The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-10-20
through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

If you're SIS you could go to Colo
RADIO. There you can live for five
years until you are sixty and ther
will be entitled to draw a pension
of S45 per month. OF course the old
people now are just getting from,
S24 to SGT per month because the
state is about to go broke, but then
that's nothing to worry about.
Colorado isn't the only one with
the pension headache. Massachusetts,,
Oklahoma, California, Idaho, WASH
ington, Kansas, West Virginia, up
state New York and now in Maine
the Republican party has endorsed
the Townsend Plan.
Everybody agrees 1t would be
wonderful thing il the government
could pay out these pensions to the
old and needy.
But where's the money coming
from?
a pension plan seems like slot
machine to US. It's o. X. If it pays
off. But it seldom does.
Thousands mourn the death of E.
C. Segar, the former house painter
who became a cartoonist by taking
a $40 mail order course, and died the
other day to leave million dollar
legacy of comic characters to amuse
and entertain his millions of read
ers.
Known most for his "Popeye the
Sailor Man." Segar was one of the
most popular of our modern cartoon
lists.
1t Is welcome news to Riddles and
adults alike that his comic strip goes
on.
Adolph Hitler, during his recent
triumphant ride through his new
Sudetenland, was said to have been
struck in the fact with a bouquet of |
roses thrown BY cn ndlnirer with the |
result that his face was slightly
Result: A ban was Immediately
made on throwing flowers in the
future.
The Neshoba Democrat remarks
that its only regret is that the bou-
1uct did not CONAN a bomb.
Agreed.
But it's wonder he didn't forbid
growing any more roses.
A man appeared before a board of
supervisors in one southern county
with a complaint something like this:
1--WE got a lot of weeds grown up
tall in front Of my house and I've
cut all the weeds that are on my
side Of the fence. Now / want to
see something about getting the weeds
cut on the other side of my fence |
which hide the road from my house.
want to be able to see the pretty |
women go by"
Any man that lazy ought not be
allowed see the pretty women going
by. He should be doomed to eternal
darkness.
Our tribute this week goeI to Mr.. |
J. T. Nicely. local agent, who was re- !
Gently presented with gold pass
on the Illinois Central Railroad by
one OF its high officials for fifty |
years of continuous, faithful service. !
It is good in this day of constant
change and growing unrest to see !
one man who has spent fifty years
of his life in splendid service to the |
company he represents.
A job well done. Mr.. Nicely. and /
one of which to be proud.
The Mississippi Free State Fair |
closed it's gates last week and re
corded the largest attendance and
the largest receipts in it's history.
A circus came to town in Lexing-
ton Monday night and in Pickens
Wednesday night Both reported ca
pacity audiences.
One goes into a store and it is !
long time before one can get waited
on. 1t is practically impossible to
get appointments at the beauty par
lors.
And they talk of depression
This condition not only prevails IN
Durant but throughout the entire /
state.
The total amount of business done |
from season to season might fail /
under the business enjoyed in 1887 I
but we firmly believe that Mississippi I
has a few good months ahead of her
right now.
SO wake up. Mr.. Advertiser. and I
loudly proclaim your wares. There's
snap in the weather these DAYS
and people are ready to start buy
ing!