The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-09-25
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of the most dastardly crimes ever
to be committed against a city. A
strike Of electrical workers, coming
without ~noticeNof any kind and over
q question of u~nimportance, caused
q great city to be plunged in dark
e $ and threatened the lives and
security Of all its inhabitants.
Particularly distressing was the
case of the small child in an iron
lung making . desperate struggle for
its life. When the electric current
went off the iron lung ceased TO
function. The nurses, by artificial
methods m~iraculously kept the tiny
spark of life alive until a substitute
fuel could be found.
People in the United States are
rapidly losing patience with an ad-
ministration that continues to play
ball with labor, thinking its own pres
tge will be enough to keep labor in
line and not do too much damage.
The truth Of the matter is the few
leaders of organized labor who hold
in their hands such vast powers have
no respect for the administration or
any other person or thing that stands
in their way to secure more patronage
and more power.
We believe the laboring man him
self, II he is a good American, cannot
condone the tactics now being en-
ployed by inscriptions labor leaders.
It is time to outlaw strikes. If
American prestige is to be maintain
ed we must produce munitions and
produce them quicker than we have
done anything to date. Our Pre-
sident has said we are the arsenal
Of Democracy"
What we've done and even what
we plan to do is only a drop in the
bucket compared to what must be
done II Hitler is ever to be defeated.
And we don't mean a one gallon
bucket, either.
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Add to the list Of the things we
are very much tired Of: The spectacle
of all Mr.. Roosevelt's highly paid
officials and stooges going all over
the country (t government ex-
pense) making speeches to the peo-
pie about the necessity Of this coun-
try going into the war.
There seems to be a frame-up
against the American people. Ev-
erywhere We 60 and everything we
hear is the UNITED States must go
to war;"
Particularly disgusting is the state
ment of Postmaster General Frank
G. Walker at French Lick Springs, In
diana, to members Of the Democratic
Editorial Association Of Indiana:
I'VE did not wish war-we do not
wish war-but we know now that the
war is upon u.s." he said. at is upon
US through the necessity of defense.
I'VE did not go out to meet it, but
like a hurricane it has swept over
the seas, challenging our freedom.
Jeopardizing our nation and soon,
our individual lives
x ever a nation has gone out and
asl ed for war the United States
has. Whether it is the desire of the
American people to go to war o. not
is b.side the point. The PRECEDENT, re-
presenting the people, has asked re-
peatedly ior measures that dir ectly
lead to n and each time the Con-
gress grants him such powers or such
monies as he asks.
Congress is now relegatad to a
body that believes in fairy tales. Con-
gressmen protest our entry into a
war yet they have not the backbone
to stand up and refuse a pro-war
administration anything it asks for.
It makes one question the wisdom Of
people governing themselves.
Everything we hear from the Lou
isiana warfront indicates that the
31st Dixie Division is tops in the U.
s. Third Army of which it is a
part. Our Mississippi boys form
ing the Hath Field Artillery and the
155th Infantry are an important part
OF that Dixie Division. Every indica-
tons is that the Dixie is ready for
combat action.
1t is nice to know that u W
Gear boys will be among the frs.
to die for dear ole Britain if and
when the United States launches an
American Expeditionary force on
the continent of Europe.
Do you know anyone who honestly
believes Britain will EVER defeat
Hitler without invading successfully
the continent or who thinks she
will invade the continent without an
AEF?
900
We heard one man say today that
Britain was certainly sitting pretty
so far . with Russia fighting the
war on one side and the United
States paying for it on the other
and in the middle we're the British
mourning about what a hard time we
are having"
Another man said he was tired of