The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 4 of 6
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THE COTULLA RECORD
THE COTULLA RECORD
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT
COTULLA, TEXAS
MANLY & MANLY, Publishers
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DETAILS OF GASOLINE RATIONING
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"Public reaction to the announcement of impending nationwide
garolit i rationing suggests very clearly the necessity for extreme
care in the formulation of details of the plan. Thi- necessity is made
all the greater and all the plainer by the fact that the rationing is
actually to be imposed upon a commodity of which there is no
shortage in order to conserve another commodity. Unless authorit-
ies are able to keep clear the complicated relation thus set up and are
able themselves to remember at all times that it is rubber and not
gasoline that is to be saved, there will be trouble at every turn.
It is to be taken for granted that all Americans are willing to do
anything in their power toward winning the war. This means that
motorists are willing to give up their cars, if needed. But it does
not mean that they will be willing to make sacrifices just for ihe
sake of sacrifices. In other words, in the case of gasoline rationing
both necessity and effectiveness must be shown if it is to have the
willing co-operation of the public.
Since there is no shortage in gasoline, the only justification for
gasoline rationing is rubber saving. This being true, only uses of
gasoline which contributes to rubber consumption should be curtail-
ed. Every other use of gasoline not only should be permitted but
should be encouraged, since very important economic interests, not
forgetting tax receipts by all forms of government, depend up:tn the
production and sale of this commodty. It follows, also, that only,
where restricting the use of gasoline will actually save rubber should
restriction be imposed, and only to the degree that it will save
rubber. .......
A prime difficulty which the rationers must overcome if the plan
is to be at all successful arises from the fact that there are preferred
users of rubber, who. for the same reasons that allow tires to ho
available to them when their present tires are worn out, must have
also greater freedom in the consumption of gasoline. Thus the
greatest field for rubber saving through gasoline restriction is closed
at the very beginning. Tire rationing authorities in the various
States have asserted that it is the motorists who have priority
rating for tire purchases who are failing to hold down speed and
confine themselves otherwise to a regimen of driving which will save
tires.
It is our own observation that very nearly all motorists in the
class which can not get new tires or retreads have already and vol-
untarily cut down their driving, that they drive carefully, and, in
general, are using every means to make their tires last longer.
Therefore, it seems, that gasoline rationing will produce very little
if any results among this class of motorists. In this view of the
situation, covering the two great classes of motorists—those who
have tire priority and those who have not—it does not appear that
there is a very happy prospect for actual rubber saving in the
entire gasoline rationing scheme.
The public hopes for the best, both in respect to the judgment of
the authorities who make the rationing rules and in respect to the
results in rubber saving. It is to he presumed that failure anywhere
along the line will lead the Government to the remaining expedient,
which is requisition of tires in the hands of private motorists to be
used for building up a stock of serviceable tires which may be sold
later to keep running the automotive vehicles which are deemed
necessary to the economic life of the Nation. There are grave mis-
givings that this wouldbe the better step at this time." (An Edi-
torial, Fort Worth Star Telegram. Sept. 15, 1942)
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DOUBLE YOUR FIRE PREVENTION EFFORTS
It has been commonly stated for many years that fire insurance
is basis of credit. However, too many people paid little attention
to this fact and went merrily on adding fuel to our $300,000,000 an-
nual bonfire.
Today the fact that insurance is the basis of credit is illustrated
with striking force. You may own a valuable farm crop, a factory,
a home, or other tangible properties. But without insurance pro-
jection, their credit value would be nil.
While insurance cannot save valuable property from fire, it can
give the owner money compensation based on increased values, which
at a time like this, might well mean the difference between ruin
and the ability to rebuild or rebuy properties or materials essen-
tial to continued production.
Yes indeed, fire insurance, which may be increased to cover rising
replacements costs, is the basis of credit today. But as replace-
ment costs increase, it is all the more essential that everything
possible be done to prevent fire, as property destruction from this
evil is a greatei economic loss than ever before due to our war
effort. Double your fire prevention efforts as you increase your
protection.
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, WHAT’LL THE HARVEST BE?
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Congress f nsiders what it calls a “five per cent victory tax" on
all incomes down to $12 a week, and the Federal sales tax issue keeps
showing up. Billions of dollars of money must be raised by taxa-
tion and every proplosal that has an once of sense in it receives
careful study on Capitol Hill in Washington. Death and taxes are
still things to be “sure of," and “higher taxes" are even surer. The
1943 tax harvest will be more than a bumper crop—it will be the
heaviest crop in all our history.
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Promotes W ar Ponds.—I rging farmer* to purchase War Bonds every mar-
ket day, this striking W ar Bond poster will serve a> a constant reminder of
the farmer's stake in the War, for it will be displayed generally in the rural
areas during the next few months. Illustration is by John Steuart Curry.
Mediated by
PRED G. CLARK
G»n*rol Chairman
American Economic
Foundation
Would the Crisis in India Benefit
From U. S. Diplomatic
Intervention ?
Mr. Louis Fischer
Ci’h'timini Author on
World Affair,
As dcbaled hr
Sir Norman Angcll
Internationally Fnmou,
Political Economitt
MR. FISCHER ASSERTS: Chiang
Kai-shek, friend of Indian indepen-
dence. knows that Gandhi, Nehru and
the other Indian Congress Party lead-
e-s are very pro-Chinese and very
anti-Japanese. The Generalissimo,
therefore, wants the United States
government to mediate between Eng-
land and India. For China is worried
about British policy in India. We who
have been pro-war and anti-fascist
for many years—before Pearl Har-
bor—are afraid that India may go the
way of Burma and Malaya. There wa
no Gandhi in Burma. But Burma was
disloyal to Britain. That is why the
Japs have Burma today. The Indian
masses are now indifferent to the war
and might remain indifferent even if
attacked. They need to be aroused.
They need to be made pro-war. The
British cannot make the Indians pro-
war because so many of the Indians
are anti-British. Only their own lead-
ers can make Indians pro-war. The
Indian leaders would want to enlist
the Indian millions in .he war. But,
as Jewaharlal Nehru, the great In-
dian nationalist says: "I will fight
Japan sword in hand—as a free man.”
“How can we fight for democracy
in Germany and Japan,” Indians said
to me during my recent stay in In-
dia, “when we have no democracy
ourselves?"
That is the key to the Indian prob-
lem. Indian leaders do not expect
complete independence now. That is
impossible in wartime But they want
the beginning of freedom today; then
they will believe that they will re-
ceive more freedom after the war.
The British do not see it that way.
Cripps did not offer enough. Every
party in India rejected Cripps’ offer.
There must be new negotiations.
Gandhi, Nehru and the others say
they are ready to negotiate. The Brit-
ish are not ready. Somebody ought
to bring them together. The Ameri-
can government should try. That is
all an outsider is entitled to ask: that
the two sides, England and India
start speaking to one another again.
Maybe this time they can agree.
SIR NORMAN COMMENTS: The
first job of intervention or concilia-
tion* is not as between Britain and
“India” which is not a unit, but as
between the different Indian parties
and communities. Britain has said re-
peatedly that it will accept any form
* of government upon which India as
’ a whole can agree. Critics commonly
declare that the disagreements are
deliberately fostered by Britain. If
that is true then it should -be a rela-
tively easy task for a non-British
conciliator—American or Chinese—to
secure agreement.
. Mr. Fischer says the Indians want
the “beginnings of freedom.” There
are eleven Indian parliaments, with
Indian Cabinets responsible to Indian
legislatures. Edgar Snow—no reac-
tionary—wrote recently: "Indians en-
joy freedom of organization, of the
press, of assembly . . . Infinitely more
of all of them under the British gov-
ernment than the Chinese possess In
Free China.”
SIR NORMAN ASSERTS: The an-
swer depends on what America would
do if intervention failed to improve
things; if further concessions to the
demands of one Indian party—Con-
gress-Hindu, Moslem, Mahasabha.
Untouchables, Native States — were i
resisted by other Indian parties.
The basis of Britain’s objection to
throwing into the turmoil of Indian
politics the final decision of the coun-
try’s policy, must be taljen into ac-
count. That objection is based on ex-
periences. Twenty years ago, Britain,
not uninfluenced by American pres-
sure, entered into the Anglo-Irish
Treaty, accepted by the majority in
a freely assembled Irish Parliament.
Whereupon, another Irish party re-
belled against those Irish who made
the treaty, refused to abide by it,
presented further claims, culminating
finally in the demand that Britain
evacuate the naval and air bases that
the treaty had guaranteed her. To
this, too, "as a gesture of good-will"
Britain (against the protests of Mr.
Churchill at the time) agreed, and by
so doing made immeasurably more
perilous, more costly in American
lives and ships, that battle of the
Atlantic upon which victory may de-
pend. A similar result of Indian-
controlled policy would be even more
disastrous. And there are many Ire-
lands in India. It is merely fatuous
to assume that India is inherently
less isolationist than Ireland; that no
Indian leader would or could imitate
Mr. de Valera, who believes it an en-
tirely honorable bargain to buy peace
for Ireland in return for a neutrality
which places not only Britain, but
the United States—whence Mr. de
Valera comes—and others in grave
peril.
This is the Nationalist scale of
values. By reason of it statesmen
highly venerated by the French peo-
ple have felt justified in making a
separate bargain with the enemy we
fight. If we are not tough enough to
forestall the repetition of such bar-
gains we shall lose the war.
MR. FISCHER COMMENTS: We
went to war on December 7, 1941.
But, had there been no Revolutionary
War, and were we still part of the
Empire, England would have taken
us into the war in September, 1939.
Therefore, England should never have
freed the Thirteen Colonies. This is
Sir Norman's logic. Ireland’s present
neutrality is no reason why Ireland
should forever have remained sub-
ject to England. Ireland was freed
and the American colonies were freed,
simply because England couldn't avoid
it India is in the same position. By
repression, England can drive India
into the arms of our enemies. By
wise . nd timely action, with foreign
mediation if necessary, it may still
be passible to enlist India on our
side. If the British relinquished po-
litical power now there would be
less chance than ever of disturbance
because their armies are still In
India. The opportunity is greater
now than ev -o is the peril. This
is the time to act. Britain acted in
Ireland too late. That should teach
them a lesson: they must not be too
Late in India.
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From where I sit...
Ay Joe Marsh
In the square of a little village not
far from here ! came on the pret-
tiest (lower garden you ever saw.
It was a lot of flowers all mixed
up—hundreds of different kinds, I
guess. So I asked n passerby if he
could tell nte about it.
“Well,” he says, “in this town
whenever anybody plants a flower
garden and has any seeds left,
they scatter them over this plot.”
Then he leans over and pulls out
a couple of weeds. “We all have to
help pull out the weeds too,” he
tells me. “That way the village has
a flower garden to be proud of.”
That’s about as pretty an illus-
tration of co-operation as I ever
come across. Hut there’s plenty of
examples of co-operation and civic
spirit these days.
We were talking just yesterday
about how the brewers and the beer
distributors are working together
and co-operating wiih law enforce-
ment authorities.
You see a lot of friendship and
fine old customs have grown up
around beer. But the woeds-iell
—they've got to he pulled out, too.
Every body 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.
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The brewers don’t want their
beer sold 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 is
working out mighty successful in
a number of states, and is spread-
in’ out into others.
From where 1 sit, it looks like a
fine idea ... a mighty practical ex-
ample of how honest co-operation
works out to the benefit of every-
one—the brewers, the beer retail-
ers, and us plain citizens that like
our gardens and our pleasures —
with the weeds kept out.
(Joe
No. 47 of a Series
Copyright, 1942, Brewing Industry Foundation
GREW RELATES COLD FACTS
Ambassador Joseph C. Grew has been reporting interesting facts
and conclusions since his return to the United States, after living 10
years in Japan. Grew skips the “maybe” stuff and gets down to
cold facts and brass tacks.
“We are up against a powerful fighting machine, a people whose
morale cannot and will not be broken even by successful defeats.”
he says. He asserts that the Japanese are a people who will certainly
not be broken by economic hardships, a people who individually and
collectively will gladly sacrifice their lives for their Emperor and
their nation, and who cannot be brought to earth cfnly by complete
defeat in battle.”
Ambassador Grew says the Japanese are cruel beyond American
imagination. They possess all “the cruelty, brutality and utter
beastality, the ruthlessness and rapaciousness of the Japanese mili-
tary machine which brought on this war.”
The Ambassador warns Americans against thinking that there is
an easy job ahead. He believes that the United States can only ex-
pect to win this conflict through “the exertion of our max’mum capa-
cities, individually and collectively in a war of direct offensive.”
The above is a true picture.
L. B. COOPER
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
COTULLA — TEXAS
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