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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-11-10

Cattle Craze on low hanging
leaves and destroy the young
growth Of seedlings.
Clean, fresh sod or dirt put
into a pig pen every few days
is a good anemia preventive.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-11-10

Mr.. and Mrs. James Ford and
children of Lucedale, were week
end guests of Mrs. d.. o. Mcleod.
Ricketts, were practically I'M
known in Holland before the
war.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-11-10

Buster" Murphy, who is in
the U. S. Navy, has been home
on a visit to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Murphy.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
The Closing Week

Tile President at ShiDe Park and
Governor Dewey at Syracuse have
laid down the principal lines which
their respective campaigns may be
expected to follow during the eight
days that remain before the elec-
ton.
Mr.. Roosevelt stressed the war and
his administrations war record.
Governor Dewey dwelt on the New
Deal and the domestic shortcom-
ings of the administration. 1t is
not to be expected, of course, that
the respective candidates will ad-
here strictly to these themes. But,
by and large, they will constitute
the bases of their appeals to the
voters during the closing week of
the campaign.
The President, as pointed out in
these columns yesterday, did not
discuss the New Deal in addressing
his Philadelphia audience. But Mr..
Dewey, delivering his postponed
farm address yesterday afternoon,
made the most of rural discomfort
with the New Deal and all that it
has come to signify to the farmers
and the voters of the small towns.
AS he has done before, the New
York Governor charged that after
eight years in office the New Deal
had failed to achieve anything
like fair prices for farm products" ;"
largely because in 1910 there still
were 100000 people-potentia
customers of the farmer-who had
been unable to find jobs. Mr.. Dewey
blamed this condition on the policies
of the administration, and con-
tended that when war employment
disappears we will revert to con-
dition of widespread unemployment
should the President be elected for
a fourth term. The Republican
candidate also renewed his attack
on the integrity of the administra-
ton, asserting that for twelve years
we have had "an unmanageable
surplus of promises-promises light
ly made, sketchily kept, or openly
violated"
Governor Dewey will continue his
effort to drive home these and SIM
liar points. The President may at
tempt direct answer, but it is un-
likely. He seems to have adopted
the strategy of sticking to the war
and his direction of it as Com
mander in Chief. If he is re-
elected it will be on that basis, and
for him to attempt to defend tts
New Deal would have the effect of
giving his opponent a larger target
to shoot at.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

legged breaches Of international and
American responsibilities would
be more easily determined.
OF course, the exclusion of in
ternal questions from the proposed
meeting would leave untouched the
nature of Argentina's present re-
gime, whose totalitarian tendencies
have excited apprehension in, the
United States and elsewhere in
Latin America. However, the mem
orandum is seemingly on solid
ground when it states that this
would set a dangerous precedent
against the reciprocal respect that
all states owe each other" It is
hard to imagine this country per-
mitting discussion of our do
mestic affairs in any international
conference.
Evening star., 1944-10-29

We too long have neglected the
moral lesson Of Noah's career and
too long permitted him to be the butt
of jokesters and college songs.
The Biblical narrative gives a
graphic description of his obedience
to Gods warning that everything
and every one on earth were 10 be
destroyed except himself and his
immediate family and in-laws and
specimens of all creatures, provided
they sought the sanctuary of tie
specified ark. The play, Green Pas
lures" suggests that in doing all this
Noah had to submit to the accom-
panying taunts of his incredulous
neighbors, who believed he was in
sane-building an ark with the sun
shining and dry land all around.
But Noah read the signs of the
times correctly. He carried through
his mission at the expense, we may
suppose, of his time, money and the
ridicule of the skeptics. And he had
the moral victory, at the conclusion
OF the cataclysm, of realizing that
mankind as result had a greater
vision of God-of a God who there
after would never again destroy all
life. This was Gods covenant, and
the story says the rainbow was a
token of that vow.
After Noah and his family came
out on dry land, they began to till
the ground, plant vineyards and build
the newer, fairer world that God
intended. However, some time later
Noahs youngest son found his father
drunk and naked, lying in a stupor
IN his tent. This SO appalled, him
that he told his two brothers, who
walked backward into the tent, carrv-
ing shawl on their shoulders. with
which they covered him. From
Noah's subsequent actions, and from
the continuing tenor of the nara
tive, we gather that the sad old fate
had oVertaken this man of God.
he mad won the war, but he had lost
tne peace. He was unprepared for
victory!
On November II, 1918, America had
an orgy of celebration, rejoicing over
the signing Of the armistice. Un-
fortunately, We never came out of
that particular drunk" We re-
treated into an irresponsible isola-
tionism. Prejudice and clashes be-
tween the races resulted in bloody
riots in several cities. Labor and
capital disputes expressed themselves
IN strikes on the one hand and lock-
outs on the other. Economic specu-
Evening star., 1944-10-29
"Umbrebared for Victory"
"And Noah -. ,Cas drunken"
By the Req. Ho,1ard Stone Anderson, D. d.,
Minister. First COnQreQdtiondL Church

lation mounted in an insane Gre
scendo to the stock market crash of
1929. An increasing cynicism about
human nature had It's influence in
relaxing almost every ones attitude
toward the Ten Commandments, to-
ward marriage (the divorce rate in
creased appallingly) and toward even
simple decency and common hon.
esty.
Selfishly, we tried to forget every
thing. We sought, each one, bis own
pleasure. We tried to "eat, drink
and be merry for tomorrow we die"
In fact, while this incident in Noah's
life Is used by me symbolically and
not literally, there are those who
maintain that on the Inflated De-
cember 7, 1941, there were some of
us literally drunk.
Now we are anticipating another
v day. We day, we call it, for we rec
ognize that the task will not be en-
tirely finished when the European
phase of the war is finished. And we
are expecting to celebrate We day
which I feel is proper and psyche
logically necessary. We will feel
happy when that day comes That's
fine.
But what about the day and the
days and the years after that day?
What about the future security of
the world? What about the thou
sands of veterans mustered out with
the label Mp (psychoneurotics) on
them? What about the increasing
number Of domestic tragedies we
shall face "a New York sociologist
predicts that 10 per cent of all war
marriages will have serious problems
in readjusting)? What about capital
and labor? What about the conflicts
between the races? What about the
16 to 18 million woman workers and
now many of them can be persuaded
to resume their moral leadership in
our homes? What about juvenile de-
AHuciiCy!
Fifty years ago Rudyard Kipling
wrote for Victorian Imperialism:
If, drunk with sight Of power, we
loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee
in awe,
Such boasting as the gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the law
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget"
And a much longer time ago the
Bible bravely showed us the incident
OF a man who was equal to the de-
mands of crisis, but failed in the
times of peace. And Noah - was
drunken" Let us take notice.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Arqentinu's Move

The Argentine governments ap-
plication to the governing board of
the Pan-American Union asking it
to call meeting of Foreign Min
listers of all American states at the
earliest possible date to consider
the so-called Argentine problem is,
on the face of it, a shrewd diplo-
matte move. The request is based
upon the provision for such con-
sultative meetings adopted at the
Pan-American Conference at Lima
under the formula known as Con-
sultation." This idea has already
been advanced elsewhere in Latin
America and in the United States
as the best way of bringing within
the bounds of formal diplomatic
discussion a controversy which con-
tains serious political implications.
In the explanatory memorandum
addressed to the Foreign Ministers
OF all American states the Argentine
government excludes any considera-
ton of its internal affairs. It like
wise specifies for the agenda of the
proposed meeting only the overt
acts that mark country's interna-
tional conduct, and not any inten-
tions-or unfriendly motives-at-
trlbuted to one party or another.
Subject to those limitations, the
memorandum implies that the dis
cussion would be of general nature
wherein "all American countries,
without exception, would have a
chance to expound their view
points"
Assuming that the Argentine gov
ernment is acting in good faith,
there would seem to be no valid
reason why such a meeting as that
proposed might not be helpful and
should not be held. Of course, the
argument might be raised that the
present Argentine regime, not being
recognized by most of the American
nations, including the United States,
is not proper government and that
its request might therefore be
ignored. Such course, however,
obviously would be legalistic and
would give Buenos Aires grounds for
charging evasion and discrimination
against Argentina. The best way of
testing the sincerity of the present
Argentine regime would seem to be
to accept its proposal and bring it's
international actions to the bar of
pan-American argument and dis
cussion. II the Argentine Foreign
Minister should then adopt an OBJ
structive, unco-operative or defiant
attitude, the case against his regime
would be strengthened and its al
Evening star., 1944-10-29
SUNDAY, October 20, 1914
Civilian Defense Volunteers

Washington's fifty thousand civil
Ian defense volunteers will become
officially inactive this week.
Should there be some emergency,
such as fire or other catastrophe,
when they could supplement the
regular police and firemen, some of
them might be called to duty again.
Comparable organizations have done
good service elsewhere in such cir
cumStances. But the chances are
that the defense workers will not be
assembled again and that this chap
ter of the war, at least, is closed.
Our enemies, through no fault of
their own, failed to furnish the
stimulant which would have made
service as civilian defense worker
a much more glamorous undertak-
ing than it was. The most note
worthy characteristic of our civilian
defense was the ability, patriotic
sacrifice and genuine enthusiasm
shown by the volunteers in prepar-
ing themselves for conditions which
they knew were highly improbable.
That required more stamina than
had they organized in the face of
impending disaster of which, as in
England, there was evidence all
about them. They stuck to it, know
ing that it was play acting, yet
realizing the absolute necessity of
being prepared for the worst.
Among the fifty thousand in the
protective services there were men
and women who worked hard all day
and then reported for training and
instruction at night. There were
the plane spoilers, the AFRAID war
dens and the others to whom prac-
tice raid alarms meant getting up
or out at night and manning their
posts. OF the thirty AFRAID tests
held in Washington, nineteen of
them were at night. Three of them
lasted all night. The most intensive
period of this training was in 1912,
although control centers were hav-
ing once-a- week tests through 1943.
The last blackout was in May of
this year. The auxiliary firemen
and police showed such zeal that at
one time, although it may be diff
cult to recall it now, there was
serious question whether they should
not be assigned as regular members
of the forces for the duration of
the war.
The money and the effort spent
in preparing for something that
never happened were not wasted.
The volunteers did their duty gave
as fine a demonstration of loyalty
as one could wish to see. And if,
after the war is over, tradition is
maintained by a great parade up
Pennsylvania avenue, these volun-
teers should assemble once again
and have a place in the line of
marching heroes.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
In Holland

The capture of s Hertogenbosch
and Tilburg, key Nazi centers in
Holland, has greatly advanced the
drive of the Canadian First Army
and the British Second Army to
shatter all enemy positions in the
southwestern part of the country
below the Mas River and to render
secure the long water approaches to
the great port of Antwerp The
sooner this is accomplished, the less
suffering the Dutch people will have
to endure and the easier it will be
to supply the Allied armies now
struggling to roll forward in force
into Germany.
AS soon as the Nazis are swept
from the north and south shores
OF the Schelde estuary, Antwerp will
be wide open for use by our Allied
shipping and the task of keeping our
forces supplied will have been enor-
mously simplified-a fact which
should greatly accelerate and
strengthen offensive operations
along the German front. To the
extent that it brings that day nearer,
therefore, the current British
Canadian drive-an operation en-
dangering many thousands of en-
emy troops below the Maas-is a mil
itary event of the first Importance.
Moreover, from the standpoint of
the Dutch living in that region,
nothing could be more welcome than
quick liberation, and if this is real
lied south of the Mas, the popu-
lace north of tin Rotterdam, The
Hague and Amsterdam-fna not
have to wait too long for similar re-
lief. The great flow of battle news
has tended to obscure the plight of
the people of Holland, but their
situation, aggravated by their own
valiant railway strike against the
enemy, is bitter one. Large seq
ments of their land have been flood
ed; millions of them face the pros
pect of winter with little or no
gas, electricity or coal their food
supplies are dwindling to point
threatening widespread starvation,
and all the while. as their Prime
Minister has reported, they are being
terrorized with "hofrifying deporta-
tions and the willful murder of hun
dreds of hostages and prisoners"
Both in their immediate trials and
IN long-term sense-in the ruin be-
ing inflicted on their soil by the
Nazi flooding policy-the Dutch are
thus paying heavy price for free
dom. Accordingly, the Netherlands
news today is highly encouraging not
only because of its bearing on Ant
werp but also because it holds out
the possibility-however tenuous-
that the country as whole may be
liberated in the not-too- distant fu-
ture, perhaps before the worst phase
Of winter sets In,
Evening star., 1944-10-29
No Campaign Issue

When congressional debate over
our membership in an international
organization to enforce peace gets
under way, we probably shall hear
much more about the authority of
the United States delegate to the
Executive Council and his power to
commit the United States to the use
OF force against an aggressor with
out going back to Congress for spe-
ciflc instructions.
But Governor Dewey has prevent
ed that particular question from be-
coming a campaign issue. 1t might
have become one, and with injuri-
Gus results later on. Had Governor
Dewey preferred to remain silent in
the face of President Roosevelt's
statement before the Foreign Policy
Association his silence, coupled with
his possible victory in the presi-
Dental campaign. might have been
interpreted as reputation of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's position. AS Presi-
dent Roosevelt's position is believed
to be right-certainly it is essential
to the orderly functioning of what
ever international peace machinery
is set up-Governor Dewey's own
views become extraordinarily impor-
tant.
AS it now stands, President
Roosevelt says:
1t is clear that, if the world organiza-
ton is to have any reality at all, our
representative must be endowed in ad-
vance by the people themselves, by
constitutional means through their rep
resentatives in the Congress, with au-
thority to act
And Governor Dewey says:
a.. We must make certain that our
participation in this world organization
is not subject to reservations that would
nullify the power of that organization
to maintain peace and to halt future
aggression. That means, of course, that
1t must not be subject to reservation
that would require our representative to
return to Congress for authority every
time he had to make decision. OBJ
v1ously, Congress and only Congress has
the constitutional power to determine
what quota of force it will make avail
able, and what discretion it will give our
representative to use that force.
The powers of our delegate to the
Executive Council would be defined,
Of course. and restricted by the
terms Of the treaty which eventual
ly gives form to our participation in
an international organization. With
IN the limits Of that treaty or other
Evening star., 1944-10-29
"A Peoples Peace
From the Christian Science Monitor.

from the Christian Science Monitor.
There would be no question about a
fourth term today did not a certain
number of Americans believe that Mr..
Roosevelt is especially equipped to carry
through the war and negotiate peace.
But 1t is already clear that peace nego-
tiations cannot be carried very far in the
same way the war has been conducted
secretly. Much of the work is already
under way through such conferences as
Breton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks.
Some organizations, such as UNRRA.
are already functioning. Moreover. in
the United States, Congress is going to
take decisive part Already represents
atives of the Senate are working in
close accord with Secretary Hull, who
mas also called into consultation Mr..
Dulles as Mr.. Deweys representative.
In fundamental sense, the peace must
be "a peoples peace"-one which thew
Will understand and continue to support.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
SeIf-Creoted
Stingers

failure in that undertaking, although
the Japanese, during the Is minutes
that they were in Leyte Gulf, may have
inflicted considerable damage on supply
ships and transports.
The real question now has to do with
the enemy ships that got away and the
ability of the Japanese to restore their
combat efficiency. There Is little chance
that they will be able to keep open the
line Of communications to the Indies.
But 1t would be rash indeed to suppose
that when the unprecedented test comes
they will not fight to the end In defense
Of the homeland.
Evening star., 1944-10-29
Mr.. Crews Idea

thoughtful japanese, who are
aware by now that the eventual
defeat of their empire is virtually a
mathematical certainty, will prob
ably find more than little sense in
the suggestion of Joseph C. Grew,
our last Ambassador to Tokyo, that
their country act at once to sur
render Internationally.
There is not much, after all, that
the Japanese can gain by contin-
uing in the war. According to Ad-
miral King, as a result of last weeks
momentous American naval-air vic
tory, their fleet has been reduced
to mot more than one-half Of it's
maximum strength" and, in Ad-
miral Nimitz's judgment, it will be
incapable of challenging any sizable
portion of ours for some time to
come" This means that their po-
sitions everywhere in the vast
reaches of the Pacific-from the
Philippines southwark to the Dutch
East Indies and Singapore and all
the way northward to Formosa, the
China coast and Japan itself-are
now exposed to attack and possible
invasion.
Such state of affairs, coupled
with what the British may be able
to do from the Indian Ocean and
with what may develop from the
Burma campaign and with what
can be accomplished by the steadily
mounting offensive of our Super
Fortresses, must fill informed Jap
anese with the deepest kind of
melancholy. In view of our over
Whelming Allied power-and there
is always the additional worry of
what Russia may do-there is moth
ing for this enemy to look forward
to but increasing disaster to be
inflicted upon him by our forces
striking from the surface of the sea,
from under the sea, on land and
from the air until the empire is
pulverized into submission.
OF course, when he suggests that
common sense should prompt Japan
to surrender Internationally now,
Mr.. Grew does not expect that that
is what will happen. AS he himself
has often made clear and as Ad-
miral King and others emphasize,
the bitterest, the bloodiest and the
most protracted battles probably
still lie ahead, for the Japanese have
demonstrated time and again that
they are disposed to fight on fanati-
cally to the death even when re-
sistance is hopeless. Nevertheless.
1t does no harm to plant Mr.. Crews
Idea In their heads, since it may
bear fruit in many important ways
when their home front really begins
to feel the full weight of our power.
Actually, it is not improbable that
Tokyo will one of these days make a
bid for compromise peace, and Mr..
Grew properly warns us against re-
spending to any such move, however
alluring. Now or later-as he elo-
quently states-the terms must be
those of unconditional surrender,
and the sooner the Japanese people
realize this, the sooner they may
follow his advice so as to save their
homeland from total destruction.
The point has possibilities, and our
experts in psychological warfare
should make the most of it.