The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-14

49, - t'AfF
that we could see was the smaller than
usual number Of musicians and singers.
Let Freedom Ring is worth your time
and money if you are thinking Of seeing
the Fair. There are two shows nightly,
at 1880 and 300.
Our travelling Senators have found in
their travels that while the United States
orns only about 25 per cent Of the
available oil we are furnishing sixty
90 per cent or more Of the supply in
the fighting; that while we are spend
ing billions Of dollars in building mag
~nificent airfields, airdromes, depots and
transfer stations we do not own a single
one Of these wonderful establishments.
Nor do we have any kind of lease on
them. Al a matter of fact we do not
sven have the right to USE them after
the war when we face competition
with the British of the ~stiffest kind
for air and trade.
A review of these facts is enough TO
make every sensible American indignant.
Our American men and boys are fight
ing daily on every front in the world
crusading for freedom and democracy
for all people everywhere. At the same
time those in high places of authority
handling Lend-iease operations have not
taken the trouble to protect the future
Of these men whose jobs and security
in the postwar world will be dependent
entirely upon the economic well-being
Of America, upon the jobs her business
can provide.
It is time that the administration
understands NOW that the American
people are fed up with giving and lend
ing and leasing our very future; that
it wakes up to the fact that when the
war is over England will be our worst
for business and that at the
rate she is going she will have every
over US.
II is unfortunate that We have
lot Of visionary ideatistic, leaders in
" Washington who live in the clouds. We
would be SO much better off IL we had
some practical minded, hard-boiled Amer
lean business men with real authority in
a few places where we need them most
men who are honest, fearless and
~ NChilAN ioohlib ohi "
interests.
Uncle Sam needs someone to look out
for his interests in Washington and in
tho world. The British have just about
taken Us over, lock stock and barrel.
This column has maintained from the
very beginning that while the Declare
ton Of Independence in l776 was the
greatest ocume ever to be conceived
and written by the people of the new
world House Resolution l776 tthe bill
which authorized Lend-Lease) nullified
our original Declaration of Independence
from the British crown and brought us
back into the fold as one of England's
colonies.
The operation Of Lend-Lease seems TO
be working out just that way. We are
furnishing the money, the goods, and
just as soon as we get enough MEN in
England the invasion across the chan.
mel will begin.
Mr.. Roosevelt shows where his heart
lays when he brands as a damned
nuisance" the views of the Senators who
visited the battlefronts and came back
with the truth regarding our position in
the war and the lack of cooperation by
our Allies. II is a nuisance undoubtedly
for the administration to be impeded in
its efforts to bring the Four Freedoms
to everyone in the world at the expense
of the American taxpayers.
Mr.. Churchill seems provoked with our
Senator's, too.
It is time for Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill to recognize that the American
people eventually wake up to what is
happening in this country of ours and
that when we do wake up we get things
done Also that the American people
are primarily concerned with OUR in
terests in this war that we are not
concerned with saving the broken down
aristocracy of England and Europe ex-
cept from a humanitarian standpoint.
We certainly aren't concerned with pro-
viding the more abundant life in Europe
and the world at a sacrifice of our
American standard of living.
Mr.. Churchill is entirely too cocky
to be criticizing our American Senators.
He should be reminded of the state
nent ne mad in the long ago: "Give
81 I