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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23
Fruit Cakes

Fruit Cakes
Fruit cakes may be baked, steamed,
IF cooked in the pressure cooker. They
nay be cooked in round, square, or OBJ
ing pans. Or for gifts they are nice
cooked in baking powder cans or indi-
vidual cake pans, especially little angel
food pans found at ten cent stores.
Small size fruit cakes are more easily
cooked, cut to better advantage, and
more easily kept After cooking they
hould be thoroughly cooled on rack
or elevated on one edge to prevent
;weating, then well wrapped in waxed
or creased paper to prevent drying out,
and kept in close-fittng box or earth
enware jar. Cracker boxes are good.
Sprinkle over about once a week with
ruit juice, or cut an apple in pieces
md lay in corners of the box, to add
o flavor and prevent drying out Wash
al dried fruits well before using, and
dry.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23
Personals

The Durant Business and Profession
al Womens Club will meet next Tues
day evening at $50 o'clock at the Hotel
Durant for the regular program meet
ing of the month. All members are urg-
ed to be present.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. ]. W. Maxwell left Tuesday fol
Pascagoula to visit her daughter, Miss
Katherine Maxwell.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Graham Field left for
Jonesboro, Ala this week where they
will visit his sister, Mrs. Hampton Wat
son for q week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Friends of Mr.. Joel Gulledge will b
glad to know he continues to improve
at the Jackson Infirmary.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. f. B. Guess and Mrs. Lauraene
Wilkes, Mrs. Charles Butler and Mrs
Frederick Jackson, both of kosciusko
played bridge in Yazoo City this week
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Cpl. Joe W. Hughes, husband Of thu
former Lauree Durham, of Durant, nov
serving overseas with the 18th All
Force is now authorized to wear thu
Presidential unit citation ribbon.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. ]. E. Sweeney, of Yazoo City, il
spending this week with relatives.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. H. H. Ledyard and children and
Miss Margaret Brown, of Jackson, spent
Sunday here. TIE latter is now working
in the Jackson office of Eugene Fly
collector of Internal Revenue.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Friends of Mrs. Albert Tatum will b
glad to know she is able to be up afte
being ill for some time.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. Lauraene Wilkes was Memphi
visitor last weekend.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Grown-At-HOme Fruit Cake
cups butter
cup brown sugar, or
" cup white sugar and
n cup syrup
eggs.
cups flour, Drowned or whole wheat
2 teaspoons baking powder
y teaspoon soda
teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves,
nutmeg, allspice.
" teaspoon salt
lb. chopped citron or watermelon
rind
y ID. chystallized grapefruit or
orange peel, or peel Of u fresh
orange
ID. dried or crystallized fruit-figs,
apples, peaches, pears
ID. chopped nuts
glass jelly-berry. grape apple or
plum
II crp fruit juice
Raisins or currants may be substitu-
ted To- dried fruits. or mixed)
Mix chopped fruits, nuts, and jelly,
and let stand overnight. Cream butter,
sift in sugar gradually. Dreaming until
fluffy, and all syrup. Beat eggs light
add No. and beat we'll. Nix and
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. Norman Weathersby, Lexington
was Durant visitor Wednesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Clark Stevens has been visiting a
home this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. Nancy Marie Lueders, of st
Louis, is spending Thanksgiving with
her father, Jake Kealhofer.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. F. J. Strub and Mrs. j. R. Brown
Jr., were Grenada visitors Wednesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Fowlkes, Of Water
Valley, have returned home after spend
ing a week with their son, NJ. J. Fowlkes
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

1t. and Mrs. N. w. Kyle, nee Sister
Durham, left for Houston, Texas, te
visit his family until December LIST
when they 60 to Seattle, Washington.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. 81 Dobbs, of New Orleans, is Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. ]. r. Cargill in
the home of her sister, Mrs. j. NJ. How
ard. The latter met her in Canton as
she came up on the Panama from New
Orleans.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. G. B. Ramsey has returned from
Starkville and Columbus where she Wis
tied two weeks.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Among those who attended the Ala
bama-State football game and Home
coming at Tuscaloosa Saturday were W
P. Taylor, M. T. Williams, W. E. How
ell, C. H. Carruth, Clarence Robertson
Floyd Truitt, Mrs. Doc Winborn, Miss
Hazel Brannon and Claud Wilkes. Ala
bama won 1910.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Friends Of Mrs. J.. r. Joyce will b
glad to learn she will be removed from
Jackson hospital home this week. Hel
son, Pvt. Percy Joyce, of San Antonio
Texas, has been at her bedside thi
week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. James Kolb has returned fror
Alexandria, La.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. W. E. Gulledge, Jackson, sper
a few days in Durant this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Among those who attended the circus
in Kosciusko Tuesday night we're Mrs.
Jessie C. Lewis and children, Mary and
Buddy, J. c. Sproles and Miss LOWE
McAdams, Mrs. Lauraene Wilkes, MI
and Mrs. Pip White, Miss Katherine
White and Sonny, Tom Renacker, MI
and Mrs. A. NJ. Lofts, James Cole, Mr.
and Mrs. Audis Hathcock, Mr.. and Mrs.
Raiford McNeer and daughter, Mrs. A.
w. Mitchell, Mrs. W. F. Mitchell and
son, Johnny Howell, Charlie Knott, Miss
Hazel Rrannon, Claud Wilkes, Mrs. Cur
lis Howell and children.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Miss Melba Tucker went to Kosciusko
Tuesday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mr.. nd Mrs. A. R. league, of Mobile
Ala, are visiting her niece, Mrs. J. u
Alsbury.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. Ray Campbell has returned from
Louisiana where she visited her moth
er who has been i'll. We are glad tt
report the latter improving.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Miss Mary Hopkins, of West, is visit
ing the A. H. Brown and j. X. Brown
families.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23
Candied Orange Peel

Peel of 4 medium oranges
l cup sugar
Water
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Birmingham hav
as their guests this week their daugh
ter, Mrs. C. G. Richardson, Jr., of Alex
andria, Va, and Washington, ID. T., an
her little daughter.
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Friends of Glazier Montgomery will
be glad to know he is improving nicely
after suffering chest injuries in an &C
cident in the baggage car near Grenada
last week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Mrs. Sally Hudson, of Ripley, is visit
ing her brothers, Albert and Bob brown
and their families this week.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Miss Emma Katherine White and Mis-
Annie Ward Patterson attended Tn
cadet dance in Greenwood Friday night
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Walter Streetman and Doug Ramsey
Vicksburg, spent TIE weekend at home
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-23

Miss Pearl Mcgee and Mrs. Zouell
Bacon spent Tuesday in kosciusko wit
Mrs. William Mcmillan.
The people's voice., 1944-09-01
Statement BY
THE SECRETARY
OF The Navy
By JAMES FORRESTAL

On Labor Day year ago, l stated
that the outcome of the war would
depend in large measure on the loyal
efforts of the men and women of the
production line.
The good news from every battle
front today, therefore, is tribute to
the achievement of American labor
over the past year.
Consider what this progress means.
Each new zone of combat demands
special materials Each mile we ad-
vance multiplies the complexities of
supply, transport and communication.
Already our expenditures in ammuni-
tion have been incalculable. For ex-
ample, in support of landing opera
tions the Navy already has fired at
enemy shore defenses alone about
230 times the amount used to win the
Spanish-American war.
Great campaigns still lie ahead Not
only must the flow of supplies be
maintained, but we must keep our
production flexible to meet the ever
shifting demands of the fleet as new
battle areas are blasted open in the
Pacific.
Now is the time to emulate the
spirit of the young Navy flier on COM
bat patrol who was recently offered a
chance to return home for a well de-
served rest. He declined the oppor-
tunity, saying: "As long as there is
I Mt n CO. II fhro1fo orl, -
On this Labor Day let us decide
that as long as there is war on,
wen see it through together
The people's voice., 1944-09-01

Mr.. President do not propose that
the Missouri Valley copy the expert
ence of the Tennessee Valley in detail
or in its technical plan or program
l do propose, however, that we obtain
and adopt to the peculiar circum
stances of the Missouri Valley the
main idea so successfully demon
strated by the Tennessee Valley.
That means we must have re
gional agency, free from the evils OF
remote vetoes by the scores of bu
reaus in Washington.
It's officers of decision and its ex
perts must be located in the region
where their work will be.
1t must have a responsibility broad
enough to encompass the major re
source problems of our region in its
studies, demonstrations, and program
of work and accomplishment.
1t must view itself as working
partner of existing agencies of the
federal and state governments and
private groups and organizations
pledged to promote the public in
terest.
1t must have sufficient authority to
achieve it's responsibilities without
the power of coercion Persuasion
by force of fact and reason will be the
instrument at it's hand-not dictation
by directives or administrative decree.
Congress will determine its broad
charter and the policies by which it
will be governed, Congress and the
President will hold it accountable for
its broad accomplishments. The peo-
pie of the valley will judge it every
day by how well, how efficiently, how
and how devotedly it carries
on its work.
1t will be an instrument of the
people, a union of technicians, ex-
perts, engineers, managers, and lay
men working at the side of the citi-
zens and institutions of the valley.
These are the essential features of
the IVA idea we would adopt for our
own in the Missouri Valley.
This new departure, pioneered for
all of America in the Tennessee Val
ley, did not come over night. 1t came
after mature consideration. For more
han a century, since 1925, the possi-
oilities of development of the Ten
lessee River for navigation had been
talked about, and pro-
noted. With the development of long
The people's voice., 1944-09-01

building Company where one of his
co-directors is Thorkall Rieber, who
was forced to resign as chairman Of
the Texas Corporation because of his
close connections with German inter-
ests.
Family relationship has placed the
Ohio senator in intimate contact with
the millionaire Rockefeller clan and
the Standard Oil combination David
IS. Inglass, Tafts cousin, married
Louise Hardness, whose family owns
the second largest block of Standard
Oil stock The Rockefeller tie is
made even tighter by Carl ]. Schmid-
lapp's affiliation with Hollister on the
board of the Fifth Third Union Trust
Company of Cincinnati. Schmidlapp
is vice president of the Chase Nation
al Bank, the Rockefeller's pet bank.
Businessmen who use labor spies
and strikebreakers to further their
labor relations program hardly disturb
Taft's conscience. He serves on the
Central Trust Company with Philip A.
Geier, head of the Cincinnati Milling
Machine Co. and Richard L. K. LIE
Blonde, head of the lie Blonde Tool
Co Both men, the La Toilette COM
mittee discovered in 1887, were heavy
to the National Metal
Trades Association, a dignified name
for labor-busting outfit whose strong
arm tactics are notorious.
The Taft-business pattern has a few
missing pieces, but the 1910 Republi-
,an contribution list fills them in In
'eturn for defending the industrialists
n congress, Taft made sure the COP
)ank account profited handsomely
In 1910 the Geier and LIE Blonde
kicked in with $3.50 and
5000 respectively. Schmidlapp gave
$1,000, the Rockefeller family, $4,000
md the Fleischman family, Taft's
friends, and connected with the Fifth
Third Union Trust Co., S27,500 Do
nations from all of Taft's associates
Or business companions totaled $751;
995,337.
Taft kept his side of the bargain.
In fact, he gave the industrialists SUI
Der-service in Washington. He voted
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The people's voice., 1944-09-01
LABOR DAY Statement
BY The VICE PRESIDENT
By HON. HENRY A. WALLACE


Labor Day of 1914 means more to
the workers both on the land and in
town than previous Labor Days. The
war is going so well that millions of
war workers realize the serious prob
ability of unemployment in 1945. With
joy on Labor Day we greet the pros
pect of the end of the war with Ger
many. With determination labor will
continue its marvellous work in sup
port of the war effort. With equal
determination labor will fight for
whatever is necessary to give full en-
ployment.
Labor's success in this fight will
mean the difference between prosper
ity and depression to the farmers.
trust that labor will get whole-hearted
farm assistance as it endeavors to
elect a congress which will give the
nation a full employment program.
hope that when labor on September
3, 1945, looks back over the year, it
will not say: I'VE did not fight for
the full employment program as we
should have fought in the year which
has just passed"
The people's voice., 1944-09-01

the Republican presidential
aspirant's top brain trusters-
repeatedly echoes big business
plants that full employment is
only an idealist's dream and
can never be realized.
His remarks during the senate de-
bate on the Kilgore bill-that full EN-
ployment was a myth-are construed
by labor leaders not as the ignorance
of laundering politico, but as the
aim OF the giant industrial interests
who look to the postwar era as the
time to choke off unions and return
them to the shackles of the pre-Roose-
velt days. This, they agree, can be
achieved only by the election of
Dewey an opinion which Senator
Taft heartily seconds.
Taft's ver-to-be-forgotten state
ment was:
81 do not see how we can possibly
tell whether we can employ all the
people who want to work . Obvious
ly we cannot employ them at the pres
ent day take-home wages"
How can United States senator,
elected to serve the interests of the
people, blithely say that jobs for all
the people is a pipe dream-a dream
which will never be realized?
It's easy, If you're pals with the big
business crowd.
For instance, Taft's law firm of
Taft, Stettinius and Hollister numbers
among its clients the Columbia Broad
casting System, the Dixie Terminal
Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad,
the Gruen Watch Company, General |
Company, the Cincinnati
Street and Railway Company and a |
slue of insurance companies
But, as in most political-business |
Lieups, Taft's link with the corpora
tions is a behind-the-scen affair. A
surface check by the public would
hardly raise any fuss. However, a
more detailed review of the men who
lirect the destinies of the top-flight
Industries would find that Taft, his
family, or law associates are consider
ably active.
His law partner, John Hollister, is
! director of the Charlestown Ship |
The people's voice., 1944-09-01

ton" by the common people
familiar with it's aims and pur-
poses.
Submitted with the call for the
meeting is a series of questions that
those receiving the invitation to at
tend are asked to answer in state
ment to be presented to the associa-
ton, and these statements are then
supposed to be printed and presum-
ably distributed to the members of
the legislature when they convene in
Helena, next January. Meanwhile,
the candidates for office are invited
to be present together with the United,
States senators from Montana, in or
der that they may be guided by the
opinions expressed by the statements
submitted.
Viewed from any angle, the meeting
promises to be probably packed. So
far as is known, for instance, no. rep
resentatives of the co-operatives in
the state have been invited to attend
and submit statements, though they
constitute a considerable segment of
Montana's business. Implied in one
question which states Specifically,
what is your attitude toward subject
ing co-operatives to the same state
and federal taxation as corporations"
is the inference that co-operatives do
not now pay the same taxes. This
follows out the plan of attack of the
NTEA, an organization created by
"big business" to fight the co-opera-
tives.
Clearly indicating the packing" of
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this proposed conference, is the fact
that while this question of taxation
of the co-operatives has been raised
by the taxdodgers' association, the CO.
operatives as an organization have
not been invited to participate in the
conference. This actually means that
something over $4,000 stockholders
and patrons of co-operatives in Mon
tana are scheduled to have their en-
terprises and methods of transacting
business criticized without having an
opportunity to defend their position.
This should be of particular interest
to the candidates for office who may
be present at the meeting.
The general tenor of the questions
which the statements are supposed to
answer, follow the pattern of the pres
ent republican strategy of damning
the present administration. 1t also
clearly indicates an attempt to organ
ize all of the reactionary sentiment in
the state against all proposals for
social legislation using the moss
grown "state rights" approach.
The proposed organization of the
conference, provides for three repre-
sentatives from the organized farmers
and three from each of the two major
labor organizations. Arrayed against
them will be three from undoubtedly
every chamber of commerce, knife
and fork club and any other group
in the state which may be depended
upon to follow the lead of the special
interests in the state.
The people's voice., 1944-09-01
Statement FOR
LABOR DAY, 1914
BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

By FRANKLIN ID. ROOSEVELT
American workers can observe this
Labor Day in the proud knowledge
that in the battle of production their
free labor is triumphing over slave
labor. 1t was their determination to
safeguard liberty and to preserve
their American heritage for coming
generations that made possible the
greatest production achievement in
the worlds history
Our soldiers. sailors and marines
are carrying ON an amazing offensive
all over the world. They are doing
it with the finest weapons in the
world - weapons which have been
made possible only by the unwaver
ing loyalty and unflagging resolution
of the workers and managers of our
industries
The position of our battle lines in
Italy, in France and in the Pacific
zone today is greatly dependent on
the production miracle which labor
and management and farmers have
accomplished.
We now have the enemy on the
run Yet we must face the prospect
that the hardest fighting and the big
gest job of supply are still ahead of
us. Our needs for the products of
our industries, mines and farms-wea-
pons, raw materials, transportation
and food-are as urgent as ever.
Our immediate job is victory. To
attain it quickly will require the full
est utilization of our man power and
woman power in the production of
the necessary weapons of war. Amer
ican labor can be depended on, I
know, to continue to devote itself
primarily to that task.
Once the forces of tyranny have
been overcome, we shall be faced
with the difficult problems of transi-
lion from war to peace. There will
be matters of international arrange
nents as we'll as questions of internal
economic policy. What we do in both |
spheres will affect our success in at
aiming durable world peace - a |
peace which will contribute to the |
progress of mankind, and will give
o all who work and produce, an
constantly to better their
,wn lives.
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distance transmission lines for cleo
tricity and advances in engineering
technique in harnessing water power
for electricity, second purpose for
development came to the fore. The
building Of Wilson dam as a project
of the first World War highlighted
this phase of river development, and
for fifteen years before the IVA and
congressional and public debate over
the Tennessee River was concen-
trated on this issue. At the same
time, the damaging force of the flood
waters of the Tennessee were recog-
nized, both for their effect in the
Tennessee valley and for their con-
tributions to the devastating floods on
the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
While the debate went on little was
accomplished in control of the river.
1t ran on as usual sometimes surging
in great floods and at other times
diminishing to a relative trickle.
This is a familiar story to those of
us who live in the Missouri Valley.
We have been witnessing and suffer-
ing from repeated floods, idle and
wasted water power, clogged river
channels. We are the victims of the
repeated paradox of too much or too
little water in the wrong places at
the wrong time.
The Tennessee Valley went through
the same general era of doubt, sur
veys and more surveys, reports and
more reports, controversy, false starts,
Illustration, and piecemeal planning.
But with the establishment of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, given the
responsibility for development of the
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of the world carrying men, ammuni.
tion, planes, tanks and all other mate
rial of war and civilian life both for
our own country and our Allies, is
testimony to the part which has been
played by the soldiers of production
who have manned the arsenal of de-
mocracy" called for by the President
of the United States when war began
We are proud of our record and know
that no one can successfully challenge
the success of our efforts.
1t should be remembered, further,
that the workers of America have
carried on despite many disturbing
complications which have arisen from
time to time, in spite Of the problems
of constantly rising cost of living
without comparable increases in
wages, etc. But the wage earners of
American pledged full support to the
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our meeting their every need for sup
plies fully and promptly.
At the same time, our duty to our
country and to our fighting men de-
mands that we prepare and plan now
for the day of victory and the days
that follow. We must not win the war
and lose the peace. We must not al
low America to bog down in depres-
sion and mass unemployment as war
orders are discontinued. We must
not let our servicemen return to find
no jobs awaiting them.
Planned reconversion of our indus
trial life, as and when cutbacks occur,
is first essential for maximum war
production now and for continued pro
duction and employment through the
months of transition from war to a
peacetime economy.
This planning calls for close COOP
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