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THE COOPER REVIEW
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
COOPER REVIEW
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WHAT ARE THE FACTS
Many thoughtful but puzzled America.
are wondering what the exact truth is about
the war situation in Europe which has stir-
red our government to such feverish activity
in the cause of national defense. Does offi-
cial Washington believe that Hitler is going
to conquer England ? Does the Administra-
tion fear that the next objective of the Nazis
will be either North or South America? If |
such beliefs and fears are held by the men
«8ponsible for the operation of our govern-
ment, there must be some sound and serious
4ba8is for them. What is it?
We cannot believe that anybody is trying
to “throw a scare” into the people of the
United States, for political or other ignoble
reasons. We cannot imagine anyone in posi-
tion of high authority and power stooping to
euch baseness as that suggestion would
Imply.
We must believe, then that there is no one
in official life with the moral courage to tell
vs, the people of the United States, the un-
-vamished truth. All the actions of the Ad-
ministration in this matter of defense pre-
parations are such as to indicate the belief
that we are in imminent danger from a for-
eign foe. As we read the reports and com-
ments of competent reporters and authori-
ties on such matters, the danger to the Unit-
ed States hinges ufcxm the fate of Great
Britain and upon nothing else.
If Britain is defeated and the British Navy
falls into Hitler’s hands, then, it is obvious,
we will have good grounds for alarm. Wash-
ington officialdom is acting as if it expected
precisely that. Ambassador William Bullit
says this in effect.
General Pershing put his finger on the
spot when he proposed in a radio broadcast
that wp should make some deal to supply
Britain with 50 or more of our antiquated
but still useful destroyers, of which we have
250 or more available. All of the reports we
have seen indicate that destroyers would be
of more service to Britain .n this crisis than
more planes. The General does not talk
through his hat, but he has no official stand,
ing to give weight to his words.
If Britain can hold off Germany by the
aid of such destroyers as we can sell, lend or
give to her, then our peril would be greatly
lessened. If Geinlany wins in spite of such
help, we are no worse off. It seems like com-
mon sense to take General Pershing’s advice.
If there is a good reason for not doing so,
won’t somebody who knows the “inside”
facts in Washington come out boldly and tell
us the truth ?
ctSESSSE
The Country Doctor
A physician can often parry the
scythe of death and even slow the
I flow of the sand in the hourglass
" >f life. To be a good surgeon one
reeds a hawk’s eye; a lion’s heart
and the delicate hand of a lady.
When life hangs in the balance
the doctor becomes a hero and
when he saves one from going
over the brink into eternity he is
a demigod. The country doctor
usually has more brains at his
Cuilllluili J to do Wonderful wotk
than any fifty of the greatest in-
dustrialists of the worlds— and he
makes less fuss about it"and gets
less publicity.
The country practitioner is a
surgeon, a physician, a specialist,
a pharmacist and a friend and ad-
visor to his clientele. Many of
them are forced to maintain small
drug stores in their offices where
they may compound prescriptions.
Dr. Edmund Russell lived and
practiced medicine in Lewistone,
Maine, for fifty years and in 1882
did the first appendicitis opera-
tion in that state, the patient be-
ing a wealthy sportsman who had
gone to the Rangley Lakes to
shoot moose. In the early winter
Dr. Russell was called to the home
cf a guide in Rangley, distance of
75 miles and told to come immed-
iately as a man was there very ill.
The weather was below zero,
the ground covered with snow so
deeply that even the fence post
tops could not be seen. Hitching
his two horses tandem to his sleigh
he drove with his son, also a doc-
tor, and arrived at the patient’s
bedside in 24 hours. The patient
was placed on the kitchen table
and immediately operated upon, a
badly diseased appendix being re-
moved.
Leaving his son to attend the
sufferer, the elder physician start-
ed for home immediately because
he was expecting the arrival of
several new citizens that week.
He recalls reach;ng Farmington,
Maine, where he had changed
horses previously and left his own
mares to rest. Bundled in furs he
went to sleep knowing that his
own fresh horses w'ould bring him
home.
His wife heard the sleigh ap-
proach and when it stopped at the
barn, found the doctor almost
'fiozen and unconscious. Taking
her husband into the house, whore
he wras revived, she opened the
barn, admitted the horses and fed
them after giving them a good
rub down. Next morning, Kit, th°
lead horse was found dead in her
stall. The exertion had been too
much for her. The doctor however,
went about town attending his
patients the next day.
A month later, a city man walk-
ed into the physician’s office and
asked for his bill saying: “I am
the man whose appendix you re-
moved at Rangley. “What do I
owe you?”
“That is up to you,” answered
the doctor, whereupon the man
handed the medical praeticione:-
$500.00 and departed, profuse in
his thanks.
That was the only fee of more
than $100.00 I ever received in
my fifty years at medicine,” com-
mented the elderly doctor “for
most of my patients paid me in
cord wood, hogs, beef, calves,
vegetables, chickens and eggs.
But,” he concluded with a smile,
if 1 had my life to live over
again I’d1 be a doctor.”
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TODAY AND
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By Frank Parker Stockbridga
LIFE
neighbors
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I was born seventy years ago in a small town
parsonage. Until I was ten we lived in country vil-
lages where my father preached and taught. Then
we moved to Washington, where T got most of my
schooling and my first experience of city life. in
j fifty years of journalism I have lived and worked
in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo, Cincin-
nati, Jacksonville and smaller cities. I made many
| acquaintances and a few friends in most of them,
I but in all the cities 1 missed something I had known
in my childhood.
People lived together in crowds, but they were
not neighbors. Neighbors, I mean, in the sense of
feeling a mutual interest in each other’s welfare
and a common interest in the affairs of the coi^
munity. y.
I have managed, somehow, to keep up a connec-
tion wi“i the places where people are really neigh
bors. For more than twenty years my wife and I,
wherever my work might take me, called ‘.‘home’’
the little farm near where she was born and close
to the village my own people settled in 250 years
ago.
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National Guard Training country has produced is the Lock-
... | heed Interceptor. It can fly more
The Congress has passed a bill, \ than 50Q mileg an h()ur_ u ^
which has been approved by the
President, which authorizes the
President to call out the 242,000
ii. the National Guard and 166,000
members of the Reserve Compon-
ent and retired personnel of the
Regular Army for a year’s train-
ing. The law provides that persons
under the rank of captain, who
have dependents shall be dis-
charged upon application within
twenty days of their mobilization.
The law also requires the honor-
able discharge of any person un-
der eighten.
Another defense measure has
passed the House and will prob-
ably become a law soon, which
will permit the President to re-
quisition military equipment, mun-
itions, machinery oi tools needed
for National Defense, which have
been sold but not delivered to
foreign nations. This is not ex-
pected to apply to planes or mun-
itions that will go to Great Britain,
but intended particularly to cover
machine tools recently barred
from export by an Executive Or-
der and will, of course, include
the equipment and supplies here-
tofore ordered by France.
Selective Service Act
deductions from allotment pay-
ment for failure to attain the 1941
portion of the plan;
2. Determination of the mini-
mum acreage of erosion resisting
crops, with deductions from pay-
ments for failure to maintain this
acreage;
3. Provision that no farm car.
earn more of its payment on
special acreage allotments than is
earned on soil building allowance.
RELIGION
toleration
World War the second began one year ago
this week, and Germany with the greatest
mechanized war machines the world has
ever known, has overrun and subjugated six
nations and it appeared for a while that
England was certain to be destroyed, after
the loss of much of her army and equipment
in france. With planes and other war mater-
ial pouring in from peace loving America
which is slowly becoming aroused, England
may save the world yet. Italy came into the
war when she thought there was a good
10b unfortunate nations, but if the blockade
is effective she may become a liability. With
trouble brewing in the Balkans the war has
resolved itself into a boml ing duel with Ger-
many trying to destroy London and other
great cities with incendiary bombs and Eng-
land repaying her with nightly bombing
raid a on Berlin.
Miss Anna Hudson
who visi ed her sister, Mrs. H. W.
Pierce, this week returned to her
home Thursday.
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It is insisted that selective ser-
vice is the fairest and best way to
obtain personnel to defend our
country in time of need, or to
adequately prepare it before the
emergency arises. The House
Committee on Military Affairs
will report the bill favorably soon
and it is expected to pass the
House within a short time there-
j after. There will be no delay in
| the House of Representatives on
Dallas, this bill- The delay so far has been
in the Senate, and if there is a
delay in the future, ,'t will be in
the Senate, not in the House. This
is due to the fact that the Senate
has such liberal rules of debate.
As long as one Senator wants to
talk, they cannot vote. The peo-
ple, as well as the President, are
becoming somewhat impatient over
the delay in our preparedness pro-
gram. This impatience will doubt-
less result in more haste on the
part of Congress.
Defense Plans
A survey is being made to de
armament consisting of one rapid
fire cannot, shooting a one-pound
shell, and four machine guns. The
Army has ordered a large quanti-
ty of these new type planes and is
expecting to obtain delivery of
one hundred of these planes each
month. In addition to this new
plane, the biggest airplane ever
built is under construction in Cal-
ifornia. It is a bomber capable of
flying non-stop from New York
to Europe, then back and to Los
Angeles. It is powered with four
two-thousand horsepower engines,
the largest ever built, and it will
he in the air this fall. It has a wing
spread of 212 feet and a length of
112 feet. The craft will have a
gasoline capacity of 10,000 gal-
lons and will require a crew of
ten. It will carry bigger cannon
than any airplane in the world,
but the exact armament detail-'
are secret.
It is now reliably reported that
England is producing more air-
planes each day than Germany.
Farm Program
The day before the Secretary
of Agriculture, Mr. Wallace, re
signed, he announced the 1941 j
farm program to provide for soil
conservation mid “maintenance of
abundant sunplies” in the interest ,
of National Defense. The program 1
contains three provisions:
CARD OF THANKS
One of the things I like about our village life is
that nobody cares, or even asks, 4diat church any-
one else belongs to. We have three churches, Con-
gregational, Episcopalian and Catholic. Last winter,
when the Congregational minister’s little boy was
stricken with meningitis and had to spend weeks in
a hospital at the county seat, it was a Catholic lady
who suggested that the village people ought to raise
£ fund to pay the expense, since a country minis-
ter’s salary doesn’t run to big doctor’s bills.
Everybody in town contributed, because every-
body in town likes and respects the minister and
his family. Seven hundred dollars or so was raised
to pay hospital fees and specialists from Boston.
And the boy got well.
When one church puts on an entertainment, a
supper or a fair the people of the other churches
pitch in and do their part. A week or two ago the
first prize of $100 at the Catholic fair was won by
the widow of the Episcopal bishop of this diocese.
The Congregationalists and Episcopalians united
this summer to run an outdoor Bible school camp
for boys and girls.
With profound gratitude we
wish to express our thanks to each
and everyone for each kindress
shown us in the illness and death
of our little darling, Jackie Lyn.
Especially do we thank Bro. R. E.
Streetman for the comforting
words and to the ones who sent
the beauitful floral offerings. Also
we thank the singers. When this
sad hour come1 to you, may God’s
richest blessings rest on you all is
our prayer.
Mr. and Mr*. Loy Thomas
and Family
Mr. and Mr*. W. M. Toon
and Family
Mr. and Mr*. Weldon Stock-
ton and Family
Mr. and Mr*. J. O. Eddy
POLICEMEN
died
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As I write this I’ve just heard of Tom Killfoiie’s
death, and my wife has started up to old Mrs. Kill-
foile’s house to see if there is anything we car. do.
Tom was one of her thirteen children, and was one
of the most popular young men in the village. He
was one of the three village policemen, and direct-
ed traffic at the danger spot where the state roaf
crosses a well-travelled village street.
Last night a youth of twenty, driving his father’s
car with his mother as passenger, came down Pros-
pect Hill at 70 miles an hour, dashed across the
through traffic and struck Tom Killfoile, on his
post. Tom’s body was hurled 62 feet. He died at 4
o’clock this morning. The whole vlilage is grief-
stricken, likewise seething with indignation.
The indignation is directed toward the politicians
who got the red flash-1 iglit at the crossing removed
because some nervous woman said it kept her
»T.r. »>u «•■■. ““'If [ awake. I expect to hear some strong language at
r‘ '"j ** ***" h'm' R°^n tbe town boar(* meeting next Saturday night. Of the
r‘ *" ’ c r* two mothers, Tom’s and the boy’s who was driving
Mr. and Mr*. Leroy Myers I ... , . ....
,, ... „ _ , ,, the car, it is hrad to say which is the more deserv-
Mr. and Mr*. R. E. Siddle. ... .
mg ol sympathy. What a tragedy for both of them!
WED IN DURANT
Relatives here have received
word that Weldon Toon of Dallas
and Miss Billia Parker also of Dal-
las were united in marriage on
August 17 at Durant, Okla. They
were accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Eddy of Dallas.
1. Establishment of a live-year
conservation plan for a farm, with
Mrs. A. T. Smith and Vance
\ ikin visited in Paris Wednesday.
IN YEARS' GONE BY—
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper and Delta County .
Taken from the files of The Coop r Review:
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Jim Shelton will pay off his election bet with J. W. Williamson by
wheeling Mr. Williamson around the square and back to his store at 2
o’clock Saturday afternoon.
Cotton is selling from ten and one-half cents to eleven cents on the
cotton yard here with 515 bales being received.
The rig on the Gaither well north of Cooper that was blown down is
being rebuilt and drilling will be resumed in the near future.
TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Delegates to the county convention which convened last Saturday
in the courthouse were as follows: L. M. Miller, E. Thompson, J. W.
White, J. E. Campbell, A. T. Stell, Scott Mangum, Rev. C. L. Bounds,
S. S. Dotson, O. R. Bridges, S. F. Sensing, Oscar Scott, J. T. Rountree,
termine the feasibility of making ! S. T. Townsend, Lewis Brewer, I). L. Travis, E. L. Turboville and R.
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munitions in the caves of Ken-
tucky and other places. A survey
is nlso being made to determine
where airplane hangars can be
provided under mountains and
! hills. It is absolutely necessary
J that munitions manfacturing and
| storage places for our airplane
equipment be provided where they
; will not be accessible to the bombs
j of the enemy.
New American Plane*
i The newest war plane that our
M. Walker.
A committee composed- of R. M. Walker, John L. Ratliff, C. M. Me
Kinney, W. A. Tynes, W. H. Jones, C. I.. Stevens, J. E. Crowson, B. G.
Potcct and J. W. White have been named to secured the money to
build a bridge across Sulphur River at the deep well crossing to
Peerless.
TH1RT YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Teachers who are on the program for the Delta County Teachers
Institute are: A. II. Hendrix, E. A. Watson, H. S. Honslee, C. O. Find-
ley, L. E. Foster, A. L. Kerbow, R. U. Blassengame, Miss Nannie Ball,
F. E. Stegall, T. L. Smith, J. H. Newton, Miss Arry Estes, T. L. Trillion,
A. F. Stephenson, A. W. Templeton, D. A. Pardue, W. E. Chancellor,
and Miss Frances Graves.
AMERICANS .... all
Somebody referred to Mary Consolini one day as
an Italian girl. 1 never saw anybody so mad as Mary
was. “I’m American!” she cried. “Don’t let anybody
tell you different.” Her parents came from Italy,
like many others who were brought over to work in
the marble quarries here, but I don’t know of any
better Americans than there are among my neigh-
bors of Italian ancestry,
I met Sam Baldassare on the street the other day
and asked him how his oldest son, John, was doing.
John used to work for me on the farm, and after he
graduated from the town high school with honors
he wanted to go to college. I helped him get a job
in New York so he could work his way through
Fordham University, hut I hadn’t heard from him
for five years.
Sam beamed as he told me that John had got his
university degree a year ago and is now studying
for the priesthood in a Jesuit seminary. “And isn’t
his mother proud!” he exclaimed. Sam’s second son,
Francis, is going to the State College. His oldest
daughter has just graduated from a famous
training school for nurses. Sam run3 one of the
town’s three barber shops. Paul Klien, a JeW, runs
another, and Steve Sobieski, Pole, owns the third.
Good citizens and good Americans, all of them.
EDITOR .... featured
You are reading this in a small town newspane;
Maybe y.,u are one of the people who think life
the big cities must be much more interesting than
in a small town. “Life depends on the liver,” an oM
country doctor r,r.-ae said to me. You can fnke that
both ways. At my age I am convinced that the only
real values in life are more surely attained, thougn
not always appreciated, in little towns like mine.
An old friend, Henry Beetle Hough, has just
written a bool: called "Country Editor.” Ask vour
town librarian to put in a copy of it. It’s not only
beatitifu’ly written and amu=in ?ly entertaining, but
it is the best expression of the satisfactions °
j small-town life in America that I have seen put 011
! paper. Also, it may open your eyes to the amazint
| number of things your editor knows about you.
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