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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Mrs. Thomson Host
At Buffet Supper
Honoring Miss EleY

Among the number of parties
siven in honor of Miss Virginia
Eley and Capt. John w. Thomp-
son whose wedding was held
Tuesday was buffet supper
given by Mrs, ], T. Thomson
in her home before the rehear-
sal Monday evening.
Rooms of the home was most
attractively decorated with pretty
white chrysanthemums and fern.
The dining room carried out the
bridal motif, and the table was
overlaid with a handsome lace
cloth. centered with an attrac-
tive vase of white flowers.
Lighted tapers in silver holders
shed soft glow over the beau
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
East Side

Henry Clay, torpedoeman third
class, of the Navy is spending a
30-day leave with his mother,
Mrs. Clay at her home in East
side.
Friends Of Mrs. p. II. Hinkel
will regret to learn of her con-
tinued illness and wish for her
a speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aven c. Bilbo
arrived Saturday from San Fran
cisco, Calf. to be at the bedside
of his father, S. f. Bilbo, who
is very sick at the Jackson Coun-
ty hospital.
Yeoman, first class, Stella Scott
OF the Wave has been transferred
from Great Lakes, H., to a point
in New York, for advanced
training.
Pvt. Agnes Hinkel left Tues
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
Annual Horyest Moon
Festival To Be Given
BY South School P-TA

An event that is being eager
ly looked forward to, is the an
nual Harvest Moon Festival un-
der the sponsorship of the South
School Parent-Teacher associa-
ton.
This year the association plans
to use the money derived from
the entertainment for the pur-
chase of greatly needed curtains
for the stage of the school audi
torium.
Among the attractions will be
a cold plate fried chicken sup
per at $50 p. m. which will pre-
ceed the evenings fun.
Entertainment during the eve
ming following will be afforded
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09

tiful setting. Guests who enjoy
ed this evening together were
the honorees, DR.. and Mrs r. c.
Eley, Miss Mary Elizabeth Eley.
Mrs. William Mcleod Miss
Theresa CisSna, Mrs c. Lightsey,
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Crabtrec
Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Brock, Mr.
and Mrs. Leinhard Robinson, Mr.
and Mrs Arthur Jones, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. X. Thompson, Bart De-
Lashmet and John Thompson.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
BIRTHDAY PARTY

A joint birthday party was
given by Mr.. and Mrs. B. X.
King at their home in Gautier
Sunday al 3 o'clock in honor of
their two little daughters, Nellie,
six wears old, and Verna Elaine,
who was three. Games were
played after which the children
gathered round the beautiful
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09

Ordinary paints should dry
with a glossy surface but they
can be made to dry with flat
finish by decreasing the oil con-
tent and increasing the proportion
of turpentine or other volatile
thinner.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09

birthday cake and sang Happy
Birthday" to the honorees. Re-
fieshments were served to the
guests. Mrs. King was assi-ted
IN serving by Misses Mary En-
ma Ladnier, Helen Yicom and
Mildred Garlotte.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
PAY PER MONTH
ENLISTED MEN
In Addition to Food, Lodging,
Clothes and Medical Care

(a)-Plus 20se Increase for
Service Overseas. b) Plus
50se If Member OF Flying
Crews. Parachutist, etc. (c)
Plus S e Increase in Pay for
Each 3 Years of Service.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09

by a cake walk, country store,
fortune telling, fish pond and
games.
Hot dogs and hamburgers will
also be sold.
As the organization will not
be able to solicit merchants for
donation, according to recent
ruling ef the Chamber of Com
merce, the association is asking
Tor contributions from the par
ents and other patrons of the
school, either of money or OF
produce.
MIS-, Will Ozborn, president of
the p T. A. is being assisted
BY Miss Kathleen Kell, principal
of the school in many of the de-
tails of the festival.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09
"BEsT JOB IN THE WORLD"

These special privileges are typical
of the new law recently passed by
Congress. Few opportunities for a
lifetime career offer as many attrac-
tive advantages.
Can you think of any other job
that would give you good pay, your
food, clothing, quarters, free med
ical and dental care, worldwide
travel, 80 days furlough every year,
education and training in any of
nearly 200 skills or trades, and
enable you to retire aOiH q life ia-
come any time a. fter 90 years service? +?
There isn't any! That's why
job in the Regular Army has been
called "The Best Job in the World"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-11-09

Between now and November 2i,
thousands of Army veterans will
reenlist in Uncle Sans new volun-
teer peacetime Army. BECAUSE =
men who have been discharged be-
tween May l2 and November of
this year and reenlist ON or before
November II will be able to return
to the Army with the same grade as
they held when discharged.
Men with six months of satisfac-
tory service discharged as privates
will, on reenlistment before Novem-
ber 81, be given the grade of private
first class.
Men now in the Army who apply
for discharge after NOVEMBER l
for the purpose of reenlisting in the
Regular Army will also retain their
present grades, if they enlist within
20 days after discharge and before
FEBRUARY l. 1916.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
FOOtbriuts !
t BY the Req. J. ADRIAN Ptet0er,
Pastor of the Takomn Lutheran Church.

In his Psalm of Life" Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow reminds us
that we are destined to leave our
footprints on the sands of time.
When God brought each OF us into
the world, He endowed us individually
with certain capabilities that He gave
to no other person who ever lived.
No matter what our station in life,
what our background, what our an
cestry might be, God put something
into each Of us, something which, If
we would use 1t to the best possible
advantage, would make each of us
the most important person on this
earth to some one. He expected us to
make certain footprints that no other
person ever could make.
Each of us can be tremendously
important and do an incompatible
job in even the ordinary walks Of life.
What person in all this world is more
important than the mother Of little
girl of or the father of son of
adolescent age? What that mother
or that father is will determine to a
tremendous extent into what that
girl or that boy is going to develop.
If this ordinary mother and father, in
ordinary occupations, in ordinary
households, are doing the best kind
of job-the kind that God intended
that they should do-they are making
footprints not merely on the sands
of time, but actually footprints In
rock-a rock which is going to be-
come harder as time goes by. Those
footprints are going to be eternally
preserved.
II
But what If such parents are not
living up to the best that is In them?
What If they are careless about the
impressions that they are giving their
youngsters? What If, by their own
example, they are leading their chill
dren in the wrong direction? What
If they are not providing for the re-
Hgious training OF their children?
Evening star., 1945-01-21

transport and the air service over
the Sino-Burmese hump" which has
been stepped up to record proper
tions. Il,
The upshot OF all this is that, for
the first time in nearly three years,
Free China will soon have combined
deliveries of war materiel and other
vital supplies vastly exceeding the
capacity of the old Burma road.
This increase should not only
strengthen notably Chinese military
efficiency but will also give a great
lift to Chinese morale. The cumula-
tive results may mark a turning
point in the long struggle OF Free
China against the threat of Japa-
neSe domination.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Rouds to Chino

What may rank as the greatest
road-building epic of all time was
revealed by an announcement of 1t
Gen. Daniel l. Sultan, command
er of the American forces in India
and Burma, and a former Engineer
Commissioner of the District. that
the first convoy of motor vehicles
bound for China had arrived at the
Allied base of Myitkyina in North
ern Burma and that one highway
into the nearby Chinese province of
Yunnan had been completed, with
an alternate route in its final con-
struction stages.
This transportation thriller" goes
back more than two and one-half
years to the dark days when the
japanese tide of invasion into Burma
closed the famous highway into
Yunnan. which had been Free
China's sole link with the outer
world. Recognizing that the old
Burma road" was to be closed in
definitely, group of American road
building experts planned an alter
native route running from the In
dian railhead at Ledo in Northern
Assam through the jungle-clad hills
of Northern Burma to the Yunnan
border. This ambitious task was
undertaken by Brig. Gen. Lewis
A. Pick of Auburn, Alabama; whence
its colloquial name. picks Pike"
The difficulties were colossal. In
addition to natural obstacles. such
as tropical terrain and torrential
monsoon rains, strong japanese oc-
cupation forces had to be cleared
out by Allied troops at each step of
the way as the road builders slowly
toiled in the wake of war. The con-
struction of a weather. proof. two
lane highway under such conditions
is an engineering triumph which
must be seen to be fully appreciat-
ed. Not until last summer. when
the monsoon season had actually
begun, were the Japanese expelled
from Myitkyina, which gives access
to an older road running north and
south that would make possible a
connection with the Burma road in
roundabout fashion. That route is
still blocked by a Japanese garrison
at Wanting, but this will soon be
liquidated. Meanwhile, a more di-
rect route is being blasted over the
mountain range which forms the
frontier to link up with the Burma
road well inside Chinese territory.
Furthermore. pipeline paralleling
"Pick's Pike" has likewise been COM
pleted to Myitkyina. thus solving
fuel difficulties for both ground
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Buffalo Robes

Before the days of robot bombs
and women's hats modelled after
pillboxes farm families did not con-
slider themselves equipped for the
winter unless they had q couple of
buffalo robes. Here and there in
Northern areas, where certain farm
ers still drive to the village with
Dobbin, buffalo robes are yet in use.
At the turn of the century, when
townsfolk as we'll as country fam
lilies used horses for transportation,
the buffalo robe era was in its hey
day. r
To the buffalo the Nation owes
much. Ernest Thompson Seton
has estimated that 6O,OO0,O 900 roamed
the land in the seventeenth century.
Sir Samuel Argoll, Deputy Governor
Of Virginia, saw his first one in the
vicinity of Washington. In 1884 the
explorer Townsend wrote when in
the Midwest: Toward evening, on
a rising hill, we were suddenly
greeted by a sight which seemed to
astound even the oldest among us.
The whole plain was covered by one
enormous mass of buffaloes. Our
vision would certainly extend ten
miles, and in the whole of this great
space there was apparently no vista
in the incalculable multitude" Buff
faloes showed the trails through the
Appalachians to the West. They
served as food for the pioneer set
tiers, and their hides made warm,
heavy robes.
Men and women now living in
cities remember the furry robes of
generation ago. When going to
school, church or to town on Satur-
day for the weeks shopping, the
robes made the pung comfortable.
Many farm family had enough so
that one could 60 over the backs of
the pung and sleigh seats. They
were cozy for the sleigh rides of a
starry, zero night, when the high
board sides were put on. the two
horse bobsled and the bottom COW
cred with foot of crisp, clean oat
straw. And on nights when the
thermometer dropped way below
zero lad was always willing to get
a robe from the sleigh to put on hts
bed in the northwest room. The
wind could howl and moan all 1t
wished; the icy snow particles could
beat against the rattling window.
Beneath the heavy buffalo robe all
was warm and safe.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Argentine Policy

The removal of General Orlando
L. Peluffo from the post of Foreign
Minister in Argentina may have been
prompted, as he declares, by his fail
ing to agree with the Farrell govern
ment on certain domestic matters,
but it is much easier to believe that
he has been dropped because he has
been in favor of making a special
effort to improve relations with the
United States. .ors
To this end, after taking office
early last May, General Peluffo ap-
parently began to use his influence
to give concrete meaning to Buenos
Aires formal break with the Axis.
AS result, in a series Of actions
over a period of months. Nazi spies
were imprisoned; Nazi diplomats
were expelled; it was officially an
nounced that Argentina would not
give sanctuary to Axis war criminals;
newspapers were forbidden to print
pro-Axis propaganda; Axis business
firms were placed under government
control, and finally, this month. the
country carefully refrained from
quitting the Pan-American Union.
despite demands by Argentine ex-
tremists that it do so.
As Foreign Minister, General Pei
uffo thus showed himself anxious to
get his country back in harmony
with the rest OF the hemisphere, but
the hothead nationalists seem to
have grown tired of him, and his
recent middle-course note to the
Pan-American Union may have made
them decide that it was time for him
to go. In any case, according to
reports from Buenos Aires, his re-
moval-whatever its actual cause
has been interpreted in Argentina as
a setback for those who wish to end
the country's diplomatic isolation.
There have been so many political
maneuvers down there, however,
Evening star., 1945-01-21

that 1t is hazardous to read too much
too quickly into any one of them.
The Farrell government has tend
ency to step forward and backward
at the same time. Thus, no sooner
had General Peluffo been dropped
than an important provincial official
was fired because of his pro-Axis
views. The two events do not cancel
EACH other out, to be sure, but they
do indicate that Argentina's general
policy still is too much in flux for
anybody to predict precisely what it
will be tomorrow or the day after.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
Democracy Proves Itself

When Franklin Roosevelt was in
augurated four years ago he made
the confident statement that "de-
mocracy is not dying" There were
those who received that assurance
with reservations. In Europe little
of democracy had survived the SEEM
ingly irresistible power of the total
itarian armies. Across the Channel,
England had endured the worst of
the blitz, but the question in mems
minds was not whether the British
could win the war, but whether they
could hope to avoid total defeat.
Russia's role remained uncertain
and in the Far East the menace of
an imperialistic Japan cast its
shadow across half a world. Indeed,
in whatever direction one turned, a
new order dedicated to naked, ruth
less power seemed to be in the
ascendancy, and yet, in Washington,
man was saying that democracy
was not dying-that 1--WE know 1t
cannot die"
Four years later his vindication
Is clear. AS Franklin Roosevelt un-
dertakes his fourth term as Presi-
dent of the United States he can say
without challenge or question that
Americans, with their Allies, will
meet the grim challenge of these
times-that this b their purpose and
that they will not fail.
The Presidents fourth inaugural
address was brief, appropriately So
There was not much that he could
say which had not already been
said. Today we work and fight for
total victory in war" In the days
and in the years that are to come
1--WE shall work for just and dur
able peace" Mr.. Roosevelt had no
glowing promises to offer. We strive
for perfection, but it will not be
achieved Immediately. Mistakes may
be made, but if so, they will not re-
suit from faintness of heart or
abandonment of moral principle.
Our purpose must be and will be to
move forward toward our ultimate
goal of just and lasting peace with
confidence and courage, realizing
that lasting peace cannot be gained
If we approach it with suspicion and
nistruSt and fear.
In more than three years of war
this Nation has proved itself. We
have come through the darkest years
with our democracy intact. 1t has
withstood the stresses of war and it
will withstand the strains of peace.
No nation has better reason to face
the future with confidence, courage
and conviction.
Evening star., 1945-01-21

What If they never take them to Sun
day school or worship with them In
church?
Well. those parents also are making
footprints, but they are footprints
on sand. They are falling God be-
cause they are failing their RESPONSE
bilities as parents. When God
gave them the capabilities Of being
parents, He expected that they
would do everything possible for the
proper development, mental, physical
and spiritual, Of their children. II
a parent neglects any one Of these
responsibilities, he is failing God.
That failure in all likelihood will
be imbedded deep down in the child's
soul and to large degree will de-
termine what kind of person that
child is going to become.
From His heavens God is watching
the kind of footprints that we are
making as we walk about in our
lives on this earth. He is deciding
constantly whether our footsteps are
going in the right or IN the wrong
direction. He is going to have
lot to say at the final reckoning
to those mothers and fathers who
failed to guide their own children
into knowing and following His way
Of life. Then any excuses that are
made, about being too busy making
money or too engrossed in the war
effort, are not going to carry much
weight.
On the other hand, for those who
are fulfilling their responsibilities and
who are doing all within their power
to lead their children in the right
direction, God has reward in store.
Some day these will hear Him say
in Jesus parable He spoke to those
who had used their talents rightly:
well done, thou good and faithful
servant. Thou hast been faithful
in a few things. I will make thee
ruler over many things. Enter thou
into the joy Of thy Lord" Matthew,
XIV, I'D
Evening star., 1945-01-21
except perhaps by envious fair ones who
cannot gown themselves as she does"

except perhaps by envious fair ones who
cannot gown themselves as she does"
X
CONSERVATION was caused In Europe
BY the resignation Of M Casimir- r-Perier
from the presidency Of
rfes'oent France, it was affirmed by
ou;ts The Star for January ia
1895. The decision to aban-
don his office, the retiring executive
explained. was reached only after long
consideration. For the last six months
he declared in farewell statement to
the Senate, "a campaign of slander and
insult has been going on against the
army, magistracy, Parliament and the
hierarchical chief Of the state, and this
license to disseminate social hatred
continues to be called liberty OF
thought Felix Faure was chosen 10
carry on the government.
Evening star., 1945-01-21
SiIesiu

Inc appearance OF Russian forces
on the Silesian border has more
than military significance. 1t raises
questions Of high political and eco
nomic Importance for Europe's post
war settlement as well.
Silesia stretches like long finger
of German territory southeastward
from the bulk Of the Reich. between
Poland and Czechoslovakia. Occupy
ing the valley of the River Oder,
which bisects the province, Silesia
has an area Of $4,000 square miles,
about the size Of Southern New Eng
land. Its Importance is chiefly due
to the vast deposits of coal, iron,
zinc and other metals which lie at
its southeastern tip. The exploita-
tion Of that natural wealth has given
rise to a congested industrial area
second in Importance only to the
Ruhr in Western Germany. This dis
trict Of upper" Silesia, as it is called,
presents a panorama of intensive
heavy industry reminiscent of
Pittsburgh. AS such, 1t has been one
OF the main centers of Germanys
war effort. Furthermore. it has as
yet been relatively little damaged by
air bombardment. Virtually outside
the range of Allied bombers, the
Russians have refrained from max
Ing it the target of their airmen.
This has given rise to speculation
that Moscow wished 1t to remain
undamaged for postwar purposes.
The Soviet government has likewise
given its assent to the claim put for
ward by the Moscow sponsored Lub-
lin regime that Upper Silesia be
given to Poland as partial indemnity
for territory ceded to Russia in the
east. This is in line with the an
nounced intention of the Lublin
leaders to transform Poland eco
nomically from predominantly
agricultural country into one with
strong industry. The acquisition
OF Upper Silesia would go a long way
towards realizing that aim.
Aside from the frank argument of
compensation" regardless of ma
tionalistic or racial considerations,
the Lublin claim to Upper Silesia
rests on the fact that considerable
fraction of the population is Polish
in blood and speech However. ST.
lesia has not been historically con-
nected with Poland since very early
times. Nearly 300 years have passed
since the Slav tribes. who inhabited
the Valley of the Oder. parted from
the early kingdom of Poland and
fell within the orbit Of the medieval
Germanic Empire. This led to
wholesale German colonization,
which transformed the racial make
up of the country. Silesia was long
politically connected with the King
dom Of Bohemia, Slav land though
technically within the empire. It
then passed to the Habsburgs and
in 1740 was wrested from them by
Frederick the Great who incorpo-
rated it with his kingdom of Prussia.
Since then, Silesia has been part of
the German aggregate which at
tanned political unity as an empire
in 1871 and which persisted under
the Weimar republic and the Nazi
Third Reich,