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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1946
TOP O* THE MORNING
Today the most deadly sin imaginable
for Christians Is to be unrelated to the
positive, aggressive work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. The gates of hell are crumb
ling before the Church; they shall not
prevail against it. Everyone can speak
a word of witness and testimony ... Some
can speak so as to move great throngs.
There is a task for everyone and a task
that everyone can do . . . On that day
when we stand in the presence of our
Lord ... if we have let the battle rage
sorely while we entered 'not the struggle.
Such ones will cry for the mountains and
rocks to faU upon them. “And hide us”
they shall say, “from the gaze of Him
that sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb.”—E. Russell, In "Do
I Want a Christian World.” '
Open Bids Prevail
Due to the wise position taken by
Mayor Lane at the Friday meeting of
the City Council, Wilmington will get
its new fire alarm boxes on open bid
ding and not on specifications which
could be met by one company only.
So ends a dispute that should never
have arisen but has, instead, been
bruted back and forth for months at a
heavy cost in the Council’s time, and
would, if the one-company proposal had
been adopted, have cost the taxpayers
of the city considerably more money
than will be involved by competitive
When the matter came to a final
vote Councilmen LeGwin, Yopp and
Pollock supported the proposal to make
the purchase of specifications which the
one company alone could fill and Coun
cilmen Wade, Currin and Newman for
awarding the contract after receiving
competitive bids.
To break the tie Mayor Lane voted
with the latter group, in the interest of
the people who must pay the bill and
in support of the long established cus
tom of awarding public contracts to the
lowest bidder providing said bidder can
meet specified requirements.
The people of Wilmington will be
gratified to know that a majority of
the Council membership stands for
economic and impartial administration.
tfraaiey u naer r ire
The American Legion complaint of
General Bradley’s administration of the
Veterans Bureau may be justified by
the facts. This could be learned only
through investigation.
Perhaps the Legion’s national com
mander, John Steele, is right when he
endorses the Legion’s demand that Gen
eral Bradley be superceded by an ex
perienced businessman. This could be
determined only by experiment.
But if hospitalization of veterans has
been inadequate, if the Veterans Ad- ,
ministration has fallen short of the need
in this or any other major obligation, (
would it not be logical and just to look
into the whole situation of veterans’ ,
care in all government ramifications,
instead of concentrating the complaint
on a single bureau and one adminis
trator?
We hold no brief for General Brad
ley. But it is not probable that a man
who displayed exceptional ability, if not
actual genius, for organization during
the European war, could be such a com
plete failure in his present job as the
Legion charges.
Certainly no investigation could be
adequate which overlooked the possi
bility of War Department and Navy
Department culpability. There was time
before the first veterans reached Amer
ican shores after V-J Day to estimate
with fair accuracy the hospital facilities
that would be required not only at th<
start but throughout demobilization
and ample time to provide them. Sue!
estimates naturally would originate
with the departments and bureaus in
charge of demobilization, not with the
Veterans Administration.
The truth is that demobilization ad
vanced more rapidly than the War and
Navy departments anticipated. This has
been claimed and figures offered in
proof of it.
At the same time, it may be noted
in support of the Legion complaint, that
regardless of where the responsibility
rests, use has not been made of all hos
pitals available for veterans. As an ex
ample we call attention to three in the
vicinity of Wilmington—one at Camp
Davis, one at Fort Fisher and a third
at the Army air base. If failure to put
them into service is not due to lack of
doctors and nurses it is quite as likely
to be the fault of the War Department
as the Veterans Administration.
Nothing said here excuses the fail
ure to provide adequate hospitalization
or make adequate provision for'all vet
eran needs. The Star-News is concerned
only in seeing responsibility for failure
properly placed.
Boy Scout Week
With Boy Scout Week set for Feb
ruary 8 to 14 it is appropriate to con
sider, not so much the past of the or
ganization, which has been eminently
noteworthy, but what it may accomplish
for the good of mankind in the future.
That it can exert a tremendous influ
ence for good citizenship everywhere is
a well grounded belief, based on its per
formance from its very inception in 1908
when Baden-Powell organized the first
troop in England.
General Eisenhower declares the
Scout movement ‘‘a prime force in pre
paring tomorrow’s men for their duty
to themselves, their country and the
world.” This emphasizes the point the
Star-News would impress upon its
readers.
lrireiy, dui trutntuiiy, tne t>oy of to
day is the man of tomorrow. It is upon
him and his fellows that the responsi-;
biltiy for peacefulness among nations
and downright honest living at home
rests.
He has the advantage of seeing at
close range the turmoil and failures that
this adult generation has wrought and
being in the best period of life for
forming lasting opinions may benefit
beyond estimate by what they have ob
served. By abiding earnestly by their
rules of conduct and principles of living
they can achieve the goals their elders
3et for themselves—but missed.
This is why it behooves boys in the
Scout age bracket to join the troops in
their neighborhoods so that they too
may profit by the training and ideals.
Scouting has grown greatly in the
Cape Fear area- and particularly in Wil
mington during the war period. A 40
per cent increase in membership was
recorded in the area between the De
cembers of 1943 and 1944. Figures for
the 1945 period are not yet available
but they too will show substantial
growth.
Perhaps the war and the extraordi
nary opportunity for service the con
flict offered had something to do with
the advances noted in Allied countries.
Now that peace of a sort has been re
stored it will be more difficult to main
tain this record, a fact which should
mcourage parents to spur their non
nember sons to join up.
So far as Scouting is concerned; “the
iuration” has no end. There is always
*oom for more Scouts and everlasting
ipportunities for service.
Boys who have failed to be enrolled
:an do no better for themselves than
;o help make Scout Week the more suc
:essful by entering their names upon
heir neighborhood troop roster.
Editorial Comment
A FOOL FOR A LAWYER
The application of Rudolph Hess to act as
lis own lawyer has been denied. It recalls
the old saying that “a man who is his own
lawyer has a fool for his client.’1 But if a
man at the bar of justice wishes to take
that risk, why not let him to it?—Raleigh
News and Observer.
PESTS
A farmer was explaining to a city woman
what a menace insects are to farm products
—how potato bugs ruin potato crops and corn
borers destroy com. The woman listened at
tentively, then exclaimed: “And the poor
dairy people. How the butterflies must bother
them. ’—Wisconsin Telephone News.
i Walter Winchell
In New York
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A NEWSPAPER
MAN
The following Is part of a letter from a
prominent movie producer to a mutual friend:
“I don’t suppose you can get Walter to change
his mind but I think that you should work on
him because he is not taking a fair viewpoint
of the labor strike situation. Someone is selling
Walter a bad bill of goods. Walter is basically
honest, and desperately sincere, but he is an
extremist, and I do not think he is helping
labor or management.
“General Motors are absolutely right, in my
opinion, and I have studied both sides. I thor
oughly agree with their position when it comes
to stating that the gov’t has no authority
(under the present constitution) to make them
raise wages because they can afford to raise
wages. . .It is as preposterous as asking me
to pay my cook $10,000 a year because I can
afford it.
“FDR in his greatest failure learned that
the government cannot provide permanent jobs
or permanent prosperity. It did not work and
FDR and Harry Hopkins, who advocated’ it,
were fully aware of it. There is no way to
regiment prosperity. You cannot buy it—you
have got to earn it. You have got to encourage
capital as much as you encourage labor. You
have got to make investment gambles worth
while. You have got to get money out of the
banks and into industry. When unions become
as strong as they did in France before the
war (where sit-down strikes originated) you
eventually destroy the incentive of capital and
industry. The unions win every victory except
the last one. Look at Mexico. The workers
took over the oil industry. Read up on it and
ITAIl’ll HAM n,L a! ▼ ___
“If FDR and Harry Hopkins were big enough
to know they had made a gigantic mistake,
Walter, I am sure, can realize that he does
no good whatever unless of course he can
recommend a practical and satisfying solution
. . . Walter talks of men in this countryETA
do not make a living wage. I would like to
recommend a practical and satisfying solution
. . .Walter talks of men in this country who
do not make a living wage. I would like to
know where the hell they are! I can’t find
gardeners for my ranch, grooms for my stable,
carpenters to repair my house or common
laborers for the studio. There Isn’t one of
them on this lot right now—who does not make
more every week than I got when I started
out here as a writer. I am not against that.
I am fighting for this system to prevail!
“I have no objection to your showing this 1
to Walter. He is broadminded and knows my
personal affection for him and by now he
realizes that I am guided by a sincere desire
to be a good American and not just a rich
one.”
My dear friend: Nobody carries my proxy
in his hip or any other pocket. Not capital, 1
not labor, and not even the Liberals.
I think that the problem of a wage raise is
one of national income, not private collective
bargaining. It seems to me that that would 1
dismiss the idea that I back labor in the B.M
strike just because it is labor. I feel, though, 1
that they are entitled to a wage increase be- '
cause the take-home.pay is less, the war over- !
time pay is gone, and prices of necessities 1
have soared. . .So these men are under the *
fun—they cannot finance a lengthy debate by
tightening a few notches in their belts. *
I also believe that management is entitled to 1
the freest of reins—in the performance of that 1
public service which entitles them to a profit 1
. . .But, at the same time, let’s not forget <
that management, in a large corporation, is 1
not infrequently a group which has special '
interests, opposed to both labor and THE stock- 1
holder. The really important thing for both ’
labor and management to realize is this: Un- ’
less they can cooperate enough to get this sys
tem working, there will be some wild experi- I
ments in the next few years. I
If capitol would remember that with- c
out high wages there would be no customers s
for its products—and if labor would realize s
that without free management it would be the c
slave of the State—they would both be pushing s
each other’s cause—Instead of pushing each
other around.
I agree that the requested raise based on £
General Motors’ profits is not a good precedent ^
—neither is a breadline. . .But I particularly
decry G. M.’s defiance of the Government’s
effort to reach a solution. . .Because we still
have a Government whose only purpose in en- ^
tering a dispute is like that of a good doctor
—to get out of the patient’s life as quickly as 1
nossible!
If the U. S. Government is big enough to
get down on its knees to effect the settlement
of any strike—I am against any combatant
who dares to slap its face. . .And please don’t
kid yourself on the super-efficiency of big cor
porations. . .There are more politics in them
than in City Hall!
The editorial page of a photo-weekly recently
raised the question as to why newspapermen
and radio reporters paint such a “gloomy and
defeatist picture of the state of the world”. . .
The reason is this: Present-day historians are
hired to report the truth. . .They are not hired
to paint beautiful pictures. . .Gloomy news
depresses a newspaperman even more than
his readers—because’ he earns his living by
living with it 24 hours a day.
The American newspaperman regrets that he
cannot report more pleasant facts. He realizes
that many people cannot stand to read or hear
bad news. He knows, too, that the reader and
listener, indeed, come to dislike and even hate
the bearer of bad news. . .He knows that the
truth may be difficult to live with, but the
reporter also knows that if he didn’t report
:he truth—as he sees it—the reporter couldn’t
live with himself.
A Boston editor told a conference of editors:
“One or two syndicated columnists are among
lae most powerful men in the world today. I
am afraid they are getting drunk with their
power.”
There is no cause for alarm for the Boston
editor. In the first place, no man has power
by himself; it is because the people believe
and follow him. . -In the second place, the
people never believe a writer because he is a
columnist. They believe a fact. . .Because they
can always detect the truth. No columnist could
last four editions without the truth as his un
failing ally. The danger to the integrity 0f
American journalism today is not a columnist
becoming drunk with -power. After all, a col
umnist’s only investment, which he must pro
tect, is his readers’ belief in him.
The Boston editor should remember that
power itself isn t bad—if it is used to do good
. . .All the great leaders of governments and
religion have been powerful men. . .The mo*t
powerful book in the world is the Bible
In a democracy the power rests with the neo'
Die A columnist is only as eon a p °'
Mas his followers think he is^lf^rX'
draw their support he loses his column
And starts looking for a job as an e«*tt£ * *
Robinson Crusoe Finally Discovers Signs Of Life
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Mencken Chooses Derision Rather
Than Accuracy In Calling Names
jay Juti i sjus
All right, fellow Wilmingtonians,
et us grasp up our cudgels and
irepare to smite Henry Louis
ifencken in our righteous wrath!
Mr. Mencken has evil plans
ifoot.
The Sage of Baltimore, whilom
iditor of The American Mercury,
:ollector of Americana, and gen
ral literary smarty-pants, is curi
ng up his intelligentsia leer
oward Wilmington.
Mr. Mencken recently wrote
ohn Farrell, Chamber of Com
nerce secretary here, and said he
iras writing a book about the
tames of residents of the various
ities throughout the country. You
now: like Angelenos for folks
rho live in Los Angeles; Memphi
ns for those in Memphis; New
forkers for those who live in New
'ork. And so on.
The Mencken letter was given
roper recognition in the newspa
ers here. When I read the ac
ount I suspicioned, as the boys
ay, that Henry Louis was up to
ome skulduggery and that he
idn’t mean right by us. Well, my
uspicions were correct
But, to go on.
Mr. Farrell dutifully replied that
ie best liked and known name
>r people living in Wilmington is
filmingtonian. It is the most
uphonious and appears to be the
lost descriptive of any that has
ver been used. Furthermore, it
as become correct by virtue of
ing usage.
Well, it seems that after the
piece appeared m tne newspapers
others around Wilmington got
busy. Maybe Mr. Mencken did,
too, up there in his cloistered writ
ing room in Baltimore.
So what happens, again as the
boys say.
So Mr. Mencken picks out a
name for Wilmingtonians that I
personally never have heard of.
And I don’t believe anybody
around here has ever heard of a
Wilmingtonian being referred to
by the name Mr. Mencken picked
out.
The name? Oh, yes: Bible Swal
lowers.
That, of course, is right down
Mr. Mencken’s alley. Only thing
I think is that he’s got his de
scriptives mixed up. Mr. Mencken
has had a lot of fun in his day
poking fun at the South, calling it
the Bible Belt and generally be
ing pretty derisive about the whole
section. So when he thinks about
any place in the South he just
naturally tries to figure out any
■name that will fit his own notions.
But Mencken’s list goes on. Be
sides Wilmingtonian, the Balti
morean ig toying with three other
names by which to refer to us in
his book.
They are, along with his foot
notes:
1. “Ihe Aristocrats of the Low
er Cape Fear,” for the aristocra
cy.
2. “Dry Ponders” for the com
mon man, because, as he points
out (and where he gets all his In
formation I don’t rightly know)
there was a time when a part of
Wilmington was somewhat
swampy.
3. The Four Percenters, because
—again as Mencken says — so
many investors here have used the
savings banks in which to deposit
their money in the past.
Mr. Mencken furthermore tells
us he is partial to the name “Bible
Swallowers” and he allows he will
use that one in his forthcoming
book. He goes further to say that
he is making excellent progress
with his book and that he expects
it will be published in the not-too
distant future.
Well, all I have to say is that
we needn’t worry too much about
what Henry Louis says about us.
The time has come when his pen
no longer carries the vitriol it
once did when he was giving every
body except his own little group
a going over with words that long.
As a matter of fact, the literary
lights over the country now smile
a bit indulgently when Mencken
comes out with something new, or
puts a new wrinkle on one of his
old tricks.
So, I think we here might as
well go along the even tener of
our ways and let Henry Louis call
us what he will.
We might even write him a let
ter like this:
“Dear Henry Louis,
“Sticks and stones may break
3ur bones, but names will never
lurt us.” 1
LETTER BOX
“THE PEACE OF MUNICH”
To The Editor:
Those who have been hopefully
waiting and longing to see the Four
Freedoms firmly established are
doubtless keenly disappointed by
the discordant note cast into the
UNO conferences by the Russian
attitude.
If small nations and peoples are
shuffled about like pawns on the
chessboard of destiny and thrown
as sops of appeasement to stronger
powers, then the foundations of
World War III will be laid.
During the First World War a
German official (Bethman-Holweg,
if memory is correct,) made a
statement to the effect that “all
thinking people realize that there
is a war between the United States
and Japan in the womb of time,
and soon or late it will come to
birth.” His prediction proved cor
rect, even though the war came
trademarked “Made in Germany.”
During the war just closed Goebels
and Hitler repeatedly warned the
world of the dangers of Bolshevism.
Will history show that in this in
stance, at least, they were entirely
correct? If a rose by another name
would smell as sweet, aggression
under one name is just as bad as
under another,
under another.
Is there another “Peace of Mun
ich” underway? Shall we cede this
and grant that and yield the other
until we reach the final deadline
where we must either turn over the
balance, lock, stock, and barrel, or
make a desperate last-minute stand
for the rights due to every human
being?
“Every form of tyranny carries
within itself the seeds of its own
instruction.” Is the fate of Musso
lini, Hitler, Tojo, and their respec
tive countries so quickly forgotten
that any othnr indfwluala ar an
Miss Ellen Douglas Bellamy
BY ANDREW J. HORRELL
When Miss Ellen Douglas Bel
lamy passed away on January 30th,
1946, there was much more than a
casual interest in her death. Her
great age was something to hold
one’s attention. She was born on
May 11, 1852, and was therefore
nearly ninety-four years old. But
there was more in her life than the
accumulated years; it was a life
full of colorful and unique interest.
I have heard that her name was
suggested by the heroine of Walter
Scott’s poem “Lady of the L^ke,”
although Douglas was a name in
the family; and I have wondered
if her name did not account for a
certain poetic interest she always
displayed.
Her first years were spent in a
period of much stress and vigor of
thought that seemed to have shap
ed her whole mental life after
wards. The South was then battling
in thought and speech to hold its
ideas of government and property;
and then came the War Between
The States. She saw her brothers
go off to war, and she shared the
intense zeal of her father, who fur
nished several hundred of his
slaves to work on the Confederate
stronghold of Fort Fisher. The men
came from the large family plan
tation, “Grovely.” in Brunswick
county. Hie war and the plantation
and the negro servants all colored
the thoughts of Miss Ellen, and she
tions would travel down the same
road?
If a human father toiled early
and late in order to leave a heri
tage for his children, how it would
grieve him to know that they would
fight each other to the death over
the possession of it after he was
gone.
, F. H. Willard
Wilmington, N. C. i
rah % 1044.
was ever afterwards to be an “un
reconstructed rebel,” as she loved
to call herself. She would recall
her girlhood song, “I am a South
ern girl,” declaring the proud atti
tude of a Confederate "home-spun
girl.” Her friends were often amus
ed at her undying loyalty to the
Old South, but they knew she was
intensely earnest. No wonder,
therefore, there was placed upon
her grave a large floral Confeder
ate flag. The red background with
the cross bars of blue bedecked
with white stars was a thing of
beauty. It was remarked that "This
was what she would have liked
most of all!”
Miss Ellen’s memory of the days
when her famlily home was occu
pied by the Feaeral General Jo
seph R. Hawley, and of her expe
riences of war days in other inci
dents, is told in a captivating man
ner in the little book she published
a fetv years ago entitled “Back
With The Tide.”
The fact is, she possessed a re
markably clear memory and kept
her mental faculities up to the end
of her life. She often gave valuable
and interesting facts to those who
sought information in regard to
long-passed times. She recalled ev
ery detail connected with the de
struction by Are of her girlhood
church, the old First Presbyterian
church on Front street, in 1859, and
of the new family home which was
completed for occupancy in that
year. Among many things connect
ed with her old church, she had a
vivid recollection of Uncle Morow,
the Arabian chieftain, who had
been acquired along with other
slaves from Africa, by General
rames Owen. Uncle Morow always
worshipped in the church. With all
such incidents she lent a fascinat
ng interest to the days in which
>ur fathers lived.
Intrepreting
The News
— ,AMES d. whtt
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb ,
The dogs of China howled .7*"
today, their ears aching^* hid
explosions of millions of fir. !n*
ers. _ “r«rack.
This was the Chinese New y.
and China's first peac!^e,r
since early 1937. '111 »ni
Japan is defeated, and rv
celebration doubles iu
with the agreement reaS1?
her government and the dl.,1by
communists. l!side»t
So it looked today like th. v
gest whing-ding ever for chin.T
Shanghai the stoek market ^. ?
ed and the currency exchangeSi
with a marked demand tor an
bars and Chinese currency tv-4
is the time to pay off debts tin
your servants, put on you
clothes and enjoy yourself ge„
aUAy- }t goes on for nearly a we!u
Although the Chinese’official,
go by the western calendar -7
New Year begins for th* m8S ,
according to the old lunar calen
dar.
.The festival is rooted deep
history and custom, going back it
least to 2,000 B.C. at
'TJle. °ld calendar is more ftSn
that—it s a weather guide 8n.
schedule for planting crops, build,
ing houses, setting hens, boldine
weddmgs and funerals, or any
thing which might be affected by
the spirits of heaven and earth
The career of the old calendar
hasn’t been easy. Based on the
moon, it naturally didn’t jibe with
the solar year and had to be recti,
fied many times. The last was in
the 17th century when it got !0
much out of step with the seasons
that Chinese farmers found them,
selves planting crops in the dark
of the moon. Large numbers ot
them revolted against such an un
holy situation, and the Ming em
peror called in a Dutch Jesuit
missionary named Verbiest to fix
tVl 1 n C7 Q
He set up a schedule for period
ic rectifications which still works,
but to get the calendar back on
schedule he had to strike out a
whole month that year. The farm
ers revolted about that, too, claim
ing the foreign devil had stolen a
month.
After 1927 the Chinese National
ist government outlawed the old
calendar and adopted the Gregon
an calendar we use. But the people
said no. They bought the old one
illegally and still celebrated the
old holidays and festivals It set,
Today they’re back almost as
strong as ever.
Today, the day the new year be.
gins, is the greatest. Chinese who
work seven days a week the rest
of the year take about a week oil
beginning today to visit their
friends, pay their debts (even it
they have to borrow to do it), eat
a great deal, drink a little, and
throw p-arties featuring much Im
promptu opera singing, gong-beat
ing and fireworks.
They visit temples and burn in
cense to their favorite god. At
night there are rockets and fancy
pyrotechnics ranging from th*
simple pin-wheel to reproductions
in blue blazes of the national flag
and national heroes.
This goes on for days. Shops are
closed. Government offices are
supposed to stay open, but nobody
cares much.
All day, all night, day after day
the roar of big and little flrecrack.
ers goes on until, when it ends
the towns and cities seem half
dead in the strange quiet.
Only the dogs are glad when it’s
over. 1
FORMER RECRUITING
OFFICER HERE UPPED
TO CAPTAIN’S RAM
Word has been reecived here by
friends of Lt. John H. Bandi, for
mer recruiting officer in char;*
of the local Army station, of hi*
advancement to rank of captain.
Captain Bandi, who served her!
for several months, was dis
charged. from the service last
Monday at the Indiantown Gap.
Pa., separation center. He wal
discharged with the new rank,
which he will hold as a reserve
officer.
The finest forests of China ire
in Manchuria.
ily home is still standing and 11
known, far and wide, as the “Be-*
lamy mansion.” It is always an ob
ject of special interest for visitor1
to see. Its beautiful construct!®
and impressive dignity gave 8 fi
fing setting for the last years "
the only survivor of the eider gen
eration, a large and prominent Wil
mington family.
May I add a few more word!
to this sketch of appreciation, j
First, as to the fine friendly inter
est she had in her community an
her widespread acquaintances!^
She was devoted and loyal to thern,
and her knowledge of almost evei?
thing connected with ihe people s
knew, it was often remarked, "
remarkable. Then, he devotion
her Christian faith ana to •
church formed a large part of
life.Every one knew her wor®
were sincere, and her treatment
spiritual things came fi'°m '
heart. A reflection of all th-s -
in the large assembly of her fr*e“
and neighbors who attended
funeral on Friday, February
the First Presbyterian church,
nany years she had been the o -
member of the church and the
one who could connect up m
own life the days before the '
H sixties and the present
her memory be a blessing
tvetyone who knew he'