The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-17
through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

page one of the Daily News Monday.
The news item goes on to say that
practically everything in Jackson pa
tronizes the Gold Coast from the
common herd to the socially promi-
nent on Sunday night; that 1t was
estimated that over 1000 cars cross
ed the Pearl River bridge Sunday
night between eight o'clock and two
that most of these cars were head
ed for the famous Gold Coast" of
Rankin county; that the crowds
swarming to the Gold Coast on Sun
day and week nights too, for that
matter, are presenting an increasing
ly difficult traffic problem.
The Jackson Daily News didn't say
so, of course, but it Is a well known
fact that thousands CT persons going
to Rankin county are plunking down
ever more thousands of dollars fol
open gambling, whiskey, cocktail
drinking tfor the LADIES', and other
light forms of entertainment such
as dining and dancing.
year boys; Mrs. II. j. Baine, teacher
People go to Rankin county be
cause they are bored and have notn-
ing better to do. Maybe they don't
like their wives inc homes. Maybe
they don't have a wife or home. Many
of the young things, Of both sexes,
go because they've got two bits they'd
like to shoot in a crap game for,
after all, they might turn it into
six. Who knowsf
At any rate we know that such
places do exist and are going to con-
tinue to as long as Mississippi keeps
the status of a dry state.
We do not say that repeating Mis-
sissippi's dry laws will prevent boot
Logging and stop gambling.
We do say 1t will stop the open
sale of liquor except under state su.
pervision and probably through state
owned and operated liquor stores;
also we say that the two vices OF
Thinking and gambling will become
~disassociated; that more people will
lose their money while sober. After
all, we think it might be more fun
to wake up the morning after and at
least have a little pocket change.
Mississippi's dry laws are a farce
and a disgrace to a decent, law-abid-
ing citizenry.
This Is supposed to be the land OF
the free and the home of the brave
where every man is free and equal
IN other wofds. thera il not sup
posed to be an discrimination in gov
eminent against any given class.
In that case Mississippi must not
be in America. for we certainly
have discrimination here.
Any number of towns drink their
liquor straight and out in the open
and do their gambling likewise, not
to mention the smaller sin of Sun
day movies and dances.
Speaking Of Sunday movies. did
1t ever occur to the people of Kinds
county that they could get some of
that Sunday night business over in
Rankin county by the simple act
of having Sunday movies?
People are going to find somewhere
to go on Sunday night.
OF course they should go to church
But that's another story. They all
aren't going there.
This group might just as well go
to the movies.
It'd be a lot better than riding
over the country's highways and Wis
sfirr DanLi, nntrrtxy
Sunday movies in V~icksburg and
in the Gulf coast cities Of Biloxi
and Gulfport report a good business
each Sunday.
Small towns in Tennessee report
the same.
It seems as though the biggest
problem confronting us now Is scrap
ing up enough silver to make a plat
ter big enough on which to hand
the world to Hitler.
A lot of people thought the world
was coming to an end a few weeks
ago after radios hair-raising broad
cast about the men from Mars. Quite
"a few were disappointed that it
didn't.
This is National Book Week. II
will be observed over the country
in schools and literary clubs.
There is nothing more important
in training and educating our youth
than trying to instill in it the habit
of reading good books
There would be less crime and
fewer cases i'm Juvenile courts If all
our young people were taught the
value received and pleasure gotten
out of reading good books.
Once this habit is formed it will
becom lifelong and a character
building force of great Importance.
1t will bring hours of happiness and
contentment n develop thinking,
wirthwhile citizens.
The thriving little city of Eupora
reports a surplus in its city treasury