The Richland Beacon-News from Rayville, Louisiana • 2

THE RICHLAND BEACON-NEWS, RAYVILLE, LA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1945. Receives Battlefield Promotion Slip BUrljlaufc Searnn-Nefojs H. A. MANGHAM EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Rayville, Richland Parish, Louisiana as Second-Class Mail Matter, under Act of March 3.

1879. OFFICIAL. JOURNAL: Police Jury, Parish of Richland; School Board, Parish of Richland; Tensas Basin Levee Board; Town of Rayville; Town of Mangham. THE GRACE BAPTIST MISSION SUNDAY SCHOOL ing to take my time and see the country. When I come to a place I like I'm going to stay over a few days.

I don't know what I'll do when I get out as I'm not trained for any special thing. We've been having some of the roughest weather Tve seen since I've been in the navy. You have to be an expert seaman to stand without holding on to something. Yesterday some of the chow tables turned over, but it's getting a little smoother now. Well, I guess school has started again.

Joy finishes, doesn't she? That's all the news, so goodnight. Love, TED i 4rw fair TI -sr I -f oe i a MUST GREED PREVAIL? SSGT. CAREY DISCHARGED S. O'NEAL 1 r- a 1 SHEPPARD FIELD, Texas. SSgt.

Carey S. O'Neal, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. L.

O'Neal. Rayville, has been honorably discharged from the AAF at the separation center here after nearly four years of service. Sgt. O'Neal has spent twenty-three months overseas as an intelligence clerk with the Ninth Fighter Command of the Ninth Air Force. He has credit for ten campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations.

A graduate of Rayville high school, he was an accountant with the S. W. Construction Company before entering the service. SENIOR CLASS AT START ORGANIZES Lieutenant Colonel Eugene M. Lee, who was recently promoted to this rank from the rank of Major, the deserved recognition coming on the battlefield in Germany.

Since his promotion he will return to the United States for one month's leave, and then go back to Germany to take up his duties in the State Department of the Military Government there. Lt. Col. Lee is the son of Mrs. Mattie II.

Lee, of Mangham. Above is pictured the Grace Baptist Mission in the Mengel community several miles southeast of Rayville which was constructed by the First Baptist Church of Rayville several months ago to serve the people of that community. This picture was taken on a Sunday afternoon and shows the members of the Sunday School. Next to last on the right is Mr. R.

L. Harris, superintendent of the school. Also included in the picture is Dr. John H. Hooks, pastor of the Rayville church, and several other visitors to the Mission.

It is predicted that America's most violent strike era lies ahead. Union leaders have given union locals the word that they are free to strike whenever ready. The skilled craft unions are already preparing to refuse new members. They think that they can maintain prosperity for a few by keeping supply blow demand in closed shops. Some union leaders can see that this policy of denying the right to work to a man will play into the hands of advocates of legislation which would permit men to enter any occupation for which they are qualified, regardless of union restrictions.

Both unions and Congress seem to have forgotten that there is a Constitution of the United States, under which men were guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which means the right to work. If we have any Constitution left, or any semblance of freedom for the individual, and courts to protect him, why should any man be shut out of work by any union or any industry, until he pays some organization for the privilege of being allowed to earn his daily bread and butter? Until this question is answered and a man is free to work and free to join a union or not join it, as he sees fit, we cannot hold the United States up to the rest of the world as a shining example of a free country. What have our soldiers been fighting for if when they return to their homes they cannot work without paying for the privilege? LOCAL SAILORS DISCHARGED YOUR LIBRARY Industrial Research Makes Inventions Practical The Senior class of Start high school met Friday, September 28th, for the first time in the 1945-46 session. The following officers for the group were elected: Aline Adams, president. Kenneth Mitchell, vice-president.

Jack Roark, secretary-treasurer. Robert Ross, reporter. Mitchell and Ross, both recently discharged from the Army, are a welcome addition to the class. Miss Orea McDougald was elected senior sponsor for the year. XXX New Orleans, Oct.

2. The Naval Personnel Separation Center here has given honorable discharges to the following men from Rayville: Shelly Dorman, storekeeper, second class. Shadric B. Stephenson, fireman, first class. Frank Holmes, steward, first class.

T. W. IIEKON, 1C, WRITES TO HOME FOLKS months with suicide bombers coming as regular as chow call. On April 12th Tokyo Rose broadcasted that she had failed several times to put the Big out of commission but would not next time, so about 2 p. m.

seven of her "Sons of Heaven" dropped out of the sky at one time to pay us a visit. Six of them didn't make lt but the seventh did. I've never seen so many guns shoot so fast in all my life. Boy this old ship almost shook apart. I guess that was the scaredest I've been in all my experiences.

I'd seen them hit ships every day since D-day which was April 1st and I knew our day was coming. The plane that hit AN ENLIGHTENED POSTWAR POLICY us killed and wounded 200 men. I guess you read about the Jap bat 1 tleship Yomoto. We were headed out to meet her and her escorts that night but the planes beat us to her, but NOTICE I am applying to the Collector of Revenue of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beer at retail, as defined by law, in the Parish of Richland. DENNIS TOLBERT, 10-6-2t Rayville, La.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PARDON F. M. Walters, convicted of forgery Dear Mom and all, Just a few lines to let you know I'm o. k. I hope you are all fine.

Well, Mom, it looks like I'll be home for Christmas after all. The Skipper gave us a little dope yesterday. He said we're just about through out here. We are going to Japan for a little while and then we are bound for the East Coast. Our ship is too big to go through the Panama or Suez Canal, so we are going to make a world cruise.

It will either be through the Magellan Strait or around the Cape of Today in this country there are about twenty-five million young people of ages 5 to 17 beginning another term of school. Take a few years of this process and we see the whole nation as it will be in the next generation. Now ask this question of yourself: If their education goes wrong, what else is likely to go right? If the whole country is set wrong in its direction, what chances have the churches; the preachers and any other agencies to set it right? What are the chances of legislation to correct the wrong impressions gained through faulty education in the plastic years? The right education for today demands the mobilization of energy, intelligence, idealism, and courage. Francis Bacon said: "If I could control the reading of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of the church and state." Any movement for education suited to the needs of these times is a movement forward to the point where this nation with other nations will find a common objective in a cooperative community of natins. Education does not stop when -a child leaves school.

The school alone cannot do all that a child needs to insure the well-balanced program of education. It takes the cooperation of all community agencies to complete that program. The library must be given its opportunity to share in balancing the program. Called on for many kinds of help, it has been found of value in forwarding the continuous education for all the community from children to adults. Louisiana has taken another forward step in the creation of another parish library in Evangeline parish.

The following from the Louisiana Library Commission News Roundup: "Richland was the first parish library in the state. It was begun as a parish library in 1926. Since then there have been established parish li- hrHva In flnnnnrHia WtVet Carina tin Richland Parish, Louisiana, in 1937, am applying for full pardon and such other executive clemency as I may be entitled to. This the 25th day of September, 1945. F.

M. WALTERS Warren Hunt, Attorney. 9-29-3t. Good Hope. It will be about a 16,000 mile cruise.

We expect to drop the hook in Boston between the first and fifteenth of December. It will probably be March before I can get my discharge. I guess we are lucky. Very few people get to go around the world. Every time we stop ril drop you a that didn't hurt my feelings any.

The night after we were hit the Japs flew over and. dropped flares all around us and lit us up like a Christmas tree. They dropped a few big bombs but none of them hit ships. I had been on the 8-12 watch that night. I had gotten thirteen letters that day and had read them all about three times but didn't know what.

was in any of them. When you get that scared you don't think about home. You don't think about anything. You just stare and shake and when you talk you sound like you are crying. Well, now that it's all over, I'm going to the movies every night and then to bed not to be disturbed until 6 m.

It used to be 12-6 or general alarm almost every night, with reveille 1 or 1 hours before sunrise. I just saw siik boxing matches between us and the U. S. S. New Jersey.

We won three of them. Well, it's getting late, so I'll close for LETTER FROM TED HKON American business knows that its success-after the war will depend more than ever on its ability to well serve and please the public. Many industries are spending a great deal of time and money in providing facilities to teach their employes how to meet and treat customers. Courtesy and interest in the "buyers problems" are essential to the success of business, and they are equally important to the future of every employe. Without successful business, there can be no permanent jobs, and the attitude of workers toward the public can make or break any business.

Examination of a program outlined for employes by the Railway Express Agency is enlightening. It reads almost like a college catalogue. Training 67,000 company workers would be a big task for our largest colleges. In the express plan it becomes part of the day's work. It is a never-ending process.

Mr. A. F. Hall, Superintendent of Training, says: "An organized program is successful to the extent to which top management and all concerned make it successful. We seek to accomplish the following objectives from which both the worker and the company benefit: Reduce loss and damage claims; reduce personnel injuries and vehicle accidents; correct procedure errors; develop leadership and help employes fit themselves for advancement; make service more acceptable to the public." If all business would follow a comprehensive service program, a large part of the laws and regulations now passed to protect the public, would be unnecessary.

"Voluntary action always produces better results than compulsion. and let you know where I am. With jet propelled planes now a reality, and with the atomic bomb releasing forces beyond the conception of man, who can predict what tomorrow's world is going to be? To show how industry must meet rapidly changing conditions, take the lubrication of jet propulsion engines. The axle is the only moving part, as contrasted with the conventional internal combustion aircraft engine which has hundreds of moving parts where the lubricant must cool, seal, lubricate, scavenge, act as a gear lubricant, and as a hydraulic fuel. In the jet propulsion engine it cools and lubricates only, but it passes through temperatures from well below zero to 800 and 1,000 degrees in a matter of seconds.

Lubrication and cooling are accomplished by means of a mist-like spray consisting of 95 per cent chilled compressed air and 5 per cent oil. The spray is directed on the ball bearings at either end of the engine and axle, and is exhausted to the jet. Modern inventions would be useless unless industry was able to solve the technical problems incident to their adoption and use by the general public. And oil has had to solve more problems than most industries. The foregoing paragraph shows that Louisiana as a state is not surpassed by any other southern state in its program of library development, and only Wassington state and Utah were ahead of Louisiana in the national campaign to raise a Library Development Fund to create an agency in Washington, D.

which is to look out for the needs of libraries by legislation in Congress. Last month the records of the branches in Richland parish showed better circulation, with Start leading. Mangham and New Light were second and third respectively. A new branch was established at Mann with Miss Eva Clack as librarian. This is a community which is forward in all its interests and people there have shown they appreciate the value of a library.

They now have one of the best collections of books which we have been able to send out to any branch. Some new books to ask for in your library are: The Secret History of the American Revolution: Van Doren. America: Benet. Brave Ships of World War II: Leem-ing. As By Fire: Moore.

Sept. 11..1945. Dearest Mom and all, I received 2 letters from you today and was very glad to get them. I hope Here are some of the places we are supposed to see on the voyage home: Manila, Singapore, Capetown and Rio de Janeiro. From what I hear the latter is quite a place.

I have already figured a route home from Boston. It will be 1,560 you are-all o. k. As for me, I am fine Well, after about 214 years of no sleep and lots of watches the tables have turned. Now It's no watches and lots of sleep.

We are on Okinawa now and have been for quite some ithis time. miles. If they happen to give leave Via tak-jing the first one this time. When I get that one-way ticket home, I'm go- Love, TED time. It was our last and hardest operation.

For us it lasted about 2Vt HELP! "SWAMP FARMING IS A FIRST-CLASS BUSINESS 5 5 vvinn, iNaicmiocnes, jn.ast isaton Rouge, Terrebonne, Morehouse, Bossier, Vermillion, Pointe Coupee, De Soto, Rapides, Calcasieu, and Tangipahoa. The parish of Orleans is served by the New Orleans Public Library because city and parish have the same boundaries, and the Shreve Memorial Library of Shreveport has expended its services throughout Caddo. Ouachita gives service from libraries in Monroe and West Monroe. These are the nineteen parishes where service is on a local basis. In addition to these, state-operated demonstration libraries are in progress in Madison and Acadia this year.

And there are seven parishes which have passed resolutions of library establishment. These are Lafayette, Washington, Livingston, Lafourche, Iberia, Beauregard and Evangeline." The Federal Government indicates that more than a million and a half veterans with farm background and experience will be demobilized. That's a lot of farmers. The readjustment of many of them to civilian life means a return to their tilling the soil. But that is bnly about half of the numbers who may join the prospective "back-to-the-land" movement.

The Agricultural Department is not urging inexperienced men to embrace farming as a sure way to reestablish themselves. The general so-called "educational trend" cautions the military folks to get on the edges of villages and cities and operate "part-time farms," and work in industrial plants when things are dull in their "rural residences." Most of the farms in the United States today are "full-time jobs." The American people may be depended on to keep their feet on the ground and measure the importance and security of farm life. It is poor judgment to question the safety of agriculture as an occupation. It seems far more logical to recognize the indisputable fact that general prosperity still exists in agriculture. The current challenge is to reduce production costs on the farm with less muscle and tussle, by using modern machinery.

FOR SALE Lot in Delhi. Call or see J. B. JOBE, Phone 158, Rayville, La. 10-6-3t KEEP OIL FREE Do you know where I can find a room? Do you know where I can buy a house? Do you know where I can rent an apartment? Do you know where I can buy a lot? Do you know where I can rent or buy a business location? Do you know where I can buy a farm? EACH DAY SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS ASK ME ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS.

Now Lefs "Talk Turkey" If Richland Parish people want the parish to grow and prosper we have to have more people to buy an interest in Richland Parish and live here and spend their earnings here but if they can't find a room, a lot, a business location, a farm, how can they live here? Remember if they live elsewhere then they spend their earnings elsewhere and build communities and towns elsewhere and CARRY PROSPERITY ELSEWHERE. So the point is: Property must be rented or sold to these new people who come to live in our parish. 1 If you have lots, houses, that you do not need, why not take a profit and let other people come into our parish? Our Real Estate Broker Service places us in a position to handle these matters for you. List what you want to sell, name the price, and give us the problem of finding the buyer. Our service is quick, safe, and certain to handle your property sale.

1 I I si' i i i 1 1 DONT THROW AWAY THE KEY When we entered the war, the socialistic brethren, in the name of "conservation," were seeking to enlarge Federal control over the oil and gas resources cf the several states, and the petroleum industry. With the coming of peace, fear is again expressed that the promoters of prewar legislation to give Washington control over oil and gas conservation and development in the several states, will be renewed. Fortunately for the country and our allies during the war, the direction of the oil industry was left to practical oil men; rather than to a group of political appointees who knew nothing about oil. The result was a magnificent job done. The great progress made in the production and conservation of oil and gas under state control and regulation, may cause the President to turn a deaf ear to those whose fingers itch for Federal domination of oil and other natural resources.

For the benefit of the nation and the domestic users of oil, let us hope that this great industry can be kept free of pseudo-socialistic oil politicians. CHANGING FARM MARKETS The termination of the war did not bring a cleancut victory to the United Nations. The avowed objective of freedom from political oppression for which the war was fought, is less in evidence today than at any previous time, not excluding the era of Hitler. The United States now stands alone as the champion of individual enterprise and the exponent of government as the servant rather than the master of the people. Over most of the world peoples numbed by suffering, seem anxious to become charges of masterful governments.

The United States remains the one great nation with production and distribution under the ownership and management of private citizens. Thanks to this system, our farmers and factories, our retailers and workers tens of millions of them can make a living independent of government. As long as they can do that they need never fear political oppression. The privilege of earning a living unsupported by government handouts and resultant political "persecution," is the key to freedom. The people of Europe have thrown away this key.

Even in England and France, the key is being turned over to government. Let's not throw away the key to freedom in our own country. Private enterprise, which socialism destroys, may have its drawbacks. But its shortcomings can always be corrected. Private enterprise is the source of independent jobs for employer and employe alike.

As long as private enterprise exists, government payrolls can be kept to a healthy minimum and we can tell officialism to go to blazes, without fear of the consequences. ohm yrick, Owner Farmers will need to study various reports which will be issued in regard to the national food supply and the probable needs for the remainder of this year and for next year. Now that the war is over, the demand for certain farm products may not be as great as anticipated in past months. Producers of various food crops and of livestock and livestock products will need to study the reports and determine what farm products give the best prospect of having a profitable market during the coming months. There is a good local consuming demand, but prices on many products are often based "upon national market conditions and supplies and not upon the local market.

Myrick Insurance and Real Estate Agency BONDED FOR YOUR PROTECTION AND LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER PHONES 303 and 339 RAYVILLE, LOUISIANA "What's the first thing you do when you clean your rifle?" asked the corporal. "Well, sir, first I look at the number, to be sure I'm not cleaning someone else's." LOCATED ABOVE JOSEPH'S DRUG STORE.