The Wilmington morning star. [volume], October 06, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Page 5, Image 5

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DESEVERSKY sees
GREAT air future
WINSTON-SALEM, Oct. 5.—Wl—
Major Alexander P- De Seversky,
viation expert and author, declar
^ jn an address here tonight that
"From now on, the airplane will
the backbone of transportation
jnd hence the carrier of civiliza
t*<Soeaking to delegates to the
North Carolina League of Munici
jjt;es convention which formally
Snened this morning, De Seversky
traced *e progress of civilization
1 d showed how it had been in
terwoven with methods of trans
P°"Without doubt,” he declared,
•■long - range transportation, in
terms of inter-city, transcontinen
tal and trans - ocean hauls for
freight, mail and passenger and
private aircraft, will shift bodily
jj,t0 the air soon after the war.
•The future of our country is
tied in with the future of airpow
cr De Seversky asserted, admon
ishing civic leaders to foster the
development of aviation as the
basis of future security and pros
perity for the nation as a whole.
De Seversky addressed a ban
quet session which.followed a full
day of general meetings and panel
sessions. Mayor Earl B. Homer of
Burlington, is league president.
At the morning session, Felix A.
Grisette, managing director of the
State Planning Board of North
Carolina, warned that municipali
ties must expect to pay their own
bills for postwar projects and not
depend upon extensive federal aid.
Other speakers at the morning
meeting included John M. Hunter,
chief of airport contracts and leg
islation for the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, Washington, D.C.;
Col. E. C. Kavanagh, director of
the state and local governments
division of the Surplus War Prop
erty Administration, Washington,
D. C.; George C. Franklin, attor
ney-consultant for the league, and
Dr. Harold D. Meyer, executive di
rector of the North Carolina Rec
reation committee.
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ROAD FUND ASKED
RALEIGH, Oct. 5. —(fP)— The
state highway and public works
commission, ready to start the larg
est road rebuilding and improve
ment in the state’s history, asked
the advisory budget commission
today for $90,026,947 for the 1945
47 biennium, compared with $64,
692,062 in the present biennium.
Babson Does Not Fear Labor j
BX ROGER W BABSON'
BABSON PARK, Mass., Oct. 5.
I may be making a mistake in my
statistics. Of course, at best it is
only an estimate. The figures,
however, which I have collected in
dicate that five or 10 years hence
the majority of U. S. families will
be receiving a pension check from
the, Federal Government. Further
more, within 20 years the majority
of the voters of this country may
be receiving pensions. In this com
pilation I, of course, include those
receiving something from the Civil
war, the Spanish war and World
war 1 as well as those who wil
have been in World war 11.
What About Labor?
The general feeling is that the
labor unions will control our de
mocracy. Businessmen and inves
tors are especially fearful of th<
power of labor. This does no'
worry me for two reasons,—first
because the history of the labo]
movement in England shows tha'
after labor gets everything organ
ized it has nothing to fight foi
without cutting its own throat
Therefore,,labor then no longer be
comes a front-page news item
while the labor leaders find thej
can make more money at some
other line of work.
The second reason why I am not
worried about the power of labor is
because, in the last analysis, labor
is a commodity whether we like to
admit it or not. My friend Sidney
Hillman will not agree with me
on this point; but he is wrong.
Labor today is powerful because
labor is scarce; but later, when
the supply of labor exceeds the de
mand, labor’s power will be nil.
The membership of the unions will
then again drop off; while the in
come of the labor leaders will then
tumble as did the profits of Wall
street brokers in 1929. Labor’s In
fluence is now at its peak for this
cycle. Its honeymoon is about over.
Veterans Vs Labor
Present indications are that the
World war 11 veterans will not be
very friendly to labor after their
return. They, who have been risk
ing their lives in foreign lands at
a small pittance and living under
the hardest imaginable conditions,
naturally will not feel friendly to
those who have been remaining at
home with all the home comforts
and the highest wages in history.
If labor continues a postwar strug
gle for higher wages, more power
and other benefits, there is bound to
be trouble.
The above should mean that the
returning veterans may be a con
servative bloc and keep the ship ol
state off the rocks. If so, the mon
| ey which businessmen amf inves
tors, through taxes, will pay for
pensions may be good insurance.
Hence, although taxes will continus
high in the postwar era due to the
tremendous pension bill, army and
navy appropriations, etc., yet these
may be good investments. In this
world, It is really not a question
of what we spend, but what .we
Communism (Scare
Business, commodity prices and
the stock market will have a com*
munism scare some day. From my
knowledge of Russia and England,
it would not be surprising if real
friction should develop. Neither
country is in this war for its health.
Both want a portion of the swag
and perhaps the same portion.
Then the United States may be
called upon to take sides. This fu
ture situation might easily become
the culmination of the present bull
movement.
Businessmen and investors will
then get panicky and run for cover,
but 1 believe there will be nothing
for us to fear. Although Russia
may then have the army to take
what she wishes in land, she will
want loans also. Great Britain and
American will continue to hold the
purse strings. Our returning serv
ice men will not only be a bulwark
against unfair labor demands, but
they will also stand for free enter
prise, not communism. They should
be stabilizing influence on legiti
mate business and investments, fa
voring the good features of cO-op
eration, but suppressing all unfair
practices.
WOMAN’S COLLEGE
PAYS 2 TRIBUTES
GREENSBORO, Oct, 5.— W —
Pausing at the turn of another
year, Woman’s College, In observ
ance of Founders’ day today paid
tribute to the memory of Dr. Wil
liam C. Smith and Miss Luara H.
Coit, who died last year after more
than 40 years of service each on
the faculty of the 52-year-old In
stitution.
In brief biographical addresses,
two outstanding alumnae paid trib
ute to qualities of mind and spirit
which made the two influential in
the lives of thousands of the for
mer students, Mrs. W. T. Bost,
Raleigh, former state commission
er of public welfare, speaking of
Miss Coit’s service, and Dr. Mary
Poteat, professor of English at
Duke university, of Dr. Smith’s.
A. C. Hall, professor of English,
who presided ■ over the 11:30 pro
gram in A y c o c k auditorium,
crowded with students, faculty and
friends and relatives of the two,
in concluding memorial remarks,
read Browning’s "Epilogue” as in
dicative of the way of life of the
two honored dead
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KAISER HAS FLAN
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—(/P)—Henry
J. Kaiser said tonight that preser
vation of private industry and pri
vate finance depends on the es
tablishment of a practical system
for mobilizing and employing risk
capital
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RATE INCREASED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—W—The
commodity credit corporation an
nounced today an increase of 0.53
cent* a pound in the cotton loan
rate on the 1944 crop, in compli
ance with provisions of the surplus
property disposal act signed b>
President Roosevelt last Tuesday
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
ACCIDENT RISE
SEEN AFTER WAR
CHAPEL HILL, Oct. 5.—UP\—“We
expect traffic accidents to in
crease sharply after the war be
cause of the increased number oi
new automobiles, because more
young people will be driving whc
have not had an opportunity tc
drive before and during the war,
and because of the approximately
50 per cent of old automobiles thal
will be driven on the highways,”
Foster M. Kunz, special agent foi
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion in Washington, said here to
day.
“Accidents have already increas
ed 10 per cent so far this yeai
over those of last year,” he point
ed out. "Training in all traffic
regulations and traffic safety edu
cation is strongly recommended tc
combat this expected increase.”
Mr. Kunz, along with Howard J
Leahy, also a special agent for the
FBI in Washington, were the prin
cipal speakers at today’s sessions
of the 12-day traffic law enforce
ment school which is being con
ducted by the Institute of Govern
ment at the university.
Instrutors, including Mr. Kun;
and Mr. Leahy, are being drawi
from the FBI. the Yale bureau fo:
street traffic research, the Stati
Department of Motor Vehicles, thi
State Highway and Public Work
commission, the State Highway pa
trol, the Virginia State Highwa;
patrol, and the Institute of Gov
emment staff.
Practical work, such as defer
> sive tactics and the techniques am
mechanis of arrests, were demon-J
strated this afternoon by members
of fee institute staff and the Navy
Pre-flight shool personnel;
Emphasizing the importance of
teaching safety not only to avoid
traffic accidents, but all accidents,
such as those that can happen in
the home, on the assembly line,
on the playgrounds, and all other
places, Mr. Leahy said “Young
sters ape adults in everything, so
set them a good example.”
He toojc the specific case of jun
ior police forces in the schools and
school safety patrols. "These
youngsters hear their parents talk
ing about ‘fixing’ a parking ticket,
and at once they learn to ‘fix’
their own tickets on the school
grounds. This is developing in
them the desire to cheat their way
out of minor violations and per
haps not so minor violations.”
Mr. Leahy said in the United
States “We have overemphasized
the triviality of traffic violations
and we are now reaping the re
sults. The American youth thinks
it is an act of bravado to ‘get
pinched’ and we must counteract
this overconfidence through the
school safety patrols and the jun
ior traffic policemen.
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Discharged, But Not
For His Authorship
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-VP)—'The
Office of Strategic Services said
today “there was no connection"
between its dismissal of Alexander
Barmine as a translator and
his authorship of an article in the
Reader’s Digest entitled “The New
Communist Conspiracy."
The article alleged the existence
of a widespread communist conspi
racy in the United States. One step
in the conspiracy, it said, ‘‘was
the attempt, through the political
action committee of the CIO, to
gain a dominating power in the De
mocratic party.”
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
COOPERATION NEEDED
RALEIGH, Oct. 5—(/P>— Dean I.
O. Schaub of N. C. State College’s
agricultural extension service, told
a conference of 200 farm and in
dustry leaders here today that in
dustry and agriculture must coop
erate with labor in the postwar per
iod if economic conditions are te
remain stable.
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first United States naval fleet.
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_U. S. Naval Chiefs Plan Major Blow At Japan I
Here are the IJ. S. Naval chief* as they met In San Francisco to map new war strategy against Ja
pan. In view of their ranks and the number taking pars, the vital nature of their conference appears ob
vious. Left to right are Adm. Raymond Spruance, Commander 5th Fleet; Adm. Ernest J. King, Com
mander-in-chief F. S. Fleet; Vice-Adm. C. A. Cook; Secty. of the Navy James Forrestal; Vice-Adm.
Randall Jacobs, chief of Naval Personnel; Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief U. S. Pacific
Fleet and Vice-Adm. Aubrey W. Fitch, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations. (International).
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