The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-03-26
System" Needs Aboi;sh;nq

system" Needs AboIishjnQ
M. w. Swartz, Indianola citisen, made a ringing de-
nuciation of the System" Americans are laboring under
now in their efforts to 60 about for anything that will
win the war quickly and speedily. The System that is
holding us down in our efforts has been produced by
politics and the system itself is producing ruin as Ameri-
ca continues to lose the war.
Mr.. Swartz, in a radio address on March IL over the
Greenville and Greenwood radio stations, had the fol-
lowing to say which should be read carefully by every
man and woman who cares enough about our country to
vote:
The President of the United States is the head of our
Constitutional Government. Into his hands we have plac-
ed the utmost power, our lives, our liberty, our all. It
is our duty to support him and give him our loyalty as
long as he is the President and so long as he discharges
the duties of the Presidency in conformity with the Con-
stitution which he has three tines solemnly sworn to sup
port and defend.
And this duty to the President is particularly incumbent
upon us in these times Of war. Slip here and the resistance
Of our people might be weakened and the war be lost.
But tn eSyste mi have spoken of is something else
again. And / believe, unless something makes vocal the
rising Indignation of the people against this System; un-
less someone tries, without further delay, to set the proper
forces into motion to ~straighten out the mess the nation
is now in, we are lost, our liberty has persisted and that
Hitler and the Japanese will conquer and enslave us.
"And it is because of this belief of mine that / speak to
you.
But what is this System I thus speak of and against?
"The System holds in light esteem the Constitution of
the United States which is the Magma Carta Of our lib
cTucS. lie SySLem Ill SCdIc cCLIOH lie OySr
tenn revives the p~rejudices of race. The system encourages
disorder in our economic structure. The System produces
inefficiency.
"The System thinks US dumb; chides us for lacking NOR
ale and then spends 100000 of our money to give us
Donald Duck to perk us up, and dancing masters at
$4,000 bucks a year to teach us how to dance.
1.-THE System thinks more of social gains than of nat
ional safety.
"The System clings, in spite of the terrible danger
facing us, to the forty hour week; time and half for over
time and double pay for holidays.
Because of this System we have no rubber for our
tires. Our cars are parked. Because of this System we
have rationed sugar; and the threat of rationed everything.
. Because of the System, business is drying up,-busi-
ness from which our taxes and our money must come to
smash the Japs and Hitler.
When we park our cars. do we complain? No, we do
not. We park them gladly. We will 60 hungry-naked-
joyously and with exultant heart, if only by our hunger
and our nakedness we out slap the Japs and Huns and
pin their ears back hard and fast.
What then do we complain of? We complain of the
System. Had the System been less interested in itself
and more in us, it would have prepared us for these dread
full days. Supplies of all kinds would have been purchased
and piled mountain high. We had the money to do this
with, but the System spent our money for wide publicity
in building itself up; on bureaus, on dancers, artists,
pensions and other wild extravagances.
And because the System has thus spent and wasted
our money, we are short of everything. We are short of
guns, OF tanks and ammunition for offensive action. We
cannot even send aid to Macarthur. Our boys are dying
because of the System. They are being buried far from
YIN WIdpPeus 70 W sure, al IHe SioTy IL lWper-
ishable renown. but covered also with the mists of the
fatal System.
1.-THE System, l repeat, must be abolished and the ma
ton saved"
Inc gentleman is not advocating an overthrow of our
present government by any means. He does advocate
abonshlng the present set-up or system we have in
Washington by constitutional means. That means elect
ing new Congressman in Washington in our November
election which are only eight months distanct.
Congress is responsible for letting the present system
grow to such monstrous proportions. Had it not COM
pletely abandoned its duties of protecting the rights of
the citizens of the country, had il not ceased its function
Of checking too much authority in one man as our Cons