Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 2 of 6
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ZAVALA COUNTY SENTINEL, CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 85, IMS
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VILA COUNTY SERTML
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
I. H. HARDY. Owner. Editor and
Publisher
Entered as Second Cl ass Maner at
she Poet Office at Crystal City. Texas,
ander the Act of March 8, ISIS.
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Crystal City, Texas, October 2, 1942
PRIVATIONS OF ANOTHER WAR
CLASSIFIED AD
SELLS CHICKEN8
Now that we are in the middle of
A. G. Weston put a classified ad one 0f greatest wars this coun-
in last week s Sentinel, fryers for j try ^as ever known when ihe people
sale, with the understanding that if1 may be reduced to extreme priva-
tion, I am induced to tell how we
met privation in the days of the
Civil War when we had to use out-
wits and make use of the bounties
which nature had provided.
When the civil war came on us in
it brought results he would continue
the ad. Mr. Weston came in this
week and said to discontinue the ad
as he had sold all his chickens and
could have sold many more. He said
there must be a shortage of fryers
for people seemed overly anxious to; 1861( we were soon deprived of all
8et b's’ ! kinds of medicines that were known
to us in those days. Such things as
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! LOCAL MERCHANTS FEATURING
FRESH APPLES CURRENT
VICTORY FOOD SPECIAL
LACK OF RUBBER REMAINS
NO. ONE DOMESTIC PROBLEM
National rationing of gasoline, as
recommended by the Baruch Com-
mittee, is not proposed because there
is a shortage of motor fuel. To the
contrary, there is an abundance of
gasoline of all ordinary grades, and
in the producing areas the oil com-
panies are hardput for storage facil-
ities. Gasoline rationing is to be im-
(posed, instead, to save rubber—and
to save rail and water tiansporta-
lon facilities for other uses.
U the present time, gasoline is
tioned in 17 Eastern states. Ac-
cording to Leon Henderson, it will be
extended to the balance of ihe coun-
try on precisely the same basis. That
means that the average motorist will
be entitled to four gallons weekly,
enough to carry him about 60 miles.
- Supplemental allowances are given
to “essential” drivers. Practically all
pleasure driving will be eliminated
for the duration.
The effects of this will be felt most
severely in the West. In the East,
with great cities and heavily concen-
trated populations, the motor car has
not been nearly so necessary as it is
in the West, where distances are vast
and cities are few and far between.
Furthermore, public transDortation
has naturally attained a higher state
of development in the bigger popu-
lation areas. The street car and bus
systems, outside of the largest cities,
are simply not adequate to handle
the load that has long beer, carried
by private automobiles.
Drastic restrictions on automobile
use will work a veritable revolution
in this nation. West of the Mississ-
ippi, where distances are great and
interurban transportation limited,
no one can estimate the effect of the
slow-down that will occur The mo-
tor car dominated our fashion of liv-
ing ever since the First World War.
To millions of people, the family car.
is practically as necessary as food!
and shelter. During the tv/enties and
thirties, there was an ever-increas-
ing migration away from towns and
cities into suburbs. Men and women
lived ten or twenty or more miles
from their places of business. Just
how these people wi'l get back and
forth now that car operation is to be
cut to the bone, is an unanswered
question. It is impossible for them to
move closer to their jobs, for the
reason that there are severe housing
shortages in all areas which have
war industries of any kind.
The desirable solution to *his prob-
lem is to produce enough artificial
rubber to keep our cars moving. But
it seems impossible to find out just
how well or badly the synthetic rub-
ber problem is doing. The nil indus-
try is making progress in ’.ne manu-
facture of rubber from oil deriva-
tives. The tire companies say that
they can produce tires from re-
claimed rubber which will give fair
service if driven slowly. A start is
being made to produce another kind
of synthetic rubber from grain al-
cohol. However, there seems little
question but what the progra
general is still ir.ovin
and that is
govemm
ficia
l quinine, calomel and other medicinal
j drugs could not be had for love nor
! money, and when needed, *ve had to
I Local merchants are cooperating | resort to herbs that «rew m the for'
in the national drive to increase the I es*s and gardens,
consumption of fresh apples, the Vic- dla* l*me the use of anaes-
tory Food Special, designated by the thetics was on,y in the experimental
Agricultural Marketing Administra- sta^e- Such things as ether and
tion for the period of September 17
through 26.
Not only are local merchants, res-
chloroforms were practicallq un-
known. to us, but when it was neces-
sary to allay pain or induce sleep,
taurants and food outlets featuring j we gave the Patient a dose of °Pium-
fresh apples, but local homemakers I How did we «et °Pium? We raised
are doing their bit by purchasing j PUPP‘CS »n tht> Kai den- when the
fresh apples in quantity and serving i
them to their families, according to
C. L. Spacek, County Agricultural
Agent.
Commercial apple production for
1942 is expected to be even larger
than that of last year. Supplies of
fresh apples for home consumption g<,‘*d °P*um-
will be quite abundant and their use
by homemakers will release other
vital foods for Lend-Lease shipment
and other war needs.
Other farm commodities which
have been featured»as Victory Food
Specials locally were onions, toma-
toes, chickens, lettuce, peaches and
cheese.
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UNITED NATIONS CONTINUE
PLAN INVASION OF EUROPE
The argument goes merrily on be-
tween the air power enthusiasts and
those who think that the airplane,
vital ai.it is, can’t win a war alone.
Such persuasive friends of the
plane as Major de Seversky are con-
vinced that if the United Nations
could build and keep in operation
enough planes, Germany and Japan
could be literally obliterated from
the skies—and that major land op-
erations would thus be unnecessary.
| The fact that the airplane has not
j yet proven a decisive weapon means
j nothing in their opinion—because no
| nation has as yet been able to keep
' up air attacks on the scale neces-
sary.
The majority of military experts
don’t go as far as this. They argue
that relatively few of the bombs
dropped by planes ever hit impor-
tant objectives, and that the damage
done can, as a rule, be swiftly reme-
died. They point out that constant
progress is being made >n air de-
fense—such as camouflage, anti-
aircraft guns and fighter planes.
They think that the airplane can do
an all-important job in “softening
up” an enemy and in disrupting his
supply lines—but that it will be up
to navies and armies to finish the
job.
No one can say with certainty
which side is right. In the meantime,
the United Nations’ high command
continues to prepare for a grand-
scale invasion of Europe. If that in-
vasion is to succeed, they figure, at
least a million superbly-equipped
fighting men must be landed—and
there must be another million in re-
serve. This, when it happens, will be
the greatest military operation in
history.
Opium was common then and was
in most every household, but I
never heard of a dope fiend.
My grandmother was a noted mid-
wife and doctor in her day. Perhaps
she was better read and better ex-
perienced than most of the physi-
cians who practiced in that day. She
kept her medical library under lock
and key and woe to the youngster
who stole a peep at her secret books.
She knew the whole gamut of Ma-
teria Medica that was known in
those days.
She compounded her own medi-
cines from herbs and things she
gathered from her garden and the
forests. Some of these things are to
this day the bases to standard medi-
cines.
Such things as antisceptics and
disinfectants were unknown then. I
was a grown man before I ever
heard of carbolic acid and other
such disinfectants, but grandmother
know the value of keeping wounds
clean.
When soldiers suffering from
wounds of battle would come home,
grandmother was called in to treat
them. She made her own soap and
salve for the occasion. The first thing
in the treatment of a wound she
would cleanse it with soap and warm
water. Then she would dress it with
salve and bind it with cotton which
she had boiled and dried in a baking
oven and kept in a tight box. In this
way the wounds would heal rapidly.
Grandmother always insisted that if
a wound was kept clean, there would
be no “mortifications.”
If one was suffering from malaria,
she would purge him with ‘bal-
monia’ tea and give him a concoc-
tion of blackhaw, dogwood bark and
whiskey. While she did not know it,
dogwood bark had about the same
property of cinchona bark which is
the base of quinine.
For vomiting and nausia, she
would take the lining of a chicken
gizzard, roast it, powder it and give
it as doctors do today give ingluvium
which is made of the same thing.
In cases of diarrhea, she would
give oak bark tea.
We could get along with these
things today if we had to, but it
From where I sit...
by Joe Marsh
^square of a little village not
here I came on the pret-
rer garden you ever saw.
i lot of flowers all mixed
da of different kinda, I
aked a passerby if he
about it
ays, “in this town
dy plants a flower
any seeds left,
over this plot’’
and pulls out
k“We all have to
[weeds too,” he
| the village has
i proud of.”
an illus-
as I ever
b’s plenty of
i and civic
yeaterday
I the beer
together
’ enforce-
around beer. But the weeds—well
—they’ve got to be pulled out too.
Everybody has to lend a hand.
And the brewing industry is just
sensible enough to recognize that
.. . But what’s more—they’re do-
ing something about it
The brewers don’t want their
beer aold in the wrong kind of
places, and so they’ve teamed up
with the authorities in a self-
regulation program to make care-
less beer retailers “clean up or
close up,” as they say.
From what I read, the plan ia
working out mighty successful in
a number of states, and is spreail-
in’ out into others.
From where I ait it looks like a
fine idea ... a mighty practical ex-
ample of how honeat co-operation
works out to the benefit of every-
one—the brewers, the beer retail-
era, and us plain citizens that like
our gardens and our pleasures—
with the weed* kept out
would be hard going until we got
used to it—Uncle Bill, in Sterling
City News-Record.
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WORDS MAY FORM
A SHINING ARMOR
The Bush family had just moved
from their native village to a town
where Mr. Bush had secured work in
an airplane factory. The three chil-
dren, Lucia, Martin and Walter,
found it rather difficult, at first, to
adjust themselves to playmates who
had been brought up so c'ifferently
from themselves.
As weeks passed, Mr. and Mrs.
Bush learned that the children’s new
acquaintances had many undesirable
habits, that they used coarse expres-
sions and that rudeness and discour-
tesy were the general rule with most
of them.
When Martin and Walter began to
acquire some of these objectionable
was no more dissension.
Mrs. Bush reported this episode to
Mr. Bush and they sought more ways
of arming their children against the
exigencies of their days.
“In a changing world,” say these
wise parents, “it isn’t going to be
possible to segregate our children in
order to keep them unspotted. What
then rhall we do?
“We must give them ways and
means to apply teachings ‘hat homes
and churches and schools give as
theories—give them words to say,
acts to do, practical applications to
make. We must not fail them at any
point; and to do this we must keep
our own precept and our own prac-
tice consistent, high and worthy.
"If our teaching doesn’t go deep
enough to stand the test of an alien
environment, we should be glad to
find it out and start over again. We
need to make our teaching definite,
that will stand by them us long a
they live." National Kindergarten
Association.
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armor
a substance
like milk would appear in the cut.
We would gather this milk and dry
it and it would be good opium. If
poppies were not at hand "'e would
cut matured lettuce stalks and save
the milk, dry it and it would also be
manners and to use the rude lan-1 positive, rich and inclusive. In this
guage they heard, it V'as plain j way> we may help our children forge
enough that the method of teaching .a shining and unbreakable
behavior which seemingly had
worked so well in the nome town
was not satisfactory for the new en-
vironment. Th^ principles of good
breeding had evidently not been
firmly enough established. They
were not standing the test.
Unit'd State War Savings Bond ^Stamps
U. S. Trtaiury Defer tmenl
—Adding Machine paper, cash reg-
ister paper, sales books, typewriter
ribbons, carbon, etc. may be had in
any quantity at Sentinel office.
Mr. and Mrs. Bush re-established
the family’s early childhood practice
of constant drill in common polite-
ness. Father, Mother and the chil-
dren made it an unbreakable rule to
say, “Thank you,” for all kindnesses,
and the pleasure to be gained from
being kind was repeatedly stressed
through opportunities for experienc-
ing it. They were caaeful to say, “If
you please,” for anything desired
and, “Excuse me,” for accidents or
accidental offenses. The parents
meant to try to build habits which
would stand by the children as long
as they lived.
Running concurrently with the
teaching and practice of habitual
courtesy and kindness, they went on
to accustom the children to the use
of fitting words and pharoses with
which to speak of different things
that are good, beautifpl and desir-
able. They taught them, also, to look
for beauty in common things as well
as in uncommon things. They taught
them to comprehend such abstrac-
tions as “courage," patience,” “wis-
dom,” “knowledge,” understanding.”
These parents realized their chil-
dren also needed colloquial speech
which is so commonly used about or-
dinary matters. Besides this, they
definitely explained to their chil-
dren how much some people love to
tease. They gave them words and
phrases to answer with: “You can’t
be in earnest.” “I don’t believe you
would do that!” Even slang phrases
that were current: “Aw, fiddle-
sticks!’ "Oh, yeah?” “You’d be sur-
prised.”
How well this worked, Mrs. Bush
had an opportunity to learn one day
when a much larger boy came to
play with Martin. This boy’s mother
called him to bring her some wood.
He urged Martin to do it for him—
to carry the load of wood in to his
mother while he went on playing
with his balL, #
Martin refused; tfie-'other boy in-
sisted. Finally, taking out his knife,
the boy said, "If you don’t go right
now, I’ll—I’ll cut your ears off.”
Martin said, “Go and take your
own wood in. Don’t you know yet_
you sap—you can’t kid me?”
The boy looked up, wide-eyed, “Of
course I do,” he said, and tucking his
ball into his pocket, he carried in the
load of wood and brought back a
gift.
“Look, I made these two air-
planes,” he said. “Want one?”
The boys talked about airplanes
for the next ten minutes, and there
One War Week
A calendar of events on one war job in one recent week give* a graphic
picture of how General Electric it working to meet wartime emergencies.
1. THURSDAY: An order wa* 2. THURSDAY NIGHT: A*
received at an eastern G-E factory many workers as could be eflfi-
for equipment needed by a U. S. ciently employed on the job worked
warship near Australia. A special all night, all day FRIDAY, as-
call went out. sembling the equipment.
3. SATURDAY: Under police 4. WEDNESDAY: A bombing
escort, the equipment was rushed plane landed the equipment at its
to a nearby airport. Traveling by Pacific destination —10,000 miles
plane, it arrived in San Francisco from the factory—six days after
on SUNDAY. receipt of order
General Electric believes that its first duty as a
good citizen is to be a good soldier.
Central Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
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