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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Monday, April 7, 1941
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
published Every Monday and Thursday
Afternoon by Albert Cooper, Ted Rogers
uuI Arval Montgomery, 407 N. Main St.
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____________ Editor
Virginia Anderson ----
J. C. Howell.........
____Society Editor
Local Advertising
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acter, standing or reputation of any per-
aon, firm or corporation, which may ap-
pear In the columns of this paper will be
gladly corrected upon
paper
corrected upon due notcie being
given to the editor personally at the office
at 407 North Main 8t., Shamrock, Texas.
LEWIS’ DEFIANCE
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, was thor-
oughly in character when he defied
the National Mediation Board and
its efforts as a governmental ag-
ency to insure maximum produc-
tion during the defense emergen-
cy. Mr. Lewis always has been af-
flicted with a superiority complex
which is responsibile for his delu-
sion that he is bigger than gov-
erment itself.
Mr. Lewis’ exhibitionism before
his labor followers was also a dem-
onstration of the attitude of a self-
ish minority which places his own
interests above the welfare of the
country. His example should serve
to put an end to all narrow fac-
tional selfishness during the na-
tional defense emergency. Unfor-
tunately for the better element in
the ranks of organized labor, Mr.
Lewis’ supreme egotism prejudiced
the union cause with the Ameri-
can people.
No loyal citizen can share Mr.
Lewis’ position that personal con-
cerns supersede the national inter-
est during the present emergency.
Mr. Lewis has again lost caste with
the public and exposed himself to
- the criticism that he is a radical.-
Port Worth Star-Telegram.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
CAMPAIGN
Throughout this month the Fort
Worth-Tarrant County Tuberculo-
sis Society is conducting its im-
portant annual campaign of disease
prevention. The purpose is to
awaken the public to the value of
early diagnosis in combating tuber-
culosis, which is easily curable in
its incipiency.
The opportunity is provided for
children in the public schools to
take tuberculin tests without
charge, and the educational feature
of the campaign includes motion
pictures, talks, posters and radio
programs. The work of the nation-
al tuberculosis association repre-
sents one of the most forward
movements in , this country, since
its primary purpose is the preven-
tion of disease. The association has
the goal of completely eradicating
tuberculosis in the United States by
1960. A steadily declining death
rate each year from the “white
plague” is evidence of success of
the program.
The schools are co-operating ful-
ly in the campaign, but it must be
realized that they are an agency
secondary in importance to the
home. Parents, who have the pri- j and locked up
mary responsibility for the health ~
of their children, must collaborate
to the fullest extent with the asso-
ciation. — Port Worth Star-Tele-
gram.
Stewart Says—
Eyeing- Tourists,
Canada Explains
Our Laws to Us.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
CANADA has an emissary in
the United States explaining our
immigration law to us Yankees.
The Canucks like to be visited
by tourists from our side of the
border. They usually travel flnan-
daily very well
Parliament
Bldgs., Ottawa
heeled and our
northern neigh-
bors make a
nice profit out
of'em. And now
the season’s
near when they
should be cross-
ing- over into
the boreal Do-
minion in con-
siderable num-
bers. It’s cool
and pleasan t
there during
our own more
southerly rather
oppressive dogdays. Furthermore,
the Canadian fishing’s good.
Reports are current in this coun-
try, however, that, in these war
times, an alien in Canada is ex-
ceedingly likely to be grabbed by
the military authorities, and In-
terned. In fact, cases are men-
tioned in which this is said actually
to have occurred, and to Ameri-
cans, too.
The Canadians reckon that such
yarns are calculated to throw a
crimp into their coming summer’s
Yankee tourist trade. Hence their
emissary’s presence in our midst,
to assure us that, as their guests,
we'U be most welcome and won’t
be bothered a single bit; to explain
to us that, if we experience any
difficulty in getting back home, it
won’t be their fault, but the fault
of our own immigration officials;
and to tell us “ w to insure our-
selves against . possibility.
Editor Is Emissary'
The emissary is H. M. Morden,
associate editor of the Windsor,
Ontario, Star. He’s journeying
hither and yon, getting all the pub-
licity he can. Emissary Morden’s
mission is essentially in Canada’s
behalf, but the story he tells is of
a nature interesting to any Amer-
ican or legally admisssble foreign-
er, returning from abroad, where-
ever he has been. *
The nub of it is that a departing
wanderer, before leaving the Unit-
ed States, will be well advised to
provide himself, in advance, with
proper identification credentials to
get him home again.
It apparently is true that our
immigration functionaries have
held up quite a few Americans or
other legal residents of the United
States at ports of entry and given
them a deal of worry before allow-
ing them to come in, and maybe
some have been definitely barred
out, from Inability to prove them-
selves.
But the best advertised case of
the kind was that of a prominent
resident of Peoria and his wife,
•who, after a short stay in Canada,
were called on to account for
themselves at the Detroit immi-
gration office. The Peorian was a
native American, could prove it
and was admitted. It seems,
though, that he’d married a Cana-
dian girl. She’d lived with him in
Peoria and considered herself
American also, but never had been
formally naturalized. She was
barred. The pair had been visiting
with some of hep Canadian rela-
tives and she had to return to
them for still another visit, while
the infuriated Peorian took the
matter -up with the state depart-
ment. At last he got her back to
Peoria, but not without a consider-
able tussle.
From Canada’s standpoint, the
mean part of this story was that,
as it was published, it wasn’t
stated that the Detroit immigra-
tion folk had caused the tie-up; it
was related that tf.e wife was de-
tained by the Canadian authorities
—that she was arrested by them
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Views of Contemporaries
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CROP PROSPECTS
Things are looking mighty fine
since the big rain. Jack Rose says
it’s worth a million dollars and I
guess Charley Williams would hold
out for two million. Anyway it gives
this country an excellent chance to
make a crop —and up until right
now things lboked pretty tough.
Far, far less wheat was blown out
than many people thought. It may
not be the biggest year in the his-
tory of this country, but it bids to
be a fair year afer all. Already, I
heard one fellow worrying about
“rust,” however, and there’s many
a slip between the planting and
the harvest. — Jimmie Gillentine —
Hereford Brand.
fitness of things. My own thi
is that there ought to be a genuine, j
provocation, one that precludes
any other form of expression. There
comes to mind a scene which I once .
believe-1 l
c.
GOOD IDEA
Little A1 Curry walked into
Briggs Hardware early this week
and told Grady he wanted to buy
a birthday present for a little boy.
Grady asked A1 what age boy ha
wanted the present for and A1 in-
formed him that the little boy was
himself. That’s one way of getting
what you want for your birthday.
—Tulia Herald.
iEXAS SCRAP IRON
BEING SHIPPED TO
WAR-TORN BRITAIN
RAMBLING THOUGHTS
THIS may be very unimportant,
but there is something we’ve been
wondering about lately. . . Why are
bathrooms so small? ... Will some-
body tell us why so important and
much used place as a bathroom
shouldn’t be as large as a small
bedroom? ... Why do they have to
be long and narrow and difficult
to get in and out of? . . . Why
wouldn’t it be a good idea to have
a bathroom large enough to have
a small pool with steps going down
into it? . . . Well, summer’s not far
away, and it brings the season of
the year when we shall again get
that desire we’ve had for years—
to throw an egg into an electric
fan.—Tex Deweese—Pampa News.
witnessed and which I
have previously described here. '•A j
tourist-laden car developed a flat 1
tire, on a very hot day. While the
husband father was perspiringly
making the repairs, one of his Chil-
dren, leaning out to watch hta
and perhaps to offer some con-
structive criticism, dropped a big
gob of ice cream out of its cone,
the mess hitting the father square-
ly on the back of the neck. When
he started to rise, he wanged
head against the fender. Now that
set of circumstances, I thought at
the time and still think, could not
have been appropriately dealt with
other than profanely. A man who
didn't Indulge in vitriolic langu^e
under that provocation would be
lacking in something. And the man
in question undertook to do justice
to the situation and succeeded well
enough.
Profanity ought to be well pfe-
voked and it ought to sizzle. Un-
der such conditons, it loses much
of its offense.—John Gould—Wich-
ita Palls Daily Times.
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A, & M, Training
School Will Be
Held July 2025*
FIRST CARLOAD ASSEMBLED
IN SHERMAN BY CITY’S
LIONS’ CLUB
U.S.WomanHonored
Emissary Morden doesn’t regard
such publicity as favorable to Can-
ada's American tourist trade.
There are other rumors he
doesn’t like.
Spikes Other Rumors
One’s to the effect that tourists’
autos are subject to seizure for
Canadian military use. Another
has it that American money is
seized. And gasoline prices are
described as piratical.
“No such thing," asserts Emis-
sary Morden.
There is, indeed, gasoline ration-
ing, he admits, for Canadian fliv-
vers, but it doesn't apply to non.
Canadianly tagged cars.
In short, Emissary Morden wants
it understood that Canada isn’t too
busy at war to be nice to tourists.
Contrariwise, war calls urgently
for revenue and tourists are a
good source of it Consequently,
the Canucks are anxious for all of
’em they can get. And they cer-
tainly do object to having the re-
sponsibility for our immigration
authorities' uppishness wished off
onto them.
Back yards and farm lots all
over Texas are to be rummaged for
scrap iron for Britain. A move-
ment started by Fred McDuff of
Oklahoma to give everyone a
chance to throw in his bit, is
spreading rapidly throughout the
state.
R. G. Soper of Dallas has been
appointed State Chairman for Tex-
as and is seeking to organize the
entire state for the systematic col-
lection of old, abandoned and use-
able iron which is lying around
virtually everywhere. The plan is to
assemble the iron for transport to
the mills where it will be reduced
into billets and shipped to England
for bullets, machine guns, and oth-
er armaments of war.
The first carload of scrap iron
for this purpose was assembled in
Sherman by the Sherman Lions’
Club and for this reason the Lions
Clubs of the state are volunteering
to take the lead in organizing the
campaigns in their towns.
Vacant lots for the deposit of
iron are being loaned by owners,
and lumber yards are providing
signs for the lots reading “Deposit
Iron for Britain Here.” In many
cities employees of the street, fire
or police departments have volun-
teered to place the signs in posi-
tion, and transfer companies have
offered to haul the iron to railroad
yards.
“Here is a way for every person
to do at least something for the
vital cause of Britain and to do it
with practically no expense,” said
Mr. Soper. “Nothing is more im-
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
-By WILLIAM RITT-
Central Press Writer
GRANDPAPPY JENKINS
says that maybe the reason Rus-
sia seems so jittery about the
European situation is that it
fears Hitler may decide the time
has come to take Steppes.
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Now that vegetables are pur-
chasable neatly wrapped in cel-
lophane. Mother Nature might
save herself a deal of trouble by
producing peas without pods.
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Thailand now lays claim to a
place called Battanbang. Sounds
like a dandy spot for a battle.
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Students at the University of
Kentucky are offered a course
in how to play billiards. Good
training for young folks who, in
after life, will often enough find
themselves behind the eight ball.
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Surrealist wall paper is on the
market. Now, the most ardent
teetotaler can awaken mornings
and enjoy the bewilderment of
a first-class hangover.
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Zadok Dumbkopf says his ne-
phew Dozy gets paid for lying
down on the job. He tests the
product of a mattress factory.
! ! !
And the man at the next desk
is still recovering from the shock
of having met a barber who ad-
vised him to have his hair
combed dry.
FOUR-IN-HAND
We have often wondered where
the expression “four-in-hand” as
applied to the mill run variety of
men’s neckwear came from, and we
were very pleased to learn about
it in a current magazine. It seems
that this type of neckwear was
worn by drivers of stagecoaches in
early day England. These men rode
on the outside of the coaches, and
they tied mufflers in the present
fashion for the sake of protection
from cold. The stage coaches were
pulled by four horses, driven by
four lines in the hands of one man.
Hence the expression “four-in-
hand.” We also learned from the
same source that the majority of
the styles in men’s clothing are
derived from military uniforms.
For instance the vent in the back
of some coats came from the an-
cient custom of wearing military
coats with this opening when rid-
ing horseback.—Vernon Witcher—
Beckham County Democrat—Erick,
Okla.
FEED BIG FACTOR
IN EGG PRODUCTION
EQUAL AMOUNTS GRAIN AND
MASH WOULD MAKE IDEAL
DIET COMBINATION
Maximum production is deter-
mined by the amount of feed each
hen consumes from day to day.
Season of the year, the rate of
production, and the size of the hen
are the controlling factors of the
amount of feed consumed. Three
to four ounces is the average daily
consumption per hen. This means
from five to eight pounds will be
eaten by each hen per month or
I from 60 to 90 pounds in one year.
portant to England's defense than | One hundred hens can be expected
iron. No movement yet projected to eat from 20 to 25 pounds of lay-
gives every person in the land a
more glowing opportunity to do his
bit. Just bear in mind that 110
pounds of scrap iron which can be
picked up in a few minutes’ search
can make a machine gun firing 300
shots a minute.”
It is pointed out that not only
ing mash and grain each day.
By dividing the flock number by
the number five, the approximate
daily amount of feed consumed by
COLLEGE STATION — The an-
nual Fireman’s Training School
will be held at Texas A. & M. Col-
lege July 20-25, Dr. C. C. Hedges,
head of the chemistry department
of the college and director of the
training school, has announced.
Since it was started the school
has attracted firemen from ><11
parts of Texas with the result that
the improved methods of fire fight-
ing learned have enabled the var-
ious city fire departments to re-
duce annual fire loss by many mil-
lions dollars and at the same time
earn their cities a reduction in the
key fire insurance rates.
Last year over 600 firemen at-
tended the course and earned the
rate reduction for their cities ^jy
attending sectional instruction in
all phases of fire fighing and then
passing written examination on
the work covered during the five-
day training period.
Outstanding speakers on
prevention and fire fighting will
address the various classes and the
instructors will be drawn from the
training schools of the various
large Texas cities, Dr. Hedges jjas
will this be a great help to Eng-
land but it also will help clean up
many rubbish filled back yards.
light breeds may be found. Divid-
ing this figure by 2 gives the ap-
proximate amount of grain or
mash needed. When figuring for
Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island
reds, or Wyandottes, divide the
number of hens in the flock by
four.
When 100 hens are eating 20
pounds of feed a day, the ordinary
ratio for the average flock is about
12 pounds of grain and eight
pounds of mash, the poultryman
said. There is a tendency for the
amount of grain and mash to be-
come more nearly equal as the pro-
duction increases. Half-and-half is
considered by most poultrymen to
be the ideal feeding combination
when hens are laying 50 per cent.
Equal amounts of grain and
mash would be the ideal combina-
tion, the poultry specialist said,
when 100 hens are eating 26 pounds
of feed per day. Consumption of
grain and mash increases as pro-
duction increases. However when a
flock of a 100 hens are producing
60 or more eggs per day it is not
uncommon for them to eat more
than this amount.
PROFANITY
From time to time, however, one
does hear swearing that seems
somehow to be in keeping with the
announced.
Household Hint
A pillow case should measure two
inches more than the distance
around the pillow and at leastCOix
inches longer than the pillow after
hemming.
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PROOF OF LAST WEEK’S AD
The Sap of a Tree Does Not RiO
in the Spring
Analysis shows that pieces of
wood cut from trees in the winter
have just as high or even higher
moisture content than pieces cut in
the spring or early summer. Thefe
(PROOF NEXT MONDAY)
is an increase of circulation, how-
ever, and the sap is nearer the
bark. 1. “Popular Questions An-
swered”—Geo. W. Stimpson.
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MUGGS AND SKEETER
By WALLY BISHOP
Mrs. Jennie Burnham Cameron of
Kirby Muxloe, Eng., is the first
American woman to be decorated
•with the prder of the British Em-
‘ . She’was honored for her hero-
during an air raid, helping 165
and women to safety, then
Under the 1940 conservational
materials program of the AAA.
Texas fanners received 228 tons
of triple superphosphate and 60,000
pounds of Austrian Winter peas.
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It is the average production of
the whole flock that determines
egg profits for a fanner,
| for a farmer, Robert
to their care^roughout the ,Penqulte. Oklahoma A. and M. Col-
bomb-tom night. ------*“
lege poultryman, observes.
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 94, Ed. 1 Monday, April 7, 1941, newspaper, April 7, 1941; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528306/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.