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COOPER REVIEW
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TODAY AND
TOMORROW
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at Oooper, Texas, under the act of Congress, March
am.
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A BIBLE TIIOUGHT
FORSAKE EVIL: Thus saith the Lord of hos ■ ,
Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your
evil doings.—Zechariah 1: 4.
A MILLION A YEAR
The Legislature has cost $850,000 this
year for a regular session and two special
sessions. Lawmaking will soon cost us a
million a year. He is a brave soul indeed
who will assert that Texas has got its mon-
ey’s worth. The cost of government in Tex-
as is now estimated to run above $200,000,-
000 each biennium. The men who vote the
expenditure of the larger part of this vast
sum are not chosen for their financial abil-
ity, they do not hold continuous contact with
the tremendous enterprises thus involved and
few of them have any intimate knowledge
of its necessities and limitations. The result
is that legislators are compelled to work in
an atmosphere of artificial haste and fiscal
unreality which prevents a reasonable and
orderly handling of State affairs. The old-
age pension ibill with no way provided to pay
it is the sort of thing that ought to be the
tombstone of the present legislative way of
not attending to business. But you do not
need to be told that things will go the way
they have been going for many a long year
before Texas will do anything sensible to bet-
ter the situation. That isn’t pessimism; it
is merely assuming that the past will trend
into the future.—Dallas Journal.
Cost of government Is entirely too heavy
and continues to mount higher. The Legis-
lature’s record is without merit, yet what
member may be held responsible for the rec-
ord by voters of his district? Candidates
will pledge economy in government during
next year’s campaign and after election go
back and repeat this year’s performance.
The Review reiterates its views that Texas
should have less than half the present repre-
sentatives in the legislature, but where is
there a legislature that would submit such
a change in the state constitution?
FOOD . . . .emergency
The Pilgrinu were bard put .to it for food, more
than once. That ia why they established Thanks-
giving Day, to celebrate the first year in which
they had enough to eat. But out of their necessity
they developed a variety of foods which have be-
come American staples.
The Indians taught them to get sugai from the
j,maple trees, and how to cook the swamp cran-
.: rries. It must have been one of the Pilgrim
mothers who first made jelly out of the beach plums
that grow so profusely on the sandy shores of Cape
Cod Bay. Certainly the American taste for clams.
In chowder or on the half shell, harks back to
Plymouth Colony, as well as our national taste for
salt codfish. I know few foods so palatable as a
properly made codfish cake, but maybe that’s Just
my Yankee upbringing. Indian com was new to
the Pilgrims, but out of k they evolved Johnny-
cake—which is as different from combread aa
chalk from cheese—and Its improvement, blueberry
Johnnycake.
But I wish I knew who invented that supreme
dessert, Rhode Island Pandowdy. I’d try to get
his, or her, statue into the Hall of Fame.
BEEH . . . evaporated
One thing the Pilgrims yearned for and couldn't
make was beer. They wrote back to their patrons
in England asking them to please send some beer
by the next ship.
A trigic-comfc; episode in history over which I
have often smiled, was the fate of that beer, as
recorded by Governor Bradford. The beer was
shipped, all right—many hogshead of it. But it
was a long and stormy and—apparently—thirsty
voyage. For when the ship reached Plymouth all
the beer barrels were empty. The captain thought
the beer must have evaporated!'
Not until trade began with the West Indies and
rum and molasses began to be imported did the
New England settlers get^ anything they thought
fit to drink.
LIFE
THE REAL BOGEYMAN
Russian law
I’ve just been reading the most illuminating book
about Russia that I have yet seen. It is Walter
Duranty’s “I Wrote As I Please.” I got new light,
on the Socialist experiment in Russia.
What strikes be most forcibly in his revelations
is the supreme indifference to life, not only on the
part of the ruling minority, who apply the death
penalty ruthlessly for any sort of insubordination,
but among the Rusaian people themselves.
The main reason why Communism can’t succeed
in America, it seems to me, is that we set a high
value on human lives. At this stage in the world’s
development radically new ideals of government
cannot be successfully implanted without killing off
those who don’t like them and are bold enough to
resist them.
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By WRIGHT PATMAN.
From all the reports that come out of Eu-
rope about the war situation, it seems to us
that the main reason why England, France,
and a lot of smaller nations are trying to
keep Italy from grabbing Ethiopia is not
so much sympathy for the Ethiopians as
that to let Mussolini get away with it would
set a bad example for Germany.
Europe didn’t worry much when Japan
grabbed off Manchuria. That is a long way
from London and Paris, and none of the
“Great Powers’ ’’ toes were trodden on. Eut
Ethiopia is close to home, and Italy is one
of the neighbors. If they let neighbor Italy
go out and pick up new territory wherever
it wants to, how are they going to stop Ger-
many when Hitler’s government gets ready
to annext Austria or take over Czechoslo-
vakia ?
German rearmament is giving all the rest
of Europe the jitters. Sooner or later, states-
men believe, the Germans are bound to make
another armed drive for a “place in the sun’’.
And that’s another reason why the other
powers are trying to conciliate Mussolini
with one hand while trying to curb his ter-
ritorial ambitions with the other. They want
his support when the time comes to make
another stand against Germany.
Hitler is the real bogeyman of Europe.
THANKSGIVING ... and fixln’s
Around this time of the year my New England
heritage begins to assert itself. I’d like to sit down
again to an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner with
all the relations gathered around the long table
stuffing ourselves with turkey and all the fixin’s—
including, of course three or four kinds of pie.
One of my most vivid recollections of childhood
is a Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother’s In
Maine 60 years ago. Twenty-eight of her sons and
daughters and their husbands and wives and child-
ren sat around the table. We all went to church
first—for Thanksgiving day was a religious feats-
day, even more important than Christmas.
Thanksgiving is America’s own holiday. I hope
its spirit never dies out. It is a good day for every-
body to give a little serious thought to the roots
from which we sprang.
Buyers have contracted for space in cold
storage in Sherman for three million pounds
of pecans or approximately 75 carloads, ac-
cording to the manager of the plant. Most
of the nuts to be stored have been purchased
of growers in North Texas or Southern Ok-
lahoma and indicate one of the largest crops
ever harvested in this section. They will be
held in storage to await shipment to crack-
ing plants in different part of the country.
The writer is not familiar with the require-
ments for cracking plants, but if such plants
were installed at home it would afford em-
ployment for home people and better yet if
the growers could crack and market their
pecans shelled at a fair price it would en-
courage pecan growing.
| ...WHAT OTHERS SAY.
OLD mCEORYNOT
of the Bonham Favorite says:
PILGRIMS . . . and now
I get annoyed at times at people who persist in
referring to the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony
as “Puritans”. The Puritans came along later and
settled Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were a
different sort of folk, religiously and otherwise,
from the Pilgrims. They took fewer chances, for
one thing.
When I think of the courage of the PUgrlms and
the gallant fight they made against almost over-
whelming odds, I wonder how much of that spirit
of independence still persists. I find It hard to
imagine any group of young men and women of
today cutting loose from all their old ties and asso-
ciations and facing starvation and terrefic hard-
ships merely because they felt that their right to
act and believe as they thought right was being In-
fringed by authority.
I wonder if life hasn’t become so easy for us in
America that we lose sight of its real values. I’ve
never been able to believe that dollars can compen-
sate for the sacrifice of Independence and convic-
tions. «
Cotton Adjustment Program
In 1933 there were about 2,000,-
000 cotton farms, including tracts
of land worked by share tenants
and croppers who were in that
year eligible to enter into contracts
and about 50 per cent of such
farms were covered with 1,032,000
contracts in force. In 1934 tracts
of land worked by share tenants
and croppers could not be covered
by separate contracts, but had to
be included in the contract of the
owner or operator, which reduced
the number of cotton farms for
that year to 1,500,000. About 67
per cent of .these farms were cov-
ered, and 1,004,000 contracts were
in force. In 1935 it is estimated
that 1,300,000 contracts will be in
force, covering about 87 per cent
of the 1,500,000 farms.
Plow-up
In 1935 cotton producers plowed
up 10,497,000 acres of growing
| cotton, or about 26 per cent of the
acreage in cultivation on July 1.
jin 1934 they rented 14,547,000
j acres, or 38.2 per cent of their,
base cotton acreage, with 45 per
cent as the maximum an individ-
ual with a base of over 5 acres
could rent. In 1935 approximate-
ly 14,000,000 acres will be rented,
amounting to about 33 per cent
of the base, with 35 per cent as the
miximum an individual with a base
of over 5 acres can rent.
Cash Benefits
In 1933 cotton producers receiv-
ed $175,500,000 in cash and cotton
option benefit payments; in 1934
Ihey received approximately $115,-
000,000 in rental and parity pay-
ments; and in 1935 they will re-
ceive approximately $125,000,000.
The farm value of the cotton
crop, including the value of seed,
in 1932 was $483,913,000, and in-
cluding rental and benefit pay-
ments, was $893,632,000 In 1933,
and 3882,772,000 In 1934, iwlth one
of the worst drouths in history in
the western part of the cotton belt.
World Supply and Carry-over
The world carry-over of Amer-
ican cotton was 12,960,000 bales on
August 1, 1932; 11,588,000 bales on
August 1, 1933; 10,634,000 bkles on
August 1, 1934; and is estimated
at 9,000,000 bales on August 1,
1935.
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and which cm tains Fmr Greet Treasons
'^ti-KUUr I UN
ACKNOWLEDGED BODY OF BOOKS
“Many voices are lifted in behaii of the taxpayer
in this government but very few steps are taken
to lift his burden.” Why worry about the taxpayer.
The old hickorynut got himself In this jam, and
in Washington and in Austin? Doesn’t he demand
government jobs for all his kinfolks? Doesn’t he
want the government to support all his po’ rela-
tions? Doesn’t he make the government furnish
his kids with free tuition, free books, school busses,
etc.? Hasn’t he voted for 99 per cent of all the
bond issues presented in .the last 20 years ? Doesn’t
he have to have hi* mall delivered to his door every
day? Doesn’t he expect an officer to chase all
over the country to locate an old rooster somebody
swiped from his back yard—and a hundred or so
other thinks his old grand-pap, who lived during
low tax years, never thought of. Besides, tax pay-
ers are so few in number (they are not worth rec-
ognizing. Too many on the delinquent lists now,
including oodles of office holders, for the tax payer
to expect much attention. He got himself in this
let him wiggle out.—Clarksville Times.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, does not name the books of the Old
Testament, but he limits the period of their production to the end of
the Persian rule and gives .the number as twenty-two, the number of
letters in the Hebrew alphabet. This was counting the five books of
Moses one, the twelve minor prophets one, and certain other combi-
nations. The Old Testament books that survived were In the old
classic Hebrew. Those that bore a later stamp were received with
suspicion, if at all.
The other factor which tended to fix a canon, or
acknowledged body of books, was the translation
of the Old Testament into Greek by a group of
scholars whose work began under Ptolemy, King
of Egypt, about two centuries before Christ. In
this translation, called the Septuagint, or work of
seventy scholars, was included a body of sacred
literature already In Greel^ the hooks known to us
as the Apocrypha. These were a part of the Bible
of Jesus and the apostles and were, of course, held
sacred, as were also certain books from which the
New Testament quotes, but which have not come
down to us. The Apocalypse of Enoch is an exam-
Jude quotes it in the first chapter of his little epistle, the 14th
The world supply of American
cotton was 25,961,000 bales In the
1932-33 season; 24,635,000 bales in
the 1933-34 season after 4.500,000
bales had been taken out of pro-
duction; 20,270.000 bales in the
1934-35 season; and is estimated
at 20,700,000 bales for the 1935-36
season.
The world supply of all growths
of cotton has been reduced from a
potential supply of 47,000,000 bales
before the plow-up program in
1933 to 39,282,000 bales for the
1934-35 season. This is a decrease
of 7,718,000 bales.
IN YEARS
GONE BY
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verse.
Thus while sertain books from i the ancient Hebrew had come to be
accepted before the time of Jesus as entitled to special reverence, the
fringes and margins of that collection were still open to dispute and
were, in fact, disputed vigorously for 200 years. For instance, a very
early bishop of Sardis who made a journey to Palestine for the express
purpose of learning, If he could, precisely what books the Jews accept-
ed as canonical, omitted Esther, Ezra and Lamentations from his
list. And the question of whether the two books, Ecclesiastes and the
Song of Songs, should be accounted sacred was not settled until the
Council of Jamnia. about 90 A.D.
We may sum it all up by saying that the ancient books which were
most used and gave most inspiration survived and, by being translated
secured a place for themselves in the canon. These include an out-
and-out love song which has no religious motive; a book which does
not mention the name of God, and another, Ecclesiastes, which is very
contradictory. P»»f the selection, made by the process of survival and
on the basis of those books which were best beloved, is probably the
better than it would have been If a group of men, however devoted,
had set themselves at any one time to assume the whole responsibility.
So much for the Old Testament. How were the New Testament
books selected? Again, by the process of use.
Next week: Ike New Testament
Copyright Bobbs-Merrin Co.
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Cooper Review:
TEN YEARS AGO
Displaying plenty of power on
line plays, the Cooper Bulldogs
swamped the Ladonia eleven 63 to
0 Friday with Turner, Shelton,
Miller and Naylor starring.
An union Thanksgiving service
is planned with Dr. W. M. Wright
of Paris to preach the sermon. All
pastors of Oooper will have a part
In the service.
W. W. Alexander of Cooper and
Bob Viles of Enloe In company
with men from Paris, returned
Monday from a two weeks’ hunt-
ing trip to the Davis Mountains.
An 8-point buck was killed.
New fixtures are being installed
this week by the Hooten Drug Co.
and D. M. Fisher.
IF YOU ARE
The fox being chaasd
hunted hare, runs in circles, if
to his own Instinct. Hie
eta above our heads mo..
cular orbits. It seems to
human mind also performs in a
similar manner—in clrclas-^M I
watch the developments of years.
Many of us a**e coming out at the
same door wherji in wo went,
the old poet, Omar. f 1
Time was when we lifted
in holy horror, at a diet > * fat
meat. Today, our calm judgement
is, that fat meats and well-nourish-
ed bodies are the beet fortification
against tuberculosis. I have heard
meats, cheese, eggs and other de-
pendable foods condemned sol-
emnly, even for healthy people! If
you had a greasy skin, you were
ordered off substantial diet Im-
mediately.
We know better now. T^>«»|
meat is not only desirable, it 1»
essential to life and strength.
People have looked at me slant-
ways when I have told them that
gravy was better for their "kids"
than cod-liver oil—and I’ve been
telling ’em that for nearly a half
century.
I knew a family who, all of them,
were swept away by tuberculosis
of the lungs—all but one, the last
little daughter. She consulted me
a few days after my graduation In
medicine—about her lungs! Her
three sisters and a bro
died of it. She naturally
she was doomed.
“Fanny,” I said, “you go home j
and learn to live on fat meats, rich
milk and eygs. See that you do
that, as many times a day as you
sit down to the table.” I made
it as impressive as I knew how.
She promised strict obedience.
Today, Fanny is getting a little
old—but she weighs 175, and still
enjoys her fat bacon!
If our dietitians would tell us
how to avoid the human hog, we
would be happier and healthier.
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COOP
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Demos Worriec
Reported Gro
Horse For ’
LA UGH Y
AND THE WORLD
LAUGHS WITH YOU
am
Oh, John,” screamed the excit-
ed woman driver, “the car la run-
ning away!’’
Can you stop It?” asked the
worried husband.
“No.”
“Well, then, see if you can’t hit
something cheap.’’
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“My husband is so careless of
his appearance. It seems like he
just can’t keep his buttons on his
clothes.”
“Are you sure it’s care:
Perhaps they are—uh—we'
ed on improperly.”
“Maybe you’re right. He Is ter-
ribly careless with his sewing.”
-o-
“Dad, what part of speech Is
i woman ?”
“Woman ain’t part of speech,
son She’s all of it.”
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Geography Teacher: Alec, where
is the Great Divide? >
Smart Alec: Reno, Nevada.
-o-
Some people get an education!
late In life, and others have no
children to bring them homework.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Both
the friends and the foes of the
dmlnistratlon profess to find sat-
tion in the results of the re-
local elections in different
arts of the United States. A
good deal depends on the point
, of view, but the more serious
minded among the President’s ad-
visers look on the record of the
vote as sounding at least a warn-
ing note.
The reputation of Postmaster
General Farley as a political stra-
tegist suffered somewhat of a set-
back. He injected the New Deal
issue into the New York legisla-
ture campaign, and that enables
Republicans chortle over regain-
ing control of the state assembly.
Since the assembly has been Re-
publican for 35 years, except for
the three Democratic “landslide”
elections of 1910, 1912, and 1934,
this year’s result was merely a
Teturn to normal, and would have
laittracted little attention if Mr.
Farley had not chosen to make
'an Administration issue of it. His
only consolation is that the total*h-°
Democratic vote cast in the state
was 370,000 more than the Re-
publican vote, the majority being
// mostly in New York City, where
V —---------- .IaoIaJ tnin pAnoroaa.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
At the annual meeting of the
Board of Trade the following of-
ficers were elected: Dr. J. H. Mc-
Kinney, president; W. A. Tyncs
and Dr. W. G. Ellington, vice pres-
idents; R. D. Sterne, secretary.
Directors are: W. A. Tynes, O. M.
McKinney, J. Will White, R. M.
Walker, Carter Anderson. Tom J.
Snell, C. L. Stevens, J. F. Crow-
son, W. H. Jones, El D. Brodhead
Tom E. Robertson and J. L. Rat-
liff. c
J. E. Frazier was unofficially
notified Friday that he had been
appointed manager of the Shaw
prison farm in Bowie County.
Elder J. W. Brewer returned on
Monday from Polk County where
he took part In an eight day de-
bate with a Christian pastor.
Firs at Ben Franklin last night
came near burning up the entire
town. A two-story building occu-
pied by W. F. Nanney and thsr
Masonic Lodge and a vacant struc-
ture were destroyed.
Announcement of teachers ex1
animations for certificates has
been made by County Superintend-
ent Walter Chancellor.
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THETIS AMY PART
Of AN AUTOMOBILE—
IS Of TEH POUND
HOLDING THE WHEEL*,
Tammany elected two Congress-
men to fill vacancies.
Here and There
Not much significance is at-
tached to the defeat of the Re-
tiblican candidate for Governor
,the normally Democratic state
Kentucky. Over in the New
ngland states, the political wise-
acres, find evidence that the New
Deal is losing ground, In the loss
of the Democrats of many mu-
nicipal offices and particularly in
the result of ithe Mayoralty elect-
ion In Philadelphia. There were
many New Dealers who were sure
that the G. O. P. was dead in its
principal stronghold, the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania. But
in the state-wide vote on the ju-
diciary ticket, the Republicans
were victorious.
Political opinion here is settling
down to the belief that it is upon
the Solid South and the Agrarian
West .that Mr. Roosevelt must rely
for reelection. That is one reason
why the Democratic leaders are
concerned over the rising popula-
rity of Governor Alf Landon of
ffrntuum as a Republican presiden-
tial possibility.
Admitting that it will be a
struggle to carry any of the states
east of the Mississippi and the
states north of the Ohio, they do
not like the prospect of having
go up against a candidate who
would be practically certain of
carrying Kansas, his home state,
pnd whose chance in all the rest of
Missouri Valley states would
Mtter than that of anyone else
[a put forward by any Repub-
llclff group entitled to serious con-
sideration.
Gossip of G.O.P. Dark Horse
Inside gossip in Republican cir-
eles is that (there is an “under-
cover’’ candidate being groomed as
the party’s nomination in 1936,
just as Senator Warnsn Harding
•was held under cover as a last-
minute surprise candidate in 1920.
The gossip says that Senator L. J.
Dickinson of Iowa has pledges of
support from twenty or so mem-
bers of !jhe Republican National
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