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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
REMEMBER THE NEEDY

This cold weather that moved in on
Thursday is, as we say, "bracing" for most
Of US. II peps our steps. II makes our
blood Jingle. We move about with alacrity
and generally feel better, but only the
folks who are warmly clad and housed.
Unfortunately there are many persons in
our midst who find no joy in ii. They
shudder by day and shiver at night. They
lack warm clothing and sufficient bed
ding. Their shoes are s%oleless. Life it.
self is a burden 10 them.
- Now that we have not been called on
recently TO contribute clothing to Russians
and Britons and other peoples who SUI
fered at the hands Of the nazis, there is
strong probability that we have accumu-
lated a surplus Of both clothes and bed
ding and could we'll spare many articles
OF raiment, maybe a comfort or blanket or
Two, certainly our abandoned shoes, for
the comfort Of these needy ones at home.
- The Welfare Department, the Associated
Charities, the Salvation Army, and other
organizations whose job is 10 relieve NOR
tai suffering will welcome gifts of this sort
and the donors will add TO their own COM
fort in the knowledge that they have con-
iributed TO the comfort of others.
Even if it should warm up at once there
Is reason TO think that other cold snaps
may visit this region before spring SETS
in, in earnest.
So give what you can now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
The Book OF knowledge

paint a table-cover with stencils.
First buy a piece of cheesecloth
or a soft curtain cloth. Cut it into
a yard square. Straighten out one
edge, and with drawing pins fix
it to a drawing board. Find the
middle of the side Chat is 10
inches from the corner. On that
point, and about 3 inches away
from the edge, lay the stencil
plate quite straight. The stalk
should point toward the edge, and
the flower inward. Fix the plate
in position at the top with two
draWing-pins.
Slightly moisten the paint in the
pan, and rub the brush On it.
Then, with a dabbing motion, go
over the holes forming the flower.
Choose another color (and another
BRUSH for the leaves and stem,
and do these in the same way.
Then from the bottom gently lift
the plate a little way to see how
the painting looks.
Here are some things to remem-
Der:
/. Never dip the brush in water,
but always moisten the paint it.
self, then rub the brush on the
paint.
2. Always paint with a success
sion of dabs. Do not use the brush
as a house-painter does or you
will make a smear.
g.. Obtain a shaded affect by
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
OUTLAW THESE PRACTICES
So give what you can now.

AS debate in Congress over proposed
labor Legislation wears on, it becomes
evident thai decisive action must be taken
TO outlaw three practices which have Given
a few labor leaders monopolistic powers
lover the industries of this nation and
Subjected the right of a man to earn a
living 10 their none-too-tender mercies.
: First, is the close shop. The closed
shop means that you cannot work unless
You pay a private organization, the union,
Tor this basic right Of a free man. Thus
the right Of a man 10 buy food and shelter
and 10 provide for his family is involved.
In the words Of the Portland 0regonian,
The closed shop is morally incompatible
with a system Of government which
guarantees the freedom Of the Individual
and it is no longer necessary for protec-
lion of unionism."
Second, is the closed union. This is
a vicious extension of the closed-shop
Idea, whereby a man cannot Join a union
ii he chooses. A privileged group SAYS,
in effect: only those of our choosing NAV
be employed in this trade or craft"
Third, is indusiry-wide bargaining.
This is designed 10 bring union power
TO a new, monopolistic high. One biq
union signs agreements with all or practi-
-callY all Of the producers of a product.
Then, if the union head decides TO call a
strike, all production Of that product stops
as o! a given moment. Soft coal is a per-
feet example. AT the word Of one man,
Representing only 10000 workers, a com
modify which is vitality necessary TO the
operation of industry, the employment Of
millions Of people, and the public health
and welfare Itself, can be denied The ma
tien regardless Of The suffering that mus
result.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22

Among the dreams Of world harmony
while the world was being Torn by war
were the World Bank and the Currency
Fund which emerged from the BRETON
Woods Conference. The World Bank met
general approval in banking circles
chiefly because it had the veto power
over dollar loans. The Currency Fund
was approved by Congress over the bitter
protest of American bankers on the score
thai il violates the principles Of bank
ing.
II is pointed Out that the Currency Fund
is intended for service moi alone to debtor
countries having difficulties protecting the
value of their currencies in the interna-
tional money market, but also TO prevent
conditions which might give debtor coun-
tries excuse TO devalue their currency
TO the harm Of American commerce. In
other words it aims TO prevent currency
wars.
In seeking a new head for the World
Bank, the objective apparently is to Sc
cure a man who will work TO consolidate
the Bank and the Fund, so that the veto
possessed by the Bank may be extended
to the Fund. II is not clear that this would
be advisable or even workable. The re-
suit is that the search for a president for
the Bank is not meeting with success and
the general monetary situation, which it
was originally believed would be clearer
than ever before is steadily deteriorating.
Carlyle Morgan, writing in the Christian
Science Monitor, has this 10 say:
80 you thought the battle of BRETON
Woods was over! This Woods, friends, is
alive and bristling with tomahawks. If
the World Bank and Currency Fund don't
watch their step, they will soon be
watching their scalps-dangling from the
belt Of one Of those stalwart braves who
are sending up smoke signals from hill TO
financial hill"
A Bit Of figurative wiring, 10 be sure,
but moi without significance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
Editorial Comment
SAFETY

Now that it is becoming progressively easier
to obtain automobile parts and repairs, even
if new cars are slow in coming. more atten-
ton should be paid to the mechanical safety
of vehicles on the highway. The highway pa
troll is warning motorists to be sure their
lights and wiring are in condition. We would
like to see attention paid by the owners them
selves to such matters as brakes, tire aepen-
liability and steering gear as well as wind
shield Wipers.
Students Of highway safety have advanced
the opinion that the human element more
than mechanical failure is to blame ter most
traffic accidents. However, one benefit OF a
periodic compulsory mechanical inspection is
the Observation-Disclosures which it fosters in
the public mind. Then, too, mechanical in
spections, while they cannot guarantee a
driver against failure, can increase his mar
gi, of dependability. The best, most sober
and attentive driver is in a bad Fix when
something goes wrong with his car as he Is
travelling at high speed.
A municipal safety lane or a travelling m
s~pection lane unit operated by the state would
be a good investment for public security
The Fayetteville Observer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22

dabbing more at the base of the
tulip petals than at the tip.
In choosing color, a deep yellow
(almost an orange, shading into
pale primrose for the flowers, and
a dark green tipped with brown
for the leaves, will look we'll.
Now decide how close you want
the next tulip to be, and make
a small pencil mark on the cotton.
Space the remainder, along the
side, with tiny pencil-marks as a
guide. Unpin the plate, replace it
over one of the guide-marks, and
continue to paint. Probably about
nine tulips will space out well in
a yard length-four on each side
of the centre one. When you have
done the other sides and hemmed
the edge, the cloth will be finished.
If you keep the stencil-plate
carefully pressed between the
leaves of an old book, some other
time you will be able to use the
design for something else.
copyright, 1916, by The Grolier
Society Inc, based upon The Book
Of Knowledge)
distributed by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.l
MONDAY: - Amundsen Beats
Scott to the South Pole.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
The Doctor Says
CANCER OF LUNG
COMES AFTER A
BY WILLIAM A. o'BR1FN

"A. " hkIEN
x,rsy examinations Of tSs N N D..
OF apparently normal peon o'e Chest
vealing a considerable ,pie are r.
beginning lung-cancers lumber o.
the lung is now possible t5 on
surgeons and more lung ~. . expert
before. 'nan ever
Cancers of the respir.+o.
sages' including the lungsy pas
fourth among the variop, rank
OF cancers, The disease i, 'osln'
common in men between tbs I as'
of 40 and so. Lung csn a's ssa
parently is the only form ' ~ ap,
time. present
:, A lung sgsa cancer usually beyi,,
partial obstruction 10 tho .au'''
of air. As inspiration result Pss say
more vigorous muscular Ya
than does expiration, the air ss.l0a
the affected portion btlt ea,ef'
leave, and distention occurs |'Da''
Routine X-ray 'examinst;nn.
the chest are made during .vs;. q
ton. If in suspected cases = % .'
ond film is made during ssc'
ton a partial c~ancerious BLOCH Ly4s :.
the bronchi can be disconaa.sa
When obstruction is complets g.
affected portion of the iung c ~'
lapses, and this too casts , w.
acteristic shadow on the y s !,
film. N's
Persistent, h~arassing cougbfc.
of an individual in middle a. a..
life may mean lung cancer. Tubsr'
culosis is also a possibility ,,ns..
the same circumstances, esnsriaN.
SO in the case of an elderly man
Pain is not an indication of s.,,u
cancer of the lungs, but with A..
tension Of the growth pain m,r
develop. In some suspected css.,
OF lung cancer, it may be nece;sarv
to examine the affected rorti,,
with a bronchoscope, an jns,ry'
ment which is used to peer int,
a bronchus, and remove a piece NJ
tissue for examination under IN.
microscope.
The cause of lung cancer is nOt
known, although inhalation Of i,
bacco smoke, attacks of influenza
and inhalation of tar particles fr,n
roads have been blamed. Lung can.
GERS occur in miners who have IN,
hailed dust from radioactive rock
Successful treatment Of Inn,
cancer through removal Of n,
lung is possible. The patient must
be properly prepared for the o.
GRAFTON and he requires supportiN
treatment while on the operating
table and afterWard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
GOOD MORNING

Nothing is harder to direct than a man
In prosperity; nothing more easily man.
aged than one in adversely.
PIutarch
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
HOW TO PAINT WITH STENCILS

Stencil-painting is a useful form
Of ornamentation for tablecovers,
curtains, walls, cushions, book
covers and many other objects.
First a stencil-plate is needed.
This is simply a piece of stiff pa
per out of which a pattern has
been cut in such a way that when
the plate is laid against any sur
face, colors may be painted
through the holes right onto the
material in the exact shape of the
cut-out pattern.
TO make a stenciled border,
choose a simple flower-say a TIL
lip-and draw it carefully on a
piece of stout oiled paper. If you
leave out all unnecessary detail,
it will look something like picture
l. Now enclose each portion OF
leaf and petal in a separate space,
making the lines in between OF
even width, as SHOWN in 2. Finally
shade the spaces as shown in 8.
Next lay the paper on any hard
fiat surface that will not be spoiled
by cutting, and with a sharp pen
knife cut out the shaded areas.
Paint both sides of the stencil
with varnish and hang it up to
dry near an open window, sus-
pending it from a string threaded
through a pin-hole in one corner.
When thoroughly dry, the stencil
is ready for use.
The kind Of brushes to use are
short stumpy ones of soft hog
hair. Use ordinary water-color
paints in pans-blue, red and vel
low. Other shades may be mixed
from these.
We shall now show you how to
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
Your Income Tax

@. There's something | can't
understand about depreciation.
own and live in a shack on h.
outskirts of town and I have ,
friend who also owns a shack, *.
cept he doesn't live in it, he renti
it. He gets $3.50 a year rent and
he takes $500 a year depreciation
which he offsets against the rent.
Now my shack is the same size
and style but when l asked The
man at the tax office if | could
take $10O depreciation he sad no,
I couldn't. Why am l discriminst.
ed against?
A. You can't take depreciation
on your personal residence for the
same reason you can't take de-
probation on your clothing, yOuR
fishing tackle or your false teeth,
It's true your shack is depreclat
ing just as rapidly as your neigh
boris, but because your nelghoof
rents his the law places it in
different category.
AS your house %depreciates IN
value the law simply puts it down
as a personal expense. As old ag'
and arthritis creep up on you, YOU
yourself m a y be depreciating IN
value but you still may not tai"
any personal depreciation on your
tax return.
When your neighbor, on the
other hand. buys a shack ana
rents it he's making a "capltal IN
vestment." The law allows nm "
offset depreciation, using a res'
sonable percentage based o. t'
life Of the investment, against me
income therefrom.
He may also deduct all sorts OF
other items in connection with III
investment, as insurance, e%
penses of renting or collecting INV
rent, repairs, etc.
@. We rent three rooms Of Ou
six-room house. What do we o'
about depreciation?
A. If the three rented rooms d"
about the same size as the quar-
tiers you occupy, you can oeu,.'
half of the normal amount OIL
probation.
Fill in schedules B and Va
page 2 of the tax return D"..
overlook the Fact that you can a"
deduct on page 2 half OF tns ~
surance on the house. nan n
taxes, half the mortgage lniel"%
half the repairs, and all me
penses of renting colls'|'
the rent. n,,,
If you decide to use the 'U ="
form" instead of the tax taols w.
may deduct the other nall o. an
taxes and mortgage inteTeS! ~
page 8 of the return. Real ssS d..
taxes and interest are alWay'
ductible in full.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
Literary
Guidepost
BY w. G.. ROGERS
UNDER THE VOLCANO, oy
Malcolm Lowry (Reynal

MAXIMUM
Hitchcock; $3).
Popocatepetl. spelling : bee favo-
rite. and a sister peak dominate
the scene of this story, but the
story's vast sweep, the magnitude
of Lowry's conception, in i~ntrlcacy
of his Characterization, his fruit
full symbolism, and his rich prose
turn it all into a novel as far
above the spelling-bee stage as any
thing 1 have read in a long time.
With the Spanish Civil War as
the distant, ominous background,
a woman Yvonne, and the three
men by whom she has been Loved:
her husband Godfrey Firmin the
Consul" his half-brother Hugh
and the Frenchman Jacques Laru-
ellie, are presented as a proolem
in individual and social relations,
and carried thrillingly to a doubly-
thrilling climax, or from alcohol to
alkahest, as Lowry puts it, and on
to a smashing dissolution.
The Consul is the disintegrating
drunkard; the bottle always
stands between him and. the book
he intends to write. Hugh and
Laruelle try to save him from his
awful fate; but the fact that he
can do with the native Maria
what he cannot do with Yvonne,
instead of proving his manhood,
caps his s%tupendous failure and
proves in a terrifying, inverse
way the truth of the proverb that
a man cannot live without love.
Few it any contemporaries can
match Lowry's ability to post
pone mis- dramatic moments and
yet be dramatic; and the scene Of
Hugh the snake in the grass"
shaving his palsied half-brother
with a straight razor sliding over
the jugular vein, and the fear.
some contemplation of the dread
full, dizzy drop into the almost
nottomleSs gorge which slices
through the village of Quauhnahuac
are almost enough to make
jump screaming from the bridse
or cut a throat yourself.
After the first chapter, the time
is n day and night OF death
poverty and suffering Tow
there s little humor in 1.or
And II Is a keep : off : the : grass
lgn which gives the novel it,
s~lgnlIlcance. Constantly reiterst.
ca, IL exnorts US with the utmost
=. se,cy not to destroy the garden
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
Written for NEA Service

Written for NEA Service
With air travel making The
east and west C a only
hours apart, there is increased at
tendance of eastern players in
Pacific coast tournaments, and at
the winter nationals in Florida
there was a good representation
of Pacific coast players, among
whom were Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Newman of San Francisco.
New a formerly lived in
Washington, D. c., and recently
became Life Master No. So. He
was a member of the team finish
ing second in the national open
team-of-four championship, and
he finished third with Mrs. New
man in the national open pairs.
Today's hand shows how well
bidding can be harmonized. When
Mrs. Newman (South) bid two
hearts, Newman NORTH had a
problem. Four hearts would have
been an underbid, and an imme-
date jump to four no trump might
have placed an under-slam con-
tract in jeopardy. He therefore
compromised with a white lie"
by bidding two spades.
Now Mrs. Newman was on the
spot. She did not want to bid two
no trump without clubs, and she
did not want to bid her broken
down heart suit a third time. So
she bid three spades, showing the
ace, and passing the problem back
to her husband.
The ace of spades was perfect
SO Tar as Newman was concerned
and he now bid four no trump.
If Mrs. Newman had but n ace,
the spade ace. five hearts would
not be p%recarious. With two aces,
Mrs. Newman showed with her
Aackwood response of five hearts,
Tx hearts was easy to make,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
PROMOTING SOCIALISM

How. we'll the movement for socializa-
lion Of the United States, with the inevi-
table eradication Of private capital, owner
ship and enterprise, advanced during the
war is shown by the use Of a two-volumn
treatise on economics as the official
manual Of the Armed Forces Institute. II
has been in use in more than a hundred
colleges and universities, available 10
millions Of young men and women. .
It's advocacy Of the sweeping destruc-
lion Of private ownership is illustrated in
the second volume, page 435. Note what
is said:
Opinions differ as 10 the method by
which land and capital would be brought
under the ownership Of society. II is
sometimes suggested the present owners
should be appropriated by violence and
revolution -. Many people realize, how
ever that such measures, while they might
bring quick and thorough results, are sub
ject 10 grave dangers. They are likely
TO repel all who are motivated by humani-
tarianism. Moreover, 10 cut down ruth
lesslY the present owners Of land and
capital would deprive society Of some Of
the most capable executives and admins
traitors. And if revolution were attempt
ed but failed, society might swing TO the
opposite extreme so that Collectivism
would be impossible for many years TO
come . For these and other reasons,
il seems that socialism, if it is TO come,
should await the time when a sufficient
number of citizens appreciate its merits
so that it can be voted into existence. But,
in any event, if land and capital are TO be
acquired by society, there will remain the
question of whether confiscation or pur-
chase is the better method Of procedure.
In general, purchase appears 10 be sounder
than confiscation. Of course, the COM
pensation Of present owners would per-
petuate, for a time, the great inequalities
in wealth and income TO which socialists
object so strenously. However. since the
lump sums or annuities, which might be
granted 10 the present owners, would
not be transferable TO their heirs, this
problem would be a temporary one"
The manuel has been Withdrawn from
the Institute, but there is no knowing how
many immature minds have been con-
verted TO socialism, even TO communism.
during the time it was available to any
one. Heads Of our places Of higher learn
ing who res1act the established Ameri-
can way Of life cannot do better than strike
the work from their curriculum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-22
Religion
DayByDay
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
LIVING TO THE LIMIT
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS

Once, in her girlhood, I was sit.
ting in an alcove of the Longtellow
House in Cambridge, talking with
Helen Keller. I was spelling words
into her hand with my fingers.
and she was replying vocally. Sud.
denly she said, Who entered the
room just noW?"
The great double room was full
of guests: Looking across at the
entrance, I replied, Nobody"
Then a second look showed a
stranger entering the door. How
did Helen, blind and deaf, know?
Often when with her, and with
Jimmy Stringer, another deaf and
blind friend. l encountered this
uncanny exhibition of powers be-
yond the usual human range. Sci
entists say that most of us have
not developed our senses up to
their full capacity.
And religion says that our
spirits have qualities and abilities
far beyond any that we have yet
exercised.
Marvellously Thou has endowed
us with power. o Lord. May none
OF them become atrophied by dis
use. Help us to live up to the
limit OF our souls possibilities.
Am6n
Arizona sun., 1947-05-09

bear, although not always seen by
the traveller, are there and in num-
bers.
Most familiar, perhaps, is the
black bear, and this animal pro-
vides one Of the most vexatious
problems that cOnfrOnts the Ma
tiOnal Park service. For, de-
spite warnings that they are wild
animals and dangerous, visitors
insist on feeding the bears.
Accommodations for visitors in
Yellowstone range all the way from
luxurious hotels down through mex
penSive housekeeping cabins to the
campgrounds which are scattered
throughout the park. Hotel and
lodge centerS are situated at Nam
moth Hot Springs, location Of park
headquarters; at Old Faithful, Can
yon and Lake, while cabins are avail
able at Camp Roosevelt, near Tow
er Junction. There are highway en-
frances to the park from north,
northeast, east, south and west. Be-
cause the demand for accommoda-
tions is certain to be heavy this year.
those who plan visits to the park are
advised to obtain reservations as far
in advance as possible.
IN MARKED CONTRAST with the
oldest of the national parks is the
newest, Big Bend in West Texas,
located in a big bend Of Rio Grande
river. The State Of Texas made a
present of this 100, ,OOO-acre park to
the people of the United States in
1944-so short a time ago that there
has been little opportunity to provide
it with the developments found in
most Of the older parks.
While much of the park is semi
desert, where the desert vegeta tion is
staging steady recovery of its nat
ural condition after many years OF
heavy grazing, its heart is the for
ested mass of the Chisos mountains,
rising to elevations of more than
1000 feet. Along the Rio Grande
are three sheer walled canyons,
Mariscal, Boquillas and the Grand
Canyon of Santa Helena, the deepest
and most imposing of the three.
An improved road southwark to
the park from the town of Marathon
is now under construction, and ulti-
mately it will be reached by a first
class road. Accommodations in the
park, for 40 to 60 persons, are simple
but good; and many visitors find a
visit to the area an interesting ex-
perience, in spite of, or perhaps be-
cause of, the lack of development.
Arizona sun., 1947-05-09

Careless handling of manure
causes serious losses of fertilizer
and organic matter needed to help
increase crop yields and rebuild soil
structure.
One hundred tons of manure con-
tains rs tons of organic matter, 1000
pounds of nitrogen, 200 pounds of
phosphorus and 300 pounds of potash,
one-hah of it in the liquid part. Piled
outside and exposed to rain and
weather for several months, this 100
tons may shrink to so tons and lose
half its fertility and organic matter.
Losses may be reduced by us
ing enough bedding to soak up all
liquid manure, cleaning stalls fire.
quently and hauling manure directly
to fields, or storing carefully.