The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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FRIDAY JULY 25, 1941
McGregor mirror*
McGREGOR. TEXAS
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ANNOUNCING
the opening of law offices in
McGREGOR
First National Bank Building
WATSON CAUF1ELD ARNOLD
Attomey-at- Law'
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STATE HEALTH OFFICER
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
PAGE THREW
UJniHinGiDn
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Dear Friends:
The House continues to work
on defense items almost exclusive-
ly. Yesterday we passed a bill
authorizing approximatly half a
billion dollars for the use of the
Navy in the repair of ships, the
enlargement of docks and yards,
and the erection of one explosive
plants. An interesting item in this
bill was a provision for seventy
million dollars for the erection of
a plant to produce a new type of
explosive. The nature of this ex-
plosive has been made public, but
July 18, 1941 In this way we can increase the
efficiency of each soldier many
times over. In this way, and only
in this way, we can make one or
two million well trained men
more effective than an old fash-
ioned army of eight or ten mil-
lion.
I realized that to establish such
requires just as many men as the
old type did, because it takes so
many industrial workers to sup-
ply and maintain a mechanized
army. To my way of thinking it
is better in every way to use the
great masses of our men in in-
it is said to be different from any clustry rather than in ranks. In so
explosive now produced. This is ’ doing it seems to me that we
one of the relatively few new in-! c°mld use many of the millions
ventions that seems to be in line wbo are being rejected for mili-
tary service on physical grounds.
for use in a big way.
Many thousands of inventions
are being submitted to the War
and Navy Departments and to
members of Congress, and to the
White House. There are so many
from all parts of the country that
it has been necessary for the War
Department to establish a Bureau
of Inventions to which they can
all be submitted for investigation
and consideration by men who
are at least supposed to know
something of their feasibility. Of
However, such a policy to be
successful would require a better
response on the part of industri-
al workers than we have hereto-
fore had. It would likewise re-
quire a more general recognition
of their responsibility for the de-
fense of their country. The atti-
tude of those who say that
American soldiers can whip the
world with rifles and bayonets
reminds me of the statement of
the famous Bob Toombs of Geor-
course, I am not an expert in this gia who said at the beginning of
kind of thing, but many novel ’the Civil War,-“We can whip the
plans have been presented that!Yankees with cornstalks before
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looked good to me, but which
were turned down as impractic-
able, or rejected as being already
available when presented to the
board of experts.
While this is the only way to
handle the volume of plans that
come in, I cannot but fear that
our military and naval men are
prone to be too conservative and
too slow to Ichange their esta-
breakfast.” The trouble was that
the Yankees wouldn’t fight with
cornstalks, and the trouble now
is that the dictators won’t fight
simply with rifles and bayonets.
We have expected the tax bill
each week since about the middle
of May but the Ways and Means
Committee continues to revise it.
It now seems quite certain that
it will not reach the House before
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Wished ways and methods. There-. the first of August. It is thought
fore, the plans to produce a new that if it ever gets on the Floor
•ippe of explosive are very encour-1 it will be quickly passed as the
aging to me. One illustration of (rules of the House will not per-
the reluctance of the Army to mit long debate, but when it goes
change its traditions is seen in to the Senate it will probably in-
the fact that our army still de-jvolve several weeks of debate.
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Austin. — “The implication of
the word “rest” in “restore” is
c r great importance to Texans in
our present defense program,”
declares Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer. Hot summer
weather added to extra-heavy
production schedules and strenu-
ous places a debilitation load on
our population.
At this time adequate rest is of
greater importance to all of us
than in previous years. Rest is
the opportunity the body takes
to rebuild and repair the tissues
impaired in their efficiency by
fatigue. In other words, the sum
total of our individual physical
fitness is measured by the resilen-
cy of our faculties to return to
normal after a depleting days’
work.
The means by which we reknit
the ravages of fatigue through
rest are several. Complete rest is
most easily obtainable by sleep—
at least eight or more hours night-
ly, according to individual needs.
Physical relaxation (rest) is of
value to us also. The change from
every day labor and Worry
through participation in sports,
games, hobbies, and the like is a
recognized principle of good men-
tal hygiene. All of us should get
in some sort of physical exercise
daily—a brisk walk, if we lack
the opportunity for more active
sports.
Medical and public health au-
thorities also recognize the need
for mental relaxation, apart from
physical sports or games which
keep the mind keyed to a high
pitch. Even when a person’s phy-
sical apparatus is completely re-
laxed (resting) the mind may
still be plagued with problems
and be un-relaxed.
So mental relaxation, valuable
as it is, is more evasive than phy-
sical relaxation. The simplest
form of mental relaxation is
wakeful rest” where by the in-
dividual gets his mind complete-
ly away from himself and lets his
mind “idle” by following some-
thing not of his personal creation
or thought. It is thus possible to
rest mentally and physically if
Die mind is entertained rather
than exercied. Numerous diver-
sions are available to us which
offer inexpensive opportunites
for “wakeful rest”.
If we give thought to budget-
ing time each day so that our
work quota is supplemented by
physical and ^mental relaxation
and adequate sleep, we will keep
our health at par and increase
our daily efficiency now when it
is needed most for all-out defense
effort.
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FORWARD
MARCH
By H. S. Sims, Jr.
That a Japanese step of expan-
sion is close at hand appears im-
minent. For weeks newspapers
articles have been preparing US
citizens for the conquest of Thail-
and or French Indo-China.
The Russo-German war is, how-
ever, holding the Japs in check.
Resuming their vulture policy of
World War I of picking clean the
bones of crushed countries, they
are waiting to see if the Russians
will be decisively beaten, making
possible a triumphant Jap entry
into the Vladivostok area, which
incidejntaly, lies between Japan
and the Jap puppet-state Manchu-
kuc.
If the Russians are beaten or if
they are forced to draw their Far
Eeasterin soldiers into the Ger-
man battle, the Jap army will
grab the Russian base at Vladi-
vostok as an appetizer in the
Hitler-killed Russian bear.
It is important to the people of
the US that Vladivostok be kept
out of Jap hands, because in this
area there are many Russian air
bases and they are the closest hos-
tile air bases to Tokyo. These air
bases tend to slow down Japan-
ese aggression.
An American Expeditionary
Force to Vladivostok is the logi-
cal next step for President Roose-
velt in his successful foreign poli-
cy of “beating the Axis to the
punch.” Of course, such a land-
ing would be made in collabora-
tion with the Russian Govern-
ment. The US forces would grad-
ually replace the Russian army
manning the Vladivostok der
fenses, making possible their use
against Herr Hitler.
Japan will not invade Vladi-
vostok if the Russian forces are
strengthened by US soldiers and
a US air base. The Japs are a-
fraid of US airplanes. There air
force is small and their planes
I very inferior to US makes. It is
j also true that Tokyo and other
I large Jap cities are very vulner-
able to air raids.
By sending troops to Vladivos-
tok, then, US authorities will be
able to check Japanese expansion
and, at the same time, strengthen
the Soviet’s position against Ger-
many.
This American expedition is
needed immediately in view of
the recent resignation if the en-
tire Japanese ministry. This dis-
solution is probably a result of
Army pressure for expansion
against Russia, French Indo-
China, or Thailand.
A few weeks ago the occupa-
tion of Vladivostok would have
been out of the question. How-
ever, after the Iceland disem-
barkation to send troops to Vla-
divostok would be in keeping
with US foreign policy. The pre-
sent foreign policy does not re-
cognize the artificial boundaries
of the Western Hemisphere, but
bends to include all action that
will impede the Hitler drive for
world domination.
This new foreign policy adds
to the Army’s already-large task.
In fact, the US Army is spread
from the Philippines and China
on the West to Iceland on the
East, and from Alaska and Green-
land on the North to British Gui-
ana on the South.
Not including the soldiers sent
to Iceland, there are about 120
000 US soldiers stationed outside
the continental United States. To
Iceland the US will probably
send, in tlie near future, at least
50,000 soldiers. There are also ru-
mors that the US will build bases
in Ireland and Scotland. The
President himself has mentioned
the Azores and Cape Verde Is-
lands (off west coast of Africa)
as possible US outposts.
The gigantic task of our far-
flung Army prompted Gen. Geo.
Marshall to sponsor two bills in
Congress: (1) to lengthen the
term of selectees, and (2) to give
the Army the power to send se-
lectees and members of the na-
tional guard outside the western
Hemisphere.
The latter has been shelved for
the present in order that atten-
tion may be focused on lengthen-
ing the term of our one-year boys,
some of whom will be free in
about six weeks unless action is
taken. There is little doubt that
the terms of enlistment will be
lengthened inasmuch as two-
thirds of the US Army is made
up of one-year soldiers.
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See the Studio window for a
special offer. Our Town Studio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Hackney
had as guests during the rodeo,
Mr. and Mrs. Hulon Aars and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Oswald of Clifton,
Mrs. Grace Melton and daughter,
Wynona and son, Wayne and
Dennis Witte, all of Corsicana.
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yaub UcUn cU Uosne!
Then you’d be surprised to
find out how much soap and
dust is still left in! Only pro-
fessional services can do a
thorough job. Discover it this
week!
Vanity fair SB?
Miss Willie Darsey
McGregor Phone 124
ELECTRIC
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Mrs. Alta Cavitt received a
message Monday telling of the
birth of a grandson, James Don-
ald Mayo, who arrived that day
in a Beeville Hospital. His par-
ents, are (Mr. and Mrs. James
Walter Mayo of Taft, and great
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs
D. A. Grady of McGregor.
votes relatively more attention to
training masses of men than to
the complete mechanization of
many divisions of troops. I rea-
lize that we must have trained
men, and lots of them. I realize
that we have not as yet trained
enough men. I realize that we
must in times like these keep a
vast army of trained men ready
for action at a moments notice,
but I am also convinced that our
men have more tanks, more ar-
tillery, more trucks, more armour-
ed cars, more anti aircraft guns,
and of course more airplanes. We
should have not two, ten or even
twenty armoured and mechaniz-
ed divisions—w6 should have the
great bulk of our army equipped
with all of the latest machinery.
With best wishes, I am
Yours very sincerely,
W. R. Poage, Congressman,
11th Texas District
Mrs. Howard Daniel and
daughter of Cameron visited in
McGregor last week-end with Mr.
Daniel, who is employed as sup-
erintendent for section work on
the Santa Fe railroad. While here
they attended the rodeo celebra-
tion.
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Mr. and Mrs. Troy Herring of
Dallas spent Sunday in McGre-
gor with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Rex Herring. Their little
son, Michael returned to Dallas
with them after several week’s
visit here with his grandparents.
CITATION
To the Sheriff or Any Constable of
McLennan County—Greetings:
You are hereby commanded that you
summon S. B. Aikin, Jr. by making
publication of this citation one a week
for four consecutive weeks, immediate-
ly preceding said day of suit, in the
McGregor Mirror, a newspaper publish-
ed in McLennan County, Texas.
Defendent in suit No. 2966, wherein
W. F. & J. F. Barnes Lumber Co., Inc.
a corporation, with its principal offic-
es are in Waco, McLennan County
Texas, is plaintiff, and S. B. Akin, Jr.
is defendant, to be and appear before
the undersigned Justice of the Peace
in and for Precinct No. 5 at a regular
term of said Justice of the Peace
Court, to be held at McGregor, in Mc-
Lennan County, on the 6th day of
Sept., A. D. 1941, at 10 o’clock A. M.
to answer the complaint of said
plaintiff.
Plaintiff alleges that defendant owes
plaintiff the sum of one hundred and
sixty-one and twenty cents (161.20)
dollars, as shown by an itemized ac-
count filed herein, to which reference
is hereby made for further particulars
pertaining to this suit. Plaintiff fur-
ther alleges that defendant, though
often requested, has failed and refused
to pay the same, or any part thereof.
Herein fail not, but have you then
and there this writ, with your endorse-
ment thereon, showing how you have
executed the same.
Given under my official hand this
2nd. day of July, A. D. 1941.
W. A. McWilliams,
J. P. Precinct No. 5,
McLennan County, Texas. 18
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