The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-24
through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brann0n

We have in our possession a re-
CEN letter from a 80 year old Ger
man doctor in Berlin--a doctor un-
lucky enough to have been born a
Jew-a German citizen who by birth
training and experience ranks high
in his profession.
Coming from an honorable family
Of doctors this man has served his
country well, having engaged in az.
tive service for forty months during
the World War.
Now comes Herr Hitlers ban on
the Jews and this worthy citizen
must seek his fortune elsewhere
no longer Is he welcome in Germany
He writes to an official OF a small
town in Mississippi wanting 70 know
IL there's room for him here, a place
where he can settle down 10 a quiet
life of peace and service.
This case Is perhaps one of hun
dreds or thousands.
The plight OF the Jews in Germany
is more terrible than any known peo-
ple in a ountry supposedly at peace.
All personal and property rights
seem to have been taken away. NO
longer is the Jew a human being
and respected as such. He is not
treated as well as a dog.
That the nations OF the World a
continue to stand idly by while Hit
Ter runs the gamut of greed and
lust, Is unthinkable.
What the world can and will do
about 1t is a matter of conjecture.
Certainly protests in the usual dip
plomatic mi are futile, utterly USE
less. It will take stronger language
to impress Der Fuehrer.
Sooner or later there Is going to
be a day of reckoning. And the
decision will be written in the blood
OF thousands OF soldiers. We are
going to have to defend our way of
living as embodied in our system Of
government with Individual freedom
as its cornerstone.
1t is going to be a question OF
Wtlttiicl wi way ~
way, will survive, or whether n
man can set up a kingdom here on
earth with himself as monarch and
complete ruler.
One shutters to think of being un-
del. the rule of such a demagogue
as Adolf Hitler. We car think of
no worse fate han to be a member
of a race despised by him and I'M
der his control,
He has shown to the world how
small and uncharitable he is. He has
drawn a picture Of what any minor
ity race will suffer as long as he
s1ofds tfrc reins. fas character should
be written in the minds and hearts
of every intelligent man and woman
in the world.
Adolf Hitler will go down in his
tory as another Napoleon who dream
ed OF a world empire but was not
mar enough to accomplish it.
He too, will meet his waterloo.
And soon, we hope.
Mr.. Frank Valley, who heads the
Farm Security Administration in o
mes County, was in to see us the
other day and told us about two
highly complimentary letters his o.
flee received last week as the result
of a recent advertisement in this
newspaper.
Our readers viii recall the full page
advertisement subscribed to by low
al business men and members of the
Durant Rotary Club, which explain
ed in detail the administration of the
r. S. A. and a complete outline of
the work it attempts TO do.
One of the letters received by Mr..
Wiley was from the Washington Of
flee of Secretary of Agriculture Hen
ry A. Wallace and expressed inter-
est in the advertisement and carried
a note of commentator for Mr.. Wi
ley and his assistants at Lexington.
Thu other letter came from the
regional office of the F. S. A. in
Raleigh N. c., and carried the
same note of praise for the work be-
ing accomplished by the local F. S,
A. and a request for additional cop
les of the News in order that other
f. S. A. offices in the south can
copy the same idea.
We are glad this newspaper can
lave a part in advertising TO the
world the fine things accomplished
by Mr. Wiley and the Farm Security
Administration.