The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-01-18

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Next Tueday night, January 2
is the date of the countrywide ba
honoring President Roosevelt's birth
day.
The place is the Lexington Armor.
and the time is $50 o'clock.
Ed Howell and his orchestra, on
of the best in these parts, will fur
nish the music and a good time !!
to be had by all.
The money will go to aid in the
fight against dnfantile paralysis.
Tickets, If bought in advance, cost
one dollar. Spectator tickets arc
twenty-five cents. They may be OBJ
tanned from your community chair
man, from the News, office or mos.
any drug store In the county.
Buy yours today! Form a congo
NAL party OF your friends next Tues.
day evening and bring them to the
Presidents Birthday Ball, either as
spectators or dancers.
wisconsin's Governor He'll has been
visiting in Mississippi for the ex
pressed purpose of working out some
kind of policy regarding trade bar
rders between Wisconsin and this
state.
The National Cotton Council, work
ing for southern interests, has been
vigorously prosecuting an attack on
Wisconsin's prohibitive tax of is
cents a pound on Margarine.
Magazine is the second largest out
let for cottonseed oil.
Recently several states have in re-
taliation levied virtual boycotts on
Wisconsin's products.
Governor He'll says, There Is no
reason why we shouldn't be friends.
Wisconsin buys a lot Of southern
products and the South buys a lot
Of Wisconsin products. There should
be no North or South, or East or
West. There should be just one
nation"
We agree with Governor He'll that
there should be just one nation.
The fact remains, however, that
this country Is divided into many
sections. each with varying liabiii.
ties and assets, each with problems
peculiar to 1t. While there is need
of harmony and cooperation between
~ - o nation to find a mor abun-
dant life for all Of us, there Is found
now and has been for seventy-five
years In our Congress and in our
various rule-anaking and rate-mak-
ing agencies, a policy Of each section
for itself and the devil may take
the hindmost.
The hindmost for these last Is
years has been the South.
due in some to our own
apathy we have been sitting stri
and let every section Of tho country
push " around.
The South has struggled along for
many years with inequalities Of
hreight rates, low hteracy, poverty
and disease. We have been the vic.
tim OF the Republican high tariff.
buying. far a. ~ money would
go, our needs In a protected market
and selling our cotton and food for
what We could get for It.
Today there IL a new South. q
South clAmoring for It's place In thu
sun, and slowly but surely getting
It.
The east Is lighting to tho last
ditch on a recent parity ruling ia
voring the South In freight rates
II IL going to p~rolong the fight just
as long and make it IS expensive as
possible. But the South will win 10
the end.
Secretary Huf's trade agreements
program Is and will continue to be
OF great help to he SOUTH q long
step In the right direction.
Due to Federal aid and to increased
participation Of the state in educa
tional and health activities, we are
holding our own in these fields, max
ing new gains all the while.
Only when these other things are
realized will we people of the Soutt
vanquish poverty, which is, perhaps
our greatest enemy.
We've come a long way since thu
War Between the States. We still
nave a long way to go before thu
South comes into her own
Continued intelligent leadership
properly organized and given enough
fighting ammunition will put thu
South where she belongs, at the heat
OF the list. Once she gets Their