The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-04

HAZEL
EYES
BY Hczei Brdnnon


We're accustomed to writing every
spring a series OF articles on cleaning
and painting up.
II strikes us that we need to carry
or a cleanup campaign practically
every week in the month and every
month in the year. Lately 1t seems
that we have had an unusually large
amount of paper and trash floating
around loose. Nothing makes a town
more unsightly than papers and
trash scattered over the streets. :
Let's make an effort to make Lex
ington the cleanest city in Missis-
sippi. With the cooperation OF every
citizen we can keep loose papers off
the streets. Also a few large waste
baskets placed at intervals, parti-
cularly on the square, would help
a great deal.
Heard after the State-Ole Miss
game at Starkville Saturday: Where
is that guy, Emmerich? / wanna
show 'em one drunk who amt
asleep"
An sure enough, he wasn't asleep,
but he did look like every step
would be his last before falling flat
on his face.
However, there was very little
drinking in evidence at the game
Saturday that we saw The crowd
seemed to be too interested In the
game to think about anything else.
1t was certainly an orderly crowd.
sssstsst
After reading this column two
weeks ago Tin which we repeated a
story told in re. to drinking at the
LSU-Ole Miss game in Baton Rouge
a student at State College sent US a
marked copy of The Reflector, the
splendid student newspaper at
.Starkyille.
The editor of The Reflector was
greatly incensed because of a story
told in a recent issue of the jack
o Daily News about the whiskey
bottles at the Baton Rouge stadium
being of the better known variety
after Ole Miss had visited the CAM
pus whereas after a visit by State
College even the j~anitors hadn't
heard of the brands!
If / were the editor of The Reflect
or / wouldn't get too mad at the
jackson Daily Chicago Tribune"
as he called it realizing the edi-
tor of that venerable sheet was only
repeating a good story probably
picked UP from a south MISSISSIPPI
editor as he Or she heard 1t from the
lips Of a Louisiana lady . who
heard it probably from her maid
who probably got it from her boy
friend who is a friend Of the janl-
tor at the LSU stadium.
Yes, we professional journalist"
have strange sources of information.
But don't get too worked up over
this little incident which is all in a
DAYS work as you'll one day
learn if you stick to newspaper
ing"
Practically everyone in these parts
is terribly sore because Charlie
Conerly, Mississippi's outstanding
tailback, was left off the AP ALI
American team.
This is just another example OF
the South having a hard time gett-
ing credit for anything whether
it's politics, football, or what have
you we don't get any recognition.
or if we do we have to fight for i
every inch Of the way,
Some day, some fifty or a hun.
Thed years from now, We'll have
two-party system of government II
the south then the powerful
eastern interests will woo our sup
port Just as they do the west ano
midwest now, Perhaps politics viii
extend to industry, and an eve
break for agriculture, so that we car
get our Just desserts -. it might
even extend to having a real All
American football player recognized
in the South when we field n
and Charlie Conerly certainly de
serves a berth on the All-Americar
mythical eleven, APPS and all. He is
an All-American if there has ever
been one.