The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-09-03

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Morrow, former ambassador to Mex
leo. A friend came up to him and
told him about a man who was ours
ing him to the skies. Morrow was
said to have replied "What has
that man got against me? ! never
did anything FOR him"
1t seems to us there are entirely
too many young men working for the
government who should be in Uncle
Sans army. Their jobs, for the most
part, seem to be that Of telling other
people how to run their business.
Most of them have never had a days
experience in their lives working in
or running the very businesses they
now seek to run under the guise of
government regulation. Few Of them
have ever met a payroll
All in all it looks like it is time
for Uncle Sam to run those nice
young men right into the army where
they belong and take them off The
necks of American businessmen who
are so harrassed now they haven't
time to attend to their business. Fol
lowing this idea still further most Of
these useless jobs could be abolished
without the country suffering.
There seems to be more concern
about morale at home and main
tanning the "home" front than con
cern about the real fighting front.
There is too much discussion of sac
rifiee' Of married men with children.
The seleetive service boards right
now are sending men into the service
who are too old to make good soldiers
and laying the groundwork at the
same time for the biggest pension
roll in the history of the world.
At the same time thousands upon
thousands of young married men with
and without children who would make
excellent soldiers are managing to
stay out of the draft.
Maintenance Of the home front and
family life is very admirable and
should be done if possible. But the
maintenance of an aggressive, fight
ing front is a great deal more to be
desired and necessary if we are to
r~aa1izp vicforv
When its Ill said and done the
married nan has more to fight for
than most sin le men, and should be
made to carr his share of the load.
The only Il ng that seems likely to
defeat Jim Eastland for the u. S.
Senate is an absence of his first
primary supporters from the polls at
the second primary election on Sep
TENDER 18th, If the persons who
voted for him during the first take
the trouble to go to TIL, polls and
vote in the second he Will be a hard
a for Senator Doxey to beat.
We personally have felt that Miss
issippi and the South need a cham
pion in the Senate who is not afraid
to speak out in meeting, a man who
thinks more of the state he repre-
SCENTS than he does of a lot of CON
ventions new senators are supposed
to observe.
Too, we have felt the need in
Washington, during the past two
years, of men who are something
more than eyes" men.
Jim Eastland may not be a cure
all or yet a Saviour. But he will
give us honest, good representation
in the U. S. Senate where he is bound.
There is a great deal of loose talk
in Washington and in the press about
initiation and ways to curb it. Mean
while prices continue to rise.
The eason prices continue to rise
can be laid ~squarely at Mr.. Roose-
velt's door. He has the full power
10 get what he wants in the way
Of wage and price control. He has
shown conclusively that he does not
wan any labor legislation and for
political reasons has maintained that
attitude until |ruinous initiation looms
on the horizon.
Our next door neighbor, Canada,
has shown that prices can be con-
trolled by enacting, at me beginning
of this war, curbs on everything in
GLIDING labor. As a result the price
of living has go1. down in Canada
while here in the United States it has
risen considerably.
Al Mr.. Roosevelt needs to do to
stop this increasing spiral in living
costs is to put ceiling on vverything
including ..hor. He wont stop it
until he doe.
1t is high time ne stops playing