The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-10-12

MISS irene Slddon, q resident of
The Bethesda community, and a
member of the Belzoni faculty.
made an interesting trip this sum
mer to the eastern states.
Her observations written To this
newspaper will be of interest 10
her many friends in Holmes
county and our readers. The writ
err Is a native of Holmes and was
educated in the schools at Bethes-
da and Moorhead High. She is a
graduate of Delta State Teachers
college and received her masters
degree in math from Ole Miss.
Miss Siddon writes:
Would you believe that there
are so many things of interest in
this country of ours? / have Just
returned from a trip through the
eastern states to Washington, Bal
timore and Annapolis.
One of the first things to be seen
was the Great Stone Mountain
near Atlanta, Georgia. On this
mountain are carvings that have
been begun, but not yet finished.
Part OF the carvings is Robert E.
Lee and his horse.
On our way, we crossed manv
beautiful streams of water. The
i'otomac River was one of the
prettiest. Many of the highways
are dual highways - for which
the traveller is thankful.
We saw large peach orchards
and grape vineyards in North and
South Carolina; apple orchards
IN Virginia and Maryland; and,
tobacco fields from Richmond,
Va. to Baltimore. Maryland.
During my visit in the Capitol
City. | went on several tours of
the city and the surrounding
country. One tour included the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
where paper currency is made; the
Smithsonian Institute, housing fas-
clnating exhibits collected from
all over the world; the United
States Capitol in which the paint
lngs are said to be the largest and
most famous in the country. (The
Senate was in SESSION.; the Con-
gressional Library which has
more than 100000 volumes, many
rare books, first editions, and the
originals of the United States
Constitution and the Declaration
of independence.
We could not go into the White
House due to repair work being
done. We went to the top of the
Washington Monument, stupen-
dous shaft of granite, 555la feet
nigh. Other points of interest were
the Lincoln Memorial; the JEFF
ferson Memorial; Departments of
Justice, Commerce, Labor and
Agriculture; the Embassies: the
pentagon Building; the Pan-Am-
erlcan Union; and, the ever
famous Connecticut Avenue.
In Arlington, Va. is the old home
of Robert E. Lee facing the Lin
coin Memorial across the Potomac
River. We stopped at the Airing
ton Memorial Amphitheatre and
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in the Cemetery.
We visited Mt. Vernon, the
home of Martha and George
Washington, where we inspected
the house, the grounds, the tombs
of the Washingtons and the wharf.
In Alexandria, we saw the Christ
Church where Washington often
attended church.
The Naval Military Academy
with its spacious grounds and
gold-domed chapel was an inter-
esting sight in Annapolis. In the
Chesapeake Bay, we went through
the United States Destroyer Fitch,
a ship damaged in World War II.
This ship went further north than
any other ship.
The white doorsteps OF the Row
Houses in Baltimore were of in
terest to me. I was told that these
steps were kept spotless all of the
time. We visited Fort McHenry,
the birth place of the "Star Span
gled Banner" Baltimore is city
of many factories. One of its lar
gest is the Glenn Z. Martin Co.,
where airplanes are made.
On our way home, we drove for
some distance along the Skyline
Drive, which is in the Shenandoah
National Park. From this drive
we could see the Shenandoah Val
ley on one side and the Piedmont
Valley on the other. We visited
the Skyline Caverns in which are