The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-07
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BY
Hazel Brannon

and Colt Show which will be held in
Lexington on August 90. A larger
crowd than ever before is expected to
be on hand for the show which has
done as much as anything to promote
development of splendid stock pro-
gram for this county.
The Lexington Jaycees will again
sponsor Dig free barbecue in con-
nection with the Colt Show to which
all the people of the county are IN
vited.
One of the features Of the day will
be the rafting of 1O00-pourd
mare and 4-months old horse cot
Some lucky man, woman or child
will win this big prize. They may be
seen at Thurmond and Moore's Sta
BILE Tickets are only $1.0O and may
be purchased from any member Of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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The return of Secretary Of State
Cordell Hull to his post will be well
coined by the country at large. For
the past two months he has been i'll
and is now said TO be fully recovered.
The Tennessee statesman probably
is the most respected figure in the
Presidents cabinet To us he repre-
sents a check on too-radcal foreign
policy and it is to be hoped that his
ture statements from the State of
flee.
Cordell Hull is the highest type of
man we have in public office today.
We hope he will always command the
respect the people have for him by
remaining true to his own convic-
tions and making those convictions
felt in foreign policy.
If we had more men like Hull in
public office instead of the knoxes,
Stimsons, Ickes' and their like, the
nation as whole might be less fear
full of the policies we are pursuing.
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As Harry Hopkins, lease-lend ad-
ministrator for the President, sat in
Moscow air raid shelter 200 feet
below the surface of the earth in
conference with Joseph v. Stain,
we can imagine that he found him
self with kindred spirit
There is no man in American to.
day, more particularly man close
to the President. with more social"
ideas than Harry Hopkins. By any
well-informed Washingtonians he is
regarded "a an outright socialist.
He Is ore of the Presidents clos
est friends and advisors. He lives At
the White House.
AS head Of the WPA Hopkins spent
more money possibly than any gov
eminent official in the history Of our
country.
If he has ever made a success of
anything besides his friendship with
the President we have never been
informed of it.
In the New Deal" recovery days
he spent millions for the WPA. Now
ne is administrator for the billions we
are leasing and loaning" to Britain
;. the billions that are mortgaging
the existence and menacing the sec
urity of every future American citi-
zen.
Senator Barley is quoted today
on saying: Suggestions have been
made that if Senators want to fight,
they should go out and fight them
selves. Well, let me tell you, if we
went it wouldn't have any appreci-
able effort on the result"
We are certain the combined eff
forts of all the Senator'S and Repre-
sentatives would have no effect on
the result of any battle we might en-
gage in. But it would relieve the
country, temporarily at least, Of
Congress which is useless append
age to the country.
There is really no need to continue
with a Congress when it becomes a
rubber stamp While sometimes this
Congress may debate a little and not
give the President as speedy action
as he would like it eventually, and
in time, gives him everything he
asks for. Why not just do away with
Congress? 1t might cut the budget 4
little.
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For years we have written that the
best way TO serve the interest of the
southern farmer is to find new uses
for the fleecy staple that is his true
love.
Year e., year our farmers grow
more cotton than we can use or sell.
Year after year it piles up in our
warehouses and constitutes sur
plus problem which has never yet
been intelligently solved.
We know that unless the govern
ment goes completely socialistic it
cannot continue Indefinitely TO I'M
derwrite the security of the farmer
and the rest of the people. Sometime
we are going to have to ge. back to
the fundamental rule of supply and
demand FOR cotton as well as other