The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-04-10
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Hazel Brannon

M~OHtlCtiioy mas aLITacLeu national a.
tention with a notice he put on the
front page of his paper recently.
The notice stated that he was
about to enter a New Orleans hos
pital for an operation and he had
found that after founding the Press
in 1888 he found himself only with
1857 in the bank. Loyal subscrib-
ers paid up 80 quickly that in a
short time he had plenty Of money
to pay for his operation and hospital
expenses.
We hope we aren't going to have
to undergo an operation in order To
get some of our good subscribers
to pay up their paper. Paper and ink
cost money as any reader knows
and we do the best We can to give
you, our readers, q paper interest
ing and worthwhile to read. You can
help a lot by keeping your subscrip-
ton in good shape.
Today the United States finds it.
self in the striking position of fight
ing Hitlerism and at the same time
counting the favor of Russia, lead
ing exponent of socialism and COM
munism in the world.
If the supreme purpose of Russia,
through its socialistic state. is to
achieve a world revolution, as has
been reported, then it seems that
Russia is going to achieve her world
revolution without having to do any
fighting for it.
With America now embroiled in
the European conflict and getting
more belligerent every day. the whole
world is literally in flame. Out OF
this conflagration is going to come
of a socialistic state than we
in America have ever dreamed. The
social purposes Of the New Dea.
will be nothing to the powers our
government will have in q few
months and throughout the duration
of the conflict. After the fighting
leases there will /be little step-down
in authority of our government. Once
the heads of government experience
the exhilirating effects of power it
is practically impossible to ever wrest
that power from them. Our govern
ment at the end of the first World
War was a maze of bureaus from
which we have never recovered /.
and we are still suffering from
that malady today.
/. The new world orderrthat we have
heard so much of from Hitler and
Stain and Mussolini has been con-
demned in America as mot for U.s."
We will fight unto death to maintain
The worlds status quo, or England's
balance Of power, which is the sta
us quo. Yet we people in America
for over eight years have been en-
a benevolent New DEAF in
government which has aimed at up
lifting the masses and taking care
of the little man, taking from those
who have and give to those who have
not. without regard for individual
worth, character or achievement. The
result has not been satisfactory at
all. We have found that some peo-
pie will just not be lifted up, that
instead of e~levating one group to
another rather we have brought the
middle group down to the lowest
group. We have found that no "a
mount of legislation nor gifts from a
bountiful government can do any
thing about human beings unless
they want to do something to help
themselves.
The U. S. government today med
dies in private business to the extent
that M business, however small, can
fail to feel the effects of such med
ding. Before long, if we continue
in the direction now headed, it will
be impossible for small businesses to
continue to operate. The results will
be widespread unemployment and
Increased government control. The
government will step in with more
works relief projects, more WPA,
and after a while it can easily come
about that practically everyone will
owe his job directly or indirectly to
the government. Look around you to-
day and put that measuring stick TO
your friends and see what inroads
the government has already made on
private enterprise. By applying this
test to your own community you can
see for yourself that the idea is by
no means fantastic or impossible.
We admire tremendously the stand
of that board in Georgia which said
it was putting all draftees in the
deferred class group until the gov
eminent does something about the
nationwide strikes that have ham
pered to an extent unsupported by
the public, our defense program.
An administration that continues
to cater, for political or any other
reasons, to one group as this ad-
ministration is catering to striking
laborers does not deserve the res