Harmon's Hodgepodge

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.

The American features a full page of "Camp Shelby Briefs" six days a week but its chief appeal is its hodgepodge front page, a make-up man's nightmare, with rough & ready headlines, in 18 to 120 point bold. Typical war headlines:

SPECIAL TODAY : MEDITERRANEAN MINCEMEAT

Sic 'EM SAVAGES, SAYS SELASSIE

J. BULL No FERDINAND.

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