The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-12-08
Do Your Shopping EorIy

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how few years we've needed them!
But this is the time of the year when readers should
be warned. and we warn you. :. /.
So if you get smothered in that lastminute rush,
don't say we didn't tell you.
Incidentally, if you want some good tips on what
to buy whom, just cast a glimpse over the advertise,
ments in this issue. Your problem of what to give VIII
vanish like magic. and If you shop early you get the
very best the store has, in gifts, service and attention.
Duront As Convention Town
Durant is host this week to a meeting. Of about l25
bankers from the central portion of Mississippi and
bankers from the central portion of Mississippi.
A few days ago II was host to over . hundred bridge
players from all parts of Mississippi and MeMpaiS'
II ia no wonder Durant enjoys popularity as q meet
ing place for conventions, sales meetings, etc. Ideally
located. in the geographic center Of the state ~ ENJOYS
the best location Of any town in mississippi as 70 &C.
feasibility.
Roasting excellent hotel and cafe facilities there
Is no reason why it shouldn't be pushed more as q meet
ing place for groups in the future than it has IN the past
Stock On the Highways
Eleven months in the year we write editorials
urgings state farmers to raise less cotton and more corn
and hogs, cows, and foodstuff for man and beast.
Then comes November.
And all the stock is turned loose to Craze anywhere
it likes whether on the highways or in the fields. And
then we wish no farmer in Mississippi had even one
The stock usually prefers the highways, concrete
ones, too, as any motorist will tell you.
Why, oh why, is it that a valuable animal like a
cow or mule or a pig, a big fat one, is turned out to
menace the lives of men as we'll as their own2
No motorist can ever tell what a COW or a hog is
going to do at any given moment. We doubt If they
know themselves.
And they are so hard to see at night.
It looks like in the name of common sense, simple
economy and a love for human and animal life, that all
farmers would keep their stock fenced up.
1t gets out often enough then.
Forest Fires Criminal Neglect
The past week has seen more forest fires in this
section than at any other time in the year.
They are caused, for the most part, by hunters,
both white and black, who deliberately set fire to the
brush to chase out a few poor rabbits so they can shoot
them.
Rabbits are worth only a few cents at the most
and for that small amount hunters invade private prop
erty, in many instances posted land, and set fires that
cause loss of hundreds Of dollars in crops, buildings,
loss Of land fertility and just sheer waste.
Hunting is supposed to be a sport.
We don't call the man or boy a sport who sets
fire to any piece of land to chase a few rabbits out.
He doesn't even give the rabbit a fair chance for
its life.
But then this sort of person could hardly be ex-
pected to be fair about anything whether in sport or
in plain, everyday living.
Forest fires are responsible for our eroded land in
the south. They are causing our land to lose its fertility
and become worthless.
Forest fires bespeak pure carelessness and ignorance,
of which we should be ashamed.
We should be ashamed enough to put a stop to
it.. by making an effort to apprehend every person
who has any part in starting a forest fire.
An Eye For An Eye
A woman was electrocuted in Ohio this week.
the first in the history of the state. Convicted murderess
OF four men In poison Sayings, She was carried to the
chair that took her life, unable to move of her own
power
Overpowerng fear of what she would meet in
eternity caused her to crumple and become a help
less, shriveling human being.
There are those who would not have had her die
because she was a woman. there are those who would
not have anyone pay with his life for the crime he
commits.
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