The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-10-26
through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

On a recent visit to Washington
we were privileged to witness the
United States Senate in action. We
it is a privilege to see tina. body in
session ecaus restrictions have been
clamped down on everything since
the war. The White House grounds
are closed and anywhere where 1t
is necessary to have credentials TO
enter, care is taken to see hat the
credentials are authentic.
Several hundred people formed a
waiting line outside the Senate gal
lery in the hope of getting in some
time during the afternoon to hea.
the debate on the neutrality bill which
was the raging at it's height. Many
Of those people never got in after
waiting in line for hours. 1t was
just a case of the gallery not being
able to accommodate everyone inter
ested.
The gracious secretary of Senator
Bilbo was good enough to take care
of our party and see to it that we
had no trouble whatever getting in.
After we had stepped on the toes
of and practically sat in the laps OF
three fat men sitting down on the
front row we managed to scramble
into seats and get comfortably stu
ated for the interesting debate.
For the debate we thought was
going to be interesting, perhaps we
should have said. 1t was actually no
more than one Senator standing on
his feet for hours without end speak
In a monotone and reading numerous
and very dry figures and statistics
on the question. In fact it resembled
very closely an extremely tiresome
session OF the Mississippi legislature.
We amused ourselves by reading
the map of the seating plan Of the
Senate and Identifying various mem
bers Of Congress we've long heard
about and read about. Our conciu-
sion was that the fellow who said
something about brains and beauty
not being in the same form knew
what he was talking about. The
United States Senate is supposed to
be brainy.
Perhaps we caught the Senate on
an off day.
The World Series was going or
that day and most of the Senators
were perhaps more intedested in its
outcome that the neutrality debate
which seems a long way from being
over yet. A radio was going full
ses~.t~ out IN the corridor and every
now and then groups OF two ans
three would go out in the hall for a
few minutes and later straggle back
IN.
1t seems to us that there can be
no actual neutrality in the United
States. We as a nation favor the
interest of England and France be-
cause it seems that it is TO our adj
vantage to be thus. We have moth
ing against the German people but
we do have plenty against their sys
tenn. Perhaps we should say the
system that allows Hitlerism to flour
ish. We went no hing but freedom
in America,
More strongly than we favor the
interess oI England and France we
favor Keeping this country out Of
war. We sincerely believe that we
will come closer TO staying out ef
war II we throw our support to
England and France by supplying
their needs in food and supplies than
If we refuse to sell them goods and
weaken their side that much
1t will be better to sell England
and France now everything they
need and can pay for, come and get,
than to supply them with armies
at some date in the future. It is
wiser 10 serve notice on Hitler now
that this nation is utterly opposed to
him and his policies thar to become
a ~storehouse for ammunition and
supplies for all the nations OF Eu-
rope that can buy them.
Whatever friendship we profess for
any nation in the world must come
second to our love for America and
her interest.
Her interest now is staying out of
war.
WEI all the hurry and hustle seen
on every side, Washington remains
a tranquil n beautiful city. It's
majestic buildings and
symbolic a great nation. Perhaps
therein hes her tranquility for we
people of the United States have SUI
preme confidence in our government
and u way of living, thinking, plan
ming. We go our way unperturbed in
the knowledge that our way is the
right way.
A little SNUG, complacent, you say?
II is hut o,,r uuav hos u,or,,