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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-01-01
Gainesville News
By Rev. A. R. Thomas

A wonderful pre-Christmas pro-
gram, plate supper and Christmas
tree was enjoyed by the teachers
and students of the Egypt Hill Pub
lie School on Wednesday night,
December %, with the Rev.
Thomas offering a short prayer of
thanks to open the affair Thru
out the evening a most delightful
time was had by all present.
Teachers present were: Mrs. Ell
nora Walker, Mrs Mary Louie and
Miss Mary Cotton.
Mr.. Jimmie Jones of Gatesville
was a recent visitor in Laurel as
the house guest of his girl friend,
Miss Joanna Dennis. Mr. Jones
reports an enjoyable visit. He was
accompanied by his brother, Mr.
Leroy Jones and his uncle, Mr..
Samie Lackey of Jackson. Young
Jones will be indicted into the
Army soon and left for camp Mon
Aday, Dec. 81.
I Miss Etherlene Holman Of Chi
cago is visiting in the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs B. G. Glas-
| per of Gatesville.
Mr.. Luster Willis of this town
left Monday, December 81, for Fort
Benning, Ca, where he will begin
training as a soldier in the United
States Army.
Mr.. Sam Thomas, an old-time
resident of Gatesville, Miss, has
been very i'll and at this writing
is confined to his bed, altho we
are hoping he will soon recover.
Niree Brown, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elree Brown, is also
home on a furlough. We hope for
these boys a pleasant stay and
much success in their Army life.
Mr.. David Glasper, of New Or
| leans, La, was a Christmas visitor
in the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. B. G.. Glasper. Another
Christmas visitor was Miss Armitta
Thomas, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
o. T. Thomas Miss Thomas is q
high school student of Piney Woods
School.
Miss Genette Ayers who is at
tending high school in Gulfport is
home for the holidays as the guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A
Ayers
Mr.. D. L. Lovelady and Mrs. j
D. Lackey motored to jackson
Christmas to enjoy the holiday
with Mr.. Lovelady's daughter, Mrs
Elnora Walker. They also visitet
in the home of Mrs. A. Crane Mrs
Crane is yet on the sick list Mr.
Marshall Ayers, of New Orleans
! La, is visiting in the home of hi
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Ayers
Now my dear friends and to tn,
entire race group, l am extending
{ to you a hearty greeting. Hoping
you have enjoyed a Merry Christ
mas and wishing for you peace
: full and prosperous New Year.
) Miss Josephine Laekey is hom
: visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-01-01
From The State
Health Officer

Tularemie, a disease man may
get from handling infected rabbit
meat or from insects which have
fed on a diseased animal, has been
reported steadily since the hunt
ing season opened. Although wild
rabbits are the main source of this
diesase, there is no reason to forego
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-01-01

People who eat three good meals
a day are usually in first class
health. 1t is the combined action
of the entire meals that counts
with nutrients aiding and abetting
the action of each other. The lack
of one nutrient may restrict the
whole effect
Persons who fail to eat break
fast have poor health records. The
long period between tonight's din
ner and tomorrow's lunch imposes
too great a strain on our systems
and their stored nutrients.
Both hidden and hollow hunger
result from lack of breakfast. For
example, when no enriched or
whole grain breads, mullins or &C.
reals are eaten, the daily supply
of vitamin B1 and phosphorus is
markedly reduced. Futrehrmore
cereals, toast or mullins add stay
ing power to the meal by providing
calories and protein. The use OF
milk in bread or on cereals is nu-
tritional wisdom
Fruitless breakfasts usually mean
that the daily quota of vitamin C
is not supplied. A lack of vitamin
c leads to laziness and low en-
ergy. Breakfast plays big part
in efficiency.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-01-01
TREASURE CHEST

NOTHING GOOD IS LOST: Cast thy bread upon the
waters, for thou shalt find it after many days-EccL 1918
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-01-01

CRYSTAL SPRINGS GOSSIP I.
Willie Mae is trying to get her
name changed again. How many
will that make her? Seven and
five are twelve.
Carrie N. Bailey says Uncle Sam
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
A Socialist Europe

The regime that the masses aim at, whatever name they may give
to it, is the Democratic and Socialist organization of Europe.
We know only too well how the word socialist has been distorted
from its original meaning. However, it is evident that the Socialism
toward which the people of Europe march has nothing in common with
the hldeous carlcatures that the fascist relationships made of it, nothing
in common with the decadent Socialism of bourgeois parliamentary
governments, nothing in common with any type of domination of the
individual by an alLpowerful state. 9"r r
Neither is it a vague aspiration, Of a distant ideal. It is a definite
UP, for those who are not willing to remain buried underneath that
rubble. D##i "
The road leading to this socialism is none Of those taken in the
past: 1t is not the road of conservative parliamentary reforms, nor that
imposed by a strong will upon people who n incapable of democratic
action. 1t is the road of mass revolt against the growing oppression that
stands on the way of the workers emancipation and of human liberia
ton. The unexpected historical necessity has changed it from a dream
or a mere theory into a immediate practical political task, since the
hitherto dominating classes have collapsed, and since the masses whose
work it Is to build it are already prepared for it, concretely organized
and armed, and morally evolved. s
All of a sudden, history has placed them under conditions of being
automatically Socialist and revolutionary.
Are they fit for this task?
They will be fit if they understand that over the ruins of the bank
fupt and treacherous class state they must establish the real peoples
rule, in which not only a poweress assembly of representatives, but all
troued by the people.
Theoretically control the major economic organs; if they understand
that they must build, upon the ruins of fascist domination and of the
state sovereignties, the democratic union of the European peoples
peoples union and not League of States-as a first step toward the
union of all the people of the world.
The basic structure of the socialist regime will then be complete,
md we will have a society in which each human being will be permitted
TO attain in the free and complete development of his faculties, in which
happiness will be assured insofar is happiness depends social
Observation-Disclosures Pivert in The Call,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
What's Botherinq
Wall Street?

American business moguls, who can't visualize any prosperity
Whatever without the ability to take huge SURPRISES from American
workers and sell those SURPRISES all over the world, III wondering how
postwar Russia will stack up as a customer.
How, the Wall Street Journal recently asked, will Russia be able
70 pay for the billions of dollars worth of American-made goods it
voul like to have when the war ends? The implication in that question
must be that Russia will have too little for it's own use and that the
United States will have more than it needs.
We do not propose to answer the Journals question about trade
with Russia at this time. However, w will ask a question about Amer
lea. Here it is:
What will be the result to the American people when unsaleable
SURPRISES of wealth ire again produced?
Will millions of workers again be dismissed by private industry?
Yes, If private profit is the handspring that moves the economic ma
chine. No, if before that time the American people scrap the private
profit system and inaugurate an economy of production for use
Will the government again take over with made-work projects
inoW which private industrys cast-offs SAL be held in reserve while the
profIttakers continue to exploit such workers IS they may require?
Yes, if the free enterprise system outasts the war. No, if WI have
q planned economy that is geared to the peoples needs and desires.
These aren't our questions alone. Wall Street is asking them too.
What shall we do with workers when we have more goods than we al
sell? That is the terrifying question.
1t won't terrify Russia because Russia will be able to Isl all it's
plan that will make SURPRISES serve to elevate living standards.
pose OF production were the logical purpose of consumption. Then we
Americans would not need to fear producing more than w could Use,
because abundance AND added leisure for workers would result from
it to be.
Wall Streets worry emphasizes the insanity of the capitalist
system. What a crazy thing it is for the richest nation on earth to look
WITH gloomy apprehension upon a future when the people will be poor
because they have more than they need-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
JUGOSLAV LEADERS
MEET ON LIBERATED
TERRITORY

WASHINGTON. - The French
radio at Leopoldville recently quot
ed a communique broadcast by the
Free Jugoslavia' radio to the eff
feet that "a full agreement on all
outstanding questions had been
reached between Marshall Tito and
DR.. Subasic, Jugoslav prime min
lister, on the early establishment of
the Jugoslav government in the
liberated country"
The broadcast, reported to OWL
by FEC monitors, added that the
conversations between Tito and
Subasic took place in Naples and
were conducted in a friendly spirit.
The Free ~Jugoslavia radio in a
recent broadcast also announced a
meeting ION liberated Jugoslav ter
ritory'' between DR.. Ribar, chair
man of the national committee of
liberation, and DR., Subasic on Oc-
tober rs.
The talks, which were conducted
in the most cordial atmosphere"
the broadcast said, concerned the
creation" of a Jugoslav govern
ment on liberated territory, and
the results achieved so far indi-
cate that full agreement will be
reached"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
Distorting Freedom of the Press

what did the fathers of the Republic mean when they wrote "frao
dom Of the press" into our Bill of Rights and made it a part O ON Com
tu1on Dd they mean that anyone who succeeded in getting control
Of course not.
"na uey hdo III nina "a that an American should have the right
~ pu' lis opinions on paper and distribute them among his fellow
Americans
We are all in favor of that kind of freedom of the press" but IL
IL doesn't Satlsfy a small group of very rich men who control the news.
papers and magazines of America.
just a few days ago, in a brief filed in the United States Supreme
court, one of these publishers argued that an atemnt to cononeo1 no
ASSOCIATED Press to obey the antitrust laws was IAN encroachment BY
government tie even insisted that this greatest of news gathering or.
carnations was not engaged in interstate commerce.
AS a matter Of fact, if there is any institution in this country which
in all parts of the nation.
The government is trying to force the A. P to sell its sarxice 70 or
"sp aIe and wiling to pay for it. That's a question of MONOPOLY
not freedom of the press-Labor. ~.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
Expand Government
Enterprise

When this war is over the government will have a supplv of CO.
plus materials whose value is already estimated at approximately S5
oOOOOO. In addition, the government already owns capital induSros
amounting IN money value to approximately $780, 600 OOO.
Thus w e that the government already is deep in the bushoo.
Of the production and distribution of wealth.
There is n o doubt that the question of what to do will III +h.
government-owned capital will be a source of argument and dissan
a1ter the war ends, SO we may is well jump the gun and present
our idea on the subject now.
we supnlt-and workers better give some thought to this mattor
nowl-that the industries that ire used to produce abundance for ~
and destruction should also be used to produce the same degree of atnn
dance for peace and prosperity.
We submit that the course of government economics should be al
tered 81 that the nations resources-instead of being the last cbano
ot the Jobless-should actively compete with private ENTERPRISE for a.
purpose OF putting private enterprise out of business.
we submit that If John Jones can compete with Bill Smith tbor
uncle Sam should have no conjunction about competing with both
It's ali a question OF what the American people want their govern
heht TO 40. IL they want it to be a prop for the owning class tber
government must function after the war Just as it did during the 40
PiesSlohL II government IS to be a instrument for the achievement of
economic security and social justice, then the place to apply the nroe
sure toward that enc is the governmental financed plants.
People who live by taking waste workers make won't be favorable
10 our suggestion. We don't blame them; they shouldn't be Bmt to
majority of Americans should want the same enterprise in peace a. us
necessary in mar-The Reading Labor Advocate
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
The First Biography of
NikoIo TesIo Out Soon

The first biography of Nikola
Tesla, the Yugoslav : American
scientist who was the father of the
modern electrical superpower sys-
tenn that made practicable the har-
Messing of Niagara Falls, and whose
researches in electricity earned
him the Nobel Prize (Which he de-
clined) and the Edison Medal, will
be published on November Is un-
der the title Prodigal Genius. The
author of this biography is John
j. O'Neill, Science Editor of the
New York Herald Tribune. who
won a Pulitzer Prize in 1887 for
his scientific writing, and was a
friend of Tesla's for many years.
Tesla, who died in 1943 at the
age of 81 in comparative poverty,
was born in the village of Smiljan
in YugoSlavia, and came to Amer
lea in 1884 to work in the labora-
tories of Thomas A. Edison. He
made his first million dollars when
he sold the rights to his polyphase
system of power transmission (uti-
LIKING alternating instead OF direct
current) to George Westinghouse.
In subsequent years, his inventions
and discoveries were covered by
more than 100 patents. In 1898 in
Madison Square Garden he demon
strated a boat operated by radio
control-forerunner of robot me-
chanisms of today. In the same ex-
hibition he demonstrated the first
practical system of wireless trans
mission, the foundation of modern
radio. This system he had describ-
ed fully in 1898, anticipating all
other inventions in the field. In
1899 he built a laboratory in Colo
RADIO Springs from which he pro-
duced the first bolts of man-made
lightning, and transmitted power
through the earth without wires to
a distance of 26 miles. In 1892 he
demonstrated the first electronic
tube. He was the pioneer in deve-
Looping modern phosphorescent,
f~luorescent and neon tube types of
electric lighting. The Tesla coil is
one of his many contributions to
the science of radio, and other re-
searches laid the foundation for
the modern science of electronics.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
IN THE WIND
From THE I

An observer in Italy writes: Il
continue to meet people who are
not leaders; people who need shoes,
garments, candles, fats, sugar; peo-
pie who are hunting for a rabbit
for twenty hours, who are obliged
to mill the scarce corn and wheat
in a coffee mill; who are going
around with shoes kept together
with pieces Of wire and, string and
with jackets which no secondhand
dealer in the world would buy. But
all these people speak very clearly,
and they know very we'll what
they are talking about. They say,
pointing their fingers toward a
villa: There they were giving
balls for the Germans, and before
the Germans they were entertain
ing the Fascists. Today they dance
with the Americans, but tomorrow
the balls will be led by u.s."
Meanwhile, in America a Repub-
lican writes to the editor of the
Memphis, Tennessee, Press-Scimit-
ar: THE real domestic issue al
stake is for the part of the people
who vote to decide whether the
private and corporate property
owners or the employers class shall
remain dominant and direct af-
fairs as formerly, or shall the wage
workers who have the votes con-
tinue to carry on through their
political prestidigitators whose
chief mission in life is to stir up
strife by creating class hatred"
Election advice from Karl Struss
of Hollywood: Let us repudiate
in elections the ringleaders of all
nations who have allowed the
slaughter of humanity to COM
mence and to continue All those
in authority everywhere through
out the world during the past ten
years r equally guilty of this
crime against humanity There
fore, the peoples of this planet
should demand the immediate alb
dication of all the present rulers of
all nations"
Festung Europa: A Norwegian
pastor who has cooperated with
the Nazis had to cross a ford re-
Gently and couldn't persuade any
body to row him across. He had to
get the Nazis to intercede for him.
They ordered a farmer to row him
across. The boat was so leaky that
the pastor had to bail furious1y all
the way, and by the time they
reached the other side he was soak
ing wet and on the verge of coll
lapse. He staggered ashore and
watched the farmer empty the boat
and start for home. But" he cried,
you certainly don't intend to row
across alone in that leaky boat?"
Yes, | guess So" said the farmer.
I've put the plug back in the bot
tom"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
SOCIALISTS AND
IN ITALY

"A universal feature is the pre-
and the relative weakness of those
of the right. At Milan, for instance,
the committee of national liberia
ton is working without the Labour
Democrats, the party of Signor Bo-
nomi, the Prime Minister, while in
Bologna the committee consists
only of Communists, Socialists,
and the Action Party. The Com
munists r the best organized par
ty, but the Socialists are probably
stronger numerically. Signor Tog-
liatti's step in joining the Govern
ment has created a crisis among
Milan Communists. The views he
has publicly expressed are con
sidered to be too conciliatory, and
he is accused of having moved too
FAR to the right. Moreover, many
Communists do not agree with GER
ain developments of Marshal Sta
ms policy and profess reluctance
TO becoming mere instruments of
the Kremlin. The possibility that
Fascism may be followed by a die
tatorship of the left has alarmed
most people in the north. The Ac-
ton Party commands great influ-
snce, though it is admittedly not
4 party of masses. The Liberal Par
ty is described as having relatively
few supporters" Rome Cores
pendent of "The Times" G8-8-44.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08

1T will be utterly impossible to
for harsh retribution.
restore the devasted areas if you
fix your attention exclusively on
war criminals" Citrine declared.
THE restoration must be by the
German people,"
He cited the absence of large
scale resistance by the German peo-
pie to Hitlerism as proof that you
cannot acquit the German people
of the consequences of the acts of
their government"
Speeches by fraternal delegates
from the Soviet Russian trade I'M
ions played an important part III
swaying the convention. They gave
grueSome accounts of destruction
and slaughter committed by the
Nazis in Russia, and one declared:
There can be no mercy for those
who showed no mercy to women
and children
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08

Mr.. O'NeilPs acquaintance with
Tesla dates from the days when as
a young boy he was employed as a
page in the scientific section of the
New York Public Library, to
which Tesla was a frequent visitor.
This friendship developed when
Mr.. O'Neill embarked on his career
as a writer on scientific subjects
Tesla once remarked to him, "You
understand me better than anyone
else in the world"
Tesla's native country, Yugo-
slavia honored him in 1886 by the
opening on his Both birthday of the
Tesla Institute in Belgrade, devot-
ed to the furthering of scientific
research. Tesla became a natural
lied American citizen during his
years of residence in the United
States.
Ives Washburn, Inc, publishers
of PrOdigal Genius, will pay trib-
ute to Tesla's memory and to his
~biographer and friend, John j.
ONeill, at a cocktail party to be
held at Sherry's in New York City
on the publication day of the book.
Former associates and friends of
Tesla, scientific writer's and repre-
sentatives of Yugoslavia in this
country will be present, as we'll as
members of the book trade.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
LABoR's FOES
A

Dispatches from Canberra, cap
ital of Australia, announce that the
foes of the Australian Labor Party
have agreed to organize a new par
ty, to be known as the Liberal Par
ty. 1t will include 18 non-labor or
CARNATIONS. The idea originated
with Robert Menzies, former pre-
mier and now leader of the oppo-
sition in the Australian Parliament.
He was ousted by the Laborities
soon after the start of the war, and,
naturally, is anxious to come
back"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
FRENCH ARE SEEKING
U. S. RAIL EQUIPMENT

American airmen, in making
hash of French railroads, made
business for American manufacture
ers of rail equipment. Dispatches
from Paris this week indicated that
orders for 800, 600, 900 worth of
locomotives r being negotiated
and an equal amount of freight
and passenger cars, rail and mis-.
cellaneous equipment.
A French engineering group in
Washington has completed specifi-
cations for TOO locomotives sched-
uled for delivery next year.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
Hard Peace" for
Nazis is Demanded
British Labor
Trade Union Congress Re-
verses Stand Taken Dy Last
National Convention
NATURALIZATION URGED

BLACKPOOL, England, Oct. 25.
Labor in this nation stands COM
mltted to a hard peace for Ger
many, as a result of action taken
at the closing sessions of the Bri-
fish Trades Union Congress this
week.
Overwhelmingly, the 725 dele
gates to the convention reversed
their position of a year ago that
only the Nazi leaders should be
held responsible for the crimes of
the German nation. This time the
delegates went on record for severe
punishment of Germany as a
whole.
They called for payment of
heavy reparations by the Fetch.
complete disarmament of Ger
many, rigid control of all it's indus
tries that might be converted to
war purposes, and punishment not
only of Nazi war criminals" but
of others in positions of influence
who could not prove. they opposed
May brutality.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
A TERRIBLE TOLL

Newspapers which have harped
for many months on labor's strike
record, delight in pointing out the
man hours lost by strikes. But
since Pearl Harbor, December 7.
l941, less than one-tenth of one
per cent of all man hours available
were lost by strikes, a record GER
tainly giving the lie to labor bait
erS.
These same newspapers, on the
other hand, have neglected to point
out that in 1943 alone, 2,4OO, 900
men and women were injured in
industrial accidents, while another
1880 men and women workers
were killed at their jobs.
Accidents cost 270, 900, 900 days
of lost time, the equal of one whole
years work of 900, 900 workers.
That is a record which cost the ma
ton far in excess of two billion
dollars of production, besides the
heart aches.
That record Of accidents and
fatalities is so far in excess, from
the standpoint of time lost, that
there is no comparison between
this record and the strike-loss re-
cord.
But it is odd that newspapers
throughout the nation never seek
to point this out, nor to start a
campaign for more safety in the
coal mines and factories of the
nation.-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-08
Regulation Upheld

Delegates with votes totaling o.
685, 900 rejected a resolution ear
ing for withdrawal of the resul"
ton, as against 1902, 90 for the re-
solution.
Membership strength of the Dit
fish labor movement has reacne0
an alltime high, convention repois
disclosed. Unions affiliated WIZ
the Congress were revealed to nav
6,642, 81 members, an increase :"
617,906 over a year ago.