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City auditorium largs enough to meet needs for years to come. Development of Southeastern North Carolina agricultural and industrial re sources through better markets and food processing, pulp wood production and factories. Emphasis on the region’s recreation advantages and improvement of resort accommodations. Improvement of Southeastern North Carolina’s farm-to-market and primary roads, with a paved highway from Top sail Inlet to Bald Head Island. Continued effort through the City’s In dustrial Agency to attract more in dustries. Proper utilisation of Bluetbenthal nir port for expanding air service. Development of Southeastern North Carolina's health facilities, especially In counties lacking hospitals, and includ ing a Negro Health center Encouragement of the growth of com mercial fishing. Consolidation of City and County governments. GOOD MORNING Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the .Worjd.—Carlyle. Tax Maelstrom High finance in government is fly ing too high for most people to see what’s ahead. The difficulty is that most people can’t understand how it will be possible to cut income taxes, desir able as this would be, and at the same time carry out the administration’s pro gram of loans and credits to needy na tions as a means of stemming the ris ing tide of communism. Most people have the impression that the administration’s program of aid will far exceed the proposed reduction in income taxes. If this belief is cor rect, and income taxes are cut as pro posed, the inevitable result would be an increase in the national debt, which is already staggering. The Senate votes to proceed with a tax reduction bill, to become effec tive next July 1. The House bad pre viously voted tax reductions to be ret roactive to last January 1. Meanwhile proposals are heard to reduce Presi dent Truman’s budget estimates by four to six billion dollars. And the administration, starting with the loans to Greece and Turkey, indicates that Other and greater loans will be asked. As matters now stand, with an economy wave rising on the one hand and a wave of lavish foreign assistance on the other, most people are caught in a maelstrom of confusion and can not be blamed if they fail to see how they can escape submersion. For, if taxes are slashed and ex penditures increased, eventually they will have to pay through the nose, whatever temporary relief they are given. Arming Neighbors Risky No man is to be condemned out of hand for holding high ideals. But, the world being what it is, and mankind prone to selfishness, high ideals too often clash with realities and for the most part the realities prevail. President Truman envisions an ideal state .t affairs when he pictures the American republics and Canada in com plete and lasting accord, armed to de fend themselves and each other in any emergency. So he would standardize guns and munitions among all Western Hemisphere countries and go the limit in supplying their wants. It would be an ideal arrangement If it could be carried out, so far as inter-American harmony if concerned. But it cannot be accepted without first considering the stark reality of inter American discord. What might happen if another world bandit of the Hitler type started an other war of conquest with the United States scheduled chief victim and, say, Argentina his Western Hemisphere ally? Guns and ammunition provided by the United States could so easily be trained on American targets, just as American petroleum and scrap iron im plemented the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines and in the southwest Pacific. President Truman considers the United Nations could prevent misuse: of the proposed war equipment but human nature being what it is there is always a risk in placing a gun in most men’s hands. There are constant disputes among Latin American gov ernments. Armed to the teeth as they would be under the President’s plan, it is quite likely that old or new causes for a scrap would eventuate. And how :ould the proposal be made to conform with the growing sentiment for general disarmament, provided Russia swings into line on universal control of atomic energy? . An Anomalous Situation .! A self-rising question in the minds of most graduates when diplomas are being handed out is: “Where do we go from here?” The young people whose further ed ucation has been arranged for, upon graduation from high school, accept the program laid out by careful parents usually without question. But for many boys and girls whose prospects are not so rosy, the question presents a serious problem. They must find jobs, as best they can, preferably where their aptitude or skill will offer the best chance of pre ferment and advancement. But this is not always possible. Time for looking around is offset frequently by neces sity to find gainful employment where ever it is available, if only on a tem-1 porary basis. Where, then, will the boys and girls whose future is a blank page go when they leave the high school tomorrow? That will depend on how well they have learned to apply their education, as far as it has gone, to the practical problems of life. It is a trite saying but true that peo ple get out of life only as much as they put into it. By the same token high school graduates will get out of their studies only as much as they have put into them. If they have learned that applica tion to a task, even the task of study ing a lesson, is the wray to master the 1 task, they will carry that asset with them into the business world, and have made the first step toward business success. If they have learned the value of concentration, they will find this rare attribute of inestimable worth when they get a job. If, too, they have taken to heart the instruction they have received in good citizenship and fair play and put into practice what has thus far been hardly more than a theory of conduct, they will have laid the foundation for a high ly esteemed position among their as sociates. racing the future is indeed a serious affair for the young people just emerg ing -from class rooms, not to return. Much of its seriousness will be over come if they have the hardihood to carry on for themselves, as individuals, in the pattern of their schooling. Unnecessary Embarrassment The British have one attribute ac credited to the elephant. They never forget. This is illustrated by the snub > of the Duchess of Windsor on the oc casion of Dowager Queen Mary’s eightieth birthday celebration. The Duchess was the only member of the royal family not invited to the birth day luncheon. The Duke did not at tend either, but he could have been there. The British are great sticklers for precedent—greater even than a judge. So when King Edward abdicated the throne rather than give up his lady love, to whom the government objected not. so much because she was Ameri can-born as because she had to divorce a husband to marry Edward, they struck him from the roster, save for an oc casional visit to his mother, and have given no recognition to the woman in the case, Wally Warfield, daughter of a Baltimore boarding house keeper. In the present episode, Edward, former King of Great Britain, now Duke of Windsor, could have saved him self, his wife, his mother, and his brother King George embarrassment if he had chosen another timg to call on hig aged mother. I AsPeglerSeesIt ! By WESTBROOK PEGEER (Copyright, by King Features Syndicate, Inc*) [ Well sir, at first I thought that Zaney j Swope was pulling a gag, because this tel- j egram said: “Bernard M. Baruch an^ Her- j bert Bayard Swope invite you to cocktails to meet the selected reporters attending the sem inar of journalism of the American Press institute.” whatever the be-hell that is, “Co lumbia School of Journalism, from five to seven o’clock, at Sherry’s, 300 Park Ave nue—” and so forth. So I wired him back that in memory of the dear dead days at Andy’s seminary and Perrys and the Key-Club under Brooklyn bridge, where the dean was a tough mick named Sport Hallahan who got himself ap pointed a prohibition agent so he could ride his own loads in from Freeport and con fidentially, Pegler, my friend, that sentence has got clear away from you so you better X it out and start over. All right, so I wired Herbert that in mem ory of those dear dead days in those stately old seminaries that throve when the news paper business was supposed to t>e concen trated on Park row, although it really wasn’t any more localized on Park row than the theatre business is localized on Broadway to day. The Journal and the American were over there on, I even forget the name of that sort of little square, and the Mail was on City Hall place and the Tribune, that was before the bleeding hearts messed it up, and the Sun papers, morning and evening, were on Nassau and, pardon me all over, Mr. P., but weren’t you saying something about Pop Swope and the seminarians? So I wired Herbie about those old seminar ies where some of us used to do a little dramming and hanging around, although not me, very much, because 1 was drawing just $25 a week from the U. P. and you know how much cruising radius that ga/e a kid, even then. But a lot of the great stars of Park row did do some fellowshipping in those dumps Well, now, I mustn’t call Andy’s a dump because it wasn't and Perry’s was the most stately bar you could imagine. Halla han's was a dump all right and it smelled like national goat week in the old garden. They kept the windows boarded up as a stall for the lax people and the prohibition de partment to make look like abandoned premises and usually half a dozen teentsy red-hots spitting like tomcats on a gas plate that burned up the oxygen. I guess I will tell you tomorrow what I was going to say about those seminarians of the American Press Institute and kind of finish up about Perry’s and just some odds and ends. I write triple space and usually try not to run over four pages, very much, because otherwise they slash your beautiful prose and let it bleed to death and here it is already below the fold of page three. Well, Perry’s was a small, round room just off the entrance to the World building and [here was a sink, and the bottles were on the drainboards and on shelves around b it there was actually no bar at all You just ordered from the fellow and paid the guy at the damper and there was nothing to lean your elbows on or lean against. So the cus tomers stood up and after the second or third hoist people would get tired and either go on home or up to Andy's or some other place where you could sit down. But not to Sport's dump because this was before pro hibition and Perry’s was absolutely legitimate and went out about the time that sport start ed in down there under the bridge. Perry’s was the only place I ever heard of that really did specialize in cocktails, whereas you see the sign “cocktails” or “cocktail lounge’’ and all that everywhere these days but it really just means saloon. Perry’s made a wonderful Martini for 15 cents and when I say a Martini was wonderful you know it must have been good because there is the arneriest, meanest, no-dam-goodest mess of rancor ever concocted and it causes more fights and more people get their glasses broken and arrested and divorced on account Dt Martinis than for any other reason. They can tel) you all they like that he favored Rd-fashioneds but I tell you old man Roose velt was a Martini man so it is no wonder le had to stash the square-face behind the Rock and in the umbrella stand to keep the Rd girl from finding it. One slug of square :ace plus one slug of that rancid ivy juice :hey call Vermouth and a guy in his job could make a revolution. I don’t think Perry’s ever served an old ashioned. I don’t think this mess ever was reard of until prohibition because in those lays if you wanted a fruit salad or a vege :able dinner you went to a restaurant and srdered it like a man, I don’t think they ever heard of an orange blossom in Perry's aut they did used to have a little cocktail called a Bronx that had a smitch of orange iuice and not too bad, anyway, until you got vpur growth and cut out the nonsense and cither drank whiskey or didn’t drink. You used to see some wonderful newspaper men around those old seminaries. But do you mow who you didn’t see? Herbie Swooe and Roy Howard. Roy had a little glassed off coop in a corner of the United Press office m the third floor and when he and Archie Parke, our cable rewrite man, would get in i scrap about how to handle a story, hol ering in their high pitch, it sounded like ;ea gulls just after lunch time as the boats m the European run come past Block Island. Herbie and Roy weren’t exclusive or short n the reach when t.he tab fell but they were ilways hustling with something more impor ant to do. They passed a lot of people in Perry’s and Andy’s. Well, look where I am. They will probably Rip this one off just back of the ears. QUOTATIONS Housing and jobs continue to lead 'the pa ade of problems. Even without a reeecsinn suitable jobs are becoming increasingly scarce. —Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Veterans’ Administrator. Labor disputes should be settled where all Jther domestic disputes are settled—in court. —Sen. Homer Ferguson (R) of Michigan. The government, buying wheat to feed the world, bids against American housewives for the same wheat. Inevitably the government’s action increases the price of bread.—Robert R. Wason, chairman National Association of Manufacturers. The United States is opposed to policies which will continue Germany as a congested slum or an economic poorhouse in the center of Europe.—Secretary of State Marshall. A big fuss is made because a small town ig putting out signs reducing prices. A re Juction in prices does not come from Main Street, but Wall Street.—Ex-Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York. Federal aid to education should carry with it no inlerference with the rights of the states to educate their children as they see fit. —Willard E. Givens, executive secretary Na tional Educational Association. We have come to be time when, if liberty is to be preserved and extended, its upholders ! and defenders must be prepared to lead the ' way to the next stage of political organization. -Dr. Nicnolas Murray Butler, president emeritus Columbia U. tvJheniwS gl;eat need for ,he university and Me to the \S n0t necessarily responsi -Dr Harnin ir'e °Pmion of the majority, r. Harold W. Dodds, president Princetoa THE HOT FOOT Uvie\TO iwsa The Book Of Knowledge Department: — THE UNITED STATES THE PURITANS COME TO AMERICA Yesterday's article told of the voyage of the Mayflower from England to America, and the land ing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts, on Dec. 21, 1620. That first winter was a very bad one. More than half of the little company died, including 'he governor. Deacon John Carver. After Carver died, William Bradford was elected governor, and from then until his death in 1657, he was re-elected every year but five. Meanwhile, in England, the Pur itan party in the Church of End land was having a difficult time. The bishops and the King were determined to break it up. These troubles caused some of the Puri tans to think of migrating to America. In 1628, a group bought the right to settle on the land bet ween the Charles and the Merri mac rivers in New England. John Endicott brought over about 40 people and founded Salem. Endicott, who became governor of the little colony, was very harsh and made many curious laws. He compelled the women to wear veils in church, for fear the men might look at them and not listen to the sermon, which was often several hours long. He thought it was wrong to wear a wig, which was the fashion for men at that time, and he punish V ___mmsmr ,s i Pilgrims of the Plymouth colony going to church, from a painting by George H. Boughton. Armed men lead the way, to guard against attacks by Indians or wild beasts. The minister is next. Note that children are dressed like adults. ed any man who dared to wear one. In 1630, a strong, able leader, ■John Winthrop, brought over near ly 1000 Puritans and made several settlements on Massachusetts Bay. The Bay Colony grew very rapidly, and before 1634, near 5000 settlers had come. In 1636, they started a college to train ministers. When a young minister, John Harvard, died in 1638, ne left his books and a sum of money to the college, which was then named for him. You must remember the differ ence between the Puritans and the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims had sepa Taft And The Labor Bill By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON—In the first few days of Senate and House Labor Committee conferences to recon cile differences between the Taff and Hartley labor reform bills, the conferees got through only nine of the 68 pages in the Senate bill. At this rate, it wouldn't be safe to expect final action on a labor bill much before the Fourth of July. First reports from the confer ence committees indicate the bill they will work out as a compro mise won’t be too tough. fndustry wide bargaining and welfare funds won’t be banned. Most of the pro visions of the Hartley bill which the National Assn, of Manufactur ers wanted will be toned down. In spite of this, the APL and CTO lobbies keep up ihe chant that labor’s rights are being crippled and the unions destroyed This is, of course, part of the act. Every modification in the labor code pro posed since the start of the war has been fought by the union heads. They opposed tne smiin-wonnai ]y war labor relations act with its provisions for cooling off periods and strike votes. That bill worked out to the advantage cf labor Labor opposed the Hobbs anti racketeering act, claiming it would do terrible things to the union movement. Its effects have hardly been felt. Labor opposed the anti - Petrillo act. It hasn’t made a bit of differ ence to either the unions or msn* ^gement. Dire things were predicted to happen if the anti-portal-to-portal pay suit bill became a law. It has and they won’t. And the world won’t come to an end if the Presi dent signs or if Congress passes over his veto the Taft - Hartley compromise bill which will oe handed him in the next fev; weeks. As a matter of fact, the most effect this bill may have will be on Sen. Robert H. Taft himself. The bill in its final form .vill not contain many of the provisions which Senator Taft started <ut to get. Taft’s ideas and Minnesota Sen. Joe Ball’s still more extreme ideas got pretty well watered down through the efforts of Re publican Sen. Irving M. Ives cf New York. It is the influence of Senator Ives and pro - labor Con gressman John Lesinski of Michi gan, ranking Democrat on the m House Labor Committee, which seems to hold the balance of pow e; in the conference committee. Taft is chairman of this com mittee, however, and whatever bill comes out will be his baby and bear his name. This labor bill is apparently going to be Taft’s major achievement in this session o’ Congress. Taft’s long-range housing bill is stymied. The House doesn't viant any part of it. Taft’s idea on federal aid to education will prob ably get nowhere for the same reason. Taft himself savs his health insurance bill will not be acted on till next year. There may be a couple of po litical theories as to why nothing should be done about these meas ures this year. First is that next year is election year and the im pact of positive Republican rction on public housing, heal'b. and aid to education legislation will regis ter more heavily on the voters if nothing is done till next year. A second theory is that the Re publicans feel their first job( this year is to cut taxes and make good on last year’s election prom ises to economize. Passing half a billion dollars’ worth of new ap propriations for housing, health, and education wouldn’t help the economy situation any. So for this year. Tfft’s political reputation and the buildup for his presidential ambitions must rest on passage of the labor legislation, which—as outlined above—isn’t so much his. Taft may sincerely believe this legislation is not “anti-labor." He thought that of his original bill, which wss much stronger than the measure passed by the Senate. The hope is that when this legis lation becomes law it will be a stabilizing i n fluenee in industrial relations, without taking away anvbodv’s sacred rights. If it doesn’t work that way . . . if union leaders pull a lot of pro test strikes as Chairman Hartley of the House Labor Committee has predicted they will ... if the Wagner act is so amended that a lot of new test cases will have to be run through the courts to find out what the Taft-Hartlev bill really mesns . . . and if the coun try is thrown into a lot of in dustrial unrest as a result, then Mr. Taft and his political futur# [may not be worth a dime. rated from the Church of England before they came to America. They were poor people, and most of them had had very little educa tion. The Puritans belonged to the Church until after they had settled in America. Some' of them were wealthy, and almost all ol them were well educated. Both the Pilgrims and the Puri tans disapproved of the forms and many of the beliefs of the Eng lish Church, but their religious ideas were not exactly alike. This was one reason why the two groups founded separate colonies, which were not united for many years. Although the Puritans had come to the New World to have their own way in religion, they were not willing to give the same rights to others. They banished a young minister, Roger Williams, because he taught that it was not right to compel a man to support a church in which he did not believe. Williams also said th-at the King of England had no right to grant land in America, because it be longed to the Indians. He Lought some land from them and founder the town ot Providence in 163G. Other persons who were driven out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of religious differ ences also moved southward. Their settlements, together with Providence, became the colony of Rhode Island. (Copyright, 1946, By The Grolier Society Inc., based upon The Book Of Knowledge) (Distributed By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TOMORROW: — How a Magni fying Glass Enlarges Things. The Doctor Soys~ XIFE COMPARABLE WITH 4-LEG By WILLIAM A. O BRiEx A human being Sjts ' ' &■ cally on a four-le->c„j /’-'^ologi. Dr. C. C. Buriingame oX ?*« Conn., m the Journal of .. ai;f«d, ican Medical Association is his job. the second u ui.T '5« third his play, and *0 ^ body. "Ltn his If the chair has four solid 1 he sits comfortably, hut !c?' the legs are too short ton7 °! or missing, he wobbles therapy, the personal tmoru, , those who are livino - !°r anced life, helps lineVVtt Work is essential to hapnini' The most tragic featuiy. 0? :J !' ness is the feeling that we ?',;d needed. As long as a normal son has a job, life is worthwhT A man whose work brings him personal pleasure is fortun-Me « a person does not have a pjca„‘ job. he finds satisfaction in a h(T by. There will come a time whei the hobby will be more imports-* than a job. no matter how Dies* ant the job. • Play is the business 0f child hood as it strengthen;-, muscles and stimulates growth. Long ate' the physical effects of play ha‘Vp disappeared, the lessons learned on the play field remain. In 0rde to be happy, man needs to enjoy himself in the company of others Unless we learn to do this when we are young, it will be difficult to master when we a"e older. The success of tne old family physician with nervous patients was due to his knowledge of peo ple rather than of what was wrong with them. A modern psychiatrist is also successful in handling pa. tients because He is first a physi cian, second a sociologist, third i psychologist, fourth :>n educa’or, and fifth a vocational guidance ex pert. * * * QUESTION: My husband h-,j had pains in his legs tor the past four years. Is this caused by ar teries? ANSWER: If the trouble is m his arteries, nerves to the arteries may be cut, or he may be given local treatments. McKENNEY On Bridge *KQ94 *732 ♦ 85 4 *986 A J 10 ♦ AKQ1084 ♦ AK6 *AK Tournament—Neither vul South West North East ■2 V Pass 2N.T. Pass S * Pass S A Pass <6 * Pass Pass Pass Opening—* Q BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority Written for NEA Service There are a lot of little tricks in the play of the cards that the average player either misses through carelessness or just does not bother to remember. Lee Hazen of New York brought to day’s hand to my attention, and with the South cards, six hearts certainly is not a bad contract. Most declarers in a duplicate game at the New York Biidt* Whist Club made the contract, but only because of careless defense. The opening lead was wron by South with the king. Two rounds of trumps were led. West showinj out on the second round. Now declarer led the ten “j spades, West played the seven ana dummy the queen. This is '■ ^ most of the East players wrong. They won the trick wi n the ace. If East had stopped » think, he would have realized that the three of spades was missmi and that his partner was star uni an echo, attempting to snow :r‘. he had only two spades. Or n partner might have a . spade, but as he had shown ou. trumps, there was no use m . ' ning the first spade trick >o s his partner a ruff. All East had to do was .o r to win the first spade. When * king, of spades was led E* should win that trick, as declan, holding three spades to he J ten. would not have led tne This is a play that com * * quite often, and it is an ’ idea to form the habit of ^ your partner whether y ‘ two or three of a suit- 1- Y°'J p f the small one, you have ei singleton or three. If yw -».• “ high one, you have either * gleton or two. __ ■ | The right of a union to support it°1 e .> mantis derived its name-a 8trike-b°nl the sea. Sailors dissatisfied with coiub tions aboard ship refused to sail and t° ^ make sure the ship would not leaU port they struck (lowered) the sails COM 1947 l» 6Wt«*l 'Irffj