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THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1946
TOP O’ THE MORNING
Few misunderstandings exist that can
not be helped by simply talking things
0Y0j.' Few are the hurts that cannot be
helped in the same way. Especially is
this true when both parties are followers
of Christ.
From “Open Windows”
Distinguished Visitors
Wilmington is pleased to welcome
two distinguished visitors this after
noon when John Stelle, national com
mander of the American Legion, and
Governor Gregg Cherry of North Caro
lina come to help Legion Post No. 101
observe the anniversary of C company, !
115th machine gun battalion, of which j
Thomas J. Gause was captain and a;
number of Wilmingtonians were mem-;
bers in World War I. > I
The local Legion post has arranged
a program of entertainment for its
guests, a chief feature so far as C
company men are concerned doubtless;
will be a reception for the national
commander at the home of Mrs. Gause,
widow of the gallant captain who serv
ed the Board of Education for years
prior to his death. Another feature of
public interest will be Mr. S t e 11 e’s
broadcast from the Star’s news room
at 5:45 Thursday afternoon.
May the stay of Mr. Stelle and Gov
ernor Cherry linger as long and pleas
antly in their memories as it will in
. the memories of Wilmingtonians.
Protection To Greenfield
The drowning of thirteen-year-old
Jackie Brinson in Greenfield lake, aside
from the heartache it caused Wilming
tonians and the anguish in the family
household, indicates the city’s lack of
adequate protection for persons who
use the lake either for bathing or
boating. As the season for both is at
hand this protection should be pro
vided without delay, lest other trage
dies occur.
For such accidents as cost Jackie
his life there should be a speed boat.
It should ’be perpetually ready to get
under way. There should be a com
petent person always on hand to op
erate it and capable of giving first
aid.
Also, the city should have an ambu
lance equipped with a pulmotor. It
might be kept at police or fire head
quarters for emergency runs. This has
been before the council and the public
before, but nothing has been done to
provide it.
Furthermore there should be a lake
patrol and life guards throughout the
summer which in this case starts now
and lasts into October.
The city would have to pay for both
equipment and employes, but whatever
the cost it would be infinitely less than
the loss of a single human life need
lessly.
Capable men for all the services
here proposed may have been lacking
in the war years, but they are not now.
Among the veterans home from over
seas there are certainly many whose
war training made them experts for
such service. One such ex-service mar
^ould drive an ambulance and rendei
skilled help until a physician arrived to
complete the preliminary treatment of
an accident victim.
These veterans, many of whom are
I seeking jobs, are used to meeting
i emergencies. They can handle speed
boats, administer artificial respiration,
operate a pulmotor, perform any service
in which a life is at stake.
Let the council see that there are
no more tragedies at Greenfield lake
by buying necessary equipment and
employing trained veterans for its op
eration.
Coal Strike Call
With the steel strike and the Gen
eral Motors strikes settled and pro
duction in a fair way to proceed, John
L. Lewis orders some 400,000 bitumi
nous coal miners to quit work at mid
night on Sunday and so tie up the na
tion’s reviving industry.
Reconversion has already suffered
seriously from strikes. If no settlement
is effected in the few days remaining
before the coal strike it will be impos
sible for heavy industry to get into pro
duction.
So what is to be done? Lewis has
walked roughshod over the govern
ment in the past, yes, even when the
lives of American fighting forces were
subjected to graver perils than they
had faced before because of him. Is
he to be allowed to do so again?
His present action in calling this
strike is even less defensible than any
in the coal industry he has previously
ordered, in that the operators offered
to meet the pay increase of eighteen
and one-half cents an hour given steel
workers and which is generally accept
ed as the basis for negotiation be
tween industry and union labor. But
Lewis demands that the coal operators
must also contribute a royalty toward
a health and welfare fund—another
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the Lewis union over which Lewis
would have complete jurisdiction.
One thing is certain. There must
be no interruption of coal production,
if industry is ever to get back into
normal production. Congress having
failed to adopt legislation which would
have blocked Lewis, the only course
open is federal seizure of the mines.
This has had to be resorted to in the
past. There should be no hesitancy now
in doing it again. It is unsatisfactory
in the extreme, but at least it keeps
coal coming from the pits.
But even when coal is produced
with the American flag at the tipples
and finally operators and miners reach
an agreement, that does not dispose of
the No. 1 menace to the American way
of life, John L. Lewis. That is a job
for Congress which has sidestepped it
too long.
There can be no national security,
no industrial safety, until Congress
places safeguards around industry and
controls over union labor.
i rathe Kules
Convinced that a fair percentage of
the confusion often noticeable in traf
fic is due to ignorance of the city’s
ordinances and traffic laws of the state,
The Star has introduced a short feature
in its news columns which will deal
with many of the perplexing questions
uninformed drivers continually ask
themselves and too often miss the
answers.
The first of the series in yesterday’s
edition of The Star told about parking
zones, how they may be used, by whom,
and when. Probably some readers were
surprised to learn that they are not
exclusively for trucks, that motorists
may drive into them to take on or un
load passengers. If more car drivers
used them this way there would be
fewer traffic blocks caused by autos
being stopped well out in the street
when vehicles approaching from the
other direction prevent cars behind
the halted one moving around it.
It wilf pay all operators of vehicles
to read this little feature regularly and
study its explanations. »
% __ _
Money in circulation increased 92 millions
mg the last week in December. Many
tv Us,^®ve r?ason to believe it must have been
traveling mighty fast.
A man was pinched for cussing in London
Picture show. We think we’ve seen that same
movie over here.
T11® fA,r,my released 832,000 officers and en
' lit f :olks durmg December. That’s an awful
lot ot homes not to be able to find.
Operation Crossroads!
By ANNE O’HARE McCORMIGK
“Operation Crossroads’’ is the imaginative
name given by the reputedly unimaginative
military people to the atom bomb experiments
to be conducted by the Navy in the Pacific.
The sudden postponement of this test is attri
buted in some quarters to a desire not to
focus interest on the great explosion at Bikini
when so many explosive issues are lying around
the world. Others suggest that it is a concilia
tory gesture to match the Stalin statement
blessing the United Nations Organization.
“When Stalin came out for peace on the eve
of the UNO meeting,” remarked a European
delegate, “the least Truman could do was to
respond in kind and play down the weapon
which affected the Russians as a red flag af
fects other people.”
If this explanation were true — and the
White House stoutly denies it — it would be a
sufficient reason for delaying the tests. The
two moves probably have no connection, yet
they combine into a pacifying prelude for the
first meeting of UNO in the country chosen
as its permanent home.
The smallest motions of great powers sway
the balance and change the weather of the
world. Just the timing of Moscow’s declara
tion of support of international' organization
and Washington’s intimation that there is no
urgency about the atom bomb trials serve to
put the two great protagonists in the drama
of war and peace in a different position vis-a
vis one another and in the eyes of the United
Nations than they were a week ago. Slightly,
but palpably, it shifts the emphasis from the
simmering caldron in the Middle East and
the atoll stripped for death in the Pacific to
the job of construction UNO is being organiz
ed to do.
The fireworks In London distracted atten
tion from this job. The international “crisis”
began there. It began in a debate that brought
into the open international stresses and strains
that threatened to break the frail machinery
of cooperation in its first test. The underlying
reason for the tepid welcome of New York
compared to the enthusiam of San Francisco
last April is not the lower emotional tempera
ture of this topheavy and overcrowded town.
At this Eastern gateway, battered and burn
ished by the millions who crashed through to
get away from wars and tyrannies, the dream
of collective security stirs as much ardor as
it does at the Golden Gate. The outlook is
darker that at San Francisco. But the inter
national atmosphere is not the same as it
was last year. Questions and doubts of the
will and ability of the great powers to work
together have shadowed the preparations for
today’s meeting. They have enveloped the
search for a headquarters with an air of un
reality. If UNO's reception is halfhearted, it
is because events have sobered the highheart
ed mood of the end of the war.
It is because great expectations have given
place to great suspense. The decisive “Opera
tion Crossroads” will not take place at Bikini.
It will take place here, in the Bronx, in a
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York's genius for improvisation into a stately
council chamber. The experiment in the Paci
fic is designed to show whether navies will
stand up under atom bombs. It will be an
exercise in destruction, a dress rehearsal for
the war of the future.
Yet not this experiment but what happens
in the Bronx, or wherever the UNO meets
during the next few years, will decide wheth
er people can sleep in their beds — not when
the atom war begins but now. For nobody
rests in peace in the world as it is. Anxiety
gnaws at the minds of the best-fed and the
safest as hunger gnaws on the bodies of the
starving.
Today New York becomes the scene of the
operation that will decide whether human in
telligence and the human spirit are stronger
than atomic energy. In the environment and
atmosphere of this metropolis, the most in
ternational of all the cities of the earth, fitted
by its restless blend of breeds and races to
represent the City of Man. the great question
of our time and all time will be answered: Can
nations form an international above all other
internationals—an international for peace? Un
til it is answered there will be no stable
Governments in wartorn countries, no zeal
for reconstruction, no fulltime production in
fields or factories, no hope to make people
care enough to resist death and slavery, and
fight for life and freedom.
It will not be answered in this session of
the Security Council or in many sessions. But
for the first time it is laid on our doorstep,
and for the next few weeks this community
will be more than a witness, it will be a par
ticipant, ’in the wrestling with the devils and
the angels in which great compacts and great
decisions are made. It is an awful responsibili
ty for the United States, cast for the leading
part in the drama.
In all Catholic churches of the city yes
terday an old prayer from the liturgy was
said for the success of UNO. and though no
prayer prefaces its sessions, it is an enter
prise that calls for the humility that express
es itself in words of prayer:
“Suffer us not tc disturb the order of jus
tice, Thou who lovest equity above all things;
let not ignorance draw us into devious paths,
nor partiality sway our minds, neither let re
spect of riches or persons pervert our judg
ment; may we never forsake the truth, and
in all things hold fast to justice tempered by
pity.’’ — New York Times.
QUOTATIONS
Army control of the manufacture of actual
Catom) bombs may be appropriate but there
is grave danger that Army control of scientif
ic research will lead to national scientific
suicide. — Prof. Henry De Wolf Smyth of
Princeton XJ.
• * *
There is a great difference between a world
government that represents the peoples of the
world and one that represents the nations of
the world. To obtain the former will require a
long slow process of education. Supreme
Court Justice William O. Douglas.
* * *
The concentration of power in any segment
of our society — be it labor or management
or government — is a pervision of democ
racy and a denial of the Christian faith.
Former Gov. John W. Bicker of Ohio, 1944
nominee for vice president.
* * *
It will not be many days before commer
cial as well as military aircraft will never
be "rounded, or landing fields closed to
approaching aircraft, because of weather
conditions. Flight schedules will be main
tained safely.—Col. Ben S Kelsey ATS aH
weather flying division^ chief, Wright Field, O.
Russia’s whole foreign policy, as I see it,
is founded on a desire for security.—Presi
dent Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia.
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Taking Notes Is The Toughest Part
Of Getting Write-Ups For The Paper
By JOHN SIKES
The tough part of trying to write
up somebody or something, I find,
comes in the taking of notes. I’m
somewhat embarrassed when I
have to whip out a pad and pencil
and start jotting down what folks
tell me. First place, I’m more than
ordinarily poor as a jotter downer.
A couple of hours after I jot down
a few items I can’t tell whether
the jots are a laundry list or a
memorandum to get around to the
bank fast.
Second place, I always feel when
I whip out the note-pad that I’ll
make whoever I'm talking to self
conscious and he, or they, won’t
then go ahead and just tell me
naturally what I’m trying to find
out.
But the main reason is the first.
Once my notes get cold I’m lost.
There is an item or two I ex
pect to mention herein today — if,
indeed! I ever get around to it—
that I’d fully intended putting off
until next week or later. Mainly be
cause I mentioned kindred items
yesterday and I’d a little rather
be more varied. But I’m afraid I’ll
forget what the notes are about
entirely.
So, I see here on one soiled and
crumpled page something about
the Queen Victoria medal. Well,
the best I can make out is that
Knute Tobiasen, Southport, who
was in charge of the U. S. Gov
ernment Quarantine Station down
there — at Southport — about as
long as there was any quarantine
station was awarded the medal. He
won it back in 1886.
It seems, the best I can tell from
my, notes, Mr. Tobiasen was a
member of c Norwegian bark, or
barque, cruising or fishing in the
North Sea when his vessel came
upon an English ship in distress.
Mr. Tobiasen and his mates saved
the English crew and a little later
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
KING SOLOMON’S MINES
Once in the Sudan, a mining en
gineer invited me to join an ex.
pedition into Ethiopia, in search of
King Solomon’s mines, to which he
said, they had a sure clue. Evi
dently the quest was not success
ful else the world would have
heard of it.
So I have never been sorry that
I was not diverted from my own
work into treasure-hunting. As the
cablegrams have made tragically
clear, the quest for Ethiopia’s
treasure still goes on — to the
neglect of the more routine but al
so more glorious work of helping
build a neighborly world, and of
establishing righteousness on the
earth.
Gold is not humanity’s greatest
need, but character and justice and
kindness are. Whoever uncovers
these to the world is a more prof
itable servant of his generation
than the one who finds again the
mines of Solomon.
We would be treasure-hunters, O
and c°vet earnestly the best
gifts. Give us, we pray, soul rich
es to share. Amen.
along came good Queen Victoria
with the medal that bore her
name.
These notes also say that Mr.
Tobiasen, who is now about 80,
served in many capacities aboard
many vessels on the Seven Seas.
These capacities included able
bodied seaman, ship’s carpenter, j
deck boy, and yeoman, among oth. j
er things. There's also a note that1
Mr. Tobiasen is from Lillesand, in;
Nor.way. j
Now, over here on another page
of this leaflet which passes as a 1
notebook is another soiled sheet
which purposes, apparently, to tell;
about how the shrimping industry
got started in Southport. It seems
that along about 1914 Chris Daniel
son and Otto Benson improvised
themselves a shrimp drag, as they
are called, from a flounder drag
and tried their luck at shrimping,
in the Atlantic off Southport.
They were on their way to
Fernadino, Fla., where shrimping
was already being done to a fair
ly large degree, but they figured
they might do just about as well
at Southport. With their improvis
ed rig they caught 11 bushels
which amounts, roughly, to 550
pounds. They were paid $3 per
bushel for their catch, or 6 cents
per pound.
There wasn’t any market at
Southport at the time but Willie
McKenney On
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
BY WILLIAM: E. McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
There are a great many play,
ers who consider Howard Schen
ken one of the greatest rubber
bridge players in the country. He
gets every trick out of a hand.
Schenken played today’s hand
at four spades doubled.
West opened the nine of dia
monds, Schenken won with the ace
and cashed the king, discarding a
ueart from dummy. Then he led
the jack of diamonds, West ruffed
with the deuce of spades and dum
my over-ruffed with the three.
The jack of hearts was led, West
won with the king and returned a
heart, East winning with the ace.
The third heart was won by Schen
ken with the ten-spot. The club
finesse was taken, the ace of clubs
cashed and the six of clubs ruffed
with the seven of spades.
Now you can see that West was
helpless. When Schenken led the
eight of hearts, West had four
spades to the king-ten, while
Schenken had the ace.queen-eight
of spades and the jack in dummy.
West could make < nlv one trick.
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St. George and Richard Dosher
took a chance at buying the
strange creatures Messrs. Daniel
son and Benson caught. And it
turned out later that Messrs. St.
George and Dosher lost money for
their adventure into the business
because, according to my notes,
they were able to sell their buys
at approximately $1.50 per bushel.
But they did have the satisfac
tion of knowing that they started
what is today Southport’s chief in
dustry — shrimping. Because oth
ers started trying their hand at
shrimping, rigged themselves out
with regular shrimping gear, and
soon dozens of the watermen
around Southport were shrimping
mainly for a living.
Too, the industry grew so rapidly
that in 19916 a shrimp-canning fac
tory W'as started at Southport and
soon Southport wTas one of the most
important shrimping towns on the
Atlantic coast.
There isn’t a shrimp cannery at
Southport now. Mainly because in
recent years the catches haven’t
been any too heavy down there
and, anyway, there has been too
much of a demand for freshly
caught shrimp for anybody to
bother to can them.
Howeve^ only recently several
Southportians have purchased and
outfitted the larger type shrimp
boats so that the shrimpers can
work farther off shore and stay
out longer each trip, so it may be
that a shrimp cannery will be
needed again.
Now for the last notes in this
pad, I give completely up. All it
says here is, C.F.E. Manuelsen.
113 S. 16th street, phone 4989 and
mention John Erickson.
I’m pretty sure Captain John, al
so from Southport, meant for me
to get some kind of a story from
Mr. Manuelsen, but for the life of
me I don’t know what.
It serves me right. I’ll just quit
taking notes.
STAR Dust
DISSBNTER!
The Rev. C. T. Brady, whose
book: “A Missionary in the Far
West,'’ is filled with kindness and
humanity, has not hesitated to
laugh at himself in the following
story.
Dr. Brady was one day urging his
congregation to make some real
sacrifice for the cause of missions,
suggesting that they even refrain
:rom purchasing any book they
might desire, in order to put that
sum into the box.
“Mr. Brady,” said one clever
ady, “I had intended to buy your
cook -and read it, but I have con
:luded to follow your advice, and
jive the money to the mission.”
“Then,” generously exclaimed
dr. Brady, “allow me to lend you
ny own copy to read.”
She smiled and thanked him,
vhereupon, rather unfortunately,
le continued, “But after all, Mrs.
renkins, there doesn’t seem to be
my sacrifice on your part in this
ransaction, for you enjoy the hap
jy consciousness of giving the
noney and having the book as
veil.”
“No sacrifice?” she replied.
‘Why, I have to read tA*. hook!”
-Wall Street. Journal E
Doctor Says—
SPRING FEVER
CAUSE TRACED
Bv WILLIAM A. 0 BRIEN m (
All winter long you have v '
stoking your body with foods -t
kept you warm and active
conserve your bodv heat you w
heavier clothing, ami whe. ”*
went outside you moved brisk!
the weather was cold.
When the first warm dav,
spring arrived, your appetite f.n .
off. You left youi
home, wearing a lig ■
Still you found it har<
ing. *
You didn't have to eopsul* .
pnysician as to the cause
tired feeling, for ■
the. old familiar symptoms' j
spring fever. 1
With the first warm days 0,
spring, children notice the heat
■and want to take off all their i
ter clothing at once. pare..
should not yield to their deman
but should change their clothing?!
rapidly as common sense dictates
Change of diet in the spring >
also indicated. During the vin-.,
you have been eating heat omri
ing looas, and now the cooler va.
rities have the appetite appec,,
As soon as fresh vegetable* w,
pear on the market, you should
add them to your menu. Sir*}
vegetables do not have a high ra'.
ing in calories they are not heat
producing, hey supply vitamins and
■minerals in largest amounts when
they are served fresh.
Heavy lunches should be re
placed by spring salads to help
avoid that logy feeling.
The heat regulating mechanism
of the body is controlled by t spot
in the brain. In a way, it resem
bles the little gadget on the wall
in your home, as it regulates body
heat by opening and shutting the
exit of heat through the skin.
When the body is completely at
rest,, heat production is lowest.
During physical exertion, heat pro!
duction rises, and this causes the
; blood which flows through the
brain to stimulate the control spo:.
The nerves carry the impulses
to the skin vessels, which dilate,
thus causing more rapid loss of
heat.
If the temperature of the sir
rounding air is too high to allow
heat to be lost this way, more im
pulses come through from the cen
ter of the brain, and the sweat
glands are stimulated to activity.
Then heat is lost by evaporation, i
Spring fever is caused by the
body’s changing over from a win
ter to a spring schedule. It takes
time for your body to make this
adjustment.
Change your diet to lighter
foods, change to lighter clothing
and take it easier. If you do these
things, it won't be long before the
switch-over is complete.
The Literary I
Guidepost
By W. G. RODGERS
MY COUNTRY-IN-LAW, by
Mary Mian (Houghton Mifflin;
S2.50).
Adopted land for many of us,
France is “country-in-law" ic this
American author whom the sculp
tor Aristide Mian married and took
off to Paris and eventually to the
Creuse in central France out be
yond tourist routes.
That was Aristide's home ruled
by mother and grandmother, peo
pled by brothers, nieces, nephews,
visited by uncles, aunts, ct ..sins.
They and the neighbor? are ;
subjects of these 19 sketches, half
of which appeared in the
Yorker.
The dogs that wore haw. the
horse that shot sparks ike s
comotive, the hand the,
down from heaven, the Dev.l w:
made water run uphill for c ot ,
a girl, the hex that found a t
get but not the right one. .
local legends turn into liu
this uncommonly hones; a:,
iected book.
The background is of tw
earth:/; the men are ma1
women work in the field
lar always has an
old wine, cows and sheep
en out to pasture and how
hens get into neighbors
the family goes to the v:
and young and old dance a ne
pleasant evenings.
It’il all be a pleasant e\ e
you, too.
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A \ uitJCi ljiivic, t i » ■
Donald Henderson
House; S2).
Ernest Bisham is 3 i'a'.'* ' S
nouncer who indulges
as a hobby. His quirks
steals jewels only from ;
obnoxiously flaunt then
public and he doesn't pi
thefts. He locks the
for private gloating and
how they’d look on his
There comes a time
when Scotland Yard
close to him and he k:
any pscapade may be
That’s when he decides '
his boodle to Russia.. :
when the story falls apa
because the Scotland Y ■
oehaves like no other
Yard man ever before.
It's a story rich in casual
old in a quiet, detached
s a sharp departure :
varsh brittleness o f mos!
stories. If only the wind.;;
ive off such a hollow so. -