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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
By DEAN HALLIDAY
Distributed by Central Press
Association

Association
If you cherish homegrown sweet
corn, watch out for wire-worms
in your vegetable garden. They
like the roots of young corn, as
much as you do the tender ears,
In fact, if wireworms get to your
corn planting first, you won't have
much of a crop. They also have
a fondness for beans, peas, let
tuce, radishes and young onions.
They also go for flowers such as
phlox, dahlias, asters and young
gladiolus bulbs.
The accompanying garden-graph
shows how wireworms make I'M
derg-ound attacks on young bulbs.
They are the larvae of click beetles
and are to be found throughout
the country. They are especially
troublesome among paintings made
in recently turned sod.
> Plants attacked by Wireworms
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

Wallace, Miss Martha Hooper,
and Miss Pauline Formy-Duvall.
Miss Bea Camper, Miss Mary
Bland, Miss Mary johnson, Mrs.
E. M. Allen, Mrs. Hugh M. Grit
fifth, Mrs. j. o. Bridgers, Mrs. w.
B. Long, Mrs. ]. W. Reaves, Mrs
Harold Hooper, Mrs. F. M. Grit
fifth, and Mrs. T. T. Sellers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
WV Auxiliary
Names Delegates
For Encampment

The VIEW auxiliary met Thurs
day night for the regular meeting
and was presided over by the
president, Mrs. D. R. Langley.
Mrs. Brunjes and Mrs. Callie
Saleeby were appointed as dele
gates and Mrs. Katherine Zatie-
witch, alternate, to represent the
auxiliary at the department Ell
campment to be held at Beaufort
June rs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
X We, The Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

A psychology professor esti-
mates that only one girl in 10
goes to college for the intellectual
life. The other nine are more
interested in getting a husband.
Well, you can't discredit the
girls for that. Getting a husband
is just as serious a business to a
girl as getting an education that
Will equip him to earn a living
is to a young man.
And If by going away to college
a girl manages to meet and even
tuaAy marry a young man who
has a bright future ahead of him,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

three the wax treatment, though
it is rnessier to handle, will in
sure smooth legs for a longer xe-
Rod. The creams can be used
easily but usually must be used
more frequently. The razor treat
ment is swift and sure but there
is often a stubble Tegrowth with
in a few days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

American-flag vessels carry ~
per cent of the trade between tae
United States and Caribbean ports:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

Ready made curtsins with sell
wage edge Of fabric showing will
hang better if the selvage IL
trimmed off and replaced with 4
narrow hem.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

enough to figure out that in four
years on a college campus a girl
ought to be able to acquire both
a B. A. and husband.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

A dragon fly has 10000 eyes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

Tearose only! Extra strong,
real rubber elastic waist
bands. Elastic and straight
legs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

The gowns are colorful. tiny
floral prints with braid trim
square and V.necks. Pajamas
in Tearose only! Full cut, we'll
madei
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
Personal Is

Young Billy Fowler is a patient
in the James Walker Memorial
hospital, following an ;,'pendec-
tony Sunday. AT this time he is
getting along nicely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

The most sensational blouse event
of the year! Nearly 200 to choose
from! Sheers! Crepes! Cottons'
Fine pearl buttoned models! Ex
quisite lace trims! Jabots! Ties!
Dotted Swiss! Peasant styles!
White! Pink!
Evening star., 1947-04-16
From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Former Senator Wheeler of Mont

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Former Senator Wheeler of Montana
has job cut especially to his talents.
His selection by the Senate War In
vestigating Committee to go into charges
that the Navy is paying exorbitant
prices for Arabian oil recalls inevitably
the splendid work which Mr.. Wheeler
did as freshman Senator 25 years ago
in helping reveal the extent of the Tea
pot Dome scandal.
James A. Moffett, former Federal
housing director and an oil man in the
business world, says that in his opinion
the Arabian American OIL Co. and the
California Texas OIL Co. have "deliber.
ately defrauded the United States Gov
ernment." Whatever the truth may be,
such charge certainly warrants most
searching inquiry.
Mr. Wheeler knows frauds from long
experience in exposing them In the
Senate, and the new head OF the old
Truman committee, Senator Brewster,
Is no mean investigator himself. They
will be expected to get all the facts for
the country.
As for the complication that certain
papers bearing on the case are tied up
in the hands of executors OF the estate
of the late President Roosevelt, that can
and should be ironed out forthwith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's state papers are
public property. to be used as needed In
the conduct Of governmental affairs.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
A Good Sturt, Anyway

We pour hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually down a rat hole
in Washington in the aimless process
of arresting and sending drunkards
to Jail. Thirty-four thousand are
arrested every year. Scores of them
have been to Jail as many as fifty
times. Some of them have been SEN
fenced $50 times. Such facts have
been amplified at length in these
columns, but they need repeating.
It is encouraging, at any rate, to
note House passage of the Hebert
bill, which establishes clinics for
treatment rather than wasteful,
futile punishment of alcoholics. The
amount authorized, 100000 is only
q fraction of what we spend each
year in sending people to Jail on
charges of intoxication. The Hebert
bill, If passed by the Senate, will at
least provide an intelligent and per-
haps an effective approach to what
has been called our fourth public
health problem.
But an important part of the
Hebert bill was changed before it
went to the House. The bill orig
inally placed small gallonage tax
5 cents a gallon, / cent a fifth-to
finance the clinical experiment.
There was poetic justice, as well as
sound common sense, in this tax.
Unfortunately, it was opposed by the
liquor interests and the liquor in
terests carry lot of weight. But
the trade could have stood it. It has
created some new millionaires among
the Washington dealers and it dis
penses some 5,500,000 gallons year
at a tax that is half the tax collected
in adjoining States.
When the Senate gets the Hebert
bill, this gallonage tax should be
restored. The clinics ought to be
supported by this special tax. The
public is not going to mind paying
a cent fifth for the support of an
effort to combat alcoholism. Even
If Congress doubles the tax this year,
as part of the local revenue program,
a cent a fifth for the alcoholic clinics
should be earmarked. Unless this
is done, the experiment Is apt to be
prejudiced at the very start by lack
of funds. Connecticut, a pioneer in
the establishment of State clinics,
has adopted such a tax and with
success. 1t should be done here in
Washington, in spite of the crocodile
tears which the liquor interests may
shed at the thought of recognizing,
by this tax, the logical connection
between the evils of alcohol and
the tremendous sale, in Washington,
Of its products.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

Mr.. Churchills recapitulation of 1914
Greek events Is timely. For 1t has
become our foreign policy to contain"
Soviet expansionism in Greece, which
was Mr.. Churchill's program three years
ago. But the measures taken by Mr..
Churchill did not succeed. Greece is
still in the throes of an unliquidated
civil war.
The present Greek government Is as
representative as is possible, under the
circumstances, for a Greek government
to be. It is the result Of an election held
under international supervision. ELIAS
and Fam, whose Communist leaders at
tempted in 1914 to capture the state by
force, abstained from voting.
Although several times invited to do
so, the 90-year r-oid Socialist leader,
Themistocles Sophoulis, has refused to
join the government, unless the Com
munists also join. The government re-
fuses this. Yet certain Americans are
complaining that the base" of the gov
eminent should be "broadened" How?
BY taking in Communists, who never
enter any government except with the
object of undermining and overthrow
ing it in the interests of an entirely
different form of state?
II, as the leaders of the left opposition
claim, they represent the people, why
did they not test it at the polls? They
claim they were terrorized If 50, who
started terrorism? Terror breeds coun-
terterror. Greece is a Balkan country,
ND In, f6n
murder Of their kin. Many persons were
murdered in cold blood by the Reds
during their rising. And it is certain
that many persons who were involved
and who received amnesty are not safe
for q moment In Greek villages.
A civil war has to be won-or lost.
Actually. British and American pres
sures have prevented the Greek gov.
ernment from drastically liquidating the
rebellion. ELIAS negotiates % though
Evening star., 1947-04-16

morning, Is both men and women start
to work casually just after the postman
has made his rounds. Many walk along
reading their mail, then tear up letters,
ETC.. into small pieces' and drop them as
they go along-usually on freshly
swept sidewalk where long-suffering
janitor has just cleaned for the day, or
else the small pieces are thrown on some
cherished small lawn where the little
pieces must be picked up by hand.
This same habit is all too often seen
on streetcars and buses and must add
to the troubles Of the driver or company
ut the terminal A little consideration
in such matters would help Mr.. xanten's
District Refuse Department, am sure.
Z. B. @.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Palestine to the u. N.


issue of Palestine is to go before
a special session of the General
Assembly of the United Nations. The
formal summons to the full mem
bership has gone out from the office
of the Secretary General, Trygve Lie,
after more than one-half of the
member-nations had indorsed Great
Britain's request for this extraor-
binary action. Normally, the Gen.
eral Assembly would not have con-
vened until next autumn.
Technically, the order of business
indicated by the Secretary General
is limited to the simple appointment
of a fact-flnding committee to in
vestigate conditions in Palestine and
make its report to the regular As
sembly meeting in September. But
the indications are that even this
piece of business will be more than
a formality.
The mere appointment of a COM
mittee and the issuance of instruc-
tions to 1t may touch of fireworks.
For one thing, who shall be on this
fact-finding body? Britain, the
mandatory power over Palestine for
more than thirty years, expects a
seat as matter Of course, while the
five Arab states in the U. N. have
indicated that they will insist on
being included. But this at once
raises the question of Jewish repre-
sentation. The Jews are certainly
as much an interested party" as the
Arabs. Yet Jewish interests, as such,
are not represented by any state in
the U. N. On the other hand, Jewry
is not ideologically united on the
Palestine issue. There are various
shades of opinion, ranging from ex-
treme zionists who demand the
creation of a Jewish state embrac-
ing both Palestine and Trans Jordan
to those who oppose Zionisms politi-
cal implications, for various reasons.
Over and above the conflict be-
tween Arabs and Zionist Jews, there
are far-reaching issues of power
politics. Palestine is highly strate-
gic area in the realms of both world
strategy and world diplomacy. The
British Empire, Soviet Russia, oil,
and the American policy of "con-
tanning" international communism,
are alike involved. AL these complex
factors will undoubtedly play their
part in the Assembly's special ses-
sion and may come dramatically
into the open.
Last but not least, other topics
may be raised. Under existing rules
of procedure, any delegation may
propose new topic up to four days
before the special session gets under
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Penquins and People

Some people say that penguins do
not have much brains. That is de-
batable. What is not debatable is
that they are nice birds. In their
own way, among themselves, they
have fine sense of humor and good
manners, Above all, affectionate
and sensitive by nature, they love
their homes and families very much.
These are points that we should
keep in mind when we try to under
stand why some of Admiral Byrd's
Antarctic penguins jumped ship on
their arrival here. Perhaps it was
a silly thir<g for them to do. Perhaps,
rather than risk the unknown perils
of the Anacostia River, they would
have been wiser to 60 meekly with
DR.. Mann to the Zoo. But who will
presume to pass dogmatic judg-
ment? Who can say with certainty
that they were not right? Who can
be sure that they did not feel i'm
PEELED to make last desperate
homesick break for freedom?
Despite talk about their having
weak minds, we do not really know
how or what penguins think. If we
could get inside their heads and see
the world as they see it, and feel as
they feel, possibly we would be quite
surprised. We might learn, for in
stance, that they do not relish the
idea of being shut up and gaped at
In public places. We might learn
that they infinitely prefer to live out
their lives in their own way-with
their families, among their friends,
away from human beings, in the
great white stiffness of their natural
home. We might learn, in short,
that they are overcome with pro-
found unhappiness and an over
whelming sense of repugnance when
they are kidnapped and brought to
strange and distant cline where
noise and confusion abound and
where the civilization of man-now
holding the atom by the tail-tends
more and more to live in terror of
its own works.
1t may be, of course, that this
kind of speculation has no basis in
real fact and that penguins are just
being nonsensical when they do such
things as they have done on the
Anacostia. Still, we cannot be abso-
lutely sure. These birds are crea-
lures so pleasant and admirable in
their normal habitat that 1t would
be ill-advised for any of us to snicker
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Letters to The Star From It's Readers
Stop Lterng the Sreets-Would Scrap Rent Controls
Warns of Next Depression- -Schoolboy's Nightmare

TO the Editor Of The Star.
William Xanten's recent plea to the
public TO help keep the streets Of our
beautiful City Of Washington clean Is,
indeed, . timely one.
The deliberate carelessness of 50 many
men and women In the matter Of public
cleanliness Is well as q very definite lack
Of civic pride is appalling. live in the
Northwest section where there are many
large apartment houses. Nearby We have
q small park with plenty Of trash con-
tainers conveniently placed, but our
sidewalks are daily Uttered with ciga-
rette butts, empty bottles, candy wrap
pers, ice cream cones. etc. Worst Of all
are the carefully torn-up bits Of letters
and other mail.
This last Is most noticeable in the
Evening star., 1947-04-16

1t was q sovereign power within the
state. Seeing that the government lacks
authority, many persons who had aban-
doned the underground war-thinking
1t lcst-have rejoined the insurgent left
lists. This is the result of an indecisive
victory.
Yet the issue is precisely one of au-
thority: The authority, or lack Of au-
thority, Of legitimate state. If the
legitimate state cannot exercise full
authority, the result is anarchy. The
rebellion continues, with intermittent
truces; the state, failing decisively to
win the conflict, abdicates its powers
to counter-vigilantes the struggle then
becomes one between two lawless bodies;
and in the end, the choice Is between
two sets Of usurpers.
\ y
No government, however wel1-mean-
ing, can establish sound economy or
greatly improve social conditions in the
midst Of a civil war. The war augments
misery which, IN turn, feeds the forces
Of rebellion. First the state must DEM
onstrate its authority, utterly quell the
rebellion, dissolve its organizations, and
punish its leaders. Then, and then only,
can 1t afford to be generous to the rank
and file OF rebel followers: and then,
and then only, can it establish liberal
social order. There Is an order Of pri-
ority. It Is quite out Of the question for
any state to be generous with armed
enemies or negotiate with them until
the question Of authority Is absolutely
settled.
without current first-haud krowledon
Of the Greek situation, and confused by
highly conflicting reports, 1t is never
theless possible to reduce the question
to some basic principles of politics.
And unless we recognize principles
and back them unequivocally, what we
shall be promoting In the world will not
be democracy but anarchy, with what
inevitably follows anarchy dictatorship
Of right or left.
Rslsssed b. the Jsr syndtsatA mai
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Interval Of Expectancy

As, In q netply darkened ttecter,
The tdTdy one, forgetting cold and
sno1c,
Gropes through the dfB,ness, seetng but
a blur
OF faces lined up, roar on pdllid rom,
And does not Try to see tol,at friend o
there.
Being too rcpt In his expectancy
OF pleasure ,Dhen the lotpered tootliqhts
flare
TO search out any ones identity:
So !, In this dull interim, noio matt
Blindly. anticipating that warm hour
When young and Iouely April tciH create
Her deathless role, nsesmeric IN its
potUer.
! hear flute ticitteri1gs -. q Diolin =.
Ring UP the curtatni Let the play beotnf
UOISE WADE HACKETT.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
A Career Assignment

The current issue Of the Army
and Navy Bulletin expresses con-
cern over "the frequent shifts of
top command In Central Inte1i-
gence," pointing out that in its
relatively short life Of fifteen
months the agency has had two
directors and is soon to have third.
The Star shares the Bulletins con-
Germ.
As The Star has commented
editorially in the past, one Of the
major weaknesses Of our prewar in
telligence system was the tendency
Of the War and Navy Departments
to regard intelligence assignments
as little more than pleasant peace
time interludes in the careers Of
Army and Navy officers. Ofncers
were selected for these assignments
not because Of any special qualifi-
cations for the job, but apparently
for the purpose OF familiarizing
them with this type Of work. But
before most Of them had an ade-
quate opportunity to learn their
duties well they found themselves
ordered to other stations. Even
during World War II both services
changed intelligence heads several
times.
1t was expected that the forma-
ton, after the war, Of the Central
Intelligence Group would give to
intelligence the prestige and stabil-
ity which it deserves but which It
has never enjoyed in this country.
From present indications, however.
the office Of director Of the organi-
cation Is proving to be Just another
temporary assignment for Army
and Navy officers. Rear Admiral
Souers, the first chief, was succeeded
by Lieutenant General vandenberg
and now, according to the Bulletin,
General vandenberg is to be re-
placed by another admiral.
The pending merger legislation
will provide for creation Of the
Central Intelligence Agency as sue
cessor to the present organization.
It might be a good idea to include
IN the proposed statute q provision
making the office Of director of the
agency career" job, with a tenure
long enough and pay high enough
to insure a reasonable degree of
permanency for this vital security
post.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
This and That.
By Charles i. Trnce,oeu.

"BELTSVnLE, Md
I'm one Of your columns recently 4
Mr. r. S. B. thanks you for a formula
for catching moles.
Il would like to have this formula.
Sincerely, S. r. B."
The formula, as this correspondent
calls 1t, is not much Of a formula as q
mode Of action.
1t requires two spades, some patience,
and then quick work.
This method has been worked out by
q nearby Virginia householder, after
many attempts to catch moles by ordi-
nary methods.
Every one with . nice smooth lawn
knows the heartache, If 1t may be
called SO, which assails the owner some
morning when he discovers what some
moles have done to it.
Despite the fact that he knows moles
are useful In eating Japanese beetle and
other mimical grubs, he deplores the
havoc caused his nice lawn.
Those pesky moles-
Words fail him, as he ruefully looks
at what just the evening before had
been a work Of art, almost.
Now look at It!
That Is the way he feels, and no one
can blame him.
~
The method involves patience TO
watch the runs, preferably In the early
morning. That seems to be the best
time.
Walk out to . run where work is in
progress.
Then stand perfectly still, for rs long
q time as may be necessary.
Sometimes only few minutes will be
required, at other times maybe as much
as S minutes.
Then the mammal will be seen to be
going forward again, on his lifelong
search for food.
It is not always realized by the irate
lawn enthusiast that these little ami
mails (6 inches, tail inch) must eat to
live in peculiar sense.
Their metabolism Is so fast and
furious that unless they can eat practi-
cally constantly they will die. It is
claimed that mole deprived Of all food
for to II hours is a goner.
therefore, an eating man may sympa-
thize with an eating mole, but perhaps
that will not deter him from his fell
work with the two shovels aforemen-
toned.
1t goes without saying that he must
have taken the two shovels or spades
with him. and have them all ready for
instant use.
The very second he sees the mole
moving, he shoves spade down behind
the creature y
Not in front of him, not through him,
but just behind him.
This blocks of the mole, leaving him
no place to go except forward, to one
side-or down.
The first spade being left in position,
the second is showed in as quickly as
possible from the side, scooping up Mr..
Mole.
. One has to be fast, though, because In
as little as Is seconds the mole can
start downward, going so quickly that If
there is any dawdling the pursuer will
see only his tail disappearing.
Quickly seize him by his stubby tail,
and deposit him in a covered basket or
bucket.
j His disposition later will be according
to ones outlook on created things. Kind
hearted persons, especially those who
marvel, will be willing to take the cap
tured moles to some forest and let them
loose.
Moles nest in the second week in
March, and bring forth four to six young
In about six weeks. The breeding places
are IN the roots OF trees o. bushes.