Delta Weekly, The (Newspaper) - March 21, 1938, Greenville, Mississippi THE VOLUME 1 A Journal of Fact and Opinion 21 1938 The Delta Weekly Is published each Monday by the Delta Publishing Company 107 Walnut Street Greenville Mississippi Subscription price in the United States and its dependencies is two dollars a year payable in advance single copies five cents Entered as second-class matter October 26 1937 at the post office at Greenville Miss under the act of March 3 1870 NUMBER 24 T of Louisiana's politicos was the attack this week by Louisiana's State Highway Engineer Harry cobs upon Congressman Will Whittington Mr Jacobs is of course a liar But so ly organized politically are the liars of that the Delta is hard-pressed to test successfully the proposed divorcing of the Morganza from the Eudora spillway The construction cf the Eudora is especially vital to the deltas of Mississippi and sas In fighting the Overton amendment Congressman Whittington is representing his constituents For so doing his reputation is an unsuccessful attempt is made to blacken past masters of public skullduggery Keep firing away Will tington The people you serve aren't putting stock in this vicious resort to WE regret our oversight last week in failing to give credit to the artist who illustrated the article Greenwood's Naval Battle Quoting from Miss Joy Smith author of the article she is Lalla Walker Lewis oi Greenwood who has been nationally and internationally in the fields cf commercial and fine arts She is a member of the Southern States Art League the Southwestern Art League and the Art Association Miss Lewis a recent graduate of has exhibited with the National Academy of Design and the Inter- national Exhibition of Graphic Arts at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris and in the gad o Museum New Orleans the Brooks Art the Parthenon Nashville Municipal Art Gallery Jackson the Garrison Art Gallery New York City and museums in Dallas Houston Birmingham and N C In 1932 Miss Lewis fee On the Steamboat was named the Best In the Show in that Mississippi Art tion Exhibit She was awarded first prize in by the Southern States Art League in 1934 In 1937 she won first prize for Magazine Illustration in a contest sored by a Minneapolis art association The federal government purchased eight wood cuts showing the story of the cotton industry and reproductions of them hang in public buildings throughout the South Pier have appeared in the French zine La Revue Moderne and numerous magazines published in this country Miss Lewis draws the inspiration for the majority of her work from the country in which she rich black land of this section the legends of the river that give it fertility the story of King Cotton and of the people who dwell in the Delta We thank talented Miss Smith for this welcome information One of the wishes of the Delta Star is to make known to the Delta those of its people especially its younger are achieving or deserve to achieve in the fine arts Such a one is Leon Koury the young Greenville sculptor whose star is steadily rising Miss Lewis may well be another We have arranged with her for a number of illustrations which will appear from time to time in The Delta Weekly A YANKEE mathematician and insurance man Charles S Forbes has hit on an idea which has mere virtue to it than appears at first He suggests adding con- gressmen to the pension a congressmen After you get through making the wisecracks which such a suggestion superficially deserves think it over or rather think over the motivating force be- hind the idea Mr Forbes argues that this social security will give the independence to stand up against their con- Con tents PERCY STATE PARK Frontispiece Carter EDITORIALS Page 3 WHAT THEY SAY Page 4 STORY OF THE COVER Page 4 CARAPACE AND SUCH Page 5 Mrs Minnie S Holt AMERICA'S TENTH MAN Page 6 William 11 Veil THE RIVER AND LEVEES Page 1 A B Cameron THE EXPERIMENTAL SIDE Page 8 Read Dunn A GREATER DELTA 0 The Delta C C DELTA DOINGS Pane 10 Louise THE Page LI News Resume As as 1 am an and as as American blood ruus in these hold at liberty to speak to write and to whatever I please on any amenable to the laics oj my country jor the same perk barrel proposals col- leagues for logrolling and give them a chance to think as statesmen He figures that the total cost of such insurance based on a congressman's life expectancy of 20 years would be ten million a year This is a cheap price to pay for the savings in less expenditures actuated by political ure More broadly this is the idea cr should be behind civil service an objective which Senator McKellar of Tennessee is so assiduously trying to destroy We need public servants who are not actuated by the necessity of always giving in to the demands of their the organized which so often usurp the will of the people at large And we'd probably be a lot more careful about whom we elected to a ten job for life We'd have to be THIS is pilgrimage time in Mississippi as the Advertising Commission sizes At Natchez and burg historic homes with that quiet cultured beauty of the old South are to be opened to thousands of visitors who are discovering or rediscovering the loveliness and historic allure of the most fundamentally American of all the states Mississippi should be proud of the realization cf a vision of a few women realization aided by good roads And we of the Delta should try to provide real attraction for these same visitors A tation pilgrimage as we have suggested be- fore would be an ideal event for this cotton fall WAR seems deadly near The mad dogs cf their people by conjuring up the threats oi the equally mad dogs of inexorably marching against peace democracy security Perhaps before you read this the tinder box will have blazed beyond recalling in Lithuania Austria Spain Czechoslovakia along other borders in hapless apparently doomed Europe God grant that we may not be drawn again into world conflict But even more strongly do we pray that American democracy may not have to bend the knee or retreat before any political offal of Eu- or Asia's stews There arc as John Shurpe Williams said worse things than war itself The gradual choking murderous heartbreaking of a nation is such a worse native As a lover cf peace arid a believer in disarmament we believe that the United States should create such a navy such an air force and such a army through increasing voluntary training facilities hat the shores of North and South America would be inviolate for ourselves our children and our children's children and beyond We should never fight save in defense of what is curs or for the South American neighbors whom we are pledged because it ourselves But we do not hold with some Congressional critics that a defensive war must be fought on home territory 1C the time ever comes we prefer to do our defensive fighting as far from our own shores as is compatible with military strategy Consider Barcelona Shanghai Madrid ON THE average farm prices have len a 1 m o s t -25 per cent between February 1937 and February 1938 and now are lower than the average cf Wheat is down almost oner third from a national average of in February 1937 o cents last month Corn more almost one-half in fact from a year ago to 52 cents last February 15 Cotton dropped more than one third from about to eight cents Hog and beef cattle prices have held up better but ens are the only one of thirty-five key farm commodities to be higher than a year ago What makes this so hard on farmers is that
