The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 26, 1946 Page: 4 of 6
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THE ERUPTION OF
MOUNT PBL1E,
ON MARTINkSL'e,
KILLED
30,000 PERSONS,
M#re,i9ca.
/%C VOLCANIC MOUNT PELEE,
AFTER FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF
INACTIVITY, OAVE VENT TO ITS
PENT UP FURY IN A BLAST THAT
SENT A STIFLING CLOUD .
13.000 FEET INTO THE AIR/
AS THIS STEAMING MASS
REACHED ST. PIERRE, PEOPLE
r DIED LIKE FLIES.
THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM, SULPHUR SPRINGS. TEXAS
High on the* list of best-solloru
for this week is Theodore Dreis-
er's “The Bulwark”.
Solon Barnes and his wife Be-
necia, their four parents and their
five children, all Quakers of vary-
ing degrees of fidelity, are the
characters in thU novel, Dr loser’s
first in 20 years and completed
just before his death in December.
The story spans the life of Sol-
on, "bulwark” of his faith, born
in modest circumstances but by
his diligence amassing more
earthly goods than, he fears, Fox
and Woolman would have approv-
ed. Troubled by only occasional
qualms, inspired by the noble ex-
amples of his father and mother,
he works hla way upward to a suc-
cess which is as assured ip his
case as It was for an Algcr/hcrO.
But what goes up must come
down. Mis children have these
alternatives: to abido by the stern
and simple precepts of their par-
ents' faith, or to enjoy themselves
by the use of their pureuta’
money. When they so far forgot
the habitual '‘thee" und ”thou"
that they also forget the differ-
ence between thine and mine, us
one of them does, they are lost to
Quukerdom. ,
The original sinner among the
Barneaes may have been Solon, in
Dreiser’s opinion, for it waa he
who, while following the straight
and narrow path for himself,
piled up the wealth which helped
to open the eyes of hie son.j und
daughters to the vast gap between
their social position and their so-
cial opportunities. Yet it's hard
- to decide just what the author
who is overly ambitious and
worldly, and of another who sows
his Quaker oats and reaps sui-
cide. Does he also disapprove of
a daughter who believes in the
emancipation of her sex?
Both abstractly und historically
one of the greatest American nov-
elists, Dreiser is not at his best
in this posthumous work. Though
his prose style is us clumsy as
ever, it is not this time redeemed
by forceful characterisations, cru-
sading zeal and inevitable devel-
opment. It’s not so much a nov-
el as a tract, and for many pages
a very dull one. Choice of the
Book Find Club for April, it de-
serves reading if only because
Dreiser wrote it, but it is not one
of the stories for which he will be
remembered. Maybe you'd rather
do him homage by re-reading
“Sister Carrie," “The Titan" or
“An American Tragedy.”
Rainey Would
Lower Voting Age
From 21 to 18
/ * •*! . 4. w *
(lh A$*ociat*H frets)
Corsicana—The deposed presi-
dent of the University of Texas,
Doctor Homer Rainey, has made
some comments which may hold
political significance.
In an address before the Navar-
roro County Young Democrats
dubs at Corsicana, the former uni-
versity president declared that he
is in favor of lowering the voting
age in Texas from 21 to 18 years
and he would—os he put it—"re-
move other disfranchising shack-
les.”
Doctor Rainey has been fre-
quently mentioned as a possible
candidate for governor in the
meant He disapproves of one boy Democratic primary.
sporting to
_ _ emember
A wrUm of nnfono'tUhte stories of the
nr by Associated l‘r«» comspondenU.
FLIGHT AND HUNGER AND
COLD AND FLIGHT AGAIN
By PRESTON GROVER
Nearly half the
p e o p 1 • of the
earth labored and
fought and hung-
ered through the
tong war and
saw it come to a
ragged but. vic-
torious end with-
out being sure
that they had at-
tained even one
of the important
four freedoms. L 0f#y.,
They were the
people living in that great con-
gested hunk of the world where
are China, Burma and India, and
in the islands which lie offshore
as if they had been pushed off,
for lack of room.
To these billion of population,
hunger and privation had always
come almost as regularly as the
seasons. But piled on this hunger
came the havoc of war which with
famine and disuasa caused more
deaths than occurred in all the
rest of the world during tho war.
But to the rest of the world it
didn’t seem to matter so much,
because the Fengs and Woos and
Liangs of China are always dying,
just as in India hundreds and
thousands of Hasans, Ramlals and
Canus die when their rice supply
is cut off by the enemy or hoarded
by war-time speculators. In China
there were no groat cathedrals
whose ruin we could shudder
about. There was no solid line of
defenders’ guns bristling in the
face of the enemy. There were
only people, millions and millions
and millions of them, with their
bullocks and rice paddies and littl#
shops. Only n few of the many
million knew'that the enemy com-
ing from Japan was likely to be
more oppressive than the wnriords
and grafting politicians under
whom they had lived fpr so many
generations. Many stayed on the
land while the enemy hordes rolled
on, burning ami raping and prom-
ising better things.
Through Shanghai, Canton,
Nanking and Hankow they surged.
It was ever tho same story — of
children had been bom, lived a
half dozen years and had already
died without ever knowing any-
thing but flight and hunger and
cold and flight again.
An empty string of freight cars-|-|
had been left on a siding at Liu-
chow and into this, and upon it
and under it, thousands had piled
with 'their broken stools, bicycles
and little basketB of rice or millet.
Hopefully they had waited day
after day for an engine that would
puli them westward again, away
from the enemy’s guns. When no
engine cartie, the string of cars be-
came a town and little piles of
rocks beside each car became the
public kitchen. There was little
food to cook and the gaunt faces
beckoned to the disease that came
even while 1 was there—cholera.
Trickling through Liurhow came
soldiers from the armies 40 miles
away who had gone into battle
with only five rounds of ammuni-
tion. Some got guns in battle only
whcii others who had guns were
killed. They fought often with-
out hope. They knew scores of
thousands of Japanese but their
own death roll mounted perhaps
to three million, a figure that in-
cludes both those who died in bat-
tle and those who died of hungor
and disease. Being a soldier in
China didn’t mean being assured of
food. It meant only a better
chance for food.
Together with India, tt was the
most troublesome area politically
in which Americans had to fight.
Chunkking and New Delhi were
battlegrounds, quite as much as
the patched areas of central Shina
or the spongy, sucking jungles of
Burma.
“Come back and get into the
fight,” wrote one American offi-
cer in New Delhi to a ^fellow of-
ficer out on the Burma front. The
end of the war found the central
government of China with sup-
port both from America add Rus-
sia, but with a serious prospect
that the end of the war against the
Japanese would be only the sig-
nal for a renewal of the civil wars
Which had torn China for forty
years. The four freedoms had not
yet come to China.
Americans coming to India
found themselves in the strange
position of fighting side by side
with Britain to keep India from
being torn out of the empire, as
Burma, Malaya and Hong-Kong
had been. Indians who first looked
upon Americans ns agents of their
delivery from what they bitterly
called "slavery,” soon came to see
that America was there to fight
Japan, and not to fight India’s in-
ternal battles.
And as a war area the CBI was
a heart breuker. Supplies came
over to India and China only when
Offers Life
disorganized and hopeless Chinese
defense and endless retreat west-1 tl„.y wur* Il0l needed some place
ward until everything that was elst, Not only was the theatre
William Parker, 46, former
newspaperman,commentator and
lecturer, says he’s serious in
offering to be a “guinea pig” in
the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb
tests in May. He believes the
tests should determine .the re-
sults of radioactivity on humans.
ally had been run as a military
front by a loyal, brave and serious
minded but somewhat stodgy breed
of British officers of the Indian
army to whom regularity seemed
far more important than results.
Later these same Indian army
officers, and others who came
from other fronts to join them,
commended the American soldiers’
‘know how,” and their daring in
trying and operating new meth-
ods. Americans here developed
and perfected the technique of
dropping supplies from planes to
troops operating without other
supply lines, it made victory iq
Burma possible.
Yet it must he remembered that
it was British and Indian force
which heat the Japs in Burma al-
though Americans helped. Of the
million men it took to drive the
Japanese from Burma. 700,000
were Indians. Nearly all the rest
wore British.
But not all the fighting was ut
the front. Although American
troops kept strictly out of the
squabble, (he British and Congress
Indian followers of Gandhi en-
gaged in a tug-of-war for position
that began with the commence-
ment of the war in Europe and
continued to the present hour.
A famine in Bengal took at
least a million and a half lives and
perhaps twice that number. This
war has not presented more har-
rowing scenes. Within sight of
tables loaded with European food,
Indiana crumpled up on the side-
walks of Calcutta and died of
starvation. Greedy Indian hoard-
ers pushed up the price of rice
out of reach of their starving
fellow country-men. And the gov-
ernment was at such a stage of
breakdown that none dared raise
a hand against them. To this day
not one major hoarder has been
punished although names of hun-
dreds are common knowledge.
Jails still hold thousand of In-
dian political prisoners although
in recent months many have been
released and further efforts have
been made to bring about a settle-
ment of the "Indian problem.”
The tasks ahead in Asia still are
staggering after years of war and
flight, hunger and cold and flight
again.
* * *
A native of Farmington, Utah,
Preston Grover went to work for
the AP in Salt Lake City . . .
transferred to Washington . . .
went overseas in 1640 . . . saw
the war from inside Germany . . .
with the British fleet In the Medi-
terranean ... on land with Brit-
ish forces in Africa . . . became
chief of AP’s India staff in 1042
. . . still there.
TUESDAY. MARCH 26, IS
Merchandise
By GEORGE S BENSON
ft.rid.nt of Hording CoUega
Searcy. Arkan*o*
rich in China was in the enemy’s
hands. And westward struggled
millions of frightened Chinese who
furthest away in geographic miles,
it was farthest away from* the
feeding trough from which came
had left their homes in the cities munitions, planes, gasoline and
and. villages, Of these, an esti-
mated twelve 'million died al-
though no one will ever know how
many. The last despairing episode
of this hitter story was enacted
in a kind of reckless last, plunge
tore out of the hands of Chinese
and Americans the best remaining
airfields they had in central China,
And the droves of frightened
Chinese who had already fled
2,000 hungry milts, picked up
their meager belongings to flee
again.
I saw mem tn thousands, string-
ing along the roads, some with
bundles and some with carts. With
them were children who had been
born on the refugee road. Other
fighting men
The first, American fighting
force to land in India had been
driven successively out. of the
Philippines and Java. It consisted
of a force of nine tired old flying
fortresses as fit to fight as a
Model-T Ford. Never was impos-
sible to get more than six yj the
nine planes into the air hP one
time, ns parts from the three on
the ground had to be shifted into
the six that flew. Discipline was
self-made. Daring und improvisa-
tion ulone could keep the planes
going.
Americans brought an entirely
new spirit of dnsh and daring into
the India theatre which tradition-
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Knock off... Have a Coca-Cola
[|W»W< *
•.. making funtime out of worktime
The whole family turn to with a will to get the yard in shape. “Many hands make
■ light wok.” Especially when sometime during the job, each hanJ gets hold of a frosty
bottle of Coca-Cola, right from the family refrigerator. Coca-Cola adds fun to what-
ever you're doing. It brings on the friendly pause that refre*ha—a moment to relax
rnd enjoy yourself—and each other.
•omto UMDtft authokty or thi coca coia company »y
SULPHUR SPRINGS COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY (Inc.)
i sbbwvUtian
Coks" art the registered trade-
I marks which thatmguiih the prod
Pact 'of Th* Coca-Cola Company.
—O l«<4 n» c c Co.,
BUSINESS CARDS
We’re On the Move l
Be*hears Transfer
Day Phones 137 and 236
Night Phone ua
LIGHT FIXTURES
Fans — Supplies
Wiring And Repairing
Milligan Electric
Main Street Phone 5
Lambert - Scott
RADIATOR SHOP
Cleaning, Recoring, Rebuilding.
Y«ari of Experience on Radiator*
Only. Prompt, Courteou* and
Efficient Service to All.
Ph. 350 Sulphur Spring*, Te*.
Buckner Basket
To Go Thursday
Since it is impossible for a lim-
ited number of workers to per-
sonally visit every Baptist home
in town, we are appealing through
our home paper for each of you
to assist in the love offering of
eggs, good used clothing and new
garments to our Buckner Orph-
ans’ Home Thursday of this week
(day after tomorrow.)
The need is especially great at
this time, because just as soon as
a building can be provided, one
hundred more children will be
given a home therq, and it is to
WHEN just about everybody has
spending money in their pockets
because they can’t find enough of
the things they want to buy. that
is where inflation begins. The
results are quite natural. Auto-
matically people start bidding
against each other for such items
as they do find, and prices ad-
vance far beyond real values.
Then, no matter what we buy, we
are squandering money.
In order to cure inflatiim we
need more things to buy That s
all It takes. If I need a hat and
can find only one that fits my head
and suits my taste, the dealer can
(urttess restrained by law) rharce
me whatever he wishes I may
rebel at the price but somebody
else will pay it and the merchant
will not need to worry, about me.
What will set the matter
straight? Move hats’
Flexing WHEN suitable hats
•’rices are offered by every
haberdasher in town,
some competitor is certain to
lower his prices to increase sales
Another will try to outdo him,
and this competition continues'
until falling prices get too near
cost to go lower It is that simple.
Goods are the scare-crows that
frighten away inflation Whatever
interferes with the production of
merchandise only makes inflation
worse.
Inflation is like hunger It is
a want that has the full force of
a need. Hunger includes a crav-
ing that throws a person’s sense
of values completely out of plumb.
Food is the only satisfactory
answer to the hunger Question
and, just so, goods **
sound solution to
are trick ways to hold pncM
down, when goods have to «*
scarce, but they are only tem-
porary help. ,
Healthy ONCE in a while wm«-
Demand body has a strange
ailment that makes eat
in* impossible, or very danger-
f’hysicians
Nj^sv
l-stEint.
, Mfm
i Aarva
!tOri€S|
*
3-i=nft!V*
adjust the malady. Sol
they use drugs to make
tient sleep and forget I
sometimes they now
liquids into the blood-sU
it's no diet. Nobody r
it; it only makeup
slower.
During the war, pe°P}*
America were rightly denied
goods. There were not enough
workmen, not enough factories,
not enough materials to auj
the nation's defenders, ear,
and their allies. Consumer f . y
were scarce and a lot of people
had extra money. All prices
would have skyrocketed but gov-
ernment restrained it by law. u
was an emergency — drastic rem-
edy. no complaint.
Price controls did not contri-
bute anything permanent to this
country’s economic strength, how-
ever They simply eased the
shock for civilians who had to
undergo'economic surgery or per-
ish of dictatorship. Now the or-
deal is over and the patient is
wholesomely hungry for merchan-
dise Every regulation that re-
tards production now should ut
removed or relaxed in the public
interest. , ______
make an even larger donation this
year than in the past.
If any local merchant has cloth- ; ^
ing he would donate to this wor- j
to the Home. If you cannot bring
or send what you will give, some-
one will call fqr your gift if you
will let us know.
Mrs. J. H. Graver will have
thy cause, we will be glad to pick (.tiar(,e 0f the WOrk at the church
them up. The greatest shortage | Thursday afternoon; Mrs. Bob
in clothing is for boys of D-l-Mcrump will have charge of tho
years. Those who have offer- j ,|onat{„ns from the rural church-
ings of this, or any kirnL are ask- j ev These supervisors, with their
helpers, will be at the First Bap-
ed to call the church office, 7lfi.
Surely everyone can give one,
or more, dozen eggs to these chil-
dren, many of them poor, under-
help supply these additional needs : privileged, neglected and often dt -;
that we are nuking that everyone 1 verted before they were brought
tint Educational Bpilding Thurs-
day. — Mrs. Nellie Crosby, Dis-
trict Benevolence, Chairman.^.
Tty a want ait lor result*.
SJor downright comfort, S wouldn t swap ^
(j
JOHNSON TIRE
SERVICE
Full Recapping and Vulcanising
Tractor Tire* Repaired.
801 Jefferton Street
(Mt. Pleasant Highway)
"REFRIGERATION
SERVICE
All Type* Repaired, Serviced.
Stephen F. Harriss
414 Mile* South of Town, 300 yda.
East off Highway 154.
Davis Radio Shop
AH Kind* Radio Repairing,
Tube*, Aerials, Radio*.
24 HOUR SERVICE
414 Main Street
Furniture Repaired
REF1NISHKD
if It'. Made of Wood,
We Can Fix It.
F. X. SCHOLZ
104 Jefferson St. Phone 813
J. HARLAN WEST
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Your Building Need* Our
Specialty
WF GIVE FREE ESTIMATES
Phone 826 Sulphur Spring*
PORTRAITS
Commercial Photography
Photostat.—Roil Film Finishing
A. W. LINDLEY
STUDIO
104!» College Si. Ph. 1002
Wheel Alinement
BRAKE SERVICE
Axles Straightened
M YRE
SAFETY STATION
104 Jeffar*on St. Phona 813
mu cottage for the finest mansion unless
J) could fa he mu closet furnace wit It me
dJlis, ifou hnoiVj is the vented gas
appliance that provides luxurious
automatic central heat. St was
installed when-house was hnilt
Inanced as part of total (
am
I
house
cost.
Furniture Upholstering
A nice selection of material
on hand. Big values in
Furniture for sale.
Camp Furniture Shop
StO Main St. Phone 1044
financed as p
dJhcrefore, central heat, considering its
little, if anu,
ft / S
/ \o wonder 0L0
Is closet
advantages, costs mi
than ordinaru heat.
o s?
more
.one
Star Cas Cl
/
urnace
it is
xjdS K^ompang recommcnc
for heating cottages. Cdf
vented to a flue.
course,
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