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The Star-News can* not be responsible for currency sant through the mails. __ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1946 ■ TOP O’ THE MORNING “How do you explain It?” asked one who had heard an old saint tell of a wonderful answer to prayer. “I don’t,” she answered simply, “I just took the LoA at His word and He took me at mine.” "Christian Herald” Lejeune Permanent Bas^ From the time construction started at Camp Lejeune it has been understood that the reservation would be a per manent Marine Corps base, but it is only now that confirmation of the first re ports is forthcoming officially. Word that 20.000 marines will be quartered there has just been given out by the camp’s public relations of ficer, Major H. B. Anderson. It is wel come news in Wilmington, which ex tends a hearty welcome to the men and their officers. Despite the camp’s distance from this city it is to be hoped that officer and enlisted personnel alike will spend the major part of their leisure time here. It may be years before the full story of Lejeune’s part in winning the Paci fic war is known, but that it was vital to victory is not to be doubted. On its beaches the men learned how to make amphibious attacks: in the magnificent woodlands of the reservation they de veloped new ways of destroying the enemy in jungle fighting. And it hap pens that many of the men now en route from the Pacific to Lejeune are veterans of the battles in which su perior Japanese forces were conquered and many of their island bastions de stroyed. It w7as the marines from Le jeune who prepared the way for Mac Arthur’s return to the Philippines and Japan’s surrender in Tokyo bay. As grateful civilians, we cannot do too much to make the residence of these veterans and all other marines on the i^eune rosters a happy experience. Sidney Hillman More than anybody else, Sidney Hillman was responsible for the organi zation, activities and influence of the Political Action Committee of the CIO. The question in everybody’s mind, since his death, is what will become of the Political Action Committee without his leadership ? One school of thought is that his demise will divide the CIO and render the PAC, if not impotent politically, at least largely ineffectual in political campaigns. Another school, familiar with the practices and shrewdness of the CIO’s advisory council, holds that from its membership a second leader will be chosen with equal tal ents. Between the two views it may be said that the PAC was so dependent upon Mr. Hillman’s leadership and his intimate connections with the Wash ington administration, that his depar ture will leave the organization in a similar position to that of a drove of sheep without its bellwether. Of this we may be sure: The CIO and the PAC have suffered a loss from -rfhich it will be a long time in recov ering_if it ever does. Faulty Fire Escapes Fire Chief Ludie Croom’s report to Acting City Manager Benson shows that more than the waterfront of Wil mington needs attention, so far as fire hazards and the safety of persons endangered by fire are concerned. The chief made reference to buildings where fire escapes are either insecure or in accessible from the inside because of bars in windows which should give ac cess to them, and others where the ladder from the second story to the ground is fastened up and can not be let down readily. It is not unreasonable to view them as a double hazard, in as much as persons seeking escape upon them in emergency and cornered by approach ing flames, would have their escape cut off by the very means they had every reason to believe would afford them safety. Aside from the possible sacrifice of life, which no building owner would will ingly cause, it would be good business to replace or reconstruct defective fire escapes if only to avoid costly damage suits brought by anyone injured in using them or burned because they could not use them. Chief Croom with full support of the Council, is to be ex pected to see that all owners of build ings having fire escapes comply with the city’s laws and make whatever re pairs or replacements are needed as quickly as materials are available. It is useless to plead that Wilming ton’s fire record is so good that no dis astrous blaze is to be feared. True though it be that the city has had no disastrous downtown fire in years, Wilmington is no more immune from the possibility of conflagration than any other city. No means of protection for the people in a fire emergency should be neglected a day longer than necessary. Tobacco Quota Election Flue-cured tobacco growers are to hold an election today in which they will decide for themselves whether the quota program shall be continued or abandoned. In the opinion of R. Flake Shaw, executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, the outcome of the election will not only affect the welfare of the growers next year, but largely determine their econo mic position throughout the postwar period. In a bulletin sent to all growers, Mr. Shaw, in his official capacity, says in part: The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, from the beginning, has sponsored and fought for acreage con trol on tobacco, and has insisted on strict regulations to insure compliance. The law itself provides that quotas, in order to be effective, must be approved in a secret referendum by at least sixty six and two-thirds per cent of all to bacco producers. The tobacco control program is fair to all farmers; small farmers, tenants, share-croppers, as well as the landlords. It is even fair to the new farmer who desires to come into the program because under the law as much as five per cent annually may be set aside for new growers. When it comes time to hold a referendum on control, every farmer, whether he be landlord, tenant, or share-cropper, has one vote. In 1943, farmers, overwhelm ingly expressed themselves in favor of a control program for 1944, 1945. i and 1946 by a vote of over 9 to 1. In leeognition of this, Congress directed that quotas be proclaimed for these years. And now Congress has given us an oppo tunity to vote on our pro gram for 1947, 1948, and 1949.” The most important consideration today is that all flue-cured tobacco growers cast their ballots, so that the decision at the polls may represent the tiue majority opinion in the industry. Anything less would be undemocratic. FATEFUL CHOICE FOR CONGRESS I Hr. Truman did a very courageous thing in vetoing the hodge-podge and cowardly OPA bill. This bill as passed by Congress, attempt, ed to be all things to all men. Congress stulti fied the high opinion in which he has been held job w'hich the bill had made impossible, justi fied the high opinion in which he has been held by the country. The fateful question is in the lap of Con gress. It has declined to override the presiden tial veto. It now has iwo choices. It can stand pit and take the desperate gamble which may plunge the country into wild inflation. Or it can extend the OPA as it is until it has time to reconsider the entire matter. The latter course is the sensible and prudent one.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright By King Fatures Syndicate Inc.) NEW YORK. — Wars always are followed by disheartening revelations of corruption and greed and the current disclosures of the Gar son enterprises, sordid as the facts are, are just a beginning. Others will ensue rapidly if the Mead Committee^ investigation of profit eering is pressed conscientiously. There will be scandals in lend-lease and Chinese squeeze, in airplane deals involving relatives and personal and political friends of mighty personalities in the Roosevelt government, in the sale of in fluence and pressure and ir. the sudden eleva tion of low-grade hangers-on to wealth and so cial importance in the night, life of Washington and New Y’ork. I have heard some republicans express puz zlement at the conduct of Senator Mead, of New York, a democrat he. in embarrassing Congressman Andrew J. May, of Kentucky, another democrat, in +ne Garsson deals but I think the explanation is plain. Politicians, naturally would dismiss offhand the possibility that Senator Mead may be ani mated by honest motives and look for ulterior purposes with a political explanation. Without accepting this cynical altitude toward Mr. Mead, T still think he is playing sound poli tics even though he might subject some of his democratic colleagues to much worse distress than mere embarrassment The democrats want to win over Tom Dewev in New York in which case they would head him off in 1948. Mead hopes to be the man to beat Dewev and the publicity and the apparent indifference t0 politics indicated by the con duct of the Garsson case are good political propaganda for him. It will be recalled that Governor Dewey, himself, made his reputation as a prosecutor and tnat Mayor O'Dwver fol lowered similar course. So", the victory in New York which Mead and the democratic party are striving for would be well worth the sacrifice of a few individuals. However, there will be no really thorough public revelation of grafr, both corrupt and legitimate, and of profitable favoritism which cannot be assailed on legal grounds, until the republicans get control of Congress and thus of the committees. If that should happen this year the show v/ould begin right away and Teapot Dome would become a case of petty larceny by comparison. The longer the repub licans are kept at bay. so to speak the less violent the explosion will be. Men are dying off who might be witnesses or defendants, records are being stored away and. possibly, lost or destroyed. Time always favors the guilty in such matters, as all concerned, in cluding the reublicans, well know and a post ponement for two years would serve the peo ple whose principal motive in joining the “war effort” was to get rich even though they wasted labor and materials in going through the mo tions of production. dre so many rases to be investigated that again the thought occurs that there is need of some new body in the government which might be likened to a grand jury, a national grand jury, if you like, to relieve Congress of the exhausting and time-consum ing work of running inquiries into crimes and other misconduct. Under present conditions men whose principal job is to study and enact legislation are forced to act as private de tecfives, carrying on great correspondence with informants and running down tips, dig ging into old and obscure files and examining witnesses. Being human, most of them enjoy this type of work which is more exciting than the tedious brain-work of studying, say the economic facts and theories of Brettoii Woods and the British loan. But it does com pel the neglect of other duties which nobody else can perform whereas the national grand jury probably could handle the investigations capably. The corruption and the white graft which await the searchlight in Washington are not by any means confined to tl^ war period. Probably the first indication of the ethics and mood of the great reform movement hardly noticed at the time, was the selection of Forbes Morgan, the uncle of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, by the whiskey industrj as its arbiter, meaning, in more honest language its lobbyist, at $100,000 a year. This was enl tirely legal and the industry’s pay-eff to the democratic part for the great boon of repal. Historians have found that when Abraham Lincoln was in the White House his wife was so extravagant and so careless of propriety that some of her purchases for the mansion were questionable or downright illegal. When the Hoovers were in residence there vas some small gossip to the effect that they lived expensively at the tax-payers’ expense which was dispelled by later disclosures that Mr Hoover had failed to cash his salarj checks. But nobody has ever known the cost to the taxpayers of the years the- Roosevelts spent in the White House and there is a definite mystery about the spending of the emergency funds placed at Mr. Roosevelt’s disfosal One relative gets a $100 000 a year sinecure another gets a sheet oj paper entitl.ng him to a long, interstate right of way for a pipe line, worth $100,000, again a legal operation And, aftei the President’s death cane the story of Elliott’s “loans from John Hartford washed out by Jesse Jones at no cost to Elliott and with the President’s active coop eration at both ends of the deal. Possibly the American people are so cynical by now that the majority will regard such matters as the Garsso.n deals as smait busi ness. They have had piontj of exampfe from on high. Editorial Comment BAD HABITS The habit of some parents to leave young children alone in their homes, while they seek entertainment elsewhere, is ’ one to ie dis couraged. Parenthood involves serious -espon sibilities and those who fail to discharg; those responsibilities are not deserving of beiominn parents.—Reidsville Review. PROSPERITY AND WORK We are all going to find out one of these days that prosperity does not consist of a wage of a dollar or two an hour. Prosperty will come when everyone gets to work. It s work performed that creates wealth, not th' num ber of dollars received an hour—Picfcns (S C.) Sentinel. PEACHES The peach crop in North Carolina pnmises to total 3,200,000 bushels, 01 45 per centlarger than tha 1945 crop. Weather condition have been favorable, and if it is possible tc move the crop tc markets, the orchard ownes will be able to mark down 1946 as one of tte best years in history.—Stan’.y News and Pr ss.' “FLIGHT OF THE YEAR” TttlS LOOKS LIKE AN ALTITUDE I RECORD! ^OOO COST OF LIVING ^CLOTWIMG Tabor City Shows Its Hustle, Bustle With Very Little Ai<l From Outside BY JOHN SIKES Gordon Lewis, over from Chad bourn night before last with the tribulations of a country news paper editor creasing his ordinar ily placid brow, set in to talking with me up in the composing room with the linotype machines punct uating our musiiigs with the clink ing dropping of mats. Mr. Lewis, who lives in White ville and once edited the News-Re porter there, was having trouble with his linotype machine. There fore, he bundled up all his copy for this week’s Chadbourn paper and brought it down here. The boys in the composing room, after they'd finished setting the type for Thursday’s Star, pitched in and set Mr. Lewis’ type for him. But it wasn’t particular about newspapering Mr. Lewis and I were talking although we did note, conversationally, that Tabor City has started a new paper, The Tribune. The Tabor City folks for some years have been talking of starting a paper. So. the business men there, as bustling and hust ling a lot as ever I’ve seen, just got together and provided the moral backing and the where withal to start the paper. Look for Tabor City, along with Whiteville, to become one of the outstanding towns in North Caro lina in the next few years. I re member when the tobacco market there once did what it considered well to sell 750,000 pounds of to bacco during a season. I don’t have the figures before me at present, but I understand the market there now is shooting toward the 10.000, 000-pound mark. I don’t know whether you know much about to bacco markets, but this is a right sizeable amount to sell in a sea Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS SHE ATE TWO LUNCHEONS At a recent Authors’ Luncheon in Philadelphia Milady and 1 were seated next to a beautiful and radiant young woman, whose story Milady, with her genius for sympathy, soon possessed. For five long years the young woman’s husband, an American Naval officer, had been a prisoner of the Japanese. During a whole year no word whatsoever was heard from him or about him. Later the wife learned of the long and desperate battle with pneu monia, the officer’s determination to live, abetted by the practical care of five Australian fellow pris oners, carrying him through to life and to reunion with his family. During this ordeal the buxom wife’s weight went down to eighty pounds. Now she is siowly return ing to normal. Milady, who is above all things practical, made sure that a second full luncheon was served to her companion, wno consumed it every whit with pleasure. I think Milady’s name should be added to those of the five daunt less Australians who were helpers of a hero. For all the heroic endurers and overcomes, whose lives touch ours, we give Thee thanks, O Lord. Amen son. Especially when you consider that Tabor City — the postoffic once was Tabor and the railroad station was Mount Tabor f;o the business men there got together, led by J. L. Lewis, and got an act of legislature passed to make it Tabor City and thus avoid confu sion—is a town of going on, per haps, 2,500 population. Mr. Lewis has lived in Colum bus county a good many years while I’ve had some fairly close contacts there. We agreed, up there in our composing room chat, that Tabor City has about as many busi McKenney On BRIDGE BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority B. Jay Becker, who manages the Cavendish club in New York, has long been rated as one of the coun try’s outstanding players. Becker believes that when a player pulls the wrong card or makes any other careless mistake, it is a definite weakness in his game. Certainly Becker will never be accused of making a careless er_ ror. If he makes a psychic bid, it becomes the topic of conversa tion for the week around the Hew! York bridge clubs. An amusing incident came up on today’s hand. Becker (South) won the opening lead, cashed four rounds of hearts, three rounds of clubs and three rounds of spades. This gave him a perfect count on the West hand. West had shown out of clubs and hearts and East had shown out of spades. Tha’ meant that both East and West had three diamonds left, an'} thp ques tion was how to take the finesse. Becker pulled a coin out of his pocket and was about to toss it to decide whether East or West should be finessed for the queen of diamonds, when Mrs. Helen Sobel, his partner, said, ’’Hold it! I would rather trust your judg ment than the toss of a coin.” The coin was replaced—and he cor rectly guessed the location of the queen. * * * I do not know whether or not Becker employed the theory of the queen over the jack. When it is impossible to decide the location of the queen by the bidding or play, many players today prefer to play the queen over the jack on the principle that most of the others will play it the same way, so they will come closer to getting aver age. r * AK10 ¥ K J9 * A J 108 * Q 10 9 ♦ J9®5 r~ jj 1 *74 „ w r ¥1085 V 64 2 j “ * 4 Q 5 2 ♦I®3 ,* * J « 5 4 + 73 Daaltr 2 Becker * Q 8 2 ¥ A Q 7 3 4 K 9 4 * AK8 Tournament—Neither vul. South West North East 1N. T. Pass 3 4 Pass 4? Pass 3* Pass 4 + Pass 7 N. T. Pass , Opening—+5 1* ness leaders as you’ll find In any town of its size in the country, and probably even more. At the risk of slighting somebody, to whom I make apologies in ad vance, I’d like to name you a few Mr. Lewis and I mentioned. Be sides Mr. J. L. Lewis, who worked long and hard for Tabor Citys pres, ent name, there are Will Cox, Roy Harrelson, Ruther Bruton, Kranz Harrelson, Roscoe Coleman, Frank McGougan, Alton Garrell, Marvin Soles, Bob Garrell, Ben Nesmith, Buck Peay, Percy Brown, Paul Rogers, and others who’ve pushed hard, individually and collectively, to give Tabor City bustle. As I say, I’m sure there’re others whose names escape me at the moment. And there have been some who’ve passed' along who aided in building the town. Among these were Will and Waterbury Roberts, Charlie Soles and Roland Baldwin. These men have builded well, which reminds me that it is men who build towns and cities. What is more remarkable about Tabor City’s upbuilding, is the fact that the State has probably paid less attention to Tabor City and the surrounding community than any other section in North Carolina. As I recall, and I was over there I just a couple of months ago, there is only one paved road leading into Tabor City. That tobacco mar ket has been built up without the aid of paved highways feeding into the town. Most of the farmers who take their tobacco to the Tabor City market must haul it over roads that are almost on the un improved side. Certainly, these roads have been given little at tention from the State. Yet, in addition to its growing tobacco market Tabor City has a bean market, a strawberry mar ket, and there are great quantities of sweet and Irish potatoes, pep pers, poultry and other commod ities sold through Tabor City deal ers. And practically all of these commodities are grown within a few miles of Tabor City. Somehow, I have always had the notion when men got together ana did things for themselves the State always looked with favor upon such efforts and helped out. . Tab°r City’s present, and grow ing eminence, is heartening proof that a community doesn’t have to depend upon outside aid to pull it self up by its bootstraps. Yes, Mr. Lewis, Tabor City’s another of the Southeastern North Carolina towns that make the sec tion one of th State’s outstanding STAR Dust An Out, At Last Back in the days when dueling was much practiced in the South, it was the custom of gentlemen of quality living along the Savan nah River to evade legal action in their affrays by the following stratagem: Duelists residing in South Carolina went across the river and fought in Georgia, while Georgia fighters crossed over and did their shooting ir, South Caro lina. One day a certain Georgia law yer so far forgot himself in the midst of a court battle to call his adversary an unprintable name. The other immediately challenged him to a duel. At length the two men, once de Doctor Says — POISON IVY QUICK IN PIERCING SKIP BY WILLIAM A. O’BRIEN, M , Skin inflammation from’noi, ivy, poison oak, swamp and the Oriental lac trees is^!b cult to prevent, as the poiso„5' principal, urushiol, quickly p"4 trates the skin, leaving * trace on the surface. 3 * Ivy dermatis usually deveW from 16 to 48 hours after exposi It may not appear, however for1*' long as two weeks thereafter ‘ “ Ivy poison can be cap-led s clothing, animal fur, smoke dr! leaves, and twigs, as well as J the offending plants, cloth- I which has come into contact w poison ivy should be thoroueh;, washed or dry-cleaned before Ing worn again. Petting animals who have be« in a poison-ivy patch can ca a skin eruption in susceptibl. persons. Burning weeds prodr ivy dermatitis from small oil tides or pieces of unburned p]6ni' and these can be carried Somi distance by the wind. Ivy dermatitis is not consider contagious, but poison from Mis ers may be deposited on V! clothes and acquired in this war Ivy dermatitis, which develop, 't various parts of the body, usual, is spread by clothing and '■and contact. It breaks out at various times because of differences a sensitivity. The most effective methods of preventing poison-ivy skin trouble are staying away from the piant. and wearing protective clothinr Ideally, the application of i ra.,,J oxidizing agent -such as potassium permanganate or ferric chloride should be helpful, but they can cause skin irritation. Mushroom tyrosinase seems to counteract the effect of poison in on the skin when it is app;jaj experimentally, but what it would do after the reaction was started is not known. It is worthwhile to try to ^ sensitize patients who‘ are ex tremely sensitive to poison ivy An extract of the oil is given thj patient about three months beforo the ivy season, and the idmhu tration is repeated once . week in successively larger doses, to bring the patient’s resistance to its highest peak at ivy time. The medcine is then given once a month during the season ini for some time afterwards. Thi course of treatment covers a pe riod of six months. Ivy dermatitis is treated bv ap plying soothing wet dressing; (containing salt, boric acid, lesi and opium etc.), to the skin. An old treatment recently re vived consists of passing the si fected hands several times throng! very hot water (up to 130 degree F.), moving them rapidly to avail serious burns. Experienced pr sicians recommend this method! one which will bring relief j three or four hours after the fl treatment. It can be repeated. QUESTION: I am 40 years age. Recently I had some cv; removed from my cervix. A bio sy was sent to the laboratory f; examination, and my pby sicia said it proved to be non-car.cerouij He has asked me to retorn evert six months for examination. Doe(j this mean that I have cancer? ANSWER: Your physician j following the good practice e examining the pelvic organs of i middle-aged person every so months, in order to detect cancel in its beginning stages. If he find! one, its early discovery will offe: you the best chance of cure Every woman your age wou!< Profit by such examinations, letterTbox JUST A DRIZZLE To the Editor: This is addressed to the report er who covered the wreck on th Carolina Beach road July 5. Th< wreck occurred around 3 o’clock at night. When the wreck occurrer it was drizzling rain but was no a blinding rain storm, as stated i* the Saturday edition of the Star. I would appreciate very' much i you would correct this error, as am vitally concerned since I wai driving the car which was hit iron the rear and knocked into the pad of the oncoming car headed to ward town, resulting in the deatl of two persons. I repeat that it was not a blind ing rain storm and declare tM visibility was good. E. K. TAYLO? Wilmington N. C. July 11, 1946. voted friends hut now deadly emies, found themselves be.r.i i-1 ried across the river with *8c0’ and friends to engage in mot-* combat. Each of them was do?® cast and gloomy, for at he®-' they were devoted. But the in*-^ had been deadly, and there **c™ ed no escape with honor from encounter. At last one of then--'* the insulted — could stand it 3 longer- , v.lf, “Jim,” he said, impt^*1* ‘‘before we get over on the ot..e side I want you to answer me c'_ question. How did you ever co ■ ’ to apply that terrible epithet me?” “Charley,” said Jim, solerr."^ "I did it in my profession*' c pacity.” . The face of the man who been insulted lighted up w;v\, smile of great relief, and he out his hand. , “1 knew it! I knew it!” he c':- ' "Shake on it!- Who ever hear0 f holding a lawyer responsible -l what he said in his profess10-■ capacity? It would be madness. s-> madness!”—Wall St. Journal.