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Detroit evening times., 1945-01-20

YoU CAN'T LIVE in that tangled me"
of wilderness" said the people who
came down to the docks to see them off in
1920.
"Sez wbo2" said the Americans to- be-and
did it.
"You can't ignore my taxes" said king,
not many years later "even though you had
no voice in framing them" :"
"Ser wbo?" said the 1875 Americans-and
set of the most momentous revolution in all
history
"You can't keep that hemisphere all for
yourselves" said big European coalition.
You've got to cut US in.
'Sez Wbo'" said the 1928 Americans-and
announced the Monroe Doctrine.
you can't unite east and west" said the
short-sghted They're too far apart"
"Sez Wbo?" said the S69 Americans-and
threw railroad across the continent.
you can't pay laborers five dollars day"
said the look-wth- alarmsts.
"StE ubo9" said the twentieth century
mass production Americans. And proceeded
TO pay labor even more.
you can't get over the Depression" said
the weak-in-heart Americas mature It's
full-grown. All you can do now is divide
what you already have"
And Americans-a little frightened, little
timid-made no answer. Until three dctators
seeing our timidty, said, Democracy is de-
generate, anemic, afraid"
"Sez Wbo?" said the l94l Americans-and
rolled up their sleeves and built the biggest
production plant and fought the greatest wa,
the world had ever seen.
And now there are those who say, But
well never be able to use in peace all the
productive capacity we built for war
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-20

higher and higher taxes. But by using our
productive capacity to give Americans more
for their money in the things they buy, so
they can buy more - and thus create more
jobs and more earnings for ALL
In short, by making full use of this coun-
try's limitless energy and ambition, we can
help lead the world into an era of peace and
plenty greater than any yet seen.
Business is pledged to do its part-hrst, by
increasing the opportunities for all to earn
and, second, by increasing the opportunities
for all 70 bRy.
To increase fbe OPPORTUNITIES for all TO earn,
business pledges a Just and enlightened wage
policy, and the opening of every possible ave-
nue. of advancement for the worker.
1t proposes to proceed at the earliest pos
sibe moment with the starting of new VEN
lures and the expansion of old in order to
provide more jobs for more peope-including
returning servicemen and demobilized war
workers.
1t proposes to put into workers hands the
most efficient tools available so that q
worker, by increasing hi, production, may
add still further to his earnings
To increase the obbortHnitiss for SH to bSJ,
business proposes to make full use of the tech
noIosical know how" it has accumulated
during the war to put on the market the
finest products that can be made, at the low.
est prices for which they can be sold.
1t proposes to seek, through unendns study
and research in the fields of production and
distribution, every possible means for lower
ing prices still further over the years, so that
more of the good things of life can be enjoyed
by more and more of the people.
II proposes to encourage full and free COM
petition to avoid restraint of trade and 80
assure better and better values.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-20
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
State Required To
Furnish 5000 Men
To Armed Forces

Mississippi will be required to
furnish approximately 5000 men
to the armed forces during
March, April, May and June.
Col. l.. w Long, state director
of selective service, announced.
He stated that of the 5000 men
needed by the armed forces. 5000
would be new registrants hecom-
ing ID years of age during the
next four months period. while
men now deferred for occupa-
tional reasons will be called for
induction in equal numbers by
race, 5000 white men and 5000
negro men.
With 270,000 men now regis
tered between the ages of 10 and
80 years of age there are 1l7,000
deferred for occupational reasons
of which SO 500 are deferred for
work in essential agriculture. The
least essential of these who are
now deferred for occupational
reasons and who are found accep-
table upon physical examina-
ton will be processed by the e
lective service, the director ex-
planned. He added that the grad
ual withdrawal of 5000 men over
a period of four months, while
many men r being, discharged
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
Jackson County Has Krebs Cotton Gin
Before Eli Whitney Came To The South

are from the first published ac-
count of it, written in 1772 and
published in ITS.
Bernard Romans was an Eng
lish traveller, botanist, and pro-
moter whose duty it was in the
l770's to find commercial oppor-
tunities in British West Florida
and report them to the home gov
eminent. His report on his find
ings in this southern region tells
of a visit to Pasca Oocooloo pas
cagoula) in l772. This book is
priced today at $325.00 if and
when a copy can be found. The
quotations in this article are
made from photostatic copies of
certain pages made by the Libra
ry of Congress. 1t will be noted
that many of the statements are
very promotional in their nature,
and it should be kept in mind
that nearly all descriptive liter
allure on the Western World in
those days was designed to at
tract settlers. The text of the
book is followed except where
minor changes are necessary for
clarity;
"Since England may perhaps
find cotton worthy of a more uni
versal propagation, l shall. in
hopes that this may take place,
give the method of culture and
of cleaning this produce of our
earth.
"The natural history of the
plant and its characters, species
and varieties will be found in
the botanical account.
Cotton will grow in any soil,
even the most meagre and bar
'"The sort we cultivate here is
the Gossypium Anniversarium or
Xylon Herbaceum; also known by
the name of green seeded cotton,
which grows about four or five
Feet in height. Give this plant a
dry soil and further it will cost
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16

you little trouble or attention;
it must be planted in rows at
regular distances about six feet
apart; plant the seed in rainy
weather and in about five
months time the fibers will be
completely formed and the pods
fit to gather, which will be
known by their being completely
expanded; it must now be car
ried to the mill of which take the
following description.
1T is a strong frame of four
studs, each about four feet high
and joined above and below by
strong transverse pieces; across
this are placed two round well
polished spindles, having a small
groove through their whole
length, and by means of treddles
are by the workman's foot put in
directly opposite motions to each
other: the workman sits before
the frame having a thin board, of
seven or eight inches wide and
the length of the frame, before
him; this board is so fixed to
the frame that it may be moved.
over again, and near the spindle;
he has the cotton in a basket
near him, and with his left hand
spreads it on this board along
the spindles which by their turn
ing draw the cotton through
them being wide enough to adj
nit the cotton, but too near to
permit the seed to go through.
which being thus forced to leave
the cotton in which it was con-
tanned, and by its rough coat en-
tangled; falls on the ground be-
tween the workman's legs while
the cotton drawn through falls
on the other side into an open
bag suspended for that purpose
under the spindles.
""The French in Florida have
much improved this machine by
a large wheel, which turns two of
these mills at once, and with so
much velocity as by means of a
boy, who turns it, to employ two
negroes at hard labor to shovel
the seed from under the mill:
One of these machines l saw at
Mr.. Krebs at Pasca Oocooloo, but
as it was partly taken down, he
claiming the invention was very
cautious in answering my ques-
tions, | cannot pretend to de-
scribe it accurately.
Il am informed that one of
! those improving mills will de-
liver seventy or eighty pounds of
clean cotton per diem.
THE packing is done in large
canvas bags. which must
be wetted as the cotton il put in,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16

tions have met sudden disaster, Red Cross organization and
equipment have been on the spot saving lives and administer
ing quick relief.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
No. l5-The Krebs Cotton Gin
BY CYRIL E. CAIN

Southerners have been twitted
at various times with the state
ment that a Yankee, Eli Whitney,
had to invent a cotton gin for
them before they could make a
living raising cotton. The truth
of the matter is that the South
had a better cotton gin than
Whitney's at least twenty years
before Whitney came south.
Strange as it may seem, this gin
was in Jackson county, where
cotton is almost unknown today.
References to the Krebs cotton
gin have appeared from time to
time in the local and other pa
pers, and there may be in the
archives of the Krebs family a
fuller and better description than
the one here given, yet the de-
scriptive materials here given
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16

each month. should not affect
production in either industry or
agriculture.
Colonel Long pointed out that
selective service can no longer
defer men TO work less than full
time in absolutely essential war
production jobs if they are phys
ically acceptable for service in
the armed forces. A recent sur-
vcv conducted indicates that
there is ample manpower to pro-
duce, both in industry and agri-
culture, but its distribution and
application TO the work at hand
is threatening to impede the war
effort, he stated.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16

cotton a day instead of five or
six which had been the average
for a hard worker"
1t is highly improbable that the
relative merits Of the two gins
were ever considered since, as
indicated by Romans, Krebs was
suspicious of the British and
therefore avoided any publicity.
Shortly after the time Romans
was writing the Spanish con-
uuered this area from the British
and IT was not until 1910 that the
blighting rule of the Spanish re-
gime was thrown off. BY that
time the Whitney gin had been
in use nearly twenty years.
Sources of Information: Ber-
nard Romars' Concise Natural
History of East and West Florida:
Robinson's History OF Western
Europe.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
Amuteur Progrdm
To Be Held AT l4th
Auditorium

An amateur hour. to be pre-
scented at the l4th Street audito-
rum Sunday afternoon at four
o'clock, has been planned by the
Pascagoula Recreation Commits
sion as the third in q series OF
Sunday family recreation pro-
grams.
winning first, second and third
Prizes will be awarded to those
places in the show. Many vari-
Gus types of acts will be present
ed. The public is invited 10 at
tend.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16

that it may not hang to the cloth
and may slide better down; the
bag is suspended between two
trees. posts, or beams and a me-
gro with his feet stamps it down;
these bags are made 10 contain
from three hundred and fifty TO
four hundred weight"
A comparison of the outposts
of the Krebs gin and of the Whit
ney gin may be made from the
statement by Robinson in his
History of Western Europe: In
1892. Eli Whitney, in the United
States, invented a power gin
which enabled n man to clean
the seeds from firty pounds of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
FINDS DOLLARS IN COINS

Roanoke, Ventilation has SO
increased the price of old coins
that il has brought a bright bus
mess future to bedridden r. Ce-
Gil Hall, World War | veteran.
Hall conducts u mail-order coin
business from his bed, and now
employs a fulltime secretary
to handle orders.
He estimates that within the
past -four years the selling price
of most rare coins has advanced
500 per cent. Some Indian head
pennies which sold. for So a few
years ago. are bringing $50 now,
he says. Commemorative half
dollars, first issued in 1918. are
skyrocketing in value.
Canada has a population of
l1:506, 655 in an area of 1886, $50
sct1arr miles
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
A PEOPLES PARTNERSHIP

Bringing relief in allied countries,
working with our armed forces
wherever they are, the Red Cross
gives everyone an opportunity 20
serve.
IN this second year Of War, the
needs increase. March is the War
Fund month. You can help with
time and money.
Enlist with your Chapter for the
work that lies ahead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
POLL

Playing today and tomorrow at the Loew-Poli Theater is the burst ing-with-joy musical state Fair" A technicolor production, the film stars Dana Andrews, Jeanne Grain, Dick Haynes and Vivian Blaine with Q brilliant supporting cast headed by Charles Winnineer and Fay Bainter. Marking their first motion picture collaboration togeth- CT, Richard Rodgers and Oscar HammerStein IT, whose combined music-and-lyrics genius scored so sensational a success in "Oklahoma" and "Carousel," have written @ sparkling set of new song hits for State Fair" The co-feature is The Caribbean Mystery" acclaimed as one of the most spine chilling mysteries of the year, starring James Dunn, Sheila Ryan and Ed- ward Ryan.
 Starting Thursday Is the thrilling film attraction "Week-en at the Waldorf" with an all-Star cast head ed by Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon and Van Johnson. Tn leading roles are also Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold, Robert Benchley, Phyllis Thaxter, Leon Ames, as well as Xavier Cugat and his orchestra.
 Through the revolving doors of the worlds most famous luxury hotel, the Waldorf Astoria, pass four lone- ly people to keep an unexpected date with laughing Fate, during 4s hours crammed with thrills, TO- nance and intrigue, Ginger Rogers is cast as the glittering movie star who has acted so many film loves, so now she Is going to try to find love of her own. Lana Turner is the hotel stenographer who wants Park avenue apartment So that she could escape from Tenth ave- hue where she was born. Van Johnson is the Army Air ace who has to undergo a fatal operation and is going to have one last fling with his flying pay. Walter Pidgeon Is 0 battle weary war correspondent and all he wants to do is sleep,
 Around these four is built, in most clever fashion, 0 tale of intrigue inc volving Edward Arnold as e shady operator in oil who is trying to swing deal involving millions of dollars and a visiting Bey, poten- tate from the Near East. Keenan Wynn, Hollywood's fastest rising young comedian, plays shadow to Pidgeon, famous newspaper corres- pondent, whom he tries to ape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
STRAND

Tarzan's latest exploits in thu African jungles are viSualized In So Lesser's newest production for RKC radio release, "Tarzan and Tht Amazons," in which Johnny Weiss. muller plays the role of Edgar Rice Burroughs ape-nlan character fol ninth time. It is current at the Strand.
 Full of exciting action. the pic- ture starts with the return of Tar zan's mate. Jane, from a trip to Europe. Tarzan, Boy and Cheta set out to meet her, and en route rescue a wandering Amazon of a mysterious tribe living in a secluded valley.
 Jane Is accompanied by a group of explorers who, when they hear Of the Arnazons, are anxious to visit them. Tarzan refuses to take the party to the secret country Of the savage women warriors, but the scientists persuade Boy 10 guide them, whereupon the group Is cap- tured and sentenced to slavery.
 Tn trying to escape, the scientists are Killed, and Boy Is condemned to de for bringing In the intruders, but Tarzan manages to save his sons life in the thrIil-packed climax.
 Brenda Joyce has the role of Jane, and young Johnny Sheffield again plays the part of Boy, with Henry Stephenson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Edgar Barrier, Barton MacLane and other notables in the cast. Kurt Neunann directed.
 The companion feature Is Lights of Old Santa F'e," starring Roy Rogers and Trigger"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
< ! WE. THE WOMEN
Women DeserUe Coutesies Again

having their bags carried aboard ship.
 Even combat troops are going back Into q world where women expect extra courtesies simply be. cause they are women.
 TIME TO START LEARNING
 So if the WACs and other uni- formed women can get men used to that idea before they ever get home, 1t will be that much easier on the women who are waiting fol them.
 Plenty of women who have moved lawns, put on storm win dows, showed heavy furniture around = and maybe even driven trucks or worked in shipyards- are going to expect to be treated Ike ladies again once their men are home. And the men might just as well get used to saying Here, let me do that"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30

their masculine strength to helping the feminine soldiers aboard. THEY'LL GET IT AT HOME
 For their women back home are going to expect that much pamper- ing = If that is what they feel treating women as women really is.
 In wartime the women in uni- form were expected to look after themselves. to shoulder their own load. And so were the women at home.
 But this Is peacetime. And 1t does seem as though the girls who went into uniform and endured the hardships of the Pacific should be treated as women again, even to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30

Seiderman foresees thinner and more transparent foundations that will match the skin. Pads like that of the deep pink which was used this summer will vanish. The thick, smeary mouths affected in the past year by women out of uniform will give way to the light-handed arr tistic use of lipstlck following nor- nal mouth contures. Eyebrows will lose their aspirations to meet the hairline, and climb back down to their rightful position--natural but lovely frames for the orbs.
 Lighter makeup will take less time to apply, and those frantic hours spent at the dressing table to achieve an unnatural facade will become just a painful mem ory, Lighter makeup, too, will eliminate the endless retouching necessary to the heavy coating.
 In Seiderman's opinion makeup Is taking It's proper place as @ de- vice for enhancing beauty instead Of matching gowns, automobiles and accessories. He looks for na- turalness to hold It's own for a long time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
YOurHealth By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per. e0nNl health and bygiene not Co disease. diagnosis ot treatment win Oe answered by Dt. Brady ll q stamped self~addressed envelope ir enclose 7 letters should ha nriei and written ln lnk. No reply can he made Co queries nos conform. lng to instructions. AddFass Or. William Brady NatlOnai News. paper Service. s2O West Aladison Street, Chicago Ill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
JIMMIE FIDLER In HoHylUood
Dlasrssused hy meNaueAs svadIeass. Ius.

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 90. Since nc other Hollywood "production" ever commanded as much national inc terest as the studio strike, let's talk about 1t.
 Unquestlonably 1t began as juris- dictional battle: unquestionably 1t has resulted, no matter what final settlement Is effected. in Q welter of personal hatreds and shoulder ing group resentments. From the standpoint of the individual work mans welfare, there are no win- ners. Everyone directly concerned, with the possible exception of a few paid heavy price for the privilege of trying to beat someone else into submissive pulp.
 America, theoretically, at least, is Stil democracy in which majority votes rule, yet both factions in this strike tried for months to avoid set- thing some of the issues at stake by means of the ballot box. For weeks, they did thelr campaigning" with fists and clubs. Theoretically, American workmen are adults, yet, like belligerent children, the oppo- nents in this fracas were unwilling to sit at a conference table in a spirit of real cooperation and com promise, and thfesh out the prob- lems involved. Men on the picket lines, there because they had to be by union orders, yelled curses at men who crossed the picket lines, also by union order, and many of the workers flung the insults back.
 Hollywood, always boastful about the great part in plays in settling mankind's Ills, has little to boast of In this instance.
 HencefNrth, Director Archie Mayo rates as a Hollywood hero in my estimation. Costumers had design ed a lavish wardrobe for Lois Col Her to wear in Adventures in Casa blanca" Mayor ruled the elaborate gowns out "She plays a secretary, not a kept woman," he said. Buy her costumes in a shop that sells ready -to-wear clothes for prices that secretary can afford!"
 
 Yesterdays trade papers carried an announcement that gave me the shudders. MGM, 1t reported, win film a picture entitled Now That April's Here" The picture will dramatlze the plight of English ref- ugee children who, after living In the United States during the war, have found life distasteful In their own country. Unless it's handled with diplomacy than movie makers usually demonstrate, that picture should stir up more Ire in Great Britain than the cancellation of lend leasel
 Almost without exception, Holly woods in-the-service stars, on get- ting their discharges, have told in- reviewers that they're fed up with war pictures. Many of them = Jimmy Stewart just last week-have refused to play roles in films having to do with the war. Yet in the face
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30
nEAUTIEs, MINTs
SerDiceUOonaen Stdrted NeU Vogue ForN NdturaLness, Says Mdke-U Up Man
By ALICIA HART NEA stan writer

Layer by layer, Hollywood gals are peeling off their masklike pnake- up. The rubber stamp glamour of the grotesquely painted mouths and heavy artiflciality is being hban- doned In favor of the clear, fresh colorlng that enhances individual beauty.
 Although some of the top Holly wood stars never succumbed to the painted-look fad, and continued to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-30

capitalize on naturalness, 1t was the women In uniform who popu- larized the recent trends back to natural makeup says Maurice Sci dern1an, head of the RKO Radio Studios makeup department.
 Through exercise and regularity of their lives, servicewomen de- veloped the glowing skins and na- turally rosy cheeks that bespeak fine health and good circulation, AS a result. they needed less rnake- up, and freshness and cleanliness keynoted their appearance.
 Tn the beauty boxes this year