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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

bottom land. Two thirds under
cultivation. 10 mules, 26 head
high grade Jersey cows and heif-
ers, registered bull. Plenty of
plow tools, 2 wagons, Farman
tractor and disk, new Mccormack
mower. Painted 7-room farm
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25
CLASSIFIED ADS

POSTED-All land known as
the late w. B. Mcclellan land,
against hunting or trespassing of
any kind. Mrs w. B. Mcclellan.
Box 304, Ocean Springs, Miss.
ll-4tnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

Clubs which held its convention
November 9 and 10 in Jackson.
Mrs. Zouella Bacon, leader of
the program on Literature, in
troduced Mrs. A. E. Branch who
reviewed Fire In The Morning"
by Elizabeth Spencer
Mrs Calendar served Princess
cup with individual cakes deco
rated in the club colors.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25
HELP WANTED

WANTED TO EMPLOY-Part-
time and full time men with
teaching experience in one of the
following fields: tractor mechan-
les, farm implement mechanics
and blacksmithing and welding.
Attractive proposition if you can
qualify. Lexington Trade School,
phone 288-W.
32-2tnp 1l-2tnn
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

The Rev. c. M. Day was placed
On the resolution committee of
the State Baptist at a convention
OF Baptist ministers held at Jack
son November II.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

STRAYED-About four weeks
ago, one red mare mule, about
Is years old, clean spot on one
shoulder about the size of a half
dollar. Notify w. B. King, Durant,
MISS. 11-2tp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

house. z tenant houses, plenty
drinking water. Bottom land
drained, hill land terraced. Con-
tact California cafe in Durant
(phone or write) for further in
formation.
32-2tnp 11-2tnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25
Patients At The Hospital

Mrs. r. E. Lee, Walden
Jesse Edwards, Lexington
Mrs. j. S. Kealhofer, Durant
Mrs. w. H. Sharp, Lexington
r. G. Brock, Ebenezer
William Norwood, West
John Lee, Walden
H. ]. Carter, Walden
c. R. Hoover, Eden
Colored
Lily Bush, Tchula
Pat Rogers, Lexington
Tom Clark, Tchula
Green Whitehead, Cruger
Miss Gertrude McCune, Jack
son, spent the week end with
her mother, Mrs. w. E. McCune.
Drive Slow Children Move Fdst.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

FOR SALE-Bailed Soy Bean
Hay. Cut in August in the bloom
stage for $500 per ton. Soy Bean
Hay bailed following combine for
$500 per ton. All FOB Bailey
Plantation. r. L. Wallace, Tchula,
Miss. Rt. 2. Box l01 lI-8tnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

FOR SALE-Llgnt weight con-
crete blocks for sale. Winona
Concrete Products Company.
Phone 1921, Winona, Miss.
21-tfnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

Mrs. Ed Rush and daughter
spent several days last week with
the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joel Gulledge, at Bowling
Green.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-25

FOR SALE-Second hand bicy-
Gle in good condition. Apply Mrs.
v. l.. Willis. ll-Itnn
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Bv Doris FIeeSon

At least one presidential candi-
date is breaking with current GUS
toms and encouraging his wife to
meet the country as personality
Evening star., 1948-01-26

have the proper admiration for a
nice, plump man? I don't see
the charm In q man who Is all
skin and bones. Women are always
talking about how well q suit looks
on a lanlky, bean-pole OF man.
That's foolishness. A suit just hangs
on q man like that.
How to Test Suit.
To tell how q suit really looks,
o man ought to fill it all out. to
where there isn't a wrinkle in it.
That's a test of not only how
suit looks, but Of its construc-
ton. II the seams don't give and
the buttons don't pop of, it's well
made. To my way OF thinking,
there are few more attractive
sights than a short, plump little
man like myself, who looks as if
he had been carefully poured into
his clothes, putting brightly into a
room filled with tall, cadaverous-
looking men whose clothes sag and
drape all over them. After all,
Humpty Dumpty will be remem-
bered long after Howard Hughes
is dead and gone.
But once q woman makes up her
mind that . man must go on a
diet there Is nothing for him to do
but 60 on a diet-and become a
secret eater outside the house.
Distributed BY McNaught Syndicate, Inco
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Mrs. I aft to Meet Press
Candidates Wife Bars No Question
Despite Warning They'll Be Tough

that his fellow Americans are al
most too interested in what they re-
gard as his lonely estate. Like the
well-meaning people who seem to
think that because Franklin Roose-
velt had a dog, President Truman
pines for one also, the Martin cor
respondents long to help him ac-
|quire a wife.
They apparently have not heard
of the jocular, drawingroom decision
handed down by Chief Justice Vim
son that bachelor is only an elig-
ible bachelor when he shows signs
of wanting to alter his condition,
According to the Speakers former
colleague in the House, Joe has
shown no such signs.
The prize in growing collection
of correspondence the Speaker has
received on the subject of his single
state came from a West Virginia
lady who told him she had contact
with the late Wendell Willkie in the
other world. Mr.. Willkie had as
sured her, she said, that the Speaker
would be nominated and elected on
one condition-that he do his duty
by the women of America and get
married.
Evening star., 1948-01-26

OF the Fbl. Inc
first is that
Communists are
G u a r a n t {. e d
freedom of ac-
tivity by the
Con S t / tuition ;
the second that,
if outlawed, the
legal organiza-
ton would go
underground.
The first ar
gument assumes
that any kind
of political ac-
tivity has, under
the Constitution
Evening star., 1948-01-26

to nave TO MT nenfs McAe"ofe'
the old green salad and black coffee
trail once more. have been up and
down this trail more often than q
repentant sinner has the sawdust
one.
If it hadn't been for the hunting
season I might have escaped having
to 60 on a diet. was wondering
what to wear on a dove shoot not
long ago when my wife reminded me
that that was what I had told her
was saving my old Army uniforms
for. when wanted to give them
away" she reminded me, you told
me to hang onto them-that they
would be just the thing to wear In
the woods"
Fit Surprised Even Her.
So there was no escape. I had to
try to put them on. Even I was sur
prised. Uncle Sam should be
ashamed of ever having issued me
such a little, OIL pair of britches.
I stoutly denied that they had ever
been mine, and swore up and down
that there had been a mix-up. I
pointed out that the Army simply
wouldn't let man parade in a coat
that missed buttoning by six inches,
or in pants that wouldn't even 60
on.
She pointed out right back that
the Army issued that uniform to
a man who weighed 130 pounds and
that the unsightly object struggling
to get 1t on weighed close to ITO.
that's what she called mean
"unsightly object"
Why is it that women don't
Evening star., 1948-01-26
McLemore
/, Goes Bock to Salads
When Uniform Shrinks
Bv Henry McLem0re

When the Army kissed me good
bye at the Separation Center I made
two solemn VOWS. zone was that I
would never again address any living
Evening star., 1948-01-26

questions they can put to her.
DO you think you can do lt?'
asked the Senator with husbandly
candor when she mentioned the
matter to him. They're pretty
tough. But go ahead if you want
to-
Her Speeches Have zip"
The Senator's protective instinct
does not extend to the usual forms
of campaigning. His travel sched-
ules regularly include speeches by
his wife, who puts an anecdotal
zip" into her arguments that his
supporters wish he could acquire.
Their equal partnership was adver-
tised by a hometown paper with an
election night headline over the
story of his first Senate victory:
Bob and Martha Elected"
However, Mrs. Taft admittedly
takes some slight risk. 1t is always
possible that there are Republicans
who are so allergic to Mrs. Roose-
velt that any candidate is suspect
whose wife does more than serve
as a mooringpost for orchids. Also,
if you enter a political forum you
must be prepared to hold your own,
a phase where invidious comparison
of another kind with Mrs. Roosevelt
may be made.
Mrs. Taft's preparations for a
Nationwide hookup extend much
further back than her husbands
political career. She was one of the
Ohio organizers of the League OF
Women Voters and was long active
in the kind of civic activities that
inevitably collide with the harsh
realities of politics. That she was
asked to follow some of the coun-
try's most controversial figures on
the no-holds- barred program DEM
onstrates the trades opinion of
her talents.
Worrying About Martin.
Women make news in the life OF
one other presidential aspirant-
the Speaker of the House-but In
his case it's the lack of them.
Bachelor Joe Martin has discov-
cred, somewhat to his astonishment,
Evening star., 1948-01-26
On the Record
Liberal and FBI Protests on Removing
Communists Legal Cloak Held Invalid

blessings OF liberty to ourselves anc
our posterity."
Now comes an American move
ment, subordinate branch Of an
international movement, which re-
CARDS the national welfare indis-
soluble from and subservient to the
welfare Of the Soviet state; which
conspires to disturb the domestic
tranquility by civil strife; to SUBJ
stitute for the constitutional system
Communist dictatorship of the
proletariat; to sabotage the common
defense under all circumstances un-
less the Soviet Union is thereby
served, and to withdraw from the
people all liberties, to be afterward
granted or withdrawn from our
selves and our posterity according
to the whim of dictatorship. And
the Constitution demands that this
conspiracy be legalized? That Is
reducing the Constitution to ab-
surdity.
Illegal Core Rules Legal Body.
The second argument is danger
GUS. Communist parties are both
legal and illegal, and the illega.
structure governs the legal. Prob.
ably the FBI fears that dissolution
Of the legal body would destroy
connections it has traced between
it and the illegal groups. The law
however, does not exist for the con-
venience of the FBI, but the FBI fol
the convenience of the law. If the
former is admitted, We are on the
way to police state, the essence o1
which is that the police operate fol
clique or on their own. The fire
of Communist lawlessness and vic.
lence is not to be quenched by fires
of the same nature, but by the
waters of just law.
Merely to ban the Communist
Party as such would be useless. II
would revive, as it did in Canada
under another name. A proper Law
would not even need to name the
Communist Party. 1t would very
carefully define specific practices
and organization for specific objec-
tives as being incompatible with the
constitutional order.
The present alf-legal, half-perse.
cuted position of the party and its
members is not justice. 1t operates
to eliminate one evil with another
both evils containing dangers to the
constitutional order.
(Released by The Bell Syndicate, 1ne0
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Believes This Changing World
Reports of Ukrainian Revolts Credited
But Do Not Mean Crisis for Soviets

bordering the Ukraine. 1t appears
from reports so far available that
the disorders are led by group
of competent leaders, since the
troubles began simultaneously in
several parts of the country.
In some sections the MVD men
were overpowered and local organ
izations acting independently OF
Moscow were set up. For the time
being it is not clear whether the
units of the large Red Army main
tanned in Northern Russia have been
able to restore order.
Army Defections Reported.
Reports from the Polish under
ground that there have been defec-
tions from the ranks of the regu-
lar army and that the deserters
have made common cause with the
rebels are still being discounted
The heavy iron curtain which sepa-
rates the U. S. S. R. from the
rest of the world renders any posi-
tive check difficult.
However, reports that units from
the Red forces which were con-
centrated for some time in Georgia
and Armenia, close to Turkeys east
ern borders, have been rushed to
the West seem to lend credence to
the otherwise unconfirmed news Of
serious trouble in the Ukraine.
These reports came from Red SOL
diers who deserted recently to
Turkey.
High Washington officials say,
however, that whatever the truth,
it would be a mistake to think that
such disturbances mean that Russia
is wearing out at the seams.
Rebelli0ns Are Rule.
Rebellions and waves of discon-
tent among the population are
endemic in the U. S. S. r. and local
troubles, regardless of how bloody
they may be, are not sufficient tc
weaken or change the policies Of
the dictators in the Kremlin.
Whenever serious disturbances
occur and the MVD forces are un-
able to cope with them, soldiers
from other parts of the country are
brought in to handle them. Mongols
Turkomen and other Asiatics are
used to suppress rebellions in the
West and western Russians are
utilized to put down revolutions in
the East.
Russian national unity exists only
in the Kremlin, among the upper
hierarchy of the government and
among the MVD forces. They are
united in a desire to perpetuate
themselves in power. And their
play is facilitated by the fact that
there are so many different races
speaking different languages which
can be used in the event of domestic
troubles.
Evening star., 1948-01-26

U. S. S. R. and, Constantine Brown.
together with Byelo-R was Sc
lected for United Nations member
ship. Despite this distinction,
which Moscow believed would please
the freedom minded UkrainianS,
that republic has given more
trouble to the Politbureau than any
other member of the U. S. S. r.
Early in the war when the Nazis
attacked Russia the Ukrainians re-
ceived them as iberators. 1t took
incompatible stupidity in the Gesta-
20 to convert these friends of Ger
many into bitter enemies. After
tens of thousands were murdered in
cold blood by Himmler's police, the
Ukrainians started a partisan war
which, according to military author
tiles, contributed largely to the de-
feat of the NaZiS at Stalingrad. !.
The Ukrainian partisans interfered
so successfully with German lines
of communication that the army OF
Field Marshal Friedrich Won Paulus
could not receive necessary supplies.
Kremlin Lost Friendship.
The new honeymoon between the
Kremlin and the peoples of the
Ukraine did not last long after
We day. Since the fall of 1945
two rebellions have been reported
Both were crushed in the usual
way by MVD (Soviet secret police)
Thousands were executed and tens
of thousands were sent to labor
camps and other remote sections
of the Soviet Union. However,
the 1e47 uprising was so extensive
that the MVD forces alone could
not suppress it and troops from
the army commanded by Marshal
Georgi Zhukov had to be called
in to support the MvD forces.
Since early this year another
rebellion on a much larger scale
has been renorted from countries
Evening star., 1948-01-26

a natural right. That was not Lin
coins Interpretation. Nothing IN
the Constitution prohibited seces-
sion: Lincoln thought, however
that preservation of the Union was
the essence of the Constitution.
A continually reaf1rmed thesis
of communism is that its objectives
cannot be realized without ruth
less violence nor within the frame
work of a constitutional order. Is
it our counter thesis that law can
not pe invoked against promoters
of such catastrophe? Law, 1t has
been said, is made by criminals;
first an act damaging to the COM
munity is committed and then q
law is passed to prohibit its oc-
curing again.
Actions Prove Conspiracy.
But what if overt acts by an
organization with which an Ameri-
can group is subordinately affiliated
long have been projected ano
actually carried out in many othel
countries? Is it a principle Of law
that it may not anticipate events?
Actually, conspiracy to commit GER
tain acts is itself an overt act
That definite conspiracy exists
and has existed for years to subvert
all constitutional orders in the
world, and that the American Com
munist Party and its leading mem
bers have been consciously allied
with it. can be proved.
Popular confusions arise concern
ing constitutional rights. Rights
guaranteed by State can be guar
anteed only within the framework
of that State. They cannot be de-
tached from it, as though they were
a constitution in themselves, which
is what some people would like to
do with the Bill of Rights. They
are not dissoluble from the intent
of that State that guarantees them
The intent and purpose OF the
American Constitution is formulated
in the preamble; to form q
more perfect union, establish justice
insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote
the general welfare, and secure the
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Ry Constantine Bro,gn

For the past two weeks reports Of
a major rebellion in the Ukraine
have been reaching Washington,
although no confirmation is obtain
Evening star., 1948-01-26
By Dorothy Thompson

ObJectlOnS TO deIegaIlzlng COM
munism are chiefly two, one STEM
ming from Communists and liberals
and the other from the mentality
Evening star., 1948-01-26

human being as
"sir" and the
other was that /
W oul n t put
b a ck on t h e
weight which the
Army had so gra-
ciously worked
of me.
I have done
pretty well by
the first VOW,
but nave V1OlaC-
ed the second to
such an extent
that, come Mon
day, I am going
Evening star., 1948-01-26

in her own right.
After som c
u n d erstandable
hesitation, Mar
tha Taft has
agreed to Meet
the Press" on
the radio pro-
gram of that
name. She is
naturally hop
ing that chivah.y
is not dead even
among report
ers, but she has
placed no re-
strictions on the
Evening star., 1948-01-26
beats looking back =!

80 OSHI@ 'O0N'I'J OHNN'
It's much more fun to look ahead than to look
back-partcularly if you have savings account.
You day.dream all you want and know that
your dreams are not out of reach
Saving regularly is easy habit to acquire-all
you need to do is save little each pay day.
When you have begun to save, you will find it
happy habit, too:
Now that you earning extra money, it will be
real thrill to watch your savings grow
II will afford you feeling of security, and you
will find comfort in the knowledge that the things
you want most within your reach
In these days of high prices, it is better to bank
all your extra pay, then you know that you can
bank on it when you need it most
Remember also, pay you IN per interest your
sarings up s2500 and per from $250l $4,000.
Evening star., 1948-01-26

able on the eX-
t mt of the
troubles; which
are said to have
broken out soon
after January l.
The consensus OF
those who fol-
low carefully the
situation in Rus
sia and her sat-
elites is that
the reports are
accurate.
The U krain c
is an important
part of the
Evening star., 1948-08-26
After Dark
If Jody Had Done That Mad Scene,
Her Title Might Have Been Lost
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

Jody Miller, the new Miss Wash
ington," undoubtedly is happy now
that she listened to those friends
who gave her the courage to be
steadfast when she needed it. We
shudder to think what might have
happened to her in the balloting
at the Capitol Theater Monday
night if she had not been success
fully touted off a plan that was
being urged upon her.
1t was while she was singing at
the King Cole Room in place of
the vacationing Dona Mason that
We came upon Jody's problem. She
sat down at the table one night to
talk of life and it vagaries.
How are things?" we asked.
Fine" she said. Except for that
Miss Washington contest. I some
times think shouldn't bother with
it. You know what that radio pro-
ducer who's directing the girls
wants me to do? He wants me to
sing Night and Day as if I were
going mad"
"What?"
"You heard me. He wants me to
sing Night and Day as If I were
going mad-full of melodramatics-
tearing my hair and everything. I
think it's silly"
1T sounds silly, all right" we
said. There's no contest rule that
you have to do what he tells you,
Is there?"
Il guess not" Jody said. "I'd like
to sing An Old, Old Castle In Scot
land That's the kind of song I do
best"
We'll, sing that then and hang
the consequences" she was told.
That's what Vince Gallagher
says" Jody replied. She thought a
moment. I'LL do it," she declared
"I hope you all are right"
II you want to know the kind OF
luck Mr.. Gallagher, the King Cole
Room owner, has, incidentally. we
can give you a hint. Awhile back
Dona Mason was signed to appear
as guest star on Paul Whiteman's
network radio show. Mr.. G. booked
Miss Miller to fill In for Dona on
the night Of the broadcast. That
night turned out to be last night,
"a day following the one on which
announcement of Jody Miller's
selection as Miss Washington" was
announced widespread in the public
prints. (She did not, by the way,
sing Night and Day" as if she were
going mad)
When Mr.. Gallagher called to
relay the above informa ton he al
lowed as how he was sorry he
couldn't hire Grif1th Stadium for
the event. She probably can draw
bigger crowd than that ball club"
he said. Hahl She probably can
play baseball better than that ball
club, too.
If YOU have been sitting at home
Evening star., 1948-08-26

listening to the radio instead of
roistering in a night club-which a
lot of people seem to have been do
ing, judging from the present state
of life After Dark-you have en-
countered tune called Underneath
the Arches" You will not be able
to escape it by going out at night,
either, since it is turning up on the
local bandstands now.
When it turned up at the Shore
ham Blue Room the other damp
night it brought a new respect for
Barnee's orchestra on the part of
the guy with the gal who asked for
the tune.
"'U ernea n the Arches'?"
Evening star., 1948-08-26

Barnes said. II think you have me
trapped, much as I hate to admit it..
I never heard of it." He went up on
the bandstand and posed the aues-
ton. The members of the Blue
Room Philharmonic looked blank,
except for one man, the librarian.
On him, light dawned and he left
the stand in a rush, returning
shortly with a pristine folder of un-
touched sheet music. Barnee passed
the music around, let the boys look
at it for a couple of minutes while
they we're playing an old waltz they
could have done in their sleep. Then
he steered them into the new ditty
and they whipped through it as if
they'd been rehearsing it for weeks.
Attaching the word new" to
Underneath the Arches" is, of
Evening star., 1948-08-26

course. loose use of it. The song was
published in 1882. gasped feebly and
went into retirement. A few weeks
ago, London Records found 5000 of
the old discs in a corner of the ware
house and shipped them to a few
larger cities, hoping to be rid of
them. What happened then was
the traditional accident. The Eddie
Gallahers of the land started to
play the tune and the demand for
records zoomed.
The accident couldn't have hap
pened to a luckier group of record
companies. There turned out to be
a forgotten master recording in al
most everybody's vault. According to
Jack O'Brian, the Associated Press
Broadway man, Decca found it had
recorded the tune in the hectic days
Evening star., 1948-08-26

just before the Petrillo ban. RCA-
Victor delved through the files and
found . 1888 pressing made by
George Olsen, with Ethel Shutta
singing. Everybody else found his
own version of Underneath the
Evening star., 1948-08-26

Arches" and everybody's happy.
y 4 \
Al Fresco Department: This, ac-
cording to the latest word we have
had. is your last week for listening
to Sammy Seymour's fine music at
the Starlight Roof of the Roger
Evening star., 1948-08-26

Smith Hotel. Saturday night viii
De the roofs last OF this season .
The Shoreham Terrace. where ths
faith In Washington's September
weather runs higher, will remain
open until the weatherman arranges
lotherwise.