The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-11-29
CURRENT COMMENT
By Henry willis

The Army.Novy Come Saturday
promised to be the best of the sea-
son. That is one game that is rare
" to be counted won or lost until
the final whistle. There is no deny
ing that the present Army team APP
pears to be one of the best teams
the country ever has developed,
easily the equal of such teams as
Southern California had or to the
best Notre Dame with her four
horsemen ever developed. The
highest man on the West Point team
weighs 100 pounds. They have won
II straight games including n
from Navy last year. Army has a
bout a year age advantage and a
years experience amounts to a
whole lot. Besides the Military
Academy team has what amounts to
N unexcellable recruiting system.
Nearly every college in the country
has an army officer Tor severaD as
signed; ROTC schools have at least
q non-com. These hundreds OF Army
officers are watching all the foot
ball players IN most Of the colleges
in all of the states and naturally use
whatever influence they can to get
tile best Of them into West Point.
The Naval Academy is wholly lack
ing in such recruiting for its ath-
letes and accepts younger candidates.
So it has to be admitted that Army"
has an edge. Still, UP to last year,
Navy had won five straight inter-
service games. Navy isn't q good bet
this year but don't ever believe
Navy comedies the game-not by a
long shot.
Sunset Closes Legal Shooting OF
ducks. Do the Game Hogs stop then?
Drop down back of Valley Home
sitter sunset and listen to the fusi-
lade! The shooters couldn't find one
in, ten shot down. The result will
surely be to drive them away from
that splendid duck marsh. A duck
b a pretty smart bird, he sees and
remembers and he Is learning, it
has become so hard a task to get a
duck it's hardly worth the labor.
Most Game Hogs have little else to
do. Only a concerted raid by War
dens will stop them.
Gome Hogs and Long Runge Guns
are driving game away. For the war
years the absence of hunters plus
the shortage of shells permitted the
wild things to increase, it they could
fly high or lived in trees. Those that
couldn't have been exterminated, al
most, by foxes. With fox protected
from guns and rabbits and quail shot
and trapped ~disgracefully it isn't
even a guess as to where hunting
with guns is headed and it won't
take long either.
The SchoolboY Composition which
remarked that the secret OF the
Atom Bomb was not needed by any
nation that didn't want to make war,
ard those that did want to make
war should not have it, expressed
the whole matter in a nutshell
Scientists to the contrary notwith-
standing.
Our President Advised the British
what to do about Palestine and the
yew-Arab troubles in the East
The British replied in effect--"Flne'
we will take that advice provided
you will send your soldiers n
sailors and marines and air men to
make everybody accept what you
suggest. Quite realistic, the British
Holmes Junior College Teom pioYs
the Kinds County Juniors at Laurel
on the 30th. That should be a good
game and our home boys are likely
to add another to their string OF
victories to close a very successful
season. It will be a game worth 60
ing that far to see.