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...were to soldiers (The Last Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop to fix up a flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle's rusty And I don't know...
When 70-year-old Editor Joe Dale of the Lawrence County Press in Monticello, Miss, discovered that he would have to have an operation, he found over $1,000 in unpaid subscriptions on his books, only $6.17 in the bank. So he made an earnest appeal to his subscribers (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week, in New Orleans, Editor Dale had his operation, lay resting in a hospital bed. His subscribers had paid him a little over $100, a friend had lent him the rest...
...dean of Mississippi editors, silvery-haired, gentle Joseph Dale, 70, fortnight ago wrote an unusual appeal to his subscribers...
...Dale's father settled in Monticello, Miss, before the Civil War, edited a newspaper, taught Joe how to set type. At 17 Joe started the Lawrence County Press. That was in 1888, when few of Lawrence County's present citizens had been born. Sometimes the crops were good, and Joe Dale prospered. Sometimes they were not so good, and Editor Dale did not press his hungry subscribers. He had been in business seven years when his plant burned. Joe started over. Then he got married, raised three sons (one is a country editor in northern Mississippi), three daughters...
Last week another Mississippi editor, hot-tempered Major Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, who last spring got into a fist fight with Mississippi's Governor in a Jackson hotel (TIME, May 13), wrote: "Genial, kindly, softspoken, lovable Joe Dale! If the community he so long and ably served . . . does not come to his rescue in this grave crisis of his life, then its people are utterly devoid of any sense of human gratitude. And if they don't do it, Joe, here's telling you the brethren of the Mississippi press will certainly...