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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09
Noted Methodist
Leader Speaks To
Club Tuesday

at makes all the difference in
the world what you believe--for
what you believe makes you
what you are" said DR.. Roy L.
Smith, noted Methodist leader,
in an address Tuesday noon to
-oomhare Of the Lexington Ro-
tary Club.
DR.. Smith is conducting a re-
vival meeting this week at the
First Methodist Church of which
the Rev. Harmon L. Smith is pas
ton The Rev. Mr.. Smith, pastor,
introduced DR.. Smith to the
group as "a man of such keen
insight into affairs not only of
the community, but the nation
and the world that he is virtual
ly a prophet"
The speaker, world travel
Ter and distinguished writer and
lecturer, told of experiences in
Japan.
He discussed the theology OF
the Japanese soldier which made
him "the most dangerous foe"
ever met by American forces.
He said the japanese soldiers
believed that their Emperor was
divine and was destined to rule
the world.
The Japanese soldier believed
that if he died in the service of
his Emperor that he went to a
special place IN Heaven.
These beliefs of the japanese
soldier made him what he was
and dictated his choice of dying
in the service of his Emperor
even to suicide rather than be-
ing defeated or taken prisoner.
DR.. Smith illustrated his theme
by illustrating how the beliefs of
the Jews have kept them alive
and powerful in the world today
when by all known standards
they would have been conquered
for all time at the fall of Jeru-
salem to Babylon.
The beliefs of the Jews are
centered on three basic tenets,
he said. These are:
First, the world is under
authority of a moral order. "In
the beginning, Cod
Japan defied the moral judg-
ment of humanity and Germany
did the same with disastrous re-
suits.
Secondly. the acknowledged
divinity Of all humanity. God
created man iiA his own image
Totalitarianisn denies any
right" Of man and is thereby
in direct opposition with demo-
cracy which rests on the pro-
mise that all humanity has GER
tain inherent rights.
Third, the Jew believes in the
sanctity Of the individual. In the
totalitarian government only the
state is important-the Individual
is nothing.
The Jew has survived, DR..
Smith said, because he has be-
lieved these three things, all
foundation stones Of age old re-
ligious faith.
He concluded by saying the
modern citizen who would fight
totalitarian oppression in the
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

Try The Clasifieds III Pays!
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09
H 0 M E
IN T S
BY
FRANCES
FORTENBERRY

Home Economics
Director. Miss. Power
4 Light Co.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

0ttter Weeds
DO not allow bitter weeds to
DDtD seed in your pasture. Usual.
~ when bitter weeds are present
grass Is very short. Clip the
wneds above the grass. Cypress
vctds should be clipped in pas
snresk5ut do not disturb the grass
aandemesth. In clipping pastures
ne s,erefto raise your NOW blade
snd not clip too close.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

HaY Crop
Soy beans or peas can still be
planted for hay. 1t would be adj
sSisable to plant soy beans in
goWs and cultivate once or twice
fn, order to get a good quality
tay. Plant about one and one
laES bushels Of ogden, roanoke
= q late maturing bean to the
Ee for good hay. Of course we
Ire going to have to have mois-
hire present in order to get the
deans to come up. We are still
hoping that we will have a gene
E7l rsin in the next few days.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09
Now You Can Lick Athletes Foot
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skin, exposing buried fungi and
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baby's. In just One Hour, if not
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drug store. Today at Howell and
Heggie Drug Store.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

FOR SALE - tx Ton General
Electric Air Conditioning Unit
in perfect shape complete with
ducts and water tower at bar
gain price. Used only two sum-
mers. See or call A. K. (Charlie)
Dinas in Durant at Hotel COT
fee Shop, or phone 1881 Du-
rant, his residence. 39-tfnp
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09
Return Home

Fefurn Home
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Herrin
and son Steve and Bill King have
returned from a pleasant trip to
Los Angeles, California where
they visited Mrs. Herrin's pa
rents. They also visited many
other western points Of interest
enroute and returning home in
Guiding Grand Canyon.
In Alabama
Try The Clasifiads III pavSl
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

kosciusko Shoppers
Mrs. Bob Clinton and Miss
Ruth Howard shopped in Kos
ciusko Monday.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

Home Again
Friends of Mrs. Pete McNeer
will be glad to know she is back
home again on Lamar Street in
Cleveland after being confined
to the Cleveland City Hospital
for the past twelve days.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-07-09

FOR SALE-100x400 lot on Cas-
Italian Boulevard in Durant
west of Mrs. Madge Lipsey.
$1,000. Kate Cade, West.
40-4tnp
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

Plagued by the Korean profits
burning fronts President Eisenhower is having trouble with his
three Rs-Rhee, Reed and Readin.
speaks to the United States Senate
degrees yet this He doesn't
degreehes already running 103 with Potomac Fever
administration junks Lyon Mine chief
after he reveals $1,000 pension from Anaconda Copper
Copper wonderful conductorbut kes band isn't playing
that kind Of music any more
The Air Henry contract building
planes The Pentagon claims the radar in the Kaiser plane
doesn't work too wet failed to him the Democrats might
lose the last election.
Ike names Lewis Strauss Hbomb expert. chairman of
Energy Commission They've improved the Hbomb
the point where it's noisees-not soul will remember
hearing 1t explode
clamps reign Of terror East Germany to stem
an-Red riots Russia scoring 100 in
offensive Peaceful the angels Koreaoensive the devil
in Germany
The Civil Service Commission the Eisenhower admins
traon has dropped 5000 Federal workers Republicans claim
they command the Potomac-and Democrats readily
the G.. o. p. Is still up the creek.
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Wiley Asks FBI 10 Probe
MESSAGES Attacking Him
BY the Associotsd Press

Senator Wiley, Republican, OF
Wisconsin says some one used an
assumed name to make a "das-
tardly smear attack" on him and
that he has asked the FB1 to
investigate.
The chairman Of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
blamed 40 kilograms he said were
sent Wisconsin County Republic
can chairmen for squirting the
State Republican Convention
into adopting q resolution Of
censure against him. The reso-
luton criticizing his opposition
to a proposed constitutional
amendment to limit treaty-mak-
ing powers and his co-sponsoring
of a bill to admit additional
immigrants.
Senator Wiley told the Senate
yesterday the kilograms were
sent over the signature Of the
COMMITTEE for Constitutional
Government" but that the COM
mittee disavowed them. and that
the sender gave a fictitious name.
"Benajmin Coleman" to the
Western Union Telegraph Co.
The Committee for Constitu-
tional Government, Inc, said 1t
did not authorize and had no
knowledge Of the kilograms.
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Dovid Lowrence:

Something more Is involved
in the pending debate on the
proposed plan for reorganiza-
tion Of the Department Of De-
tense than the question Of
whether q PrusSianized gen.
eral stan system shall be in
troduced in America. It is fun
damentally whether Congress
will ever again permit the
Chief Executive to submit
departmental reorganization
plans that are not subject to
amendment by Congress itself.
When President Eisenhower
came into Office, there was op-
position to an extension Of the
law which had authorized the
submission Of reorganization
plans. and only after House
and Senate leaders intervened
was the power which had been
given to Mr.. Truman similarly
granted to the new President.
But at that time murmurs were
heard about the absolutism of
the reorganization-plan tech
nique. Congress. however, did
not have enough evidence of
how such a law can be abused
to warrant q fight.
Gen. Eisenhower, therefore,
has more at stake than the
plan for reorganizing the De-
tense Department itself. His
failure to allow his Spokesmen
in Congress to agree to an
amendment Of the plan means
that II Congress goes along
again this time, it will confirm
its own abdication Of the legis-
lative function on matters OF
governmental organization. No
President hereafter will seek
amendments Of basic law if he
feels he can get away with a
single package Of amendments
of his own choosing by simply
calling it a reorganization
plan"
The plan for the Defense
Department is in the main ac-
ceptable to all factions, espe-
cially those provisions which
relate to procurement of ma
terials and equipment and
administrative procedure gen.
orally. But the provision
which has aroused widespread
protest is the one that would
set up the equivalent of a
Prussian general staff with a
single military man at its
head. This comes about be-
cause the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff is no
longer to be merely presid-
Evening star., 1953-06-25

Winston Churchill. or Mr..
Lester Pearson, the president
of the q. N. General Assembly.
or even some Of our new policy
makers who have described the
actions Of the South Korean
President as "treacherouS,"
shocking" and "unco-op
tive"
What Syngman Rhee did
was to liberate from the stock
AIDES the ROK POWs who had
been impressed In the North
Korean army as soon as they
had been captured. and were
forced to fight their nom
Communist brethren at bay
onet or tommygun point.
These $4,000 men liberated by
Rhee last week were the same
to whom Mr.. Acheson referred
as ''re-educatees" in his
speech only seven months ago.
No one then found Mr.. Ache
sons speech Shocking" as
Mr.. Lester Pearson now flnds
the Korean Presidents action.
The situation was. Of course,
different in October. 1852.
Prospects Of an armistice were
dim. Stain was alive, and
could see no advantage to the
u. S. 8. r. in ending the
stalemate In Korea. America
was in the midst Of an i'm
portant presidential campaign.
and the Democrats knew that
any further concessions to the
Communists would doom any
chance they had to keep con-
troll of at least the Congress.
This, does not weaken. how
ever. the case presented by Mr..
Acheson to the U. N. The
Communists had actually infe
pressed into the North Korean
armies tens Of thousands Of
South Koreans who had fallen
into their hands early in the
war, when the unframed and
poorly equipped ROK divisions
were melting away before the
hot fury of the well-armed and
Soviet-trained North Korean
forces.
There is no doubt that the
arbitrary decision of Syngman
Rhee to liberate his fellow
countrymen who had been kept
in POW camps for two years Is
highly embarrassing now that
Evening star., 1953-06-25
| Violence Spreads in India
In Wake Of Hindu S Death
Rx the Asseeiated Press .

NEW DELHI. India. June Is.
New violence was reported to-
day in the wake of the death in
political captivity of Hindu ex-
tremist leader Syama Prasad
Mookerjee.
The new outbreaks were in
Jammu, predominantly Hindu
center of Southern Kashmir.
Police had clashed with a crowd
Of Mookerjee's supporters in
Delhi, the capitals twin city,
following announcement Of the
death Tuesday.
Mookerjee, leading right-wing
opponent of Prime Minister ia
waharlal Nehru'S government,
died in Kashmir, where he had
been arrested five weeks ago for
defying a ban on his entering the
disputed state. The government
attributed his death to a heart
attack following pleurisy.
Reports from Kashmir said
government troops were patrol
ling Jammu and mobs still
prowled the streets following a
riot yesterday broken up by po-
lice tear gas. The reports said
four persons were injured and
eight arrested.
Evening star., 1953-06-25
SuiIor Wounds Rive, ,
SIoys Wife and Self
BY the Asseei1ssd Press

HONOLULU, June IS. - A
young sailor apparently shot and
killed his 19-year-old wife, seri-
ously wounded a Navy man, then
fatally shot himself yesterday in
a romantic triangle, Navy inves-
tigators said.
Dead were James D. Young
blood, %, whose hometown was
withheld, and his wife. Patricia
Ross Youngblood, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Ross Of
Bishop, Tex. Mrs. Youngblood
was a University Of Hawaii honor
student.
Wounded, but expected to re-
cover, was William Francis Nc
Donald, jr., %, Pass Christian
Miss.
Evening star., 1953-06-25

will become iinbedded In the
Defense Department. and even
tually q bigger bureaucracy
will be built under the Chair
man Of the Joint Chiefs.
Worst Of all, the present
situation In the House illus
strates how the Executive can
force the repeal or amend
ment Of basic laws without
affording Congress an oppor-
tunity to modify D single
phrase or to delete o single
paragraph without voting
down the whole thing. The
House Committee on Govern
ment Operations has at
tempted to strike out q single
paragraph. but there are par
liamentarians Of experience
who say it cannot be done law
fully.
So Congress is confronted
with the necessity Of killing
an entire plan. which it may
not wish to do, In order to
force a change In q single
provision. This gives the Exec
utive far-reaching control over
existing laws and can lead to
fundamental changes that will
be difficult for the Congress to
remedy by subsequent legisla-
ton. especially since the
President by his veto can kill
any such proposal unless 1t
happens to be supported by
a two-thirds vote in both
houses. Through the reorgan-
ization law. the President leg
islateS. and neither house can
amend his laws but must take
them or leave them as a single
entity.
The new plan for the De-
fense Department will produce
dissension that will impair
the spirit Of unity so essential
if the armed services are to
be integrated. The reorganiza-
ton plan isn't fully UNDER
stood by many members Of
the House, but some day not
far distant, when there Is q
fight on extension Of the
Presidents reorganization
powers, the shoe will be on
the other foot and the adj
ministration will lose out.
This is too high q price to
pay for the pressuring through
Congress of q plan that could
easily have been modified by
the Executive before being sent
to Congress.
Reproduction Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Constantine Brown:

An already forgotten speech
before the United Nations may
have inspired President Syng-
man Rhee to liberate $4,000
Korean POWs. Only seven
months ago, the then Secretary
Of State Dean Acheson blasted
the Chinese Communists before
the U. N. General Assembly
for their bad faith in regard
to prisoners Of war.
He condemned the enemy for
his refusal to comply with the
requirements Of the Geneva
Convention. which provides
that the names and numbers
of prisoners held by q bellig-
erent be Immediately COM
municated through interna-
tional channels to their gov
ernment.
Mr.. Acheson pointed out that
in 1851 the Communists were
announcing with pride that
they had captured $1,000
allied combatants, and he
quoted the Reds broadcast:
"6l 900 in just nine months Of
hostilities."
But when the Reds finally
agreed to provide the U. N.
command with lists Of prison.
ers, they listed only 1850, in
cluding South Koreans. Mr..
Acheson spoke with his usual
biting sarcasm: when the
enemy was asked about the
difference between $1,000 and
1850 he had a most inter-
esting explanation. He said
that the difference was &C
counted for by people who had
been re-educated at the front
so quickly that it was impos-
sible to get their names. Most
of these people had been al
most instantaneously re-edI-
Gated and had done what?
What do you suppose these
re-educatees had done so
quickly that one could not get
their names? You have guessed
it, I am sure. They joined the
North Korean army, and that
was the difference between
$4,000 and 1900"
Obviously, Syngman Rhee
has a longer or less convenient
memory than Prime Minister
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Constontine Brown:
Rhee Liberated His Own Men
Freed Soldiers Were Originally Part Of ROk Army;
Perhaps Acheson Speech Inspired Rhee.s Action

the Communists have decided
to sign an armistice. Many ask
the question: Why didn't
Rhee do this last winter?"
According to reports received
from Seoul. the Korean leader
took his fateful step when he
learned that the decisions OF
the 1ive-nation truce team
would be by a majority vote.
Mr.. Rhee learned at the elev-
enth hour that Washington
yielded to the pleas Of the
U. N. and. in order to hasten
an armistice. reversed IT'S stand
that the decision of the neu-
tral commission should be by
unanimous vote. DR.. Rhee
feared, with good reason. that
these former ROK soldiers
would be turned over to the
Communists by the majority
rulings Of Poland. Czechoslo-
yakia and India.
DR.. Rhee was definitely
wrong when he did not consult
the U. N. command about the
action he was contemplating.
But the aged and cantankerouS
fighter feared that such con-
situations would only result In
u. N. forces being sent to take
over guarding the stockades
and thus Illustrate his plans.
He apparently holds little
hope that the unity of Korea
under mont Communist leader
ship can be achieved at the
peace table. He does not doubt
that the United States will live
up to its formal promises. But
DR.. Rhee questions our ability
to overcome the opposition Of
our fellow U. N. members, par
ticularly Great Britain and
India. to any forceful uni
fication of Korea in the
post-armistice political negoti-
ations. Prime Minister Church.
Ill stated his governments
position clearly this week in
the House Of Commons when
he said 1--WE have never COM
mitted ourselves to unity Korea
under Dr., Rhee." This may
have been said in anger. but
the applause received by Mr..
Churchill from the House
benches shows which way the
wind is blowing In Great
Britain.
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Administration Made Ridiculous
ne Well TO heck for Loyoty but It Wouldn't Hurt Also
To Determine if an Appointee Can Handle the Job

voted in the House against
every housing bill.
Yet Mr.. Lyon was dis
patched to the Hill like a
lamb to the slaughter. It must
be said to his credit that he
was frankness itself; the gap
ing Senators who examined
him praised him for It. He
even had one Of those pen
,sions from o company that
deals with the bureau he was
supposed to head. It wasn't
automatic but was revocable at
the will of the company. And.
like Mr.. Talbot, he doesn't
believe in the Presidents re-
ciprocal trade policy, but the
budget director had told him
not to talk about that.
The Eisenhower administra-
ton has harped upon the fact
that its appointees would be
cleared by the FBI for loyalty
and security. It wouldn't hurt
to ask a few common-senSe
questions. too. about the pro-
posed appointees' aptitudes for
the job in hand.
Basically. the trouble is that
the White House has been put
directly into the patronage
business by the politically in-
experienced men around the
President. This would be bad
enough II the President were
an astute politician who loved
to play the political game.
Actually he frets about poll
tics and thinks he should be
above It. He needs either new
aides or q new system or his
present troubles will repeat
themselves.
Evening star., 1953-06-25
Defense Reorganization Evils
Prussonzed General Stoff Isn't the Only Objection
Congress Would Surrender Powers to Executive
rs to Executive

ing officer over the chiefs Of
the three armed services when
they get together to formulate
military policy. Under the
plan, he would become the
boss of the Joint Chiefs, and
he would be authorized to
gather around him a complete
stad Of officers Of his own
choosing without regard to the
wishes Of the heads Of the
three armed services or their
recommendations as to which
officers are fit to represent
their respective services on the
all-important "Joint staff"
The administration thought
that. by naming so popular
and sensible an of11cer as Ad-
mira1 Radford to be chairman.
the opposition would evapo-
rate. But the principle Is more
important than the PERSONAL
ity Of the individual who hap
pens for two years only to
occupy the post. Once the
system is imbedded. it will be
interpreted in any way any
future chairman chooses.
The vice of the current
Defense Department plan is
that it puts one man next to
the Secretary of Defense, en-
abling him not only to influ-
ence the latter with respect to
his own views, but to support
them by recommendations
from a staff Of "yes men" who
can be chosen by the Chair
man of the Joint Chiefs over
the protests Of the Joint Chiefs
themselves.
The scheme introduces an
unprecedented grant OF power
to one man. It means that the
heads of the three armed
services are relegated to a
subordinate role and, while
the law speaks of them as the
principal military advisers"
to the Secretary Of Defense
and to the President. they can
be ignored or their views set
aside by a powerful Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs who will be
able to have direct access con-
stantly to both the Secretary
of Defense and the President.
The argument has been ad-
vanced that, II the scheme
doesn't work, 1t can be
amended by future law. It is
the principle, however, which
Evening star., 1953-06-25

According to the New York
Times, the adamant chair
man heard again from the
President later that day by
telephone. If so, nothing ap-
parently was accomplished in
line with the Presidents de-
sire. On the contrary, the
chairman called of all meet
ings of his committee until
further notice. saying he had
to catch UP on his ONCE work.
Matter of fact, the chairman
by his speech had made his
own retreat virtually impos-
sible. More than ever he re-
vealed that. so far as he is con-
cerned, reduction of taxes is a
moral crusade, a debt Of honor
owed to the voters by himself
and all the other Republicans.
He protested bitterly against
the action Of the Rules COM
mittee in bottling up his bill.
H. r. /, which would cut all
income taxes by II per cent,
effective July /. His committee
reported this bill favorably, 81
to 4. four months ago.
The prompt enactment Of
H. r. / raises q high moral OBJ
ligation," he said. ITO Tepudi-
ate and dishonor the promise
to reduce income taxes is to
obtain offlce under false prem
ises. Failure to honor prom
ises made to get votes raises
the question of national Sc
curity. How far can sovereign
citizens trust their liberties
to the hands Of those who are
Evening star., 1953-06-25

Monday night. But Sherman
Adams, presidential assistant,
repeatedly refused to let him
talk to the President about
the things that make him i'm
portant and which are i'm
portant to him. aa
Interior Secretary Mckay
whose department includes
the Bureau of Mines, also
brushed off Mr.. Lewis. He said,
he had committed himself on
the Lyon appointment to Utah
Senators Watkins and Bennett.
The Senators are now indi-
eating they were misled by the
mining associations which put
Mr.. Lyon forward.
Republican politicians gen.
orally also put the cat on Mr..
Adams back.
The Utah Senator'S worked
directly with the White House
and Secretary Mckay. They
got Mr.. Lyon cleared there as
early as April l, and the delay
in hearings on him is at
tributed to Mr.. Lewis.
"Sherm did it with his eyes
Open" an informed source said
positively. Hes had all this
time to learn what came out
at the hearing"
It is not as If this were the
first instance of bad brieflng
with respect to nominees. The
troubles Of Defense Secretary
Wilson and his team are his
toric. There have been Joseph
Talbot, the Tariff Com
missioner of q free trade Pres
ident who turned out to- be
q protectionist, and Housing
Administrator Cole, who had