The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-02-19

THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
BY Hoxel Brannon

Wed like to remind our reauerS'
friends and patrons that we are fully
equipped and stated to give you the
best kind of service on all kinds OF
commercial job printing ana
that we are representatives for the
finest engraving house in the USA'
Bring your printing and engraving
problems to us. We guarantee you
will be pleased with our work and
our prices are reasonable. In addi-
ton we can give you prompt service
on any order.
Yes, we can print anything from
your birth announcements, tied with
pretty blue or pink ribbon, to your
funeral notice bordered with black
:. and all the things that happen
to you in between such as we'd
ding invitations or announcements,
visiting cards, informals, social, bus
mess and professional stationery,
billheads, and all kinds of printed
forms used in office, business, fac
tory or farm.
Whether you want shipping labels,
gin or seed tickets, cotton tags, ship
ping tags, rubber stamps, pads. car
bon paper, second sheets, stapling
machines, envelopes of all kinds,
checks, drafts, deeds of trust or any
other legal form, we are prepared
to serve you You may rest assured
your order will get the same careful
attention whether it be for $l00 or
$4,000, and we welcome and ap-
preciate your patronage.
There is always someone in our
office to consult with you about
your printing problems. We are as
close to you as your telephone. II
the writer is not in then our capable
foreman, Mr.. Leo Maness, will be
more than glad to assist you. We will
be happy for you to call our office,
Lexington 49, collect anytime we
can be Of service to you.
Keep your printing dollars in
Holmes county where they will come
back to you.
Our readers win please forgive the
commercial in the above paragraph
but we must eat.
Il takes q good steady flow of COM
mercial printing to keep weekly
newspapers alive and flourishing.
During the war we were not staff
ed to give the kind of service we like
to, give but we are now.
We hope you'll call us often.
The prediction we made in this
column last week concerning the
mass meeting at Jackson proved to
be correct.
1t was historic meeting.
More than 5000 Democrats from
all over Mississippi packed the City
Auditorium. There was standing
room only. The weather was bad and
we are certain there were at least
5000 who stayed away because they
figured there would be so many
present they wouldn't be able to get
in the auditorium. Of course bad
weather and lots of flu and colds
kept many away.
Holmes county was well represent
ed at the meeting. All five super
visors' beats were represented and
almost all. if not all of the voting Is
precincts in the county. We believe
the same holds true for all over the
state.
1t was meeting of the people. =.
the politicians were not in control.
Governor Wright made a very
statesmanlike, dispassionate apprai-
sal of the present political situation
provoked by President Truman's
Civil Rights program. He told the
people present he was not there to
tell them what to do but to deter
mine what the wishes of the people
were.
OF course we realize that five
thousand people cannot speak for
the entire state but the unanimous
opinion of all those present certainly
indicates the trend of public thought
in Mississippi
Again we say we believe the peo-
pie of Mississippi are solidly behind
Governor Wright in his denunciation
Of the Civil Rights program of Presi-
dent Truman and we hope, and |
believe the people of the south will |
support the movement started in
on Thursday, February
18th, 1913, for the upholding of con-
stitutional government in the Unit
ed States.
Henceforth the Civil Rights pro-
gram of President Truman should
be regarded not as merely anti
southern legislation.
President Truman's program
should be regarded as an un-Ameri-
can attack on constitutional govern
ment in this country.
Our government is founded upon
the constitution which gives the
states sovereignty over our elections
and local governments.
If Mr.. Truman can call in the FIJI |
and the armed forces Of the country |
to police our elections and to ham,
string our law enforcement officials, |
to destroy our local customs and
practices, then the state is sovereign
no more. The Federal government
then can grow into monster OF |
gigantic proportionS expanding in |