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Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson ToYlo1

a single exception, he said, each six
month period was better than the
preceding!
The tune has now changed
and we are being told to
watch out for danger signs" said
Mr.. Keener. Some popular ones he
cited were: the Korean Truce,
slowed-dOwn military spending, re-
duced Foreign Aid, an unbalanced
budget, balanced budget, growing
consumer debt, growing consumer
savings, too rapid business expan-
sion that has gone too far, too little
BUSINESS expansion and too slow.
After discussing all these points
and several more, this Crystal
Gazer" summed up by saying that
1854 won't be the best year in our
economic history. 1t may not be the
secOnd-best. 1t will probably aver
age from to 10 per cent below
1853. But it will rank close to or
along with the second and third
best years in our history. 1t will be
better than business was in 1850 or
in any year before"
And if that isn't good enough,
you'd better get your own glass
hall!
Saint Nick'S Modern Sleigh
A train could scarcely be mis-
taken for the classic conception OF
Saint Nick's sleigh. Yet, in many
ways, the trains that roll over this
continent might well be considered
modern sleighs That's because O
the mountains of mail. express anC
merchandise freight they move
throughout this busy pre-holida!
/ period.
/ Take mail alone. Last year, durinJ
the 25 days preceding Christmas, tn,
/ railroads moved more than five ant
half billion pieces of mail between
our cities. That tremendous load
which averaged some 35 gifts an,
/ greeting cards for each person il
the United States, was enough Il
fill almost $1,000 standard-size mai
cars. These cars. in turn, could hav
made up more than 5000 solid mai
trains of II cars each.
We might well wonder what
burden such a load would impOs
on Saint Nick's sleigh Plainly
without the railroads. the old gen
would be in for some mighty tougl
shedding!
i Such figures point up how trul
indispensable he railroads are whe
it comes 70 moving the nation
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
his blood and knOwhOw in his head.
Hog Growers Doing All Right

his blood and knowhOw in his head.
Hog Growers Doing All Right
The hog cycle is a shOrt-term
affair and is more closely under the
control of the producer than is the
case with cattle. The sO-called
hog-corn ratio is the determining
factor. U. S. hog production hit a
record high of 1O1,S11,0O0 head in
1851. This years indicated crop of
some 844,000,000 head is a five-year
low and prices have been cores
pOndingly high higher, in fact,
than in any other years except 1947
and 1948.
What is the outlook for next
year? With the hog-corn ratio cur
rently around $50, compared with
l1.9 a year ago. l forecast an in
crease in hog production. The 1854
spring pig crop may top that of a
year earlier by 596 or more. These
larger supplies will not come on
the market until the second half of
next year. Prices in the fall of 1854
as a result of increased marketings,
may show more than the usual
seasonal decline. Although hog
prices currently are under mild
seasonal pressure. they should be
followed by a good recovery later.
What About Sheep9
I am not optimistic over the sheep
outlook. The industry has been on
the downgrade in the U. S. since
1912. Feeble attempts at expansion
were made in 1851 & 1862, but were
not sustained. Increased production
costs, plus stiff competition from
foreign wool and synthetic fibers,
argue against any major upturn
in domestic sheep numbers over the
next f0w years.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
Winnie will Pour

President Eisenhower told his
press conference that there is no
agenda for the December 4th to
Sth Bermuda meeting with British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and French Prime Minister Joseph
Laniel, and that the sessions will
be informal, arOund-the-tab dis
cUssiOns.
But Senate Majority Leader Will
liam F. KnOwland, who has just
returned from a trip around the
world, has different ideas. AS a
member of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee and the Joint
Atomic Energy committee, he thinks
the President should ask the Prime
Ministers very fatty just how far
they will go in a common front
against Russia. He doesn't think
"the COmmunistic leopard has
changed his spots" and sees no
effective nOn-aggressiOn pact with
the Kremlin until Soviet troops
are withdrawn from the satellite
countries and free elections pro-
vided under UN auspices
We think Senator KnOwland is
right, and that, even if there were
some hard-bOiled questions on the
agenda, such a meeting will still be
cOzy for the comfort of Americans
back home. The setting is Sir
VUfnv,ioJg iIoo Tf3c fbo Iyf,,1 =. ~ L,
he sells best, (as we should have
learned) and we can expect that
NJ. Laniel will be more impressed
with the Churchillian ideas thar
with Ike's.
And Secretary of State Johr
Foster Dulles, who will accompany
the President, and who has hinteC
that we might think about a UN
seat for Red China, may not bc
much help.
Inside Stuff
Describing himself as "a sor
of walking delegate of the Crysta
Gazers' Union, J. w. Keener, VIII,
is a vice president of The B. +
Goodrich Company. gave a talk tn,
other day on THE General Eco
nOmic Outlook" He told the Fiftl
Annual Management Conference O
the University of California tina
business forecasts have been quit
consistent since the end of WOrl
War II. The pattern has been
Business will be good for the mex
six mOnths-then, look out-th
decline will be overdue" And, wit
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
THANKSGIVING DAY AS
LINCOLN SAW u

Ut late years it has been the custom to
celebrate all our holidays as days of material
pleasure. One would imagine we were not
thankful to God, but to the turkey, as we sit
down to the Thanksgiving Day feast. We have
substituted the turkey for the golden calf,
just as we have made Christmas a holiday for
exchange of gifts, not for religious worship.
1t is characteristic of our time that this
should be so, because we live in a materialistic
age when little else counts but what is prov
able and demOnstrable. In word, beauty,
which is intangible; love, which is unmeasur-
able; charity, which is the cord that binds us
everlastingly to GOd-the virtues of humanity
and not these alone are buried in the
junk heap of things that clutter our lives.
On this Thanksgiving Day we turn again
to Abraham Lincoln, who in times as dark as
these, when the blood of our children was
being spilled because men had been without
truth, gave, in 1868, to his cOuntrymen one
of the most profound prayers:
Whereas the Senate of the United
States, devOutly recognizing the supreme
authority and just government of Almighty
God in all the affairs of men and of nations
has by resolution requested the President to
designate and set apart day for national
prayer and humiliation; and
Whereas it is the duty of nations as we'll
as of men to own their dependence upon the
OverruLng power of God, to confess their
sins and transgreSsions in humble sorrow,
yet with assured hope that genuine repent
ance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to
recognize the sublime truth, announced in
holy scriptures and proven by all history
that those nations only are blessed whose God
is the Lord
And inSOmuch as we know that bv His
olVlne law nations, like Individuals are sub
Jected to punishments and chastisements in
TINS world, may we not justify fear that the
awful calamity of civil war which now desc
Iates the land may be but punishment in
fllcted upon us for our presumptuous sins. to
the needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people? We have been the recipi-
ents of the choicest bounties of heaven: we
grow IN numbers, wealth and power as no
other nation has ever grown. But we have
forgotten Cod We have forgotten the grac-
Gus hand which preserved us in peace and
multiplied and enriched and strengthened us.
and we have valnly imagined, in the deceitful-
ness OF our hearts, that all these blessings
we're produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue OF our own. Intoxicated with unbrOken
success, we have become too self-sufficient to
feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the God that made
us.
'1t behOoves us, then, to humble our
selves before the offended power to confess
our national sins, and to pray for cIemency
and forgiveness"
How well the words of Lincoln, written
ninety years ago, apply to us living in this
world of turmoil and strife in the year OF
1858. Certainly all of us, young and DID, car
read and re-read them with benefit to our
selves and to this great nation of ours The
day takes on new meaning after a careful
reading of the profound prayers of ''HOnest
Abe"
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

mostly $1,000 per cwt.
Over $50 lbs: $500 to $3.50,
mostly $500 per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: S140O to $500.
mostly $1,000 per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to IL weeks Old)
Choice: $500 to $1,000, mostly
$1,000 per cwt
Medium to good: $500 to $500,
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Common: $200 to $4OO, mostly
$S.75 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4,000 to $4,000, most
ly $44.00 per cwt.
Butcher type: $500 to $31.OO,
mostly $500 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $1.SO to $1.45, mostly $1.4O.
RoOsters: $1.OO to $1.3O, mostly
$1.2O.
LIGHT BREEDS
Bantam chickens: $50 to $.45,
HOSlly 300.
$.S5.
Geese: $3.50 to $8.75, mostly
1925.
DUCKS
Muscovy ducks: $50 to S1.3O.
mostly $1.10.
MuscOvy brakes: S1.4O to $3.50,
mostly $1.55.
RABBITS
Large breeds: $110 to $1.5O,
mostly $1.20.
Small breeds young rabbits:
$50 to $.45, mostly $.35.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: $.571z to $.671k
per- dozen.
Pullet: $.45 to $50 per dozen.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Sweet potatoes: S.S5 to $500
per 5s bushel.
Turnips; $.25 to $40 per *
bushel.
Black walnuts: $50 to s1.OO per
% bnshel.
Peppers: Sis to $.45 per Is
bushel.
Cabbage: $50 per bushel
Greens: Sis to $.35 per * 'bushel.
Lard: $5.25 to $3.50 per so ID.
can.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
Action And Reaction

The Law of Action and Reaction
applies as much to the cattle indus
try as it does to any other industry.
or to the entire national economy.
OvereXpansion in any direction in
eVitably leads to a readiustment.
which often is painful. We appear
to be at or near a cyclical peak in
the number of cattle; the next
broad move will be down. Even so,
the number of cattle on farms next
January may not differ materially
from that of a year earlier. This
means that slaughter and supplies
of beef will continue large, seasonal
factors considered. Bearish factors,
however, now appear to be fairly
well discounted, barring a further
serious drought or a sharp business
recession. Florida surely should do
better.
Many cattle producers are asking
for Government support; but many
others want to stand on their own
feet and see the thing through.
doubt that Uncle Sam will support
cattle prices; but may extend aid
to drOught-stricken sections. Smart
cattle men who tend their own
cattle, with ample pasture and feed,
should be able to make money in
cattle next year. But it remains an
uncertain enterprise for the in
experienced and those who do not
ride the ranches themselves. It is
fraught with risk, yet full of chal-
lenge for the man with livestock in
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
FoREcAsTER PASSES BUCK

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-(R-In an
appearance before the city coun-
Gil, A. w. Anderson, United States
weather bureau head here, declined
to evaluate artificial rain-plSking
methods.
"But," he added, "they benefit us
one way. When we miss our fore
cast of rain, / can always blame
tho cloud sceders. .
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
OFFENDERS TRAFFIC SCHOOL

FUQUAY-VARINA, N. c. -(P)-
Violators of minor traffic laws here
will go to school instead of paying
fines. City Judge w. l. Rowland
has agreed to let them attend State
Highway Patrol classes on safe
driving.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
Milford Citizens
Invited To Join PTA
teontinued from fIrst nagel

Continued from first page)
sOrs a Brownie Troop to which we
plan to give $25.OO this year. A
contribution of 100000 has been
set up in our budget for the Ele-
mentaFy library, which is badly in
need of books.
1t is hoped that many new mem
bers will join this year and help us
to make the school a more vital
part Of the community.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

in any other land. We can be thankful that
we still pray to the God of the Pilgrims.
But, in giving thanks, we should pray too
for courage, for intelligence, for renewal of
that richest bequest of our f0refathers-the
spirit to conquer. For we shall need the utmost
courage to retain our freedom in this world
divided. We must have courage to spare-for
those nations where the flame is dying, and
only the embers of freedom glow. We shall
need the intelligence to make full and proper
use of the bounty Of our fields, so that it
shall need to continue and advance our efforts
to make more and better things for more
people -. for that is the true road for peace.
Above all, we can give thanks that these
opportunities are still ours.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
State Farmers Invited
To Enter Hay Show
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Continued. from first page)
in each class will be eligible from
each farm, firm or family. Pre-
miums will be awarded strictly on
the merit of the entries. In addi-
tion to cash awards and ribbons,
special premiums will go to the
champion and reserve champion
samples
Many farmers from this state
are already planning to enter their
hay samples, reports Phillips. He
urges anyone with top quality hay
to contact him or the agricultural
agent in his county about enter
ing and getting samples to the
show. Applications must be sub
mitted before November Both.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
HORSEPOWER ON THE FARM

The National Grange Monthly recently
ran an article in which it discussed some of
the tremendous changes that have taken
place on the farm in span of years.
In 1920, it said, each farm worker had
about So horsepower at his command. In
1850 he had 80 horsepower, and he has more
today. Agriculture has become the largest
user Of power in the country. To quote
the magazine directly, "The American farmer
can afford tractor to cultivate his land
machines to do various kinds of work, a truck
to haul his produce to market, and an auto
mobile for his family e.. He can send his
son to high school and college, and have other
advantages that tillers of the soil never
before have known anywhere"
We all know how the machine utterly
transformed manufacturing industry. The
machines transformation of the arts of
agriculture is no less thorough. And. lust
as the machines that industry uses today are
infinitely superior to those of the past, modern
farm machines are so much better than their
predecessors as to almost defy comparison.
And their capabilities are not confined to
making possible greater and more efficient
production of food and fiber at lower cost.
The machine is the farmers most effective
ally in improving and conserving fireplace
able soil
TOday's farming is a business. The
machine has made it that.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
LIVESTOCK PRICES


LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $500 to $3.50, mostly
$4,000 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to S24.5O,
mostly S21.00 per cwt.
Rough and common: $1,000 to
$500, mostly $500 per cwt.
Monkeys: $500 to $3.50, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
LAMBS
Medium: $14OO to $19.25, mostly
$19.25 per cwt.
SLAUGHTER COWS
Medium to good: $1,000 to $1,000,
mostly S11.00 per cwt.
Common: $500 to 1925, mostly
1926 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $500 to
$3.50, mostly $3.50 per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $500 to S11.5O, most
ly $3.50 per cwt.
Beef type: $11OO to $14.75, most
ly $1,000 per cwt.
bOLL4O
lover 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $12.75 to $15.75,
mostly $13.75 per cwt.
$500 to 1000 lbs.)
Medium to good: $7.25 to $11.50,
mostly 1925 per cwt.
STRAIGHT HOGS
(gOod quality)
120 to 10 lbs: $500 to $21.75,
mostly $20.50 per cwt.
10 to 240 lbs. $21.OO to $23.75,
mostly $21.75 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $4,000 to S2125,
mostly $20.50 per cwt.
SOWS
(gOOd quality
200 to 300 lbs: $500 to S2O.75.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
300 to 400 lbs: S17.75 to S21. 90.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Over 400 lbs: $500 to $2O.25,
mostly $500 per cwt.
BOARS
(goOd quality
Under $50 lbs: $1,000 to $12.25.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

The people of Greenland only
recently adopted a money economy,
having previously lived through the
barter of goods.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20

their cattle to market. As a result, {
the bottom fell out. Cattle prices
at Chicago averaged $25.40; heavy
steer prices $2975. Many cattle /
raisers today are in serious diff
CultV.
Milford chronicle., 1953-11-20
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News Information Supplied BY Bureau Of ue,s
Stue Board Of Agriculture, Dover, DeuWuro

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneOus commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
ATTORNEY JACK H. YOUNG FILES
$50, 100000 DAMAGE SUIT HERE

Attorney Jack H. Young, of this
city, filed law suit against Sears.
Roebuck & Company and one Of
it's employees, B. F. McMath, in
the Circuit Court of Kinds County
Tuesday afternoon, asking for $780,
100000 damages on behalf of his
client, the Rev. w. B. Easterling
who lives in the Jackson Apart
ments on Maple Street and who is
the pastor of churches located in
Jackson and in Canton, Mississippi.
According to the bill filed in the
case, on Thursday afternoon, April
23rd. B. F. McMath, a collector
for Sears, went to the home of
Rev. Easterling and demanded
payment for a set of encyclopedia
which Rev. Easterling had bought
from Sears sometime ago. Having
been informed by Rev. Easterling
that he was unable to make pay
Continued on Rage Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
California Architect Wins Sp;nqam Medal

NEW YORK, May 20 = The
coveted Spingarn Medal, awarded
annually to Negro American for
DISTINGUISHED achievement. will be
presented to Paul r. Williams,
noted architect of Los Angeles, at
the 44th annual convention of the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People in
st. Louis. June 1928.
Announcement of the selection
of Mr.. Williams as the 3Sth Spin
earn Medahst was made here to-
day. The California architect was
chosen by an award committee
composed of Mrs. Daisev Lampkin.
Pittsburgh: Prof. S. Ralph Harlow,
S m it'll College, Northampton,
Mass; Rabbi Judah Calm. Law
renee. l.. l.: Mrs. Mary Mcleod
Pethune. Daytona Beach, Fla; DIR.
Puell GALLAGHER. president of City
College, Mrs. Helen Reid, Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rev. James
H. Robinson, all of New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt served as commit
tee cha;~r~an.
Mr.. Williams has designed some
of the most attractive structures
in the country including the homes
of several Of the greatest Holly
wood figures and such famous
Continued On Page Eight)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Time MAGAZINE SAYS NEGROES
ARE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS

New York, May IS = The Time
Magazine in its May IL edition
called the Negroes trek up from
slavery the greatest success story
the world has ever known"
The article entitled, 1.-THE U. s.
Negro, 1853" is a very well writ
ten story of the progress of the
American Negro since 1863 with
special attention being devoted to
the Announcements within the last
20 years.
According to the article, the
Negro, has made progress on every
level and continues to forge ahead
ut an unprecedented rate.
Negroes have made great strid-
es in industry, tire article points
out but fall short in the highly
technical skills. Zone big trouble:
there simply are not enough quail
fled Negroes" Time reports. ~.
S. industry will hire all the Negro
engineers it can get, but Negro
Continued on Page Four
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
1903 TO GRADUATE
FROM ALC0RN

The Registrar at Alcorn A & M
College announced today that
there are one hundred three pros
pective candidates for the B. S. de-
gree at the spring commencement
exercises. The commencement eX-
ercises will be held at Oakland
Memorial Chapel Monday, June ]
at 1000 am. The Baccalaureate
services will be held at 1l:0O o.
clock Sunday, May 81.
The Baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered by DR.. Carleton l..
Lee, Chaplain, Tuskegee Institute.
Tuskegee, Alabama. DR.. Lee is
graduate of Talladega College
with the M. A.; BID: and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of
Chicago.
Before accepting the Chaplain
Continued on Page Four
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
LIBERIA GIVES PRESIDENT
EISENHOWER VICTORY RING

Washington MAY 18 - Presi-
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower this
week received a very unique gold
Victory" ring as friendly ges-
ture from the Government Of
Liberia.
The ring was presented to the
United States Chief of Protocol
John F. Simmons at the state
department by Henry B. Duncan.
secretary of public works and uti-
lities of the Republic Of Liberia.
The ring, which was specially
designed by native Liberian crafts
ren is a series of two double vs."
the symbol of victory. In present
ing it Secretary Duncan said, "this
is just another symbol of the good
relations that exist between his
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
Rust College
Hold 87th
Comm

Rust COLLEGE, will close its 1852
Sd session June g., 1853 marking
alghty-seven years of continuous
training of Negro youth. DR.. l.. M.
Mccoy, President, has chosen four
! distinguished personages to adj
'ress Rust's consistency during the
commencement week which starts
Nay 20 and continues through June
8.
Reverend H. B. Gibson, A. B,
B. D., pastor of Wesley Methods
Church, Birmingham, Alabama will
deliver the baccaluareate sermon,
May 81.
Reverend Archibald S. Smith
District Superintendent of Fargo
district. North Dakota Conference
cargo, North Dakota will be the
Founders Day speaker.
Alumnus Perry w. Howard, at
tornev-at-law, Washington, D. C.
and Jackson, Mississippi will be
the speaker at the Alumni Dona-
ton Banquet, June 2.
The elimination of the COM
mencement exercises will transpire
with the commencement address by
Reverend DR.. John 0. Gross, Exc
cutive Secretary, Division Of Edu
cational Institutions, Methodist
Church, Nashville, Tennessee.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-05-23
DEMENT'S ELECTED TO ATLANTA BOARD OF EDUCATION
8 NEGRO CANDIDATES WINNERS
In HISTORIC ATLANTA ELECTION
Attorney Walden Unopposed
For City Executive Committee
IN ALL-WHITE WARDS

ATLANTA, May 1S = DR.. Rufus
f. Clement, president of Atlanta
university, defeated J. II. Landers.
white florist, by more than 1000
votes to win a seat on the Atlanta
Board of Education in historic
city-wide contest last Wednesday.
Two other Negroes were also elect
ed to city posts in the election.
In one Of their heaviest turn
cuts in local history, $4,000 Negro
voters from total of 1880 reg
lstered, rejoiced as three race
members won public offices.
DIR. Rufus E. Clement, president
of Atlanta University, won cleo
ton to the Atlanta Board Of Edu-
cation for the third ward seat now
held by j. H. Lander. At the same
time, Dr.. Miles Amos, westsidc
druggist, won a decision over Rod
Harris, for a third Ward seat on
the City Executive Committee.
Atty. A. T. Walden, who had quail
fled for the second Third Ward
Continued on Page Six