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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-10

chewing their Cud against
Adolf feel he had the world at
his feet. At present Carlton is in
Munich with the 45th Division,
which captured the infamous
Dachau concentration camp {.
for which credit in the press, he
states, was enormously given the
And Division. After congratu-
lating us on the Victory edition,
and expressing thanks for the
column. 1t. Dubay ends his
newsy letter on a solemn note:
1--WE all hope the folks back
home can realize the death and
destruction wrought by the
German race and do not feel
sorry for them in any way.
II your Circuit Court Com
missiOners, John H. Nunnelcy
and j. Russell LaBarge, have
an important look these days
it's because they are now
Temporarily endowed with
one Of the powers of q Cir
cult Court Judge. They may
issue restraining orders, or in
functions while Circuit
Judge Alton II. Noe Is absent
from his court, convalescing
from q recent operation. -.
Already both commissioners
have issued several "Circuit
Court" injunctionS, principal
ly those connected with div
orce cases hating the sale or
disposal of property unless the
suit is decided.
PFC. LLOYD HOCKIN. who
has been seven months in the
Pacific as an anti-aircraft gun
ner, returned home the week
end but his Homecoming didn't
have the aura of happiness
usually surrounding such events.
An urgent call for his return
was made by medical authorities
because his son, Lynn, age two
years, six months, has been re-
turned to the hospital to con-
tinue his long fight against
He Is on 15-oay leave
for reassignment at Fort Sheri-
dan, and he and his wife, the
former Ruth Jennett. are stay
ing with the John Hockins on
the Eight Mile road.
Cpl. Paul Frederick. Of Ro-
meo State Police Post, didn't
eat T-bone steaks at the
Grand Hotel last week
but he did have splendid
time when assigned to the
Governors Conference at
Mackinac Island. The IS
troops assigned to the task of
guarding a bunch of state
executives had an easy job,
Frederick admits with lots
of good eats and time for
sightseeing. He enjoyed be-
ing close to Gen. Marshall,
Gov. Dewey and all the other
celebrities. BY the way,
Romeo Posts new boss, re-
placing Sgt. Edgar Welsch
next Monday, is no newcomer
to Macomb County. Sgt. Erd-
man Stahl covered this county
through the st. Clair Post,
about 1880 before Romeo
Post was established.
FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS from
the garden of Mrs. Henry La
Croix have gone to 275 Mount
Clemens soldiers and sailors
and a bunch of celebrities,
Gen. Stilwell, Gen.
Patton and several admirals
but the top-dressing was really
put on the LaCroix good-luck
this week when Mrs.
LaCroix received a thank-you
letter from the White House,
signed for President Truman by
one of the chief executives sec
retaries. The President received
his four-leafer last week :.
along with the latest batch sent
to: Sgt Edward Defer, in India;
Pfc. Martin Schwartz, on fur
Tough: Seabee Chesley Miller,
and Cpl. Don Lozen, in India.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-10
&Min til. DAY

As q wonder filled child did you lie under shade
tree in meadow your chin cupped in your hands ond with
utter disregard for the passing hours absorb the beauties and
mysteries Of nature? The butterflies fitting trelessy
among the honeysucke The swallows wooping low to get
their fill Of insects The chewing their cud against
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descend even lower and sell-out their news col
umns along with their editorial pages for po-
litical or fiancial gain. Anyone who knows the
history of American journalism knows that many q
newspaper has done this. And yet, though the
individual journal sometimes made fat profits by
1t, the American free press" as a whole has al
ways suffered from it, and has been more en-
~dangered by the loss of prestige from its own
corrupt people than it has been from anything
like dictatorship.
The newspaper industry can and does tell
dictafors and officious people TO 90 10 hell. We
have not yielded an ounce of our prerosatives to
do this. But the job of saving our good name
and prestige is not so easy when our own dis
honest element has ssld-ouf politically or fl
nancially and damaged our industry in the pub
lie mind. II is more difficult to win and to
hold public trust and good will than it is TO
throw off the threat of dictatorship. which in
this country has been nonresident.
We dislike the tendency of our newspaper in
dustry to cry for special privileges under the con-
stitutional guarantee of freedom of the press"
During the last Is years of strenuous readjust-
ments, the newspaper industry has faced eco
nomic restrictions like all other businesses. Taxes,
wage-and-hour restrictions, the NRA, and such
things have pinched newspapers like the rest. 1t
is our privilege to criticize and resist these things
10 tne extent OF our WISHES, III our capacity as
business men and private citizens. But a part
Of our industry took a holier-than-thou attitude
and filled the editorial columns with pleas that
the economic restrictions were endangering free
dom of the press. MIRA was all right for the
public, they indicated, but not for us, the news
papers.
That was using a near-sacred right and privi-
lege for personal ends. And that is the kind of
thing that loses prestige for newspapers, and con-
stitutes the real threat to freedom of the press.
Newspapers are run by human beings, of
course, and all are subject to the failures and
foibles of human beings. AS in any business or
in any private life, the choice between an honest
course and a dishonest ore is constantly before
newspapers, and economic influences sometimes
color feelings and opinions in all of us even when
we are not conscious of them, and sometimes also
when we are. 1t is often a difficult choice to
strike out boldly. But to the extent that a news
paper tries to do so, it is a sound newspaper.
We believe that public confidence in the long
run is what will preserve both the profit, the
honor and the freedom of the American free press.
1t should be a question of ideals with all of us;
but at any event, for those who have a blind spot
toward ideals, it should be a question of good
business.
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the train comes through the
townsmen for a little while have
a sense of being connected
Through the railway with the
far-off, famous cities and places.
Pascagoula is too big and too
busy in these year to fit into
that category. But 1t is still a
good train town. The business
lives of SO many of us go on
in the sound of changing train
bells, and the huff huffing of the
long freights, and smooth roaring
and honking of the big passen-
ger Diesels that come through
on this much travelled lane of
the Louisville and Nashville.
One train that we like to
watch especially is the north
bound passenger train that
comes in about noon. Sometimes
on our way across the town to
lunch this train blocks the tradks
and We have a chance to get the
feeling of the teamwork that is
necessary to run and service a
big train like this and the rom
merhe it carries. The passengers
are hurried smoothly but swiftly
on and off by the conductor: the
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The Medical School

Governor Bailey proposes an expensive six
point program, calling for a medical school and
a hospital at Jackson, arm-to-market roads, an
office building, support of the Agricultural and
Industrial program, a building for the infirm
and aged.
Certainly in much of this program there is
merit.
There IS a $40. SOC, 900 surplus in the state
treasury as of September 26, and we shall likely
see a good part of this appropriated by the next
Legislature in January. However, along with the
Mississippi Farm Bureau, we believe that the pro.
gram suffers a serious lack in not providing for
the construction of smaller hospitals throughout
the state, and for not giving such a program pri-
GRITTY over the medical school plan.
The only way to prevail on young doctors to
return to the country is to give them the clinics
and equipment they must have to work with
A big school and hospital in Jackson will not fill
this need. The county hospitals must come first,
For the time being we can set up loans and
scholarships for our young men to study in good
neighboring medical schools. But the five million
dollars which Governor Bailey's medical school
would use out of the twenty million state sur
plus are more seriously needed bv the large areas
of Mississippi where A shocking lack of hospital
facilities now exists.
The campaign to win public opinion for this
expensive medical school and hospital in Jack
son, where above average hospital facilities al
ready exist by state standards. is an extensive
one, We know from our readers. however, that
most who have taken the trouble to communicate
with us appreciate the greater need for state
wide hospital facilities, and a general improve
ment of our schools, and that they would oppose
any effort of the legislature to bypass these
needs for the immediate erection of an expensive
medical school.
The way for such people to make their views
effective is to write to their representatives in
the state legislature and to Governor Bailey.
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It Is not hard to understand
how the arrival and departure
of the mail train has been an
important and sometimes rather
serious avocation of the little
towns of America for so many
generations. in a metropolis like
New York or Chicago the ar
rival and departure of a train
has no more interest than the
falling of a leaf in autumn. AS
a matter of fact. in all of these
big cities the trains come in and
out in underground tunnels and
no one ever sees them unless he
himself is travelling. and goes
into the big eavernous stations
and down to the train levels
that r sometimes fifty or sixty
feet below street level. No one
would hink of going to the
trouble of watching a train in a
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While the City Sleeps

Market street, with is spacious proportions
and its clean new concrete leading down to a view
Of the sparkling water, is potentially one of the
finest avenues in Mississippi and in the South,
In Florida or California the local planners, Off
Gals and promoters would team up to take adj
vantage of a natural asset like this and enhance
its beauty and value in every way possible. The
beautiful new recreation building, for which the
government footed most of the bills, would be
realized for the valuable asset it is. 1t would be
land scaped and equipped with a staff and a
program.
One thing they would certainly never do
in Florida or California is LET a lot of trashy
honkY forks. trailer courts and peddier's stands
take over Market street and begin to make a
slum out of IL before the rest of the city could
wake up to its value ss a scenic. residential and
business asset.
Sometimes it looks as though for all our talk
of a thriving Pascagoula, the garden spot of the
Coast, we are actually living in the dreamy
past. The abandoned recreation building and
the creeping paralysis ~besetting a beautiful oppor-
tunity like Market street are a disgrace, Pub
lie leathargy is in part responsible, and lack of
foresight and energy on tie part of our city au-
thorities is in part responsible. Wherever the
blame is placed, it makes little difference while
the opportunity continues to slip through our
hands.
But one way or the other, let's wake upl
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-12
To Keep A Free Press Free

Recently the newspapers OF this country made
annual observance of Newspaper Week, and once
again we looked on with interest and mixed
feelings as one great journal after another, and
many a small one, treated its leadership to an
editorial diet of sanctity and self-praise. We are
proud of the free American press, and would
rather be a part of this business than any other.
But we cannot help regretting a maudling element
in our business which seeps irto the editorial
pages OF lne nation on such occasions as News
paper Week.
To get down to details, one theme we do
not like to see spread across these pages is the
theme of self-congratulation because we-the
newspaper industry honestly report the news.
It is a newspapers implicit duty honestly to
report the news. No newspaper in America ex-
lists without its own slants and opinions and spe-
cial axes to grind, whether these be on behalf Of
some ideal or on behalf of some very special and
selfish interest. But the tradition of a free press
demands that the newspaper leave these slants
and opinions TO the editorial pages, and that its
news-columns report the news exactly as it hap
pened, so that the public may be qualified to
make its own interpretations as well as the news
papers publishers.
The newspaper business is both a business
and a public utility. As a business it has every
light to make what profit it can, to solicit, to trade,
10 sell, to invest, to economic, to perform the
countless functions of a chartered business in a
highly competitive field of capitalist investment.
But as a public utility-as an American institution
called the free press. and holding a place of
power and responsibility in our laws and in our
traditions. the newspaper is required to keep its
news columns free, fair, and untampered.
A newspaper has no more justification TO
congratulate itself for honestly reporting the
i:swss than q railroad las for running trains on
the schedule required by It's franchise or a uiil-
tiles company has for furnishing power every
day Of the week including Sundays. In every
instance. these functions are not favors TO be
bestowed or withheld by the newspaper. rail-
road or power company but they are obligations
required Of these companies in return for the
franchise of privilege and trust bestowed on
each by the public.
That is our understanding of the position Of
q free press In the framework of American law
and custom. One way for the newspaper indus
try to keep both its business, its influence and
It's freedom is to hold this obligation for honest
reporting foremost in mind. That seems the
course of realism to us. On the other hand, it
seems impractical and short-sighted when news
papers begin to boast ard sermonize about high
mindedness and honesty in reporting, or to
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-12

big city. There is too much 60
ing on outside on the streets.
Even our Southern cities
like Birmingham and New Or
leans and Atlanta are a little
too busy with their own af-
fairs to take much of an in.
teresi in the trains that puff
in and out of their smoky Sta
tions all hours of the day and
night.
But when you get down fin
ally TO the small cities and
towns where the main streets
front the railroad tracks ard
the business life is so directly
connected to the few trains
that come through each day.
railroads get TO seem a LOT
more important and a lot.
more important and a LOT
a kind of romance of its own
over and above its commercial
Importance. and watching the
trains come in becomes The
chief hobby of some.
This is the truth especially ir
the tiny landlocked towns where
almost nothing else of interest
DR. Importance takes place. When
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Bdptists' County
Meeting Held At
Eust Moss Point

A countrywide meeting of Bap-
fist church representatives was
held at the East Moss Point
church Tuesday, with more than
100 members present at the serv-
ices.
Reports from various repre-
sentatives were received and at
the general program the Rev. Van
Windham of Clark College in
Newton preached NE sermon.
Lunch was prepared and served
by the ladies of the church.
Out of the county guests pres
end were Rev. and Mrs. Wind
ham of Newton; w. G. Mize, sup
erintendent of the Jackson Or
phanage at Jackson, Mrs. Kay
Ladnier, Ulster, California; Rev.
J. w. Weeks, Mozelle, Miss; Rev.
James Atwood, Brookhaven,
Rev. j. Goldman, Kreole; Rev.
G. w. Mutt, Lena, Miss; Rev.
Luther A. Harrison, Clinton,
Miss; Rev. and Mrs. j. D.. Cros-
by, Pritchard, Ala; Rev. and Mrs.
Durchin, Grand Bay, Ala; Mrs.
j. H. Fulford, Algiers, La.
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windows; we have zen it in the
movement and flow of massive
things through our world where
they did not exist, and we have
seen it in the brave, uprooted
questioning humanity that have
come through, northbound, south
bound, headed to the ends of the
earth and-for some of them
the end of time.
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barrage balloons, and the slit
trenches, nor the gunfire and sea-
battles; but we have seen the
war in the panorama of men and
materials, in the eyes at the train
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-12

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS does not give a Newspaper
the right TO publish scandals. attack innocent Individuals or
business firms. Neither does FREEDOM OF SPEECH give the
Individual the right TO be- smear the reputation of outstanding
citizens. attack the communitYs leading institutions. MOI start
whispering campaigns for the sole reason of disturbing the
public peace. To violate the above rights and privileges is to
endanger the rights and happiness of all"
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street, Moss Point.
The guest list included Miss
Althea Simms, Rix Simms, Miss
Liddie Jewel Tanner and benson
Blades.
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Mrs. Brumfield Dinner Hostess

Mrs. Thad Brumfield was hos
tess at a beautifully appointed
five course dinner Wednesday
evening at her home on Dantzler
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T

One Year, $500; Six Months, LIS; Three Months, 75c; Subscribers
having their paper changed from one address to another should
give old address as well as tn enew.
Cards of Thanks, Resolutions, Memorials, Obituary Notices, Notices
of Entertainments where admission is to be charged, or other Notices
not of General News value, will be charged for at advertising rates.
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Entered at the postoffce at Pascagoula, Miss, April 28, 1871,
under Act of March 8, 1879, as second class mail matter.
Entered as second class matter, October 8, 1909, ut the post
office at Moss Point, Miss, under Act OF Mar: IN 3, 1878.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-10-12

TITLE
fila INSURED 0ANS
In order to file application for a Title II FILA Insured Loan, the follow
ing steps are necessary If the proceeds Of the loan are to cover the con-
struetion of a NEW HOUSE. viz:
l Either w or have an option IN an acceptable Location.
H. nS Sa ee onsS ssa !" M If sb the PROMISED sGs s5 9G 3sss. a s%, 95 81 s1ai in ed
g. Application should be made in hdpisats on a FILA Fl Form E;m IN No.
Hcde from al eaS n contractor.
a. The application must be accompanied by q check for $500
ger % %o as nd d 70 u amount Sn al. apg1sd i s or a aaM. aI fee of
applicant which must accompany the application.
S. With plans ud Specifications. deed or option o lot Or,
en1 a ap deo5as9 ON Fl FHH xf Forms ans No. e soo4 n a na1 WILL nut m mt i nss neees
soa ess'ss bid bic the 10 , e f fss1si HOUSING n sSssa%sa Observation-Disclosures eassahs of Een
Federal Housing Administrator. the attorney will prepare ne
san n ssssssd ss p poS ssst the Rst sa a"s ss fss ion tho service ss ' to
ne Ie d y the the aP PaIaad Independent OF ass m IN m Or service
When the loan is to finance the purchase Of or refinoncing on on Ex-
IsTING HOUSE. the same form No. 2o4 is used in the same manner
and the same fee is required.
In this case kodak picfurest taken from the front and side
views of the house muse be set with the application.
the same legal procedure in connection with the financing of the
purchase of or refnuncing Of an existing house must be followed as
required in the construction Of q new house.
THIS BANK IS ELIGIBLE TO HANDLE FILA MORTGAGES
We will be glad to discuss with you the moHero Of bundng if anew
p posss sshn fons aa nd sn Tss fed ena 1ao mGdsn R a ad N.
We will recommends attorney paA4Hs in FLA ppnao@
PasCag0uIa- Moss Point Bank
MOSS POINT PAscAcoULA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-18
NAVY DEPARTMENT
 ABANDONING HOPE
Officials Announce Local Seaman, Richard Corideo
 Must Be Presumed Dead

Richard Vincent Corded, 18, sea man, 1-C, reported missing April 28 1914 is now presumed dead by the Navy Department, according to a letter received yesterday by his parents, MT. and Mrs. Albert Cori- deo, 51 Ridgefield avenue.
 Corideo was serving or an LST boat which was torpedoed in the English Channel, and none of the men on the vessed were taken as prisoners of war, the Navy De- partment letter said.
 The seaman enlisted in the Navy in March 1943, while attending Leavenworth high school. He took his recruit training at Sampson. N Y, and went overseas with an L.SI boat crew about six months before he was reported missing.
 Besides his parents, Corldeo IS survived by two sisters, Mrs. Gene yieve Ciriello and Miss Patricia Corideo, both of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-18

Spence Field, Go. After additional training he embarked for overseas,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-18

An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion, England The promotion of William H. Machin, 19 year old Middlebury, Connecticut aerial gum ner on an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress, from the grade of sergeant to staff sergeant has beer announced by Colonel Nicholas T Perkins of San Antonio, Texas commanding officer of the 94th Bomb Group.
 Sergeant Machin is the son o1 MT. and Mrs. Willis H. Machin ot Rout l, GlenWood avenue, Middle bury. Connecticut. He was a student before enlisting in the Army Ali Forces in January, 1944.
 Aboard U. s. Battleship of OklnaWa Delayed)-Michael J. Bol. ton, l9, fireman. second class, USNR whose mother, Mrs. Mary E. Bolton lives at 1915 South Main street, Wa. terbury, Conn, was aboard this vet. eran battleship when she poured { whitening torrent of high explosive shells into the Okinawa beaches a! unit of the greatest naval bonn. bardment force in history.
 With other ships in the might, task force, she swept the westerr side of the island with her mair and secondary batteries and 4O-mm automatic weapons. So accuratt and devastating was her fire that Marines and 10th Army troops en- countered only slight opposition when they landed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-18

An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion, England-Six men from Wa terbury and adjacent towns, were recently awarded the Air Medal for meritorious achievement" while serving during a number of Eighth Air Force attacks on vital German war installations.
 They are:
 Flight Officer Homer V. Bernier, 20, B-17 Flying Fortress navigator, the son of Mir. and Mrs. Homer R. Bernier, 1891 East Main street. F-O Bernier was a student at North Carolina State College before en- tering the Army Air Forces in April, 1943. He won his wings at Selman Field, October, 1944.
 20 Bernier is a member of the 886th Bomb. Group Commanded by Colonel William B. Kieffer of San Antonio, Tex. The 486th is a unit of the Third Air Division-the divi- sion cited by the president for its England-Africa shuttle bombing of the Messerschmitt plants at Regens- burg.
 Sgt. Zigmund T. Grzyoski, son of MT. and Mrs. Stanley Grzyboski, III Dikeman street, who has been serving as an engineer and top tur- ret gunner on B-17 Fortress. Prior to entering the Army Air