The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-03-05
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BY
Hazel Brannon

for her life. Make no mistake about
that. We are hated by the axis as no
other nation is hated. But for Am
erican interference Hitler could have
gone on without stopping until he
held everything on the European
continent and disposed of England.
But Americas President would not
permit that to happen. By his fire.
qucnt speeches on the air and heard
by the people of all lands he let tie
world know that America was going
to give every bit of aid to England
and China possible. He called for
lend-lease, legislation which one
short year before would not have
been sanctioned, and it was granted.
He called for America to be the
arsenal of Democracy" and such we
have become except for a few
thousand strikers who are more in
terested in money than ideals.
Had it not been for the Americas
policy Of aiding China she would have
gone down ysars ago. Japan could
have gone on and gotten anything
she wanted from China because
China would have had no arms.
America wants no lands or ma
terial gains out of this war. We are
fighting the wal only because We
were attacked and for the liberia
ton Of other people in other lands
so that they may be free and
enjoy all the material things that
America enjoys.
Thousands of American boys have
already died at Pearl Harbor and
in fighting. Thousands more, per-
haps hundreds Of thousands more,
will die before this terrible struggle
is over.
The struggle will not be over until
American troops together with all
possible aid from Australia and the
fighting Dutch have taken back ev-
cry rich island possession of the
Dutch and British in the Pacific .
and turned them back to their ow-
ners.
The struggle will not be over in
Europe until Russia has whipped
Hitler until the balance of
power has been restored on the
continent.
Then after we have restored the
status quo exactly like it was before
this world war we will see what
happens at the peace table. 1t re-
mains to be seen whose voice will ha
heard there.
One thing certain America will
not ask anything at the peace.
In January there were AZ strikes
in war production plants in the Unit
ed States involving 1852 men and
a loss of 66,976 man-hours labor.
In February the strikes were in
creased to 76 involving 70,905 men
and a loss of 2,028,82 hours of
production.
Over the world American men are
fighting and dying with insufficient
equipment. If given the proper eq-
uipment and the necessary airpower
they would have a chance to hit
back at the enemy, take the often
sive, md bring about the erd OF .his
conflict.
Every plane, gun and tank made
now means a great deal more the
same weapon next year, If our
troops cannot hold somewhere there
will be no place to fight from in
the fun ure.
Still there is no indication that the
President and Congress will take any
measures any time soon to put an
end to the quarrels between unions
and other minor disputes that cause
strikes at this tragic time.
The present attitude of the Pre-
sident and Congress toward labor
unions has done more to make the
people of this country distrust the
New Deal than any other single
thing. The people are sick and dis
gusted with Congress and the Pre-
.sident in this respect.
To a vote conscious Congress and
to the New Deal We say:
The loved ones of the two million
men in our armed. forces and their
friends form a far greater represen-
tative group of the American peo-
pie and a much larger block of vot-
ers than do the ~racketeering leaders
of labor and their stalwarts-
900
Whyte Whitaker in his Grenada
County Weekly rightly points out
that ~rationing tires may be a bless
ing in disguise for the small town
store and shopkeeper. Only a yer!
foolish person would drive 200 miles
now to buy a few nic-nacs' ne says
This change presents a COLDER
opportunity for the small town mer'
chant.
"Some will capitalize on it. Others
will not. If home town merchants
meet the new situation and strive
to give service, quality MERCHANDISE
and keep up their stock of merchan
disc. hometown 81 Jpers may be ro
+Iy yvaanad from tn G. me-