The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-12
through
Hazel
Eyes
BY
Hazel Brannon

day morning at ten O'Clock to decide
whether this county shall contribute
to the support of a venereal disease
clinic in various sections of the coun-
ty.
Federal and state governments
have appropriated funds to match any
monies expended by local govern
ments and agencies. The Federal
government voted seven million dol
lars on July / and the state of Mis-
sissippi appropriated $100,O 900 to be
spent on the project. The policy of
our state health department is to
get the consent and cooperation of
local doctors in each community or
sections before putting in clinics.
The doctors are asked to give their
services in the clinic for three dollars
al hour. They are given a nurse
assistant to help them.
There has been some opposition
expressed in Holmes county against
the clinics by a few of the doctors,
we understand. These doctors will be
heard, If they are present, Monday
morning. Other doctors favoring the
clinics, we imagine, will be present
as we'll.
A full account Of the Board meet
ing Monday will be carried in this
paper next week.
We are certain the Board of Sup
ervisors of this county are going
to favor the measure because the
people Of Holmes county have shown
themselves to be heartily in favor
of the clinics.
Our people want to see the 800, 900
cases Of syphilis in this state among
the negroes and $4,000 cases among
the whites wiped out. We know that
every case is a potential threat to
our health and happiness, and that Of
generations yet unborn.
We know that it will never be
wiped out until stronger measures,
like these clinics, are taken up and
the cooperation of all our doctors
secured.
The move carries the endorsement
of the American Medical Association
81 there can't be a question of ethics
in the medical profession.
Leading club organizations over
the state have openly endorsed the
move.
1t is up to our Holmes county doc
tors whether we have these clinics
or not.
Mondays session will determine
whether Holmes county goes for
ward in this fight against one of our
strongest enemies or whether we
stand still and let disease make grea-
ter inroads on our health and we'll
being.
The rest of this column and much
of the editorial page of this paper is
devoted to an article by David l..
Cohn, of Idlewild Plantation, Mis-
sissippi, which appeared in the Sep
TENDER issue of the Atlantic Month
I've one of the upper-crust magazines
with a national circulation.
We repeat it because it is writ
ten by a Mississippian and we think
will be of interest to our readers.
The opinions expressed therein are
in no way to be construed as our
own Personally we agree with Mr..
Cohn on some of his points and on
many we do not.
The name Of the author suggests
that he might have reason to hold \
personal feeling about Hitler.
We quote:
The United States is agaiH at war
with Germany. Technically We are at
peace with the Third Reich; actually
we are at war. We did not choose to
help other nations keep the peace.
We did not choose to use u her
culean power to prevent wars. We
had no foreign policy that made
sense. We have been intoxicated by
the sound of our W high-flown
words. 'Cackling geese may nave saw
ed the capitol once; they will not
save it a second time" said General
Weygand sadly, as he prepared to
surrender France to the Nazis. Our
foreign policy has recently been
fashioned not in Washington but
in Berlin. Our minds have been made
up not in conferences of citizens in
California, Mississippi, and New
York, but on the battlefields of
France. The remorseles logic of ev-
,ents-not reason, humanitarianism,
or even self-preservation save at the
desperate midnight hour of our des-
pair-has driven us to the status OF
a b%elligerent nonbelligerent at a time
when France is in chains and Eng
land is battling for her life against
the mighty German ornaments.
Make no mistake about 1t. The
United States is now at war with Ger
many. Such have been the stupendous
events of May and June, 1910, that
the President, with the consent OF a
slow-footed Congress, has in effect
already declared war upon Germany
and committed warlike acts against
her. A so-called neutral nation that
detaches appliances and other mater
ial from its military services and sells