The Wilmington morning star., September 21, 1947, SECTION A, Page 5-A, Image 5

About The Wilmington morning star. (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990

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Taken From Life I
By H. A. STALLINGS
CHADBOURN, Sept. 20— We
found Bill S. Edmunds, the to
bacco sales supervisor, thor
oughly sold on his community
an(f section and enthusiastic
about the prospects for a grow
ing future. He is a willing and
efficient public servant.
While in Chadbourn,'we talked
,,-ifh C. L. Tate, banker, and
i,eatj of the Chadbourn Market
ing company, which conducts
jbe strawberry auction sales.
Before the war, Chadbourn had
tbe largest berry market in
North Carolina. This year, it
jold 50,000 crates,, each contain
ing 24 quarts.
We note that bids will He re
ceived on Sept. 30 for the sur
facing of 9.82 miles between Ta
bor City and Chadbourn and for
(be grading and surfacing of 8.4
miles between the Chinquapin
Lym an - Fountain road and the
Onslow county line. Both proj
ects are important ones in the
Wilmington territory.
While production is recognized
as the sole preventitive for de
pressions. there is talk about
reducing the allocated tobacco
acreage in North Carolina for
1948 by 30 per cent. While the
announced purpose is to prevent
over-production, one cannot but
wonder where is the border line
between prevention of over-pro
duction and a policy of scarcity.
Unquestionably, a policy of
scarcity is a producer of high
prices';
Arch Booth, manager of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, and one of the speakers
at the State convention of
Chamber of Commerce execu
tives. raised the point that fcusi
ness must sell itself more un
derst andingly to the public. He
contended that people do not
agree on what constitutes free
enterprise. He argued that the
average person is certain every
business makes entirely too
much profit. He- said that few
people understand the terminol
ogy employed by accountants in
annual business audits. His con
clusion is that unless business
sells itself to its own customers
it will multiply the number who,
while professing a belief in free
enterprise, actually favor gov
ernment control and govern
ment operation of business.
While hitherto, except fpr pub
lic or government business, the
amount of profit has been con
sidered a private matter, there
is no doubt that many regard
high profits as the principal
cause of high prices. However
wrong that conclusion may be.
it remains whether businessmen
will seek to combat that
with understandable explana
tions and descriptions of profits
in newspaper advertisements.
Some large corporations, no
tably the railroads, have been
doing this for years. They use
pictures to show what percent
age of the income dollar goes
to labor, to management, to
taxes and to other expenditures.
As yet, the small business man
has not followed suit. It may be
the small business man, in the
future, will publicize profits in
order to escape being held re
sponsible for high prices and in
order to convert the average
man to the desirability of pri
vate business as contrasted with
government controlled or gov
ernment operated business.
Those who are doing this look
to newspaper advertising as the
best medium of reaching the
public.
JeanetteMacDonaldDominating
Influence In Raymond Home
_!_ i -—___
By RALPH DIGHTON
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20.—Iff)—
Jeahette MacDonald and Gene
Raymond would like to be re
garded as the Lynn Fontanne
Alfred Lunt team of the movies.
At least, Jeanette would.
The trouble is, Gene is no Al
fred Lunt, knows it and doesn’t
care.
Jeanette’s wishes tend to
dominate in the Raymond
household, however, so she and
Gene are very much in the
market for double bookings.
“Most of all,” says Jeanette,
“we'd like to find a play we
both could do. Not a musical
comedy, but it should have
some singing in it for me. I
don’t thinK tne public would ac
cept me without a few songs.”!
Jeanette admitted they were
having difficulty finding such a
script, and Gene interposed
with a erin:
“It’s ail her fault. She sings.”
Jeanette ignored this. “If we
can’t find the right play,” she
said, ,‘we’re going to go on tour.
I will appear in concerts and
Gene in repertory.” (Gene isn’t
sure what he is expected to do
in repertory.) “We’ll arrange it
so we can travel together,’
Jeanette explained, “we’ll be in
the same towns on the same
dates, at least.”
Finding something for Gene
to do is one of Jeanette’s ma
jor concerns. “He may go into
directing,” she said, “anything
that will keep our professional
interests together would be
healthy.”
Although she and Gene have
appeared together in only one
movie, “Smiling Through,”
Jeanette is positive they would
click. ,‘Smiling Through” was
not a great financial success,
“but how could it be?” she
asked. “It opened Dec. 7, 1941.
A lot of good movies went un
noticed in the first months of
the war.”
Their friends believe Jeanette
may be unnecessarily worried.
The Raymonds need money like
a swamp dog needs more ticks.
The two - acre estate Gene
bought when they were married
10 years ago would sell for
enough to keep them in luxury.
One of Gene’s sidelines is play
ing financier with considerable
success.
But Jeanette is career con
scious. Tall, slender and still
beautiful at 40, she sets a fast
pace for her easy-going, year
younger husband. Some of their
acquaintances think she should
Blow down a bit.
Gpne is a model husband,
they say. He’s suave, good look
ing, athletic and friendly. What
more, they ask, can a gal want?
Gene’s a very likeable guy.
Ke putters around the house
like any other Sunday me
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RICKENBACKER
AIDS TRAVELERS
Accepts Chairmanship Of
Noted Assistance
_ Group
EDWARD V. RICKsNBACKER
Acceptance by Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker, president of
Eastern Airlines, to the position
of airlines chairman of the Na
tional Travelers Aid association
met with enthusiasm yesterday
by the Wilmington Travelers
Aid society.
“Captain Rickenbackei's ap
pointment is indicative of the
increasing services being given
by Travelers Aid to air pas
sengers in many parts of the
country,” James E. L. Wade,
president of the board of direc
tors, said.
The Wilmington society is one
of 110 through-out the United
States, where nearly five mil
lio. travelers were served last
year, according to Helen M.
Galloway executive secretary.
She said the Wilmington so
ciety served 12,615 persons dur
ing the first six months of 1947.
NEGRO HELD
ASHEVILLE, Sept. 20.—(U.R)—
Police today were holding Les
ter Barry, Negro, pending a
coroner’s inquest Monday in the
fatal knifing of another Negro,
19-year-old Charles Brown.
chanic, or spends hours just
wrinting a few songs.” In the
last year or so he’s written sev
eral and may assemble them
for a musical.
‘‘Not for Jeanette, however,”
he cautions. ‘‘They’re not the
kind of songs she likes., They’re
just popular numbers.”
If it ever came to a choice!
between what Jeanette wanted
him to do and his music. Jean
ette undoubtedly would win
temporarily. But sooner or later
—a few months mean nothing
to a man as patient as Ray
mond—the music he wanted to
write would get written.
You get the feeling that if
Jeanette decides the Raymonds
must become the Lunts of Hol
lywood, i her indulgent husband
will not interfere. But you also
get the feeling that if Jeanette
does not attain her goal, it will
be because Gene is quite satis
fied with life the way it is.
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