The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-08-04
through
Hazel
Eyes
ByM
Hazel BraL.,
Rugged Individual: One who aaI

Rugged Individual: One who has
an advantage.
Concentration of economic power
in the billion dollar corporations is
the dictatorship to be feared in this
country.
This country was founded on the
rights and privileges Of each and ev-
cry citizen. something lots of
the moneyed corporations have for
gotten. If they ever knew 1t.
1t is the job Of the government
TO see that the rules in the game
are the same for all the people.
The farmer buys his supplies from
a corporation who fixes the price.
He sells his products to corporations
who fix the price he is paid for them.
In other words, he's usually in the
middle OF a bad fix.
All of the foregoing are simple,
shomely truths CLEANED from a radio
address the other night of a man
who has the welfare OF the southern
farmer and people close to his heart
The speaker told of how in 1882 he
sold his cotton for 8 cents and how
his neighbor worked in a cotton mill
for $500 a week. He spoke of his
surplus OF food and farm products
which he could no sell profitably
in the market and the hunger Of his
neighbor who could not buy food
on his $500 a week wages.
or course his neighbor n wife
and three children did not go hum
cry. He fed them and they paid him
later.
Only one sample Of the conditions
in the south in 1882 and in 1888.
1t is conditions like that that make
possible WPA.
And WPA Is going to stay with
such conditions are removed from
us.
Whether you like 1t or not.
The Roosevelt administration has
made plain to the rich and well to do
their responsibility for their fellow
man. and instilled into every
mind a significant new meaning for
government.
.'The show must go on" is now a
Illusion for the employees
of .the greatest show on earth" have
closed the big top and gone home.
and gone with them Is the idea that
the show must go On. everything
changes with time. nothing
) the same.
1t seems as though the beautiful
Natchex Trace Is to be held up In
definitely due to the fact hat own !
.rs Of property along the route in
sist on holding the government up
for their property.
There are always a number of
people who insist on being greedy
and taking advantage of a situation
to CONVEX it to their own personal
gain. they are the people who
contribute nothing constructive to the
world. the people who stand in
the way Of progress and permit towns
to die without lifting their hands
or using their heads. there'd be
nothing to gain in Heaven If it were
with such people.
Lawyers are 10Th class Of peo-
pie who take themselves too serious
~. says a writer. Don't we all? What
need is fun and more of it. The
world would be a better place to
live in If we all laughted at our
for at least ten minutes every
day.
One Minute Sermon: Unselfish
sacrifice is a decent and honorable
thing If it is done in the right cause.
But it is wrong and harmful to sac-
rifice yourself in the service of I'M
worthy people who could get along
without it. A man isn't a hero If
he gives his life to save his trained
fleas.
DIR. Charles Holmes Herty, 20,
one of the south's outstanding sci
died at a Savannah, Ga. hos
last Wednesday of a heart all
DIR. Herty is famous mostly for his
successful experiments in producing
from pine pulp grown in
the south. Even now, as a result
of his research, there is being built
in Texas a several million dollar
plant to produce n%ewsprint.
This man did not seek or have
material gain for himself. He was
interested in the development of in
and raising h standard of
living in the south.
He was of the south and loved it
with all his heart. He contributed
everything he had to it.
This section Of the country needs
more men like DR.. TRurty who are
selfless. The steady mounting pro-
gress Of the south will be the ever
lasting monument to men like him.
We Of this generation might well
pattern after Henry Ford who has
Just passed his 18th milestone. Get
up at five or, at the latest six, in the
morning, work hard all day at the