The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-04-30
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES

All Clubs-an event, as most
Of you know, which occurred
in Holmes county.
Now that this historic fact
is being recognized and spec
ial ceremony arranged to hon.
or those pioneer leaders in or
ganized club work we believe
that most of you will want to
be present to take part, il only
to listen.
The parade will begin at
1880 around the Square-al-
though the All Club boys and
girls nearly 500 strong, will
assemble an hour earlier to
form the parade.
The Copiah- Lincoln band
and its Colettes will be here
and form q colorful part Of the
days festivities and at loo p.
m. q special drill will be given
by the Colettes on Beall Athle-
tic Field. This is something you
won't want to miss.
The brief formal program
will be held at Beall Field and
viii begin Immediately after
the Colettes drill at Beall Field.
II you want to have lunch
at the school house grounds
you may. Members of the
Home Demonstration Clubs
will have booths there with
plenty of good things to eat.
So everybody come and
bring your friends.
Next week will be celebrat-
ed ~ the 50th anniversary of
home demonstration work.
,SQ3 6u!,,!J XIsmaIlx,
during that week we will
have in our county a celebra-
ton that will honor club work
which closely parallels the
work of home demonstration
clubs in practically every
county in rural America.
The work of home demon
stration leaders has proved to
be a benefit and a blessing to
countless thousands of Ameri-
can homen1akers--wornen who |
have learned to do by doing in
their community demonstra-
ton clubs.
1t is a pleasure to salute the
home demonstration leaders
and wish them continued sue
cess in their important work.
No person should have an
inferiority complex about liv-
ing in the south today be-
cause we are fast coming into
our own as one Of the most
progressive sections of the
country.
Mississippians can take pride
in the fact that the magnolia
state has kept up for the most
part with the remainder of the
south and in a few things at
least, we are ahead.
Southern progress has been
made in all fields and nowhere
is it more obvious than in agri-
culture.
INFLAMMATION of farming, of
course, and diversification are
the two main reasons for this.
Since the end of World War II
the number of tractors on
southern farms has doubled
and today there are more than
one million tractors on south
ern farms.
The introduction of scientific
farming has played an import
ant part in the increase of our
farm income from two billion
dollars in 1910 to an estimated
eight billion dollars today.
In livestock, particularly, the
progress of the south has been
notable. We have paced the ma
ton in turning worn out acres
into pastures-and it is no
crime to be proud of the fact
that our pastures have in
creased from 330,545 acres in
l941 to over 14,0l2,800 acres in
1851. Livestock is of tremend-
Gus Importance to our economy
now bringing in only about
billion dollars less income than
crops.
The south has less than a
third of the nations forests yet
it produces half our annual
timber growth and forest pro-
duct industries are playing an
increasingly important part in
our industrial development.
They rank second only to tex
tiles and about seventy paper
and pulp mills with invest
ments of hundreds of millions
of dollars are turning out num-
erous paper products includ-
ing newsprint. Ten years ago
only Al per cent of the wood
pulp manufacturing was done
in the south. Today more than
so per cent is done here-and
it is believed that it is just a
matter of time until most of
the pulpwood-using plants will
be located in the south.
The industrial development