The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-05-08

THROUGH
HAZ E
Y
BY
Hazel Brannon
The real defeatists in America are

stand on our own feet, that we are
completely dependent on England il
we are not to feel the ruthless heel
of Hitler. They are saying that we as
a free nation are not capable of de-
Tending ourselves.
In the same breath these appeasers
say that it is going to take every bit
of help we can muster in order for
England to win the war, that she Is
fighting almost insurmountable odds
for victory and that we must help
her save her empire if we expect To
maintain our way of life.
Mr.. Roosevelt losses his head and
sticks his chin out very much in the
manner that we have seen Mussolini
do in the pictures. In an extremely
belligerent Mr.. Roosevelt
says the American people will fight.
Mr.. Willkie, the man now without
a party who is trying to pave the
road to his presidential aspirations
come mex election. roars: 1.-THE AM
eriean people are the strongest peo-
pie in the world"
All of such talk is nothing more
than hot air and an effort to promote
war hysteria among a nation of peo-
pie wherein eighty-one per cent still
rigidly maintain that it would be
suicide for us to send troops across
the Atlantic. 1t is an about effort
to stir up wal hatred n distrust
among our people. An effort has
been made by the administration and
its leaders to discredit every person
and organization that dares to OPP
pose its policies.
Surely that it not the American
way.
We must face the bitter fact that
it is the American way, the English
way. the German way, and the way
of every nation involved in war. war
breeds on hatred, corruption and in
tolerance. Any government that
saws we must engage in war with 9th
er nations to settle our differences
admits that it has failed in its duties
and responsibilities. Wars are fought
to remedy the mistakes of statesmen
who are usually no more than poll
ticians.
1t would be interesting if it were
not more a tragedy to see how long
American public opinion can with
stand the onslaught Of the attacks
being made against it in every con-
ceivable way 20 bring about war. II
it were not a matter in which the
lives of millions Of men are concern
ed it would be \ real study in gov
ernment-control of public thinking
Nothing Mr.. Roosevelt OF Mr.. Will
lkie or any of their cohorts can say
will make this country prepared to
fight. The words they speak over
the networks do not give US time to
train men, clothe them, put guns in
their hands and ammunition to
shoot.
S~peechmaking, regardless of how
~belligerent, does not alter the fact
that men armed with rifles do not
have "a chance against men with
tanks; that nations with an eight
year lead on rs in plane production.
cannot help but be better prepared
than we can possibly be for many,
many months.
Yet Mr.. Roosevelt bellows we will
fight.
With WHAT
Claude Pepper, Administration
ditto, yells we should declare war.
Senator Pepper, along with Florida's
Senator Andrews and CorGressmen
Green, and Brigadier General Sum-
ter L. Lowrey, high ranking National
Guard official claim a measure of
credit for securing Camp Blanding
FOR Florida.
Senator Peppers patriotism just
seems to be popping out all over
Since he is of the opinion that our
boys should go to Europe there is nc
earthly etcuse for his putting the
camp in Florida when it is an es-
thoAASiith idlb lial klalbiliiS NVoit IN
accomplished AT a much greater
speed almost anywhere else in tbs
United States. The only half in.
telligent eason ever advanced by any
official for placing the camp there
is that any invasion of the u, S
would probably come from South
America and would try to land In
Florida.
But since, according to Pepper, W.
are training our men to fight in Eu.
rope or any place else the Presiden'
tells them to, it does look like Flori
da politician would have foregon,
politics in the isserest of nationa
defense.
Pepper, if our readers remember
is the senator who thinks the pol
tax should be repealed by Mississippi
and o/.er southern states who hav,
Ill - IS