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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING Make good, but do not sacrifice in mak ing good the gifts of life that are best. Take time for your family, for good books, for »n occasional hour when you merely walk Under the stars and think. —Bruce Barton. For Greater Safety City Manager A. C. Nichols has wisely cautioned motorists to observe city speed limits in the recently an nexed a*eas in the interest of greater safety in traffic. He mentions par ticularly the Carolina Beach highway, but the warning includes all streets and areas now within the city limits. With the recent additions to the po lice rorce it is nuticeauie tiiat arrests for traffic violations are increasing. This too is in the interest of safety and with normal discretion cm the part of the arresting officers should create little ill will among offenders. It would be well for the public to combine with the police for a new high record in traffic safety in 1946. Without excusing any police deficiency, it is only fair to say that the desired record can be set only with public co- . operation. Welcome Winnie Winston Churchill’s visit to this 1 country this month is described as a ' vacation. He will spend some six ' weeks in south Florida. Being a skill- ; ful angler he probably will hang up his tarpon and sail fish with the best. It is to be hoped that, as long as he is coming primarily for recreation and relaxation, and assuredly deserves ' both, he is not forced to attend ban quets by enthusiastic chambers of commerce or dances by enterprising matrons. This should not be so hard as he is not scheduled for a stop at Washing ton-even to visit the President and his only announced public engagement is an appearance in New York on his way back to England from Miami and points south and west. Nevertheless, it might be. reasonable to expect him to chat about world events on a fishing trip or two with, say, Secretary Byrnes, to whom he could impart much valuable informa- , tion from his great storehouse of ex perience, to Mr. Byrnes’ and this na tion’s advantage. The former Prime , Minister of Great Britain could pass a i few pointers across the launch’s lunch . table that would come in handy, es- j pecially in our subsequent dealings < with the Soviet Union. He is supposed to adjure politics, but can no more do so than the old fire , horse can help pricking up its ears 1 whenever an alarm sounds. j Service For Veterans 1 •> The Rev. J. 0. Walton of the South- 1 side Baptist church has announced a I special service on January 13 (one 1 week from tomorrow) for veterans of World War II. i The significant feature thereof is < that printed questions will be distrib- 1 uted among the former service people, ; which they will be asked to take home 1 . * * and mail the replies to the pastor after due consideration. By this means they will have op portunity to discuss their personal problems without making them public and receive counsel for their guidance in the difficult task of readjusting themselves to civilian life in a world very different from the one they left at the call of their country. Who knows? Perhaps in the spir itual advice they receive they will find the answer to many of their tempo ral problems too. Mr. Walton has cre ated a chance for himself to be of great service to returned veterans. y Truman’s Radio Address President Truman made his radio appeal for support of his legislative program directly to the fundamental source of power in this democracy_ the people. He complained that small groups on strategic congressional com mittees have blocked action on his pro gram which, he declared, is designed to get the nation into full production and full employment. The plea and the complaint present vistas of what is wrong with the coun try. The people have the power to force action on any legislation but be cause they have refused to exercise it, chiefly at the polls, legislation is guid ed by powerful groups in Congress_ a fair example of the minority rule which has long existed in the United States. And we fear there is nothing in Mr. Truman’s earnest appeal for public sup port that will arouse the people to the performance of their full duty as citi zens of this democracy. The. address, in other words, was not a clarion call, not a challenge to stir favorable mass reaction. Furthermore, there are proposals in Mr. Truman’s program which the people as a whole are not willing or ready to support. There is, for ex Aiapie, a wiue uivision oi views on nis j plan for fact-finding boards for in lustrial disputes with the board em- ' powered to examine the employers’ ■ books. General Motors is quite gener ally supported by the people in its re- i Eusal to open its ledgers for such a loard in its wage dispute with its strik- i ng workers. Nor is his “full employment” pro- 1 losal, with increased compensation for ] die workers generally supported, i Viany Americans see in it a means of ’ creating a loafer class at the expense £ )f the taxpayers, with consequent de- ' crease in the country’s productive < lowers and the ruin of thousands of * ives which otherwise might be con- £ cributing to the national prosperity * through earnings and normal i ng power. ' **4, Universal military training and 1 compulsory health insurance are equal- \ y objectionable to large sections of the f lopulation. j Perhaps the only items in the Pres- < dent’s program which enjoy full pub- j ic backing are comprehensive scien- i ;ific research and a better method for ] che presidential succession. i It is apparent that Mr. Truman will ] lave to be prepared to compromise nany of his favorite proposals, if he \ s to have a successful year with Con- l fress or the blessing of public opinion. j Marshall As Mediator About the'only good news that has lome out of China in a long time is that die communists have agreed to accept General Marshall as mediator in the i lispute with, the Central Government, j otherwise the situation is as confused ] is usual, with sporadic and minor fight ng going on, and Jehol the newest seat < >f disturbance. 1 We may be sure that if General [ Marshall is to arbitrate the differ- 1 rnces between the main Chinese fac ions which have already delayed peace c n the Orient he will see to it that all l ighting or so much as belligerent ges- 1 ures are halted forthwith. And he vill be no more disposed to condone r delations of this rule by forces from a Chungking or on Chiang Kai-shek’s au- 1 hority than by the communists. General Marshall will insist on a 1 iquare deal for everybody. If the c :ommunists and Chiang truly mean c vhat they say regarding the desir ability of a settlement, they will abide f )y his decisions. |0 The Mightiest Year By ARTHUR KROCK WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—When the Amer: can past Is held up for the inspection of th future, however often and however soon th survey is made, current judgment must b that the year now closing will be marked a the high point of achievement thus far in th nation’s history and that of any people in th annals of the world. Perhaps there are cor temporary historians with the skill and wis dom to subdue the rushing events of 1945 lonj enough to put them within the covers of i book. But if such there are the assignmen would still be terrifying. The American story of 1945 is thronged wit] titanic shadows and lethal bursts of unearthl; light, too vast and too blinding to be mori than suggested on anV field of art or page o history: The rise of a great nation to a peak o military production not even before conceived The global massing and activity of militar; forces that destroyed every strategic concept The great discovery that shattered one of th< last locked doors of science, but shatterec masses of mankind as well. The developmen of friendly peace-loving boys into grim, all conquering armies, and of mere students o the theory of war into commanders who d< not suffer by comparison with the greatest o their predecessors. The Pacific spanned and its furthest shores stormed by amphibious power, refuting the mil ifcary maxim that the elephant can never turi whale and the whale never turn elephant sue cessively as war requires. The air transform ed from an element filled with destruction foi ourselves to one black with destruction for oui enemies. The dramatic death of the nation’s war President on the eve of victory, and th< smooth succession of another without a hal in the huge war machine. xne creation of a new world order to mak< and maintain peace by cessions of politics and military power from Congress which, aft er the rejection of the League of Nations, wai not thought to be possible for a hundred years And then, as the year is ending, a new basil for cooperation with reluctant and suspicious Russia fragile as yet and somewhat inchoate but visible just the same. The first important attempt, again led by thi United States, to establish a stable worlt economy in which restraint of currency flue tuations will be included. The progress of pub lie education and mass experience in this coun try to a stage where politicians, ambitious foi the Presidency, venture to discuss, and favor ably, the loan to a world government of sover eign powers embedded in the Constitution and in the tradition of our nationalism. The first full acceptance by the United States of the role of world leadership, despite the fact that this involves long terms of occu pational service abroad for American troops and civil servants and responsibility for the Internal conditions of strange and distant na ;ions’. The transfer of the seat of a world un ion from Europe to this country, although it vas invested and expanded by those who came rere to exclude the quarrels and miseries of he old civilizations from their daily lives. These are but few of the huge and dynam c events of which the United States was he center In the closing year. And most of hem have thrust the nation and the world 'orward toward the light for which men have onged since they began to realize the evil :onsequences of unrestrained human nature md the vaunting ambition of races and na ions to become masters of the planet. There are shadows on the year — larger md blacker in conformity to the rule of na ure which prescribes that the more intense he light the deeper the darkness. And some if these shadows project into the future. The rar machine built by the United States was lot constructed without inequalities whose on y yield was waste and needless loss of life ind property. 'The great democratic armies ind fleets were not manned and managed without injustice, favoritism, vainglory, deceit ind the exercise of selfish ambition which lenied the free-born rights of some citizens md destroyed the ideals of others. And in the onversion of these forces to the dimensions if peace those evils still appear. While millions of Americans were fighting nd dying, the sordid spirit of getting econom : advantage at home from the crisis they irere dispelling appeared in many parts of he nation, and the end of the war has not xorcised it, for all the paeans of thanksgiving or a land and people delivered of a great ieril. The shabbiest practices of the trade of iditics have continued throughout the high era f patriotic sacrifice, and no abatement has allowed victory. And, catering to these de iciencies in the morals of the people, men n office have lai^vlolent hands on the Ameri an system of free enterprise, which is at the oundatlon of our democracy. A startling ex mple of this political^retrogression is the sup iort of the theory that the Government shall imit the profits of able and enlightened man gement by other means than taxation in the nterest of the whole people" and the prosecu ion of offenses against labor, competitor and onsumer. But in a year of such greatness, illuminated y events and achievement* of a nation for irhich its history offers no parallel, and the listories of no other nations do, the weight in the scale of pettiness, politics, incompe ence and selfishness is slight, by any com larion.—New York Times QUOTATIONS .* We can today command atomic energy so treat that it may change every aspect of our ives before the end of the century, and has ilready brought us into a new age of man.— )r. Henry DeWolf Smyth, in his official War lepartment report on the atomic bomb. Were all the wasted motion and duplicated ffort eliminated, the typical Washington iureau could get along with half its present working force without imposing any extra luties on a single employe.—San Antonio, Tex., lews. One of the greatest weapons with which to ombat inflation is a plentiful supply of goods I'ade available in areas of plentiful buying ower.—-James J. Newman, vice president, I. F. Goodrich Co. The big catch in all the talk about inter ational atomic bomb control is that no one as yet come forward with any concrete ideas s to how it can be done.—Wilkes-Barre, Pa., lews. There are countries where food actually is eing bartered for votes and independent lought coerced by promises of material aids f various kinds.—Rep. Frances p. Bolton of ihio. Though we may be tempted to stick our .nger in the Chinese pi$, we should refrain nd let the Chinese themselves work out their wn internal problems.—Albany, Ga., Herald m Kj M J. W » AUA'XA* ' « — ^—— THE HOPE DIAMOND__ ( yeah, I know, \ ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID,Cltf I (itUEC f ] SRIDE! / y France Asks Larger Voice For Small Nations At Forthcoming Peace Meet PARIS, Jan. 4—WV—France has asked the United States, Britain and Russia in a diplomatic note announced today to give the smaller nations of the world a bigger voice in the 21-nation European peace conference to be held in Paris before May 1. ■* In the note, handed to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey for relay to Moscow, London and Wash ington, France asked assurance of the Bdg Three, whose Foreign Ministers projected the conference, that the representatives of the 21 countries would have “proper powers” to do more than “express wishes” on peace treaties with Finland and the Balkan states. The note asked, in effect: will the conference be able to make recommendations to be written in to the treaties or will it be merely called to ratify decisions? Some diplomatic observers said they believed the proposed confer ence, scheduled to start on or before May 1, would be delayed by.the “embarrassing question” raised by the French. The note bluntly reminded the Big Three that France was "in terested in all important questions concerning Europe, or any region whatever of Europe.” It expressed the wish that countries such as Finland, Italy, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria be permitted a voice in the treaties they will have to sign. France volunteered to play host to the conference, declaring that the conference’s principal “for examining projects of peace trea ties is received with great favor.” The note asserted, however, that the peace treaty proposals made in Moscow “are inspired by an other conception” than those made by the Five-Power Council of Foreign Ministers in London. At London, the French said, the procedure provided for inviting other governments when questions interesting them particularly were discussed. At Moscow the Foreign Ministers of the Big Three asked France and China, the other nations making up the Five-Power Council of Foreign Ministers, to agree that in the drawing up of peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland, “only mem bers of the Council who are xxx or are deemed to be signatory of the surrender terms, will participate, unless and until the Council takes further action 3<xx to invite other members of the Council to partici pate on questions directly concern ing them.” ' That decision. Which left France eligible to participate only in draw ing up of the peace treaty with Italy, provided for the calling of the 21-nation peace conference to consider drafts of treaties prepared by the deputies of the Five-Power Council and to make recommenda tions. After the 21-nation conference ended, the states signatory to the terms of the armistice with the countries involved in the drawing of peace treaties would consider the conference recommendations, then draw up the final texts of peace treaties. Representatives of the states which were at the conference will be asked to sign the treaties, which will be submitted to other United Nations at war with the enemy states before ratification by the Allied states signatory to the armistices, the Moscow decision provided. Only nations which actively waged war against the enemy countries were invited to the peace conference. In another note, whose text will be disclosed tomorrow, France ac cepted the Moscow proposals for control of atomic energy and out lawing its use in war, under the supervision of a United Nations Commission. Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS DIVING DEEP During the breezeless hot spel of last summerthe surface of oui Canadian lake was warm. As w< daily dove and swam from oui rocks we found ourselves in th< grip of a great truth. The deepei down we went, the colder th< water became. In all of life and learning, the principle holds: the deeper on< goes, the more refreshing the re sult. Superficial paddlers on the sea of knowledge and experience miss the rewards of those whe dive deep. A little bit of surface religior may only make one miserable; but to those who penetrate to the deeps of relationship with Chris! there is joy, stimulus and power. We want to go all the way with Thee, our Master—even into the dark recesses of the Garden. Save us, we pray from half-way dis cipleship. Amen. Students To Be Taken To School Cafeterias RALEIGH, Jan. 4—(U.R)—Hence forth, Plymouth county school chil 3ren will be able to get a “hot” lunch for a nickel—in a round about way. The State Board of Education, following the recommendation of its transportation committee, yes :erday granted a school bus plea nade by Washington county school officials that Plymouth students be iransported to cafeterias in other af the county’s schools. Up to now, Plymouth pupils who ived a distance from home had to :arry cold lunches, as the Plym )uth school does not have a cafe ;eria _ The Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS POEMS, by Franz Werfel, translated by Edith Abercrom bie Snow (Princeton; $2). Those who know Werleljs memo rable novel, “Forty Days of Musa Dagh” • and his play, “Jacobowsky : and the Colonel,” will be surprised to find him claiming, in the pre face to these 50 poems, that he regards his poetry as “the most important” part of his life-work. But' they will be inclined to agree as they savor the lines col lected here, the first volume of his poetry to be published ii Eng lish . . with the German origi nals printed on opposite pages. The Calendar of Sleep,” which is fine solace for a busy, ageing man; “Body in the Mirror,” \yhich is not; “Despair,” the lament of youth; “Early Spring,” “Night Rain” “The Wayfarer KneeiS” and “Permanence,” written by tae exile in California, “without folr, without land,” are richly imagined full of deep emotion. The poet composed a one-page foreword last July, shortly before his death. In it he pays eloquent tribute not only to the present translator but to other careful and sensitive translators, who are all too few. “Translated poems,” he writes are an impossibility.” But when ever the impossible is achieved, the translator “becomes a poet in his own right.” TRIBUTE TO THE ANGELS, by H. D. (Oxford; gj). There was a time ... I'm sorry it s past . . . when H. D. would have taken pleasure in. reducing Uiese 30 pages to one. This vision of a new life rising out of catas trophe seems more poetic lore than poetry; she writes about something, she doesn’t create it She calls in vain on mandrake mandragora, the seven fires, even > OVERSEAS PACKAGES SHRINK UNDER NEW P. 0. REGULATIONS A change in Postal Regulations regarding the combined' measure ments of overseas packages was announced yesterday from the of fice of the Wilmington assistant postmaster, J. D. Doscher, The length of the .package plus its girth, that is, the measurement around the package at its greatest width, may not exceed 72 inches. This is a reduction of four inches from the previous maximum, it was explained. Maximum overall length of any package may not exceed 42 inches and' top weight has been set at 11 pounds, it was stated. Three State Highways Closed Bv Neuse Floods ! GOLDSBORO, Jan. 4.—(U.RV- ( High water in the Neuse river has t closed three rural roads north of I Highway 70, an east-west artery ] through Goldsboro, and it appeared ( unlikely today that the roads would ( be open for several days. Swelling in its second flood of t the past four months, the Neuse is i tot expected to reach its peak < before tomorrow. The Raleigh Heather Bureau predicts a stage * o* 18 feet by then. 8 * Rural roads are reported t0 be t badly cut up in this section as a re-Tilt of continued rains. Aziael, Raphael, Gabriel Uriel and Astarte. SEA PIECES, by Clare Mur- . ra: F o o s h e e (Harbinger ! Hoise; $1.50). ® Mr:. Fooshee’s first published y volurre shows a talent for image- n ry, cmsiderable strength and an econony of means unusual in a first took. The sonnets, except „ possibl; -Query Filed ior the Fu- u ure • md -Meeting,- come off J least wdl. I recommend “Fog ” « “After Storm,- -Back a] of ,y* .forever,* ‘Majorities, Mi nonties md "Tennessee.” jin NEW GADGET PUTS GLOSS HNISH ON LOWLY SOAP BAR RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 4_ip « method of giving that glossy to cake* of soap, • machine tn, killing insect* in flour, a sandwich making machine, a process f0» making a newly crinkled synthet. ical fabric and a method of niak! ing a hard wax directly from aura, cane, are among the 444 patent, granted this week by the Unit*! States Patent Office. Four patents were given fof various inventions involving tex, tiles, twelve patents were assigned to the General Electric corpora, tion this week, five to the Rad’o Corporation of America, and tea to the telephone industry repr*. sented by Bell Telephone labora. tories, Inc., and Federal Telephon, and Radio corporation. The method and apparatus fo, treating soap products was pag. ented by Thomas Penny, of Brim, stage, Bebington, England, and as. signed to LeVer Brothers Com. pany, of Cambridge, Mass. Bari of soap are put into a steaming chamber, each bar separated from contact with any other piece of soap. After the steaming, the soap is sent into a drying chamber, where dry air finishes the glosiify! ing process. rranjtun a. smttn, or Bethany, Conn., patented the method and apparatus for the treatment ot ip. sects in flour. The patent is unas. signed. As the flour or other solid product which can be poured passes through a casing-like strue. ture, it is rotated and then sent through a sieve-like trap at the ’bottom of the structure. All flour particles fall through the openings, but the insects and other exi traneous partfttles which are larg. er than the fldbr bits are left be hind. A fumigating method for treating insect-infested grain stored in bins was patented by Fred W. Fletcher and Gene Kenaga, of Midland, Mich., and assigned to the Dow Chemical company, of Midland. A volatile fumigant composed of a solution of from two to 20 per cent of ethylene bromide in carbon tetrachloride is injected' in the top of the bin and onto the surface ol the stored grain. Two tables of different heights are utilized in the sandwich-mak ing machine patented by Bengt A. Arvidson, of Villa Park. 111., and assigned the Miller Wrapping and Sealing Machine company, of Chi cago. A conveyor on the higher of the tables has pockets for bread slices, and as the bread moves along, every other slice is spread with the filling for the sandwich. Then the bread steps off to the lower table, the coated slice fall ing first. The plain piece of bread falls right on top, and there’s the sandwich— butterless. The three inventors of a tew crinkled plastic fabric know that some fabric stretches when it is wet. This principle they have utilized in their patent, assigned to the Celanese Corporation of America. Yarns of thermoplastic material and those of a non-ther moplastic material are associated in the same direction in a fabric. The material is moistened, stretch ed and' dried while it’s in a pulled out condition. When the tension is released the non-thermoplastic yarns spring back farther than the others, and the result is s sub stantially permanent crinkle effect in the yarn. The inventors are Cyril M. Croft, Walter H. Hindle, and Robert W Pinault, of Cumber land, Md. The production of sugar care wax, patented by Werner F. Goep fert, of Oradell, N. J., is accom plished by heat and chemical treatment of sugar cane mudi. A convertible attachment that makes a bicycle a four-wheeler was patented' by Clyde R. Kutil, tf Sioux City, Iowa, and is unas signed. The spares are attached to the rear wheel of the bicycle and are the same size as the other wheels. r z!OSE DULL THUDS YOU’VE HEARD JUST STUMP BLASTING To clear up the many fnqulrlel •oceived yesterday by the Star, thl lull thuds heard by many Wilmlng onians v'ere caused by blasting )perations on stumps in the er-' ranee channel area of the Brim? vick River ship lay-up basin river* nen said yesterday. The stumps are an accumulatiM years of dumping in that sec ion, it was explained. More that ^ S years ago, when the old-type iueket dredges wgre employed 1® Iterations in this district, It he practice to dump stumos col ected in the course of dredging 1J j| hat area making the present blast* | og necessary, a river authority tated. U. S. Engineers expect cornp’e* t on of the channel dredging shod V anuary 10, with completion of •hole project in about 10 months. HERE’S YOUR HOME— IF YOU CAN MILS HICHMOND, Ind.—I#)—Any » srviceman who will milk * cCV I ach night can rent three partialty j irnished rooms in the village ® ebster, five miles northwest » ichmond. Allen Crye, Wayne county *erV‘ emens officer, who is help1-® sterans with their housing P-*0^ m*t said the offer came from 3 oman who said the veteran could >t only rent the room but could ; so keep the milk. She would do the morning milK* S> she said.