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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM. CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
Kathleen Norris Says:
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Blindness is a language that the
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hear and understand.—Bovee.
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It seems cruel to deny beloved par-
ents the comforts of your home dur-
ing their old age, but Kathleen Nor-
ris strongly believes that sometimes
this must be done. She explains that
no parent has the right to ruin the
happiness of his children through his
own self-indulgence. If the parents
are that selfish, Miss Norris recom-
mends that they be told—not asked—
to live somewhere else.
Reggie had courted the daugh-
ter of the house for many months
now, and finally came to the con-
clusion that it was time to declare
himself. He found no great dif-
ficulty in obtaining the young
lady’s consent. However, he
dreaded the ordeal he expected
.when asking for Ker father’s ap-
proval. Then he hit upon the hap-
py thought of writing to him. Here
let it be known, his spelling wasn’t
so hot!
“Dear Sir,” ran the note, “I
wish to ask for the hand of your
daughter, the flour of the family.”
Back came the father’s reply:
“Is it the flour of the family or
the dough you’re after?”
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A sovereign nation can do any
thing it wants and dares to do. T
is answerable to nobody. It can de
clare war or it can authorize act:
of war without a declaration. Ir.
taking such action, it may be break-
ing treaties, but, under our Constitu-
tion, a treaty of the United States
is on equal footing with a law of
the United States. A duly enacted
statute, so far as our municipal law
is concerned, can break or repeal
any prior treaty, just as it can break
or repeal any prior law
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can’t go there, even for a visit. He
has not one cent of his own. To put
him in an institution would break
his heart, and also mine. I couldn’t
bear to tell people where he was.
But it does seem like a deadlock as
things are now; Frank is constantly
annoyed about it, and I hate to have
the best husband in the world bur-
dened with my folks. Can you think
of a way out?”
Get Rid of Him.
The answer is that the only way
out is a hard one. But I have known
many cases in which it has worked,
and it will work for you. Immedi-
ately, without any argument, put
this worthless annoying old man into
an institution. Borrow on his insur- ____
ance, if need be, to pay the charges incidence,
at some partly endowed home, or
put him straight into the poor-house.
That will bring him to his senses
for the first time in his life.
In one case that I knew an aged
man-of-the-sea got a job at the coun-
ty farm, found that he was a natural
vegetable gardener, was permitted
to sell surplus produce for is own
profit, and eventually turned into a
useful member of society. In an-
other case an old woman made her-
self so helpful that the good nuns
placed her in the position of head
cook, and she was able to send mon-
ey to a daughter who was in finan-
cial difficulties. A man of 64 can
be busy and happy if he wants to
be, and if your father is persistently
critical and miserable despite all
that a good daughter can do, he de-
serves nothing better than the poor-
house.
Or better, find some country farm
where a woman will board him for
$25 or $30 a month. There are many
such places. Let her wrestle with
his peculiarities. Ask your brother
for another $5 and make up the rest
yourselves.
Don’t Discuss It, Do It.
Don’t discuss it with him at all.
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'T'HE sources of power in the
nation are not so much with
those who make its laws as
with those who shape its public
opinion.—Abraham Lincoln.
You see the fact is that the
strongest man upon earth is he
who stands most alone.—Ibsen.
’Tis impious in a good man to be
sad.—Edward Young.
Only he has a sense of humor
who sees things deeply enough
to distinguish between life’s
realities and its illusions.—Har-
old E. Carlson.
The Gods we worship write their
names on our faces.—Anon.
yearjand that was more than a co-
incidence. The morale of the vic-
tims had been shattered by the de-
feat and the criticism and abuse
that followed it.
McKechnie himself was a victim
of one of those debacles, losing his
job when the Cardinals cracked in
1929 after the Yankees had flattened
them in the fall of ’28. But this
time he had a stronger fibered bunch.
and they hammered back from the
ragged edges of ruin.
The Big Three
Barring that one slump early in
August, when Lombardi and Gene
Thompson were out with injuries
and the whole team rocked under
the tragic fate of Hershberger, the
Reds have given such a smooth
performance that it is difficult to
pick out this man or that and say
that if it hadn’t been for him, they
wouldn’t have rushed to another
flag.
But I’ll cite three men without
whom the Reds would have had
much harder going: Lombardi, Joe
Beggs and Bill Werber.
Beggs’ case illustrates once more
that a capable relief pitcher is in-
dispensable in modern baseball.
Those Eighteen Games
McKechnie credits Beggs with
saving at least eight games that do
not appear in his record. Since his
record was 10 victories and only two
defeats, you can chalk up 18 games
the Reds would not have won with-
out him. Take those 18 games out
of the victory column and put them
on the other side of the ledger and
the Reds would have been whistling
for a pennant, much less a World
series.
“Beggs has the two qualities that
are most essential to a relief pitch-
er,” Bill said. “Control and faith
in himself. A fellow moving in to
check an enemy assault must be
able to get the ball around the plate
—and must take no account of the
odds against him. Beggs has won-
derful control and I never saw a
pitcher who, without being in the
least conceited, never has the slight-
est doubt about himself.”
Work Is Religion
It is only those who do not know
how to work that do not love it.
To those who do, it is better than
play—it is religion.
your things are all in the back of
the car. Here’s where you get out.”
If Uncle Dan decides to go with
him, so much the better. But get
rid of them both with the same
speed that they would have gotten rid
of burdensome old relatives some
40 years ago. Old fathers and moth-
ers can be delightful and contributo-
ry members of the family; but if
they don’t choose to be, then surely
you and your Frank are not the per-
sons to shoulder the ensuing unpleas-
antness. It all depends upon you,
now, and upon your capacity to face
a few unpleasant hours rather than
a lifetime of slavery.
Every human being ought to plan
for his or her old age, work for it,
definitely arrange for it. Only a
part of such foresight need be finan-
cial; the keeping of friends, the priv-
ileges of service, the capacity for
earning a modest living are all as
possible at 60 as at 26. No human
being has a right to inflict his com-
pany upon a young married pair,
be his claim that of father, uncle,
mother, mother-in-law or any other.
Nothing destroys the security of
marriage so quickly as to have an
uncongenial person planted in the
home, a person whom only death
will remove. It will be a poor sat-
isfaction to Blanche, 20 years from
now, to realize that she not only
sacrificed Frank, but her children
and her home to this spoiled ol/
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Series Power House
Werber, this year as last, was the
key man in the infield which, by the
way, made fewer errors than any in
the league. Challengers in 1938, the
Reds cracked in the infield and fad-
ed as the Cubs went on to win. Last
year Werber, at third base, worked
a startling improvement in their
first line of defense, pulling it sharp-
ly together and holding it.
This year he not only kept a tight
grip on the defense but on the at-
tack he slammed the ball in the
pinches.
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The fact is that the necessity is
greater than ever. Low interest
rates have cut the revenue of many
endowed charities in half or worse.
Public doles can never cover the
area of need. Finally, no warm-
hearted American can ever feel
quite satisfied with charity enforced,
or to leave his humanitarian im-
pulses to acts of congress. If there
had been far more voluntary sharing
through past ye'hrs, there would be
less regimented sharing today—with
all the political evils that entails.
The demands upon us all are great
and the woes of the world will great-
ly increase them. It will be well
for us to remember that there are
still great woes in our own country
and that there is nothing in the least
selfish in the motto: “Charity be-
gins at home.”
NAVAL BASE AFTERMATH
The acquisition of naval bases was
highly popular. It was said in de-
fense of the President’s method of
obtaining them, that if he had con-
sulted congress, the deal would not
have been permitted. Present evi-
dences of popular approval of this
result, as far as the bases are con-
cerned, make this conclusion highly
doubtful. Be that as it may, there is
no doubt on earth that congress
would ratify the result today with
scarcely a dissenting vote.
It should do so. It is of extreme
importance. If the only restraint on
the executive in dealing with the
laws of the Constitution of the Unit-
ed States is the possible unpopulari-
ty of the result, we have surely suc-
cumbed to what Westbrook Peglei
calls the “what-the-hell” philosophj
of laws, morals and obligations. Any-
thing goes if it succeeds regardless
of law or principle.
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home—with dart-fitted waistline,
stitching for trim, and a very
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'T'HE Cincinnati Reds are obsti-
nate fellows and refused to be-
lieve what they were told, especially
about themselves.
the Yankees last
fall and bounced
off, bruised all over,
they were told that
they were clowns
and that Ernie Lom-
bardi, who wound
up in the dirt at the
plate, was the big-
gest clown of all.
This spring they
were told that teams
so humiliated in a
World series do not
come back and that
they were due to
give way to either the Dodgers or
the Cardinals.
But here they are with another
series under their belt.
I asked Bill McKechnie if he had
any trouble bringing the Reds back
from the big crash.
“None at all,” he said. “They
knew just how bad they looked but
instead of being depressed about it,
they simply were fighting mad.”
“And Lombardi?”
“He brushed the series off,” Bill
said. “I’ve never heard him refer
to it except lightly and I know he
didn’t do any brooding about it.”
This Team Came Back
A game crew, the Reds believed in
nobody but themselves and so es-
caped the fate of other clubs that
had been run over by the rolling
Yankees. No other club beaten in
four straight games by the Yankees,
ever came back to win the following
GENERAL
HUGH S.
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COMMUNITY CHESTS
In these critical days there is so
much hot stuff in war and politics
to write columns about that one is
tempted to neglect things less dra-
" • matic but at least of
importance to Amer-
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| clash of empires and
I the fall of states.
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:f munity Chest drive
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| all over this country,
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f ble and scientific
| method for practical
charity ever devel-
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time when this country went drive-
crazy. Well meaning people, wheth-
er they were simply riding a worthy
hobby or backing a far worthier
cause, could always drum up a
house-to-house gimme campaign, or
post pretty girls rattling dime-in-the-
slot cans on every street corner.
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The average American is always
willing to give something if he has
it. By the old helter-skelter meth-
od, he couldn’t know exactly for
what he was giving, how the money
would be used, or whether there
were not far better uses for his
contribution. Also, these “drives”
became so frequent that many peo-
ple either were fed up with the con-
stantly repeated annoyance of solici-
tation, or simply couldn’t afford to
give any more. The earlier bird got
the dough regardless of its merits.
The community chest idea was an
answer to most of these problems.
In many cities it is the only “drive”
permitted. In nearly all cities it at
least combines in one, all “drives”
for the worthiest established chari-
ties. It is conducted under the most
responsible sponsorships there are.
This year both the President and
Mr. Willkie will start the effort. The
funds collected will be divided by
the best-informed authorities among
the institutions where they are most
needed, and will go the furthest to
meet human needs.
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It is, of course, more heart-warm-
ing to give directly to some person
or group whose suffering you can
see, but none of us can give enough
to meet all the needs of our neigh-
bors. None of us separately can
judge relative needs. Few of us
have the time or training to manage
and regulate our giving. For these
reasons, indiscriminate giving is al-
ways wasteful and sometimes far
from fair. The Community Chest
method cures all these faults and
shortcomings in the best way.
The tremendous sums of public
money being expended for relief and
charity greatly restrict the flow of
gifts, for two reasons. The tax bur-
dens necessary to support them re-
duce the incomes of potential giv-
ers. The billions spent by govern-
ment make some people believe that
there is no longer necessity for pri-
vate giving.
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getting horribly nervous about it.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
1 \EAR Mrs. Norris,”
I J writes Blanche B.,
-■—from a suburb near
Dubuque, “my problem is so
serious that it threatens to
wreck my married happiness.
I’m not a fool, I’ve been a busi-
ness woman, I’m running a
home comfortably and econom-
ically, but I can’t work this one
out. Please tell me what you’d
do in my place.
“Frank and I were engaged
for four years before we could
marry, because his mother was
dependent upon him, and his
two brothers calmly refused to
do anything for her support. But
when I had a good bank account
and we were buying a home we
felt that we could risk it, and we
were married four years ago. I was
then 28; Frank 33. At the time my
wonderful mother was running a
successful small grocery, with my
father as assistant. Dad drove the
delivery wagon, answered the tele-
phone, and SEEMED to be what
she called him, her ‘partner,’ but
it wasn’t long after her death that
we discovered that she had been
carrying him all along as a liability,
not an asset. The business rapidly
went to pieces, Dad sold out for
half its value, bought a cottage,
and said he was going to retire.
Dad Definite Handicap.
“He made only seven payments
on the cottage which he lost, and
in 11 months had spent the more
than $2,000 the business had brought.
Then he came to us. That was a
little more than a year ago.
“Shortly afterward my uncle,
Dad’s brother, came to see us, and
Dad hospitably invited him to stay,
paying me $7 a week board. This
Uncle Dan gratefully agreed to do.
I was at the time earning $16 a
week in a part-time job, but it didn’t
work. The two old men got every-
thing at home into a mess while I
was away; pipe dribbles, dirty
dishes, icebox left open, bathroom
disgraceful—they were worse than
children. I would have had to pay a
maid what I was earning, and we
had no room for her, so it seemed
wiser to do things myself. I like v W1V11 11U11 Mlr an
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Husband Plays Sad Role.
“Now my life is simply that of a
board-house keeper for two rather
exacting old men. Uncle Dan scru-
pulously pays me a dollar a day; if
he goes away for three days to see
his married son, he deducts that
money. Of course this doesn’t pay
me, and of course my husband
doesn’t like finding the bathroom
occupied when he gets home; the
evening paper scattered about; the
comfortable chairs pre-empted. He
differs with both the others politi-
cally, and they argue and taunt him,
and if he holds his tongue they feel
triumphantly that they have scored.
They play cribbage by the hour,
talking all the time; they are late
for meals, slow about everything,
fussy, and with long explanations
and requests. We are both getting
horribly nervous about it, and it is
especially trying to me because I
want a child, or children, and it
would be impossible to have a baby
in the house with one bath, two
bedrooms, and four adult occupants.
“Uncle Dan is rather sweet and
willing, but Dad is exacting and
critical, and never says an affection-
ate or appreciative word. But what
can I do? He is 64, and slightly lame
from sciatica. I have a brother
who can send me $10 a month for
Dad’s keep, but he demands that
for tobacco. My brother’s wife will
have nothing to do with Dad, so he
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Wade, Mrs. W. J. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 24, 1940, newspaper, October 24, 1940; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1371326/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.