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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

Events of the past week involving Presi-
dent Truman, Secretary of Commerce Wal
lace, and indirectly Ambassador Byrnes and
the question of American Foreign policy, re-
suited in the publication of some extremely
important facts and opinions relating to the
welfare of the American people and indeed
of the entire globe.
These statements came largely as a result
Of a misunderstanding between Truman and
Wallace as to whether Truman had endorsed
a Wallace speech, or merely Wallace's right
to make it. Wallace had advised that Ameri-
can and Russian cooperation to guarantee
each other security was far more important to
our safety and survival than an ~ill-eonsidered
"get-tough" policy undertaken largely at the
prodding of the British foreign office. We
were glad to see that President Truman de-
MED there was any group of army officers
who were ~favoring a preventive war with
Russia before they had the atom bomb. We
believe such talk of a Third World War is
madness, that no one will win it, neither
ourselves nor Russia; that worldwide de-
struction would be the result; that those who
survived would survive in an age of barbar-
ism and anarchy. That is what war-any war
in the atomic age will mean.
To this end we want to quote one passage
from Secretary Wallace's letter as a passage
well worth thought by everyone capable of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Washington HighIights

While Washington worries
about what the Soviet master
plan may be, nothing in cur
rent circulation is more Sc
renely suggestive of peace than
the Soviet Information Bull
letin."
During the wal it carried the
writings of some of the best
CT the Russian authors. Often
it gave hints of the Soviet po-
litical views on current ques-
tons IN a warning world
Material for the bulletin IS
supplied through short wave
transmitter which in wartime
carried a code special instruc-
ton of a technical nature for
its supply and military miss
sions in the United States.
Now it deals primarily in
cultural relations with the
United States and develop
ments in the Soviet Union of
a strictly non-political nature.
A recent issue, for example.
devotes itself largely TO a forth
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

We believe that the people of Southeast
Mississippi, and many others all over the
state. share with us a keen sense of disap-
pointnnent over the continued failure OF the
Masonite Corporation at Laurel to keep
simple promises not to continue the rulna-
finn Of the Pascapoula river system. If our
readers 90 back in memory only the span OF
! wear they will recall the promises made
by Masonite's president and other spokes-
men that the company would change Its ir-
responsible attitude toward the welfare OF
this state, and that steps would be taken 10
assure that the deadly pollution pumped IN
to Tallahala creek by the plant would be
made harmless to fish. Readers may remem-
Der too, perhaps, how President Mccullough
admitted that Maaonite had been at fault in
the past had played fast and loose with the
good will of the hospitable state of MISSISSIPPI
pi, and how all this would change if public
anger would only subside into patience, to
give the company time to install machinery.
A year and three months nave passed now
and once again the people of Southeast Mis-
sissippi have seen raw, untreated Masonite
waste kill tons of fish, millions of fish and
fingerlings, just as it has been killing out the
valuable fish fish life in this river system for
twenty years. The explanations" continue,
but an entire volume of statements will not
change the fact that the ruination of the
Pascagoula river valley as a fishing and
pleasure asset is still going on.
We said last SUMMER that a study of the
expert studies made over the years showed
clearly that Masonit IS plan TO remove wood
fibers alone would not nearly solve the prob
lem. We showed also how the company has
not really spent $500. 900, as they claim, on
~anti-pollution work, but merely as the first
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
No Ceilings Expected
On Tobacco. Eggs. Etc.
Deconirol Board Will
Act Only if OPA Insists

of those commodities and if il
noted any unreasonable" price
rise would request the reimpas-
ition of ceilings.
He said that already there
had been some slight jump
IN fuel oil prices, but that 9TH
er petroleum prices were re-
naming stabilized at their pres
ent levels.
As for tobacco. tobacco prod
uets, poultry and eggs. the OPA
chief reported that to date there
had been no substantial gain
IN prices that would Justify
reeontrol of these commodities.
Unless there is a change IN
present price and supply condi-
tons. there is little chance that
any Of these commodities VIII
60 back under ceilings.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Special to Central Press

Washington.-The Price De-
control Board plans no action
to restore ceilings on tobacco
products, petroleum products,
poultry and eggs unless the
OPA demands that controls so
back on these commodities.
Under the new price con-
troll law these commodities
remain free of ceilings. unless
the board rules that they should
be recontrolled.
A spokesman for the board
revealed that the group viii
act only If Price Administer
tor Porter asks for restoration
of controls. In such event the
board probably will hold pub
lie hearings on the question
and listen to arguments in IA
vor of continued diseontrol.
Porter recently stated that
OPA would watch the prices
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
M0sonite's Bad Faith

step of installing a profitable by-product
business. And we point to the simple TACT
of tons of dead fish in the first weeks OF sep
TENDER land slower %poinsoning of the fish IS
going on constantly as the experts have DEM
onstrated) as proof of the fact that Masonic
continues in the same high-handed way to
ignore the damages it is causing to the state.
1t is disappointing to see the state game
and fish commission under Director Free
man continue a weak and ineffective
policy toward this problem, which seems
more clearly to favor the company than the
public welfare. We point out to you read
ers the ironic fact that the Injunction now
sought by the commission will leave the
question of state enforcement in even a
weaker position than tho Injunction which
was granted a year ago.
DR.. M. M. Ellis of the Fish and Wild Life
Service of the u. S. Department of the In
terror, said in a report a year ago that the
Masonite ~effluent must be withheld alto
gether or else the river system eventually
would be polluted Town its entire length. He
advised the Observation-Disclosures method
of disposal, which Masonite rejected on the
grounds of expense. Yet it is not up to the
people of South Mississippi to suffer the
ruination of one of its finest natural assets
because the company considers one of its
clear legal obligations to be expensive"
The weakness of the states approach to
law enforcement in this case has approached
something of farce. We therefore call upon
Director Freeman to make a ~clearcut gesture
in the interests of the public by calling DR.
Ellis once more into Mississippi to draw up
a clear-cut anti-pollution program for the
Masonite plant, in order that this fragrant
and chronic abuse of the law may be ended
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Letters
CoMMENDS CLUB

Chronicle Star and Advertiser,
Dear Sir:
| would like to commend
publicly the Young Mems Bust
ness Club of Moss Point for the
fine work they have done for
our roads from EscataWpa to
Moss Point.
We have moved here from a
large city, and were getting dis
gusted with this road when out
of the blue sky the YMBC club
comes out and gets the highway
people TO do something for us.
/ have heard quite a bit
about this young mems club,
and l must say they are tops
in all the clubs of jackson
county. | was also told that
they sponsored the swimming
in Moss Point, and as a new
conner | think that we needed
it.
Express my appreciation
publicly to this fine club. May
the future be bright for them.
An Admirer from Eseatawp;
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

all the days of the year are
taken up with ceremonies of
some type.
These ceremonies and their
religious obligations take a
great part of their meager in
comes.
Prestige in the villages de-
ponds upon ceremonial acti-
witty rather than wealth. They
have five male and two female
ceremonial societies. in which
they combine Christian and
nom Christian elements in their
rituals. Marriages are first
performed by a priest. Then, in
most instances. the couple re-
turns to the village for eight
of the hours of Vague cere-
monies.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
>s1IBG@7S
BY NoLLE T. ROBERTS

we are far too young to be
accused of living in the past.
And we know that ii was more
important still a half century
ago Lefore automobiles and
paved roads and radios. We
can sense that in the stories of
our father and those of his gen.
Grafton and of still another
generation that has passed dur
ing the short span of our lives.
We feel sorry for the youngs-
tiers who will not see the flick
ering lights of the tabernacle
or the smoked chimneys of the
kerosene lamps in the open
halls Of the tents or warm their
hands and smoke their noses be-
fore the open fires as the night
grows old and cold. And we
are glad that they will not
know what they missed and,
not knowing, cannot regret.
The New Prospect Camp
Meeting will begin this year on
Tuesday, October l, and will
run through the following
Sunday. DR.. Ben L. Suther-
land, District Superintendent
of Hattiesburg, win deliver the
sermons and assist the Rev.
w. j. Walters, pastor of the
Vancleave charge of the Meth
odist church.
The Rev. Mark F. Lyle of
Magee will direct the singing,
Away an important part of
the Camp Meeting services
which begin with Sun Rise
Prayer Meeting in the morn
ing and continue through three
preaching services and Grove
PRAYER Meeting in the late af-
ternoon.
Ray Roberts has added a tent
at the Camp Ground this year
and Will Fletcher and Paul Car
ter have built one together,
following the custom of FAM
lilies building together since
Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Car
ter are sisters.
We tried to think and asked
a couple of people. how many
families would be tenting this
year hut it is almost impossi-
BILE to determine. Sometimes
there are three or more famil-
les in a single tent but all are
so closely connected that it Is
hard to determine where one
family leaves off and another
begins.
We did hear Saturday from
a reliable source that Joe Ware
and Lee Entrekln will run the
Public Tent, the place where
visitors eat and the tenters buy
pie and coffee and the youngs-
tiers candy and c~rackerjack be-
tween services.
We learned, too, that a num-
Der of folk r moving out on
the Saturday before Camp
Meeting to be on hand for the
Charge-wide gathering on the
fifth Sunday in September
which will be an all-day ser-
vice ana kind of a prelude to
Camp Meeting.
Meanwhile, the hogs are fat
tening in the pen and the
nights are getting cool so any
n can see with half an eye
that it isn't long to Camp
Meeting.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

Folks have argued for years,
off and on, that the ray of Camp
Meetings has passed but the
annual gatherings continue UNI
abated and with renewed en-
ergy during the past few
years.
At New Prospect, where the
'tenters' gathered last Satur-
day to clean the grounds in
preparation for this years
meeting, a dozen or more new
tents have gone up during the
past decade and at least two
more are under construction
this year and Will be ready be-
fore the October l deadline
We have been unable to learn
why the permanent board
camps are called tents" but
they have been for as long as
the oldest can remember and
that is that. No one could
change the custom if they tried
and no one would try. Tents
they have been for at least a
century, and tents they will re-
main.
a tent is ordinarily a three
compartment affair. housing
from one to three families for
Camp Meeting week by the
simple expedient of a women's
side. mems side. and a middle
section housing the kitchen.
dining room and living room.
all combined into one The
floors are of straw. the build
ings are not sealed. and some
times the wind whistles through
the cracks if a cold snap"
occurs during the meeting.
But the hard beds, cold wa
ter, congestion and general in
convenience, compared to our
home standards, are part of the
joy Of Camp Meeting i.
and an important part. At
New Prospect, located six miles
north of Vancleave and about
sixty five years cid, there are
those who resent the advent
of ele.tric lights and running
water, innovations of the very
recent past.
Having cut our teeth on a
tabernacle bench, we feel quail
flied to argue the point and
we hold with the people who
r for letting things remain
like they were, even though we
can sec the point of those who
wish to modernize. The fire.
stands, giving light as well as
heat, the old dug wells, where
we have drawn uncounted
buckets of water on countless
chilly mornings, and the flick
ering gasoline jets of the tab
ernacle are deeply grooved in
our memory and ire an insepa-
rable part of all that was and
will never be again.
The pleasant inconvenience
are like the memory of the
comforting scratchiness of your
Dads blue serge pants against
your cheek when as a small
boy you could stay awake in
church no longer.
= =
Camp Meeting was a more inn
portant event when we were
a youngster than it is today.
We are convinced of that and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

coming international chess
match between a Soviet team
of champions and some Ameri-
can experts, The bulletin e
calls that the Russians beat the
Americans last year and in
vited them to a return match.
Russians Seek Another Win
At Chess
No implication that Foreign
Secretary Viaeheslav Molotov
and his team has beaten other
powers or been beaten by them
at the international chess board
of diplomacy mentioned-nor
is there any suggestion of re-
turn matches TO come.
For the rest Of the recent
issue. it discusses collective
farming, the five-yesr plan for
power plants, restoration of
health resorts, many of which
were closed during the war.
and the development of river
transportation.
or possible political signifi-
canoe were two articles on the
oil fields of Baku and the So
Wet Republic of Azerjaiian.
both possible eenters Of fric-
ton with the British.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

eye. The Horn Island Pass Light
house flashed on and off, its
brilliant white light, and one
could imagine this silent de-
serted structure, standing on
its slender supports in the dark
water. Beneath it the fish were
gliding in the silence of eter-
nifty over the reef of rocks,
wondering perhaps in a prima-
tive way why this light cut the
darkness overhead every now
and again sending its rays
down into the Watery depths.
We drove then across the
causeway to Gautier and turn
ed back into the pine woods
toward Graveline bayou. The
bluffs at the mouth of Grave
line are one of the most beau
tiful points on the coast
looking out upon the sound
and down the last undevelop-
ed beach on the coast-ten
miles or more between the
bayou and Back Bay. We went
out on the pier and sat for
a while, ENJOYING the night.
The skies seemed to be drawn
close to the earth above this
darkened coastline. There was
no smoke. no city lights to
break the spell of land, sea
and sky. They merged into one
tremendous panorama, and
the consultations wheeled so
close overhead that they seem
ed almost like the sweeping
planets and comets with circl-
ing rings of light and fiery
tails which one sees on the
charts of the astrologers. Oc-
casionally a mateorite buried
a bright line across the dark
ness. PROPOSES were fishing by
the sandy point across the
bayous. splashing spray into
the moonlight. Occasionally
mullet splashed by the pier.
The long beach, the marshes,
the distant line of trees stood
out in soft outline beneath
the moon. The less familiar
lights of the inland waterway
channel flashed out beyond
Round Island, stretching in a
chain toward the Biloxi har-
Dor.
Why has man locked him
self up in cities. committed
himself to q material and con-
tentious way of life which
sacrifices the natural rewards
that his remote ancestors liv-
ed by. while giving him too
many things he does not need?
Modern life has somehow fail
ed man--and modern man has
somehow failed life. II has not
brought him the peace. the
ease. the fulfiliment. which
one might have expected from
a material age of unlimited
capacities. Instead it has made
him more restless and haunt
ed than ever; and now he lives
beneath the deadly shadow of
his greatest achievement. a
tonic fission. He has forgotten
perhaps that he is a~fterall. for
all his achievement. still a
creature of the earth. child of
the Great Mother. He has lost
touch with Nature. forgotten
her simple but immortal les
sons. He has forgotten the
love of life itself. all life|in
his short-minded. frantic
scramble. He must learn the
great lesson agsin-or eventu-
ally disaster of his own max
ing will teach him.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
By MURRAY
APP NeWsfeatures

Tucson, Ariz.-Forced from
their rich lands in Mexico by
defeat in war, the Yaqui In
dams of southern Arizona to-
day prove to the world that dis
placed persons car retain their
distinctive ways of life under
the most difficult circumstances.
With a bounty placed on each
pair of Yaqui ears, these ex-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20

The airlines of the United
States have on order enough
new flying equipment to give
them from six TO eight times
the capacity of pre-war days
by 1948.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Retain Their
Distinctive Ways

outlaws were driven into the
United States and have re-
NAMED on sufferance. For the
first 20 years here they were
afraid to reveal their identity
as Yaquis.
Close to 5000 of them are
now concentrated in seven vii
lagos in the southern part of
the state. Changing from farm
ers and hunters to day labor
ers, they have kept their strong
feeling of nationalism and their
unique Indian culture.
Their Status Today
Today the villages are being
repopulated. Young men who
served with the American for
ces and those who departed to
take war jobs, are returning to
take up their former life and
again be subject to all the I'M
certainties of the lowest income
group.
They are not citizens. They
have no rights. Yet Yaqui chill
dren born IN the y. S. can vote
while native Indians are oe-
MED the franchise. They can
buy liquor, while American In
dianS cannot.
The Yaquis have always been
prepared to fight and suffer for
their independence. In 1888
they fought off the first Span
iards to reach the plains of the
Yaqui river in northern Mex
leo. They were equally hostile
to all other intruders for 80
years, then welcomed Jesuit
missionaries and adopted the
Roman Catholic faith, adjust
ing it to their own religious
ideas.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
acts

Weekly facts and information
compiled and released by the
Pascagoula- Moss Point Cham
Der of Commerce.
During the past 80 days five.
hotel operator -financiers have
expressed interest in this COM
munity. The committee in
contact with them is insisting
on a maximum of protection
for the share of local capital
to be invested in the proposed
enterprise.
Efforts of the industrial pro-
motion committee during the
past 60 days have been center
ed on manufacturers of two
types of product: paint and
candy.
Mississippi led the nation in
the production of tung oil last
year. Naval stores are import
ant in paint production. Inn
ported pigments may be eco
nomically laid down here.
Pecans are Jackson Coun-
tvs largest crop. Proximity of
peanuts, and the fact that sugar,
cocoanut and chocolate may be
imported economically through
our local harbor has prompted
the Chamber of Commerce to
assume that candy makers
would find locations here prof
liable.
Any citizen who has friends
or relatives in the paint or
candy business is urged to put
the Chamber of Commerce in
touch with them.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-09-20
Ordered


When Mexico achieved indie
pendence from Spain, encroach-
ment on Yaqui land began.
The Indians fought, and their
land became a bloody battle
field for almost a century. Both
sides were guilty of massa-
ores, but for the Yaquis it was
a losing fight.
The Yaquis developed a great
leader in Cajeme the man
who does not drink" but after
uniting all the villages to fight
as a unit his tribes went down
before a great army assembled
by Diaz, president of Mexico,
and Cajeme was executed.
Mexico ordered the extermin-
alton of the Yaquis. They were
shot down wherever found.
Those captured were sent to
Vera Cruz or Yucatan to work
as poems. Some escaped to the
Baeatete mountains, some
sought safety by crossing the
border into the United States.
Atrocities are Remembered
Men now living in the viii
lagos of Pascua, on Tucs0n's
northern fringes, or Guadalupe,
outside of Phoenix, can remem-
Der seeing both their pareD's
killed before their eyes.
Yaeui Indians and Mexicans
fought as late as 1927. Less
than 10 years ago President
Cardenas gave back to the va.
quis 20 percent of all the land
they claimed. and adopted a
friendly policy toward them
which may yet bring results
Meanwhile a new center of
Yaqui culture has been set up
in the alien surroundings of
Arizons which attracts the at
tention of anthropologies and
students of primitive living.
Some of their homes are
made from the mud of the land
upon which most of them are
squatters. Others are made
from pieces of tin salvaged
from city dumps or cardboard
cartons from grocery stores.
These Yaquis frown on in
terracial marriages, whether
to Mexican or American In
dians
Approximately Al percent Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-16

in the entire country Of sufficient
national Importance to cause any
excitement at all"
Price Control Is Worry.
Federal labor officials were greatly
concerned that Congress might
cause price control to be ineffective
in legislation now pending.
Unless we have effective control
Of prices" one official remarked
"labor's wage demands will 60 UP
and we will be in for another round
of strife"
He said this second round of re-
conversion wage demands will come
ANYWAY, but if prices are held fairly
we'll in check the demands should
be mild enough to be handled
through normal collective bargain
ing processes.
The second round will begin in
August when meat industry con-
tracts expire with the CLIO United
clearinghouse Workers. The union
struck briefly last January when
contracts were reopened for wages
Bridges Plans Action.
Harry Bridges, head of the CLIO In
ternational Longshoremen's Union
who grudgingly accepted 22-cent
an hour wage increase for his men
in the final deal that averted the
maritime strike, has served notice
that he will hit for higher pay when
his contract expires September 80
He expects full backing of the Com
mittee for Maritime Unity, the group
of seven unions participating in the
long controversy here The con-
tract of another of the group CLIO
Marine Engineers-expires at the
same time.
By making early preparations
labor officials believe they can box
in" Mr.. Bridges and confine the ex-
pected dispute to his West Coast
stronghold.
Rumblings of new maritime trou-
bles were heard yesterday as the
GNU announced plans for a $4,000
600 strike fund" and for meetings
with maritime workers Of other ma
tons in preparation for the Septem-
Der crisis. Mr.. Bridges heads the
GNU with Joseph Curran, presi-
dent of the National Maritime Union
Assessments Planned.
Half of the large fund will be
raised by IS assessments on each
Of the 100000 members OF GNU