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Racket. In Hattiesburg, Miss., a physician examining Private John Lafferty for entrance to the officers' training school applied his stethoscope, listened, rejected him, had him sent to a hospital. The odd noises the physician had heard were the crunching of hair on Private Lafferty's nappy chest...
Thanks to National Defense, one local U. S. newspaper was last week gaining a nationwide reputation. It is the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, now known to 40,000 new soldiers from a dozen States stationed nearby at Camp Shelby. Owner and entire editorial works of the American is Charles Green Andrews Harmon, explantation overseer, who six years ago decided to liven it up. With 4,000 new readers at Camp Shelby, Editor Harmon works hard to amuse and enlighten them...
...Present rates for carrying cotton goods: 1) from Gadsden, Ala. to Chicago (670 miles) $1 per 100 lb., from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According...
President J. B. George of State Teachers College Hattiesburg, Miss., may occasionally run a practiced eye along the floors of the college halls. If he does, it is caused by force of habit that has lingered more than 20 years. In 1915 Freshman J. B. George modestly started his State Teachers College career in flurries of dust and dirt. He swept campus halls, dug up campus stumps, and hoped for nothing more from the college than a diploma thoroughly earned...
...George travelled this route of cheerful drudgery until the Mississippi school graduated him a promising scholar eight years later. He was remembered after George Peabody College in Nashville gave him a more genteely-earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He returned to State Teachers College at Hattiesburg with the rack of professor, and in 14 years made the climb to the presidency...