The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-05-25
Current Comment
BY Henry Willis

people Of Mississippi cooperate for Price
Sterilization. 1t is fairly clear to most
people that the Office of Price Control
(haj. ". E. Holcomb is the pleasing and
effective District Director for Missis-
sippi) has been fairly adequate in pre-
venting runaway prices in all COM
modities under their control. Subject to
rules designed to assure fair and equal
treatment, enforcement is largely in the
hands OF local volunteers who serve,
without pay, on the Local Boards. Furth-
er. in each community are devoted in
dividuals who have been drafted for
price control work, arduous and some
times unpleasant though 1t Is. Their
effort is to explain, assist, secure COM
pliance with the regulations-well
known to every merchant and dealer
prevent friction, promote good will to-
ward the control. When a store can not
or will not comply the only recourse is
to refer the matter to the State enforce
ment group. This County has such q fine
and intelligent citizenry that reference
is seldom necessary. The Governor en-
phasizes cooperation with Local Boards
toward keeping prices down to preserve
the economy Of the people and the value
Of their savings.
some D~enOminational Ministers in re-
cent conventions have almost voted to
continue preaching pacifism to Ameri-
can citizens. That, after VIZ had made
magnificent gestures toward peaee;-
sdnk our modern Navy, reduced our
Army until it was inadequate even for
garrison duty, sent out oil and scrap
land missionaries), declined to build
warships even up to the allowed quotas,
starved our air force, suffered Pearl
Harbor. Might . layman be allowed to
suggest that these SO kindly gentleman
devote the remaining years of their lives
to converting the German and the Jap
to peaceful views Of international az
fairs? When they are converted" there
will be no trouble to win us over.
America died recently at a ripe and
honored age. Probably as many people
laughed with him as with any other
humorist we rave produced. He said;-
II never try to be funny, ! just write
about people as they are"
In The Light Of Votes Counted the
victory" of Senator Pepper in Florida
does not seem anything for the new
deal to bFag about. There are $4,000
Federal psyroll-ers in Florida. There
can be no doubt that the new deal ma
chine used every influence at its COM
mainland they had plenty of money
and favors to hand out. The issue was
clear; For or Against-The Fourth
Term. With all the pressure they could
bringto bear they got for Pepper 49,
600 votes. The new Byrd for President
movement, with almost no money; de-
pendent almost entirely on voluntary,
unpaid, good will workers; with little
printed publicity, polled 8 1000 votes
for Byrd. Since there were Is Byrd
delegates running against 81 hand pick
ed, fourth term, machine delegates it
follows that the Byrd delegates receiv-
ed a much higher average Of votes east
a the Fourth Termers. Of course the
Fourth Term Machine is powerful,-the
Fifth Term Machine will be more power
full still-but it can be defeated. That
seems plain in the light of the Florida
vote. Pepper was a chief Administration
spokesman whose defeat could not be
permitted by the Administration. He
ran with all the prestige of name and
~favors; running against unknowns; and
still was unable to pile up anything re-
sembling an overwhelming victory. 1t
suggests that Byrd has a chance after
ALI
I'm twice as great as Washington,
I'm twice as great as Grant;
Because third terms they didn't get
They needn't think | can't.
I'm twice as great as jefferson
And Madison combined:
I'm twice as great as all the lot
or Presidents, ! find!
I'm greater than my country.
and its customs and its laws,
Its poor old Constitution,
And it's presidential flaws!
I'm twice as great as any man
Above or meath the sod;
In fact, Pm half inclined to think
I'm most as great as Nod!"