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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
Join The Thalians

The ITALIAN Society has hoped to raise Its
membership to five hundred in its present
campaign. There is no good reason why it
should not have this or even a larger enroll
ment, and many reasons why it should. But
the campaign moves SO slowly toward the
goal the Thalians are fearful that they must
60 into the approaching production season
with curtailed personnel. Some Of the old
members are asking: whats the matter
with Wilmington?"- h question that IN
variably arises whenever drives for
support of public service drag.
There is an answer which seems to hit all
similar cases. Perhaps the trouble is that
neither the cause itself or the reason for
public support are fully explained. The
ITALIAN Society, for example, is so generally
taken for granted by the older generation
of Wilmingtonians that any explanation OF
it's long and honorable career it IS the
oldest Little Theater organization in the
country may appear superfluous. But 1t
must not be forgotten that Wilmington has
many citizens who have not learned the
Society's record, and so must know why
membership is, in very truth, a mark OF dis
tinction.
This Star recently published a series OF
articles dealing with the Thalians the pro-
ductions of Its members as we'll as the out
standing thespians who have been seen IN
its own hall. Among the latter are such
names as Joe Jefferson, Richard Mans
field, Robert Downing, Robert Mantel, The
Loie Fuller Dancers, Nat Goodwin and Max
Elliott, James A. Herne, The Ben Greet
Players. Edna Wallace Hopper, Emma
Calve and Lillian Russell.
Surely there Is merit in affiliation with
the Society which provided the theater for
such a group of entertainers. Wllmlngtonl-
who are not acquainted with the Ihallans
or Its principal present undertaking the
restoration of the theater would do we'll
to visit the Public Library and read the
articles concerning both in he Star.
Among the many good reasons for joining
the Thalians are two that cannot be over
emphasized. One Is the privilege Of help
ing support the organization which has
weathered wars, vicissitudes, municipal In
difference, as a civic duty. The other IS the
real fun to be had in sharing the planning,
the shaping of policies, the fellowship of
similarly minded persons, and taking actual
part In productions. The play schedule for
the coming season is particularly good.
Whether as participant or spectator, the
Thalians are in for q fine winters entertain
ment.
tits hoped that Thalian Hall may be
restored. The cost is TO be much less than
first estimated. While there Is some posi-
bility that part of the cost could be borne
by outsiders it would be 50 much better to do
the entire Job with local capital. Your
dollars, whether few or many, can help
make this possible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
Labor Board VS. Robert Denham

it could rule against the Den
ham Interpretation of the law.
With convenient rapidity, the
present case materialized.
The case involves the Airing
ton, Va, local of the AT. of LIS
National Brotherhood of Electri-
cal Workers. This local had al
ready requested q consent cleo
ton of it's employers, a radio
station, and the N.L.R.B. In the
first week of September the To-
cal was informed that the MI.
RIB. could not certify it, since
all the officers had not signed
the non Communist affidavitG.
Then on Sept. 9, after making
certain that all the officers both
of the local and of the brother
hood had signed the necessary
papers, the local again asked
that the election be scheduled.
Not Unexpectedly, the officers
of the local were informed that
since the officers of the A. F.
of L. had not signed the affida-
Wits, the N.L.R.B. could not cor
duct the elections.
immediately, the local ap-
pealed the ruling, which meant
in effect that it vas appealing
Denham's ruling over Denham's
head to the board. Briefs have
been prepared by A. F. of L..
lawyers arguing that the anti
Communist provisions of the
Taft-Hartley act do not apply to
officers of the national labor Or
CARNATIONS. Another brief has
been prepared by Den
hams staff supporting his
ruling. These r now being
studied by the board members.
There is, of course, no abso-
lutte certainty how the board will
decide. Minds can always be
changed. Yet it is reliably re-
ported that at least three mem
bers Of the five-man board are
strongly inclined to vote for re-
versal of the Denham ruling. 1t
is an informed guess that this
of three consists of
chairman Paul Herzog, and
members John M. Houston and
Abe Murdoch. They may be
joined by James H. Reynolds,
with j. Copeland Gray, one of
the two new members, the only
prof. enham holdout. If this line
up holds, and if the decision on
the case is not indefinitely post
poned at the last moment, Den
ham will be reversed.
The results will be interest
ing. One possibility is that a
major battle will begin within
the labor board, between Den
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02

and hack at it's firm founda-
tions. Very soon now IT Will
have joined those other van
ished Fifth Avenue Vanderbilt
palaces-which no old-tlmer can
fail to remember that other
"brick of chocolate ice cream
it's twin, which stood Just north
of it: the splendid white Van
derbilt chateau, a bit beyond;
the handsome broWnstone struc-
ture opposite the Public Library
with its broad front windows
and grand front steps; and the
magnificent red chateau at the
corner of Fifty = eight Street
from which Vanderbilts gazed
northward at the green stretch
es of Central Park.
On the final night of it's e2-
istence, before it's last vestiges
have disappeared, on that night
now inexorably and rapidly ap-
preaching, one wonders whether
belated wanderers on Fifth Ave
nue. will not suddenly stop in
establishment, gripped by a fan
tastic vision - the vision OF
smoking street lamps winkins
their flames in tribute to some
thing that belonged to their own
New York-of shades of ghostly
drivers of shadoWy hanson
cabs raising their whips and
the brims of their old
time headgear in affectiensts
spectral farewell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02

may be exhausted within a gen
Grafton, though they are more
than ample now. Here it may
be shown there is need of sound
conservation practices and the
development of new processes to
refine loW-grade ores and shale.
There is enough American
coal to last for centuries. With
any kind of co-opera alton from
the weatherman, the u. S. can
produce all the food that's need
ed. The drain on top soil to
grow these extra supplies is in
significant, if good farming
methods of normal soil conser-
walton are followed.
Any idea that the U. S. can't
turn out enough manufactured
goods for it's own needs and Eu-
ropes is, of course, fantastic.
With the U. S. index of indus
trial production down from it's
peak of 239, in 1913, to ITO, in
1916, and a rate of around 1876
today, there is plenty of capac-
lty to turn out more goods for
wherever they may be needed.
In final analysis, however,
these things aren't going to be
settled on any economic basis.
The play is for the Krug report
to 60 to Chairman Edwin G.
Nourse of the Presidents Coun-
Gil of Economic Advisers, who
will appraise the impact of the
aid program on the U. S. -
whether it will cause prices to
rise still higher and things like
that.
Both reports then go to Secre-
tary of Commerce Averell Har-
riman and his committee of 10
10 big business men, six col
lege professors and two labor
leaders, seasoned with one rep
resentative of the public, ex-
Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.,
of Wisconsin. They'll balance
these two reports against the
requirements for the Marshall
plan drawn up at Paris, and
make recommendations to the
President on what he ought to
do about the whole thing.
The President will then send
a message to Congress. Con-
gress will appropriate the bill
lions it considers necessary, and
that will complete the daisy
chain.
That means this whole involv-
ed business will be settled on a
political basis. The factors will
be how much more burden the
American taxpayer will stand,
the effect Of the aid program on
U. S. price levels, and the de-
gree to which European govern
ments will cooperate with the
U. S. in return for aid received.
In short, how much is America
willing to pay to keep Europe
from going Communist
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02

WASHINGTON - Much in
tense soul-searching is now 60
ing on among the five members
of the National Labor Relations
Board. Soon, perhaps within the
next few days, the board will
be called upon to make a deci-
sion which will have an import
ant bearing on the whole future
Of labor management relations.
The board is confronted with a
case involving a small Virginia
A. F. of L. local. On its deci-
sion in this case will depend
whether or not the board re-
verses the crucial anti-Commun-
list ruling of the busting new
Labor car" Robert Denham,
general counsel of the NLRB.
AS of now, the odds are heavy
that the board will use the Vir-
ginia case as an instrument for
reversing Denham.
Denham has, Of course, touch
ed off an enormous row by his
strict Interpretation of the anti
Communist provisions Of the
Taft-H artley act. He has ruled
that the act requires all the Of
ficers of the two national labor
organizations, the A. F. Of l..
and the CLIO, to sign an affi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
The BrotherhoOds' Demands

IN demanding q 80 per cent increase in
wages, the five railroad operating brother
hoods declare the high cost of living leaves
them no other course. If the demand is met
u will mean an average SO a day advance
and add a billion dollars annually to oper-
citing costs.
The National Railway Labor Act machin-
cry will start grinding. The lines obviously
Will file protests and both sides have a
chance to be heard.
But, whether the increase, and also the
demanded changes in operating rules, are
granted or not, the fact that the brotherhoods
paeos the responsibility for their proposal
s~q~are1y on the cost of living points to the
need for getting prices generally down to a
ssl> and sane level more directly than any
thing else that has come about since the in
flation spiral started.
The probable increase IN operating costs
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
Farewell, Old Friend
An Editorial From The New York Times

1t stood, until a few days ago,
as 1t had stood for more than
threescore years - brown and
solid and foursquare, on the
northwest corner of Fifty = first
Street and Fifth Avenue - the
last of the great Vanderbilt
mansions on the lordly thor
oughfare that epitomized their
New York of multiplying mil
lions of dollars and scintillating
turns of fashion. For some
years it had been suffering sore
ly. From its once sumptuous in
terror the rich furnishings had
been spirited away; and, out
side, it had long shown peeling
surfaces and broken windows,
through which swept rain and
dust and SCOT. But still it stood
there, intact and unbending, a
crumbling monument to another
New York, the New York of
commodore Vanderbilt and his
sons, of Mrs. Astor and Ward
McAllister and Berry Wall, of
street lamps burning a and
horses pulling hansoms - a
younger New York, where life,
old-timers like to think, was
gayer and hearts lighter and
happiness more frequently
found.
"A few days ago the wreckers
pushed through it's portal. They
began to pick at it's sturdy walls
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02

us to eat sandwiches with bread on one side
only. l erhaps had lie asked us to we Gould
mcra clearly see how far advarced the art Of
slicing ham has gone.
Mr.. Truman, in making his request, and
it is not an unjust one, visualizes the bread
in bushels. He visualizes ships laden with
the golden grain arriving at European ports,
and the hungry people there, some with
tears in their eyes, perhaps, silently Of
fering a prayer for the United States and
it's free enterprise system which has kept
the nation in a position where it has found
this true:
THAT it is more blessed to give them than
receive"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
i. S. Resources
BY T EDISON

WASHINGTON, - The study
of U. S. resources which Presi-
dent Truman asked Interior
Secretary J. A. Krug to make
three months ago is now near
ing completion. This is the first
of three Investigations to see
how much aid the U. S. can
furnish Europe without 60
ing broke.
First draft Of the Krug report
is a typewriter document about
three inches thick. When finally
approved by all govern
ment agencies that have had a
hand in it's preparation, the re-
port goes to the President. It's
up to him to decide whether the
report will be made public. It
should be.
There has been a tremendous
amount of conflicting informa-
ton put out about Americas
dwindling resources and its in
ability to produce more. Value
of the Krug report is that it
will be a complete postwar APP
praisal of U. S. SURPRISES and
| Shortages. AS such, it should
have as much bearing on future
domestic policies as on the Eu-
ropean aid program:
Main thing the Krug report
may point up is the need for
greater U. S. imports, particu-
larly of the raw materials it
lacks. U. S. imports have not
come close to balancing exports
since '36 and 81. Today, exports
are running at the rate of SILL
billion while imports are $5.7 bill
lion a 3-to-1 ratio. Last year
it was 2-to-1. And, while the US.
is now exporting about eight per
cent of it's gross national prod
uct of 1925 billion, it imports
only three per cent of that.
To the rest of the world this
unbalance of trade is looked
upon as a shortage of dollars
with which to buy Ameri-
can products. Properly viewed,
it is not a shortage of dollars
but a shortage of goods, which
the U. S. needs to buy from the
rest of the world to bring it's
economy into balance.
U. S. supplies Of things like
tin - of which this country has
none at all - must, of course,
be imported before they can be
exported in manufactured goods.
In a slightly different category,
the U. S. doesn't produce enough
copper, lead or zinc for it's own
needs. Any exports contain
ing such metals must necessari-
ly reduce American stockpiles,
unless trades can be made for
increased imports of these stra-
tegic materials.
On materials like high-grade
iron ore and petroleum the story
is still different. U. S. reserves
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02

ham and those who vote to re-
verse him. When John l.. Lewis
shook his hoary locks and roar
ed his defiance at Denham, Den
ham is said to have had his
crusading spirit aroused. A re-
versal of his ruling now would
cut him off in mid-crusade. 1t
is hardly to be expected that he
will cherish tender feelings to-
ward the members of the board
responsible for this loss of face.
Thus there is a chance that,
unless the maximum of tact is
employed, the board and it's gen.
eral counsel, whose functions
r at least as important as
those of the board, will end up
working at cross purposes.
1t will be interesting, too, TO
see. whether the leaders of the
non = Communist unions in the
CLIO agree to sign the effidavits,
or whether the CLIO as a whols
Will close ranks to protect the
leaders of the minority of Com
munist-dominated unions. If the
leaders of all CLIO unions still
refuse to sign, the AT. of L,
will be given an important ad-
vantage over its rival organiza-
ton. Most interesting Of
all, however, will be to see how
the Taft = Hartley act really
works in practice, some
thing which it has been impos-
sible to discern under all the
dust kicked up by Denham's
ruling on the anti-Communist al
fidavits.
Copyright, 1947, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02

fov f,e lines, II the demanded advance
should be granted could have but one effect
"a still higher cost of living. Every wage
increase would do that.
We nave been dealing with initiation from
the wrong end.
AS a result we are skating on per1lously
thin economic ice. Inevitably the ice Will
break unless we cut prices back to a sound
level.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
Chronic Shock
Cause Is Told
RY WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, ND

The commonest cause of COM
plications, when operations are
performed on chronically i'll
persons, is a lack of red color
ing matter (hemoglobin) in the
blood.
Champ Lyons, M. D., and H.
S. Mayerson, Phi. D., New Or
leans, writing in the Journal of
the American Medical Associ-
alton, report that battle casual
ties in World War II often had
too little circulating blood when
sent back for operations. They
showed weight loss and devel-
oped shock from small hemor-
|rhages during the operation.
They had delayed or faulty
of wounds and slow con-
valescence.
Ordinary laboratory exsmins-
tons may suggest that the
blood is in good condition in
chronic illness, but if the total
amount is m e a sured it ia
Learned that it is reduced in
Quantity. insufficient blood vol
ume is caused by chronic in
lection, hemorrhages, inability
to eat, burns, groWths, ulcers
and liver disease. The condition
has been called s''chronic"
shock.
A count of the red cells gives
the relative proportion of blood
cells of plasma, but does not
tell whether there are enough
blood cells for the body's needs.
If a count is made just after
a hemorrhage, the result may
be normal, while, a short time
later, the count will fall because
of dilution.
About one = eleventh OF the
body weight is blood. In an
average mans body, there is
about six quarts of blood. Men
tend to have more blood than
women, and children have more
in proportion to their size than
adults.
To overcome blood lack in
chronic illness, Drs. Lyons and
Mayerson gave large daily
transfusions Of whole blood be-
fore operating. When the blood
was brought back to normal or
slightly above, they considered
it safe to operate.
Attempts to feed chronically
Ill patients back to normal, be-
fore an operation, may take too
much time. Some of those suf-
fering with chronic infections
can destroy protein faster than
it can be given, or a serious
disease may progress to an in,
operable state.
QUESTION: l am a woman
in my forties. My pulse be-
comes weak at times, and the
volume seems to diminish. Ii
this condition due to heart fail
ure?
ANSWER While weak pulse
may be one sign of heart fail
ure, there are other signs,
which you do not mention,
which are more significant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
GOOD MORNING

The rank is but the ~guinea's stamp;
she mans a man for all that.-Robert
Burns.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
Quotation

II is our duty to provide a program
involving participation by all able-bodled
young American G men Tp nnaer = 1n1 newa1
military training.-Gov. Ihonaas T.. De"ey
of New York.
If YOU want to estimate the strength of
of a nation, it is by the dispersal OF it's
industrial potential that you can evaluate
The possibilities Of this nation to make
var Marshal Viscount Montgomery,
chief of B~ritain's Imperial General Staff.
This Socialist attempt at the conscrip-
tain will rise again in all her strength and
freedom.-Winston Churchill.
We are right down to bedrock in Greece.
Both sides have served notice they will
back their position to the limit. If neither
backs down the consequences will be dis
astrous.-Rep. c. A. Eaton (R) of New
Jersey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-02
Minus All FireWarks

We trust that India and Pakis-
tan will start off right by max
ing a firm resolve for a safe and
sane August 15.-St. Louis Post
DISPATCH.
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-04
Uncharted Peaks
(The Denver Post)


 IT WAS ABOUT year ago that the pressure against OPA was turned on in earnest Businessmen, industrial StS farm organizations and other interests boomed the drum. After while the small began to be- eve they right, that perhaps the only way plentiful supplies-and an ultimate drop in prces-was to get rid of OPA thus restoring free enterprise compe tton and normacy. This week:
 The wholesale price index compiled by the Associated Press is>at the highest point in history.
 Few if any retail food prices have returned to OPA ceiling evels and items like bread milk and pork have spured again from the plateau to which they climbed after the death of OPA. The wheat and hog markets at a-time peak lev es indicating continued high retail prices in those com moditieS for some time to come. Seasonal production declines and foreign relief de- mands account in part for the high domestic price of some food commodities But in large part the prophecy of lower prices made by those who wanted OPA killed have not been borne out When OPA controls expired last summer it was to be sure foreseen that there would be spurt in prices but that living costs should reach such peaks as today or that they would remain at these peaks for so many months not generally anticipated. It is apparent that asked too much in hoping for relatively pain less recovery from the disocations of war. If the American people have not utterly lost faith the opinions of economists they may find cheer in predictions of price drop this and autumn If this occurs, the cost of living graph will be tracing the which marked recovery from the first World War In 1920, almost two years after victory, prices went into steep decline which continued for year finally leveling out in 1922.
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-04

40 days of fasting, excluding Sun days, developed very slowly.
 Originally, pre-Easter lasts last ed one day. The fasting period was increased little later to 40 hours (the time during which Christ's body rested in the tomb and it gradually increased to it's present 40 days.
 As early as the second century, in the time of St. Irenaeus, men, tion is made of a short but very severe fast before Easter. Some persons ate nothing for forty hours between the afternoon of Good Friday and the morning of Easter.
 In the middle of the third cen tury, fasting throughout Holy Week was observed in Alexandria in Egypt.
 The first formal recording of a Lenten Fast is in the fifth canon of the Council of Nicaea in 325.
 The Lenten fast was first order ed in England by Earconberht. King of Kent (640-664) Lenten laws governing fasting were placed on the statute book in England in the Middle Ages and remained there until 1863, when they were repealed.
 However, England still observed the Lenten fast widely during the 18th century, and Queen Elizabeth and her court followed the custom of English women of wearing mourning before Easter, a habit which survived until well into the 18th century.
 "Mothering Sunday" was ob- served in England on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On that day, girls in the service of the church re- ceived holiday to visit their par ents. Each girl took as a present for her mother a small, plum-filled cake known as a "simmel." The custom of "mothering" still is fol- lowed at Usk, Monmouth, site of a Benedictine nunnery, the Britan. nica adds.
The Nome nugget., 1947-04-04
Observance Of Lent

Lent-The world now describ- ing the period of fasting observed by Christians preceding the cele- bration of Easter-originally mere ly meant spring, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Tn e word is of Teutonic origin.
 From the beginning, Lent has been considered an essential part of the Easter celebration, which comes as day of rejoicing after a fast commemorating the death and burial of Christ.
 Such lasts have always varied in rigor according to the country and people observing them, occa- sionally meaning complete absen- tion from food and drink for a stated length of time.
 Pre-Easter fasting was required by civil, as well as ecclesiastical law in England during the Middle Ages. The law was enforced until the reign of William III in the l7th century.
 Originally there was much con- fusion as to the exact limits of the Lenten period because the early Christians had chosen tho tirne of the Jewish Passover as the date for celebrating Easter.
 Christians of Jewish origin end ed their lasts on the "14th day of the moon at evening" with Easter following at once, without regard to the day of the week. Gentle Christians identified the first day of the week with the Resurrection, disregarding the day of the month.
 The disparity was settled by the Council of Nicaea in 325 when it was decreed Easter would be kept on Sunday.
 But, although some of the earli- est peoples agreed that Easter Sun- day is "the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox," April 6 this year) the custom of observing a Lent of six weeks and four days, comprising