Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 67, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1949 Page: 2 of 8
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Editorials ★ ★ *
Final plan* let the twelfth annual Gladewater
Rodeo have been made and no* all that remain*
to o* done is to carry them our. Capable men
hoMl i^< the varioua committee*, and theae
chairmen will be asaiared by aa many helper*
aa they need. Gladewater always haa gone all
out for the Rodeo. Thia year, an attempt will
be made to atage the biggeat one of all.
Althoi*h Gladewater 1* atrictly Eaat Texas
in acenery and cuatoma, it always take* on a
Western atmoaphere during Rodeo Veek. Glade-
water will buckle on ita apurs, both literally
and ligmatively, during thia Round-1 p. There
will be plenty ot hone*t-to»goodneaa cowboys
here. They will come from far and neat, and
they will be the real thing. Their ten-gallon
hat* and cowboy boots will be genuine. They
may not know how to croon and it is doubtful
if many of them will be accomplished guitar-
players; but they will know horse* and will
be able to perform all the feats that go to make
up a successful rodeo show.
Although some of us who "are native here
and to the manner born," may dress up in cow-
boy regalia to make the show more realistic,
we can't expect to tool the real cowhands.
They will know u* for what we are - synthetic
products. So if they smile at us, we need not
become offended.
This annual Rodeo Raund-Lp is an accepted
institution in Gladewater and practically every-
one will turn out to take some part in it. The
city, that week, will be host to hundreds of
visitors, who will come, not only from other
sections of Texas but from several states, We
doubt that it is necessary to urge Gladewater
people to welcome these guests with that warm
hospitality for which this city if famous. This
Rodeo Round-Up is going to be a gala event,
as it always is, and Gladewater people can be
counted on to put it over with the same spirit
of enthusiasm they have shown during previous
CIO Has Troubles
Mack in the 1930's, when the labor unions
were seeking to build up their membership in a
hurry, new members were accepted without too
many questions being asked. The ( ongress ot
Industrial Organizations, of which John L.
Lewis was a leading figure, mushroomed al-
most over night into one of the strongest labor
organizations in America. The reason was, the
( K> took into its membership practically any
industrial worker who wanted to join.
The American hederation of Labor, which
was an older and more conservative organiza-
tion, was more selective in choosing its rem-
:ership. The AFL followed the craft plan,
requiring its applicant to pass through various
stages of apprenticeship before becoming full-
fledged members. Since the AFL is made up of
skilled workers, it could afford to follow such
a plan. The tlO, trying to organize the workers
in the mas* production industries in a short
period of time, could not.
Now the ( IO’* methods have come home to
plague it. 9 hen John 1.. Lewis was head cf the
< IO he welcomed ( ommunists into the organiza-
tion, hoping to make use of them in building
up the unions, although, personally, he was not
sympathetic to ( or muni so.
Later, when he split off Iron the < 10, he
ecame head of the L nited Mine Workers ot
America and has been doing his best to keep
( omteunists out of that organization.
But John L. bequeathed a headache to his
successor, Philip Murrey. The ( omnunisrs who
came into rhe < l< during its great wave of
recruitment became intrenches in the organiza-
tion and are determined to remain. Nor e of the
( IO unions are dominated b> them. Murray and
his associstes, such us Halter P. Reuther,
head of the auto worker-’ union, have declared
unceasing warrare ou me Reds, who are proving
difficult to displace.
The AFL, being a smaller and more compact
organization, has not been having trouble with
with the Commies that the CIO haa. The AFL
haa always made them unwelcome. In spite of
that fact, they have crept into a few AFL
union* and almost wrecked them.
The Communiats are like the camel that got
hi a head into the Arab’s tent, and later pushed
in and took over the whole tent. Whatever the
Communist* get into, they either rule or ruin-
usually ruin.
Chief Justice Charles E. Murphy of the New
Supreme Court, who was in Texas last week
to deliver an address, declared chat adveniaiag
is one ot the greatest forces now available for
the creation of goodwill.
"Advertising is the only force so far known
that will affect mass distribution without in-
creasing the cost of production,” be said. "It
create* business.”
It ia rather refreshing to hear a well-known
jurist come to the defense of advertioing when
it is being attacked by so many leftish intel-
lectuals who claim it is a tool of reaction and
is hurting rather than helping legitimate busi-
ness.
Advertising is an institution in America. It
ia one of our leading industries. It ia highly
specialized and has attracted some of (he best
brains in the country. It would be hard to think
of American business being able to carry on
without advertising.
It is freely admitted (hat the one thing that
ha* enabled American industry to forge ahead
of industry in any other country, that has cre-
ated the highest standard of living in the world
in America while at the same time preserving
all our essential freedoms, is our mass pro-
duction system. By producing goods in mass
quantities, we are able to keep prices down
and make possible a widespread distribution
of commodities.
Our mass production system could not func-
tion without advertising. If advertising did not
create desire for goods, there would be no
marker for the products of our factories. Fifty
years ago, we are told, our wants were limited
to about ten "essentials” and 30 "non-easen-
tials.” Today, our wants are unlimited. There
are at least 30 items that we consider essen-
tial and hundreds that we feel we can hardly
do without. Advertising has created this desire.
During the war, we learned how effective
advertising can be in building public morale.
Institutional advertising contributed tremen-
dously to the success of the tar Bond drives
and to other patriotic efforts.
Now advertising is being used effectively
in "selling” the American way of life to the
American people. Why can’t it be used just as
effectively on creating goodwill among nations?
Old-fashioned log cabins are becoming scarce
in America as housing conditions improve. This
will make it hard on the politician* of the fu-
ture who will feel obliged to describe rhe lowly
conditions under which they were born.
The self-made man belong* to a vanishing
stecies, we .»re roll!. Three is nr need for such
a , ersrn under an economy where the govern-
rent does everithinc for >ou that you should
do tor yourself.
John. I.. Lewis t>rokr into the headlines last
week but quickly retreated, f e iusi couldn’t
compere with Al\ and hit*.
rwwisn
See Editorial, "(iladewater (irta Heady”
MY AMERICA
J
Not long ago a district Judge
released from the Insane ward
of oix state reformatory a man
who has been locked up there for
34 years. The tudge had listened
to what he railed "overwhelming
evidence" that the nan was le-
gally sane.
That same court order con-
victed me, unit no telling how
many others, of something that
isn’t legally a crime but possibly
should be.
1 think maybe 1 could hay- got
that fellow out of there fen
years ago.
Around that time he wrote me
two or three letters. Hell written,
they contended at great length
that he was wholly sane and Im-
plored help in getting his release.
The man even sent me two
chapters of the manuscript of a
honk he was writing, to prove to
me that his thinking tracked.
They made better sense than some
of the current honks I’d read by
authors whose possession of all
their marbles never had been
questioned In court.
I had soaked up my fair share
of the generally available super-
ficial reading matter on mental
Illness. Seemed to me I could de-
tect in the letters signs of a per-
secution complei — one of the
telltale symptoms of some form of
some form of stripped-gear think-
ing.
Fie sides, the envelopes were
ruhher-sTamped "The Writer of
Oils l.efter is a Patient In the
Insane Ward." Or something to
that effect.
And the man evidently had been
off the hear- when he wient then-.
\t leas* a lury thought he was.
Just the same, those letters
I Kit hared me a* night for quite
a while. Finally I talked with
members of *he Roard of Con-
trol of State institutions about
the case.
fhty smiled tolemnfly a> my
naivete and hrushed me off in
a hurry, why, they said, they got
scads of letters like that all
the time, Every patient in the in-
sane ward thought he was sane
and was being cooped up Illegal-
ly.
I even went through the Insane
ward with them, and beard patients
plead with them for an erU to
unwarranted Imprisonment, or cuss
them up one side and down the
other In yelling voices that ral-
lied the roof. After which »he of-
ficials spread their hands and
shrugged, aa If no father evidence
were necessary.
8a I dropped the matter and
eventually fnrgnf about it.
And now, after that fellow haa
mat up there sweating out ail the
intervening years, four or five
the state:striata
say he la as sane as you can ei-
pert anybody to he. How long he
has heen that way. nobody knows.
Retween sessions of kicking my-
self for stupid gullibility and un-
forgivable negligence, I am now
wonderlnr mat what it means to
be sane.
Webster says it means, artnng
other things, ’’possessing a ra-
tional mind” and "acting ration-
ally."
Weoster was a dope. Me was
thinking of Hie kind of people who
smugly assunir that reading a few
pieces in llyglea or the Reader’s
Digest qualifies them to diagnose
mental aberrations bv mall, the
kind who take It for iffanfed *hat
veteran public officials must
know their business better than
inquisitive buttinskis and sirely
wouldn't keep anyhody locked
without good reason. The kind who
have side-stepped the sanity corn-
ets alnna - so far.
HOLLYWOOD 8y LOUSLLA O. FAMOUS
in imROlFY vMNNUt*
INS Staff Witter
(f.ouella O Parsons is on special
asMoimeni in Furone and will be
away for a few weeks During Her
absence, her column will be
conducted by Dorothy Manners.)
M<"»LLYWor>n. June . 2- (I* S'
that old cuUe-ple. Jimmy Durante
nas l.een lioirowed from b-
Oeorge Pal to star In "Rupert
tue Second "
"Ann wbadda you think I go
for a co-start’” ask**d Mr Srhnox*
nla "A squirrel’”
I'e Isn’t kidding. The title role
of Rupert will .<e played by a
talented squirrel from the pen of
Pal.
The second “live” chamcter
In the movie will be Terry '*oore.
pretty Columbia leading lady, who
gets the ingenue lead The I.aslo
V ad nay script Is based on the
adventures of an old vaudevllllan
(Jlmry). a squirrel and a pretty
girl
Pal start.-- the part-live, part-
animated feature June JD on the
I'eneral service lot, which means
that lie Is postponing "Adventures
of Tom Thumb” until a later date
• • • • •
June Havoc, who haa been
having herself a time in Paris in
spite of a bad dye Job (her hair
turned green), uas been flagged
by 20th to catch the nest plane
home •
Creen hair and ail. June goes
into "Oil, Doctor," the corned.
novel by "an Hard, sister of
netty ("Egg uni !’’) MacDonald
which Claude RtnjFon will direct.
Freddie Koltlnar is the pmducer
June and RUI Spier bad eipecte-l
to rertin abroad for another month,
but Oils role with Dorothy "cHutre
and 'HU f.unrtlgan In too good hi
turn down
• • • • •
fouls Hayward tella me he
Ilkel making "Pirates of Canft”
so much In Italy lhal when he
goes back to Kurope to make
"Man from Jamaica," lie may
stay a spell
His leading lady In "Jamaica"
wilt be Fnalish actress. Patricia
Roc. now honevmoonlnr with her
French cameraman uusband In
London Sttll another name already
on the dotted line in Julian Duv
ivler, who will direct
t,ouls leaves for France hint
an soon as he finishes his current
iob. "House by the River." at
Republic.
• • • • •
Otago is the most southern
province district of New SSea-
land. In the South Island It
was one of the original six prov-
inces which were abolished in
1*76
• • •
The harbor of Buffalo handles
more than 16.000,000 ton* of
water-borne freight annually,
although it is frosen four or nve
months of the year
• • •
Nearly 92.000 trackless trol-
leys. streetcars and buses arc
being operated In the United
States
• • •
‘'Pelec's hair' is volcanic glaaa
drawn out into long Anr threads
by ejected driblets of fused lava
The war-developed use of
aluminum An* for rooting air-
plane engine cyllndera has been
adapted to lh<- design of giant
radio broadcasting tubes. West-
ing house reports A a a reault,
weight of these tubes can he
cut M per cent
• • •
The gxlwlt la a genus ol birds
of the 1 mpe family All specie*
live in marshes and shallow
water mostly on the sea-coast
where they seek their fond hy
wading and plunging the long
hill into water or mini
• • •
(Jnoma-owl la the name ap-
plied to the burrowing owl. and
to the pygmy owl of western
United (Hate*
PARIS June 3»(INSr-Joc Jonas
lives In Uie same suburb of New
Yolk-1 Uilnk It*a Maaiaronark-aa
Bill Doakaa. They as* each other
•bout three IImas a year maybe
twice on lha 5 28 and once (from
a distance) at a dance at the
Westchester C ountry Club.
They do not even nod. back
noma. Rut let 'am meet on the
<'bumps Flyaees1 The greeting
given tlie prodigal ann must have
lean cool by rompaftann. The
reunion of long-lost and loving
brothers must fall in the same
(rigid category, alien lined up
again 16 the meeting of Joa and
Rill
Joa - Holy cow If it isn’t old
mil Doakea’
PHI (embracing lilmi — Joal
Imagine tunning into you h«ee In
ad I ran. .
Joa •• Stand bark a moment and
let me get a gtaid took at you, RUI.
I Juaki an’t believe my eyes.
Rill - It’s like a dream, ain’t
It. Joe’
JoF •• Metier Thia is Uie McCoy.
Mrolbar, am I glad to »«•• you’
Mill - l ikewise. I’m sure. How
long you been over’
loe -- Came over on the l.ueen
and the Holden Arrow last week.
How long you tieen here?
Pill (not without pride) — F’law
In yeau-nlay on TWA. Mreakfaai
New Yolk, luncn in Hander- (lint's
In Newfoundland-dlnner in the
air over the Atlantic Ocean. early
breakfast in Shannon-ibai'a in
Ireland--and neie bright and early.
Joe — flew In from New Yolk,
Kh hoy’ Yikir arms mua( lie tired.
Mar' ’’cant tnrft on Milton I ten e a
program .mfore I left.
mil (after laughter subside*!-
How l-mr vou staying'’
toe — Pulling out the dn> after
tomorrow. MfoUief' Have I been
>n a merry g<e round.
Mill - |*m leaving Tuesday. Got
a lot of things to aUen l to.
Joe •• Found any g<a><! spots
I don’t know about?
Mill - Wouldn’t ba surprised If
I did. What do you any wa hit a
few of them tonight.
Joa -- Great, Rill. I found a
nice cmyoMheway restaurant
named Maglm'a Plenty of parley
v00-franca!a dlahad out with the
food.
Rill - That's for mg. Whan I
come to Franca I want In aaa
France, gat the idea’’
Joe - Okay. U'a set. We’ll have
a Jrtnk first at the Ritz Mar. Only
place in town where vou can gat a
decant martini.
Mill - Oke. Sure la great running
Into a fellow you know here.
Joa -- You’re telling me1
nut - Aw rwe-war, like they say.
Joe — That goes double. Are
you noon, RUI old pel.
The French are a very clever
race, especially at recognizing
Americana.
You can study F lench (hr ten
yearn, live an additional five
years wtin a French family to
capture the nuances of the run-
vernations! aide of the language,
bone up on every i>u of slang, grow
a beard wear a beret and slightly
high-healed a quaky shoes - and
you cannot walk 40 feet down a
French .street without a guy sliding
up to you and whispering. "You
got Am-dean dollar today'* Good
: ro •• "
Or do all those things, aim
yourself with a French girl with
a low-cut gown and a us ret
hanging out -if her mouth, sit in the
lafkeat comer of one of those
romantic plush-loin to wPe e a
dozen strolling violinists play only
the dreamy muaic of old ► urope
•n-F-llke a flante -all Uie violinists
will congregate around y -ur table
and Pliqr "Deep tr the Heart of
Texas."
Mavl exit’s these soul*
MEET HEADLINE
HARRY TOY
Polly wood in Shorts
T hose are tender <-.lanc*s F ran*
Rosa, eg-huahan I of lean Arthur
In I esbiwlng on .loan Caulfield
Nice people, Joan snd Frank
Kurt Kreueer was at Uie plane
to see Fva lal of off fo New York
and lookln, none u.o haprv alioiit
IL
Pretty, summer form ala were
very much In evidence st Uie
fouls P Mayers dinner party
wiui dancing far into u,e evening
Irene Dunne, looking like a lune
c.radiiale. wore a simple gray and
wuile linen
lack Penny was like a kid over
hla trip driving across the country
and stopping in small towns on his
vacation Now they are off the
radio for Uie season. Murv Living
stnn Penny says she la going to
set Uie alarm clock for the same
hour evm Sunday morning lust fc>r
the fun of turning It off and going
bark to sleep
That’s all today See Yhu tomop
row'
Weed Pulp Exports
Exports of wood pulp In 1*411 were
M • per cent under 1947 Paper,
papwrboard and paper product* ex
ports last year declined 16 3 pet
cent under 1947 exports—paper e*
ports declined 24 6 per cent, paper
board 1.4 per cent and paper prod
ucts 16 2 per tent
itlsrsverv el Iren
Iron - according lo legend ws
discovered by primitive roan li
campfire embers or in meteorite*
Iron tool* were used in con*true I
ing the Pyramids about SOW) R C
The ancient* produced Iron in fire*
built on the wlndwisrd aide of bank*,
or In pit* or rock furnace*, uaing
The Holden Gate, channel
which form* the entrance to
San Francises harbor, la two
mile* wide
* • •
A icnnlnmeler ia an instru-
ment lined for mcamirtng solid
angles In skillful hand* this
instrument can measure fhc
angles of crystal* the hundredth
of an inch in six<-
• • •
• mod win Hands la a danger-
ous hank of shifting sands
stretching for shout in miles
Ave to 12 miles off the coast of
Kent, Knglsml They have al-
ways heen dangerous to vessel*.'
• • *
Mirth of n Million was the Aral
million dollar movie
Titanium Hkiea Promise
Titanium I* potentially a large
scale slriiclural metal About one
and a half time* heavier than alum
Inum. with corrosion (imperil**
and Mrength equivalent lo common
slaiole** steel, titanium fill* the
gap between the light metal* and
the ferrous allows
■y JOHN CtffCY
Central Prut Correspondent
DETROIT—Marry M Toy the
peppery little attorney who hosses
the Detroit police department,
hits the front pages so often these
days that Detroiters have taken
to catling him "Headline Harry
During ma brief term oi office aa
police commissioner Toy haa feu-
ded with innumerable organisa-
tions and groups including the
cities at Win. I anr dm. and Chi-
cago, III
Theae aiTqira keep hla name
almoet constantly before the pub
He,'hut on the rare lay* when all
la quiet at police headquarter*
Toy can usually he .|epended upon
to come up with some novel idea
or comment (hat will make new*
Four of hi* more spectacular in
spirations recently have been
1 A special »torh patrol ot
(Mihcenien w ho are (rained to pinch
hit for the doctor. If an expectant
mother iloesn I gel to the hospi-
tal in time
2 An escort service' ot pre
llcemen to insure the safety of any
woman who 1* obliged to wslk
down a .lark street All she has
to do is call headquarters and a
patrol rsr will he sent out to
“It Says Here”
By Bob Flop*
K'opvft^M. IM8. kg hla, Feature
Hvndlrau Inc t
I’M sure of a |ol> tills iicirer
Yes, dr. I lurl toiind .,ut Unit
tile t os An a les City Me- relation
and I’.ilk Deport' a-nt it- look Ini
for husky young cm t< acta* life
guard- I’va 11 roily --uirta-1 . • Him
In trwinini f«r the Ml. . yi’drrlsi
| went oil! and • Kid a sun lairp .
I’r an a drill swimmer and I
l.-nrned all the llffa-mnt -*ir. ke-.
when t was a klal In fact, al.en
I was learnlric Ilia- Australian
crawl. I was Uie only one on th»
lilt-. 1 who made It to **e|l iifro-
on mv bsndr and knee-.
I know I’ll make a won deft'd
lifeguard. ”> eye* .aren’t »•
imfT1 as they iise-d to lie, loll I call
still spot a alrl’s baliunt -.nil st
J.iklli > arts.
hhen I nppiled for the |ob liiev
all pointed to me and said, "!,o..k
at that big bronze hero." hell,
not a-tnctly Uni...they 111-d sbrtia.K-
e.l their shoulder-- and roferro I In
me as th<' llllle tin coward
t I course. | hope they dein'l
asalin me la- a I a-web w,.a-re the
movie stars .wlm, Sinatra In
siirli a problem fad the life, dartfk.
Hr’- the only swimmer in lha world
wht> lias to tt*l artificial respir-
ation bel.-p- ie r-es |i Ilia- water
drive alongside her • Mhr can t
nda In the car huweyer Snaps
T*ay We re not running a (aai
service I
1 A priqaaaaal that policemen he
arrompanteal by -logs while walk-
ing heata
4 A police vuggratlon Isis
Into which the puNtc ia invited
to drop complamta or compli-
ments.
He gained great popularity in
Juvenile err las when he aided
with youthful hall player* in a
row with the ksaardqgf education
• e e
THE HOARD issued a rule pro-
hi biting the playing of hard hall -*>
public school grounds When s
group of youngster* protested Tn)
sympathetically instructed all p»
llcemen lo ignore (he rules
He promised lhal he prrs--n*ll,
would pay for sny resulting broken
windows.
Effective as this move was from
a public relations standpoint it sl«s
moat proved a t». enersng With#
in a few lav* a delegation of ma
dignant mothers marched on dlf
hall complaining that Toy a n»
lion had resulted in four hoys be-
ing hurt while playing hard bnll
I
at one wch.vg alone
Toy quickly Axed things up by
making an arrangement with UM
recreation department hy whuff!
hard hall waa limited to a. b-dfe t
ground* which were adequately
fenced
Ihiring last year's presidential
campaign Toy go* onto front pa-
ges sll over the country when he
declared lhal Henry W allarr
ought In lie shot
When Wallace .lenniinred Toy
fpr thia stand the commissioner
explained “What I said was that
f felt all those Fngaged in un
American activities ought lo hr
either shot, thrown out of the
country or put in )ail If the
style- At* Henry Wallace lei him
wear It.”
Statements like this have under
Stan.lably aroused the hitter rn
mtty of Communists and frllow
travelers However, they ala--
have disturbed a numhrr of more
Conservative groups and indlvi.lu
Sis Wfho feel that Toy * conception
of whal la "un American Is a
rather persona' one
Horn in Elk horn W Vs AT
year* ago. of a Welsh fslher and
Pennsylvania Dutch mother. Toy
worked hla way through the Me
trod college of law. graduating in
1912
l.argesl Island
Largest island in the world la
Treenland.
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Greep, J. Walter. Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 67, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1949, newspaper, June 3, 1949; Gladewater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1008102/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lee Public Library.