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BY NoLLE T. E

culate a time or two before
settling down somewhere.
: AND along the same line,
we believe that a sweet pota-
to processing plant or kiln
would be a natural for this
county. Perhaps there is room
for more than one.
Being a farm boy a few
years removed, we only know
what we are told about some
of these things but the best
of authorities contend now
that a bushel of dried shredded
sweet potatoes meal is equal
in value as a feed to a bushel
of shelled corn. Some sources
even claim it is superior but
that is hard to believe.
What is not hard to believe,
however, is that we can grow
sweet potatoes here as we'll
as many of them and as good
in quality-as any place in
the world. 1t is equally well
known that we cannot grow
corn in the same league as the
midwest where more than 100
bushels to the acre is regular
ly produced. The average here
would be Is bushels to the
acre.
One year on our farm near
Vancleave, we produced 230
bushels of sweet potatoes on
one-half acre. Some folks doubt
that statement but it is no fish
story. And no one doubts that
300 bushels of edible potatoes
can be produced on an aver
age on any number of acres
in jackson County. The feed
proposition includes another
so bushels or so which we
threw out as strings or two
small for baking or even boil
ing. They are just as good for
feed as the big ones.
The answer seems pretty OBJ
vious to us. Grow potatoes,
process them, sack them up
lust like the feed that current
ly costs $500 a sack, and stack
them in the barn. With our
warm climate and pasture the
year round, the cows and hogs
should be able to make it on
sweet potatoes. The chickens
will have to scratch for them
selves until we find out whet,l-
er they will eat potato meal
or not.
We think it is an idea well
worth looking into along the
same lines at the dairy pro-
jeet. Many farmers in this
county have fed sweet pata-
toes for years and we would
like for them to drop us a line
and give some first hand in
formation on the results that
have been obtained.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-30
By KERR
AP Newsfeatnre Writer

New York.-''The thing that
impte sed me most about the
children | saw in Europe was
their terrible heart hunger
their need for love-" said s,d1a
Blue. who had Just returned
from a two months trip to Eu-
rope.
Mrs. Blue is executive chair
man II the Foster PareI.ts' Plan
for War Children, Inc, which
has cared for 40, 900 European
youngsters who have suffered
as d result of tie war. She WIS.,
tied IS projects which the plan
operates to care for children OF
all nationalities in England,
Holland, France, Belgium, Itaiy
and Malta.
MANY of the youngsters, es-
pecially those who have no
family, are h~igh-strung and
extremely affectionate," Mrs.
Blue said. They throw their
arms around you. hang onto
your hands and cover it with
kisses. They go on and on and
can't seem to stop. Their be-
havior isn't normal, of course,
but it shows how great their
heart hunger is. They r gen
erous and thoughtful toward
one another, too.
"One evening in one hostel
we gave them a little candy.
] can see them yet, each hold
ing his piece, locking around
to see if the others had some
before he took a bitel They are
more unselfish than our chll-
dren.
Another thing which inl-
pressed me was the evidence |
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saw of the human need for
possessions. We all hear peo-
pie say, I don't want to be
tied down by possessions But
evidently we have to have
some. Of the homeless. e-ch
child has his own little dress
er. Some of the girls had
picked up a rock from the
road. washed ii and set it on
the dresser. That was their
possession-their's alone,
Again and again ! noticed
how the children who have
been left alone in the world cut
out of magazines the pictures
of people-just any people
and put them up on their dress
ers, sometimes in front of their
rocks, SO they would be more
like those who had photo
graphs of people they knew
and loved.
THE children think and talk
about America necessarily. The
good will that the care of
these children had engendered
is tremendous. | overheard one
Foster Plan boy-an English
lad of 14-say, All l do is hear
talk about Americans. How
they put over this and that
and the other thing. Always
and things like that I'll never
fall TO- it. Nobody can ever
tell me Americans r not hon.
es. and generous Because l can
prove they are"
The Foster Parents Plan
was founded during the Span
ish Civil war TO care for Span
ish children whom the war
rendered homeless. In 1887 Mrs.
Blue helped found the Ameri-
can Committee which includes
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Recently we were talking with
a friend about another friend of
ours who, relatively late in life,
long past youth at any rate, had
gotten out of an employment rut
in which he had stagnated for
almost 20 years, and had found
himself in a new line of work,
going on to real fulfillment and
success. He is a successful man
now. He has enthusiasm, ability,
and full command of the situa-
ton. He has become far better
known in the past five years
and has risen to accomplishments
which no one would have dream
ed him capable of ten years ago.
Ten years ago he would not
have dreamed it possible of him
self. Then it seemed that life
had whipped him. Stretching
ahead seemed the endless, unin-
teresting rut of the jub he was
then doing, and no one would
have suspected that he would
ever develop the energy and dar-
ing sufficient to cut loose from
the small security of his weekly
pay check and job seniority. and
strike out, in early middle age,
in a completely different field
of work. But he tried it, and made
the grade. He found himself in
life later than most people do,
for he was forty when he made
the break. Most people, if they
haven't made a satisfying and
productive way of life for them
selves by the time they are thir-
ty or thirty-five never do.
A success story like this rare
ly arouses envy in others. Peo-
pie r apt to be envious of the
young and gifted who seem to
be taken are of by a smiling
goddess of Fortune who denies
them nothing they ask of life.
They have only to ask, and some
how they shall receive it-and
the average less gifted less ia
vored individual. knowing that
the lucky one has neither suf-
fered hor labored for his victor
les, are apt to grow resentful of
Fortunes inconsistency.
But few people r envious of
a man who has known his share
of defeat and failure. When a
man mas spent twenty years of
his life working in obscurity at
some dull and mediocre job,
whatever good fortune and emin-
ence may come to him there
after will come with the good
wishes of his friends. and not
their envy. They feel that he
has earned it, and they have a
sense of sharing in his good luck.
For he has served his long ap-
premiership side by side with
them. He has known their same
defeats, their disappointments,
their years of unrealized amoi-
ton. He has paid their same price
and when success comes, they
cheer him on. It is difficult to
envy such a man And one meas
ures of a mans true character
is the degree of envy and resent
ment of the measure of good
will that his rise to eminenee
creates in the minds of these
who work about him.
One of the accidental results
of the enormous evil which is
War, is the fact that its tremen-
dous pressures cause upheavals
in every walk of life, and many
a man finds a chance to escape
a dull rut which might other
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Voncleove Chopter
Of Eastern Star
Confers Degrees

At a special meeting of the
Vaneleave Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star on Tuesday even
ing. August 20. degrees we're con-
ferred. Present at the meeting
were Mesdames Cleo Taylor, Will
ma Golf. R. NJ. @. c. and Ruth
L. Roberts. r. H. Ware, Elsie
Fletcher. N. NJ. Carter. L S.
Allen, Eean B. Walker, Hazel
EntreKin. Gov Allen. Lettie and
Maud Eonham and EVELYN Rouse;
Miss Maryon Roberts, Roscie, r.
NJ. ana @. c. Roberts and four
visitors. Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Sum-
rail- of Lake Charles, La. and the
Rev. and Mrs. G. II. Mcbride.
former members Of the order. Re-
freshments were served after the
meeting by Mesdames Coy Allen,
Letfie Bonham and Evelyn
Rouse.
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Letters To The
Editor
To the Editor of.
The Chroniele-St Star

To the Editor of
The Chronicle Star
Noticed some Of your recent
writings on cabs and would like
to suggest the following.
Pascagoula has a chance to be
very favorably talked by hav-
ing unusually courteous drivers
tboth as regards their manners
and their driving) singled out by
a contest amongst the drivers
themselves TO choose their own
best man." No doubt a hand
some prize could be easily sub
scribed by business men.
Personally | think they've i'm
proved through competition. But
I personally would appreciate
some temperance on horn blow
ing, especially in the early MORN
ing.
Sincerely,
K. J. BIRDWELL.
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Jungle Closes In
On MonY Bottle
Fields Of Wur
APP NeWsfeature

Long remembered will be the
Pacific sectors where American
soldiers, sailors and marines
bled on the march to victory in
World War II. Here follow
thumbnail reports on what has
become of major battlefields in
the IL months since the eapitu-
lation of Japan.
Buna, New Guinea-The re-
morseless jungle is reconquering
the ing airfield system hacked
out by the Americans.
Guadalcanal - This Solomon
Island has slipped back into OBJ
security British civil officials rule
once more. Henderson Field is
quiet except for an occasional
plane.
TaraWa-A small Navy garri-
son maintains the air base, but
soon ii too may leave.
KWajalein-Few signs of con-
flict remain. An airfield 5000
feet long, paved highways. Army
Air Force quarters and Navy
barracks crowd this 21s mile
long Marshall Island. 1t. was re-
Gently in the news as an advance
base for the atomic bomb tests
Leyte = General Macarthur
here Kept his pledge to return
to the Philippines, and now the
U. S. Navy keeps the name Le7te
alive with a base one of three
major installations to be main
tanned in the noW-free islands.
The place teens with the activi-
ty of an airfield, air depot, hos
pital, radio station and Naval re-
pair yards.
Lin Lingayen Cult - One Of
the larger u. S. Army cemeter-
les stands not far from where
troops splashed ashore to launch
the climaetic struggle of the Phil
ippines campaign. On the north
shore,a small Naval base stands
deserted in the tropic sun.
Manila = This most dramatic
battle-ground of the wal is still
in shabby ruins. Old Army trucks
and jeeps wind through the
streets past heaps of rubble
cleared from thoroughfares by
bulldozers and gaunt frames of
once-beautiful buildings. It will
take years to restore the city.
Two Jima - A volcanic step
ping. stone, Two is a corfortleess
home for a small American gar
rison maintaining a relatively
unimpnrtant air base. The signs
OF the no-quarter battle for its
possession still line the shores.
Waves lap the wrecked and rust
ing landing craft. The flag still
flutters from Mount Suribachi.
Guam-In less than two years,
Guam has become the most pow
erful Navy bastion in the distant
Pacific. 1t alone of all the mid
Pacific bases has taken on an
air OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
naval quarters. permanent air
fields, permanent highways.
Okinawa-This island at ia
pans southern threshold, still
lives in much of the misery that
war left. The Army air forces
maintain al important base and
the Navy has a small garrison.
Naha, the capital, is a wilderness
of destruction and sunken ships
stud the harbor.
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wise have imprisoned his life
forever. Many would question
of course whether there is any
real escape, any victory OF the
spirit-leaving aside questions
of patriotism-for a fellow to
leave an uninteresting clerks
job, a reporters job a teachers
job. cnly to suffer and perhaps
to die in some malarial Jungle
or murderous bcaeh-head. And
yet for some of these-perhaps
a small minority, perhaps a lar
ger group than we realize-e"en
the suffering of combat must
have represented some Welcom-
ed relief from the work they
left behind.
Among the best stories of the
war, for u taste, are those DC
casional instances of which most
of us know in which some COM
petent but frustrated and OBJ
scure little civilian found a
chance to do a really big and i'm
portant job during the war years.
There were of course many rib
bon-elerks in the service with
jobs too big for them, and who
could never, under any circum-
stances, be anything but ribbon
clerks In their hearts. But there
were other ribbon. clerks-fig-
uratively speaking - who had
the stuff in them to be big men,
and who became big men in the
swift moving tides of war. We
know perhaps a dozen such in
stances, and we like to think
about them. And chief among
them is the story of a frustrat-
ed and kindly newspapermen
who through merit and self-dis-
cipline was turned by the for
tunes of war into a~high ranking
officer in command of a camp
representing an investmen: and
vital war force that was perhaps
a hundred times bigger than the
institution he had worked for in
patient obseurity.
Man. wears ago the -philose-
pher Thoreau, contemplating the
Civfl War, had a lot to say on
this subject. And although he
was a man of peace and mystical
withdrawal from the harsh af-
fairs of the world, he came to
the conclusion that war was
good. He was wrong in this of
course; and had he lived today,
to see how terrible mans de-
structiveness had become. he
would know that he was wrong.
But why is it, we wonder, that
so many who escape their ruts
in time of war to make a record
OF s~elflessness. skill and great
e~ndeavors, slide back into the
old rut, OF only carve a new
one, onc the wal is over. Is it
that the fabric of life itself. of
the social structure, has become
a system of organized drabness.
and has squeezed all the great
values of courage, freedom, dar-
ing, high purpose out of the nor
NAL world of peacetime exist
ence? In the years to come we
shall see what the answer to
this is; We shall see how many
men who found a meaning. a
freedom, a sense of being alive
in a time of war and destruction.
seek IN vain for that ms aning
in Tine of peace. Perhaps the
answer is that the average man
ear grasp and respond to these
high values of life and spirit
when they are thrust upon him
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by the war. but simply cannot
create such meanings for himself
IN times of peace. For those who
fail to find such meanings in
the peacetime world, it is a fail
ure OF imagination, and of cour-
age. And a failure of the sys-
TEN which teaches men to accept
their values rather than to strike
out on their own, to brave the
seas of thought and spirit. and
discover for themselves the in
herent meanings Of existence.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-08-30

The feature we wrote on the
Farmers Cooperative Dairy
last week and the Subsequent
editorial advocating Jackson
County's own Balance Indus
try With Agriculture plan
seems we'll worth while since
it inspired the Moss Point
Young Mems Business Club to
advocate just such a plan.
The interest of the YMBC
in such a project may seem
strange. at a glance, but IS real
ly typical of this outsta iding
group of young business men
that they discern where they
come in on such a move. They
come H." as the saying goes,
because they + a group OF
young and ambitious business
and professional men who can
see lllat anything that helps
the county as a whole, helps
them.
We have said before in this
column that it is impossible
TO improve the living stand
ard in one section of the coun-
tv without it effecting, direct
" or indirectly, all of our citi-
zens. We hold that a self-evi-
dent fact, but admit that we
lose sight Of it occasionally and
it takes something to jar us
back in line.
That something in this case
was the knowledge that more
than 5000 gallons of milk pro-
duced in one little county
down the coast is consumed
weekly in jackson County, the
bulk of it in Pascagoula, The
$4,000 a month which those
dairymen receive, comes .arge-
" from the Jackson County
payrolls.
Now we wish the Hancock
County dairymen all the luck
in the world. They have work
ed hard for what they have
achieved and we are all for
them. Except for this fact: II
we need milk in Jackson Coun-
ty. WHY should We buy it from
Hancock County when the con-
ditions in the two counties are
much the same? And if there
is $4,000 to be spent for milk
in this county. why Shout Int
we keep that money at home?
The revolutionary idea of
financing a dairy cooperative.
probably IN north eastern Jack
son County, by means of the
BAWI, seems absolutely sound
to us. 1t would mean more
than a payroll increase, since
the fseney paid to dairy farm
ers in this county would Cur
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The original name Of the Brook
lyn Dodgers was the Brooklyn
Trolley Dodgers.
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Delegates To
Baha'i Convention

At the recent Baha1 State
Convention the following dele
gates were elected to attend the
annual Bahai Convention at
Wilmette, Illinois, April 26-29:
Charles Krug, Matthew w. Bull
lock, Boston; Mrs. Alice Bacon,
Monson; Mrs. Helen Archam-
bault, Arlington; Harlan Ober,
Beverly, and Ralph Bates,
Springfield.
Delegates from all parts of
North and South America met
in the Bahaf House of Worship
located on the shore of Lake
Michigan.
The Bahai World Faith Is
now entering its 1O3rd year and
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They Don't Want to Die
by WALTER J. STEVENS

A recent article in national
magazine states that between 49,
900 and 10000 people kill them
selves each year in the United
States and another 100000 make
the attempt. But curiously enough
few of these abnormal persons,
are colored.
Some of the well known reasons
given for committing suicide are
social fears, anxiety, disease and
a sense of inadequacy and inferi-
ority. No people on earth are
more susceptible to these impair
'ments than the members of the
colored race, yet they do not kill
themselves. Whether this is to
their credit / do not know, be-
cause there has never been an en-
lightened scientific study made on
the subject on why colored people
have the will to live. There are
however a few obvious reasons
that restrain them from making
hurried exit from this earth.
First they are more intensely re-
ligious than other peoples and
their brand of religion acts as a
deterrent to suicidal mania. They
have an almost uncanny belief that
God will some day relieve them
of their trials and tribulations,
and this too deadens the impulse
Of any who, in a moment of
despair, might yearn to cross the
river Jordan. In addition they be-
long to the greatest race of
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The unfinished work before us,
the living, is that of perpetual
ing and improving the workings
of that democracy which some
thousands of Americans have
died to defend in two World
Wars.
At long last the general pub
lie is becoming aware that our
schools and colleges must ad-
dress themselves to the task of
educating for democracy much
more purposefully and realisti-
cally than has been the case
hitherto. With a public awake
to the need, we shall soon come
to grips with this business of
educating for democracy, for
civic competency. But we have
long way to go.
The kind-or field-of educa-
ton that aims to develop those
understandings, attitudes and
behaViors that make for better
living together in the demo-
cratic way is our infant educa-
tional industry. To organize
and put into operation a pro-
gram of teachings and activi-
ties specifically designed to at
tain that end is the educators
unfinished work - important
work For-let it be said point
edly-despite all the education
in our schools and colleges, how
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St. BarthOI'm'Ws
(Conttnned ION Fac onel

CONTINUED from Page one)
sring head and shoulders over the
others of the balcony stood Min
nesota's ace of chemistry.
Men, women and children often
glanced up to view this bronze
physical specimen of six feet, six
inches, whose slightly thinning
high forehead, long curly hair and
unique little mustache with goatee
to match gave me the assurance
that was not mistaken in the
person. Although l had never
seen him before, yet, the general
description of numerous feature
story articles have appeared in
both st, PauFs daily papers as well
IS our own colored weeklies. AL
ways camera shy, only one picture
of him was sneaked in his uniform
at work and that one was at too
far a distance for detail.
eyed him quizzingly as he lost
himself with profound interest in
the message of Father Hughes.
the choir, the altar boys, the beau
tiful scenery of lighted candles,
flowers and the altar. He partici-
pated heartily in prayerful medi-
tation and in the singing of the
hymns. Not once firing or being
annoyed by the play of the chill
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to live together well and in the
democratic way is the one les
son that the American people
have least learned.
We must attempt to make
clear what education for de.
mocracy, or civic education, in
cludeS and involves. 1t out
lines a program of school work
that aims very definitely at the
elimination Of those shortages
that mark and mar our attempt
to make democracy function in
every life relationSaip-politi-
cal, social and economic. Re-
duced to specific terms, that
means a program of teachings
and activities that aim to pro-
duce an adequate understands
ing of and whole-hearted all
legiance to the democratic way
of life a keen interest in things
political; the application Of
more intelligence in the conduct
of political affairs; better po-
litical leadership; a citizenry
that is more law-abiding; inter-
group understanding, respect
and good will; the ability and
the disposition to manage our
economic order TO rthe benefit
Of all; and last and all import
ant, a translation Of the EACH
ings of religion into civic be-
haYior.
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BUY VICTORY BONDS

"Shock Absorbers" the world has
ever known. Bumps, pitfalls, grief,
oppression, loss of job or home.
hunger or sickness, any one of
which is sufficient cause for the
whites to "end it all' is taken by
the colored man in stride. To
paraphrase the slogan of the Sal
walton Army, the colored man is
the one man that may be down
but he is never out.
Even among the more edu-
Gated of the race their is no de-
sire to shuttle off this mortal
coil. In this they confound the
experts who claim that suicide
goes hand in hand with civiliza-
ton, and is more common among
the better informed.
A no less important prevention
against suicidal tendencies on the
part of our folk, is their ability
easily to make social contacts and
to laugh at anything. They can
create a good time with but a
dime in their pockets and their
laughter rings out in both comedy
and despair. They cross the
bridges when they come to them
and turn corners only when they
get there. They worry about moth
ing except what is in plain sight.
All of this puzzles the white
folks and they wonder why it is
that fifteen million people, living
in a country of eternal fear, don't
want to die.