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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-12-10
Thanksgiving to Christmas
1947


1947
These readings feature Bible
selections which bring out
many helpful truths concern
ing the theme.
Thanksgiving, Nov. 27
Psalm 145 zone God"
Fri.-Psalm 1O3
Zone Blessing"
Sat.-John 3:1-21
zone Birth
Sunday, Nov. 80
John 1:1-18 Zone Word''
Mon.-Matt. 5:1-16
Zone Discipleship"
Tues.-Matt. 6:19-34
zone Treasure"
Wed.-Psalm 90
zone Dwelling"
Thurs.-John 14:1-21
Zone Comforter"
Fri.-James 1
Zone WISDOM
Sat.-Philip 2:1-18
Zone Mind"
Sunday, Dec. John Is ILL
Zone Vine"
Mon.-Psalms 81: 121
Zone Keeper
Tues.-John 17:1-26.
Zone Prayer
Wed.-I Cor. 10
Zone Love"
Thurs.-Luke Is lilo;
Rom. 1:16, II
Zone Purpose"
Fri.-Luke 15:11-32
Zone Redemption"
Sat.-Acts II: 1851
Zone Family"
Universal Bible Sunday,
Dec. IA
Psalm 119:1-19, v. 80, v. 105
Zone Book"
Mon-Psalm CT
Zone People"
Tues.-John $3.50
Zone Truth"
Wed.-Psalm 10
zone World"
Thurs.-Deut. 5 :6-27
Zone Law"
Fri.-II Tim. 3:12-4:8
Zone Crown
Sat.-Rev. 21:1-7
Zone Heaven"
Sunday, Dec. Fl
lisa. So; Matt. II 1880
Zone Burden-Bearer"
Mon.-Luke 1868
Zone Son"
Tues.-Luke 1896
Zone Song"
Wed.-Luke 1 $3.50
Zone Prophecy"
Christmas, Dec. rs
lisa. 40:1-5; Luke 2:1-2O, 40
One Savior"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

For the past several months
we have been reading a series
of articles n the Atlantic
Monthly magazine called En-
chanted Streets" The author is
a self-made naturalist" born
and bred to the streets of Chi
cago, and all of his observa-
tions have been made in the
parks and trash-littered vacant
lots and along the waterfront
of that density crowded city.
He is a fellow that we would
like to know, for we feel that
we would understand him.
His career is another case of
the many known to us where
a persons whole life was chang
ed for the better by being fir
ed. Years ago he was a young
reporter on a Chicago paper,
a good writer which is obvi-
Gus from his articles, but not
fitted for the fast pace and
superficial composition of news
paper stories. BY temperament
he was slow-moving, patient,
reflective ~observerer, the sort
who would have worked much
better over a microscope in a
research laboratory, or as a
curator among the dry bones
mounted butterflies of some
natural history museum. From
earliest boyhood, as a matter of
fact, he had dabbled in bird
study and bug-collecting, and
this interest in natural life
eventually proved his undoing
rs a reporter.
He was sent out one day by
his editor to interview a fell
low who was suspected of a
dramatic murder but had not
yet been arrested. The report
er found the old man to be a
very mild, innocent sort and
also interested in wild life.
The old man told him that
squirrels had found a hole in
his roof and were building
nests in the walls of the at
tic. The young reporter express
ed a desire to observe them,
and the old man left him con-
tentedly studying the squir-
rels playing around the old
trunks and trash of the attic,
while he went down to police
headquarters and confessed to
the crime of knocking his old
lady on the head and throw
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

One of the most decisive events-or poten-
TALLY so, at least in the economic life not
only Pascagoula but of Mississippi and the
whole coastal region took place this week
with the authorization by the Public Works
Committee of Congress for a study of a chan
mel development project in the Leaf and
Chicasawhay rivers,
There is a long and difficult road ahead be-
tween this first preliminary step and the final
act of Congress; unwavering support of the
project from the people of this region will
certainly be required, and the final outcome
of the project is far from certain.
But bearing these conditions in mind, the
people of this region this week have cause to
feel a thrill of achievement over this first
hurdle successfully accomplished, and they
are justified in hoping that another decade or
two might see the tall buildings, the busy
wharves and the smoking chimnies of a sea-
port metropolis rise here where Pascagoula,
for a century before the recent war, had
existed as a small town.
Enthusiastic citizens habitually talk in
such optimistic and visionary" terms as
these, in almost every town in America. And
for that reason most of us have come to take
such statements as a matter of course. But
the day has come for Pascagoula and Moss
Point and all the region in the Pascagoula
watershed, when the knowledge that such
a phenomenal growth is actually possible if
we work and sweat to put this project over,
and determine not to accept any discourage
ment as the final answer.
1t is possible to make a port approaching
the size of Mobile at the mouth of the Pasca-
goula river. That may indeed be a visionary
statement, but it is not a foolish one. For the
actual economic and geographic conditions
are present to make this possible.
The most weighty element in the equation
is the expanding Mississippi oil industry.
There are some oldtimers, whose point of
view stems back perhaps to the fairly recent
times when there was no Mississippi oil in
dustry, who may doubt that real metropoli-
tan city could grow up here in the region of
swamp and cutover land. Such plans and
hopes might seem to them to be in the nature
of chamber of commerce" talk.
But the fact remains that a potentially
tremendous industry has sprung into being
with the discovery of oil in Mississippi. The
proven fields have moved gradually toward
the eastern part of the state, and a number
of big ones are now in the watershed of the
proposed river project.
If the channel were dug, providing the
means for shipment by oil barges, the cheap
est means of oil transport-the logic for the
development of large refining industry in
this region would follow almost inevitably.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

pealing" about rats-at-home
which he had never suspect
ed.
Sometimes passersby would
see him lying in the grass of
an empty lot, his eyes glazed
and staring at the ground, and
they would think he had fall
len of a stroke of appoplexy
or epilepsy. A crowd would
gather and the young man
would suddenly be startled
from his period of absorbed
observation to see the ring of
feet standing around him on
the grass. He would rise and
mutter something, flushing with
embarrassment, and walk away
down the street. By the con-
cepts of normal people
hurrying furiously from office
to home, or home to Office
the young ex-reporter was more
than a mite "screwy." The idea
of a grown man lying in the
grass to watch crickets makes
no sense to people in whom
such curiosity. imagination and
enjoyment have died away in
childhood.
But little by little the ex-
reporter put together a fine
book of his observations. The
Atlantic Monthly, dignified and
intellectual old journal, is fea-
turing his articles, and the book
will probably make him a lot
of money. If he makes money
out of it, his friends and neigh
bors will probably think it was
not only not screwy, but a
very smart thing to lie in the
grass and watch crickets.
The truth of it is that the So
called average man. probably
has more curiosity and appre-
citation concerning things of
nature than he realizes. The
first thing a man does when he
gets a little plot of a yard is
to go digging and planting, al
most as though it were an in
stinct. The popularity of fish
ing is also an expression of
modern mans inner hunger to
get back into contact with ma
ture and the simpler processes
of life which have gone out of
a city existence! But it would
never occur to the average big
city dweller that there are an
infinite variety of forms of
wild life" creeping through
the grass of flying around the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

ing her in the reservoir. The
opposition newspaper report
ers down at police headquar-
tiers got the story and the news
papers were out on the street,
while the young man was still
sitting in the hushed twilight
of the attic studying the home
making activities of the squir-
rels. When he got back to the
office he was fired. His first
article describing this exper-
fence is called Squirrels in the
Attic"
Someone has said that "on-
ly the young can afford to G
tire" Once a man begins to
make a stake in life, gets tied
down to a growing business,
job seniority, a family and a
house mortgage, he is not like
~ to retire to follow his own
hobbies and pursuits until old
age sets in-no matter how
much money he may pile up.
The Chicago naturalist was
young enough to retire, and
this ne did. Or rather, he re-
tired from the newspaper bus
mess and became a naturalist
professionally, earning what
ever small and irregular in
come he could through this
means.
But now he was free to pur-
sue his studies" as he de-
sired-free to lie in the park
all day long and study crick-
cts serenading and counting in
the microscopic world beneath
the spears of grass; or to sit
on the Chicago water front
studying the terms as they
swirled in the air over a shin
ing school of minnows. He
even studied the home-life of
the big rats along the water
front. and found that there
was something SHY and APP
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
BY NOLLE T. ROBERTS

than a pasttime. II is a ritual.
A lot of men put on the cof-
fee in the morning before put
ting on their pants because
they know their nature. They
know they are going to be
grouchv until they get the first
cup down. so they hasten the
process of getting into a good
humor.
Personally, We think a law
should be passed forbidding
any wife, child, neighbor or
casual aeqaintanee from
speaking to a man in the morn
ing before he has had at least
two cups of coffee and a chance
to glance at the headlines of
the morning paper.
After he has had his coffee.
a man is much better fortified
for the trials of the day, can
put up with burned toast, cry
ing children, or a grocery list
as long as your arm.
We prefer home parched and
ground coffee. like they still
make at Ray Roberts, Robert
Bragg. and a few other places
in the county. We don't get it
a. home. But We do have a
coffee bag. made out Of a sack
with a wire frame, that is
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

street lamps or %scurrying along
the water front of a metropolis
and that stalking them and
studying them in a city lot
can be as intensely absorbing
to some people as stalking
game in the woods. Yet life is
life, whittier it has the tower
ing cement buildings of a city
for a background. or the hush
ed twilight of a thick woods.
And no one has written about
this so we'll and Interestingly
as the fellow we are talking
about-who, in getting fired
from a newspaper job, has
probably contributed far more
to society" by watching crick-
cts and squirrels in the at
tic" than he would have in a
lifetime of routine reporting
of routine and often dreary
events.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

stained to right shade of to-
bacco brown by many usings.
No perculators, dripolators,
or any other kind of lators for
us. No instant coffee, that SOL
liable mess they put in rations
during the war which tasted
like a combination of coal tar
and creoSote.
OF course. coffee is good and
better, just as girls are pretty
and prettier but a little good
thick cows cream helps the
former like a permanent wave
brightens up the latter.
Our wife takes her coffee
straight without cream or sug-
ar. which is a blessing during
sugar r%ationing, but we use two
spoons of sugar at home, one
when we drink with friends,
and all we can get in restau-
rants now that they put it in
for you instead of showing the
howl in your direction.
In that restaurant we spoke
of while ago. business deals are
eonsumated, political races
won, and world problems set
tied. all over a nickel cup of
coffee. Some folks drink cof-
fee in there so often that they
forget and buy candidates cof-
fee.
But we seriously think that
the humble cup of coffee could
be a great source of good in
this world. 1t is hard to stay
mad with someone and engage
IN that friendly pastime. The
leaders of the nations of the
earth might be able to get fur
Their If they took time out at
the council table for coffee each
morning at 1000 o'clock and
each afternoon al $50.
And ii they arrive at a stale
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

Whether you take it with
cream or black, sweet or bit
ter, hot or cold, with or be
tween meals, at home or in res
taurants, coffee plays a big
part in the lives of most of us.
We III a coffee drinking peo-
pie.
It may shatter your nerves,
lose you sleep, ruin your
stomach, or scald your tongue,
but we are going to stand up
and defend coffee. Caffeine and
all. Chicorv and all. We like
it. And we do our part 10 keep
the per capita consumption of
coffee up in this county.
In one RESTRAINT in Pasca-
goula. as many as seven even
gallon urns of coffee is fire.
quently consumed by the Gus
toners before noon. That is 80
gallons, 1876 quarts, 1872 pints
or nearly 400 cups. Which is
several saucers full of coffee.
Multiply this by fifty or so
restaurants and add the count
less pots Of coffee made in pri-
vate home and it is easy to see
that the eounty's daily con
sumption of coffee runs into
the hundred of thousands of
cups.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
- DISTRICT FIVE
DAVID L. WEST, SR.

mate, as they so often do, they
should stop then and there and
go across the street for a cup
of coffee. We think they would
find that they could deal more
amably.
A lot of coffee will be CON
sumed and a lot of friendships
renewed on July 10 when the
Old Settlers reunion will be
revived at Vancleave. 1t will
be held at the Ezell Lodge, as
the school will not be complet-
ed by that time, but will be
a Homecoming for all former
students in the Vancleave
School.
One of our oldest and fond
est memories is of the first
Old Settlers Reunion that we
attended, riding in style in a
two-seated surrey behind old
Rock and Dallas with our
grandfather's hands firm on
the reins.
The affair holds fond mem
cries for many citizens and
former residents of West Jack
son County as a day when folks
gathered at the old Vancleave
School for an all-day picnic,
a fiddler's contest, square
dancing, and political speak
ings, on election years.
We don't know all the plans
for this summer. having talk
ed only briefly to Jake Lock
ard between sessions of the
grand jury but we are certain
" glad to see that fine inSti-
tuition revived and know that
a lot of YOU viii look for
ward to that gathering this
summer.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
You're Telling Me!
By WILLIAM I T
Central Press Writer

Title, our titan dressed type
writer Taper, thinks those
Big Four diplomats must be
happy to be back where they
can get some real home-cook-
ing after all those Moscow
banquets where the menu SEEM
ed to consist solely of toast.
A nag named Picnic Lunch
won and paid off 1859 for two.
This, says Betcha Dollar DER,
is certainly food for thought.
Kids seeing Charlie Chaplin
in his new movie, in which he
wears classy clothes, must think
their parents have been telling
'em some whopping fibs.
If Charlie wore a costume of
solid gold studded with dia-
monds it still wouldn't be as
valuable as that outfit-which
consisted of battered derby,
busted shoes, baggy breeches
and ill-fitting coat--he used to
wear.
With lumber prices booming
it's no longer good policy to
"Hew to the line-let the chips
fall where they may" The
darn things are now too valu-
able.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
VANCLEAVE

Old Settlers Reunion, Van
cleave School homecoming, and
political rally on Saturday,
July 10, at the Ezell Lodge.
All day affair and the pub
lie invited, particularly for
mer students in the Vancleave
School. State, district. county,
and beat candidates invited to
speak.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
River Channel Plan Advances

But it would not be oil alone on which the
future of this region would be based. In
dustries of all sorts are in a general move to
Southern states. One great spur to this move
ment was the equalization of freight rates on
a national scale, recently upheld by the
United States Supreme Court, which remov-
ed the long-standing handicap of higher
freight charges on Southern manufactured
goods. Industries all over the North now have
their experts making field studies of South
ern regions with a view to establishing new
plants or moving their whole establishment
These things are truths, facts. There is no
wishful thinking here. Every major observer
and journal dealing with the nations bust
ness has testified to this shift of industries.
The region within the Pascagoula, Hatties-
burg, Meridian triangle has had everything
to offer to prospective industries but cheap
water transport, and that will complete
the picture if our leaders can push this pro-
ject to successful conlusions. We have mex
haustible supplies of cheap fuel-oil, and coal
not far away; we have large labor supplies;
we have a cooperative legislative program
and tax exemptions.
This newspaper is firmly of the opinion
that the economic growth of this region de-
ponds on sound projects like the develop
ment of water transport and a thriving port.
and that it will be sacrificed on the other
hand by any policy permitting the ruino of our
natural resources. A refinery program will
help; a policy of UNRESTRICTED export of our
crude oil and gas will bring ruin. If we had
insisted on the growth of native wood pro-
cessing industries to process our valuable
timber, and if we had legislated against
ruinous cutting methods, we might still have
a thriving forestry industry based on the an
nual and perpetual yield of our forests.
We believe that the state should be con-
sistent in its choice of future courses. We do
not want to encourage the development of
industries or legislative policies which will
bring a quick stimulation and a long period
of poverty when the raw materials are gone.
The plan for a deep-water channel in the
Leaf and Chicasawhay presents the soundest
argument we know against such shortsighted-
ness. Lets nurse our remaining raw materials
so that they last us a long time, and so that
we extract an income from every stage of
the processing, including the final transpor-
tation to distant points.
Many more hurdles must be taken success
fully between the authorization of the pre-
liminary survey by the committee this week,
and the final act of Congress giving the 60
ahead signal for the work. Every BUSINESS
man and private citizen and every civic club
should make promotion of this plan a stand
ing order of business.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
HURLEY

Due. to a conflict with 9TH
er meetings, the P-TA spon-
sored political rally at the Hur-
ley School will be held on
Wednesday, June 4, rather than
Friday, June 6. as announced
last week. Other plans have
not been changed, with the raj
ly scheduled to run from noon
until midnight and all state,
district, county, and Beat can
didates invited to attend and
speak in their own behalf.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
ESCATAWPA

At Escatawpa school on
Tuesday night, May 81. be-
ginning at $50 o'clock with
gumbo supper and general food
sale. Candidates speaking will
begin at ZOO o'clock. Sponsor
ed by the Recognized Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints for the benefit of build
ing fund.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
ORANGE GROVE

On Saturday. July 26. at Or
ange Lake School beginning at
1000 o'clock. All day affair.
Plate lunches, home made pie
and cake. coffee and cold
drinks. Sponsored by the Or
ange Lake School Parent
Teacher Association.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
Political Rallies
HELENA

AT New Helena Church for
benefit of church building
fund on Friday today, May
%, beginning at 400 o'clock.
Turn right on Scranton Road
just north of Escatawpa on
Highway So. Food will be sold
and all candidates given an OPP
portunity to speak in their
behalf. The public is invited.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

AT school house, Saturday,
May oath from 3 to 10 p. m.
Food sale and refreshments.
All candidates are invited and
will be given an opportunity to
speak. Sponsored by Pine Grove
Methodist church.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
VANCLEAVE

June l4th, picnic from 3 to
10 p. M, sponsored by Masons
and Eastern Stars. All candidates
invited to attend.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
CHANcERY cLERK
FRED TAYLOR
N. c. EVERETT
CIRCUIT CLERK
VERTIS G.. RAMSAY
TAX ASSESSOR
GOFF
KNOX GRAHAM
w. G. JOHNSON
A. ROSCOE
NORMAN T. LYONS
TAX
BOARD OF
DISTRICT ONE

oAR OF
DISTRICT ONE
H. W. H
. ROY o. CUMBEST
billiard E. JONES
J. L. Derry DAVIS
DISTRICT TWO
T. ". (TIM) BLADES
A. w. CAMBLEY
T. J. K
l.. c. (BILL) JOHNSON
EDWARD A. KHAYAT
LESTER E. MACK
j. H. ROBINSON
c. B.. WILKINSON
DISTRICT THREE
H. Mac BOWMAN
JOHN j. (Jack) HOLLISTER
JOE V. KREBS
WILLIAM II. (Pie) MOORE
EDDIE POND
f. ED VIRGINS
DISTRICT FIVE
GEORGE A.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
DISTRICT ONE
H. H. PARKER
S. H. SWENSEN
DISTRICT TWO
B. b. HOBBY
DISTRICT THREE
KATE DENNY
EDWARD w. COKER
CONSTABLE
DISTRICT TWO
M. c. STEVENSON
S. f. BILBO
DISTRICT THREE
FOSTER BARROW
LEVERT j. pistol Pete)
BOSARGE
EUGENE (Teddyl LADNIER
/. F. (MACK) MCGOWAN
w. F. (BILL) STEPHENS
CHARLES N. FERRER
DISTRICT FIVE
DAVID L. WEST. SR.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23
POLITICAL


The following individuals
have formally announced in
the columns of the Chronicle
Star ard Advertiser their can
didacy for political office in
this summers Democratic Pri-
mary.
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
tSouthern Districtl
MUNDELL BUSH
STATE SENATOR
Jackson. George and Greene
Counties
G.. L. BEAVERS
r. E. HORNE
j. r. BLACK
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Jackson County
w. C. (Lum) OLIVER
r. l.. VAUGHN
SHERIFF AND TAX
COLLECTOR
H. E. (ED) ID
r. A. HELM
JOHN d. HENLEY
j. GUY KREBS
John r. McNEAL
NOLLE T. ROBERTS
X. L. WALKER
LAURIN r. WARE
COUNTY ATTORNEY
II. A. KRUSE
MERLE T. PALMER
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-23

COUNTY ATTORNEY
II. A. KRUSE
MERLE F.
Evening star., 1947-12-13

cepted this necessary limitation of
The play which, under the direction
OF Mangum and Miss White, is offer
ed in stylized version. The adapta-
ton, according to the program, is
one that comes under the label
free" Yet, while this is evident
mere and there, the conventions fol-
lowed in the performance are those
laid down by Goldoni.
In other words, audiences are
whisked by the middle of the 18th
century more than the play is
whisked forward to the Goth. With
in these limits it is done we'll in
terms of production and interpreta-
ton.
Everything, especially plays, diff
fered in Goldoni's time.
X X X X
"The Fam which will be repeated
tonight at Lisner, intimates that
Goldoni had in mind correcting a
number Of foibles and disagreeable
faults when ne wrote it. 1t pokes a
laughing, yea, ridiculing finger, at a
handsome village full of people who
lived near Milan. They were, the
playwright says, quarrelsome, selfish,
noisy, vain, bad-tempered, jealous
and, so far as their romantic feelings
were concerned, he found them
amusingly stupid.
For a story of such fundamental
simplicity 18th century Italian
audiences like them simple-Gol-
doni devised an amazing number
Of inducements between his char
acters.
His best character today, whatever
she was in Goldoni's time, is a girl
out of whom any modern playwright
would instantly make a pet. Her
name is Giannina (what else?) and
she is by far the most fiery one in
the comedy. far more so than the
pallid Candida, who really is the
heroine. The basic difference be-
tween them is that Giannina is a
Evening star., 1947-12-13
Makeup Experts

The Keystone Cops Of silent flick
er fame have traded in their night
sticks for powder puffs. In the
early days Of movie making, actors