The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-03-03

~ owned by the North, and the
profits from the other raw ma
terlals go mostly to the North,
Wnere they are processed.
AS Ellis Arnold proclaimed
When he was governor of Georgia
tne Southern States have been
ton"
To stifle manufacturing in the
south, the North has used four
instruments: capital a borrower
must pay higher interest in the
oouth; patents (the North owns
tne rights to most industrial pro-
cesses); high tariffs (The South
mas TO buy Northern goods at tar
i1f-inflated prices, but itself makes
Few articles that benefit from pro-
tection); and, most indefensible
oi1ferential freight rates (railways
charging a higher price to carry
iinlshed products from South to
Worth than from North to South.
ms latest inquiry dates from the
vindictive and rapacious "occupa-
ton" OF the South by the North
after War Between the States
when most white Southerners
were disfranchised. 1t has acted no
less effectively than an internal
tariff would, to protect Northern
manufacturers from Southern and
also from Western competition.
Domestic free trade is essential
to postwar America" as Governor
Arnall declared when Georgia
took action against these freight
rates, and in l945 they were at
last declared Illegal. The decision
has not yet been fully implement
ed. Nor did it excite much alarm
among the great northern manu-
facturers; they had already begun
to establish factories in the South.
attracted bv the cheaper cost of
labor and the smaller need for
fuel. Though this has enlarged
the payroll of Southerners, the
profits from their labor are drain
ed to the North
Relatively to the North, the
South today remains as Door as
ever. But absolutely its recent
propresS has been signal In the
last 10 years the average Southern
annual income has risen from $315
to $797. (This, of course, reflects
initiation as we'll as increased pro-
duction.) The war introduced
new industries, and has left CAPT.
tai available for further enter
prises. Cotton is being widely re-
placed by other crops and live
stock, to the great advantage of
the soil. Health is improving.
Racial prejudice grows less viol-
ent, In the armed forces some of
the young came to perceive that it
waS incomnatible with the demo-
cracv for which they were risking
their lives.
1t is indeed in the North and
the West that the color problem
threatens now to become most
acute. A contemplating machine
is coming into use For this and
other reasons at least 100000
negroes are likely within the next
ten years to emigrate from the
South.
It is only a section of Northern
business that profits from the CO.
lonial economy imposed upon the
South The makers IF motor cars
and refrigerators, for instance.
would find a vast now market if
the Southern agriculturist attain
cd the high standard of life en-
loved in the North alike bv the
former and the artisan. Purchas-
ing power has already been multi
piled in the area made prosper
Gus by the Tennessee Valley
Authority, and it must be only
~r'eetior If tiwn before a similar
prosperity embraces other parts
of the South.
Tho Americans are the most
energetic, generous and buoyant
of all people. They will no long
or allow a quarter of their coun-
try to endure conditions of life
that are profoundly un-American.