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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 CHECK RHEUMATIC PAINS QUICKLY! i Mix Amazing Lemon Juice *«cipc at Home as Millions Have! suffer one unnecessary moment with teenies of rheumatic, arthritis, or neuritis Pam ! 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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. I. II. 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