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Laurel outlook., 1947-07-09

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY
Photographed in beautiful techni-
color and sparkling with lavishly
decorated sets this film tells the
success story of Jerome Kerne. It's
crammed full of your favOrite stars,
filled with songs you love the best,
and the kind of heart warming
story you like to see.
Robert Walker Kathryn GraysOn
June AllysOn Van Helm
Judy Garland Lena Horne
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-09

THE OUTLOOK, So ISSUES. $3.50
Laurel outlook., 1947-07-09
IT'LL the Clouds
Roll By

Sunday shows at 2:3O, GAS Rpm
Monday & Tuesday shows at 8 P. NJ.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08

We have just gone through
an election, the first in which
we we're ever an active partlci-
pant, and no doubt the biggest,
longest, weirdest election ever
held in this county and state.
People voted early in this
election, showing that their
interest was greater than the
human desire to wait until the
last minute. Lines of people
were at the polls from open
ing hour on, at most precincts,
and more than half of the quail
fled electors had voted by noon
at some places.
w heard more than one per-
son lament the fact that they
weren't fixed up to vote and
we sincerely hope that they
will not forget that desire dur
ing the next four years. Re
CARELESS of who is elected for
what, we like to e people
vote and a heavy vote in our
county gives us prestige in the
state.
Jackson County might well
have twelve or fifteen thous-
and voters instead of the six
ty-three hundred who cast their
ballot on Tuesday.
=
Mother Nature picked cleo
ton day for the hottest day
in this area in the past eleven
years, according to the daily
papers. The weatherman in
Mobile said it was 101 in the
shade in that city, by the of
fetal thermometer, and 1903 on
his porch.
With a hot election under
way in Jackson County, it
must have been ITO in each
polling place and at least 125
in front of each box where the
candidates gathered for a last
minute plea to the voter who
had to fight his way INTO the
building.
In front of the Moss Point
City Hall, where we spent the
day, no thermometer has ever
been made that would have re-
corded temperature on that
sidewalk about three o'clock
in the afternoon. We could new
er have stood it had VIC not
been trained on a hoe handle
in a corn field, seasoned on
summer basketball, and par
boiled in the hold of a troop
transport in the Pacific dur
ing the war.
1t will still live in our mem
DRY as the hottest day we ever
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
GIRLS WEAVE BIG
- BUSINESS -

Santa Fe, N. MA past
time which started years ago
in Australia as a wartime neces-
sity and then grew into a hob
by is now a thriving CONNER
cial activity for two former
Army nurses.
They weave handsome tWeeds
of Australian wool, linens and
yards of material for interior
decorators.
The women, Miss Dorothy
Best, a Pennsylvania, and
Miss Muriel Guggolz. both en-
ployed in medical positions in
this ancient capital, say their
weaving is strictly an after
hour vocation.
As Army nurses assigned to
occupational therapy, the two
women began weaving in the
best Australian traditions.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
Inside Washington
Congressman Would End
Civilian Atom Control

GOP-dominated Congress. So
Congress is hitting back. Mr..
Truman is expected to be con-
fronted with a bill to permit
former enlisted men to cash
their terminal leave bonds.
The chief executives vigor-
Gus opposition to cash pay
ments as inflatlonary was suf-
fieient last year to force an
agreement to pay by bonds.
However. what with rising
costs of living and other con-
siderations, the millions of ex-
CTS entitled to terminal pay
or a majority of them-would
like the cash now.
So if the president vetoes that
bill it will be an action unpop-
ular with a great many vets
and their families.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
On Weothering Politics

torial pages of our neighboring press. We find
in the Mobile Register some material closer to our
mood and thoughts for the time being.
The Alabama press, or a respectable proper
ton thereof, has been conducting a campaign for
the abolition of the lash in the Alabama state pris-
on. Their legislature is now in session and the
anti-lash group hopes to get through a bill out
having this brutal, antiquated practice imme-
diately.
We add our "bravol" to the effort, and sug-
gest that if the time has come for the best in
terests of Alabama to become ashamed of this
obsolete disgrace in their penal system, the time
has come for Mississippi to be the same.
Our legislature is not in session now, and
mo immediate results could be achieved by a hot
and harried campaign to do something about it"
We simply note what Alabama is doing about 1T
for the record-and hope that this newspaper
and other sections of the Mississippi press can do
something about it during the next session.
The use of this brutal punishment from the
Middle Ages is inexeusable in a state which lays
claim to Christianity and TO civilization. THIS
seems too clear to us for extended argument.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08

s'The hot weather We shall have always with
We. Politics also shall We have always with ye''
Neither of these texts is in the Bible, but our
feeling on this sweltering post-election Thursday,
las we sit down to write the weekly editorial, is
one of almost Biblical acceptance of hot weather
and politics alike. We shall not even say that we
look with disfavor on hot weather or politics. For
so long as summer follows winter. and so long as
August comes six months after February, and so
long as mankind attempts to exert a say-so in the
governing of its own affairs, we are resigned to
lhe fact that the hot-weather and the politics we
shall have always with US.
AS we sit down to write our weekly editorial,
therefore, we are in a discursive frame of mind,
too blamed hot to go seriously for the time being
into either of those weighty subjects, the weather
and the politics. We shall leave them for the
time being to the able philosophers of our main
street and courthouse gathering places in the
county, where opinions are still recent enough and
strong enough to make their own way in the
world without the spur of our nominations.
u Our eye leaves the state political accounts
and front page stories and wanders over the edi-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
By NOLLE T. ROBERTS

spent, long after the skin has
peeled from our blistered neck
and officials elected that day
passed from the political scene.
We stayed in P~ascagoula
most of the night, getting re-
turns by telephone and unof-
fetal runners who came in
from points in the county dur
ing the night to swap infor-
nation. We drove on out to
Vaneleave about 500 o'clock
Wednesday morning and
weren't at all surprised to find
a large crowd and hot coffee
being consumed by the gal
Ion.
Election time is a big time
everywhere, but particularly
in the smaller communities
where folks take their policies
seriously.
We remember staying up all
night at Vaneleave many tim
es in the past and it was there
that we were first bitten by
the political bug, we suppose,
although we were not aware
of it at the. time.
Lyman Roberts, who passed
on several years ago, was the
best vote caller that Vancleave
ever produced. His powerful,
pleasant voice doomed out
through the night and it wasn't
necessary to stand with your
head in the door in order to
know what was going on. You
couldn't stand within a hun
dred yards and miss a single
name.
The interest taken in poll
ties in IL county proves a
healthy condition exists. The
JulllOi 1ildiibtI VI &btitltlClNC
in Pascagoula deserves a lot
of credit for their "Be A Citi-
zen" drives. We call on Presi-
dent w. R. Gulley, Jr., and the
rest of the Jayeees to keep up
the good work until every per-
o possible has joined the
ranks of the qualified electors.
Whether or not we ever again
offer for public office, we like
to see every citizen exercise
their franchise.
We hope that all will do so
in the second primary on Aug
ust 26-go to the polls and vote
for the candidate of their
choice while keeping the best
interest of the county and state +.
foremost in their minds at all
times.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
You're
Telling Me!
BY WILLIAM RIFT

A Pennsylvania, aged l02,
has just been graduated from
college. In his case he found
the last tWo-not the first hun
dred-years the hardest.
A birth control advocate
wants Europe to forego having
babies for 10 years. Won't help.
Europe's troubles aren't little
ones.
A hamster, is an Asiatic ro-
dent, according to Photographs.
And not, as we had always
thought. a Hollywood actor.
-!
Mile, the tltian-tressed type
writer Taper, thinks she was
stung when she bought a dress
and found it did not have
paradoxicallv enough = the
new wasp waistline.
The original flying saucers
were fiRst spotted when that
legendary bull got into that
mythical china shop.
Among other current short
ages in England is the scarcity
of British players in the finals
of English golf and tennis
tournaments.
In Los Angeles a woman has
declared that a set of brass
knuekles she owns is really a
family heirloom So that's what
the pioneer forefathers used
along with the flintlock-to
tame the wilderness!
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
Berlin Zoo Is
Making Good
Garden Now
APP Newsfeatures

Beflln-InouSandS OF Der
liners who visit the zoo these
DAYS to see what's left of its
once-great animal collection
remark that the geological gar
dens are doing a good job as
a vegetable garden.
With its animal population
down nearly 80 percent due
to wartime losses and disper-
sails and postwar starvation,
the big 200 has lots of vacant
Yards and pens. But e%nterpris-
ing keepers are permitting very
little wasted space.
Wolfing the Beans
In what were once wolf
pens they are raising healthy
looking crops of cabbage, to-
matoes and beans. The former
giraffe house has a yardful of
corn, beans and beets, Food
conscious adults admire near
by tomato patches while their
chattering children cluster
about the monkey cages.
who harvests it," said an
attendant. why, we people
who work here get it. We plant
ed it and we guard it against
thievery.'
Despite its decimated popu-
lation, the zoo is still a popu-
lar place, especially on week
ends. Located in the British
sector of the city, at the end
of once-glittering Kurfuersten-
damn. 1t is visited also by hun
dreds of occupation troops and
their dependents. On a summer
Sunday one frequently ees
Soviet officers and their wiz
es and children strelling the
zoo paths or sitting listening
to a band concert in the open
air restaurant.
Animals NANCY
Foreigners. and Germans too,
find the ouce-gaudy zoo a pref
ty tawdrv place now. Some
of its buildings we're bombed
and the Surrounding panor-
anna visible over its walls is
one of bomb blasted buildings.
Most of the remaining ami
mails are scrawny and NANCY.
The beer and tea served at the
restaurant are weak.
In a city where several hun
dred people are reported af-
flicted with Chinese Beggar
disease attributable to eat
ing certain wild herbs. ZOO
goers smile wryly at the signs
which remain ON cages from
former days. please don't
feed the animals
But the children still love
the zoo. though many go away
disappointed because il no long
er has an elephant. Huge
herd and banished to the forest
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
Civilization Is
In%fiItrating
Seri indians

Tucson, ArlZ. - C1VfliZatlon
is infilterating the almost i'm
passable frontier of Mexico's
Seri Indians, frequently call
ed the most barbaric, blood
thirsty and primitive tribe in
North America.
Much of the fear of these
little-known people. who have
technically been at war with
Mexico for 400 years, is being
dispelled by William Neil
Smith, 81, University of Ariz-
ona student in anthropology.
who is now making his fourth
trip to the Seris in two years.
Contrary to general belief,
Smith says the Serbs have no
cannibalistic instincts, do not
eat their meat raw, are not
committing race suicide by kill
ing their children, and are not
treaeherous and dangerous.
The Serbs live on Tiburon
Island in the Gulf of Califor-
MIA, an ID by 30 tract of max
ed, waterless mountains rock
and desert surrounded by wa
tiers made dangerous by tides
and storms. When they hunt on
the mainland they are separ-
ated from the civilization of
Sonora by 100 miles of desert
which can be crossed only by
experienced travellers.
At one time the tribe num-
bered in excess of 5000. In
1889 it was believed to be on
the verge of extinction when
the population shrank to $50.
Some claimed they were prac-
tieing infantieide. 1t was said
the Setis found life becoming
too difficult and dangerous and
had decided to wipe themselv-
eS out by killing all newly
porn GhlIdfen.
Smith. who says he has spent
more time with the Seris than
any other American. denies
this. 1T is utter trash" he says.
Il have seen a number of Seri
babies and the tribe is on the
increase. The last time | was
there they numbered around
200
Reports of Seri cannibalism
spread around the turn of the
century when two San Fran
cisco newspapermen visited
Tiburon and upon arrival were
killed by the Serbs. Some claim
ed the men were eaten.
"Cannibalism is just as re-
voting to the Seris as anyone
else in North America says
Smith.
Many of the limited num-
Der of writer's and ethnologists
Who have visited Tiburon have
been harsh in their descrip-
ton of the Seri. Clemens A.
Pajeken, who visited the island
a number of years ago, wrote
the Seris appear not to grasp
that they are human. Like prey
beasts of the wilderness, they
go out to Stay men and ami
mails, sparing only their own
kind
Other visitors have told of
the Indians chasing deer on
foot until the ANIMAL was ex-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
Babe Knocks
for
Loop, Then
Goes GoIfing
By KERR
APP Newsfeature Writer

Golf champion Babe Didrik-
son is more famous for her
work with a brassie than a
broom, but her husband says
she is a wonderful housekeep-
er too.
Her husband is George Zah-
arias, one time wrestler and
now a fight promoter in Den
yer, where he and the champ
live in a sizable house sur
rounded by rose gardens.
Babes the perfect wife," he
said with an appreciative grin
just after the American Wo-
mems golf champion came
home from Scotland with her
sixteenth consecutive tourna-
ment championship, the British
women's amateur golf title.
shes got a system women
would marvel at. She goes
through that house like light
ming. She never lets any work
stand around. She just pitches
into it-seems like she just
pushes those chores right out
of the door in front of her.
81 think a lot of housewives
waste time just hating to tackle
the job. Babe just slams at it
and does it-and then goes out
and plays golf"
"Well," said Babe, ripping
open the package of nylons she
had just bought, I've found
out the secret of finishing fast
is to go at it and get it done"
Babe was a decided contrast
to the girl who won the Brit
ish championship in a pair of
faded blue corduroy trousers,
as she lounged in her New
York hotel. She wore a smart
hunters green frock with a
gold and emerald clip and
bracelet to match.
"She makes a lot of her own
clothes too" said George pick
ing up his refrain. "She can
knock out a house dress in a
couple of hours. l got her a
nice sewing machine. She's got
all those gadgets and she has
to try 'em out. She made a lot
of culottes divided skirts for
the Scotch trip. But it was SC
cold she couldn't wear EN-.
"She does all her own decor
ating too. And she doesn't hold
out if she needs to paint a
room or two. She gets out the
old paint brush and goes to
work."
Up to this point the girl who
has won laurels in basketball,
baseball, track and javelin had
listened more than she talked.
Now she sat up with a new
spark in her eye.
when l go home I'm going
to redo the whole house." she
said. I'm going to do it in
eighteenth century English.
They make it now, and there
is such a variety of tables.
When we bought the place
things were hard to get. l just
threw it together"
well it looks good" said
George. "She has the walls in
the living room pale blue. And
the chairs and the rugs are
kind of rosy red. She made her
own Grapes. They're kind of
flowered.
Babes a good cook too. She
can fry chicken like nobody's
business.
But the best is she never
fuses at me. II I leave my
clothes lvin' on a chair-you
know how you will sometimes
she just picks EN- up as she
walks by and hangs EN- up
in the closet. Just like I'd put
en- there myself"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08

wark period when they are
neither children nor adults,
and when the childish traits
that are left over in their ma
lures are in conflict with the
grown-up traits that + be-
ginning to develop and with the
grown-up outlook that is be-
ing constantly urged upon
them. Being neither child nor
man, the teen-ager finds his
natural alliance and associa-
tons with others of his age
or her age as the case may be.
And he would rather do any
thing-and sometimes he will
do anything-rather than be
cut off from the group, the
herd of the other young indi-
viduals who are in the same
fix that he is in-that is, in
the fix of being somewhere
between the ages of ID and 10.
Fashion and fads have a ter
rifle hold on a child this age,
because a fad establishes an
accepted pattern of action, and
relieves the child of the neces-
sity of setting his own. One
can be safe so long as he stays
within the pattern. On his
own. however, he may make
mistakes and be laughed at.
And nothing is more agonizing
for a teen-ager han to be
laughed at by other teen-agers.
When we put on our first pair
of long trousers at IA, they
were bell bottom trousers
with cuffs as wide as our shoe.
A boy of our generation would
have literally rather have TAX
en- a beating than to have
shown up at Warren Easton
High School in 1927 dressed in
the ankle-binding long pants
of the zoot-suit era. Because
in 1927, we were only eight or
ten years away from the mar
row pants of Il fathers day,
and the fad of the day would
have been outraged by any
thing so old fashioned.
On the other hand, we Won
der what the motions of a
youth of l947-or for the sake
of clarity let us say 1914 for
the zoot-suit era with its ridi-
eulously narrow pants bottoms
is also passing-would have
been If he had been condemned
to show up at Warren Easton
high school in the wide ridieu-
lous bell-bottom trousers that
we wore, and were SO proud
of.
Fad and fashion. The cur
rent smart crack. and the
slang that gives the answer for
everything. and offers a salts
factory substitute for original
ity. That Is universe and the
order of creation to the mind
of a youngster starting high
school.
Perhaps all this will seem
nonsense TO a teen-ager. And
perhaps it is. Afterall, we no
longer belong to that ever
changing herd and can only
puzzle II out as an outsider.
We have long since passed our
18th birthday. in fact before
long we shall pass it for the
second time. And long since we
have been driven out of the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
Builds Airport
SAVE THAT c

Bisehofszell, Switzerland
AP-The royal eagle should be
included IN the list of ami
mails to be protected in east
ern Switzerland. the Swiss Lea
que for Protection of Nature
proposed recently.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08

Last week we wrote about
the riotous escapades which
took place some twenty years
ago at the Warren Easton Boys
High School in New Orleans
6uring a period when the old
building was badly overcrowd-
ed and the standards of school
administration had declined as
q result. Today, when amy pro-
aressive city of $4,000 popula-
tion is apt to have several high
schools, 1t seems hard to be-
lieve that in 1927 a city like
New Orleans, with almost half
a million population, maintain
ed only one high school for
boys. Within a year or so there
after a junior high school and
another boys high school were
completed, relieving the dras-
tic overcrowding which had
caused such fantastic breaches
of discipline which had become
almost a daily occurrence dur
ing the years when we attend
ed school there.
Somewhere in the Bible, in
Ecciesiastes. as we recall it,
though perhaps our memory
has slipped on this point, the
old Preacher says that there
are three things he. will never
try to puzzle out: the way of
an eagle in the air, the way of
a snake upon the rock, and
the way of a man with a maid.
He might have added one
more-the mind of an Adde'S
lent boy.
We say this without preju-
dice and certainly without an
mostly to teen-age boys. AS
a matter of fact, We used to
be such a critter ourself. But
having survived it, 1t will al
ways remain something of a
mystery how we did so.
Sometimes we sit up trying
to recall the thought processes
that used to take place in our
head during those distant years.
AT that age we had a thousand
things all figured out to a dead
eertainty-not many of which
we now believe. and none of
which we are now so sure about
as we once we're. Not every
thing we believed then was
wrong, of course. But a whole
lot of il was. But the saving
factor about all this was that
the other boys around us were
just as deluded in their opin-
ions. Perhaps even more I'M
portant than being rhythm
the world of the adolescent-
IS to be in step witt the crowd.
The age of early youth is the
most conforming, unorlginal,
herd-like age of all. BY herd
like we mean that teen-aged
children have the herding in
stinct. the same need for be-
longing to groups as the sheep
have, and the same fear Of
being cut off and forced to
stand alone; in other words,
to be ones self.
We are not blaming teen
ayers for this. That would be
silly. We simply offer it as
an observation. based largely
on our own remembered ex-
perienee.
A boy or girl in the early
teens Is caught at that awk-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08

herd and banished to the forest
of the groWn-aps.
We intended to write some
more of the actual events of
the high school, instead of this
long explanation of why they
happened. Next week we will
omit the philosophy and tell
a few of the humorous or ras-
eally events of our high school
DAYS which evoked these mid
dle-aged thoughts of youth.
And then we shall let the sub
jeet drop. and probably return
to the weather.