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The State Of Illinois is only

The State OF Illinois IL only
state that ships whiskey into Missa
sippi. According to the Tax Com
mission it shipped 95,53s cases, which
Is 1885, GIT gallons of whiskey into
his state during the nine months
period from April through Deem
Der.
No one knows how much stuff was
shipped by Louisiana, Alabama, Ark,
ansas, Kentucky, Florida, Pe%nnsylva-
mia, New York, and other states. The
Tax Commission could not get the
records from those states.
These figures are sufficient to
make an estimate of around s2.000.000
in taxes that Mississippi is losing
annually to other states who admit
being wet and are trying to handle
the problem in as decent and sensi-
BILE as possible.
VIE still have with is too many
people who stagger TO the polls and
vote dry for their dear children's
sake; too many people who honestly
can't believe that there is as much
liquor consumed in the state as there
really Isl; too many people who are
prudish enough to believe that by
not legalizing the sale Of whiskey
we prevent it; and lastly too many
bootleggers who line up with the
aforementioned groups to form a vote
large enough to prevent its repeal
by at least a two 10 one vote df the
referendum was made now.
The bootleggers are the main ones
who do not want repeal. And they
will dish out the cash anywhere and
in, any amount to prevent It.
II the Mississippi Legislature was
to go into session now to consider re-
peal every b~ootlegger In the state
be In Jackson with q wallet
full OF money.
And the hotels OF jackson couldn't
get enough liquor on short notice
10 supply the needs of the legislators.
The Germans have taken Oberam-
nergau, the world famous town known
Is the seat of the Passion Play,
made q garrison town out of
{.
Where once the players in the re-
religious pageant smoked
heir pipes ~contentedly about a table
life and companionship was good
low there are soldiers and Oberam-
becomes just another garri-
town.
This one town in Germany perhaps
held more meaning for the people
the world than any other town
tho continent. Millions OF people
rave visited 1t and viewed the won
ierful religious pageant. They have
gone back to their homes In the diff
Ferent countries of the world and
nave lived better lives because of
is inspiration.
Oberammergau becomes just one
more town to feel the sinister Hitler
influence where nothing counts but
waving of a swastika banner.
The editor Of the West Point Times
says that IL Roosevelt does
to run for a third term that
he hopes he will advocate another
New Deal because he is thoroughly
sick of the old one.
The ladies of Natchez are to be
~ 4ttlatnd that thu rnnuy xvnr1A |
famous Pilgrimage will attract as
many as $4,000 visitors this year.
The Pilgrimage Garden Club tours
March 4th and will continue
until March 10. The Natchez Gar
den Club tours will open the following
day. March 20, and continue until
April 2.
The visitors attracted to Mississippi
TO the Pilgrimages are the kind of
visitors we want the year round. They
are people who will come back again
and again and tell their friends about
Mississippi and what 1t has to offer
to the world.
S4Siet ouSit III Lie IOWh SIdt~ |
ter column of the McComb Enter
prise says she despises conservative
clothes and hats hat are in style
season after season because they're
so ordinary and the wearers are so
ordinary and they do say such ordi-
nary things. And Susie is certainly
right.
To all of you women that get in
a rut about this time Of the year
and wish you had never seen your
husbands and families or your jobs,
we recommend going out and buying
a giddy hat and a pretty dress and
maybe a few days vacation from
home. Thatll fix you up. Do your
heart and soul a good deed. Think
we need to try it ourselves.