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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-05-27
News From Fort Bayou =.
Fort Bayou Represented Al Flower,
Vegetable Show; Summer Visitors

of Orange Grove announce the
birth of their third son at Biloxi
hospital Nav IA. MI. Ramsay
took his mother. Mrs. Claude
Ramsay. to the hospital Sunday
to see her new grandson.
P. B. Farley of Port st. Joe.
Fla, is still i'll in the hospital
in that city. Late reports are that
his condition is very serious. He
is the son-in-law of Charlie Webb
of Fort Bayou.
The Charles Wardrop family
visited MIR. Wardrop's grandfather,
c. erbeck, in Moss Point Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Grimsley
of Pascagoula were Sunday WIS.,
itors at the Claude Ramsay home.
Friends of Jim Martin are sor-
ry to hear of his recent serious
illness. At present he is some
what improved.
Wyatt Wardrop is spending two
weeks with his aunt. Mrs. How
ard Jennings of Evergreen. and
attending the vacation Bible
school.
Mrs. c. r. Naquin and daughter
of Pascagoula were Sunday WIS.,
itors at the home of their parents,
the Jim Martins. Mr.. and Mrs.
Woodrow Martin of Jackson also
came. MI. Martin returned to
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-05-27

Jackson but Mrs. Martin remained
for a longer visit with his parents.
Mrs. Howard Dupree and chill
dren returned Thursday from
New Orleans where they have
been visiting relatives and friends.
Guests at the j. Dupree home
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. James
Ellzey of Biloxi and Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy Richard and children of
Pascagoula and on Wednesday
they were visited by Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Richard and Miss
Victoria Dupree, also of Pasca-
gouls.
Kreble Delaney has been quite
i'll following a minor operation at
Biloxi hospital a few days ago,
but is much better now.
Mrs. Russell Barry has been
staying with her parents, the Les
ter Mallettes, while recovering
from a major operation.
Katie Lee and Glenn Wardrop
visited their aunt, Mrs. Roy Phil
lips of Keesler for a few days.
Dorette Ann Bullen of Chicago
visited Annie Vivian Taylor Sun
day afternoon.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-05-27

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functional monthly painf Many Q girl and
woman has found the answer In CAR
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'.your time and taken as directed on the
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appetite. aid digestion. and thus help
build up resistance for the trying days to
eoms CARDUI 10 scientifically prepared
and scientifically tested. II you suffer at
thnse certain times'', get CARDUI today.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-05-27
BY MRS. w. e. MONROE

Mr.. and Mrs. v. B. Taylor and
family, Mrs. George Cole, Mrs.
Charles Wardrop, Mrs. Ernest
Mallette, Mr.. and Mrs. R. M.
Spaulding and Mrs. Andrew
Campbell motored to Pascagoula
last Tuesday to attend the Jack
son County Flower and Vegeta-
BILE show. Quite a number of ex-
hibits were taken from this COM
munity, many of which won rib
bons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Cicoria made
a business trip to New Orleans
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Ramsay
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-05-27
SLp-On Dress

New love of the season =. the slip-on
dress (easy to wear-easy to launder)
in sheer crisp cotton. Made feminine
with baby lace edging. In pink, aqua,
green and blue, 14-44.
Evening star., 1949-10-30
The Planners Look Ahead

Washington would be a vastly improved
city If all the changes contemplated IN
the tentative master plan of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
could be realized in the near future. This
is essentially long-range program, how
ever-a goal toward which the planners
may set their sights and hope that the
ways and means may be found to bring
1t closer to attainment.
The plan actually contains little that
is new. 1t constitutes however valuable
summary of all the proposals that have
found favor in the past among those de-
voted to the task of building a more
attractive National Capital, not only from
an esthetic, but from a utilitarian view
point Under this plan washington would
strive to become community without
slums, with fewer traffic problems, with
more beautiful buildings and parks and
with closer ties to the suburban areas sur
rounding the District.
1t is good to note the emphasis given the
dilemma resulting from long-lived tempo
rary buildings in Washington. The Park
and Planning Commission has taken
reasonable stand against unreasonable
encroachments on the Districts park res
ervations This stand deserves to be pub
liciZed again and again, lest the very
permanency of so-called temporary struc-
lures lead to public acceptance of them
as a necessary evil. There has been
tendency in this direction in the past.
The commission reaffirms the principle
that the Mall should be preserved in
10 nf
composition" in the Capitol-Lincoln Me-
mortal area. The Mall was violated first
during World War I. The Temporary"
Navy Munitions Buildings are still there,
and World War II added new cluster, of
"tempos." Prompt demolition" of all
such squatters on the Mall is urged In
the commissions report, but experience
indicates that their disappearance will be
anything but prompt. ''.
Looking further afield, the commission
envisions more bridges, another large air
port and completion of the much-needed
Washington-Balt Parkway and of
the George Washington Memorial Park
> way across the Potomac River. AS the
city and its environs continue to grow, the
commission sees an increasing need for
more effective coordination of Metro
politan Area planning and development.
One step toward such coordination would
be taken by passage of the Senate
approved bill to expand the authority of
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission. The way for another step
would be opened by adoption of the
Sasscer plan for an interarea commission
to study the whole problem of cooperative
action. These measures need not conflict
They should be complementary. Both are
important enough to warrant prior atten-
tion at the Capitol next January
Evening star., 1949-10-30
The Truth Comes Out

No one who has reached that point in
life at which memory becomes more of an
embarrassment than an aid will laugh at
the President for forgetting the seven
occasions on which he has invoked the
Taft-Hartley Act. There will be few
jeerers, of course, for Mr.. Truman dropped
the ball in big way when he denied at
his press conference that he had ever used
the Taft-Hartley law against a striking
union. But the hecklers can safely be
ignored. They probably are malicious up
starts who have not lived long enough to
comprehend the cruel things that time
can do to man.
For most of us, the reaction will be
sense of relief that the truth has come
out at last. It used to be hard to follow
the President when he would denounce the
Taft-Hartley Act as the most iniquitous,
oppressive and generally reprehensible
piece of legislation ever to get into the
law books. To the average citizen, watch
ing Mr.. Truman use the law to crack down
on John L. Lewis, for instance, 1t seemed
IKE pretty good thing. And 1t just didn't
EN- to make sense when the Aresident
Evening star., 1949-10-30

ing sculptured sacrament which he desired
would ravSh the eyes and search the souls
of oncoming generations, often called the
finished statue THE Peace Of God." very
distinguished statesman, In a letter to
Adams gave this appraisal: '"The monu-
ment Is indescribably noble and imposing
It is full of poetry, infinite wisdom, past
without beginning and future without end,
repose after limitless experience, peace
to which nothing matters
The greenish bronze figure of a seated
woman within the incredible perfection of
the hooding folds of her ample cloak is the
high altar of secluded sylvan sanctuary,
guarded by evergreens and trees Of holly
and cypress through whose draperies the
little truant waves of sunlight pass to dance
upon the pebbled floor Of this mystic chapel
of the living dead. The figure Is an Alpine
peak in art. Competent critics with almost
one accord acclaim the Rock Greek Adams
Memorial st. Gaudens' masterpiece, sur
passing his Christ" in the Phillips Brooks
Memorial in Boston and his Lincoln" In
Chicago. Alexander Woollcott declares it
"the most beautiful thing ever fashioned
by the hand Of man on this continent
4 -
To live in the city which wears this crea-
tion as wondrous gem and not to possess
ones possessions. never to take the path
worn by those drawn as by a magnet from
half world away to gaze upon this miracle
Of spiritual significance and artistic perfec-
ton, is like being in Paris and never seeing
the Venus de Milo" or Mona Lisa" or In
Milan and missing "The Last Supper
When the world began to talk about this
perfect Towering Of his genius, one meeting
st. Gaudens ventured upon a subject the
artist always seemed reluctant to discuss
Asked the meaning of his Rock Greek crea-
tion, he replied slowly and with deep feel
ing: Some call it the Peace of God, some
Nirvana. It is the human soul face to face
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Letters to The Star

cal Library has been ordered dispersed.
MIX 1t all up" is the rule Of the day. There
fore. recommend that the Army Navy
game also be abolished. No more should
these two service schools be in contest of
any kind with each other. not even in
sports. The spirit OF rivalry often is bred on
the playing field and carries over into later
lie. which now is. to be deplored, according
70 tne present administration. So, it seems
only logical that from here on we have an
armed services football team, no more dis
tinct as Army or Navy. This unified OUTFIT
then would be free to challenge all comers
but would have only gentle acquiescence
sweetness and light among its own members
. Mitchellville, Md. FIELDING DAVIS.
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Spires Of the Spirit
Beyond Grief
St. Gaudens Adams Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery
Seen Challenge to Us All
By the Rev. Frederi BrownH Harri, D.
BY the Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, DID,. Lin. DID,.

with the greatest Of all mysteries" To de-
mand an explanation seems like insisting
that the meaning Of Beethoven's Fifth SYM
phony. which st. Gaudens greatly loved,
should be captured in q mathematical equa-
ton. In the highest realms ultimate mean
ing always breaks through formulas and
escapes. st. Gaudens purpose, evidently,
was not to answer final questions, but to raise
them. The answer depends upon the one
face to face with that tranquil countenance
with the deep eyes that neither frown nor
smile. TO some, the effect Of the mysterious
figure is to induce shuddering sense of ne
CATION and futility. To others, the BROOD
ing form represents the philosophic rather
than the religious approach to what men call
death. There is evidence that Adams desired
the memorial to express the intellectual ac-
ceptance Of the inevitable. whatever that
might be.
This hooded woman was not meant as
modern sphinx. She does speak to those
who have ears to hear. Yet she will not
murmur her secrets to just anybody. To
those who come to her with an undimmed
faith she speaks assuringly from a realm
where beyond these raucous voices there is
peace. She is beyond self, beyond sense,
beyond sham and show, beyond mortality,
beyond strife and striving, beyond grief.
Here, with a multitude of white stones
surrounding and world city sweeping up
to the very gates of the cemetery, sitting un-
needing in this calm and sure retreat. is
life-but it is life 10 minutes after death
No wonder John Galsworthy makes one of
his characters, a cultured Englishman who
visits this memorial, remark with awe that
it was the best thing he had come across
In America. the one that gave him the most
pleasure, in spite of all the water he had
seen at Niagara and those skyscrapers in
New York" AS he gazed, a crimson oak
leaf falling lodged In his lapel, another on
his knee. But so engrossed was he that he
did not brush them oil. For he was looking
too intently at "the woman who had passed
beyond grief, as she sat in frozen accept
ance deeper than death ttself-very remark
able" The comment Of the Britisher, as
he left, was: "They ought to make America
sit here once q week." Which raises the
question, Have you ever sat there on that
Judgment seat. letting that silent figure
speak to the immortal part of you?
% tranquil eyes that look so calmly down
Upon world Of passion and Of lies,
calm. unchanging eyes, that once have
shone
With these our ntful fires. that burn and
cease
With light Of human passion human
tears,
And know that after all the end /.
PEACE"
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Let's All Count Ten

What q Time this IS! Nationally and
internationally, everybody seems to be in
an ugly mood. Things are so bad all
over that reading the daily paper is about
the same as asking for kick in the shins
People who hate music on buses loathe
people who like it, and vice versa
A Senator is pleased to hear that the ad-
ministration may "get tough" with coun-
tries in the Marshall Plan Labor
and management are snarling at each
other to such an extent that they both
bid fair to develop stomach ulcers .
Herbert Lehman, doing violence to facts,
calls John Foster Dulles a bigot, and
Bernie Baruch snaps, right back with
testimony to the contrary :. Then, too,
with the battle of the Pentagon still re-
verberating, Secretary Acheson has busy
day assailing the Reds in China and full
minating against the Czech puppets .
As for the Kremlin, well, it calls America
. Trojan Horse" keeps swinging at Tito,
and even lets loose against girl who
sings in opera :. And so on and so forth
throughout the world, insult answering
insult, wrath feeding on wrath, and poor
little Peace covering in the corner-a
frightened dove unable to take wing.
What's wrong with us humans? Why
can't we be nice to each other? What
has happened to sweetness and light, to
the other cheek, to the Eight Beatitudes
to good manners, to the civil tongue, to
ladies and gentlemen, to the wise old
practice OF counting up to ten before
shooting ones mouth off,, Maybe we
should start praying for ourselves, but
then-as has already happened in the
United Nations everybody probably would
begin arguing hotly over what kind of
prayers to pray. Why should we be like
this in this lovely autumn weather, with
the air crisp and the sun shining and the
earth ready to reward us if we use it
we'll? Some one has said that nobody has
as much fun as people, or is anywhere near
as attractive But what about us now in
these fretful and angry days? Surely,
unless we get grip on ourselves and start
being friendly for a change, Sir Walter
SCOTS description of us will have to
stand: Vain tickle" fantastic" fierce
as frenzy's fevered blood -
Thou many-headed monster thing,
oh. who Yosld soish to be thy king.
Everything considered, it might not be
Evening star., 1949-10-30
By Frank Kent

tain calls and being obliged TO repeat all
OF her principal solos," Payne Clark, a.
Manrico. was . disappointment, 20 far az
his singing was concerned. but the fault was
not OF his own making and he will In all
probability be In much better shape tonight"
Other members Of the group were John Read.
Florence AcAley and Harry Williams "Ths
chorus was not as well drilled in stage work
as it might have been, but it sang the famous
Anvil Chorus in such q spirited manner
that an encore was instantly demanded"
Included in the repertoire Of the Aborns were
''The Bohemian Girl" Martha" Chimes
Of Normandy" "Cavaleria Rusticana," Car.
men" and "Pinafore."
*x*&
The annual report of Commissioner Her.
mann Of the Genoal Land Once was made
public October as, 1899, and
Neoriya The Star Of that date no.
Billion Acres ticed that there were then
q grand total Of 929 sos, ,068
acres Of unappropriated and unreseryed
public lands in the United States. An in
crease Of 728,516 acres in disposals was
reported. Cash receipts were $792, 2,142 larger
than the previous year. "The commissioner, :"
it was explained. makes q number of
recommendations looking toward the better
ment of the land laws and their adminis-
tration, and suggests the enlargement Of the
Mount Rainier National Park in Washington
and the Yellowstone Park. Protection against
forest fires is especially urged. It is esti-
mated that the average yearly loss from
this cause is not less than $40, ,000, ,000."
k++& ~
dollar really did dollars worth Of
work so years back. The Star for October
IT. 1899, contained q two-
Finery Not column advertisement of S.
Expensive Kann. Sons g. Co.. Eighth and
Market Space. 1.-THE Busy
Corner" whereby it was made plain that
ladies' hats, "tastsfully trimmed" were
available at $2.98 each-"equal in style to
many offered by miIliners at IS and S."
Chiffon jabots were 60 cents, "in all colors"
Infants short white coats, made Of Bedford
cord with collar Of two rufdes." $685. Chill
dren's Gretchen coats. trimmed with lanibs'
WOOL" $3.19. Ladies' Oneita combination
suits, "glove-fltting," 48 cents. Woodwortt's
perfumes. BLUE Lilies. Violets Of Sicily. I'm.
perial Rose" 10 cents each. "in sprinkler-top,
bottlesy
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Would Have Police Concentrate
On Protecting Life and Property


note with pleasure that the latest Read
ers' Digest Is carrying an article that ex-
presses the same opinion as myself and
numerous other citizens, believe - both
pedestrians and automobile drivers. That
Is, that the police are wasting their valuable
time going around putting tickets on parked
cars when they could be out, directing traf-
fic, helping the older folks and youngsters
to cross the streets. and keeping q better
lookout for suspicious characters, such as
the f1end that killed the little boy in the park
the other day.
We cannot criticize the individual police
men themselves, as they get their orders.
But always thought that the police force
existed primarily for the protection Of life
and property, not to plague autoists who
drive to work so that they may have more
time at home with their families-and in
cidental1y, take some of the load off the
buses and trolleys.
know. Of course, that in few instances,
children have run from between parked
cars and been run over-but this is far more
rare than people getting hit when trying to
compete with drivers for the advantage Of
the green light. or people trying to cross
such wide avenues as Connecticut, Wiscon
sin. Benning Road, ETC. am a driver and
a pedestrian. too, and I can see both sides
OF the arguments, but the driver has the
advantage of heavy machine and should
always be on guard.
Concerning the parking In the vicinity Of
public buildings, believe some of the regu-
lations are not in the general public interest
For instance. prohibiting parking on street
west Of Nineteenth street after 4 o'clock
works a great hardship on workers and
would be practically as helpful If changed
to 4:30. Also, some Of the bus stop mo Park
ing" spaces are unnecessarily long.
Let's get some common sense police regu-
lations, with the chief aim to save human
lives. MRS. E. H.G.
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Insists Postal System
Is Not Socialistic.
70 the Editor NJ The etsr.


1t seems to me that both your editorial,
Lights Out in Texas" In The Star of october
~ and the action Of the school board in
Houston. Tex. as well as the author of
American Government" evince singular
lack OF understanding Of the American Con-
stitution. .:......
Our Constitution outlines grants Of power
arising from the people It provides for its
orderly change by amendment. Several such
amendments have not turned out to the
public advantage. We repealed one by con-
stitutional process.
Among the grants Of authority to. the
National Government was the power: '"To
establish post offices and post roads"
The need for such grant of power stems
from the necessity Of Government to be able
to use the best means Of communication be-
tween its officers and agents and the people
whom they serve. Having such system. under
the authority Of the Constitution, for gov
ernmental uses, its facilities are made avail
able to the citizen under such terms and
costs as the Congress may determine just
as other governmental costs are parceled
out.
To suggest that the postal system is social
istic is no more accurate than would be the
assertion that the power to coin money, reg
ulate commerce, grant patents for inven-
tions, constitute inferior courts, or raise
and support armies is socialism In fact or
NATHAN pr0Nr WILLIAMS
Evening star., 1949-10-30
Lost Capital Of Afghoniston

Tne number OF boys who, under the
influence of the stories Of G. A. Henty,
r. A. Janvier and other romantic writer's,
have dreamed of finding lost cities is
legion. Not many, however, have ever
experienced the thrill of actually discov-
ering forgotten town. Rare exceptions
are Walter A. Fairservis and his colleagues
Of the American Museum staff who spent
last summer exploring the deserts of
Afghanistan and now have announced
that they visited in the course of their
travels an ancient and long-abandoned
capital of that mysterious country.
Like John Keats Attic hamlet and
Oliver Goldsmith's deserted village, this
once richly populous community has been
emptied of It's folk for centuries. The
American scientists found the place very
much as it was on the distant day when
its inhabitants moved out. Time and the
restless winds have hurt the walls and
towers, but otherwise they are we'll
preserved Thirty square miles of houses,
temples, administrative buildings stand
there under the silent sun of the Dashti-
Margo-a challenge to the imagination of
everybody who reads about them.
The question of why the Afghan capital
was abandoned already has stirred wide
discussion. One writer suggests that the
inhabitants fed before some advancing
conqueror-Tamerlane perhaps. Another
proposes as a likely explanation the fact
that drastic changes in climate have
occurred throughout Western Asia during
the past millennium. The neighborhood
Of the "lost" city-identified by Mr.. Fair
servis with the antique metropolis of
Peshawarun mentioned IN relation to
Alexander of Great-has been drying up.
Ohicers of the United States Weather
Bureau agree that there might be merit
in the theory that the Dashti- Margo grad
ually became too barren to support be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 people.
Something of the same sort happened
in Arizona and New Mexico in the pre-
Columbian era. Settlements in that ter
dents, and their ruins still exist with
similar connotations. The whole planet
slowly is getting warmer. It follows that
the ice of the polar zones and the snow
on such mountains as the Rockies, the
Alps and the Hindu-Kush are receding.
Rivers and particularly smaller streams
far, far from these sources have failed.
Mr. Fairservis and his colleagues saw in
the "lost" capital of Afghanistan abundant
and to use economically the water 1t
needed. There are aqueducts and reser-
voirs there-au empty.