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The Durant news., 1938-07-14

IL. Demand deposits except u S. Govt
deposits, public funds & deposits
of branch and other banks 172.232 So
~ Time certificates Savings deposits
except Postal Savings, public
funds deposits in branches and
other banks --.------.----.---..--, 94,17401
13. Public funds of States counties.
school districts and other subdi
visions and municipalities -...,.~.. 12S, ,o5s2a
20 Reserve for interest taxes and other
accruals unpaid --........ ...-..... 1,96751
22. Other liabilities oo6a
% Capital Stock and Undivided Profits
Common ,---.---.----...- -$26 25O.O0
surplus -------- 81 600. 90
Undivided Earnings (less
expenses, etc. 4420.51- 51,670.5I
q. lotai -----------..-.-... 448,118.52
!, w. E. Guledge Cashier, do solemnly swear that
the above is true statement the financial condition
Peoples Bank of Durant located at Durant in
the County of Holmes State Mississippi at the close
OF business the 30th day of June 1888 to the best
Of my knowledge and belief.
Sorrecf Attest: w. E. Gulledge,
Cashier.
J. L. Longinotti,
Marcus Love,
Directors
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, County of Holmes
Sworn to and subscribed before me by W. e. Gul
ledge, Cashier, this 18th day of July, 1888
Robert E. Rosson, Jr
No-ary Public
Ny Commission expires 5-23-40
The times-news., 1938-11-10
THE SOUTH'S NEEDS

The editor of The Progressive Farmer devotes
his entire editorial page in the current number to
discussion of the farm program and particularly
the cotton and tobacco problems. He makes .
STRIKING statement when he says that "what the
South needs is not reduction in our cultivated
acres, but better balance between crops grown
on this acreage. Both cultivated acreage and total
acreage per man is already too low in the South In
the nine states in the southren region, we have
only w acres of crop land for each farm person
against 10 acres in the rest of the United States"
Ihat condition is due to the fact that the South
mas produced mainly row crops and has employed
more labor than machinery in its farm work But
any farm program which drastically curtails pro-
auction, or takes substantial part of the land out
oI production is bound to operate adversely for
the South in the long run.
II cotton and tobacco acreages are to be re-
strcted, then the South should be permitted to
grow other crops and to turn it's production more
and more to livestock and dairying. This is the
thing that the West fears and fights. But if our
1arm people are to do well they must be permitted
20 produce not only the cash crops but also an
adequate production of other crops and livestock
Tor their own use and for local and home markets
-Marshville Home. -
The times-news., 1938-11-10
WHAT A WONDERFUL PLAN!

The newspapers last week carried some interest
ing items in connection with the Wages and Hours
bill. = ''~.. .#.' .-
1t was stated that approximately 10000 workers
in tobacco factories .ip North Carolina had been
thrown out of work; that more than 5000 workers
in lumber mills had lost their jobs, and that en-
poyes in other lines of business also had been af
fected.
Newspaper reports also said that $4,000 workers
in the pecan industry in Texas are being thrown
out of work
All of this is remarkable commentary on Presi-
dent Roosevelt's view that the South is Economic
Problem Number One.' He proceeds to solve this
problem by throwing tens of thousands of people
out of work at one stroke!
But wait second; that isn't all
The most intriguing feature of all this is to be
found in the following paragraph which appeared
in the papers last week: .. ..
Andrews administrator of the Wages and
Hours Law intimated that he may confer soon
with Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hop
Kins over the problem of providing relief jobs for
men and women made idle by various business
shutdowns in protest against the statute In the
meantime he said, he believed that local commun-
ity chests should help out''
1t will be of intense interest to most of us that
Mr.. Andrews is expecting to support the workers
who have lost their jobs by having the WPA look
after then and also that he expects the local COM
munity chests to take hand in the matter.
We just don't get it-State Magazine:
The times-news., 1938-11-10
BY KIDNEY DUICHER
HEA Service stan Correspondent

WTASHINGTON.-The extent to
" which the European situation
and the conflict between democ-
racy and fasciSm is on the official
mind crops out in every other ut
terance in Washington.
AS President Roosevelt signed a
proclamation reducing the postal
rate on books to the rate for mag
aZines, he observed:
They're burning books over in
Europe. But as they burn them,
we will extend the use of them"
Postage on books formerly was
from 8 to 26 cents a pound, based
on regional zones. 1t now be-
comes 112 cents a pound. Roose-
velt was told that book sales
would be increased by the lower
rate and that half the population
lived an average of 80 miles from
any bookstore.
Congressman James M. Mead of
New York, chairman of the House
Post Office Committee. and At
torney Morris L. Ernst of New
York are chiefly responsible for
the reduction.
ONE of the most gracious ladies
Washington ever knew has
left government service with the
retirement of Miss Mary M.
O'Reilly, assistant director of the
mint since 1924 She is 73 years
Did and the only reason anyone
knows that fact is that her third
extension of service beyond re-
hrement age has just run out.
Three timeS-an almost unpre-
cedented number-a presidential
order extending her term was
granted on Secretary Morgen-
thau'S insiStence that she was ''in-
1iSpensable."
Various political appointeeS
have had the title and emolument
of mint director. Miss Mary. how
ever. has run the mint for more
than 90 years. Correspondents
and others who wanted to know
The times-news., 1938-11-10
BUENA VISTA
MAN HIT BY
TRUCK, KILLED
Say Driver Admits Having
Drinks of Gin Before
Starting Trip

ASHEVILLE, Nov. 1O.-Emory
A. West, ST., 65, landscape gar
dener of Buena Vista, was in
stantly killed at $50 o'clock last
night when he was struck by a
truck on the Asheville- Henderson
vile road within 40 feet of his
home.
o. NJ. Bishop, 81, of Chester,
S. c., alleged driver Of the truck,
is being held in the Buncombe
county Jail.
Bishop was arrested by Patrol
man Glenn Tweed on Pack Square
about 20 minutes after the acci-
dent. Charles Garren, of Arden,
who had followed Bishops truck
from near the scene of the acci-
dent, pointed him out to officers.
Police said that Bishop had been
drinking
Bishop told officers that he re-
membered hitting something near
Buena Vista and that he stopped
his truck, got out and looked back
but he did not see anything and
he returned to his truck and re-
sumed his trip.
Garren told police he was drlv-
ing south on the Hendersonville
road when he saw Bishop looking
around his truck. He said he did
not suspect that anything was
wrong until he reached the place
where Vests body had been
found. Then. he said. he turned
The times-news., 1938-11-10
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
AFTER THE NEW ZEAL, WHAT?

Tho eytent to which much of the New Deal pro.
oror, ;s based on the after-met the -deluge theory
was stressed by former Senator James E. Watson
=, bis address at Bloomington Saturday night He
w.s anpealing particularly to the young men and
,,,o,,e, of TODAY who are being saddled with the
bnrdans of debt piled up by the billions year after
ve.r The federal credit is drawn on to raise bill
lions 70 he poured out on projects, relief and
otbar nresent day undertakings and with appar-
entlv no thought of what must come, if the nation
is to avoid bankruptcy and chaos.
10 took execution to the attitude of Harry Hop
k;ns administrator of the WPA that 'unemploy-
ment relief is permanent problem in America" 1"
Tbo+ rever was the case and the outlook of the
youth of this land certainly is not encouraging if
sao q month in CCC camp is all the future has to
offer Emergency relief is necessary, of course,
and tbe CCC camps have filled an important place
in t;d;np the country over the depression" and
tbe more recent recession" But only pessimist
believes this country will not get oacK 10 norman
conditions if given an opportunity
"What do the young people of America think of
tho Inconsistencies. of the contradictions and the
smashed promises of the administration now run
n;no the povernment?" Mr.. Watson asked. "Mr
Roosevelt said in one of his speeches, Takes are
course that is true, and so, unless the youth of
TODAY are satisfied to face a future lifetime OF
ickand-shove relief, then they must face the in
evitable and inescapabe fact that the sweat OF
their brows must pay this enormous burden of
debt. If this debt is not paid in accordance with
the terms of the contract, there are but two meth
DDS by which it can be discharged one reputation
and the other initiation. Either would mean utter
financial chaos and economic rum.
As, an example of what is being done to those
who come after the money-wasting orgy Mr.. Wat
sen called attention to the waste of the money
paid in for social security. More than SlO0O,OOO-
900 of it already has been spent in payment of the
current bills of the administration. More billions
will be spent in the same way And few years
from now when the funds that were supposed to
be on hand to pay for the social security benefits
Congress will have to raise by appropriations the
needed funds. And there are other equally waste
full and improvident administrative tactics threat
ening the welfare of those who come after and
must settle the score for all the experimenting and
extravagancesf the present administration
Coupled with the piling UP of a record national
debt is the attitude of despair voiced by Admins
TRAITOR Hopkins, who looks on unemployment re-
lief" as a permanent Institution. That is in keep
ing with tendency to concentrate authority at
Washington and the trend toward totaltarian
states, The American way to which We can and
should return is for the states and communities to
take care of their own needy, which can be done
with the maximum of efficiency and the minimum
of waste-Muncie Qnd.) Star. .. .... ...4
The times-news., 1938-11-10
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
nv RODNEY pUTcHER-

sapout coinage always were sent to
her. Foreign governments often
consulted her. Her ability, poise
and charm made her a favorite of
high Treasury officials through
several administrations.
81 am getting rid of 33 years
ccumula ion of useless pa
pers," said white-haired Miss
OReilly with a smile as she
cleared her desk ON her last day.
81 am now in my seventy-fourth
year and when a woman gets to
be that old, she shouldn't think of
doing anything strenuous. My
plans, therefore, are to read and
knit and MUNICH apples"
HAROLD J. T. HORAN, once
II an ace correspondent in Eu-
robe and now stationed in WASH
ington, has returned from a Euro
pean vacation with word that the
lob of being an overseas corre-
spondent has lost its glamor in
most foreign capitals.
The newspaperman who writes
"unfriendly" articles from Berlin
is likely to have trouble getting
milk for his baby, let alone official
news, says Horan. Other forms
of pressure are exerted. Much
the same sort of thing applies in
Rome and other capitals, except
London and Paris. Correspondents
who use the mail often have found
their letters were tampered with
before they left the country.
DROF SSOR o. M. w.
l. SPRAGUE, Treasury adviser
who quit. early in the New Deal
on a violent disagreement over
policy. is back in the fold. He
was called in as a consultant by
the Temporary Economic Commit
fee conducting the monopoly in
vestigation. Sprague says the ma
tional debt can rise from its pres
emf s3S 900 100000 to so or so bill
lions without disturbing govern
ment credit. But he warns that
deficits can't go on indefinitely.
rConyrirht. 1888. NEA Service. Incl
The times-news., 1938-11-10
WE ARE REGIMENTED: What

WE AMI. NGoiNiIiNi AN' ""oe
strenuous life we are called on
to live, our activities being divid-
ed into weekly periods for ma
tional observance. This month,
for instance, contains national
election, Armistice day, national
Thanksgiving and the following
designated weeks for observance
Of various causes: ....- .-...
Father and Son week, Nov. z
-.
Red Cross week, 11-24th.
National Fire week, 12-19th.
National Art week, 18th -
American Education week, z
18th.
National Milk week, l3-19th.
Then we'll head into Christmas
tuberculosis seal sale from the
oath to Christmas.
WELL KNOWN CITY: Hen
dersonville is we'll known away
down south where it has so many
friends. A letter mailed in Cuba
and addressed to DR.. R. l.. Hor-
ton, resident of Laurel Park,
came on through without delay
despite the fact no state was
named on the envelope and the
postoffice was given as "Herden-
soville." The mail clerks naturally
had Hendersonville in mind down
in Miami, or Jacksonville, OF
wherever it had to be handled to
get it to Hendersonville, or DR..
Horton and his place of summer
residence are unusually we'll
known down that way.
HERE AND THERE: w. w.
Walker, formerly Hendersonville
auto dealer, has been appointed
used-car salesman for the Olds-
mobile dealer of Asheville with
his picture in the papers =. Mrs.
Hamnett rushes in from Edney-
vile and criticizes the town for
letting the Citizens National bank
clock run much off time. She
thought it was publicly owned in
stead of privately; any way, she
feels that its four faces should be
draped if it can't keep correct
time.
. HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS: High.
way Patrolman Johnson says thus
far this year deaths by motor ac-
cidents on N. C. highways have
been appreciably reduced. When
asked what would, in his opinion,
be the next move for highway
safety, he predicted the cancella-
ton of all motor licenses and a
test of driving on the highways.
He said oral and driving tests
were entirely two different things
and that the former didn't amount
to much. Sane driving is the thing
that counts for most.
The times-news., 1938-11-10

to injure serious
ly the welfare
of this nation.
We must bear
in mind that the
democracy is a
high grade gov
ern m e n t f 0 I
high = grade peo-
pie. 1t cannot be
operated success
fully in a spirit
of self S h n e S S
and greed. There
must be t e a m
play among. ,alf
concerned.
Our founding
The times-news., 1938-11-10

Citizens around Copenhagen, Denmark,
have refused to dim their lights and par
ticipate in black-out for the purpose of
testing their defenses in air raids. In other
words, no snuff in Copenhagen.
The times-news., 1938-11-10

fathers toreSaW that harm would
appear and multiply among us
should the various states fail to
cooperate with one another;
hence there was put in the nation
al constitution a provision which
prohibits states from erecting tar
iff barriers against other states.
However, some states by means
of discriminatory tax laws !and
other devices have, lin effect, rails
ed tariff barriers against other
states. Those states which employ
such tricks are not only violating
the spirit, if not the letter. of the
constitution, but are showing
themselves to be undemocratic
and shortsighted, as the future
will surely prove.
The times-news., 1938-11-10
WORLD REFUGEE SITUATION DE-
MANDS CAREFUL STUDY
(Bv BRUCE CATTON)


II would be interesting to know just how
many of us who now live in America are
living here because of some acute wave of
tyranny or persecution in Europe, . .a,.
A few generations ago, each one OF the
periodic up-Surges of repression on the con-
tinent sent flood of new immigrants to
America. People came over by the thou
sand, fleeing from every form of autoc-
racy; America received them gladly, and
was so proud of the ability to take them IN
that a Democratic party platform IN 1886
boasted that the country was the asylum
of the oppressed of every nation" ,s!>ls-
But times have changed. The oppres-
sion. goes on-in forms which make some
of the 10Th century abuses look mild--but
Americas gates are closed Under the cur
rent immigration law, only "a small 'frac-
tion,of the host that formerly came is ad-
mitted. The most that can enter in any one,
year now is f50, 900.
Now that immigration law was not pass
ed hastily. Americans have had good
many years to observe the workings of the
melting pot, and it was perfectly obvious
that in many ways it was not working so
we'll When the tide of immigrants was
running around 100000 year, it seemed
as i, Fundamental traits in American char
actef and American life were in danger of
being submerged, and there was reason to
fear that the nation was taking in new ar
rivals faster than it could hope to digest
them. -s..
So restrictions were voted, with the ap-
proval of the vast majority of Americans,
and there is small chance that return to
the sold era of unrestricted immigration
would win much approval. Yet we might
as Well realize that we are facing new
situstion in Europe, and that both our hu-
maRity and our traditions require US to ex-
anime it very carefully.
Fsf the refugee situation abroad is worse
thaS ever before. The great authoritarian
states are calmly exiling people by the
thousand, and in innumerable tragic cases
these people have literally nowhere on
earth to go. Among these exiles are men
of TALENT, even of genius; considered by
andslarge, they could make valuable con-
tribetions to any country which offered
theH asylum. .-.
lAis not easy to say that nation with
= IL, O,O0, ,O0O' unemployed should open its
gates to thousands of newcomers Yet the
ide$ of offering a haven to some of Eu-
ropes refugees at least deserves prayerful
consideration. t........ o..
Henry Goddard Leach recently pointed
out in Forum Magazine that our times of
greatest immigration have been our times
of greatest prosperity, and that cutting
down on immigration did not save US from
the sgreat depression of 1929. Perhaps
some relaxation of our barriers could be
accomplished without making our eco
nontic situation worse; perhaps the infu-
sionsof new. blood might even be help.
lR any case, the refugee situation is one
which we cannot dismiss offhand. If we
can do anything, we should; and we ought
to study the situation very thoughtfully be-
fore, deciding that we can't.
An increase in cranberry prices is ex-
The times-news., 1938-11-10
CLOVES AS BAROMFrn

SYDNEY, Australia. Up,
family here has q novel bs,,.
in the shape of 4 small mo5G |
made entirely Of cloves s-r~..'
gether by fine wire. The 4;
brought from the cloves.1s;1 r,I
ing center in the South Ss'
lands. With every chsro. %
weather, the scent of tho 4,
changes. 1t becomes tairs'
stronger according to The a..
of dampncss in the air.
The times-news., 1938-11-10
Teacher Attends
Brothers Rites
Dawson, Ga, Man Lost
Life in Auto Accident

Miss Dollie McLendon, a teach
er in the East Flat Rock school.
was called to her home in Daw-
son, Ga, by the death of her
brother, Clyde McLendon, who
lost his life in an automobile ac-
cident. last Monday. Miss McLen-
don is expected to return to East
Flat Rock the first of next week.
The times-news., 1938-11-10

his car around and f,n< -
truck into A>hc4iiIc 'WU,.i;oNed W.; 4
op stopped for a y, tracy, Wien Bs
Pack Squarc. Ga,7,""n, ",''c lgt,
officer. WI called !
Bloodstains were
Bishops truck and -, Iouni ,
skull were on the r,,r ,mo Piece,
The bed Of tn c,.ucE EG','.Ias 5s-
in the head. " sNUck r.
A coroner mqucs, in.
cident is expected r., to Ia'o ~ he .
day, The hour has no, " he'd ,
Officers said Bishooo 9sf9 ,sf5 g
that he was coming 'p :, 'C!d Il
for a load Of sweet NO., ~ ASaetSS
that ne took a coupTc pTJ'%S9e, , {
Of GIN in Landlum 3 8 q q tHi
$3.50 O'Clock. a. Vr ssl
The times-news., 1938-11-10

The unfortunate growing Gus
tom of hindering and even pre-
venting the flow Of commerce
from state to state is certain
ooona,, or LATER
The times-news., 1938-11-10

An increase in cranberry prices is ex-
pected at Thanksgiving because of the
damage caused in the cranberry bogs of
New Jersey by the men from Mars
The times-news., 1938-11-10

The news Benes is regaining his health in Eng
land suggests British statesmen did not forget the
president when they were dividing Czechoslovakia.
Now they are giving him the rest.
The times-news., 1938-11-10
WEDNESDAY

Maximum tcmpcraturc-,, ;,
grees.
Mlnlmum--5l degrees
Meal-46 degrees,
Days range-@O degree.
Normal mean temperstr,,.
November-iG.l degrees, ''''
Rainfall to datc-2SS -,
Normal rainialI-3.Il irr;, u,
The times-news., 1938-11-10
LABOR AND FARMER

There is considerable talk of
a coalition of labor and agricul-
ture. That is equivalent to saying
The times-news., 1938-11-10
RADIO ANNOUNCERs AHoY!

1t is odd, isn't it? that ra-
do announcer, whose business in
life is to send the English lam
guage all over the globe, does not
take the trouble to supply him
self with correct knowledge of
that language, but will blithely,
day after day, go on making blum
ders in grammar and pronuncia-
ton.
This morning, for instance, |
listened to an NBC announcer in
Radio City talking about United
States Treasurer Morgenthau,
whom he called Mr.. "'Morgcn-
thou" Anybody who pretends to
be in touch with our national af-
fairs should know that the gen.
tleman's name is pronounced
"Morgenthaw."
And on certain nationwide
program heard once a week, the
announcer persists in saying in
his Introductory remarks, "folks
like you and p; he wouldn't think
of saying "folks like u; then by
what stretch of consistency does
he say folks like you and |" in
The times-news., 1938-11-10
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

a coalition of labor and capital,
for the farmer who owns his farm
is a capitalist. If he works his
own farm he is a laborer-capital-
list. Are thenIthe interests of la
Dor and agriculture identical?
As a matter of fact the inter
ests of all Of us Americans are
identical, had we but the sense to
see it. We are all in the same
boat, rich and poor, great and
small, young and old, ugl y and
handsome. We' are sailing through
endless space on the same conti-
nent, and what happens to our
country is the concern of every
one of US.
The times-news., 1938-11-10
BIBLE THOUGHT
A MIRACLE

"If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heav-
enly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive
not men their tresPasses, neither viii your Father
forgive your trespasses" Matt. 6:14-15)
All of the workers in our Egyptian mission are
proud of the answer of young Mohammedan who
had become Christian. His former friends were
batting him. and said, What have you got out of
it," He replied II forgive."-S. 5. Times.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
MILITARY RITES
FOR PENROSE

Burial with full military honorS
will be accorded Col. George H.
Penrose, II, U. S. A., retired, at
Arlington National Gem terry,
Monday at II o'clock. Officiating
at the services is Chaplain Ora j.
Cohee, Army chaplain.
Colonel Penrose died Thursday
at Walter Reed General Hospital.
For his outstanding service during
the Philippine insurrection he
was awarded the Silver Star dec
grafton.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Brig. Gen. Augustus B. Warfield.
assistant to the quartermaster
general; Brig. Gen. Frank R.
Keefer, U. S. A., retired; Capt.
Henry DEF. Mel, U. S. N: Brig.
Gen. A. Owen Seaman, assistant
to the quartermaster general;
Lieut.. Col. Edward A. Geddings,
U. S. A., retired, and Major Will
liam A. Howard, U. S. Marine
Corps, retired.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
Hall Funeral
Is Set For
Monday

Eastern Star rites will be held
for Mrs. Marie Revere Hall, 40
mother of Mrs. Mary Eleanor
Bohlayer, former Times employe
at funeral services Monday at
O'Clock at her home, 81 v st. N. E
The Rev. Raymond w. White
pastor of the Rhode Island Meth
odist Protestant Church, of which
she was a member for 80 years,
will officiate. Burial will be in
Washington Memorial Park.
A native of Baltimore, Mrs Hall
came to Washington shortly after
her marriage 81 years ago. Wife
of T. Homer Hall, machiniSt at
the Government Printing Office,
Mrs. Hall was a charter member
of Chapter No. 90 of the Ladies
of the Machinist Union.
She was also a charter member Of
East Gate Chapter 81, Order Of
Eastern Star Lodge, and played a
part in many activities.
Mrs. Hall died yesterday at her
home. Besides her husband and
daughter, she is survived by three
other children, Thelma, Joseph,
and Grace Hall.