 'little" pluraD.
vi-doga wi is the prefix;
the word is little" singular).
1t probably sounds crazy to
you too. 1t is very interesting
though and good exercise for
our minds. After Mr.. Lichty
helps us, we study by ourselves
until dinner time, about 1 o.
clock. Of course we have a
hard time sticking to it as
the children are always
playing around and don't know
any different than to come
over and talk to us. We usual
ly take a chair out on the lawn
in the sun for our studying.
(You should see my tan-just
like a Florida tan. Tell Rae
Liddle when you see her).
Then the natives come along
and we have to stop and meet
them and try to talk to them
for awhile, or some one dis
covers a group of monkeys in
the nearby trees and we have
to stop and watch them for
awhile. All in all, we have
m any disturbances which
break the monotony of con-
slant study.
After lunch we try to go
back to our studies or do a lit
tie reading or writing for
variation; or we go for walk
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for little bodily exercise. OF
course we keep to the beaten
paths where the land is clear