The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 228, Ed. 1 Monday, September 25, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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AS THE ECHO MAN SEES THE
NEUTRALITY ACT.
The Echo man can’t say and won't
say for certain how he stands on
the neutrality act now before Con-
gress. In keeping with the custom oi
all elderly people, ho is in favor of
thinking twice before acting once,
and is therefore against being in a
hurry to repeal the neutrality act,
if and unless most stringent laws
are passbd to make the United
States neutral in fact as well as in
name. As the Echo man understands
the United States refused to follow
,thc advice of the late President
Woodrow Wilson in becoming a par-
ty to the Versailles pact, all because
the United States had no desire to
be a judge as to the righteousness
of any misunderstanding that arises
Biitain’s navy blockades (lermany
in the North Sea, he said.
Germany alone, he said, could vir-
tualy paralyse United States ship-
ping if America entered the War.
He said President Roosevelt's dis-
closure that submarines were sight-
ed off the New England and Alas-
kan .coasts indicated that Germany
was prepared for any contingency.
"Germany could if it had them
send 100 submarines of a certain
type to the American coast ami keep
them there indefinitely far from a
fuel base. No surface mother ship
would be required. Lithe said.
"Twenty-five years ago ! urged
upon the United States a huge su-
nercargo submarine. Political bick-
ering thrust my scheme aside. In-
stead we adopted the absurd mot-
to, ‘We'll build ships faster than the
Germans can sink them.’ We could
not and wc did not. Now, 1 believe
Germany has constructed cargo sub-
marines, capable of cruising for
month- or remaining stationary to
feed smaller fighting subs.”
He said i! was possible that. Ger-
many had such a submarine feeding
small undersea craft in American
i waters.
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HOW POLAND . ~
WILL AID GERMANY
AND RUSSIA
Germany’s successful war against
Poland gives her the prestige that
comes from quick victory and the re-
gaining of lost territory. That’s im-
portant to German morale.
More important in the long run
many be Poland's raw materials and
industries, shown on the map. for
these strengthen her staying power
for war in the west.
Before the war in the cast was
two weeks old—
German army engineers were re-
ported introducing high-pressure
production methods in Polish oil
fields.
Field Marshal Goering was boast-
fanti home have been placed an ox
yoke and an airplane propeller.
A favorite story: Hearing a noise
in the hen-house one night, a farmer
grabbed his shotgun and yelled,
"Who’s there?” From the lien-house
came a voice, "Nobody but us
chickens, boss.”
dined they have lately added work | cning lines of the railways inf
shoes and are keeping tho great far ! countries expanding horizons |
in
How’s this for a thrilling moment-
real life
MATTRESS MAKING
DEMONSTRATION
SET FOR OCTOBER 2
The Sulphur Springs' 4-11 girls will
from time to time In the Old World. 50-pound tuftless
It la a question whether President,
Wilson was right, or, the United
States Senate was right in blocking
Wilson’s effort to sign the Vcrsail-j
lies treaty. The Echo man regard, j
Woodrow Wilson as one of the;
greatest American citizens of all,
times and the only thing that mars i
his greatness was his questionable I
efforts about the Versailles treaty.
Not only did the United Stales
mattress Monday evening on lawn
of Mrs. H. E. Minter to be used on
the bed of the 4-II bedroom demon-
strator.
All girls are urged to be present,
and bring sewing boxes, whisk
brooms and broom-stick handles.—
Jewell McBroom, Negro Home Dem-
on tration Agent.
. i
fuse to enter the Versailles treaty
but Congress passed the present
neutrality act which prohibits the
United States from selling arms and
ammunition to nation,* engaged in
war. At present only Great Britain,
Fiance and Germany can’t buy from
the United States. If and when the
embargo act is repealed, Great Bri-
tain, France and Germany can buy
irtlm the United1 States on a cash
and carry system. Great Britain and
France will send their ships after the
gtods. The German U-boats will
wait beyond the three-mile limit of
the United States and blow up the
ships as they start home. In addition
some United States citizen will be-
gin to talk about hi* rights to sell on
a credit, If he so desires, and his
rights to delivbr what he sells at his
own risk. As that fellow gets beyond
the three-mile limit a German vessel
will hold him up for a search. Tht
ship will later be sunk and other
United States ships will be sunk, and
the Wat will .be on. ____________________
A TRIBUTE TO MRS
NANNIE MILLER
A friend stopped iu a tavern or.
I a highway near a large city for a
; bottle of beer. He was the only cus-
i tomer in the place. A car halted and
i three rough-looking men cam ' up
| on the porch and, as they stood in
the doorway, one of them asked in a
mg that Polish munitions factories
were turning out bombs for Ger-
man planes.
Besides oil, Poland has good de-
posits of coal (last year’s anthracite ....
production, 45,000,000 tons), non] _ _i
(annual steel production, 2,000,0001 F81***
tons), zinc and lead.
Sixty per cent of Poland’s people
are fanners.- The country has been
low tone, "Is that him ” One <>.' the
others said, “No," and they drove
away.
Tile thought of a narrow escape
in a
war practically deprived him
of bis thirst!
There was a Texas newspaperman-
who submitted an article in a nation-
al contest. The entry didn’t even
win honorable mention; it came
back with a printed rejection slip.
He tore the manuscript up and two
j ears went by. He decided lie would
try to toll the story again. Using the
same material but putting it togeth-
er in more polished fashion because
of the previous ‘practice round” he
sent it to the biggest, best-paying
magazine in the United States, and
the editor bought it.
There is no such tiling as failure
—at least, there needn't be. Today’s
defeat can be made the foundation
for tomorrow's success.
tory busy, and still growing. They
now tab their own leather from
hides shipped from Texas, suggest-
ing why don't wo have more tanner-
ies in Texas?
We saw a few newly built, mod-
ern and model industrial cities,
where residential, commercial and
industrial ideas were attractively
featured. And owning to improved
roads, and transportation facilities,
we noted every where a disposition
to decentralize cities, residents mov-
ing out to where they can have move
grounds, gardens and orchards, and
prepare for healthier, happier living
and the changing conditions give
more employment to labor.
1 believe the often heard cry is
an error that “labor saving machin-
ery is the cause of so much unem-
ployment." I don’t think it is true.
When you remember that millions
of men arc required to build the la-
bor saving machinery, and the auio-
cry field of activity observatic
scientific and industrial
We are a great country, and
people if we will not rust
oars but continue to press on
expanding opportunities.
In both the great world fail
in all the great business coneej
found a spirit of optimism till
make great progress if the
ing wars in both Asia and
can be speedily settled. Every
leading men stressed their ideij
visions of the ‘world of tomo
and its vast opportunities.
mobiles, and the good roads
But her# i# what the Inventor of
the submarine says in a United
Press report about Germany’s power
with the U-boat:
Milford, Conn.—Simon Lake, in-
ventor of the modern type of sub-
marine, said Saturday night that
Germany’s undersea strength could
destroy all allied shipping in a long
war.
Lake, now 73, said the allies have no
adequate defense against German
submarines on the open sea. He said
Germany has the world's greatest
undersea fleet and that fact was the
reason for Prime Minister Chamber-
lain’s long efforts to avoid war with
Germany.
“Britain knew what the subma-
rine would do to its shipping," he
said, “but did nothing about it,"
Germany, if aided by either Rus-
sia or Italy in a shoit war, could
starve Gwiit Britain by bottling it
With submarines as effectively as
In the midnight hours of July 3,
1939, the death angel called at the
Long-Longino hospital, crept silent-
ly into one of the chambers and
took twey one of our best friends,
Mrs. Nannie Miller.
It’s strange how we grieve her go-
ing when we know her life so well
She was always so humble to God’s
will. We've seen her give- up her lov-
ed one3 and bear her cross patient-
ly) for she always said, "some time
and some where I’ll meet you again.”
She had been an ardent church
and Sunday school worker for many
years. She loved to do good for any
and all whom she could reach. Wc
have been wtih her when she shod
rays of sunshine across our path and
made us happy.
She loved her work at home, and
if her task-seemed hard she just
sang and prayed and that lightened
her burden. A purer type of wom-
anhood never lived and wc sincerely
regret that she has gone from us.
The Reily Springs community will
miss her for a long time to come. So
much gqod is done by precept am!
examples
Her husband, Mr. Lewis Miller,
has been dead twenty-five years.
She robed four sons and one
daughter to be grown. Her daugh-
ter, Lora, has been dead twenty-two
year*.
Boys, I know you loved her and
1 pray you all will remember her
teachings. She was uhvays so fond
of each and every one of you. We
shall always like to sit and think of
the pleasant hours we’ve spent to-
gether, and when we have all passed
into the great beyond, all tears will
be wiped away’and we shall know as
we are known.—Her true friends,
Mrs. John Vandorslico and Mrs.
Coleipan, Webb,
Laughing Around the ^orld
With IRVIN S. COBB
the world’s second largest
of flax, the fifth largest of oats.
From it comes about one-seventh of
the world’ rye and potatoes. It
ranks as one of Europe’s first five
exporters of timber and producers
of pigs.
Statistics like these may be vital-
ly important to blockaded Germany,
already on food rations, no matter
how the conquered territory is fi-
nally split up.
At for Rutsia.
What good Russia’s booty will be
to her is not so clear. First unof-
ficial reports said she would take Pt)j
lish White Russia and the Polish Uk-
raine. Huge Russia has little need
of that section’s products and she
hasn't been considered anxious to re-
gain war-lost territory—not how fai
west her boundary extended before
the World War.
But she’s a lot closer to her new-
found friend, Germany, which may
or may not be something to crow
about irt the long run.
Military men say the conquest of
Poland depended for success largely
on the rapid and surprising move-
ment of a main force across the
southern section, while a secondary
attack through the Corridor was
leading Poles to make their main de-
fense there.
Trained German forces in action
are supposed to have numbered six-
ty divisions (10,000 to 12,000 men
each), against forty Polish divisions.
The Germans concentrated half
their divisions for the main attack.
At each point half the attacking
force was sent into action and half
held in reserve. At intervals the re-
serve forces were shoved in so that
fresh troops were always at the
spearhead of attack, except for the
leading mechanized divisions, which
merely received replacements.
The attackers, followed river val-
levr. railroads and highways. Tho
main force outflanked the Poles and
got on the eastern bank of all the
important rivers. So the Poles, who
had hoped to establish defense lines
back of those rivers, were lost.
Even wlu-n men’s hearts are hen-
nroducet ! v>'> they must huvi’ theil' j*#t—and
* I iL..i ________ .
11 Years Ago
so the jokes that were told during
the first World War are again beinl
heard. Thus does the wheel of tatc
spin about.
One of the classics was the tale
of the negro soldier who crept out
into No-Man’s-Land with a keen-
edge razor as his only weapon. En-
countering an enemy, the darkey
swung at him with the razor. The
other smiled and said. “Missed me,"
to which the negro replied. “You
just think I did; wait till you turns
your head.”
W. C. HARGROVE
TELLS OF RECENT
TRIP TO NORTHWEST
Thun there was tho Mississippi
merchant who told a group of ne-
groes that Uncle Sam was going to
put 200,000 colored soldiers in the
front line trenches and 100,000
white soldiers in the second line
trenches. One of the colored. listen-
ers spoke up, "Yes, sah, and 100,000
white soldiers is gwine
pled to death.”
And do you recall the negro who
defined “TNT” the high explosive)
as standing for “Travel, niggah,
travel"" *
Then there was an American sol-
dier in Paris who wanted to buy a
bottle of eau d« cologne but codldn’t
think of the French name for it.
Soon after the outbreak of the
World War in 1914, a mountaineer
rode into an East Tennessee village.
The storekeeper told him the news:
"Germany and Austria are at war
with England and France; Belgium
has been invaded; Rumania is in it;
so is Russia; it is the biggert war in
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n is tory.
Then the merchant stopped to
hear -the mountaineer’s reaction.
Feeling the eye of everyone in the
store on him, the new arrival said:
“Well, they got a purty day for it,
ain’t they?”
• j ; i ;■ ■ 4. ■
The Current Rate on Suckers
By IRVIN S. COBB
nrHfl late Tom Williams dropped into a gambling house in Reno,
* Nevada, one night, and, playing roulette, speedily dropped his
(Taken from files of Daily News-
Telegram of Men., Sept. 24, 1928.)
Ike Wynn Sues Dallas Paper
$50,090—headline.
Oil Mill Gin Burns with Heavy
Loss—headline.
L. D. France Badly Burned with
Gas Stove—headline.
Miss Elizabeth Milligan spent the
weekend with her sister, Mrs. Mil-
ten Gill, in Plano.
Ma«, Mann Wood and son, Jack,
attended the circus in Greenville
Monday,
Miss Marie Quinn, who spent the
summer in California, has accepted
a position in Denver, Colo., for the
winter. >
Bill Bro k shipped a load of cattle
to Ft. Worth Monday. Jack Bridges
also shipped, a load to Ft. Worth.
Still on the subject of war but in
more serious vein:
"It is the women who pay the
greatest price of all for war,” Stale
Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler
said the other day in a -porch m
Ran Antonio to the Democratic
Women’s Club. “It is sad enough for
map in the twinkling of an eye to
lay down his life on the battlefield
but what about the mother und the
widow of that hero? They must go
on living; they must face the dark
and troubled present anil the uncer-
tain future and they can not forget
the memories of the happy past.”
Have just returned from months
! trip to many of the Gulf and At-
lantic Co&et cities, and in May and
June a month on the Pacific Coast
Feeling that the long depression
was about over I went out to see
what might be done to induce some;
factories ulong the line of this rail-
road or new business of any helpful
kind. Mississippi hits ‘"cured several
new factories in the past year, and 1
found many factories in Atlantic
Coast states running unprofitable1 or
closed because of economic or labor
troubles.
Many eastern towns no huger
than eeveval on this line of railway
have u half dozen Or more factories
of various kinds. One Pennsylvania
town had a dozen knitting mills, al!
running but two.
The CMinu use more cotton in
to be tram- mills than they grow in the
states, having to ship In consider-
able cotton, and Of course all the
more Northern and New England
states ship in all their cotton; nnd
when I think of our better climate,
cheaper building material, and ow-
ing to climate, cheaper homes art"
satisfactory; abundance of coal, gas
and oil making cheapei fuel than
any of those states have, cheaper la-
bor, and more satisfactory living
conditions and almost no labor trou-
bles, anil an abundance of cotton at
our door, and lower freight rates to
ship our manufactured goods to the
west and south, I wonder, and am
distressed that we are so slow get-
ting cotton mills, and other kinds of
factories in.Texas. The same applies
to woolen mills and tanneries ■ for
our great crop of hide*, ns well ns
to factories using wood and iron, of
which wc have a great abundance.
I found one great factory started
by two country boy* fifty years ago,-
making hoi;se collar* for their own
farm, tr.en they began making foi
their neighbors, and the demand
came from more distant neighbors
until they made horse collars for alt
of America, but lately as fewer
horses, and collar* are used on the
farms und road hauling they added
harness, nnd as harness demand de-
hundreds of other lines of employ-
ment that was unheard of at the be-
ginning of this century, only .forty
years ago, we must look for the
I cause elsewhere, and a part of it
j will be found in the fact that lots of
folks don't want to work.
The railroads led the way in de-
velopment of America in the last
century. People could live where
they could get transportation to ship
their products to market, and but
few states have as good transporta-
tion facilities as Texas, and with all
our vast natural resources before
mentioned and cheap fuel, we realy
should be developing fa tor than we
arc.
The greatest need as 1 see it is
more factories to make finished
products of our vast raw materials
and resources. Fanning in itself is
not sufficiently profitable to support
a large city population besides the
fai ms.
History shows that development
and progress of all countries runs
parallel to their transportation fa-
cilities, the ability to make wide und
lapid exchange of goods and raw
materials to ever widening markets
has accelerated demand, increased
culture and education and -rapidly
improved the; standard- of living and
advanced the progress of civilization.
New commodities, new enterprises
and new oportunitics have always
nnd everywhere followed the leifrtb-
people may prefer to
never a pessimist but admit th
times in past few years my -sta
optimism has run a little low,,
caught the inspiration of th
pressivmen that I met ai
strong new in the belief thi
World is not finished and will
und on to greater things.
The wars will likely cause )|
attendance at the world fa
spending money, uncertain
what may happen. But it wil
anyone to go and catch the in
tion, and learn of better ways t
ing anything.—W. C. Hargrov
dust rial Com., L&A Ry.
, JEANETTE’S glorious voice
thrilling with love . . . finds
to Clark’s heart. Together f-
first time, in a mighty ror
ablaze with colorful spectacle,)
ody and mirth. Thrill again to f:
Francisco" at the Mission
and Tuesday.
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Professional Cards
J. K. BRIM
Attorney-At-Law
Sulphur Springs State Bank Building
Over Texas:
A sign on a Dallas residence
reads, “Spiritual adviser and ten-
lea vc-’ reader."
Like a scene from “The Wizard
of Oz” is the peanut More in Fort
Worth, the walls entirely hidden hy
strings of thousands of peanuts in
shells.
A -study In contrasts is presumed
on the Ci eo-Rising Star highway.
Aboyu the doorway of .a modern
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had made up his mind that the
game was
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roll, but not before he
CK>0OA'Ti1* way down stair* in deej) disgust he met the proprietor,
IjW*^‘Wh*r,kiniJ of a dump is this you're running?" demanded Wil-
ms ‘Tvc Ju.-t been skinned out of four hundred dollars."
iSbt vow in here?” said Brown.
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'that's t! , cose,” said Brown, *T owe you eighty dollar*.
’ow oome?"
fJj you im. I P$y twenty per cent apiece for all locker? that
•rw eteered in. You appear to have (leered younelf in. Here’* your
eighty."
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