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

In a ceremony solemnized FRI
day afternoon, September 8, in
the Pickens Baptist church, Miss
Mary Elizabeth Varnado, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H r.
Varnado of Pickens, became the
bride of Gustave Adolphus Har-
rer, III, son of Mrs. G. A. Har-
rer and the late DR.. Harrer of
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The vows were pledged be-
fore a background of magnolia
leaves, surmounted by white
cathedral candles. A large spray
of gladioli formed the center of
the evergreen background. To the
side were placed candelabra en-
twined with ivy and ropes of
stock and tuberoses.
A program of nuptial music
was presented by Miss Carolyn
Sugg, of Scott, organist, and Mrs.
Harry Worthey, vocalist, who sang
"Ich Liebe Dich."
Candles were lighted by NAL
colin Montgomery, Jr, cousin of
the bride, who acted as grooms-
men. Joe Harrer of Chapel Hill
served his brother as best man.
Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids were Miss Betty
Doss of Chattanooga, Tennessee,
and Miss Mary Elizabeth King of
Conway, South Carolina.
Maid of honor was Miss Martha
CHASER of Greenwood.
The bride, entering on the arm
of her father, wore a wedding
gown Of ivory satin, with tight
bodice, embroidered at the yoke
line with seed earls, and enhanc-
ed by a yoke of illusion with high
neckline. The full skirt extended
into a long train. Her finger-tir
veil of imported silk illusion cas-.
caded from a coronet beaded with
seed pearls She carried a white
Bible and orchids with streamers
of white bridal roses and lilies
of the valley.
At the close of the ceremony
Mrs. Worthey sang softly "The
Lords Prayer" while the bride
and bridegroom knelt at the al
tar.
Rerenfion
Following the ceremony, Mr.
and Mrs. Varnado entertained
with a reception in their home in
honor of the bride and bride
groom.
Guests were greeted by Mrs
T. p. Montgomery and invited
into the sun porch by Mrs. Ster'
ling Crawford. At the door, they
were received by Miss Una Mont.
| gomery, aunt of the bride. The
receiving line was composed o.
Mrs. Varnado, Mrs. Harrer, Mr.
Varnado and the wedding party
! Inviting the guests to register
was Mrs. Edmund Montgomery
of Jackson, who presided owe
the brides book. The guests were
invited into the dining room by
Miss Carolyn Mcpherson.
Miss Marcella Harrer and Mrs
Malcolm Montgomery, Jr., servet
punch to the guests who were alst
served cake minis and sailed nut
by Miss Doris Meeks, Miss Letiti;
Harrer, Miss Jean White, Mrs
Hardy McKie, Jr., and Mrs. W. L
Crawford.
Serving the cake were Mrs. Ed
ward Atkinson, Jr., and Mrs B
B. Jones.
Mrs. Malcolm Montgomery, pre-
sided in the gift room and Mrs
Victor Montgomery babe tn,
guests goodbye at the door.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrer left for ;
trip to Miami Beach, Florida, af
ter which they will return to Mis-
sissippi for a few days. After tht
wedding trip they will be home
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04
Wesleyan Service Guild
Holds Zone Meeting
At Duront Sunday

The last zone meeting of the
year for the Wesleyan Service
guild was held Sunday afternoon
at 2;30 at the Methodist church in
Durant, with representatives
from Durant and Lexington pre-
sent. Mrs. Lucille Truitt presided
in the absence of Mrs. Elaine
Ellington. Mrs. Claude Bailey was
secretary.
Officers elected for the coming
year were Mrs. Elaine
Ellington, reelected zone chair
man; Mrs. Jessie Lewis, secretary.
The program was conducted by
Mrs. Tolbert Nabers.
Following business, ambrosia
and cake were served by Durant
guild members.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

MIR. and Mrs. James Cherry.
Laurel spent the past week end
with Mrs. Cherry's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. P. Moore.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Bacon, Jack
son, spent Sunday with Mr.. Ba-
cons mother, Mrs. Zouella Bacon
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mrs. Annie Catherine Atwood.
Chicago, Illinois, is visiting her.
mother, Mrs. John Racine.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Miss Betty Norwood, Green
vile spent the past week end
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. w. Norwood.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Cecil Clements, who has been
confined at Community hospital,
has returned home. Mrs. Clements
and Mrs. Tyler visited their sis
ter, Mrs. Hubert Melton, who is
i'll in a Memphis hospital, Sun
day.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mrs. Ethel Seelbinder, Cleve-
land, spent the week end with
her mother, Mrs. B. w. Moore.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-11-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Jones and
sons, Belzoni, spent Sunday with
Mr.. Jones parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Harper Jones.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
Pegler Takes Up Dialectic Battle Concerning The
Eminence OF Notre Dame In Modern World

munists that he is casually re-
ferred to, apparently without pro-
test from him, as an apologist
for communism. Frankfurter is
also a disciple OF Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who has a false
reputation as a liberal created
by this clique. Holmes was, in
fact, a true, essential Hitlerite
and his brutality permeates the
Supreme Court today. Harvard
once was great in our history.
Today Harvard is sinister and
suspected. No other school has
taken Harvard's old place. No
tire Dame might.
The Truman Congress probably
will demolish the committee on
un-American activities because
Mr.. Truman as a patriot, is as
hamed and, as a politician, is
embarrassed by the penetration
OF traitorism in our government
which this committee revealed.
But the committees record
shows communists in the State
Department, the Department of
Justice, the Treasury, the Office
of War information, the O.S.S.,
the U.N.R.R.A.-in hundreds of
civil and military, domestic and
foreign agencies of the United
States. Most of them and Ger
tainly the worst OF them came
from Harvard law.
What l say to Mr.. Ward is that
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
Despite Bumper Crops In U. S. World
Still Has Millions OF People Hungry

DESPITE bumper crops in the United States and
better crops all the world there still millions
of people with not enough to eat and the world in
1913 is producing less food less fibers and only slight
ly more forest products than it did before the war
These are the conclusions of the Food and Agr-
culture Organization of the United Nations, which
has just issued globa food survey At the present
rate of production barring untavorabe weather. the
people of Europe and the Far East WILL in about 1885,
get about much to eat they did before the war
The compilation of food data calls attention to five
factors which stand out in the world survey:
1) War damage in Europe and Asia was under
estimated;
(2)Inflation has been more persistent than at first
anticipated;
(3) The shift of wealth as result of the war has
placed most production and most money in the West
ern Hemisphere, which leaves e nations without
food and supplies also without the money to buy
them
az Political independence in lowncome
tries has brought demands for improved living stand
ards; and
(5) Recalling the food-shortages of the war, gov
ernments and people are showing new interest in
food supplies.
The experts of the United Nations Organization
realize that they cannot make the governments of the
world do anything about the food situation but they
want to give the people of the world the facts. They
would like to see better distribution of the supplies
Of food, fibers and forestry products among the
rous income groups in each country and the output of
each country raised that food-importng countries
can sell other goods to pay for the food needed.
The entire report illustrates the new attitude that
of the world. Rarely in the past has any favored
ton concerned itself with the standard of living and
buying power of less favored groups.
Whether the new interest arises exclusively from
the thought that, If war comes, it is we'll to have
allies among the low-standard populations wheth
good of mankind is something which this writer does
not attempt to assert.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
BY Lynn Nisbet

HIGHWAYS - North Carolina
has 81, 800 miles of public roads
for construction and maintenance
of which the state highway and
public works commission is res
ponsible This mileage is divi-
ded into several technical clas-
sifications, but for general pur-
poses two classes suffice - state
roads and county roads. The
state roads are those which have
distinguishing numbers such as
US-1 or NC-10. The county
roads are those which do not have
numerical designations and
which do not appear on the big
highway maps. In the numbered
state system there are 1882
miles and in the county system
5l,938 miles.
CONFUSING - Further break
down in technical terminology
sometimes confuses the average
citizen. The federal public roads
administration has primary and
secondary classifications, and ad-
ditional descriptive phrases ap-
plicable to different types of con-
struction in both. To some people
a road treated with crushed
stone or gravel is a paved road,
while in technical engineering
terms a paved road means con-
crete or high quality asphaltic-
surface. furthermore, the high
way commission separates items
of rural roads from those sec
tions of state highways within
corporal limits of towns and
cities. Consequently highway
sources sometimes give conflict
ing answers to similar cues
tions and about road mileage of
particular type construction.
URBAN - For example, one
man called the statistical office
the other day and got a figure of
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
INSECT
Scott Will Have Major Task In
Improving State Road Systems

$3.50 miles paved primary high
ways; another called and got an
answer quoting l0,790 miles of
hard-surfaced roads. Both were
right. The first figure covered
roads outside Of town and ci-
ties, while the second embraced
city streets and few miles per-
haps of hard surfacing which did
not qualify for the engineers def
inition of paving.
RURAL-Hard surfaced mile
age outside of towns and cities
was 1924 miles the first Of this
year. BY December 81 the mile
age is estimated to be Is, ,l57. OF
that total the primary or num-
bered roads account for $3.50,
whole county roads have 5,377
miles. During the calendar year
1948 approximately 600 miles of
primary roads and more than
1900 miles Of county roads were
surfaced.
SUMMARY - That leaves the
picture about like this: In the
state federal primary system IL,
1852 miles of which 10,790 miles
are hardsurfaced and 572 miles
not paved; in the county system
1888 miles of which 5,377
miles have been put in al-wea-
ther condition with water-resis-
tant paving Of some type and 40,
56l miles have no approved all
weather surfacing although sew
eral thousand miles have been
treated with stone or gravel.
DIFFERENCES - Virginians
smooth off the surface Of dirt
roads and put layer of asphalt
twelve feet wide on top and
classify it as paved" North
Carolina's highway engineers
will not tolerate that kind of
construction. Matter of fact,
that's one of the grievances Gov
ernors Cherry and Scott have
had.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29

the Notre Dame alumni have an
opportunity to revive a love Of
honor and decency in the people
by taking in politics the same
energetic, skillful leadership that
Notre Dame assumed in foot
ball by right Of superior quality.
Our people have been degraded.
Young students are frankly pre-
pairing to become profession
al parasitic administrators" by
the thousands to deal "relief",
benefits" compensation" and
pensions to othe millions with no
higher aim in life than idleness
or Woodwork.
The White House, Congress,
the Supreme Court, the Depart
ment Of Justice, even the clergy
are unable to offer an example
OF fineness, honor and true res
pectability. The clergy can't
even agree that obvious wrongs
are wrong. Eminent Clergy
break bread with rascal union
GERS in an indecent approach to
their subjects under evil auspec-
es. We find them on the platform
with Henry Wallace and the COM
munists not to argue but to agree.
Notre Dame could come to
stand for the opposite of every
thing that Harvard Law stands
for now. But this isn't an exclu-
sive opportunity.
There is SiWash.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
Supersonic Trains Are Imagined
By Forward Looking Railroad Men

Imaginative railroad men are looking forward
to supersonic trains which will shoot through pres
sure tubes, much inter-office messages are sent
today in tubes, and the Continent in
three hours, thus eliminating the need for sleeping
accommodations
Of course, the super-train is not coming in the
next few years but designers think that, probably,
alton will become fact in transportation.
The chances are that the imagination of the rail-
road is not far wrong and that in the course of
century men ana nd women viii be travelling faster
progress already recorded and meets the desire of
human beings to move around with greater ease and
mobility.
Incidentally, the railroads. in their prime secured
the business of travellers because the trains put peo
pie where they wanted to 60 faster than any other
method of travel Today in competition with the air.
plane and the bus the track bound train is at some
thing of disadvantage but forwardlooking railroad
are at work upon the problem of achieving great
er speeds in travelling.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
TUCKER
BY Ray Tucker

WASHINGTON - The major
labor organizations of the ma
ton are not so sure of their
strength as their post-election
claims of having been RESPONSE
BILE for President Truman's cleo
ton indicate.
A detailed White House study
OF the returns convinces several
Truman aides that their boss
would have lost without the un-
expected support of the agricul-
tural population.
Labor worked hard and did
good job Of getting out the ur-
ban vote for the President, but
he had that block of ballots in
his pocket, anyway, because of
his veto of the Taft-Hatrley Act.
Even with the majorities which
the unions rolled up for him in
the cities, Mr.. Truman would
have lost if Governor Dewey had
polled even a decent vote in the
normally rural, Republican
areas.
IN T E RESTS: Factory and
farm interests will collide in the
next Congress on many issues.
Although the c. I. O.'s economic
program calls for high income
for the producers of food, labor
spokesman favor the more flexi-
BILE measure providing for lower
parity prices after 1949.
Almost every House member
of labor voted for repeal of fe-
deral taxes on oleomargarine at
the last session. And most re-
elected M. C.'s fro-.l agrarian
areas clamor for retention Of the
Taft-Hartley Act.
There never has been and there
is not now, community of po-
litical and economic interest be-
tween labor and agriculture on
Capitol Hill. When they vote
alike, as they did on behalf of
President Truman, it is for en-
tirely different reasons.
RACE: Labor's anti-agricul-
tural race for President Tru-
mans ear and favor explains the
peculiar behaviour of William
Green and Philip Murray since
November 2. They don't want the
man in the White House TO get
any false notions that he owes
his triumph to any element ex-
cept the unions. They suspect
that he regrets his first, rash
utterance of thankfulness to the
effect that Labor did it,"
In their private talks with CIO
President Murray and with John
L. Lewis, head of the United
Mine Workers, Mr.. Green's A.
F. of L. emissaries have en-
phasized the argument that, If
they want to capitalize to the
full on November 2, they must
unite their now squabbling or
CARNATIONS.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
BY Dorothy Thompson


In the last few days, Drew
Middleton, reporting to the New
York Times from intelligence
sources in Berlin, has confirm
ed analyses of the political situa-
ton in Russia published in this
column month ago.
There is a struggle for power
in the Politburo in anticipation
of the death of Stain, intensi-
fled by the passing OF Zhdanov.
OF all possible successors, Zhda-
nov was the man most able and
likely to inherit the numerous in
stances Of power which Stain
over the years has gathered in
to one hand. Zhdanov also held
the central balancing position be-
tween rival groups.
Although Malenkov, as person.
mel chief of the Communist Par
ty had the opportunity of solidi-
fy a following by willing Party
offices with his henchmen, Zh-
danov, as Secretary General, re-
peatedly checked him by dis
missing Malenkov's, appointees
for theological reasons. APP
parently, Malenkov is in cahoots
with Bella, head of the Secret
Police.
But these men have opponents.
In the game being played per-
sonal ambitions, dialectics and
foreign policy are involved, for
though all agree upon the same
goal, the eventual triumph of
world communism, there is dis
agreement regarding means
tactics and possibilities. Since
everybody's life on this planet
also may be. involved in the
outcome of the hidden struggle,
it is useful-from what clues we
have-to speculate, with what
basic knowledge and logic we
possess, concerning the elements
involved.
In the first place, let us be
clear about the nature of the
"Politburo"-the political Bu-
the Soviet Union and all other
Communist countries with one
exception, Yugoslavia, and who
lay down the law for the Com
munist Parties throughout the
world.
The Politburo is political. 1t
is concerned neither whit socio-
logy nor economics except as
these are factors in the most
far-reaching decisions of revo-
lutionary police, at home and a.
broad.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
BY Wsstbrook Pegler


Copyright, le4s, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
My discussion of the oppor-
tunities for moral leadership
which invite the men of Notre
Dame and West Point evokes
comment from Clifford B. Ward,
the editor of the Fort Wayne
News Sentinel.
This could be made a bout of
pot-boiling repartee, but we can
serve better purpose and l am
sure he prefers that.
Speaking of Notre Dame men,
I only observed that they had no
corps record of distinguished per-
formance in public life. No corps
recsord at all, good or bad. Some
individuals may have honored the
school in public affairs, but if a
large number had, Notre Dame
would have as fine a reputation
in politics, meaning the science
and work of government, as she
has in football. She might be
renowned as a mother of states
men - mayors, governors, SEN
ators, noted for their honor and
character.
Il am a Notre Dame grad"
Mr.. Ward writes, (which NAV or
may not be an excuse for Notre
Dame to blush. I am also a
Catholic. Any appraisal of my
virtues and vices is principally
matter for the recording angel.
But l can't follow you in the rea-
soning that, because Pendergast,
Hague, Kelly and Curley may be
civically and politically sinful,
Notre Dame is somehow culpab-
le."
l can't follow the reasoning by
which Mr.. Ward thought l held
Notre Dame to blame for these
sorry fellows, but let US hear him
out.
Certainly you cannot expect
me or any other Catholic to as
sumo responsibility for the way
wardness of other Catholics. I
have known thousands of the
completed product of Notre
Dame and, although they are not
eligible for canonization gener-
ally III defend their general re-
putation against responsibility
for fellows like Pendergast, Ha-
que and Curley."
If this is a challenge, I saw
yes, the Hagues and Pendergasts,
Curleys and Kellys should be
Stunned, not cultivated OR hon.
ored, by the clergy or laity and
should be voted down, not up.
However, it was not my intention
to dwell on the wrongs which
these four men have committed
against the integrity and health
OF our government. My wish was
that Notre Dame had produced
some alumni as good as these
fellows have been bad.
Here are four politicians, two
OF them convicted criminals. and
all of them forces for political
evil and disintegration. All were
implicated in vast corruption
OF the personal morals of millions
OF people through notorious con-
tempt for truth and justice in
government.
We recently began to learn
about the influence of a sly. de-
vlous clique of lawyers from
Harvard in the national govern
ment. F. Frankfurter was the tn.
tor OF most tough not all, of this
cadre of cynical, destructive re-
volutionairies. He is disciple.
or vice versa, of Harold Laski
the English ismatician who is so
famlliarly associated with COM
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-29
TUCKER
Labor Trying To Unite To Take Full
Advantage OF Election Results

To put it bluntly, they want to
mobilize their combined 15,000,-
900 membership. counting inde-
pendent unions, so that they can
gang up" against the White
House and Congress.
REUNION: Labor claims to
have defeated 88 men who voted
for the Taft-Hartley Act, but
there are still enough Republ-
cans and conservative Democrat
to override bill for outright
repeal of the law.
Only by presenting a united
'1abor 'front.'" Mr.. Green main
tains, can enough members be
frightened so stiff that they will
vote for scrapping the measure.
These bread-and-butter consi-
derations seem to provide practi-
cal reasons for a consolidation
of the three separate units
There was never greater need or
a better opportunity, in A. F. Of
L. opinion, for a labor reunion.
Negotiations on detailed and jur-
isdictional problems will take
months, but the present no
mountainous difficulty. 1
BLESSING: John L. might not
bend his Shakespearean knee e
nough to ally formally with his
old buddies. whom he despises
for their sixteen-year obeisance
to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mr.,
Truman. But he will probably
give gruff blessing to a loose
alliance for the reasons listed
above.
If these 100000 reunite,
they should be able to control
the votes Of at least 30,OOO,0OO
people, including relatives and
friends. That is more than fifty
per cent Of the number of citi-
zens who voted in 1910, 1914 and
1913.
K A NGAROO - Republicans
will probably argue for another
four years, as they have been ,
debating for four weeks, on whe-
ther their l948 presidential pre-
sentation was a kangaroo ticket
meaning that it was heavier
at the bottom than at the top.
Meaning, too, as many COP
leaders have contended all along,
that Governor Earl Warren of
California should have been the
presidential offering, and the
once defeated Dewey the vice.
presidential nominee. 4
Another political apple of dis
cord concerns Dewey-Warren
campaign. tactics. The question
among returning House and Sc
nate members of the opposition
is whether the G. o. P. entries
would not have won more votes
II they had slugged it out with
President Truman instead of in
dulging in pipe dreams of VIC
tory from the very day they
were nominated.