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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22
vittoIy Book Drive
Seeks Books For
Armed Forces
Mrs. J. |. loaginotti
Duront Choirmon;
Cooperation Asked

A Victory Book Campaign" has
been launched to secure as many
good books as possible for the ma
tons armed forces. Mrs. ]. l.. Long
inotti is Durant chairman Of the
committee which seeks donations OF
books in this community.
Anyone having one or more books
which he or she will give is asked to
leave the donation at the library
here. II it is impossible to bring
books to the library someone will
pick the book up If the giver will
call Mrs. Longinotti.
Works Of fiction and non-fiction.
mystery and historical novels, bio
graphies, are especially desired. Only
books with good content are wanted.
Books which are whole but need re-
pairing will be gladly accepted as
they will be put in good condition
and used. Textbooks used in schools
are also wanted in large quantities.
II is hoped that ten million books
will be gathered in this campaign to
have good library in every train
ing camp in the nation. In this way q
certain amount of good, wholesome
recreation will be available to every
man in training.
Look over your library Of books
and see il there isn't volume or
two that you will spare SO that thou
sands of men in training can share
with you the value Of good reading
and study.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22
Mrs. Claude Bailey
Heads FDR Birthday
Drive In County
Community Choirmen
Are Named Today;
Cooperation Asked

Mrs. Claude Bailey, prominent
Lexington woman, has been named
Holmes county chairman of the Pre-
sident's Birthday Celebration COM
mittee this year and has named her
community hairmen as follows:
Lexington, Mrs. B. s. Beall, Jr.
Durant, Miss Hazel Brannon.
Goodman, Mrs. Hugh Cowsert, Jr'
West. Mrs. C. B. Cade.
Pickens, w. s. Owen.
Tchula, Mrs. Cal Purvis.
Acona, Mrs. M. j. Evans.
Cruger, Mrs. A. B. Archer and
Mrs. f. C. Flemming.
Coxburg Mrs. Lillian Hocutt.
Franklin, Miss Elizabeth Drennen'
Ebenezer, Mrs. John P. Lucas.
Thornton, Mrs. X. L. Peaster.
Oregon, Mrs. X. B. Edwards.
Chairmen for Mileston, Emory and
Howard will be announced by next
week, Mrs. Bailey said.
Colored chairN,en have been nam
ed in several of the schools: E. A.
Bingham, Mt. Olive School; Sylves-
ter Marshall, Mileston; L. A. Seals
Lexington; James Randall, Saint In
dustrial; G. w. Williams, Durant.
Events for the various communi'
ties will be PINNED and carried out
by the community chairmen together
with persons whom they ask to help
Each chairmen is asked to take 9
number of birthday cards which each
hold 10 dimes and get these cards
filled.
When the cards are filled the puO'
lie is asked to turn them back into
their community chairmen who viii
give them to Mrs. Bailey. One-hali
of all monies collected will be retain
ed in the county to aid victims Of
infantile paralysis in this county
The other half will 60 to the Nat.
iona. Foundation of Infantile Para
Continued on next pAge)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22
Workmen' S Comp tion
Law introduced In
Miss. Legislature
Mississippi Is Only
State In Nation
Without Low

JACKSON, Jan. 21.-- A work
mems compensation law, with liberal
provisions for those covered by it
and safeguarding their rights through
court administration of the act, has
been introduced in the House OF
Representatives. Enactment of the
measure would eliminate Mississippi
as the only state in the nation with
out such law for the benefit of
the working group.
A provision calls for attorneys
fees in contested cases, with the
scale of payments in such cases pro-
vided and ranging ten percent on re-
coveries of $4,000 or over and up to
twenty percent on recoveries of ST.
900 or less.
Exempt from provisions of the act
are employees of railroads or other
common carriers protected in fed
eral liability act, farm labor, domes-
tic employment, commission sales
men, employers with less than 8 en-
ployes or federal and state employees.
Principal contractors subject to
the act are liable for compensation
TO employees injured while in the en-
ploy of sub-contractors.
In addition to SIS percent of the
weekly earnings, injured workers are
given disqualification benefits up to
$500 for six months. The maximum
death payment, is $1,000.
Total disability payments run for
8 years and carry so percent of the
weekly earnings, while temporary to-
tai disability claims are paid on the
same so percent basis for $50 weeks.
Temporary partial disability pay
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22
EasI|and Tells Durant Roiarians That South's
Poverty Is Man. Made That We Must Get
Justice In Peace After The War Is Over
EustIond Bunkheod Bill
Will Help Offset
Protective Toriff

If the southern farmer had the
same protection afforded the eastern
manufacturer we would need fifty
million additional acres of cotton to
supply the world demand. Sen. J.
O. Eastland told members Of the
Durant Rotary Club in an address
Tuesday. (Na rs
In addition thirty million more
hogs veral.million. beef cattle and
dairy cows would. be needed to sup
ply the American demand for meats,
butterfats and the like, the Ruleville
planter who served ninety days in
the U. s. Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Senator Pat
Harrison. stated.
Before the war the south was fac
ed with the fact that more cotton was
being used by the world than ever be-
fore but we were selling less than
ever before because of the high pro-
tective tariff saddled on US at tho
close Of the War Between the States
and continued for the past hundred
years. In 1880 the tariff was in
creased even higher.
"The south must secure justice at
the peace conference that fellows
this war;" Senator Eastland said.
"There are more sons of the south
in the airforce which is going to win
! this war than any other section OF
the country. We must see to It that
they get justice"
The Senator said that the south
has more resources than any other
section Of its size and yet it is the
poorest, has the lowest income in
the U. S. and Mississippi has the
lowest income in the south. We
could be and should be the richest
section Of the country were II not
Tor artificial man-made barriers that
keep US from being.
There is now pending before the
agricultural committee Of the Sensse
a bill written by Senator's Eastland
and Bankhead (Ala.) which will par
TALLY offset the enormous tribute OF
500 million dollars exacted from the
agricultural people of the south and
west for the benefit of the manu-
facturers.
This bill calls for allowing foreign
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22

the nations force of workers in
war industries must be doubled or
tripled, more women must be train
ed and brought into the labor force
to take the place of men going into
the armed services. He asked en-
ployers not to bar aliens in war in
dustries except in plants turning
our secret weapons.
Director Odlum of the OPM Con-
tract Distribution Division said q
plan has been prepared to set aside
Continued ON page five)
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22
A Week OF The War

The President established a War
Production Board headed by Donald
M. Nelson, former mail-order firm
executive and more recently Execu-
tive Director of SPAB and Priori-
ties Director. The President directed
Mr.. Nelson to Exercise general dir
eetion over the war procurement
and production program" to sGper-
wise the OPM and issue production
and procurement directives where
necessary to all other Government
agencies. The President said Mr..
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22

Nelson's decisions shall be final.
Vice President Wallace and other
members of the SPAB, now abolish
ed, were made members of the War
Production Board
In letter, JPN Directors Knud-
sen ard l4s-l an and other rroduc-
ton offiicals, Mr. Ne oa 4; I'VE
rust enlafge al In IRE ious ac-
tivities all our faculties
must produce "a hours day, 1853
hours a week OpM Director Hill
man, speaking in Washington, said
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22

Rev. f. S. Lewis was West visi-
tor Tuesday morning where he spoke
to the school assembly.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22

The u. s. ID capable OF producing
more than all other nations Of the
world put together, Sen. Eastland
said. We control over one-half of the
total industrial production of the
world. Even though japan gets con-
troll of all Asis she will be capable
only Of producing one-ninth of what
we can
The war will last as long as it
takes to get airplanes to Japan, Sena-
tor Eastlnd believes. She will be
whipped as soon as America solves
the problem of getting materials
where thy are needed. he said.
---oOo--
The facts presented about the
souths economic position and causes
for it together with few remedies
offered by Senator Eastland in his
speech have been preached by this
writer for over five years in this
newspaper.
Until all the so-called intelligent
people have courage enough to know
our problems and try to effect a
solution we are going to remain right
where we are. And we're still go
ing to be the poorest state in the
poorest section of the United States
Senator Eastland, in his reasoning
and actions to date, we think is de-
finitely on the right track and we
are with him in that respect at least
one-hundred percent. More about this
next week.
o.
Mississippi is getting up in the
world in one respect at least. Sena-
tor Bilbo has chauffeur whose wife
is no less than the cook at the White
House. The Man says his chauffeur
eats more meals at the White House
than does the President.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-01-22
THROUGH
n A z E [
E Y & S
.
BY
Hazel Brannou

The late Senator Pat Harrison was
the most influential and best loved
member of the U. s. Senate, said
Senator J. o. Eastland, Ruleville
planter. who was appointed by, Gov.
Johnson to fiji the vacancy caused BY
Senator Harrison's death. Senator
Eastlahd spoke to members Of the
Durant Rotary club and number Of
invited guests here Tuesday.
Another interesting statement
made by the Senator was that, the
desk occupied by Jefferson Davis In
the Senate was the most soughtaftcr
desk in the chamber. Representatives
in eastern states have been known to
prefer it to desks occupied by pro-
minent men Of their own state. Two
representatives from eastern states
practically had fuss over the desk
which ended by Senator Willard Ty-
dings of Maryland getting IL.
The desk has two holes in it
which are said to havs been caused
by the thrust Of a Union soldiers
bayonet. The name Jefferson Davis
is inscribed ON the desk With the date
1851" barely legibls. The reputation
Of Jefferson Davis today ID greater
in the u. 8. Senate than II is in Mis-
sissippi. Senator Eastland said.
900
Speaking briefly Of the war Sena-
tor Eastland said Japan declared war
on Us because Of pressure from Hit
Ter. The Flow Of materials and ar
manents which We were beginning to
send to England in spite of strikes
was beginning to be felt by Hitler,
he said. Our aid to England had al
ready cost him air-supremacy in Az
rica and he was desperate to stop
our aid to England Involvement with
Japan was his solution to stop US.
Japan IL an island about the size
Of the state Of Montana with popu-
lation Of seventy million people in
Japan proper, the speaker stated
She has no resources whatever hav-
ing to import everything she uses
Ten years ago she started campaign
Of pillaging instead Of buying, ne
said. Most Of her materials had ia
come from either the western hemis-
phere or southern Asis. The United
States controlling the Panama Canal
and Great Britain controlling Singa-
pore had her cut off from all avail
able supplies. Thus she was and Is in
I position where she has to import
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

YOU CAN HELP your country win
the war, right in your oaOn hoanei It's
simple! Just come to our office and
enroll In the Home Vo1unteersI
Already, millions of American
women have Joined this patriotic
movement, in order to cooperate fully
with the Government in its National
Nutrition and Home Conservation
Programs. Do your part! Come in
today and sign the Consumers Vic
tory Pledge: IT will buy carefully.
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

twill take good care Of the things
I have" 81 will waste nothing"
When you sign this pledge. you
automatically become a Home Vol
unteer. You receive, without charge,
a red-white-and-blue membership
button and a handsome membership
card. They entitle you to free book
let's containing practical suggestions
for saving money, food and time, for
preparing nutritious meals, and for
conserving gas and appliancesi
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

One Of the popular credit houses,
downtown, called up, G. c. and
wanted some information about one
of your subscribers. I was glad to
give it to them for that particular
subscriber was AL in my books.
That meant that she kept her word.
Did l do right, in recommending
her, G. G?
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06
I remember C. c. one of the first

I remember C. c. one of the first
breaks" / got in the Journalists
game occurred about that time. /
was doing special feature work on
a daily white paper in Edmonton
The Edmonton Daily Capitol-and
the immigration authorities stop
ped trainloads Of emigrants from
Oklahoma and Whereabouts, at En-
erson-Noyes-the boundary line n
wouldn't let them enter Canada.
My paper sent me there to cover
the story. l covered it and the
Canadian Associated Press used it
throughout Canada. Later, Nc
Leans Magazine picked it UP and
had me write a special feature art
icle on it. That really gave me a
break in Canadian journalism. That
was years ago.. however. So many
years g that I am ashamed to adj
NIT it.
Continued on page sy73l
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

Of facilities" The Red Cross re-
mains in control Of emergency re-
lief in all disasters not caused by
enemy attack. e., by flood, fire,
accident or sabotage-and will be
accorded support of governmental
agencies in these emergencies.
The agreement, Director Scholrz
explained, provides that during an
enemy attack and in the emerg-
ency period Immediately following,
all services for persons in the dis
aster area shall be directed from
the control center of the command
err of the local Citizens Defense
Corps, and that care of injured shall
be under direction of the chief of .le
defense corps emergency medical
service. Emergency medical servic-
es include operation of first aid
posts, stretcher teams and ambul-
ances.
Civilian defense council are furtn-
er instructed that Red Cross facil-
tiles for providing food, clothing ami
temporary shelter for disaster We
tins will be placed at disposal of the
| councils, in case of enemy attack
and that the defense corps comman-
der shall be responsible for directing
| operation Of these facilities. Red
Cross workers serving in these
functions will be registered as Civ
ilian Defense volunteers.
Defense councils are being warm
cd by Director Sholtz against dupli-
eating the emergency housing, feed
ing and clothing relief services OF
the Red Cross. He announced that
in communities where defense conn
ellis have set up similar facilities,
these facilities should be coordinat-
ed with the Red Cross or consolidat-
ed with the Red Cross service and
other available public welfare emer.
gency services.
The Red Cross-OCD agreement 81
control of emergency services, he
emphasized, specifically applies only
to enemy attack emergencies and
does not disturb the primary func-
lions of the Red Cross.
The Red Cross will continue the
recruiting and training of nurses
aides, the providing of dressings and
bandages and the equipping of am
balances for the emergency medical
service division of civilian defense.
1t will continue, also, its training
courses in first aid for civilian de-
Tense volunteers assigned to the en-
Urgency medical division or to other
defense posts.
After an emergency period follow
ing a disaster, resulting either from
enemy attack or from other causes,
relief operations will be taken over
by the Federal Security Administra-
ton and the Office of Defense
Health and Welfare Services and
will be carried OIL with federal funds.
Local communities and the Red
Cross are thus called upon to bear
disaster relief expenses only fol
limited periods.
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

Omaha, are being notified that their
Citizen Defense Corps organizations
have been made solely responsible
for control of all defense services
called into action as a result of er-
envy air raids or other enemy attack
it is announced by Joseph D.. Scholtz
regional defense director.
This responsibility, he said, has
been definitely placed upon each
local Citizens Defense Corps under
an OCD-Red Cross agreement which
clarifies war emergency functions Of
civilian defense and Red Cross work
ers for purposes of securing unity
Of action and avoiding duplication
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06
A MESSAGE TO
CONTINUED from page u
so I shall skip over them.
CEN

AS I walk around these streets, C.
c. and you know I do walk around
them from morning to night, 1 am
becoming to be quite a character.
People recognize me and they hail
me, offering some bit Of news, or
asking some questions about news
matters that they think I should
know. Let me scratch this thing 1
call a brain and see what 1 can re-
cell for the past week.
CON-
Someone asked me how DIR. Len
nox was getting along. I told them
that I thought he was doing nicely.
AS a matter of fact, G. c. I didn't
even know who DIR. Lennox was. /
hadn't even heard of him. That's
excusable for a person only having
been in Omaha for a few weeks,
isn't it, c. C? Anyway when 1 got
back to the office I checked up and
called Mrs. Lennox and 1 learned
that the Doctor was taken seriously
i'll and had to go to the hospital fer
a hurried operation. Just before
wrote this l again phoned Mrs. Len
nox and she said the doctor was
resting fairly right now.
-CCM-
Before I forget it, C. c. let me tell
you about the most amusing incl
; dent that has happened to me since
my arrival in Omaha. You know,
&c. G. one of my worst faults, if a
1 fault it is, is in being precise. Well
a young lady, you know her, sold ms
a ticket to a statewide musical anC
she told me that it would commence
at promptly 500 o'clock. Naturally
I accepted her word and contemp
lated on being there-the Pilgrim
Baptist Church, 1920 North 25rl
Street, at the exact hour.
You know how it is, G. c. 1 have
to go around in the evenings to try
to catch these people whom I can't
catch in the day and it was rather
late when I got back to the house
to clean up and change clothes.
I rushed across the street to the
taxi stand and every taxi was en-.
gagged. I pulled out my press carl
that was given to me by the Writers
Guild, back East, of which Mrs
Frenklin ID. Roosevelt, is honorary
| cheirman, and which I had never
used in Omaha before, and made al
impressive showing of an eme~
gency, and as the result some other
people a to wait but / got a taxi
Immediately. I was whisked to the
church. I was SO afraid I would be
late. And lateness to me, accord.
ing to my peculiar religion is sac.
religious. On arrival at the church
I saw a number of people standing
around outside. My heart sank. ]
was too late. There seemed to be III
overflow audience, for quite a mum.
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

industriously in her garden simply
because she loves gardens, flowers,
and kindred spirits so well. Who
am / to say differently? From nov
on Maize is a pure-D h~orticultur-
ist in my book.
When Mrs. David Finney, 2OI6
North 22nd Street, recently returned
from a two weeks visit to relatives
in Des Moines. Iowa, she brought
back her little cousin, Bevely tho
r pleased Roland with her.
CEN
1 learned when calling upon Mrs.
g. G. Reynolds, 1881 Miami Street.
that she is exceedingly proud be-
cause her son, Clarence Reynolds,
Jr., IL, is graduating from the Cen
trail High School, and that her IA
year old son, Everett Reynolds is
graduating from the Howard Ken
nedy School, and will enter the Tech
High newt year. The Reynolds are
expecting to move from Miami
Street during the next week.
cen
G. c. did you know that the Jen-
kins' We're celebrating their fortieth
wedding anniversary q ~believe)?
You must know all about it, and a
bout them. 1. of course, don't, for
having been here just five weeks l
haven't begun to get acquainted.
Anyway, Mrs. Jessie Hilton, 2403
North 22nd Street was telling me
that she was n of the co-hostess-
es who entertained out-of-town
guests who came to the anniversary
They were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Zeke Jenkins of Chi
cago; Mrs. Verde Foreman, of Chi
cago; Mr.. and Mrs. Mimms, of Kan
sas City, and others.
The massive dinner was given al
the residence Of Mrs. Ida Artison,
1916 Hamilton Street, and the spon-
soring hostesses besides Mrs. Hill
ton were, Mrs. Ida Artison; Mrs.
Flora Greer, Mrs. Varna Harold,
and Mrs. Edith Todd.
CEN
Mr.. and Mrs. Farmer, Poll Pa
rick Avenue. together with Mrs.
Farmers brothers, Lawrence and
Charles Tatum, recently visited
Brookfield and Tupplett, Missouri.
-CCM-
Can you see anything to get ex-
cited about over entertaining a little
nephew at a birthday party? Well,
Mrs. Dorothy Redden, 2709 Blonde
Street, was all agog when 1 met her
because she had just finished en-
teretaining little Bobby A. Nichol-
ason, six old, her nephew, at
a little birthday party.
@CCM-
Remember, c. G. last week when
I mentioned about my having lived
in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada? one
of your subscribers, Mrs. Ray Clay
ter, 2S16 Miami Street, stopped me
to talk about Edmonton. 1t seems
that she and her family have been
there several times. We talked of
the olden days when colored emf
grants first went to Western Can
ada.
The Omaha guide., 1942-06-06

OCD-RED CROSS AGREEMENT
MAKES CIVILIAN DEFENSE
COMMANDERS RESPONSIBLE
IN DISASTERS DUE TO
WAR ATTACKS
Civilian defense Councils of the
Seventh Defense Region, including
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-19

equipped TO enter the parlor until.
in addition To its bath and robe.
its nails had been manicured. it's
teeth brushed and polished and
earrings set in the glamourized
GROWERS ears.
In Chicago there were spe-
cialists with whole suites of
offices, who did nothing but
manicure the pups and give their
molars a massage Soft cushions
of satin were furnished in the
waiting rooms so the four-legged
customers could be comfortable
while awaiting their treatment.
One common Chicago story
dealt with Mrs. Marshall Field,
who, in the early 1900's, had
silver Yorkshire terrier which re-
quired the exclusive services Of
French maid. The animal even
had house of its own, furnished
with a diminutive brass bed.
On the terriers tiny bed was
n mattress of the softest down.
as well as snow-white linen
sheets and pink silk comforter.
The pup boosted a complete
wardrobe, including a number of
night gowns of pale pink silk, ate
from a silver dish and drank
from a hand-wrought silver bowl.
Besides the men who doll up
these pampered pups there are
others who devote themselves to
keeping them healthy. Veteri-
narians are no novelty these
days, but canine dentists are.
Not so long ago, one of them.
a Or. William II. Dohm, opened
up-to-date offices in New York
City exclusively for the care of
canine teeth. Or. Dohm had
started out as a veterinarian but
soon saw that his dog patients
stood in as great need of teeth
care as did their masters.
He determined to go in for the
pulling, filing. Strengthening and
cleaning of canine teeth and
opened up such an office just for
that purpose.