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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946
For Football Bowl
If you failed to read the letter on this
page from Raymond D. Christman yes
terday you’ll find it worth while to re
cover that issue of the Star from the
pile you are saving for the forthcoming
paper collection on March 3, and peruse
if nnw.
Mr. Christman notes that football
bowls have multiplied rapidly and pro
poses that Wilmington have one too, but
Instead of bringing outstanding college
teams to play in it the best high school
teams in some five nearby states be the
performers.
The suggestion is eminently com
mendable, especially as next season New
Hanover High school will probably have
a championship team entitled to meet
wiy High school in the Southeast. Also
and to good purpose, such a game, with
the attendance it would inevitably at
tract, would require the long delayed
improvements at Legion stadium.
Mr. Christman suggests calling it the
Ocean bowl or the Friendship bowl,
either of which would be appropriate,
and if the stadium with its approaches
and parking space were adequately im
proved there would be no reason to call
it the Dust bowl.
It is even possible that after the split
of gate receipts between the competing
teams there would be enough money left
to build a substantial and attractive
fence along the highway.
Trouble-Makers
Doubtless there would be advantage
in an investigation of conditions in In
donesia, provided the committee com
missioned to make it did a thorough job,
but it is a moot question if Russia has
the right to demand such an inquiry
considering its own record in Iran.
Mr. Vishinsky’s declaration before
the World Security Council in London
that only Great Brtiain and the Nether
lands have first hand information of
the Indonesian situation could be ap
plied with equal force to the Iranian
situation, of which only Russia and Iran
have first hand knowledge.
At the same time it is difficult to un
derstand why the British Foreign Sec
retary, Ernest Bevin, should object to
an Indonesian inquiry, despite his dec
laration that it would “cast a slur upon
the conduct of British troops in In
donesia.” The slur has already been cast
and is accepted in many circles aside
from the Russians. The way to dispose
of it would be by investigation, if the
British troops have followed a proper
course there.
If, as Mr. Vishinsky claims, the In
donesian situation contains the germs
of another world war, he would do well
to consider the potentialities of the sit
uation in Iran.
It is unfortunate that Russian en
voys draw attention to the possibilities
of another great war with so much in
sistency. It would almost seem that this
is what they want.
The Last of Him
This ought to be next to the last o:
Yamashita. Washington says that Presi
dent Truman has “spurned” a plea fo
clemency. War Department official
'f I
add that his fate is now up to General
MacArthur.
The general, having refused to inter
vene for him and declaring he should be
hung, sans uniform and decorations, it
would appear that the Japanese general
is due to march the last mile to the gib
bet.
The last of him then will be the an
nouncement that he has paid for his
war crimes with his life.
Get it over with.
Aviation Era
When the recently-concluded war
started the United States was caught
with an inadequate air force. Of
what it had, many planes quartered in
Hawaii were destroyed in the Pearl
Harbor attack and others during the
Japanese conquest of the Philippines.
Starting almost from scratch, this
nation, at the end of the conflict had
the greatest and most efficient air
force, in the world. The battering
given Germany in preparation for in
vasion was largely conducted by Amer
ican bombers and fighters. The de
feat of Japan was all but effected by
the same arm of the military estab
lishment before the atomic bombs
closed the Pacific war.
Now, it turns out, the planes that
had so much to do with winning World
War II are, to all intents and purpi ses,
obsolete. So fast has plane design
progressed it is probable that if an
American air force were required to
. go aloft in battle only a small percent
age of models most effective so recent
ly could be used again.
This is due chiefly to the greater
agility of the jet-propelled or rocket
plane, which can fly circles around the
older types. There is the P-80 Shoot
ing Star, for example. If the war were
still in progress, Lockheed would be
turning out thirty of them a day. As
it is, this corporation is still manufac-j
turing them. Naturally the number of
these fighter planes coming off the as
sembly line is not to be learned, but re
ports say the total is “substantial.”
Statistics on the production of Lock
heed Constellations are not held in se
cret. It is said that the plant is turn
ing out from eight to ten of these fifty
one passenger, four-engined transports
monthly. They are in great demand by
commercial air lines both for domestic
and foreign flights.
Verily we are entering an aviation
era, the achievements of which cannot
be foretold.
For Better Parking
The rule is for motorists to park
their cars with the headlights opposite
the meter. When this is done, the car
ahead and behind may move off without
difficulty and another car may move
into the vacated berth with neatness and
dispatch.
When it is not done, when the for
ward or rear car overlaps its proper
space, maneuvering the other car out of
its place at the curb or getting one into
the shortened space becomes a task
many drivers cannot cope with.
Probably the offense is often due to
indifference. It is surprising how many
drivers don’t give a hang what happens
to the other fellow so long as they are
accommodated. Innate selfishness
causes no end of trouble in all transac
tions, and is no less apparent among
the drivers of motor vehicles than any
other class of society.
The police could well afford to keep
an eye out for constant offenders and
exercise their right to hail them into
court, if only that they may be warned
to stop the bad practice, with punish
ment reserved for subsequent viola
tions.
On the other hand, there are doubt
less many visiting motorists who are ig
norant of the rule and park incorrectly
in innocence. A card on their wind
shields calling attention to the rule and
inviting them to observe it surely would
be worthwhile.
Editorial Comment
THERE MUST BE A MORAL IN THIS
The American governor of the state banl
of Ethioipa says that country, one of the firs
victims of axis aggression, is now in a ver;
! strong financial position, with no internal o
external debts. On the other hand, Englan
■ admits she’s broke, Russia also wants a bi
r loan and the United States (as of last Jan. 17
has a public debt of $278,593,539,535.—New Vor
3 World-Telegram
I
Fair Enough
BY WESTBROOK PEGEER
(Copyright, 1946, By King Features Syndicate.)
With a faint blush of professional triumph,
I take this occasion to report that the native
home of that subtle and baffling offshoot of
the American language known as double-talk
is not Madison Square Garden, the United
States Supreme Court, Capitol Hill or Holly
wood, but South Boston, Mass. The reason
why Justice Felix Frankfurter is sometimes
erroneously regarded as the father of this
refinement of jabberwocky may be found in
the fact that, many years ago, when he was
teaching school at Cambridge, the Harvards,
at the depths of one of their periodic football
depressions, invaded South Boston to recruit
some Irish to bring things into balance with
the Yales and Princetons.
It is possible that the Celts brought double
talk with them to Cambridge and that the
professor’s ear caught an impression, although
he certainly did not master the forms. And
it may even be that, by imparting his own
imperfect version to his ideological proteges
in the law school, who later followed their
piper to Washington, he has been responsible
for the adoption of a modified form of double
talk as the language of our highest jurispru
dence and our statesmanship.
However, even though the professor’s opin
ions do not make sense when it seems they
should, and the same is true of many state
papers end orations, this language is not the
true mother-tongue. Confusion it is, to be sure;
obfuscation and incoherence, if you will; but
it is not double-talk.
Dan Parker, my colleague on the sports
side of the New York Mirror, a more-than
casual philologian of uncodified tongues, has
read me a rather lofty essay on the subject.
But, while he cited such eminent authorities
as Professors A1 Weill and Lew Raymond,
his research stopped short of double-talk’s ori
gin. His lessons and examples were persua
sive, though baffling, as, in the nature of the
language, they should be. And yet he would
have left an impression that double-talk al
ways was. *
for ms education, therefore, as well as
yours, I share an enlightening letter from Mr.
Johnny Rogers, of Los Angeles, late of South
Boston, a manager of lithe, lean bodies and
an earnest seeker, by proxy, of course, of that
golden fleece poetically known as the highest
bauble in fistiana’s realm, the heavyweight
championship of the world.
‘Double - talk,” Mr. Roger writes, '“has been
going on around South Boston for more
years than I care to remember. There it is
known es ‘the swerve.’ Mr. Dan Carroll, the
reformed policeman and former manager of
Jimmy Maloney, can swerve you out of your
chair. The purest double-talk I ever heard
was spoken by South Boston Johnny Downes,
the lightweight who was dealing in terrific
flurries of lefts and rights to the face and
body in the twenties. Tommy Farmer, of Los
Angeles, another former Bostonian (South)
ar.d manager of Manuel Ortiz, the bantam
weight champion, is another expert, specializ
ing in speed, however, at some sacrifice of
syntax. I agree that Professor Parker excels
all others at presenting swerve on paper and
•'ssume that our beloved tongue traveJled with
lhe Irish migration down to his native Water
bury. I am filled with resentment when I
bear unqualified exponent* murdering our
beautiful omitrad.”
John Fahey, of the Boston Record-American
and Sunday Advertiser, likewise traces D-T
to Boston (South) and adds:
“You are right when you state that it is a
gross insult to the few exponents of pure
double-talk and an offense to those who love
the language, to say that famous statesmen
and eminent jurists express themselves in
same. For 30 years I have studied double-talk
and I scorn the gibberish of mere confusion
ists. I submit excerpts from a paper on the
subject which I read recently in support of
my proposal that double-talk be adopted as
the universal language by the United Nations
in the hope that, if it should be, then nobody
ever would pondrive anybody else’s quadis
and that, in time, therefore, the nations and
people of the earth would rebrenerize in a
murvent sprattis, forever.”
Mr. Fahey’s scholarly paper not only main
tains that double-talk was bom in South Bos
ton, but even theorizes as to the site of the
historic back-room. He agrees with Mr.
Rogers that its true name is “swerve.”
As an example of a sound approach to in
ternational problems, he suggests the follow
ing: “Well, it looks like they’re getting ready
to spemin the rossnet in Greece according
to the rieberstoff report.”
This, Mr. Fahey submits, at least provides
an opportunity for persons of opposed opinion
to lampain the stramfin, and I am inclined
to hear him out.
“Some masters swerve at every fifth or
sixth word,” Mr. Fahey wrote. "I am a purist
of the old school and swerve only by instinct,
not design, but usually otherwise.”
Recalling an occasion when a committee
called or a Boston hotel banquet manager to
arrange a dinner, Mr. Fahey wrote that in
the midst of the negotiations, the spokesman
sprang to his feet and angrily exclaimed: “I
want to know, frankly, is this the customary
ferbit to offer to the most distinguished spaul
dens, considering the type of omitrads who are
expected to resperve?”
The msnager was puzzled and another com
mitteeman came to his defense.
“I think,” he said, “it would quebot the
homatroves if the gentleman could codersperl
the apperloves but I think for dessert, at^this
price, we should have our choice of grontlaub
or beelmite.”
“They compromised,” Mr. Fahey recalls,
“on frozen fobanbren with ermot dressing.”
Well, progress is slow in this world, but we
have gained today. We are positive, now, that
Felix Frankfurter’s opinions are not written
in double-talk, more’s the pity.
QUOTATIONS
Veterans will pay the taxes and control the
spending for the next 30 years. I wonder how
much faith they will place in schools which
turn +hem away now?—Dr. Leland Bradford,
adult education director, National Education
Association.
• • •
Nations that joined together to defeat ruth
less enemies have even greater reason to
: remain united for the peaceful settlement of
t their differences lest new Hitlers rise to throw
r the world into chaos.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisen.
: hower, Army Chief of Staff,
i * * *
. ..Ha, wu«u oi Army
. ■ AND SO TO BED!”|
BiKficu^
It Seems A Controversy Now Rages
Between Grits And Fried Potatoes
By JOHN SIKES
Well, let's get back to the im
portant subject of food again. On
ly let’s don’t bother about turnip
greens and collards and the like.
This time a pretty serious situa
tion has come up and it’s neces
sary that we get together in this
Tuesday morning seminar and
handle the situation adroitly and
diplomatically.
There seems to have arisen a
controversy between grits and
potatoes. That’s hardly express
ing it correctly because there is no
actual fight between grits and
potatoes themselves. The fight
seems to be about the serving of
them.
In many of the restaurants here
abouts when you get your morning
bacon and eggs they—meaning the
restaurants—will put a sizeable
blob of grits on your plate, wheth
er, usually, you ask for them or
not.
Now, there are those benighted
souls who do not wish any blobs
of grits served them in any fash
ion, without or with bacon and
eggs. These souls have protested
against the practice. What they
want, never having learned that
grits are—or is—a staple breakfast
diet of us Southerners, particularly
those of us who were brought up in
eastern North or South Carolina, is
a few French fried Irish potatoes
dropped on their plates of bacon
and eggs.
Well, they can’t get them. They
can’t get them unless they order
and pay for a side order of French
fried potatoes placed in an extra
dish. Furthermore, they cannot
have just two or three French
fried potatoes. They must have
several French fried potatoes,
probably many more than they
have a stomach for that early in
the morning.
You may have that blob of grits
at no extra cost, but if you want
French fried potatoes you’ve got to
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buy them entirely separate from
your order of bacon and eggs.
I do not know why this is so,
but it inexorably is. It’s a custom
and you can change a law much
more readily than you can change
a custom because you can ask your
legislator to change a law and, if
you push him hard enough, he’ll
get the law changed. But he can
not do anything about a custom.
So those of you who want French
fried potatoes and do not want
grits will just have to keep on get
ting grits and no French fried
potatoes. Unless you pay for that
side order. Even then you’ll prob
ably keep on getting that blob of
grits. The chef is used to putting
them on your plate and, chefs
being the way they are, you do
not go right in and tell a chef what
he cannot do.
Personally I do not have any
quarrel about this grit business, I
like grits. But, then, I was brought
up on them. However, I’m a pretty
tolerant sort of a fellow and if
there are those—I cannot conceive
of any such people—who do not
wish to have grits on their plates
of a morning, I’m perfectly willing
to accept membership on a crusad
ing committee that will wait upon
the restaurant people and ask them
if they won’t speak to their chefs
about not putting grit* on the
plates of those who do not want
grits and to substitute just two or
three French fried potatoes for the
grits.
There are some quarrels I have
about eating in restaurants, which
I do most of the time. For some
peculiar reason I like my eggs
cooked light, whether they’re boil
ed, scrambled or fried. Invariably
I get them hard, except in one or
two places where I am humored.
It seems to me that it would take
a lot less effort to do them up light
than hard. Think of the saving in
fuel and labor, not to mention my
temper, a combustible package at
best but which does not seem to
make any headway whatever with
the cheis.
Another thing has to do with the
temperature of the plates on which
my food is served. Another per
versity about my eating habits is
that I like my food that is sup
posed to be cold, cold, and my food
that is supposed to be hot, hot.
Therefore, I would like my salads
cold and my steaks hot.
Invariably, my salad will come
out—except in those places where
my oneriness is humored — on
plates that have just been run
through the dish-washing machine,
which means that my salad plat*
is hot and the lettuce, once crisp
and cool, reaches me weeping and
panting for cool air.
On the other hand, my steak
usually gets placed on a plate that
has been reposing on the shelf for
some time and the plate is there
fore cold, or cool. By some pro
cess of reasoning, I have conclud
ed that a hot steak placed upon a
_—.
long. By the time the steak gets to
me it’s as cold as the plate. With
all the fire they have in kitchens
it shouldn’t be too much to ask that
my plate be warmed along about
the same time the steak is cooked.
But I know it is too much to
ask. And I apologize with my
deepest bow. I know that I am
cranky and should not expect to
get food served to me the way I’d
like to have it. And I know, too,
that those folks who don’t like
grits, but want potatoes, will just
have to learn to like grits and for
get about the potatoes.
STAR Dust
THE BEST AUTHORITY
Soon after Viscount Astor’s
father purchased Cliveden, his
stately English home near
Maidenhead, a flood occured
in the Thames valley.
Lord Astor—he was plain Mr.
Astor then—was in America at
the time, and being anxious
to know if the beautiful grounds
at Cliveden had suffered any
damage, cabled his eldest son
in England: “Send particulars
of the flood.”
Now it happened that young
Astor was in Scotland at the
time and had not heard of the
inundation.
Scenting a joke in the re
quest, he cabled back: “Look
in the Book of Genesis.”
—Wall Street Journal.
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
LOSING SIGHT OF THE CITY
Whenever I travel the big road
from the north down to Jerusalem,
I pausp at Ramallah for a good
look at the distant city. For I
know that I shall not have another
sight of it until I am almost with
in the Holy City itself.
Down into the valleys the trave
ler goes, past spots famous for
robbers; and over many a difficult
curve and past dangerous cliffs.
But all the while he is as surely
approaching the city as when he
viewed its towers and minareits
from the heights of Ramallah.
Thus it is with the Christian life.
Our vision of the City is not al
ways clear. Ecstasy never persists
continuously. Difficult days come
wherein we have no vistas of Je
rusalem to lead us onward. But
still we are on the way. If we
simply continue the path we
shall come to the City of our de
sire.
For the dark and visionless
stretches of life, we pray, our
Father, that we may have the
courage simply to continue on in
the Way. Amen.
YOUR G. I. RIGHTS
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
WASHINGTON — The regula
tions regarding lumber in the Gov
ernment’s priority assistance plan
for veterans’ housing are the sub
ject of many queries. Here are a
few technical ones:
Q. Can CC or MM ratings be
applied against a sawmill’s pro
duction reserves of housing con
struction lumber and hardwood
flooring lumber?
A. No, the sawmill can only
credit against its production re
serves certified orders or orders
rated AAA. However, on the 20th
of each month the sawmill may
sell to other orders any of his
production reserves for which he
has not been offered a certified
order during the first 19 days
of the month.
Q. Exactly what constitutes
“millwork” in the government’s
new veterans’ housing program?
A. Millwork means windows,
sash, doors, window sash and door
frames, window and door screens,
cut stock for the preceding items,
trim, mouldings, and other bulletin
millwork items for authorized
housing construction.
Q. How does a housing con
tractor obtain millwork and hard
wood flooring?
A If his construction schedule
has been authorized under Priori
ties Regulations 33 he may place
orders rated HH with millwork
and hardwood flooring manu
facturers.
Q. Are there any restrictions
on the quantity and use of hous
ing construction lumber, mill
work, and hardwood flooring
which a housing contractor pur
chases on orders rateed HH?
A. Yes. He is limited in quan
tity by the amount needed to
construct his authorized construc
tion schedule and he cannot uBe
the material so obtained for any
purpose other than for the par
ticular construction job for which
he received authorization.
(Questions will be answered only
in this space—not by maiL
Doctor Says—■
REST AND DIET
FOR JAIINIW
By WILLIAM A. 0 BRie\ m
Most service patients wi,h ,
dice have the same disease ^
We have at home. We Use,, . "a
it yellow janders, and we
it was due tc mucous pw,
pmg the bile ducts. Now w! £®p'
that patients with thi,
sease have inflammation T
liver. This kind of jaundice l !h'
to be confused whh the'vai.^ I
caused by blood diseases J'
stones, growths or cirrhons’J.
liver. 1 ««
. !* Jaundice? All
ish discolorations of the skin *
the whites of the eve3 °al
jaundice. Some peonle na*
yellow from eating too aaJS
rots. Men in service become a
colored after taking atabrine t
malaria Beal jaundice « dua '
bile staining of the blood Vt
tissues. Bile is formed when ti,
red cells of the blood break doS
from age or other cause
Ordinarily, bile is formed j.
the liver, spleen and bone
may be ^onued local?
m the tissues. A black eve i.7
good example. Injury releases 2.
red blood cells from the vessel
They are destroyed by the tissu,
cells, and the colors which res -
, coloring matter B .
colors are yellow, red. bC
brown, and green, with yellow a-j
brown predominating.
fr^et>,traVelS thr°Ugh th* H
from the various places when l
Is formed to the liver wher» it
joins the bile formed there to leave
the system by way of the bile
ducts through the intestines. It
much bile is formed in the body
yellowish discoloration results bui
as soon as the liver bile duct
drain it down to normal, the color
disappears.
. Probable cause of ePidemj„
jaundice is a special virus It j,
common knowledge that this tvr,
of jaundice may follow many
conditions, such as Injection of
blood serum, treatment with cer
tain drugs, infectious diseases, or
it may develop without any spe
cial cause. This suggests that
these conditions lower the resist
ance of the liver to the virus and
infection results.
Most epidemic jaundlc patints
. Most epidemic jaundice patients
first have a stomach and intestion
al upset, with nausea, vomiting
and often diarrhea. This may prel
cede jaundice by a few days or a
few weeks. Pain, If present is
usually a dull ache under the rib
edges. Loss of appetite is notice
able in most. Jaundice becomes a.
tense within two or three days
after its appearance, and the skin
is often itchy.
Treatment of uncomplicated
epidemic jaundice is bedrest and
diet. Even the midlest cases
should be kept in bed during the
early part of the disease. Large
amounts of fluid are given, and the
diet. Even sthe mildest cere
amounts of protein and carbo
hydrates foods, with a small
amount of fatty food. Under
treatment the swollen and :n
flamed liver gradually subsides,
and the yellowish discoloration of
the skin disappears as the blie
starts to flow through the liver
again. The liver has great powers
of recovery, and in most instances,
heals without signs of permanent
damage.
The Literary
Guidepost
BY W. G. ROGERS
SOVIET POLITICS AT HOMB
AND ABROAD, by Frederick L
Schuman (Knopf; S4).
The USSR wasn't allowed M
grow by itself, Schuman claims;
it was shaped and formed in part
by tremendous pressure from for
eign, suspicious, often hostile forc
es. In his opinion Russia can say
to the rest of the world, in '
words of the song: “You made
me what I am today. .
The rest of the world has not
been satisfied, at least not at aJ
times and places, as you see in
the newspapers without i ead.r.g
Schuman. He takes a mico.e
ground: Russia is not the Beast
of the Apocalypse, nor a democ
racy. He throws much light oa
the subject, and he doesn't wh.>
wash the Reds.
The country is developing la *
ly within the pattern laid out of
Lenin, Schuman believes.
The actual Russia never damd
count heavily on friends,
points out. She would hare be^
foolhardy to ignore facts: Amer
ican soldiers fought against he.,
American presidents refused r
ognition; democracy’s spokesn k
ranging from Laval throu^
Churchill to U. S. senators, kt.
repeating that Communism
more villainous than I as ’
English, French and American P •
ticians and other leaders wouin
trust a Russian as far as
could throw one, and said so “
fore, during and after World '
H.
- The author, a Williams Colleg*
professor, claims in substance --
Russia can’t be blamed if
pects to find a Fascist when
scratches a democrat. Yet in s.
of that she tried to play ban
the western power*
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