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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
Depression No. 2
BY PETER EDsON

WASHINGTON - Major criti-
cism hurled against President
Truman's anti-inflation program
is that it represents a return to
planned economy"
Truman himself, in one Of the
worst political boners of his ca
reer, admitted at a press con-
ference a month before his spe-
cial message to Congress that
consumer controls were police
state methods. Republicans are
rubbing that one in till it hurts.
Senator and presidential can
didate Robert A. Taft charges
that the Truman administration
is demanding complete power
over everything and everybody
a regimented and planned
economy" Previously Taft de-
clared, ". we can better stand
higher prices than we can stand
a complete relapse to Fascist
reorganization"
Republican National Chairman
|B. Carroll Reece - in what
sounds like an attempt to crack
the first political slogan for 1948
says Truman wants to put "a
cop in every kitchen"
But bless their hearts, if you
removed from Washington all
the people of both parties who
had plans for curing whatever it
is that's wrong with the country,
this place would look deserted.
Making plans is h e biggest
business in the capital. People
who hate the Truman ideas the
most are some of the hottest
planners. Committee for Consti-
tutional Government certainly
one of the most anti-New Deal
outfits in the country and the
second biggest spender among
the registered lobbyists issues
more plans and statements than
Democratic and Republican Ma
tional Committees.
National Assn. of Manufacture
ers fills many wastebaskets with
copies of its plans on taxes,
labor, high prices or what have
you.
Railroads, realtors, farm or
ganizations and labor now have
research staffs and representa-
tives who do nothing but make
plans.
Before World Depression One
most of the planning w2s done
by individual sch ol ars, like
Adam Smith. They would shut
themselves up and write a book.
Next stage of economic plan
ming was for research organi-
cations to put their combined wit
on some trouble and try to find
the cause.
Economic planning really be-
gan to grow during the 1905
when every one was worried
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Palestine Division

The Palestine problem could never have
been solved perfectly, If only because OF
its background Of violence. Too many pas
sions had been aroused, too many mistakes
of judgement and evidences of bad faith had
80 years. Bitter resentment of any United
Nations decision was foregone conclusion.
Yet partition seems the most sensible So
luton. The UN was confronted on the one
hand by the all-or- nothing attitudes of both
Jews and Arabs. On the other were the
commimens of Great Britain, the manda-
tory power, which the League Of Nations
had recognized, and some less official
pledges made by this country It may be
faint praise to call partition "better than
nothing" as some UN delegations did. But
that was the choice, and the decision was
about all that anyone could reasonably
hope for.
The UN's task was made harder by the
behavior of all three principals. The Brit
ish government pledged and unpledged. It
played both ends against the middle. At
the end it washed its hands Of the whole
business by refusing to help enforce de
cision that was not agreeable to both
parties.
The Arab governments, speaking for Pal
lestine's Moslems, cried that petition was
illegal, though there is no exact precedent
for this situation and no authority to penal
ize the alleged illegality. They argued that
the Jews have no claim to the Holy Land,
which is a matter of opinion, not of fact.
They virtually melted their citizens to
murder Jews by their talk of "holy war;"
| When the l1N decision did come it was
the Arabs turn to become hysterical The
Charter, they said, was dead. They refused
to be bound by the Assenbly's decision.
Their behavior showed neither grace nor
an acceptance of reality. It may be hoped
that the Arab governments will cool down
and admit the tragic foolishness of their
position. They cannot expect support from
the great powers. Bloodshed will not make
the UN Assembly change its decision.
| AS responsible heads of nations, these
governments ought to admit the generally
overlooked fact that the Palestine Arabs
have been given independence, just as the
Jews have been given government.
Although the surface causes of post-par-
ltition strife are political, the underlying
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about what had hit the country
in World Depression On e and
what might be done in case
World Depression Two loomed
over the horizon.
The New Deal of course went
in for planning in a big way.
That's. where the dog got its bad
name. Nevertheless, the govern
ment's National Resources Plan
ming Board did some exceptional
work.
But outside government a few
blue ribbon private and endowed
groups have begun to take hold.
Today, National Planning Assn.
founded in 1884, and Committee
for Economic Development,
started in 1943, are probably at
the top of the heap among the
private organizations interested
in trying to steer the economy
for the general good.
It is difficult to know just how
much good these planners do.
Certainly, congressional reor-
ganization could 1ot have been
put over in 1916 if advance plan
ming had not been done by
George B. Galloway for the
American Politicitl Science Assn.
and Robert Heller for the Nation
al Planning Assn.
National Planning Assn. was
probably responsible for starting
the thinking on postwar recon-
version and full employment in
'41-'42.
Committee for Economic De-
velopment, in studies by A. D.
H. Kaplan, anticipated most of
the contract termination policies
later developed by Barney Ba-
ruch for the postwar planning.
Some of their ideas have been
duds and flops. Other examples
of plans that panned out could
be given. Those cited above il
lustrate the main point, which is
that economic planning is now
a science.
Every big business firm now
has its planning staff. And for
the government, which is the
biggest business of them all, to
try to get along without plan
ming would be the height of folly.
Only a few of the politicians
have yet walked up to the fact
that politics is no longer purely
an emotional game. 1t is also a
science-political science.
Politicians, tn fore, don't
mean what they say when they
talk about doing away with
planning and the planned econo-
my. The Republican proposal to
cut taxes and let the economy
run wild is just as much a plan
as Truman's proposal to try
putting on a few curbs and at
tempting to prevent World De-
preston Two.
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Public Housing

Senator Mccarthy, whose Joint
congressional committee on
housing has just wound up a
two-month trip around the coun-
try to learn about the problem
at first hand, favors housing for
the people but he is against hous-
ing by the people. He believes
the market can be supplied with
out Government ownership or op-
Grafton of any of the housing. He
reports that the construction in
dustry is unable to build houses
Tor rental in the $35-to$50-a-
month range, and he favores a
to permit it to do so.
While Senator Mccarthy is
exerting his utmost efforts in be-
malt OF low income families by
trying to get houses built for
rental at $35 to $50 a month, let
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The Industrial Picture

Wilmingtons more progressive citizen
ship is deeply concerned that more and
greater industries are not locating in the
city. They read of great corporations build
ing plants elsewhere chiefly beyond the
North Carolina borders - which not only
provide employment for many workers
during construction but will have jobs Tor
even more workers when the plants are
in operation.
The Star recently pointed out that the
Celanese Corporation is starting factory
construction at Rock Hill, S. c., which will
entail an ultimate cost Of $60,000000, and
that at Lancaster, S. c., great bleachery
is nearing completion. The du Points are
also investing heavily in a plant in West
Virginia. All will create payrolls running
into the millions annually.
The question in many minds is: Why is
Wilmington not getting its proper share OF
this industrial expansion? The answer is
not hard to find. Several of the nations
great manufacturing concerns have looked
over the ground here and have all been
favorably impressed by the natural lay Of
the land, the convenience of rail and water
Investigators discovered that the compa-
nies must pay both city and county taxes
they have sought sites in other states where
the tax load is lighter.
In some cases it is reported that cities
have guaranteed prospective industries
complete freedom from taxes for as much
as five years. When this is discussed in
Wilmington it is pointed out that similar
guarantee is illegal. The law is very clear
v.on the subject But the progressive ele-
ment in the population wants to know why
appraisals for tax purposes on new indus
tries cannot be lowered to minimum dur
ing the years these industries are getting
started.
Even though there might be some loss
in tax revenue by this means for few
years, ultimately taxes would flow in in
unprecedented volume as employees of new
plants would be subject to taxation.
Clearly there is need for a more pro-
eressive and aggressive program, whether
it includes this provision or something else
;, equally alluring, if Wilmington is to figure
in the Southern industrial picture as con-
spicuously and profitably as it is capable
of doing.
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The kind of agreement that u
possible-and may in the end Do
attainable -- is agreement 70
withdraw from constant contac'
in all the hot spots Of the sloOs'
That is, I believe, the base pa''
tern on which peace, if 1t ca
be made at all, must in the en-
be made.
Those who take this vie" WIZ
say that a two-power world u u
intolerable, and that the otna
states and nations, now SUI
merged ath the Sov,r \,
American conflict, must J."
called back to redress the Oa
ance which Russia and Amer. y.
ca alone can never hope " y,
achieve. That, however niu'D =, /.
may be misrepresented by y ',
enemies and even by man! ~. "
it's ardent but uninforned ,.. 'ur
porters, was the orlslnal p~
pose of the Marshall plan
It is the only purpose ts
which it can conceivably De W
Grated successfully. Wi.
Copyright, 1947, Neg 1oIA
Herald Tribune Inc
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Operations A;d
Ulcer Victim,
FRIDAY, DECEMRFa
BY WILLIAM A. o'pp,r,.

y 6HlEN, Nm
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ly problems al for msdica1 p'lnass n
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heal, continued develaa'l n, ul's' 10
ulcers us;e Under under treatment, t'",a' ,.s, s
ps1a,,pt: pain, psrf0rati0n, blssai,'s 's''',
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tn 'naf a surgical operation i. '','s n.ae
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thou thought 1a, to be factor ''sS' ,s /.
formation, the real csnsa n ules,
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mum, a portion of The Os s,,H dHod.'
testlne. Healthy stomscSS!aA SS!As4 ! u,
digest dig themselves, t,st'9S but is do DO. ao,:
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or more spots. s0 In one
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stomach, near the openin, 0l a
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acld' Most OF it comes hs fro!s much
lower three-fourths. wSsnn s.0n tie
tic ulcer patients fail 'a to ra PEP
to medical treatment, tba b''SP'at
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ach can be removed and nis , ''ea'
opening made into the in iats,t'sss E new
Studies of patients, who b,,',
naa most OF their stomach nave "
moved I, because of ulcers. iI,'ra Sa.l', II,
that the majority benefit 's'ssI ,.
the operation. "on
Some of the patients said A
they could not drirA milk st'I I.''
the operation. A small 'aa narasSs ass'
age found that they coujd |',s al,
eat sweets. A few complains Nv, ',
feeling queer after eatjpg "
Many of the peptic ulcer ~.
tlents, who had been dissb., IL
by their sickness, were ahls "
60 back to work after tbe =.
Grafton, although, in so1. NJ
cases, shange of work was NJ" n.''
essary. ''
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ing severe complicated oent,
ulcers are found, removal of II.
portion of the stomach vbic,
produces the most acid is ~
parently the most helpful mets,
cd.
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us turn to page 168 Of :, C"',,. +" n,
Abrams excellent book x..5, d.
Future of Housing ana 18th. .s
&c. .Forty-one dollars "a. a lI,f II h.
is more than four-fllIl's rTIriti "
urban tenants in me ~snt IN
States were paying f0I
1940." .,bs
What does Senator w. fot.
propose to do for the lo%sI ',.s.s con con.
fifth?What can the prNGT;Ss The az
struction industry do: I5othins.
So perhaps Senator 20 NO. .oo and
should turn to page 100 ~ w. rpupIc
learn why there mus! .ont w .hel
housing to provide oeos ic,ns to'
ter for those Amerlcsip55u sin5ustc7
whom the construction ins' ;as they
cannot provide it at a p''
can afford.
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To-day And Tomorrow
BY WALTER LIPPMAN

our neighbors, the many Latin
American republics, ar the
heirs a nd successors of the
Spanish empire which was par
titioned at the beginning of the
nineteenth century, and our own
Monroe Doctrine wa S a decla-
ration against the attempt to re-
establish the Spanish empire.
The vote in the General As
sembly of the United Nations
was in the last analysis recog-
milton of the fact that since
Britain is no longer able to
maintain an imperial peace in
Palestine, the un fl e d power
which she has exercised must be
divided among the communities
which will remain after the Brit
ish leave. The United Nations
have had the wisdom not to at
tempt the impossible - namely
to create an artificial substitute
for the unified British imperial
rule. They have accepted all the
unavoidable risks which always
and everywhere are present
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Initiation And Politics

So In order to get the administrations pro-
gram before the public and particularly be-
fore the Congress- Chairman wolcott of the
House Banking Committee has persuaded
Secretary of Labor schwellenbach to pre-
mare a bill which will set forth specifically
The the waee and price controls and rationing
~nowers advocated by President Truman.
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Progress In Reconversiou

Merchants got used to recey.
ing goods in paper boxes durin,
the war. r. w. Jernigan at Eu,
banks drugstore was surprised
to get a shipment in a wooden
box last week. He welcomed \
as a sign of progress in recover,
sion.-Chapel Hill Weekly.
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ences, their traditions and TEN
peraments, prevent them from
working together on positive
projects which call for team
work and for close contact and
daily give and take. We must
not, I believe, expect collabc'
ration of that kind, and almost
certainly it has been a costly
business to make the expert
ment of trying to treat the whole
complex turbulent world as one
world which could be put in o.
der by a series of unanimous
agreements among the three Of
four great powers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
A New Worry

A Harvard astronomer rn.
diets that the world will come 10
an end within the next few nil
lion years. So now we have som,'
thing else to worry about -
Roanoke (Va.) Times.
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Going, Going

Better get a good laugh al u,
bathing suits ther're wearing i.
these times because in litA,
while there won't be anything 10
laugh at. Bainbridge Maintheet
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
GOOD MORNING

To be perfectly just is an attribute OF
the divine nature; to be 50 to the ut
most Of our abilities, is the glory OF
man. Addison.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
Book Gauging

It's really a good book il M
context measures up to the blurb
on the jacket.-Winston-Sa
Journal.
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not been used to governing
themselves, are cut loose and
must then govern themselves.
One of the Arab leaders has
pointed out that in the lineup
of the nations on the partition
of Palestine, all tn states of
Asia were opposed or abstain
ing. That is true. But the array
of the nations which voted for
PARTON is perhaps m ore sig
nificant. The United Kingdom
But the old dominions
of the British commonwealth of
nations voted for partition. So
also did France, the Netherlands
and Belgium-all of them west
ern nations with imperial inter-
ests.
When the peoples of Asia
study the decision, they will see
that its greatest significance is
that it recognizes the fact that
he time has passed when the
destiny of Asia can be deter
mined paternally by the great
powers, that the time has come
when the dependent peoples of
Asia must rule themselves
even though the price is the
blood, the sweat, and the tears
all peoples have paid who
have achieved freedom.
The agreement in the U. NJ,
which represents far greater
unaninity than the numerical
vote, could never have been
reached if the proposal for Pal
estine had called for some sort
of international government to
replace the British rule. The
agreement was possible because
it does not require the interna-
tional administration of Pales-
tine, and all the confusion and
contr adictions which arise when
ever the great powers attempt
the impossible task of ruling
jointly. The partition means that
the great powers are withdraw
ing from the internal admins
of the communities of
Palestine, are leaving it to the
sized a nd smaller ma
tions to assist in the transfer of
power to tn e Palestinian COM
munities, and are, as great pow
ers, limiting themselves to the
prevention of international ag-
gression across the n ew inter-
national frontiers of the Middle
East.
The decision in the U. N. is
the first important agreement
between the Soviet Union and
the western powers-pssticular-
ly the United States. 1t is inter-
to note, and I think in
'tructive, that it is an agree
ment to withdraw from the in
terror of a country.
Experience shows us tn it
lust is not possible for the great
powers to cOllaborate in GOVERN
lng other countries-be it Korea,
Austria, or Germany. Their in
.ereStS $bais Z
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Milford Center

Word was received here of the
death Friday, of Harry Bowen ir
Columbus. Mr.. Bowen and family
were former Milford Center resi-
dents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marian Wood
children, Jimmy and Linda, at
tended the Wood reunion held at
Legion park, Marysville, Sunday
afternoon and evening.
Miss Ethel Mccullough, of
Rosedale, was caller here Mon
day.
Mrs. Jacob Kaufman, Mrs.
Carl Kaufman, Mrs. Walter Kauf-
man, and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Stillings, were callers Sunday
evening on Mrs. John Kaufman
and baby daughter at White Cross
hospital, Columbus.
Christian Education week and
the Nation Wide Church school
home visitation campaign begins
Sunday September IA, continuing
through Sunday, October IL.
T Through Christian Education
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week the church seeks to arouse
the entire Church to the need fol
Christian education and to create
and interest in the Church schoo
throughout the community.
Mrs. Charles Thompson, Mrs
Clarence Vance and Mrs. knight
Kimball attended the State Fair
on Tuesday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Homsher
and daughter, Mary Lee, ofXenia
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cary Homsher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Jenny, son.
Paul, were Sunday evening sup
per guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
Reed.
Miss Nancy Lewis and Delphi,
Jr., of Richmond, Ind, came Fri
day evening for a weeks visit
while their mother, Mrs. Martha
Lewis, is caring for Mrs. John
Kaufman and baby in Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. o. Brill, were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. R.
j. Woodward and sons, Bobby and
Glen, and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Oberle and daughter, Pamala, of
Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Hempy
will move to Columbus Friday.
Mr.. Hempy expects to rest few
months before going into business
again.
Mrs. Edith Orahood entertained
the Hi-Jinx club Wednesday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Howard,
daughters, Mary Alice and Ann,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Merkle,
have returned to their home from
a motor trip to Canada and also
visited Mrs. Merkle and Mr..
Howard's brother-in -in-law and sis
ter, DR.. and Mrs. Albert Chapman,
at their home in Rochester, N. Y.
Miss Ruth Gugel has returned
home after visiting friends in the
East.
Mr.. L. L. Curtis has purchased
the Mummey Tavern on the Ken
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Farm Council

Farm Council
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Botkin
entertained members of the Farm
council at their home Thursday
evening. A pot luck dinner was
enjoyed. Following the dinner a
business meeting was held. Those
attending were Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry McMahill, Mr.. and Mrs,
Walter Black, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Carey, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Lin
coin, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wal
lace, Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus Can
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. George Ingram,
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Kimball and
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Fought, of Ur-
bana, r. D.
al Years at Janitor
Pearl Hess begins his 41st year
as janitor of the Woodstock
schools with the opening of this
year school next Tuesday. He was
still attending school when he
began to assist Minard Sessions,
janitor for many years in the
grade school building. He has
served under II superintendent.
Mr.. Hess is an expert carpenter
and his main hobby is working
with the boys in the manual
training arts department. He is
deeply interested in all school
activities and enjoys his asso-
citation with the students. 1t has
been his interest effort and am
bition to keep the building and
grounds in first class condition.
Factory Opens
The w. c.. Lincoln and Son can
ming factory started its first run
Saturday and due to rain they
were unable to pick the tomatoes
and it was a short run.
Carter Reunion
A pot-luck dinner of the Carter
family was enjoyed at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Carter
Sunday. Those there were Mrs.
Ben Darrow, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Holberg and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Griffith and daughter, and Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Carter. and family,
of Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Carter and children, of Toledo;
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elder,
of Goldsboro, N. c., and Mrs.
Mary Carter.
Mrs. Overfield Hostess
Mrs. Clyde Overfield entertain
ed the members of her card club
at the.home of her daughter, Mrs.
Robert Shelter, in Mechanicsburg,
Thursday afternoon. Late sum-
mer flowers were used profusely
through out the rooms.
The usual rounds of bridge
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Gertie Horn and Mrs. Gertie Nicol
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan McNabh
GLADYS Burns) are the proud
parents of baby girl born Sat
urday morning at Mt. Carmel
hospital.
Mrs. Neva Scheiderer enter
tanned the Euchre club Wednes-
day night at which Ronnie Hill
bert, Elite White and Gertie Nicol
were guests. Opal Daley got first
reward; Mrs. George won second
and Eta White received low.
Ella Jean Salisbury and Patti
10 George were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Zimmerman at the
r. E. A. picnic Tuesday at Amer
lean Legion Park.
Richard Young had the opening
of his garage Tuesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hensley, Mrs.
Argo and Mr.. and Mrs. Britt Stall
maker were Sunday evening
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray John
son.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert Colds
berry has purchased the Safley
property and Johnnie Taylor will
move in the Young property,
which was vacated by Goldsberry
previously.
Mr.. Howard Brown and family
and mother, Mrs. jessie Brown,
spent the day at the Columbus
Zoo, Sunday.