The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-06-08
Through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

Elsewhere on this page is a list OF
the candidates who ave bought their
printing at home. Read this list and
dive them your serious consideration.
They deserve it.
If these men are elected to office
they win probably keep their print
ing and other business at home like
any person who's worth his salt
would do.
A mar who loo not keep his bus
mess at home does not deserve to
be retained In office. After all, 1t
is the peoples money Of the commun-
ity he serves that he is spending. 1t
Ia not his. And his sense of respon-
sibility should be such that he wants
his grocer, baker, and candlestick
maker to progress, to say nothing
of his printer, in order that he might
be elected again and they can pay
more taxes toward his support.
Grady Cook over at Pontotoc is
running for the state senate from
his county. Grady is editor of the
Pontotoc Progress, a good paper in a
progressive town.
What the Mississippi senate needs
more than anything else is men
Grady Cook. men Of ability, charac-
ter and unquestionable honesty.
Unfortunately the average office
seeker isn't the kind OF person you'd
turn your business over to il you had
any, yet we turn over the states
business, which affects everything we
do today. TO men we wouldn't trust
as far as we could throw a mule by
the tail.
It's very easy for the average per-
son to live In a community for sew
eral years without making any en-
emies at all and have everybody think
ing you're a prince of a fellow.
The recipe is this: Just smile and
speak to everyone everytime you see
them like you were very glad to
see them, listen to their woes and
troubles and nod sympathetically in
agreement with everything they say
never have an opinion of your own,
listen mildly to the dirty gossip they
are telling on their next door neigh
Dor and act like you enjoy 1t, and
last of all, never stand for anything
yourself, principles, ideas or in other
words, speak with mush in your
mouth.
Yes. you'll have plenty of ~so-called
friends but we can't promise how
long they'd stick by you in event
you needed them.
This applies to everyone but par
ticularly to people dealing with the
public.
This writer sincerely prays that If
she ever falls in that category that
Gabriel will blow his horn imme-
tdiately.
If. in reading your daily or week
b newspaper, you can CLEAN one
thought occasionally THAT helps you
enjoy life more, or something that
stimulates your mind and adds to
your sense Of security and ~well-being
then that paper is not published in
vain.
1t is easy for a paper to be pub
lished in a community a hundred
years and never stand for one con
~structive thing, never have an opin-
I'm, never try to better economic
conditions. stimulate business or do
one single thing to better conditions
for the community and it's people.
In other words, it is easy for a
paper to become ~stagnant.
when a paper runs out of ideas
it ought to fold up and quit.
Our neighboring county, Madison
recently sold $4,000 worth of re-
funding bonds at 3 per cent and a
premium of SITS. This speaks well
for the Financial condition of Mad
ison county and it's board of super
yisors are to be congratulated.
Here are two stories read in an
exchange, that we think worth re-
peating:
The first is that concerning Pat
Harrison and President Roosevelt
1t seems that at a recent White
House conference, President Roose-
welt shook hands with Senator Har-
rison and said, Pat, you used to
be a fine fellow"
II can say the same for you" wal
Pats quick retort.