The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-01-03

6lSos country is Scared with
wounds that need healing.
We are like a sprawling, gian,
octopus. We have many faces
many sides to our being, multi.
pie facets to our character.
AT once we are generous and
greedy, rich and poverty-strick.
en-, tall in stature and lowly in
nature. We see on the one side
graft and corruption that pu,
ancient Rome to shame. On
the other we see nation OF
people pouring out their SUBJ
stance to all the needy of the
world. Confusion and anxiety
are the order of the day with
heart disease taking its toll
accordingly.
1t is our firm belief that there
is only one answer to solving
our problems - and that is q
return to Christ - to the sim
pie principles of Christianity
upon which this country Of ours
was founded and upon which
its laws until recent years have
been based.
We will never be happy or
trulygrsat rs a nation until we
exemplify in our public life
the same principles and pre-
cepts that we expect a man of
honor and integrity to live by
in practice in private life.
All Of the problems we have
today as a nation can be solved
by going back to the village
hamlet and there putting into
practice the type of life we
. want to be lived in Washing
ton.
No chain can be stronger than
its weakest link --and this ma
ton of ours can be no better
than its people.
Every citizen of America is
part Of a chain in his or her
community. The type of citi-
zenship found in every city is
determined by the sum total
of all its citizens. Each citizen
has his responsibility to dis
charge - and no one else can
or should discharge it for him.
We have a great deal during
the past twenty years in Ameri-
ca about our Rights.
As a result we have whole
segment of our population liv-
ing under the delusion that it
should be allowed to get by
without work off the toll of
others.
We should have been hearing
more about our responsibilities
as citizens.
My wish for our country in
this New Year is that the pro-
fessed Christians of America
should seek fulfillment of the
promise found in II Chronicles
TIA - and thereby fulfill the
responsibilities of citizenship.
Only then will we have quiet
and serenity rather than war
and confusion.
What kind of citizens are we?
What kind of community
would we have if every citizen
was like us?
What kind of nation would
we have?
The answer to all the prob
lens facing us is bound up in
the answer.
There is a saying, or perhaps
it is a song which goes some
thing like this: We've come
long way together"
That's the way we like to
think of this community. Ger
tainly the farmers, bankers,
business and professional men
and women and this newspaper
with its subscribers and adj
vertisers have come a long way
together. We hope that we
are going on together - to
a greater year in 1852 than
we've known before - to, God
willing, a year when the great
issues confronting the world to-
day will be resolved, and we
become a world at peace.
1t is a good thing, as some
maintain, to stop and take stock
al the end OF a year, to review,
to analyze, and to resolve great
er accomplishments in the New
Year. But it's never good to
look back too long, or too hard.
Rather it is well TO remember
only the best, forget the worst,
and look with confidence and
faith to the future.
This newspaper and its staff
renews our pledge to you of
service and cooperation.
Anything anyone connected
with this institution can do to-