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w. Il. c. Gives
Dinner At Midway
Cafe, Monday

A very lovely dinner party was
9isen hv the Young Women's Busi-
ness Club OF pascaeuula Monday
night at the Midway Cafe This at
fair was informal. but much beauty
and charm was added b. decoration
OF cut flowers. Huge bowls Of pink
giadioll and blue hy1rangea cen
tered the various tables. expressing
the clubs colors Of pink and Law
enuer.
Following the dinner. danclng was
enjoyed until q late hour. There
were about sixty members and their
escorts attending.
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JACKSON COUNTY
DELEGATES HOME
FROM CONVENTION
state Convention Unansnossay In
daFses Hsesrvef Per THIRD Term
With Pat Harrison Per Vice President

jackson coantyE delegates 10 the
kfsastssappa Convention returned %
their homes Tuesday night after
what they declare a very success
fai and Interesting meeting.
The county delegates Joined isoee
from other parts of the state IN
casting their votes for the nofuina-
tioH OF President Franklin Dclann
Roosevelt for . third term. They
also endorsed the nomination Of
Senator Pat Harrison as President
Ro0eevelt's running~fnafe ard vice
presidential candidate.
Fractional minis ut The
ton discarded their differences IN
supporting Senator Harrt3on unani-
mouAiy. pointing 20 his splendid
record and universally acknowledged
leadership
The convention reelected Louis
NJ lights. Jackson. as national
committeeman for . third term.
Those representing the county At
the meeting were Hsrmes 0auiier.
Harold W. Oautier. z. J. Ford. Jr.,
Of Pascagoala: A r Meoehee. Beat
Three. and n N. Murphy and q.
A. Crutflirds of Beat 8 Jackson
county had Is votes 81 the eonven-
ton.
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Brnrlanlatiutl

TO II CITIZENS OF P~AsCAGoULA:
WHEREAS, the Governor Of the State of Mjssis.
sippi has set aside the week of June 1922. AS ANERI-
GANISM WEEK: and
the Governor calls attention To the
fact that foreign elements. groups and organizations in
these United States are fostering secret moves 10 over
throw cur American form a Government and
WHEREAS. the Americanism Commission Of The
American Legion Of Mississippi is calling upon an patri-
otto organizations TO join in a movement to teach the
benefits of cur American form Of Government.
NOW. THEREFORE. |. Frank s. Cantv. Mayor of
the City Of Paseagoula. do. b this reclamation. desig-
nate the week beginning Monday. June II. a AMERI-
GANiSM WEEK. and urge that Il be observed through
cut the entire eommunit b. al citizens.
y TESTIMONY WHEREOF. ! hereunto set my
hand and cause the Seal of the City OF Pascaeoula 70 be
affixed. this 10th day Of June. 4. D., 1910.
RAN 5. CAVITY.
(SeaD Mayor.
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Good PrOvider
Competition In
jackson County

Record books 70 be kept IN the
Coed ProYider Competition for 1910
have been mailed by sponsors In
New Orleans 10 County Agent A.
J. Franklin OF Jackson county. 10
be distributed 10 = contestants from
this county.
Contestants will be instructed BY
the county agents IN the method
Of keeping these ximplifted record
books Recording In the books win
starr As Of MAJ IS and EiIl De- Gun
unneo through November IS. Al
that time judging viii be held.
Al the end Of the year. winners In
counties IN Mtsaszlppl and parishes
ln Louisiana Ia which there are five
OF more entries Eiil be guests Of The
Tfmek-Plcayune 81 3 farm forum IN
Eew Orleans. The contest Is 6pon-
sore1 By The Tmes-P1eAyune and
the New Orleans Association OF
Commerce with cooperation Of ex-
ten10n services n louisiana and
Mississippi
FIRST. second and third prizes o.
tl0o. SO. and SIS. respectively. Vii
be awarded IN the farm oxnef dlYi-
sion and n the tenant and share
eropper division IN the two states
Additionally. there viii be 3 cash
sweepstakes award for the farmer
Who Is sdIucged 70 have best I'M
proved his farm. farm life anc
farm living conditions during the
contest period
Tnose entered from MS county
are. Tom CtcoFla. l. : Roberts
D s Snattles. i'm Van Wlnkie
Hubert MaIiette. ". c. OFerton. c
c. BarA. ). W. Carter. = 7. Coeh-
ran. z s Hubbard. Hubert s Golf
Eolue c. Carter. Mack J. Farr
Prank O Smell ~ p Madsen. Coy
Brooks. Ellis " Hamilton. Geo
Culhlrds 7. : Clark J L Pair
kS. J Prank ossal. chas Webb
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CIRCUIT COURT
ADJOURNS AFTER
A BUSY SESSION
Numbsr 0f ImpsstAni Cases Dts
po3aa OF: Sssne Carried Over
To November. isse. TeFm-

Circuit court adjourned for The
MAJ Term Saturday morning 81
eleven O'Clock after a busy session
81 three wrecks. nome days the court
holding until late AZ night A. u
was some Of the cases on the docket
sos reached for trial but had
70 D. carried over until the next
term. which viii convene on the
second Monday Isl November. 1910
In addition 20 those already men,
toned N this paper. the following
cases were disposed OF during the
last week
Prank Levatino " Tom Peuning-
tos1-Defendant2 notion for cost
bond sustained. and plaintiff re-
quired 10 furnish 5000 bond or a
cash dcpaAit O! 5000 for costs.
State Of Mississippi vs. Marshall
De Angelo jury verdict rendered
finding defendant guilty as charged
o. crime o. ~r0ba~fseH. and Court
sentenced Defendant % serve five
60 years IN Mississippi State Peni-
Tertiary Appeal bond fixed - "a
0oQ0 20 Be- approved BY sheriff OF
Jackson county.
Richard West. Minor. BY b s.
West Father and Next Friend. vs.
PAU Peterzeil-Jury verdict for
plaintiff. and damages assessed at
9LO61n0 and costs.
Mrs J ? King V Paul PeterzeIl
verdict for plaintiff. and
damages az ti06200 and costs.
J F King W. Paul Peterxell-JuEy
verdict for plaintiff. and damages
assessed at $4,000 and costs.
Lynn West Minor. BY b. s. West.
and Next Friend. vs.. Paul
peteFzeli-Jury verdict for plaintiff.
and damages assessed ct $50 and
Miss Esther siurua vs.. Eddie
iIans-JurY verdict rendered this
term Of court In favor Of plaintiff
vet aside, and plaintiff granted sixty
TO file amended declaration.
eith defendant 70 have sixty ays
from date Of filing of amended DE-
slaratlon 70 answer said amended
declaration.
Jessie l. Warren ~. Isabelle g.
Lanaley-Motion for nex trial con-
10 be heard In vacation by
Judge Corban IN 0ultport on June
1910.
State Of Mississippi VI. Charlie
Williams, alias. Charlie Pastor
Plea Of guilty 10 charge OF burglary
and larceny. sentenced 10 serve 4
year IN Mississippi State Peniten-
ttary
State OF Mississippi vs., James
ahires. alias j. l. Bell-Piea ct
guilty to charge Of Forgery. sen
fenced 10 , years Ia Miss. State
penitenfiarY.
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JOINT MEETING
OF TWIN CITIES
ROTARY CLUBS
Roy DeIamstte OF Mess PeiRt
Makes Interesting Talk On
Warld War Armamentx

The joint meeting Of the Pasca-
gouIa and Moss Point Rotary Clubs
held m the Community House n
Pascaxouia on Wednesday. was one
Of the bes, attended meetings In
some time Rain caused sons Of
the members TO get there late. ana
The late corners had q little trouble
IN getting seats at the long tables
that were arranged as three sides OF
a hollow square
Lee Head and Ernest Sufhoff pre-
sided Jointly rs presidents Of the
two clubs. There we're several vtsi-
tors and guests Eddie Khayat had
as his guests the Messrs. Peterzell,
three OF them. the owners OF the
jackson County Mills. DR.. Eley in
trodnced as his guest Walter Gull
ley of PaScaeoula.
The guest speaker wks ROY De-
Lamotte OF Moss Point, who was
introduced b. Ernest Suthoff. The
subject Of the talk was In the divi-
sion Of international Relations. but
the speaker confined himself almost
entirely 70 one phase of the sub
teet, which WAS. the way the big
business men at the head Of NUM-
tons factories IN England and
Europe virtually controlled the wars.
as they did in the World War. and
may be doing nov. He showed
where some Of these manufacturers
had offices and directories in sew
eral countries. some OF which we're
at war. and how 1t was to their in
70 prolong the wars as much
rs possible, and 10 sell their prod
lcts 70 enemy countries.
He concluded by saying, The
problem OF armament and defense
and politics and the press-the
whole problem Of war and peace is
lomplex. There is no easy. simple
Ray out. But let US not forget. In
he coming months. one fact which
vas revealed by the last World War.
I cost approximately SIS 900 to XIII
soldier during that war. There
5 one class o. hla business men
Who never rose az to danoanee this
.xtrayagance-these men are the
makers Of armaments, because kill
ng their business, ArmamentS are
heir stock in trade: Governments
re their customers. Their ultimate
consumers are. as often as not. their
countrymen.
Inc important point Is that every
line a shell bursts and q fragment
# steel finds its way into the brain
heart or stomach Of q soldier IN
he trenches. a great part of the
? 5000, much Of it profit. finds its
way into the pocket of the arma-
uent maker
Thus eoncFetely the young speaker
olctured some OF the horrors of
var. and some of the ~inconsistan-
les OF the nations al war, making
very interesting and thought COM
talk.
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A total Of 4.s7l.lT2 men served in
TIE Y s. armed forces during the
World War OF which number 2.059-
% served overseas. S3i .258 served In
the Z, S Navy. and 6 .2Hs served in
the u S Marine Corps. There
were 1886 combat deaths. S0z7s in
the Army. 24Sf IN the Marine Corps.
and az IN the Navy.
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In the old days. before matches
were invented. s lamp was lighted
at certain times aboard ship when
smoking was permitted. All smok-
ers got their pipes lighted from this
lamp It was easy 10 regulate smok-
ing in those days. for all they had
to do 70 stop smoking vas 70 put
out the lamp.
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members o. the Pascagoula and
Ocean Springs Association xtll bring
their families 10 tins meeting and
give them al opportunity 70 learn
more about THIS cooperative credit
system which has made possible
long term. IoN -cost. farm mortgage
loans
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Congressman william Conner IN
his zpeech pointed 70 the important
part such SHIPS Is the Excheqaer
form IN the gigantic national &C.
Tense program He pointed 70 the
fate q France and England because
Of nnnrepaHednesss and stated tat
the United States should profit b
the example Get there and prepare
itself Tor any eventuaiity.
Mr.. Conner declared that Amer
lea wanted 20 war but the events
recently taking place n Europe have
shown that the only WaF % avoid
var = BY meeting : powerful force
nth superior force and . that end
ne United states Is striving & &
HEorf8nuar ~ No. -.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
EDWARD ROSS
NAMED BY CIVIL
LIBERTIES UNION

NEW RK.-FP)-Prof Edward
Alsworth Ross of the University of
Wisconsin, dean of American sociolo-
national chairman of the American
Civil Liberties Union. He will serve
as chairman of the national commit
tee, advisory to the board of directors,
headed by DR.. John Haynes Holmes
of New York.
Ross and Holmes together succeed
DR.. Harry F. Ward, who held the dual
post Of board chairman and national
chairman until Feb. 4, when he de-
clined to accept denomination after 20
years of service. Later he resigned
membership in protest against the
new A. G. L. U. policy of excluding
communists from office.
Ross has been member of the
national committee for more than a
decade. In accepting the chairman
ship he said:
"As we expand government in order
to save ourselves from the clutches
of the money-strong, freedom of
speech and of assemblage should more
than ever be jealously upheld.
Even those contending that social
revolution to overthrow capitalism is
inevitable should be left unmoles ted
and their party should have it's place
on the official ballot. Free institu-
tions will take far more harm from
them than from letting them
have their way.
"A society as broad-based as ours
Is, needs not go in terror of 'leftist'
itterances provided they express hon
,st convictions. II can without risk
permit anyone to discuss public
question before whatever audience he
las been able to get together. The
of enlightened has become
10 large that there is no menace what
yer to public order in the voicing of
he most Utopian ideas. The public
tterance of malicious falsehoods or
irect indictments to break the law
# overthrow the constituted author
ties is, of course, another thing"
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

study of 48 states and the District OF
Columbia rated the poll tax states as
follows:
Alabama 48th; Arkansas 47th;
Georgia 44th; Mississippi 49th; South
Carolina 46th; Tennessee 42nd; Texas
3Sth, and Virginia 40th
Only by giving the ballot to the low
income farmers and workers In the
south can they have an effective voice
in shaping legislation to improve their
sub-standard conditions and join with
progressive-minded over the rest of
the country in securing much needed
social legislation, Harris told the COM
mittee. r-,-- --..---~--s-
prior to 1900 in the state of Ala
bama, the small farmers of the state
had an articulate voice in the politics
of our commonwealth. Since the in
ception of the poll tax this voice has
grown fainter and fainter until now
in some sections it has become eradi-
Gated, while in others it has become
a mere murmur," Harris stated.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

dictionary intrigue within the ranks
claiming to support the Cardenas pol
icies. These intrigues are doubly
dangerous when supported, deliberate
ly or no, by U. S. state department
interference.
Even if the U. S. government is not
deliberately intervening in Mexican
affairs, the suspicion that the good
neighbor policy has finally been aban-
doned has vital repercussions in many
Latin-American countries, especially
in Chile, where a Mexican goodwill
delegation of athletes was recently re-
ceived with great enthusiasm.
Sumner Welles, whose record in
Cuba is well known to every Latin
should have stayed in Eur
ope, Mexico City wits are remarking-
Rightly or wrongly, Welles' personal
interventionist activities are suspect
in every country south of the Rio
Grande.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

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of the Coca Cola Co., $3,1O0; of Co
lumbia Broadcasting, $4,000; of the
F. w. Woolworth Co., $3.50; of Gen
eral Electric, $4,000; and of Ameri
can Tobacco, $4,000.
These are not the highest salaries
paid in the business world, but they
Illustrate the point. Men who get
from $4,000 to $4,000 a week cannot
possibly spend their incomes for the
|necessaries, comforts and luxuries.
Even if they were extravagant there
would still be large amount of each
weeks income that would not be
spent.
The wages paid to workers in the
same industries are far less than the
salaries of officials. The average
weekly wages in April 1889 were:
General Foods $17.86; General Motors
$32.47; U. S. Steel $2SO7; Coca Cola
$33.15; Woolworth $17.S6; General
Electric $2757; and American Tobac-
co $16.O5. These wage rates are aver
age. Some workers received less,
and some more.
Where workers have families in
Guiding two or three children, the
health and decency minimum in the
average industrial city is at least $40
a week. 1t goes without saying,
therefore, that these wage workers.
most of them received less than $50
a week, would spend far more for
necessaries and decencies if their
wages were higher.
Here is one of the crucial problems
before American economy. Executive
salaries are so high that they cannot
be spent. Wages are SO low that they
will not cover minimum wants. AS
result, the goods and services pro-
1uced are not bought and the produc-
i've apparatus is glutted with sur
plus.
1t may be neither possible nor de-
,irable at this time to equalize in
comes. But economic horse sense
would surely cry "Whoa!" to a system
80 scandalously out of balance as
hat represented by $4,000 a week for
me family and $50 week for an
'ther.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
HARRIS TESTIFIES BEFORE HOUSE
Committee FOR ANTI-P0LL TAX BILL

Testifying for the abolition of poll
taxes, Gerald E. Harris, vice president
of the Alabama Farmers Union, told
the house Judiciary committee in
Washington that such action is vitally
necessary if democracy is to be safe
guarded. Gerald Harris was appointed
by President Vesecky to represent the
National Farmers Union at the hear
ings.
Pointing out that Alabama is one of
the eight southern states having a
poll tax, Harris said that some farm
ers in his state would be required to
pay as much as S36 if they were to
cast ballot While the tax seems
small' in amount, being only $1.50,
it is cumulative tax which soon be-
comes prohibitive for farmers with
sub-parity incomes.
Supporting the Geyer bill to elm
mate poll taxes, Harris said, "This is
a forward step in fight for the en-
franchisement Of our people in the
South"
"Te possible poll tax payments that
may be required Of residents are as
follows: Alabama So; Mississippi Sc;
South Carolina $1O5; Tennessee
$25S; Texas s1.75; Virginia $5O1; and
Georgia $12S.S7-I repeat $12S.S7."
With the low level of farm income
in the south, Harris asserted that
thousands of farmers are disfran-
chised in states imposing poll taxes.
ga congressman from Alabama would
have to pay $4,000 on his annual sal
ary of $4,000 if he paid for the right
to vote in the same proportion to
his income as some of the farm fam
lilies in the state" Harris said.
Instead of Qualifying a citizen to
vote" the poll tax has fostered Grim
inal and corrupt practices which strike
at the foundations of democratic gov
ernment. 81 saw single individual
armed with 130 poll tax receipts which
had been paid by candidates for coun-
ty offices and given to him that he
might distribute them" Harris stated
in explaining the system of vote-buy-
ing.
"Be sure you vote right, or else :"
is what the corrupt politicians tell
voters whom they give poll tax re-
ceipts. Moreover, instead of secret /;
ballot, "every ballot in Alabama is
marked with number opposite the
voters name so that there is no real
in finding out how man {
votes" L
A study recently made by Lester G. t
Furney showed that the eight poll tax 1
states rank at the bottom of the lad q
der in educational efficiency. His II
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
RELIEF STATISTICS
PUNCTURE GOVERNORS
PROSPERITY BUBBLE

HARTFORD, Conn.-(FP)-The ar
tificially produced job boom of Gov.
Raymond E. Baldwin (R.) suddenly
collapsed on April 10 with the release
OF the state welfare departments
quarterly report, revealing that Con-
necticut's relief load in it's five larg-
est cities had increased by 269o since
January 1.
The number of families on relief
in Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport,
Waterbury and New Britain was 1856
on April 1 as compared with 7,461 on
January /.
The increase reflects a drop in en-
ployment which started in middle
cember, plus arbitrary reduction of
WPA rolls.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
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piled by large-scale smuggling of arms
over the U. S. and Guatemalan bord-
ers. A crack division of 10000 work
ers from the Federal District (Mexico
City and region), known as the "Eigh-
|teenth of March" (date of the oil ex-
propriation), will march on May 1.
Militia officers schools are being
formed, and the nationwide Commit
tees for Defense against Reaction are
being rapidly organized. Pres. Lazaro
Cardenas gave his implicit approval
to these measures when he stated that
he could count on the Mexican people
to take steps to defend themselves
against the threat of reactionary ris-
ings.
The great danger at the present
moment, however, is undoubtedly re-
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
MIDWEST CO-OPERATORS
IN CLEVELAND APR. 27-29

CLEVELAND P)-Unificati of
the Central States Cooperative League
and the Cooperative Wholesale is a
major possibility of the joint sessions
to be held in Cleveland at the Fen
way Hall Hotel April 27-29, says Coop
News, Chicago Coop organ.
Qualification" says Chairman Har-
vey Walker of the unification commit
tee, sis more than a problem of adj
ministrative organization. 1t is SYM
boy of the spirit of indomitable CO.
operative unity which is capturing the
Imagination of midwest co-operators"
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

WASHINGTON.-Tom Girdler's Re.
public Steel Corp must pay close to
$7,500,00O in back wages and rein
state 5000 workers involved in the
1887 Little Steel strike, because of
the U. S. supreme courts refusal to
consider Girdler's appeal from cir
cult court order.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
OHIO J0BLESS
ASK FOR ARMY
SOUP KITCHENS

JACKSONVILLE, o. (FP) = Army
soup kitchen to feed relief clients has
been asked of President Roosevelt by
the Assn. of Unemployed here. The
request is being backed by the city
council and Mayor C. G. Drew, as well
as by the United Mine Workers (CIO),
Workers Alliance and WPA workers.
One thousand families are reported
on relief and the financial situation
of the city is acute. The president
said last winter that if evidence of
starvation was shown, he would send
kitchens to Ohio.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

up life in battle against the enemy
instead of the kind of patriot that
tells how glad he would be to do so
at some time in the future.
If Dies and his OARS and j. Edgar
Hoovers are really interested in find
ing those who would betray this ma
ton to the enemy they will turn their
attention to the brig shots and stop
sniping at working men and women
who want merely a chance to eat and
a place to sleep and some assurance
that they will always have a chance
to eat and place to sleep.
When Dies suggests, as he did on
April 18, that it is the men and wom-
en- In American factories and on Amer
ican farms who would betray their
country to an enemy he displays his
contempt for and ignorance of the
people who do the nations work.
After all, it's their country and their
stake in it is far greater than that
Of the gentleman from Texas.
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