The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-03-14

Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

No town is a good" place or a
bad" place TO live.
The people in a town make it what
it is.
One person going through a COM
munity may think 1t a wonderful
place to live and do business be-
cause he has had occasion to deal
with friendly, helpful people.
Another person might think the
same community not so good be-
cause he happened to contact some
one who wasn't feeling well that
day, perhaps, who bit his head off.
Still a third party might think
the same community a dreadful place
because he happened to contact q
person who was talking about or
'~.knocking' another person in the
community, or worse, the commun-
ity itself.
What kind of person are you?
Are you a community booster, al
ways saying something nice about
Durant n your neighbors?
Or are you a Crouch. always crit
icizing the other fellow and talk?
ing about the town you live in being
dead?
II your community seems dead"
to you why don't you do something
about waking 1T, reviving 1t.
And don't say you can't get any
cooperation. Any person working I'M
selfishly for the interests of his COM
munity will get q measure of coop
Grafton sooner or later IL he keeps
on trying.
Knockers hurt any town.
Boosters help. So II you say any
thing make It nice. If you can't
honestly think Or anything nice to
say just don't say anything.
What kind OF a citizen are you?
Pause a moment, examine yourself,
and see.
The real need of Mississippi Is
more jobs for it's people.
The state must have more taxa
BILE wealth in order to have the
money to give" the people the or
binary services expected of state gov
eminent. BY these services we mean
the fundamental responsibility Of over
seeing the health and providing the
education of u people, giving them
same, just government and protection
Afforded by law enforcement.
Only when the vast majority of
our people are employed and earn
ing their way in the world can we
have any real wealth.
Thus it would seem that the pres
ent legislature should not waste 50
much time and energy wondering
where the money is coming from to
finance all the free" ervices our
Governor wants to give our peo-
pie.
THAI money cannot be forthcoming
without more jobs, more industry for
mississippi.
OF course the money car be rails
ed by unfairly taxing small business
and the small property owner in the
state. That, at least, is the method
proposed to date by the legislative
finance committee. But we were led
to believe at the beginning of the
campaign that tax reduction was O
plank in Governor Johnson's plat
form just as his planks for free
chool books, old age pension, re-
tirement for teachers, etc.
IT would seem that Governor John
son, and his close friends and sup
porters would get Together n see
what could be done about getting
jobs for people in our state who need
them, more industries for towns,
and we don't mean putting them on
the state payroll.
III he will find a solution to that
problem then he will have made
a lasting contribution to the state
and recognition will be accorded him
by every citizen. Not only will he
DE honored by his people but GER
tain parts of his program favored
by a majority of citizens can be
carried out because there will be
money enough in the state to fl.
nance them.
Billy Snider, former lieutenant gov