The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-07-07

cant nave potn II we want them
bad enough.
Last week we were privileged to
eat some cantaloupes grown in Du-
rant. 1t was the FIRST time that we
had ever tasted q perfect canta-
soupe. Never in our life have we
tasted such delicate sweetness.
We are told that Durant canta-
ioupcs used to appear by name on the
menus In the restaurants and coffee
shops from Chicago to New Orleans.
II 10 too bad that more farmers In
Durant don't grow them in quanti-
ties to sell now.
But Of purse the farmer has to
have . price for his product whether
It be cotton or cantaloupe. He can't
live on the pleasure we get out of
eating his cantaloupes.
But when a community excells in
the growing Of one product 1t looks
like something could be done TO get
: price for It.
We hate to hear people talk about
what used to be. II shows that per-
son has ceased to Hive in the present
and his life has become a memory
Where there Is no life there can be
no future. Progress Is at a stand
still and everything 10 deterioratlng
instead of growing.
The same thing applies to towns
~ well AZ individuals.
It's . heartening thought to know
there's always room on top for the
person who's good enough. This
world doesn't get too small to take
care of the persons who are good
at what they do. whether they
be mechanics or professionals.
The young people Of today are go
ing to be the salvation OF the word
tomorrow, according to a leader in
religious activities who talked to us
the other day.
She said people today talked about
what m thenarorld ere ~ ectng to do
With the young people She said it
would be lots better to decide what
We are going to do with the old
people for the young people can take
care OF themselves. She further
stated that young people were sweet
and good and helpful as well as OIL
Grant and understanding while the
hypocrites n backbitters n dis
senters were always found in the
older group of people.
You may have other ideas about
1T but we wouldn't be surprised IL
such were true.
Most of the mistakes of youth are
made through impatience and lack
of experience. not because OF a
bad heart.
Perhaps what we need for our
young people is a better example in
our old people.
Now hat the special session of the
legislature is in session everybody
Is wondering what is going to happen
to Governor Whites homestead ex-
emption plan.
all taxes rom the home says.
One advocate OF the exemption OF
1T is no longer just to tax small
homesteads in order to support our
governments. 1t is vitality necessary
TO untax them in order to halt and
reverse the deadly nationwide drift
of our people out of freehold owner
ship into migratory tenancy, and thus
save that social foundation upon which
alone human liberty and free Con-
stitutional governments can be es-
tablished and acknowledgements
safe and permanent home ownership
by the individual"
The home is certainly the very
foundation upon which our govern
ment rests. Even If some people do
think it's the constitution. A nation
of home owners would be a safe and
happy nation.
The home is the very soil in which
man roots and grows. The elevation
of the home and the ~stressing of its
Importance in u national life might
well prove to be the salvation OF our
people.
A nation Of trailer-dwellers is GER
tainly not a safe citizenry on which
10 build.