The Lexington advertiser., 1945-02-22
Current Comment
BY HENRY WILLIS

The War Memorial Question will
come increasingly to the fore as the
men and women come home from the
front. There will be about 1900 of them
to come back to Holmes County and
some commemoration of their deeds is
certainly desirable. The last Legisla-
ture passed laws permitting counties
and municipalities to appropriate
money for such purpose, or issue bonds
if they prefer. The American Legion,
with it's great prospective increase by
membership of World War ii veterans,
is advocating something in the nature
of Community Centers. These would be
of substantial construction and located
near the center of things. The building
would provide meeting places for the
Legion, clubs or any other regular or
occasional group. There would be a
Library with reading room and space
for collecting and storing Historical
data Of county and city. There would
be chess, checkers and other games;
rest rooms, writing tables, krtchinette;
all the conveniences that a community
should have. The construction would
be permanent, perhaps of monolithic
concrete reinforced so as to require
minimum upkeep. The location would
be on or close to the Square. Neces-
sarily there would be Superintendent
and, if the Library was included, a
Librarian. The State has beautiful
and highly useful War Memorial Build
ing that has fully justified itself A
local Memorial would have the same
basic idea and would be a permanent
and long needed addition to public con-
venience.
There Are Only 10000 New 1912 Cars
left for consumer delivery, these must
be allotted with extreme care, they
have got to last until production is re-
sumed. The extreme need to get every
possible extra mile out of cars now
mand for more tires is extremely criti-
cal as is the demand for more gas and
oi". Earnestly commended to car own
er perusal)
settlers another gap appears. Mrs. J
M Dyer was laid with her fathers on
Feb. 14th, 1945 and now sleeps with
numerous friends in Odd Fellows Gene
tary. She was one of the burden girls,
fine women, able housewives, leaders in
civic and church affairs, exercising a
strong and wholesome influence for
good. The men of the family were Doc
tors, bankers, planters-men of sub
stance and leadership. Her bright mind
was active as long as the frail body
could support it. She was a link with an
era of gracious living gone forever from
the Southland. Her children are scat
tered from the Pearl to the Brazos
Rivers, ably filling honored places in
the life and work of the Nation.
The Many Friends of Mrs. Irene
Money will sympathize with her on the
loss of her mothers brother, the late
r. D. Speck ("Uncle Dick"O who passed
away in his Kansas City home on the
night of Feb, 14th, 1945, going peace
fully to sleep and not waking again. A
devout Christian, perhaps it was fitting
that he died on the first day of Lent
Mr.. Speck and his wife visited here
many times and were much liked by
those with whom they came in contact
| They and their sons, Fletcher and DR.
Speck and their daughters, Marion (Mrs
Hedrick) and Gertrude (Mrs. Newcomer)
were frequent, valued guests at Wan.
nalaw when that plantation was a cen.
ter of social activities.
The Delta Council is Deeply Concern
ed with control of the floodwaters OF
the Mississippi River and the Yazoo
River system. They think they havs
noticed renewal of the move to take
flood control out of the hands of the
Army Engineer Corps and hand it ovel
to civilian engineers with the inevitable
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