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ed, and faces that r recognized,
perhaps the mathematical odds
are very definitely in favor Of
a certain number o. such things
taking place in everyone's ex-
perience.
The higher mathematicians for
instance have a we'll known and
amusing illustration Of the mathe-
NAUTICAL claw Of averages. Theg
tell us that if an ape could be set
at a typewriter and taught to pick
at the keys at random, and if by
some miracle this ape-or perhaps
his descendents in line-could be
kept at the task, sooner or later
said ape would make an exact
copy, word for word, comma for
comma, Of every book in the Lii
trary Of Congress. Without look
ing at the books, of course Just
out of his head, by sheer chance.
There would be a terrific amount
of gibberish, OF course. And any
number of spoiled copies in
which one or two words We're
misspelled. And it would hard.
paw a mortal with only three
score-and ten to sit around and
wait for a fresh copy of Gone
With the Wind. But sooner or
later, there they would be, all
five million books in the Library
of Congress. And ii a man want
ed to sit around for another bill
lion wears. he could get the card
index. too.
The trick is, of course, that
given a quantity like eternity
everything that is possible in
mathematics is bound to happen
sooner or later.
But we viii warrant that this
ape is going to get awful tired.
Well, the editor sympathizes
with him. Sometimes we feel
very much like that ape, when we
sit down at a cold typewriter, in
sert a sheet of blank paper, and
start grinding the keys. And
very likely, a lot OF the things
we write must read as though the
ape had written them. But on
the other hand, it follows that we
must also have our good days
when our stuff reads like the Ii
brary of Congress. Please under
stand, good readers, tnat we do
not make this as a boast. We are
merely interpreting the mathe-
m~atician's law Of averages.
We try, of course, to do a little
better than the law Of averages.
But it is very comforting on
some of our dull days to realize
that, talent or no talent, all we
have to do is keep at it and
we too shall write
Gone With the Wind, Hamlet, and
Copperfield.
Well, the editor got off specU-
en- an extraneous subject,
and is not in the mood to tell
the other story about coincidence,
the grim one. We will save that
for another column. along with
the rest of our ramblinH conclu-
sions on the subject.
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Student Recognition
Will Be Observed In
Moss Point Sunday

Student Recognition Day will
be observed Sunday at the
Dantzler Memorial church in
Moss Point when members who
are now students in colleges and
universities and their parents
will be guests of honor.
The students, home for the
holidays, will make short talks
on what their particular insti-
tuition means to them and appro-
pirate music will be played, the
Rev. ]. S. Noblin, pastor, said.
The theme for the service will
be christian Education.
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We have heard in recent months a num-
Der Of disturbing rumors to the effect that
an effort is going to be made by certain
groups with representation in the Mississippi
legislature to kill the anti-pollution law at
this session. Ii such an effort takes place,
it will constitute an attack on one of the
best laws of public welfare and convenience
now on our statute books, and we hope that
the press and the public will defeat this
effort with a crushing weight of public opin-
ion.
We hope that Governor Tom Bailey will
undertake to maintain this law as one of the
added planks to his public platform. His ac-
ton on this issue is certainly going Ia be
made one of the measures by which he will
be judged in his future political aspirations
in Mississippi.
The same Is true Of Attorney General
Greek L. Rice. Some week ago. after
inexplicable delays. which ran into a
matter of years. his office at last obtain
ed a clear-cut injunction in Jones County
chancerY court prohibiting the Mason
lite Corporation at Laurel from discharg-
ing further wastes into the Pascaqoula
water system. which was being gradu-
ally ruined by this twenty year practice.
We know that the injunction was very
clear and to the point. We trust that is is
being both actively enforced by tn estate, and
observed by the company. We had hoped
by now to seek our own factual information
on this point but have been unable to do so
by the press of more routine tasks. A law
forbidding such ruination of Mississippi's
streams and countryside has been on the
books since 1912, and it was not enforced
until a spectacular slaughter of marine life
the latest of a long series of such instances
took place in Tallahala, Leaf and Pascal
goula rivers this June.
The attorney generals office, in our opin-
ion, did much to overcome its former record
of negligence by obtaining this recent in
JUNCTION. Yet it was public opinion and in
dignation which finally brought about the
beginnings of enforcement on the pollution
issue. And it is public opinion which stands
behind this law today. and which must re-
sist any attemptsto scuttle it in the current
legislative session. y
We have very few facts about the plans
that are being made by the opponents of
this law, but we are deeply interested in
this matter, and we can recognize straws in
the wind. We have heard of one company
which is repeatedly offering to come into
Mississippi when and if the anti-stream pol
luton law is wiped off the books. We be-
iieve Mississippis reaction to such an offer
should be a dignified and firm refusal. We
don't have to beg and grovel to get a cor
poration to come here to bring us a one mil
lion dollar payroll and a ten million dollar
bill against our public streams, and country
side. Former Conservation Commissioner W.
l.. Dearman told us some months ago when
he was in office that another plant was Of
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les was worn by the bride.
The ceremony was witnessed
by Mrs. Warning, mother of the
groom. and Mr.. Brandt, the
brides father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Slater will make
their horne in Bayou LaBatre.
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money getting a teachers education to
take a job which pays on the AVERAGE
less than $1,000 a year. Think of that.
What kind of citizens and thinking people
can we be producing in our schools when
we are SO cheap and short-siqhted that
we handle their education as though it
had the lowest priority rating on the list
of appropriations.
Here is one repair job that our legislators
must get to work On fast. There is a big
surplus of tWenty-eight millions to be sliced
like a melon at this session. Let us hope
hat the political projects like the four-year
medical school at Jackson are held in the
background until teaching in the lower
grades is given a new basis of financing.
High on the list of priorities also is the
question of public health and the need for
small regional hospitals. The state needs
educational funds and a rural health pro-
gram conferred around small hospitals more
than it needs an expensive road program
and a medical school at Jackson.
On the local scene, one of the pleasant
facts about Christmas was the quiet and safe
way it was observed throughout the county.
There were no accidental deaths caused BY
local eelebrants and few misdemeanors. That
seems to us more in keeping with the sacred
origin of Christmas, which is not the same
sort of occasion as New Years, Fourth Of
July or Mardi Gras.
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The invasion of Europe broke
all records for the number of
military maps required for a
single operation, says the army.
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feflng 20 locate at JACKSON, provided OF course
they got the generous and financially val
liable aid of the balance-agriculture-with
industry program, and provided also that The
state would promise not to bother then
about the matter of conservation 'for five
years"
We don need them.
We don't need that particular plant.
at any event. We need and we want
good industry. which will come here and
be good citizens in a hospitable state.
We feel sure that that is whst former
Governor Hugh White had in mind when
he inaugurated the BAWI program. and
that its most farsighted proponents have
always conceived the program in this
light We are stalwart supporters of the
principle of attracting industry to Mis-
sissippi. but we are equally eager to see
that cooperation between the state and
its industrial residents is kept a two-way
proposition. and thatswe do not sell our
countryside for : mess of pottage. This
has been done in a number of states. most
OF whose people. bitterly regret 1t now.
In a number of eastern seaboard states
certain companies have got various streams
declared to be industrial streams exempt
from the provisions of the anti-pollution reg
ulations. Drive through states like North
Carolina or New Jersey now, and you can see
which streams they are. Some of these
streams can be smelled, without exaggera-
ton, ten miles away. You come around the
bend OF a road and look down what was once
a fresh and beautiful valley, and you find a
mountain stream has been changed into an
open sewer, with brown, chemical scum over
everything.
We do not want that in Mississippi. We
want the P~ascagoula, the Leaf, the Biloxi,
the Jordan, the Pearl, the Yallobusha, and
all our beautiful and memorable streams 20
stay much as they are.
This does not mean by any means hat
industries cannot develop on these streams.
But 1t does mean that this sound anti-pollu-
ton law must be enforced, and that manu-
featuring plants be required to treat their
wastes in order to make them non-poisonous
to aquatic life, and %non-ruinous to the streams
themselves. Modern industrial chemistry has
made rapid strides since the development of
the east, and there is now a method to treat
every discharge.
The same applies to our many towns who
are still fouling their own nests, like the
BIRDS OF the proverb. Raw sewage is very
harmful to streams, but methods to treat if
and to prevent the fouling of the water are
Wei-developed. and relatively inexpensive.
hll 1t takes is Intelligence on the part of
the public and the elective officials to follow
such a program. We ourselves, all of us
who live here, are the public. The problem
is up to us. 1t is up to us to see that our cleo
tive representatives III the legislature now
beginning in jackson, do not take a step back
ward by GRIPPING or abclishing a good and
necessary anti pollution law.
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is included. The result: a body that is $3.50 stronger
for additional resistance to bruises, extra blowout
protection.
Flotter tread overs more ground. Called
the road level tread, it puts more rubber on the
road, permits all the tread TO share the wear. Result:
a further increase in mileage, less scufing, better
distribution of weight, better traction, more safety
on the turns.
Plus 3 years EXTRA experience. Three years
before any other manufacturer, B. F. Goodrich sold
tires containing synthetic rubber to American car
owners. The extra now-how piled up in these years
is reflected in the new b. +. Goodrich Silvertown.
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u hos been proved. More than 1000 tests and
Sivertown will Outwear Prewar natural rubber
Tires.
New, better rubber. B. f. Goodrich has de-
veloped a rubber that's far better than ordinary
s~yntheties. 1t helps the new Silvertown wear better
and actually stands bruisipg and damage from
accidents better.
fire body $3.50 stronger. An entirely new,
stronger cord is used, more of these cords are used
in the top ply, an extra ,shoek-ahsorbing breaker strip
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-02
YANKEES D0WNED
BY GIANTS, 81

BADER FIELD, Atlantic City, N.
j. April 1-P)-With an Easter
crowd of 2,018 present including
1888 paid, and 685 soldiers count
ing USO guests, and wounded from
England general hospital. the
Giants beat the Yankees 5 to l..
Bill Voiselle, last years 81 game
National League winner, and
Rookie Loren Balm limited the
American leaguers to 7 hits.
Balm allowed only one hit in the
last four rounds. The Yanks lone
run came in the fifth off Voiselle,
when they punched singles with
Paul Waner's pinch hit driving in
Oscar Grimes.
The Giants got 2 runs off Hank
BoroWy, who worked the first five
frames; and off Rookie Ken Hol-
combe, who was upset in the eighth
by Dan Gardella's bunt, and then
made wild throw after fielding
tap in front of the plate by Steve
Filipowicz.
George Hausmann got the only
Giant extra base blow, double,
driving in the 2 runs against Bor-
owy.
1nfielder Mike Milosevich report
ed to the Yankees today, but was
not allowed in uniform, as he has
not yet signed.
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STATE COLLEGE
TO OPEN SEASON

RALEIGH, April 1.-P)-N. Z.
State Colleges Red Terrors and
Carolina Preflight's Cloudbusters
will open the Ration League sched-
ule with a baseball game at Doak
Field tomorrow afternoon at four
o'clock.
Coach Beattie Feathers State
team was victorious in its first
game of the season with Cherry
Points Marines here Friday after
noon, staging an eighth-inning raj
ly to defeat the Marines liz.
Feathers announced he will send
Bill Riggan of Macon, a southpaw,
to the mound tomorrow against
the Cloudbusters, and that John
Evans of Kenly will catch.
State players in the starting line
up probably will be stan Kohler
Of New York City, first base; Bob
Wood of Graham, second base;
Sleepy Perry of Hamlet, Short
stop; Charlie Richkus OF Hill
side, N. j., third base; Jimmy
Wilson of Scotland Neck, ceffter-
field; Paul Gibson of Winston-Sa-
lem, left field, and Glenn Gilmore
of Julian, right field.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-02
MANP0WER POOL
OF F00TBALLERS
WILL Be TALKED
Mergers Probably Will Be
Discussed AT Meeting
Next Friday
BY JIMMY JORDAN

CHICAGO, April 1.-R-Mergers
of several teams in an effort to
maintain high level Of play in
the National Football league APP
pear probable next Friday when
heads of the II clubs in the pro-
fessional loop meet in New York.
Elmer Layden. president OF the
league, said tonight that because
of manpower shortages, mergers
that would cut the league to eight
teams for the 1945 season have
been Informally discussed" add
ing that both in the interest Of
the caliber of play and as means
of cutting transportation, the pro-
posals have merit"
Pittsburgh's Steelers and the
Philadelphia Eagles merged in
1943 and enjoyed a successful sea-
son. Last year the Steelers and
Chicago Cardinals joined, but
failed to win league game.
This year, it is possible the
Boston Yanks and Brooklyn, Chi.
cage Bears and Cardinals, and
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia may
pool manpower. If these arrange
ments are made, and are agreed
upon by the league meeting, there
would be four teams in the west
ern division-Green Bay Packers,
Detroit, Cleveland and the Chica-
60 combine. In the east there
would be Washington, New York.
Pittsburgh Philadelphia n d
Brooklyn-Boston.
1T is merely a question Of get
ting along and keeping alive until
such time as we can return to
normal status Layden said.
In event of such mergers, Lay
den declared, each team would be
returned to its original status at
the end of the season.
At present, neither Pittsburgh
nor Brooklyn has head coach,
while manpawer problems have
hit hardest in Pittsburgh and with
the Chicago Cardinals. Walt
Kiesling, 1944 Steeler coach, has
joined the Green Boy coaching
staff. Pete Cawthon, Brooklyn
coach, was removed during the
past season.
In addition to the discussion of
the possible mergers, the league
meeting also will take up the draft
of college players and the 1915
schedule. The latter, of course,
will have to await final status of
the proposed combines.
Fridays meeting was set when
a January meeting adjourned al
most as soon as it convened. At
the time, war conditions were I'M
certain, and the league heads
agreed to await more propitious
time before making plans for
1915.
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Miami Beach Course
Purchased For Club

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, April L.
P)-The Lagorce golf course and
clubhouse have been purchased by
a group of citizens for year.
round private country club at a
reported price of $l,OO0,00O.
The 18-hole layout was built by
Carl G. Fisher on 40 acres of
land, pumped out Of Biscayne Bay.
1t was opened in 1927 after more
than five years of construction.
In 1928 Johnny Farrell's 274 Won
the courses first big tournament
with $4,000 prize money at stake.
Since then three other big events
have been held. The property was
purchased by a group under the
name of the Lagorce Golf Course
Co. from the Bayshore
Holding Co.
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IS CAR0LINIANS
WITH CRACKERS

ATLANTA, April 1-(PeThere'
distinct Carolina flavor to the
Atlanta Crackers spring training
roster-no less than Is players be.
ing. from those two states. How.
ever, all of them haven't report
ed as yet.
North Carolina leads with ter
aspirants, half of them pitchers,
and South Carolina has five, in
Guiding three infielders.
The Tar Heels include Leonard
Cross of Lands, Jimmie Eskridge
of Charlotte, Bob Reid of Ashe
vile, Gene Verble of Concord, in
fielders; Charlie Weathers of LIE
noir, outfielder; and Mason Leepel
of Dallas, Kenneth Deal of Gas
tonia, Forrest Thompson o.
Mooresville, Dick Mauney of Con
cord, and Doyle Williams of Char
lotte, pitchers.
Jack Hollis of Columbia, Rudy
Jones of Easley, and Ray Stokes
of Sumter, are the infielders from
the Sister State; Pitcher FREQ
Ross of Ninety-Six, and Jack Rush
ing Of Winnsboro, form a South
Carolina battery. Stokes led the
Appalachian League in hitting last
season with Kingsport.
Hollis, Verble, Leeper and Deal
were outstanding Junior Legion
players in 1914
Excluding pitchers, last years
regular Cracker lineup had five
Carolinians: Reid at first base,
Bill Goodman of Concord. and
Lindsey Deal of Lenoir, outfield-
ers; Ed "Snow" Kirby of Green.
vile. S. c., and Mig Lipscomb Of
Charlotte, at third base.
Hoyle Boyer of Albemarle, N. c.,
caught the opening game for the
Crackers in 1914. but finished the
season with Little Rock.
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That's because we have Derby
hopes for them and naturally are
giving them more attention than
the others,' he said.
Another trainer who feels the
same as Parke is John Goode who
has 10 horses now at the Downs
incluling two Derby possibilities,
K. Doe Doe and Bob Mann.
'1'd like to have at least go days,
possibly rs, to get my horses
ready" he said.
Jack Hanover, successful train
er of the Louisville-owned Lyman
Friedberg Stable, is another go or
rs day man. Hanover, who las
nine thoroughbreds including the
swift Harriet Sue and Bolo' S
Choice, says he likes to get his
horses legged up good, muscled
up good and have good wind" be-
for esending them to the races.
Churchill Downs track superin-
tendent, Tom Young, said, we're
ready now,' but Resident Manager
Russell Sweeney thinks "a Derby
on scheduled time-May 5-unlike-
ly. but only because of the horses
not being ready"
All in all, no matter what hap
pens in Europe, it looks like no
racing here before May l and no
Derby before June.
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Ohio State Swimmers
Celebrate NCAA Title

his able tutoring helped 17-year-
old Seymour Schlanger of the
Buckeye squad to take over his
1,500-meter and 440-yard free
style champions and finished
second in the 220.
It was Nakama who called the
turns for Schlanger in both events
and gave the brilliant Brooklyn
freshman the pointers he needed
to become one of the meets three
double winners.
For ten days prior to the cham
pionships, Nakama and Schlanger
had worked out together with the
NCAA champions showing the
youngster what pace he had to
set to win.
Schlanger's top-notch perfor-
nance, plus a brilliant diving ex-
hibition by Hobart Billingsley,
who won both the one and three
meter broad events, clinched the
meet for the Buckeyes, who had
lost the 1915 Big Ten conference
title to Michigan by II points.
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Brooklyn Dodgers Win
Exhibition Game, 6-5

BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y, April
/. -PH The Brooklyn Dodgers
scored four runs on four singles
and two passes off Tom Warren
in the first inning and defeated
their Montreal farm hands, 6 to >,
today.
Leo Durocher, manager of the
Dodgers, played through the FIRST
two innings at second base and
then departed for New York to
keep his much-publicized radio en-
gagement.
Scheduled for another appear
ance on the air on April IA, Duro-
cher before the game disclosed
he has instructed his booking agent
not to make any additional radio
commitments for him and added
that whenever he does appear be-
lore the microphone in the future
it will be an engagement which
does not interfere with his base
ball duties and carries full appro-
val of Branch Hickey, president OF
the Dodgers.
Pete Stephens, Curt Davis and
Hal Gregg did the pitching for the
Dodgers and Warren was followed
to the mound by Pierre Roy and
Buck Tanner.
Brook. (N) - AGO 200 ooo-6 10
Mont (TTN . 002O1 00O-5 7
Stephens, Davis 80, Gregg (6),
and Sukeforth; Owen 90, Andrews
| 10, Warren, Roy "a, Tanner Cd
and Todd, Terrell 10. Long 10.
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Famed Kentucky Derby
May Wait Until June

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 1.-(R
When the horse racing ban is lift
ed on We Day, how soon will the
horses be able to run again at
Churchill Downs?
Most of the horsemen in Derby
town-where approximately 500
horses are quartered-feel they
can not have their horses ready
for even sprint races before May
And a long grind such as the
mile-and-a-qdarter Kentucky Der
by is out of the question for them
until the last part of May, or pre-
ferably, early June, they say.
The majority of trainers think
that if there is to be any racing
here before May l, it will have to
be done by the horses that winter
ed in Florida or New Orleans
which had been in training before
the ban went into effect. Their
horses definitely won't be ready,
they say.
Burley Parke, who trains for
one of the largest and most impos-
ing stables at the DoWns-John
Marsch' s-said that out of Is
horses he has here, there are only
two in the barn who could run by
May l, Free For All and Art Roi.
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EEzabethtown Negress
Held In Husbands Death

ELIZABETHTOWN, April l.
Susie Robinson, 21-year-old Ne
gress, is being held in Bladen
county jail on charge of stab
bling and killing her husband,
Johnny Robinson, "a, Saturday af-
ternoon after a fight over his pay
check, Sheriff H. M. Clark dis
closed today.
A complete confession of the
murder, claiming self defense,
has been obtained, the sheriff
said. Investigating officers said
the Negroes chased her husband
about 200 yards after stabbing him
in the back with six-inch case
knife.