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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
Star Program,

State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion with its resources, to in
clude public terminals, tobacco stor-
age warehouses, ship repair facilities,
nearby sites for heavy industry and
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets and
food processing, pulp wood production
and factories.
Emphasis on the regions recrea-
ton advantages, and Improvement OF
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina's farm-to to-market and pri-
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head is
land.
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization Of Bluethenthal
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina's health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
Guiding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement Of the growth OF
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County
governments.
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Traffic Lights Needed

Adequate control of traffic is as i'm
the security of its people as the smooth
flow thereof. Wilmington is remiss in both,
particularly in installing signals at certain
intersections.
Two intersections illustrate the admin
stration's failure to provide lights the one
because of traffic jams during peak hours.
There are others, of course, but these serve
to point the argument that the City Hall is
not doing its full duty toward traffic.
Sixth and Princess needs a light and
it should be installed without delay. Scarce
ly an hour, day or night, passes without
some kind of accident there. Princess is a
through street. Sixth a stop street. There
are stop signs to be sure, on Sixth, but they
are low and non-reflecting. Drivers ap-
preaching Princess often either fail to see
them or forget their existence, with the re-
suit that side-swipes and more serious col
isions are frequent, especially after dark.
Fifth and Princess too needs a light.
Both Fifth and Princess are through streets,
but for the safety of traffic on both stop
signs are placed on Fifth This means that
when cars are thick on both, as they are
mornings, moons and nights, motorists on
Fifth are held up for many minutes and
must whip across Princess with maximum
pickup during secondary intervals between
ears in the Princess street crowded traf-
fic.
The advantage is all with drivers on
Princess street and the handicap upon all
on Fifth. There is smooth flow in two di-
rections only, not in four as it should be.
and could be, if traffic at this intersection
were controlled by red and green lights.
During the war it was claimed that the
city could not extend its traffic light svs.
tenn because lights could not be bought. Now
that the war has been over two Years if
might be possible to buy additional lights
and provide the control, safety and smooth
traffic flow not only at these spots but
others throughout the city where thew are
needed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
Today And Tomorrow

Cold War And Marshall Plan
The anti-American campaign in
Europe feeds principally upon a
Misrepresentation of the Mar
shall plan-namely that it is a
scheme which will perpetuate
the division of Europe and the
partition of Germany. Unfortun-
ately too many Americans are
playing right into the hands of
this anti-American propaganda
by presenting it as & kind of
lend-lease operation in the cold
war. They have, l believe, mis-
understood the plan which the
European governments worked
out in Paris in response to Sec
retary MarshalIs suggestion.
This misunderstanding en-
ables the Russians to misrepre-
sent it, and if the misunder-
standing is not cleared up, the
plan will become unworkable.
AS one Englishman said to me:
eff your money is to be had only
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
Six Billion Tax Cut

The Committee for Economic Develop
ment. which is headed by Paul c. Hoffman,
president of the Studebaker Corporation
and lists several of the country's business
and economic leaders in its membership,
proposes a general tax reduction program
over a period of years, with an initial cut
of six billion dollars in 1943 - the calendar,
not the fiscal, year.
In its lengthy report the committee de-
clares this would not interfere with needed
foreign aid and that there would be a sur
plus of three billions in the nations revenue
which could be applied to the national debt.
Three major proposals for the 1948
schedule are:
l. A lower scale of income tax rates,
reaching 67.3 per cent at 100000 of taxable
income (now 1855 per cent? and a top rate
of SO per cent at $1,0O0,000 and over. This
would cost the treasury $3,000,000,000.
2 Granting to all married couples the
privilege of dividing their income for tax
purposes, as in the 13 community property
states; this would cost $780, 000, 900 of reve-
nue..
8. Lengthening the period for which
business losses may be carried forward and
applied against future profits from two years
to five; reduction of the carry back from two
years to one.
In summarizing the report the Associat-
ed Press notes the committees budget esti-
mates were based not on the usual admin
strative budget but on the consolidated
cash" budget, which reflects only actual
cash income and outgo and omits exchanges
of funds within the government.
For 1s4s partial step can be taken,
it said, by dropping the individual tax rate
to 1872 per cent, wiping out the excise levies
on transportation and communication, and
making start toward eventual elimination
of the double taxation" of corporate divi-
dends; that is, the taxing of corporations
earnings as we'll as the dividends paid to
stockholders.
It is not desirable to decide on tax cuts
until "early next year., the report suggest
ed, since by then it may be possible to gauge
inflationary pressures more accurately and
reckon the tirst-year cost of the Marshall
plan. The latter is estimated at $3.50, ,000-
900 in calendar 1948 by Mr.. Truman's Citi-
zens' Committee on Foreign Aid.
If the committees schedule should be
carried out, and it is not to be supposed so
distinguished group reached its conclu-
sions by snap-judgment, there would have to
be heavy reduction in federal spending.
We would have to give up the wasteful and
extravagant habits of the war period. This
is consummation devoutly to be wished.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
Russia And Spain

No one possessed of fair mind who has
followed the course of events in Spain un-
der Frances dictatorship doubts that real
istic democratic or most any other form of
government would be better for the nation
and its people. But it is not to be doubted
that the kind of democracy Russia has had
in mind since it first proposed change
would drive Spain into greater despair
than has existed since Franco came into
power. For Russian democracy is but an
other name for totalitarianism under which
free elections are impossible.
It is no wonder, then, that the United
States refused to vote when these Russian
sponsored revamped resolutions were rail
hoaded through a United Nations COMMITTEES
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Uncertainties
BY PETER EDSON

WASHINGTON, - If the two
volume, $4,000 word report on
the Marshall Plan from the Har-
riman Committee of 10 big bust
nessmen proves anything, it is
that there is nothing definite
about the European Recovery
Program.
The State Department is pre-
senting it's ideas to Congress this
week. Then the President must
be heard from in his special
message to Congress, Nov. II.
Finally, the Congress must act.
1t will be spring before the
real sap of recovery starts to
flow. If U. S. government COR
poration or commission is set
up and is in business supervis-
ing European recovery by the
beginning of the next fiscal year
on July l, it will be miracle.
This implies no criticism of
slow-moving government. Stop
gap relief aid for food and fuel
may be provided before the end
of 1947. And Europe doesn't
have to stand still while the
American government erects the
machinery and starts it rolling.
Sixty per cent of the first year
requirements, stated in the Par
is report of the 16-nation Com
mitee on European Economic
Cooperation, are already on or
der. Supplies ordered after the
ERP is in operation will be for
1949 or later.
But this job is bigger than
any peacetime reconstruction
project ever conceived. 1t is
planned economy on global
basis. The ERP blueprint must
attempt to predict and write
specifications on how the non
Communist world is going
to look in 1851. Long-range eco-
nomic predictions of this nature
have never before been success
full for even one country or one
industry. To make such predic-
tions for the whole world may
be a noble ambition, but it is
next to impossible.
Too many variables enter the
picture. The Hartman Commit
tee of 19 admits them. No one
can predict what price levels
are going to be four years or
even one year hence. A change,
up or down, of a few per cent
may alter the total recovery
funds needed by a billion or
more dollars. No one can pre-
dict what the weather is going
to be. No one can predict how
fast Europe is going to recover
- how fast coal production can
be stepped up, what exports Eu-
rope can produce and sell, thus
reducing the amount of aid
needed from American taxpay-
ers.
Add up. these uncertainties,
lboth ways and what you have is
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
An Editorial From The

The story of Mr.. and Mrs. ].
F Heilcher-a9 years young
OF Seattle, who recently took a
9,32O-mile lip in their 1921
model T Ford, is far more than
the incident of venerable
couple touring in a venerable
car. They were Americana on
tour. They represented what the
Freedom Train, also on tour.
means in terms of the Ameri-
can way of life. They were the
This is it, of what the United
States is trying to tell the world
about itself.
The Hielschers' parents were
pioneers in Minnesota who
through thrift, hard work, and
an abiding faith in God helped
to lay the foundations of that
great commonwealth. In their
youth, Mr.. and Mrs. Hielscher
left for the Far West frontier
and there reared their family
and saved enough on So a day
to DO a profitable supply bust
ness in Alaska during the gold
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
America: This Is It
Christian Science Monitor

OuTlSLdlu SClcllCC lNo'HN'
rush. They invested their earn =,
ings in real property, ana ". W
day are able to live, ana '9Ss ~
a trip, in enjoyment OF al Wv
freedoms. it<
very main spring is lost Wiulgri W,jiy
mentioning tn great Id'l' \
Bible that occupies q plae' +be
honor in their home. 1t Is w
same in telling the story
America. No.;on
knew that it was not aloiV ~.
developement of natuGa On.
sources, not alone the 1l5S On.
terprise system, that would '.;,e. ys
able d e mocr acy to Sgvtd Sgsand
They knew what to egp Tation
upon, and launched the nI .reIv.,
accordingly; put it !; squ'[ u unorl
reverently - engraved ..T. =. God
the coin of the realm, I'm ~ Of
we trust" 1t is by the tsl,n rI d
their fathers that the slDt+ I,ars is
Americans like the Hlel''i'''
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half a dozen alternate figures
that may make ERP cost as
little as $12 billion or as much
as $23 billion. Estimates simply
can't be made any closer.
Another uncertainty must be
built around how much aid the
U. S. gives to Europe through
third countries - principally
Canada and the Argentine. The
Hartman Committee seems to
agree with the European experts
that it is to the advantage of the
U. S. for European countries to
buy maximum proportion of
their imports from other coun-
tries, with the U. S. footing at
least part of the bills.
Some of the reasons. given are
these: All of Europe's needs
cannot be met in.full from u. S.
production. The third countries
do not have the resources to
advance long-term credit to Eu-
rope. The third countries buy
from the U. S. with the dollars
they get from Europe, so, in a
way, the financing of Europea an
purchases promotes trade in the
U. S.
Of still more importance, the
financing of these European pur-
chases in third countries will re-
duce the drain on American sup
plies and so ease off the de-
mand for scarce goods in the
U. S. That, in turn, is expected
to keep down price levels in he
U. S. What this aid to Europe
through third countries amounts
to, therefore, is said to be a
kind Of subsidy for the Ameri-
can consumers. It may be cock
eyed reasoning, but that's the
way it's being presented.
On the question of how much
aid the U. S. should give these
third countries, there is no GER
tainty at all. The Hartman
committee position is that, to
set top limit allowing the US,
to finance up to two
thirds or three-fourths of all the
aid that Europe might get from
Canada or the Argentine, would
merely mean that these third
countries would insist on getting
the full amount whether needed
or not. Hartman Committee
thinking is that each of these
countries should be dealt with
separately. By negotiation, the
amount of these dollar pur-
chases should be kept at the
lowest possible levels.
All these uncertainties merely
emphasize the fact that the Eu-
ropean Recovery Program will
have to be revised constantly.
year by year or even quar-
ter by quarter, as it goes along.
Trying to write the ticket for the
entire four-year joy ride, in one
omnibus appropriation bill, is
impossible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
Vice Presidential Possibilities

Washington political circles of the dem
siderable thought to . running mate for
President Truman in next years presiden-
tial election or at least indulging in con-
siderable speculation on the subject.
The United Press names several men
in public life who are being linked with
Mr.. Truman. Chief among them is Secretary
of State Marshall. Despite his blunt declara-
ton that he wants no political office he is
eyed in some quarters as draft" prospect
for the vice presidential nomination.
1t may be mentioned paranthetically
that if the Republicans should nominate
either General Eisenhower or General Mac
Arthur, Secretary (GeneraD Marshall might
give either Of them a harder Pun for their
money than Mr.. Truman, as he was Chief
of Staff during the war and had a large
part in plotting their campaigns. It would
be interesting to see which general could
outplot the other in a political campaign.
The United Press notes that Chief Just
ice Fred M. Vinson is numbered among the
Democrats available for place on the dem
ocratic ticket with Mr.. Truman. We in
cline to the belief that Mr.. Vinson is quite
content to preside over the Supreme Court
Others in the UP list are Secretary of
Defense James Forrestal of New York,
Secretary Of Commerce w. Averell Harri-
man, also Of New York, and Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson of New Mexico.
Probably the United Press has not
heard about it yet, but there is a move
nent in Georgia to create sentiment for
former Governor Ellis Arnall of that state
for the place. Governor Arnall has a clear
insight of the nations and the South's situa-
ton, domestically and internationally, but
as it is the custom to nominate for vice presi-
dent man who may be relied on to win
votes in doubtful region he is not likely to
be considered by the convention steerers
The South is too solidly democratic.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
|lodized Salt
| KnocksGoiter
by WILLIAM A. O'BR1pN

co i1M a. O'BRIEN ~,
, Common goiter is now Wv ND
disease, largely as the eT rasn1t a rare
the use of iodized tabla esult sun Of
An editorial in the ,1o',nt' SAT-
the American Medical TUInal A o,
alton warns that there is '.SsoGS y s,;i
ing off in the sale of - fall
salt. Apparently the " n,,b}; tbT}o;lzed
losing interest in goitar rDc s
vention because there sro pre-
few h cases now. Unless W so,,' 50
thing is done to increase some some,
salt use, a return of goiton cn'led
children is predicted. IN
Before modern methods ot
filming were developed. mpcb C5 Fe, :,
the table salt contained 'rrH iodi,s' o'
But in developing a white N,as sss,
which poured easily. the ioS;aN Ssl'
was destroyed by the higb ' tan.
peratures used in the procsas se,'.'
and goiter in children deveI.sS,, I.esS,
from its use. '0peo
Michigan was, one of the fi,.,
states to promote the ur ivaa.s,, as,
use of iodized table salt Iass sa'
latlon w a S enacted which f.. ,.
bade the sale of any other WI ".
riety. Salt companies agreed :.
sell the product at the saw. :.
cost as salt which lacked IODINE
and Public Health authorit;s,
promoted its use. Within sbnrs
time, common goiter was rar,
in Michigan children.
At one time, iodized table al,
was blamed for causing goito,
in adults. 1t is possible to do.
velop goiter from taking iodine
but only in amounts 50 to 1sn
times greater than contained !,
iodized table salt. Occasional
persons are sensitive to iodin,
in iodized table salt, but thei,
number is small and salt, lack.
ing iodine, can be provided for
them.
Last year in Congress, leeis.
lation to outlaw any other tvpe,
of salt except tn a t containing
iodine failed. If this Legislation
had been successful, it would
not be long before common
goiter would become an extinct
disease.
| Mothers of young children
who have not yet reached ma.
turity should use iodized tabl.
salt for all purposes in til.
home. It's use by adults will not
do any harm, even though thew
are past the age at which com.
mon goiter usually develops.
| QUESTION: BY mistake I put
some nose drops in my eye. To
counteract the effect, l washed
them with an advertised patent
eye wash. Do you think this will
have a permanent effect on my
vision?
ANSWER: Your physician
can advise you on the condition
of your eyes. If your medicn.
cabinet had been housecleaned
these patent remedies would
have been discarded and this
mistake would not have oc-
Cured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

A very interesting thing hap
pened in Europe this summer
which is not perhaps fully ap'
preciated here. Every one
knows, of course, that Mr.. Mol
otov, accompanied by a large
delegation, went to Paris
for the preliminary meeting
with Mr.. Bevin and M Bidault
that Poland and Czechoslovakla
had accepted the invitation to
participate and had appointed
their representatives, that other
countries in the Soviet Or
bit were preparing to follow
suit, and that suddenly Mr. Mol
otov broke off the negotiation
and that the Soviet allies were
forbidden to participate.
But what l for one did not
know until I had read the Paris
report, particularly the conclu,
sicns cited above, and hao
m a d. special inquiries was
this: That though the eastern
countries were not present al
Paris, they were treated IN the
essential calculations as If theY
were PRESENT. They were noL
written off. They were counted
in. Though they did not toF.
mally offer information on Wna'
they needed and wha'
they could supply, this intorlrla'
ton was obtained-obvlouSly
with their knowledge and ap'
parently with their consen'
through other channels
through the economic com
mittee for Europe in which they
and the Russians are parliclps'
ing at Geneva.
That was how, and that IS 'n
fact why, the authors OF NV
Paris program were able "
CONTINUED On Page Twelve
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rope, and if not a political settle
ment then at least modus vi
vendi between the east and
west. Quite contrary to the Rus
sian propaganda and to so much
that is being said here at home,
the Paris program envisages a
restor alton of intercourse, not a
showdown and a final separa-
ton. On this crucial point, once
it gets down to the hard facts
and figures, the Hartman COM
mittee's report confirms the
findings of the Paris committee.
"The final determining factor
in the size of a prudent pro-
gram" says the Hartman re-
port, "is the availability of COM
modities in this country. The
committee has canvassed such |
availability in detail. At the Pa
ris conference it was concluded
that the Western Hemisphere
simply did not have the food re-
sources to supply all of the es-
timated needs" Where then are
western Europe and west
ern Germany to obtain the sup
plies which cannot be obtained
in the Western Hemisphere?
The answer, as given in the
Paris report, is that they will
have to be obtained from east
ern Europe: "a substantial and
steady resumption of east
ern European food, feeding
stuffs and timber supplies is as
sumed in this report; pre-war
flow of cereals from eastern Eu-
rope is assumed to be restored
by 1851, and the supplies of tim
ber are assumed to reach rs
per cent of pre-war by 1851"
The estim ates in the Paris re-
port about coal are no less sig
nificant. The European authors
of the plan assumed that "the
required imports of United
States coal will likewise fall
fast, as United Kingdom and
Ruhr outputs expand, and as
increased supplies come for
ward from Poland" BY 1851,
they say, western European inn
ports of coal from America will
fall Al million metric tons to S
million, and during this same
period the imports of Polish coal
will rise from II to 81 million
tons. "These figures says the
Paris report (Vol. II, Chapter w,
Paragraph 1869" are probably on
the high side, as they assume
Poland's ability to carry out her
present long-range plans for the
rehabilitation of her mines, and
to procure from abroad (includ-
ing the United States) a SUBJ
stantial volume of mining
equipment
Thus on food and fuel, the
two most urgently needed sup
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

by dividing Europe, We are like
thirsty men in ship-wreck who
drink salt water, knowing that
it will drive them mad" Ameri-
can diplomacy in Europe will
be defeating American aid to
Europe. If on the other hand,
the Marshall plan is presented
truthfully and accuran antely to the
world, and our diplomacy co-or-
dinated with it, the anti-Ameri-
can campaign will fail. For the
United States will be the sponsor
of an immensely generous and
disinterested plan to bring peace
and happiness to mankind.
The fact of the matter is that
t h e European governments
are participating in the
Paris program assume the eco
nomic unity of Europe, the re-
duction of political barriers to
commerce and mutual aid be-
tween eastern and western Eu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

1t looks more and more as though the
United States will have to accept a two
world concept when we have been working
for a one-world plan. - Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

We no longer can visualize Communist
as bomb-carryins bewhiskered znadman in
heavy boots. Today he is streamlined in all
kinds of guises sometimes behind demo-
cratic front. - Tom Clark, U. S. Attorney
General 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

Inc people of Western Europe see
WHAT'S happening in the east and are fearful
'nat tney will be next unless Russia is told
mat she can 60 so far and no farther - Eric
Johnston, president Motion Picture Associa-
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
Quota tions

The devastation of war has brought us
back to elementals, to the point where we
see clearly how short is the distance from
food and fuel either to peace or to anarchy.
- Dean Acheson, former assistant secretary
Of state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

Americans today live in a richer, more
productive economy, and are enjoying its
oene1lts more equitably, than ever before
IN peacetlme history. - President Truman
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

plies. the Paris report require,
an increase of production in
eastern Europe and a rapid re.
sumption of economic in.
tercourse Certainly" says tn,
report, "the participating coun'
tries intend to do what they can
to encourage it's resumption"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14
GOOD MORNING

To be happy is not the purpose of our
being, but t. deserve happiness.-Fichte.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-14

ANSWER: Your physician
can advise you on the condition
of your eyes. If your medicm.
cabinet had been housecleaned
these patent remedies would
have been discarded nd this
mistake would not have oc-
Cured.