davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-08-04

There are some 10000 of them located IN
that part of Burma north of Mandalay where
gibbons whoOp In the lotus trees and tigers
stalk in the teak forests by night. They are
short and straight and strongly built; their
endurance is unbelievable 1t comes from
endless tramping over the ridges of the
Jungle covered upland hill tracts where they
make their homes. They can march through
this country all day with a 5O-pound pack,
and they ran ragged almost every American
who tried to keep up with them.
Their life has always been hard, but they
meet it with CompOsure and unlmpaired good
humor. How do the Jinghpaws llve?' an
American guerrilla once asked hill man.
In spring we plant paddy rice seed, he
answered. "In the fall We reap the rice. In
winter We hunt. And in the rainy season
We make more Jinghpa~s:
You know why we Jlnghpaws are poor
and ignorant?' they used to ask. 1t all
began a long time ago when the Creator
called the peoples of the earth together and
gave them books of wisdom The Jlnghpaws
had come such a great distance that they ran
out of rice in barren country on the way
Evening star., 1946-08-04

founders They learned persistence beating the
Japanese and intend to see the job through.
The school will teach reading and writing
to Kachin youngsters, agriculture and home
handlcrafts to their elders And it will remind
all kachins that among men who have worked
together there is bond greater than color,
creed or political conviction
The Americans of Detachment lOl, Office
of Strategic Services, first met the kachins in
1912 as the campaign to retake Burma was
being mounted. What brought them together
was the demand for espionage and sabotage
behind the Japanese divisions opposing Uncle
Joe Stilwell drive for the Burma Road. The
kachins could show them how to get it.
Evening star., 1946-08-04

TN A jungle clearing near the drowsy North
i Burma town of Myltkylna, little school
will stand one day 1t will be called the
American -kachin War Memorial School, and
its thatch- and bamboo buildings will be the
tribute of some u. S. fighting men to the
sturdy tribesmen who were their wartime
friends and Allies
At time when Allies use friendship as
guarded legal term around the peace tables
such an undertaking is good example of
what few individuals can contribute to One
World.
The school is still to be built, on land still
to be acquired, with funds still to be raised.
But these considerations, which might stagger
a Board of Education do not disturb the
Evening star., 1946-08-04

They joined forces and went into business.
Up to this time few Americans knew what
kachin was. Today those who have seen him
blow bridges, ambush enemy columns and
risk his brown skin to save an American life
don't miss chance to praise his courage.
loyalty and good heart.
In three years the kachin guerrlllas, and
the American friends who led them. killed
5000 Japanese troops against 80 casualties
of their own, and rescued 378 American air
men who had crashed in Jap-held territory.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
They Led the Marauders

| HEY caused untold damage to Japanese
communications, furnished General Stllwell
with top-fight intelligence, and served as
scouts and guides They led the famous Merrill
Marauders to Myitkyina, using route so
little known that the Americans were able to
deploy around the city undetected and attack
with complete surprise.
In western terms the kachins are primitive
tribesmen. In their own language they are
Jinghpaws, or men of the hills" though
they are customariy called Kachins by other
Burmese.
Evening star., 1946-08-04

TW s. 4 40
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Mosonite Injunction

An injunction restraining the Masonite
Corporation at Laurel from dumping its eff
fluent into Talahalla Creek was granted last
Saturday at Meridian and will go into effect
in two weeks from that date unless in the
meantime, Masonic is granted a certificate
of compliance by the State Game and Fish
Commission.
The two-week delay in the injunction was,
into operation the new machinery recently
Installed for removing wood fibres from the
%effluent of the plant, after it has passed
through the new plant, and on the basis of
the analysis a certificate of compliance will,
or will not, be issued the plant by the Game
and Fish Commission.
We believe that the new machinery install
ed by Masonite will have little effect on the
real trouble. As we all know, the wood fl
bres constitutes the minor part of the fish
killing potency of the plants effluent. 1t is
the oxygen-hungry wood sugars which dis
solves the oxygen in the water and browns"
the fish, that cause the real damage and, as
far as we can learn, the present new machin-
cry will not affect these wood sugars.
1t is for this reason that we join with the
Metropolitan Club at Hattiesburg and the
Young Mems Business Club at Moss Point,
in urging the State Game and Fish Commits
sion to secure the services of an outside ex-
pert to make this analysis before any GER
~tificate of compliance is issued to Masonite.
The people of this section of Mississippi de-
serve this consideration
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Cyclists And Safety

We have no desire to be a killjoy and we
think one of life's most beautiful sights is
healthy, happy children at play. BY the same
token, we want to see our youngsters remain
healthy and happy.
But one of the most unhealthful places to
play is the traffic-jammed streets of Pasca-
goula using a bicycle as a toy and it is diff
for anyone to be happy in a hospital, par
ticularly a youngster.
With new bicycles again on the market
and increased purchasing, the number of BIZ
cycles now on the streets makes it nlanda-
tory that cyclists know and observe traffic
regulations if we are to prevent accidents
and fatalities.
Thomas r. Wells, Pascagoula's able super
intendent of schools, and police Chief ]. E.
Shirley will cooperate intellectually in
such a program, we feel sure. and the addi-
tional cooperation of parents and the general
public will assure its success.
We suggest that parents tell their children
to obey fundamental traffic regulations: Ride
on the right side of the street, stop at in
tersections, ride single-file when in a group,
and ride only one to the bike. And cut out
the horse play, racing, and tagging, particu-
larly on the busy narrow streets.
We further recommend that Chief Shirley
and his officers arrest youngsters who in
sst OF violating the regulations and turn
their names over to school authorities for
disciplinary action.
And to the Youngsters we saw We aren't
squares or long hairs but for the sake of
your safety and our frayed nerves, Get hep,
cat. Straighten up and ride right .s... 4..a.,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Quaker Lady to Teach Jap
Prince Young Americas Ideals

by the American Library AS
ISOLATION.
Her writing career began
several years before she enter
ed Bryn Mawr at the age of
II perhaps the most naive
and ingenious freshman that
ever strayed through Penn
broke arch Early in her
teens, she wrote a moral story
for children, for which The
Young Churchman paid 50.
The real thrill in the affair.""
she remembers, LAY in the
fact that The Young Church.
man never suspected that |
was not entirely grown up.
In fact, the editors inspired
letter of acceptance began.
My dear Mrs. Gray
To Share Recreation
Daughter of a New Jersey
Quaker mother and a Scotch
father, Elizabeth attended a
Friends School in German
town, Pa. was graduated from
Bryn Mswr. and became a
daughter at home" after be-
ing told until l was raw with
irritation that she was too
young and inexperienced to
hold down a job.
There was a year of odd
jobs of tutoring and grading
papers, of writing short Stol-
les and papering a segment of
the wall of my bedroom with
the rejection slips
Later she acquired a degree
in library science at Drexel
Institute. wrote her initial
book for girls, and worked in
the tataloguing room of the
University of North Carolina
library.
In Japan. Mrs. Winning will
live near the imperial palace,
and also will lecture at the
Peers School. educational in.
stitution for the royal family.
She will be one of several
tutors assigned Ia Prince Ak
Into, ana is delighted that the
Prince and Princess will spend
reereational periods in her
home.
In that way" she says en-
thuiastieallY. we will really
get to know each other"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
FreePress
Voice d freedom.
Guurdiun Of Liberty
A Newsfeature

New York-The public-ser-
vice activities of American
newspapers are being en-
phasized during the seventh
annual National Newspaper
Week, Oct. | to 8. This years
slogan. adopted by Newspaper
Association Managers, Inc,
sponsors of the observance,
is: "a Free Press-Voice of
Freedom, Guardian of Liber-
ty."
Special tribute is to be paid
to the wartime and postwar
services of the nations press,
both in covering international
events and in promoting such
community projects as scrap
drives, fire prevention cam
paigns and projects for civic
betterment.
In announcing the theme for
the 1947 observance, Gene Al
leman. secretary-manager of
the Michigan Press Association
and chairman of the Newspa-
per Week committee, said:
I'VE believe that the editor
who champions the welfare of
the community through news
paper public service is living
up to the finest traditions of
the American press. To serve
as a voice of freedom and a
guardian of liberty. the press
must remain unshackled and
free of hampering restraints"
Big and little newspapers all
over the country are observing
the week with programs de
signed to show their readers
what the publication of an i'm
partial news report involves
and how the citizen benefits
nom such a service.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
AP Newsfeature

Philadelphia tall blue
eyed Quaker will do her bit
to insure world peace when
she arrives at the imperial
court in Japan to introduce
Crown Prince Akihito to young
Americas ideals. both fiction
al and historical.
Mrs. Morgan Vining of Phil
adelphia, chosen by the State
Department with the approval
of Emperor Hirohito to teach
the 12-year-old japanese roy
al heir English and American
literature, also will be the first
feminine tutor ever appointed
for a member of the Japanese
royal family.
Visibly excited and some
what awed by the assignment,
Mrs. Vining doesn't quite know
where she's going to start
when she gets to Japan This
fall. One thing she does know:
The emphasis will be on a
world without war. and ma
tons working together for
peace. I realize the ~opportuni-
ties this assignment may hold
to SOW the seeds of democratic
thinking that will contribute
10 the maintenance of peace.
Il cannot say just where I
will begin, until | find out
just what stage of study he has
reached" Mrs. Vining says.
But I will teach him the stor-
les every American school
child knows-stories Of Wash
ington and Of Lincoln and of
Longfellow, and of American
thoughts and ideals"
The middle-aged brunette
member of the American
Friends Service Committee.
which recommended her TO the
japanese Commission on Edu-
for this unique assign
ment. IS not an educator N
the formal sense Of the word.
She lid teach high school for
a time in New Jersey. but has
concentrated on writing books
for older boys and girls
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

though they could arrange
mans destiny with the infalli-
bility of Jehova Himself; when
actually their basic motive is
hatred of man as an individual
and man as an abstraction, and
indeed hatred of themselves
which, comes out in their gen.
So it is important to have
old Jim, complex as any char
acter out of Russian literature,
yet also simple as a dollar
watch, a man who couldn't sell
out if he tried, it is important
to have him writing about
these high and mighty events
and appearing in some 400
newspapers every day instead
of the one we used to work
on.
orservants qrc-pT
But in one sense the things
which Jim wrote fifteen years
ago about the forgotten. face
less little people O. city life
who turned for a moment into
view. who lived for a moment
in his columns. spoke some lit
tie phrase, performed some fam
tastic caper and wandered
back into the b~ackstreets of
New Orleans-in a way those
pieces said more about mans
grand and tragic destiny on the
Earth than anything that he
could ever write from Wash
ington. They were not import
ant or ambitious writings. But
they were faithful. And they
belonged to that simpler age.
the last running sands that
emptied before The age of atom
&c fission.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Desk

exaggeration-but not a great
deal. For he could have done
it if he had only stopped and
talked to some interesting hu-
man being for five minutes on
the way. And in those days,
the days of innocence before
the atomic age, back in those
fading days of the Depression,
all human beings were inter-
esting to us. l guess we thought
we had worries during the De-
preston. But looking back
over the tremendous abyss
which separates the OMNIBUS
atomic year of 1946 from the
Middle Ages of 1884, we Ire
almost inclined TO regard those
Depression years as a sort of
Golden Age.
Our friend Jim used to write
about incidents end trifles of
human destiny in those days
which were important only to
a few individuals along some
New Orleans back street. Per-
haps a man would be shot, or
steal a street-car while on a
drunk, or some forlorn and
namelesS Negro would drown
on a picnic. Jim would have
a feeling about these things,
and he insisted on writing that
feeling. That was how he
was different from the rest of
us. We wrote the sort of dead
and mechanical news account
that newspaper organizations
generally fall into because it is
the least trouble and leads to
the fewest inducements. Jim
wrote his own way-sometimes
awkwardly, sometimes unsuc-
cessfullv, but always with fl
deity to the feeling that the
event had quickened within
himself. And whatever he
wrote in this line was a story
by one man, by Jim. and could
only have been written by Jim.
and could never be confused
with the tasteless. n~atureless,
maehine-like writing of the rest
of us. Even as a $35 a week re-
porter. he renamed true to
himself.
And that was the simplest and
yet the greatest lesson which
he had to teach.
Jim went away eventually to
New York and then to Wash
ington, and became a very Sue
eessful = and by newspaper
standards almost a famous col
umnist. Instead of writing any
longer about shootings behind
the French Market, bank rob-
berries, old policemen, writing
illitefate bulletins of fantastic
New Orleans eriminalitv, he
now wrote daily commentaries
on the events which shook the
world. the doings of Presidents.
cabinet officers, congressional
committees, world conferences.
The petty lives of petty indi-
viduals receded into the past
of his journalism. His assign
ment was to deal in the tre-
mendous realities and ominous
distractions which had become
the daily order of things in
Washington. Day by day he
tackled the budget, the United
Nations procedures. the politi-
cal outlook, the income tax.
the steel strike. and a host of
other things.
His work is very important
You can read it any day
in the New Orleans States and
the other dailies which come
into P%ascagoula. Il is import
ant to have a man of inherent.
inflexible. ineradicahle human-
writing a daily commentary
on the worlds events. That
field of journalism is loaded
with cheap solG-out hate ar
lists, liars, and fools-with Hal
y w~ise-guys who write as
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
81 s sfN! l!EllHI!L[!!l2'IEs
By NoLLE T. E
TX

We venture the suggestion
that perhaps the greatest
shortage in the highway de-
partment is in the intelligent
planning division and that il
politics were bricks, there
would be enough and to spare
to pave every side road in the
state.
If you plan a trip in Missis-
sippi, folks. and want good
roads, get off the coast. Start
at Gulfport and head north
and you will find well kept,
properly bridged, competent
ly-engineered ribbons of con-
crete running in whatever di-
rection you care to drive. And
enjoy it while you can. Be-
cause you will find the same
pitted, hole-ridden, spring
breaking, bridge-sagging ex-
cuses for highways still wait
ing for you when you return
to the coast.
Even the shoulders of the
highway are well-kept up
state with erosion prevention,
moving and brush-cutting
obviously a regular practice.
The route is clearly marked,
the driving lines shine, and
the curves and sideroads are
plainly indicated. If us. 40
and us. 30 are sisters to us.
80 in Mississippi, you can bet
that Highway 80 is the Cinde-
rella sister and that the Fairy
Godmother and the Rich
Prince have not vet appeared
on the scene. And a pumpkin
with mice for horses is about
the only safe way to travel
it.
One good reason for not
seeding, however. is the Men
denhall Hotel in Simpson
County with its famous re-
volving table. Almost anyone
could make a table revolve,
we presume, but il is the del
acies that revolve on this
particularly table that make
us glad it belongs to our state.
We ate there for the first
time last Friday and would
drive the IT'S miles back there
for dinner every day if we had
time. You sit down at this
table, famous all over the
south, and a second smaller
table in the center is laden
with almost every delicacy OF
the southern culinary art.
Boiled onions, field peas, tur-
nip greens, corn bread, spare
ribs, stuffed peppers-every-
thing in the good southerner's
book.
You turn the table and help
yourself and Negro walters
replenish the supply with hot
food as the bowls empty. You
eat as much as you want and
then get up-if you can-and
pay the man seventy-five
cents. This in the days of two
bit hamburgers of doubtful
origin!
We started to miss the foot
ball game in Vicksburg and
move into the Mendenhall
Hotel for the weekend or the
rest of our life or at least an
indefinite stay.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

We sometime feel that the
six counties that jut down in
to Southeast Mississippi
Pearl River, Stone, George,
Hancock, Harrison and Jack
son-should secede from the
remainder of the state and set
up a Free State of Miss
Louis. Ala" in the same man
ner that Jones County seeded
from the Confederacy during
the Civil War and set up the
Free State of Lebanon"
We have geographical or
cultural ties with the north or
central portion of Mississippi
and virtually no hand in the
affairs of the state with the
exception of furnishing a play
ground for the upstate people
in vacation time and jobs for
a large number of their citi-
zens who drift down to the
Promised Land where the high
wages and Gulf Breezes flow
like the traditional milk and
honey.
It is an established fact that
Jackson is the center of the
state. both geographically and
politically. and the upstate
packed legislature can rarely
e south of the Capitol.
And we see their point. We
are more closely related in
jackson County to Mobile and
New Orleans and ever to PEN
sacola than we are to the state
capitol. How many times have
you been to Jackson? Com
pare ii with the number of
visits to Mobile or New Dr.
leans.
Mobile is in the same geo.
graphical position in Alabama
but Montgomery al see the
thriving port city with half
an eye and state funds are
poured into the harbor there
by the millions. Our Alabama
neighbor seem to know a fact
we Mississippians still have to
learn: That the state is a unit
and helping one section, helps
the whole.
We arc conscious of our po-
sition-or lack of position-in
the state at all times but we
have to take a trip, as we did
last weekend to Vicksburg, in
order to get wound up anew
on the subject. Mr.. Walter
Spiva of Jackson and Mr.. Mum
dell Bush of Hattiesburg, the
director and district commits
sioner of the State Highway
Department, respectively, have
thought this newspaper was a
little harsh with them in the
past because it demanded and
kept demanding passable roads
in our end of the state.
They thought we were a lit
tie mean because we wanted
a road instead of a canal be-
tween Escatawpa and Moss
Point and because we still
want bridges instead of death
traps between Pascagoula and
Gautier. And we will risk con-
tinuing TO be VILLAINS by won
dering why State Highway
SO cannot be surfaced from
Vancleave to Virgins.
We had thought of this for
sometime but we we're so used
to hearing of shortages of ma
terials and labor and equip
ment and money and person.
mel that we had pushed it to
the back of u mind until we
rode Saturday afternoon over
the blacktopped, well-kept
state highway from Magee to
Lucedale, a portion of it OBJ
viously newly laid.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27

typewriter for a good two hours
column, but nothing at all
would come out of the ma
chine. Perhaps it seems that
composing a column once a
week ought to be easy-and in
a way it is, when you first get
an idea to write about. But
most of us have only a limited
number of basic ideas 1--WE fear
that some of our readers will
agree with this too enthusiast
cally) and after many months
of weekly epistles such as this
one the range of those ideas is
likely to be fully covered. Then
the only thing to do is start
the process over again, writ
ing the old ideas with new va
riations.
This is what most column
lists get around to doing sooner
or later. And sometimes when
they are dispensing wisdom by
the DAY instead of by the week,
the range of their ideas begins
to seem pretty limited indeed.
Anyone knows this who has
read Westbrook Pegler, George
Matthew Adams, Walter Win
chell, the late o. o. Mcintyre.
Sometimes these fellows seem
to go on and on in the same
narrow range of view, like a
busted photograph repeating
the same phrases over and
over.
It is hard to blame the poor
fellows, however. Writing a
daily column in the big leagues
would be our idea of torture.
No man on earth has something
important to say 365 days in
every year. All of the immor-
tai parallels, all of the timeless
wisdom that was spoken in a
whole lifetime by Jesus was
later written down by His dis
eiples in the space of a score or
SO thousands of words. Our
big-shot all-knowing column
lists sometimes write this many
words a week. But there is
more wisdom in anyone of the
simple stories of the New Tes-
lament parallels often requir-
ing only a hundred words or
so in the telling-that there
is in the whole lifetime eontri-
buttons of the professional
sore-heads and know-it-alls who
fill the daily opinion columns
of the newspapers and spout ii
over the radio in amending to-
rents.
But this of course should be
news to no one.
>
We set out to say something
in this piece about a newspa-
perman we once worked with.
who In the old days could
write well and write with a
vibrant and exciting intensity
about almost ANYTHING at all,
and sometimes about nothing
at all. We worked with him
back in the years of our ap-
premiership, and many of the
ideas which later became a
part of the fabric of Our own
thinking we picked up from
him. He was a man of intense
energy when directed day-to-
day task like newspaper work.
but perhaps there was some
great lassitude deep within
him for he never turned his
talents to any major task like
the creation of a big fat book,
which he should have done.
But he could write an exeit-
ing story about almost any of
the petty events and simple
tragedies OF low comedy which
pass daily before a newspaper
mans eyes. We recall some
that another reporter
said about him years ago.
Jim can park his car in front
Of the building and walk into
the office and find a two-eol-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-27
Capital


Acheson Gaining Plaudiis
As Acting State Secretary
Western Allies Are Ready
For Dardanelles Showdown