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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29

Hal C. DeCell, advertising man.
Hger and associate publisher of
the Deer Creek Pilot, Rolling
Fork. and widely read feature CO.
lumnist for the Mississippi Week
" News Service, has been named
by the Governors Council of the
Mississippi Lions clubs to be edit
or of the Magnolia Lion, official
Lions club publication for the
state.
In Mr.. DeCell's own words, he
is "a barrellhouse musician, who,
in accommodating AZ months sea
time as a merchant seaman, circl-
ed the globe twice and visited the
MAJORITY of the countries with sea-
ports, later to earn his bread as
a commercial artist and cartoonist
until turning to his first love
pris tiers ink and the smell of
newsprint."
Mr.. DeCell attended the Uni
versity of Mississippi and Alaba
ma. While at Mississippi he
founded, edited and published a
successful magazine, THE Hi
Y'All"; founded the Press club,
forerunner of the present honor
airy Journalism fraternity; and
was affiliated with the sac fra
ternity. He was engaged in adj
vertising and publicity work for
Robbins Tire and Rubber COM
pany, in Tuscumbia, Alabama,
for one year before returning to
Mississippi as a newspaperman
two years ago.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29
Patients At The Hospital

Mrs Emmett English and baby
boy, Durant
Mrs. c. D. Blackstone and baby,
Lexington
Mrs. John Kimbrough and baby,
Lexington
Mrs. A. c.. Weathersby, Lexington
M. M. Waldrup, Lexington
Nadine Barnes, Cruger
Roy Foster, Tchula
Margaret Brumby, Goodman
Mrs. James King. Pickens
Tom Wigley, Sails
Wesley Mcbride, Durant
Colored
Pecola Henderson, Lexington
Melvin Roby, Lexington
Julia Polk. Lexington
Jessie Robertson, Tchula
George Keyes, Black Hawk
Andrew Henderson, Tchula
Alberta Carter, Goodman
Jesse Lee Hodges, Lexington
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29

Labor Outlook
2. Even with all the threats,
there will be a few wage in
creases during 1850. On the other
hand, all labor negotiations take
the minds of both the employees
and the management off their
regular business. However, these
negotiations come out, they result
in a loss from the standpoint of
the country as a whole.
3. There will be fewer strikes
in 1850 than in 1949, but there
will not be fewer extended ne
gotiations which are very expen-
sive in themselves.
4. The Taft Hartley law will
continue to stand throughout
1850, although many schemes for
detouring this law will be devils
ed.
S. The great drive against the
big companies will be for pensions
and or for sick and other bene-
fits. These will probably be help
full to the wageworkers and may
aid in ironing out the business
cycle, but they will be paid fol
by consumers.
G. 1t is hoped that all parties
will begin to realize during 1856
that the real road to national pro-
gress is through increasing pro-
duction and greater efficiency
This is the bright light we see in
the labor situation.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29
Funeral Services Held
For Miss Sarah Tate

Fuenral services for Miss Sarah
Francis Tate, SO, who died at the
home of her. niece, Mrs. Lottie
Allen near Bowling Green De
cember %, were held at Mount
Pleasant Baptist church Deem
Der %, with the Rev. H. c. Ellis,
West, officiating. Burial was at
Mount Pleasant cemetery.
Miss Tate was born in Holmes
county in 1868, and had lived in
the county all her life. She was
a member of the Bowling Green
Baptist church.
Surviving is one brother, Enoch
Tate, of Arkansas,
Lee Funeral home was in
charge of arrangements.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29
Form Labor Shortage

A shortage of farm workers was
reported today by H. H. Thomas,
manager of the State Employment
Service office at Lexington.
Mr.. Thomas stated that there
was an acute need for share
troopers, rentors and day hands
on farms in this sector, and urged
all such workers seeking homes
for another year to contact him
at the employment office at l04
Spring street, Lexington.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29
Foreign Trade
Stute Health
Officers Elected

DIR. H. B. Cottrell, assistant di-
rector, division of county health
work, State Board of Health, was
named president-elect of the
State Public Health association,
after a meeting in Jackson re-
Gently.
Mrs. Mary K. Varnado, super
vising public health nurse, Pike
County Health department., Nc
Comb, was installed as president
to serve for the coming year.
L. U. Amason, personal super
visor, State Health department
Jackson, was reelected secretary
treasurer.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29
JUDGE n LEE TO
TAKE OATH OF OFFICE

Judge Percy NJ. Lee, of Forest,
will be sworn in as a member
of the State Supreme Court on
January 2, by Chief Justice Har-
vey McGehee.
He succeeds Associate Justice
Malcolm B. Montgomery, who re-
tires at the end of this year. Judge
Montgomery will enter the priv
ate practice of law in Jackson.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29

Commodity Prices
z. Movements in commodity
prices during 1850 will vary with
different groups of industries and
of products, but altogether there
will be a general lowering during
1850.
8. We, therefore, advise going
easy on inventories. 1850 is n
time to get out of debt and stay
out of debt. Speculation in COM
modities should be discouraged in
1850.
8. We believe that the cost OF
living index has turned down for
the present. The average for 1859
will be less than for 1949.
10. Practically all retail prices
will average less in 1850 than in
1949, notwithstanding the excess
of money mentioned under 81, "a
and 20 below.
Farm Outlook
IL. The total farm income for
1850 should be less than that Of
l949, which means lower prices
on the average for wheat, corn,
pork, poultry, eggs and certain
dairy products. Farmers should
diversity o in 1850, get out
of debt and put their surplus mo-
ney into savings, in preparation
for the next crop failure.
IL. The supply of certain cam
ned vegetables and fruits Except
J citrus) should be greater during
1850 than at the same time during
1949., The prices of these pro-
ducts should fall off, barring some
weather, insect or blight catas~
trophe.
10. Poultry and dairy products
will especially increase in volume
during 1850 with prices averag-
ing less than in 1949.
Ia. Farmers will continue to
work to hold present subsidies. It
Is popular to c~riticise the vast
amount of crops which the gov
eminent owns or is making loans
on. but this surplus in storage
may be a great blessing when the
next crop failure or war comes
Taxes
Is. The Federal budget will be
increased during 1850 over that
for 1949.
16. Overall Federal taxes will
not be increased during 1850 and
there may even be some readjust-
ments to encourage venture CAPT.
tai. Moreover. some CT the null
sance taxes may be eliminated or
reduced.
II. The long-term capital gains
tax of rs per cent will remain
unchanged.
18. There will be many in
creases in local and state taxes,
and more reaching for relief by
sales taxes or other forms Of
raising needed funds.
Retail Trade
10. Goods on counters will be
of better grade in 1850 than they
were in 1949.
20. Markdown sales will con-
.inue during 1850 as consumer
spending slackens due to a de-
cline in employment and other
factors.
81. The dollar value of all e
tail sales in 1850 viii be moderate
ly downward, and the unit vol
ume of retail sales will also be
less in 1850 than in 1949.
%. Less will be spent on new
building and equipment by stores
and factories during 1850.
Foreign Trade
%. Our exports will be down
during 1850 and our imports will
be up for 1850, = comparing both
with 1949. This Will partly be ac-
Continued on Page 81
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29

one reads the posted sign:
Stranger, whatsoever thou art
and whatsoever be thy creed,
i when thou enterest this sanctuary,
remember that thou treadst upon
ground hallowed b the worship OF
ages. This is the Temple of Bud
dha and the gate of the Eternal,
and should be entered with re-
verence."
/ have told of these two shrines
in some detail because in my
mind they are very significant in
what they represent to the Jap
anese people. Because of this they
are important to any nation deal
ing with the japanese, now or in
the future. Religion has played
a most important role in the de-
velopment of the Japanese ma
ton and, in my opinion, is greatly
responsible for the plight they
find themselves in today.
The Japanese empire goes back
to $50 years before Christ and
from the beginning the two doml-
nant religions-Shinto and Bud
dhism-held its people in line for
the emperor.
The ancient religions of Shin
toism was and is a form of nature
worship and there are some eight
million Nature gods. They range
from the simplest objects of ma
ture, such as trees and mountains,
to the Great Heaven Shining
Deity" or Sun Goddess. Shinto-
ism is very strong on nationalist
concepts. The Emperor is a God
and cannot be questioned Per-
sonal ancestors are also deified
as we'll as those of the Imperial
line.
After the introduction of Bud
dhism from Korea and China in
$50 Shintoism was partially dor
mant but eventually was revived
and became stronger than ever
with the overthrow of japanese
feudalism and the restoration OF
the Imperial House in 1863, Al
one time the two religions were
Joined in a kind of double religion
with their priests presiding over
the same affairs. The two faiths
were later separated but the peo-
pie continued to practice both
using different temples and sep
arate family shrines.
Today there are some Is sects
of Shintoism and II sectS of Bud
dhists. There are 110,413 Shinto
shrines and 106,634 Buddhist tenn
pies. There are 2,104 Christian
churches and the. Roman Catho-
lies have an archbishop and three
~suffragan bishops. All faiths
are tolerated today there being nc
state religion.
It is very difficult for the aver
age western mind to reconcile
Japan's newly born democracy
with these age-old traditions or
emperor, ancestors and pagan
god's-especially when one see:
thousands of japanese schoo.
children daily being led on sight
seeing trips to these famou.
shrines at Yamakura, Kyoto ano
other places throughout Japan,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29

Mrs. Claud Thomas visited H
H. Thomas over the Christmas
holidays. She had been visiting
her brother Sam Lott at Ell Pasc
Texas. Mrs. Thomas came Tues
day and STAYED until Sunday. at
which time she returned 10 her
home at Duck Hill.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-12-29
Babson Predicts Drop In Volume OF Business,
Cost OF Living Index, Total Farm income,
In 1850; No World War. More Money
Murkdown Sales Will Continue During 1850
AS Consumer Spending Slockens
by Roger w. Babson

l. The total volume of business for 1850 will be less
than that of 1949, due primarily to the unfortunate laboz
conflicts. Considering that the innocent consumer Will be
the chief sufferer and will be obliged to pay the bills, il
seems too bad that labor troubles should upset the applicant
Evening star., 1949-10-24
HospituIizution Costs

It is inevitable, although unfortunate,
that disqualification insurance costs rise
as hospital bills grow larger. Since June
of last year, the bills paid by Group Hos
pitalization, Inc, on behalf of its members
have increased 81 per cent. 1t Snoulo
occasion no surprise, therefore, that con-
tract rates for Group Hospitalizatlons
100000 subscribers in the washington area
will go up December by amounts varying
from twenty to fifty cents month.
Group disqualification has raised its
rates only once before since its establish
ment in 1884. The previous increase
occurred last December. 1t was imposed
to meet complaints of the hospitals that
they were not receiving from Group Hos
pitalization members proper share OF
the costs of care. CHI increased its pay
ments to the hospitals and for while the
situation was in approximate balance.
But the hospitals costs of operation have
continued to rise, necessitating another
adjustment upward of disqualification
bills. Factors in the spiraling costs include
wage increases and higher cost of equip
ment and materials.
But the new rates will enable the organi-
cation to offer its members more benefits
than ever before. Full disqualification of
polio victims will be covered, instead of
the present ten-day limitation. Ten
months after joining CHI, disqualification
will be granted for illnesses which existed
at the time of signing up. Out-of-town
hospital allowances will be liberalized.
Most important from policy standpoint,
Group disqualification in the future will
admit individual members to whom group
coverage is not available. This is a sig
nificant step toward broadening CHI into
a community health insurance organiza-
tion of the voluntary type. It's develop
ment under this new policy will be
watched with interest, in view of the
voluntary-versus-co compulsory health in
surance controversy, scheduled for re-
newal when Congress reconvenes
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Lovers in q Library

Soft light falls on the book-lined ,oalls
Screening three lovers there:
The first, a sage ,Dith the runes of age
In 1DrinkleS and SilUer hair,
Reading tongue forever young,
Smiles in approval sloao-
He's In IoDe pith a lady fair
OF thousands OF years ago!
Behind redoubt of polunses stout
With a litter OF toolscap spread,
The second spraaDls;; as his pencil Scratols,
He nutters, and shakes his head;
His thin face lights as he aorites and ,orites,
Then clouds 10ith despair torlorn-
He's In lore iDith q lady fair
Who hasn't as yet been born!
But ever the gaze of the third man strays
From formulas cra,oling grim,
His epening's stint, in the prosy print
OF the textbook confronting him -.
What's in the path to nidterm n,ath.
Rendering thought unstable?
He's IN lone NTH the lady fair
on the opposite side OF the table!
HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Readers Discuss Strikes
In Basic Industries

In Basic Industries
To the Editor of The Star:
Like the ripples of water touched of by
thrown stone, the widening result of
the coal and steel strikes is affecting the
lives Of thousands upon thousands of indi-
viduals remote from the critical centers of
these disputes and entirely innocent of
blame.
In just the plant employing the writer
some 400 men and women have been laid
off their jobs.
We know Of other plants of equal or
greater urgency on which production has
stopped, and we wonder if. by reason Of in
dustrial disputes, we are to have another
round Of shortages and for how long.
At this writing, the coal strike is 80 days
old, the steel strike II days and the alumni
mum strike Just begun. It is worth inquiring
how well we can afford to let them run
their course without giving due considera-
ton to the element of time. It would be
rude shock to our complacency if we were
asked to view the state of the Nation should
these strikes go on to, say, so or 80 days.
Shall we be obliged to wait for industrial
rigor mortis to set in before settlement is
reached, or shall we, right now, through re-
sponsible Government, management and la
Dor agencies, initiate back-to-work move
ment with outstanding issues adjusted in an
atmosphere cleared of crisis, strife and con-
fusion? MARTIN HARRIS
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1949-10-24
No Job for VioiIuntes

Granting that there is need for serious
planning for civil defense in this atomic
era, there is no room In such plan for
a vigilante organization of the type which
an official of the National Rifle Association
seems to have in mind.
According to an Associated Press dis
patch from Denver the executive director
of the association proposes Nationwide
civilian army" of minute men," armed
and ready to rush to the defense of their
homes, public utilities, bridges and other
possible targets of Communist attack or
sabotage. Nobody would have to move
any further than we might 60 on Sunday
picnic" the dispatch quoted the official
as explaining Formal organization would
be at minimum, within each State
through adjutant generals, then sherifs
and designated sector commanders. In an
emergency, minute men could be alerted
in matter of minutes. Friend would join
friend to rush to key spots. Control by
the military would be small. So would
police control"
But loosely-knit, inadequately con-
trolled home-defense outfit such as
described might do more harm than
good in an emergency. Certainly it would
be unwise to permit undisciplined and
inexperienced units of armed civilians to
take upon themselves the responsibilities
envisioned in this scheme If any internal
security army is to mobilize in a future
emergency, 1t should be composed of
men who have been carefully picked and
organized for the job, under the control
OF responsible authorities. Combating
sabotage is task for experts, not for
insufhciently trained and disciplined
citizens, however good their intentions
Evening star., 1949-10-24
The Amtorq Indictment

To most Americans the really surprising
thing about the indictment of the Amtorg
Trading Corporation is the disclosure that
this well-known Russian purchasing firm
is not registered as foreign agent. Dur
ing the war similap representatives of
Allied nations were exempted from regis
tration under the Foreign Agents Regis
tration Act of 1888. After the war, how
ever, those which continued to function
were required to register. For example,
although the British Purchasing Commis-
sion has gone out of existence, the British
Information Services and similar agencies
of friendly powers have complied with the
registration law without protest.
There is no stigma attached to regis
tration under the 1888 act, no implication
of improper activities by the registrants.
The law is designed merely to compel
bona fide trading, travel information or
other firms engaged in legitimate business
for foreign governments to put themselves
on official record as such. Ever since the
wartime exemption granted allied powers
was lifted in 1916 the United States Gov
ernment has been trying to induce the
Amtorg outfit to register as an agent of
Russia. 1t has refused to do so, on the
ground that it is an American, not
Russian, concern. Yet the Department of
Justice says it has abundant evidence to
support its charges that Amtorg is, in
fact, what 1t has every appearance of
being-Moscow's official trade representa-
tive in this country. If that is the case,
there is no reason why it should enjoy
any longer the immunity from registration
which was given it as a wartime courtesy.
The logical place to settle the impasse
which has developed between Antorg and
the American Government is in the courts.
At the forthcoming trial Amtorg and its
representatives will have ample oppor-
tunity to explain why they believe 1t is en-
titled to further immunity. The burden
Of proof, of course, will be on the Depart
ment of Justice. Meanwhile, it should be
remembered that the Amtorg indictment
bears no relation to the trial and convic-
tion Of the eleven Communist leaders in
New York City. Amtorg is not accused of
conspiring against the Government Of the
Evening star., 1949-10-24
Western Aid for Berlin

An Ofnc1al announcement CHaC tIle tilTee
Western Powers and the West German
Federal Republic have agreed on joint
program of financial and commercial aid
for the Western occupied sectors OF Berlin
may come as surprise to many Amerl-
cans. The success of the Western air-lift
in succoring the West Berliners from the
Soviet blockade has doubtless led many
of us to believe that the Berlin problem
was solved AS matter of fact, it is
in quite another way
To be sure, food, fuel and raw materials
can reach West Berlin from Western Ger
many without Russian hindrance. Yet,
in so far as these are not donations, the
West-Berlin economy is hard put to pay
for them on a normal basis of money,
goods or services. The hard truth is that
West Berlin and its more than 100000
inhabitants, geographically sundered from
West Germany and surrounded by Soviet
occupied territory with different cur
rency and economic set-up, is not self
supporting economic entity. Its Western
mark is too good to compete with the
East mark in real purchasing power. West
Berlipers find they can get nearly every
thing cheaper in the Russian sector. So
they change their currency and patronize
stores there rather than their own. This
means that West Berlin retail businesses
are hard hit. Similarly, goods produced in
West Berlin cannot compete with the
products of West Germany itself. Indeed,
in many instances, WeSt-German goods
undersen Berlin-made products in their
own market, despite transportation
charges. The upshot is a deepening
economic depression and unemployment
that has reached staggering proportions.
Unemployment benefits and other social
services drain the resources of the West
Berlin municipal government to danger
Gus degree. The whole picture is one of
economic stagnation and decay.
All this raises the deeper question as
to the future of Berlin as whole. This
great metropolitan city, one of the largest
in the world, owed much of its economic
vitality to it's being the capital of a
powerful and, on the whole, an econom-
ically integrated and balanced nation.
There were no basic reasons why Berlin
should have become financial and in
dustrlal center. Lying athWart no natural
trade route, it remained a small and un-
distinguished town during the Middle Ages,
getting its economic start when it became
the seat of the Prussian monarchy. Now
that Prussia itself is gone and the richest
provinces of Eastern Germany have passed
under Polish or Russian control, the chief
economic reasons for Berlin as metrop-
oils have disappeared. Unless conditions
change favorably, Berlin may be dying
city with no future comparable to its
imperial past.
Nevertheless, some 100000 Berliners
remain-more than half of them in the
sectors under Western occupation. These
people must stay where they are, since
mass emigration is impossible. And they
strive desperately to live. Unless they can
be assured of a minimum existence with
hopes of something better in the long run,
discomfort will become despair, and they
Evening star., 1949-10-24

ambitions have been allowed to work into
the picture. Right there the answer is sug-
gested. From my recent trips to every State
in the Union, I know that the people are
going to demand that these evils be combed
out of our national security; that faulty con-
cepts of one inexperienced branch of the
military be not imposed upon another branch
in fulfilling its responsibilities. And. finally.
when we try to devise strategy which is
patiently based upon national policy not
yet formulated, we are putting the cart be-
fore the horse. Such plans always 60 wrong
We must first give policy and diplomacy a
chance to evolve and work. Then and only
then, will we know what our defense set-up
should be. This is the first step in real unifi-
cation. ELLIS M. ZACHARIAS.
Rear Admiral. U. S. Navy Retired.