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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT The more we sliten to the
good brothers and sisters talk round
here. the more we come to the con-
slusion that most of them is doing a
whole lot of thinking here lately.
Take for instance that well known
Parish streeter, who enjoys tall beer,
and is all paid up in all the lodges,
that was with us when we gathered
to shoot the breeze in our favorite
spot tn eother night. This fellow was
saving that he passed by one of them
schools in the other neighborhood a
few DAYS ago, and looked over in the
yard and there was three or four pla-
toOnS Of the mvoung students all
dressed up in khaki, and marching
with rifles across their shoulders and
learning Just about everything they'll
need TO know if they ever gifts called
into the army or the Marines or some
where. Then he told us confidential
like that this wasn't no college that
he saw this going on at either. He
said that it was at one of them high
schools. Now, heewent on 10 say that
he lives right next to one of them
schools that Aunt HaggarS ChillunS
goes to, and what's more he say he
been there for going on sixteen years
and he amt never seen nobody march
ing with rifles and learning all that
stuff that you supposed to know III
the Army and the Marines and them
places. He said he just done Figured
that them Chillun just don't git to
Learn all that stuff over there in that
school next to him, and that they was
mighty dumb on that Sorta stuff when
they got in the army and they had
a tough time keeping up with every
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17
UP AND DOWN PARISH
by James Rundles

body else, especially them boys that
come from them schools where they
give that stuff He said that if he was
head of one of them schools he shore
would see somebody bout Citing that
stuff out to his school. He said that
he had been reading up on some of
them laws that them people passed
about schools, and what he can't
Figure out is +. If all them schools
is supposed to have the same thing
WHY AMT THEY COT NO
ROTC AT THAT SCHOOL NEXT
TO HIM????
HATS OFF TO COUNT Basic
For changing his travel schedule to
visit the kids on the Jackson College
Campus. He was behind schedule for
a date in Pensacola, but he took jim
my Rushing and all the band out
to say hello And to Delars
Punches, College Public relations head
for asking the Count to come
TO THAT COLLEGE PROBES
SOR Who drank too much at that
Sorority Ball last Saturday night. You,
my friend, Were no pretty sight, and
your language should not be heard
III school or anywhere else LAY
OFF THE STUFF
TO THE. LADIES OF Iota Phi
Lambda Sorority. Your affair last
week was nice, however, two things
might have added to it a bit. More
men, and better music . We Hear,
that your Southwestern Regional Con
fab was tops
TO THOSE GUYS FROM VICKS-
BURG Who are trying to marry
Jackson girls. Whatsa matter boys?
Did they get wise to you over
there? Ha!
TO PEOPLE WITH VERY YOUNG
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17

no way" be measure of loyalty,
of moral worthiness, or of the
ether deepest and most desirable
qualities of citizenship"
Members of the Human Rela-
tons Commission include the Rt.
Rev. Charles K. Gilbert, chairman;
DIR. Phillips P. Elliott and Rev. F.
Weiskotten, vice-chairman; Mrs.
Yorke Allen. DR.. John c. Bennett,
DIR. Harry Emerson Fosoick, the
Hon. Leonard V. Harrison, Rev.
Leland B. Henry, DR.. F. Ernest
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17

RICHMOND, Va. March 81 -
Surry County today faced an over
haul of it's school system after
Federal District Judge Sterling
Hutcheson order establishment of
equal facilities for Negro and
white students.
Sterling directed the Sherry
County School Board to begin i'm
mediately to equahze school facili
ties for white and Negro students
and level salaries of white and
Negro teachers.
The court injuntion gave the
board until September IS to re-
port on its progress.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17
CARD OF APPRECIATION

To the many friends whose SYM
pathy so warmed our hearts follow
ing the death of our beloved IA
Their and husband, Robert Shirley
Thompson, we can only say thank
you. and God Bless you.
The Thompson Family
East Bell Street
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17
Protestant Council
Asks Passage OF
Ani-POll Tax Bill

The pol tax denies citizens "any
voice in government while holding
them subject to other forms of
taxation as we'll as to the full re-
sponsibilities of citizenship" and
establishes "an economic basis of
citizenship entirely inconsistent
with American PRINCIPLES" stated
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-04-17
HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN
WORKER

One of the largest contributions
raised for the Jackson Memorial
Hospital Campaign Fund by indi-
vidual effort is that of Mrs. En-
ma Palmer, leader of Group One,
Women's Division whose picture
is shown here.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

in foods and other commodi-
ties.
The combination of all these
factors, inter-acting upon each
other and exerting a curnula-
tive, total effect on the COM
modify markets, set off the
February price break.
Whatever the specific cause
nervous Spectators, manip
ulation by the food trusts,
dumping of commodities on the
markets by farmers after the
first of the year, the govern
ment's admission that it had
misled the public about crop
shortages the situation was
ripe for a major crash in COM
modify prices.
THE important thing for
workers is that the break at
the commodity price level vial
have to be sustained and con-
tinue for number of months
before it will be translated into
retail price reductions.
Unions and their members
cannot accept the commodity
price break as a substitute for
a substantial wage increase.
First, inflationary presSures
are still strong and it is still
too early to evaDuate the devel-
oping commodity price trends.
Secondly, wages are badly out
of balance with prices and a
wage increase is necessary to
restore some measure of the
purchasing power which the
workers have been robbed of
by initiation and profiteering.
The labor movement must
keep its eye on the fight for a
third round of wage increases,
for even if full-scale reductions
in prices should occur - and
that would take months to de-
velop-more and not less pur-
chasing power is required to
keep the economy from falling
into a disastrous tailspin.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
AT The Booro ~
its beers n Do"1

In which every average bust
ness day begins at "The Pit"
BEFORE the echoes of the
starting bell die away, the
grain traders have done $780,
900 worth of business: And in
the next three and three
fourths hours, before the bell
rings again, and the board
closes for the day, its business
totals sos million.
1.-THE Pit" is rich mans
CLOSED shop" No plain John
Doe can walk on the floor of
the Chicago Board OF Trade
and close deal for 5000 BUSH
els of wheat. In order to trade
on the grain market, you must
possess a scat on the Board.
There are 1 ,422 seats, no more
no less. AS a trader retires or
dies, his seat ON the Board is
soId-fer $500.
Although the traders shout
and scream their bids. trading
is actually accomplished by a
complicated system of sign Lam
guage. A sign or a nod of the
head can close transaction in
volving as much as a half a
million dollars IN less than a
fifth of a second.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
By THE ECONOMIST

The inflationary boom re-
ceived a severe jolt during the
first weeks of this month,
when the grain markets broke
badly. Skidding grain prices
carried basic commodity prices
along with them and the de-
fIationafy impact hit the stock
market.
The first important thing
about the break in commodity
prices is that it reflected gem
eral uncertainty about the eco
noTnic situation that has pre-
vailed in the business comnu-
nifty since the stock market fell
ON its face in the fall of 1916.
1t is significant that despite
record breaking profits and
greatly increased corporate di-
videndS, the stock market has
been in the doldrums for the
past Is months, waiting for a
depression around the n e t
corner.
Although the anticipated de
preston has not yet material
ized-the abortive depression
which began last spring was
quickly reversed by the infla-
tionary spiral that followed an
nouncement of the Marshall
plan-big business and indus
try have been wondering when
skyrocketing prices might ex-
pIode and set off wave of
price cuts.
THE Natl. City Bank of New
York put the point this way In
it's recent monthly letter on
economic conditions, published
just prior to the crackup in
commodity prices: ''It seems to
be true that uneasinesS
over the outlook is increasing.
The country is riding the boom
not confidently and comfort
ably, but rather with a sense
that the position becomes pre-
earious as time goes on
This feeling of uncertainty
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

Jones, his grain broker, that
he wants to buy 5000 bushels
of May wheat.
John Does order is transmit
ted instantly to Smith & Jones
in Chicago. The Chicago office
of Snith & Jones Immediately
communicates with their brok-
er or trader on the floor of the
Board of Trade.
The broker goes TO the wheat
pit" and signals to the other
traders by extending one fin
ger, with his palm held out
ward, that he wants to buy
5000 bushels of wheat.
A transaction of this kind
can be completed in so seconds.
THE TRADERS in "The Pit"
have special language Of
their own. Here's a sample:
A trader who buys grain on
the market is a trader who
goes long"
ga short" is trader who
sells something he hasn't got!
This trader makes an offer in
"The Pit to ell, say 5000
bushels of wheat, at the cur
rent quotation or price OF $1.75
a bushel. He is specializing or
gambling On the expectation
that the price of wheat will go
down within short time.
Since he has already received
payment for his sale-without
delivering the wheat-he will
make a profit ON the sale if he
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

ON THE FLOOR of this vast
auditorium are five pits" Cir
cleS of sunken steps-the larg-
est being the wheat pit, where
most of the trading is done.
These pits" are The futures
markets. where future crops of
the nation May, July. Sep
teaber and December harvests
are bought and sold.
Along one side Of "The Pit"
there is a long row of desks
where crops already harvested
and stored in railroad cars and
grain terminals, are traded
This is the cash or spot trad
ing market.
= IF YOU'VE ever been to the
race track, you'd know that the
quotations boards, covering
two whole walls, are score
boards for the trading. AS the
price of grain rises or falls, the
change is recorded on the
boards.
LET'S follow one transaction
on the Board of Trade futures
market, and see how it works.
John Doe notifies the DeS
Moines office of Smith &
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
By ISABEL CARR
THE bears and the bulls
Il hang out at THE Pit"

-
They lead a jungle existence.
And they are particularly
vulnerable to such diseases
common to mankind as ulcers,
ST, Vibus Dance, and heart fail
uGe
Double-ta talk, Gibberish?
Not if you understand the
peculiar language of the Chi
cago Board of Trade.
And net it you have ever
visited THE Pit"
3 =
THE PIT" is the trading
market for IS per cent of the
nations grain, located in the
Chicago Board of Trade Build
ing. 141 w. Jackson blvd.
And the bears and the bulls,
well, we'll come to them in
minute
AT exactly $40 each morn
ing. great bell ciangs out in
the mammoth auditorium of
the Chicago Board of Trade
and all hell breaks loose.
You'd never know ito look
at the frenzied mob of tan
jacketed men, signaling and
screaming-but this is the way
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21

can acquire the wIleaf at cost
lower than SITS a buShel, and
then deliver it to the buyer.
THE MARGIN on grain is
the amount of money required
as a deposit on a trade. In 9TH
err words, if you buy 10000
bushels of grain, you must de-
post 33 and u per cent of the
price Of that grain in advance
of payment.
And now for the bulls and
the bears.
The bears sell ON the market
in order to depreSs the price
of grain, and the bulls buy on
the market in the expecta ton
that the price of grain will rise.
The grain market today is
bearish because there is
mere selling than buying. aad
the price OF gram Is declining.
SEE? Simple isn't it?
Just one more thing.
There's dame called Ceres
thet you should know about
Ceres has been around, the
Board of Trade for hong time.
She could spill pleaty cd Sc
crets about speculative deals
in "The Pit" if only.
But, when the members OF
the Board of Trade erected a
statue of Ceres, the goddess OF
grain, atop the Board of Trade
Building, they didn't give Ceres
a face.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-21
Why grain markets sIumped

was accumulated during the
past couple of months. More
and more families were priced
ostt of the market for every
thing but. essentials and many
families could not afford to buy
all the essentials they need for
decent and healthful living.
Interest rates were frightened,
thus putting the squeeze on
small businessmen and exert
ing deflationary pressure on a
segment of projected expan-
sion programs.
SMALL spectators in the
commodity markets-those who
had temporarily deserted stocks
for a killing in wheat or lard
or cotton = began to worry
about growing consumer and
labor sentiment for price con-
troll and other anti-inflatien
measures to curb profiteering
in commodities.
Well-to-do farmers had held
cash crops off the market in
the last months of 1947, partly
to avoid taxes on their incomes
of last year, party to wait for
still higher prices-$4 a bushel
for wheat, for example - and
partly because they expected a
tax cut this year.
The big food trusts withdrew
their monopoly support of the
commodity markets to weaken
the peoples demands for food
price rollbacks and to stynnie
the third round drive for wage
increases which will come I'd a
head in the next six weeks
FINALLY. the government,
which had exaggerated short
ages in grains and other foods
to gain support for the Mar
shall plan last fall, brought its
purchase program to a close,
thus temporarily at least cut
ting the underpinning for a
eI1sst.inad craacuIafiua aIHnanca
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15

sung very softly, and in which the
bass voices, led by young man
with a voice remarkably deep and
of mellow quality, Appropriated the
low vibrant tone the Russian
choruses have made famous.
It would be difficult to choose be-
tween the Ladies Club and the
Mems Club for excellence Of vocal
timbre and musical finish. Both
groups sing as one person, Great
ing all the gamut of color of which
the vocal tone is capable and always
with velvety .smoothness. There
was also a Ladies Quartet and q
Male Quartet of choice voices both
giving finished performances.
Earl Rowland, tenor, was heard
as soloist in a not too successful
arrangement of the Prayer" from
Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana.
He sang the part assigned to San
tuzza. Paul Lamb, bass, sang the
solo measures in the Ford Selsman-
Bird "Ole Moses put Pharaoh In
his Place" and Prof. Huffman was
heard in Adams The Holy City,
accompanied by the Glee Clubs
Prof. Huffman has fine lyric voice
and was given an ovation for his
dramatically built up presentation
of the famous song.
"Bridgewater Fair" the college
song, and the "Hallelujah Chorus
from Handles Messiah" were
among the final selections sung
by the combined clubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15
Excellent Choral
Singing Presented
Bv Glee Clubs
By Alice Eversmon

The Bridgewater (Va) College
Glee Clubs climaxed spring tour
with a sacred concert last night
in Constitution Hall. The IS sing
ers, under the direction of Nelson
T. Huffman, were sponsored in this
appearance by the Homebuilders'
Bible Glass of the Washington City
Church of the Brethren and pro-
ceeds from the concert will 60 to
World Wide Relief through Church
World Service.
In the last three years through
| this relief program, the Brethren
have shipped over 5000 heifers to
Europe for malnourished children,
$500 tons of food and clothing, a
carload of seed potatoes and CO.
operated with the UNRRA in es-
tablishing a China Tractor Unit
sending SO volunteers for 10 months
70 China to help reclaim flooded
lands and modernize agriculture.
These young men and women
from the church college produced
some of the finest choral singing
heard in Constitution Hall. The
voices are of unusual purity and
blend so beautifully that the har-
monies at times have quite an
ethereal quality. 1t is a flexible
group capable of delicate effects
and Prof. Huffman, who is himself
a tenor of repute, has established
boundaries beyond which the VOL
ume is never forced While most Of
the numbers we're sung cappella.
organ and piano accomplishments
were provided by Ruth E. Wey-
bright and Nevin w. Fisher, respec-
| lively.
| A devotional atmosphere pre-
vailed throughout the program.
When each number was finished,
the organ continued in an impro-
vization while a student narrator
prepared for the next selection by
some remarks, carrying moral,
in reference to 1t. The pure sing
ing, aided by exceptionally clear
diction even in pianissimo passages,
emphasized most emphatically the
religious message of the song.
The combined clubs, after a beau
tiful delivery of Nearer My God
to Thee" opened the program with
Handels Coronation Hymn ar
ranged by Houghton. The excel
lent training of the group was in
evidence in the clarity of the many
runs and closely interviewer har-
monies. They followed this with
Pokrovsky's The Pastoral Prayer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15

NlHicT . ~
brick Colonial
on nicely land
scoped lot. Con-
toins Twin 9
70 o m, dining
room, kitchen,
8 well-propor-
toned bed
rooms, z boths,
storage ottic
with fon, recre-
otion room with
bar, m old S
room and bath,
Cos heot. built
in oorooe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15
First Aid
Continued From Page B-1,)

two of aluminium paint should pro-
duce a similar effect.
This finish, also the oil cloth, can
be painted over with oil paint. A
carpenter should check window and
door frames for cracks that may
admit rain, and fill them with
caulking compound, forced in with
a caulking gun.
Help For Bullying Pans.
Two of our readers have sent in
suggestions for fiattening out bulges
in aluminium pans. Here is one:
Il have successfully removed such
bulges by using two boards, a small
one inside and one outside, and
then pounding all over the boards
with a hammer. And the other
one: "Invert skillets on level heavy
board, such as back step or level
work bench. On bulged bottom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15

hold q tough 1-inch board, say
8x16 inches Of oak or hickory or
some such tough wood. Start to
tap board with hammer, changing
position of board constantly. This
will soon bring bottom back to level
and will not ruin alignment Of top
OF skillet" I am glad to pass these
suggestions along.
Plaster in Basement.
Question: Should one patch plas-
ter that, has come OF In a base
ment?
Answer: If it's ordinary plaster
that is used for living rooms, 1t
would be best to remove all Of it
instead of trying to patch it. This
| type of plaster is affected by damp
ness and is not intended for use
in basement.
| tReleased by The Consolidated News
| Features
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15

Departments Apprentice Training
Service. The superintendent Of ed
ucation for Montgomery County has
agreed to allot limited amount OF
funds to pay Of instructors.
Persons interested in the pro-
gram may call the home builders
Office, Republic 1174.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-15
School for BrickIoyers
NAV Open Next Week

The apprentice training school for
bricklayers and plasterers at Ayr
lawn Farms in Bethesda, may begin
operations late next week, the
Washington Home Builders Asso-
citation said today.
1t has been approved by the Labor
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-24
Reef Knot Now In Reserve Fleet

PORTLAND. Ore. JPD - The steamer Reef Knot, the Alaska "Christmas Ship" of l946. Was laid up today at the reserve fleet an chorage at the mouth Of he Co., lumbia River.
 The vessel was put out of serv- ice when the Alaska Steamship company quit operating during the recent mraitime strike. II en- tered the Alaska trade Dec. l7, l946, sailing from here for Seward under special arrangemea' made by It. Com. E. p. CheSte~, repre- sentine the Governor Of Alaska. Al that time the Alaskan fleet was tied up due to Puget Sound strike.
 The Reef Knot joins l6l other maritime commission vessels now a anchorage near Astoria.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-24
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS

Two thousand years before Christ was born, bells were used in the Orient for joyful as well as sad occasions. Since Christ was born they have been used in many countries to announce His birth day. They are used to announce
 he hour of twelve on Christmas Eve in Spain. In some places bells are rung as the creche is lighted. In others, bells chime as the Golden Star procession is nov ing. In some places Saint Nicho- las carries a bell in one hand and switches in another. Santa Claus reindeer wear sleigh bells. Chimes proclaim the entrance of Christ mas in some places in America. One who has heard the Christmas Eve concert at the Box Tower in Lake Wales, Florida, can never forget it and not fail to associate bells with joyful, sublime tidings.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-24

pending the outcome of certain similar cases on file in the Court of Claims.
 The Accounting Office states. however, that it has now been de- termined that these matters pro- perly may be settled upon their meri without further delay and the Road Commission has been instructed to make the necessary audit of all claims now on file. The claims will be handled in the order in which they were filed in the Accounting Office. No claims will be considered by the Alaska Road Commission unless reaching them through the General Ac- counting Office at Washington.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-24
ARC EMPLOYEES CAN NOW OBTAIN BACK OVERTIME PAY

Of interest to many employees and former employees of the Alas ka Road Commission is a recent favorable ruling of the General Accounting Office, at Washington, on claims for overtime pay for services performed since 1887
 These claims resulted from what has been commonly termed the "4O-hour work week act" which was passed by Congress in 1884. Due to uncer, ainty as to the appl.- cation of this act to Federal agen- cies, the Road Commission did not commence paying overtime com pensation until the spring of l945. Payment for overtime for previ- ouS years has remained unsettled.
 As information on the subject became available 10 the Commits sion, it was passed along to its em- ployees and many of them filed claims in the Accounting Office. l. is in respect to these that the Accounting Office has now ruled. Decision of the Accounting Office was delayed for some months
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-24
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS TREE DECORATIONS

Trees were first dec rated by hanging apples and fruit on them. 1, was declared that all of he trees in the forest blossomed and bore fruit the night of our Lords Nativ- ity. The lights on our tree were a gift from Martin Luther, who one Christmas Eve saw the stars peer ing through the branches of the forest pines. Wanting to share the beauty, he brought home a lighted tree.