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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-12-08

and reorganization of the Leaders
Club The group also shared their
thinking on plans for a city-wide
Girl Scout party in the near future.
Miss Josephine Braytoni5 charm
ing representative from Girl Scout
National Headquarters in New York
interviewed young women of Jack
son, Campbell and Alcorn Colleges
on Friday afternoon. These confer
ences were concerned with the OPP
portunities available and qualifica-
tions for professional workers in
Girl Scouting.
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tains Girl Scout office on South
State Street. 1t is one of the agencies
of the Community Chest.
8. How can troops be organized?
Any person genuinely interes ed
in girls may contact the profess
sional workers at the local Girl
Scout office and learn the proce-
dure. Each troop needs an adult
leader, commit members and at
lease eight girls.
Watch next weeks edition of hits
paper for more about the Girl Scout
Program.
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Sunday night Dec. 2, 1851, which
was enjoyed by the large attend
ance.
GOSSIP
Guess what?
o. Jenkins and j. James has been
seen stepping out on Sunday after
noon.
r. c. Jones has almost put T.
Smith out of business, wonder where
will his love wagon roll now?
We wonder if A. McMurtry is
still sure of c. c. Lee.
A. Williams seems have for
gotten about r. L. Boyd. Is this
true Miss Williams?
r. L. Williams, why don't you
make up your mind, is it R. Adams
or V. MCGEE? We wonder.
A. Phillips and D. o. Luckett
seems to have eyes only for each
other Keep up the work kids.
D. Marshal seems to think D.
Bennett belongs to her alone, but
we could say different, can't we
K. L. Williams See you next week
kids.
Audrey Phillips
Ella Slaughter
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-12-08
Stote College Livestock
Judging Team Placed
First In Judging Livestock

The Mississippi State College
livestock judging team placed first
in judging all classes of livestock at
the international Livestock Expos
ition in Chicago Saturday. Iowa
State was second, Purdue third,
Kentucky fourth, and Tennessee
fifth among the "a teams compel
ing.
The team, coached by George
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-12-08

test. Jim Crook of Yazoo City plac-
ed fifth in judging hogs and tenth
in the entire contest.
The other members of the team
are Barney Rayborn and T. L. Ray
born of Sumrall, Maurice B. Lay
ton of Magee. and Wayne Keyes of
Hazlehurst
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Canton News
Cameron Street News


(neron Street was very de-
liged to have the Rev. Harris and
Re Coy of the South Miss. and La.
CdTence to look in on them
in Heir chapel exercise Friday,
Nos3o, 1851.
Church News
It els Annual Conference of
theiouth Mississippi and Louisi-
an3sonference was held at St.
PaYAME Zion Church Nov 28-
Del The 10th Episcopal Districts
witBishop B. F. Gordan assisting.
p welcome program was held
onEednesday night. Participants
we.sMr. ". ]. Ward, Rev. Black
m;ssProf. A. NJ Rogers and Mr..
C.arnads, of Canton, Miss.
he meeting con inued through
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-12-08

Reid Of the animal husbandry de-
partment, besides winning the
sweepstakes, placed first in judging
sheep. third in cattle, fifth in hogs,
and ninth in horses. Jim Collins of
Laurel was top man in Judging
sheep. and second in the entire con-
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-12-08
|. What is Girl Scouting?

|. What is Girl Scouting2
Girl Scouting is a movement with
a program, purpose and philosophy,
designed to develop individual girls
as good citizens.
2. When and where was Girl
Scouting started?
Juliette Low founded Girl Scout
ing in Savannah, Georgia in 1911.
Today the National Organization
has members in the United States,
its possessions and Girl Guides in
Europe.
g. Who may belong?
Girl Scouting is available to all
girls between the ages of and II,
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1951-12-08
VETS VOICE

VETS VOICE =
One fourth of the. Cameron Street
Veterans is donating blood for the
purpose of aiding their fellow men,
Mr.. Johnson of The Commercial
College, under the auspices of Mrs.
Taylor of Jackson, Miss. All things
said and done, true Vet. will new
er let you down
We noticed the number of dogs
bitten by medium sized TERROR,
which has. been found to have been
mad. DIR. Riley's advice is not only
good in that county but any county
Evening star., 1951-03-11

cializes in these fashion staples" recognizing
the high quality of British materials and
craftsmanship, has all its garments made In
Britain. Deliberately uncluttered, the result
ing outfits may be worn with equal ease In
the home or office, at sports event, on the
street or at party.
Evening star., 1951-03-11

0NE style in women's wear which never
" seems out of vogue is that of the neatly
tailored suit or coat made with elegant sim
plicity. Catchy fashions based on frills and
fussiness may enjoy seasons popularity,
but the good suit and coat reappear year
after year An American concern which Spe
Evening star., 1951-02-22
BY Charles E. TroceWeN

grasshoppers, however. is so great that
the nantes Correct pluraD have never
been able to control them.
Usually the female mantis is larger
and some think more russet or browner
than the males.
Perhaps the coloring is due to the in
iuence of food and environment. AL
though there is no suggestion of chame-
leon changes in the mantis. no doubt
some reflection of shrubbery takes place.
The owners of Throckmorton were
particularly conscious of her eyes.
The mantis eye is cold, cruel, and yet
intelligent, and still more. it seems TO
look directly and intelligently at one, as
no other insect does. In fact, gardeners
who cherish their nantes Gemember,
this is the correct pluraD find them
selves wishing the things could talk. 1t
would seem easy for mantis to speak
intelligently and with much cogency.
It is strange that no children's stories
have been written casting the mantis as
a hero, for here is a creature really "out
of this world" It's admirers feel sure
that if mankind blows itself up, and
what is left is taken over by the insects.
the praying mantis will become king.
One look into those eyes will tell you
why.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Return Basketball to the Campus

District Attorney Frank S. Hogan of New
York was stating the case conservatively when
he expressed the opinion that Madison Square
Garden provides IAN unwholesome atmosphere"
for college basketball. The atmosphere has be-
come so unwholesome that college authorities
ought to return college basketball to the less
profitable but more sacrosanct confines of the
campus.
Garden officials, in defense of their enter
prise, say that the big sports arena always is
thoroughly policed" But the facts remains
that since entering the Garden college basket
ball has received black eye that will be diff
cult to heal
It is time for the colleges who send their
boys into the midst of corrupting influences at
the Garden to decide whether income or the
good name of varsity basketball is more i'm
portant. Efforts of Manhattan College several
weeks ago to bring college heads together for
a study of this question were unsuccessful.
Another effort should be made at once, before
irreparable damage is done an inherently clean
and popular sport.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
This and That

This makes her a cannibal since she is
a member of the roach family.
Crickets stand high on her diet.
The Arlington family spent many
hours rustling up Throckmorton's daily
diet.
Neighbors thought the family odd, as
they spent much time at night trying to
find moths for the big grasshopper-lik
insect.
True grasshoppers and hamburger also
formed part of the diet.
On such foods Throckmorton shed her
casing or "skin," as one might say, on
an average of once every two or three
weeks, coming out larger each time.
Losing leg. she regenerated it, too
and easily: this is a gift of some of the
insects and crabs.
The praying mantis is not native to
America but thousands OF them have
been brought here from China.
It has spread widely in the United
States, often being mistaken for grass
hopper, which it is not.
1t is a foe of true grasshoppers. At
one time 1t was hoped 1t would turn
into real enemy. and thus lessen the
grasshopper scourge. The fecundity Of
Evening star., 1951-02-22

The Zoo is getting a new inmate.
It viii be used to the usual cradle to
the grave" treatment Of that institution,
since it was born indoors and does not
know the outside at all.
It is a praying mantis. named Throck-
morton though a girl mantis. owned by
Mrs. A. s. of Arlington, who brought 1t
up as the survivor of several hundred
brothers and sisters.
Transferred out of town, the owners
are glad to find safe berth for Throck-
morton, mantis of parts.
One OF her specialties has been hang
ing on the canary cage and trying to
eat the bird inside.
No pussy cat could bring more terror
to the canary than four month old
mantis.
And the bird is right.
A fair sized praying mantis can-catch
and eat small bird with the greatest
of ease.
There are several cases on record of
mantis consuming hummingbird:
It achieves its prey by use Of its strong
front legs, which. normally held in an
attitude of prayer. can be extended in
q flash.
Throckmorton eats i've cockroaches q
day.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
There Were Other 18-Yeur-OIds

If plain Citizen" is worried about the
draft Of 18-year-olds creating privi-
legged class, he should stop to consider
the thousands of inactive reservists who
are serving overseas for the second time
in six years.
My husband was with the Marines in
the Pacific for 81 months, and he is now
training for combat again. The only
difference now is that he is married and
has two children. Perhaps his life is
no more valuable to him now than it was
In 1941. when he was 18 But his life is
much more valuable to the three of us
who are waiting for him to come back.
A single man, with no dependents, can
exist on military pay. But to live on the
meager allotment given to families of
enlisted men is not only struggle, it is
an impossibility.
No. the burden should not be borne by
one group alone. But one group is hav-
ing to fight two wars-while thousands
OF so-called AIS and those who pur-
posely funk the Army mental tests con-
tinue to live off the fat Of the land, and
while Congress haggles over the question
OF whether man Is better able to learn
to fight at 18 or 1917. In most cases,
the harm done to the average 18-year-
old will be more than offset by the fact
that he will begin to appreciate what
he's taken for granted all his life, and
what was protected for him by l8-year-
'olds In World War II.
Plain Disgusted.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Cos Profits
Peace and the Curtoin'

It must have come as shock to many
OF your readers to read your editorial
Of February 13 entitled "Peace and the
Iron Curtain" in which you object to
the inclusion of Yugoslavia among the
countries whose exiled representatives
called for Liberation at a meeting in
Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The
inclusion of Yugoslavia, you wrote,
''muddles the situation" and is fuzzy
minded" because Tito's subjects are not
a part of the Soviet Empire.
Do you really mean to imply that we
should not be concerned with the suf-
ferings of any people under the iron
heel Of the Communists. simply because
they are not behind Russias Iron Cur
tain? Do you imagine that Tito's victims
In his concentration camps, or those
starving because of his economic policies.
suffer less just because Tito and Stain
have fallen out?
Do you not wish the American people
to learn nothing from experience?
Having embraced Stain in order to de-
feat Hitler, and in so doing nullifled the
sacrifices Of World War II. do you want
us to repeat this error by embracing
Tito. and refusing to hear the cries Of
his victims, because he is Stalin's enemy
at this particular time?
Surely unless we stand by the prin-
ciples which have made America strong
and free. and cease to pursue purely
opportunistic policy. we might as well
give way to the totalitarians at once.
Freda Utley.
Evening star., 1951-02-22

later that he inserted the tale of the
man named Potts who found Washing
ton at Valley Forge on his knees, praying
in the snow.
Weems didn't, incidentally have g.
year-old George chopping the tree down;
George, he said, "barked" 1t so terribly
that I don't believe the tree ever got
the better of it,"
The development of such myths is an
interesting study. They don't neces-
sarily require a specific source; often
they just grow. Weems, for instance,
reports that the young Washington once
threw stone across the Rappahannock.
Martha Washington's grandson, George
Washington Parke Custis. says in his
later biography that Washington threw a
stone "the size of silver dollar" across
the Rappahannock.
Today, as the nine out Of ten remember
the story, Washington threw silver
dollar across the Potomac.
Weems' book grew from 80 to over $50
Evening star., 1951-02-22
By Jones G. Deone

ITO MANY an American. the name
i George Washington will always sug-
gest little boy with hatchet. standing
by chopped cherry tree and saying to
his father, "I cannot tell a lie"
For years this story was taught IN
schools as gospel. 1t erupts each Wash
ington's Birthday In hatchet-shaped
candy packages, and all the year round
in souvenirs sold, for instance. at Mount
Vernon. But scholars-including those
at Mount Vernon-now Of course brand
the story as false.
The source OF the cherry tree story
is the frst and, for many years, most
popular biography Of the father Of his
country" The writer was an ordained
Episcopal clergyman, Mason Locke
Weems-who always. as in the hatchet
story itself, made great point of the
necessity for truthfulness.
Parson Weems, as he came to be called.
published the first edition OF his Life Of
Washington" anonymously in Baltimore
in 1900. The earliest edition bearing his
name was printed in Georgetown some
time after Washington's Birthday that
same year and advertised in the George
town Centinel Of Liberty at "2s and Sd
only"
It is singular book. interviewer with
the main events of Washington's life are
rhapsodic comments on his exemplary
behavior and earnest exhortations that
it should be emulated. Four entire chap
ters are devoted solely to the great mans
character, with special reference to reli-
gious fervor. benevolence. industry and
patriotism. There are many exclamation
points. and much italicization.
Most contemporary critics were equally
rhapsodic in their reception. although
one called the book "absurd" Published,
opportunely. only few months after the
generals death. it caught hold quickly.
There were quick demands for reprints.
Weems got testimonials from prominent
figures, and promptly printed them in
the book.
It wasn't until the fifth edition, in
1905, that Weems got around to includ-
ing the cherry tree story. It was even
Evening star., 1951-02-22

ton of world affairs, domestic air lines
have begun to fingerprint and photo
graph their personnel in response to the
security measures now in effect. We
readily indorSe, in fact we invite, the
screening of all aircraft dispatchers It
Is in the public interest that this be done.
But the screening now under way is
not complete enough, in our opinion.
United States aircraft dispatcher Ii
cenSeS, issued by our Civil Aeronautics
Administration, are also held by some
81 foreign national dispatchers, directly
employed by United States air carriers
engaged in foreign flight operations.
These individuals are stationed at vari-
Gus points around the world, and are
responsible for operational control of
United States flights over various route
segments overseas
Up to this time, nothing has been done
to screen these foreign national Dispatch
ers. to our knowledge. We feel that their
licenses should be suspended immedi-
ately, until such time as their loyalty to
this country can be determined.
We do not feel that foreign national
dispatcher would have any compelling
reason to be loyal to the United States.
Yet at this critical time he has under his
control the lives and property of our
citizens, and on many occasions of our
public and Government officials flying
on missions vital to the security and
welfare of the United States.
We respectfully solicit voice through
your publication, so that added emphasis
may be given to this vital situation.
w. F. Kinnard,
President. Air Line Dispatchers' Asso-
ciation
Evening star., 1951-02-22
Mr.. Wilson Is the Torqet

There is ample reason to believe that organ
ized labor's rebellion against our defense mobi-
zation policy does not stem largely or even
primarily from dissatisfaction with the wage
formula or lack of representation at the top
planning level These things, of course, are in
the picture. But the real objective seems to be
to put the skids under Charles E. Wilson as
Mobilization Director.
The wage formula is not something that has
been cooked up by big business to saddle labor
with the burden of the defense program. On
the contrary it is the formula OF the public
members of the Wage Board and is a compro-
mise between the proposals of industry and the
proposals of labor. 1t would permit wage in
creases in of the rise in living costs since
the beginning of the Korean war, and provides
for re-examination in May in the light of any
changes in living costs. So if labor as it says,
is willing to bear it's share of sacrifice" it can
not raise any substantial objection to this for
mula If adopted, it would impose on labor lighter
sacrifices than will be exacted from those who
lack the means of obtaining 10 per cent increases
in their incomes.
Nor is the case any stronger in the matter
of labor representation at the top level Such
a representative would serve on a par with
Lucius D. Clay and Sidney Weinberg as deputy
to Mr.. Wilson. He ought to be some one willing
to sever his union connections for the time being
and serve on full-tlme basis. No labor leader
of f1rst-rate ability has as yet announced his
willingness to do this. But Mr.. Wilson, though
belatedly and under pressure, apparently is
willing to yield on these points. So labor can
have the representation it wants. All that it
has to do is pick it's man.
Labor's real objective seems to be reflected
In other parts of the recent letter of complaint
to Mr.. Wilson from the United Labor Policy
Committee. That letter charges that the mobili-
zation program is not being built on the prin-
ciple of equality of sacrifice. Instead the letter
says, 1--WE find it reflects only the philosophy of
big business Developments in wage policy,
price policy, taxes, rent control, small business
participation and the general management of
defense mobilization have shocked all Americans
who work for wages and salaries"
This might be nothing but windy rhetoric.
Or it may reflect feeling that everybody in the
mobilization program is out of step except the
union leaders. The indications are; however.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
The Miracle Bon

According to newspaper reports, the
State OF New York has banned the
showing of THE Miracle" after protests
by Cardinal Spellman. the Catholic War
Veterans and various other Catholic
representatives and groups to the effect
that the picture is blasphemous and
immoral. Picketing of the theater
where the picture was being shown,
prior to the official ban, helped in the
process of mobilizing Catholic opinion
and intimidating people who wanted to
see it.
This incident, and many others like
1t during recent years, indicate that
the American Catholic tail is wagging
the American non-Catholic dog. A rela-
lively small minority. carefully and
thoroughly regimented into mass express
sions Of pre-ordained opinion, can pre-
vent the majority of the people from
exercising choice as to picture,
book, or periodical.
While am member of the minority
group which is attempting to curtail
the freedoms of the majority, the
spokesmen for the group do not speak
for me. The right of freedom of
speech" can have but little real mean
ing if minority group is able to de-
eide just how free speech shall be for
the majority. The Church can and does
tell its members what pictures they
should not see. When it intimidates
censorship boards and theater owners,
it tramples on the rights of over 100
million people who are not Catholics
as we'll as on the rights of Catholics
who prefer to think for themselves.
ID. o.
Evening star., 1951-02-22
George Washington and
His Trees

He saw his trees, there on his river land.
And seeing, kneW he'd been TOO long
diUay,
And orieUing, 1prote ,Uithin his diary
These auords, that are q poem OF poign-.
Gncy:
my pines, the small pines In the toilder-
ness, |
"Are dead. And not single ash untolds
cts buds. The lime trees, tDflen iDent
aDdy,
"Appeared to bud. but no,O are ,oither,nos
"Berett of leaves, the hen1lock's almost
dead, :
$50, too, the liue oaks . halt n1y
trees are dead"
His hearts roots twisted ,Dith his dying
trees. =
But one tree did not die! For though his
ol0n,
Trees perished. and his heart ,Oas torns
so deep =
It's roots in his beloUed riper land.
And anguish knew each time he Dent'
at0ay,
He'd pledged his fortune. honor. life to-
saDe this tree, =
His country's flaming Tree OF Libertyl :
Wondu Webb /;
and dedicated to those Americans today who. Ike
Evening star., 1951-02-22
The Man Who Invented the Cherry Tree

pages, sold more than $4,000 copies in
its first decade and ran to nearly 80
editions before 20th-century skepticism
caught up with it. From 1900 until his
death in 1925, the parson wrote, the book
was the main support for himself and
his family of IL.
Weems himself was born in 1859 on
the Maryland shore. in Anne Arundel
County, one of 10 children of an Eng
lish-born farmer. His early life is
obscure, but he studied medicine in Eng
land before switching to the ministry.
After ordination in England, he oc-
cupied two Maryland pulpits for time
and made a reputation as an effective
evangelist He married in 1795 and
established himself at place called
Bel Air, in Dumfries, Va, which still
stands.
Sometime after 1890 he became an
itinerant, taking to the selling Of books.
Then he began editing, and finally he
applied his evangelistic technique to
writings of his own. He wrote biographies
Of Penn, Franklin and Gen. Francis
Marion, and several picturesque moral
istic works, among which were Gods
Revenge Against Gambling" THE Bad
Wife's Looking Glass, or Gods Revenge
Against Cruelty to Husbands" and 1.-The
Drunkard's Looking Glass" He is said
to have sold the latter in saloons, after
appropriate impromptu sermons. An
accomplished fiddler, he often softened
prospects up with music, as well.
Impartial historians concede that
Weems undoubtedly had real moral pur-
pose in his literary activity, and they
don't deny that his impact-notably
through the cherry tree story-has been
tremendous. But he wasn't always as
reverent toward his great hero as his
magnum opus would imply. In 1909 he
wrote to his publisher, Mathew Carey of
Philadelphia:
Il wish you would make great exer-
tions-but why need I make any wish
that you should do all in your power to
expedite the sale of what of Washington
remains on hand? You have a great
deal OF money lying in the bones of old
George If you will but exert yourself
to extract it."