The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-05-31
Current Comment
By Henry willis

Come Wordsn. J. H. Wdrner. I'D.
yises that there will be no summer
/ Squirrel hunting season this wear
according to his advice from the
State Department Of Game and Fish
and il will not be legal to shoot
the little fellows until Oct. lst. This
is az. it should be, since IL d evident
that they are too few to stand q
summer shooting season. For the
most part, Warden Warner says. the
observance of the closed season has
been good and there have been few
er violations than expected. Always
there are some game hogs, Of course
but the active, efficient Warner Is
likely to surprise and arrest most of
the violators and all Of them will
feel sneaky and mean whether
caught or not.
Consumers in New Orlsazs toduy
began paying % cents a pound for
granulated sugar.. From "25 year
ago" in the Commercial-Appeal, of
May 18th. ~Inflationl
The Rotion Boord wos Allotted
sugar to the amount of about 5 lbs.
per person after being told to allow
first 20 lbs. then Is lbs. They are
doing their best to apportion 1t prop
erly. There wont be any sugar for
out-of-county residents. Nor can II
| be allotted on the Is or 20 pound
basis on applications that were some
how lost or strayed though duly
made out before the quota was re-
duced. It's quite a pain" but there
is nothing else the Board can do.
There is no objection to letters to
jackson or Washington or else
where. They win be promptly ans
wered when they come back.
The First Army Il Destined for
the Pacific according to published
report, not official. Capt. H. L. Mich
OILS and Corporal D. F. Malone are
in the First. l don't know any other
for certain. What troops will make
up the German occupation force
isn't known yet. The Japs are put
ing UP a very stiff fight but it isn't
in human nature to keep on fight
ing when they lose and are extermi-
mated in every clash, not after the
news gets about that such Is the
case. The soldiers get news the Of
ficers wish them to have and q vast
majority of them think they are still
winning. They can and will keep on
for MANY months yet and will do US
a lot of damage with their suicide
pilots, their suicide torpedoes, their
submarine packs-submarines man
ned by one or two men who expect
to die in the attack, or fun size SUBJ
marines that push home the attack
regardless of danger to themselves.
A Jap will load himself with ex-
plosive and u or crawl to the
Americans and touch himself off
He will man a flying bomb and try
to guide it to an American ship, or
plane, or strong point. Successful or
not it's the end of him and he knows
that when he starts c.,t. In compar-
ing casualties it is w ! to keep in
mind that the Jap casualties are
dead we have counted while our
casualties are KILLED and wounded"
and that 81 per cent of the latter do
not die. 1t is also well to remember
that Japan started this war after
long preparation by a sneak attack
for which we should have been pre-
pared but were not, and that they
administered to us one of the most
complete defeats in history. They
have gained so much 'face" thus
far in this war that they must be
totally smashed or it will be impos-
sible for any Caucasian to live in the
western Pacific.