The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-10-21
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
BY Hazel Brannon

The bill to provide $500, 10000 a year
in Federal grants TO public schools in
the South has apparently been killed.
Its sponsors say the amendment offered
by Sen. LANCER was responsible, costing
it Southern support. Sen. LANCER was
responsible for the broad antiracial dis
elimination provision in the amendment.
Educational leaders in the South know
that we cannot accept Federal aid from
the government for our schools with
out the Federal government demanding
something in return. This Something"
is liable to be anything from the New
Deal government which does not know
or understand real Southern people,
eithe white or black. We know there
is nothing too radical for the New Deal
to do in order to keep the negro vote
of the north. regardless of how many
white people 1t offends in the solid
South. We are well rid Of this aid.
One Dutch farmer has found a method
To evade the Nazi restrictions on the
sale Of fowl. He repeatedly advertised
in the lost and found column of his
local paper that he had lost a purse con-
tanning 100 guilders and offered as a
reward for its return one goose. The
next morning dozens Of people were
lined up outside his home with purses
which they offered for the reward"
We would like to call the attention
- n raadara ~ N afory Writtpu nv
Martha Rhyme, a former Lexington girl,
which appears on another page Of this
paper. Martha is now with the Washing
ton Post and her large circle of admiring
friends in Holmes county will be in
terested in the story for its content as
we'll as it's writer.
Martha's report of what the travelling
Senators had to say at the press con-
ference was both "on" and "off" the
record is important to us especially be-
cause it confirms our worst suspicious
regarding the conduct Of the war.
We can no longer ignore the fact that
American men and boys are shedding
their blood to regain the outposts of
the world from our enemies only to have
their buddies come along and see the
British jack go up and British diplomats
take over while America retires in the
background.
We personally have never been in
favor Of sacrificing American lives for
the British Empire. II the administra-
ton cannot see, to it that American
prestige Is maintained after our fight
ing men have paid for that prestige with
their lives, then it is time to change
administration.
If we are fighting this global war
only to save the British Empire, to help
il regain all its foreign possessions and
place it in q position to continue its
monopoly on world trade, then we are
surely cutting our own threats. We are
cutting the very foundation out from
under our own domestic economy on
which rests our representative govern
ment and democracy in America. We
are making sure that any government
America has in the future cannot exist
on its own but has to be fed by a social
istic government.
Americas whole democratic future
rests in being able to provide Jobs for
our returning servicemen, to keep en-
ployed those persons in America want
ing employment, to keep "off" relief.
Iii our government is going to let the
British resume their trade cartels and
continue to hold us up for rubber and
other needed materials we can rest
assured that same government will never
be able to solve the problem of jobs for
Americans except by a mammoth WPA.
We've had enough WPA.