The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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or advocated un-American doctrines.
Senator Brownlee telegraphed
President Roosevelt of the terms of
the amendment and that he was call-
ing it to the Attorney General’s at-
tention. It provides for discharge of
any teacher found guilty of advocat-
ing, subscribing to or believing in
Communism or any form of the to-
talitarian state doctrine.
The following article appeared in
the Fort Worth Press on Memorial
Day one year ago, and was written
by a man who preferred to be iden-
tified merely as “an American ex-
soldier:”
The rolling hills that guard the
lazy, little Moselle River as it flows
through the north of France must be
lush and green with the new-born
spring. The vineyards must be burst-
ing into bud. Spring flowers sway
gaily in the breezes that waft them-
selves down the beautiful valley.
And the residents of the little vil-
lage of Millery probably go about
their daily tasks, clomping along in
their wooden shoes; the men with
corduroy breeches hitched high by
the aid of thronged gallouses, the
women with bulging skirts kept in
place by serviceable aprons.
Millery is a little village of
blestone streets and .crudely
staunchly constructed dwellings. It
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is just a few miles from Metz, on one
direction, and the same distance from
Nancy in the other.
Never Glance at Hill
As these sturdy citizens of France
go about their tasks, herding their
sheep and goats and cows into the
hills for pasture, they probably never
glance to the hillside, a quarter of a
mile from the edge of the village, to
the spot where an American boy lies
buried.
And if they did glance up that
grassy slope they probably wouldn’t
wonder about this particular grave
because so many American boys were
buried on their hillsides. The grass
probably has grown thick over this
young man’s mound long since.
The boy’s name was Crowe—the
first name escapes me but it doesn’t
matter, anyhow. Nothing matters to
young Crowe now. He was 18 when
I knew him, healthy, fun-loving, full
of life. He came from a middle west-
ern home and used to talk of his sis-
ters and his younger brother . . . .
and his mother and father. And of
how he was helping to make the
world safe for democracy.
Didn’t Die Gloriously
Crowe didn’t die leading his squad
in a gallant charge across No Man’s
Land. He didn’t die in a flaming air-
plane. He didn’t give his life in the
muck and mud of the trenches. He
might have preferred one of those
“glorious” deaths . . but death
came to him as he stood in the door-
way of a modest French home where
he had gone to eat supper and chat
with the young daughter in the fam-
ily, a girl near the age of one of his
sisters.
Crowe never knew what hit him.
Neither did the girl, nor the mother.
Oh, yes, they died, too. But the fath-
er knew, because he was in the kitch-
en, and while the shell fragments
tore their way through his wife and
daughter and young Crowe and
splattered into the pictures on the
wall and into the dishes on the side-
board, they missed the father.
End Written Quickly
More quickly than these words are
written did death write the finish to
the middle western boy who had gone
with the American Army to France
to put the oppressors in their places
and right the wrongs of civilization.
That night a little group lugged
young Crowe’s shattered body up that
beautiful hillside. His body was
wrapped in an army blanket, and as
it was dropped into the small hole in
the side of the hill a Catholic priest
read the Protestant funeral service by
the light from the glow of a cigaret.
Then a few of his buddies shoveled
the dirt in on him and trooped down
the hillside to their bunks. That was
the last of a boy named Crowe.
Would Be 39
Let’s see, he was 18 then. That
would make him 39 now and perhaps,
if he had lived, he would have had a
daughter about the age of the little
French girl he had been chatting
with—about 14.
I remember standing in front of
the Frenchman’s home and looking at
the scars from the German’s bomb. I
remember how the boys oh’ed and
ah’ed as they noticed that a piece of
the shell had cut through the steel
tire on the Frenchman’s farm wagon.
They peeked in at the door to see the
great holes in the walls of the sitting
room.
In the front room huddled the rela-
tives of the French family. The
Frenchman came to the door, his
mustache jerking, his eyes the age-
old eyes of grief. Without a word he
■shrugged his shoulders and turned
back to his place at the side of his
daughter and wife.
Keep Thinking of Him
The American boys walked on
down the little street with its piles of
manure, looking at further wreckage
wrought by the German bombing
HE DIED—YES—TO MAKE THE
WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY
Ex-Soldier Tells Pitiful Story of Death of Young American
On French Doorway
PLACING THE WREATH
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AUSTIN. — Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel
created Monday a committee to co-
ordinate efforts in Texas to co-oper-
ate with the national defense pro-
gram, appointing ranking executives
of ten state agencies which he said
may be called on for services.
Formation of the committee was
decided upon after the Governor re-
ceived reports from Col. Gaston
Howard, assistant adjutant general,
and Col. Homer Garrison, director of
the. Department of Public Safety, on
their recent conferences in Washing-
ton on Texas’ co-operation to stamp
out un-American activities. 9
Appointed on the co-ordinating
committee, O’Daniel announced, were
Brady Gentry of Tyler, chairman of
the Highway Commission; W. H.
chairman
Commission;
Mann; Adjt.
Major Gen.
commanding
Highway Commission;
Richardson Jr. of Austin,
of the Public Safety
Atty. Gen. Gerald C.
Gen. J. Watt Page,
Claude V. Birkhead,
officer, Thirty-Sixth Division, Texas
National Guard; Marvin Leonard of
Fort Worth, chairman of the Board of
Public Welfare; Harry Knox, chair-
man of the Board of Control; Dr.
Homer P. Rainey, president of the
University of Texas; Dr. T. O. Wal-
ton, president of Texas Agricultural
& Mechanical College.
Named for Single Purpose
“This committee has been ap-
pointed for one purpose, and one
purpose only,” said Governor O’Dan-
iel, “and that is to enable the State of
Texas to render the maximum ser-
vice which it can render promptly,
without duplication or lost motion, in
matters of national defense which
necessitate intercourse or
between the State of Texas
United States.”
An initial meeting of the
tee was held Monday and future ones
will be called, O’Daniel said, “when
I have matters to present to the com-
mittee or when any member of the
committee has in mind matters which
he feels should have the attention of
the entire committee.”
Washington Emissaries Report
The Governor’s office announced
that Colonel Howard and Colonel
Garrison reported they had been re-
ceived in Washingtton “by the proper
officials and were informed that
Texas was the first state to send rep-
resentatives on such a mission.”
“A constructive report was made
by these two representatives, and
based on the information and sug-
gestions they obtained in Washington
the citizens of Texas can depend up-
on all un-American activities being
promptly and properly handled,” the
announcement said.
It also was announced from the
Governor’s office that President
Roosevelt wrote O’Daniel expressing
appreciation for such prompt offer of
co-operation in carrying out his de-
fense program.
Meanwhile, Senator Houghton
Brownlee of Austin called attention
of Attorney General Mann to a pro-
vision inserted in the current appro-
priation bill at his instance which
provided for discharge of any teacher
in a state college who subscribed to
faerica Buil4A
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the use of natural gas for cooking; 95 per cent used
natural gas for water heating; 88 per cent used natural gas
for house heating, and 11 per cent reported the installa-
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The New Reporter
The lowly cub reporter who was
assigned to cover the class play of
the high school came in for his share
of literary fame when the following
turned up in his writing:
“The auditorium was filled with,
expectant mothers, eagerly awaiting
the appearance of their offspring.”
and then it isn’t such
either.
In these days of war talk I keep
thinking about this young American
who died in the doorway of a French
home so that the world would be safe
for democracy.
tial manpower to be drawn from the*
CCC include all past enrollees, as
well as those now enrolled, so do
they think of how those 2,000,000
men who have now passed on into
civilian life might be mustered back,
voluntarily, through the ties that,
were engendered during their CCC
training.
Final examinations in America’s
colleges stand condemned — by col-
lege students themselves—as not be-
ing fair tests of the year’s accumula-
tion of knowledge, Student Opinion
Surveys of America reported Tues-
day.
Slightly over half of the nation’s
student cross-section, 53 per cent,
said “No” to “Do you think final ex-
aminations are a fair test of a stu-
dent’s knowledge in a course?”'
The ABC grade system is the pre-
ferred scale for 63 per cent of the
collegians when asked: “Would you
rather be graded in your courses by
the ABC system or just be either-
passed or failed?”
“If_military training for the CCC
is adopted, it should be with the aim
of training the enrollees for military
engineering work; thus would the en-
rollees be able to make their greatest
contribution. to national defense.
Such pretrained enrollees would fit
into army battalions of sanitary road
and forestry engineer troops.”
This memorandum points out that
the type of work CCC men have been
doing equips them particularly for
the service an engineer corps renders,
building bridges, roads, telephone
lines.
Oddly enough, where any mention
of the possibility of using or convert-
ing the CCC into an army training
unit would arouse sharp protests a
year or so ago, officials now speak
openly of its possibilities. One official
who mentioned such a possibility
above a whisper a year or so ago
drew a sharp reprimand.
Even now, it is spoken of only as a
potential unit from which to draw
partially trained manpower. No di-
rect and immediate conversion of the
CCC into a military unit is spoken
of. Officials simply speak of the pos-
sibilities held by the corps and of the
use that might be made of it in a
national emergency.
And, just as their figure of poten-
squadron that had unleased death
from the sky that warm September
night. The hardy French citizens,
who had stuck to their homes and be-
longings in the face of repeated
warnings to get out, were making
hasty preparations to leave.
Twenty-one years is a long time
a long time,
WASHINGTON. — Surveys of
America’s potential defense material
find in the Civilian Conservation
Corps 2,400,000 men, two-thirds
trained, and 50,000 pieces of automo-
tive equipment.
Students of CCC work during
last seven years say that it
turned out 2,100,000 and now
300,000 men who have experienced,
under army officers, every important
phase of military training except drill
in the manual of arms and target
practice.
They have taken the oath and been
taught the duties of the citizen. They
have learned military discipline and
countesy. They understand camp
rules and regimented living, with
regular periods for mess, sleep, drill,
study, training and play. They have
been taught the care of equipment,
clothes,x quarters, grounds, personal
hygiene, sanitation and first aid.
One memorandum, surveying the
possibilities of adapting the CCC en-
rollees to national defense needs,
says:
“If military training is to be given
the CCC, it should be tied into the
daily field work as much if not more
than that of the camp. This is be-
cause by and large most of the daily
conservation work of the corps is es-
sentially the type of work done by
army engineer troops.
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