The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-07-29

funds for Dictator Francois
Fascist Spain. II Spain gets the
money, Senator Eastland says,
she would be willing to buy
100000 to $780, 900 bales of cot
ton. In asking for Spain's in
clusion in ECA allottments,
Senator Eastland charged that
the state department is up
holding the foreign policy Of
Soviet Russia" in refusing TO
give economic aid and full dip
lomatic recognition to that
country. What Senator Eastland
didn't mention, however, is the
political persecution, suppress
sion of freedom and thought,
controlled by censorship and
the firing squad. and the many
other factors that make Com
munism and Fascism brothers
beneath the skin.
.
James Silver, head of the his
tory department at Ole Miss,
has been awarded a Fulbright
grant and will go to Scotland
for a year to teach American
history in a Scottish university.
DIR. Silver is well known in this
section and was recently guest
speaker at the annual business
mans banquet at which the
Moss Point YMBC is host. DR..
Silver is one of the States
ablest educators and has re-
ceived a well merited honor.
Several Pascagoula fisher
men have been arrested for
possessing more than the 10
pound limit OF shrimp set by
the Seafood Commission as the
daily take for bait and local
consumption during the closed
season. OF course we always
have with us the individuals
who use every means TO escape
the laws and regulations they
expect the other fellow to obey,
but in this instance we think
more rational regulations would
better serve the purpose of ev-
cry one concerned. In the first
place no fisherman can drag a
trawl, large or small, and limit
his catch in any individual haul
to one pound or 100 pounds of
shrimp. He simply doesn't know
what he will get. The shrimp
are dead when they hit the deck
of the trawler, so if a fisherman
makes a particularly heavy
catch in any one haul, in order
to obey the law he would have
to select 10 pounds of shrimp
and throw the rest of the per
fectly good food ovesboard.
Conservation measures are
necessary. There is no argu-
ment on that point. Limiting of
fishing during the spawning
season makes possible more
abundant catches of shrimp at
other periods. This is to the di-
rect benefit of the shrimp fish
ermen. But ii seems to us that
if there should be a closed sea-
son for reasons of conservation,
then it should be closed COM
pletely, with all TRAVELLING pro-
hibited. If the Commission
wants to make provisions for
bait fishermen, or for individ-
ual use or local markets, then
catching should be confined to
throw nets where the fisherman
can judge to a reasonable de-
gree just how much shrimp he
Is taking.
Local officers continue to
pick up shiny" peddlers, thus
making themselves to some ex-
tent agents of the alcohol tax
division of the u. S. Treasury.
Insofar as local officers are con
cerned it should make no diff
ference whether the product is
"moonshine' or tax paid liquor,
carrying all the proper federal
stamps. Sale of both is against
the law in Mississippi, despite
the fact that the state and sew
eral communities collect a tax
on the illegal traffic. But it is.
to say the least, confusing to
see officers drag in a moon
shine" peddler TO be fined while
some five or six open bars are
operating within a stones
throw of the courtroom.