The Lexington advertiser., 1939-05-25
Current Comment
BY HENRY WILLIS

right away--maybe-since the need is
very evident and that is one of the
| preferred" roads which are to be reach
ed as rapidly as possible after the
must" roads are completed. A layman
wonders why another Survey" in neces-
sary and perhaps we needn't get all pep
ped up at the prospect yet while
! Just stand by and help Senator Watson
| IL it seems necessary. Highway No. IL is
designed to connect with north-south
49-E at Tchula (and does); 49-W at Bel
zoni; 81 at Hollandale and somewhere,
thus to give the Deltans in a large area
an outlet to the Hills and direct route
to State College and Mississippi State
| College for Women. The Holmes County
Delta section Is much interested in this
link. OF course 1t should be cement.
Squirrel Hunting in Mulberry Season
is prohibited for the reason that there
are not enough squirrels born each year
to allow for summer season and a
winter season also. Three months, Octo-
ber, November, December, is as much
shooting rs can be had without danger
of determination and soon, no shooting
| at all. At this season the mother squir-
| rel brings her brood to the mulberry
tree and man who is mean enough can
| wipe out the whole litter. The baby
| squirrels have not learned to be afraid
of men and when the mother is killed
the babies stay around until they are all
shot. 1t is fortunate that only few
men are sneaky enough to go out at
this season after the little fellows. If
any at all do they are. Of course, steal
ing from every other man who wants to
hunt and as such deserve no considera-
tion whatever.
Capitalism is the System Under Which
America has grown great. 1t simply
means that each individual may own
himself and his property and may not
! be deprived of either without due pro-
cess Of law" The man with shote
and a hen is a capitalist as much as the
man with an automobile factory. Social
ism is q scheme that seeks common own
ership thereby to improve society and
secure an equal distribution of all
things. 1t Is fairly good theory. There
are few who weuld begrudge plenty to
all others. The catch is that when man
is denied the fruits of his labor he
ceases to work so hard and gradually
, the whole of society runs down. Then
a few greedy, ruthless men begin to
take what they want by force and the
evolution begins again. A first step
, on the downward path are the "mutuals"
and "co-operatives" Of various sorts and
degrees. Maybe it is mutual Elm
surance," maybe a pooling of funds to
employ physicians, cooperative buying
of merchandise. Very gradually things
we should do for ourselves are turned
over to the government" in its multi.
tudinous agencies. We lean, ever more
heavily, on outside aid. We seek per-
sonal benefits at public expense. We
depend on "the government" more and
more. Slowly we train ourselves and
our children are trained to depend on
some one else to see that all is we'll
with us-that we have some work, but
not too much; that we are paid, but not
too little. Slowly the initiative passes
from us as individuals. The heads of
this, that and the other, under instruc-
tion from a Top, tell us; we are "reg
imented;" we are happy-or are we?
Great Britain's Palestine Question has
|
ever since the Prime Minister Gin 1919
promised to make it Homeland" for
the Jews. For time the Arabs--whose
! land it has been for thousands of years
paid scant attention. They are poor
people stepped in traditions and fairly
we'll satisfied with their own ideals and
methods. Then the Jews began to take
over all the choice places. They had
money and energy and knowledge and
,, the quality called push" which is par
ticularly offensive--to Arabs. They
, built industries. irrigated deserts, hired
natives. After a while the resentment
of the Mohammedan population became
acute. They did not take kindly to be-
coming servants to Jews. Killings in
creased in frequency. A few Jews shot
at night, Moslem market place bomb
ed in retaliation, more shooting and
stabbings, more bombings. The British
sent in additional troops and then more
and more. The troops and police guard
ed, arrested, kept order-of a sort. Ten
million Arabs over the border in Arabia
threatened to make common cause with
their kinsmen in Palestine. The Mos
, lens elsewhere in Britain's domains, a
hundred million of them, threatened
Turkey and Iraq, Moslem countries, put
on pressure. Now, the British might
have worked out the problem but in step
the Hun, the Dago, the Jap, all bent on
making as much trouble as possible for
the British. And the British, most SER
iously threatened by the Berlin Rome
Tokyo axis must not, absolutely must
not, have hostile Mohammedan popu-
lation on their flank. Strategic reasons
make compromise imperative. So the
Jewish influx into Palestine is to be
curbed, the Arabs secured in control.
Not in all the world are Jews so we'll
treated as in Great Britain. They are a
smart people too and while the imme-
: diate reaction is nasty they are sure
to recognize the necessity and conform
thereto. They, themselves, seek social
isolation, it has not been imposed on
them.
Bob Whites Silvery Whistle suggests
that it is nesting time for Quail and
I hue %