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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14
Holmes To Meet
EAisviNe Saturday
To Crown Football
Queen; Alumni Dinner
At 6 P. M. Saturday

GOODMAN, October l4-The
l948 Homecoming game at
Holmes Junior college is sche-
duled for Saturday night on
Branch field. The Jones Bobcats
of Ellisville will furnish tough
opposition. During the past two
years the Bobcats have won from
Holmes; the 1916 game here was
won on the final attempt from
placement 1918, last season,
when Jones won 1877.
The Bobcats have impressive
victories over Sunflower and
East Central, while losing to Per-
kinston team 1877. The Holmes
team will take the field, barring
injuries this week, in good ply
steal condition. Tommy Nix, sem
ior end, injured in the Sunflower
game two weeks ago will pro-
badly not play this week. Foot
ball fans will get look at the
passing of Sim Cooley to Bro
ther Preston Cooley. This COM
bination has been outstanding in
most Of the Ellisville games this
season.
The Alumni association will be
well represented here for the din
ner and business session in the
HJC Dining hall. The meeting
will be concluded in time for the
game starting at 8 p. m. Sever
Eubanks, assistant principal of
Jackson Central high school will
preside. Mr.. Eubanks is the l948
president of the Holmes Alumni
association. Miss Helen Barlow,
commercial teacher at Holmes, is
the secretary.
Preceding the Homecoming,
Saturday, the student body has
slated full week of activities.
Pep Meetings will be in vogue
each evening throughout the
week climaxing huge bonfire
Friday night on the old athletic
field. The student body, with the
HJC band, will parade through
town preceding the big Friday
night rally-pep meeting.
The feature event Saturday
night at half-time will be the
1948 coronation ceremonies on the
field when Miss Amy Owens of
Farmhaven will be crowned
Queen.
Accompanying the Queen will
be Miss Joan Pannell of New AL
bany, freshman representative,
and Miss Barbara Flanagan of
Webb, who will represent Holmes
A. H. S.
Authorities at Holmes are max
ing arrangements to accommodate
the largest crowd of the year for
the homecoming game Saturday.
The game is scheduled to get
under way at 800 o. m.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14
Potients At The Hospitul

w. A. Wigley, Durant
Mrs. Willie Lee. Cruger
Mrs. D. w. Reid, Lexington
william Schrock, Goodman
Joe Chairman, Lexington
Miss Mildred Ellis, Durant
Mrs. Alvin Word, Tchula
Mrs. Jessie Brown, Pickens
Colored
Catherine Sacks
Pat Rogers
Liza Smith
Ethel Horton
Matte Smith
Willie Kurn
Walter Clark
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14
Disfrid Y-Teens Meet
In Durdnf 18th -17m
Cruser, Pickens. West
To Be Represented

The Y. w. c. A. Y-Teen con-
ference of District III will con-
vene in Durant, October 1917,
for the first of six fall setting up
conferences held annually by the
Mississippi District YMCA, a
Red Feather agency. The theme
OF the conference, Match to
your Dream the Deed" will be
used throughout the meetings.
Clubs from this area who will
join those from IA other coun-
ties of the district in the con-
ference are: West, Durant, Pick
ems, and Cruger.
Y-Teens who will serve as Of
ficers for the conference are:
Sara Murphey, Macon, president;
Harriet Chase, Brooksvilie, vice
president; Nicola McMinn, Sturgis,
secretary; Rose Marie Leonard.
kosciusko, treasurer. Serving
with Mrs. M. D. Baine, general
chairman of the Women's Unit
in charge of arrangements, are
Mrs. H. J. Montgomery, Mrs.
James Bowie, Mrs. H. L. Har-
rington, Mrs. F. v. McCullar. Mrs.
A. E. Branch, and Miss Estelle
Turner. Mrs. Bowie, Durant, and
Miss Emma Bostwick, Kosciusko,
will direct the music for the en-
tire conference.
At the opening meeting, Octo-
Der l6 at 1000 o'clock Miss Mary
w. Lewis, of Durant, President of
the Durant Y-Teen club, will ex-
tend a welcome.
Club workshops will be led by
Mrs. John Perkins, Kilmichael;
Miss Mabel Palmer, Jackson;
Miss Louise Young, Jackson: Miss
Adele McCafferty, Kosciusko;
Miss Helen McKinnon, Grenada;
and Mrs. G.. L. Crawford, Madi-
son.
The bookroom, with a good dis
play of materials on sale to in
dividuals and clubs, will be open
before the morning and after
noon sessions. Highlighting the
afternoon session will be the dis
cussion groups. The subjects and
leaders follow: 'sYou~ and Your
Family" Mrs. A. E. Branch,
Durapt; "You and Your Friends"
Mrs. George Thornton, Kosciusko:
"You and Your Vocation" MrS.
N. c. Hathorn, Durant; You and
Your World" Miss Alleen Ram
sey, Kosciusko; Adults, Miss
Louise Young, Jackson.
On Saturday night the Durant
Y-Teen club will be the hostess
es and Miss Adele McCafferty
will be the leader in a"Dream
Boat" party for all delegates.
At the Sunday morning Wor-
ship Service, held at the Durant
Baptist church at IL a. m, Misses
Linda Lou McCullar and Carol
Montgomery. Durant, will serve
as readers. Special music will be
furnished by the Durant Y-Teen
Club choir. "The Pearl of Great
Price" a Bible play will be pre-
sented by the Grenada Y-Teens.
At the conclusion of the service,
the conference officers for the
new club year will be installed in
a brief program led by Miss
Mabel Palmer, member of the
Mississippi District YWCA staff.
The worship service will con-
clude the conference.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14

Mrs. ]. L. Wilkes left Tuesday
on the City of New Orleans for
Columbus, Ohio, where she will
visit her son and his family, DR..
and Mrs. John L. Wilkes. While
there she win participate in the
Duplicate Bridge tournament.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14

The Greenwood Common
wealth reveals some interesting
facts on the progress Of educa-
ton in America:
''In 1870 one fifth of all citizens
over IA could not read. BY 1880,
that proportion had dropped to
mere 6.5 per cent, and by 1880
to ~ per cent. Still there are
today three persons CT official
ly) who cannot read, per 100
population.
incidentally, another five per-
sons couldn't understand this
article under almost any circum-
stances. They are the functional
illiterates" those who had four
years or less schooling. hardly
enough to be at home in the world
of printed words.
1.-THE percentage of those UNI
able to understand the printed
word is boosted. however, by the
non-white group consisting large
ly of negroes. Eleven per cent of
this group cannot read, according
to Bureau of Census Statistics.
OF the non-whites, So per cent
between the ages of IA and "a
can read.
"If, as claimed by the B. OF
c, 100000 Americans cannot
readily understand the printed
word. we are still under heavy
handicap in political and econo
mic affairs. 1t would be difficult
for man who cannot read te
vote intelligently. Nor does thu
man who is illiterate have much
of a chance when it comes t.
hold one of the better jobs. He !.
almost certainly doomed to worl
at an unskilled occupation.
1--WE will not have realized the
aims of our educational system
until such time as illiteracy Il
stamped out"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14
r1DDLERs' CONTEST

An Old Fiddlers' contest will
be given in the West School audi
torium on Friday, October ", at
7:3O p. m.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14
Attending the Ole Miss game

Attending the Ole Miss game
Saturday were Mr.. and Mrs.
Marcus Love, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Chatwin Jackson, Jr, Miss Sarah
Howard, DR.. c. E. Patton, Mr..
and Mrs. A. S. Tatum, Mrs. Eu-
genia Guess, Robert Love. Robert
Paul Odom, Claud Wilkes and
Harold SmithSon. -H~.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14

Miss Nancy Ann Tatum has
become Kappa Delta pledge at
Ole Miss.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14

]. H. Brooks Of Greenwood
spent the weekend with home
folks. '''
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES

Holmes countians who have not
paid visit to the big free
Mississippi State Fair should do
20 before the week Is out. There
are many outstanding exhibits to
b seen as well as the usual thrills
Of the midway for the young in
heart. N
The grandstand show this year
Is better than usual and we be-
Ieve you will think it good en-
tertainment.
So if you have not gone to
Jackson yet, try to make it before
the week is out.
Friday is school day and school
children all over the state will
be there on that day.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-14

be there on that day.
An about campaign to get
every qualified white elector to
the polls in the November 2,
general election is being made.
The nine electors who are
pledged TO vote for Thurmond
and Wright, the official Demo-
cratic party nominees of Missis-
sippi are: Thomas Murphy, Jr.,
Tupelo; Jack Frost. Oakland;
Frank Everett, Indianola; Hurd
Horton, Grenada; Walter Dent
May, Mendenhall; Jesse M. Byrd,
Leakesville; Julius Brent, Nc
Comb; Edmund Taylor, Green
vile; Clarence Morgan. Kos
ciuSko.
Mississippi voters will have
five states Of presidential electors
from which to choose when they
60 to the polls.
All five have been approved
by the state board Of election
commissioners. a
Two Of the states are pledged
to the republican ticket of
Thomas E. Dewey and Earl War
rem Others are pledged to the
national democratic ticket Of
President Harry S. Truman and
Sen. Alben Barley; the states
rights ticket Of J. Strom Thur.
mond and Fielding L. Wright.
and to the progressive party tick
ct of Henry Wallace and Sen.
Glen Taylor. The Wallace cleo
tors will be classified as "inde-
pendents."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08
Maryland Annual

1V4oA As@AAS
Tomorrow is the last day for re-
ceipt Of entry cards at the Balti-
more Museum of Art, from Mary
land artists planning to participate
in the 18th annual exhibition. More
than 1000 will be awarded in nine
prizes. Washington Sculptor Leo
Steppat and New York City Painters
Jack Levine and Max Weber will
compose the jury. The exhibition
will open February 20, to remain
through April 4.
Vol. |, No. |
The Arts Club has issued this
month the first number of n1imeo-
graphed news letter for its members.
1t is a chatty page recounting the
activities of members. some OF whom
are doing important things in the
various art fields they represent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08
Essay Contest of
.SWV Auxiliaries

The United Spanish War Veter-
ans Auxiliaries have announced
national essay contest for school
children of the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades. The subject is What
improvements in the field OF
medicine were the result of the
knowledge gained in the Spanish
American War;" Essays must be
limited to $50 words and will be
Judged on knowledge of the subject,
style and originality of presentation.
Three prizes of $40. IS and s. will
be awarded for the three best essays
submitted by pupils from the Dis
trict of Columbia area. The three
prize-winning essays will compete
with the best essays from other
States for three national prizes of
SIS. $50 and SOS, and all Contestants
viii receive q certificate of award.
Essays must reach the department
essay chairman, Mrs. Beulah M.
Cope, Plat o street NV, Washing
ton 7, D. c., before March l.
Special notices:
Sunday-The department will visit
Soldiers Home Hospital. Meet Al
the Upshur street gate at $50 pm
Monday-Pettit Auxiliary, Valen-
tine party at Naval Lodge Hall. Al
members of the auxiliaries and
camps are invited.
Thursday Capitol City Fort
No "a, Daughters OF 90, s2l Penn
sylvania avenue Sc.
Friday-Miles Auxiliary, Pythiar
Temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08

the IL prints by him, the others
showing his mastery of TYPOGRAPHY,
woodcut and aquatint. Raymond
Steth. an artist whose name is new
to me, also shows two carborundum
prints. as well as several Autographs
and etchings which reveal consider
able range in mood-straight por-
traiture, satire, humor, irony and
one arresting print called Despair,
an outstanding work in which the
tragic pose of the woman's f1gure is
emphasized by the meanness OF her
surroundings.
Charles E. White and Elizabeth
Catlett, both of whom have had
one-man shows at the Barnet Alden
Gallery this season, are well repre-
sented. the former with particu-
larly impressive. heroic-sized head
of the late DR.. Carver, done in conte
crayon.
The exhibition is largely tradi-
tional, including many prints teen,
nically excellent, and also beautltu
per Sc, suitable for homes as vel
as collectors portfolios. Among
these, to mention but a few, art
James C. McMillan's landscape
winter; Charles Sales 1.-THE Pos
Settlers" Allan r. Freedoms Tit
Forge" James L. Wells "Farmyard'
and hillside" proofs of which arr
in the Library of Congress- ane
John A. Wilson's Lovers" all prints
and Lois M. Jones pen-and-inl
drawing, "Old Man"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street.
PAINTINGS and sculpture by great
by italian and German masters;
Books" through February.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection of Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
s On. and os sr0R s Pv snd fs oans
Pennsylvania Society of Miniature
Painters Annual, through next
Sunday.
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
Jefferson DRIVE and Ninth street
a p sTls sSoto
Wsshi 1 i fhroush February.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
of Graphic Art. Independence
avenue and Tenth streetEPrints
by Werner Drewes, through Feb
ruary.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint
ings and etchings by Whistler and
other American artists; CLEANSING
CoRCoRAN GALLERY OF ART,
Seventeenth street between. New
can paintings and sculpture and
the W. A. Clark collection. New
exhibitions of water colors by ar
lists Of washington and vicinity.
Pepsi-Cola Annual, through Febru-
airy %
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-irst street-Paint-
ings and prints. Autographs by
Picasso, opening today.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap.
itol sad First STANDARDIZATION OF
Prints. Photographs of early archi-
lecture by Frances BENJAMIN
Johnston
Fifty-seventh Annual, Society of
Washington Artists, through Feb
UNITED NATIONS CLUB. 1901
Nineteenth street NV, Paint
ines by Alice Conn., through Iues-
BARNETT ALDEN GALLERY, lo7
by James Porter.
WATKINS GALLERY, American Uni
versity campus-Watkins memorial
collection and Fruhauf caricatures'
through next Sunday.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and K
artists, through February.
DIJMBARTON OAKS COLLECTION.
1903 Thirty-second street NV
Byzantine art. Closed Mondays.
Open daily, 8 am to pm; Sun
days, , to 8 pm.
BUSH C. WEEKS GALLERY. .2O10 s
street NV Pho
Biography by Joseph B. Wertz.
opening today.
PAN AMERICAN UNION. Constitu-
ton avenue and Seventeenth street
NV. - Exhibition by Francisco
Dosamantes. through today.
eoNNoISSEURS' CORNER, zoos @
street N.W.-Graphic arts.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Sixth street
and Howard place N.W.-Prints by
Negro artists, through February.
WHITE GALLERY, 1918 Connect
cut avenue W.--Seven Wash
ington painters, through Feoru-
ary o.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08
Word Of Stamps
By james Waldo Foweett

The issue of a Decent regular
postage stamp, signalling the 25th
anniversary of the establishment of
the Canal Zone Biological Area on
Barro Colorado Island in Gatun
Lake, is announced by the Bureau
Of Posts at Balboa Heights, Canal
Zone.
This stamp, Of which 500, 1000 have
been ordered, will be placed on sale
at all Canal Zone post Offices on
April II. and preparations are being
made to handle first day cover mail
ings at the Canal Zone Philatelic
Agency at Balboa Heights, Canal
Zone.
Barro Colorado Island on April II
1928. was set aside as a natural park
by Brig. Gen. Jay j. Morrow, then
Governor of the Panama Canal, as
an area In the Canal Zone where
fauna and fora could remain UNI
disturbed for scientific study. The
island which is located in Gatun
Lake Is about 6 square miles in
area with coastline of over Is miles
and was formed when the damned
waters of the Chagres River isolated
the top of hill from the lower level
of surrounding terrain. Twenty
four trails marked of in 100-meter
sections have been built to provide
access to all parts of the island. The
Institute for Research in Tropical
America was organized in the spring
of 1922 under the auspices of the
National Research Council, and
Barro Colorado Island was assigned
to this institute for development.
On July 2, 1910, the late President
Roosevelt approved an Act of Con-
gress making the island a Govern
ment establishment under the name
of the Canal Zone Biological Area,
and recently, President Truman as
signed this area as part of the
Smithsonian Institution. More than
400 scientists have taken advantage
of the opportunity thus created for
the study of tropical animal and
plant life, and over $40 books and
papers have been published as the
result of their efforts. Extensive
termite tests as we'll as studies on
corrosion, deterioration, ETC., are
being conducted on the island.
Animal and plant life are excep-
tionally rich and from the many
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08
Progress in |SwamPoodIe,

EWING Sherman, should marry 1t,
Thomas w. Fitch, U. S. N, on Oc-
tober !, 1874, that the knot should
be tied in st. Aloysius Church by
the venerable Archbishop Purcell.
Gen. Sherman was then residing at
2O5 I street, now the residence Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William M. Hannay,
formerly owned and occupied by
Mrs Hannay's father, the late Mat
thew G. Emery, last Mayor Of
Washington.
Trust Made Perpetual
Eventually. all of the property oc-
cupied by the sisters on the east side
of North Capitol street between K
and Myrtle streets, and extending
back some 100 feet, was owned by
them, 20-year trust having been
made perpetual.
AS the number Of the girls in the
industrial school increase, so did the
quantity Of work and the sisters
were able to carry on more satisfac-
torily. After building their house
on the corner of K and North Cap
itol streets, they set about to fur
nish 1t with all the appliances neces-
sary for educational and industrial
purposes. So today we have St.
Aloysius Parochial and Industrial
School in full and successful opera
ton under the care Of the Sisters
of Notre Dame, whose lives are espe-
cially devoted to teaching.
In 1902 better accommodations
were provided for the sisters and in
1915 they took over st. Aloysius Boys
School and in 1928 the sisters cele-
brated their golden jubilee, the 50th
anniversary Of their coming to
Washington. In october that same
year the old school building on the
northeast corner of North Capitol
and Myrtle streets, in service for
over 40 years, was demolished.
The sisters then extended their
living quarters by the addition of
new wing and a garden, adjoining
what was the central section Of the
old house between the North Capitol
street convent and the school. This
Is the present arrangement Of the
buildings-the living quarters of the
nuns on the east side Of North Capt.
toll between K and Myrtle, and the
schools on the west side between
K street and st. Aloysius Church.
Five of the earliest graduates Of
the school who live in Washington
and whose names are familiar to
Neutrality-suspicious. are Miss Katherine
c. Darlington, Mrs. James ]. Kilroy
and Mrs. Patrick j. Haltigan. In
the class of 1856 were Miss Daisy
Brick and Mrs. D. J. Callahan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-08

varieties of animals native to the
area the coati-mundi has been Sc
lected as the subject of the new
stamp. This animal is very similar to
the raccoon found in many sections
of the United States, being about
the same size but with short fore
legs and a long bushy tail. 1t has the
familiar white mask about the eyes
and light rings about the tail. 1t can
be easily tanned but is very mis-
chievous and destructive.
The stamp will be grey-black in
color and horizontal rectangular,
36x211a nm. in size. The words
Canal Zone Postage" will appear
across the top with rectangular
box in the center in which Is shown
the outline Of Barro Colorado Island
with a picture of the coati-mundi
superimposed. On either side of the
rectangle will be placed the bears
1923 and 1913, and the denomination
Of the stamp, 40 cents" Below the
box will appear the words: "25th
Anniversary Establishment Canal
Zone Biological Area" in two lines.
An official Department of the In
terror press release says: Irving G..
Root, Superintendent of National
Capital Parks, announced yesterday
that collection of stamps depict
ing Abraham Lincoln and his con-
temporaries will be exhibited at the
Lincoln Museum, located in old
Ford's Theater, Sill Tenth street
NV, beginning today. The collec-
ton was donated to the Museum
by the Philatelic Group Of the New
World Club, New York City.
1.-THE exhibit features IS stamps,
the earliest of which carries the
likeness of Abraham Lincoln and
was issued in 1865. There are nine
stamps in the group, four of which
antedate 1900, carrying the Lincoln
head. Some of these are based on
photographs of Lincoln and others
IN famous sculptural works of art
Of the great Emancipation. Edwin
M. Stanton, William H. Seward and
Andrew johnson, Lincoln's Secre-
tary of War, State and Vice Presi-
dent. respectively, are included IN
the collection. Seven stamps de-
pict Civil War military leaders in
GLIDING five Gen. Ulysses s. Grant,
one of Gen. Winfield Scott, and a
commemorative stamp issued in
1896 showing Generals Sherman,
Grant and Sheridan.
1.-TWO Confederate stamps carry
the likeness of Jefferson Davis,
President of the Confederate States,
and United States postage stamp
issued in 1886 to commemorate the
famous Southern generals, Robert
E. Lee and Thomas J. tStonewalD
Jackson. The poet, Walt Whitman
author of Captain, My Captain,
and the composer, Stephen Foster
who wrote We Are Coming, Father
Abraham are represented in the
exhibit of stamps. John Ericsson
builder of the Monitor-the famous
ironclad familiarly described as
cheese box on a raft'-is the sub
ject of one stamp. The design OF
this issue is based upon the we'll
known statue of Ericsson by j. E
Fraser, located near the Lincoln
Memorial.
THE 18th Anniversary OF the
Thirteenth Amendment is another
of the commemorative stamps in
Guided in the New World Club dona-
ton. This stamp was issued in 1910
and is based upon the famous
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Lincoln Emancipation Statue by
Thomas Ball, located in Lincoln
Park.
"A group Of San Marine stamps
Is of interest. Abraham Lincoln was
an honorary citizen Of San Marine.
and the worlds smallest Republic
has issued several stamps in his
honor.
THE donors of the collection state
that 1t includes all postage stamp
designs issued in the United States
and abroad picturing Lincoln and
his contemporaries. While the selec-
ton was made primarily to attract
the interest of the non-philatelist,
it is expected that the average
stamp collector will find the ex-
hibit Of considerable interest"
Charles A. Baird. executive Sec
rotary to Representative George w.
Gillie of Indiana, likewise is a
dealer In stamps, operating the Ma
tional Stamp Agency here.
4Ae "ooAAASVoA AACVAA 1IOup
invites stamp collectors to attend
a Lincoln anniversary meeting at
the Lincoln Museum Cords Thea
teri, 511 Tenth street NV, this
afternoon at $50. Representatives
Ben r. Jensen, Of Iowa, and Maj
Gen. U. S. Grant, III will speak.
No tickets necessary.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
An auction of foreign and domes-
tic stamps and covers will be held
by the Washington Philatelic So
ciety at the YWCA, Seventeenth and
K streets NV, Wednesday evening
beginning at 7:45 o'clock.