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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, JUNE 6, 1940
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McKinney Examiner Train the CCC Boys
Your Newspaper
LEWIS TAUGHT GEORGIA SCHOOL
PHONE 233
Too Much Publicity
Once in a while in the desert sand
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'otton Headache
What Peace?
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Not One Smile
Telling It to Hitler
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Beautiful View-
Don’t Miss It
The Knudsen
Appointment
Lazy Men Popular
With Children
certified candidate for
elected Col. Thompson
Entered at the Postoffice in McKin-
ney, Texas, as Second-Class Mail
Matter.
CLINT THOMPSON
J. FRANK SMITH
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and
Proprietors
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THE
OMAHA.
The people were conspicuous by
their absence from this town Satur-
day. One of the prettiest sunshiny
days we have had in a long time. And
the people—where were they? They
were gathering onions and attending
io all other farm work that had been
delayed so long. Late in the evening
hundreds came in from the country to
lay in their supply of groceries and
do a little other necessary shopping.
Otherwise Saturday was a “flop” so
far as business was concerned.
that he
mother. __ ____
fellow will get on his wife’s
but he wins the affection of children,
and even grown people find that he
has the time and patience to help
them by listening to their troubles.
The Examiner believes there would
be very little opposition on the part
of these CCC boys. They are Ameri-
cans—or believed to be—and as such
they would prefer being given training
that would qualify them to help in
case of need. Being untrained would
not prevent their being subject to mili-
tary duty. " ’
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for future eventualities in case
Allies are defeated.
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BACKWARD GI .ANCES I$tory About Our Poet’s Comer
BY A. W. NEVILLE, In Paris News
it—no butter, no
living mainly on
The Fifth Column has already open-
ed fire on the nation in vital points,
where Strikes have been called to stop
the speeding up of war preparation
Note the strike called to stop work in
Eastern ship yards where a number of
battleships are under construction.
The CIO is proving true to color—red
to the center. Just what thinking
people have believed was its aim.
Spain has just gone through with the
same disease. And now rests (?)
under a dictator with millions of dead
resting under ground.
It is better however, that these
CIO’s open up now than later on. It
will give the nation an opportunity to
Many petty strikes are now begin-
ning to pop up all over the nation.
Thus we are being steadily pushed
toward a general smash up or smash
down to our great country’s business
activity, some believe. Maybe this un-
rest will bring out the weak points in
our great government and industrial
machines. The time may be here in
a few more months when a state of
war will exist. And then there will
be an end to these petty strikes which
are politically instigated, and In some
instances in the interest of the enemy.
stick she
pergola.
Down
Well, here’s hoping the situation be-
comes so serious they throw up their
hands and blow their bloody dictator
into the lower regions from whence he
came.
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A few months ago anyone who even
suggested that CCC boys should be-
gin military training was quickly
squelched. But times have changed.
The Denton Record-Chronicle says:
“A year ago when a government of-
ficial mentioned the possibilities of
the Civilian Conservation Corps as a
basic defense army in case of need, he
was quickly reprimanded for even
thinking of such an idea. Army men
were quick to add that the small
amount of military training given the
CCC enrollees wasn’t nearly sufficient
to give them any military value, and
the GROWING SUSPICION that thi?
country was BUILDING UP A FIGHT
ING FORCE in the guise of conserva-
tion work was squelched.
“What do you do?”
“I keep house, scrub, scour, bake,
wash dishes, cook, do the laundry,
iron, sew.”
And the census taker listed her:
“Housewife—no occupation.”
There were more than 400 violent
deaths in America on Memorial Day—
May 30. Autos were responsible for
more than 166; 40 persons drowned;
39 committed suicide, and 56 died from
other forms of violence.
The News over that trading area. Dal-
las business is conducted on the
theory that if a wall were built around
corporate limits the city would quickly
perish. Dallas DEPENDS for its pros-
perity UPON THIS TRADING AREA
This has thrown a tremendous problem
into the lap of The News. The people
of Lufkin, Austin, Abilene, Wichita
Falls and north to Red River demand
and receive the SAME EDITION of
The News ON THEIR BREAKFAST
TABLES as is delivered in Trinity
Heights and Preston Hollow in Dal-
las. They spend their money here. They
are not content with yesterday’s news-
paper, a predate, a bulldog or early
edition. They want a COMPLETE
NEWSPAPER with late news about
Dallas and THE WORLD.
The only answer to that challenge is
SPEED—speed in gathering the
news, SPEED in printing and SPEED
IN DELIVERY. Ninety-two per cent
of^all News subscribers in this 22,000-
square-mile area are getting the COM-
PLETE FINAL EDITION. This is
unique in the making of metropolitan
daily morning newspapers.
Magic Carpet Turns into Airplane
Yesterday’s impossibilities have be-
come today’s COMMONPLACES in
the traditions of The News since the
parent paper was established in Gal-
veston when Texas was a republic.
Trains didn’t run fast enough to get
the Galveston News to Houston fifty-
nine years ago so they built a DINKY
LOCOMOTIVE and car. By 1883 they
were operating the FIRST REGULAR
DAILY NEWSPAPER TRAINS IN
THE WORLD. The Dallas News was
later distributed by the only such
trains operated in North Texas.
TRUCKS handle most of it now.
ONE HUNDRED AND NINE PIECES
OF MOTOR EQUIPMENT travel
9,000 MILES EVERY MORNING.
Powerful presses are biting minutes
off the time required to make The
News. One ROARING IRON MON-
STER out of a BATTERY OF FOUR
in The News building kicks out 375
PAPERS A MINUTE. Rapid improve-
ments are being made in these pieces
of equipment costing HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
Before the last World War, Morse
operators would have smiled at a pre-
diction of the present automatic tele-
graph printers that take SIXTY
WORDS A MINUTE OFF THE WIRE.
The new models will take 1,500
WORDS A MINUTE.
Facilities at the command of The
News today would have avoided the
last battle of the Civil War. Col. John
S. Ford, with a bunch of Texas
rebels, rubbed out a force of Yankees
under General Barrett at Palmito
Ranch outside Brownsville, May 13,
1865, five weeks after Lee surrender*
ed. They didn’t know the war was
over. If those terms of surrender were
signed at Appomatox this afternoon
the edition of The News which will
be delivered by plane in Brownsville
at 8:30 a. m. tomorrow morning would
not only carry the full text, but a
Wirephoto of Lee offering his sword
to Grant, if he offered it.
Even the inventor of the modern
telegraph printer did not foresee that
a PHOTOGRAPH OF TODAY’S BAT-
TLE IN FRANCE would CROSS THE
OCEAN By RADIO and pop up in The
News TOMORROW MORNING. Old
stuff NOW. The News will do it faster
and better NEXT YEAR, NEXT
WEEK OR PERHAPS TOMORROW.
ONCE IN A WHILE
Once in a while the sun shines out
And the arching skies are in perfect
blue.
Once in a while, mid clouds of doubt,
Hope’s brightest stars come peeping
thru.
Our path leads down by the meadows
fair,
Where the sweetest nod ana smile,
Once in a while.
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The Seed Were
Sown While We
Slept-Reaping Now
Maybe the following little item will
make you feel better. People have
been uneasy as to America’s ability to
build air planes. Glen L. -Martin is
at the head of the big manufacturing
company bearing his name, and told
a group of 25 aviation writers in a re-
cent conference at Baltimore that the
American aircraft industry can far
exceed the production of the German
aircraft builders IF GIVEN A GOV-
ERNMENT PROGRAM AND A REGU-
LAR FLOW OF ORDERS. “We can do
as much in 12 months as Germany
has accomplished in the last three
years.”
towel made of ducking hung on a nail.
Mrs. Hitt and the daughter prepared
breakfast. The boy and I sat on a
home-made bench at the table, where
were sassafras tea, corn pone, chick-
en gravy made with water and a dash
of flour, and sorghum molasses. We
bowed our heads and Mr. Hitt said,
“Lord God of Israel, we know that
Thou hast in store an abundance of
good things for Thy children. Teach
us to be thankful for our portion. We
know that it is not meant to take the
bread from the children of Israel and
give it to the dogs. Keep us humble
and save us. Amen.”
Mr. Hitt was rich, in that he had
never traveled, knew nothing of what
the world possessed and was therefore
a contented man, honest and true.
Mrs. Corra Harris traveled over
some of the country after she began
writing but frequently returned to
the neighborhood and sometimes
visited my brother, Frank, who had a
flour mill at Mosteller’s Spring. Mrs.
Harris bought the Hitt cabin and
bought some farms in the valley. She
added a story to the cabin and ad-
ditional rooms, made from the logs
cut in the hills. The spring where I
had drunk from a gourd hung to a
covered with a beautiful
The Denison Daily Press says:
“While we should watch out for
propaganda these days, really the ef-
fective work, if it has been done, has
been going on while we were busy at
the pursuits of peace time and were
not suspecting any one was working
at the vitals of oui’ Nation.
The evil seed of the devil of fifth
columnists have already been sown
and are even now coming up. While we
slept the evil one went forth and
sowed the bad seed in the field of
our home life and friendly nature.
Today—and for some time—they
have been springing up in the form of
religious, reform, youth, political and
labor cults. All of them with enough
of the appearance of the good seed and
early sprouting to deceive the aver-
age man.
But enough time has been given now
to show us the evil work of the propa-
gandist and destroyer. The impact
of extremes brought to bear on any
given person or situation always
brings out the false and the true. We
are in the days now of great stress and
the deceit in people is bound to come
out and the corrupt be made to con-
trast with the incorrupt in the matters
of allegiance to our flag and the Na-
tion.
One thing we must not do and that
is “let them alone” until they have
done their worst work. We have
enough to see the nature of the tree
by their fruits and like the axiom
of old “the axe is laid at the root of
the tree.” The cutting' down process
followed by the fire of extinguishing
should be the next step.
America has been liberal—-too lib-
eral indeed. We have let spouters
declare their freedom of speech and
pen and have allowed all sorts of men
and all kinds of propaganda, to be
spread to our own hurt. But it is
TIME NOW TO CALL A HALT.
When this use of liberty is dangerous-
ly DISABLING to our National life
and our common freedom it is time to
TAKE THE SITUATION in hand and
show such propagandists that this lib-
erty mustn’t be transformed into a LI-
CENSE which would empower them to
sell the dearest things in America to
the ENEMY and so weaken us that
when the Philistines come- upon us we
find ourselves to have been sheared by
the MODERN DELILAH called the
FIFTH COLUMN PROPAGANDIST.
Tells of Cabin Where He Spent One Night, Owned
By a Contented Man
We find a spot of the fairest green.
Once in a while from where we stand
The hills of paradise are seen.
And a perfect joy in our hearts we
hold—
A joy that the world canot define;
M e trade earth’s dross for the purest
gold,
Once in a while,
—Nixon Waterman.
Once in a while within our own
We clasp the hand of a steadfast
friend.
Once in a while we wear a tone
Of love, with the heart’s own voice
to blend;'
And the dearest of all our dreams
come true
And our life’s way is a golden mile.
Each thirsting flower is kissed with
dew,
Once in a while.
It is said that several hundred
Americans are stranded in Great
Britain, without the necessary $300 to
come home on. That’s bad. Of course
you may think that they ought to have
come home earlier. But perhaps they
didn’t ba-^e he cash then, either.
-. More headache for the cotton farm-
er. i The British Board of Trade, on
‘Maly 30th put into effect its order to
prohibit further import of cotton from
the : United States and other non-Al-
lied countries except under a license.
This is done in order to conserve dol-
lars and shipping space for war re-
quirements.
The order applies to raw cotton, cot-
ton linters and waste and yarns and
thread wholly or mainly of cotton.
Cotton en route before May 30 is
not affected by the order.
Now don’t get all het up over this
order. The British are fighting for
their national existence. They have
to pay cash for guns, ammunition, air-
planes, etc. Hence their decision to
cut down on imports that can be done
without for a while. In the mean time,
if we, of this nation, wish to pre-
serve our cotton industry, we must
“patronize ourselves” by using more
cotton goods, instead of substitutes
made of wood, and anything else but
cotton. That is why we have just ob-
served a Cotton Week. Study the mat-
ter. It is very important.
weekday
ENOUGH for
NEWS OFFICE
NEB. *****
A CARLOA.D of paper is USED
UP EVERY DAY to give the reader
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24,000,000 pounds of paper used a
year is a quarter of a million pounds
of ink.
(Sherman Democrat)
This war is MOVING SO FAST, with
heavy blasts at allied hopes occurring
almost EVERY WEEK, that there
must always be thoughts of the peace
that will come EVENTUALLY. Every
week that the allies hold out increases
possibilities of ALLIED VICTORY,
considering the declarations of experts
that Germany is short on supplies for
a LONG conflict. But the BODY
BLOWS are so HARD and so FRE-
QUENT that the day by day situation
is DESPERATE.
Business Week reports that talk of a
possible peace conference inevitably
brings the response that the United
States MUST TAKE A RESPONSI-
BLE part in it, assigning the follow-
ing reasons:
We SHALL BE faced with the prob-
lem of European colonies in this
hemisphere.
We MAY BE( confronted with
threats to important sources of raw
materials in the far east and to our
own position in the Pacific.
We MAY BE confronted, after the
peace, with the full responsibility for
playing banker to an exhausted
Europe.
All this makes up a TRAGIC FU-
TURE from the standpoint of the isola
tion attitude that existed until just a
few short weeks ago. But the rude
awakening to the necessity of DE-
FENSE PREPARATIONS has brought
a view of reality towards the peace
that will come out of the war. Escap-
ing war this time, possibly we will not
withdraw from world affairs as we did
from the League of Nations, remem-
bering the tragic consequences of that
isolantionist attitude.
Drive up to the northwest part of
the city, near Jim Muses’ home, in the.
early morning and look for miles to
the west and you will behold one of
the most beautiful views anywhere.
The hills to the southwest, covered
with forest trees, the valleys covered
with cotton, corn and alfalfa fields.
And all along big fields of grain now
ready to harvest. It is a panorama
that calls forth one’s thanks to the
Lord, and wish that the poor ■war-
cursed people of Europe could stop
their bloody strife and be blessed like
we of Collin County. God is so good to
us.
Last week the Examiner published
the story about A. M. Lewis, the
Georgia boy whose father treated him
so coldly when he returned home after
roaming around that he left again
never to return.
Wanderlust of a half-brotner and
an uncle may have been responsible
for the urge of A. M. Lewis to travel
and see the world, says Mr. Neville.
He says his half-brother, William,
born before the war between the sec-
tions, by his father’s first marriage,
took a trip west when a young- man.
Returning after a few months he
found his father hot and worried,
threshing wheat. William said, “Fath-
er, I’m back,” and the father said,
“Son, have you been gone I had not
missed you.” William replied, “You’ll
miss me the next time I go.”
He left and they never heard from
him again.
Mr. Neville writes farther about
young Lewis. It is interesting, be-
cause it is so true to human nature.
Mr. Neville says:
Before he took to running around
over the country forty-odd years ago,
A. M. Lewis says he taught school in
North Georgia, and that a preacher
whose health was bad lived in the
home of a Mr. Anthony. The preacher
died after years of ill health and his
wife remained in the community and
wrote lor the Atlanta Journal and
Constitution, finally attaining fame as
the author of “The Circuit Rider’s
Wife.” She was Mrs. Corra Harris.
On the hill near which I taught the
Mt. Pleasant school, Lewis continues,
was a log cabin in which lived Mr.
Hitt, who had a son ad daughter in
my school. I spent the night there
and slept in a home-made bed or bunk,
built to the wall, one above the other,
with a mattress made of wheat straw.
A few hickory bottomed chairs and
a home-made table were the furniture
of this home. Outside the cabin was
a shelf on which was set a bucket of
water and a tin wash basin with a
The Graham Leader tells of an
American woman writing of her trip
home from Norway, coming through
Germany, thence to Italy, to sail home,
who said that during the four days
and nights she traveled in Germany
she did not see anyone smile and that
the food is so terrible that one ac-
customed to half way decent meals
can hardly bear
meats, no sugar,
heavy black bread and weak soups.
The Leader says that judging from
this report the Germans must be in a
serious situation.
the main highway from
Adairsville to Pone Log, or Possum
Trot, is a sign pointing the way to
the log cabin. Mrs. Harris sleeps
under a tomb in the yard, the tomb
made of native stone from the hills.
Before she died she named two girls,
sisters, to manage and have the rev-
enue from this property while they
were single. One, like the King of
England, fell in love and gave up the
crown of riches and married. The
other girl, Trannie Raines, had charge
of the place and I have had the
pleasure of going through the house
and into the room where 1 slept when
I spent the night with Mr. Hitt’s fami-
ly more than 40 years ago.
We Aim to Please
No other newspaper in the South-
west gathers or buys such an ENOR-
MOUS AMOUNT OF NEWS, press
services and pictures as The Dallas
News assembles to CHOOSE from.
NO OTHER PAPER IN DALLAS has
full SEVEN DAYS a week service of
the Associated Press, SEVEN DAYS
a week Wirephoto coverage, seven
days a week United Press service,
EXCLUSIVE North American News-
paper Alliance or the huge supple-
mental syndicated and special news,
feature and picture services. NO
OTHER newspaper in TEXAS has
such a large local staff of news
gatherers and specialists.
That may sound like boasting, but it
EXPLAINS WHY The News has the
GREATEST PAID CIRCULATION
OF ANY MORNING OR AFTER-
NOON NEWSPAPER IN TEXAS. Its
daily average currently is 111,700
with 122,000 on Sundays.
Leadership of Dallasites has ex-
tended the city’s front yard over the
most prosperous counties of the state
in every direction. This dominance of
the city is expressed in demands for
Claude Callan is jealous. Listen:
“Sometimes it seems that lazy,
worthless, good natured men are the
best, and we are not sure but wThat
nature intended for men to be that
way. Little children like a lazy,
worthless fellow more than they do a
busy, ambitious man. We have noticed
that our children don’t care a thing in
the world for the rich uncle we urge
them to love, but they are as happy
as larks when lazy, worthless Uncle
Tobe comes. They kiss.him, pet him
and romp with him. Tlitey urge him
to come and live with us. an invitation
doesn’t receive from their
Of course a lazy, worthless
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Hon. Floyd Harry of Farmersville
was here attending court last week-
end and dropped in to say “Howdy.”
He reported lots of onions in East
Collin. Pulling going on. But it was
at that time most too wet and dirt
would stick to them. The buyers do
not like dirty onions, hence the
market had been a little off. The
famous “East Collin Sweets” still
hold the front seat, and it won’t be
long until Postmaster M. B. Smith
sends State Press of the Dallas News
a crate of the best, thus getting his
name in the paper.
But many things have changed in
the last 12 months and now the 300,000
young men in CCC camps <md the
2,100,000 who have served In the CCC
are regarded as a “defense reservoir”
from which can be drawn WORKERS
for MILITARY ENGINEERING PRO-
JECTS. Furthermore, the CCC has
50,000 pieces of automotive equip-
ment that could be PRESSED INTO
QUICK SERVICE.
There .could be little objection to
giving CCC enrollees more work and
experience along lines that would be
helpful in case they should be needed
for military engineering work. Xbout
the only objectors would be those who
think that the BEST WAYT TO KEEP
this country PEACEFUL is to refrain
from ALL MILITARYr ACTIVITIES,
and this class of individuals has
dwindled sharply after seeing what
happens to UNPROTECTED NA-
TIONS.
While hardly anyone would want to
make a niilitary force out of the CCC
boys, it would seem but COMMON
SENSE to give them enough training
so they could be UTILIZED without
much further training IF AN EMER-
GENCY should occur. While such a
proposal a year ago would have
brought a storm. of protests, it isn’t
likely that serious objections will be
raised now that the need for stronger
defense for the United States is ap-
paren.
This editor has been engaged in
publishing a newspaper right here in
McKinney for more than 54 years—
having begun learning the trade in
1878. That we love the work is evi-
dent, and there is not a symptom of
waning enthusiasm for the business
from the mechanical to the editorial
department. We enjoy talking with
the boys about the great improve-
ments in newspapering over that of
many years ago. We have come a
long way from the time of the old
hand press and single ink roller and
hand set type to the great batteries
of presses and linotypes that now
man such plants as that told about in
Ted Barrett’s story of the Dallas News
last Sunday. We have such a love for
our job that we have on more than
one occasion, remarked, “Well, boys,
when we are called Up Yonder, we
could ask for* no greater blessing than
that we be permitted to own and op-
erate a great newspaper, with all up-
to-date machines.” We intended no ir-
reverance, and the boys know that.
One of them, our faithful foreman,
who has been with us for over 40
years, enjoys the same deep love for
the business. And he, too, feels like
he could ask for no greater blessing
than to have an up-to-date plant, and
listen to the roar of the machines,
with never a distraction by the break-
ing of tapes, or belts, or the can-
tankerous conduct of the linotypes or
automatics just as we are about ready
to go to prdss. Yes we would like to
own a great newspaper, one that is
up-to-date, clean, reliable and ad-
mirable, like the Dallas Morning News,
which Ted Barrett told us about in
his story, “Your Newspaper,” on the
editorial page Sunday morning. Here
is the story:
YOUR NEWSPAPER
DALLAS NEWS OFFICE, 6 P. M.
ANY DAY.—Sounds like a machine-
gun attack from all four quarters.
From the southeast sector at Com-
merce and Lamar seven Associated
Press automatic printers are pouring
out 500 words a minute. Half a block
away -in the same building a battery
of five United Press printers are tak-
ing 320 words off the wires every
sixty seconds. Postal, Western Union
and leased wire receivers close by are
Col. Ernest O. Thompson has thrown
his hat into the ring and is now' a
governor. If
------- will make a
splendid state executive is our predic-
tion. He is in favor of a liberal pen-
sion for the old people, and wants to
get the money by taxing the oil indus-
try five cents a barrel—he calls it
“5 cents a barrel for grandma.” If
you have not already secured a good
seat in the grand stand, we suggest
that you do* not delay. It is going to
be a real race, and no fooling.
The Examiner just can’t understand
why our government officials and
army leaders are permitted to go. on
the air, or into the newspapers, and
tell so many things about the con-
dition of oui- navy and army—its
weakenesses or its strength. A guard-
ed report to the public would be all
right. But at this critical time when
we can smell the smoke of war and
almost hear the roar of guns, it does
seem like folly, if not worse, to thus
broadcast to our potential enemies
so many things that should be handled
only in secret..
In our morning paper in big head-
lines we were saluted with, “General
Tells Frank Facts of Army Failings,”
and then tells what ought to be done
about it. Tells it to the general pub-
lic and all the world. Why? What has
the man in the street got to do with
the equipment of the army, the kifid
of guns to use, how lacking our soldier
boys are in training, etc? Those are
matters that ought to be deAlt with
by the men whose business it is to
know, and whose duty it is to correct
them. Imagine Hitler telling the gen-
eral public how badly equipped his
men are, and what must be done to
correct the error, etc. We really
think some of our stuffed shirt mili-
tarists should be told to shut up and
tell their stories to the proper people.
Looks like a lot of political propa-
ganda.
The report from Camp Beauregard,
where our soldier boys have been car-
rying on a so-called mock battle,
leaves the impression that we had no-
body down there except a lot of play-
boys. And maybe we did have too
I large a per cent of just that. But why
• tell it in the newspapers,’ so that every
country on earth can read it? It must
fUmake Hitler’s boys laugh.
(Star-Telegram)
The most unrestrained opposition to
the administration must whole-heart-
edly indorse President Roosevelt’s ap-
pointment of William S. Knudsen to
the key position of the new National
Defense Commission. In fact, Mr.
Knudsen had freely been cited by the
President’s critics as an ideal person
for the post of defense administrator.
That suggestion and Mr. Knudsen’s
fitness should lead to his selection as
chairman of the commission.
The major burden of rearmament
must fall upon American industry. It
must produce in quantity warplanes
including dive bombers, heavy tanks
and other mechanized implements of
modern warfare which Germany has
proven to be of so vital importance.
Mr. Knudsen is an able industrialist,
whose career has ranged from the
tasks of a mechanic to executive head
of one of the largest manufacturing
corporations in this country. He also
is a proven administrative official of
the type that the national defense pro-
gram demands.
The effectiveness of Mr. Knudsen,
as well as the entire commission, de-
pends entirely upon the amount of
delegated authority. Such an appoin-
tee invested solely with advisory
powers would have only minor value,
but no one can assume that a man. of
Mr. Knudsen’s caliber was chosen for
such a role.
The Knudsen appointment, entirely
nonpartisan, should convince the coun-
try that national defense Instead of
politics is foremost in the President’s
mind. Corroboration is also given by
the President’s selections for less im-
portant posts on the defense commis-
sion. The naming of Mr. Knudsen
should allay the noisy apprehensions
of Mr. Roosevelt’s critics who have
so freely cried that New Deal “dream-
ers and radicals” would through their
inefficiency scuttle the armament pro-
gram.
As an industrial executive of proven
capacity. Mr. Knudsen will have im-
mediate value to the Government dur-
ing the initial processes of organiza-
tion and co-ordination of industry for
national defense. He also is fitted to
hold a responsible post throughout the
duration of the national defense emer-
gency. Thus, possible political changes
in the future need not interfere with
the program of national preparedness.
Being
This country should let
opporunity slip to prepare itself
; the
adding their chatter. The local staff
is halfway through its daily output of
100,000 words. From The News
bureaus in Washington, East Texas,
Central Texas, Austin and Mexico
City are flowing more sheets. Mail
services have stacked up a pile a
foot high. Special correspondents all
over the Southwest are coming
through by telegraph, mail and tele-
phone.
From the Commerce and Austin
streets corner of the first floor Wire-
photos-are coming, one every seven
minutes, like parachute troopers.
There will be seventy before tomorrow
morning. Thirty more are due through
News staff cameras and still more by
mail. Into this spot will fall 700,000
words before the night is gone.
How long did it take you to finish
Gone With the Wind? Well, whatever
it was, you would have to do better
if you read all this matter in time
to make tomorrow’s edition, for here
is more than twice as much. Every
word must be read and weighed. Three
fourths of it will hit the wastebasket.
The best one-fourth will be sifted
out, errors spotted, names checked,
awkward sentences braced up, ob-
scurities cleared, unimportant parts
slashed out and each story summed
up in forceful sentences of from ten
to fifteen words for headlines, and
positions in the paper assigned. Type-
setters are hollering for copy now.
Editor Is Plural Word
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man’s nightmare after his early morn
ing T-bone supper, except that edi-
tor, like government, is a collective
noun. It takes 651 persons to make
that compressed summary of what
happened on two hemispheres in the
last twenty-four hours that will be
delivered on your doorstep by. day-
light.
It gives a newspaperman the twitch-
es sometimes when he gets to thinking
that he let a story take up ten column
inches when he might have boiled it
to five. That extra five inches weighs
on his conscience as a strip of news-
print one column wide that would
reach from the dome of Dallas Hall at
Southern Methodist University to the
monkey cage at Marsalis Zoo and
across to Tenison Park. Beside the
waste, the unessential part crowded 1
out that much good material which
had to be discarded and the reader i
wants his news told briefly. That lit-
tle belt of paper doesn’t seem so i
astronomical, however, compared to i
the total used in a Sunday issue. That I
paper, one page wide, would stretch
from OAK CLIFF TO BOSTON.
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