The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-10-17
THROUGH
HAZE
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BY
Hazel Brannon


program OF compulsory military ram
inging for young men and boys in
school to see that they get their
years, training Immediately after
completing school.
This program should supplement
the selective draft service SO that
all men coming of age could get their
training behind them at once. In ad-
dition to this feature they would re-
ceive the training when they would
benefit most from it.
II works a hardship and entails
real sacrifice or young men who have
jobs or who are practicing a profess
sion to be called into government
service after being out of college
three or four years. By that time
he has just been in the business or
professional world long enough to
get a toehold.
Certainly a supplementary com
pulsory military training program
should be carried out beginning in
i941 where boys finishing school IA
get the training at a time when they
need it most.
Attention National Cotton Council
at Memphis: For years American wo-
men have spent billions of dollars for
silk hosiery. Beautiful hose have
been developed from cotton and for
a while American women have been
induced to wear them. But the fash
ion never seems to stick.
America is Japan's biggest Gus
toner. If American women should
stop buying silk hosiery japan would
be ruined financially.
If the National Cotton Council a
sell America On cotton hosiery we
win be taking care of one Of our
biggest problems in the way of dis
posing of a surplus crop and at the
same time use the most powerful
weapon we have against Japan
stop buying from her.
Nylon hose have received a won
derful reception. The demand for
them is greater than can be filled.
But it win be years before enough
Of the yarn can be spun to supply
cur markets.
we see HO TtdSOu WY WYNN
couldn't step in and dominate the
American hosiery market at once.
We firmly believe that only under
the banner Of patriotism will a wo-
man never put on cotton hose as
long as she can obtain silk.
The National Cotton Council, we
are sure, could put on an advertis-
ing campaign that would sell any wc-
mar on the idea she was doing the
patriotic thing by wearing American
manufactured hose made from Ameri-
can grown cotton.
We are now cutting off Shipments
of scrap iron and steel to Japan af-
ter she has already obtained prac-
tically all we have in this country.
This seems akin to locking the BARN
door after the horse has been sto-
len.
A dispatch says that Princess Eli
zabeth, heir to the throne of Eng
land, is the first heir to study his
tory OF the American common
wealth.
II appears that the British, who
before have always looked down
their noses at we barbaric Ameri'
cans. see on which side their bread
is buttered. It's America, oil else
They have no other friends in the
world.
FROM the files of the Daily Clarion
Ledger ten years 9 We see this
note. "Durant-Weary after thret
days Of reunion the brave but feeble
army Of the Mississippi Division o.
United Confederate Veterans left
this afternoon. The Vets annua
meeting Just closing was one of th'
largest in attendance during recen'
years. Nearly $50 Veterans and thei
wives took part in the festivities"
II Is highly probable that these OLE
soldiers in their day could outfigh
and outdrink by at least q mile thei'
grsndsons Of today.
la fact at the last meeting Of veter
ans when the surviving Confederate
and Union soldiers met at Gettys
burg for a joint reunion. the whiske'
ran ou way ahead Of schedule and
government airplane had TO leave ant
r~eplenish the supply. Believe y O.
not.
Editor Joe Dale Of the Lawrence
County Press pays this eomplimen
90 Jimmy Arlington. widely know
editor o. the Collin News-Commercia
at Collins, Mississ ppi;
"As FOR himself. Jimmy has acaiey
ed considerable distinction in hrs owl
right. He Is the humorist Of the his
sissippl Press, and this, combined wit
a philosophy that hits the spot ha
given him almost a national reputa
ton as a speaker before RotariaT
Kiwanis clubs and numerous othe
organizations OF which he may q
may not be a member. IL real
makes M difference whether ne is