The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1946-02-14
Current Comment
BY Henry willis

BY Henry willis
With Our conceolsd Weapons Law
and the Federal laws against posses
sion Of machine guns, with our
Sheriffs and Peace Officers, Judges
and Juries, as they are, it does not
eem necessary to require honest
citizens to register their guns under
threat of a heavy fine and a year in
Jail. Further, to keep the Lists in two
places subject to public inspectionl
Lawless groups could not possibly
ask any more than that.
An Airplans Hos Crossed the Con-
tinent with an average speed Of 584
miles an hour, nine and three quart
er miles a minute. And they are sure
to 60 much faster than that. This
plane didn't stop for fuel-just plain
coal oil by the way.
Steve Broome. an Old Time Ne.
gro, disappeared in the Christmas.
He had no enemies and no money.
How he could just drop from sight
is an unsolved mystery.
The Forgotten Nom In Labor Dis
putes" is the title of a pamphlet by
Allen w. Rucker, a Mississippian
residing in Boston and an authority
on Business Management Gle mar
ried one Of the Murtagh girls from
Ebenezer) Mr.. Rucker is a consult
ant of business firms and so has a
wide experience to draw from. He
points out there are more than 2 mil
lion non-farm businesses with 40
million employees. That the BUSH
nesses are owned by SO million
thrifty people, many of them labor
union members. The tools of the
industry-their productive assets
amount to SITS billion dollars. Ruck-
err maintains, and fairly, that bar
gaining between the millions who
own the tool. and the other millions
who use them is correct procedure,
fair and just. But he believes that
arbitrary judgement Of no harmful
of men whether called Fact Find
ing or an other name can be SUBJ
stituted. Free bargaining may not be
replaced by politics, not successfully.
Lands, buildings, machinery are the
tools of production and are owned
by the SO millions Of thrifty Ameri
cans, already mentioned, through
ownership of life insurance policies,
savings accounts, corporate bonds
and the like. Every workman knows
the tools he uses are the souce OF
his livelihood and tools are already
wearing out, typewriter, truck, steel
mill, must be often replaced. There
must be profit enough to pay the
for the use OF their tools,
else they will not furnish them, and
to replace them as they e out,
else the workman will have no tools
to work with. BY Treasury reports
it has been is years since half the
corporations earned a taxable profit
except in the wal year. The Federal
Government has been discriminate
ing against the so million thrifty
Americans, the u~norganized tool
owners. There must be a Square
Deal government policy or indus
trial tools will cease to be furnished
by the thrifty. It is time for the
President and Congress to encourage
thrift in the interest Of the tool own
ers, the workmen who use the tools,
and the people in general. The
American way is with freedom OF
bargaining, Brains, Sweat and Team
Work.
To Replace Your Personal Be-
longings now would cost you a great
deal more than when you bought
them. Being so used to it all makes
you belittle what you have. That
goes for your house too, If you could
get one at all. You figure out what
YOU can do to be easier in your mind
abotu 1t. No, don't write iD.