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Evening star., 1949-09-29
On the Other Hand
When People Come Out of Coma
They Might Reverse Preachment

calm all over. It was more than
that; it was virtually numb, q
state toward which it had been
tending for q long time, so far as
atomic warfare is concerned. II
was past the point of even talk
ing about this hellish development
in mankind's everlasting search
for the perfect means of destroy.
ing itself.
The week end following Presi-
dent Truman's historic announce.
ment Of the bad news from Rus
sia, I spent three days with friends
in the country. The group brought
together by the host was COM
posed mostly of men and women
who take more than average in
terest in public affairs; men and
women who read, think, talk and
write about what's going on in the
world. Yet I give you my word
that not once in my hearing was
the subject Of atomic warfare
mentioned.
Back in Washington this week
the National Capitals unfailina
index Of what people are talking
aboutAif not what they are
thinking - registered the same
curious phenomenon. The index
OF course. is the conversation OF
the towns famous taxicab drivers
None with whom I've ridden has
seemed to consider the bomb q
topic for talk. Some have ranged
far beyond the Yanks. sox, Bum.
and Cards, but none into thu
atomic sphere.
May Come Out Of Coma.
That's how 1t seems to be
with us at the moment, but pres
emily we may come out OF. our
coma. When and If we do, per-
haps we should reverse the
preachment and start telling oul
public men to be calm. 1t is i'm
portant that they should be, since
they. If anybody. are in position
to do something about this accel.
Grated menace to the human race
Some Of them have not beer
calm thus far. Some Of them
have been sounding Of in a man.
ner that does no credit either to
their intelligence or their integ-
rity. They have been seeking q
political scapegoat for our dilem-
ma and, naturally. seeking him ir
the opposition party. They have
been seeking to introduce politics
into the one place, above all
where it does not belong. BY i'm
plication they would have yor
think that If their suspicious had
been shared and their advice fol.
lowed, the Russian scientists
never would have achieved what
our scientists plus certain
number Of Italian, German, Brit
ish and Canadian scientists-had
achieved. This sort Of thing /,
coming from men who are up 70,
reelection next year and, because
the problem is so grave, it shoulc
be enough to disqualify them fol
office.
Meantime Congress has re.
sponded naturally to the situation
by voting all the money anybody
has happened to suggest for mill
tary preparedness. That was te
be expected.
May we also expect that the
situation. the stalemate in poten.
tial destruction. will cause oul
best minds to step up their effort.
to find q formula for a new worle
order that will confine the use,
OF atomic energy to the purpose,
Of peace?
Evening star., 1949-09-29

V e rSaClle nCCle
K W a j alein,
thickens on the
sizable United
States p o sses-
sion Of Guam.
Apra is the
famous harbor
Congress re-
fused to dredge
just a little
deeper at the
cost Of a few
million dollars
in 1888 because
1t might offend
Toror Half a
Evening star., 1949-09-29
On the Record
Treason Trials of Hungarian Red Chiefs
Seen as Trial of u. S. by Communists

the record, demand the right of
those Americans accused to appear
in court and cross-examine their
|accusers. We should do this in
the interest Of history.
We have been seeing for years
the systematic destruction of his
tory-of the history Of the Rus
sian revolution; of the history of
relations between states.
Without being able to give an
accurate account Of the past, CIV
ilization slides into barbarism.
Civilization Is collective memory.
That Is why our children are
taught, through history. to give
an account Of the past. For unless
they have objective knowledge Of
the past they will be politically
feeble-minded in the present. The
reason for protecting objective
scholarship and free universities
lis precisely to prevent history (the
accumulation Of human expert
ence) from being rewritten to
serve personal interests.
Causes Should Be Known.
George Orwell, in his hair-rais-
ing satire, 1884" describes the
man who tries in vain to find out
what really existed in a past oblit-
Grated by propaganda. That is q
universal possibility-and an ex-
isting condition in much Of the
world.
A scientific attempt must also
be made to clear up the causes of
these confessions. Arthur Koest-
Ter did a penetrating study Of the
psychology which could make
them possible, in Darkness at
Noon" But, though the peculiar.
Communist psychology might ex-1
plain Bucharin or Rajk, it does
mot explain non-C Communists. like
Cardinal Mindszenty-nor would
the use of drugs like hyocine.
These break down inhibitions and
defenses, but do not. put nicely
dovetailing stories into the con-
fessors' mouths. This might be ac-
complished by drugs plus hypno-
Itisn. According to Vatican sources,
the mother of Cardinal Mind
szenty, who was allowed to visit
him, was asked by her son, when
will my trial take place." He had
mo recollection Of it whatever.
Tests should be made on sub
ljects of high intellect willing to
volunteer, in order to ascertain by
what means men can be compelled,
without physical violence, to tell
Ia rational. consistent, yet prepos-
ferrous story.
For the defense Of historic truth
lis defense Of civilization itself
and, in the present world. q de-
fenSe Of the United States.
{Reieased by the Bell Syndicate, sInc.)
Evening star., 1949-09-29

ID e n dants" Dorothy Thompson.
confessed to having conspired with
the hereto Trotsky and with
German Nazis. A foreign power,
Hitler Germany, was directly in
lvolved.
In the Budapest trials. Tito
took the place Of Trotsky and the
United States the place of Hitler
Germany. The trials in Budapest
were a trial of the United States,
which has no direct way to pro-
ltect herself.
Rajk. the former foreign min
lister. testified that the United
States. through its minister, Sell
den Chaplin, blackmailed him into
becoming q spy plotting to over
throw the Government. by threat
ening to expose his background
as q Trotskyite. and implicated
George Kovach, member Of the
United States military mission
lin 1945-46. Another defendant, .
DR.. Thor Szoenyi, implicated Al
Ian Dulles, formerly of the o. 8. S.,
as attempting with Marshal Tito
in 1915 to organize a Balkan
front against the Soviets.
Directly Related to War.
The Americans involved have
declared the charges totally with
out foundation. That this is so,
lis supported by the character Of
the accused and the foreign pol
icy Of the United States at the
time.
Nevertheless, these trials are
part Of the historical record,
Their evidence" may be laughed
off in the. United States, but It
will be spread in the Communist
states, whose peoples number. q
third Of the worlds population,
and be part Of a dossier aiming
to prove that the United States
is menace to be destroyed. The
trials are directly related to war.
Beyond the personal denials OF
Mr.. Chaplin, Mr., Dulles. Mr.. Ko-
vach, ETC.. the United States. be-
fore the United Nations, must,
lit seems to me, do two things:
CLARITY how these confessions
lare extorted: and produce con-
lvincing, detailed evidence that
they are false. Although we VIII
not be granted it. we should. fol
Evening star., 1949-09-29

uSQeQ In the
Moscow purges
Of 1886 and
1887, when men
with three-star
names in the
c o m m u -
mist hierarchy
Joined the pros
ecution to con-
fess to conspir-
ing against ev-
cry t in g to
which they had
devoted their
live -. Thes e
Evening star., 1949-09-29

OAo AOW OlO
you were.
What do you
think would be
the best thing
to do about it?
Go to a doc
tor and let him
give a good
guess?
Saw of one
Of your legs
and count the
rings?
Hire q horse
to look in your
mouth ord Ao-
Evening star., 1949-09-29
BuIkheud Permit Asked

BALTIMORE. Sept. 20 R.-
The Army's district engineer has
received on application from Will
liam H. Berry of the department
Of foreign languages at the
Naval Academy for q bulkhead
and I'LL at his property on Chase
Creek near Arnold. Anne Arundel
County.
Evening star., 1949-09-29

giving TO Z n e
a t ON bonn b.
After all, while
you can't do
m uch m ore
about the one
than you can
about the other,
the b a S e b a II
b a t tt es are
pleasanter to
think about.
Nobody likes
to contemplate
q nightmare in
advance. or for
that matter in
Evening star., 1949-09-29

t n e American
experiment in
political inva-
sion of the Iron
Curtain on e
step beyond its
previous limit.
w h a t the
final result Of
this progressive
allurement of
Marshal Tito
away from the
Soviet bloc will
be remains in
the realm Of
Evening star., 1949-09-29
New Newspaper to Start

WASHINGTON, Va. Sept. 20
Especial Publication OF. the
Rappahannock News, a new news
paper. will be started, here soon
by Bruce s. Bowie, his sister. Miss
Lucy Catherine Bowie, and Jack
Barber. formerly OF Culpeper.
Evening star., 1949-09-29
By Dorothy THOMPSON

The trials" Of Lazlo Rajk and
other former members of the
Hungarian Communist govern
|ment followed the pattern estab-
Evening star., 1949-09-29
By Doris FIeeson

APRA HARBOR. Guam (By
air maiD. - Americas Pacific
frontier, advancing in a thin line
through tiny Johnston Island and
Evening star., 1949-09-29
By LoweH MeHeff

You hardly need apologize If
you find yourself giving more
thought to the furious finish of
the baseball season than you are
Evening star., 1949-09-29
By Constantine Bro,yn

The American decision to vote
for Yugoslavia to fill the place Of
the Soviet Ukraine on the United
Nations Security Council carries
Evening star., 1949-09-29

retrospect. We don't like to re-
member Hiroshima and Nagasaki; !;
we've tried to put those two
wholesale horrors out of our
minds. Even as we have thought
of the possible necessity to use our
atomic weapon against Russia,
we've restrained our imagination,
sought not to see the picture of
cities and human beings destroyed.
Past Point Of Talking.
The people in high places. in
cluding the press and the pulpit,
who told the plain public to be
calm when the news was broken
Of Russia's probable possession Of
the atomic bomb, were wasting
their breath. The plain public was
Evening star., 1949-09-29
.McLennore
Finds Puris Makes
Man Realize Age
Bv Henry McLemore

PARIS. Suppose your birth
date had been kept a secret from
you all your life, and you were
just busting with curiosity to find
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
FOOTBALL OFFICIALS
SET GULFPoRT MEET

The Mississippi Coast Football
Officials association has sched-
uled an organizational meeting
preparatory for the l949 season
Sunday at Gulfport High school
at 2 p. M, it was announced by
Dick Gay, Gulfport, association
president.
Members of the association and
others interested in making ap-
plication are invited to attend the
session. Membership fees for the
year will be received at this time,
Mr.. Gay stated.
NJ. J."Red) Bullock and Ed
ward A. Khayat, both of Moss
Point, members of the South
eastern Conference Football Off
cials' association, will lead dis
eussions on mechanics and rules
They attended a meeting of the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Health Film Seen
At YWBC Meeting

Members of the Young Wom-
ans Business club saw a film on
health which was presented by
Miss Claire Melton, health edu-
Gator of the county health de-
partment Monday.
The meeting took place in the
clubs room at the Knights of
Columbus home with the presi-
dent, Miss Dot Richards, in
charge.
Among reports from standing
committee chairmen for the past
six months was one from Miss
Mary 10 Butler, head of the pro-
gram committee to the effect
that films and other entertain
ment are to be presented at each
future business meeting.
1t was decided to hold the So
cial meeting August 20 in the
form of swimming party.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Bride-Elect Honored
With Shower.Teo

A shower tea at which guests
called between the hours of 3 and
5 p. m. Wednesday was among
the many lovely events in honor
of Miss Kitty Harris whose we'd
ding takes place Saturday.
The hostesses were Misses
Janice Nelson and Doris Olson
and the home of the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Mel
son, was setting for their hos
pitality.
A color scheme of green and
white had been arranged with
special artistry by Mrs. E. H. Ba-
cot, assisted by Mrs Nelson. In
the dining room the tea table with
its cloth of lace was centered by
a silver tray holding a crystal
bowl containing white altheas
and fern. Silver bowls of mints,
white candles in silver holders
and crystal bowl of punch adj
ded beauty.
Besides Mrs. Nelson the host
esses were assisted by Misses Lula
Mae Guillotte and Marlene Byrd
at the punch bowl and Miss
Rubye Wood. in charge of the
brides book.
The hostesses presented Miss
Harris a handsome eorsage and a
piece of crystal in her chosen
pattern.
There were about 30 callers.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Marine Lab Asks
$S5,7S0 In Budget
For Next z Years

State College, Miss. Aug. To-
DR.. Clyde Q Sheely of State col
lege, executive officer of the Mis-
sissippi Academy Of Sciences,
Inc, and head of the academy's
committee on the Gulf Coast lab
oratory, announces that his COM
mittee has drafted a proposed
budget of S85,7S0 for the year
round operation of the laboratory
during the next biennium, in ad-
dition to the $4,000 already ap-
propriated for operation of the
laboratory during the summer.
The committee also considered
tentative architectural sketches
for a permanent research labora-
tory and housing facilities to be
built on the recently acquired 80
acre property which has 1900 feet
of beach frontage.
"More than $4,000 will be re-
quired to finance the building
program needed if the Gulf Coast
research laboratory is to render
the proposed services to Missis-
sippi and the nation through ma
rine research and education" DR..
Sheely said. "The state agricul-
tural and industrial board is max
ing a study of the operation of
nine other marine laboratories
with the idea of establishing a re-
gional marine research laboratory
at Ocean Springs"
Two short courses, one in ma.
rine sedimentation and the other
in field botany, will begin Mon
day at the laboratory, Sheely said.
A course in science for elemen-
tary teachers will be offered at
the laboratory Aug. 1927, and
courses in parasitology and ma
rine zoology are now in progress.
The laboratory is directed by
DR.. r. L. Caylor, professor OF
botany at Delta State Teachers
college.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
October Date
Set For County
Fair, Says Moran

Work on the new Jackson
County fair grounds has pro-
gressed far enough that an Oc-
tober date has been tentatively
set for the first county fair in
10 years, A. p Moran, president
of the board of supervisors told
Moss Point Rotarians at lunch
con Thursday.
: Mr.. Moran outlined the five
year building program that has.
been adopted by the supervisors
for the construction of the new
fair grounds on the site Of the
airport
This year, barring unfavorable
weather, the preparatory work
on grading, surfacing of the
grounds and installing concrete
curbing will be finished, he said.
Some provision will be mode for
Some provision will be made for
erection of a permanent exhibi-
ton building. q
Future plans call for the con-
struction of exhibition buildings,
5-8 mile show track. and a
grandstand, Mr.. Moran said.
Future plans allow parking
space for approximately 600 au-
tomobiles. .p1s
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12

ton, and the sheriff and tax col
lector WOULD additionally be en-
Joined from collecting it at the
next tax collection period. The
letter was accompanied by a le-
gal opinion from Green & Green,
jackson attorneys.
Collected In Harrison
Harrison county port bonds are
issued under the same legislative
act, and the two-mill state levy
is collected on the total assessed
valuation of taxable property in
cluded homesteads. In a written
opinion the state attorney gener-
al unheld the validity of the ac-
ton. The opinion was given the
Gulfport city attorney in Janu-
ary, 1912.
The opinion at that time said
in part:
In my opinion, homesteads are
not exempt from the payment of
this tWo-mill tax. 1t is not a
maintenance tax but one levied
to retire bonds, and in my opin-
ion should be levied and collect
ed whether the state levies an ad
valorem tax or not. The act re-
quires the levy to be made and
allows it to be deducted from the
ad valorem tax levied for state
purposes. If no state tax is paid,
there IS nothing from which the
two-mill levy may be deducted
and it is the duty of the tax col
lector to collect the two mills
from all homestead exemption
lists"
Prior to the opening of the bid
l.. K. Mcintosh of Moss Point
said that as a taxpayer, home
owner and attorney representing
Mr.. Herring and others he wish
ed to put prospective purchasers
on notice that IAN action will be
filed at the proper time against
the collection of the tWo-mill levy
on homesteads." "
Port Commission Attorney Gau-
tier replied that he thought the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Funeral Rites At
Little Rock, Ark.
For Lit. Z. B. Wright

Funeral services will be held
for 1t. Edgar Byrd Wright, %,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry. #.
Wright, 600 Arthur street, Moss
Point, who was killed in action
in North Africa, February 4, 1943,
in the National Cemetery at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, Tuesday in a
group burial with four other boys
killed in the same action.
= 1t. Wright was graduate of
Central High school. Jackson, and
attended Mississippi State college
where he was a member of the
junior class at the time he en-
tered the air corps.
He received his wings at Kaye
Field, Columbus, Ga, and few
days before he embarked for
service abroad he received his
commission as first lieutenant. He
was on duty in Egypt and North
Africa as co-opilot in B-24
bomber until shot down.
He is survived by his parents;
three sisters, Mrs. Edward Pitt
man of Biloxi, Mrs. Clarence Gle
ger Of Moss Point and Miss Annie
Marguerite of Jackson, and one
brother, Harry F. Wright, Jr., of
Kreole. He is also survived by
his maternal grandmother, Mrs.
E. H. Stokes of Pascagoula.
His parents, sisters, and Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Wright, Jr., will
leave Monday to attend the
services.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Bonds
Continued From Page y

Continued From Page y
|Wiesenburg, city attorney, held
That the proposed amendments to
| the indenture were illegal be-
cause funds accruing from opera
ton of port facilities are munici-
pal funds and the proposed
changes would be in conflict with
city ordinances.
Charles & Trauernicht, bond
attorneys of St. Louis, had pre-
viously approved the legality of
the indenture and subsequently,
reiterated their approval in tele-
phone conversations with w. R.
Guest, president of the port COM
mission, and Mr.. Gautier.
On July 20 Nj. Herring re-
signed as trustee for the port
commission.
Advertise Fer Resale
The bonds We're subsequently
advertised for resale and were
then protested on the basis of the
two-mill state levy which would
be applied to county homesteads
TO service the issue, together with
existing revenues.
In February a resolution had
been presented to the board of
supervisors by the city and port
commission requesting the board
10 collect the state levy under ex-
isting statutes. The resolution
was adopted by the board.
On August 2 Mr.. Herring wrote
the board of supervisors that to-
gether with Influential and
prominent citizens of Jackson
countyH he believed the board
had exceeded its authority in
adopting the resolution declaring
It's intention to collect the two
mill homestead levy.
Should the levy be fixed for
the coming year, he said. a suit
would be filed against the collec-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Fire House Siren
To Have New Role

When the siren at the Pasca-
goula fire station on Delmas ave-
nue. yowls it's time to run and
run fast.
Originally used to call volun-
teer firemen to man the trucks
in the event of fire, the siren
will in the future warn the pub
lie of a major disaster or emer-
gency, according to city officials.
The siren was reconditioned
after silence for the past few
years and is in working order
now in case of trouble.
Pleads Guilty to Car Theft.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
PASCAGOULA VARSITY
REPORTS FOR UNIFORMS

Coach Dutch" Binton reminds
all Pascagoula Panthers that
equipment will be issued at the
high school gym today and Sat-
urday and anyone interested in
playing is asked to report dur
ing this time. Practice is sched-
uled to begin Monday for the
Panthers. Date has not yet been
set for the start of Junior high
practice.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
JUNIOR HI TIGERS ~.
REPORT AT MOSS POINT

The Tiger Cubs OF Moss Point
Junior high are scheduled to be-
gin football practice Monday at
2 p. m. at the high school athletic
field, it was announced by Boyce
Jones, junior high coach. Varsity
practice will also get underway
Monday afternoon with both
teams being issued uniforms dur
ing the morning.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
HID Council, Two
Members Place AT
Statewide Meet

Jackson county placed second
in the district and had two indi-
vidual place winners at the 1949
Farm and Home Week at Missis-
sippi State college last week.
The report showing home i'm
provements in the county was
given honorable mention, synon-
ymous in this instance with sec
ond place, in the South Missis-
sippi district in the Rural Better
Homes contest.
Mrs. A. c. Petersen of Hurley
placed third in the state in the
story writing contest and Mrs.
Jack Fletcher of Mt. Pleasant
won third place in the evening
dress division in the dress revue.
Attending the three-day meet
ing in Starkville were Miss Vela
Mckinley, county home demon
stration agent, and IA members
of demonstration clubs in the
county.
Mrs. Petersen based her story
for the competition on her work
in landscsping her yard and Mrs.
Fletcher modelled a chartreuse
Butcher linen evening gown to
bring the prizes home to Jack
son county.
The program included demon
strations, talks and entertain
ment Registration was held Mon
day morning and the rest of the
day was given to seeing exhibits
and a brief evening program
The theme for Tuesday was
''The Rural Church, Health anc
Farm Life"
For Wednesday the program
centered around the theme
Farm Home Owners Day" ane
on Thursday "The Press, The Col
lege and Balanced Farming" wa
chosen.
Improvement Report
Exhibits showed how to save
labor, money and time in pro
ducing food, feed and fiber anC
to improve health and happiness
for faIm people.
The report which placed Jack
son county in the winning col
umns follows: construction =
new homes built, 10; homes re
modelled, l8; yard improvement
-sodding, 7; permanent founda
tion shrubs set, 1907; number cut
tings rooted, 45l6; number peo
pie sharing shrubs and seeds, 573
House Improvement - heating
gas, 33, other, II; telephones, 6
sinks added, 81; built in kitchel
cabinets, AZ; ventilated pantr,
for canned goods, /, l3y 49, elothe
closets, So; bathrooms built, 16
bathrooms equipped, II; piece
of furniture refinished, Ill; floor
refinished, 81; walls papered, II
wood work refinished, 83 rooms
new steps added, SO; mail boxe
repaired, 81.
Experimentation, ID; rooi
33; window sills and panes, 107
floors, II; porches, is; house
painted, 20; outside building
painted, %; rooms painted in
side, 81.
Sanitation-windows screene,
or repaired, 229; doors screene'
or repaired, 73; electric or pres
sure pumps added, 20; indoo
toilets, is; outdoor toilets, Is.
observation-disclosures wired, q
no pieces of electrical equipmen
repaired, l59; number pieces elec
trical equipment bought, 149;
Community activities-numbe
tours, 4; number churches i'm
proved, z; cemeteries improved
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
PARTY AT PAVILION
HONORS KITTY HARRIS

Tuesday evening Miss Kitty
Harris was honor guest at a sup
per at the Beach pavilion, her
hostess being Misses Marilyn
Heinrich, Katherine Adams, Peg
gy DeForrest and Billie Owens.