The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 3 of 8
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OLttrlNu UUllb MAY Lit, but so do some
that stand upright. Yet one sniff satisfies Foxy that his
little pal is a fake.
Too had you can’t just as readily smell quality in oil.
Neither can you see it, feel it, or taste it. This doesn’t
mean that there’s no way to spot the genuine article.
So here are facts to help vou pick a quality oil:
Phillips offers a number of oils because car owners’
preferences vary almost as much as their cars and
^ pockethooks. But when you want our
..••"V best oil, there’s no need for doubt or
’Y) question. Phillips speaks out plainly.
Tells you frankly that Phillips M> Motor
Oil is our finest quality . . . the highest
PARAFFIN B
IT'S PHILLIPS FINEST QUALITY
One of the tasks children com-
■jS about n < st frequently is look-
after younger brothers and sis-
^ -..•tir-nl.irlv when the latter
rid ay.
September 25, 1942
SUCCESSFUL
PARENTHOOD
■r MBS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS
Auodoto Editor. Parents’ Magaxln«
A FAMILIAR PROBLEM
particularly when
1 to be taken along on excur-
with their own friends.
There are three sides to this prob-
-2” that Of the mother who is en-
iL to some time to herself, since
Zding a whole day with a small
hild is often considerably wearing;
h of the older child who after be-
in school most of the day needs
L. hours for unhampered play.
or other amusement; and
hat of the young child who often
ids herself the unwelcome mem-
|r 0( a group of older girls or
Bovs Hew would you like to be
,nr vears old and be greeted with,
Didia have to bring her?” when-
rer you joined your sister's
■iends?
Kow whenever a problem in-
sularity with her schoolmates.
Another thing, when families
were as a rule quite large, with
children of n any ages, the older
llrls could take turns being nurse-
maid. Besides, children had more
Interests in common then—there
weren’t such gaps in age—and
moreover these interests centered
about the home. But nowadays
fcere are so many activities which
Use children away from home-
tipi to museums, the moving pic-
A box of our spicy old fashioned
cookies will keep that smile glowing.
The City Bakery
Car Conservation Tips
YOU MAKE BIG ONES OUT OF
U1TLE ONES... DELAYING
DELAYING-
greased
and
-To have your car
checked at the proper time.
ELAYING—To change the oil when it is needed.
LAYING—To have your casings examined for
Rails or thorns.
—To have your battery checked often,
gas ^G—■^° use the proper kind of oil and
THESE—Are some of the things you could do to
N(Vru?i?ng the Hfe of that precious car just now.
THING BETTER—Than Gulf Pride Oil, No-Nox
was, or the service that wo give you. Drive
'"to our station often and let us make these
checks for you.
GULF SERVICE STATION
C. A. BROOKS, Owner
The Paducah Post
Page Three
tures, scouting and camp fire meet-
ings — all perfectly legitimate
amusements, but they often make
it a real hardship to have tc look
after a younger brother or sister.
So here's my suggestion—why
not limit the after-school nursemaid
jobs you give your older daughter
to two, or at the most, three after-
noons a week. The other days let
her be free for her own activities
Then, as her share of the compro-
mise, make those free days the
ones on which she is to come in
early to help with preparations for
the evening meal. It is a common
mistake of mothers to insist that
children perform the same tasks
every day.
Of course, back of all this there
must be a co-operative spirit in
the family and you don’t get this
from your children all of a sudden.
That is. you can’t wait on children
olves the rights of two or more j until they are seven or eight and
er«ons there is only one solution— j then expect them to blossom into
onipromise. The mother, being j mother’s helpers overnight. Begin
, a(juit. should make the major j when they are two or even younger
jeessions First, she should rid | by giving them a share in keeping
erself of the idea that there is j their toy shelves straight. Stress
jything unnatural about not want- j this not so much as a duty but as
I a younger child to tag along, their share in making the house a
etwee'n the ages of seven and , pleasant place for the whole family,
twelve the child is making her first [ As the child grows his share in
iendships with those her own age. j family tasks increases. Of course
jting her first steps to establish j he’ll grumble at times—we all do,
irself outside the family and the j even when we are older—so don’t
ttle sister or brother (who may be | get your feelings hurt. I some-
ervery best friend five years from times think half the difficulty in
ow) is definitely not an asset to j persuading children to take an in-
‘ terest in helping about the house is
because mothers consider it a per-
sonal affront when they don’t and
give children such feelings of guilt
about housework that it becomes
charged with unpleasant emotions.
To get back to the care of small-
er members of the family, this can
be made a much more welcome
duty if the youngest are brought up
to realize that big sister is being
kind in taking them along and that
agreeable behavior is expected.
I-LL( HON . . . opportunity
Let s stop bemoaning the fact
we *,:iVc' an election corning up
Wc re lucky to be having an elec-
tioru In Germany, in Italy and
even in many of our Allied nations
it has been years since the people
have had an opportunity to ex-
press their views through the demo-
cratic method of a national elec-
tion. Even in England elections
have been called off and the people
1935^ ^ a chance to vote since
Of course anyone in this country
can see that the election prospects
nave, at times, seriously interfered
with the most efficient execution of
our war program. But that is no
reason for us to let Hitler put even
a temporary end to the working of
the democratic process when we
are fighting the war to protect that
system of government.
We should all look at the coming
election as an opportunity to look
over the records of our congress-
men and re-elect them or replace
them, depending upon whether they
have proven themselves fit to be
part of a governing body which
must solve the most complicated
problems which have ever faced
our nation.
FAVORS .... inflation
It is true that many of our legis-
lators, in seeking re-election, have
attempted to do favors for their
constituents at the expense of the
rest of the nation.
The farm bloc has fought to boost
the farmer's income by practically
exempting farm products from
price ceilings and, as a conse-
quence, the cost of some foods has
as much as doubled during the past
year.
Representatives from labor dis-
tricts, plus other members of the
government who have an eye on
the large labor vote, have inter-
fered with all efforts toward curb-
ing wages and outlawing strikes.
As a consequence, strikes continue
to be called in vital industries and
wages continue to rise.
Any congressman who has given
thought at all to the dangers of
inflation realizes that increasing
costs for necessities such as food,
coupled with a policy of increasing
wages to labor in proportion to the
rise in the cost of living, is a sure-
fire plan for bringing it about.
But because some congressmen
think in terms of possible votes in-
stead of the national welfare is no
reason for not having an election.
In fact it is an excellent reason for
having one—to give the voters a
chance to show that they at least
are not ruled by narrow, selfish
considerations and will not support
the men who are.
Git along little doggie
...you 're a fraud
C. R. HOLDER
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
PHONE 32-J
Did You Ever Pick Cotton?
Here’s One For The Book
PARTY
ability
Because this is not a presidential
election year, ordinarily the vote
would be light and a large number
of voters wouldn’t bother to look
into the records of the various can-
didates There are still plenty of
us. who have always voted the Re-
publican or Democratic ticket, who
would just wait until election day,
go in and mark our X’s alongside
of the names nominated for "our
party” and feel that we had exer-
cised our rights as citizens.
But it is probably more impor-
tant this year that the voters for-
get parties than that the candidates
do. Each candidate will again be
listed on the ballot as representing
a certain party, but the thing which
should concern us is what he stands
for personally, what he has done
personally and whether he has the
brains and the honesty to cope with
gigantic legislative problems.
The new congress will not only be
responsible for formulating the pol-
icies of our nation during the war,
but. if the war should end before
1944. will have the responsibility of
formulating a plan for peace to
prevent future wars.
The whole future of this country
will probably be in the hands of
the new congress so that, even
without a President up for office,
it may prove to be the most impor-
tant election of all time.
DECISIONS . . . opinion
It has always been a question
whether a congressman’s job is to
express the opinion of his constitu-
ents or to take his election to mean
that the people want him to make
decisions for them.
Recent developments in the sci-
ence of measuring public opinion,
however, have made it apparent
that there might soon be no need
for a congress if it was elected
merely to speak the sentiments of
the people. A public opinion ex-
pert, such as Dr. George Gallup,
could then serve as an inexpensive
substitute for congress.
But there is little doubt that dur-
ing this war period and the adjust-
ment period which follows, the job
of congress must be more one of
making decisions for the people
than it has ever been before. In
the coming election we should not
be content with electing men who
will limit their work to speaking
for us. We should consider each
candidate's qualifications in the
light of his ability to guide us
through one of the most perilous
periods in the history of the world.
The ability of the next congress is
our responsibility. If we elect the
wrong men in November the con-
sequences are frightening to coo-
template.
Here is a story about cotton
picking that was wrote by an
old-timer. We present it to you
for your consideration and what
it is worth.
Of late years, it has become
the fashion to regard any form
of manual labor as something re-
served for the under-privileged.
I have vead several books and
magazine articles by Southerners
afflicted with a case-history
mania, in which crocodile tears
were shed freely for the poor
cotton picker.
In my youth, 1 worked mainly
with cattle and horses, cotton not
being raised on my father’s
land. But during the harvest sea-
son, I often hired out to pick
cotton on neighboring places. Far
from being a degrading or dis-
agreeable task, cotton picking
was to me a romantic adventure
livened by a keen spirit of com-
petition.
If the dew were not too heavy
in that North Texas fringe of the
Cross-Timbers, the hands gather-
ed at the cotton wagon in the
first light of dawn. Most of us
wore “knee-pads” —- leather pro-
tectors lined with felt, which we
strapped around our knees as
protection against grass-burrs and
sharp stones.
Some of the “top hands” of
the cotton field were one-row
pickers—that is, they picked one
row at a time. Most, however,
picked two rows at a time, mov-
ing and dragging their sacks be-
tween the rows.
There is an art, or skill, in
picking cotton which baffles the
novice. I learned to be a “top
hand” of the cotton fields, strip-
ping the bolls clean with one
grab, and keeping both hands
full of the staple as I moved
down the rows. There is a rhy-
thmic motion in cotton picking
which, in the hands of an expert,
becomes so fast that it almost
baffles the eyesight.
In those far days, before the
advent of the boll weevil, it was
not uncommon to produce from
a bale to a hale and a half per
acre in North Texas.
And it was not uncommon for
an expert picker to gather 600
pounds of cotton in a day. One
of the greatest hrills of my life
was when I picked 300 pounds in
a morning, between dawn and
noon. My ambition was to pick
600 pounds in a day, and I tried
during the afternoon but fell 50_
pounds short of my goal.
Friendships ripened in the cot-
ton fields, romances budded and
bloomed, neighborhood gossip was
exchanged, polities discussed, and
the broader issues of man's rela-
tion to the here and the here-
after found vocal if not always
learned exposition. There was
gayety, song and laughter, and f.
world of good fellowship pre-
vailed.
As a youngster around the high
over-stuffed cotton wagon at
noon-time, I heard with open
mouth about the fabulous ex-
ploits of Brazos Rufe, champion
cotton picker of all time. He
came from nowhere into the Bra-
zos bottoms to announce boldly
that he could pick a bale and a
half of cotton per day, clean
staple. The judge heard his boast
and hailed him into court.
“It's a penitentiary offense for
lying in this county,” the judge
said, “and I hereby sentence you
to serve a year in the peniten-
tiary. But right over yonder is
one of the prison farms, all load-
ed down with cotton ready to
pick. The rows are five miles
long. It’s high noon by the sun,
and if you can pick two rows of
that cotton middling clean by
nightfall, there won’t be any
guard there to stop you at the
other end of the field, and you’ll
be a free man again.”
Well, Brazos Rufe sewed 10
cotton sacks together, after rip-.
ping out their bottoms, and made
himself a sack the like of which
had never been seen. He started
in to pick two rows clean. All the
people in town got into buggies
or mounted horses and galloped
around the field to the other end
of the cotton rows that were five
miles long. But when they arrived
at the other end, after making-
their way around, they found two
rows picked clean as a turkey’s
breast. There stretched Brazos
Rufe’s sack, a hundred feet in
length, stuffed so tight with cot-
ton that they had to dynamite it
later to get it apart.
Not counting what was blown
away by the dynamite, they gin-
ned three and a quarter bales of
cotton out of the sack.
But Rufe was gone, and he
was so aggrieved because they had
doubted his word that he never-
set foot in that county again.
VOYAGE IS REFUSED
TOKYO (From Japanese broad-
casts) — Domei said today the
government refused the American
Red Cross permission for a char-
tered neutral ship to bring sup-
plies to American war prisoners
because “Japan could not permit
free and uninhibited American
collection of information in areas
of war operations as such a voy-
age would render possible.”
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HITLER SEEKS MANPOWER
BERN—Reports of German ef-
forts to raise troops in occupied
Norway, Alsace-Lorraine and Es-
tonia indicated today that Hitler
was starting the fourth year of
war by scouring Europe for man-
power with no source too small
tn be tapped.
HERE IT IS AGAIN
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