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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-01-20
CITATION NOTICE
The State Of Mississippi:

To Kate Allen and John Hugh
Allen, Post Office and Street Ad-
dress 432 East 46th Place. Apart
ment No. 1. Chicago. Illinois Fred
Douglas Webster, Post Office and
|Street Address 221 Ash Street.
Waterloo, Iowa ; Eddie Jones, Post
Office and Street Address, 1904
Lucas Avenue. Saint Louis. Mis-
souri,: Willis Allen. Post Office
and Street Address. 5000. South
Parkway Boulevard. Chicago. H.
linois: The final account of Carl
F. Drake, Administrator with the
will Annexed Of the estate Of
Emerline Allen. deceased. cause
No. 1886 in Chancery Court of
Holmes County. Mississippi. hav-
ing been filed. together with pc
tition for allowance of said ac-
count and decree for distribution
Of the remainder of said estate,
in accordance with the will and
the discharge Of said administra-
tor; and final hearings on said
account and petition having been
set for such time and place, you
IRE commanded to appear before
Hon. M. B. Montgomery. Chan
ellcr o. the 18th Chancery Dis
trict. at 10 90 o'clock A M. at
the Court House Of Yazoo Coun-
ty, in the City Of Yazoo City, Mis-
sissippi, on Saturday. March 18th,
1888, in vacation. to claim or de-
fend any interest you may have
in the said estate Of Emerline
Allen, deceased, late of Holmes
County. Mississippi. and to show
cause why the final account and
the prayer of said petition should
not be allowed and granted and
the said Administrator and the
surities on his bond discharged.
This the 18th day of January.
1888.
PARHAM H. WILLIAMS,
24-5-6 Chancery Clerk.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-01-20
executors Notice to Creditors OF
r. N. Elmore, Deceased.

Letters testamentary having
been granted on the 18th day OF
January, 1888 by the Chancery
Court Of Holmes County, Missis-
sippi to the undersigned r.. G,
Gilmore upon the estate Of P. M,
Elmore, Deceased, notice is here.
by given to all persons having
claims against the estate to pre-
sent the same to the Clerk Of the
Chancery Court of Holmes Ccun.
ty, Mississippi for probate and
registration according to law,
within six months from this day
or they will be forever barred.
This the Goth day Of January
1893.
r. G. GILMORE,
25-6-7-8 Executor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-01-20
NOTICE TO
No. 5754

Letters Of Administration hav.
ing been granted this day by the
Chancery Court of Holmes Coun.
ty, Mississippi, to the undersign.
ed upon the estate Of Will Sproles
Deceased, notice is hereby given
to all persons having claims
gainst said estate to present the
same to the Clerk Of said court
for probate and registration &C.
cording to law within six months
from this date or they will be
forever barred.
This the 3rd day of January
1887.
8. R. KING,
Administrator.
lC3-4-5-6
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-01-20

LOST-Pair rimless glasses,
Finder return to City Clerks Of
flee and receive reward.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-01-20

FOR SALE - Patent Top steel
drums. See E. B. Hodges, Du-
rant. Miss.
FOR RENT - Front room with
gas heat and private bath. Apply
j. P. DURHAM.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Apropos of Senator Lewis
Tax Abolition PROPOSAL

To the Editor Of The Star:
Hurrah for Senator J. Ham Lewis! I
see that he has put in a bill to abolish
taxes on lands and houses in the District
used as habltations, and has a further
Scheme to have the Federal Govern
ment make up the deficit. That will give
us owners OF homes, apartment houses
ana alley siums pensions at rates ac-
corolng to the value Of our property, and
When we want to sell out or the Govern
ment wants to clean up our slums, we'll
capitalize the taxes we don't pay in the
prices we ask. AS for those thrifty folks
VINO are saving up for homes they'll
nave to go over the District line to get
them on reasonable terms.
l have read that in the district and
city OF Camberra, Australia, the people
pay rent for their land which is all
tney have to pay. And in the city of
Sydney, about the size of Boston, they
pay taxes only on their land at a rate
ABOUT tWo-thlrds of its rental value.
Ihey have no Slums, and when buildings
are put up there the owners are not re-
qulred to begin paying for them all over
again In taxes from the time of their
completion. They have mostly local
option in taxation in that part of the
world which takes in Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa, and the people
are learning fast.
The Hudson Bay Co. owned the most
OF Northwest Canada, which it got for
nothing and was holding up the settlers
handsomely until the provinces, as thev
organized, resorted to stiff land taxes.
when the H. B. Co. went begging for
settlers at about their own price. We
may eventually acquire some tax sense
and sooner for the District perhaps if
we had real say in how we are to he
taxed. WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
America Offers a Haven
While Its People Suffer

10 the Edltor OF The Star:
America, with outstretched arms, in
vites the prosecuted people of other
countries to its shores where '1iberty
and freedom" so widely advertised, is
offered to all the oppressed world.
Within the shores of America, how
ever, these blessings do not exist for
ALL similar condition exists in Amer
lea to that of other countries where
persecution of the innocent is practiced
The outstanding difference between those
countries and ours is that they do it
openly while in America it is done
secretly by powerful organized factions.
The Government, circumstantial evi-
dence suggests, is compelled to submit to
these factions or lose their votes in cleo
tlons. which in the end may prove worse.
There is no longer justice or free
speech in America; there is no freedom
OF action except where the powers that
be" permit
Speaking from experience and facts
know from years of suffering torture and
anguish that these things are so. These
powerful organizations are able to frame
up an innocent person in such manner
that 1t is almost impossible for him to
prove his case. The victim is so widely
dlsgraced that it is useless to try. To
attempt defense would mean a similar
tate Tor any one coming to his assistance
and without help it is useless.
"Irlal by jury has been substituted by
electric machines" which can be con-
trolled to suit the wishes of "the powers
that be-"
Imprisonment for a term of years fol-
lowed by freedom has been substituted
for life imprisonment" in magnetic
force with continuous suffering. This
all for no crime.
While apparently free to the eye. the
victim is kept in torturous. stupifed
idleness without position, income or
social contact.
And America offers freedom" to the
oppressed" of other nations!
JOHN JAMES COUSIN.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Tribute to the Late
Edith C.. Westcott
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The work of a great builder in steel
or stone stands for the appraisal of all
beholderS; it can be measured in terms
of beauty and durability All spectators
can appreciate the tribute paid, for they
see the work.
The teachers contribution to the So
clety in which he lives Is not thus visi-
BILE for evaluations, but a moment s
thought shows lis that the thing builded
is not less beautiful not less lasting.
The closing of the life of Miss Edith
c. Westcott calls forth these lines In
the warp and Woof of the fabric which
Is Washington life today, I wonder how
many threads could be traced to her
original influence. Dynamic personality
that she was, no one could come within
her orbit and remain unchanged. AS
principal of Western High School, she
had her guiding and inspiring hand on
every movement. She knew and remem-
bered every pupil, and conspiredsto meet
each individuals needs. If a tagging
scholar was musical, she contrived to
bring him forward in the musical life of
the school. In this and all artistic lines,
her taste was cultivated and her stand
ards high. Strict in discipline she was,
put warm and human in her attitude
toward her pupils. whom she followed
ever after, to China or Peru. No one
was ever lost to her. Her sense of
humor was keen and she was supremely
good storyteller.
Progressive and liberal in educational
principles, she was a pioneer and prime
mover in many civic and school organi-
cations whose work has grown to great
Importance in our city's life.
But above and beyond all, invisible
and calculable, is the influence on the
minds and hearts of thousands of boys
and girls, now men and women. whose
ideals and conduct are different because
MISS WeStcott lived and taught
They received each for his own mem
ory praise that will never die and with
IL the grandest of all sepulchers, not
that in which their mortal bones are laid,
out home in the minds of men where
their glory remains fresh to. stir to
speech or action as the occasion comes
by Their story is not craven only
on stone over their native earth, but
lVeS on far away, without visible svm-
Dol, woven into the stuff of other mems
lives. .'-Pericles. ALICE L. WOOD.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Haphazard Legislation.

A presidential veto of the District ap-
preparation bill for 1899, on the ground
that it fails to make adequate provision
for the care of some of the Districts
unfortunate wards, would be a drastic
step. But it would be perfectly appro-
pirate and would perhaps convey to
Congress salutary lesson on the evils
Of careless, makeshift legislation.
Readers of The Star have been told
Of the serious consequences which would
follow the utilization of the old Police
Court Building, just vacated by the
courts, as a receiving home for children
and as house of detention for women.
The fire marshal, concerned not with
sociological or penal problems, but re-
sponsible under the law for the pre-
vention of fire hazards, has put his foot
down on that. The provision of the
District bill providing for such use is,
therefore in effect vetoed already with
no substitute in sight.
Readers of The Star have learned to
their amazement however, that the
abolishment of the National Training
Schools for Girls on Conduit road-also
ordered in the District bill-will mean
that District taxpayers must throw
about S35,000 down another rat hole
while saving" some $4,000 in admins
trative expense at the institution The
$4,000 would be spent to build tenn
porary shacks for the inmates of the
training school who must be transferred,
under the bills provisions, from quarters
In which the District has already in
vested almost a quarter of a million
dollars in the past two years for i'm
provement and expansion alone.
The Commissioners plan to rescue
some sensible procedure out of this
tragic and expensive snarl by the pas
sage OF deficiency appropriation car
rying more money to be thrown away
on temporary expedients for the care of
unfortunate women and children may
be wise. But its wisdom should be tested
by an investigation, as Senator Cope
land has proposed, designed to seek
some permanent and humane, as we'll
as sensible, method of caring for the
Districts delinquent and dependent
women and children.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
amusement than listening to the work
themselves

amusement than listening to the works
themselves.
Consider the new" music.
While it has plenty of theory behind
it, it still lacks to millions of ears the
appeal of the classical music
Owners Of those ears cannot find the
melodic line in the new" music.
Even some Of the most famous mu-
sicians say they cannot find 1t, either,
so what hope is there for the rest of us?
What we have long loved as music is
what we want to hear
There is something to that theory, no
doubt. How could there help be? Music
is so close to the minds and hearts of
its friends that they are willing to be-
lieve firmly in the value of old beloved
things. They are conservatives. They
feel that it is silly to say "the best is
yet to be-" musically; why, the best al
ready has been!
Basis for the argumentative approach
to music is mans ever-ready tongue.
He loves to talk, rather than listen.
He wants TO use his mind, not to ap-
preclate, which requires silence and
depth, but to contradict, which merely
demands loud voice and very positive
opinions.
A juvenile approach. no doubt, but
unfortunately one which often fingers
over into middle and old age
The young person who finds that he
would rather argue about music than to
listen to it ought to take stock of him
sell before it is too late, and realize
that II he keeps on the way he is going
he will end by being an orator, rather
than music lover.
The old human desire to set values on
things, to lump them off into poor, fair,
good excellent, is at fault here.
Inc temerlty OF any one who has
composed no music to sneer at anything
Beethoven ever wrote!
How does one get that way, indeed?
No one will ever catch great musician
sneering at the least line the master
set down.
Yet this young buckaroo with pent up
Ikes and dislikes sets himself up as
able to separate the great mans COM
positions into best-the ones he likes"
and into bad-the ones he "dislikes."
X X
Perhaps such person serves a useful
purpose. after all.
He warns all and sundry not to be
like him.
AND 1t IS easy enough to see him in
his true colors, whereas it is not so easy
TO see the self in the same light. Mr..
Burns wrote very famous poem on the
subject, did he not?
Every time we hear our elf-suficient
young man putting music to rights we
would like to shout:
On, shut up! Stop talking so much.
and begin listening more Reserve YOUR
arguments for the law courts. The score
OF symphony wouldn't do you much
sood there, and the tactics of the court
won't help you much at a concert. If
You love music, listen to it. The ear is
more important than the tongue"
Evening star., 1938-04-04
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Music is something to listen to, not
to argue about, but many a person in
sists on turning this most beautiful of
arts into linguistic free rail-, some
times little short of slap-stick comedy.
1t is big mistake.
To take violent sides, in regard to
music, is to miss the best it has to offer.
Young people, in particular, start
themselves on the wrong road when they
take sides as to the relative merits Of old
and new music, or imagine they de-
splse certain musical compositions.
There is the young fellow who loves
to insist that Beethovens second SYM
phony is not worth his hearing
What would he think If he knew that
Sir George Grove. who knew his music
and musicians, rated the second as one
OF the best OF the immortal nine?
1t is interesting to wonder why it is
that any music lover, and especially why
any young music lover, should want to
find disagreement and argument in
what ought to be harmony.
The intellectual side of music is not
its least interesting side.
1t is an intellect of a certain Sort
however. A pure intellect, as many per-
sons understand that term, might not be
a musical mind in the least.
In our experience, some of the best
pianists are chemists. That is, men who
earn their living with chemistry often
love to play, and are more often than
not superb pianists.
Those who feel inclined to "take sides"
on matters musical ought to take stock
OF their own leanlngS, and wonder to
themselves why they are that way"
There is nothing to argue about in
music, really; the ear is not fitted for it.
The ear is the test, after all. Without
the ear. music would not be much.
While there may be such a thing as
pure music" of a disembodied sort
even so great genius as Ludwig van
Beethoven must have been miserable in
his later years when his ears went back
on him.
To hear, is to enjoy music.
What greater foolishness than to en-
list the mind only to argue about it,
Let us use such minds as We have. If
we love music, to enrich our musical life,
not to make it thing of petty dispute.
The crux of the matter lies there: If
we argued to any particular point, it
might be different, but in the main the
musical discussion where argument en-
ters Is devoted to nothing more than
few feeble likes" and "dislikes."
Let one praise the Beethoven second,
another says he docs not like it" as
If that made any difference to Beet
hoven!
Some persons who fancy they like
music really have liking for it to one
end, to contradict anything any one
else says about it. 1t becomes a sort of
game with them, evidently. Arguing
about composers and the relative merits
OF their various compositions is more
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Vox Populi by Wire.

Much is being made by congressional
advocates of the Presidents reorganiza-
ton bill of the fact that many of the
kilograms which have been sent to
Senators and Representatives have been
inspired evidently by certain oppo-
nents of the administration and have
been phrased in accordance with a
prescribed formula. This, however, does
not prove or even indicate that these
protests against the proposed enactment
are not genuine expressions of public
sentiment. 1t may be presumed that
none of the senders of these kilograms
would have gone to the trouble and the
expense of expressing opposition without
cause. The similarity of expressions SIM
ply means that the senders of these tele-
grams have adopted a formula that ex-
presses sentiment precisely, formula
devised to encompass an expression of
opposition and protest briefly and sue
cintly and effectively. If those who
heard O voice over the air suggesting the
1ofmula aoOpteo IL tne protest Is none
the less genuine and is not to be dis
counted by the allegation that it is
manufactured"
How better, indeed, could the voice of
the people be heard than by this means?
If that voice has any validity or influence
, 1t Is not to be discounted because some
one has been smart enough to indicate
the briefest and most explicit form of ex-
preston suitable for telegraphic trans
mission. And, furthermore, the advo-
Gates Of reorganization, whether in Con-
gress or elsewhere, have the same re-
course to the peoples ear and to their
reaction as have the opponents. The
fact that the overwhelming majority Of
the wires received by the members Of
both Houses Of Congress during these
Evening star., 1938-04-04

planting. Virginias highways certainly
will be vastly benefited if, as anticipated,
the new law produces similar result
in the Old Dominion.
The Associated Clubs of Virginia for
Roadside Development deserve much
credit for the business-like way in which
they went about obtaining enactment
OF the law this year. They have OBJ
tanned other results, however, rivaling
passage Of the law in importance. From
hotels and large commercial concerns
they have obtained pledges to discon-
tinue roadside advertising. This action
not only is effective in helping to free
roads Of signs, it is significant indica-
tion of the trend of public opinion
against highway billboards
Such sentiment is bound to increase
rather than diminish in a State noted
for its scenic parkways where CONNER
clal signs are banned. The contrast be-
tween driving on such roads and on a
route like the Washington Richmond
highway is bound, sooner or later, to
impress majority of motorists.
Thus it seems that both Maryland
and Virginia should realize that what
has been done is merely the first step in
the right direction. That further regu-
lation will be needed cannot be doubted,
Perhaps the next move should be drastic
regulation, if not elimination, of lately
developed driving distraction-whirling
lighted signs.
Washington's neighbor States, how
ever, no doubt have been wise in be-
ginning their regulation of highway ad-
vertising in moderate way. The pub
lie probably could not have stood the
shock of having all the billboards re-
moved at once!
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Criticism Has No Effect
Upon President Roosevelt
To the Editor Of The Star:

IL tHe EQlCOr OF Inc star.
Criticism apparently has no effect upon
our congenial President, because he
does not have time to read it and it is
never brought to his attention. If it
does have any effect on his aides, who
are responsible for most of it, they do
not heed. 1t should, however, and I
believe does, have depressing effect
upon Congressman who represent the
people and find that IS per cent of the
newspapers and magazines are unfavor-
able to the New Deal administration. But
politics is politics and they certainly
must have to swallow some bitter pills.
uaughter)
In the beginning he prescribed a Is
per cent reduction in governmental ex-
penditures, and then gave us an over
dose of 180 per cent in the opposite di-
rection. He has since been going from
one x-stream to another in the same old
paddle-wheel ship in search of remedy
for our ills. Pride rules his heart and
he will not yield to criticism.
FRIsBEY GILBERT.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Sees Faulty in Presidents
No Dictator Statement
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t would require wild fight of fancy
tnoeed to picture Jefferson, Jackson,
Lincoln, or Lee arising at midnight
to inform the world they expected to re-
main loyal to their trust.
Hasn't it always been taken for granted
that public servants would keep the
faith? When they take the trouble to
affirm their intention to do so, suspicion
will heighten. not decrease
Few will deny that Franklin Roose-
velt was temporarily vested with the
powers of dictator. But the prospect
of the President becoming an American
Mussolini, in a Nation where freedom
is bred in the bone, is as remote as to
expect Herr Hitler to confer upon AL
Jolson and Eddie Cantor the titles of
"Emperors of Austria" Hence the Pres;-
dents assurance that he has no die.
tatorial aims seems futile and fatuous.
E. K. GOLDSBOROUGH
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Laugh That Masks a TIE

Laugh That Masks Tear.
It's kind O. hard to laugh, these days.
The end of every jest
An acrobatic flop portrays
Which indicates unrest.
With lethal weapons boys attack
Their parents, just for fun:
Wives put their husbands on the rack
Or keep them on the run.
The poor old toiler fears his boss"
The boss is in despair
Because the typist has grown cross
And doesn't seem to care
About the prospects of the biz
In all this mundane bluff
The most depressing feature is
The wildly comic stuff!
Evening star., 1938-04-04
A First Step.

At long last Virginia has joined the
States that regulate billboards. After
years of legislative battling p measure
has been passed and signed by Governor
Price providing for the licensing and
regulation of commercial signs on high
ways outside of incorporated towns.
The effect of similar law in Mary
land has been to eliminate thousands
Of small "snipe" signs and provide q
revenue which Is used for roadside
Evening star., 1938-04-04

past few days, while the reorganization
bill has. been going through its final
stage of enactment, have been in protest
is assuredly not the result of superior
strategy on the part of those who have
stimulated the protest. 1t may be ac-
cepted as a definite evidence of disap-
proval of the reorganization plan by q
large number of people.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
Safe Prediction.

From the Kansas City Star.
Speaking of the defendants in the
next set of treason trials before mill
tary tribunal in Soviet Russia, the news
paper Izvestia has hazarded the predic-
ton that nothing and nobody will save
them" Somehow we wouldn't be sur
prised if Izvestia were right.
Evening star., 1938-04-04

Now and then some one tells first
rate elephant story, which has nothing
to do with the case except as a re-
minder that the season for bringing
the circus on the road will soon be here
again.
Evening star., 1938-04-04

A warm hearted tribute to the Wright
Brothers marked the speech Of James
A. Farley commencing a national cele-
bration of aviation week. Mr.. Farley
has succeeded in demonstrating that
man need not discuss politics in order
to prove his quality as an orator.
Evening star., 1938-04-04

The train carrying President Roose-
velt halted long enough in Atlanta to
permit Solicitor General Robert H. Jack
son to board it. Many conversations
may be held but the ability to work fast
counts for more and more.
Evening star., 1938-04-04

A mention of Secretary of State Hull
as a possible candidate for President of
the U. S. A. may remind the distin-
guished gentleman that he has a heavy
job of work on hand which may not be
finished by election time.