Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 99, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 12, 1949 Page: 2 of 6
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2GLADEWATE*. (TXX.) DAILY MIRROR
Jeatures
Tuesday, July 12, 1949
The whole state of Tesss is waging a war
against polio. Almoat every city is taking
•ceps to check this dread disease, which is
spreading rapidly, claiauag more and more vic-
tims. Some progress is being made, but even
so, it looks as if the malady may get out ol
hand. So far, East Texas has shown fewer
cases oi polio than most other pans of the
state. Yet, this may be the next section to be
hit. Every precaution must be taken to ward
off a polio epidemic in this section.
Most medical authorities agree that one of
the chief contributing causes of polio is un-
sanitary conditions. Pools of stagnant water,
weed-grown lots, accumulations of rubbish on
vacant lots — all are breeding-places of dis-
ease-bearing insects. AndGladewater has quite
a few of such places. They should be elimin-
ated as soon as possible.
Some cities are guarding against polio by
spraying al! the shrubs, weed-covered lots and
ocher potential insect-breeding grounds with
insecticides such as DDT. This spraying is
a precautionary measure which is believed to
is highly effective in preventing polio. Some
of this has been done in Gladewater. Trash
containers and boxes have been sprayed. It
was announced last week that every available
trash disposal unit in the city would be spray-
ed with DDT. This effort could well be ex-
tended to the entire city and all possible in-
sect-breeding grounds included. The old adage
says, "An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure." One good general spraying
in Gladewater might prevent an outbreak of
polio. If it prevented one case from develop-
ing, it would be wonh its cost.
..ecently, the newspapers gave quite a play
to a statement by Paul Robeson, Negro opera
singer, who said that American Negroes would
not fight against Soviet Russia in case the
United States should goto war with that nation.
Robeson, who is a Communist, never misses
a chance to praise Soviet Russia and criticise
his own country, though he insists on remain-
ing in this country.
Last week, Jackie Robinson, second base-
man for the Brooklyn Dodgers and rhe first
Negro to break into the major leagues, was
asked what stand he would take if war should
break out between the United States and Rus-
sia .He was also asked what he thought of Robe-
son’s statement.
"All I can say,” he replied, "is that Paul
Robeson cannot apeak for me. He can speak
only for himself. I’d fight any aggressor, in-
cluding Russia, if we went to war.
"All the Negroes I have contacted ap-
preciate our good treatment and we’d fight any-
body that would take away our American herit-
age."
It ia to be hoped that the newspapers will
give as wide circulation to Robinson’s state-
ment as they did to Robeson’s outburst. For
here is an American speaking. Like Robeson,
he was bom in America; like Robeson, he be-
longs to the Negro race; and, like Robeson, he
has achieved prominence in his chosen field.
But, unlike Robeson, he does not choose to
bite the hand that fed him; he does not seek to
disparage the land that gave him birth and has
made it possible for him to succeed, while
heaping praise upon a nation that is seeking
to enslave the whole himan race.
Probably 95 per cent of the American people,
irrespective of race or creed, feel as Jackie
Robinson <Joes. All are loyal Americans, ready
to defend their country against any aggressor.
But the other five per cent, such as Robeson,
make all the noise and get all the headlines.
That, too, is one of the tilings we must expect
to see happen in a democracy. In Russia, or
any other totalitarian country, this minority of
malcontents would not be speaking against the
government on every occasion. In fact, they
wouldn’t be speaking at all. They would have
been shot loag ago.
If we want to know what happens to a terri-
tory when Communist elements get in control,
we might take a look at Hawaii. This island
community is practically isolated from the rest
of the world, commercially peaking, because
of a strike now in progress by the members of
the Communist-dominated dock workers’ union,
which is headed by the well-known Communist
agitator, Harry Bridges. The Attorney General
of the Unitad Slates ordered Bridges deported
to his native Australia several years ago,-but
nothing has come of it. He is still in the United
States, making trouble. One of his latest mov-
es was to tie up shipping in the Pacific area.
Because of the paralyzing strike of the dock
workers, the people of Hawaii have been in
hard straits fry months. Goods are rotting on
the wharves and in the warehouses because
the ships are not permitted to move them. Food
has become scarce, since Hawaii imports most
of its food from the mainland, and the house-
wives have held protest meetings. Hawaiian
business men are using the American news-
paper advertising pages to place their case
before the American people. Nothing has been
done by Congress so tar to alleviate the situa-
tion.
If the Communists ever gain control of the
American labor unions (which is unlikely), or
get into a position where they can direct our
economy, we may expect to see the whole
Lnited States placed in the same Position as
Hawaii finds itself in at the present time. That
such a thing can happen here has been amply
demonstrated by what has happened in other
countries. We cannot afford to take a chance,
despite the efforts of President Truman and
others to pooh-pooh the present investigation
of Communist activities as so much "headline-
hunting.”
• • • • •
Hatred is like an in-growing nail. The longer
it lasts, the worse it hurts.
• • • • •
If you want to see America, look behind the
billboards. That’s where it lies.
Some people claim they are sufferi
"occupational fatigue” where
lazy.
• • • • •
Great Britain is having a "dollar" crisis.
So are a great many American families.
• • • • •
Mark Twain once said that everybody talks
aoout the weather but nobodv does anything
about it. But that was before air-conditioning
was invented.
• • • • •
In most of the United States, particularly
in the middle West, the temperature shows a
variation of as high as 150 degrees from mid-
winter to mid-summer. Yet, this is the part of
America they call the "temperate zone.”
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Displaced persons from Europe to show how much impressions de- who wants
who are housed in a New Yoik pend on the point of view and the this is."
^karound of the Viewer. or , cute stranger *111 burg.-
period are rrmror about telephones. |t has been s long time since | telephonic-ally Into his »vtn« i*...m
mo r*cen,jv tn olw of th* thought of the telephone aa a sym- ter impure wr*t radio per gram he Is
p p • bol of freedom. When you stop to listening to or does h. know the
They call one another up end dim- think about it. of course, the arm- name of this week’s eyster* tune
course at great length over the holism l» pretQr obvious. rnques- for 128,750 and a vear--
phone even when they live in ad- llnnably oix style has been freed bobby plna.
joining room and. by walking ten if some cramping limitations when
or fifteen feet, could talk face tc with e simple twist of the wrist we
f*ce. can collar some friend tn Pocatello
At first they succumbed to lm- and swap weather reports,
pulses to pick up the receiver and Hut familiarity breeds inaensitlvt-
chew the fat with relatives In Chi- ty to these matchless blessings
cage and San Francisco. They and many of ua are perhaps over-
didn't realize that in a country conscious of the enslaving aspects
this size “Long Distance” really of "uch 'conveniences as the tele-
meenr LONG distance, and that
it’s sold by the mile. Before Don Ameche Invented
this Ingenious device a man could
The management of *Jie orientation sit quietly in the privacy of his
center quickly got that explained domicile and think great thoughts
After the toll bills began coming In. without let or hln<france or. at
But the D.P.'a still give the house any rate, lust sit quietly,
phones a heavy workout. Now even a man wig. can think
To them the telephone typifies -an’t think for more than twenty or Minnesota wUds-unless | get hung
the wondrous material Advantages .htrty minutes without interruption, up on the wire )jst an |*m leaving,
of life in the t'ntted States. They Let him cogitate ntmself deep into My symbol offreedom will be tie
look upon It as ”a symbol of the toils of some ponderous hypo- distance to the learost phone,
freedom.” thesis and that imperious bell is
Well, it takes all kinds of people sire to snatch him violently out of (Copyright. IMS, king
to make a world./ This lust goes It to play games with somebody Syndicate, Re.)
ABOARD QUEEN OF BERMU-
UA. July li -(INSR-You relaa la
e chair along the cool, shady
keck of this plushy barge - while
.he modem Nubian slave that la
the huge turbine below decks
moves the 27.000 ton ship toward
the Indescribable blue-green water
of Bermuda - sad you 1st the
young men In the white uniform
serve you tea sad cakea.
Or you swim in the good ship’s
pool, sip s drink at one of Its all
ban. play cards nr dance In Its
handsome public rooms under the
soft night . . . sad you forget what
it. and many like It. did during
the war. until you become aware
of the variety of lecnratlnna on
the breasts of the officers and
men.
Most of the great pre- war t«uriat
ships thaf went to »«r have been
temobtllzed. This one. which
cairled more than 300,000 vacs
tinners and business people back
and forth between Bermuda and
New York be free the war. retixned
In February to this 40-hour sprint
for which she was built. Its sister,
(he Monarch, was fire-gutted after
the wer. our America, the Eliza-
beth and Mary have Ion* since
dug fresh furrows across th* North
Atlantic after transporting, among
them more than .'.000.000 troop*.
The French, whose flossy Norman-
die >-nded In a Junkyard, have the
He De France poised now and will
come along In time with their
version of the Europe, to be
called Ltbertc,
II ad • sr Kenel
The better known ships timed
In good accounts of themselves
during the war. but this >ne had
perhaps the roughest tour of duty.
That tour ts-.^an for the Queen
late In August. 19VI. when th*
nations of the world, smelling
Or he must screen >ut a steady
monologue by the family teen-
ager Oh-Seating amdier teenager
she hasn't seen for ill of ten mi-
nutes.
And In the office i’s even worse
You esn Ieoh the dior snd be free
of the non-stop gadder who just
wander* around looting (or defense-
less listeners, Bit you are the
helpless slave of tie cagy «nei who
hook you by leiepten*.
By the tune fits appears in
print I expect tc tie a displaced
person myself-seeking sweet
solitude and gullble pike In the
HOLLYWOOD
llM|i<nA «»l lilt’ wrf|l|,
supply of the first whiffs of the lirty aeather
(hat was to be the greatest w«r
of tnem all, began calling In their
fleets. I'he Germans whinnied
for the KtXnpea - or was It the
Bremen? •• and she set out from
New York under force.! speed, with
her crew hanging over her sides
painting her a murky gro> with
which to elude British sea istxols.
Amen* those ships the Trltlah
called home was the Queen of
Bermuda.
Despite her gav peace-time
paint she ran the gant'et of ”•
Boats to Belfast With li crew whose
chief previous concern hat t>een
the comfort of Mrs. J. iehuyler
Van rpdike-rpdyke and the pi-
iuanc> if the crepes wa-tt- r-
dered bv the stout gentleman fmn
the Bronx. for txeakfaat.
The war *as on by the time the
Queen ros-hed Belfast, ant hag
land needed shooting shirs m.*.-
Features, desperately than she now needs
another rich uncle, it was led led
to make an auiillary cruiser oix
_"f her. Her chintzy Inatdes were
ripped out her decks got a layer
of armor piste snd she soon
HOLLYWOOD. July 11 • (INS)
The Idea back of the "The Rap.”
the story Maxwell Shane Is taking
with him tn J)th Century-Fox
when he checks In that studio
permanently ae a writer-producer.
Is reminiscent of the stories told
shout the gangster, Bugay Hlesel.
The rumors that Bugsy khis
wife and children In onmplete
ignorance of his underworld deal-
ings and had his children entered
In schools under other names.
’•The Rep.” by Leo Kutcher,
Intended for Richard widmark. Is
the story of a gangster whose
family knows nothing about his
life, hut eventually becomes In-
volved with him.
• • • • •
Barbara ftanwyck. who Is doing
her best to get well so she car.
report for work, was well enough
to promise to play the femme lead
In "East Side, West Side," at
Mead.
Mervyn Leroy, the director, has
lust returned from New York where
he took lorMlon shots for the
picture. He talked to Barbara and
she agreed to no-atsr with James
Mason and Van Heflin. What a
cast'
Ava Gardner and Gale Sendee
gasrd are the other players »
lecteit If looks like Dore Schary
has given Mervyn a la-'-mrat line-
tip.
Not a day passes that some
movie Is rumored for Rita Hay-
worth. All of this Is, of course,
spend atlon.
I do know, however, of one
story that vdll be submitted to
Rita, snd th* Is ‘The Klalrie
lownsend story.’’ the true tale
of the ;&• vear-old woman who
controls legalized gambling In
Havana and Is co-owner of the
race tracks. Virginia Kellogg,
who wrote the story, expects Miss
Townsend here In abnut fire
weeks.
Chit-Chat: Ingrid Bergman who
fired Joe Steele, ner press agent,
because she said she no longer
needed a press agent, bat called
Joe bark to ftromhnll.
• • • • •
When I new Jams Paige at
Finlandia Baths the other day,
she didn’t tell me a thing abnut
going to Paly to malr a plctixe.
The reason la • she didn’t know
It berself.
Friday morning. Jams go* a
cattle from Mike FVankovitrh of-
fering her the leak In "The Dark
Hoad,” a mysrery thriller he Is
producing In Home. Within 24
hours she was packed up, bag,
baggage and husband (Frank
M«tine|ii) and 'eft Saturday mgnt
by plane. Luckily, she had her
passport In order.
• • • • •
This is from B*rt>- Davis, hep
self, and ends once and for all
the p.irsibllity of h»r playing
Amsnli In "The ilass M«-mur-
erle.”
SavA Bette ”| want to give you
the mmplefe picttr*- *. that the
sttiptlon will lie entirely clarl-
fleg.
"The truth I* thaf I have never
suited or considered ilartns
inanda I have nearly finished
my one picture a year for burners
and I do not mnienpiafc making
another thl* year, unless Jack
Warner decides he will cake
"Ethan F-ronc” X the end if the
.ear."
Snapshots of Hollywood mi-
leered X random
Jeabf Wallace never did get t,
Honolulu. She’s still In Sun triei-
cisro where she went uft-r .he
and Frunchof Tone bad their final
conference.
Au'lfey frntfer gav<- everyone n
surprise at Romanoff’s when he
walked In with Paul Douglas.
I vervonr though* she and Brian
Donley v were all hut married.
Jane Harvey, well known singer,
hue ae* the date for her marriage
to Jay Hyde for Sepfemlier .1. lav
la the son of Johnny Hyde, Wtlllar
Mortis exe-iglve.
the WIIliar Saroyans, after
three sepwatlr.ns, ;ire again re-
united.
Few pe.ple know that Mrs. Hob
Howard, the former Andrea Leeds,
underwent a serious operation
stout three weeks ago, and is lust
now up and around.
“It Says Here"
Bv Boh Hope
(Copyright 1949 by King
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
We now have lancing nsvrhln
trims.
Yes. *W. according to MtlZI
lliark, u Los Auceles dancing
instructor, people wh> I .me to
dance schools are genets II y us-
hupi v. I he tnstru'tors msi riot
onl' tend, them tn dam e. hut id-
vise them about their troubles.
I ran understand wlqr « dsnring
teui bet has tn be a psychoanalyst.
A cio walks into th- studio quite
nor -iai, hear* two minutes of be
tWq and Im’s ready for shook
treatment.
But ptrtis* a teacher .-rttictzinr
the students’ dancing by using
psychology. She says, "you otv
viouelv have s split personality.
Your left font doesn’t know ehol
your right foot Is kilng.”
Naturally. nowaday in these
dance schi-dS they don’t allow
*he old rush*' of rutting in---
vnu’re l|a hie to Interrupt the treat-
ment.
Already | enujd see the Influence
of psxhiatrv >n lancing when I
went to the palladium last wnqft,
os the marquee it savi "Dancing
on Mondays. Wednesday s snd ftp
.lays--Ry Apt untnent only."
Of course, one thing worries e-e
atiujt this setup. | can see a stu
dent after stv month* of Instruction
turning to the tea. her snd saving.
"Doctor, vou’ye cured *nv neurosis,
big | still call*! do the fo y trot,"
In making one ton of pig iron,
about .3.2 tons of solid materials
and 4 to 4 *, tons of air are re-
quired In a blast furnace The
yield half a ton of alag. and 8.7
Iona of gases in addition to the
ton of Iron.
• • •
The pelican-ftah la a remark-
abb- deep-sea ftah The largeat
reach six feel, and will rapture
and carry in their pouches prey
nearly aa large aa themselves
• • •
The ghoat-moth. common in
Britain, la so named because of
the satiny white of the male
anil Its sudden disappearance
There are oyer 3ft
hyacinths.
aperies of
A "monkey flat." tn th* lan-
guage of ahlpa. la a heavy knot
placed on the end of a haaving
line to give It weight.
William Coddlngton ll«ftl-78i
was one of the founders and
Aral governor of Rhode Island.
Ffe was horn In England, and
came In the Plymouth colony In
1830 In 1838 he moved to what
la now Rhode Inland because of
hi* opposition tn the witch trials
• • •
Ml. Louis. Mo, was, in the
early 1880s. the outfitting and
starting point for armies of
pioneers who followed the Ore-
gon. (Hah. California and flanta
Fe trails
• • •
Or I ba siua was a Greek medical
author and phyatclan to the
Emperor Julian th* Apostate
He was horn In 328 A. D , died
In 40.1
The oil shark of southern Cal-
ifornia often yields a gallon of
oil from its liver, and the Chl-
nea* nee its flna tn mahe aoun
Near scurfy la the ability tn
focus and ye* well with both
eyes and each eye separately al
e distance if about I ft Inrhea,
which is I hr dlstanre at which
most factory and oRtcr work la
'lone,
tii
Th* Huaino ia an old snd pop^
ular 'lance >if the highland In-
dians of Bolivia. It la a mixture
of Indian. H pan I ah and the Eng-
lish country dance
» • •
The Mexican town of Nuevo
Laredo, on the Bio Granite riv-
er. la situated opposite loiredo.
Tex
haalnewara
In 1870 America had 417.000 In-
dependent commercial and Indua-
trlai enterprise* which equaled one
for each g| pertont In 1*47 Awier
Ice had 2.280 00b bualnease*. or
on* fnr each 83 people So In iplte
of our big bu*ine**e> we have a
larger number of imall buelne*«ei
even in proportion tn our popula
Han
bristled with seven 8-inch guns
and two puarlla J-iach anti-aircraft
guns. Th tie Ip bar stay afloat ia
caaa aha too8 a U-Boat’s flab,
her bolds and all othar available
empty appcea ware filled with
empty barrels sad ♦urn*.
Nerved Aa t'oevoy
She waa dispatched in the South
Ml antic and Ua Antarctic in
search at Ue German raider Pete
gula, which had bean chewing up
whaling fleets and other Allied
shipping. she never found the
Penguin but destroyed it* only
mean* of existing tr that part
of Ue world: Ua lao'ated Island
bases - one of which had to to-
entered through a yawning hoi*
In an extinct volcano's crater
wall. There war* only Inches to
-ipare, but that was duck soup for
a Bermuda-baaed ship. They know
their reefs.
After that there waa ticklish
convoy protection, sad she shep-
herded King lenrge of Greece
from Dtvbaa to England at top
speed, while U# ship officers
listened silently tn Lord llsw
llsw’s broadcasts describing the
voyage, th* approximate current
position of the ship and the proba
blllty of U-Boat Interception. The
seasoning crew sweated that one
out, fnr the uueen's engines were
In sail need of an overhauling.
By DM3 the British nad the
-rutsera they needed. The Queer,
became a troop-ship carrying
1,500 (IU top pleasure load is
731.) she waa accidentally shell-
ed by her own people at Gibral-
tar. but shook it iff. she went on
to stock luly «IU military govern
m#nt personnel and. for a time
became a i>rt*onef-of. war irons
port. On one such trip a last
’•Inute Inspection of a shipload
t SWly lerman prisoners sh'-s-:
that they ware armed well enough
t<> nave seized the ship at sea.
After tnat she p ured men into the
Middle F'nat. Intis end Rums -
and was headed for Japan, anl
the war there, when her 1#ep-
vnlced horn was given permission
to roar tn# war’s end.
8sa NerrxrdlUnaed
It took them a year to clean
her snd build nark the comforts
of pleasure travelling, a hen she
was ready she bad a brand new
skirtier, tough good-nature I -'apt.
I I Banyan, former four-striper
In the P.nyal Canadian Navy snd
winner of the O.R.K. for his work
a* dispatcher and controller of
all the Allied convoya that passed
through *nd >-ix of Halifax during
the war. Her staff ratrtain Is
Alan Veator, D.8.O., with s
tremendous war record which
Included raptalnry of destroyers
snd ’’Q” ships at the age of J4.
And here are the post-war ijueen
an! her men, an imperturbable a*
If nothing had happened. ‘trs.
Mr*. J. Schuyler Van t’pdtke-
( ndyke’s comfort sUI) matters.
MAI MIND IMIIA ON I III NI US
•Aa Arthur Itura" Harr
IHstrtt'Uled I is |\N
-IS' We l«*-k over (he Mongolian
,rector with a lavish eve. We are
<ivtri ed the Chinese start a war
■•Him: one side will get financed
v sr ir istrtial philanthropist.
which coufwe insures an armistice
every Hurt* davs to divide the tes-
timonial l"rf.
w«- will start bundles for Asia if
tlsp soon* si Mere will send us th-
string amt wrapping paper.
< .eneral Grunt never knew tin
real terrors of wsr. lie never lad
S psv<-he<-k lemnce on him.
I he slogan
the Chinese,
dial already.
in Asia is Chins tor
And thev have got
Museum Boasts
Ancient Wealth
Hr laleraallnaai New* • rslee
CHICAGO Jill* II INS Tr.s
antes from the annenl amid help
*o make ('he ago a Oriental .neli
rule in* worlrta largeei renter fnr
efniG nf *he Ireginninga of mnkern
life
7’hev include
A winged hull carved from e
eingle filerk of ■ion* in th* Stu
c*nlurv H C Th* fleur*. I* f»*«
high weigh* four Inna II wa< on*
nf four tn th* paler* of 1h* »•■>
nan King Sargnn If in Khmaahad
Iraq
A h*rf from t'pper Egvpl mar*
• hsn A non v*ar* old It* leg* w*t*
nerved In aimuiat* ihna* nf * hull
A hlark alon* bird arlgtnallv
en\et*d with gold and g*m* It
i*pi*a*m*d th* Egyptian run god.
Hntu* MUM year* ago
Rout i-tipper ifaluetle* the earl
ll**l known ra*i metal flguiea.
from flvri*
The man's name.
mean* venerable
He heat ia n.
In ship slang. • "Ixxy guy" ia
e light rope by which a honm
Is prevented from swinging
•round
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Tit f*w*4r i Rae*r-
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