The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-08-05

HAZEL
EYES
BY Hazel Brannon


Mississippi voters will have a chance
TO choose between two good men for
governor in the August Gath runoff
primary election.
Both Mike Conner and Tom Bailey
have made good records in public office.
Both are a credit to the state and south.
We can expect q clean campaign in
the runoff because neither man is q
mudslineer. Both are men Of character
and ability.
Perhaps the two men chosen in the
governors race is an indication that a
new era has dawned in Mississippi poll
tics. Maybe the day has gone when
red-necked demagogues can travel up
and down the state appealing to the
~prejudices and ignorance Of a certain
type of voters; arraying class against
class and race against race. We hope
SO at least.
The hard part about the runoff will
be getting the people to vote. Since
both candidates are good men people
are apt to forget to 60 to the polls. This
will work 4 real hardship on Conner
because he has more political enemies
than Bailey having served a. governor
before.
Bailey's supporters are pretty sure
to 20 to the polls along with all Mikes
political enemies.
At least this race will be interesting
a 49, "a 10y ~ = u~rnnaion kotuuoon
ono man who proclaims himself "the
only true representative and champion
Of the plain, common people," and
another who is supposed to represent the
vested interests and thus something to
be avoided as the smallpox.
We are sick Of the d~emagogue who
talks about the great mass Of common
people and we believe most other folks
are. Most of us like to think we're
q little better thap just ordinary
whether we are or not.
Every day in almost every way the
vice-President is becoming more obnox-
ious. Every time he opens his mouth
practically, or perhaps we should say
practically every time he opens his
mouth, he puts his foot in 1t. We amend
our statement because no one has ever
accused Mr.. Wallace Of speaking prac-
tically, or thinking practically, for that
matter.
At Des Moines In q speech this week
Mr.. Wallace Is quoted as saying he was
"iust itching to get into the fight for
q domestic policy Of 'all-out production
after the war;" He predicted a fight be-
tween the administration on the side
Of labor and agriculture against the
corporations which he accused OF seek
ing a return to a capitalism OF
scarcity"
"We're going to have a glorious fight
he said, "and the sooner it comes and
the hotter it gets, the better Mr..
Wallace sounds more like a small boy
talking about q baseball game than a
man who ranks second in these United
States and a maj who, God help us,
would become president If anything ever
happened to Mr.. Roosevelt.
What Mr.. Wallace prattles about in
his many trips over the country, out
Eleanoring Eleanor, would be ignored if
Il were not for the fact that his trips
and his speeches obviously are approved
by the President or he would not permit
them.
How Mr.. Roosevelt can demand unity
on the home front from the people and
continue to let Mr.. Wallace continue his
rawlings is more than WI can make out.
There seems to be no other conclusion
the people can draw except that Mr..
Roosevelt intends to use every vestige
OF his power to destroy corporations
and business in the country . which.
Of course, would mean substituting a
brand Of state socialism fer the American
system Of free enterprise.
It is high time the corporations and
big business get busy and do something
about this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
undermining business among the people.
Interpretations and big business are
well aware of the program. II they
are so stupid they cannot evolve some
thing to offest it then they deserve the
good beating they are getting at the
hands Of the New Deal.
An ms dispatch from London says
Italian schools will be purged Of all
textbooks that include the Fascist de-
cades in their histories of Italy. A
decree has been issued banning all text
books that discuss events from 1918 to
1913, 1t said.
This turn Of events is as bad in it's
as Mussolini and is certainly
no solution to the problems the Allies
are trying to solve in Italy. Nor does
it resemble the brand Of democracy the
Allies are trying to make possible in the
enemy countries and the world.
The Fascist decade in Italian history
should remain a blot on the honor of
Italy so that future generations will
have the knowledge of the dangers of
Fascism and the price the people pay