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MC.iyiot.tt xnci Assuvintx.u rnwa With ounfidence in nr armed forces— with the un bounding determination of our people — we will gain the Inevitable triumph — so help us God. —Roosevelt’s War Message. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1944 Our Chief Aim To aid in every way the prosecution of the war to complete Victory. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1944 Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis truth alone is strong; And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful tall angels to en shield her from all wrong • . . Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the Throne! Yet that Scaffold sways the Future; and behind the dim Unknown Standeth God within the shadows, keep ing watch above His own! James Russell Lowell -V Clearing Trouble Spot President Roosevelt’s trip to Hawaii, aside from the political advantage it brought him and the Democratic party, might well have helped clear up a long standing trouble spq+ in our Pacific war machine. That trouble, briefly, consisted of General MacArthur’s dis satisfaction with the high command's grand strategy—his belief that his own theater, the Southwest Pacific, should have been accord ed more recognition and therefore more men and equipment. During the last year, as the front pages have told us, the emphasis has shifted away from Australia, New Guinea, and General MacArthur. It has shifted to the cen tral Pacific where Naval task forces under Admiral Nimitz have been pushing the offen sive against the Japanese. And meanwhile MacArthur has been left to do what he could with what he had. It is well known among naval and military leaders that the Pacific war is far ahead of schedule—months ahead. The timetable drawn up earlier'in the war has long since been by passed and Americans now fight the Japs in territory they hadn’t planned to occupy for months hence. This is due to many factors, including a probability that we early overesti mated the Japs’ fighting ability, that we credit ed them with being super fighters who would stop at nothing to carry the Emperor’s banner forward. The last year’s fighting experience has disproved that. In view of all this, the high command de cided to use a more direct approach to the Japanese homeland—the approach by way of the Central Pacific. The wisdom of that de cision no one could deny now. No one has ever accused MacArthur of be ing other than a good soldier. And as such, he has constantly done the best he could with what he had. And he, as much as anyone else, must be gratified to see the Central Pa cific offensive meeting such success as the papers tell us now. And he niust be gratified to see that it will not be necessary to reach Tokyo by means of the slow, costly steps such as the taking of Guadalcanal and portions of New Guinea. Since the Central Pacific war has moved forward so rapidly, and since the conference with President Roosevelt, possibly the next few months will see new and bigger offensives in which General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, and the other Pacific war leaders will forget any differences they have had and concentrate solely on taking the war into Tokyo. Straws In The Wind Two items of news have lately come out of Europe which, though not of world-shaking or tven Page One importance, provide another revealing glimpse of the state of German itrength and morale. One is an ultimatum from Norwegian patriots to their Quisling coun trymen of the Nazi police force. The other is a statement by the German confessional church, said to be the strongest denunciation of Nazism the German clergy has ever made. Both declarations are bold and confident. Their tone is not that of terrified minorities, but of men whose words are backed by Itrength as well as right, and who therefore lo not fear. The Norwegian patriots ordered the officers lot to seek out youths who had fled Nazi •onscription, on pain of meeting “the same fate as that of Police Inspector Lindvig and Sheriff Horgen.” (Both these men, notorioui A Nazi collaborator*, were killed by “unknown assailants.”) The Quisling *heriffs were told that the order “is not to be regarded as a suggestion, but as a command coming from the highest authority in time of war.” Within Germany, the Confessional church attacked the barbarous record of the Nazis in words of eloquent and righteous wrath. With out mentioning the Nazis by name, the mes sage indicted them on all “counts” of the Ten Commandments, and found them guilty. Granting the state’s right to impose death on criminals and enemies of war, the mes sage stated that “the divine world order knows no such terms as “to expunge,” ‘to liquidate’ or ‘valueless life’ with regard to human be ings. To slay human beings because they .are related to criminals, because they are old or mentally afflicted, or because they belong to a different race is not the use of the sword sanctioned by Scripture. “We have often remained silent,” me Con fessional leaders recalled, “have said too little or have been too timid to stand up to our conviction that God’s Commandments apply to us and to our time.” But there is no timidity now in this group, so long the target of Himmfer’s sneering at tacks, nor among the valiant Norwegians who for four years have endured and fought against death, terror, privation* and insults at Nazi hands. Where are the dread Gestapo and the SS guard, that men in Germany and Norway can speak out for decency and right? When, after so many dark years, men in Nazi-occupied countries dare to talk again of justice and ethical living, the Nazi hold must be slipping everywhere. -v Reds’ Future Plans What does the Soviet government proposed to do domestically following the war? That’s, a mighty important and intriguing question for those thinking, of the post-war world. Top among the many answers is that of Henry Cassidy, who has just returned to the United States after nearly four years as As sociated Press correspondent in Moscow. The people of Soviet Russia, he says, who have lived through 27 years of revolution, civil and foreign wars, famine, five-year plans and purges, face another decade of toil before they will be able to relax and enjoy themselves. He says that, according to strong authority, the Russians envisage two more five-year plans, designed to build up heavy industry and capital goods, rather than light industry and consumers’ goods. When the first of the revived five-year plans will begin depends on when the war will end. Despite the rapid progress of the Red army’s summer campaign, there is little over-opti mism in Moscow about an early end to the war. The Russians thought it would end in 1942 and it didn’t. Since then, they have been chary about predictions. One Soviet authority, however, in as good a position as anyone to peer into an admittedly cloudy crystal ball, has estimated that, bar ring the unexpected, such as the next bomb actually hitting Adolf Hitler, it will take until next summer to destroy Germany militarily. When that, has been accomplished, the Red army men who have fought on the fronts al ready for three years, the partisans who have worked behind the German lines, and the people who have lived under or away from Nazi occupation, will return to the hard wark of long range planning. The first five-year plan, launched in 1929 and completed technically in four years, was de signed to start reconstruction and industriali zation of the Soviet union. Successive plans aimed at carrying on the economic develop ment. The Soviet authorities were drafting a broad fifteen-year building plan when they were interrupted by German invasion. The post-war five-year plans, as now con templated, will be designed to repair, and once more to build up, the productive power of the country. Despite the largely successful evacuation of factories to the east in 1941, and the development of industries in and be yond the Urals, which have helped to make the Red army more than a match for the Wehrmacht, the Soviet economic system has suffered heavily from the war. -V Lesson For Dictators As the great dictatorships of Germany, Jap an and Italy crumble on their rotten foun dations, it is with a feeling of pride that we in the United States point to the production records of free enterprise, compared with the much boasted efficiency of the totalitarian governments. The output of American industry has even surpassed our most cherished hopes. Take oil, for example. In no place on earth except in America where the system of free dom of enterprise has been recognized, could such a record have been made. After Pearl Harbor, American refiners were informed by our government that the then 40.000 barrels daily production of 100-octane gasoline would have to be increased to about 200.000 barrels daily by the end of 1942 to supply military operations. The oil industry went to /ork on a construc tion program which involved 450 domestic oil refineries and 189 separate projects of various types of installations necessary to the manu facture of special ingredients essential in mak ing the finished product. Today the Allied flying forces, less than three years after Pearl Harbor, can tap well 1 springs of high octane aviation gasoline for 500,000 barrels daily. Commenting on this, W. R. Boyd, Jr., ehair man of the Petroleum Industry War council, says: “It is in truth an accomplishment re sulting from the teamwork of this typically American industry of ours and our govern ment, the fruits of a program in which,man agement, patriotic workmen and technologists organized by the Petroleum Administration for War and supported by the army and navy and such civilian agencies of government as the War Production Board and Defense Plant Corporation, each were assigned a role which everyone played magnificently.” -V Our Factory Fighters The furloughing of experienced men from the army to work in tire factories does not mean that our labor shortage is becoming alarming. It simply means that tire manu facturing is heavy work. Much of it can’t be done by 4-F’s, the aging, or women. Before synthetic rubber was sufficiently plen tiful, tire factories had to lay off many men. They went to other factories or into service. Today, with ample rubber, it is easier to bring back former workers from the Army than to alter present employment regulations. And these men will still be in the fight. As the enemy retreats and destroys railroads, these supplies must be moved by truck. Trucks mean tires. And since synthetic tires wear out more quickly than those of natural rubber and are frequent casualties along with the trucks that they carry, there must be added production, and quickly. Fair Enough (Editor's Note.—Xho Star and the Newa aeeept no responsibility tor ths pe rsonal views of Mr. rapier, and often dlsapres with them as much as many of his readers. Bis artleles servs ths pood purpose of makinp people think. By WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK, Aug. 11—The way it began, why this fellow was a kind of sidehill farmer down there where the government has been improving poeple and when the war come he went into a cotton factory and got to be a real good operator and he was making top money for the kind of a job he was doing. Then the government come in and built a lot of model homes so the people would feel im proved and they assigned him to a house suitable for a man and wife and two kids and the rent was $18 a month because he was under privileged. He liked the place good and they planted a little patch and some flow ers and everything was going just fine. So anyway, one day the War Labor board came along and pretty soon the manager of this factory he got a long letter and a lot of figures like a life insurance policy, and he was ordered to raise wages five cents an hour up to so much, but he is so busy making cUth for the war he don’t read it very close so this fellow who is getting improved, why his pay goes up $11,20 a month, too. Well, he and the old Indy fait pretty good about this although there ia «t Httle more bite off the top for income ta« and Social security but they say, well, after all, if the government gives you a swell house and gets you a raise with out you even ask for it, why yor are a louse if you squawk about donating a little more so they can carry on the good work. But tnen comes the nrst of the month and the rent goes up from $18 a month to $25 and they figured it was just a mistake because it is the law that rents are frozen and Old Sam certainly wouldn’t be the one to violate his own laws and set people a bad example. So he takes the notice down to the government im provement people and the housing fellow ex plains that the rent freeze only goes for pri vate profiteers but they raise his rent $7 a month because his raise in pay puts him in a higher bracket and you pay rent according to what you earn. So here Old Sam gives him a raise of $11.20 but grabs back seven bucks ftir the hike in the rent and a couple of bucks more for taxes and this fellow figures his raise finally comes to less than a dime a day. He wasn’t improved enough to understand why the same house should cost the same guy more money when they give him an argument that he got a raise in pay he hollered back that the way he figures, the raise is just a little over two bucks, cash money so far as he was concerned. He said he was sick iAd tired of regimen tation so he went out in the country and bought him a little old swayback dog-run house and then he told the guy living there he would have to get out because he wanted to move in right away. So this other fellow refused to go because he was essential in the same factory, so they called on the OPA and the OPA says, yes, you have to give him. 60 days notice and, more over, the roof leaks and that is strictly un sanitary so he will have to shingle if right away otherwise this other guy might catch cold and that would slow down democracy’s all-out war on the totalitarian aggressors! Well, this fellow figured he would want a tight roof anyway, for his own self, so he went down to get some nails and shingles and the priori ties said nothing doing, and if they catch him violating the priorities, it is in the, can for him for obstructng the war effort. Then the OPA says it is in the can for him if he doesn’t make the house sanitary by fixing the leaks and he is all confused when all of a sudden the War Labor board takes another peek at the pay rolls. The next day or so the boss got a letter that he shouldn’t have raised this guy because the increase was only for the dumb clucks in the low-downest brackets, but in the meanwhile the boss had paid out about $15,000 in raises to the high-bracket people like our friend. This is illegal inflation, so he can’t charge it to wages and he will have to pay income tax on it. No kidding, that is what they have done. And furthermore, they told him he would have to reduce our friend $11.20 a month, right away. You should have heard this fellow holler. But all they did was they just unwound the whole business. The boss reduced his pay. Old Sam reduced his taxes and cut back the rent to $18 again. He kissed goodbye to his down payment on the dog-run house and the other guy put a dish-pan under the leak; so there they are now, right back where they starte.d But from the way he souaded, this fellow si re is sick and tired of getting improved. -V More and more an intelligent, constructive liberal leadership will arise in the south which will not owe anything directly or indirectly to Wall Street or to outworn prejudices. — Henrv A. Wallac# SAVIN U US TKUUBL.J& Italians Seek Entry To U.S. By GEORGE BRIA ROME, Aug. 4—(delayed)— (JPI—In every corner of liberat ed Italy today, Italians ask me the same hopeful ques tion: "Will we be able to go to the United States after the war?” And it doesn’t come from just the disillusioned, bitter youth who are unable to see any future in this war ravaged land. Middle aged men — pro fessional men—have told me: "We want to get out of here. We want to go to America.” So the truth is that countless Italian are sick of Italy—for political as well as economic reasons—and they pin their hopes on “a new life” over seas. Emigration consequently is sure to be one of the burning issues in postwar Italy and the Italian press already has be gun to call for a scrapping of the “quota system,” where by less than 4,000 Italian emi grants were allowed to enter the United States each year. Here are some of the argu ments they give for a revision of this system: 1—A victorious United States will be the only country in the world to which a war torn humanity will be able to turn for commodities and sunplies for at least 10 years. This will mean a tremendous increase in American production and a consequent need for labor. Italian labor knows no peer. 2. —With all the reconstruc tion that will be necessary in Italy the country will be un able to employ all of its labor potential. Italy is rich in hu man quntity but poor in na tural resources. The surplus labor be put to work in Americ, producing the ma terials necessary to recon struct Italy. 3. —Before 1941. more than 200,000 Italian workmen went to the United States every, year. From those emigrants came a steady stream of money which “rejuvenated” the Italian treasury. The Italian treasury now certainly needs “rejuvenation." 4.—American organized la bor opposed mass immigra tion after World War 1 on the grounds that the labor mar ket would be swamped, but the ' devastation wrought in Europe by this war is so great that American industry would be able to employ every available workman to produce the materials for reconstruc tion. “There will be work and bread for all.” Italian lawyers on emigra tion have treated the subject exclusively from the economic viewpoint — as a “necessary evil.” If you talk to individual. Italians, however, you find that many of them want to go to America so that “I will be left alone,” and so that ‘‘I will have some freedom. Many of them predict that the Italians will start shooting each other and they are too tired, too Just as soon as the Allies leave cynical and too disillusioned to take part in it. The United States is not the only country rich in natural resources which could use Italian labor. There is Rus sia for example but while there is much talk about Russian prestige in Italy. I haven’t met » one Italian who wanted to go there. If You Think You Have Troubles, Look At This LOS ANGELES Aug. 11— l» — Early this year Mrs. Patricia Doyle’s husband was reported missing aboard a U. S. submarine. A few weeks later her 2-year-old daughter, Carolyn, was drowned in Honolulu. And now Mrs. Doyle, red-haired and 24, has been victimized of about $1,000, all the cash she pos sessed, by two supposed friends, a sheriff’s report said today. And she is expecting another baby. After the loss of her husband, George, a machinist’s mate 1-c, and the death of her daughter, Mrs. Doyle came here from Hono lulu. On shipboard she met a Los Angeles woman and was invited to stay at her home. One day this week she return ed frm a shopping trip to find that more than $900 she had left in her dresser was missing. She met a girl who pretended sym pathy and offered to share her room. Then the girl fled with Mrs. Doyle’s last $60 and most of her clothes, she told sheriff’s depu ties. Wives Who Berated Mate Both Visit Him In Jail “To err is human, to forgive divine” is an ancient proverb subscribed to by the two wom en who cited a New Hanover county white man, in Record er’s court this week, as being poor husband material. While the man languishes in the county jail, awaiting the day, within a 10-day period, when he can raise $300 for the surety bond demanded by Judge H. Winfield Smith, he is being visited by both his former wife and his present The Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY ‘The Ashley Book of Knots,” by Clfford W. Ashley (Doubleday, Doran; $7.50). If something like a pun seems to turn up in this brief piece on Clifford W. Ashley’s "The Ashley Book of Knots,” it is unintentional. The book, its title, and its con tents are all pun-breeders. To begin with, one should know that Mr. Ashley is a marine paint er, and a member of a sailing family. A couple of whaler uncles began teaching him nautical knots (you see, it’s almost impossible to keep from punning), and the next thing he knew, his notebook con tained hundreds of examples. In fact, there came a time when he had noted all the nautical knots, and had to transfer his activities! He began haunting butchers’ coun- : ters, operating rooms, jails where • hangings were imminent, steeple- > jacks’ headquarters. Boy Scout’s i huts, electric linesmen’s union halls i and even the summer hotel porch- 1 es on which old ladies knit and talk \ the warm months away. , When Mr. Ashley’s collection ’ peached 3900 he cast about for 1 something to do with them, and i :he idea of a book arose. He was serfectly suited to the idea, being a painter. He discussed the knots jy classifications, and then wrote about the method of tying them, fie drew illustrations to help with •his last, so that in addition to 3900 knots duly described, the took contains also 7000 drawings, it should be obvious by now that ‘The Ashley Book of Knots” is enormous. “Anthony Adverse” is a pocket book by comparison. The alphabetical range of the snot is fabulous. Archers’ knots ire first; yachtsmen’s knots last here appear to be some special one :or yachtsmen that are not needed aboard real ships. Florists’ knots :all up the nicest images, ind hangman’s knots are least at tractive. Which is not quite true hey actually are nice knots, but here is something shivery about heir use. And finally, the knot is livisible into neat chapters. I was especially taken with the one call ed 'The Turk’s - head.” This is he knot you see tied around some hing; around a valuting pole, for example, to add strength. The Purk’s-head is a useful knot. It urns up on anythng from wicker umiture to a quirt dne, and by his children. Assistant Jailer T. T. But ler reported yesterday that the forgiving wives have brought food and comfort to the prisoner who has had am ple time to consider his short comings as a provider. Wife No. 1 had the man ar rested for non-support of his three children, whereupon Smith ordered him to pay her $20 a week for the purpose. Wife No.2 appeared before Smith at the conclusion of the non-support case averring that she wanted “to be rid of him.” She also revealed that he is “worse than my first hus band,” and admitted that she would have to search for a third mate who “will proba ' bly be worse than the others.” It is not known whether she has reconsidered her avowed i intentions of procuring a new husband. Daily Prayer for all war workers Thou hast revealed to us, O Heavenly Father, in this testing time the undreamed capacity of our people for great and multi form service. Tireless hands, clev er brains and dauntless devotion have produced and produced to all the world’s wonder. On farms and in factories, in shipyards and in laboratories, countless patriots have wrought tirelessly and effect ively. We pray that into the heart of every war worker there may steal the sweet consciousness that he is serving not only his Country, and a world - wide Cause, but that he has also been serving Thee. Deliver them every one, no mat ter how drudgin'g his task, from weariness and discouragement and] by KIRKE L. SmpS0N 1 Associated Press War t There are broad intimation^1* German and high p,aced military sources alike tha, a 1 fanatical demands from Berw’ Nazi commander in ' France has sensed his envelopment and begun . r * to the Seine-perhaps too That was the purport of an' is well” message relayed to ? troops by General Mom* k" Allied field commander intgF°> Enemy armies from the m coast to the Loire were nnfl way”, he said, with Allied ! bai heads’ ‘round behind them i„ P'Jt> places” and some of lhe^ not get away.” ^aJ i,a" uiuaacasts more th3n firmed that Montgomery l'0* nail sketch of the situation told of multiple American coin™ wheeling northeastward from the? lunging stride up the Loire > feeling for contacts with Can? : on the Allied left of the & would encircle the whole cent segment of the main German?! in France, perhaps 300 000 0™''* Allied strategic bombing open hens far behind the enemy r ! had the same meaning Every? yard and junction, road huh ! bridge east of the Seine through northeastern France and the I countries was a target while 1 port bombers blasted along I? Seine and west ot the river y avenue of enemy reinforcement or escape from Paris to the sea J being overlooked. > 1 Most of all German surrende, of British invested Thury Harcour in the little hills of Normandy „ the Canadian right reflected ft. beginning of a possible Nazi nidi, tary debacle in France. Mass "r? engagement” moves by the fr; t, pull out of the indicated ruitinie trap set for him without either air power to shelter his retreating col. umns or armor to halt Ailied ta"k lunges at his communication ju«'. ula veins in the deep rear must become a desperate and bloody business. Given good weather, it could give massed Ailed air p’ow. er its greatest field day of the war, make the Seine and its trib. utaries run red with German blood. For the significant word in Mont gomery’s message was "many." He so desrrihpd thp mechanized columns surging down into enemy rear echelons from the north but even more critically up from the south. Just where each deadly armored threat is at any moment Montgomery must know: but the Germans do not, nor where at his word each will next turn tc !/■ achieve maximum results from the expanding break-through. The Montgomery trap is appar ently a many jawed affair. By hie own word it is yawning first to chew-up the bulk of the German army in northwestern France and secondly to take Paris in its maw. Somewhere in France now Mont gomery’s commander. General Ei senhower, has set up his Suprema Allied Headquarters. It is a fair assumption that its primary con cern even now is not the battle in the Seine - Loire basins coming swifty to its clmax; but what i to follow. Eisenhower gave a hint of how the battle is to be fought on beyord Paris and the Seine, in the low countries that still house enemj robot bombs batteries, when hi merged his massed air and sub stantial ground forces into one sen arate army under single commani to strike swiftly and terdblv al long range even far behind enemj front lines. 25 Years Ago Today (FROM THE FILES OF THE STAR-NEWS) AUGUST 12, 1919 Mr. and Mrs. W A. Fonvielli and Alex Fonvielle. Jr., have re turned to their home in the ci;; from a visit in Goldsboro wu their kin people and friends. A thoroughly modern garaSJ will be established on the nortf east corner of 11th and Mai* streets at an approximate cost" $50,000 in the early future, C. « Jones of the Jones Motor comPanJ said today. WASHINGTON, — Demobilize ton of the army, "so far as con batant troops are concerned ''.i be completed the last of Octoce Secretary Baker announced to Carolina Beach and Wilming® are to be connected by trolly, will be broken within the nex days and cars will be in opera to over the line eariv next s - The incorporators are: Mayor ■ Q. Moore, Solicitor Edv. in L ton, T. D. Love, A. W. Pate- ^ D. Bellamy, Percy W. Wells- • • R. Hood of Goldsboro and J Schachner of Charlotte. -V-— STILL GET DRl'>*V - PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 11 All Philadelphia's bars "'el' ,]( ed last week because of tne ‘ strike—but 323 persons were rested for drunkenness half the number of the P1 week. _ loss of spiritual vision. Bestow on each the assurance 1’ia ■ j, fulfilling man’s highest desJ.' j, helping to achieve a wor ^ terned upon Thy will Ante T. E.