The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1938-05-19

sent when you'd really like to scratch
out eyes and see blood.
But the greatest thing they do Is
make you keep on trying when you'd
like to quit.
We need our enemies. Whether
Il be In business or professional life
IN social or personal life they serve
their purpose and serve 1t well. We
do things to make our friends proud
Of us and to spite our enemies.
Thank God fol our enemies.
They keep US doing.
we wouldn't give q continental for
a person who has been in public life
whether 1t be political. professional
or business, who has no enemies.
A person who does things and q
person who Is honest makes q lot OF
enemies. There are always plenty Of
people in the world who do not want
to do right. and the man who doesn't
play ball with them has just made a
nice enemy for himself.
That's a good way to Judge a per-
son-by his enemies.
They tell us money is the root OF
all evil.
But we doubt 1t.
The root of all evil Is wagging
tongues-usually a woman's. But we
have known one or two men who are
Just as bad as any woman we've ever
seen.
Get two good wagging tongues to-
gether and We guarantee that in five
minutes flat, II they're good, they can
annihiiate the reputation Of any mar
or woman in the community who has
taken fifty years. more or less, to
buifd u
We think people who have no more
to occupy their minds than running
some other human being down ought
to be strung up by their tongues to
a telephone line and left to bake In
the summer sun. Hell is too good
for them.
But then we probably wouldn't
have enough telephone lines In the
world.
fvharactar In what Won are.
Reputation is what people think
you are.
Some day Mississippi is going to
wake UP to things as they are and
not as they'd like them to be.
We refer to the prohibition ques-
ton.
Someday Mississippi Is going to get
honest on the question Of prohibition
and do something about it.
We are not for whiskey nor against
it.
But we would like to say that we
come from a state that Is honest
enough to face the facts that peo-
pie are going to drink liquor and
that as long as they exist there are
going to be people who will sell II
to them.
When we realize that and do ONE
thing about it we will have greater
respect for law observance and the
way around. And that goes for all
fo.,. x>ot s,,et iu,,n, aus
The breakdown in morale caused
by disregard for the liquor law has
caused thousands of young people to
break other laws and caused them
to have no respect for any law.
And THAT is a serious situation.
Officers of the law are almost pow
erless to enforce prohibition as con-
ditions stand in Mississippi.
When are they going to change?
Liquor prices take a tumble in Ran
kin county, according to the editorial
page of the Jackson Daily News.
The News gives the names of eigh!
different brands and the prices.
Let US in on it, Fred, Just how
much are you getting out of that
advertising?
Gordon Allen was in the News Of
flee this week and was telling the
News force about his seven prize
hogs and invited US out to see them
The hoes are a cross hetween q
Durock Jersey and a little boned
Poland China, according to Mr.. AL
len, and they are six months old and
will dress about $50 pounds each.
1t is Mr.. Aliens proud boast thai
the pen his hogs are kept in will