The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-07-31

rounds. Suddenly, ne came upon this
man in the ~darkening gloom OF the
empty office. Whipping out mis- gun,
the Waterman grimly demanded to
know what he has doing there. No
answer, Again the demand, but the
uniformed one just stared at the pic
ture. Finally the Waterman nabbed
him by the arm only to discover
il was made of wax. Now he is
asking himself which is the bigger
dummy.
-oOo-
Sometimes truth proves itself
stranger than fiction. The Museum
of Modern Art here ,swanky Rock
efeler emporium of funny-looking
modernistic pictures, recently an
nounced the winners in a nation
wide contest for the best national
defense poster. Out of 610 posters
entered with no names attached to
them--only numbers-two men each
won first and second in the two
main divisions. They were Joseph
Binder who won first prize in the
Air Corps group and John Atherton
who placed second, while in The
Defense Savings Stamps section, the
situation was exactly reversed with
Atherton first and Binder second
out of all those anonymously en-
tered. Everyone concerned was a.
mazed at the coincidence, including
the winners.
Visiting Gotham recently were
Dr. and Mrs. C. NJ. Waugh of Tarkio,
No. who were here for the first time
and got quite a kick out Of the big
i'v, but each from a different
angle. While she liked the perfumed
Fifth Avenue shops, he was interest
ed in seeing the Yarks beat The
Phillies and Joe DiMaggio get his
48th consecutive baseball hit. Both
the visitors, however, liked China
town, that small reminder of what
was once a teeming Oriental sec
ton of smoking dens and tong wars.
But the good doctor who once was
accustomed to seeing many old:ime
Chinese in Chicago was disappoint-
ed at the appearance of the moGern
local ones. Asked what he thought
of them after his visit, he shook
his head %mournfully and sand, Not
a single queue"
Young men nowadays may we'll
look with admiration at some of their
elders. Our fathers must have takeE
better care Of themselves, to judge
from recent physical examinations.
This week, % young men were put
to shame when just after they had
been rejected for the CCC. a TO-
year-old man stepped up and passed
the local exam. He is August Duben
and yesterday he left for a New
Jersey camp. Strong and blooming
with health, he is a veteran of the
Spanish-American and World wars
and attributes much of his fitness
to military training. Before joining,
ne was doing manual labor with all
the pep Of a 21-year-old. His part
ing remark to that e~nvious crowd was
You young fellows had better go
to bed at night, eat and exercise re-
gularly'"
W wonders Of this city for us
"out-oftawnersp are the subway
n elevated trains. At first exper-
fence with them, they seem to roar
n rush with all the terror of a
charlot from Mars but with con-
slant use they become monotonous
necessities. | prefer the old eleyat-
ed trains, those relics of another
day almost, which now are all gone
except the ones on Second and Third
avenues and these are to be shortly
torn down, Not soon will | forget
the present summer scenes from the
indoW of these els little green
garoens on top of parched tene-
hieht oots . small floc/ of pig
cons nestled in tiny top-houses and
cared Tor by people who hardly re-
what country birds look like
underclothing in f~lopping frank
ness hanging on looping lines to
dfy . children gaping from open
WINDOWS at the checkered panorama
old men ensconced in easy
chairs, lazily smoking pipes and
waiting for the day when tho last
wreath Of their smoke will curl nm
Wafd busy ome with cloths
tied around their heads cleaning
c,ats : unmade beds in unbeliev-
abe number greeting the midday
hardly clad persons moving ohliv;ous-
~ past their windows i. glimnses of
BEDROOMS, kitchens and hath in
dizzy procession occasional worL
shops with sweating workers bandino
over sewing machines a rou ~
flowers tidily perched on a window