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MTM A MAT "A TO TS1R sEcnon SFiyriflNJl-t JLL JUL HJL-X JLLJLXJL JLXi.dLKJ JXJ "Hew to the line, let the chip fall where they may." INDIANOLA, MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1927 NO. 23 VOL. 32. MUCH RELIEG ME.

I1H VETERANS. INERESTING FACTS ABOUT SUNFLOWER COUNTY kvOM FOR CONFEDERATE VETERANS ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION TRAINING STATION FOR FLOOD AREA PERSONAL Beauvoir, Miss. Sept. 14th. There Crown Gasolin' feel sure that they will read it with much pleasure and profit, as there are many matters therein that will is room for forty Confederate Veterans, their wives or widows, at the Jefferson Davis Soldiers Home, and Helen.

M. Tartt, Superintendent to the Institution, is very amblous for this information to get to any needy veterans of veteran's widows, who may need the wonderful comforts of this home-like institution, on the Mississippi Coast. It is the most be news to all. The back of the book was buff col or and the Sunflower as shown be low, was printed in green on the cov Believing that a reproduction of the timely four page book the Enterprise printed, 2,000 copies of which are now being distributed on the "Know Mississippi Better" Train on its tour thru the Western States, will be duly appreciated, we begin this week to give to our readers the contents of the book, as printed, and we Following the flood an emergency health situation arose which called for action by the health officials of the states concerned. A conference of the state health officers of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and the medical director of the American Red Cross and representative of the United States Public Health Service and the Rockefeller Foundation was held.

As a result of this conference it was decided that the wisest method er. We will print the book as originally printed and bound, beginning ideal place for old people in the world, with the cover design. and the State of Mississippi provides every comfort for them there. The Beauvoir Institution also has two large" hospitals where the aged, in- by which to combat this situation was the establishment of full-time county It is easy to play safe in buying gasoline. Grown pumps are everywhere, and Crown Gasoline is uniform.

It is all tested and retested to insure you full power nrm, cripple and paralytics can bei health departments in the counties treated all free of charge. Any old affected by the flood. The financ veteran, their wives and their widows who wish to receive tha comforts of this nice home will do well to write for application blanks at once. Write to Mrs. Helen M.

Tratt, Sol diers Home, Biloxi, Miss. ovvei and big mileage. ing of such county -health organizations was arranged by a cooperative budget to which the county itself, the state, the United States Public Health Service and the Rockefeller Foundation contributed. Ninety such county healthorganizations have been established. The most important consideration in formulating such a program was the provision of trained personnel.

The standard county-health department has as its personal a.physici- CHILEAN NITRATE OF SODA FERTILIZER DEMONSTRATION iThe fertilizer tests that are being (ountC conducted by the Linn Smith-Hughes Department in cooperation with the Chilean Niatrate of Soda Company are growing more interestiny each day. The plots being located on the ortic an who is county heealth public health nurse, a sanitary infepec ft- tor, and a secretary. It was necev road makes them accessible to every sary to provide for these new healtlMpne. workers an intensive and well pre- rxhe summer drought was hard on pared course providing field experien Standard Oil Compamy INCORPORATED IN KENTUCKY tht crops especially the corn. The1 niatrate of soda was able to hold the ce in public health work.

Sunflower county, Mississippi was one of the counties in which a full' masture and to apply the necessary pint food to make corn any way. The time county health organization was plots, and the plot with acid' phate and kanit failed to pull gh the dry spell. The niatrate being established, this county having been affected by the recent flood. After a careful study jof the possible-areas in which such a training station Trvrfr automobilb road sixps fA.tz Ly I Florida, Gtorsia, Kmtttcb JL'I: may be had at any of anr ida used alone showed up the The stalks in this plot held could be established, it was found that color, and the ears are fairly Sunflower county offered the best op The plot with' tie complete Where the Richness of 1hc Soil makes Living Easy and the Folks ihere make Life Worfhwhiler. portunitjy for such work.

The Train er did not hold up as well. It An accomplished talking and sing ing Station for Area Personal After "ari aeroplane -flight V. 1 explain just why it did. not i was due to the knnit caus. ing parrot recently died At Phillips- was esta blished on July 8th, 1927,.

in Betcabe.3C0 fir burg, at, the age of Sunflower, County having its. head Mi rora toj fir; Jda quarters at Lllfc lHJUHtyMIWd, "mS since three years Four, policemen searching for liq was oi soda used alone seems to be 31 Most economical fertilizer. uor In the- home of Jacobs in Toledo were forced to flee when i he cotton plots do not show the THE NEGRO IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY vJ tue of the different fertilisers rom Rttacked a Pet hear and talK. 'LU, Miss ''Julia1 Stimson Was the- iirw woman to hold the' actual rank i major of the United States army, a head of the army nurse corps. She received medal for valor during the? la.

Dr. Charles H. Leach of the field staff of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Founda tion, who had spent the last four years in Alabama conducting a similar station for training health officers, was appointed director of the road as the corn plots. The cot-j A white whale which had traveled bolls are hid ir. the foliage.

The ,300 miles from its habitat in the Arc- toi SUNFLOWER county negroes founded the largest insurance companyin the world, owned and operated entirely by negroes. Many negroes own nice, comfortable homes. The intelligent, industrious, self-supporting negro is welcome. The lazy, lying, crap-shooting, loafing, thieving negro is a hurt icofc plete fertilizer consisting of nit- tie ocean was seen in the Mackenize WUtlU VT CM te of soda, kanit, and acid phos- liver. near Ft.

Good Hope, Canada. brfti te is far ahead of the others. The cotton is. still green and growing and the fruit is well developed. The check training station at Indianola.

Although a few evening conferences or lectures are held, the training station is not' conducted as a school but is similar practical field experience. The physicians and nurses plots, the kanit plot, and the acid phosphate plot are about the same. The cotton has stopped growing, and the fruit is much smaller than in thai spend the day in the field assisting in the program of the Sunflower County Health Department, doing such work as examining school children, conducting personal child conferences, making home visits, investigating cases of communicable diseases, distributing supplies to pal-lagra patients, making malaria surveys, conducting typhoid inoculation to any community. We don't want Mm either. Sunflower County has a Negro Bank, Negro Drug Store, Doctors, Merchants, Carpenters, etc.

Many Negroes Own Their Own Farms Here. Sunflower County has nearly 8000 Negro tenants and many hundred negroes in town. Most of them are good negroes and they succeed here. Many of them Chicago can have and we will put in their place good, reliable white men who look forward to prosperity for themselves and their children. This if Our Position: To encourage the reliable negro; to rid ourselves of the shiftless negro by bringing here a desirable white citizenship.

Any worthy man can certainly make good in a rich soil like this where 95 per ent of the farm labor is negro or tenant labor. This land is increasing in value. If you only make a living here, the increase in valuation of the land will make your children rich. LIFE IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY f)HERE are thriving towns all over the county. Hard surface roads extending practically all over the country offer easy transportation.

The Columbus Greenville Railroad runs East and West and the Yazoo Mississippi Valley Railroad, North and South through the county; junction at Moorhead. The normal annual temperature is 63. Average yearly rainfall 50. First killing frost about November 15; last killing frost about March 15. plot with complete fertilizer.

There is not a plot of nitrate of soda alone. It would have been interesting to have compared niatrate of soda alone with the complete fertilizer. It is easily seen that niatrate of soda is the fertilizer needed in this soil. If you havnt seen these plots come by and look them over. The results the plots will be published as soon as they are gathered.

clinics and administrating toxin-an titoxin. The sanitary inspectors in training take a very active part in assisting the county sanitary mspec-spector in the inspection of cafes, restaurants and hotels, in the construe tion and installation of sanitary pri Unless some way is provided to stop the wholesale fraud evidenced in our primary elections we will have to go back to the old Convention methods where the best class men are selected to nominate our candidat es for state offices. As for county of vies, and in making surveys and maps E'ght months free from killing frost. The writer played golf last Christmas- of all the principal towns in the The selection of personnel for these ficers are guilty of "counting a can didate out" after the fact of the returns show him to have received a plurality or majoritp of the votes, it's time enough to demand a change in our election system. Railroad Rates or the RATIO A and TTri-State Fair Mississippi Day OCT.

IQth Tickets good returning up to mid-night the following day. fare other days See the World's Greatest Exposition of the Dairy Industry. The first time the South has had this opportunity. Ask your County Agricultural Agent or Railroad Agent for full particulars, or write to Box 1011, Memphis, for FREE literature. Don't be one of the few to misi this great show NATIONAL Dairy Exposition and Tri-Otatc Fair cJMEMPHIS, TENNESSEE OCTOBER 15-12 day and his wife picked roses in her yard.

We are not snow bound or prisoners of ice during January even. Our towns have asphalt streets in the business districts and most of the residential. Other streets are graveled. Side walks concrete. Schools and churches minister to every need of all the people in the county in things educational and spiritual.

Sunflower River and lakes, offer swimming, boating and fishing. We have tennis, baseball, and the many lakes offer fishing of first sort. The County has four Rotary Clubs, Kiwanis and among the ladies, civic clubs In fact the social and intellectual and recreational life of this county is years in advance of its material development. By starting early and driving late you can motor to the Gulf of Mexico in a day. Its easy to go from here anywhere by auto or by train, and its mighty easy to stay here all your life.

The people make a county after all. Modesty forbids much comment on ourselves, but we are a section of the old South, of Anglo-Saxon parentage and of Southern ideals of manhood and womanhood. Come look ever. You mar like us. Mr.

J. F. Craig, a farmer in Edgar County Illinois, in 1911 bought COO acres in Sunflower County. Later he bought 1540 acres near Indianola and moved on it. At 1500 feet depth he got a flow of 250 gallons pure rater with 30 pounds pressure.

He used this water pressure for waterworks in his home, to water stock, to operate electric lights, and for power in his blacksmith shon- He produced 100 bushels of corn per acre. Sold $20,000 worth of broom corn in one year at $330 to $400 per ton F. O. B. Indianola.

He produced two crops the same year. He raised wheat, oats, rye, beans, peas, peanuts, tobacco, vegetables, melons, grapes, strawberries, peaches, stock, hogs, and tattle. Yob eaa do the same! Mr. Craig was 50 years old before he discovered the Delta. (Continued next new county health departments is made by the state departments of health of the state in which the health worker is to be employed.

All inexperienced personnel are, upon their selection, recommended to the training station at Indianola for training. During the month of July, thirty-nine trainers were enrolled at the station and twenty completed their intensive training during that month, up to the first of September, eighty-five physicians, nurses and inspectors at the station and fifty had completed their training. To da4a, one hundred-one health workers have been enrolled and sixty-six have completed their training. The total number en rolled at the station includes twenty-seven physicians being trained as health-officers, forty-six sanitary inspectors, and twenty-eight public health nurses. Of these trainers, thirty-seven have come from Kentucky, twenty-six have come from Arkansas, five from Missouri, six from Mississippi, twenty from Louisiana, one from Tennessee, and six from the world at large, one of this six being fronV Syria and another from Honduras.

The personnel in training at the station now is as follows: Arkansas 'Directors, A. B. Tate, M. F. Houston, T.

J. Pool, J. Hays Ernest Darnell, county health officers: Misses Benlah White, Kate Man-ce, Ann Ballo, Mrs. Maude Gordon, Mrs. Sarah Burke, nurses; Messrs G.

Reid, Wilbur McCastlain, W. E. Up ton, Robert Murphy, R. O. Hill, Chase Phillips, Dudley Brown, E.

W. Lay-ton, sanitary inspectors. Kentucky Doctors, Joseph W. Davis, John L. Cox, Edwin Cameron, county health officers; Misses Myra Laston, Dorothy Moosley, Lillian Freeman, nurses.

Mississippi Doctors Charles H. Love, county health officer, and Miss Fannie Mae Askew, nurse..