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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Juvenile Delinquency

Four youngsters this week, less than teen
age, were turned over to the child welfare
agency here after police frankly admitted
that they were stymied. The kids had broken
into the Central Elementary School and
stolen money from the drawers for the third
time in eight days.
The names of those youngsters will not
appear in this newspaper in connection with
that story, for we refuse to penalize them
further for the sins of their parents. We
believe the parents are delinquent. and the
children are unfortunate victims of circum-
stances.
We have had the questionable privilege
of meeting at least part of the parents, and
we only ferventiy wish there was some way
to commit them to a mental or corrective
institution and free the innocent young-
sters of the burden of living with them.
We are sick of the term Juvenile delin-
quents.p We prefer to call them what they
are: unfortunate offspring Of delinquent
adults neither mentally or temperamentally
suited to the responsibility of parenthood.
The police are helpless in the matter. They
are plagued with reports of burglaries and
they round up the youngsters. The young
sters confess and are sent home. This con-
tinues until the kids move away or end up
in a reform school. The parents go on their
befuddled way and produce other young
sters to fill the reform schools in years to
come.
What is the answer We don't know. We
are as stymied as the police. Education for
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Third Party In The Making?

For the second time in a period of less
than a year the nation this week is faced
with a p~aralyzing coal strike.
The coal strike, itself, would be enough
to bring industry grinding to a halt within
q few weeks or a month, but there will be
other strikes equal to, if not exceeding, the
wave we had in the latter part of l945 and
early 1916.
One of the underlying causes is, of course,
the upward spiral of living costs following
the abandoning of price control which has
virtually wiped out the pay increases won
in strikes early in the year.
But John l.. Lewis in this instance, we
believe, is gambling for far more than just
pay raises for his miners.
In calling the present coal strike he is
launching his bid for a third political party
which he hopes may be a potent, if not dom
inant factor, in the 1913 national elections.
If the stakes were not set for such a play
we do not believe that Lewis would use his
present tactics in calling his UNIV work
ers off the job. He knows that, with a Re-
publican dominated House and Senate going
into session a little more than six weeks
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Much To Be Thankful For

want, friend, in a world filled with millions
who did not eat last night and will not sup
tonight. You eat better each day than any
other group of people in the world. Count
your blessings. And thank a kline Providence
that let you be born in America while you
remember those less fortunate.
(2) We have freedom of education. AL
though we pay our teachers starvation
wages, we still find those persons necessary
to teach our youngsters the principles of
democracy and right living. We are unde-
serving, but we are nightly blessed.
(3) Freedom of speech and religion, which
go together, are ours, although we some
times contradict our own hard-won privi-
leges by our own bigotry, race rantings,
and responsibility at the polls. We are free
beyond conception of those in most other
lands of the earth.
() We rave peace of a sort in our land,
perhaps temporary, perhaps strained, but at
least we are free from blood shed and war
with other peoples. Although some of our
hearts are sore and heavy from recent loss
of loved ones in conflict, we know that other
Americans will not be killed by an enemy
this day.
We could go on with this list indefinite
ly, but we think the point is established. Let
us give thanks for our great good fortune
this Thanksgiving Day and ask God to make
us more worthy of our benefits and more
nearly decent human beings during the next
year.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22

the youngsters is not the answer if the par
ents won't send them to school to obtain
the education offered free. Prosecution of
the parents for failure to send their children
seems to be of little avail.
Any effort to prevent unqualified parents
from reproducing is frowned on by the
church, and perhaps justly so. We don't
know.
We only know that the number of such
instance is increasing and that the re-
form schools are full and that the next
occupants of the penitentary are being
nodded daily on the streets of Pascagoula.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Capital Comment
Growers Not Badly Hurt by
Drastic Cotton Price Break

cotton farmer is getting more
than parity, he is getting a bet
ter than even break in rela-
ton 70 industrial prices.
To help the cotton farmer,
there r only certain things
the government can do. One is
to have the Commodity Credit
Corporation buy cotton at par
ity, or to make loans on it at
92R per cent of parity. Neither
operation would bolster the cot
ton price SO long as it was
above parity. At most, it
would put a floor under the
decline.
Some southern members of
Congress are putting pressure
on the administration to force
removal of OPA price ceilings
on cotton textiles in an effort
to brig about a cotton price
recovery. This would mean
higher prices for clothing.
Lifting of price controls on
shoes viii bring footwear back
to the retail trade in substan-
tial amounts. However,, do not
look for it to happen imme-
diately Reason-virtually no
hides we're cured during the
period after removal of price
controls on livestock because
hides were still on the control
list.
This made it Improbable
for tanners to operate and
'aused the sharp drop in shoe
production. Sole leather was
the chief problem.
Now hat ceilings are off
both hides and the finished
shoes, industry sources have
the green light for full produc-
ton. Il will take several months
to get the leather output back
to requirements, not SO long as
to make the shoes when man
ufaeturers get the materials.
Some industry sources pre-
dict a is to 20 per cent boost in
shoe prices.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Free Zoo" Racket

We have often wondered what source of
revenue sustained the many free zoos that
we have seen at filling stations and road
houses up and down the highways of this
section, but our curiosity has never been
strong enough to prompt US to stop and I'M
vestigate.
Recent publicity, however, and steps
taken by officials of some counties to ban
them reveals the old. old racket once more
at work in a fairly modern guise the
slicker Fleeing the sucker. 1t seems that
the so-called 200" is a front for a fine and
flourishing gambling racket.
One zoo, we recall, operated for awhile
IN Jackson county. moved on to Harrison
and the last we saw of it a few weeks ago
it was lodged safely in Hancock county
where, we surmise, it is ~prospering.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22

When the Pilgrim colony celebrated the
first Thanksgiving, three hundred and
twenty-thfee years ago this month, they
gave thanks for a fine harvest reaped after
a winter of suffering and privation during
which they had almost literally starved to
death.
But during the three centuries that have
passed, many of US have lost sight of the
origin of the day and the spirit in which
it was conceived. The day devoted to Wor-
ship and giving thanks has degenerated too
often to a period of stuffing ourselves with
turkey without a thought to the source of
all good things.
Many of us forget too, t6at the poorest
ed to the first Thanksgiving celebrants who
were a million miles from home, by modern
transportation standards, and ringed about
by a wilderness filled with Indians not al
ways friendly.
Count your many blessings, name them
one by one" an old hymn advises, and now
seems a good time for us to check-up. We,
too, are engulfed in a wilderness of confu-
sion and ringed about by people not always
friendly, but let's check the facts and count
our blessings:
Cd We have freedom from want, in its
broader sense. Did you go to bed hungry
last night? Did you have shelter? Will you
eat at noon today and again tonight? OF
course you will, SO yen have freedom from
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22

from the present, a prolonged coal strike
followed by strikes in other industries over
the nation. will bring on the greatest land
slide of anti-labor legislation this nation has
ever seen.
He knows, too, that such legislation will
weld labor's present divided house into a
united front for the sake of sheer self sur
vival.
He knows that the Northern and South
ern Democrats will probably split over the
race issue.
He knows, too, that industry, hampered
and blocked by strikes on every hand, can
not get into production. Without the neces-
sary production to fill civilian needs, with
continuing scarcities in virtually all types
of consumer goods. prices will soar to a
peak during the next year, and may well
end with a bust.
This will not help the Republican cause,
nor bolster their hopes to elect a president
in 1913.
All of this adds up to our surmise of a third
party now in the making and the average
American is in for some severe economic
kicking around during the process.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
Two Recent Events Indicate
u. S. Outmaneuvering Russia
Special to Central Press

Special to Central Press
Washington-Some Washing
ton observers note a disposi-
ton on the part of the United
States government in recent
events to outmaneuver Russia
and turn Moscow's propaganda
to American use.
Two recent incidents seem to
indicate this trend which, some
experts believe, is in line with
the governments intention to
be firm with Russia on the
matter of foreign policy.
One is the State Departments
policy enunciated by Secretary
James ByrneS that the United
States does not feel it should
grant credits or loans to coun-
tries that think America is try
ing to enslave them.
The other is the statement
made by former Senator War
rem austin, Americas chief
delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly. When Sow
let Foreign Commissar Vyach-
eslav Molotov called for world
disarmament, Austin went him
one better. He suggested that
Russia's proposed inventory of
Allied troops in non-enemy
countries include "all mobiliz-
ed forces, whether at home or
abroad"
The upfoar over the break
in the cotton price would indi-
cate that southern cotton farm
ers were suffering severe loss
es. As a matter of fact, the
decline for the most part has
simply erased gains made in
the last few months.
Cotton has been selling at
above parity, despite the break.
And parity means a price on
an equality with the prices of
farm machinery and other pro-
ducts which the farm has to
buy. Therefore, as long as the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22

Locally, too, P-TA groups
keep az eve on the school gen
orally, restocking Libraries,
planting shrubbery, adding
pianos. radios, public address
syste.aS, and other educational
aids 10 as great an extent as
is possible.
Only twenty-five cents per
person is required annually in
national dues, and usually the
total dues for a year is fifty
cents per person for the P-TA
is not a rich mans organiza-
ton" but is intended to in
clude every parent who has
the interest of their children
at heart. Which should include
every parent.
Additional funds are raised
in various ways, governed on
ly by the inclinations and ambi =
tions of the membership. Food
sales, bazaars, festivals and
the like. are standard means.
The newly formed Hurley
organization, who has Mrs. c.
j. Ray as president, has adopt
ed a worthwhile objective
early in their organizations
life: The Reinstatement of the
annual Jackson County Fair
as an institution in our coun-
ty.
The objective might well be
adopted by other P-TAs, Home
Demonstration Club s, All
Clubs, and other similar groups
in the county, particularly
those interested in the welfare
of u school children.
1t is not surprising that Hur-
ley took the lead in this move
ment, for some of the county's
most progressive citizens live
in this community. That state
ment is meant as no reflec-
ton OH the good folks at Wade,
Big Point, Vancleave, Daisy
Vestry, or any other section of
the county.
But Hurley folks have a way
OF going out for what they
want, and usually coming up
with it. They have a modern
brick school, good churches,
and good community spirit. We
predict a bright future for their
P-TA organization.
Only Vancleave, st. Martin,
Ed Mayo. and Orange Lake
among the county's white
schools do not. have a P-TA
at the present time, accord
ing to Mrs. Parker. She also
states that she will be glad to
help any group organize if they
will contact her. Interested
persons may write her or drop
a line TO US in care of this
newspaper, and we will see that
she is notified.
We know enough good citi-
zens in each of the communi-
ties named above to know that
il will be only a matter of
time until they organize groups
and make every school in the
county represented in this
work.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-22
- N !!!E!ilAll!!Ll!!!lG'tE
BY EoLLE T. ROBERTS
V

During the past couple of
months, chapters of the nation
al Parent Teacher Association
have been organized in the
Wade and Hurley schools,
bringing to nine the number
of units in jackson County.
Gautier and Bayou Casotte
We're formed last year, and
there are five organizations in
the Pascagoula schools, and
one each in Moss Point and
EscataWpa.
Ocean Springs has a similar
organization ba. is not affili-
ated with the national organ
ization.
Under the energetic leader
ship of Mrs. E. A. Parker of
Pascagoula, county chairman,
it is the aim of the county
group TO form an organization
in each school in the county
during this school year.
We mention the facts above,
and give our Wholehearted en-
dorsement to the project, be-
cause we think such organiz-
ations are important and feel
that every community in the
county would be improved by
having q functioning group of
this sort.
We list Home Demonstra-
ton Clubs and All Clubs as
two OF the most important
groups of organizations in our
county because they get at the
very root of our social and
economic problems and are fine
supplements to other religious
and community activities. The
Parent Teachers Associations
fill just as important a spot
in community life.
This year marks the fiftieth
annivei sary of the national
Parent Teachers Association
and fihus Mississippi with its
greatest membership in his
tory While the national fig
ure has topped $4,000. There
are an estimated 1000 mem
bers in Jackson County.
This year, The organization
has as a special program Ed
ucation For Responsible Par
enthood," combined with the
standard objective of improv-
ing the child mentally, spiri-
and physically. These
are general detectives.
The group also works ma
tionaliy for increased teach
er's salaries. long a national
disgrace. and locally for inn
proved teacher-parent rela-
tons. IL stands to reason that
a child is better off if his par
ana instructor in the pub
lie schools understand each
other and are working togeth-
er instead of at cross-purpos-
pc
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07
PULLMAN BUILDS 40 FOR
". NORTHWESTERN r. r.

Receipt for an order for 40
streamline passenger cars, which
will be used to augment the Chi
cago and North Western't famous
400" fleet, was announced today
by Pullman Standard Car Mfg. Co.
The order is the second placed
by the North Western Railway
with Pullman-Standard since the
resumption of postwar passenger
car constructions. 1t will consist
Of 81 coaches, nine parlor car and
four baggage mail cars.
The first order, for 20 stream
line coaches, was completed by
Pullman-Standard on April 26, ma
king the North Western Railway
System the nations first railroad
to receive a complete postwar
built delivery.
Upon delivery of the 40 new cars
in 1947, three new schedules will
be inaugurated by the North Wes-
tern. one between Chicago and
Omaha, the second between Chi
cago, Rochester and Mankato,
Mimi, via Madison, and the Bird
between Chicago and Ashland, Wis
through the heart of that states
amous North Woods area.
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

G. Nj hope you will help me
the best way you can. Since me
and my husband parted / 60 with
O single boy and he wants ms to
marry him but ! still love my hus-
band. Another single boy says he
loves me but / don't want but one
at a time. My mother is giving me
trouble too. she be drunk all the
time and / have 10 take care OF her
and the children ! pray all the
time for the Lord 10 help me over
come my heavy load
Ans; You do have a heavy bur
den. Friend c. NJ. and I want to
help you IL you feel there is still
a chance OF going back TO your hus
band YOU must not encourage
these single boys. II Is wrong. Dur
ing this period Of separation. you
should live a model life and make
every effort 20 bring about a re-
Cancellation with your mate. He is
justified In quitting you for good,
II you make up with your mate. As
for your mother. usually "sots"
have a reason for drinking. II may
BE- III health. an unhappy home
or any number Of reasons. Find
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

seases and she gave her wholesome
nourishing food.
All mothers should be sure that
their children Ire healthy before
school starts. A healthy beginning
in school will help the child get
the most out Of school and will de-
crease the chances he or she will
miss many school days because of
illness.
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

petitions ask President Truman to
convene a special session Of Con-
gress to pass an anti-Iynch law,
which would demand death for
lynchers and payment of 100000
to the victims family.
demand anti-lynch legislation. The
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07
another dime.

Q. Took here Able, what is
wrong with me? Is this really my
first love or fantastic love? Am
wooed or bewitched into this. Does
he, tibet man all this raving is
about, really love me or is any wo-
man dearer to him than I?
Ans: Whoa Lassie. Now listen
There is another woman nearer
and dearer to him than you. his
good wife. He's her property, bet
ter lay off. You are just hunting
trouble when you play around with
married men. Don't do it.
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07
aEDGAR BROWN HAS 100000
SIGS FOR LYNCH CURB

WASHINGTON, d. c.. .CNS)-
Dapper Edgar G.. Brown. director
Of National Negro Council, has an
nounced that he has n million
Negro signatures on petitions thai
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07
JOYCE, LARKIN MATCHED

NEW YORK-(Calvins News
Service)-Wi1lie Joyce, of Gary,
Indiana, and Tippy Larkin of Gar
field, New Jersey, who is recogni-
zed as a Junior welterweight cham
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

the source of her discomfort then
try to help her overcome this ha-
bit.
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

\ BY 7. MELVIN
ey MELVIN TAPLEY
ey CHARLES ALLEN

NOT that it matters, dear, but all these years I thought you had
curly hair!--"
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

hiN W Help HST LnlS ma
bit.
G.. NJ. Mt was a BLESSING
when / first found your ad in the
newspaper. l am thankful to have
a wonderful friend like you thai
| can depend on. If it had not beer
for you, I don't know what l would
have done in trying to raise my
children right. You are a true gooc
friend.
j. b left my wife sometime
ago and came here and found z
or 3 women / believe / could love
but / don't want to give my wife
up That's my problem.
Ans; Be reasonable J. B. You
love your wife and you admit she
has made you a good mate. but
those gals look good to you. You
couldn't be happy with anyone of
them. loving your woman the wav
you do. Go back to her and make
up These new women haven't GOT
a thing your wife hasn't got more
Of Understand?
s. Ii have been married to
this man for a number of wears
and we have two grown children
All u lives we got along very
well each having our UPS and
downs together. He left me for
another woman 2 years ago but
came back asking forgiveness. In
January we moved in this house
and he just sits in the window and
gazes into the street. When / talk
to him | have to call him 2 or 8
times. We can't keep any money.
plays Bolita 2 times a day. If
/ say anything he curses me. He
says he is converted but he curses
awful. What must 1 do?
Ans: Idleness breeds discomfort.
Make him work sister. Quit dribb-
ling out those dimes and quarters
from you own hard-earned wages
to pacify his love for gambling
Number playing is a curse to poor
folks, and take it from me. he
who CANDLES his wife's money a
way on the bug is a mighty poor
convert. You forgave him because
he promised to reform. l suggest
you hold that promise over his
head. Either he reforms in every
sense of the word. o out he goes
on his own again.
r. l.. T.-You gave me very nice
advice in one love affair some few
years ago. Now, 1 met a young Ia
DIV who visited here about two
months ago. 1 asked her to write
me and she did and asked to bor-
row $40 so I sent it to her. Next
time / wrote 1 asked her to be my
sweetheart. She said she would. So
I was happy. Now she writes that
I am too old. She asked for a nice
watch, 1 sent it to her. Now she
writes she has been married and
has a son 2 years old and wants
me to help her in finances. She
says she'ss be heartbroken if I do
not.
Ans: SuckerI The gal is play
ing you for a chump. Send her not
The Omaha guide., 1946-09-07

St.
Sic
sar
Evening star., 1946-05-07
Mihai|ovich Accused
OF 1otaIitarian Plan
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, May Cen. ORA la
Mihailovich, former Chetnik leader
stood accused by the Yugoslav gov
ernment today of planning to ami
hilate 100000 OF his countrymen in
order to create "a fantastic totali-
tarlan Yugoslavia."
The Yugoslav Embassy in London
made public last night a volume
containing 81 documents described
as correspondence and military
orders isst1ed by Gen. Mihailovich's
headquarters which also charged
the Chetnik leader with direct
reasonable commerce with the
enemy"
The volume said Gen. Mihailo-
vich, now in a Belgrade cell await
ing trial on war crimes charges
proposed ito transform complex
Yugoslavia into a greater Serbia OF
orthodox faith alone, to which
would be uneasily appended a purely
Catholic rump Slovenia, and a
truncated Catholic Croatia"
TO this end" the volume con-
tinued, "it was proposed in Bosnia
and Herzegovina to eliminate up
ward OF 1,0O0,00 Moslems and over
500,0 Catholics, while in the his
toric Sandjak the best part OF
100000 more Moslems were to lose
their lives or else suffer forcible con-
version to the orthodox faith which
they had resisted for generations in
the past"
Evening star., 1946-05-07

because of this country's heavy
contribution to its $3.50 900 900 as
sets.
The former Belgian minister OF
state, Camille Quit, was elected
president Of the other Breton
Woods agency, the international
Monetary Fund, at the opening di-
rectors' session OF that currency
|stabilizing agency yesterday.
Secretary of the Treasury Vinson
chairman of the governing board OF
both institutions, is reported to have
the privilege of designating the
banks president, a job which pays
$30, 900 a year.
Secretary WILSON'S associates, how
ever. profeSsed to know nothing
about whom he will nominate.
Weeks ago the Secretary decided
to present the name of Lewis w
Douglas, president of a New York
insurance company and former
Federal budget director. but Mr.
Douglas last month refused the
position.
Among the names more recently
mentioned are Federal Reserve
Board Chairman Mariner S. Eccles
Chester c. Davis, chairman of tn.
Famine Emergency Committee
E. E. Brown. Chicago banker. anc
William McChesney Martin, heae
Of the Export-Import Bank.