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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Among those attending the Ole
Miss-LSU and Tulane-State Col
lege games at Baton Rouge and
New Orleans Saturday and Sat
urday night were Mr.. and Mrs.
Marcus Love, Jr. Robert Yancy
Love, "Coon" Odom, "Butterball"
Bowie, and Miss Hazel Brannon.
Mrs E. B. Guess and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dipper Smithson attended
the Alabama-State game Satur-
day.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Love.
Robert Love, DR.. C. E. Patton,
and Miss Sara Howard attended
the Ole Miss-LSU game at Baton
Rouge, and the State College
Tulane game at New Orleans,
Saturday and Saturday night.
Sidney Campbell spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs.
Minnie Campbell.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04
PotroImun Cautions
Against Forest Fires;
Urges Checking Vehicles

highway Patrolman YearWood,
in reporting the few accidents
w h h have occurred in
this area for the past few weeks,
urges persons noticing forest
fires out to notify a patrolman in
order that the maintenance divi-
sion of the State Highway de-
partment can work to extinguish
the fires. Forest and grass fires
about a week ago swept over an
area near Tchula caused possibly
from lighted cigarette carelessly
thrust from the window of a NOV
ing vehicle, he said.
He urged careful attention to
the following recent letter from
Col. T. B. Birdsong, commissioner
of public safety:
With the winter months al
ready here and our traffic acct
dents increasing daily, I as Com
missioner of Public Safety am
asking every Sheriff, Chief of
Police, Constable, County Patrol
men and in fact, every Law En-
forcement Officer of our state to
join us in helping to rid our high
ways of the unsafe vehicle and
driver. In short we would like
to have this unified program
start November IS, at which time
all cars, trucks, and drivers will
be checked for the following:
l. BRAKES. Foot and hand brake.
2. LIGHTS (a) Passenger cars to
have two good headlights, with
proper DINNER switch and burn
ing on both bright and dim, and
red burning tail-light, and
stop-ight that works. CD Trucks:
To have proper headlights. tail
light and other lights and reflec-
tors as outlined in 'Rules of the
Road" Patrolmen will give any
of you necessary information and
instructions. (c) Trucks: To have
necessary flares, flags and emer-
gency equipment.
3. GLASS: All cars and trucks
to have a good windshield not
cracked and Clipped that can be
seen through. All windows and
doors to be glass and any card
boards, sacks, ETC., to be removed
and replaced with glass. 4. A horn
in working condition. S. Wind
shield wipers to be in good work
ing condition. 6. Check for Driv-
ers License to see if needs re-
newing, or if they have one. Z.
See that all wagons have proper
lights when on the highway at
night. 8, Check Bicycles for pro-
per lights when operating at
night. 9. Rear view mirror, muff-
Ter, bad steering gear. 10. Notice
able defective tires which would
be menace to safety
81 am sure each of you will
agree with us that we need to
combine our efforts to make driv-
ing safe on our highways and
city streets and during the win
ter months when the Fog, Rain,
is more hazardous. For the first
eight months of this year only
Mud, and possibly Sleet driving
four states had a better record
than Mississippi. However, there
is still someone being killed on
our Highways every t20 hours of
each day due to someone's care
lesSness.
"Stickers will be furnished by
Patrolmen and the plan we will
use explained to you in detail.
''We sincerely hope each of you
will join us in this campaign for
safety, and wish to assure you
we are ready and willing to work
and cooperate with you to the full
lest extent so long as our authori-
ty permits"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mrs. j. p. Durham, Mrs. N. w.
Kyle, Misses Roberta DeLoach
and Lois Rhodes attended the
stage play oklahoma" in Jack
son.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mrs. Louise Durham was a
business visitor in Jackson FRI
day.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04
Patients At The Hospital

Mrs Guy Thornton Durant
Mrs. Billy Rogers, Lexington
Miss Alice Hamilton, Durant
Mrs. w. A. Turner, Yazoo City
Rev. S. L. MCCULLOUGH, Goodman
Mrs. Irene Money, Lexington.
Colored
Rubber Tyler, Lexington
Ezell Mckinney, Lexington
Leila Stokes, Pickens
Pat Rogers, Lexington
Steve Williams, Goodman
Nose Weathersby, Durant
Mrs. CASTOR A. Guess was in
Lexington to vote on Tuesday of
this week.
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Mr.. Truman and the Press

- President Truman told Texas audience
Nnat 80 or 80 per cent of the newspapers
were opposing him. His explanation was
that the press supported the special in
terests" as against "the people" His
figures may be about right. Editor and
Publisher ran a poll recently and came
Up with an estimate that Governor Dewey
had the support of about 68 per cent OF
the press and President Truman about Is
per cent The balance was divided between
papers supporting Governor Thurmond
and Henry Wallace and those not COM
mtted.
REGARDLESS of who wins, however, the
press will take a beating from its critics.
II Governor Dewey wins, with friendly
press. critics on the losing side will ex-
coriate the press as a power for evil. II
he loses, despite friendly press, victorious
critics will noiSily interpret the fact as
another indication of the waning power OF
the press. That was the line during the
Roosevelt administration, when majority
Of the papers was on the losing side. Some
of the critics wrote books about 1t.
1t probably has been ever thus. Dean
MOtb, JIle OllFclSity Va NAAoooutI 6SAAoS'
of journalism once made a study of the
press In political campaigns and one con-
clusion was that a majority of the press
has been wrong in picking winner almost
as many times as it has been right. There
has never been anything approaching
unanimity of press opinion on candidates.
however, which is one fundamental differ
ence between the free press in the United
States and the controlled press of Soviet
Russia.
The press probably eXerts a greater in
fluence on voters by printing what the
candidates say than by expressing in
dividual editorial preferences. Mr.. Truman
Is aware of that fact, for he once told a
group of neWspapermen that he did not
care a great deal what the editorials SAID
about him so long as he could get his own
speeches on the front page. He can find
little complaint with the newspapers on
that score now. He gets far more 'front.'
page publicity, which probably is read by
more people than editorial criticism. AS
an American he should take some pride in
the fact that the vast majority of the
newspapers, regardless of their editorial
positions, divide their space fairly between
the two candidates, report the news with
out bias and let the people decide for
themselves in reading what the candidates
say.
Maybe that explains the 6S, 80 or 80 per
cent, whatever it may be, of daily papers
supporting Governor Dewey editorially.
Perhaps Mr. Truman would be better of
politically if the papers Joined in con-
spracy to suppress some of his startling
utterances, off the cuff, on his Give 'em
he'll" trip throughout the country. Read
ing what the President is saying. voters
undoubtedly are making up their minds,
along with the editorial writers, that they
dn mt like II
Evening star., 1948-09-29
undermining Brooklyn Bridge

The famous Brooklyn Bridge Is to be
modernized, but its appearance Is not 10
be changed. DR.. David B. Steinman, VINO
played around the eastern end OF the span
when he was boy, has been commissioned
to plan the work, and he has accepted the
task with the understanding that the
original design is sacred" The present
two-lane roadway is to be developed into a
six-lane highway. A year OF study OF the
whole problem will be needed before actual
reconstruction can begin. Once started,
however, the Job will be pushed through as
rapidly as possible.
DR., Steinman seems to be the ideal
architect for such an assignment. native
of New York, he earned q Doctor OF
Philosophy degree in engineering at
Columbia University. From 1914 to 1917
he was associated with Gustav Lindenthal
on the He'll Gate arch bridge. Then IN
1921 he Joined forces with DR.. Holton d.
Robinson with whom he collaborated on
the Florianopolis suspension bridge In
Brazil-the largest achievement of It's kind
in South America. Other productions for
which he was partly or entirely responsible
are the Sydney Harbor bridge, Australia;
the st. Johns bridge, Portland, Oregon;
the Charter Oak bridge, Hartford, Connec-
ticut. and five bridges over the st. Law
renee and the Thousand Islands. The total
number of his spans is more than two
hundred.
Meanwhile. DR.. Steinman has written a
long list of books about bridges, One of
them is biography of John Augustus
Roebling, who designed the Brooklyn
Bridge, and his son. Washington Augustus
Roebling, who built 1t. In this volume he
tells how the enterprise first was suggested
by the senior Roebling in June, 1887, and
how he died as the result of an accident
while making surveys on the Brooklyn side
In 1859 The son also risked his life and
suffered permanent impairment of his
health in the work. But their plans were
carried out to the letter, and the bridge
has been in use since 1883.
Or. Steinman has a final plan of his own
that he hopes to see translated into reality
before he retires-a span over the Narrows
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Big Families Favored

To the Editor OF The star:
The average intelligent citizen is not the
least bit concerned with the question OF over
population today, for the intelligent know that
families are the buwark of the nation, even
If Ess Gee Wants Big Families Penalized."
Only the disdainful believe they can frustate
or defeat Gods will in any way, and by no
stretch of the imagination has man vanquished
either epidemics or plaques. Gods instru-
ments of depopulation are incomprehensbe.
An intelligent person need only reflect on the
utter destruction that wind, lightning or earth
quake may leave in their wake.
The crux of Ess Gees gripe is incorporated In
the last sentence of his public expression as
follows This means a complete reversal OF
the antiquated policy Of granting tax relief
to the reckIessly prolific" The schools, hos
pitfalls, jails, asylums and potters fields men
toned as being required for the offspring OF
big families have been established for the
small families, too.
The fact that the heads Of families paying
taxes are granted tax relief" for their minor
children is where the shoe pinches.
PRUDENCE UNDERFIRE.
Evening star., 1948-09-29
NEGROES Not Communists


In the last generation when the soldiers Of
the Confederacy left their homes to fight for
what they considered to be the preservation of
States Rights, their women and children were
left practically helpless and in the care of the
colored people on the plantations. The faithful
discharge of that trust by the eolored people
is one of the shining pages of American history.
Now in this generation the Communists COM
plain that they have made poor headway in
persuading the colored people to team up with
them in activities disloyal to the American
Government. The Communists say that the
colored people are too loyal to their churches.
Thus, again, the colorsd race has shown up
well when tested. OF course, there always is
fringe of both white and colored which will
be more concerned with promoting their indi-
vidual views than with the national safety but
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Wants Presidency Limited

To the Editor OF Tbs Star:
Present dangerous international conditions
emphasize the need for q change in the Con-
stitutional provision fixing the term OF Pres
ident at four years, with reelection possible.
At time which seems to be major crisis
in our Nations history, when many Of us are
worried that we might be plunged into the
third war In our generation, the President is
far away FROM his ONCE and duties, wearing
himself out trying to win votes for reelection.
Mr. Truman Is not to blame He Is doing
only what others in the ONCE before him have
done and probably those who follow him will
do as long as more than one term 10 per
mitted The Constitution should be changed
to make that negligence impossible. The term
of President should be six years. and no mat
ter how indispensable the man, limited to one
term All ex-Presidents should be ex-officio
Senators at large, or something similar, for life
or good behavior.
Then at time like this the President would
be in the White House devoting himself to
the welfare of the Nation.
GEORGE FREDERICK MILLER.
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Som Rice to the Rescue

1t il not an easy thing to complain
about barking dogs. The dog. as the books
say, is mans best friend. The best friend
of what man7 The man who owns the
dog, of course, not the man who lives next
door, And when one is complaining about
barking dog, one is complaining about the
best friend of the man who owns him.
Who loves me, loves my dog, etc.
But there are times when the best
friend of the man next door gets on the
nerves of even the best-natured neighhor.
Sam Rice, the old right fielder, was the
obvious victim of one such time. He told
the court In Rockville that barking dogs
had changed him from man who had
loved dogs for fifty years into man who
Is Just about cured of dogs" He said he
could not sleep, study, read, talk or con-
centrate- because of the barking dogs.
And the court agreed with him. Judge
Stedman Prescott ruled that the owner
of the nearby kennel no matter how we'll
bred the owners of the dogs or how well
cared for the dogs might be. would have
to take steps to make the dogs quit bark
ing. A victory for Sam Rice, and q victory
for all neighbors who suffer. not In silence,
but in the nights made hideous by roam
ing, barking dogs whose best friends do
nothing to shut them up.
Sam Rice's own travail was unduly harsh.
For his neighbors kept whole kennel OF
dogs, owned by such vociferous and dis
sident masters as Winston Churchill and
Henry Wallace. In speaking out In court,
demanding the right OF citizen to legal
protection against barking dogs, Sam Rice
has made hit There is applause from
the bleachers There is revolt in the air.
Dogs barking aloof bite not at hand"
But they raise hob with mans sleep, and
Sam Rice Is one man who has done some
thing about It,
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Now the Architects

The architects are the latest group of
professional workers in Russia to feel the
lash OF Communist Party criticism. Pravda
has reminded them that: There is battle
going on of Socialist realism against bour-
geois Journalism" The same official news
paper Is demanding that mistakes be up-
rooted" and that Soviet architects move
forward with Soviet architecture along lines
laid out by the party and the government"
Just what those lines" are is not made
clear. Obviously, the great monuments Of
communism cannot be objected to. Such
structures as the Palace of the Soviets.
the Theater Meyerhold, the Red Army
Theater and the Hotel Moscow represent
too vast an investment of idealism and
Of labor to be discarded now, even if they
are not yet completed The same may be
said for the Mayakovsky Station and other
units OF the Moscow subway the Council
House, the Lenin Library, the Red Army
Sanatorium, the Clinical Institute, the
Rest Home at New Athos and all those
other edifices about which the Soviet
propaganda bureau has been boasting for
years,
A review of the architectural enterprises
shown on Russian postage stamps fails to
confirm the notion that Soviet designers, as
Pravda insists, have been initiating Amer
ican styles. The buildings raised by the
Communists since the Bolshevik revolution
of 1918 seem to be realistic and functional
enough to meet even the most exacting
demand. Surely the Soviet meeting place
in Moscow. publicized as recently as ls47
and possibly not yet even begun, is not a
pseudo Parthenon,' characterized by IAN
excessive use of pillars"
The Pravda article, prepared by A. vlasov,
chief architect of Kiev, declares "a deep
understanding of the high theological
artistic content of Soviet architecture" is
required for the creation of perfected
works of the epoch of Socialism" Maybe
this is q call for totally new and alto
gether novel theory and system Of design.
II so, 1t may be significant OF real progress
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Beauest for q Small Boy

Gold Is not mine to giDe you,
Sitting here tonight
Searching the hearts pockets
In the faint Twilight.
But singing from my memory
Comes thin, net0 moon.
A neado,o fuH OF daisies,
An inch OF day at noon,
A golden coin of laughter,
A copper's north OF fear,
4 wtdth of shining courage,
A slender globe OF tear,
And lope's otcn golden nugget,
Deep In the pnlses' stream,
Waiting the quickentno touch Of time,
The sudden prick of dream.
These golden things to cyoio on
leaue to you tonight.
Sptllin0 out hearts pockets
For your ssceet delight.
May you ind among them,
Firm ana fair and true, A
Enough Of gold to shape q star
TO hitch your wngon to.
GLADYS MCKEE.
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Accurate Speedometers

To the Editor OF the Star'
It is noted in The Star for September 20 that
the trafic director is concerned that many
automobile speedometers are defective; also ne
saws nothing can be done about It,
Why not establish an accurately measured
mile, or other convenient distance somewhere
in the city, then drive car with an aecurateH
calibrated speedometer over this course ana
then have the mileage turned up on this speed
ometer accepted as ideal" for all speedometers
later tested by the police?
The writer Is convinced that practically AL
drivers would consider 1t worthwhile to know
that their speedometers were reasonably ac-
csirats.
small fee might be charged for this service.
WILLIAM r SMITH.
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Men, 1t Seems, Are Preferred

Men, 1t SeemS, ARE ffeferreo
To the Editor Of The Star.
A woman roomer complains about landladles
preferring men. I'll tell you why we prefer
men:
A man doesn't leave hair combings all over
the lavatory and in the tub, and get peeved
when he is told. man usually only takes
shower and shaves, which does not monop-
olize the bath like woman does who soaks
in bubble bath and launders her hair every
week. A man doesn't wash his pants and
socks every night and leave them strung on
coat hangers on the towel bars. man doesn't
wipe lipstick all over the woodwork and wall.
A man doesn't ruin every mattress he lies
on nor does he clog up the toilet plumbing.
A man doesn't waste your gas curling his
hair. A man is more prompt with rent. A
man hurries Of to work and doesn't gossip
about your place to his friends.
man boarder gulps whatever is set before
him-couldnt tell you what he ate II you
asked hm-but doesn't complain about the
menu; and he minds his own business
man never brings a girl friend up to his
room like some women try to sneak in boy
friend, at indecent hours. man doesn't
even bring his buddy as a guest, while girls
always are toting in girl friend which makes
an extra person using the bath.
A man doesn't get drunk IN your house-ne
knows he can be arrested for disorderly con-
duct.
man doesn't hang on the phone for hours,
cabling with friend like women do.
If a man comes home late, he doesn't bang
the door like most girls I have known. If he
drops cigarette ashes on the floor, if he leaves
his clothes lying around, If he snores, If he
doesn't make his bed, if he plays the radio
loudly, If he burns the electricity at all hours
SO DO women
We do not refuse to admit girls because We
are jealous Of them Our husbands prefer
men roomers for the same reasons.
LANDLADY.
Evening star., 1948-09-29
Drug Which Porolyzes
AnimoIs Reported FOND
Amazon Jungle Tree Substance Affcts
Only Muscular Activity
OF Stars, Men and Atoms
By Thomas r. Heary

A South American drug which completely
paralyzes animals has just been reported /
the American Association for the Advance
ment of 6cience here.
1t is ryanodine. obtained from the ryana
tree which grows throughout the Amazon
jungles. The strange effects OF this latest
addition to the weird drugs found in plants
of that part Of the world were discovered by DR..
G. A. Edwards and his associates of TUFTS
College, working under contract with the
Army Chemical Corps
The action is strikingly different from that
of other paralyzing drugs. DR.. Edwards re-
ports in that it knocks out only the ability
of muscles to contract 1t has no effect at all
on the nervous system. It does not interfere
with the transmission of electrical impulses
along muscles. 1t has one of the most specific
actions known for any drug.
Appears As If Frozen.
The animal appears as if it were frozen
stiff in its tracks Yet it is entirely conscious.
The entire nervous system is functioning as
well as ever
A somewhat similar effect is obtained with
the South American drug curare which now
is widely used in surgery to relax muscles by
shutting off nervous impulses after the patient
has been placed under anesthesia. Curare also
entirely conscious. Its effect is entirely on
the motor nerves. 1t leaves the sensory nerves
unaffected A paralyzed animal feels without
being able to respond to the feeling-a weird
sort of life in death. But muscles themselves
are unaffected. The result is a limp paralysis.
Ryanodine produces a rigid paralysis.
The new drug has been tested with cock
reaches, frogs and white mice Each type of
animal showed similar symptoms. but In vary
ing degrees.
48-Hour Condition.
About Is minutes after injection OF a minute
amount an insect becomes sluggish and after
25 minutes is unable to stand. This condition
remains for about 4S hours. Larger doses are
fatal and smaller ones produce the same
symptoms. but in less marked degree.
In frogs the drug produces complete rigor
in about three hours. This first appears in the
front legs and progresses backwards through
the body. Much the same results are obtained
with mice
One curious result Is that oxygen consump-
ton of all the animals tested greatly increases.
Application of many times the paralyzing dose
directly to nerve ganglia and fibers produces
no effect whatsoever. When it Is applied
directly to muscles, they transmit electrical
impulses as we'll as ever.
Evening star., 1948-09-29

But the difficulties are enormous. Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels possessed no
esthetic qualifications They were econ
omists and politicians, bitter In their hatred
of art as a form of waste" How anybody
could translate their famous Manifesto
into architectural conceptions is not easy
to guess. Meanwhile, the architects at
tackled by Pravda certainly are not to be
envied by their professional contemporaries
in lands still free from such coercion.
Evening star., 1948-09-29

in New York which would be thousand
feet longer than the George Washington
bridge over the Hudson, now the worlds
longest. The bridge fans of the Nation
wish him luck
Evening star., 1948-09-29

Scrlbes with the Wallace troupe remark
on the increasing confusion of the candi-
date. 1t is as if at times he paused in
the ball park to wonder, Am 1 pitching
or catching?"
Evening star., 1948-09-29
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