The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29
Current Comment
BY N WILL

The Cemetary Association has gone
Fellows Cemetary-now the Lexington
Cemetary, under the direction of an
energetic and able committee of Ladies
and already 1t looks much better
cared for. In the old days when each
family expected to take care Of its own
lot there was a tendency to use fences
or walls or hedges or other lot mark
ers. Such now make 1t more expensive
to clean and tend the burial places. The
best of iron fences will rust, likely, af-
ter all the family is gone. So the Asso-
citation, whenever permission Is secur-
ed, is removing the iron fences in order
to better care for the graves and keep
down weeds and vines and make the
burial ground look we'll cared for. Some
shrubbery has grown too large and &C.
cupies far too much space. Honeysuckle
and other vines have wrapped up much
of it and made unsightly places. These
are being cleared If the lot owner will
permit. 1t is not the intention to remove
the flavor of age from the historic spot
nor to give it a new look. Those ladies,
with rue artistic insight, desire to
have 1t show its age in the older parts
and work out modern views in the new
sections. The ancient cedars will stay
for a time. Shrubs will be pruned where
it is feasible and removed when moth
ing else a be done with them. All
that loving work can do for the grounds
will be done. Mayor Weathersby and
the Board Of Alderman are showing
much interest and the work Of the
Ladies and are backing them up as need
arises.
This M~orning's- Rumors Say-"Ger-
many surrendered. radio says to
stand by for an important announce
ment'. THE President has summoned
his Cabinet to announce. Wishful
thinking fills it all in as the shadow
OF a coming announcement Of We Day.
Judging from all we know Of what has
gone on since our landing on the Chan
mel coast I cannot see the end Of Ger
man resistance until well into the sum
mer, perhaps fall. OF course they may
collapse suddenly but the visible indi-
cations do not, l think, point to that.
Let us remember-that from the mouth
of the Oder in the Baltic Sea to Hola
land and beyond, including Denmark
the Germans have . firm hold on the
coast. They still hold Dunquerque on
the Channel, the mouths Of the Loire
and Garonne-and additional ports
on the Bay Of Biscay coast Of France.
That they have all Of Norway with its
innumerable fine harbors and bases for
submarines; that no ship can be-
yond midway of the North Sea without
German permission; they still hold
firmly all north Italy and Yugoslavia;
they still have 5000 900 fighting men,
hall of them we'll trained, fanatical.
well armed. What II they have lost the
iron and oil and wheat and potatoes
they would like to have-just running
down will take months after the last
winding. Mont. to use hip all the ship
plies they have on ham. They have
millions of slaves to labor SO that Ger
mans may be released for front line
fighting. In brief, to repeat, / hope they
surrender soon but l think they will
not until after the spring thaws dry
out, we'll into the summer. (And that's
certainly sticking out my neck.)
Something About Tires, Again. The
big tire making people are taking news
paper space to tell all Of Us that tires
are scarce and may be a lot more so
farm products, says ODT, posesserious