The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-11-11
ARMIsTICE DAY


s'To you from falling hands we throw
The torchl be yours to hold 1t hlghl
If We break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep though peoples grow
In Flanders Fields.''
Today is Armistice Day. Today at II o'clock we observe
the one minute of silence in honor of all those thousands
who gave their lives in the great war to end wars.
The war that was to make the world safe for Democracy.
How many weary hearts of the loved ones who gave over
$1,000 American men and boys to make the world SAFE
for democracy"
who gave SO freely only nineteen years ago. How impossi-
BILE the thoughts Of another war must be.
How UNNECESSARY ANY WAR must SEEM
10 those Of US who have loved ones war rs only u N
civilized, barbarous Nightmare. To those who have already
made sacrifices war is a horrible blight that robs human be-
ings OF their joy in living, their right to happiness.
1t is uncomfortable that another great war could be.
that we peace-loving Americans could be drawn INTO sucn
an affray. sAaaa
Yet we have only to read our newspapers, turn or our
radios and all we hear is fighting, bloodshed, killing filing could
1t is wicked and unhuman that such conditions could
exist in a civilized world.
But they do.
And we as a nation cannot do anything about it unless
we want to get into it. again put up our men and our
money to finance another great expedition Of killing.
of dollars arc still owing to us. There seems to be no IN
cination in all these years to pay thosss Just and honest ams
debts. At least not until very recently when European
nations are turning their eyes toward fne United states
for more wars.
And the United States is now rushing the biggest naval
construction progrnrl since the close of the World War when
over 30 billion doIlsrs was spent on the army arr. navy.
Looks like we're getting ready
Locks luxe we ,t gong to have anoiler 1ght.
How can such things be? How can mo. hers and fathers
wh, gave I'm sons tolerate another war;. How can WoH'h
VIII. seq! off lusrards and sweetheart to fight a war net
Of their making permit a thing to hapo n agalnf
How can any OF us undergo the orical OF having our
whole worIl turned topsy-turvey and those we love hafsh
off 10 he kilcdq
Surely cd In His goodness wont let such a thug
happen 10 us.
Yet i, IS ec,rg on right now.
A. every rinutc one mothers sn is beng Killed, MS
head horn of. perhapS. by an enemy machine gun.
All for what?
That some men can grow rich; that some men can gam
political power and control the destinies OF men and nations;
that the greedy lust of grasping individuals can be satlated..u
We claim to be smart and powerful as a nation. we
claim to be leaders in worthwhile movements 10 promote ~
development of the human race. We claim to love our
felowman and be God-fearing and self-respectng.
Yet when the first opportunity to fight comes. the
chances are we will hop right into the middle OF 1t.
Carefully prepared propaganda will perhaps sell us OH
another big W and again VT will hear the beat OF the drums
and the call to arms.
Cod forbid that it should happen.
But it will.
And when it docs it will be a terrible indictment OF the
intelligence of the American people, a people that should Kho"
that the nations Of Europe are always going TO De
in a fight a people that should have enough to know tnat n
way to have peace is stay at home and tend to one own
business and keep ones nose out of European afTairs:
Only by doing that can we keep more more dead from
Resting in Flanders Field.