The Durant news., 1939-04-13


Durant always happy welcome to its midst visi7
tors from other towns
Members of the west central district are thrice well
come to our city.
American Brond Democracy
We like the American brand of democracy.
That is, we like Democracy it is practiced in the
United States day. the right to freedom Of speech
freedom of worship freedom of the press and the right
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
We are nave enough to believe that the brand of
democracy enjoy today is going to be here one year
from today and one hundred years from To-Day hegaro
less OF what happens in Europe
Our country was founded that freedom-loving
basis and the American people are just naturally con
ary enough to keep it that Smart enough to keep
it, if you please.
We do not believe that if Hitler and Mussolini take
all of Europe, including the English French and the
Russians, that it would change our love for freedom
and ability to keep it.
We didn't like the way our English forefathers lived
so we fought the American Revolution and got away
from them.
We felt sorry for them and did our bit to help them
make the world safe for democracy twenty ago.
Europe has made of its democracy
So we say let them have it and keep it if they're
man enough
Let them have anything have in the way of
fighting the for democracy Let them have guns,
airplanes, ships, metal ammunition, heium, yes even
money
don't let them have
The fathers of our American youth today died in
that farce of making the world safe for democracy
1t is not right that it, too should have the same fate
1t is time that England and France fight their own
battles We in America have had enough of war and
boodshed.
Commas Sponsor Fingerprinting
The Gammas, members of the federated womens
club in Durant sponsoring move to have every
with the Federal Bureau of Identification.
person in Durant vicinity fngeTprij9ed in cooperation
club members to have their fingerprnts taken while
the drive is on.
It has been pointed before that had the children
the New London, Texas school been fngerprinted it
would have been possible to have identified hundreds
of the bodies that were mangled beyond recognition
Fingerprinting has lost the stigma once had when
associated only with the police department
Modern cities are making preparations to have
their citizens fingerprnted so that they can be dent
ties in disasters and accidents Many victims of anne
sa, suicides missing persons could be traced more
easily if their fingerfrints were on record.
We are glad that one of Durant's splendid womens
clubs is sponsoring the that much to
community in the of great disaster a that
is, after all, only good common sense.
squoor Of New York
Birmey lines in copy of the Columbus CONNER
cal-Dispatch, talks about the squalor misery slums
cutters, destituon, want hunger suffering of New York
and its citizens"
Why Birney, thought all those slum clearance
projects of the Federal had just about clean
ed up the slums New York's famous eastside.
Seems as though they've certainly spent enough
millions to do
Income Without Forming
Farmers May Get Payments Without Growing
Any Crops: Headline in the CommercialAppeal.
Well if the storekeeper could just get paid
without keeping his store the industrial worker could
stay at home and still draw his if the lawyer and
dentist and doctor could make their fees without
forming service and if newspaper editors could
living without writing WELL everything would
just be dandy.
Yes, it would be great country if we didn't have
any work to do. Nothing but swimming and dancing
golfing, hunting and fishing And sitting in the shade
The first thing you'd know the whole country
would be holering about wanting to go to war from
sheer boredom just for the lack of something to do.
When the farmer gets paid without growing any
We'll all be basking in the light of heavenly
and this world will be