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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1946.
TOP O’ THE MORNING
The real abject of education is to give
children resources that will endure as long
as life endures.
Sydney Smith.
Truman-Ickes Quarrel
It is not seemly for either President
Truman or former Secretary of the In
terior Harold Ickes to continue to wash
the dirty linen of the Pauley case in the
public press.
Certainly it is not seemly for a citi
zen to declare in print that a Presi
dent of the United States has made a
statement that “is not true.’’ Nor was
it seemly for President Truman to make ;
the statement that led Ickes to pass :
the direct lie.
The presidency should be above per
sonal controversy. 'When it is not it
loses caste. Mr. Truman has lost caste
by engaging in a quarrel with Ickes.
The President says the Pauley nomi- ^
nation to be undersecretary of the Navy '
will not be withdrawn. If he is deter- 1
mined to leave it in effect, despite the 1
shadow over the nominee, and if an ad- (
verse ruling is given the proposal that
the Attorney General conduct an in
vestigation of the case, it is the Senate’s '
duty to inquire closely into all the facts 1
before taking final action.
Need for an investigation is clearly I
indicated. Let it be made in a committee
room rather than through the columns
of the daily press.
Halifax Is Right
As Lord Halifax is to retire shortly
as British Ambassador to the United
States any public statement he may
make comes virtually as a valedictory.
The address he delivered the other day
before the Delaware Bar Association
and the Society of Colonial Wars na
turally falls into this category. And be
cause he has had such a splendid, if
brief, career in Washington, whatever
he says is worthy of public attention.
In this address at Wilmington, Dela
ware, in which he declared the world
peace program demands the “existence
of force in some form or other, which,
if necessary can be invoked,” he said
the cart was put before the horse in
1918 when disarmament was started be
fore security had been established.
“If there is one thing that 1 would
suppose is now quite certain,” he went
on, “it is that neither you nor we shall
be so mad as to diesarm our nations
except on a proved and established
basis of security.”
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fuse the late aggressors any opportuni
ty to begin againt” he said. We should
establish “as- in the trials now proceed
ing, the personal responsibility of those
who have been guilty of deliberately
provoking war.”
The Ambassador called for “main
tenance of control until we are satisfied
that there is a real and permanent
change of heart,” and “refusal to per
mit any one-sided infration of any terms
of international arrangements.
“This last,” he declared, “seems to
me one of the fundamental principles
on which future policy must be based.
If law is to be effective, it must be a£
plied always, everywhere and to all.”
If these were to be Lord Halifax’
last words in this country, or on earth,
for that matter, he could hardly have
chosen them more wisely or a subject
better fitting the world situation.
Feed The Starving
Before adjourning, the General As
sembly of the United Nations Organiza
tion called upon its fifty-one members
to do what they could to prevent world
wide famine by saving and growing
more food. Quoting a London dispatch
to the New York Times:
“A five-power resolution was intro
duced by Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin, whose Government was forced
to cut rations last week. He painted a
stark picture of millions in want and his
words were echoed by Edward R. Stet
tinius, Jr., head of the American dele
gation. ‘It is not easy,’ Mr. Stettinius
declared, ‘to preserve peace and free
dom among hungry men wherever they
may live_whether it be in Greece or in
Indonesia or in Iran or in any other
part of the world. Starvation breeds
unrest and its effects linger on long
after its causes have been removed.
The fact is that the food situation is
too serious to be delayed. Mortals starve
quickly. Or if some of the starving es
cape death their vitality reaches such
a low state it is doubtful if they can
ever be restored to normal mental or
physical activities.
Trw^itrirlnalc wpplrpriprl VlV ITISJif'fiP.lPTlt,
nourishment cannot very well do a
clay’s work; certainly they cannot go on
day after day in any occupation. And
if the world is to get back to normalcy
sverybody’s effort will be required.
We have talked much about relieving
improvished peoples. Maybe we have
done much too. But it is obvious we have
rot done enough; and never v/ill until
,ve are willing to make an actual per
sonal sacrifice in their behalf.
There must be more than gray bread
it the White House. And a complete
•evision of military hoarding, with more
’oodstuffs freed would help.
Browder Ousted
Citizens of the United States who
lave taken pride in their Americanism
lave found nothing in the past to com
nend in Earl Browder, former secre
ary of the Communist Party here,
:andidate for the presidency and con
victed of using false passports for
vhich he served a short period in prison,
iut was freed prematurely on Presi
lent Roosevelt’s recommendation when
ve became Russia’s ally in the European
ihase of the Second World War.
And there is no particular reason to
;onsider him a praiseworthy person
low, but it stands to his credit that the
National Committee of the party has
ixpelled him from membership “for
?ross violation of party discipline and
lecisions for active opposition to the
political line and leadership of our
aarty, for developing fractional activity
md for betraying the principles of
Marxism-Lenism and deserting to the
?ide of the class enemy, American
monopoly capitalism.’’
_ We may be wrong, but it seems that,
with the war ended, the Communist
Party is up to its old tricks. The world
revolution which the Russian Reds have
long fostered obviously is being revived
if, in fact, it was ever temporarily sus
pended during the war.
Han- This Up
In the magazine Fortune, for January is
an exhaustive article on DDT, the insecticide
that has worked miracles in controlling ot
eliminating many pests.
In concluding its review, the following pre
cautions are recommended by Fortune
Keep DDT insecticides where they will not
be used; as medicine or in foods
Wash thoroughly hands and any p£rts of the
skin that come in contact with oil solutions
Avoid inhalation from sprays and aerosol
bombs.
If large-scale application is made, a mask
is advised to avoid irritation from' kerosene
or inhalation of DDT.
Some ventilation is necessary during treat
ment.
Watch out for fire.
Cover or remove any food when DDT is
being applied; cover the gold fish bowl; re
move the canary.
Keep children and pets away from sprayed
areas until sprays have dried.
In this country today we have a government
which has allied itself largely with one agency
of production. It has set itself as the champion
and friend .of the job receiver and job seeker,
and as the disciplinarian, if not the enemy, of
the job provider.—Dr. Walter E. Spahr, New
York U. Economics Departmen*
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1946, By King Features Syndicate)
President Truman’s audacious program of
2,700,000 new homes to be built or put together
by the end of 1947, outlined by Wilson Wyatt,
his new housing administrator, inevitably calls
for another round of roodles with union
racketeers and crooked contractors preying
on the rest of us just as they have done in
most big “projects’ of government enter
prises, including war construction and pro
duction.
The plan is set in motion just in time to re
vive the graft of a pack of cynical parasites
who had found themselves suddenly idle upon
the completion of the training camps, flying
fields and war factories. It wanly pines for
some reasonable concessions on the part ot
licensed looters in the public interest and
makes a special, but futile, appeal to a
theoretical sense of decency for the sake ot
homeless veterans of the fighting war.
All experience shows that we might as well
appeal to a communist’s sense of honor or the
sporting instincts of a weasel in a hen-house.
The only protection lies in prevention by
law, and Congress will fail us there because
the Democrats are the patron party of the
racketeers and the Repblicans will continue
their policy of avoiding responsiiblity»for
cleaning up a mess created by their opposi
tion.
This is going to mean a revival of the in
credibly bold rackets of the common laborers
locals on most of the sites, the same locals
that charged thousands of farmers and other
casual workers from $25 to $55 each for
“initiation ’ when the sites were being cleared
and the building was in progress as the na
tion turned to war.
It would be a fine discrimination to say that
this is the dirtiest of the A. F. of L. unions for
the teamsters, the movie employees and the
building service workers unions have com
parable records as has the operating engineers.
For 30 y6ars it never held a convention and,
as the old gangsters sickened and died, they
were succeeded by patient subordinates’ until,
at last, the entire official roster, with one un
important exception, was made up of self
elected bosses whose quarter of a million sub
jects had never had a chance to vote and yet
were compelled by the Roosevelt government
to pay them tribute and submit to their
brutal discipline.
This vile history was exposed in these es
says shortly before the nation swung into tha
war effort and was placed In public record
in hearings of the House Judiciary Committee
in Washington. Yet the shakedowns continued
all over the land and included an astonishing
feat of daylight looting in the very capital, it
self, and the same crooks will not be rude
enough to decline this invitation to do it again
in the housing program.
The veterans, whose housing problem is
emphasized for emotional appeal in this bold
plan set forth by Mr. Wyatt, will discover that
they are, as one practical unioneer put it, “a
iime a dozen” and will not only pay at least
?25 and as much as $300 for union initiation,
plus dues and periodic shakedowns, but, in buy
ing their homes or renting them, will get the
aill for a most ingenious system of mock-work
and organized loafing. Like so many of the
var workers, thousands of them will be laid
iff by crooked contractors, in collusion with
he union gangsters, as soon as they have paid
he installments on their initiation fees, to
make room for new initiates, and their gov
ernment will express its gratitude for their
service in the war by upholding and protecting
he crooks as “labor leaders.”
Mr. Wyatt’s plan speaks confidently cf fab
ricated houses assembled ‘^on-site” and pre
fabricated dwellings in airy disregard of arti.
'icial restraints against not only such large
lrnts but even factory-twisted steel rods for
jse in reinforced concrete work and against
Dipe threaded in factories and sheet plaster. If
he use of sheet plaster is permitted, the price
jf labor will be set at a figure not only high
enough to frustrate economy but in many
places high enough to pay for three layers of
plaster done by hand whereas two coats are
juite enough.
-me ^umidtiors in many localities also have
their unions or “associations” of "recognized”
firms whose only purpose is to exclude com
petition from their fields. By contracts with
the bosses of the building trades unions they
are able to keep labor away from "indepen
dent” projects undertaken by out siders and
the result, of course, is that they monopolize
and distribute the business among them
selves and pay labor as much as the traffic will
Pear. Wage rates and mock-work rules mean
aothing to them because, with no competition,
hey can set their prices accordingly, plus
their profits.
Mr. Wyatt’s long discussion of his plan con
tains many rcommendations but no frank
consideration of these facts which are the rea
son why new homes are not being built by
individuals or speculators and will not be. His
legislative proposals bashfully duck the sub
ject.
Still, it is a feasible plan on the assumption
that for every $2 worth of housing, the buyer,
renter or the whole body of taxpayers, via the
Freasury, shall pay a third dollar of tribute to
icensed and privileged extortioners.
QUOTATIONS 1
Hungry people arc naurally discontented peo.
sle, and hunger and discontent are a poor
foundation for the peaceful and prosperous
world we are trying to build.—British Ambas
sador Lord Halifax.
We all respect freedom of speech, but we
lidn’t win the last war to preserve freedom of
speech for Fascist or semi-Fascist propaganda
jnder the protection of democracy, when it
will only lead to a new war.—Prof. Amazasp ]
^rutiunian, Soviet UNO delegate.
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The Department of Agriculture will develop 1
additional ways in which grain now being -’sed
in the feeding of livestock and poultry could !
be conserved for use as human food.—Presi- 1
lent Truman. <
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A little friendship and kindness on the part ^
nf free society will go a long way toward in. 1
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SEEDS OF HATE _
Th e Oyster Is Much-Maligned Creature
YouMayEnjoyDuringAll TheMonths
By JOHN SIKES
It’s high time we delved into the
oyster situation.
Oysters are, or is, a very con
troversial subject, even unto the
time of year you may eat them.
!\nd there has probably been more
propaganda spread around about
rysters than any other subject, in
cluding who killed Cook Robin.
And there are so many things
about oysters that you really have
:o be an expert to talk compre
rensively about them. Not being
an expert on them I shall just hit a
:ew of the high spots.
You may not know it, but there
s a man' in North Carolina who
ranks as the world’s outstanding
authority on oysters. He is Dr.
Herbert F. Prytherch who is held
cf the United States Biological
Laboratory on a little island called
Pivers just off the causeway be
tween Beaufort and Morehead City.
Dr. Prytherch—pronuonced for
some obscure Welsh reason, Prith
rich—is practically the same thing
o oysters as Einstein is to Rela
;ivity. Which means he knows so
much about them that nobody
can understand just what he does
mow.
But, speaking in a language we
can understand, Dr. Prytherch told
me not so long ago there is more
money, and pleasure, in oyster
’arming than any other kind of
’arming.
You plant the darned things and
hen you sit back for a couple of
fears and watch your garden grow,
you don’t exactly watch it grow,
cecause naturally the oysters must
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM T, ELLIS
IN THE HOTEL LOBBY
On a recent day I had occasion
,o stand half on hour seated in the '
obby of one of Washington’s big- 1
;est hotels. It was a good vantage :
>oint from which to observe the i
)assing show of modern life. Such 1
i scurrying to and fro of men and i
vomen! <
Milady would have been most 1
nterested in the prevailing fash- 1
ons, and especially in the women’s 1
ligh hats, which crowned wonder
ul coiffures. Everybody was well i
iressed, and the men were mostly 1
landsoime and alert. i
Sometimes large groups would <
rnstle by, intent on formal lunch- 1
ion occasions, as the several hun- i
Ired newspaper men who were (
'athering to break bread with the ]
British Prime Minister. Others i
/ere there on individual missions: ]
magination plays upon the nature t
if the work or play that has called ]
his multitude to the Capital. (
And what of the personal prob- i
oms and burdens and loves and ;
uccesses here represented? It is t
inly the outward aspect of sophisti- c
ated and prosperous life that the <
bserver sees. The real person- 1
ilities, that do business in the i
ecret places of the soul with the
ilmighty, are not open to review, t
, - t
Life’s moving panorama inter- l
sts us; but only Thou, O Lord, r
nowest the reality that is beneath c
II outward seeing. Amen. g
bo under water where you cannot
see them.
But the idea is you get yourself
a bunch of oyster shells—I don’t
know how many to the acre. Then
you go to Capt. John Nelson, the
North Carolina Fisheries commis
sioner, and lease yourself a lot of
watery acres. Last figure I was
quoted was T' cents an acre. Then
you plant the shells. A couple of
years later you go back and start
harvesting your crop. From that
time on you just keep your stock
planted and keep harvesting. Sim
ple little thing, isn’t it?
Well, it isn’t really as simple as
all that. There’re too many
things to contend with. Among
these is too much rain. If your
oyster garden gets too much fresh
water your ycung oysters either
die or else they grow up to be as
tasteless as a blotter.
The place where so-called garden
oysters are cultivated on the larg
est scale in North Carolina is New
river, near Jacksonville. There’s
one man there who has 175 acres
set to oysters. During the war,
because of the labor shortage, he
had to let his crop run down, but
he’s building it back up again.
There are many such gardens
cultivated on a smaller ;.cale. Best
oysters I ever tasted—the best cul
tivated oysters—came from off the
tip of Cedar island. Cedar island
is beyond Atlantic which in turn
is beyond Beaufort. These oysters
were from a man’s private garden.
He didn’t cultivate them on a com
mercial scale.
Tf wnil +hinlr iron +
Dysters only during months in
which an “r” appears, you are
wrong. It just so happens that
Vlay, June, July, and August are
he spawning months of the oyster
and oyster men just do not like to
iisturb them during this period,
from this fact has grown the
egend that oysters are ungood,
wen poisonous, during this period,
rhis is untrue. I have eaten oys
ers every month in the year and
: haven’t died yet.
Oysters you get around here in
he oyster roast places come main
y from Rose bay and Stump
;ound. They are natural, or wild,
lysters, meaning they aren’t cul
ivated, but, like Topsy, just grow
!d up. To me, these are the best
lysters because they have what
he boys along the banks call a
letter relish. They have more of
he tang of the sea, are saltier.
A great many of these better
elish oysters come from Shallotte
5oint, below Southport. Which re
ninds me that the most enjoyable
yster roast I ever went on was
here. Among those present, in
cidentally, were Commodore
lharlie Gause, Southport, and Mrs.
Inox Proctor, Whiteville. We
/ere taking a trip through the
nland Waterway from Southport
o Little River, S. C., with Captain
tobinson, then of Oak Island Coast
ruard station. We stopped off at
hallotte Point and somebody had
rranged the roast for us. I think
be somebody was Inspector Davis
f the North Carolina Fisheries
ommission who later, that night,
ed us all the shad we could eat
t the Miller hotel in Southport.
Strangely enough, people don’t
uy oysters for flavor. They buy
lem for looks. The North Caro
na oyster—the one with the most
elish—is usually dark gray in
olor. Those that come from Vir- :
iriia, the Rappabannocks, Chinco-|j
teagues, etc., are about an ecru in
color. Most of the Virginia oysters
you eat have been washed. That
is, after they've been opened
they’re put through a machine in
which all the grit and so on is
washed off. In the process much
of the flavor also is washed out.
That’s about all there is about
oysters. Except that there’re
plenty of oysters in North Carolina.
Reason they’re much higher than
they used to be is labor. Oyster
men have a tough time getting
anybody to go out and grapple for
them.
Try it yourself some time. You’ll
find why they’ve jumped in price
from about 75 cents per bushel be
fore the war to from $2 to $3 now.
LAKKIINU UN
It will be impossible for Ameri
ca’s most ambitious maritime pro
gram to absorb anything like a
majority of the 99 shipyards built
by the government during its war
time expansion program.
A report of Congress asserts that
the successful distribution of the
shipyard facilities will constitute
a very real economic program.
With a total investment in excess
I of a billion dollars and more than
a million employes being engaged
at the peak periods—this recon
version program will have head
aches aplenty. Among the 24 ship
yards on the Atlantic coast, there
are two to remain, the Charleston
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock com
pany and also the North Carolina
Shipbuilding company at Wilming
ton. These two are among the few
to continue operations, although
under a somewhat abbreviated
peacetime program.
The famous Newport News ship
yard also is to be retained. Like
wise, let it be hoped that there
will remain at its entrance the
monument to the founder, Collis
P. Huntington who said at its open
ing: ‘‘We will build good ships
here; at a profit if we can, at a
loss if we must—but always good
ships.”—Raleigh Times.
STAR Dust
Rhetorical Splendor
A patriotic M. P., during a heat
ed discussion in the British House
of Commons, became very excited
and shouted: “The British lion,
whether it is roaming the deserts
of India or climbing the forests of
Canada, will not draw in its horns
or retire into its shell.”—Clipped.
Simple Arithmetic
A mother of thirteen children
was asked, “How in the world do
you have time to care for
thirteen?”
“Well,” she replied, “when I had '
only one child it took all my time;
what more can thirteen do?”— .
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Going Up!
“Well, dear,” he alibied, "what |
it I have loved another? Don’t |
you know it has only prepared me t
for the greater, higher love I have j
for you?” t
“Seems fair enough,” she reluct- \
mtly agreed, “but how do I know \
hat the love you now have for me i
sn’t preparing you for a greater, i
ligher love for some other girl?” c
The Doctor Says-_
CLEAN UTENSILS
LESSEN ILLNESS
By WILLIAM A. O’Brien, x n
Eating utensils which are not '
perly sterilized after use may Ier
as spreaders of communicable d'5
eases. *'
Home practices in dish-wacv
should be the same j
practices recommended to- 'D ?r/
eating places. After utensils ha?
been used, they should be sC-an a
of grease and food and soak,? d
water to avoid drying 0f J "a
particles. Glasses should be wash!
ed first Silverware next, then d
es, and finally the pots and pa
Ideal method for washing dlh?
is to use soap and water which i
so hot that toweling is unnecessm
Commercial establishment* use
dishw’asmng machine* which co m
bine hot water, a forceful stream
and mixture of soap or detergent
which combines with the food Pan
cles on the utensils. Dishes r]atc
ware and silverware which corns
through such a process are {re!
°£,d‘Seaf ger™ and they should
not be touched with soiled hands
or towels afterward.
“lasac!> wiuuia always be racked
on a clean surface with the oDen
side down. This prevents droplets
of infected mucus from depositin’
in the glasses from coughing*
sneezing or talking in the irnme
diate vicinity, and there is another
advantage in that the average per.
son picks up a glass near the top
Silverware in public eating
places should not be stored j„
open compartments but should be
wrapped in individual napkins
Selection of silverware from an
open box results in contamina'.
tion from soiled hands which may
carry disease germs.
Drinking glasses in some pub
lie eating places have been found
to contain hundreds of thousands
of germs per glass, many of them
capable of producing disease,
Soda clerks do not clean glasses
properly if inefficient dip iolu
tions are employed, as the study
of some of these dip solutions ac
tually revealed as many germs as
were present In sewage. The
common drinking cup has beer,
outlawed, but in many places it
is replaced by carelessly washed
and handled glassware.
Opportunity for employes to
change from street to work clothes
and places for them to wash their
hands should be provided in all
public eating places. Most of the in
testinal diseases spread by food
and improperly washed eating uten
sils result from carelessness in per
sonal hygiene.
The public should support Pub
lic Health Departments In their
efforts to provide safe eating
places by getting behind a rea
sonable ordinance and working
for its enforcement.
The Literary
Guidepost
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By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
The Ciano Diaries, by Count Gale
azzo Ciano (Doubleday; $4).
The interest which attaches to
someone else’s mail remaining
what it always has been, ‘‘The
Ciano Diaries,’ recording the pur
ported reactions of Mussolini s
young foreign affairs mouthpiece
during the years 1939-43, undoubt
edly will stand as one of the most
interesting books of the year.
Aside from that, the value of the
diaries in fixing responsibility for
the history of the period is little
more than corroborative.
Sumner Welles vouches for
Ciano's authorship. Authenticity of
content is another matter when it
is considered that Mussolini knew
of the existence of the diary am
secret police. It must have been
that Ciano was well aware of the
proclivities of his dear Duce s
much like writing on the walls of
the Coliseum in broad day I-we
so many diaries which display
great prescience concerning eve ns
which occur long after the date o
entry but long prior to publication,
one comes to wonder if a b-‘
hindsight may not have helped tit
author before he smuggled ■ -
notebooks to his wife, who brought
them cut of Italy.
Either that, or young Ciano
one of the most farsighted men o*
his time, who saw the f1-fcKe
the Axis more accurately than *«’
one else.
With regard to the hinges upon
which the events of his days .u.
:d, there is no reason to do.i ■
Hiano’s familiarity, and his versu
s extremely interesting if seW°:‘
mportantly revealing. Principal',
le serves to emphasize how ^
he world at large was >n'°
id regarding the inner w>! *•••■*
>f the Axis. The psychology "
Vlussolini and Hitler, the me ■ °_
)f the Nazis, the relations betwen
Italy and Germany, their
lims, all appear much the w- -
is they did during the war. ^
Ciano completely adopts what a
ied writers were saying of the a*-,
jarity and dislike between l-a^
md Germany, the sure awarect
if the Italians, even II Duce, *
hey had gotten tied up in a0^,'
hing that was neither pronto3
lor pleasant. It is the story ‘
ias been accepted as the basis _
he peace, the story which probu *.
dll be acepted by history, j1^
diethcr Ciano was consciously
og to absolve himself or n°i •
itimacies of his account ar
olorful addition.