The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-11-16
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
by Hazel Brannon Smith

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Next week is Thanksgiving and
local firms and offices will be
closed Thursday in observance OF
the day.
To most people it means simply
a holiday from their jobs with pay
Or to school children q chance to
get out Of school for a few days.
Few people ever think about
being thankful any more.
The spirit of reverence and wor-
ship which permeated the first
Thanksgiving day has long since
been lost in the shuttle Of our
wonderful American way of life
so Thanksgiving today is not q
day to 60 to church and thank God
for our many blessings. It is, in
stead, a day to 60 hunting, or to q
ball game or the movies, to visit
or just stay home and rest from
our many dreary duties.
Thus it is that our services In
many places are not even held on
Thanksgiving but on the night
before - as if to get it out Of the
way, to simulate some feeling or
thought of thanksgiving as long
as it doesn't interfere with any of
the things we really want to do.
The community Thanksgiving
service is going to be held in Du-
rant on Thursday at 800 am.
at the Presbyterian Church.
Few Holmes county citizens
know the value OF forestry in our
county. 1t is little known fact
that there are 80 saw mills operat-
ing in this county - many Of them
with very substantial PAYROLL
Because OF our strategic loca-
ton, there Is shipped out Of the
county every week about $4,000
worth Of pulpwood. But only q
portion Of this comes from Holmes
county. The remainder Is grown
in adjoining counties.
Every person who owns farm
land Of any type should make
certain that every acre of it is put
into the best possible means of
production whether for row crops,
pastures or trees. Most Of the
land in Holmes county should be
in pasture and trees. There is very
little land in this county, compare
lively speaking, that should be
placed in row crops year after
year.
There Is money to be made in
trees - and they can be produced
on land which will not produce
anything else. 1t will take long
time perhaps to see the wisdom
OF this investment. But for many
of our citizens it can mean security
in old age - to others it could
mean money in the bank to edu-
cate youngsters now babies, or yet
unborn.
Even if you don't ever collect
on the trees it's an awful lot of fun
watching them grow.
Last week from Thursday
through Saturday it was our plea
sure to attend the 18th annual
fall meeting of the National Edi-
torial Association held at the
Hotel Sheraton in Chicago.
AS always the 3-day program
was filled with speeches. forums
and sessions designed to inform,
inspire and entertain all the hard
working newspapermen and wo-
men over the country who attend.
At this particular meeting there
were around $40 editors present
from forty states.
Most clever speaker on the
program probably was c. F. Ket-
tering, director and research con-
sultant for General Motors. Mr..
Kettering took as his topic the
subject: whats Ahead" Since
Mr. Kettering is a famous inventor
and a brilliant man we members
of the non-metropolitan press
DIETER known as country editors)
were very flattered to have him
come before us and especially
grateful to have him tell us what's
ahead - for we've all sure been
wondering lately.
As to what actually is ahead Mr..
Referring didn't seem to think it
it's going to be as bad as most folks
think. He pointed out that the
worst feature of the invention of
the automobile was that it did
away with horses and that in
stead of running the country as
many of our citizens thought at
the time it would that it had
opened entirely new avenues and
opportunities to the American
people in manufacturing and re-
lated activities, to bodybuilding
and communications, to the Ameri-
can service station with its many
related fields and countless other
golden opportunities.
He commented in a lighter vein
that perhaps the invention of the
automobile was a good thing be-
cause it would take a lot of good
land to grow enough feed for
horses for 100 million people in
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