The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-31
Tuesday Is Election Day

Tuesday, November 5, is election day.
On that day American citizens will go 10
the polls and choose the leaders who Will
guide them for the next four years. In all
probability the men chosen to head the Am
erican government for the next four years
will decide whether or not this country snail
become embroiled in the world war now
waging, and whether we shall start one OF our
own with Japan.
In Mississippi we have never bothered
much going to the polls to vote in the gen.
eral election. The only election considered
important is the Democratic primary In Aug
ust when nominees of the party are chosen
which have always been equivalent to elec-
ton.
l It might not be amiss to suggest that
every qualified elector should go TO the
polls Tuesday and cast his vote 1or the
candidate of his choice.
The south has profited greatly from the
New Deal. Senator Bilbo, one of the staun-
chest supporters of President Roosevent, re.
minds us of the blessings of the New Deal
and urges voters to go to the polls Tues
day and express their appreciation to Pre-
sident Roosevelt by electing him by a full
vote to a third term. We quote:
'Let us remember that President Roose-
welt and the New Deal, during the panic
and the darkest depression in the history OF
our great country, which depression was
largely brought about by the twelve years
of Republican rule or mis-rule, have con-
tributed over 5000, 600, 900 for relief and for
physical improvements of a permanent char
acter which have SO vastly elevated the
social, moral and intellectual opportunities of
the people during these distressful times
which could not have been obtained in any
manner without the aid of a considerable and
humane Federal Government.
''Th New Deal, under the great and
incompatible leadership of President Roose-
welt, has fed and clothed our destitute, un-
employed citizens; educated and trained,
through the N. Y. A. and C. c. c., our
under-privileged boys and girls; given us
farm-to-market roads, helped pave our splen-
did highway; paved the street of our towns
and cities, built miles of concrete sidewalks,
built and repaired our court houses, erected
hospitals for our sick and afflicted; has
given us modern school houses, well cd
tipped, in which to educate our children;
built railroad grade-crossings to protect our
irrational ~centers for the pleasure, health
and physical well-being of our children;
built town halls, jails, armories and other
useful public buildings; trained and cared
for our blind and crippled, enabled the cities
and towns to built light, water and sanitary
systems for the convenience, pleasure and
health of our people; has given the people
of the country, through the R. E. A., cleo
tricity and at a cheaper rate; increased
wages per hour and shortened the hours of
labor of the men and women through whose
labor all wealth is produced. The New Deal
has provided loans on our cotton, saving
our cotton farmers over So, 000, 00O, 900; paid
our farmers for services for soil conserva-
ton and parity payments, provided for fin
ancing crop production, furnished feed, seed
and fertilizer loans, financed the crops OF
our poor farmers and tenants when the
banks, loans companies, and merchants could
not help them; now inaugurating the farm
tenant program to furnish homes to all wor-
thy tenant farmers; loaned money to our
distressed industries and business people
saved thousands of homes through the H.
O.. L.. c., built new homes through the F.. H.
A.; distributed train-loads of commodities to
the poor and to distressed farmers; bought
our surplus crops; provided pensions for the
old; given compensation to the unemployed;
retirement funds for the laborers; built air
ports and given us one of the Nations lar
gest military posts; saved and protected our
bank depositers up to $4,000 each; enacted
laws and measures to protect our people
from the manipulators and 'slickers' of
Wal Street, who exploited and unloaded
worthless stocks and bonds upon our in
nocent people, and even our banks were the
victims of these racketeers. All these things
we have received from Roosevelt and the
New Deal, and many other laws, measures,
projects and programs for the protection.
advancement, health, happiness, peace and