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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
Golfers
THE NATIONAL WEEKLY

November
Mr. H A. McEachern
McEachern Nash Motors
I'll S. 18th Street
Wilmington, N {.
Dear Mr. McEachern:
For several years Golfers has made intensive study OF
.tonotve retail merchandising connection with famed
preventive Service program Golfers has been leader IN
this phase of dealer service
Through these studies have become acquainted with the
Nash Select Dealer Plan We consider 1t outstanding
from standpoint of relations and means OF
building solid foundation for future growth
Now we you qualified Nash 10 Point Select
Dealer thus becoming the country foremost automobile
merchants We congratulate and extend best wishes
further
Nash advertising campaign appearing regularly in Col
er's has rung the bell all counts interest sales
appeal continuity We happy to be privileged to help
Nash its dealer organization by serving leading
medium for its advertising campaign.
Golfers is always at your service
Sincerely yours,
RN WOODRUFF
Golfers the National Weekly
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09
! -,Eoehern Brothers
Hold Formal Opening
Of New Home Today

officials of the McEachern
prothers Nash Motors Co. will
r,ceive the company's lO-point
.,bisvement award for success
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-09

Mr. H. A. McEachern
McEachern Brothers Nash Motors
I'll S. 18th Street
Wilmington, North Carolina
Dear Mr. McEachern:
The American system of free enterprise is built the
ideals customers sound business and
progressive merchandising practices In its editorial
The Magazine stresses these virtues month after
month to it's 100000 readers.
That is why we particularly apprecatve of the value of
the Nash Select Dealer Program We know it to be
prime example of merchandising methods that
fleets great credit upon Motors and Nash 10 Point
Dealers.
You can well be proud that you have the exacting
ouireents of business building program In doing
you stamped yourself tines dealer
who is building for permanent business success.
AS that brings the full impact of the powerful
month"; American Magazine extends its sincere congratu
Nash advertising story of your prospects
you upon achieving the distinction of Nash Point
Dealer.
Sincerely yours
THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE
H. A. PATTERSON
Evening star., 1947-04-21
Husband Ties Up Wife

A husband escaped with a warm
ing when Jane Aufiku. a native
woman in Luderitz, South Africa
told police that he had tied hel
hands and feet and left her lying
at home without food for a day
The native explained that he loved
his wife very much. but discovered
she was unfaithful to him while he
was on night duty. He was warned
to desist.
Evening star., 1947-04-21
Wallace Discounts
Churchill Contention
Disarming Is Peril
BY The Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, April 21.-Henry
A. Wallace, here for a speaking en-
gagement today, voiced disagree
ment last night with Winston
ChurchiIl's contention that British
American disarmament would bring
on a third world war, and declared
that "a harmonious economic ap-
proach is the road TO peace"
Il have faith that what can be
accomplished at the international
trade conference N Geneva will
have more effect than the great in
crease in armaments, which is what
Churchill suggests" Mr.. Wallace
told newsmen after they had read
him the text of Mr.. Churchill's
statement in London.
Is The former British Prime Min
lister had contended that another
war lis not inevitable, but it would
be inevitable if Britain and the
United States were to follow the
policy of appeasement and one-sided
disarmament which brought about
the last war"
u. s. Failure Charged.
"One of the causes of World War
IT," Nh Wallace countered, was the
failure of the United States to act
as a creditor nation must act after
World War I. When the United
States required foreign nations to
pay war debts 1t was inevitable that
these debtor nations in despair
should engage in activities endan-
gering the road to peace
II disagree fundamentally" Mr.
Wallace continued, with those who
say the last war was caused by our
failure to arm 1t was caused by our
failure to understand economic
needs and relationships I feel If
we follow the path of heavy ARM
aments a high percentage of the
effort of Britain and the United
States will be kept from producing
needed goods. A shortage of goods
and the trade barriers involved
would do more to bring about war
than anything else
while armaments mean tenn
porary prosperity, in the long run
1T brings a worse depression. am
confident Russia does not want to
increase the percentage of her man
power devoted to armament pro-
duction and would welcome a suf-
1cient measure of disarmament to
turn more effectively to building
up a shattered economy. I am con-
fldent it can be planned economy
worked out among Russia, Britain
and the United States.
Friendly Understanding.
Yesterday Mr.. Wallace wound up
a series of speeches in Norway with
the assertion that sit would be
unfortunate for. world peace if any,
thing happens inside Russia to up
set its system of government at the
present time"
Scandinavians, Mr.. Wallace said,
should preserve a friendly under
standing of the Russians, adding
cit is important that the Russian
system be successful as well as the
American and socialist systems"
Referring to congressional re-
action to his criticism of President
Truman's foreign policy, Mr.. WAL
lace declared that his congressional
critics Gin my opinion do not rep
resent the rank and file of the
American neonle -
Evening star., 1947-04-21
Churchill Denies Calling
Wallace Cryptic Communist
By the Assocjoted Press

OSLO, Norway, April 21.-Winston
Churchill made it plain last night
that he had not called Henry A.
Wallace crypto-Communist, and
Mr.. Wallace said he was glad "this
tempest in teapot has blown over"
Mr.. Churchill was widely quoted
last Friday as saying in a London
speech that Mr.. Wallace was a
cryptic Communist The former
British Prime Minister added crypto-
Communists were seeking to thwart
Britain's foreign policy.
Last night Mr.. Churchill said he
merely had asserted that Wallace
had "foregathered' with British
cryptic Communists.
Mr.. Wallace. before leaving last
night for Copenhagen, noted Mr.
Churchill's statement and observed: :
Everything is happy now in the
Anglo-Saxon world"
Evening star., 1947-04-21

IT'S THE TOTAL THAT COUNTS. The only sure way to
saved on lot Of items will add up big savings for you
That's why we say COMPARE SAFEWAY PRICES (al
prices) with what you have been paying you shop else
where and then count the savings you make your
total food bill Listed this page many low prices
You'll find hundreds more at your nearby SafeWay.
Evening star., 1947-04-21

Prices effective until close OF business
Wednesday, April Is, 1e47, except pro-
duce prices which are subject to daily
market changes. NO SALES TO DEAL
ERS. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO
LIMIT QUANTITIES.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15

Democratic candidate, but only to the extent
that the first, being of the COP persuasion,
was an advocate and supporter Of the new
labor control legislation, and his opponent
being in the democratic party, was ~atagonis-
tic to the law which Congress passed over
the Truman veto.
It 50 happens that in the two counties COM
prising the eighth district - Bucks and Le-
high - the voting strength Of the rural
districts outweighs that in urban Allentown
and Bethlehem; and obviously because the
country folk were dissatisfied with the domi-
nation exercised by the union leaders In
these cities they went to the polls in full
numbers to register their opposition to
labor's policies.
The Republican victory, in the last analy-
sis, is a victory for the Taft-Hartley Law
which still has to prove its worth. Even
more than this, it is u victory. tor the voters
in the district who hold the rights OF workers
above the rights usurped by labor leaders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
No -Hockshop

= In his opening address at the international
Bank directors meeting in London, the
British Chancellor of the Exchequer, MIR.
Hugh Dalton, appealed for large-scale emer-
gency loans from the bank, to help avert the
deepening economic crisis.
To which Mr.. John McCloy, American
president of the bank, replied that the in
stitution is not in the stop-gap business. The
bank could consider a long term loan, he
pointed out, for British reconstruction, but
not for anything Of such emergency nature
as food imports.
To broaden the operations of the Inter-
national Bank, the charter would have to be
revised. That there would be opposition to
this goes without saying.
- The International Bank exists and func
lions in accordance with rules drafted at the
start. Its finest purposes would be defeated
if it were converted into a super-hockshop.
% There is another side to the picture. The
Oxford Ledger points it out. 1T would ap-
pear" says the Ledger, that all nations have
"a drawing account at the so-called World
Bank, but Uncle Sam is its only depositor."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
Straw In Political Wind.

A congressional election in the eighth
Pennsylvania district last week resulted IN
victory for the Republican candidate, whose
majority over his Democratic rival was
II. 6o2 votes. The real test at the polls, how-
ever, was not of the voting strength OF the
two parties. 1t was a test of sentiment Tor anu
against control
The American Federation of Labor, the
Congress of Industrial Organizations and the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen sent
speakers into the eighth district whose sole
appeal was to the voters against what they
called the "slave labor act" the Taft-Hart-
ley law.
Their discussion of the candidates was
incidental to this. They inveighed against
the Republican candidate and praised the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
No Such Critter

Everybody appears to be hunting for a
scapegoat for high prices. The truth is there
is no such %critter.
The government itself is to blame in part.
It's long refusal to make substantial reduc-
tons in non-essential government spending
has been and remains a strong inflationary
factor.
Industrial profits are used as an argument
against price increases for basic commodities
Maybe there is some reason to fix partial
blame here, but in many cases profit state
ments are misleading in that they involve
tax adjustments resulting from the dis
continuance of war production which are not
profits in the normal sense. In other cases
industry is spending huge sums to expand
and modernize production facilities.
The tendency to lay the blame for mig
prices on industries such as steel and coal,
which feed the production machine, is not
wholly justified. The fact is that price IN
creases in these industries have been less,
very much less, than the increases in labor
wages, or than the increase in taxes since
before the war.
When an automobile company recently
advanced the price of its cars, the manage
ment told it's dealers: "We feel that the
entire industry is getting dangerously near
to pricing itself out of business"
That feeling is general throughout the
country's basic industry. Obviously economic
pressures lave made higher prices inevitable
The need is for the government, for industry
for business and consumers to find the way
to reduce these economic pressures. Perhaps
greater consumer resistance would help.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
Star Program

st,ts ports With Wilmington favored
in PROPORTION with It's ~resources, 70 M
cluds public terminals. tobacco storage
warehouses. ship repair facilities. near.
By sites for heavy industry and so-aoo'
Cape Fear river channel.
city auditorium large enough 70 meet
needs for years to come.
DEVELOPMENT OF Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and Industrial re.
sources through better markets ana 1000
processing. pulp wood production ana
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
sdyantases and improvement OF resort
accommodations.
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Cardinals farm-to-market and primary
.oads, with q paved highway o Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's IN
ss.rial Agency to attract more IN
stries.
proper utilization Of Bluethenthal air
,ort for expanding air service.
Development Of s~outhsastern North
Carolina's heath facilities, especially IN
counties lacking hospitals. and mciuo'
ing 4 Negro Health center.
ENCOURAGEMENT Of the growth Of COM
mercial fishing.
CONSOLIDATION OF City and County gov
ern1uents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
THE COLD WAR

There is a still greater dis
advantage in a policy which
seeks to contain" the Soviet
Union by attempting to make
"unassailable barriers" out of
the surrounding broder states.
they r admittedly weak. Now
a weak ally is not an asset. It
is a liability. 1t requires the
diversion of power. money, and
prestige to support it and to
maintain it. These weak states
are vulnerable. Yet the effort to
defend them brings us no near
er to a decision and to a settle
ment of the main conflict.
Worst of ali, the effort to de-
velop such an unnatural ALI
ance of backward states must
ALLEVIATE the natural allies Of the
United States.
The natural allies Of the
United States are the nations OF
the Atlantic community: that IS
to say, the nations of western
Europe and of the Americas.
The Atlantic Ocean and the
Mediterranean Sea, which is an
arm of the Atlantic Ocean,
unite them in a common
strategic, economic ana cul-
tural system. The chief compo-
nents of the Atlantic commu-
nifty are the British Common
wealth of Nations, the Latin
states on both sides of the At
lantic, the Low Countries and
Switzerland, Scandinavia and
the United States.
TLo of <Lo A%1a-Ao
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15

shapers of the policy Of con-
tainment have for more than a
year been reaching out for new
allies on the perimeter OF the
Soviet Union. This new coali-
ton, as we can see only too
clearly in Greece, in Iran, in
the Arab states and in China,
cannot in fact be made to Goa
Lessee. Instead of becoming an
unassailable barrier against
the Soviet power, this border
land is a seething stew of civil
strife.
We have not succeeded i'll Or
ganizing the new and alien CO.
alition of the Russian peri
meter, and we have failed to
consolidate, as the mounting
crisis of western Euope and of
Latin America shows. the old
and familiar coalition of the At
lantic community. The support
ers of the Truman doctrine at
tribute the divisions and the
paralysis of western Europe to
the Vaccinations of the Soviet
Union, to it's obstruction ir the
United Nations and in all the
various peace conferences, to
the propaganda, the infiltra alton
of the Communist parties. Per-
haps. But their argument, il
true, destroys the last reason
for thinking that the policy OF
containment can be made to
work successfully.
For the nations of the Allan
tic community are not occupied
by the Red Army. They can
not be occupied by the Red
Army unless the Kremlin is pre-
pared to face a full scale world
war, atomic bombs and all the
rest. Though impoverished and
weakened, the nations of the At
lantic community are incom-
parably stronger, richer, more
united and politically more
democratic and mature than
any of the nations of the Rus
sian perimeter.
If the Soviet Union is, never
theless, able to paralyze and
disorganize them, then surely it
can much more readily
paralyze and disorganize the
nations of the perimeter. They
are already paralyzed and dis
organized. They have never, in
fact, been organized and effec-
tive modern states. Yet we are
asked to believe that we car
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15

The housewife needs no chart
or headline to convince her of
the unqualified mess in which
the American food supply is to
be found. Day by day her dollar
IS regarded more contemptu-
ously by the butcher and the
grocer. Worst of all, the prices
climb steadily, and there is no
end in sight.
The phenomenon, unpleasant
as it is, cannot be considered
particularly battling. Prosperity
at home and destruction abroad
have created demands for food
that convert a pre-war alut into
a postwar famine. Meanwhile
unfavorable weather has curtail-
ed a harvest that would have
been insufficient in any case.
with this overwhelming ascend
ancy of demand over supply, a
Tree market must inevitably
soar. Food producers who grim
~ took their losses IN bad years
seek to reap what they consider
to be only their rightful reward:
producers find their
way into the market and bring
with them the higher prices that
their costs demand.
Ihere is surely good reason to
consider this an emergency sit
uatlon, and under such circum-
stances there is precedent for
abandoning the free market. But
tne abandonment cannot be
it must involve at
once wage control, price control
and rationing. Such a system
worked we'll during the war and
might well have continued to
work if it had been modified
wisely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
CONGRESS lawful Dumb"

In the words of Rep. Robert F. Rich,
Pennsylvania republican, Congress was
lawful dumb when it passed the 1914 war
contract Settlement Act. And Mr.. Rich seems
to have the right view of the matter de-
spite mis- ~colloquial manner of putting 1t.
Saving the same thing in a more dlgnl-
fled manner, Rep. George Bender, OF OHIO,
chairman of the House Expenditures sub
committee, which is investigating war con
tract settlements, says after two days of hear
ines that Congress was not Sufficiently dill
cent? in safeguarding the nation against con-
tract frauds.
The reason? The General Accounting OF
flee. which opposed the 1914 law, and which
was given only ~perfunctory authority over
settlements, has reported Lightweight cases
to the subcommittee in which 1t claims there
il definite evidence Of fraud. Presumably, the
General Accounting Office feels that II IT
had been vested with authority to supervise
settlements, instead of having that authority
10 tc government contracting agencies ana
private contractors, there would be few, II
any, fraud cases to report.
However this may be, Representative Ben
der declared that the law Undoubtedly was
an invitation to carelessness," a very gentle
manlv understatement of fact, II the Gene
raj Accounting Offices evidence is correct.
Mr.. Bender adds the committee Will
question federal contracting officers concern
inc some of the settlements. The Associated
Press adds it is particularly interested In
reasons for a ST, 669, 045 settlement on two
contracts totaling $685. 01 for several hum
dred Diesel engines, of which the General
Accounting Office reports the Army received
only IS.
Mr.. E. O. Fisher, GAO general counsel,
is reported to have told the committee the
contracts were awarded to the Gluoersoh
Diesel Engine Company Of Dallas, Iexas'
which operated on government-owned taclI-
+;ec The Associated Press notes that MIR.
Fisher said the settlement included $3oo'ooo
to the company for ~relinquishing its rights
under the lease. In addition, he said, the
company was allowed to retain special
machinery, tools and dies which had cost
the Government $120,000
NIT. + lS1GT Sdlo lax OA1HN
ouent in deliveries and "such items as were
delivered were of inferior quality"
Under one contract for s2,a33,312, he sald'
the Government received nothing, Wnlle
under another for 81, 7o4, 1889, it received only
As of the 493 engines called for.
Clearly, if all this and what additional
evidence the General Office of Accounting
may have proved true, Mr.. Rich OF n
vania was justified in calling Congress awful
dumb when it approved the 1914 law with
out providing adequate safeguards for the
taxpayers money that has been wasted
settling war contracts at great profits Tor
the contractors.
Wars inevitably breed fraud. Graft OF
one kind and another is an invariable by
product of combat. But, since this has been
know time out of mind, there is no ex-
cuse for the failure of Congress, with ample
knowledge at hand, to have been more
careful of the public funds. Congress itself,
no less than federal agencies and private
contractors, is in need of investigation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
Just Politics

It is impossible to get General Dwight D.
Eisenhower out of the presidential picture.
He has repeatedly said he wants nothing
to do with partisan politics. Quite as en-
he has declared there is no such
thing as a draft Unless it is artificually stimu-
lated, and II am going to have nothing to
do with such a draft"
$50 Notwithstanding which there is an increase
in newspaper and magazine publicity con-
\ corning his presidential possibilities.
But General Eisenhower does want to be
president not of the United States, but of
Columbia university. And he has been in
New York looking over the institution, of
which he is destined to be president, when
he steps down as Chief of Staff and unless
the country needs him in another war emer-
which God forbid.
7 Singularly enough the names of General
ing linked together as potential President
and Vice President, in which ever order
the particular editor or commentator prefers.
AS both have been supreme commanders
in the chief separate fields of conflict where
the allied nations overthrow the Axis, it is
not conceivable that either would be willing
to take second place to the other, if either
should finally consent to be a presidential
candidate.
And if memory serves us right, General
Macarthur was once the superior of General
Eisenhower, and rumor has it that General
Eisenhower asked to be transferred from
General MacArthur's command. All in all it
would appear the two could hardly be ex-
pected to reconcile old differences or set
aside later military preferments, and run on
-fhe same political ticket, even under the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-15
Today And Tomorrow
BY L T LIPPMANN

community are not sharp and
distinct, particularly in the case
of the Germans and the west
ern Slavs and the dependencies
and the colonies of western Eu-
rope. But the nucleus of the At
lantic community is distinct
and unmistakable, and among
the nations that are indisput-
ably members of the Atlantic
community there exists a vital
connection founded upon their
military and political geo.
graphy, the common traditions
of Western Christendom. and
their economic, political. legal,
and moral institutions which,
with all their variations and diff
ferences, have a common origin
and have been shaped by much
the same historic experience.
Now the policy of contain
ment, as described by Mr.. x,
is an attempt to organize an
anti-Soviet alliance composed in
the first instance of peoples that
are either on the shadowy ex-
tremity of the Atlantic commu-
nifty, or are altogether outside
it. The active proponents Of the
policy have been concerned i'm
mediately with the anti-Soviet
parties and factions of eastern
Europe, with the Greeks, tn e
Turks, the Iranians, the Arabs
and Afghans, and with the
Chinese Nationalist.
Instead of concentrating their
attention and their efforts upon
our old allies of the Atlantic
community, the makers and the