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The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-05-24
DAY At
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JUNE FIRST, I94O
Eight Glasses To Hold Reunion That
naY. With . Varied ana In
teresttnK Program

AlumnAe Day o. june tst vii BE-
an important part Of Commence
meut aettvt.ies ~ Mississippi State
CoAege for Women. with eight
acattered a intervals
through TIE pas half century meet
ING for reunions
Mr. 0ratE Jones. Of MARKS presi
dent OF the AIumnae Association.
and Nix Helen perTy. executive SEC
FelaFy o the AIumnse Association.
are working ain class REPRESENTA-
uysz 10 complete 3 full aF1 inter-
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ginning With Al executive board
meeting = sfs Saturday morning
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tire faculty Class supper. and q
dance program II the evening
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are 1880 Ms Ida Kate Smith
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The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-05-24
Graduation At Our
Lady OF Victories III. S.
Sunday Night, 18th

The graduation exercises Of Our
Lady Of Victories High School wfu
take place on Sunday. May 20. 1910.
The graduates clad in caps and
gowns. win receive Holy Commun-
Aon IN q body At the SIX O'Clock Mass.
The comforting Of the diplomas
win take place at 500 p m In Our
Lady Of Victories Church. The
graduates will march from the
school to the church. and win take
their places In the sanctuary Of the
church Reverend P ] Carey win
preach The baccAiaureate sermon
after the professional ana wiz con-
fer the diplomas. Medals viii be
awarded TO studeats with high av-
erages. and certificates viii be given
students who had a perfect attend
ance Ehe exercises viii Be brought
% a close by the b~endietion Of the
Most Blessed Sacrament.
Miss Edwtna Irving win give q
solo and the Junior School Choir
viii furnish music. also
Members Of the Glass Of 1910 are
Verna Anne Krebs. Ruth Louise
Krebs. Grace Evelyn Hollyfield.
Margaret lone Krehs and Una
Teresa velcich.
The Growing Of the Blessed
Mother by the 5odality viii take
place the same day Of the gradu-
ation-Mny 26--at four O'Clock IN
the afternoon. The procession win
start AT the school and march into
the church. Miss Ruth Krebs as
been selected by the Sodality to
crown the Blessed Mother. All the
Socialists are urged to be present
and take part IN the browning.
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-05-24
Post Office To Be
Closed All Day On
Thursday, May 30

The PaScagnuia post office wtll be
eiased ali dav on Thursday. May
30. which Is National Memorial Day
There will be deliveries Of mail
only IN the business section Of the
city on that day
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-05-24
Daily Vacation School
At Methodist Church
Beginning NJ 9th

A Daily Vacation Church School
Wfn BE- held at the Pascagouia
Methodist Church. beginning Mon
day. Nay n. at 500 A n AL
children between the ages q five
and thirteen are invited 70 aftend
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-05-24

Continued on PAss Four.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
where the thoroughly schooled agents

where the thoroughly schooled agents
Of the F. B. I. At into the picture.
The Omen necessarily must work
quietly, without publicity. Once a
spy Is discovered, 1t may be advisable
to keep him under constant surveil-
lance, and thus to investigate ramifi-
cations of the system Of which he
is a part, rather than to clap him in
jail and announce the capture. The
mere absence of publicity regarding
counterespionage operations does not
mean, as Mr.. Dies seems to fear, that
the G-men are incapable Of dealing
with alien agents. Attorney General
Jackson has made it plain that the
F. B. !. has been and is relentlessly
on the job-and, in several cited in
stances, ahead Of the Dies Com
mittee.
There is room for both the Dies
Committee and the F. B. I. in the
vast field encompassed by alien prop
agandists, spies and saboteurs. There
is no need for conflict between the
two lines Of inquiry and the public
interest demands that the present
friction be eliminated quickly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Communist Influence

Attorney General Jackson has said
In effect that the Government is in
possession of evidence showing that
the strike at the Vultee Aircraft
Corporation, which was engaged in
vitality important national defense
longed by Communist influence"
Furthermore, according to the At
torney General, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation has identified those
leaders of the strike who are either
members of the Communist party or
affiliated with the Communists, and
the persons who are the contacts
between the Strike Committee and
the leaders of the Communist party"
Possibly Mr. Jackson is technically
correct when he adds that these
activities may not constitute Fed
eral crime warranting prosecution,
but there can be no doubt that they
do constitute a serious threat to the
national security which should not
be tolerated for any reason.
The Vultee strike was called by the
aircraft division of the United Auto
mobile Workers, c. T. o. union, in
which, according to John L. Lewis,
there is no Communist influence.
But this assertion, in the face Of Mr..
Jackson's charge that the Govern
ment has evidence to the contrary,
cannot be accepted as final.
Obviously, the remedy lies with
Congress. If there is no Federal stat
ute under which criminal proceed
ings can be brought against these
alleged Communist saboteurs, the
enactment of such legislation ought
to be the first consideration of the
lawnaking body. And the second
item on the congressional agenda
ought to be legislation to prevent
any strikes in defense plants by
requiring submission of disputes to
arbitration during the period of this
emergency.
Certainly, it is not conducive to
good public morale nor to the pro-
motion OF national security for lead
ers in Congress to take the position
that there Is nothing for them to do
until January when one defense
project after another is being shut
down by strikes, whether Communist
inspired or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Wants Domestic Unity
In Face of War.

To the Editor of The Star:
AS long as the minds Of men are choked
with violent tendencies, war in one form
or another will exist. War cannot be
legislated away.
That war is mass murder is a fact, but
murders, single or mass, will continue
until men forsake the brute state. Men,
tally, we remain barbarous as people,
despite our mechanical civilization. Aeons
may pass before brotherhood becomes a
reality.
Capitalism and commercial rivalry
breed war. When political parties are
largely controlled by boss rule" greed
and lust for pomp and place, the seedlings
Of war, are sown. We war on one an
other in multiplicity Of ways and are
often guilty Of shocking social cruelties.
1t is perhaps vain to pirate about leagues
Of nations preserving peace, when we our
selves are in state of constant domestic
discord. Unity should begin at home.
The political leaders should seek to drive
the devils Of greed. hatred and dissension
from the national temple and by SO doing
make our own structure clean and strong.
When this is accomplished 1t will be time
enough to tackle the oft recurring prob
lem of foreign conflict which has dark
ened the earth for centuries.
EDHUSD X. ooiDSBoAOUoA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25

The week beginning today has been
designated by President Roosevelt as
time for "a co-ordinated effort on
a national scale to put into motion
community forces that will bring the
work Of American artists and crafts
men into the American home, the
business ONCE, the church, the club,
the social group" A thousand exhi-
billions and sales displays, it has been
announced, will open simultaneously
in towns and cities from coast to
coast. People Of modest means are
to be encouraged to acquire such
artistic creations as they may be able
to afford. That their buying may be
the more intelligent, they are invited
to study the development of the arts
In the United States in the past few
years.
1t Is conceded, Of course, that there
has been tremendous expansion in
every field of esthetic enterprise on
this side of the Atlantic during the
first four decades of the twentieth
century. Such architectural monu-
ments as the Folger Shakespeare
Library and the Supreme Court
Building, obviously, are indices of q
dynamic power in the American soul.
The impulse which led Andrew w.
Mellon to collect masterpieces to give
to his country was spiritual force.
He was motivated by love Of beauty
as well as by patriotism. If he alone
had entertained the vision Of art
democratized, it would have been q
fact worth noticing. How much more
important it Is that hundreds Of thou
sands Of men and women and, provi-
dentially, millions of children are
responding to the attraction Of noble
endeavor among creative workers Of
every sort!
One of the hopeful signs is that of
the change which has occurred in
the thought of some Of those who
seek to guide prevailing trends. A
few seasons ago they believed that
Government subsidies were impera-
lively required for the maintenance
Of esthetic effort. Now, at last, they
agree that mo solid patronage of art
can be established until the people
at large accept works Of art on the
same basis as ordinary commodi-
ties" This altered attitude on the
part Of competent judges suggests
that q conservative tendency has
begun to be felt. Propaganda, defec-
tive craftsmanship, experimental
misuse of color, provocative dogmat-
ism and a certain ungenerous intol-
erance toward the taste of the lay
public, it may be hoped, are being
corrected. The exhibitions Of Ma
tional Art Week in Washington and
elsewhere should contribute toward
that contamination devoutly to b
| wished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
OId-Aqe Diseases

A group Of experts are meeting
here today to map a program of re-
search on challenging problem
CHRONOLOGY.
1t is one Of the two or three most
important problems facing the world
today. Within the past century
medicine has nearly doubled the
average duration Of human life.
Probably two-thirds Of this advance
has been in the conquest Of diseases
of childhood and adolescence. A
baby born today has better than
twice as good chance Of surviving
to adulthood as q baby born one
hundred years ago.
But man of fifty has very little
better chance of living to seventy
than he would have had in 1910.
Perhaps he has even less of chance
with the reported, but statistically
debatable, increase Of such fatal
maladies as cancer and cerebral
hemorrhase.
This is the field Of the gerontol-
ogist-the specialist In the diseases
of age.
He has a far more difncult road
ahead than did the pediatrist Of the
past few decades. Nature Is on
the side of the child and, it would
seem Is against the aged. She has
decreed that all men must die and
gradually, perhaps mercifully, breaks
down their defenses against this
dread event. The changes that take
place in mind and body with advanc-
ing years are known only in quite q
superficial fashion. Hence 1t is i'm
possible to take proper precautions
against them, to delay them, to
thwart them.
Surgeon General Parran is break
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Rumuniu Joins Up

When General Ion Antonescu,
strong man Of Rumania and head
Of its green-shirted Iron Guard,
signed the protocol which made his
country a member Of the axis group,
he Endorsed the obvious. Rumania
had already surrendered its liberty
Of action to German might, 20 An
tonescu was merely oheying Hitler's
orders. In the immediate sense 1t
was merely paper formality.
Nevertheless, the act had a SYM
bolic significance. 1t registers what
is probably the permanent eclipse Of
Rumania as a major factor in East
ern Europe. Rumania's sudden rise
to near-greatness was due to the
collapse Of the Hapsburg and Russian
Empires in the Great War. Before
1914 Rumania was relatively small
Balkan state with population Of
100000, largely illiterate, landless
peasants. It's economic life was
backward and chiefly in foreign
hands, its political life was extremely
corrupt. The diplomacy Of the vic
torious Western powers favored a
strong Rumania, so the Versailles
treaties enlarged it nearly three
fold in both area and population. 1t
thereby united almost all Rumanian-
speaking people into Greater Ru-
MANIA" but with them came large
alien minorities, especially Magyars
and Germans, who were politically
and economically more advanced,
and who were quite unassimilable.
Only the most enlightened admins
tration could have quickly welded
this new creation into a stable unity.
But corruption and incompetence
persisted, while King Carol and his
ambitious court camarilla did not
help matters. The upshot was that
Greater Rumania, for all its size and
natural resources, had grave internal
weaknesses which could not stand
the shock of Europe's present cata-
clysm. 1t has now fallen without a
struggle.
Germany's bloodless mastering Of
Rumania Is of course an important
step In the establishment Of that
new order" in Central Europe which
is the immediate aim of the Third
Reichs diplomacy. In German
hands, Rumania's natural wealth will
doubtless be much more efficiently
exploited, while its occupation by
German armies serves strategically
both to block Soviet Russia and to
open the way for stroke at Greece,
Turkey, or both. The recent earth
quake does not seem to have more
than temporarily disrupted German
detectives, military or economic.
But 1t must not be forgotten that,
like Germany's other triumphs, the
subjugation Of Rumania is victory
Of force. In their hearts, the
Rumanians must almost unanimously
resent this subsection to a foreign
conqueror. The new member of the
axis is therefore an unwilling part
ner, and the partnership would
quickly dissolve II the military might
which imposed 1t should be broken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
THIS AND THAT

BY Charles Z. Trace,1ell.

A beautiful sweet song has been break
fast music during the past few weeks.
It Is q white throated sparrow which
has taken up the garden as Its head
quarters for the winter.
This is one Of the two finest sparrows
which come to local yards. The song
sparrow Is the other. Both these fine
birds winter in the District Of Columbia
and nearby Maryland and Virginia.
The song of the white-throated SPAR
row is rather mournful, but high and
clear, with slight waverins quality.
In the still of the morning. while all
is dark outside, this birds song hes an
almost electrical quality, as it floats into
q room where lights are still burning.
This is the famous Peabody" bird,
although to many ears there is no slight
est resemblance between the birds song
and the name Peabody.
Other names for 1t are Poverty bird,
cherry bird, Canada bird, white-throated
crown sparrow, white-throat, Canada
sparrow and nightingale.
The song begins with two long notes,
followed by three groups Of syncopated
notes.
Some observers say the song sounds
to them as "Old Sam Peabody, Peabody,
Peabody"
Others swear 1t is SOW wheat, Pew
erly, Poverty, Poverty" This interpreta-
ton comes from the legendary tale about
q farmer named Poverty
He was trying to make up his mind
whether the time had come to put in his
wheat, when a small bird nearby piped
up with the instruction, Sow wheat,
Poverty, Poverty Poverty"
This anecdote may give the psychology
Of mans determination to give the bird
songs words.
Actually, Of course, birds do not "say"
anything, they only seem to. 1t is mani
testify impossible for them to know Eng
hsh. What happens is that the nearer
is keyed up, in some way or other, and
gives the sounds such meaning as he
chooses, at the time, to give them.
Ever thereafter. such is the human
mind, he sticks up for his own interpre-
tations. The song Of the wood thrush Is
. good example Of this. Every one hears
1t differently. To one listener the bird
seems to be calling Mary Lee, but If there
Is Clara Lee In the family, she is the
young lady the wood thrush calls.
The white-throated sparrow is a real
beauty.
1t wears black and white striped cap,
with yellow stripes, too, and as II this
were not enough, 1t has a fine white
patch beneath the chin. Some persons
choose to look upon this as tie, but that
Is rather fanciful.
The back and tail are a warm brown,
with some black and little white.
The winter song Is not the sort given
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25

above, but is rather confined to the first
two long notes.
This Is one Of the scratching birds,
which 1t possesses with such birds as the
towhee.
II you see something which is scratch
ing in the leaves, and it is about inches
long, as birds go, Of rather decided
sparrowlike appearance, be sure that 1t is
q white-throat.
These birds are both migrators and
permanent residents.
Most OF the latter come down from the
north, and stop along here, deciding to
make a winter Of it where they find food.
This is one Of the best reasons for
establishing feeding station. To at
tract this sweet singer and handsome
fellow is worth while in any yard.
At times the white-throat will utter q
short chirp, its alarm cry, but this is so
much like the ordinary chirping Of Eng
lish sparrows that it is difficult to spot it.
Wherever there are English sparrows
there are likely to be white throated
sparrows.
No doubt this is good reason for put
ting up with the English sparrows. The
junco, or snowbird, also likes its humble
relatives; wherever English sparrows fire.
quent a feeding station, the snowbirds
will come, too.
The cardinals, which belong to the
finch family, to which the sparrows be-
long, also are to be found in company
with the common sparrows.
We may feel, therefore, that the Eng
fish sparrow is by no means as bad
bird as he is sometimes painted, If we
may judge bird by the company he
keeps.
The white-throated sparrow Is not just
q beauty and fine singer.
He Is regarded by experts as one Of
the most useful Of all song birds in
cleaning up weed seeds.
Few species consume more inimical
seeds than this dainty bird.
He is, like all birds, always hungry.
and he has an unerring eye for the sort
Of seeds he prefers. Fortunately for man,
he likes the seeds Of such things as the
ragweed.
As to his singing, he really sings in
the dark Not many birds do.
That is why it is good thing to listen
for him early in the morning these cold
days, just before real light.
The usual time for singing at this sea-
son is about $50 am.
Listen then, and If you have bird
feeding station in operation you may
hear his voice, lifted thrillingly across
the garden 1t is louder than the song
sparrows more cheerful song. We should
all be glad for these winter songs. There
are not very many Of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
A Reader Asks,
when Do We Start?"

To the Editor Of The Star:
Well, when do we start?-that Is, the
world counterofiensive On my recent
trip to the coast heard . high-placed
churchman refer publicly to the gang
sters Of Berlin" as responsible for the
current world depredations. Later, an
important world figure referred in print
to the criminals" responsible for the
present world offensive Of terrorism and
destruction. In what is perhaps our
greatest magazine I read: ~ The
conscienceless dictators who misrule
Germany have frankly announced their
assault to be the greatest world revolu-
ton ever SEEM and this Is probably the
first great one which has been engineered
and directed by men Of extraordinary
organizing and administrative ability,
who are great soldiers and are able to
plan on q gigantic scale down to the
smallest detail -"
Well when do we start?
Is it about time for an international
Red Cross" cabal Of rescue and recla-
nation to be formed for the supreme.
task Of quelling the satanic-human
cataclysm that RACES the earth by a
counterof1ensive worthy OF the greatest
efforts humanity has ever known7
W.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
On Catching Spies

1t Is most unfortunate Cnat con-
troversy should have developed be-
tween the Department of Justice and
the Dies Committee on Un-American
Activities over investigation Of fifth
columnists" in the United States.
Any discord among forces seeking to
combat espionage and sabotage re-
acts to the satisfaction and perhaps
to the benefit of those subversive
elements at which the anti-spy war
is directed. The Dies Committee and
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation
have attacked the enemy within our
gates with different weapons. Pub
licity has been the instrument upon
which Chairman Martin Dies of the
House group has relied to expose GER
tain aliens, fellow travellers and Or
CARNATIONS, and thus to render them
impotent. Secrecy has been the
strategy of the F. B. I. and its asso-
ciates, the intelligence services OF the
Army and Navy-secrecy, that Is,
during the initial investigative and
surveillance stages, followed, when
the time was ripe, by vigorous prose-
cution in courts of law.
There is no gainsaying the fact
that the publicity methods Of Mr..
Dies have served a useful purpose
albeit at times the committee has
seemed to overdo the headline-seek-
ing and has been not too circumspect,
on occasion, In the selection OF wit
nesses and the conduct Of hearings.
Perhaps the outstanding accomplish
nent of the Dies Committee has been
the arousing of public interest in the
spy menace and the placing Of all
Americans on guard against Trojan
horse tactics designed to undermine
our democratic institutions. Public
apathy is an effective ally OF those
who seek to spread foreign isms."
In exposing the propaganda work Of
the Reds, American Vaccinations
Of the German-American Bund, the
dangerous doctrines of various
Fascist groups and the operations OF
foreign controlled propaganda agen-
cies in this country. the committee
has performed a valuable public
service.
Just as publicity is potent anti
dote for poisonous propaganda, secret
expert counterespionage is the tested
and proved method for attacking
secret, expert espionage and sabotage
by foreign agents. Alien spies and
saboteurs are too well versed in the
wiles of espionage to make them
selves conspicuous by wearing Bund
uniforms or by taking part In Com.
munist demonstrations. Sries fear
only other spies, capable Of beating
them at their own game. Here II