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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1951-07-05
CARD OF

We want to take this oppor-
tunity to thank our many friends
for the kindness shown us in our
recent sorrow and loss of our
dearly beloved mother, Mrs. S. A.
Parish. Although the anguish
and suffering can not be stayed,
the burden has been greatly light
ened by the sympathy shown US
and it is with grateful hearts we
send this card of thanks.
Thanks to DR.. Brumby who
wrestled with Mothers precious
life. Thanks to all who helped in
any way during her illness.
Thanks for the many flowers that
covered her grave.
And to all those who tried in
any way to brighten the darkest
day of our lives, again we say
thank you, and may God bless
you all.
Her children,
Mrs. w. D. Bailey
Mrs. E. l.. Denman
Mrs. j. A. Christman
Mrs. H. T. Bailey
Mrs. G. A. Ellis
Miss Lena Parish
Mr.. S. A. Parish
Mr.. z. A. Parish
Mr. w. d. Parish,
Daphne, Ala. 12-1tnp
Evening star., 1951-10-04
By Charles E. TroceweN
Greenwood, 8. c.

flash out, seize the prey with knife-like
legs.
Now and then it moves silently, in
motion picture SLOW motion" fasci-
mating and slightly fearsome sight.
There is no sound.
make up its usual food, but it is not ad-
verse to a nice spider, and has been
known to catch and devour humming-
birds.
Sometimes they fight each other, fenc-
ing with their forelegs.
In these battles, the victor eats the
loser. Normally the female eats the
male, which is smaller.
The native mantis of our Southland
is sometimes called mule killer" prob
ably after a scorpion with the same
popular name.
Mantis eggs are laid on branches, and
covered with cases about an inch in
diameter, gray and rough. The unwary
person who brings one indoors soon has
about IS baby nantes (the proper plu-
raD on his hands. They soon eat each
other, and the few that survive are diff
cult to bring up.
The best thing to do is to let the cases
alone, when the babies will hatch out in
late spring or early summer. Many
nantes are found in downtown Wash
ington, and in all our suburban COM
munities. They should not be killed, as
they are helpful to mankind.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
This and That

Doubt, on the part of the ordinary
citizen, as to what it is.
Awe, at it's eyes, in particular, and its
interesting habits.
It is said that the ancient Greeks
attributed supernatural powers to the
mantiS.
They said it could divine the future,
but just how it was done nobody knows.
The Arabs said the insect prayed
with it's face turned toward Mecca.
(They Would.)
The French called it prie-dieu, or
pray Cod" literally.
Actually, thereyis nothing of a pray
erful nature about the mantis. It is
one of the most voracious of all insects.
for which life it is wonderfully equipped
by nature.
The front legs are modified, and have
sort of cutting edge.
The half opeped forelimbs are posed
in what fancifully has been called an
attitude of prayer, but it is far from
that
Really. 1t is just catching attitude,
waiting for prey.
1t is an insect trap, motionless on a
branch of a shrub. its long fiat legs and
body surfaces blending so well with the
branch that smaller insects never see It.
When they walk in. the long legs
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Russio's Second Atom Bomb

The White House announcement that Russia
has exploded another atomic bomb" should not
come as any surprise. 1t should come, however,
as grim warning against any dragging Of feet
in our rearmament effort.
The wording of the announcement confirms
what had been generally assumed, but never
specifically stated-that Russia's atomic explo-
sion" of September, l949 was actually an explo-
sion of an atom bomb, and not a laboratory
accident. 1t also confirms that the Russians,
despite their professions of peaceful activity,
are striving to overtake uS-aSSuming that they
really are behind-in the production Of atomic
weapons.
No layman can appraiSe the full significance
OF this latest atomic explosion That must be
left to the experts with full access to the facts
There are some significant aspects however,
that can be seen by any one.
The White House statement refers to the
explosion of another" atomic bomb That
suggests that this is the second bomb to be
exploded, although it does not quite say So
There may have been others. If this is only the
second Russian test however, it still indicates
that they are making progress, for this latest
test probably was with new weapon-not the
same one that was exploded two years ago.
And the fact that they are making progress
Is of tremendous significance.
Our own rearmament program, and the
companion program for rearming Western Eu-
rope, are geared to the assumption that it will
be two or possibly three years before the Rus
slams are ready for war. BY that time it is
assumed that the Soviets will have enough atomic
weapons at least to destroy the cities of Western
Europe. That, it is reasoned, would lead to a kind
of atomic Stalemate-a situation in which we
would hesitate to use our own atomic weapons
for fear that the Russians would strike back in
kind against the cities of our Allies and perhaps
against our own cities
This is why there is so much urgency in the
drive to rebuild European conventional defenseS
to build enough strength on ground sea and
air so that the Russians would hesitate to strike
even though they might feel that they had
achieved balance of the atomic scales sufficient
to safeguard their own cities against atomic
attack.
This is why General Eisenhower and every
American military man associated with him
wiring their hands at the kind of economy" that
is bound to slow down Europe's rearmament. And
this is why we should refuse to tolerate anything
strike lockout, bungling or politics-which
tends to retard our own effort.
The news from Russia implies that the day is
coming when the Russians will have enough
atomic weapons to risk a war. And we had better
be ready before that day comes.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Puwns in q Grimmer Come

AS both a chess player and loyal
American citizen, I pose question which
has troubled me for some time: Why are
so many top-ranking chess players found
in Iron Curtain countries? There are
Mikhail Botvinnik. worlds champion;
David Bronstein, the recent challenger;
brilliant Paul Keres and many other
chess masters who owe allegiance to the
hammer and sickle, How is this possible
under a regime which hampers free
thought at every turn? How can any
one living under terror and the threat OF
Siberia find time for game of dis
pasSioned reasoning?
Is the answer merely that chess play
ers of all countries are always the last
to declare war, or do men OF reason
everywhere regard threats OF force as
confessions of mental inferiority?
Murray v. Churchill.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Dr.. Jessup's Damaging Defense

Dr. Philip c. Jessup our Ambassador at
Large, has replied effectively to Senator Nc
Carthy's charge that he has had IAN unusual
affinity" for Communist causes. In doing so,
however, DR.. JeSsup has raised serious doubt
as to his fitness to hold any position which
touches on the formulation of American policy.
Dr. Jessups most telling stroke in refutation
Of the Communist complaint was that he
had been an ardent America Firster and that he
stuck to his guns in that role after the German
attack on Russia. If that is true, he was no
follower of the Communist Party line. BY the
same token, however, his proclaimed activity
an America FirSter reveals him as man who
had little or no understanding of where this
countrys real interests lay in world that was
reeling under the impact of Nazi aggression.
The America First Committee was composed
in the main of two types of people. In one
group were the Communists and their Sympa-
thizers. Theirs was phony isoationism, mott
waited initially by the belief that Nazi victory
was desired by Stain. When Hitler sent his
troops marching into Russia these America
Firsters reversed themselves overnight and be-
gan to shout for all-out aid to Britain and
Russia. The other group was composed of the
sincere iSolationiSts, and DR.. JesSup, by his own
statement, was among them. In the darkest
days Of the war in Europe, they opposed any
kind of aid to the British and their Allies They
fought the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the
arming Of our own merchant vessels etc They
said that come what may, the United States
must refrain from any act which might involve
this country in the war. And If they had had
their way-which fortunately they did not
Hitler in all probability would have won the war
Can this kind of starry-eyed blindness be
excused on the ground of sincerity? Hardly
because the greater their sincerity, the less
capacity they had for distinguishing fact from
fiction Can it be excused on the ground that
they reversed their position after Pearl Harbor?
What else could they have done at that stage
OF the game?
It seems to The Star that Senator McCarthys
charges against DR.. Jessup can be put aside.
They have not been proved, and he has been
cleared by the Loyalty Board. And more funda-
mental question bearing on DR.. JeSsup's quail
fications has been raised. The United States
at this time is taking the lead in rearming the
Western World against the threat of Communist
aggression. 1t is role that is diametrically
opposed to the stand taken by the America
Firsters. Is man who, by his own admission,
was an ardent America Firster only 10 years ago
to be trusted now to represent this country as
delegate to the U. N. General Assembly, or in
any other position where he may be called upon
to make or implement policy? If he so
blinded by his idealism decade ago. how much
confidence can be repoSed now in his judgment?
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Now His Neck Is Out

rush to defense of The Star against
the petulant chiding of Sophy I. Parfin,
who objected to Sigma Delta Epsilon,
graduate women's science fraternity"
being identified in the paper as a So
rority.
Twas ever thus, even in my dimly re-
membered school days. that the scientific
crowd. the engineers, mathematicians,
chemists, ct al, were much closer to
postulates and formulae than they We're
to Webster. Her resentment against the
word sorority doubtless springs from COL
1ege memories of pajama parties and pill
low fights. and perhaps with cause. But
to try and bend the mother tongue into
labelling 100 per cent womens organi-
zation, no matter how erudite and digni-
fed, with the term fraternity is to
torture it with an elasticity that 1t
simply doesn't possess.
AS almost any high school kid should
know, We have 'frater" as the we'll
known Latin root for brother, and strict
ly masculine, and "soror" of the same
origin for sister. French and Latin both
give us "-ty'' and "-ity' to imply the
existence OF state or condition
So, no matter how you slice it, an
organization of females comes out So
rority, and not fraternity. If the COM
fends the lady, she could label her Or
ganization a society, club federation or
one of several other collective nouns of
similar import. But fraternity? Never!
Purist.
Evening star., 1951-10-04

Guard and Lieut.. Col Larson were in
Quoted into Federal service.
He went overseas as commander of
an artillery battalion in the Oath Divi-
sion. The outfit saw plenty of action.
At the bloody crossing of the Volturno
River in Italy Mr.. Larson was wounded
SO seriously he was evacuated to the
United States.
Restored to duty, there came various
Army assignments-good ones-but to
Mr Larson. now colonel. the law still
beckoned. in July, 1916. he became
assistant general counsel of the War
Assets Administration. BY the close of
the next year he was WAA admin
iStr3tor.
Remembering the scandals in surplus
property disposal after World War I,
newsmen kept careful-and expectant
eye on WAA. Mr.. Larson knew the
dangers "Unscrupulous operators" he
said. "decle ed an open season on the
public treasury and resorted to every
known trick to obtain unfair advantage
of their Government"
While administrator Mr.. Larson dis
posed of $48 billion worth of World
Evening star., 1951-10-04

'Swonee River Centennial

The crowd assembled at White Springs,
Florida to celebrate the hundredth anniversary
of the publication of "Old Folks at Home" under
stood that Stephen Collins Foster never himself
had seen the Suwannee or. Swanee River. He
used the name of the stream simply as an
artistic convenience. Nothing but accident was
responsible for the decision which resulted in
such fame as has come to few other American
waterways.
In the overall picture of popular music,
however, it is common to take liberties with
things as they really are. The best writer's of
the peoples songs are imaginative individuals.
They see the universe romantically, and they
contribute to the romance which characterizes
the whole cosmic panorama adding something
of themselves to the creation of the Supreme
Creator.
BY no other principle than that of the power
of the spirit can men like Foster be accounted
for. His career was tragic, he suffered the
penalties of poverty, he died in degradation and
despair. Yet he kept his dream to the end and
went to his grave true poet and true prophet.
His songs are part of the natural heritage of the
American nation. Listening to them as Irving
Caesar told the White Springs audience, I'VE
discover that there still lives inside of us that
reverence for the beautiful, for the simple, for
the pure for the peaceful, for the gentle, the
understanding, the sympathetic, the humane that
breathes through all the songs of Stephen Foster.
The contradictions of these precious qualities
are contradicted by Foster himself and by every
fruit of his mind and heart; and that is
something worth celebrating.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
By Francis ?. DouoIos

less LARSON. one time hoy Mayor"
u of Chickasha, Okla. has taken over
one of the Nations biggest jobs, that of
Defense Materials Procurement Admin
istrator. At the same time he still
holds down the job of General Services
Administrator, charged with looking
after Government supplies, office build
ings and other housekeeping" duties
for the Government.
His job of acquiring defense materials
stretches to many points of the world
His decision on buying minerals may
affect native employment in the steam
ing interior of the Belgian Congo. Re-
Gently he made a deal for the entire
output of a Peruvian zinc mine. What
he says about buying rubber-he has
been the Nations sole buyer of natural
rubber since last December-is big news
in Malaga.
The man who rides herd on
the Nations business got his start riding
herd on his family's dairy animals. He
had completed his first year at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma Law School when
his father became i'll. Young Jess had
to go back home to run the family
dairy ranch and creamery enterprises
at Chickasha.
When his father was able to resume
management of the business, Mr.. Lar
son was "a and wanted to get married.
The pay of the Mayor of Chickasha had
just been increased from $4,000 a year
to $4,000, so Mr.. Larson became a can
didate.
Some supporters Of those he defeated
referred to him as the boy Mayor-he
was just Is when he took the job.
But officials of other Oklahoma cities
thought enough of him to elect him
president of the Oklahoma Municipal
League.
He made another political race later
which he will recall If you ask him about
the reasons for his notably friendly rela-
lions with Congressman Maybe I
understand their problems" he answers.
You see, ran for Congress once {.
and was beaten"
While he was Mayor and later, he
continued studying law and was ad-
mitted to the bar. Then he was given
the job of managing the 5000 million
business Of the Oklahoma Land Office
as secretary to the commissioners.
When he got back to private practice
1t was for only short time. In Sep
tember. 1910. the Oklahoma National
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Drama on the Diamond

The World Series will have to be a real
thriller this year to compete with the excitement
of that National League play-off between the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants
It is hard to conceive of a situation in the
main series that could eclipse the Spine-tnglng
drama Of the final play-of game yesterday at
the Polo Grounds. That ninth-inning three
run homer by Bobby Thomson which gave the
door die Giants the game and the right to
battle the Yankees for the world championship
will go down in the record books as of the
high spots of baseball history.
The question uppermost in the minds of
baseball fans now is whether the bitterly-fought
play-off series has left the Giants as limp as it
left the crowds who watched the pennant-
deciding game yesterday The two-out-o three
play-off games are fine for the spectators and
the ticket sellers but pretty tough for the teams
fighting their hearts out on the diamond. They
must give the play-off games all they've got
or risk losing the chance to enter the cham
pionShip contest. The best pitchers of both
teams have no time to rest before the crucial
series that is to follow. Meanwhile the Yankees
have been taking things easy and saving their
energy.
The American League has better system
one that is not so exhausting to the rival con-
tenders and which makes more SenSe-but not
more money-than the senior circuits plan. An
American League tie for the title is resolved by
playing only one extra game-a Sudden-death
affair that is as fair for one team as the other.
II the Giants should lose the big series, their
supporters will be sure to blame it on the
enervating play-off. And they will have cause
to demand that the National League drop the
two-out- of three play-off plan in favor of the
one-game rule used by the opposition.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
The Passing of the ECA

In keeping with the compromise legislation
approved by the Senate House conferees, the Eco
nonlic Cooperation Administration will cease
to exist sixty days after the law brings into
being the projected new Mutual Security Agency
under director to be named by the President
The MSA will then absorb the ECAs Marshall
Plan functons-to be ended formally on next
June 3O-and operate primarily to help our
friends abroad to rearm against the threat of
Red aggression.
This change is in accord with the fact that
when the ECA began administering the European
Recovery Program-the Marshall Plan-in April
of 1948, it did so on the basis of congressional
act specifically providing for the programs COM
pletion by June 80, 1852. The change is in
accord, too with the fact that ever since the
outbreak of the Korean War, the ECA's operating
emphasis has been placed not on purely economic
aid but on aid designed to promote the defensive
build-up of the free world. The MSA Is logical
successor. Under its director-who will have
cabinet status, be responsible to the President
and serve as co-ordinator Of all foreign assist
ance projects-its job in the current fiscal year
will be to supervise outlay of almost SIS
billion, as authorized by the compromise legis-
lation, to enable our allies to increase their
military strength without seriously upsetting the
remarkable comeback achieved by their civilian
economies under the Marshall Plan.
Yet, although the new administrative set-up
is thus logical and more or less inevitable, the
change is not an entirely happy one. For the
passing of the ECA-even if only as name or
title-represents loss of sorts Certainly, the
three letters or the three word. Economic Co.
operation ADMINISTRATIVE been a symbol
to scores of millions of people abroad of en-
lightened American self-interest expressing itself
in an unprecedented and uniquely constructive
form for the building of better world. Estab-
lished solely to promote decent and enduring
peace by helping war-ravaged nations to get
back on their feet and develop strong civilian
economies, the enterprise unquestionaby has won
for the United States gratitude, respect and ad-
dtional ties of International friendship that can
hardly fail to be an asset of immense value to
our country in the long years ahead In that
sense, the abbreviation ECA represents an in
vestment likely to yield rich dividends OF good
will far into the future.
Accordingly, now that it is on its way out,
this agency deserves hearty pat on the back
AS administered first by Paul Hoffman and later
by william Foster it has been model OF ef1c-
Evening star., 1951-10-04
A Day to Remember

A Day to Remember
October is called World Day for
Animals, and is also celebrated as the
birthday of st. Francis of Assist. He
was keenly aware of the unity of life
always serving leper and bird with equal
tenderness. This October 4. let us re-
member with some deed, however small,
the spirit of supreme good will, which
lives in us and needs expression, as in
the gentle saint.
No man-made law can initiate for
kindness. No decree of state can enforce
compassion, or mercy, or justice-it is
the greatness in every human heart that,
If once awakened will spontaneously
recognize the eternal values and strive
to uphold them
For the blind man we have provided
the seeing-eye dog and handed him a
white cane. In respect to mans needs,
animals can almost always be depended
upon to supply them-milk for food. wool
for clothing. muscle for pulling wagon
or sled-these are not to be forgotten!
LeOna Mowreader,
President, The Theosophical Society in
Washington.
Evening star., 1951-10-04
Big Man Who Does Things in q Big Way

War II surplus. Law violations were
kept to minimum.
When the WAA job was winding up,
Mr.. Larson was made Federal Works
administrator to succeed Maj. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming. A month later when
FWA became the General Services ADJ
ministration under Hoover Commits
sion reorganization plan, Mr.. Larson
became its irst head.
GSA is big business in itself, but
additional jobs have been assigned Ad-
ministrator Larson in this defense mo-
bilization PERIOD Buying for the
stockpile, expanding aluminium produc-
ton, buying rubber, breaking the
machine tool bottleneck and other tasks.
When the defense minerals and metals
program began to lag, President Tru-
man turned to Mr.. Larson to fill the
new job, administrator of Defense Ma
terialS Procurement.
Mr.. Larson occupies cathedral-like
Office in the GSA Building. Its first
occupant was Secretary of the Interior
Franklin < Lane in the Wilson era.
1t is a reproduction of a big chamber
in Haddon Hall in England. The huge
Office makes Mr.. Larson uncomfortable,
for as GSA head he is responsible for
housing Government agencies, and he
is acutely conscious that employees are
being crowded into less and less space.
Mr.. Larson is more than feet, black
haired, and moves fast. He was in
Europe on business last August when
his new job was decided on He got
back and began to organize for 1t. He
told staff meeting:
I'VE must build an organization able
enough and big enough to do good job.
But let's not confuse this with empire
building"
He was sworn in on September IA.
He started that day with a speech to a
group of trade publication editors at
breakfast. Questions kept him until
about $50 o'clock. He reached his Office
at 9:45. Staff members eyed the clock
nervously because Mr.. Larson had to
take a plane for New York at 10:30.
He was sworn in. He Immediately
appointed Howard I. Young as his dep
uty administrator. He issued DMPA
regulation No. l which started opera
tions. He had various directions to give
his assistants. Then he left for the
airport and made the plane. His staff
sighed with relief 1t didn't last long.
Less than two hours later Mr.. Larson
was telephoning from New York. He
had thought Of other things to be done.