The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-07-22

HAZEL
EYES
BY Hazel Brannon

Some beautiful horses will De seen
in action at the big night show to be
held in Lexington Friday, August 18th,
in connection with the twelfth annual
livestock show of Holmes county OIL
that date, according to Henri Watson,
chairman of the livestock show.
Many entry blanks have been mailed
to owners of fine blooded horses in this
section n several have already in
dicated they will be present to show
their animals, Mr.. Watson said.
Every citizen Of Holmes county is
urged to make plans now to enter his
stock in the day show and also plan
to attend the night show.
Every livestock owner in the county
Is asked to get the premium list and
make his entries at an early date.
Indications are that the largest num-
Der of animals will be entered in this
show of any yet held.
The shows held in Holmes county
during the past eleven years have fos-
tered and encouraged the breeding and
growing Of fine work stock, dairy and
beef cattle, mares and colts. They have
been Of direct benefit to the entire
county in the educational and pro-
m~otional work they have accomplished
among the farmers Of the county.
Because the nation is at war and
fighting for its very existence we are
proud that the farmers of Holmes
county have shown themselves anxious
and willing to do Their part in the war
effort by growing better grades of beef
and other stock to produce the food
tina is necessary for victory. The ex-
tent Of their progress is shown from
year to year in these livestock shows.
So make your plans now to atted.
The Charleston. Is Co News and
Courier in a recent editorial says THE
thought or saying that the Electoral
College is a dead thing and that gov
eminent must be by two parties IL
nonsense"
"A stupid superstition has been inn
planted in the people that the elec-
toral college cannot be utilized except
to elect party nominees, and il is a
valuable superstition to ambitious poll
ticians. They encourage It,"
Most voters lose sight Of the fact
that Presidents are elected by states.
The people do not vote for president,
but presidential electors. The electors
can vote for any man they wish. The
electors do not represent sometimes
the majority of the American people,
did not representing majority in 1860.
1875, or 1912, as the Charleston paper
points out.
"The people of no state are bound
to instruct electors to vote for the can
didate Of a party or convention. TIL
people Of South Carolina can, if they
wish, organize a party and nominate
electors after the Republicans and Dem
ocrats have nominated candidates for
president in 1914. They can choose
electors instructed to vote for a man,
or a woman, not nominated by either
of the great parties.
"Fifty, a dozen, even one elector,
might stop a candidate of a great party
from receiving a majority in the Elec-
toral College. In that event, the elect
ion Of the president would be by the
house of representatives and the voting
would be by states"
The Constitution Of the United States
and the Electoral College were created
for the protection and defense of the
American people. They are both handy
weapons which any number of loyal
American citizens are bordering in
those p%erilous political days.
Clayton Rand in his Dixie Guide,
monthly magazine published at Gulf
port, says:
"A candidate for the United States
Senate on the Republican ticket in
another state sat at a banquet table
and heard me expiate on Thomas Jeff
erson, the Declaration of Independence
and states rights. He was so Impress
ed by what l preached as Democratic
doctrine that he took away my COM
plete notes to use as his announcement
speech for the Senate on the Republi-
can ticket.
There's never been anything wrong
with the Democratic Party except the
Republicans and Communists who barg-
ed in on it. II the Republicans will
moye hack into their own house. adopt