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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1946
TOP O’ THE MORNING
Yon only have to rob a nation of
Sabbath and you rob its soul.
—From “The Lutheran.”
Wise Choice
The city government’s agreement
with popular sentiment for the appoint
ment of John H. Farrell, executive
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,
as Wilmington’s industrial agent is
praiseworthy. Mr. Farrell’s long train
ing and experience, no less than his vis
ion of the need for industrial expan
sion and means to bring it about, fit
him especially for his new duties.
Another point in the new program
equally commendable is that it will be
directly affiliated with the Chamber
of Commerce, and not a branch of city
government, in which case, however,
incorrect it might prove, it would be
under suspicion as a political under
taking.
The Chamber of Commerce will be
hard pressed to find an assistant secre
tary to relieve Mr. Farrell of the great
amount of detail work he cannot do,
once the industrial program is well
under way, but the present board of
directors may be relied on to make a
wise choice.
Auditorium loo femall
Perhaps the general plans of the
Augusta auditorium are, as the coun
cilmanic voice declares, so well adapted
to Wilmington’s needs that they justify
repetition here, but the Council will be
exceptionally short-sighted and lacl<
public support if it provides no more
seating capacity than indicated in the
report of its deliberations on Wednes
day.
A concert hall, for example, with but
900 seats would not be adequate. This
is no guess. It is proved by the attend
ance and the waiting list at the Concert
Association’s performances. These are
held in the New Hanover High school
auditorium, where the seating capacity
is about 1,000. Invariably in recent
years many applications for tickets are
filed in case earlier purchasers, by re
moval from the city or other cause,
surrender their tickets, but in no case
are more tickets sold than the seating
capacity. How, then, can the auditorium
planners expect to satisfy the public
demand, even for this one regular en
tertainment course, in a hall which can
accommodate but 900 auditors? How
can Wilmington expand its entertain
ment features, as a growing city mus1
do, in such a hall ?
As for the Augusta main auditorium
it is equally difficult to see how audi
ences seeking admission to athleth
events could find seats if the sam<
seating capacity is provided here. Thii
hall has a level floor. It seats 1,843. Th<
balcony seats 1,378 and the gallery 402
If the main floor is used for athleti
contests or other events spectator
could not occupy any part of it. Audi
ences would be restricted to the balcon;
and the gallery, both of which coul
not seat the people who would turn ou1
say, for a high school basket ball game
Certainly many applicants for ticket
wbuld be turned away if the arena wyt
used for an indoor field day, and hun
dreds of parents and relatives be left
at the gate when school festivals were
held.
Wilmington must build for the
future. Its people have their eyes on the
future. They would support an auditori
um project if it could meet the demand
for years to come. By the same token,
they assuredly would reject such a
project if it could not meet the demand
today.
A Body Blow
From the time Harold Ickes enter
ed President Roosevelt’s first Cabi
net he has been news, but not before
has he occupied the position in the news
he attained by his opposition to the
nomination of Edwin Pauley to be un
dersecretary of the Navy, his resigna
tion from his Cabinet post and in his
letter of resignation and radio address
in which he gave his present chief,
President Truman, the lie.
Not since the impeachment of An
drew Johnson has a president of the
United States been under such severe at
tack.
The quarrel is the culmination of a
disagreement over the Pauley nomi
nation and has gained momentum the
longer it continued, until the only al
ternative to his resignation was his re
moval from the Cabinet.
He has never been one to weigh the
consequences of his actions. Once con
vinced he “was on the right track noth
ing could divert him or lead him to muz
zle his speech. He declares that Mr.
Truman would not hear his case against
Mr. Pauley, even when he told the
President he had been called to testify
before a Senate Committee. Instead, he
told his radio listeners, Mr. Truman
asked him to be “gentle” with Pauley.
At this committee’s hearings he said
Mr. Pauley had offered to raise $300,
000 or $400,000 dollars for the National
Democratic Committee if the govern
ment's tideland bill were withdrawn,
and offered his memoranda written
immediately after Pauley’s call upon
him in support of his testimony.
At the same hearings Pauley con
tradicted the Ickes testimony, and
President Truman subsequently said
that “Ickes might be mistaken, like any
of us.” With the Pauley nomination be
fore the Senate, Secretary Ickes’ posi
tion in the government became unten
able, and as it was obvious that Mr.
Truman preferred Pauley to Ickes the
latter could not well continue at his
n-ffiniol nAcf
The question now is, what does it
all mean? Mr. Ickes says a storm is
coming, at present no larger than a
man’s hand, but growing all the time.
If he is correct in his forecast, it might
be avoided, or at least delayed, if the
Senate refuses to confirm the Pauley
nomination. Because of the notice it has
attracted and the shadow upon Mr. Tru
man’s reputation, the President might
withdraw the nomination.
However, this may be, the Truman
administration has been given a body
blow. If Mr. Ickes should continue in
the limelight—he could if he so wills_
and Mr. Truman continues to be the
mouthpiece and agent of the Missouri
group in Washington, the country will
not be long in deciding that the Presi
dent, when he told a small circle of ad
visers he will not seek re-election in
1948, meant he would not accept re
nomination in the certain knowledge
that the backfire from the Pauley
Ickes episode would make his election
impossible. His administration has suf
fered grave injury by his unfortunate
selection of a nominee for undersecre
tary of the Navy.
Editorial Comment
PEARL HARBOR II.
Delay in the passage of a universal military
training law is not in the interest of the welfare
of the United States.
One of the strongest deterrents of wars of
. aggression by stupid and greedy nations is
the knowledge that democratic and righteous
; nations are strong.
. The United States cannot be strong with a
voluntary army.
1 If the present Congress fails to enact a suit
■ able law to provide for the compulsory mili
tary training of the youth of the nation and
the maintenance of an adequate standing army
i it will be doing the people of the United States
? a great disservice.
Return to a volunteer army will be the first
■ step toward world war number three and Pearl
l Harbor number two.—Fayetteville Observer.
1 —
VAN VAMPS ’EM
’ The city editor says the trouble with sending
:. a competent girl reporter out for an interview
a with Van Johnson is that you have to sen
a man reporter out to make the girl
B come back to the office.—Kansas City Star.
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1946, By King Features Syndicate)
There seems to be some room for improve
ment in our domestic affairs but to those de
spondent souls who think matters could not b<
worse I would address a note of cheer in th«
form of an inquiry.
How do they think we would have gone
about untangling ourselves just now if Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and, latter
ly, the late Mr. Roosevelt had had their
way?
Not long after Pearl Harbor, Mrs. Roosevelt
told us about one of those interesting discus
sions which had taken place on one of her
rare nights at home of a Sunday evening in
the White House and said it was her conclu
sion that the government should relieve us all
of the problem of deciding what we should
do in the war effort and should tell us what to
do—men and women.
And Mr. Hopkins, in a much more peremp
tory tone, told us that we would do as we
were told and go where we were sent and
warned us that civilian workers would be bil
leted on civilians in their homes with no re
gard for the character of either the boarders
or the homeowners and with equal disdain for
the spirit of the Constitution which forbade
the billeting of soldiers in private dwellings.
He seemed slightly exultant in the prospect
that a social leader would be compelled by
the government to become a boarding-house
keeper and a peculiar fact, which may have
occurred to him but may have escaped those
whom he threatened with a personal applica
tion of the Russian society in the U.S.A., was
that nobody had ever elected him to any pub
lic position or authorized him to push us
around and invade and disrupt our homes.
He was just a personal friend of the Roose
velts who had been living in our Presidential
Mansion at our expense for several years and
making more money one way and another, in
cluding boodle from the sale of such impudent
threats, than he had ever made in his life
before. Nevertheless, Hopkins had the gall to
add: “It isn’t just talk and it won’t blow over
and it dees mean you.”
Of pmirsp It rtirtn't moan TTnn
a member of the ruling and privileged group
set up in preliminary imitation of the Russian
stratified society, nor Mrs. Roosevelt, herself,
nor Henry Wallace, whose special quality was
demonstrated when he doodled around, out of
a job, between inauguration 1945 and the day
when the boss canned Jesse Jones and gave
him the post of Secretary of Commerce in
recognition of his humble plodding and door
bell ringing in the role of Johnny Appleseed
during the fourth term campaign. If Henry
had been a common man and not a special
job, in those days of the ostensible but fake
shortage of factory labor, he would have got
himself a pair of dungarees and a card in
the CIO and gone to work.
Later on, enlarging her thoughts, Mrs.
Roosevelt put it to us that a young man should
not be allowed to become a doctor just be
cause he wanted to and that, having become
a doctor, he shouldn't be allowed to hang out
his shingle wherever he pleased but should be
assigned, arbitrarily, to a place where au
thority, who would be called a commissar in
Russia, should decide that hit services were
needed.
These are some of the novelties that two
of the most powerful personalities in the
Roosevelt government proposed for the Ameri
can people, many of whom, nevertheless, still
revere the ruling set as God-sent selfless bene
factors of the common man, and Mr. Roose
velt himself, after a long spell of waiting,
finally endorsed the substance of their propo
sals about a year ago when he advocated a
draft of civilian labor.
Only passing notice need be paid to the threat,
sin xii uic duiue, uiai aangcrous
character* might be billeted on decent Ameri
can families whose male members were away
fighting the Germans and th® Japs and that
innocent women might be sent by some poli
tical commissar, holding the title of billeting
officer, to live in evil surroundings. That was
the natural expectable result of the imposi
tion of total authority over the free American
civilian and the flat proposition that his home
should cease to be his castle. Once that had
been achieved, anything could happen.
Because she is so evasive we never heard
from Mrs. Roosevelt whether she recognized
in her suggestion about the young doctors an
identity with one of the features of Hitlerism
which she and her following had professed
to abhor with special fervor. Others noted the
resemblance only to be called Rocsevelt
haters as though that were a term of special
opprobrium, for pointing it out.
Of course, there never was any actual short
age of labor, over all. Mock-work and feather
bedding and slow-down rules in war indus
tries were wasting much of our available
voluntary energy, and strikes at the rate of
5,000 a year, though highly detrimental to na
tional efficiency, still couldn’t thwart the pro
duction of much more than enough under free
dom.
Imagination not only falters but swoons at
the thought of the problem of social, indus
trial and personal reconversion now, added to
the calamities of readjustment of the service
men and women, had Mrs. Roosevelt and
Hopkins had their way and scrambled the
people at home as they so heartily proposed.
And they weren’t kidding us, either. They
meant it in the words of Hopkins that “it
isn’t just talk and it won’t blow over and it
does mean you.’’
QUOTATIONS
Prompt and detailed study should be given
to the practicability of recruiting a force among
the stateless young men in Germany who
would make a life work of policing the country.
There are surely many there who would will
ingly oin a properly organized military force
and who would not find the task of policing
Germany uncongenial.—Henry Cabot Lodge,
former Republican senator from Massachu
setts.
* * *
The shortage of raw materials makes it
impossible for the government to control
prices.—Ferruccio- Parri, former premier of
Italy
• • •
Before anything like economic stability ran
bo attained, however low the standard ■
may be, the first necessity is to decide whS
be._Prof. Calvin B, Hoover
bu?ttad{lfC,CyitiSUmitneCefarily an evil.
remember what they arT onV^f r “ wel1 to
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I “ON YOUR MARX—!” |
So He Doesn’t Like Turnip Greens,
So We Begin Talking About History
By JOHN SIKES
A complaint has just been regi
stered by an individual who as
serts he is in no wise interested
by some items which have appear
ed herein about collards, turnii
greens, and the like.
I gather from hi* somewhal
acidulous remarks, posed’ to m<
via telephone, that he is equally
fed up with turnip greens and what
I have to say about them.
So, suppose we delve into a bit
of history concerning our area and
see if that strikes his fancy. I’m
always anxious to please. Other
wise, it occurs to me that only the
proofreader and the linotype opera
tor will be subjected, even though
unwillingly, to the items here.
But about the history: Mr.
James Lyell of here has just en
trusted to me a most valuable book
called ‘‘Tales and Tradition of the
Lower Cape Fear” by James
Sprunt.
From this book let us take a text
for today. The one that strikes my
fancy is the one about Governor
Tryon’s Palace and the first out
break of the Revolutionary war.
Since he knows far more about
the matter than I do, suppose we
quote at random from this little
chapter:
‘‘About a half mile to the south
of Orton House (that would be what
is now called' Orton Plantation! and
within the boundary of the planta
tion, are the ruins of Governor
Tryon’s residence, memorable in
the history of the United States as
the spot upon which the first over
act of violence occurred in the war
of American Independence, and
nearly eight years before the Bos
ton Tea Party incident, of which
so much has been made in North
ern history; while this Colonial
ruin, the veritable cradle of Am
erican liberty, is probably unknown
to nine-tenths of the people on the
Cape Fear at the present day.
"This place, which has eloquent
ly been referred to by two of the
most distinguished sons of the
Cape Fear, and direct descendants
of Sir John Yeamans, the late Hon.
George Davis and the Hon. A. M.
Waddell, and which was known as
Russelborough, was bought from
William Moore, son and successor
of "King” Roger, by Capt. John
Russell, Commander of His Bri
tannic Majesty’s sloop of war,
"Scorpion”, who gave the tract
of about 55 acres his name. It
subsequently passed into posses
sion of his widow, who made a
deed of trust, and the property
ultimately again became a part of
Orton Planation. It was sold March
31st, 1758, by the executors of the
estate of William Moore to the
British Governor and Commander
in-Chief, Arthur Dobbs, who oc
cupied it and sold it or gave it to
his son, Edward Bryce Dobbs, Cap
tain in his Majesty’s Seventh Regi
ment of Foot or Royal Fusileers,
who conveyed it by deed dated
Feb. 12, 1767, to His Excellency,
Wiliam Tryon, Governor, etc. It
apears, however, that Governor
Tryon occupied this residence prior
to the date of this deed, as is
shown by official correspondence.
“The writer, who frequently en
joys the old-time hospitality of
Orton, had often inquired for the
precise location of the ruins of
Govenor Tryon’s Russelborough
residence, without success. But
during a recent visit, and acting
upon Colonel Waddell’s reference to
its site on the north of ojd Bruns
wick, the service of an aged Negro
who had lived continuously on the
plantation for over 70 years was
engaged.
"We proceeded at once to the
spot, which is approached through
an old field, still known as the Old
Palace Field, and on the other side
of which, on a bluff facing the east,
and affording a fine view of the
river, we found hidden in a dense
undergrowth of timber the found
ation walls of Tryon’s residence.
“The aged guide showed us the
well-worn carriage road of the
Governor, and also his private
path through the old garden to the
river landing on the south of which
is a beautiful cove of white and
shining sand, known, he said, in
olden times, as the Governor’s
Cove. The stone foundation of the
house is about two feet above
ground. Some 60 years ago the
walls stood about 12 or 15 feet
high, but the material was un
fortunately used by one of the
proprietors for building purposes.”
There really isn’t much use look
ing for the place today, I think.
Mr. Sprunt’s chronicles were dated
between 1861 and 1896. You prob
ably couldn’t ever find those two
feet walls today.
There was one item he mention
ed about the place that just goes
to show the interests in those days
were about the same as they are
t|fcey. He says in digging around
with the old Negro that they ran
across several peculiarly shaped
bottles “for the favorite sack of
those days, which Fallstaff called
Sherris sack, of Xeres vintage, now
known as dry Sherry.
Well, what I want to know is
what’s the difference in writing
about Sherris sack, even of Xeres
vintage, and writing about turnip
greens?
_
STAR Dust
definition
An old-timer is one who remem
bers when his mother used to spank
him for cracking hickory nuts on
the hearth with the face of a
smoothing iron.
—Minneapolis Star-Journal.
GERMS OR NO GERMS
Germs or no germs, kissing is
iangerous—it has put an end to a ;
lot of bachelors.
—The Crow’s Nest.
rHE REASON !
Fame: The build - up you are 1
jiven by a somebody who knows he
:an make a lot of money out of <
mu. c
-Robert Quillen in the Roanoke t
iVa.) World - News. t
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM X. ELLIS
TWO YORK COUNTY FARMERS
During the December snow,
storm, I waited in the office of a
York County garage while chains
were put on. Two Pennsylvania
Dutch farmers were also waiting.
After casual conversation, the old
er man recited, in German, a
verse of a hymn dealing with
snow.
“There is another beautiful
hymn that we sing m our Men
nonite church,-’ he continued, re
citing it at length.
“Do you know Schiller?” asked
the other farmer. Upon receiving
a negative reply, he recited in full,
still in German, Schiller’s “Wil
liam Tell.”
I know the many fine qualities
of our Pennsylvania Germans, but
I had never suspected them of
love of good poetry, and of minds
stored with poetical treasures.
What a mental and spiritual re
source, as the farmer follows the
plow.
Those two formers had mas
tered one of the deep secret* of
real culture, the storing of their
minds with great poems and
hymns. If I had any say in edu
cational matters I would make it
a requirement that every student
memorize at least one poem a
week.
We would enrich our lives, O
Father, by the wisdom which the
poets have put into immoral
verse. Thus would we think Thy
thoughts after Thee, Amen.
McKenney On
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
Some time ago I wrote a series
explaining the “Fishbein Conven
tion” for handling weak-two-bids
and preemptive three-bids.Today” s
hand came up at Harry Fishbein’s
own club, the Mayfair Bridge club,
New York.
South opened the bidding with
three hearts, and West’s bid of
three spades was the “Fishbein
Convention” asking his partner to
bid. West could have made the
same bid without a strong spade
suit. In this convention, the over
call of a three-bid with the next
higher ranking suit simply forces
your partner to bid.
In this instance, East elected to
pass, but Fishbein said he should
not have passed; his correct re
sponse over three spades was four
clubs, and West should then bid
four spades. The hand is close to
making six clubs, but If East
elects to pass four spades, he and
West will have the 100 honors to
compensate for the loss in failing
to bid a small slam.
If East’s hand were a little
stronger—if he held the king
queen of clubs, the jack of spades
and queen of diamonds, for in
stance—he might easily bid five
spades over four. West then would
show the fit in clubs and they
would arrive at a small slam in
spades.
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The Doctor Says—,
ADOP ION NEEDS
S RIOUS STUDY
By WILLIAM aTVb«IEn m
Improper adoptions o£ D<
are a common cause of “
illness in adults and ^
while successful adopt!®, \
source of satisfaction for a„ ' J
earned. But child adoptinn j
job of the social workJ Ce
courts, with physicians DhL8r4
gists and religious groum , , 0'
only in advisory capacity5
Milton E. Kirkpatrick ’ vT „
New Orleans, warns th!i D"
should be objective in „ s
adoptions, as it is unwise t„ S5*
a child simply because two,*??•
are lonesome and warn someth'’
to brighten their lives andZ! *
them with entertainment S'
should adopt a baby onlyT’
hey desire to provide a child l ”
love,^ security a n d opporj,,-?
keeping in mind all the diffr
and disappointments inher'm '1
such an association. " ' 15
Temporary pleasure in
for a helpless, attractive hvf
may be replaced by unhapfc
as the child grows up. for ever ■
most attractive babies develop
to mischievous toys and girls
must be understood and apprec'v
ed.
“-'“mauiy or pny alone ij
poor reason for making an ac
tion. Influential people who v-i
an orphanage and select poor P1,
thetic infants may rush the ate
tion by cutting red tape, only 1,
find later that the child is suffer,
ing with some serious disease.
Infants often are adopted «
early or so hastily that full info
mation is not available. Certain
diseases can ba excluded by !p«!
cial examination at an early af;
but it will be necessary to wai!
until the child is older before thi
physician can be certain that it
is free of other condition*.
Regardless of how much i;,
formation a physician may have
concerning the child or the pros
pective parents, he should neve?
specifically recommend an ados
tion. Careful investigation aid
evaluation by impartial social
workers followed by a trial period
of placement is a mu-h better plan
than having a physician get a baby
for a couple.
Adoption procedures should be
held before a local court skilled |
in handling such eases. The
court should have the assistance o|
the State Welfare Department |
Consent to adoption should be ■
obtained from the proper persons
and trial periods of residence tor :
one year in an adopted home ;
should be required prior to the
final decree. Such proceeding
should, of corns*, be confidential !
—
The Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
ANATOMY FOR ART*ST8, by
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AMERICAN WATERCOLORS
AND WINSLOW HOMER, by
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graphs by JOHN SLOAN,
ROCKWELL KENT. THOMAS
BENTON, MAX WEBER
WALDO PEIRCE, STUART
DAVIS, EUGENE SPEKHRR
(each $1) (American Artist!
Group.)
This big bundle of U^bcod .
about pictures, how to make p.o
tures and how to frame u.e”
marks the return of tho America
Artists Group to the publish-■? f
field. It’s a happy day for artist
and art lovers.
The volumes fall info three
classifications: handbooks
methods, exhibition monogt«P-j ;
and monographs by ar’ists a-.
their own work.
The artist monographs re
number seven, and v. ill sow j
elude eight more: Hopper. Bro-A
Gladys Rockmore Davis,
yoshi, Karfiol, Burchfield, G- |
and William Zorach. They a-; |
vest pocket rather than Pn’• • |
size with 50 or more black a- i
white illustrations and a .
piece in color. Each one n
tually a miniature exhibition ^
the publisher says, and
form a fine art show for
brary shelf.
The Goodrich book, based <* *
exhibition held at the. Warner
Center, Minneapolis, is tro ^
logue amplified and burned -
permanent record et the
tion of Daniel S. Defenbacher. •••
J- . _ r’c, v U-*
jutuivi , up y
trated, it is informative ana
Eul.
While the first two groups *_•'
nterest the general publ.c,
landbooks are intended ^
'or practitioners. Marsh s ;..3
ny,’> however, consisting01;.,,
han 400 illustrations drawn .
irtist from old-master *
night have a wide appeal^**'
er, who teaches at Column^
;et you straight on wooflow-.
vood engravings. Landon, as‘
st who solved his framing v-^
ems by organizing his uS*
hop, writes lucidly and so -
ul marginal sketches. ,.s
Like the books which the:
Jroup used to publish, tn t
lesigned and bound in ®x ^
aste; they are not only ab°l“ j
hey are art.