The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-03-07
THROUGH
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

Carson n section OF TINS
mage shou. carefully read by
every farmer IN Holmes county.
IO8 farms In the county have been
visited to gather the facts present.
ed. sixty were farm owners, "
renters and 10 share-croppers.
Over 33 per cent of these farms
visited had no sweet potatoes on
January /; over seven per cent had
no hoga; 81 per cent had no syrup;
nearly IA per cen had no corn and
81 per cent had no hay.
These figures are highly signifi-
cant.
Holmes county farmers are not
raising enough feed for their crops.
They are not raising enough food
to feed their families.
At this time, and for the past six
years, when the government Is doing
everything in its power to help the
farmer. practically substituting him
II does seem as thought the farmer
would raise enough feedstu1is n
FOOD TO 1--we at nome.
If he would the money earned
from cash crops and his surplus
of foodstuffs could be used for clotn.
ing his family, educating his chill
dren and any other need that might
arise.
In our estimation all government
aid. whether 1t is for the farmer,
iaborer, employer or employee, SHOULD
be on the basis of personal effort
toward lettering ones condition as
well as need.
On that basis the government would
help only those who try to help
themselves.
The farmer who does not grow
enough to feed his stock and who
does not grow enough vegetables
take care of his family is certainly
not trying very hard to help him
self.
These farm families would do we'll
to enroll in the Plant to Prosper
competition.
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Should our finger on the pulse Of
public opinion feel the right beat
we believe hat sentiment in this
state Is c~rystalizing sharply toward
the legalizing and taxing of intox
icating beverages and their sale by
state-owned and operated liquor
stores.
In a recent gathering OF business
and professional women and men in
a small Mississippi town. the size
of Durant, a straw vote vas taken
on whether the sale of whiskey should
be legalized. Twenty-one voted that
it should be compared to nine per
sons saying n o
Every one Of these persons were
more or less upright, honest, intel.
ligent citizens. Everyone of them
either are in business or work for >
living. And there were lots of good
church members in there, too. Mort
than min anyway.
Yes, we believe that sentiment is
growing so rapidly that it might
ever engulf the present legislature
before 1t gets through.
A huge motor transport truck turn,
ed over on highway 81, north OF
Durant, early one morning. Loaded
with plate glass, it took hours to
right the truck,
Meanwhile traffic had to be rout-
ed round the highway for about Il
hours, we are told, at a great incon.
venience to hundreds of motorists
A few days later a convoy truck,
Zone of those trucks carrying five
new cars through the country,
wrecked near the Louisiana state
line killing the driver and seriously
iuiuring a woman driver of an auto.
mobile.
The proper authorities in this
state should make or enforce laws
strosities that go up the roads by
day and by night, a constant mo
mace to everything they meet on the
road.
1t doesn't matter that they pay
more to use the highways than ordi-
nary automobiles. What matters Is
human life and safety.
We challenge you to pass one OF
these buildings-on-wheels without
cringing for your life.
If there are adequate laws oil
regulation then the proper authori
ties should see they are enforced.
If there aren't enough laws on the
books, then, Mr.. Legislator let's have
some.
These laws and their enforcement
will do more toward the safety and
happiness of your constituents than
most of the laws you're considering
right now.
p. S. And we don't work for the
railroad either.
The newspapers of Louisiana did
an outstanding job in exposing and
ousting the Long regime.
Only a free press, with intelli
gence enough to do the job. and