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PALACIOS DEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
GENERAL
JOHNSON
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Congress Alone Can Declare
Military War but President
Wages a More Deadly Eco-
nomic War Against Japan.
By HUGH S. JOHNSON
CHICAGO.—Anglo-French strate-
gy in the European war is to starve
Germany, just as it was German
strategy in both the World war and
this one to starve England. This is
economic war which can be more
deadly than military war, especially
to women, children, the sick and
the aged.
"Measures less than war but more
than words" is a misleading phrase
if it means that we will engage in
economic war. Military war re-
quires a declaration of war by con-
gress. But this administration has
wangled many powers that permit it
to engage in economic war without
any reference whatever to congress.
In Chicago, the President, speak-
ing of Japan, threatened to "quar-
antine the aggressor nations." That
raised such a storm of protest that
it was soft-pedaled. Nevertheless,
we seem now to be about to wage
economic war on Japan. By letting
the Japanese trade treaty lapse, the
administration has created a condi-
tion in which, by use of other execu-
tive powers, it can wage economic
war to a remarkable extent.
Hacking at Lifelines.
No nation can go very far down
the road of economic war without
reaching a place where military war
can't be avoided. In this very situ-
ation we are creating a condition
which has already involved a seri-
ous military problem. Japan does
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
German "Peace Drive' Eclipsed
By War Threats in Near East;
Politicians Hold U. S. Interest
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed In these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
——_______ Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Spotlighted on the Washington Scene:
JAPANESE SANDWICH MEN
Hut sandwiches are scarce; the signs
Urge all to be thrifty during the pres-
ent difficulties.
not now threaten us to any such ex-
tent as demands a vast addition to
our navy. But we can't thus hack
at her lifelines without creating a
resentment that already has re-
quired very extensive naval prep-
arations to back it up.
Why are we doing it? We are told
that it is not for the trade of China
but for our lovs of China. China is
a big country. Part of it is Com-
munist and all of it may be. Shifts
in the Far Eastern line-up are un-
predictable. Just when we must
closely watch a dangerous confla-
gration in our front yard, we seem
to be building a bonfire on our own
back doorstep.
In Reverse English.
Some authorities say we are doing
it to protect the British economic
position in eastern Asia—a thing she
refused to do with us in Manehukuo.
If that is 30, we are reaping a rich
reward in the British interference
■with our exports, imports and mails
and their disregard of what remains
of our neutral rights on the high
seas.
• • •
CHICAGO. — John Lewis would
never contend that this administra-
tion has done little or nothing for
organized labor. He feels that the
continued stagnation of economic
activity and the great pool of un-
employment, which has been very
little lessened, are evils which the
administration started out to im-
prove. He says it has not succeed-
ed in doing this or fundamentally
helping the situation in taxation,
debt, federal finance, agriculture
and export trade to betterment of
all which the unemployed in the
ranks of labor must look for jobs.
If that is a correct interpretation
of John's mighty blast, it's hard to
see any error in it. As the Presi-
dent is fond of saying: "Res ipsu
loquitur"—the facts speak for them-
selves.
But this administration cannot
fairly be charged with not having
done its utmost for labor.
It is true that many of these
fledglings of the Blue Eagle have
turned out to be sick chickens. The
Labor Relations board needs a good
going over. The bituminous coal
commission has not yet laid a sub-
stantial egg. The wages and hours
act is still to weather its first real
test. Handling of the labor problem
by the department of labor has been
bungling and inept.
Nevertheless, the purpose and the
effort of the administration on be-
half of labor have been sincere and
ceaseless. These faults and short-
comings can all be cured.
Most important of all, from the
labor point of view, these new truly
liberal principles are so firmly es-
tablished and so widely accepted in
this country that never again can
they be made a political issue. Any
party that attempt to turn back the
hands of the clock will fail.
* * *
Finland acted in exact accord
with Winston Churchill's plea to
trust the allies—to join them or die.
But we have yet to hear ol Eng-
land or France declaring \t ar on
Russia or sending Finland a ioupl«
of hundred planes and army corps.
POLITICS:
In the background since congress
reconvened, presidential politics
stole the show again when the Dem-
ocratic national committee selected
Chicago as its convention site. Re-
publicans, who scheduled their
meeting later in the hope that Dem-
ocrats would set a convention date,
were outfoxed. This resulted in
minor dissension among G. O. P.
leaders, who debated whether to set
a date immediately or keep stalling.
Since third-termites dominated the
Democratic meeting, observers
guessed there would be a strong
fight torenominatePres-
ident Roosevelt in the
city where he was first
chosen in 1032.
As Chicago became a
political focal point, so
did Illinois. There were
signs that both President
Roosevelt andVicePres-
ident Garner would be
entered in the April 9
preference primary,
while in New York the
G.O. P. backers of young
Tom Dewey challenged
Ohio's Sen. Bob Taft
and other Republican hopefuls to a
contest in the same primary.
UN-AMERICANISM:
Ended was the episode in which
Michigan's Rep. Frank Hook
charged that Martin ("un-American-
Ism") Dies was working in cahoots
with William Pelley, leader of the
anti-Semitic "Silver Shirts." When
Pelley surrendered and admitted
that letters used as evidence were
forged, Hook apologized on the
house floor. If this had been a
campaign to smear irrepressible
ACCUSER HOOK
He apologized.
Martin Dies, it had only served to
strengthen him and the cause of his
"ism" committee. Next day FBI
rounded up 12 persons charged with
recruiting Americans for service
with the Communist forces in Spain.
CONGRESS:
The house continued lopping mil-
lions from President Roosevelt's
budget, and the senate continued re-
storing them. The senate voted
down a $1,000,000 cut in Civil Aero-
nautics authority funds, bringing the
independent offices bill back to $1,-
139,693,528. But it was still 55 mil-
lions under budget estimate, provid-
ing a good start on the
460 millions congress
hopes to save by way of
avoiding new defense
taxes. Meanwhile the
house slashed away at
the state - justice-com-
merce department ap-
propriations bill.
LABOR:
John Lewis' C. I. O.,
which has been striking
at the New Deal lately,
turned a partial about-
face by defending the
national labor relations act against
A. F. of L.-inspired changes. Before
the house NLRB committee,C. I. O.'s
Philip Murray read a statement in
which Lewis charged "reactionary
and anti-labor" corporations are dic-
tating A. F. of L.'s proposed amend-
ments. At Miami, A. F. of L.'s exec-
utive board was also getting hostile
toward the New Deal, urging en-
couragement of private enterprise
and charging the administration
with trying to place labor "under its
thumb." The entire labor-govern-
ment picture was pretty complicated.
WOMEN
in the news . . .
At Paris, the duchess of Wind-
sor was credited with inventing
a new knitted "trench mitten"
with zipper
attachment
to free a
soldier's
trigger
finger.
In the froz-
en Klondike
campaigned
Mrs. Nor-
man Black,
one of Cana- THE DUCHESS
da's two
women parliament members,
seeking votes in the forthcoming
special election.
At Baltimore, Mrs. Robert A.
Taft announced she would hit the
campaign stump trail for her sen-
ator husband, who hopes to win
the G. O. P. presidential nomina-
tion.
At New York, Merry Falirney,
patent medicine heiress, shed her
fourth husband.
Merry-
By DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT ALLEN
WASHINGTON.—It has already
been published that A. F. of L.
President Bill Green called upon
Roosevelt last week to present a
giant birthday cake (which had been
crushed en route) plus infantile pa-
ralysis checks from A. F. of L.
members.
What was not generally known
was the fact that while Green and
Roosevelt were talking, the Presi-
dent picked up two teletype reports
which Steve Early had just placed
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EUROPE:
Rumors
While the western front remained
quiet, and while Finland continued
making a shambles out of Russia's
vaunted armies, two diametrically
opposed offensives were taking
shape—one for war, the other for
peace:
Peace Drive. Berlin denied it,
but reports persisted that Nazidom
would offer the allies a settlement
via the League of Nations' economic
committee at The Hague. Terms:
(1) no reparations; (2) return of ex-
German colonies; (3) Nazi retention
of Sudetenland and the Polish cor-
ridor; (4) an Austrian plebiscite,
neutrally managed; (5) restoration
of Czech, Polish and Slovak states.
If the Reich's denials were sin-
cere, observers wondered why Herr
Hitler tried so hard to minimize
his relations with Moscow, arch-foe
Df the democracies. No military
pact exists, said the Reich, nor will
Germany help Russia fight the
Finns. Peace gossip only increased
when Berlin called home its envoys
to Finland and Russia. Would Ger-
many try to settle this war? If so,
was it a prelude to peace in the
west?
War Drive. Overnight the Balkan
states mobilized their armies to full
strength, members of the Little En-
tente backing Rumania against the
territorial demands of Hungary.
Italy was seen joining them. Across
TREND
How the wind is blowing ...
BONDS—At Chicago, Barcus,
Kindred & Company surveyed the
municipal bond field and found
1939 had brought a drop of $364,-
454,000 (or 24 per cent) under
1929 in total bonds issued. Among
reasons: (1) Pay-as-you-go financ-
ing; (2) diminishing birth rate,
which requires fewer schools.
RATION—Britain announced
that meat would be rationed ef-
fective March 11. Already ra-
tioned are butter, sugar, ham and
bacon.
RISKS—Because Europe's war
has steered clear of Pan-Ameri-
can waters, marine underwriters
have lowered war risk insurance
rates in that area.
WHEAT—Twice as many (320,-
000) farmers have taken out fed-
eral all-risk crop insurance on
wheat for 1940, compared with
last year.
SKIRTS—The U. S. census bu-
reau figures short skirts have
snipped one million bales off the
cotton farmers' annual market.
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INOIA
NEW TROUBLE SPOT
But will the allies attack first?
the Black sea Turkey concentrated
troops on the Russian frontier, Iran
and Afghanistan doing likewise. One
explanation was that Russia planned
a drive into this British sphere-of-
influence (see map). Another ex-
planation was that the allies planned
a deliberate attack on Russian oil
wells in the Caucasus region, there-
by drawing Soviet troops from the
beleaguered Finnish front and cut-
ting off Nazi petroleum sources.
Observers asked themselves wheth-
er this was the reason French au-
thorities had raided the Russian
commercial office in Paris, delib-
erately inviting Soviet reprisals.
Also, was it the reason Turkey, a
British-French ally, unceremoniously
seized the German-owned ship yard
in the Bosporus?
The Wars
In the West. France reported the
quietest period since the war began
almost six months ago, and Nazi
raids on North sea shipping were
slackened perceptibly.
In the North. Finnish troops re-
pulsed one Soviet attack after an-
other, most activity being confined
to the area around Lake Ladoga.
Finnish military observers estimat-
ed that reckless use of manpower
had cost the Reds 20,000 dead and
wounded in a single week.
Nevertneless, increasing rhythm
of Soviet attacks was wearing the
Finns down, a situation that dis-
turbed the allies increasingly. Fol-
lowing a meeting of the British-
French war council, it was an-
nounced concrete aid would be
rushed at once. Prime Minister
Chamberlain told the house of com-
mons as much, while France kept
relaying Italian warplanes which
Germany refused to let cross the
Reich.
How Italy is cooperating with the
Finns was revealed in Rome by Fin-
nish Minister Eero Jaernefelt, who
reported 5,000 Italian volunteers
have been turned down because no
visas were available. But hundreds
have been granted, too.
HEADLINERS—Here and Abroad
C. Appointed: Pennsylvania's ex-
Gov. George II. Earle as U. S. min-
ister to Bulgaria; Florida's David
Gray as minister to Eire.
C, Threatened: Irish Premier Ea-
mon de Valera's government, be-
cause he still fights the outlawed
Irish Republican army, two of
whose terrorists were executed by
Britain. I. R. A.'s aim: Seizure of
Ulster.
C, Enthroned: Supreme Court Jus-
tice Frank Murphy, President
Roosevelt's fifth appointee.
C. Defeated: Earl Browder, Com-
munist leader convicted of passport
fraud, who ran a poor third in a
New York congressional by-election.
C, Filed: Tax liens for $2,644,954
against Howard C. Hopson, head of
the giant Associated Gas & Electric
octopus, and several of his relatives.
NEUTRALITY:
Aid to Finland
Early this month a Gallup poll
showed the majority of U. S. citi-
zens (58 per cent) favor a non-
military loan to Finland. Same day
as the survey was released, the sen-
ate began consideration of a bill to
double the Export-Import bank's
capital, permitting an additional
$20,000,000 non-military loan to the
Finns (they already have $10,000,-
000).
The same Gallup poll showed 61
per cent of the nation opposes a loan
to Finland for purchasing war sup-
plies. Day after the survey was
published, Michigan's Prentiss
Brown proposed in the senate that
all of Finland's $5,891,000 war debt
payment should be made available
for munitions purchases. There was
a good chance the Brown measure
might pass.
(The senate did adopt 65 to 3 a
resolution asking the securities and ex-
change commission to expedite regis-
tration of any government bonds which
Finland may try to sell private V. S.
investors. Prompting factor was Sec-
retary of Stale Cordell Hull's revela-
tion that Russia had violated two
pledges of its recognition agreement
with the U. S.: (I) Permitting Com-
munist interference with U. S. affairs;
(2) failing to safeguard U. S. citizens'
rights in Russia. Still, a congressional
effort to break relations with the Soviet
jailed.)
Meanwhile the state department
was rubbing noses with Britain's
smooth-working Ambassador Lord
Lothian, recipient of many a fiery
protest in recent weeks. In ex-
change for better treatment of U. S.
ships at British contraband ports,
the two governments decided to
keep future quarrels quiet. One
reason: Recent strong U. S. notes to
London have stirred up too much
American opinion against Britain, to
Adolf Hitler's benefit.
JAPAN:
One Way Out
As Tokyo's war in China entered
its thirty-first month, northern forces
reported they had entered distant
Ningsia province for the first time.
In the south, armies were locked in
bitter battle near Wingsun, Kwangsi
province. Two more discouraging
signs for Japan were (1) a naval
spokesman's warning that Chinese
planes may soon begin raiding
Japan, and (2) the report that 300
Jap troops were killed when Chinese
artillery sank a transport on the
Yangtze river.
Mostly, however, Tokyo's troubles
were with the western powers. Im-
mediate source of trouble was a
combined U. S.-French protest
against Jap bombing of the Kun-
ming-Hanoi railway in southwestern
China. Both protests were reject-
ed, and the Japanese parliament
found itself seriously considering
two drastic steps to avoid future
protests. First, it was suggested
Japan should junk the nine-power
treaty guaranteeing Chinese territo-
rial integrity. Second, Foreign Min-
ister Hachiro Arita admitted Japan
is asking U. S. citizens to leave
China, probably as a threat to make
the U. S. renew its expired trad?
treaty.
AGRICULTURE:
Cotton for Stamps
Having successfully disposed ol
surplus foods through the stamp
plan, Secretary of Agriculture Hen-
ry Wallace announced this system
will be adopted to help solve his
No. 1 farm problem, cotton. Ex-
ports having decreased since Brit-
ain stopped taking U. S. surpluses
under the barter arrangement, cot-
ton will be offered under the stamp
plan experimentally within a few
weeks. Plan: Relief clients purchas-
ing $1 worth of cotton goods at
retail stores will be given $1 worth
of cotton stamps free.
Other farm news:
C. The weather bureau announced
frost damage to truck crops in
southern states from January's un-
expected cold snap had been over-
estimated, although losses were
heavy all the way from Florida to
Texas.
C. U. S. farmers watched with in-
terest and mixed emotions as the
house ways and means committee
approved a bill renewing the ad-
ministration's authority to negotiate
reciprocal trade agreements. Offi-
cially the American farm bureau ap-
oroved: Naticl^l Grange dissented
CAKt
A.F.OPU
Poles and the Russians seem to
suffer from incurable romance. Ihe
Poles clung to their picturesque cav-
Russ, Like Poles, ^ a8i"nSt
Cling to Horses
With III Results
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
... as cartoonist Thomas sees it.
apon his desk. They reported John
L. Lewis' hot blast accusing Roose-
velt of "not keeping faith" with la-
bor.
"Bill," said Roosevelt, after
glancing at the teletype sheets, "it's
wonderful to be remembered this
way by you and the A. F. of L. I'll
be honored to accept the cake and
the money the federation is donat-
ing to my little crippled friends."
And then he added: "You don't
know how much this means to me,
coming at this particular time."
• * *
Mrs. Roosevelt.
It was a cold wintry day in Wash-
ington. There was a nine-inch snow
on the ground and the streets were
icy. A car stood waiting at the
front entrance of the White House.
Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from the
front door, dressed in a blue woolen
suit, with a brown fur about her
neck. She glanced at the car, took
a deep breath of the wintry air,
waved the car away, and set out
on foot.
She walked out of the White House
grounds, waited for the lights to
change, crossed Pennsylvania ave-
nue and proceeded alone along the
j slippery pavements to make a call,
six blocks away.
The guards started after her.
"You never can tell about her,"
said one to the other.
* • *
MeNutt's Income.
WASHINGTON.—Internal revenue
agents are certainly going into Paul
MeNutt's income tax with a fine-
tooth comb. They turned up at
American Legion headquarters not
long ago and got photostats of the
checks which McNutt had received
as commander of the American Le-
gion, including expenses and all oth-
er payments.
The agents also turned up at the
bank where McNutt keeps a safe de-
posit box, with a subpoena for its
contents. To open the box required
two keys, one being with the cash-
ier, the other being with McNutt,
so the agents were frustrated.
However, one of MeNutt's politi-
cal aides volunteered to get the oth-
er key, and it is understood that
most of MeNutt's personal papers
now are in the hands of internal
revenue agents.
McNutt has said that he welcomes
the inquiry and has no facts to con-
ceal. He also has said that while
governor of Indiana he filed no in-
come tax return since state salaries
then were not taxable by the fed-
eral government.
What federal agents seem to be
Interested in, however, is other in-
come received by McNutt.
Note—MeNutt's income tax inves-
tigation started when the treasury
probed the income tax of his former
secretary, Pleas Greenlee. Since
then, the treasury iias been using
some of the information obtained
from Greenlee to probe the taxes
of the entire McNutt machine.
♦ . .
Political-Go-Round.
And still the presidential candi-
dates come. Latest to toss his hat
in the ring is kindly Speaker Wil-
liam Bankhead, who will soon open
headquarters in Washington. Osten-
sibly after the presidential nomina-
tion, actually the Alabaman is shoot-
ing for second place.
* • »
John L. Lewis' Tactics.
John L. Lewis' abandonment of
his secret plan to have the United
Mine Workers endorse Sen. Burt
Wheeler for President was not vol-
untary.
Strong dissent developed from two
quarters. A number of mine lead-
ers objected strenuously, and some
of the biggest guns in the C. I. O.
served notice that they intended to
stick by Roosevelt regardless of any-
thing Lewis did.
Faced with the prospect of a se-
rious split, the scheme was dropped.
all the hard'
boiled mili-
tary advice in
Europe, and
their horses made beautiful targets
for machine-gun bullets. The Rus-
sians in the latest emergency sent
in, not a strategist in modern war,
but their most romantic cavalry gen-
eral, Marshal Simion M. Budenny,
and reports cf disaster follow swift-
' ly. News stories chalk up another
[ "dismal failure," in the general's
latest assault on the Mannerheim
line.
In the late summer of 1919, when
the cables brought the news that the
Bolsheviks were whipped and in
flight, and that the White Russian
Dcnikin held all of southern Russia,
Budenny galloped through the
steppes, recruiting his army of wild
horsemen. He was a Cossack, from
the Don region, gaudily appareled,
and wilh a huge blow-torch mous-
tache that flared magnificently in the
wind. His little bands of free-boot-
ers grew into a huge cavalry army,
j It swept back, not only Dcnikin, but
his ally, Wrangel and stopped the
Poles until the Frcnch came to their
aid.
The general was enshrined in
legend. He became the hero of
folk tales and songs throughout
the land—his wife, too, who rorle
and fought with him. Lenin
later put him in command of ail
the Russian cavalry. lie is a
man of extraordinary energy.
"Proletarians, to horse!" was
his rallying cry, as he became
one of the country's main incit-
ers of patriotic enthusiasm. He
had all Russia thinking or at any
rate feeling that the answer to
all its troubles was in getting
everybody on horseback.
He was a peasant, without school-
ing. And there is no available rec-
ord of his having had any training
or experience in mechanized war-
fare. He was a private in the Russo-
Japanese war and a petty officer in
the early stages of the World war.
His wife, said to have been the best
rifle shot in Russia, killed herself
accidentally while cleaning a gun, in
1925. He married a famous actress
of the Mali theater in Moscow, and
their joint histrionics have continued
to thrill the Russians. He has main-
tained a horse-breeding farm and
encouraged his countrymen to do the
same, evidently on the theory that a
good horse and a good proletarian
slogan would make any Russian un-
conquerable,
TV/TANY years ago, this writer
shared an apartment with the
late Willard Huntington Wright. If
the Empire State building were an
Prof Doubles as JPSJTX
Phuosopher and have been tail
Author of Thrills enouSh for
Mr. Wright in
those days. He was an aesthete,
fastidious in dress, multi-lingual, a
postgraduate of many European
salons, a distinguished art critic and
a precisionist of ideas, to whom a
primrose by the river's brim was a
simple primulacea and nothingmore.
I began to feel the altitude, and one
day dived out of a 90-story window.
It was not until several years later
that I learned Mr. Wright had done
the same and, convalescing, had be-
come S. S. Van Dine, authoring bell-
ringing murder-mystery stories to
the end of his days.
Somewhat similar is Dr. Ru-
dolf Kager's ambidextrous life
as a philosopher and writer of
detective stories. As he is hired
by the New York World's fair—
they may need to have a philoso-
pher around by next spring—it
is revealed that this Kurt Steel
who has been keeping us awake
nights with "Judas Incorporat-
ed," "Crooked Shadows," and
the like, is none other than Dr.
Kagcr, associate professor of
philosophy at New York univer-
sity. At the fair he will work
as a philosopher rather than as
a detective, pulling together a
lot of educational loose ends and
ravelings which, it seemed, got
into a somewhat untidy state
last summer.
His detective stories started as an
anodyne for a feeling of loneliness
in the groves of Academe as in
the case of Mr. Wright. In 1930, he
had prepared his doctor's thesis on
"The Growth of F. H. Bradley's
Logic," and had climbed where few
or none could follow. He was all
fagged out, and any two-dollar word
made him shut his eyes and duck
A friend suggested that he bang out
a murder story-anything that came
into his head. "Murder of a Dead
Man" was his first extra-curricular
workout. The publishers yelled for
more.
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stores in economical 100 and 25<t boxes.
The Original
Chocolated (.axative
As He Saw It
We have not read an author till
we have seen his object, whatever
it may be, as he saw it.—Carlyle.
WOMEN
Here's amazing way to
Relieve 'Regular' Pains
Mr*. J. C. Lawson writes: "I was undernour- -■
tshed, had cramps, headachcs and back-
ache, associated with my monthly periods.
/ took Dr. Picrce's Favorite Prescription
for a while, gained strength, ana was
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FOR over 70 years, countless thousands of
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Don't suffer one unnecessary moment from
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vorite Prescription from your druggist. Dis-
cover how wonderfully it acts to relieve you of
"Regular" pains#
To Agree
Few are qualified to shine in
company, but it is in most men's
power to be agreeable.—Swift.
Relief At Last
For Your Cough >
Creomulslon relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat oi tha
trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm,
increase secretion and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw, tender, inflam-
ed bronchial mucous membranes.
«o matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of Creomulslon with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
mODERMZE
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1940, newspaper, February 15, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411819/m1/2/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.