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Evening star., 1939-06-18
TWO WEEKS ARE ENOUGH.
COSTS ARE REALLY LOW.


COSTS ARE REALLY LOW.
Come quickly by low-fare, air.condi.
toned train or plane, or over smooth,
uncrowded highways. Hotel rates here
are from $3.50 minimum, $3.50 aver.
age,$o de luxe, for two people. Averake
cost for meals (reported by visitors): 40
cents for breakfast, 60 cents for lunch,
81 for a celebrated, full course dinner.
And all other costs are moderate.
Get travel details from any railroad,
airline or bus agent-or your auto club.
Send the coupon for the new, free,
illustrated book: San Francisco, 1890
Evening star., 1939-06-18

2 San Franchises cool, fascinating summer days.
Days and nights in famed Golden Gate Park, in
Chinatown and on the storied waterfront. >. Rid.
ing P-hill-climbing cable cars. Winging over
the worlds two highest, longest bridges: to giant,
age-old Redwoods, and dozens of other nearby
wonders of Americas favorite vacationland.
Evening star., 1939-06-18

Vineyard Always charter service is
available directly to the island. An
additional direct airplane service
leaves from Boston daily.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17
Needed: A Bump On The Nose

The following editorial appeared in a recent issue
OF the Rotarian. 1t is worth reading-directed to pa
rents and to young people.
A successful business man who is also a university
trustee, widely read, cultured, thuoghtful and a good
Judge OF human nature, was discussing a certain young
man. Il have known him" he said, "since he was
D years old. He has a fine mind, and in school he used
lt TO advantage, at least to the extent of getting good
grades. He was home last week from college: he is
taking graduate work for a Phi. d degree in English.
lie is 20 years old, and the thing that impressed me
most about him was his complete unconcern about earn
ing his living. He is satisfied that somehow. in due
course of time, it will be arranged, by somebody-some-
body else. Things have been arranged for him by others
ever since he was born"
An increasing number of people, including some
educators who have their feet squarely on the ground,
believe that the case of this young man is far too typi-
cal today. They say it represents the severest indict
ment to the present so-called higher education.
Employment officials assembling not long ago at
a regional gathering of personnel associations brought
out the TACT that a principal reason why jobs often are
not given to youngsters just out of college is because
their attitude toward employment is such a curious one.
They expect to be given fairly large salaries and con-
genial work, yet they have been on the receiving end
of things. They have been fed, clothed, and cared for.
and have not had to turn a hand to help their families
or themselves. To many of them it is a shock to learn
that as adults they are expected to stand I'D and FIGHT
and give value for what they get. Increasing num-
bers OF employers, these personnel officials declared.
prefer to wait to wait for a year or two before they hire
these fresh products of the colleges - at least until
they have had their noses bumped a Bit"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

Probably some of the fault lies with the home,
and urban living. Cash allowances are given to city
children, many of whom never do a lick of work to
earn the money. Probably part of the fault lies with
school and college teachers; too many of them turn
their faces to theories about life, rather than to the
actualities of living. "There is some good evidence"
said DR.. Henry C. Link, discussing what he called "the
vice vice of education" in his provocative book THE Re-
turn of Religion" that the prolongation of formal
education results in a deterioration of personality"
The gimme attitude is the negation of the service
ideal. True education, whether in home or in school,
insists that a primary quality of adulthood is ability
to take care of oneself; which means to give, more than
it means to get. The youngsters will be swarming in
and out of the house for another month yet. Perhaps
this is exactly the felicitious season subtly to suggest
to the young bloods some of the things they will be ex-
pected to give-if you can do it in between their tennis
matches and beach picnics.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

magazine schedule, planned specit-
ically to reach the top of the tour
lSt market, was q direct-by-mail
campaign Of personal letters sent
to $4,000 individuals in twelve mid
western states estimated as being
worth $3.50, 900 and over.
Finally, the Commissions tourist
sale program included counter dis.
plays and show windows in nearly
two hundred strategic points in the
area covered generally by the news
paper schedule.
How many people did such a
multiple-method program reach?
The combined circulation of the
20 newspapers carrying Mississioni
resort advertising reached the ire.
mendous total of 0 .295. 437. Most
OF these papers carried insertions
from three TO five times during
the campaign. The combined cir.
culation of the magazines on the
schedule a ALAG. 1872. How many
actual pcint-of-purchase contacts
were made through the counter dis.
plays and show-windoWs is i'm.
measurable. Finally. through con.
slant pluoPine of photographs and
stories. the Commission placed in
the nations newspapers and maea-
zines during The winter and spring
a total of $50 1867 worth of resort
publicity material figured at reg
ular advertising rates. a total more
than five times the cost of tire dis.
play schedules themselves. How
many people saw this Miss,sslpp,
publicity is again immeasurabie.
But it is reasonable 10 na!.eve
that the gains in Mississippi's tour,
lst business following the aaver
Using programs are no mere coin,
cidence. that. in other words the
state advertising programs nave
been largely responsible TO, tire
gains OF 40 per cent and 60 Der
cent IN TWO wears r~esDective,v OF
the travel indge.ry's worth to Mis-.
sissippi.
The area Of concentration OF ad
versising. and the tim,no OF the re.
SORT schedule. hsve 10th been i'm
considerations As VIII zee
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

seen from the accompanying map.
the schedules have been concen
trated on the people living in the
states from Kansas and North Da-
kota reaching East. In increasing
measure, the people from these
states are seeking escape from the
rlgorS OF the long winter they know.
Mississippi is the bottom of the
funnel through which they pour
moving South to a more agreeable
climate.
The direct benefits accruing t.
the Mississippi Coast as a winter
resort from the timing and con.
centration Of the advertising SEIZED.
ule has been recognized in the
TACT that Mississippi Coast com.
muaities and hotels placed their
own advertising schedules concur
rently and in many of the same
media with the advertisements OF
the Commission. In MANY instanc.
es these cooperating agents turned
over their insertion orders to the
Commission for placement so thai
the weight of the combined ac.
count could be used IN promoliona
publicity work. The Illinois Contra
system. long a pioreer in BUILDING
up the Coast as a winter resort,
along with other transport aeen.
cles also c~ooperated with the state
IN the advertising and promotion.
al campaign.
But the Coast was BY no means
tie only section of the state 10
benefit directly from the resort al.
vert;sing. The most remarkable
TACT aoout the RESORT programs
carried on BY the state in the las,
snree Years has hsen the way they
have brought direct eturns 70 ev.
cry cart OF mississippi.
Fer instance. the schedules pIac.
cd IN Sports Afie!d END Amarlc9r
yield emphasized hunting ana fish.
~ ana fiels rial events d,irino
TIE fail. winter. and spring. In
112s; instances these events CIT
place in north Mississippi rather
man n those areas tradif;orery
considered Mississippi reso-. ccr.
-srs. II f~9"eloainQ similar events
49, =: N..1SisG.p2s hes IA
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

Mn wet from the press Is the
second annual report OF the United
States Travel Bureau estimating
travellers retail expenditures for
the year 1898 IN every state in the
union.
According to the report, approx
imately two million visitors to Mis-
sissippi in 1888 spent s34. 705, O29. 90,
an average of $l7.16 each.
The $34. 705 .029. 90 total was near
~ 90 per cent greater than the
total for the preceding year. which
itself had represented a 40 per
cent Increase over the total for
1885. Even more encouraging is
the fact that the sl7.16 expendi-
ture per capita vas up nearly 10
per cent over the preceding
years total.
Evidently Mississippi's share of
the nations Neutrality-suspicious. travel
industry is growing at an astoun6-
ing rate, a rate possibly exceeding
that OF any other state in the un-
ion.
What is responsible for the in
crease. both in per capita and in
total expenditures Of travellers In
Mississippi? Where do they come
from and when do they come?
What brings them to Mississippi
and what may induce them to re-
turn?
Tied up in bundles in the Of
fices OF the State Advertising Com
mission are the cards and letters
OF people responding to the las,
resort advertising program con.
Quoted by the Commission. rabu-
lated by media. by months. and
by states, the replies up through
June furnish the basis for some
interesting answers to the forego.
ing questions.
An analysis of the returns, too.
VIII largely determine plans for the
final tourist advertising campaign
OF the Commissions present pro.
gram. scheduled now to begin in
October.
Advertisements in twenty eight
metropolitan newspapers durina
the weeks from December II
through January Is were the foun
dalton on which the last advertis
ing campaign was built.
0Supplementing the newspape,
schedule was a limited display rro.
gram in four magazines and forty
nine AAA motor club publications
Backing up the newspaper anc
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

opportunity to grow in tourist at.
traction.
The State Game and Fish Com.
mission estimates that the number
OF nonresident hunters in Missis.
sippi has increased 1877 per cent
since the 1928 season. The mum.
per OF nonresident fishermen. &C.
cordlng to the conservation body,
mas shown the astounding increase
OF e46 per cent since the 1928
season. Inquiries from out-of-state
people regarding hunting and fish
ing during the past year came
IRON thlrty-one states, Canada, Ea-
wall and Jamaica.
POSSIBLY an even more remark
able development has been that OF
tne garden club spring pilgrim
ages to homes and gardens. Be-
gun at NatcheZ, the events have
ncW spread TO every part of the
state. The advertisement in the
National Geographic Magazine as
a part OF the whole schedule was
devoted entirely to the garden club
events.
1t is important therefore to note
that IN addition to boosting the
total Of travel expenditures in Mis-
sissippi, the advertising campaigns
conducted by the state have also
served TO spread these expenii.
lures into every section of Missis-
slppi and to develop an autumn
n a spring tourist season for
northern visitors to supplement the
winter season already established
on the Coast.
As the Advertising Commission
makes rlans for its final resor:
schedule of the present program.
therefore. it is fortified not only
oy the knowled3e it mas gained
rom previous campaigns. and the
pleasing proof that previous cam
paigns are bringing results. but
.oF>ifisd also by the convection that
every part of MISSISSIPPI IS now
vitality concerned / boosting Mis-
sisslppt's thirty-four million dollar
snare OF a five billion dollar ma
ttcnal business. and that every
part oi MISSISSIPPI is putting its
sest foot forward to gst and 10 holo
ne VISITORS integcsG.
This is the twe;ty-si.ih of
2 scries Of scSri-moath.y pre-
s2niciieHs CT the EtisSiszippi
hdTsr.ia.ng CcE1'saion. The
'E@- seventh viii feature cot
- r.Eains.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17
A Little Hereafter
By Clayton Rand

Mars, the red planet, is closer to the earth this
month than it has been in fifteen years, and while
there's more talk about wars and rumors of wars, news
papers report unprecedented heat waves. And business
too, has kinda -gonetohen, if we are to believe half we
read and hear.
The Scribe's father always said one got most of
his hell here on earth, and maybe it was divine purpose
to give us a little hereafter while we are here so we'd
know how hot it'll be for some of us down there.
But of all the sufferers with the heat, the ones
who guzzle down fire-water and then grippe about the
weather gives one the jim-jams. Very few people are
ever satisfied with business, politics or the weather, and
sometime it's their own fault.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17
FOR BIDS

Proposals for furnishing and de.
livering common brick, Stag cement
sand and lime for the new Goodman
| School viii be received at the office
of the Secretary, Board of Trustees.
Commercial State Bank, Goodman.
Miss, at or before 10 300 A. M. Tues
day, August 10Th, 1899.
Specifications are open to public
inspection at the office of the Super
intendent of Schools at Goodman or
may be obtained from Hull & Drum
mond, Architects, Merchants Bank
Building, Jackson, Mississippi.
Bids must be accompanied by a
certified check or bid bond in an
amount equal to five percent of the
bid.
No bid may be withdrawn after
the scheduled closing time for the
receipt of bids for a period of thirty
days.
The Owner reserves the right to
reject any or all bids and to waive
informalities.
GOODMAN CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOL DISTRICT.
D.. K. Gulledge (Sd)
Secretary, Board of Trustees.
52-1-2
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17
P OLITIC A L
Announcements

The Durant News Is authorized to
announce the following candidates
for the below named offices, subject
to the action of the Democratic pri-
maries to be neld this year.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Ellis E. Wynn
w Kinds Jumper
G.. H. Love
w. P. Hammett
FOR TAX ASSESSOR
Denton Rosamond
Walter l.. Ellis
FOR SHERIFF HOLMES CO.
J. Monroe Roach
VIM. Allan Ramsey
FOR CONSTABLE, BEAT 2
Mayfield Howard
Gordon G.. Allen
Little Betty Campbell of West is
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Campbell, are visiting points in the
Ozarks.
Mrs. Pitt White visited last week
in Water Valley.
Miss Rosemary Howell is spending
this week in Jackson with Mrs. Frank
Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Byrd, Winona,
visited here last weekend.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17
A Tribute To Roy Lyon
1t hard to realize that Roy Lyon is gone.

It hard to realize that Roy Lyon is gone.
1t is hard to give up loved ones to eternity. 1t is
even more difficult to understand why they are taken
when seemingly they have just reached the stage of
greatest usefulness in their lives.
Roy Lyon was a Christian gentleman of the highest
character. He was a capable and honest public official.
He had realized the fullest life in his service to man and
his leadership was of the finest type. He was a good
husband and father. A faithful, accommodating friend.
Well known by almost every citizen of Holmes
county, he was universally liked and esteemed. He
personally had no enemies. One who radiates friendship
and good will to all men does not reap enemies. He
bore no malice in his heart toward anyone.
His was the nature to be of service, to encourage.
lend a helping hand, to set in his private life as well
as his public life an example of right living.
He loved life and people and loving them he was
their servant. No greater thing can be said of man.
We are going to miss you terribly, Roy. Your dear
wife and two splendid sons, your family, your church,
your Scouts and all your friends are going to miss you.
Holmes county has lost one of it's finest sons and best
officials.
Surely God in His Infinite wisdom knows best.
We can only try to understand.
GuIIy Pulls Out
James B. Gully, who won second high place in the
race for state tax collector in the first primary, has
withdrawn from the run-off race which he was sche-
duled to make on August 29th, with Carl N. Craig.
Mr.. Craig polled 133,OO7 votes, Mr.. Gully 81, 371.
A third man in the race, billiard Brown, poled 72,416
votes.
Mr. Gully, incumbent, says In Withdrawing from
the race: A tabluati0n of the votes indicates that the
voters prefer a change in that office. l humbly and
respectfully bow to their wishes"
It's too bad more of our candidates don't pull out
of politics when the voters clearly indicate they want
a change.
Roosevelt's Thanksgiving New Deal
Now comes forward Mr.. Roosevelt with a procla-
nation to change Thanksgiving, move it up a week so
that there will be more time between Turkey Day and
Christmas.
This must be what you call a new deal in Thanks
giving.
Mr.. Roosevelt might best have spent his time Civ
ing US something to be thankful for as the Governor of
one state suggested like for instance, a guarantee
that our team is going to win the ball game that day
and that the weather will be just right, not too hot and
not too cold.
We're afraid most members of this modern gene
ration are a great deal more concerned with the re-
sultlng mix-up in football schedules than they are with
whether Thanksgiving is even observed or not.
You should have given us at least a years notice.
Mr.. Roosevelt.
This is just too sudden.
Needed: A Bump On The Nose
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Stokes were
among the guests at the Rhyme Seay
wedding last week.
Mrs. w. r. Weaver has had as her
guest this week, her sister, Miss
Stokes, from Memphis.
Mrs. Earl Shelton and Miss Sis
Cowsert were Durant visitors Friday.
Friends of DIR. P. B. Brumby will
be interested to learn that he has
gone to New York where he is taking
a postgraduate course at Columbis
University.
Miss Lillian Howard, Tchula, is vis
iting her grandmother, Mrs. Jennie
Frizel1.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-08-17

This is the twe2ty-sixth OF
2 scries Of scri-moath.y pre-
s9ntcSi9Hs CT the EfisSissip1i
h~dT:-.ia,ns Commission. The
iH'"- seventh viii feature cot
- r.E,in..
Evening star., 1939-03-30
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

Flower lovers will assure you that
the first spring flower is the skunk
cabbage 1t is one of the most de-
termined and fearless of the spring
brigade among the flowers, for it
pushes its way through the frozen
earth and even in the shadow of
snow bank it will unfold its glossy,
cowl-like hood. 1t is a handsome,
husky flower of maroon, or mahog-
any, yellow, green or mottled color.
Its chosen haunts are in the sWamps
and a more coZy place to visit in
search of flowers in the early spring
will be hard to find.
However, this does not usually
make a great difference with flower
Evening star., 1939-03-30

hunter. With knowledge of the queer
ways and places of the outdoor tribe
wet spots are usually prepared for
by wearing rubber boots or galoshes
1t is at the sign of the skunk cab
bage that entomologists will find the
early insects. They have been awak-
ened by the warm sun rays and the
odor of the cabbage. No message
could be more welcome and fra
grant to them.
Massed Flowers.
Look closely within the hood or
cowl and you will find the round
f1eshy spadiX. 1t reminds you of a
bell clapper. On this the flowers
proper will be masseo, each one with
four sepals and four short stamens
about single center pistil.
Knowing the habits of families in
the flower kingdom you at once rec
ognize that the skunk cabbage be-
longs to the Arum family. because
of the spathe and spadiX. The skunk
cabbage is first cousin to our be-
loved preacher of the woods, Jack
tn-the-Pulpit, and also a first cousin
to our very handsome and highly
aristocratic Gala wrongly called
Ily).
Suppose you check the skunk cab
bage's earmarks and see why. There
is the beautiful purple cowl. Does
this not resemble in form, though it
is spotless, the white spathe of the
calla? The round and feshy spadix
Is easily recognized as correspond
Ing to the slender yellow spike
The leaves are in large crowns
like our everyday cabbage. They are
broadly ovate and sometimes reach
IL inches across. They are we'll
nerved, their stems have deep
grooves and the leaves are highly
malodorous.
Guests Arrive.
From February until late April
you may inspect this plant. AS time
goes on you will notice quite a diff
ferent set of guests looking for nee
tar. Perfume and color guide the
rowing flyers to the hall of plenty.
They are of course the plants bene-
factors whether they know it or
not. After their visit the cabbage
begins to mature her seed children.
There are some insects that have
been trapped in the horn because of
too tight quarters.
Lizards are to be found beneath
the glossy green leaves later in the
season. And last but not least, the
dainty little yellow-throat builds her
lovely nest in the hollow of the cab
bage.
Evening star., 1939-03-30
Natures Children
Skunk Cabbage
(Symplocarpus foetidus

Odor is in this case protection par
excellence. For no animal will think
of shipping the tender and generous
shaped leaves. The young animals
about, that would of course enjoy
meal of bird eggs, will not think of
venturing into a hall putting forth
such an offensive scent.
This is one flower that we believe
is left to its own plans. We have
not heard of any garden lovers want
ing to transplant one to flower plot.
(Copyright, 1939)
Evening star., 1939-03-30
BoIIston Club Show
To Be Tomorrow

A minstrel show for the benefit
Of the Womans Club of Ballston
(Va) Presbyterian Church will be
held at the church, at Wilson boule-
ward and Glebe road, at pm. to-
morrow.
The Dixieland Minstrels, composed
OF members of the mems class of
the Ballston M. E. Church, will
furnish the entertainment. Mrs.
Rachel White is president of the
sponsoring group.
Evening star., 1939-07-01
Volunteer Firemen Get
Graduation Certificates

Graduation certificates were
awarded at the quarterly meeting
Of the Montgomery County (Md.)
Association of Volunteer Firemen
to 43 graduates of the training
courses held during the year, it
was announced yesterday. Chief
James w. Just, director of the
Maryland University fire extension
service, made the presentations at
the Glen Echo firehouse.
Gold pins were presented to
Spencer J. H. Brown, former chief
at Sandy Spring; Leo Bender, cap
tain Of the Silver Spring volunteer
department, and Chief George Fifer
of the Glen Echo department for
supervising the courses.
Those receiving certificates were,
from Glen Echo, Leslie A. Atwood,
Edward Deebo, Joseph Ellis, j. A.
Giammatteo, Paul Giammetteo, K.
F. jenkins, Harry E. Miller, E. c.
Shannon, Thomas Southwick, John
w. Walther and Ernest Wood; Sill
yer Spring, Thomas F.. Adams, v. H.
Bender, A. V. Brandt, E. G. Brandt,
Earle Culver, Andrew Kincaid, Will
liam H. Kincaid, William E. Mar
tin and Leonard M. Peter; CATH
ersburg- Washington Grove, c. o.
Bordeaux, David Allnutt, Henry
Costello, William Christie, Colon
Crolley, c. P. Fox, Charles Glover,
Ellwood German, Francis Mullican,
c. E. Lugenbeel, N NJ Miller, Roy
Minnick and German Griffith; Ken
sington, Raymond Wagner, Willard
Carey and Louis Kengla; Rockville,
Norman Pyles; Sandy Spring, Rob-
ert T. Cuff, H. w. Becraft, Henry T.
Clark, jr., and Harry z. Mus
grove, jr.
Evening star., 1939-07-01
Suburbs 10 Enforce
Ban on Fireworks

Chief Charles M Orme of the
Montgomery County (MdD police
today took all the joy out of life for
boys with an announcement that
restrictions against shooting fire
crackers in the suburban areas
would be strictly enforced.
The restrictions, which apply to
the sale as we'll as the discharge of
flrecrackers and other articles of
explosive composition, affect only
the first and fourth precincts of
the seventh election district, border
ing both sides of Wisconsin avenue,
In the Bethesda Chevy Chase area.
However, in Silver Spring it's un-
lawful to explode. cause to be eX-
ploded or sell for the purpose of be-
ing exploded so much as one small
squizzer. The ban includes the Sc
ond, fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth and
eleventh precincts of the thirteenth,
election district, roughly the terri
tory east of Rock Greek and south
of line formed by the Forest Glen
road, the Colesville pike and the
Burnt Mills road.
Takoma Park has a town ordi-
nance prohibiting flrecracker shoot
ing, but tradition has it that police
are not too strict.