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William Alexander Percy – Delta lawyer, man of letters, scion of a great family

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William Alexander Percy wrote his own story, published as Lanterns On The Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son just one year before he died in his hometown of Greenville in 1942.

Introducing his autobiography, he reflected that “reminisce arises … from the number of those who meant most to you in life … When they have gone, you are a little tired, you rest on your oars, you say to yourself … ‘It is better to remember, to be sure of the good that was, rather than of the evil that is, to watch the spread and pattern of the game that is past rather than engage feebly in the present play.’”

 One biographer described the author as “a lawyer and man of letters, a poet, literary mentor, scion of a great family, friend of William Faulkner, and author of a bestselling memoir.” Percy was also the uncle and adoptive father of the more famous novelist Walker Percy, mentor to Shelby Foote, and persuader of Hodding Carter II to establish in Greenville a progressive newspaper now known as The Delta Democrat-Times.

 Of Lanterns on the Levee, marketers have suggested the autobiography “is a volume to be treasured by those whose memories go fondly back to days of quieter, more contemplative living. For Percy was not in any sense a modernist; his love of tradition is as evident … in his prose. Here again is the same gentle quality of nostalgia which has made Lanterns on the Levee one of the most charming and authentic pictures of the Old South at its best.”

The book became a bestseller and remains in print and widely read eighty-two years later.

Out of Place

From his birth on Ascension Day 1885, Percy found fitting in difficult and knew himself to be sickly. Even his parents thought him odd. Educated largely at home and then the University of the South (Sewanee), he would travel to Europe and Egypt, study at Harvard University, and establish his place as his father’s law partner.

He preferred poetry, music, and art to hunting and fishing. He chose Harvard instead of his father’s Virginia to study the law: ”I wanted to be near Boston with its music and theaters, which I would miss the rest of my life in my future Southern home, and I wanted to meet the damyankees.”

From 1915 through 1930, the “unabashed elitist” with Yale University Press published four volumes: Sappho in Levkas, and Other Poems; In April Once, and Other Poems; Enzio’s Kingdom, and Other Poems; and Selected Poems. From 1925 to 1932, he edited the Yale Younger Poets series, the first of its kind in the country. Historians write that while at Sewanee, Percy “lost his faith in Christianity,” though not in God, and “developed the beginnings of a historical and philosophical explanation of same-sex desire that made sense to him.”

Published after Percy’s death are Silence of Stars, a book of poetry from the years before 1915 to sometime after 1920, and The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy. He also wrote the text of “They Cast Their Nets in Galilee,” included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982). Many of his writings reflect “extended meditation on love, death, and loss.”

Upon returning to Greenville, in what he described as “sheer lonesomeness and confusion of soul,” Will Percy took levee walks and wrote poetry: “What I wrote seemed to me more essentially myself than anything I did or said.”

Foray into Politics

Percy credited himself primarily as a writer, but political activities with his father, wartime successes, and leadership during The Great Flood of 1927 also are a unique part of his story.

 “With no endearing vices,” Percy knew he did not quite measure up to his father, a prosperous planter and successful lawyer who enjoyed drinking, gambling, and being an elite aristocrat. In his father’s shadow, Percy never married, lived in the family mansion with his parents most of their lives, and with little enthusiasm practiced law with his father.

Through those years he recounted, with little affection but boundless admiration for his stern, high-spirited father, Percy fervently helped campaign against senatorial candidate James K. Vardaman. In a vote of eighty-seven to eighty-two, legislators elected Leroy Percy over Vardaman to serve as U.S. Senator until 1912. Leroy was the last legislatively elected Mississippian to the Senate.

The new Senator had never aspired to political office, but he had deemed the opponent unfit to serve in that seat of responsibility and honor. In the following first popular election to fill the Senate seat, Vardaman won. From the acrimonious defeat, the younger Percy claimed strength from seeing “evil triumphant, valor and goodness in the dust.”

Service in World War I

 Four years later while vacationing in Europe, Percy began to see evidence of Germany’s aim to dominate England and France. He responded to a call for volunteers to serve on the Commission for Relief in Belgium during 1916. When the United States entered World War I, he returned to Greenville and embraced the frenzy of wartime patriotism. Despite his small physical size and aristocracy, Percy “wanted to join the army, the infantry, at once.”

Finally landing in the pee-wees squad and later deployed to France, Percy filled various assignments until he finally landed for duty on the front. Letters home detailed the hell of trench warfare. “It was all unreal, like a slow-motion nightmare, and unreal incidents kept happening … To each man battle was horrible and innocent, despicable and divine, torture but so austere and exalted that it invested the lowliest rumpled, unshaven participant with a fierce dignity, an arrogant worth.”

Though he hated war and felt unfit by temperament and ability, he credited that common endeavor as “the only great thing you were ever part of … the only heroic thing we all did together … You can’t go back to the old petty things without purpose, direction, or unity.”

Fight Against the Ku Klux Klan

On the way back to Mississippi, he landed in New York, greeted by his parents, having achieved captaincy and the French Medal of Honor for feats of bravery. At home, he faced a different enemy, what he called “the South’s two major deficiencies—character and education,” particularly troublesome because he found his hometown increasingly the target of the Ku Klux Klan.

Efforts to establish a Klan branch in Greenville in 1922 triggered Leroy Percy to bitterly ridicule the organizer, and his son Will to write, “Our town was disintegrated by a bloodless, cruel warfare, more bitter and unforgiving than anything I encountered at the front.” Greenville escaped physical violence, however, because the local Klan “bent all of its efforts toward electing one if its members sheriff.”

Both father and son aligned with people determined to prevent the Klan’s candidate from being elected. They succeeded. After the declaration of victory, the winners swarmed to the Percy home, cheering, drinking, and creating “a party never to be forgotten.”

The Great Flood of 1927

Another enemy of the town could not be turned away via the ballot box or effectively stayed through human effort. In the spring of 1927, people who called Greenville home nervously watched the weather as a stalled weather system and heavy rains flooded many Midwestern towns along the upper Mississippi River. The system also began to affect the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.

Only a man-made levee, an earthen dam, lay between the Mississippi and Greenville. Steady rainfall filled streams, bayous, creeks, and ditches in the Delta and saturated the farmland. Levees broke in other states while two levees north of Greenville especially worried residents; a break at either would allow water into the Delta town with the county’s largest population of about 15,000 people.

As a youngster surveying a two-to three-feet overflow with his father, Will Percy recalled “a very jolly affair.” But by 1927 and as a grown man accustomed to helping guard the levee, he knew the disaster a torrential flood the size of Rhode Island would create for the entire Mississippi Delta and downstream to New Orleans. When sirens sounded to alert citizens the flood had arrived, the Percy family drug furniture and other possessions to the upstairs area. From the second-floor balcony, they somberly watched and waited as the water arrived and covered their property.

Having been appointed chairman of the Flood Relief Committee and the local Red Cross, Will Percy found himself “charged with the rescuing, housing, and feeding of sixty thousand human beings and thirty thousand head of stock. To assist me in the task I had a fine committee and Father’s blessing, but no money, no boats, no tents, no food.”

Lanterns on the Levee details the flood along with all its innumerable problems, successes, and failures. Thousands of both White and Black people suffered through the disaster with no way out; tensions escalated; tempers flared, and the flood waters stood. Despite his effort to be beneficent, Percy lived the nightmare he described as, “thirty-six hours coming and four months going.” Nobody saw dry land for four months.

By the last week of August, the Red Cross had mostly returned to normal. “I was exhausted, and I felt I had the right to resign as chairman.” Persuading his friend and future law partner to take his place, Percy sailed the next day for Japan, eventually returning to “find that the relief work had proceeded distressingly well without me.”

The End

Percy’s father, Leroy, died in 1930.  After his parents’ deaths, he never again wrote poetry. He inherited the law practice and Trail Lake plantation, 3,343 acres farmed by 149 sharecropper families. He also adopted and devoted large amounts of time to his nephews Walker, LeRoy, and Phinizy Percy, whose father had committed suicide and whose mother died in a car wreck. Walker would go on to become a world famous novelist.

In addition to overseeing the Trail Lake and tending to his nephews, Will Percy devoted much of his time to completing Lanterns on the Levee. The book was published in 1941, just one year before his death at the age of 57.

Many memories flooded Percy as he increasingly visited his own at the cemetery, prompting this final analysis: “I count the failures—at law undistinguished, at teaching unprepared, at soldiering average, at citizenship unimportant, at love second-best, at poetry forgotten before remembered—and I acknowledge the deficit. I am not proud, but I am not ashamed … I have never walked with God, but I had rather walk with Him through hell than with my heart’s elect through heaven. Of the good life … I am grateful.”

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Staring mortality in the face at Christmas

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My friend Jarrod is dying after an eight year battle with cancer. He’s lived a life worth celebrating, one that has drawn people to Christ.

I was going about my business this week when I received a text that stopped me in my tracks. A college friend was being moved to hospice care.

Jarrod Egley was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in early 2017. In the fall of 2018, tests revealed the cancer had spread to his lungs and Jarrod’s cancer was classified as Stage IV.

For almost eight years from the date of the original diagnosis, he’s fought. Through surgeries, radiation, endless rounds and cycles of chemotherapy, and experimental immunotherapies, he’s fought.

Last year, I flew out to California and spent some time with Jarrod and his wife, Emily. We sat outside one night. He acknowledged to me that it was not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’ the cancer would claim his life. I told him I was sorry, because what else is there to say?

We talked about our faith, about the trials of Job, about Jacob wrestling with God, about Paul’s affliction. But mostly we reflected on our time together in school, on the good things, and the mundane things, that happened since.

Jarrod and I met at Tulane University. One Sunday morning in the Spring of my freshman year, I rose from my dorm room bed, dressed, and began walking down Saint Charles Avenue in New Orleans with no particular agenda. I walked until I came across First Baptist Church and the thought flickered in the vacuous recesses of my brain to enter.

Some would say it was a lark. The Calvinist in me says providence. The walk that morning changed the trajectory of my time at Tulane and my life on the whole. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Baptist Collegiate Ministry became central to my life and put me in regular league with Jarrod. I met him first at the BCM and we ultimately ended up attending church together.

Jarrod was a faithful servant on and off campus. He helped organize a group of us that would weekly make our way down to the Esplanade seawall on the backside of the French Quarter to feed the homeless. On Friday nights, he could be found at chapel with a small cadre of students foregoing Bourbon Street for early 2000s worship music.

Jarrod was a loyal friend in those years. Never rude or biting. Not prone to an insult for an easy laugh. Persistently encouraging. An engineering student, his mind worked linearly and was oriented to problem solving. There were never a lot of wasted words — always a lot of deliberative questions when he disagreed or did not understand a point. He exhibited intelligence, empathy, and the kind of moral conviction that sets someone apart.

He also had a wry and dry sense of humor and a penchant for beating people at Madden football. He was fair-to-midland on the ultimate frisbee pitch. Along the way, there were crawfish boils, Mardi Gras outtings, poorly attended Tulane football games, and more than a decent amount of wing eating.

After college, I lost touch with Jarrod. He moved back to his home state of California. He got married to his college sweetheart, who could not have anticipated her husband’s journey, but has been a steady and constant helpmate throughout. Jarrod became a very successful engineer and a bourbon connoisseur. One of his bucket list trips took him to Kentucky, where he got to meet and became friends with bourbon “Hall of Famer” Freddie Johnson of Buffalo Trace acclaim.

Jarrod at Buffalo Trace Distillery (Spring 2022).

Sitting in his backyard nearly 20 years after graduating from Tulane, I saw many of the same qualities I had grown to admire when we were students together. I saw a husband who doted on and supported Emily’s passions. But I also saw someone whose body had been beaten to hell and back, who was tired, and who, like Jacob, had been wrestling with God. We quickly fell back into friendship, which perhaps is the mark of good friendship.

We all have aspirations in our youth — for the kind of spouse or parent we might be, for what we might accomplish, for what we might experience. Along the way, dreams are satisfied, modified, or they die on the vine. The clock inevitably works against all of us. That night in Oceanside, California, Jarrod, a numbers guy, saw that time was not on his side. He believed, as we all would, that he still had more to give, more impact to be made, and more things to see and experience.

After that trip, Jarrod and I stayed in touch, most frequently triggered by news of his cancer. It has been mostly the bad variety in recent months. Now spread throughout his body, down to his bones, he has lived in constant pain for months. Not even a steady diet of morphine and an implanted pain pump solve for it. Jarrod’s been hospitalized twelve times just in 2023.

But his matter of fact sense of humor and way of seeing the world remains in tact. So too does his faith that despite these trials, he has always been safe in the hands of Christ.

There are people in the world who believe that life is random, disordered, and without reason. I am not among them. I think my friend is staring mortality in the face at Christmas for a reason.

For thousands of years before Christ came, there was darkness and despair. Sin and shame gripped the hearts of men. Until one holy night, God, in His infinite love, mercy and wisdom, sent His son to save. Jesus is the light of the world and the hope of man. He has won victory over death and Jarrod’s will not be the exception. Jesus came for Jarrod, and for you.

For thousands of years since Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection, His disciples have been used as divine instruments to point the way to God. Jarrod is among them. If life expectancies were the measure, Jarrod would be at the midway point for most people. He’s made a lifetime of impact for the Kingdom and on other people.

So, to my friend Jarrod, you were placed here with a purpose. You have run your race. You are loved. And when this chapter closes, you will hear “well done, my good and faithful servant.” There is no greater evidence of a life well lived.

While Jarrod and Emily have been fortunate to have health insurance, their portion of the medical bills so far in 2023 have eclipsed $30,000, and Emily is facing additional uncovered expenses during Jarrod’s hospice care, including a night nurse that costs over $400 a night. If you would like to help defray the cost, a contribution can be made at their Go Fund Me page.

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Magnolia Mornings: December 15, 2023

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Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion to start your day informed.

In Mississippi

1. Laurin St. Pe’ named CEO of Singing River Health System

Laurin St. Pe

The Board of Trustees of Singing River Health System announced the immediate appointment of Laurin St. Pe’ as the Chief Executive Officer on Thursday.

“We are thrilled to announce Laurin St. Pe as the new CEO of Singing River,” said Steve Ates, Board President in a statement. “His wealth of healthcare experience and proven track record make him the ideal leader to steer our health system toward its next phase of growth and success.”

St. Pe’, who has been serving as Interim CEO since July 2023, said he is honored to assume the role of CEO at Singing River. He has worked at Singing River as Administrator of Singing River Health System’s Pascagoula Hospital and Gulfport Hospital, in addition to overseeing program service lines throughout the entire system to his subsequent appointment as Chief Operating Officer of Singing River.

The health system says St. Pe played a crucial role in the financial revitalization of Singing River Health System while steering the organization toward financial stability.

2. Gulfport-Biloxi airport, Stennis evacuated after threats

The Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport was evacuated on Thursday morning “out of an abundance of caution,” airport officials said, after receiving an emailed threat to certain transportation entities across the state.

The airport was thoroughly security swept, cleared and reopened in just over two hours. Gulfport-Biloxi is now operating regularly.

The threat was also sent to Stennis International Airport. Their staff and personnel were also evacuated until the facilities could be swept and cleared.

Any passenger whose travel was affected by the evacuation is encouraged to contact their respective air carrier.

3. Cassidy arrested in Iowa for beheading Satanic Temple statue

Former Mississippi congressional and legislative candidate Michael Cassidy was arrested this week in Iowa for beheading a statue at the state’s Capitol erected by The Satanic Temple.

Cassidy reportedly decapitated the statue and turned himself to police on Thursday. He was charged with fourth degree criminal mischief. He then started an online legal defense fund where he’s raised upwards of $20,000 as of Thursday night, according to his X account.

4. “Serial fraudster” ordered to cease offering investments into companies

According to the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office, on October 26, 2023, Secretary Michael Watson and the Securities Division issued an order against Stephone N. Patton. The SOS says Patton is a serial fraudster with multiple criminal convictions in Mississippi and Florida.

Through business filings with the SEC and Mississippi, Patton has held himself to be the CEO of various companies, including Star Oil and Gas Company, Inc., North Gulf Energy Corporation, Inc., Patton Oilfield Services, Inc., and Patton Farms, LLC.

The SOS says using these business filings and company websites, Patton claimed to have raised hundreds of billions of dollars through investment opportunities. Through investigative efforts and collaboration with the SEC, the SOS discovered none of Patton’s companies are operational, have any assets, or generate any revenues. Account records show Patton spent investors’ funds almost as soon as he received them on personal expenses. The total amount of known investments made to Patton’s fraudulent companies is over $80,000. Further, none of Patton’s investment offerings have been registered or notice filed with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office.

The SOS order requires Patton to cease and desist from offering investments with his companies, requiring Patton to permanently deactivate his companies’ websites to prevent any further dissemination of his false or misleading information. Patton is also ordered to pay an administrative penalty of $25,000 to the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office for these violations, in addition to restitution owed to all his Mississippi investors.

National News & Foreign Policy

1. Congressional retirements mounting as 2024 election cycle nears

Retirement and departure announcements are piling up ahead of the start to the 2024 election cycle. The New York Times has developed a Retirement Tracker that currently shows 22 Democrats and 11 Republicans who are in Congress now will not be seeking re-election next year.

“Dozens of members of Congress have announced plans to leave their seats in the House of Representatives, setting a rapid pace for congressional departures, with more expected as the 2024 election draws closer,” the NY Times reports. “Given Republicans’ razor-thin House majority, the wave of exits has the potential to lead to a significant shake-up next year.”

You can find the tracker here.

2. Texas, Daily Wire, The Federalist sue U.S. State Department over media censorship

The U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center has come under fire as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton along with The Daily Wire and The Federalist have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the department funded technology that could “render disfavored press outlets unprofitable.” They claim that the department has helped social media – Facebook, YouTube and X (formerly Twitter) – to censor free speech while funding technologies used to censor right-leaning news outlets such as theirs.

New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing The Daily Wire and The Federalist. Paxton and the outlets claim the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British think tank, received a $100,000 grant from the State Department in 2021, and NewsGuard, which rates the “misinformation” levels of news outlets, received $25,000 from the State Department in 2020, according to the lawsuit.

According to the State Department’s website, the Global Engagement Center’s mission is to direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate U.S. Federal Government efforts to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.

As reported by Reuters, the lawsuit cited a GDI-produced list from December 2022 that ranked The Daily Wire and The Federalist as among the 10 “riskiest sites” for news while the least-risky included The New York Times, Associated Press and NPR. Reuters notes that the lawsuit alleges such “blacklists” are reducing revenues to The Daily Wire and The Federalist along with their visibility on social media and ranking results from browser searches.

Sports & Entertainment

1. SEC releases 2024 schedules

Wednesday evening, the Southeastern Conference released the 2024 football schedules for its member schools, including of interest in the Magnolia State the schedules for Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

It is the first schedule that includes new conference members University of Oklahoma and University of Texas, bringing the conference to 16 schools. Each SEC team will play eight conference football games plus at least one required opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 or major independent, each team will have two open dates.

The 2024 season will be the first year the SEC will play a schedule without divisional competition since 1991. The top two teams in the league standings based on winning percentage will play in the 33rd SEC Football Championship Game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday, December 7.

2. White, Jesiolowski, Jones honored by MAIS

John White

The Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) in Mississippi, comprised of non-public schools, announced this week that Madison-Ridgeland Academy’s senior quarterback John White was named the 6A Player of the Year while Hartfield’s Reed Jesiolowski and Hartfield Chris Jones were named the MAIS 6A Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively.

All three have committed to play college football at the University of Mississippi.

White is Mississippi’s all-time leader in career passing yards with 15,259 yards, a record he broke during the 2023 season.

MAIS, like the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) for public schools, is broken down into classifications, from 1A to 6A. However, MHSAA added a 7A this season.

Markets & Business

1. Consumer retail sales up as energy, gas prices move down

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.1% in November after being unchanged in October. Retail sales rose 0.3% in November after rising 0.2% in October, meaning consumers continue to spend at the start of the holiday season.

The CPI or inflation rate is 3.1%, higher than the Federal Reserve target of 2% but below the 9% peak in 2022 which reached a 40-year high.

As for the energy index, BLS reported that it fell 2.3% in November after decreasing 2.5% in October. The gasoline index decreased 6% in November, following a 5% decrease in the previous month.

The index for fuel oil fell in November, decreasing 2.7%. However, the natural gas index rose 2.8% over the month after rising 1.2% the previous month. The index for electricity also rose 1.4% in November, after increasing 0.3% in October.

The energy index fell 5.4% over the past 12 months. The gasoline index decreased 8.9%, the natural gas index declined 10.4%, and the fuel oil index fell 24.8% over this 12-month span.

2. Week’s market rally continues into Friday

At close of trading on Thursday, the U.S. markets continued the week’s rally, pushing the Dow up 158 points to 37,248 while the Nasdaq and S&P also made gains, 27 points and 12 points, respectively, to close at 14,761 and 4,719.

The record high for the Dow on Thursday moved futures up 102 points.

According to CNBC, the major averages are headed for their seventh straight positive week. As of Thursday, the Dow is higher on the week by 2.8%. The S&P 500 is up by 2.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 2.5% this week.

Stocks rallied after the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged this week while members look towards cuts in the new year and beyond.

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New water rates expected in Jackson come 2024; those who don’t pay face shut off

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Interim Third-Party Director Ted Henifin said this week that only about 59% of the City of Jackson’s water customers are paying their bills.

JXN Water has announced new rates and fees coming in 2024. Those who are not paying will be at risk of shut offs.

The company, which was established by federal appointed interim Third-Party Director Ted Henifin, has been overseeing the city’s water system for the better part of a year.

Officials estimated that the average cost for water in the city was $76 per month for residents. Henifin clarified that JXN water will not attempt to recoup any charges prior to November 29, 2022, and will work with those who have failed to pay since that time.

He said only about 59 percent of the city’s water customers are paying their bills.

“You can’t forgive bills, so we have to be creative in how we part that,” said Henifin in reference to Mississippi’s laws that prevent giving away water.

According to a release by JXN Water announcing the rate changes, residents in single family households with small meters that use up to 748 gallons daily would see a bill increase of roughly .30 cents per day. Research indicates that the average U.S. family uses 300 gallons per day.

SNAP customers will have a new rate tier that could lower their bill by up to .69 cents per day, on average.

“Those who need to save the most benefit from saving money by drinking tap water. This new rate structure makes water affordability possible for 12,500 JXN Water customers who receive SNAP benefits,” said Henifin in the release.

Read more about the anticipated rate changes here.

New fees will also be implemented, including a new service fee of $50, service deposit of $100, returned check fee of $25, service restoration fee of $100, and meter tampering charge of $500. 

JXN Water has continued to encourage residents to use the water, with Henifin going on the record in a federal status hearing saying that the water “was safe to drink.”

More conversation regarding the billing process is expected to come at next week’s Jackson City Council meeting.

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