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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
CornivoI Will Show In
Durunt Novemer Ia

Everyone in Durant and surround
ing communities Is invited to at.
tend the big carnival of Rogers and
Powell, showing here starting Mon
day, November 14th, and continuing
for one big week.
Side show attractions, rides and
all of the items that make for a
big time will be present at this show
and the public Is asked to come out
and inspect the show and tell every
one about 1t.
The show grounds across the rail
road tracks will be the location OF
the carnival which Is sponsored by
the Business and Professional Wo-
mems Club.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
Dorothy Davis Crowned
Halloween Queen

Miss Dorothy Davis was crowned
Queen of Halloween at the Halloween
Carnival spornored by the Methodist
Woman's Missionary Society Monday
evening.
Miss Davis was crSwned with fit
ting ceremony before large crowd
which enjoyed the carnival Over
200 persons enjoyed the festivities.
The Women's Missionary Society
wishes to thank everyone who con-
tributed in any way to the success
of the carnival and especially to those
attending who made its success pos
sible.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
First Baptist Church
Services Sunday

Bible School 9:45.
Morning worship 1880.
Subject: Why Baptist Church
b. T. U. p, M.
Evening worship p. M.
subject; rs the Risk Worth It?'
Aid-week service Wednesday at I
p. M. Study: The Atonement. He.
brews O. Discussion by the pastor
Choir Practice 7:45 p. M.
Special music by the choir.
W. r. Haynie, Pastor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
Health Department Makes
Physical Exoms Today

DR.. l.. H. Eubanks, county health
officer, visited the Durant schools
today and made physical examinations
Of the first, third and fifth grades
according to an announcement of C.
H. Carruth, superintendent.
The examinations were routine af-
fairs, being conducted every year as
checkup on the eyes, teetK ears
and bodies of the school children
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO
MEET AT HOTEL TONIGHT

The Board of Trustees of the Du-
rant schools will meet tonight at the
Hotel Durant in it's regular monthly
meeting. The business session will
be combined with dinner hour and
all members are requested to be pres
ent.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
ENT-TEACHERS AUXILIARY
HOLDS MEETING TODAY

The Parent-Teachers Association OF
Durant schools will meet today at
go O'Clock and all members are re-
questcd TO be present, according to
an announcement of Mrs. H. C. Nit
chell, president.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
T. {. |. Class Hos
Large Attendance

The T. e. l.. Glass of the Baptist
Church had Is in attendance last
Sunday, only three being absen.
Come next Sunday and help make
the attendance 100 per cent.
Topic of the lesson; Honoring Our
Parents.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-11-03
Through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

We pride ourselves, in this news
paper. that we fill up the paper with
local news pertaining to Holmes
County communities and their peo-
piles. Very seldom does there appear
in our paper the kind of stuff known
by the trade as filters" and clip
pings" We always manage, some
how or other to get up enough local
news and happenings to fill up its
columns.
Even the noblest of intentions and
efforts fail at times, however.
So this week you'll read in this
paper some of the things we usually
leave to the dailies to tell you.
When there's nothing happening. +.
there just isn't any news.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
FriUs, Fnrbel0pvs

oh. no." said the lady with n
shake of the head. we did not
have special clothes for picnics or
SPORTS. We wore full regalia for all
occasions. Even these of us who had
tent houses and children to care
for always wore fitted dresses and
took care that our pompadourS
were as neat as possible We must
have been very clothes conscious"
as they say today, to put up with all
that clothing.
Even the little girls had 30 wear
clothes. When l see the clothes we
wear now l can't help feeling sorry
we could not have had them then
when it was so much work to keep
anything in good repair. So little
water, SO much dust! 1t is hard to
paint the picture as it really was.
After the automobile came into
use. we wore busters and veilS along
with the rest of the women in Am
erica. We needed them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

Three decades of waiting, 80 years
of bravin2 the scorn of a younger
generation. were made worthwhile
Dec. IL. 1882, for a handful of die
hard Imperial Valley pioneers, when
history repeated itself
History repeated itself in the form
of a white. fluffy blanket of snow
that settled down upon the valley
during the night. No such pheno-
menon had occurred since January,
1902, but it brought more than joy
full curiosity to the handful of die
hards. 1t brought the vindication of
their claims and the end of scorn-
full reflections upon their stories OF
that first snow"
1t was January. 1902. Ell Centro
was not even a wide spot in the
road. when the first" snow came
Imperial's population of so or less
with mouths gaping watched a cold
rain turn TO sleet and then to white
snow that drifted down upon the
sandy soil. The early twilight show
ed a white blanket over the tiny
frontier town. BY forenoon the next
day it was gone.
That was the stroy the old time
die-hards told, and they met sly
grins every time they told it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Shirt waists
work of art

Now comes the outside layer.
the only one ever seen or mentioned
in public. l might remark just in
passing Gibson Girl shirt waists
were all the rage. They we're works
of art! Loaded with tuckS. fancy
braid or lace as the taste of the
wearer dictated. All collars were
high and "boned" in two sharp
points and gave the wearerS a pc
culiarly we'll groomed and Sedate
appearance. The shirtwaistS were
belted in at the waist, small waists,
too. Mutton leg sleeves of MAN.
moth proportions were the last thing
in style when Imperial Valley and
all her settlers were young. The
sleeves were big at the top and
small at the bottom. Some of them
were trimmed with little ruffleS or
frillS at the wrist. We never wore
short sleeves except for most elab-
crate occasions. 1t wasn't decent.
Bell skirts were the style. They
fitted snugly at the hips and then
flared and flared at the bottom.
Cores. which are just coming back
N style again. were familiar to val
ley ladies in settlement days. Our
skirts were white duck in the sum-
mer and worSted materials or silks
in the winter.
Black Isle thread hose were all
we had. and said the pioneer lady
with a quizzical lift of one eyebrow,
they were lovely, We had no silk
hose so the manufacturers devoted
their ingenuity to making the Isle
thread stocking attractive. Black
kid shoes with high tops in the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

button or lace styles were popular.
The we'll dressed woman. who could,
always bought lovely French kid
boots. High heeled ones. too. In
summer We wore white oxfords.
"A great deal could be said about
hats. Women always love hats and
we certainly loved those big ones
We must have or we would not
have been able to carry them
around.
we wore them perched on top
of our rats. tilted back over the
knot at the back or hanging peri
lously on top of rated pompa-
dcurS. We did not trust to luck to
keep them on. We knew better. We
pinned them in place with two 70
inch hat pins Each hat pin had
fancy head. These pins were favorite
gifts. Some of them had handpaint-
ed flowers on a bit of round china
fashioned into a gay addition of
any hat.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

{oday who were settlers in those
ehulons days of the early century
emember the fashions.
"Fashionsl Styles Furbelows!"
reclaimed one indignant feminine
pioneer. we knew what a lady
|as supposed to wear and we wore
=. In settlement days we dressed
p the height of fashion from hat
pins TO button shoes.
"Tent houses offered little oppor
|uity for the genuine prinking de-
banded by the styles of that period
bat all of us managed to clothe
ourselves in layer after layer. Get
ing dressed meant something in
hose days. None of your two-ear-
nent costumes for use even in hot
weather.. Sometimes I wonder"
nurmured the feminine pioneer.
Nth far away look in her eyes.
now We had time TO do anything
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

These rats" declared the pioneer
lady with a gentle rifle of mod
iSh bob, were a problem. Pompa-
dourS were not easy to create in
the first place and practically M
possible to keep in order. I hated
them.
First we put on a vest. This usu-
ally was followed by a corset. even
though We would not have been so
indelicate as to mention it. Next
came a corset cover. fancy as could
be and just as modest. Then we
donned umbrella drawers. They re-
Sembled small tents. Two double
flounced petticoatS went over the
first two layers. Those pettiaoats
measured yards around and weigh
I'd enough 10 discourage a modern
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

but dress and undreSs.
1T is a mystery how We ever
stayed anchored to the earth when.
clad in petticoats and billowing
skirts topped off by a huge hat, we
stepped into a good old valley wind
storm. I still remember the trick
it was to clutch my skirts, hold my
hat and walk through the sand.
We must have been super women in
those days
I, for one. was determined not
to lose my grip on civilization. even
if I was engaged in a bit of pioneer
ING in a practically waterlesS des-
ort. I suppose the other women felt
the same way.
Hair styles were elaborate. Most
of us had to wear rats to create
the outstanding pompadours all
the fashion magazines displayed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

Gosh, grandpops, you don't mean
that honestly, do you?" they heard
on all sides.
Vindication that it really CAN
snow in Imperial Valley came on
the night of Wednesday, December
IL nearly 81 years later As in the
first case, the snow was preceded
by rain. At 800 light flakes began
to drift downward The news spread
quickly from house to house and
Ell Centro residents poured from
each home in an unprecedented
exodus. Laughter, mixed with awe
on every face; just think, it was
SHOWING! Telephones lines were
overcroWded as each person called
a neighbor with the joyful news,
until extra operators were called
to serve the rush.
Most Of Ell Centro's children were
seeing snow for the first time. Many
adults had never before seen snow
falling.
Business continued as usual. eX-
cept for delay in telephone service
at BraWley when a power line went
out. Country roads, sloppy from
recent rains, we're made sloppier
by the snow Somehow, for once,
the farmers didn't seem to care.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
When Style Rubbed
EIbOaUs with Desert

People lived in tents in Imperial Valleys early days
because there wasn't much else live in-bu the
ad different reason for dressing enough material to
pake good sized five-family tent 1t the style.
With bit of lift to their eyebrows, the of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

(POST-PRESS ENGRAVINC)
Style the hing-hen
the height
outfit pictured here Just
tbs the Alamo
hotel white
on ress of mi white
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
JiMMY'S GETTING IT,
IN a BIG WAY

(Oroville Mercury-Register)
For astounding revelations of politico-
business favoritsm we recommend the
article "Jimmy's Got It" by Alva john
ston in the current number of the Satur-
day Evening Post. 1t centers national at
tention upon the Presidents son James,
who, it is claimed. has an annual income
somewhere between S250,000 and 2,000.-
600 due 10 insurance policies he sold by
virtue of his unique position as the PreSi-
dents Son.
Already one law suit has followed
the publication. and Jimmy himself is
said 10 be muttering about suit from his
room in a Rochester (Minn.) hospital.
He will not sue. We venture TO predict,
for he cannot afford to go into court and
chance complete showing of cards.
When publication makes charges it
usually has the facts to substantiate
them.
However. the article is 4 most damag-
ing one, particularly in view of the known
fact that both Jimmy and his father har-
bor unlimited ambitions for the boy, even
to the one that he shall be the third>Roose-
welt to occupy the White House
The President too is involved be-
cause he has failed to put into effect his
IH6OlA lHtl tllA pupliN olIl0idi Sllould De
compelled to disclose the sources of his
income if it becomes apparent that it is
out of line with his known income as a
holder of public office. An attempt to
catch public glimpse of Jimmy's income
tax return was quickly squelched. A con-
fidential viewing was allowed member
of congress who said it was most remark
able that one as young as Jimmy should
have Such a large income
The article gives instance after in
stance of Jimmy's ability to steal policies
out from under the noses of experienced
insurance salesman, though he had been
in the business but two short years and
was not qualified to handle such tech
nical accounts as aviation, distilling
shipping and the like.
Borrow your neighbor's Post and read
it, for it will go down in modern history
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
Barbs ---

Nazi leaders Strcicher and SeySs-
lnquart are squabbling over pos
session of 4 rare museum piece
Charlemagne's crown. It'll prob
ably wind up in Goering's clothes
closet.
a Massachusetts man died the
other day at The age of lO7. Doc
tors blamed it on living so long.
The only CLOCKS that keep day
iight-saVing time in one eastern
community are those belonging to
the city. There's one thing a gov
ernment can save, anyway.
Doll hats are announced as the
coming thing in feminine head
gear. 1t seemS-mcn-that they're
tG go with the new skirts.
A baby has been born in Italy
With il fingers and Ia toes. That's
the kind of situation that develops
Joe E. Browns and Martha Rayes.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
WelI> / |!
TeIiYou.,
says
Bob Burns

There's no question about it
the bigger a SNOWFALL gets, the
more snow it picks up. As Grand
pa Snazzy said "Them as has
gets"
went out to grandpas house
one time, when I was a boy, and
was surprised when he started
Showin' me his war medals. / says
"Grandpa, | didn't know you had
ali those medals for bravery
how in the world did you get 'em?"
Hu pointed TO the biggest one
and says We'll, l got that big one
by mistake and they gave me all
these other medals because 1 had
that one
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
GOOD BUSINESS
IN GOVERNMENT

President Roosevelt late Tuesday an
nounced his intention of pressing at the
next session of congress for govern
ment reorganization bill such as was de-
feated by the house of representatives at
the last session. The people Of the country
will agree with him that good business
practice in government demands reorg-
anization, and that we cannot afford to
wait 40 years for it.
The Presidents bill will be approved
by the next congress, we believe, if it is
not drawn in such form that it places an
overdose of power in the hands of one
man or one group of men. If it attempts
to do that, we believe il will be defeated.
The last reorganization bill was, as
Mr. Roosevelt says, Objectionable in many
details. One of them was that it would
have created new bureaus and new gov
ernmental expense without eliminating
any of the old bureaus or old expenses.
1t was misnamed when they called it a
governmental reorganization bill. It
should have been called governmental
addition bill.
The President will find the people
strongly behind him if he presents to the
next congress a bill that will eliminate
duplicating bureaus cuts down executive
expense and provide safeguards against
dictatorial power that might be danger
Gus to democracy in the hands of less
scrupulous man or group Of men,
Government reorganization is needed
badly. How to provide il is the problem
confronting the President and his advis-
ors. Properly presented, we believe it will
be assured Of popular approval.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
Bruce Cation Says
= Six of Wan an ART a Dozen OF tOther

cont into the vocables of its stars;
so have the radio people; and The
result, in most cases, has been
something fearful and wonderful
TO hear. And the British, IN their
turn. have long insisted that
American-made films are unfit for
empire consumption because of the
dreadful American accent which
pervades them.
But now it develops that the
British themselves are not quite
sure what is and is not good, sound
English speech.
Milton Bronner, European man.
ager for the Newspaper Enterprise
Association, points out that while
England is in area slightly small
er that the state of Alabama, is
40 100000 people have more accents
and dialects than the entire con-
tinental United States.
Yorkshireman and Lancashire
man can understand one another,
with an effort; but neither has a
speech like that of the native of
Somerset. The London Cockney is
in a class by himself. And the cele-
brated Oxford accent deserves a
separate volume.
The upper class in London calls
a bath a baWth and grass, grahsS,
but the upper class in Liverpool
or Edinburgh will pronounce ose
words precisely as Americana" do.
An observant London clergymal
recently remarked that the upper
class West End of London Is really
Just as bad as the lower class East
End. He cited, as an example the
line frequently sung in church:
praise Him for His grace and
favor
In the Cockney East End, he said
this line becomes:
Prize Him for His grice and
FLYER"
And in the cultured West End
the line sounds like this:
"Preeze Him for His grease and
fever"
All of which, doubtless, adds up
to nothing at all. But a harassed
American who has to listen to imi-
tation British accents every time
he goes to a movie or turns on
the radio may properly draw a
modicum of comfort from it. He
can go on comfortably saying
moo York. instead of "NyeW
Yohk", secure in the knowledge
that at least half of England itself
would probably agree with him.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
FOR EASTERN
CONSUMPTION ONLY

mathematics are poisonous. They are,
IN fact, often fatally poisonous But a
lot of people have suffered rattlesnake
bites and lived to tell the story It's all in
Knowing how 10 treat the wound
That's why the westerner who is not
entirely city bred gets a feeling of dis
taste out of wire service story such as
the one that originated in New Mexico
this week, after one man was drowned
and another wandered a hours on the
desert when a small boat voyage down
the Rio Grande met disaster on rock
in midstream.
Telling of the second mans 24-hour
wanderings which finally brought him
to safety and medical attention, the re-
port said:
But the fact that he had escaped be-
ing bitten by one of the poisonous rattle
snakes that inhabit the rocky region was
considered by rescuers the most amazing
part of the experience
We've wandered ourselves where you
couldn't go half mile without seeing
rattlesnake or a sign Of one We've looked
down into snake dens = and they do eX-
iSt in the foothills - where 80 or 100
rattlers Writhed and twisted or summed
themselves peacefully. We've jumped a
good five feet in one leap from warn
ing rattle scarce two feet from our heels
Yet we've never considered it MIRA
culous that we weren't bitten. And we've
never believed that death would be in
evitable if we were A knife to open the
wound and a pocket sized kit any drug
store can provide give adequate safe
guard until a doctor can be reached.
We'd like to see a prohibition placed
on this business of miracles, so named be-
cause a man wanders on the desert and
isn't bitten by snake For eastern con-
sumption it may be a good story but it
may, too, cause many to avoid forever the
beauty that is to be found on these sup
posedly snake infested deserts of ours.
And those who do not know the beauty
of the deserts : snakes or no have
never tasted full beauty.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
FASCINATION OF ASTRONOMY
I.IndsaX GaZette)

IIIHUsdN NIdLtLItJ
Astronomers are already figuring out
how the world may end. The explosion of
stars has given them the clue that this
world may meet like fate The astron-
omer leads sublime life and if mathema-
tics could be let out it would be an inter
esting study. Distances to the stars are
too incomprehensible, much like govern
ment loans = a mass of figures. A study
of astronomy enlarges ones comprehen-
sion and impresses him with the import
ance of other worlds than our own. A
good understanding of the universe, such
as our books on astronomy give, must nee
essarily make one humble and charit-
able. The worlds oldest science still re-
mains one of the most fascinating in
mans civilization.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
News Behind
the News
Campaign Expenses .
No Cramped Style

WASHINGTON. = Although the
Senate Campaign Expenses Com
mittee offers partial sanctuary for
any WPA project worker who is
subjected to political intimidation"
1t is not yet cramping the style
of President Roosevelt and other
New Dealers who insist on support
ing liberal candidates as distin-
guished from conservatives"
There may be some backdoWn Gil
one side Or the other, but it looks
as if the committee and the adj
ministration might engage in a
running Skirmish for the rest of
the campaign season. The CON-
mittee is dominated by anti-NeW
Deal senator's.
A curious sequence of statements
began when Chairman Morris SheD-
pard announced that government
officials who supported congres-
Sional candidates would be sum-
moned before the committee. Roose-
Velt then flatly told the country
he would support certain candidate
in the primaries. Instead of sug-
gesting that the President be called
before the committee, Sheppard
complimented the "fireside chat
and said:
He is entirely within his right
in discussing candidates for office.
Other officials will insist on then
right to speak or work for certain
candidates in their capacity as "pri-
Yate citizens Committee member
haven't made up their minds eX-
actly what to do about it.
All government agencies must
keep hands off primaries and cleo
TONS it said originally, conspic-
uously falling to say all officials. $
Now it has described Deputy WPA
Administrator Aubrey William5'
speech TO the Workers Alliance as
unfortunate and warned against
political speeches by dispensers Of
funds
Members of the committee be
sides Sheppard are Dave Walsh of
Massachusetts, consistent New Deal
foe, and Pat Harrison Of MiSsis-
sippi, conservative administration
critic, both recently named to tdc
committee by Vice President Gar
ner who hopes to Wrest control Of
the Democratic party from Roose-
Velt; Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming
who is firmly opposed to Roose-
Velts efforts to split the party
and Wallace White Of Maine, a
Republican.
The committee will find, il il
doesn't know it. that WPA direc-
tors in most states owe their po-
litical allegiance to sitting Demo
cratic senators rather than to Harry
Hopkins. In primaies to date this
fact has favored Senators Pepper
in Florida and Gillette in Iowa and
Senator Joe Guffey's defeated ticket
in Pennsylvania. 1t seriously handi-
caps Rooseyelts efforts to defeat
certain senators up this year for
reelection, although it aids New
Deal incumbents such as "Dear
Alben" Barkley in Kentucky.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
Photographs

The first four months of 1888
were the healthiest ON record for
u. S. inhabitants, insurance sta
tiSticS indicate.
The average American citizen
passes one week per year in bed
because Of illness, statistics show.
Only three out of every ten radio
SETS traded in by u. S. users are
reSold.
Every country in the Western
hemisphere produces gold.
Were it not for the elaborate sys-
tenn of dykes, 38 per cent of Hol-
land would be flooded every "a
hours.
The late DR.. Charles P. Stein
metz electrical wizard, always
smoked a cigar while swimming.
There are more than so separate
banks in the financial district of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Many Alaska wolf hunters now
use airplanes
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-06
Famous Sayings

As a relief from the Weighty
news of the day you might give a
moment or two of thought to the
matter of the famous-and puz-
zling-British accent.
Hollywood has been doing its
best to instill a true British ac-