The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-08-29

Taylor, sales promotion and adver-
Using manager of the Mississippi
Power and Light Company, to a
group of several hundred business
men and women from over the state,
in a meeting Tuesday in Jackson.
As Mr.. Taylor said, however, there
are some people who will always COM
plain instead of going out after bust
ness or making it come in to them.
To these people normal times" will
come because if such times did
come they wouldn't know what to do
with them.
More than 1000 Legionnaires held
a mass meeting in the state capitol,
Jackson, Sunday afternoon and took
steps to demand action from Con-
gress Immediately on the conscrip-
ton bill now being debated. Strong
words were used as these ex-service
men showed their resentment toward
a body that plays politics with the
defense of a nation and the we'll
being of 1870, ZOO, 900 people.
t AtSlOlliidlIG buShy oIctINiilt, SdIu
he was in favor of marching on
Washington and throwing them out
the windows.
That is a prospect we do not be-
lieve would be relished by the aver
age congressman.
If the feeling is as widespread in
other states as it is in Mississippi
u congressman had better cease
their childish debate and get some
action before the people give them
some.
During the first days Of Septem-
Der the keel will be laid for another
$4,000, 1873 passenger-cargo ship in
the Ingalls, S~hipbuilding Corporation
yards at Pascagoula. November and
December likewise will witness the
keel for two more ships involving the
same amount. Thus extreme activity
Is predicted for this Mississippi town
for the next two years. The ships will
take Is to 16 months each to build.
One Cargo ship, the Exchequer,
was launched in June, and four
other large ships are now in process
of building at the shipyards.
$26,768,732 in contracts has al
ready been awarded the ingalls, firm
for construction at Pascagoula.
Two other Mississippi towns have
profited from orders in connection
with the national defense program,
as we'll. They are Leakesville, where
S7.O44 was ATTAINED for site clearance
at the Southeast airport, and Tupelo,
where S7,437 will be spent for cotton
khaki shirts for the army quarter
masters Corps.
Editor Will Hight of the Winston
ment and appreciation of the home
owners of Mississippi cast heir vote
in a way that ignores the endorse
mentvand appreciation of the home
stead exemption law which Governor
Whites administration was success
full in passing, when all former adj
ministrations had failed to do 1t, then
there is no incentive for future Of
ficeholders to exert themselves in the
interest of the peoples welfs re, but
instead will license them to continue
their indifference to the peoples in
terest unless it suits them to do so
after election
We do not believe that Governor
White will become bitter over his
defeat in the contest for the office
of u. S. Senator from Mississippi.
He isn't that kind of man, for one
thing. We wage he will continue to
serve the people of this state in his
status as private citizen to the best
of his ability, just as he did as Gov
ernor, in one of the very best admin
istrations this state has ever had.
The poll 62.019 votes out of a
total 149, 1877 cast is no disgrace.
Rather we would say he made a re-
markedly good race.
After all Junior Senator Bilbo has
been in politics a much longer time
than has Governor White. He has
had time to build up a large follow
ing. Politics is like boxing. The man
who has been at the game longest
knows the most punches.
When President Roosevelt vetoed
the bill establishing a commission to
plan celebrations of fernando De
Soto's explorations along the Mis-
sissippi river, it got the dander up OF
our good friend, Billy Snider, pub
Usher of the C~larksdale Register, and
former lieutenant governor.
Mr.. Snider said: "One cannot help
but wonder if fernando de Soto had
discovered the Mississippi River neal
Hyde Park if the bill would have
been vetoed"
He, atso makes this an opportunity