The Durant news., 1946-12-12
CURRENT COMMENT
BY Henry Willis

Wholesale Whiskey value for Hol-
mes County for nine months, includ-
ing September, runs S300,000.0O. see
last weeks Advertiser. The sale
value must have been twice tnat.
Lot of money for even us rich toiKs
to spend for liquor. 1t certainly
does show how thirsty we are. AT
$500 that will buy $4,000 gallons,
maybe 1000 gallons month and the
demand is increasing 1t seems.
There can be no dispute that tenn
perance is much to be desired How
shall we get it? Telling people they
sholl not have whiskey seems to be
q failure. Would it not be better to
control, rather than prohibit, the
sale? We could prevent sale to scnool
children, to drunks. We could limit
the quantity to be sold to lndlvIdu-
ais. Why not try regulation. Instead
of telling people they shall not, let's
educate them not to want wnIskey.
The Cool Strike is Off-until Mar
Oh 31st-by the gracious consent OF
John L. Lewis, Miners Union Pres
ident and dictator. That does not in
the least alter the fact that one man
call strike in key industry and
tie the whole National Economy into
knots; bring about depression;
suffering The lay and public opinion
had better proceed to make Unions
responsible for their acts; require
keeping of contracts by Union as
well as Employer; make them finan-
cially answerable for what they do.
Strikes are deadly weapons and
may be used with discretion Appar-
emily they have been used deliber-
ately to delay the making of goods
TO supply the demand; to delay the
shift to peacetime industry; to
create unrest; stir up trouble.
The Delta Locol Agents Essoci1t-
ion the three local insurance agen-
cies belong maintains two scholar
ships of $4,000 each in Sunflower
Junior College to which and Delta
High School graduate is eligible.
The j. c. co-operates to the extent
that the two years course will re-
quire but little other aid. This year
it happens that there are three Sun
flower Scholarship holders;- Miss
Gwendolyn Arbuckle of Charleston,
Miss Edna Feather of Hushpuckena,
and Roy l.. Maxwell of Inverness,
outstanding students. They will
graduate in May and the Scholar
ships will be open. A base re-
quirement is that the applicant sim
cerely want the training and would
be unable to 60 to college otherwise.
The Strike Situation tlZ-7-4oJ
looks extremely serious. Apparently
the heads of the labor unions means
to conduct a revolution and force
the Government to accept the labor
union demands. This l2,000,OU0 per-
son tail proposes to wag the l3O,OUU-
600 balance of the dog. Less than SIX
months ago, Lewis, Miners Union
President, dictated terms OF mln-
ing settlement, wrote contract"
Now he repudiated the contract ana
demands further concessions not
stated. The strike is against the Gov
rernment itself, for the Government
is operating the mines. 1t cannot be
assumed that Lewis is alone. Doubt
less he has advice from powerfully
placed labor leaders intent now on
making themselves all controlling.
Such has been the trend OF events
for the last dozen years that we
cannot feel sure we have strong ana
able men in Washington to handle
the situation and they had better
be both.
India, Demanding Freedom" OF
England, is offered freedom ana
finds itself unable to agree on any
formula for taking over the govern
ment from the English. Unable to
write an agreement among them
selves will not agree to anything
the English write. There are two
hundred-plu million Hindus, a
hundred million Moslems and num-
dred million more people belonging
TO 400 tribes Hundreds of languages
are spoken. The British have been