The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-11-30

and your Mary would be able to gel
something to do at home?
The more people there are working
In a town and drawing salaries the
more money mere u In every line Of
business. Clerks In stores are good
customers In other lines Of business
and 80 on until every dollar made
and spent in the corsznunity aids
In every Line OF business In
the community.
Read about Jimmy Wilson on page
three.
The editor Of the Bolivar County
News says more and more we are
coming to the place where the work
err, the .oiler. the industrious and
those who practice thrift and self.
denial must support the sluggard and
the loafer. Our p&tcrnalism and weak
sentimentalky In many instances Is
undermining what little self-respect
this class might have one possessed
he says.
It IL certainly true that FDR has
instigated q new deal as far as gov
eminent responsibility for our people
10 concerned. Whether this is all for
their good or not we would not pre-.
sumo to know. 1t does seem that
government aid through WPA and
other relief organizations has broken
down the morale of certain groups
OF people who, before the advent OF
the WPA, managed to make a liv-
ing without the government helping
With the government appropriating
more money annually to defense we
may expect soon a sharp curtainment
IN ..ne relief appropriations. Perhaps
then we will see IL the number OF
ioafers In the country has been ma
We suspect that there has always
been a large number Of idle people
who would not have jobs IL they
could get them and we suspect we
will always have this group with OF
without the WPA.
spread enough that Durant is full
and overlooking with people engaged
IN working for oil companies and
persons seeking leases.
Business has felt the effects of all
the new people in town and prospects
look bright for the best business yea:
we have had in a long lime in this
section.
Something else to be thankful for
on this Thanksgiving Day.
We suggest that Starhviile Start
working right now on how to handle
the traffice next year when about
5000 or 5000 automobiles come TO
town for the annual battle between
State and Ole Miss.
There were fully that many autos
in Oxford Saturday and It took over
three hours for the traffic to get
Out of Oxford and on its way home.
Oxford Is going to nave to do q
better job next time handling traffic
also II they expect to keep the game
at home every other year.
Already the Wolves a. Jackson are
bowling for that 10000 at .endanct
gate. II Starkville and Oxford aren't
careful the mex. thing they know
they'll be going to Jackson every
year 20 play.
mississippi is going to have two
of the best teams in the country
next year The attendance at their
games is going to increase and they're
going 20 give any team in the country
a tight.
Look out Alabama and Tulane.
And speaking of football the Du
an. boys have certainly done a good
Job this year. Losing only one game
Alderman, the local lads nave come
along s~plendidly under the excellent
coaching of Dace Davis.
Coach Davis deserves and gets
Ii hearty congratulations on the
fighting team he has put out this
year. Since this Is his first year oil
coaching at Durant we may expect
even better things in the future.
Fritz Kuhn may spend the next
ten or fifteen years in prison. we
wonder il he will use his time com
posing beautiful love letters to Mrs
Florence Camp the kind that
were read in court during his trial.
It's funny how absolutely silly ola
toyeie tiers sound when read even a
few weeks after they are written
Moral: Dom. eve put 1t in wiring