The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-10-28


Although Mississippi States
football squad might not be
doing so well, we are pleased
to note that the boys in the
agricultural school continue to
turn out championship teams.
The dairy products judging
team won top honors this week
at the collegiate students inter
national contest in Judging
dairy products. The contest was
held in Los Angeles. State boys
competed against 81 contest
ants from ID of the nations
leading agricultural schools.
Along with top honors, the team
won an $3.50 graduate fellow
ship from the Dairy Industry
Supply Association. This is the
10th of these scholarships won
by the team, keeping Missis-
sippi at the top of the list in
the nation.
The team is coached by Prof.
Fred II. Herzer and is com
posed of Jack Stanley of State
College; Sam l.. SWEET of Vicks-
burg and Dee M. Graham of
Union. No six-foot plus, $50
pound importers among that
group. They + MiSsissippians
who will return to our rural
areas and give to our econ
omy the benefit of the fine
knowledge they have gained.
We cling to the old-fashioned
idea that the primary function
of colleges is to teach and not
produce championship football
teams. We extend our humble
congratulations to Prof. Herzer.
As long as he continues to pro-
duce championship teams we'll
be satisfied with States medi-
OGRE football record.
One reason why government
is costly and budgets aren't bal
anced: The Commodity Credit
Corporation estimates that the
agricultural support program
will cost the government $500
million for 1949-50. Cotton
support alone will cost $71-
million, and potatoes a mere
$166-million. To maintain the
right price for your breakfast
eggs will take an estimated
$l68-million of the taxpayers
money. The funds will be ex-
pended by the CCC in the pur-
chase and disposition of surplus
crops. Uncle Sans various other
subsidies. including a $500-miI-
lion postal department loss most
of which is paid in mail sub
sides to the same newspapers
and magazines that scream for
government economy (but for
the other fellow, of course), all
add up to an increasingly stag
gering sum as pressure groups
and Congress play politics and
the taxpayers foot the bill.
Slightly less than a year ago
Laurence Duggan. former chief
of the L~atin-American division
of the U. S. State department,
plunged to his death from his
l6th-floor New York office. Sen
ator Earl Mundt, then a Rep
resentative and head of the
House un-American activities
committee, jumped from his bed
at midnight to accuse Duggan
of being implicated in the fan
tastic Whitaker Chambers
Communist spy ring. Mundt's
action hit a new low for even
the un-American committee in
its responsibility and political
callousneSs, and he later adj
mitted he was wrong. But this
was after the damage had been
done.
The stigma was passed along
to Duggan's widow and chill
dren, because Mundt's aeeusa-
ton had been carried in front
page headlines. His admission
that he was wrong was relegat-
ed the inside pages, where it
attracted little notice. To most
people Duggan was a Com
munist who had committed
suicide under threat of expos
ure. The other day his widow
told the true facts, which sound
logical. Duggan had been oper-
ated on for an injured spine. He
was told to wear a corset (Which
he did not dol, not to open win
dows, bend to put on his shoes,
or attempt any lifting. He liked
fresh air, and hated gtuffinegs
THIS WEEK