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The Republican., 1947-10-02
HOYES

II. A. Custer, of Grafton, W. Va,
spent the weekend at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Custer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Skiles and
daughter were guests on Sunday of
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Friend and Mrs.
Asa Friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orval Schlossnagle, of
Marcus Hook, Pa, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Merrill Wilburn and other
relatives,
Claude Bishoff, of Baltimore, spent
the weekend with his wife, daughter
and parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart
Bishoff, at their home here
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. B. Lowdermilk
and Mr.. and Mrs. Moorehead, Clarks-
burg, w, Va, spent the weekend at
their cottage here. Their guests on
Sunday were Mr.. A. d. Lowdermilk,
and Mr.. and Mrs. E. Wait of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Lowdermilk, Of Florida.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Milton
Dewitt and F. D. Dewitt are Mr.. and
Mrs. John Dewitt and children, OF
Painesville, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs
Harry Lowdermilk, Of Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Glover, Cum.
beIland, spent the weekend with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Enlow
Rev. A. W. Wade, of Aurora, W
Va, conducted church services here
on Sunday. He and Mrs. Wade anC
daughter were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Emerson Bishoff.
Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Greynolds, o
Ridgeley, W. Va. accompanied b!
his sister from California, spent Mon
day afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. W
A. Custer.
Mrs. Mary Orr Hayward and Cath
crime Spoerlein, Oakland, and Mis-
Jessie Guard were guests on Thurs
day evening Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. W
| Dewitt.
The Republican., 1947-10-02

A funeral service was held Monday
at 2:30 p. m. at the residence in Boyn-
ton, with Rev. J. B. Warman, pastor
Of the Brownsville, Pa, Methodist
Church. officiating. Interment was in
the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Sails
bury.
The Republican., 1947-10-02

hannon. W. Va, formerly of Mt. Lake
Park, Will celebrate their 5Oth we'd
ding anniversary on Sunday, October
5. with open house from , to 5 o'clock.
All OF their friends are invited.
The Republican., 1947-10-02

British government officials fa-
yored shorter skirts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
Outlook In 1913

Everybody is looking forward to 1940 and
for the most part wondering what 1t Will
bring forth, not alone in politics, but IN
business and economics. In answer to this
whidespread Wonderment the United Busl-
ness Service Of Boston, passing up politics,
predicts there will be continued high ac-
tivity and good earnings" next year.
The Service forecasts the total volume
of business probably will show to 3
per cent gain over this year "as result
of moderate expansion in the automobile
building, steel and other durable goods IN
dustries' Optimistically, it says there is
little likelihood Of an appreciable business
recession in the coming twelve months.
It believes the inflationary trend will
continue through most of next year, with
much depending on the unpredictable
crop situation" Wholesale prices are in
for further rise of to per cent. But,
barring major crop failure, the Service
adds, there is good chance the infla-
tionary movement will eliminate some
time next year."
The national income is due to advance
as result of slight rise in production.
IL may TedCQ the astounding TOTAL OIL 9AlO,
000000,0 900. This will compare with approx
imately with $195, 100000 this year.
Steel production will continue to fall short
of domestic and foreign demand cal
though new capacity is expected to lift this
years total ingot output of about 81, 100000
tons to 86,000,000. Truck production will
show little increase but passenger car out
put should increase further. Give and one
half million trucks and cars seem ikelv
next year," an increase of half a million
over 1947. This depends naturally. on the
labor situation.
Building will advance says the Service
with new construction expected to leach
S14,500,0 100000, a Is per cent gain over this
year. "Another round of wage increases
running between and 10 per cent" is in
prospect. Corporate earnings will be low
cred somewhat by rising costs, and the
stock market is likely to move IN a wider
range and at somewhat higher levels.
Whether this forecast is proper cause fo,
hope or encouragement IS beyond our ken
However, it could be wished that the enc
Of the inflationary trend, expected some
time in 1943, might be speeded up, if only
in the interest of better rest at nights fo1
the harried public.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
Are They Disabled?
An Editorial from the Richmond Times-D Dispatch

fu1gent Benny" no" HlaSs. ..
one wonder how many Ill0-'
there may have been,
In Myers case, retisenlso'
(for an undisclosed causs, +,
which Secretary for the AT u.
Force w. Stuart syming, m as' ss'
indicated was a nervous / e'a n,
DOWN meant monthly pay ~
1850 for the exofficer, free l.3., .so5
income tax. This was proves p,.iass
under military regulaii2asss
which retire an officer lnc0.t .r,'. ~.
disability while on active Sc.
ice at rs per cent Of base P4 IN
This came to $4,000 a year yr,iar. ~.
the retired All Force 'i'''
general. .1oor,e
this inquiry OF conditions III r|s he
military establishment enb,
Army and Navy are no less !5sn 5ug
.ject to bureaucratic evils .oncy sr(
any other governmental ss, sssyine
which can spend without nay[,Il naval
TO earn Indeed, the unc!rl i,itsry
public acceptance Of Tr1l,,r~t 1l,r,ost
expenditures in wartime n S ex.
inevitably results in s9ll'' c1r.
cesses, which must Dc
rected later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
Turning Point In London

LONDON,-There is a kind of
tense, unspoken drama in the air
of London at the moment. At
Lancaster House, the wranglings
of the Foreign Ministers make it
daily more apparent that the
formal division o f the world is
about to occur. The morning pa
pers, bringing news of France
and Palestine, daily proclaim the
magnitude of the burden the
United States would have to
shoulder to meet the Soviet chal-
lenge alone in the divided world
ahead. And here, meanwhile, in
the ancient government offices
along Whitehall, in the coal
fields ,and in the industrial cities
of the north, the question of the
British future is being decided by
the British people.
For Americans, this is a vital
question. If Britain continues to
lose strength, as she has been
losing strength continuously
since the end of the war, the
whole task of meeting the Soviet
challenge will fall squarely upon
us in eVerv region of the world
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
FRIDAY, DECE11f =, 1947
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
IN nronortion with its resources, to IN
c1ude public terminals, tobacco stor-
ape warehouses, ship repair tacllltes,
nearby sites for heavy Industry anu
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
CITY auditorium large enough 10
meet needs for years to come
development of Southeastern Norm
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets ana
food processing, pulp wood productloh
and factories. - ra.
tion advantages and Improvement o.
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern Nofth
Carolina's farm market and prl-
mary roads. with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet 10 Bald Head IS
land
Continues effort to attract more IN
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethentha.
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern Nortn
Cardinals health facilities especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and IN
cluding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth -
commercial fishing.
Constellation of City and Cour:'
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12

How many of the $4,000 Army
and Navy officers now drawing
disability retirement pensions
are actually disabled by virtue
OF illness or injury suffered dur
ing their military careers? The
case of the notorious Major
General Bennett E Myers has
raised the question, and Con-
gress and the President have
asked the military services
some rather uncomfortable
questions.
The Army Navy Personnel
Board in consequence has re-
commended that all armed
forces members retired for
such reason be re-examined
and that the services in future
should relate the size of the pay
ments to the extent of the disa-
bility.
So liberal are retirement pro-
visions in the services now
that, without scrupulous admin
istration, they could inspire a
host of little raids on the
Federal Treasury. Some have
previously been intimated in
Washington. The case of the ef-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
BY JOSEPH ALSOP

from the Baltic to the China sea.
Under the circumstances, is
fortunate that Britain at last
seems to be rounding the post
war corner.
Ouwardly, things are worse
than last year. To be sure, the
grim and battered drabness OF
London is now here and there
relieved by & little new paint,
which gives the effect of the first
hesitant buds of very late, very
cold spring. But rations are low
er than a year ago. Queues are
longer. People look more shabby
and seem less optimistic. The
simplest, most ordinary pleas
ures of life are more expensive
and harder to come by. Under
meath this depressing surface,
however, three major events are
at last beginning to take shape,
which by this spring should give
the British people far better
grounds for hope han they have
had b efore.
First, the postwar slump in
workers output seems to be
coming to an end. In every coun-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
By PETED EDSON

WASHINGTON, - Oh r les
Luckman, the big Boston soap
and food-saving man, was not
yet decently out of town when
the Presidents Cabinet Food
Committee called a press confer
ence to announce it was still in
the eggless and meatless day
business. Also to introduce Luck
mans successor.
He turned out to be a big, fair
haired boy of 81 named James
A. Stillwell, from Chick kasha, Ok
la. Before coming into the State
Department in 1912 he sold auto
mobiles. But he apparently never
made 100000 a year at it, or he
wouldn't have stayed in Wash
ington these past five years,
working on lend-lease, occu-
pied Areas and such stuff. He's
now special assistant to. Under
secretary Lovett.
1t was Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton Anderson who stole the
spotlight at Stillwell's first show.
He did it by admitting that,
while there was no official gov
ernment slogan to Eat Less
Meat" that is the desired re-
suit. It's to go on at least until
fall, when the next grain harvest
comes in and farmers can go
back to feeding livestock and
poultry in the style to which they
are accustomed.
The experts have figured it out
that there's going to be only 146
pounds of meat, per capia, in
1948. Don't ask how they know
this, but they say they do. This
146 pounds a year amounts to
not quite three pounds per week,
or about six ounces a day.
If you can't visualize six ounces
of meat, it's the equivalent of
four hot dogs. This 146 pounds
for 1948 is 10 pounds less than
the average person is consuming
in 1947. This meas three ounces
of meat - two hot dogs - less
per week next year. In sum-.
mary, you'll get the equivalent
of only 26 hot dogs per week
next year, instead of %.
Americans have lived on
darn sight less than 14e pounds
per average in years past. In
1888, the average consr- nption
was 1876 pounds a yea = In 1943,
it was 1876 pounds. This year,
1856 pounds.
If income stays UP and people
keep on buying all the meat they
want, the probe mis- how to keep
on buying all the meat they
want, the problem is how to keep
them from rising in revolution
when they can't get it. Meat has
become a kind of symbol. Not
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12

munist Party has ever gotten very far. For
there is always the assurance that, once
outlawed, the party would dissolve into
"front' groups and become more slippery
than ever.
This is not to say that our Jurisprudence
is perfect, but as long as we cling to the
principle that no person may be convicted
of law violation, whether misdeneaner or
felony, without conclusive evidence, Mr..
Clark obviously has the right Of the argu-
ment.
1t is up to the Thomas Committee to
produce this evidence, an undertaking we
hope can be brought to a successful con-
clusion in all cases shadowed by the COM
mittee's suspicious. This country needs a
purge of all un-AmericaniSm, but it can
come only when the proof is forthcoming.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
jos Christmas Program

Wilmington is to have a Christmas tree
ablaze with light tonight. Not the great
tree in Hilton park, the early lightning OF
which has met councilmanlc opposition,
but one on the post office lawn which will
shed it's benizon upon young and old hence
forth through the holiday season, with ap-
propriate Christmas music at intervals.
And all because the Junior Chamber OF
Commerce believes Fundamentally in the
traditions and spirit of the season.
Starting early, the Jaycees have
worked as they work at everything they
undertake, with unflagging zeal to make
this period one long to be remembered
Santa Claus has accepted their invitation
to visit Wilmington, starting today. He will
arrive by train, not by sled, at AIS o'clock
this afternoon, and with adequate escort,
be driven south on Front street from the
Coast Line station to Market street, east
on Market to Third street, north to Chest
nut street and west to the post office,
where he will be officially greeted and re-
ceive the key to the city from Miss Will
mington of 1947. Thereafter, until the tree
is lighted at o'clock, he will show his
smiling countenance, albeit partially hid
den by the proverbial whiskers, in many
neighborhoods. Altogether this is to be a
very busy late afternoon and early eve
ming for old St. Nick. And happy one,
too.
Daily thereafter, the Jaycees have ar
ranged special Christmas entertainment
afternoon and evening through Christmas
Eve with the croWning events for under
privileged children scheduled for the Tues
day of Christmas week-a special Christ
mas dinner with roast turkey and all the
trimmings, and a free show at the Manor
theater
The complete program of events will be
published in the Stars news columns.
What we wish to emphasize is that the
Junior Chamber of Commerce is doing a
splendid thing in promoting, sponsoring
and directing this public celebration of the
holiday season and to note that the pro-
gram has required not only careful plan
ming by this live organization but fine CO.
operation by merchants, restaurants,
Manor theater, Tide Water Power COM
pany, public officials, private citizens,
ROTC Band, Shrine and Legion drum
corps, Brigade Boys club, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, radio stations and school children.
The Jaycees have way of putting
across the many and varied projects they
undertake, as their long record of achieve
ments proves. It is no wonder that some
fifty more of Wilningtons young men
should seek membership in the ranks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12

try, after every major war, this
slackening of effort invariably
occurs. 1t is natural that it
should, since the stimulus of self
preservation is suddenly remov-
ed from men and women who
have overdriven themselves for
years. Recovery is generally au-
tomato, but until this fall there
was a big question in Britain
whether the workers would real
ly recover at all. The circum-
stances of their lives were hard;
few prizes could be offered for
Increased effort. There seemed
to be no reason why they should
ever begin again to make the
same expenditure of energy S
before the war.
That doubt has now been
largely laid to rest by the cru
cial figures on coal output. In
1888, production in the mines
was LA tons per man shift. At
the beginning of this year, it was
still only 1.03 tons. But in No
vember, manshift production in
the mines rose to 1.12 IONS. This
winter there is every reason to
hope that the effort of the Bri-
tish workers will return to and
perhaps surpass the prewar
normal. 1t speaks volumes for
the determination o the British
people that this should be hap
pening while the conditions of
life have actually deteriorated.
Second, while the workers are
getting down to business, the
government seems to be doing
the same thing. On the one hand,
the necessity of limiting national
commitments has been faced. AT
the end of the war, with severe
ly reduced resources, Britain at
tempted to do twice as much as
ever before. An unprecedented
program of internal reconstruc-
ton was combined with an i'm
measurably greater military eff
fort (forced on her by the Soviet
Union) than Britain had ever be-
fore made in peacetime. Both
these forms of effort have now
been cut down, although perhaps
not so far as may be necessary in
the long run.
Meanwhile, on the other hand,
the labor government has been
putting its own house in order.
The disastrous Emma anuel Shin
well was some time ago remov-
ed from the crucial post of Or
ganizer of coal production. And
now, by a strange accident, DR..
Hugh Dalton has retired from
the Exchequer. He has not gone
without doing harm. With a
strong assist from OUR Treasury.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
Let 'em Eat Less Meat

being able to enjoy all four O.
daily hot dogs is worse than moi
being able to enjoy all our o1
your freedoms.
If meat is scarcer, Secretary
Anderson says the price is bound
to go higher. That may upset the
whole economic hot dog stand.
There may be plenty of every
thing else. Plenty of mustard,
rolls and relish. But as long as
there is a shortage of meat and
as long as people have to pay
high prices for what they get,
they may be justified in asking
for higher wages. Because meat
is one of the biggest items in the
family food budget.
Meat prices are now at record
highs. One load of steers recent
ly brought an all-tilne high of
$33.50 hundred pounds in Chi
cago. Individual steers have sold
as high as $500-close to so cents
a pound. Hogs have gone as high
as $27 hundred.
These are some of the factors
behind Anderson's present re
guest for congressional authority
to price ceilings on meat.
A year or so ago, when OPA
was still around, the Department
of Agriculture suggested that
ceilings on meat animals be set
at $16.25 a hundred for hogs and
$20.25 hundred for beef. A yell
went up that those figures were
too high. But look at them now.
And the worst is yet to come.
Anderson won't say what the
ceilings would be if he had power
to slap them on today. His reason
is that there are too many specu-
lators now operating on the mar
kets.
To the meat industry's contes-
ton that price controls and ra-
tioning would mean a return to
black markets and still higher
prices, Anderson replies that he
hopes for created powers to regu-
late black markets than were
available to OPA in wartime.
1t is a bit difficult to see how
price controls can be put on
meat without also rationing
meat. But there are no plans to
reimpose rationing at this time.
Anderson is against it.
He says it's too hard to ration
just one article in the economy.
He also points to the face there
were prices controls on such
items as soap and clothing in
wartime, and we got by without
rationing.
But if the meat packers and
the livestock raisers and the con-
suming public don't co operate
on eating less meat, Anderson
ad'~'its that rationing may be
come necessary later on.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
Clark On Loyalty

There was a hopeful amount Of good
sense in Attorney General Tom Clark's let
ter to the Loyalty Review Board, and in
the list of "totalitarian, fascist, commu-
mist or subversive" organizations that it
contained The job of making sure Of gov
ernment employees loyalty is ticklish as
well as important. 1t could be neglected
through lazy assumption that there is
nothing to worry about, or it could turn
into a bigoted, vindictive purge.
Both dangers can be avoided if govern
ment agencies follow the advice of Mr..
Clark and Seth Richardson, the review
boards chairman. They made it clear that
membership in any group on the Justice
Departments list is not proof of disloyalty.
It is simply a piece of evidence, and not
in itself reason for dismissal As Mr..
Clark said Guilt by association has
never been one of the principles Of our
American jurisprudence"
The list contains some 80 organizations
and schools. It was based largely on re-
ports of the FBI, whose agents probably
the really dangerous outfits among sus-
pected groups. Mr.. Clark noted that the
list was incomplete, and gave plausible
excuse for many omissions, There was not
enough available data.
1t is not surprising that MIR. Clark's list
didn't make a hit with Chairman J. Par
nell Thomas of the House Un American
Activities Committee. He called it "woe-
fully incomplete" and utterly farcical."
There are probably two reasons for Mr..
Thomas disappointment.
Mr.. Clark neglected to call in the Thorn
as Committee to point out the Reds to him
Also, through an evident disinclination to
60 off the deep end, he kept his list down
to 30 Gncluding rightist groups) while the
Thomas Committee last year put out a
catalog of 1863 left-wing groups alone.
| Mr.. Thomas likewise implied that Mr.
Clark has failed to enforce laws requiring
foreign government agents to register. He
said he would ask his committee to call
on the attorney general to tell us why
these acts have not been enforced, or il
they cannot be enforced, how they can be
strengthened"
If Mr. Thomas would give his question
little thought, he might figure out why
enforcement of those laws is a tough as
81 m e It. First of all, m m
OF the American Communist Party are no
legally Soviet agents, even though it Ii
certain that they take their orders from
Moscow.
Since some undoubted Soviet agents arr
operating here through legal polltlca
party, it is understandable hard to ge
them to sign statment of their true &C
tlvities. 1t is even harder to pin foreign
agent charge on an officer of front Oh
ganization who isn't communist, howeve
loudly he may be hawking communls
) propaganda.
5 None of the moves to outlaw the com
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12
Teach Childron
Values In Food
BY WILLIAM A o,pp,

Proper food selecion ND.
be taught children at an Saouid o;
age to make them awaro s early
necessity, and its relationsSo.I " Of ia
good health. '-'i'SAlp 70
+,a The ,un.! nutritional education -,
veloped enormously in t5a 4as de-
I i've y = years, largely as 9'q T..aH last
OF the war effort and 10 asS1lt
proved economic condjtion5 No M
Until they reach the ,ol,S, .ro
or u, children have littJes Isq o5 10
tunlty to select their own PPo', fo.;
unless their parents aro ,', 1000
of the desirability Of their aware aware
ing to do so. The school 'larn' I'l'
program has been an imnar..n 'u.cn
element in directing The ~ s+.ao .ao'
ton of parents and cbjIdraa' a.'sn'
the Importance of prone 70
selection. P'' loot
Children should acquire ..-,,
IN life a willingness to aco., oa..I
pasteurized milk, the ordirslp't ,spt
vegetables Cooked or l,aYY rnI
fruits, whole grained caraS,, an,
and breads, eggs and si,,l''i o@IN
deserts. Children who ,,pis s
sweet-lovers usually eat an 'a' !.
adequate diet, for normal cbT IL
dren seldom crave sweets '''I'
The school day should star,
with a good breakfast consist. @
of pasteurized milk, .ton,atSs
juice or a citrus fruit, an og1
and a whole grain cereal Ss, :.
toast. Coffee has no place in III.
diet of children, for it tends ". =.
displace milk. W
The school lunch Should :,
clude pasteurized milk ami
main dish of protein food, s,,cS
as beans, eggs, macarom ~
spaghetti made with cheese or
meat. A thick meat SOUP is ,,so
a good main item, and it NAV
contain some vegetable.
Ice cream and fruit, not cake
or cookies, are the best en.
around deserts for e-owin,
children.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-12

partition plan, a plan without backing OF
enforcement. -,
If this isn't war, what is, one might like
to ask the council?
If the shooting of one national by an
other isn't serious business-and not blut1-
ing-and the Security Council doesn't know
# the United Nations should reappoint the
council.
IF as manv persons were to be killed in
the South, the West or the North IN thls
country we'll bet the United Nations and It's
Security Council would rise up IN holy nor
ror and say some more OF the things Tor
which it has more than once become silly
in the sight of those familiar with true
Justice and honor.