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con S { + V a llCn
corps camp IN
one of t n e
S out h W eStern
States who con-
Quoted an inter-
esting poll, in
dica tin G that
men in the c. G.
c. camps would
prefer the Army
to the c. c. c. If
the pay were the
same. He says.
Il have had
three years of c.
c. C. duty and
o,,1 rnno n q n V
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A Chance for Philanthropy
Test of German Sincerity

French, Belgian, Dutch, Danish and
Norwegian bases and so long as the
produce and industrial facilities OF
the occupied nations are at the dis
posal of the Nazi war-machine, it is
idle TO expect the British to forego
the advantages of the only weapon
which offers them hope of either
a victory or a negotiated peace.
The test of German sincerity
in making the suggestion that it is
England's duty to feed the countries
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Bride, at SO, to Leave
CITY for First Time

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 14-Mrs.
Della Harrington, SO, will take the
first trip of her lifetime beyond
Greater Kansas City's limits Sat-
urday.
It'll be her honeymoon. She's to
marry Edward r. Violet, B, and
leave for his home in Campo, Calf.
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mucn DutRr INTO
cannons or at
any rate that we
get the butter.
AS cons m e r
adviser for the
National Defense
Advisory Com
mission, M / S S
Harriet Elliott
calls a national
conference of re-
tailers to lay the
foundation of
cooperation in
the maintenance
of living stand
ards as a bull
wark Of defense.
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We the People
One Slim Chonee Seen for Chonce to Feed
Neutral Europe, by Nozis' Withdrawing
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Mr. Herbert Hoover publicly proposed
relief under American
Otherwise millions
This humane suggestion moment when the
bomb torpedo
endangered
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HE opinions OF the Orters this page their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to giUe all sides OF questions OF interest
readers, although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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American press.
The Presidents extreme bitter
ness toward the press is a pretty
open secret. He began to feel that
the press was unfair to him shortly
after the New Deal honeymoon
ended. His feeling was greatly in
tensified by the 1886 campaign, when
a huge proportion of the press
opposed him. 1t was further
strengthened by the court fight.
And now. with over 80 per cent of
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the zone Of German frightfulness.
The attack on England is being
conducted from German bases
established in the very lands which
Mr. Hoover proposes to have us
feed. and German production
is being aided by factories and fields
manned by the very men and women
whom Mr.. Hoover wants us to re-
provision.
Even before Mr.. Hoover made
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The President and the Press

story being repeated high officials of the admin
the that the publisher known
Wendell W naturally does not tend to soften the
administration circles Mr. Howard who is
his version OF the
different the administrations
anticipation
mention of himself chiefly
presidential assault the
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virtually all the magazines in the country working
the Presidents is quite understand
ably, violent than
pertinent have omitted sort direct or IN
Thus the time for fudresS
obviously
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The Capital Parade
President May Name Man, Said to Be Roy Howard,
Who Refused to Be Drafted for Defense Job

open secret that the william Of the
peec-he drafted into the
for national deensewas neither ALI Landon Nor Henry
expected the President will reveal the
Chicago
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Poll Argues
For Army Of
Volunteers
Segment in c. c. c.
Points to Poy and
3-Yeur Drawbacks
Rv DAVID LAWRENCE,

Has the voluntary system of en-
listment in the Army been given a
fair chance? Today comes letter
from a commander of a civilian
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Russian Army Abandons
Political Commissars
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSocla ted Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 13.-Russia's S
armed forces henceforth will be Leo
into battle by soldiers. Political
commissars, long familiar feature
of the Soviet military setup, were
eliminated yesterday in decree de-
signed to strengthen the authority
of military commanders.
Political commissars, attached to
every unit of the army, navy and
air force, heretofore held equal rank
with commanding officers and
countersigned their orders.
Under the new system the "po-
litical education" of the troops
heretofore the special function of
the commissar-will be handled by
subordinate officers under the direc-
ton of commanding officers.
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The system of political commits
sars attached to the armed forces
dates from the turbulent years of
civil war after the 1917 revolution.
Many ex-Czarist officers OF doubtful
loyalty to the Bolshevist cause were
used by the Red army and, to guard
against possible treachery, political
commissar went along to watch
them.
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And What
They Do
Miss Elliott Serves
As Consumer Adviser
In Defense Setup
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.

A plump. pleasant. middle-aged
woman, who likes pink dresses and
an old-fashioned hair-do, has the
Job of seeing that we don't turn too
Evening star., 1940-08-14

The width of the Italian PENN
sula at no point exceeds $50 miles.
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MS associates in washington let 1T be known that he realized that the
draw in this the British naval blockade and neither
Winston Churchill the British Admiralty will onceivaby to
are subject TO Hiters determination.
A Chance for Philanthropy
This would there
slim oneby which phnthrophy could effectively
starvation
That for the withdraw the occupied
and restore their neutral return to them the
equivalent the fodu which the German armies
the old Relief model with Hoover head
could Portugal
food other materials the Third Reich
could free to work for the reconstruction Of their
ruined cities and their blasted farms.
Test of German Sincerity
This could make possible starvation
the innocent victims Of the Naz grab for world without at the
offensive For long the battle of Britain being fought from
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New Plan Presented
10 Settle Symphony
Salary Dispute
Orchestra and Union
OfficiuIs Meet With
IS. ConciIiotor

The National Symphony Orchestra
seemed to have q new lease on life
today, after = meeting yesterday
afternoon between representatives
Of the Musicians Protective Union
and the Orchestra Association Board.
While nothing definite was ac-
complished, q spirit of conciliation
was said to have been displayed at
the meeting. A new formula of
settlement, details Of which were not
made public, was submitted and left
for the sponsoring organization and
the union to consider.
The conferees met in the office o1
John r. Steelman, director of con-
ciliation Of the Labor Department
Mr.. Steelman's adviser was Samuel
Rosenbaum, vice president and
member of the board of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra.
After the conference, Mr.. Steel
man said:
Efforts were made to devise q
plan to be submitted to both parties
for consideration. Some sprogress
can be reported. The conference
adjourned to meet again on call OF
the concination director"
The conferees included A. G. Hay
den, president Of the union; Paul
]. Swartz, business manager OF the
union; Bob Gatta, a union board
member; L. Corrin Strong, presi-
dent Of the orchestra association;
Walter B. Howe, vice president Of
the association; G. G. Cappel, or
chestra manager, and Frederick
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Episcopal Session Ends

A service Of solemn evensong and
benediction last night concluded the
Catholic Life Conference, attended
by several hundred laymen and
clergymen from Episcopal churches
OF the washington Diocese, in St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, on Twenty
third street NV, near Washington
Circle. The Rev. Roland F. Palmer.
Canadian superior Of the Order of
st. John the Evangelist, preached
and the Rev. Robert Kell of Balti-
more omciated.
Instruction on prayer life and sup
per preceded the final service. The
Rev. Arlington A. McCallum was
host rector.
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Capper Bill for Vote
Backed byCitizens
0fCoIumbia Heights
Unit DepIores BIost
On Harvard Street as
Threut to Order

The Columbia Heights Citizens
Forum last night Endorsed in prin-
!ciple the Capper bill for direct
participation in national primary
elections for residents of the Dis
trict. The action was taken on the
Recommendation of william H. Mon
dell, chairman of the District Suf-
frage Association and member Of
the forum.
Mr.. Mondell told the citizens that
the question Of local suffrage is
now directly political one,"-
that each citizen Of Washington
should appear personally before in
terested members of Congress to
demand active cooperation in Sc
curing both local and national rep
resentation for the District"
The forum Endorsed the Randolph
bill to increase the District gas tax
Tor highway maintenance.
On motion offered from the floor
by Spared G. Wood, president, the
forum "deplored and condemned"
the recent explosion in the 1900
block of Harvard street NV, dam
aging numerous residences in the
neighborhood, as threat to law
and order.". The resolution asks
that every effort be made to appre-
hend and punish the parties re-
sponsible.
Construction of the proposed Alb
bott Vocational School on the site
of the old tuberculosis Hospital was
opposed. The forum then reiterated
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Lincoln Memorial Draws
48, ia for Duy's Record

Sunday was the biggest day &,
record for the Lincoln Memorial.
Randle B. Truett, chief OF the
memorial section Of the Once Of
National Capital Parks. said today
that the number of visitors to the
Lincoln shrine reached an all time
high for . single day of 1924 and
an all time weekend high Saturday
and Sunday together) Of 90 e264.
The previous one-day high, Mr..
Truett said, was $4,000, registered
during the shrine convention in
1923. Previous weekend high was
approximately $4,000 during the
Same period.
Cherry blossoms" was his ex-
PLANTATION for the record total.
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Heidi Accepts Bid
For Dinner Dance

Horace Heidi, the band leader,
and several Of his featured enter.
tainers have accepted invitations 70
appear at the annual dinner-dance
to be held by the Young Democrats
OF Washington Saturday night at
the Willard Hotel.
The dinner, in honor Of Thomas
Jefferson, will have Attorney Gen.
eral Jackson as one Of the principal
speakers, with Senator Lee acting
as toastmaster.
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Archives Get lndion
Language RECORDINGS

A large collection Of unusual sound
recordings has been transferred by
the Bureau Of American Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution, to the Ma
tional Archives, James D. Preston,
assistant administrative secretary,
announced yesterday.
The collection includes more than
5000 recordings of Indian and
primitive songs and dialects gath
cred during the last half century
by ethnologists. Among the collec-
tors were Francis Densmore, John
P. Harrington and Francis La
Flesche.
The recordings are mostly cylin-
ders OF the old Edison and die
taphone type, Mr.. Preston said. In
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a former action asking that the
site be reserved for a new Wilson
Teachers College.
A resolution was adopted asking
that length of streetcar loading
zones on Fourteenth street between
Fairmont and Newton street be lin
tied to so feet each, in the belief
that traffic congestion will be less
ened in the large business area.
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spaulding, chairman Of the imam
cial campaign Of the orchestra.
The symphony abandoned plans
for next season after the controlling
organization was unable to agree
with the musicians on = new salary
scale. The final concert Of the
present season was given Sunday
afternoon.
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L streets NV, to consider items
for the 1942 school budget.
The board meets each year with
the delegates Of the various organi-
cations to consider needs, and then
meets again in the fall to report on
what items to include In the esti-
mates.
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cluded are some early examples Of
disc recordings made In 1894. One
recording is Of an address to Indians
made in 1915 by President Woodrow
Wilson, =:
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1912 School Budget
PorIey Set for April 29

The Board Of Education has an
nounced 1t would hold its annual
meeting with representatives OF
civic groups. April 20 at 8 pm. at
the Thomson School, Twelfth and
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
South Turns to Livestock

The South is destined to become one of
the outstanding livestock producing sections
of the country, especially with regard to
feeder cattle supply, according to H.. j. Sch
wietert, general agricultural agent of the l.
inois Central System, who has just complet-
ed an extensive survey. Also he reports he
finds Memphis now second in the nation III
the distribution of feeder pigs.
within the last ten years the Southern
farmer has turned to crop diversification, !"
said Mr.. Schwietert. Livestock has taken a
prominent place in an area that once built
its very existence around a cotton economy.
Because the South has soil, water and
Innate conditions that are conductive to
livestock raising, the Illinois Central has for
many years .fostered such a development. A
long grazing season is possible because OF
the mild winter months, and winter rough
age is easily provided by silage, soy bean
hay, lespedeza and other crops. Alfalfa,
which is one of the best roughages for beef
cattle, is grown in the South, and the use of
hybrid seed corn is increasing yields from ten
to twenty bushels an acre."
Eight years ago the railroad fostered the
South's first Fat Stock Show at Port Gibson,
Miss. Few of the 500 animals put on exhibit
then were of noticeably good quality. Now
adays Fat Stock Shows are held annually also
at other points, including Forest, Hatties-
burg, West Point and Como, and they assem-
BILE stock as fine as may be seen at the Inter-
DdtllOudl LlVeSIOCk CApOSlIiOH III OuiSoSO u
at the American Royal at Kansas City, ac-
cording to Mr.. Schwietert.
"There is no better way" he continued,
to put the South's idle acres to work than
raising cattle, hogs and sheep. Built into
good pastures, unused land in the South can
Craze enough cattle to increase the annual
farm income by hundreds of millions of dol
lars. And this can be done without disturb
ing the cotton program"
In the last two years., accord of Mr.. Sch
wietert, more than 5000 good purebred beef
bulls have been purchased by livestock rails
ers in Mississippi and Louisiana, and feeders
are being sold by the thousands throughout
the Mid-South. AS an instance he cited the
sale at Edwards, Miss, on October 2 of 1000
feeder calves of proved quality under the
auspices of the Kinds County Livestock As
ISOLATION.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
The Commodity Department

At least one farmer in a nearby COM
munity and adjoining county was in Durant
this week trying to sell some eggs. He said
that he had always carried his eggs to Kos
ciusko and had never before failed to sell
them but that he understood the commodity
department of the public welfare department
had unloaded a truck of eggs in the territory
and that the folks getting them had gone into
Kosciusko stores and sold them and got the
cash money for same.
We do not presume to know or say that
such a thing happened in our neighboring
town. But we do know that rumors have
persisted for some time along those lines in
connection with the distribution of commo-
dities in Attala and other counties through
out the state.
Such a thing whether it is true or not
should be thoroughly investigated and
brought to light. If it is not true the public
should be acquainted with the facts so that
undue criticism will not be heaped on those
persons whose duties it is to see that deserv-
ing people don't starve.
The affair in Attala county, whether
true or not is none of our business only in
that it might be true of our own county or
other counties in the State.
1t is not right that able-bodied persons
who are perfectly capable of making their
own living should get groceries at the ex-
rense CT the taxpayers of this country. Ger
tainly if those persons are taking the COM
modities they are getting and selling them
to stores they should be stopped at once.
Such persons do not deserve any help at all.
The affair should be investigated by
proper authorities at once. If Attala county
has been wronged in this connection we will
be only too glad to see these columns carry
a correction.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17

reservoir shall be filled with water.
On the other hand, if the dam is
valuable for flood control, it is con-
templated that the reservoir shall be
empty. l would not be misunderstood.
Dams can be used for both purpose,
but often it is unwise to provide that
dams be used for both purposes. If
the Sardis Dam were used for the
generation of power, it would mean
that it would have to be a constant
head of water for power, and there
would have to be an empty space
behind the dam to provide for floods.
Generally flood control and power
dams are incompatible. One requires
an empty reservoir; the other a full
reservoir.
l have anticipated you in urging
that national defense manufactures
be located in the interior. l want to
secure the location of as many of
these plants in Mississippi as pos
sible. When time is of the essence
in the national defense program, ex-
listing facilities are being utilized
first. When new facilities are es-
ta~blished, they should be located in
the interior so as to be away from
foreign attacks. | will continue to
urge that wherever practicable such
facilities be located in Mississippi.
/ always enjoy the Durant News.
With personal regards, | am.
Very sincerely,
viii NJ. Wilmington
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Through HuzeI Eyes
CONTINUED from page one)

HSe>
Mr.. Dale knows whereof he speaks.
A character like Jimmy Arlington
who always manages to make every
body feel better and make them look
on the brighter side of things is a
treasure in any community.
n
There are a lot of housewives in
Durant and Lexington who got stung
by a travelling salesman this week.
He showed some beautiful down
comforts, SO they say, at a remark
ably price. One had only $500 to
pay down and the rest when the
comfort came.
tho,t ter ladies II DUra.lt and
we don't know how many in Lexing-
ton paid out their good money to
the fellow.
You know the story. It's been told
many times before. The man was a
fraud and there was nothing to the
deal. Just that much thrown away,
The moral, of course, is v to
trust one of those fellows. Regard
less of how nice they look and talk
there are too many of them that are
crooks. .
Some people will say that it's good
enough for people to get stung who
trade out of own. We won't say
that. Just leave it to your magma
ton. Sometimes experience is a
good teacher. But some people never
learn.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Builder of Cities

If a member of your family died, would
you print the resolutions ON a billboard?
If your wife entertained would you SEND
an account of it to the theatre program man!
If you were going to enlarge your bust
ness, would you advertise it in a hotel reg
isterY
If you were going to have a wedding IN
your family, would you get out a handful!
You would send such items to the news
paper, wouldn't you?
Then why don't you put your advertise
ment in a newspaper
The newspapers build your town. Why
not help the newspapers?
There is no better advertisement IN the
world for a town than a good newspaper.
Show us a good newspaper full of advertise
ing, and we will show you a good town, full
of live merchants.
Newspapers are town builders, town-ad-
vertisers, fortune makers, news-dlssemlna-
tors, sermon-deliverers, prosperlty-forcasters.
They are a necessity, not a luxury. They
must be maintained. Without them we
would retrograde to the medieval days.
Don't patronize them from a charitable
standpoint. Patronize them because they de-
liver the goods-that is, if they are the right
kind.
Cut out the foolishness and work for the
upbuilding of your town and start by up
building your newspaper-August Gazette.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
Registration Marks New Era

Peace time registration Wednesday
marked the beginning of a new era IN Amer
lea.
Today we are facing the knowledge that
we must be prepared to fight the armies OF
other nations if we are to keep our place In
the sun. We are recognizing the fact that
military regimes dominate the modern
world and a nation that is not strong enough
to cope with militaristic regimes might as
well retire from world leadership and assume
a passive, non-resistant attitude to Germany
Italy-Japan.
America does not mean to let the Axis
dominate the world, we say by our prepared
ness program. Whether we have started on
that program too late we cannot as yet say.
We can only pray that we have not.
At any rate by not being prepared TO
fight and having been made fully acquainted
with that fact through breath-taking cam
paigns in Europe we have technically stay
ed out of war to date. We can gamble on
future preparedness to keep us out OF war.
And we can pray that by the tim we arc
prepared to fight other nations of the world
will be completely war-weary. only tneh
will we nave peace :.
The ~selective draft service inaugurated
with registration of all men between the ages
of 81 and 35 on Wednesday is the first step
in building up the fighting strength OF our
country.
It is of the utmost Importance that the
laws governing the draft be administered
fairly and impartially, more fairly and i'm
partially than any laws have ever been en-
forced. AS long as the government is taking a
year of a mans life to use as it desires to
preserve our Democratic government it is
of the greatest Importance that all be treat
ed in the same manner. There Is not time
now for politics or favoritism in any form.
If politics is played then it will defeat the
very thing we are working for-tO save our
Democratic government.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Miss Hazel Brannon,
Durant, Mississippi.
naar Mice Rranonn.

% iAlLti
Durant, Mississippi.
Dear Miss Brannon:
| have read with much interest
your editorial entitled Dam Pos
sibilities" in the News of Thursday,
September &c, 1910. As you probably
know, | am the sponsor of the Sar-
dis Dam and of Flood Control works
along the Yazoo - T~allahatchie -
Coldwater River System, as well as
along the Big Black and other rivers.
F>- years l have promoted the con-
struction of the Sardis Dam.
In your editorial you state that
it is a shame for so much power to
go to waste when the government
is pouring millions of dollars into
,enlarging the IVA at Knoxville, and
that Mississippi Senators and Repre-
sentatives should do something about
it.
/ have advocated the generation OF
power wherever possible, along the
Tennessee River, a. Boulder Dam,
and elsewhere. There are two kinds
of dams. One is a dam for the dew
elopment of power, and the other is
a dam for the detention of flood
waters. Generally, a dam cannot be
used for both purposes. The develop
ment of power contemplates that the