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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-19

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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
Waterway Hearing

agriculture and raise the economy of our en-
tire section to an undreamed of level.
But ever when the self-interest of this sec
ton and the state is discounted and the whole
proposal viewed from a national angle, we
believe that the Pat Harrison waterway can
still make an excellent case and is as urgently
needed by the War Department and the ma
tional economy as any development proposal
that is likely to come up in the next rivers
and harbors bill.
Oil fields of proven capacity and of ire
mendous potentiality have been developed
in the area of Hattiesburg, Laurel and Meri-
dian. Other fields have been proven. Right
now many of these wells are being capped,
and development of new areas postponed be-
cause of the lack of transportation for the
crude oil.
The nation needs oil, as well as our Navy
and u Army. Vast supplies of our national
reserve were depleted in the recent war and
a good part of our foreign policy and nation
al interest is now largely based on our search
for new oil supplies. One reason for Amer
lean intervention in the near East is the UNI
DERIVING competition of big powers for the
tremendous Arabian oil fields which remain
to be developed.
To be consistent along this line, it seems
to us that we should develop our own native
resources in the most efficient and economic
al way possible, before searching for new
supplies abroad. 1t is uneconomical and
wasteful to continue to ship all but a small
dribble of the oil produced in Mississippi to
distant refineries.
The money spent dredging this inland
waterway will run into a considerable sum-,
but compared to one days oil supply for the
Army and Navy during wartime, it would
be a small item. Viewed from a purely mill
tary angle it would assure quick, reliable de-
livery of a vast supply of oil in case of a
national emergency.
In addition it would strengthen and slim
ulate the economy of the entire state and add
a great economic and manufacturing poten-
TALLY to the national resources and give to
the people of our section a level of economy
which to merit.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14

jackson County and Southeast Mississippi
face probably two of the most important days
in their history next week-November 18th
and 21st. On those two days the United States
Engineers will conduct hearings at Waynes-
boro and Pascagoula on the proposed con-
struction of an inland waterway to serve the
expanding industrial and oil development of
the 81 counties comprising the Southeast sec
ton of the state.
The decision of the engineers to reject or
recommend the proposed waterway will
hinge on the weight of the testimony to be
presented at the hearings.
Many years ago, before the turn of the
century, a similar hearing on this same pro-
posal was called by the U. S. Engineers and
the project rejected following the hearing be-
cause of a lack of public interest. If our fore
fathers could have visioned what such a wa
terway would nave done for the develop
ment of this section, the hearing would prob
ably have had different outcome and today
we would be reaping the fruits of that vision.
We stand virtually in the same position
today. If little interest is shown in next
weeks hearings, if the testimony presented is
weak, if the attendance is small then the pro-
ject will probably be abandoned again on the
basis of lack of public interest.
An economic survey of the area has been
compiled by a competent engineering firm
and will be presented at the hearing. How
ever, cold statistics alone are not enough.
They must be backed by the determined
voice of business, labor and civic leaders of
the area who are convinced of the benefits
the entire state will receive from construc-
ton of the waterway. If these men will lay
aside their business and their obligations for
two days next week and attend these hear
ings then the chances of favorable action on
it by the engineers will be considerably bet
tered.
We all know what cheap water transport
tation can do for our section of the state. 1t
can be the factor that will bring about the
refining of our own oil in our own state.
Combined with other natural advantages of
our section, it will bring about an industrial
development that will give us a truer bal
ance between high-wage level industries and
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
By L T. ROBERTS

farming section and it would
be funny if it wasn't so dead
ly serious-this business of
having to educate folks to the
obvious fact that it doesn't pay
to burn up something that pro-
vides a major source of their
income.
One reason may be that the
woods burner" rarely sets fire
to his own acres but always
rides through the night like
a sneak thief spreading his de-
s~truction on the property of
others.
An official of a lumber con-
cern told us recently of a sys-
tenn used elsewhere in an area
where the company also own
ed a lot of land. He said they
warned the local cattlemen and
sheepowners about burning the
woods. When they refused to
quit, the company went in and
burned off all of their land in
the fall and during damp wealth
er. ~
That, of course, left no feed
for the range stock during the
winter months.
If things don't change, it
may come to that here.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
Grandma Not
Superior To
Modern Wife
BY KERR
AP Newsfeatures Writer

Evelyn Ards Whitman gets
a blue ribbon on two counts.
First, she has made a con-
tribution to the thinking of the
times in a book just out entitled
I'm Tired of Grandma" 1t
takes a walloping sock at the
belief, frequently and wistful-
ly quoted by Goth Century
males, that grandma had more
stuff" as a wife. mother, citi-
zen and individual than her
granddaughter does today. In
$4,000 words il builds up a stout
case in support of Miss Whit
mans thesis that goth Century
women work harder, accomplish
more and, at their best, r
more useful than grandmother
ever was.
Among others, she makes
these points: Grandma didn't
do all the hard work to be done
in homes of her time. She had
a maid and often women rela-
tives living with her. As a
home-maker the modern intel
ligent woman far outstripS
grandma. Her standards of
cleanliness, interior decoration,
order, efficiency and child care
r far ahead of anything
grandma dreamed of. Moreover
she engages in activities of cit
izenship. wage-earning and po-
litics which grandmother did
not even attempt. I'm tired
of Grandma is a noteworthy
contribution to the defense of
modern women who have been
bitterly and extensively criti-
cized since the war.
Second, Miss Whitman (who
is Mrs. Owen Rumsey), daugh-
ter of a Nova Scotia parson,
wife of a New England high
school teacher and mother of
two teen-agers, embodies in her
own life many of the points she
makes to build up her thesis.
She keeps house for her fam
lily without help, bakes the pies
and cookies they love, writes,
does some part-time teaching.
gives some civic service to her
Connecticut community and is
active in the League of Women
Voters.
During the war she handled
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
VICTIMS OF HUNGER

Frankfurt-AP - More than
half of 1851 Frankfurt school
children examined by a German
doctor in a recent survey were
declared to be seriously under
nourished.
The survey was made by DR..
Armin Rotzel, Frankfurt NUM-
cipal medical officer. The re-
suits were made public by Or
phans, Inc, an American volun-
teer relief agency.
Of 851 school children born in
1910. there were 402 'consid-
erably underweight with under
developed constitutions and
definite symptoms of diseases
caused by lack of certain foods"
the report said. Most common
ailements were spinal curviture,
chronic bronchitis and skin dis
eases.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
Custom Officers Work
To Stop Black Marketeers

mecca for vacationists now be-
cause of its supply of food and
cloth. So if you want to carry
a supply of Swiss francs to
Switzerland with you, agents
are bringing them out every day
in the engines of their automo-
biles.
Customs officers were tipped
that a large supply of cigarettes
was hidden aboard a ship at
Cherbourg and began searching
every nook and Granny. There
efforts YER to no avail until
they dismantled the ships ra-
dio and found what they were
looking for.
Another favorite smuggling
item of crews is %penicillin.
Following a tip officers search
ed a new arrival from stem to
stern. They found some n.y.
Ion stockings inside an airchair,
but no penicillin until they
went into the bakery. 1t was
mixed with the flour.
The finishing touches were
put on l947 smuggling tech
nique by a 'mafia" band that
guided the course of a submar-
inc from Swiss shore of a lake
separating Italy and Switzer-
land to the Italian side. Customs
officers stood open mouthed
when the loot was found to con-
sist of canned milk, chocolate,
currency. gold and drugs.
"And here we thought the
Swiss navy was just a joke"
they said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
APP Newsfeatures

Paris.-French customs of
ficers, in their endless struggle
with smugglers, have learned
the latest tricks figured out
by imaginative black market
operators in postwar Europe.
There are two categories of
smugglers-those who cross the
frontiers at night, heavily load
ed and cautiously walking a few
miles to deliver their stuff in a
lonesome cafe near the Belgian
frontier; and those who profit
from the smugglers' work by
utilizing a vast chain of accom-
plices. Everything from Amer
lean cigarettes, nylon stockings
to gold and drugs is Struggled.
A pitiful old woman. limp
ing on a wooden leg, slowly
leaves a ship docking at Mar
settles. Her wrinkled face shows
fatigue as she trudges along,
carrying a canvas bag that con-
tains her belongings. No one is
there to greet her. She is call
ed into a room by a woman Gus
toms officer who demands that
she undress. The inspector finds
one pound of drugs inside her
wooden leg.
In the same sunny Mediter-
ranean port are specimens of
all the races of the world. A
poker-faced Chinese, greeting
with oriental p~oliteness his
'most : honored : and : below
ed : to : his = third : cousin
twice : removed" helps the Wis
itor carry his luggage from the
boat. He bows in a dignified
manner when he is handed a
gilded bird cage because the
double bottom contains a store
of opium that is worth more
than all the birds the SNUG
glers, or the customs agents.
ever saw.
With currency regulations,
the innocent tourist cannot
spend many days in Switzer-
land But Switzerland is the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14

an eight-hour factory job for one
summer, ran the family victory
garden, canned 300 jars of fruit
and vegetables a year and did
some airplane spotting in adj
dition to her housewife and
mother chores. So when in 1945
a national magazine lamented
that the country could not
draft grandma" and draw on
that lady's superior abilities to
aid in the wartime emergency,
granddaughter Within n"
suffering mad, took herself to
her typewriter and hit it a few
resounding thwacks. The re-
suit was a magazine article, I'm
Tired of Grandma" which caus-
ed a lot of comment and
brought down a great deal of
wrath on its authors head. But
it also brought an order from
Bobbs- Merrill, New York pub
Usher, for a book by the same
name.
Miss Whitman, still Smarting
from the arrows shot in her di-
rection by incensed readers of
her articles, was inclined to hes
itate. But her husband insist
ed that she do the book. She
wrote it in four months, work
ing between eight a. m. and
noon. She SAYS that without
any comment her husband as
sumed the family dish-washing
for that period. and that he has
been extremely interested in
her work.
Any Goth Century denizon
disturbed about the home life
of women who work should see
the warm glow in Evelyn Whit
man Rumsey's grey eyes when
she speaks of her husband. their
children, and the little house
with apple treesh in the front
yard. which is home. She is a
small woman, with rosy. fresh
skin framed IN silver-shot hair.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
You're
Telling Me!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Central Press Writer

After seeing photographs of
that Columbia u. Frosh-Soph
campus battle we now know
why that school selects for its
next president a general of the
army.
Striking miners cut England's
coal production drastically.
There's one nation that would
welcome a more vigorous un-
foreground movement.
Refusing the second helping
is the best way 10 give first aid
to western Europe.
BY now Joe Stain has scared
SO many people he's in danger
of replacing the witch-on-a-
broom as a permanent symbol
of Halloween.
Hollywood, investigation re-
veals, is full of Reds and
they didn't get that way from
CALIFORNIA; celebrated sun
shine.
A clock watcher isn't necessa-
rily the dumbest of employees.
At least he knows what time of
day it is.
What we can't understand is
why the wishbone is a symbol
of luck. II certainly doesn't
bring the Thanksgiving turkey
any.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
By ROBERT GEIGER

Washington = The rate at
which America is building new
homes has almost caught up
with the rate at which new
families are being created.
These cold government sta
tistics might be taken to indi-
cate the housing shortage will
end within four years.
But government experts are
making no such flat prediction.
They say it may last longer be-
cause, among other things:
/, Nobody has yet invented
an adding machine hat will
compute the whims of romance.
2. Human beings can change
their minds awfully fast.
8. Nobody knows how much
folding money the head man of
the family is going to have a
year hence.
4. It's a question how much
pressure it might take to make
him invest in a new home of
his own.
All this, and more, will have
its influence on the housing de-
mand, the experts say.
But here's how the figures
add:
Families VS.. Building
The Census Bureau estimates
new families are being estab-
lished at the rate of about 1890
a day. This rate is expected to
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
Demos. Too. Regard IKE"
Highly as '4s Candidate
Special to Central Press

Washington-It is no secret
in Washington political circles
that the Democrats from Presi-
dent Truman down the line be-
lieve that General Eisenhower,
if drafted" would be the
toughest COP presidential cam
didate to beat.
Most Democrats, faced with a
decision, would rather have Eli
senhower as their vice presiden-
tial candidate than Defense Sec
rotary James Forrestal, the cur
rent front runner. That desire,
observers are convinced, also
is shared by Forrestal.
However, the Democrats are
certain that Eisenhower will
turn out to be a Republican,
once he sheds his uniform and
becomes president of Columbia
university.
They also believe that Gener-
al Ike" will settle for nothing
less than the COP presidential
nomination by reclamation if
a Taft Dewey stalemate devel-
ops in Philadelphia next June.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
Gift" For Atom Group

The Atomic Energy Commits
sion takes no chances when
mysterious packages arrive at
its closely guarded headquarters
in Washington.
Yet, sometimes, the commits
sion's precautions turn out not
to be to be necessary. Recently
when a nondescript box arrived
from California, the package
was rushed through the usual
radio-activity tests by a Gel
ger counter.
The box came from a west
coast "astrologer-scientist" who
offered to sell the government
ar amazing secret of spectral
science for one million dollars.
Later, the same man also sent a
box that contained nothing but
air.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
TWO TERMS

South Bend, Ind.-AP = In
addition to winning nine letters
in high school for his proficien-
cy in football, basketball and
baseball. Frank Tripucka, quar-
terback understudy to Johnny
Luiaek at Notre Dame, cap
tanned the basketball and base
ball teams in his junior and Sc
Nor years at Bloomfield, N. J.,
high school.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
Chaos In China

Conditions in Strife-torn,
over-crowded, starving China
apparently are getting worse
daily. DR.. Ia Chen, professor
of sociology at Using Hau uni
versity recently reported two
alarming trends in his country.
First, he says, the already
heavy load of China's surplus
population" is being added to
by a rapidly rising birth rate.
Second, there is a mass move
ment of people from the farms
to the cities, causing urban pop
ulations to jump seven percent
annually.
To make matters worse, the
greatest part of the migration
city-wise seems to be coming
from the rice fields, where
greater production is an abso-
lutte necessity to prevent adj
ditional thousands from starv-
ing.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
WICHITA CELEBRATES

Wichita, Kan.1AP - II cost
Wichita merchants and towns
people $4,000 to put on the
Chisholm Trail Jubilee-cele-
brating rs years of growth
since the days when Texas
longhorns ended the long over
land trek at trails end in this
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
New Homes Almost Catching
up With New Families

start soon.
The Bureau of Labor Stats
tics says that in September new
homes were completed at the
rate of 1858 a day. This rate
is going up.
Sometime next year a point
will be reached where the num-
Der of new homes completed
daily will exceed the number
of new families created on that
day.
From then on the excess of
new homes will begin eating
into the backlog of demand for
new homes that has been build
ing up since the depression.
The experts don't agree on the
size Of this backlog because of
the human element.
In 1910 there were 1886, 900
families doubling" or living
in the household of someone
else.
In 1947 there were 2,764,OO0
families doubling"
How Many?
The controversy is over how
many of these families will
"undouble" when houses be-
come available.
IF you ask Joe, who owns
the house, if he wants to live
alone, he will probably say
yes" one housing expert ex-
planned.
but if you ask Fred, his broth
er-in-law, who is living with
Joe and cutting his expenses
in so doing, he may tell you he
isn't anxious to change the sit
uation. So there you are"
Assuming that all of the peo-
pie who have doubled since
1910 would move into their
own home if they could get one
they would create a demand for
$4,000 homes.
If the present rate of starts"
on housing continues, about
100000 units will be complet-
ed next year. But this would
leave an excess of 1926, 900 homes
over the new families expected
by the census bureau.
On that basis it would take
about three years for the sup
ply to meet the demand of fami-
lies who want to undouble.
But some government experts
say many of the 1,846, 900 fami-
lies who we're doubling" in
1910 would have moved to their
own quarters, too, if they could
have.
Family Decision
So the decision to double or
not to double will be an import
ant one in determining the
length of the housing shortage.
On top of all these factors is
another complicating question
the economic situation.
Officials say if the employ
ment rate remains high the de-
mand for houses will remain
longer at a peak. But if there
is a decline in employment
more people probably will re-
main doubled"
The great U. S. migration of
of the past few years also will
have its influence. Tens of
millions of Americans have join
ed this movement which has
been in swing since Pearl Har-
Dor. Where and when they will
finally settle is a big factor in
the housing picture.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14

southern Kansas city.
But the celebrating is begin
ming all over again.
Members of the Inter = Club
Council, jubilee sponsors, voted
to repay all donations in full
from the $4,000 realized
through shows and exhibits.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-11-14
BY NoLLE T.

BY NOLLE T. ROBERTS
It's the middle of November
Late fall-again, and almost
time for forest fires to break
out again throughout the coun-
ty. Last year was particular
ly bad, with a large percen-
tage of the county's total acre
age burned over.
In preparation for the year.
ly disaster that does more gen.
eral dollar damage over a long
period of time than the recent
sensational hurricane, members
of the %county's board of super
visors held a meeting this week
with the state forester and in
terested citizens.
We are glad to see the coun-
ty officials take this step and
show this interest but we are
sorry to report that their eff
forts, as outlined, will be large
ly in vain. They plan to re-
duee the fire-fightingy teams
from four to three, dividing the
money equally among those re-
naming.
That's a good step, as far as
it goes, since the fire crews
were certainly underpaid under
the old system and will be a
long way from rich when they
get the additional money plus
the pittance allowed them UNI
der the present system.
Another thing that might
help, and something which was
advocated by u representa-
tive elect, is making woods
burning a felony instead of a
misdemeanor and letting per-
sons who set fire to the woods
take a trip to the state pen
instead of getting off with a
light fine.
Certainly the crime is a fell
ony in nature just as much as
burglary or highway robbery
for the person who sets fire to
someone else's land is rob-
bling that individual by kill
ing his trees and reducing his
income from the land.
But wood-burners are awful
hard to catch and are like con-
firmed drunkards anyway
they would strike that match
or flip that cigarette butt if
they knew they would be shot
at sunrise if caught.
They either believe il is good
for their cattle or have the low
mentality that likes to stand
by land watch her burn" Dur
ing depression days, people
have even started fires in or
der to be paid for helping put
them out.
But regardless of the reason,
we have little hope of reform
ing the half-dozen or so men
responsible directly or Indirect
ly for half the fires that burn
the large acreage in the coun-
ty each year.
Just as we educate our peo-
pie for everything else, it
seems that it might be wise to
spend the entire sum allotted
for forest protection in an edu-
cation campaign for our
younger generation so that
some day we may expect a
eitizenry that will know bet
ter than TO burn their great
est natural resource.
When we were in school,
ten or SO years ago, we studied
a course called Forestry" and
were exposed to motion pic
lures. exhibits of one kind or
another. and lectures dealing
with damage done to the for
ests by fire.
We don't know whether this
educational process is still 60
ing on or not but it is certain
that the motion pictures aren't
being shown at the county fair
since we are still without that
Institution.
The timber business is still
our biggest industry in this poor