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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-01-02
GOSPEL TALKS
BY Rev. q. c. Valentine

A NEW LEAF OR A NEW LIFE?
"Ye have put off the old man with
his deeds and have pput on the new
man which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created
him."-Col. 1919.
1t is a standing joke that reso-
lutions made on New Years Day are
broken before the day or week Is
over. Many a new leaf has been
turned but very shortly has begun
to look like the old one. Many a
person has resolved to make a fresh
start in a better way only to find
himself back in the sordid rut he
had been travelling. Why IS 1t that
we are apparently SO helpless in our
efforts at self-reformation?
1t is because no matter how hard
we try to lift ourselves by our boot
straps it cannot be done. No matter
how we wash out u old natures
we still love sin and are the same
people inwardly. Our natures have
not been changed any more than a
VOLTS nature is changed when put
in a sheepskin.
What is needed is not a new leaf
but a new life and only God can
give that. We all by nature are sim
full but God car change all that by
giving to us a new birth by which
we become new creatures and put
off the old man with his deeds and
put on the new man which is made
after His glorious image. Then, when
the old nature with its sinful de-
sires is gone, we can live the new
life we seek. Then, God gives us
the power which we lack in our
selves to be the kind of people we
should be.
Christ and Christ alone saves from
sin. You cannot save yourself. Trust
Him today as your Savior and be-
gin the new year with a new life.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
Britain Offers Plan For German Govt.

MOSCOW, (P)-British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin laid before the foreign ministers council to- day a six-step plan for the crea- ton of a federalized Government structure intended to make Ger many a self-governing, democratic state.
 Britain'S views on the govern ment structure for Germany were set forth in a 600-word paper.
 l. called fov creation of a two hovse legislative along the lines of the U. s. Senate and House O" representative a president With
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
Ferries Again Ply Puget Sound

- SEATTLE, R-R Regular ferry service piled the waters of Puget Sound yesterday for the first time n almost a week after members of the CIO-marine engineers benefi- cal association gave two to one" approval to its new contract.
 Partial ferry service to Bremen ton, Vashon and Bainbridge Island was resumed Wednesday night and most routes were expected back on regular pre-strike scAed uleS immediately, the company said.
 Te"ms of the settlement, reached Monday at a conference in Olym- pia between Puget Sound Navisa- ton company officials, the union, federal and state mediators, in- cluded: An estimated 23.3 per cent average overall wage increase over the old scale; reclassification of vessels according to horsepower with pay scales based on size of engine plants; and reclassificatton of first and second assistant chief engineers as assistant chief engin- eerS, placing both on the same wage level.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
SS. G. Washington Damaged By Fire

JERSEY CITY, IN. J. tP)-The former luxury liner George Wash ington which carried President Woodrow Wilson and his party to the peace conference in 1919 was damaged today by fire as it lay anchored to a two-and-a-half mile concrete army pier near Caven Point in New York bay.
 An army transport in both world wars, the 23,870-ton ship was scheduled to sail Tuesday for Bal timore where it was to be decom- missioned.
 The blaze was discovered at 3:45 am. in the officers lounge mid ships of the boat deck by one Of the 7O-man maintenance crew aboard.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21

out executive powers and strong s;ate rights.
 Bevin was the first of the four n.as sters here to place his ideas On the structure of the German state before the council.
 Informants said the British plan envisioned a lower legislative chamber elected according to pop ulation and an upper chamber elected on the basis of a fixed number of representative from each of the laender (States).
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES

Arriving on Wednesdays plane were Camille Guimond, Al Condon, Roy Douglas, Glen Huff, Muriel Wilson, Kay Corners, and Frank Bowlis.
 Departing on the returning flight were Fred FrohboSe, D. J. Hartzog, MT. Dahlstrom, Mrs. Dahlstrom, MT. Connors and MI Wilson.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

Arriving on the flight early this morning were Lillian Silverman and Tony Johansen.
 Departing on the return flight were Sam Troutman, A. A. Lyon, C. Moriarty, H. Reichman, Edward Wilson, Tony Rolando, Mrs. Jane Foster, Henderson JaneWay.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL

Roy Douglas, Fairbanks, A. Con- don, Seattle, Glen Huff, Anchor age. N. Potofsky, Unalakleet. James LaCross and H. Janesway, Fairbanks.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES

A trip was made on Tuesday to White Mountain to bring in John Paden, A. Walker and George Morelander, all officials of the ANS.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-21
THE FIRST REGULAR SKI

tournament in the United States was held on February 8, 1887 at Red Wing, Minnesota, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Taft Sets G.. o. p. Pattern


stirred the political pond.
Mr.. Taft has recognized the issue
of high prices as vital in the COM
ing campaign, and he has ham,
mered away at it in many of his
speeches. Incidentally, he has stood
forth in support of an increase in
the minimum wage, from 40 to go
cents an hour-a 50 per cent in
crease for workers whose wages have
been or are subnormal when COM
pared to prewar wage scales and
to the high wages which have been
won by many categories of workers.
Some Listen to Reason
On the labor side, the Ohio Sen
ator has shown himself reasonable
in his contacts with labor leaders
who are inclined to listen to reason.
There is the example of his con-
ferences with Harry Lundeberg,
president of the Sailors Union of
the Pacific. 1t was largely through
Mr.. Taft's advice and good Offices
that Lundeberg and the shipowners
have been able to work out a new
contract, permitting the use of hir-
ing halls which have been con-
trolled by the unions, and so pre-
vent Pacific Coast tieup of ship
ping at the end of this month.
Also many responsible labor leaders,
like Dave Beck of the powerful
Teamsters' Union would have moth
ing to do with the picketing of Mr..
Taft's meetings. Always Mr.. Taft
has laid stress on the fact that he
and the Republican Congress will
be willing to make amendments to
the Taft-Hartley law should it be
shown that they were needed to
prevent injustices.
Any summary of this Taft swing
through the West would be incom-
plete without mention of his chief
coadjutor and wife-Mrs. Martha
Taft. Not only has Mrs. Taft a
charming personality, but she has a
gift for making friends-and par
ticularly a gift for politics end po-
litical speaking. Here at least Is
one rabble-rousing speaker in the
Taft family. Not that she is dema-
gogic. But she has a flair for
public speaking and light touch that
drives her audience to mirth, and
a way of driving home here points
that makes people understand. It's
a gift. She has delivered two or
three speeches already, to Republi-
can women's organizations, on this
trip, and they ate it up and called
for more.
Senator Taft in his own fashion is
doing an important service both to
the Republican Party and to the
country. Whether 1t gets him
presidential nomination or not, it
has already increased his stature,
which was considerable before he
ever set foot on the train to come
out here.
A new thing about this Taft trip,
which is indicative of the interest
aroused when Mr.. Taft announced
he would go West, is the large group
of metropolitan newspaper CORE
spondents, magazine writers and
radio commentators-nearly IS in
all-which has gone along. Never
before has potential but unan-
nounced candidate for presidential
nomination had such following.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
NeUtOn
Continued From Page CID

Because OF the battle Of the afn-
davits no AFL or C1O union has
been able to get action on a repre-
sentation election petition since
August 23, the date that part Of the
Taft Hartley Act concerning the
NLRB became effective.
More Pressure From Below
Both parent labor groups are
spending thousands Of dollars to
organize workers in the South, par
ticularly in the textile industry,
still largely nonunion. They will
be unable to get bargaining elec-
tions in any Of the shops until the
affidavit matter is Strengthened out.
Organizers, obviously, cannot hold
the newly signed-up workers in line
forever.
AS another illustration Of pres
sure from below, the CIO Rubber
Workers are said to have organized
several plants currently under con-
tract to the AFL. The CIO Is
given q good chance of taking over
the bargaining rights, but their
petitions for elections have no
standing because Of failure to
qualify under the new law. The
contracts are about to expire, and
unless the deadlock is settled by
that time, the AFL probably Will
have the plants at least for another
term.
The argument with Mr.. Denham
is costing the AFL and C1O many
members. They know it and that
is the reason some solution to the
problem will be found and soon.
In answer to such complaints Mr..
Lewis asks hts fellow officers;
do you think you can deteas
this slave labor law without casual
ties? If you do you're crazy. Let
the weak fall"
Evening star., 1947-09-28

dered that they wait until the Japs
were close at hand. The first
United States cruiser opened up at
1900 yards at nearly pm.
Then the old "sunken" battleships,
which had been patiently pacing
back and forth all night, capped
the T.
The Shigure, destroyer, was the
lone unscathed survivor Of the Jap
anese force. On the way out she
passed Admiral Shima's force COM
ing in and passed to him only the
customary recognition signals-not
one word about what was in store
for him further down the strait.
Too Hot for Shima
1t was not until Admiral Shima
came alongside the Jap cruiser Mo-
gani, burning briskly and then dead
in the water, that he apparently
Evening star., 1947-09-28

team, and his administrative As.
sistant Secretary considers 1t his jot
to see to it that he gets efficient
teamwork. Woe to the employe who
gets to feeling too big for the team
goes prima donna-ish or tries tc
undercut his colleagues.
In personnel problems, his
guiding principle is that State De-
partment employees are human be-
ings above all and should be treated
as such. He makes q point of call
ing the lowest paid departmental
workers by their first names and
showing a friendly interest In their
problems.
His Promotion System
On the upper level, he follows
Gen. Marshall's principle of gath
ering the best possible men OF
women for the job around him and
then delegating broad authority and
responsibility to them. It used to
be that practically all promotions
in the State Department had to be
approved personally by the Assist
ant Secretary for Administration
Mr.. Peurifoy acts personally on only
those cases involving promotion to
the top jobs.
If he is checking up on an ap-
plicant for q job, he will 60 first
not to the applicants former
bosses, but to those who have
worked under him or with him. His
theory is that a lot of "phonies'
can get by through playing yes
man to the boss, but that people
who work under a man usually have
him sized up pretty accurately.
Mr.. Peurifoy's secretary has
standing instructions to turn away
no employe who wishes to see him
After a recent visit to California,
a San Francisco newspaper pub
lished a. report that Hollywood Film
Magnate Louis B. Mayer had offered
Mr.. Peurifoy a $50,000-a-year job.
He hasn't denied this story, but
does make clear that he idolizes Gen.
Marshall and will not leave the
State Department as long as Gen.
Marshall wants him to stay.
When Gen. Marshall became Sec
retary of State last January 81, Mr..
Peurifoy was working as a special
assistant to then Undersecretary
Dean Acheson. On Mr.. Acheson' S
recommendation, he was given his
present job on an acting" basis
two days later. His nomination as
| full-fledged Assistant Secretary was
sent to the Senate March 10 and
confirmed March IA without opposi-
ton. He was sworn in March II.
Mr.. Peurifoy was born August 8,
1907, in WATERFORD, 8. c., where
the Peurifoys came from Eng
land in 1919, and where his
father had been o Federal district
attorney and his uncle . Judge
Peurifoy is q Norman name, taken
Evening star., 1947-09-28

ating Base, Trinidad, British West
Indies, for which he received his
first Distinguished Service Medal
In 1943 he was commander of q
task force in the Atlantic and the
following year transferred to the
Pacific, where he commanded q
cruiser division, and then two bat.
tleship divisions. He received sew
eral decorations for this duty.
For dissipating the Jap forces in
the Battle of Surigao Strait he re.
ceived a Navy Cross and for other
work during the period, January
20, 1914, to January 9, 1945, the Navy
awarded him a Gold Star in lieu
of a third Distinguished Service
Medal.
At the present time he is COM
mander, Western Sea Frontier. and
commander, Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

the '20s to put waterworks into
Warsaw and harbors into Greece.
Debts to private investors have
been estimated by Cleona Lewis of
Brookings Institution. She thinks
that in 1885 they stood at $685.
100000.
May Be More or Less
To add those figures is like adding
apples and oranges, but it Is the
best o Washington reporter can do
to find out what American wealth
went abroad and didn't come back,
after World War I. Those figures
include important postwar loans to
certain Latin American countries
which then as now wanted to build
up their economies.
Add the figures and you get
21,037 900, 900 American dollars still
unpaid on World War I account.
1t may be more, or less. No one in
Washington knows for sure.
Only the Firms are still paying
All the rest are dormant" The
Firms stopped paying during two
war years, Al and ~. Now, even
with the huge reparations they must
pay Russia for World War II, they
have resumed payments to the
United States for World War I.
That sum of over $21 ,000, ,000, 900
is a runt beside the sum of Amer
lean money already spent on World
War II. That now stands at $61, ,60O,-
100000. But there are basic differ
ences in what we now consider due
us.
The sum of s21 900 100000 loaned
for World War I includes the huge
loans made to Europe for food and
ammunition during the war. Right
now this country is still asking for
principal and interest on bullets we
sold the British to kill Germans in
1918.
Important Difference
That tune changed in the last
fracas. AS a Nation we decided the
war was ours as much as Europes.
We set up lend-lease, which carried
most Of the cost of war materials
we sent our Allies. We have asked
some return, but it looks now that
we will forgive about $4,000, ,000, 900
on q total of $5o,O0o 100000 worth
Of war materials. That is much
the largest part of the American
wealth spent on World War II.
There was another important diff
ference on the two sets of loans.
After World War I Europe got
relief through credits set up here
with the American Relief Admins
tration. We expected payment and
interest.
This time immediate postwar re-
lief needs were handled as outright
gifts. The United States kicked in
$2,700,0 100000 through UNRRA.
Actually, on World War II, we,
Evening star., 1947-09-28

decided that he would probably be
better off II he headed in another
direction.
The Mogani was sunk along with
one destroyer from Admiral Shima S
force by planes later in the morn
ing. The Shigure met q similar
fate.
Admiral Oldendorf, in answer to an
urgent message that "the main Jap
force which cleared San Berandino
Strait at midnight is attacking our
GIVES" (carriers) headed for the
battle off Samar.
Admiral Oldendorf, a native OF
Riverside, Calf, graduated from
the Naval Academy in 1909. In
1917 he was head Of Navy recruiting
and two years later became captain
Of the cruiser Houston. In 1912 he
! became commander, Naval Oper-
Evening star., 1947-09-28
$s,so4,OOo,oO0

At first in World War I American
loans to Europe were through pri-
vate banks. But when the United
States entered the war the First
Liberty Loan Act was passed in
April, 1917, and loans thereafter
were made through the Government.
Right after the war ended Gov
ernment lending dried up, but the
flow started again around 1922 from
private sources, for the most part
through the loans and foreign OBJ
legations bought by the individual
American investor. Those loans con-
tinued through to the depression.
distributed by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Continued From Page C-l.

rather strong for Gov. Dewey in the
past, and probably are today.
To some 1t will appear strange
that Mr.. Taft has been willing to
expend his energy in a four weeks
tour Of these States; that he has
picked the worst territory to seek
support-in delegates-for a presi-
Dental nomination. It is charac-
teristic, however, of Mr.. Taft tc
tackle the difficult thing. Further
he undoubtedly had it in mind tc
break down the picture which this
Western country has had of him
a cold conservative. He is putting
his heart into the job and he is
making friends beyond a doubt.
1t is characteristic, too, Of Mr.
Taft that he should have picked
Seattle, of all places. to deliver his
principal speech In defense of the
Taft-Hartley labor law. Seattle is
or has been, a hot bed Of radicalism
and organized labor. If anything
has helped Mr.. Taft, however, in his
quest for the presidential nomina-
ton 1t has been the picketipg by
labor unions of his meetings during
his present swing through the West
This mass picketing of a potential
presidential candidate at political
rallies is something new in cam
paigning. The boos and catcalls
the derogatory banners carried by
the pickets, the obscene epithets
hurled at Mr.. Taft on at least one
occasion in Seattle, have aroused
indignation. They have been a help
both to Mr.. Taft and to the Repub-
lican Party, which strongly backs
the Hartley law.
Poor Sportsmanship
In a measure, this mass picketing
Is an attack on free assembly and
free speech. The organizers of the
picket lines-mostly CIO-have been
touchy about this kind Of criticism
They have sought by public state
ments to divest themselves and their
pickets Of any attempt to interfere
with freedom of speech and to claim
they were only bent on showing
their distaste for Taft himself.
But they cannot. There are many
people who will not cross a picket
line-which means that there are
many people who will not go to
hear the arguments of Mr.. Taft in
support of the Taft-Hartley law-or
any other candidate for high Office
who holds the same views as Mr..
Taft, If this kind of thing is per-
sisted in. Mass picketing of political
candidates is against the spirit OF
sportsmanship and fair play which
is an inherent characteristic of
Americans.
As a matter of fact, Mr.. Taft's
arguments in support of the Taft
Hartley law, his explanation of the
real meaning of the provisions OF
the law, are having their effect on
the public, and probably on union
members, too. His attack on the
Truman administration, seeking to
place the blame for high prices, and
his program for dealing with the
problem, contained in his San Fran
cisco speech, have been other high
lights. His charge that the Demo-
Lcrats have failed miserably in their
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Gen. MurshaUS Business Manager
Provides the Machinery
To Carry Out Our
Foreign Policy

from France to England with Will
liam the Conqueror. He went to
West Point in 1926. His mother had
been dead since he was 6 year old
and he had grown up in unusually
close companionship with his father.
His military career blew up after
two years at West Point when mis-
fortune struck. Pneumonia kept him
hospitalzed for weeks and his father
died. Feeling forlorn and discour-
aged, the orphaned youth resigned
from West Point and struck out
westward.
He wound up in Kansas City with
5000 in his pocket and an impulse to
become flyer. He paid his 5000 to
a flying school. Only afterward did
he think to go to bank to inquire
about the schools reputation. He was
told it was no good. He tried to get
his money back from the school, but
was refused. Then he tried to enlist
in the Marine Corps, but couldn't be
accepted right away because he was
a minor and consent had to be
obtained from his guardian uncle.
. While waiting to hear from his
uncle, he hunted up a lawyer to see
what could be done about getting
his 5000 back. The lawyer was one
Of Kansas City's best-known-Her-
man Langworthy. He took the young
man with the charming Southern
accent under his wing, talked him
out Of enlisting in the Marines, and
installed him in his home as tutor
for his son.
After q few months of tutoring,
young Peurifoy worked in a bank
some months and then, in 1929,
went to New York. where he sold
insurance for couple of years.
From 1881 through 1884 he worked
in the purchasing department of a
restaurant chain.
Department Store Clerk
Then Mr.. Peurifoy came to Wash
ington in 1885 and, while looking
around for a better Job, ran and
elevator at the Capitol. He soon
was employed in the Treasury De-
partment's Procurement Division,
but had to look for a job again
around Christmastime in 1887,
when his section was abolished. He
worked behind . counter at Wood
ward g. Lothrop's during the holi-
day season, selling cigarette light
ers and such things. From Janu-
ary to August, 1888, he was run
ming an elevator at the Capitol
again.
All this time he was seeking a
job in the State Department. He
finally went to work there on octo-
ber l, 1888, in the division han
ding export licenses under the
Neutrality Act. He got a raise from
50, 900 to $500 the next year. He
rose steadily to reach the top civil
service professional classification
(then $3.50 a year, in 1945. after
proving his worth on numerous
Notwithstanding" assignments in
the economic and public affairs
fields during the war.
In the meantime, Mr.. Peurifoy
had supplemented his two years Of
West Point education by taking a
course in international relations at
George Washington University and
one in public administration at
American University after work
hours. He never got his college de-
gree, but consoles himself that
neither did the last three secre-
taries Of State before Gen. Mershall
-Byrnes. stettiniu and Hull.