The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1942 Page: 3 of 6
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THE COTULLA RECORD
Moderated by
FRED G. CLARK
General Chairman
American Economic
Foundation
Wake Up, America !
s America Outgrowing Its
Traditional Democracy?
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Alfred M. Bingham
Author: New Technique!
of Democracy
Dr. O. Clenn Saxe-.
Prof, of Economic*.
Yale L'nirertily
MR. BINGHAM OPENS: Congress
Is in low repute. Few of the politi-
cians we vote for command our deep-
est loyalty. Constitutional liberties
failed to prevent a disastrous depres-
sion and a catastrophic war. The dic-
tators say democracy is obsolete and
so far they have won most of the
babies. Are they right?
The traditional forms of democracy
vei e developed to meet the problems
if the 18th century. Some of them fit
he modern world as a boy's short
pants lit a man. If we depended only
>n legislative debate and electioneer-
.; t i li^ht dictatorship we should
lose.
Fortunately, democracy Is a way of
life, and like life it is subject to
growth and change. America has been
developing new democratic forms and
techniques.
Even before the war these new de-
vices were giving people new free-
doms. Labor unions were giving
workers new opportunities for self-
expression. Millions of farmers were
participating in the administration
of agricultural planning and controls.
Public housing was giving more chil-
dren a real chance to grow up.
Now the war is bringing vast num-
bers of citizens the opportunity to
share in a common effort as never
before.
We are building a new democ-
racy on the sound foundation of
the past.
DR. SAXON CHALLENGES: Mr.
Bingham’s position sums up as fol-
lows: “Democracy” must expand
through compulsory labor unions,
collective farming and publicly sub-
sidized housing. He fails to mention
that this involves taking away the
individual citizen’s constitutionally-
guaranteed freedom of economic
choice and establishing complete gov-
ernment control over the means of
production. This is not "building a
new democracy.” It is nothing but
clumsily camouflaged totalitarianism
based on the pretext of “good” con-
trols for the "good” of the people.
But there is no halfway house on th j
road to totalitarianism. Once the gov-
ernment starts "taking over” it must,
of necessity, go the whole way.
MR. BINGHAM REPLIES: The best
refutation of Dr. Saxon is America
today. The government is doing more
than ever before under the demands
of Total War but because we are not
afraid of inventing new methods of
popular participation as we go along
we actually have more democracy
rather than less.
Ask the Air Raid Wardens and Ra-
tioning Board. Ask the members of
Labor Management Committees in
the factories. Ask the Home Canners,
and Volunteers, and Nurses Aides,
and millions of others if what they
are doing is on the road to Totali-
tarianism.
Democracy means free men work-
ing together. There is no limit to
what it can accomplish.
DR. SAXON OPENS: One hundred
fifty years ago, our Founding Fathers,
with an acute knowledge of man-
kind's 3,000 years of political experi-
mentation, set up a government which
they knew would keep men free as
long as the Constitution remained
fundamentally unchanged.
Basically there are only two kinds
of government: either the people con-
trol the government or the govern-
ment controls the people. Any other
situation is merely a transition. Which
kind is best depends upon the char-
acter of the people making up the
nation. The [oople who organized the
United States of America were the
sturdy self-reliant type that did not
want or need a paternalistic govern-
ment which, in exchange for com-
plete obedience, would promise them
food, clothing and shelter.
If today the Constitution is no
longer the best formula for Ameri-
ca’s government it is not because the
Constitution has failed; it is because
Americans no longer have the per-
sonal characteristics necessary for
political and economic freedom. Mr.
Bingham may be right. Maybe the
majority of Americans today want
constitutional changes that offer illu-
sory collective security. By voting
away freedom they may get some
color of slavish security. But if they
do, it means that Ameiica will go the
way of Greece, Rome, and other great
empires, into the limbo of history.
MR. BINGHAM CHALLENGES:
One hundred fifty years ago a group
of young revolutionists invented a
new form of government. They made
use of what Hamilton (aged 30)
termed "wholly new discoveries” in
the “science of politics." The strength
of the Constitution they wrote lay
not in its reliance on tradition but in
its adaptability to change.
We have moved far since their day.
They would not recognize some of
our new discoveries. But they would
expect their descendants to make
“useful alterations suggested by ex-
perience” (The Federalist).
Dr. Saxon need not despair of our
generation. Millions of self-reliant
Americans are sharing new tasks to-
day.
DR. SAXON REPLIES: The Con-
stitution is adaptable to change —
through amendment But present-day
reformers consider constitutional
amendments and due process of law
too old fashioned (largely because
they fear their reforms could not
stand the test of public opinion).
We have "moved far since their
day.” Since 1932 we have moved
steadily away from representative
government, toward that "excess of
democracy,” demagoguery, against
which the Constitutional Convention-
warned the nation.
Let’s remember Benjamin Frank-
lin’s answer to a friend, inquiring as
to the kind of government estab-
lished by the Constitution; “A repub-
lic, sir, if you can keep it so!” and as
we value liberty, we must “keep it so.”
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NEW WRINKLES IN
CANNING CHICKEN
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Here’s another “now is the time”
tip about chickens. All those “star
boarders” farm families are culling
out of their poultry flocks should be
canned right away. Canned chicken
on the pantry shelf will help stretch
the two-and-a-half-pound-per-person
meat ration of red meat. That's
the advice of Sue Stewart, County
Home Demonstration Agent, A. & M.
College Extension Sendee.
Two years old chicken are better
for canning than the younger ones
because long processing and high
temperature destroy much of the
flavor and texture of young birds.
So roast the younger one for Sunday I
dinner and can the two-year-olds.
It is recommended that chicken be
packed raw in the containers for the
canning process. The pre-cooking !
period generally followed takes too
long, and many people have been
over-cooking canned chicken. Can- |
ning raw chicken not only tikes less
time and labor, but the chicken re-
tains more food value.
Now here’s one final tip on can-
ning chicken. Don’t waste chicken
by trying to can it fried. You
might turn out a good product, but j
the chances are against you. Fat
in the cans may become rancid,
spoilage may occur, or the meat may
taste bitter if the fatty acid breaks
down. Fat also makes the meat
hard and dry. So, play sal's and
can your chicken raw.
f NEW FRIENDSHIPS
One of the best ways to know a
man and learn to appreciate his
good qualities is to work with him
for a common cause.
When those soldiers and sailors
Kyes
that the other
and flyers of
ours come home
again, every
single one of
them is going
to be a better
citizen because
he has lived
and worked
with "buddies”
from all walks
of life. He Will
have learned
cliow has some
mighty admirable traits, once you
get to know him.
Society in our modern world is
group rather than individualistic
society. We are through with be-
ing isolationists at home as well
as abroad. In the future, wc shall
have to recognize, more and more,
that each of us is a member of a
nation or a state or a community
—a political unit, or a school or
some kind of a mutual welfare as-
sociation.
Our group, no matter what class
it seems to belong to, must be
based on the idea that no one per-
son shall have all of the advan-
tages. Each member must have at
least the opportunity to ;*nn for
himself a full share of the benefits
the group affords for all.
Old-time prejudices and tradi-
tions, and old habits of thinking
and living, tend to disappear un-
der war conditions. For war is nec-
essarily a community effort, where
each man must merge his own self-
ish interests with the interests of
all. One of the few good things
about war is that it makes for
unity—in a people or a nation.
Just consider for a moment the
organized group activities that
have sprung into being during the
past few months!
Every community has its bond
and stamp drives, its Red Cross
work, its organized scrap collec-
tions, its part in the USO, its work
in Civilian Defense.
Agricultural machinery clinics,
community gardens, and Govern-
ment-inspired county activities are
bringing us all closer together.
And we have the 4H Clubs, the
FFA, the Boy and Girl Scouts, to
help mold the characters and ideals
of our future leaders.
Farmers are going to their elect-
ed and appointed officials, and to
their own organizations such as
the Grange and the Farm Bureau
for help and advice, more than ever
before.
We are beginning to see that the
basic reason for Government is not
to rule over us, but to help us.
At no period in the history of
our country have we ever had
more reasons and more occasions
for being together with our neigh-
bors.
At heart, all Americans are nat-
ural-born patriots. While we may
differ as to details of thinking and
method, the one thing we are
working for is the American ideal.
When the struggle is over, we
shall emerge as a people with a
new sense of common purpose, a
common ideal to strive fc>r, and a
new feeling of responsibility to-
ward each other. That will make
us better citizens. And it will make
us all together a stronger, mo-'
vital people.
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J‘Sate—to make
the Japs pay.”
COLD WEATHER - -
will soon be here
The supply of
STOVES
is strictly LIMITED
We can take care of you needs Now-
But don’t put this off, for the stock
will soon be exhausted.
Play Safe! See Us Today
It will pay you to tee us first.
T. R. KECK & SONS
VVTHEN washing clothes by
W hand, mb badly soiled
parts with a soft brush and a
good soap lather. This is easy
on the fabric, yet hard on the dirt.
You’ll save many pennies by
this simple rule for laundering
clothes carefully. Put those
thrifty coins into U. S. SAVINGS
STAMPS—they're valuable to
Democracy!
You can buy War Bonds at the Co-
tulla, Los Angeles, and Encinal Posf
Offices; The Stockmens Bank a-d
Central Power & Light Co. Office in
Cotulla. Place your order today.
--V-
Engraved wedding invitation antf
announcements at this office.—Set
our samples and get our prices before
you buy elsewhere—We can save you
money.
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German L-Boat Rammed, Crew Captured
By Canadian Destroyer in Fierce Duel
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fpHE top photo, one of the most graphic taken dur-
■fr ,lng? the Present war, shows a German submarine
slithering away from the bow of a Canadian destroyer
as the destroyer attempted to ram the U-boat. The
action during this encounter took place at extremely
close range—often with the two vessels no more than
a few feet apart. The destroyer just missed ramming
the submarine when this photo was taken by a mem-
ber of the crew, but her aim was more accuiate and
deadly a little later, and the sub was crashed by the
destroyers bow. The raider stood suspended in the
ocean for a moment and then was swallowed up by
the waves.
survivors of the submarine were picked up
after their craft was sunk. The lower right photo
shows the rescue. The U-boat survivors smoked and
chatted as they waited their turn to board the Cana-
aian destroyer.
daring, courage and clever seamanship ex-
nibited by individuals in this sea battle is typical of the
^spirit found in the sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy. |h
CAUTIONED AGAINST
SHOOTING AT
ELECTRIC INSULATORS
With the hunting season now in full
swing, all users of firearms are cau-
tioned against taking shots at electric
line insulators an other equipment on
electric poles, T. B. Harris, manager
here for the Central Power and Light
Company, said.
‘Youngsters very often are tempted
to use these insulators as targets
when out hunting, thinking little of
the consequences of their acts. Of
course to hit insulators is destruction
of property, but in these times it is
quite serious, because your electric
| company finds it highly difficult to
j replace these parts” he said.
Since Central Power and Light Com-
j par.y servts numerous war projects in
! South and Southwest Texas, the en-
I tire electric system has been declared
] a defense industry by the Federal
j Government, and the destruction of
any part of it is regarded as sabotage.
I Offenders, even if unthinkable in their
I acts, are held guilty of sabotage a-
i gainst the national effort to win th-
■ war the utility man pointed out.
“Of course, it is not morally right
j to destroy wilfully anyone’s proverty,
but the shortage of materials and the
| shortage of trained repairmen makes
i it definitely against the public inter-
- est to shoot at equipment which may
| never be replaced until after the war.
Everybody’s electric service is endan-
gered by the carelessness of a few
people,” Mr. Harris said.
Central Power and Light Company
has offered a $200 reward for infor-
mation leading to the arrest and con-
viction of anyone engaged in sabotage
against the utility properties.
You can buy War Bonds at the Co-
tulla, Los Angeles, and Encinal Post
Offices; The Stockmens Bank and
Central Power & Light Co. Office in
Cotulla. Place your order today.
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The More Dollars You Save in Defense Bonds...
The More “Axis-Crushers” Our Army Will Have
America must produce 45,000 tanks this
year! 60,000 planes! 20,000 antiaircraft guns!
Altogether, 56 billion dollars worth of fighting
equipment to smash the military maniacs at-
tacking us.
That s why billions of fighting dollars—your
dollars sated for Defense Bonds and Stamps—
are needed and needed now!
That’s why every American man, woman,
and child must put every dime and dollar not
into auto tires but into automatic rifles— not into
luxuries, but into tanks—not into spending for
the pursuit of happiness, but into Defense Bonds
for the relentless pursuit of our enemies.
An important part of America's job, your job,
this year is to spend less and save more—to in-
vest in safety with perfect safety! Not only does
the U. S. Government guarantee your mooey, it
guarantees to give you $4 for every $3 you save
in Defense Bonds when you bold the Bonds to
maturity!
Make up your mind right now to save for
Defense Bonds—regularly. Set aside as much
as you can. Make every pay day Bond day!
You Get a $25 Bond for Only $18.75
Facts Abaut Datanaa Bands tSeries E)
How match do they cost?
Vpon Matsrrify
Yon LEND Vncle Sam
Yarn GET BACK
$18.75
8 I 8
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$25.00
$37.50
8 8 S
8 S 8
$50.00
$75.00
8 • S
i a 8
$100.00
$375.00
$500.00
$750.00
8 8 8
8 8 8
$1,000.00
When is snatarity? Ttn rears, but you can cash the Bonds
at any time after 60 days Iron issue date. Naturally, the
I oncer you hold Bonds, up to 10 years, the more mooey
you'll cet back. But you'll nerer get less than you put in.
What's the interest rate? VTben held to maturity, the Bonds
yield 2.9 percent per year on your investment, com-
pounded semiannually—vou cet back S4 (oe even I).
This is guaranteed by the United State, Government.
U.S. Defense BONDS ★ STAMPS
LASALLE COUNTY
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