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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Papers Campaigns
on Civic Betterment
Come Naturally"
APP Newsfeature

Newspaper campaigns for
betterment of the communities
in which they operate are as
much a part of the average
daily as the printers ink
which makes the programs
tangible. Editor and Publisher
says III an article summing up
20 years of Pulitzer awards fer
meritorieus public service
William Reed, who made the
survey of the awards for the
national magazine. saws the
prizes serve ito dramatic the
positions newspapers hold as
welfare Institutions" The cam
paigns for which awards were
made have been exceptional
only in quality" he says.
The services for which the
awards were made often start
ed long before the year in
which the publishers tackled
up a gold medal in the front
office" and continued long af-
terward. This, Reed suggests,
is the normal function and pro-
gram for a daily newspaper.
The newspaper pressure for
the abatement of evil or the
development of good condi-
tons in the community con-
tinues year after year and Of
ten produces gratifying re-
suits.
The 1916 award to the Scran-
ton (Pennsylvania) Times, for
example, was the result of eff
forts started in 1881. The paper
assailed Irregularities in a fed
eral court. And when the prize
was awarded Is years later the
newspaper was still demanding
more effective action in the
case although the original ir-
Irregularities had been stopped.
Ponzi Exposure
On the other hand, some of
the campaigns for which the
awards were made were of
such a nature that the work
ended when the detectives
were achieved. The Boston
Posts exposure CT the Ponzi
swindle in 1920 was of this
type, once the man responsible
went to prison. the swindles
stopped.
Newspaper work as a con-
structive force in the commu-
nifty is not always a safe &C.
cupatIon, Reed points out. One
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

Jackson makes that project temporarily inn
practical seems valid, so we favor the Com
muny project for the following reasons:
Cd The addition of another permanent,
adequate connection of Market and South
Pascagoula streets.
(2) The safety factor of providing a fun
nell for youngsters coming from the housing
project to three of the city's largest schools.
(3) Opening a new section for development.
The project will cost in the neighborhood
of $40,0 00, we are told, and we think the
money would be well spent. Somehow, we
mind the holes and the mud less when we
can see streets going in that will be there
for our children and grandchildren.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

Several million words in a score of Ian
guages have been written and spoken by of
flcials, analysts, commentators and ordinary
street-corner quarterbacks since the conclu-
sion of the Nurenburg trial and the sentenc-
ing of Nazi war mongers for their crimes
against humanity. sfa
The fact that eleven of the top Nazis are
to die and that three are to go free seems to
most impress the great andthe small, when in
reality, both the eleven and the three were
dead the day Germany surrendered and
Nazism was doomed.
The hangsman rope cannot kill nor free
dom restore life TO the arrogant Nazis of
Nuremberg, stepped as they are in the
philosophy that only the strong and the vic.
torious deserve to live and that the weak
and conquered must serve and die.
They feel only amazement, as Goering re-
putedly told a prison psyciatrist, that the
Allies dallied so long before hanging them.
The Nazi system of dealing with the de-
feated before a firing squad and without trial
was simpler, and, in their eyes, better.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Realtors Are Set to Attack.
Low Cost Housing Measure

a deepwater charge when a
bomb at harbor depth, as at
Bikini, could accomplish more?
As analysis of previous
blasts proceeds, the Navy men
believe they gained most new
data from the Bikini harbor
depth charge. The above-sur-
face blast merely confirmed
what the scientists and ship
expehts had previously calcu-
lated.
Even though the next No
vember votes are far from be-
ing cast, the alert Nationsl
Association of Real Estate
boarcs is forming its lines for
another attack on any renew
ed version of the Wagner-E Ell
lender-Taft low-cost housing
bill.
Hubert v. Nelson, the asso-
ciatiCn . executive vice presi-
dent. who handles affairs. in
Washington, is certain that the
old bill or a revised version,
will be revived in the next
Congress. regardless of the lat
ter's political complexion. He
has warned his associations
members that the successful
fight 10 stall the bill in the
House committee in the last
session produced an armistice
nothing more
Mean While, a drive for mem
berships in the rapidly-grow-
ing National Home. and Prop
erty Owners foundation is GO
ing on. Its hackers foresee a
membership potential of q, 900
600 property owners.
They plan 20 use members
of the foundation to spearhead
any attack on the low-cost
housing legislation. In fact. the
real estate association. num-
boring $4,000, has pledged an
about effort to recruit foun-
dation members with an al
lotment of. 100 new foundation
members for each relator mem
Der.
This would make a goal of
3,300,000 to be achieved in the
week of September %. Nelson,
speaking BADLY to his own
membership, argues: There
are only $4,000 of us. We can't
produce votes and SO we can't
influel.ce Congress. What we
neeo is an organization that
can speak for millions of
votes"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Nozis And Nuremberg

And the million words and the heineous
crimes of their lives will be covered by the
sands of time and dimmed by the ages until
the words will become but a sentence and
the blot but a smear on the endless page of
history where generations and centuries
shrink in direct proportion to the passing
years.
The eleven to die might we'll nav been
eleven million, or none; it is unimportant.
And while we give ourselves verbal pats on
the back for having given the Nazis a fair
trial, let us not fail to remember hat millions
more with the Nazi philosophy of might
makes right are still alive and unfetered in
the world today-in Germany, in each of
the Allied countries, and, yes, here in our
own county and city.
We joined Great Britain in allowing Victor
Emanuel to abdicate his throne and live in
luxurious exile; Emperor Hirohito still sits
on the theoretical throne of Japan. Both
might well join Goering and the rest in
their walk to the gallows.
Nazism will not die on the gallows at Nu-
renberg or facism become extinct until it
occurs in the hearts and minds of men.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Communy Street

Mayor John R.. Watts told the school-safety
meeting this week that the city is seriously
considering paving Communy Street from
Market to South Pascagoula and that the
project would be undertaken if enough pub
lie interest is manifested.
The city proposes the mayor said, to make
a wide four-lane street of enduring concrete
with fivefoot sidewalks on each side, SIM
liar to the Watts Avenue addition to the
business district.
We hardly see how anyone could object to
such a move although we have been of the
opinion that jackson Avenue should be COM
pletely paved first. The city's explanation,
however, that the inadequate sewers on
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

Old Salem Camp Ground,
which had settled into digni-
fled middle age when New
Prospect was still a dream, is
showing its age. And well it
might, for it was laid out in
the forks of Hampton and Riv-
er Roads near the George
County line well over a cen
fury ago, just how much over
will never be known.
The records of DR.. Buford
Cain, conference historian and
himself a native ackson Coun-
tan, trace the meetings back
only to 1926, officially, but
there are those who believe the
meeting this year will be the
l3lst. The date of the first
meeting has been covered by
the sands of time and there is
no one alive to dispute the date
set by another with actual
knowledge. IL
Folks had hoped to have
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

The domestic air mail rate, which formerly
was six cents an ounce. then bounced up to
eight cents during the war, dropped to five
cents last Tuesday for a thirty-seven and
one-half per cent reduction and an all time
low.
The post office reports that purchases are
increasing slowly which is surprising since
everyone should go and purchase at least
one for the unique privilege of buying some
thing this week that costs less than it did
last.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
EditorioLy Speaking

Mississippi's BAWI board began with re-
newed energy last week the search for adj
ditional industries which can be persuaded
to settle in our state and become a part of
our economy.
While the prospective industries look us
over, study what we have to offer, and look
to a future with us, we think it is an excel
lent time for the BAWI and the people of
this state to return the favor: look the in
dustries over, see what they have to offer,
and look to the future.
We think the wedding of agricultural Mis-
sissippi and out-of-state industry should fol-
low the pattern found most successful in
human relationship. Let us engage in whirl-
wind but well-founded courtship and be
certain that we are not marrying beneath
ourselves when we take some industry to
our bosom.
Industry-hungry Mississippi, with her fat
dowry of %untapped resources, mild climate,
labor, and hospitality toward industry is one
of the top catches of the industrial season.
Let as not be swept off our feet by a city
slicker industry which will squander our
dowry in riotous living, splurge our re-
sources, exploit our labor with low wages,
live in our tax-free house, and then threaten
us with leaving when we ask them to pay
the rent in taxes, cease to exploit our labor
by paying living wages, or desist from foul
ing our country which houses them.
And when we do find that we nave made
a bad choice-as we have at times in the past
and will do again-let us then not be a
hanger-on. Let's dig into u pocket once
more, buy him a one-way railroad ticket
home, and say politely but firmly. Good
riddance!!"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

John Farley tent, William
Stee6 tent now owned by Ran
som Fairley's children, the
Print Byrd, Bruner Golf, Ed
mund Golf. Pete Galloway, Neal
Parker, and Uncle Jess Parker
tents.
Sometime in the last few
years, how we aren't sure.
New Prospect began coming
ahead of Salem, which falls on
the second Sunday in October,
and begins the Tuesday before.
New Prospect used to be the
third Sunday but now is the
first Sunday and began last
Tuesday.
Anyway, we will be at New
Prospect this Sunday and Sa-
lem next and look forward 10
seeing you there.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

for both the state and Collector Craig, whose
office gets a percentage of the collections.
1t is always amazing to us the subter-
fuges politicians will adopt, and the ready
and gullible manner in which a majority of
the public will swallow the subterfuges. The
tax simply legalizes whiskey as far as the
State of Mississippi is concerned, but does
not interfere with local municipal and
county enforcement laws. If this isn't local
option, we would like to know what is. A
more honest approach would be to pass a
local option bill, and regulate the sale of
whiskey through state laws. In this way we
could get rid of some of the dives, of which
our state has more than its share, which are
a menace to the health and morals of our
younger generations.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Capital Comment
Third Atomic Bomb Test
Really Thought Useless

Washington = Capital news
sieuths. always seeking a hid
den reason for everything,
have gone pretty thoroughly
into why President Truman
called off the third atomic
bomb test. They now report
that the chief executive gave
a full and fair report when he
said it was uncalled for.
Here are further details on
the why and wherefore of the
decision: The joint chiefs of
staff decided that it would be
virtually impossible for an
enemy quickly to sink an A
bomb one-third or one-half
mile under the ocean and blast
a United States fleet.
Moreover, as was said, the
blast, If carried out, would
have produced no new infor-
mation-the only excuse for
such a test. Moreover, the
Navy found it had a nice new
and difficult problem on its
hands in getting the bomb
down to such a depth and Diet
onating It.
Water pressures are great
that far down. While the re-
mote control trigger would
have been simple. developing
a caisson strong enough to re-
main water tight at that depth
would not have been so sim
pie. 1t would have to be so
heavy that sinking it would
have taken much time and en-
cheering skill.
Then, too. the Navy argued,
why would any power want
to attempt a sneak attack with
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
BY NoLLE T. ROBERTS

Bishop u. v. w. Darlington
down for an anniversary cele-
bration, but the Rev. j. l..
NELL told us this week that the
bishop would not be able to
attend. The Bishop had lived
his three score and ten six
years ago, and the trip is too
long for him, he said.
We could not enter the age
of the Camp Grounds argument
but we are certainly glad that
it was in existence thirty-odd
Yeards ago when somewhere
on the historic old grounds our
father first met our mother and
they began the courtship which
eliminated in their marriage
and our subsequent arrival in
the world.
We walked down to the
spring Sunday afternoon, along
the same path our father and
mother had trod in their youth,
and wondered how many other
young couples had met for the
first time at Old Salem and
had later seen their children
and grandchildren and great
grandchildren meet their mates
on the same spot when love
came to the rescue of the awk-
ward boy and giggling girl
and bore them to man and wo-
manhood.
Salem looks and feels older
than New Prospect with its
sagging shingie-covered tents
that have an air of agelessness
seldom found these days. There
cen only two new tents in
prospect this year, the new Pub
lie Tent, going up outside The
grounds and near the gate and
Mrs. Robert Emory, Sr's tent,
which is being built next to
Uncle Jess Parker's.
Electric lights have made
their appearance at Old Sa-
lem, too, but nearly half the
tents are still covered with
the original board shingles and
look good to those of us who
resent change in such institu-
tons although we admit its ne
cessitv. Single roofs were a
shameful waste of lumber and
created fire-traps, we are told,
but we had one on our house
until a few years ago and we
like them.
We could only count about
10 tents at Salem. including the
new one and a couple that look
past habitation even by Camp
Meeting tenters. We met Neal
Farley at the Camp Ground
Sunday afternoon where he
had come to see about his tent
and he told us a number of
folks expect to built tents next
year.
Mr., Farley. who is a farm
er, cattleman, and member of
the Board of Supervisors in
George County from District
3, which adjoins Salem, told
us the tenters are about even
~ divided between Jackson and
George County gesidents.
Hugh Golf. one of Uncle Bru-
ner Goff's bows who has taken
his Dads place rs Public Tent
operator, is president of the
Camp Ground association and
his brother, Aft. is viee-presi-
dent. Yves Carter is secretary
and all tenters are members.
The Rev. John Neal. an evan
gelist from Texas who has
bought a piece of land near
Lucedale and expects to move
here, will assist the Rev. NJ. N.
Howell during the meeting
The Rev. BRYAN Broaaus,
who halls from this section,
will lead the singing and the
Rev. NELL will be over for
Quarterly Conference on Fri
day but will not * able to at
tend on Sunday.
Folks will be tenting in the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

The truest words ever spoken were those
told the Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association by Colonel Eberhard P. Deutsch
of New Orleans in a talk on freedom of the
press. Newspapers, he said, are trustees" of
freedom of the press, but the freedom be-
longs to the reading public. We nave noted
frequent instances during the late years
eff dishonest reporting and "slanting" of
news, which extends through the weekly
press. the large daily press and right into
the front doors of the major news services.
This is a sad commentary on the fourth
estate and, like a cancerous growth, can
well be the death of it. Newspaper publish
ers and editors might do we'll to sit back and
analyze their conception of what freedom of
the press" means. Too often they have it
mixed up with freedom to exploit" for per-
sonal benefit.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

Prospects are bright, we are told by Tax
Collector Carl Craig for the state to collect
a million dollars this year through the 10
per cent BLACK market" on the sale of
whiskey in legally dry Mississippi.
Passed by the 1914 session of the state
legislature. the tax, which according to Gov
ernor Bailey at the time. was to "chase the
twin evils of Bookkeeping and the black
market from the state of Mississippi" is
developing into q lucrative source of income
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Drive On Khan

The awards have been made
repeatedly for campaigns a
gainst the Ku Klux Khan. The
old New York Herald, the
Memphis (Tennessee) CONNER
cial Appeal, the Columbus
Georgia. Enquirer-Sun ard
the Indianapolis Qndiana)
Time were the papers involv-
ed. These campaigns have not
ended. y y
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

of the awards in 1926, was
made to the Canton Ohio
Daily News whose editor, Don
Mellett was slain while con-
Quoting a crusade against vice.
The Los Angeles California;
Times won the award in 1871
in establishing the right of a
newspaper to comment on jul
dicial cases still pending. The
paper carried the contempt
sentences to the Supreme Court
and won. The Medford (Ore-
gon) Mail-Tribune, campaign
ing against political terrorism
in 1884, faced a boycott and
threats to the lives of the ed
itors.
A Wide Field
Newspaper efforts to improve
their communities seem des-
tined TO go on indefinitely.
Nearly every editor and pub
Usher submitting material for
the article added a postscript
which showed his recognition
of the challenging problems
today. They envision no dearth
of ills to create sustenance for
the prize-winning campaign of
1916, l947 or any other year
in the forseeable FUTURE" Ed
itor and Publisher says.
Newspaper campaigns are,
however, not confined to deal
ing with corruption. The Bis
mark North Dakota Tribune
won its 1888 award for its de-
~velopnlent of plans and pro-
grams which helped restore the
dust bowl to productivity. The
New York Times won the first
award in 1918 for printing the
full texts of documents and
speeches during World War /.
The Omaha .(Nebraska) World
Herald was recognized in 1912
for its scrap collection, cam
paign which became a model
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04
Disposal of Projects

These projects have been
sold to homestead associa-
tions:
Austin, Mimi, Al homes:
Bankhead. Jasper. Ala. 100
homes: Beauxart Gardens,
Beaumont, Tex, so: Dalworth-
ington Gardens, Arlington,
Tex, 80; Decatur. H., 48; Du-
luth, Mimi, "a; Elmonte, Calf,
100; Granger, Ia. so: Green
wooa, Bessemer, Ala, So;
Houston Gardens, Houston,
Tex, 100; Longview, Wash,
60; Mt. Olive. Ala, IS; Pal
merdale, Ala, 102;; Phoenix,
Arrz., go; Redllouse, Charles
ton, w. Va, $50; San Fernan-
do, 7eseda, Calf. 40, and
Wichita Gardens, Wichita
Falls, Tex, 81.
The rest of the 81 home
steads, some no longer owned
by the government, some in
the process of disposal and
some still run by FPHA are:
Aberdeen Gardens. Newport
News, Va, l59 homes; Ar
thurdale. w. Va. l66: Cahaha.
Trussville. Ala. 287; CumbeI-
land, Crossville. Tenn, 256;
Glendale. Ariz., "a; Hatties-
burg, Miss. "a: lronwood.
Mich. 1870; Hightown. N. j..
FOG: Lake County. Waukegan,
Ill, So: Magnolia. Meridian,
Wash, 20: McComh. Miss. 90;
Three Rivers Gardens, Three
Rivers. Tex, so; Tygart Val
ley. Elikins, W. Va, 1877, and
Westmo Gland. S burg,
Pa, 255.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-10-04

incomes by growing most of
their own food.
The stranded" homesteads
were built in worked-out min
ing and lumber areas with the
expectation that new industries
would move in or could be de-
veloped.
That is the way it has work
ed out too. Among other en-
terprises, homesteaders have
established a furniture factory,
a quarry, an inn, diaries, a
pants factory, a woodworking
plant. a hosiery mill and sew
eral poultry businesses.
The Farm Security Admin
istration, during its regime as
father of the homestead fam
lily, made leans to help CO.
operative associations finance
these ventures. It also loaned
money to build stores and 9TH
err community services.
The FPHA gives preference
in its disposal to present resi-
dents of the projects. Second
preference goes to war veter-
ans. Advance payments in full
or part are encouraged, ana
under contracts the payments
may not run more than 40
years. Interest is three per-
cent.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-05-11
Bazaar Successful

The Bazaar Monday sponsor ed by the Catholic Women's as- sociation was a complete suc- cess. with every article and piece of home made pastry sold short ly after it got under way, the sponsors reported this week.
 It was secret at the time, but the affair was to raise money as a gift for Father Vincent Edge, who is leaving, and a gift of $275.5O was turned over to him.
 Of this $,15.50 came from the bazaar ard $159.5J came from contributions solicited by mem bers of the association.
 Donors to the latter portion of the fund were:
 Chuck Johnson, Julia Beals, Fleeta Christopherson, Margar- ct Gundlach, Bette Be Young, Walter Taylor, Ted Wiley, Joe Morino, Harry Howe, George Slawson, Sadie Herring, Lorna Campbell, Jack Altman, Mrs. Jack Delane Max La Lande, Ray Martin, Jean Slenes, Mir. & Mrs. Warren Fletchtner, Bark of Ko- diak Mrs Von Scheele, Leo Sears, Kay Sears, s W Sears, Leon Johnson, Ann Cichoski, Tom Gallagher, Belmont Bar, Stuart Nuckols. Mecca Bar, Lt. & Mrs. Beery Bill Kreiner and Army Pest (Catholic) boys
 Mrs. William Mcdonald won the crocheted dolly on which chances were sold at the bazaar.
 The Catholic Women's associ- ation wishes to thank everyone for their contributions and aid in planning the bazaar.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-05-11

Elizabeth Christiansen, who has been on the sick list, is much improved now. The people of this village are enjoying halibut and cod fishing. Henry Russell and James Spearns of Port Hebron were recent guests of MT. and Mrs. Fred E Bailey.
 Mike Inga enjoyed a visit with his father, Alexis Inga, dur ing the time the Shuyak was in our harbor.
 James Mccormick, a crew member of the Shuyak, was a visitor at school recently.
 Pvt. Nick Ignatian, who is en- toying his furlough with his aunt and uncle, MT and Mrs. Simeon Shadula, was a recent supper guest of MT and Mrs. Fred E. Bailey
 Senafont Zeedar has returned to his home ID Kaguyak, after spending the past month in school here.
 MT and Mrs Jack Spearns of Port Hobron transacted business
Kodiak mirror., 1946-05-11
Old Harbor News

Elizabeth Christiansen, who has been on the sick list, is much improved now.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-05-11

and called on friends here last week.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-05-11
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Kodiak mirror., 1946-05-11

The people of this village are enjoying halibut and cod fishing.