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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
DiversificatiOn

Crop Investigation, in which some sec
lions of the South are backward, has reach
ed q high level in New Hanover county. The
subject was under discussion during the IN
terval between sales on-the Wallace tobacco
market the other day. Listing the large va
riety of harvests, these were named:
radishes, lettuce, tomatoes, beets, turnlps,
potatoes, sweet potatoes, some corn, some
tobacco and, perhaps most valuable of all,
bulbs.
In addition, New Hanover farmers raise
some hogs, some beef and thousands OF
chickens, both for meat and eggs. Berries
too, are being increasingly grown.
Few city jewellers realize the Importance
of the c%ounty's agriculture. It is among the
county's chief industries.
Its rise is not only due to the thrift and
hard work of the farmers themselves, IN
dispersible as these attributes have been
It is also due to the scientific research, In
cooperation with State College, which has
shown what the soil in certain areas require
to assure best production.
This is well illustrated in the improve
ment of lettuce. County farmers could raise
as fine looking lettuce as their confreres
anywhere, but it did not nave the sweetness
80 indispensable from the best marketable
product. BY experimentation, in all farm
neighborhoods the chemical elements lack
ing in the soil were supplied. Now, New
Hanover county lettuce is as delicious as
any raised elsewhere. What is true of let
tuce is equally true of other crops.
New Hanover county agriculture is in {
preferred position. It could only be hoped
that the markets were always as sound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Brigade Winter Program

The Brigade Boys Club will inaugurate its
winter season tomorrow night, when Physl-
cal Director Cutler will outline the program.
All that can be announced in advance IS
that gymnasium classes will start on Sep
TENDER %
AS the gym proved among the most pop
ular and well attended projects last year,
it is anticipated attendance his winter will
by ever greater, to the benefit of the boys
participating. Mr.. Culler's skill with boys,
particularly in the teen-age group, was fully
established not only last winter but also at
the Bruce B. Cameron Memorial Boys camp
this summer.
The Brigade, having closed the camp after
it's most successful period, hopes to be able
by next summer to keep the Armory at
Second and Church streets open while the
camp is in progress, for the convenience o.
boys who. have either been to camp or for
one reason or another were unable to enjoy
it's facilities.
Boys eligible for membership in the Bril-
gade nave as great need for its services DUR
ing the long school vacation as while school
81 in session. To have a place of their own
where they may 60 to use the game room
the gym, the showers-the many attractions
at the ~armory-when the weather is hot ano
the days and evenings long, would certainly
be a desirable expansion of the Brigade's
services.
Heretofore it has been necessary to Close
the armory while the.camp was open because
the entire staff was needed at the camp. BY
next year it is anticipated that arrange
ments can be made to have someone on duty
at the armory throughout the summer, will
the camp and armory simultaneously in oper
alton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Churchill AT The Crossroads

Today will provide opportunity to learn
il Winston Churchill, wartime Prime Minis
ter of Great Britain and Conservative party
leader, is still a power in British politics.
A by-election in Liverpool, in which a con-
seryative candidate seeks a seat in Com
mons, is the occasion. Mr.. Churchill wrote
m open letter endorsing the candidate and
in addition warned the British people if they
do not throw the socialists out" it may be
too late to save the country.
1.-THE longer the dismissal of the Socialist
government from office is put off" he said
"the worse things will get and the harder
1t will be to repair the damage they have
done"
Not so many years ago MIR. Churchill was
literally the voice of Britain. What he said
was final On any subject. BY sweeping the
land while the fighting was still in progress,
the laborites took over with a program OF
state socialism. and ever since he has never
failed IN raise his voice in Commons and out
when eiven half a chance to point out the
r.sbr governments blunderings as he saw
4h.r, hut with little effect upon the British
people as a whole.
In his DAYS of national leadership he wa:
nrobablv the most powerful figure in al
major nations, not excluding Preslden'
Roosevelt. In fact President Roosevelt, TO-
the, most part, needed MI. Churchllrs die
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Month Before DOOmSdaV

ROME - Here in this ancient
city, the surface of life is de-
ceptively tranquil and agree
able. Among their monuments
of $500 years, among the foun-
tains and the flowers, the peo-
pie of Rome appear to enjoy
themselves without a care for
the morrow. Yet here a disaster
is preparing which, if not avert
ed, is entirely capable Of under
mining the whole shaky post
war structure of Europe.
The Italian government is
running out of dollars. 1t is as
simple as that. The American
public has already received in
timations that trouble is afoot.
But the dimension, the depth
and the extreme urgency of the
trouble have not as yet been
even vaguely suggested.
In the simplest terms, accord
ing to official estimates agreed
upon both by Italian and Amer
lean authorities, the treasury OF
Italy now contains no more thar
$45 million of hard cash. That
is the entire reserve. That is
all the Italian government has
to buy abroad the wheat, coal
and raw materials without
which the Italian people cannot
live. Since the government must
spend approximately $40 million
a month on imports to maintain
the life of Italy at the present
low level, doomsday is only a
few weeks off.
For us in the conlplacent
United States, with our gigantic
budget. it is difficult to con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Indian Nightmare


In an article in this newspa-
per yesterday, Miss Margaret
Parton, a Herald Tribune cor
respondent now in India, gave
the estimate that three weeks
OF independence for Hindustan
and Pakistan have cost the lives
OF nearly $4,000 men,. women
and children, slaughtered in the
1anatlcal communal outbreaks
engendered by the division of
India; they have cost the de-
struction of thousands of vii
lagos, burned or evacuated:
they have cost a panic mass
transfer of populations, involv-
ing already something like
1000, 900 souls and which NAV
reach three or four times that
number before it is over. These
are statistics of death and dew
astation comparable to those
produced by all save the great
est OF wars. 1t is a disaster
Which, in Miss Parton's phrase,
has turned the dream of Indian
independence into a nightmare
and has left the Hindu and Mos
lem peasants crying out for a
return of "the British Raj"
1t is a disaster compounded
by the utter incapacity of the
ordinary Indians for freedom or
democratic co = operation. Rid
den with caste and communal
olfferences, unframed in the
simplest elements of collective
responsibility in a free society.
they are without resources of
leadership or initiative. Because
the Hindu "untouchables" who
looked after the sewage have
decamped from Pakistan, the
West Punjab is facing a posi-
BILE cholera epidemic, but does
not dream Of looking after the
sewage itself. 1t is this division
and inertia, more than the ap-
palling loss of life - life, un-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11

proximately three quarters,
most factories will have to close
their doors. It is frightening to
calculate what proportion of the
six million Italian industrial
workers will then be without
support.
For a long time the Italian
government has been address
ing despairing appeals for as
sistance to the administration in
Washington. The first Of these
appeals must in dee have
reached the State Department
before President Truman made
his curious remark that, he saw
nothing on the horizon demand
ing a special session. Nor is it
any wonder that the italian gov
eminent should be desperate.
What threatens here in Italy
makes the discussions of the
Marshall plan in Paris almost
wholly academic for the pres
ent. If aid of some sort is not
Immediately forthcoming, Italy
will be plunged into starvation
and joblessness.
Precisely those groups in the
population among whom the
Communists have made their
gains-the industrial workers of
the north and the landless agri-
cultural workers-will be hit the
hardest. The whole economy
will inevitably collapse in a VIC
lent surge of initiation. And the
ultimate absorption of Italy into
the Soviet sphere will become
an almost absolute certainty.
This is the main outline.
Washington can still take steps
to avert the disaster, but they
must be taken quickly. Mean
while two things are plain. II
this disaster is permitted to oc-
cur, all the effort of American
policy in the past two years will
be wasted. Moreover if Italy
enters the Soviet sphere, the
eastern Mediterranean and the
Middle East will be cut off. and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
MIR. Parks Four F's

MIR. John A. Park, Raleigh publisher, DIRE"
a vivid word picture of conditions IN Ter
manv. in his address before the Rotary
club. Four prime problems food, fuel
fear and Illustration - he said, must De
solved before Germany can hope to reas'
sumo a creditable position in the com
monwealth of nations.
MI. Park was a member Of the publish
ers' party that visited Germany last spring
to observe the situation at short range, Dur
ing the month spent in the occupied zones
the members saw how the people are hV'
ing, what handicaps they have to put ur
with, how they are being exploited IN the
Russian area, what little hope they have
of recognizing themselves into a ma
ton. Unless they are permitted unoe'
adequate supervision to resume Il
turing and industry, they will never emerge
from their pitiable plight, MI. Park told
Wilmington Rotary. The Germans AVE
never been an agricultural people; to at
tempt to turn them into farmers would De
to defeat Germany's rehabilitation.
Mr.. Park cited the fact that Russia is max
ing the best of its opportunity to promote
communism in it's zone, which accounts fo1
the fourth F in his category frustra-
ton. So far as the outside world is concern
ed. he is correct in saying that the greatest
obstacle of Europe's recovery is Russia, and
that the outstanding need in Germany is for
the United States to maintain a large &C.
c~,1pation force in it's own zone. To retire
now would mean that Russia would be IN
position to overrun all Europe, including
England, and that inevitably would lead TO
the end of western civilization.
The western democracies necessarily must
grid themselves against this fate. by DONG
their part in disposing of the three remain
ing Fs listed by Mr.. Park, the western world
NAV eventually overcome the peril OF a COM
munized Europe. The United States IS pre-
pairing to do what it can, through the Mar
shall plan, to supply food. The fuel need IS
in a fair way for solution with the United
States and British occupation authorities
united for coal production and France IN a
conciliatory attitude both on the question OF
coal and steel. This leaves the third fear
To be overcome To eradicate fear 1t IS
necessary to display communism IN It's
proper light. The Germans must be SHOWN
that disease, starvation, want are the favor
ed weapons of communism.
Mr.. Park cannot be thanked too much 1or
his frank description of conditions in Ger
many as he found them. More of this KIND OF
information, and less propaganda, would be
welcome.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11

to climb, something to create national filters.
OF course price- are too high. Of course
something should be done to force them
down. OF course the government ought to
find a way to do it. Of course the govern
ment, having encouraged wage advances,
cannot expect to find it. But it is equally
certain that another wage advance, prob
ably preceded by another strike wave, which
would slow production and lessen supplies,
could not fail to send prices even higher.
The need is for labor to begin to do a
full DAYS work, instead of holding back, so
that production could catch up with demand,
or exceed demand a little bit. When this is
done. the cost of living will come down.
But not until it is done.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
in proportion. with its resources. 10 IN
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses. snip repair facilities. near.
By sites tor heavy industry and So-too'
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough TO meet
needs for years to come.
Development Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re.
sources through better markets and 1000
processing. pulp wood production ano
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages ana improvement OF resort
accommodations.
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Carolina farm-to-market and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the Citys IN
dustrial Agency to attract more IN
dustries.
Proper utilization Of Bluethenthal air
mort for expanding air service.
Development Of Southeastern North
Cardinals heath facilities, especially IN
counties lacking hospitals. and hciud'
ing a Negro Health center.
ENCOURAGEMENT Of the growth OF COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation OF City and County gov
ernments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Fish Story
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN

his net. He caught several this
way. He ate one which he re
ported wasn't as good as the
sawfish steak, but was still very
tasty. The natives consider the
four-eyed fish a great delicacy.
The four-eyed fish was only
about eight inches long, while
the saw-tooth one measured six
feet, not including the saw tooth.
The Smithsonian Institution at
.taches great Importance to the
fact that the four-eyed fish
''bring forth their young alive
DR.. Miller's work Was a fish
survey under the joint auspices
of the Guatemalan government,
the State Department, the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, and
the Smithsonian. Part of the eff
fort was purely scientific, and
part of the job was to get in
formation for game and COM
mercial fishermen.
It's not part of DR.. Miller's
work to eat the fish he catches.
He just likes fish and enjoys
cooking them. He estimates that
he's tried between 40 and so diff
ferent species, including shark
meat, during his career both as
an amateur and professional
angler. Sawfish and four : eyed
delicacies Notwithstanding, Mil
Ter says his favorite is still U. S.
trout. He likes them either baked
or grilled and with a little lemon
juice. He says they taste betteS
if you eat them in The open.
Another fish that makes mighty
good eating and which every
seafood lover ought to taste at
least once before he dies, ac-
cording to Miller, is the Guate-
malan catfish. They aren't the
same as the catfish caught in
the U. S., which few people eat.
They're more like sunfish and
hav~ a very distinctive flavor.
The only thing Miller doesn't
like too well about being q scien-
tlfic fisherman is what he calls
the unfair methods you have to
use to catch the fish" While at
college his favorite pastime was
fly-castine in a good mountain
stream. He says it just isn't
sport when you have to use 20
pistols, gill-nets and lanterns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11

fortunately, has always Il.
cheap among the Indian na
lions - which depressed the w
server and leaves the lnalag
themselves in a mood OF ol'''
crisis. ,,.l.
opments are no argument l u'Ls,
re-establishment Of British rusi
British imperialism has Pia'E
out it's historic role in lnala, =
had become an anachrorlssssss
and the very difficulties j., o. l,; sr
change are a reason TOR DEM IN.
ing that change had become IN, M
perative. The tragedy =, Nh
ever, a reminder that re Sis
of the British Raj was a M
toric one, that it played a s mi
in many ways a creative a nj
in many ways an indlspens' d
part in the developn- en- sdpr
modern India. 1t is a re"i nth;
also, of somewhat dourer s Iprr
that freedom is not a e
thing, that Western demo- mo spi
is itself only one tragne ts
rather delicate flower upoD tbst
stem of social organization, ; rs
many societies demand rrors
torial order and discipline 'i and
than they demand llbeI.s hat
that no one can be sure SURE. vii
any simple set of princlploo4+ "a.
rule the future. The ga Ia are
tionalist revolutions IN A Soader;
presenting the Asiatlc t5o fat
with tests of statesm aIS ,'s thar
more complex and perll '3os only
they seemed when j, Wa Wa I'M.
a matter of battlins aii 1eaying
perialism; they are dt the
Western democracy o d,
same time, with the u1lc ,or not
able thought that IT ln nJ that
know =" th.e answers "n' cleat
the f, may be far less ;ssclinsd
and simple than one -
to imagine Il.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
BY JOSEPH ALSOP

ceive the difference that $40
million a month makes in this
country. The facts are all too
bleakly plain, however.
The rich eat well on the free
market, but the average Italian
lives on 200 grams Of bread
daily plus a few drops of oil,
a little vegetables and a morsel
of cheese. Two hundred grams
is less than a pound A very
large proportion of the wheat to
make the bread is imported,
and this percentage must rise
in the months ahead because Of
this summers bad harvest. Ces-
sation of wheat purchases in the
United States will mean & mini
mum cut in the bread ration
of about one-third.
Furthermore, Italian industry
imports the bulk of it's raw ma
terlalS, and requires Twelve mil
lion tons of foreign coal annual
ly to Keep running. There is al
ready serious unemployment in
Italy-at least a million and a
half are jobless-chiefly because
coal imports are currently no
more than ten million tons an
nually. Of these coal imports,
somewhere close to seven mil
lion tons must be brought from
the United States becau/e of the
failure of British and German
production.
Thus, if Italy is no longer
able to buy coal from America,
the entire industrial machine
will collapse like a house of
cards. With their already made
o11ate fuel SUPPLIES cut by ap-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11

WASHINGTON - With vaca-
tons over for most people, it's
the open season on fish stories
about the big ones that got
away. And, following the trend
of everything in Washington, 1t
appears that fish stories are now
being centralized, too.
This ones told by young, good
natured DR.. Robert R. Miller,
who earns his keep as q biologist
for the Smithsonian Institution.
He's strictly in the Izaak Walton
big league. Fishing now is his
lob. instead of his favorite sport,
as it used to be.
During a recent junket
to some of the best fishin' holes
in South and Central America,
Miller claims he hauled in, all
told, about so, 900 fish. His best
catch was made at Lake Yzabel
in Guatemala. 1t was a giant
fresh-water sawfish named Big
Tooth" Miller gave it that name
last year when the rare speci-
men defied his best efforts to
bag him. This year, however,
Miller went down equipped with
a 125-foot gill-net which die the
job. A gill-net is one with many
sized holes which snares almost
anything finny.
After Miller got ali the scienti-
fic data he needed from Big
Tooth, he cut off a large steak
and ate it. Miller says it tasted
mighty good and there wasn't
a trace of the critters orneri-
ness in the steak. He saved the
saw-tooth part.
His toughest catch was a four
eyed affair he finally had to land
with the aid of a net, a % pistol
loaded with dust-shot, and a Ian
tern. It was the first like it ever
caught. The fish swims at the
surface with two eyes under the
water and two eyes just above
it. None of the lures in Miller's
bait box would do the trick after
several days of trying, so he
took a tip from the Guatemalan
natives. He went out at night
with a lantern. This attracted it
to the surface and blinded it
when the two top eyes got above
the shallow water. Miller aimed
and shot, then picked 1t up with
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
Whiteville Tobacco Market

With fifteen warehouses;, Whiteville is
Justly proud of the fact that it's tobacco mar
ket has sold Is per cent of the states crop
to date.
North Carolina sales of the golden leaf
are estimated at go, 900, 900 pounds. To the
abacadraba Of the auctioneer 15,OOO,Ooo
pounds have already changed owners In
Whiteville, at the average price of $45.52
hundred.
Certainly Columbus county as a whole
and it's tobacco growers in particular, are
to be congratulated that their market IS
proving such a success.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11

the rest of western Europe vi
be in urgent danger. For wal
of a sum approximately ON
third as large as the America
female population pours anha I.
ly into the beauty parlors, 70
United States will be brough'
straits as inherently despefis a.
as the straits of Britain ait
Munich. This is a crisis wol'
than the Greek crisis OF la
winter.
Copyright, 1947, New YofA
Herald Tribune, Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
I%nseparable Spirals

Every time the unions have forced an IN
crease in wages the price of living has ad-
vanced. And every time the cost OF living
has risen there has been a new and Tor the
most part successful demand for higher
wages. The two spirals are inseparable.
This is what makes the announcement OF
the American Federation of Labor execu-
tive council, that another round OF wage de-
mands will be forthcoming it prices continue
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tates AZ lackey obeys his master. Now the

tates al q lackey obeys his master. Now the
once powerful Premier must seize a single
by-election as his sounding board.
Will the electorate of Liverpool accept
him, as they did once, or turn a deaf ear to
to his warning? It is not possible to f%oretell.
By night, Mr.. Churchill will discover
whether he is a prophet without standing
in his own land, or on his way back to at
least a semblance of his old power.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-11
WAoopINccoUcH
HAS HEAVY Tn,
BY WILLIAM A O,pn,

More young children ~, ND.
whooping cough, and a4t troa
pl1eations, than from rs 81 'oa.
childhood combined 'Sessss d
The infection can ba
ed in the majority 81 pseysa
children by giving them You.
ing cough vaccine between 4 ~
fifth and seventh months 'as4
One cubic centime,er
special alum precipitstea Of .
ture Is injected into al lev. INN
arms at one month inter-,
I'll three are given. This u
be combined with d'nS,. H.
toxoid without destroyj1S '.
fectiveness. Occasionally ~ +, {,
tender spot develops =, . si
point Of injection, but this M
appears if it is left aIone Us
Booster doses OF wboo,.
cough vac cine, 0jrntbs4!
toxoid, tetanus toxoid . III
smallpox vaccine Should bo aa'
en- to immunized children 'r
they enter school and wbfror%'s
they are exposed to any Of tbs,.
infections. A new skin tes, ~" ~
been developed for determin ta
resistance to whooping co,s.
and physicians often use it st T.,
the child has been immuni7ss
to learn the result.
Whooping cough is an Ann.
infection of the respiratory NJ,
sages caused by a special Penn
In advanced stages Of the n,
ease, the child experiences .,
series of %spasmodic coughs a
lowed by a Growing sound !,
the breath is sucked in.
which time the child nj,
vomit. In mild cases. neitIa
whoops nor vomiting NAV
present. Family exposure ~
suits in infection of procticsE
all young children if they han
not been protected.
Incubation period Of vhoopin
cough is one to two weeks. nm
onset is gradual, with a Mill
cough which is worse at nieh
The cough becomes progTs
sively more severe and n,
spasmodic spells begin in The
third week. Symptoms start IA
relent about the fourth week
but convalescence may be pO.
longed for two or three weeks
afterward. Some children los
weight from vomiting and r.
quire extra feelings. If cough
ing i~nterferes with sleep, seds
tives are given at bedtime.
Parents who wait until then
children have been exposed ID
whooping cough cannot expes
to have the infection preverte3
through immunization, as The
disease is most contagious BE-
fore the sick child develops The
characteristic whoop. Young in
fants may rupture a blood YES
sci in their brain in violent
coughing spells and mental re-
tardation may follow. 1t is i'm.
possible to quarantine effective
ly against whooping cough.