The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-02-26
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Hazel

ippi UOy In the Phil
lipplnes wrote his mother a letter
on December is which reached her
VIA Australia: "We were surnrisad
ina they had us before there was
supposed to be a war. Hope we pet
some help soon Equipment. / mean.
Don't saw my end Of the tabIe
off yet. Love, Lutte"
The boys and men in armed
forces are dutifully, cheerfuily and
uncomplaininsly doing tho very best
the can with what equipment and
support they have. They are fighting
not only Tor their" countrv. but
for our" country. As American
citizens every man, woman and child
should as a matter Of course do what
they can to r at home = faith
fuily as those soldiers, sailors. mar
ines, and airmen abroad.
Our men cannot fight without co.
uipment. They cannot fight forever
without reenforcements. They must
have support in the air for defense
or for offenss.
anybody or anything that stands
IN the way Of getting that eouip-
ment shouh be dealt with q severe
" - the soldier who refuses TO do
Mia duty.
Industrial produetien is a. neces-
sszy sterp vieteFy - tie nan in, mi.
form. The striker should not be tol-
erstsd fsf one. moment longer By the
American government.
Te tolerate strikes further 70 to
invite certain defeat.
To send men not fully equipped to
3lGA4 In the far-flung outposts Of :
Tho world. 70 send them without air .
support would be mass murder. .
We : praying that our govern !
ment will not permit such to be the !
case. 3
It is time for Congress to take :,
things into its " hands and enac. :,
Legislation that will not tolerate =
strikes any further until this war l.,
has been won. -
II seems certain that the Admin -
istration either cannot stop the a.
strikes or does not have the will to. ~;
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It will be interesting to see just ~;
which way India will turn her vast W.
and manpower in this war. p,.
With a population nearly three times NJ,
Of that Of the United States India an
Is in a position to play a tremen-
..m ' n-.n...-FD oy
promised India her freedom once be- w
when she persuaded her to
into the First World War on
I3ritain's side. This promise was not
Kept.
1t remains to be see if India 4
will again risk Britain's promises. QS
900
Those persons who are saying that
is "unpatriotic" to criticize the
no~n-fighting British are the same
persons who, before Pearl Harbor,
called anyone a "defeatist" vino said
that America was not prepared to
war on the Axis nations now
and should at least wait until it was 2
prepared before permitting itself to thei
become inundated. the
High ranking officials now arc ann
to admit to the people that me,
were not and are not prepared ers
even oeleha ourselves much less the
take the offensive until some future ont
date. r,r
In the interest Of the preservation dot,
Of this nation we hope those same eff,
high officials will try in some man. fin,
ner " Impress upon our allies the dep
DTilish lhae heither OF US VIII ever the
the war by fighting delaying 4
and executing ordeSly with roa
drawals. To win this war we must Tn,
fight. tho
And when We say 1--WE" we mean cor
the British as we'll as the U. S. mo-
hin
Walter Winchell, dirt-slinger de- hal
luxe, tells his readers to write their an,
asking that they use eff
heir influence to get Hollywood ac- en-,
,ors deferred from the draft. A gov
spokesman had told Win the
hell to tell Hollywood "We don't tuI
Clark Gable in any Army Air Corps. rio
We want Clark to stay on the screen Az
where he can do the most good" on
Labor leaders and union officials co,
ire getting preferential treatment ri,
rom their draft boards. an
One thing We need as much as CIV
.nything else is a Qualification of tn,
hose to be deferred because they III,
ire really needed in the war effort
It home. be
Movie actors, technical men, labor la
eaders and union officials are not Be
leeded to stay at home, according Nj
o our personal opinion. The young tai
armers, by the thousands, who are re.
icing called to leave their farms,
re probably of the ame opinion.
There are entirely too many per- e,
escaping the draft because of
ha fant that some lncal boards are III