The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-11-07
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Hazel Brannon


A newspaper friend wired us from
New York this week a scoop in the
event Wendell Willkie was elected
president he was coming to Biloxi to
rest a while and while there select
members of his cabinet.
Since Mr.. Willkie was not elected
president we imagine he will not visit
Biloxi. However we suggest that our
good friend, Jimmy Love, Jr., owner
of the Buena Vista, wire Willkie and
invite him down to Biloxi to rest a
bit.
We imagine he needs it.
The Willkie Democrats OF Missis-
sippi did not poll very many votes.
But their interest in Willkie GER
tainly served to bring many a Demo
crat to the poll who never before
thought about casting a ballot in
she general election. Some electors
cast a general election ballot for the
first time in their lives.
A lot of people didn't even know
until they saw the ballots that we
don't vote directly for President.
They had practically never heard of
an electoral college and no telling
how many people had to ask which
were the Democratic electors.
All of which goes to prove that
manybe elections might be to bit
ore interesting if we had two par
ties all the time.
The presidential race is over Pre-
sident Roosevelt has a clean sweep of
the electoral college.
But in the popular majority we see
that our people are almost evenly
divided on the New Deal. The popular
vote should be mandate enough to
FDR to proceed cautiously lest he
overstep the bounds Of good judg-
ment for this country.
In his desire to aid Britain he must
not forget that our main objective
is preparation for our w defense
that it is certain the main objective
of all the people Of this country is to
stay out of a
Clearly he should know that he
does not have a mandate from the
vast majority of the American peo-
pie to proceed as he pleases with our
foreign and domestic policies. Now
as never before will Mr.. Roosevelt
show us how big he is. He must stand
the test Of being president of those
twenty-odd million people voting ag-
ainst him as well as those voting for
him.
His place is yet to be written in
history. Now he is a great leader. We
will see what four more years in the
White House does to him.
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There was at least one ardent sup
porter Of Franklin D. Roosevelt in
Durant who could not go to the polls
to vote for him Tuesday as much as
he would have liked to.
Mr.. John M. Howard, confined TO
his bed by illness for many months,
is one of the most enthusiastic FDR
supporters in the world. Mr.. Towards
first association with the President
was twenty years ago when FDR was
just a young man getting a start In
politics. He was then assistant sec
rotary Of the navy.
At the 1920 Democratic conven-
ton Mr.. Howard was d delegate from
Holmes county and was appointed on
the committee to notify young Frank
lin d. Roosevelt that he was nominal
ed for vice-president of the United
States on the ticket with Cox.
of course the Democrats were
showed under that year but young
Mr.. Roosevelt had such a toehold in
politics that twenty years later he
could be rejected for president, not
for the first or the second, but the
third term. All of which puts him in a
class distinctly by himself as a pre-
sident.
AS a MAJ however, We'll place Mr.
John Howard is a class right along
with or, ahead of the President.
The world needs more men like Mr.
Howard.
Monday, November IL, is ARMS
,ice Day, 1t is tragic that we cannot
look forward to world peace on tina
day. 1t will be many, many years
perhaps not in our lifetime, when tn,
main pursuit, of countries the work.
over will again be peace and happi
ness.
Too many nations have invested
too much in war machines to max
idealistic talk on peace. If we eve
have peace it will be at the poin
of guns. If England is able to achieve
a peace with Germany she will still
have to maintain an army and
navy to keep it. The same holds tru'
for other nations engaged in war.
In the United States our only guar
antee against invasion will be a big
ger army and navy than those VIII