The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-09-21
Conservation Program For Holmes County

Conservation Program For Holmes County
The effort that is being made to organize Holmes
county into a soil conservation district deserves, and
we believe will receive, the full support of all land
owners within our county. The soil and its products
is the foundation upon which all of our social and
economic life rests. When we preserve and improve
this natural resource we are building for the future
and when we fail to care for our farm lands it is not
long before they fail to care for us.
/" The county agent has arranged a series of meet
;n0s in the county at which to explain this proposed
district and the manner in which it will operate. Al
these meetings any landowner may cast his vote Tor
or against the district as the organization can not and
will not be perfected unless q majority OF the land
owners vote favorably for the program.
We doubt seriously that any Of our property own
ers will vote against this measure. There is no extra
tax levied; no appropriation by the county and no
expense to anyone except those who ask for and use
the services of the the men the government places
in this county. The expense to those farm operators
will depend entirely upon the amount OF money they
care to spend. There is no binding agreement upon the
part of anyone.
Hear the program explained and lend your support.
They Didn't Know And We Don't Either
The following story told by Harlan Miller, Wash
ington correspondent, seems to ~pitifully and too accu-
rately describe wartimes and conditions they bring
about.
It strikes us that we are just as woefully ignorant
today as we were way back yonder-twenty years
ago-in the World War. Our injured haven't yet pass
ed to the Great Beyond and we are now, through sheer
necessity, brought about by world conditions, oettiny
ready to wage another war for
which in the final analysis is internationalism,
which is more economic than democratic in nature.
Sometimes I try to remember what I learned in France.
I was n immature boy too starryeyed to learn much.
But I remember the touching faith of the common soldier
in the man higher up.
He leaned (despitc fugitive doubts) heavily on the wisdom
of the corporal who thought the sergeant had inside dope,
who relied o n the intellect of the lieutenant. who awaited
divine revelations from the captain.
In turn, the captain knew his misgiungs would be re-
solved by the lieutenant colonel whose guidance came from
an omniscient major. who knew the colonel communed with
the ultimate general whose faith VA firm that TN man who
knew what to do next RAJ the commanderin-chief, whose
unshaken rock was Premier Cemenceau, who knew the
common pohu wouldn't let him down. A complete circle.
Jus. once I bad a glimpse Of the emniscieuce Of the high
comnaand. I was summoned to hold a light above q map
over which some colonies and generals were planning .
series Of AIR raids " Metz. They chartered like a bunch
OF amateur country club field marshsis
We'll fly up the valley of the Mosere at 10000" said a
general, -and we'll bomb hell out of EN-"
"Yes" said a colonel, as a afterrhought. "f we ever
get some planes"
Cemenceau didn't know, and the commandment chief
didn't know, and the colonel didn't know, and the major
didn't know. and the captain didn't know, and the lieutenant
didn't know, and the sergeant didn't know and the corporal
didn't know. and God knows he buck private didn't know.
Even Foch and Hasg and Petain made mistakes; even
those military geniuses, the German generals, made mis-
takes and fatal blunders.
Only our American officers never erred.
There "a another queer phenomenon. In the secret
places of the mind the enemy soldiers always seemed inf
nhely more terribly than u own; gigantic, invunerable,
monstrous gladiators like the pictures of helmeted goose
stepping soldiers in the Sunday supplements. Tour soldiers
seemed like that to them, too. they told m lie after the war;.