Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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COOPER REVIEW
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THE ISSUE
From Chicago Journal of
Commerce
The issue before the nation
today is not whether coal
miners shall have higher wa-
ges and better working con-
ditions. It is not whether the
railroad brotherhoods shall
have new work rules. These
questions can be fairly set-
tled by free collective bargain-
ing under an equalized Wag-
ner act.
The real lissue before the
people of these United States
today is whether they shall
be condemed forever to live
in fear of their Lewises, Whit-
neys, Petrillos and Reuthers.
This is so because if present
laws and policies are not
changed now, these men will
be with us always—doling
out to the American people
what is already rightfully
theirs, and getting abject
gratitude in return. These are
the methods of a Hitler and
a Mussolini.
It is utterly shameful that
when Lewis gave them a brief
coal strike truce, millions of
Americans sighed with relief.
-Millions of plain citizens were
grateful to Lewis for permit-
ting them a few days in which
-to go about the business of
earning their daily bread.
Our Lewises, Whitneys, Pe-
trillos and Reuthers are clever
men. They bargain with brass
knuckles while the American
people may use only their
ibare hands. The brass knuc-
kles were given to these men
by the government of the
United States, the same gov-
ernment that denies the rest
of us the right to defend our-
selves.
Meanwhile a few senators
mouth disgraceful drivel. Let
us not act in haste or in pas-
sion, says Senator Murray of
Montana. Let us not write
labor legislation on the floor,
says Senator Pepper of Flori-
da. “If we had done right by
organized labor, we wouldn’t
have these strikes,” these two
senators bleat in unison.
It is time the American
•people understood what is
happening to them. A thor-
oughly disreputable govern-
ment has combined with the
Lewises, Whitneys, Petrillos
and Reuthers to rob Ameri-
cans of their birthright. These
men are just as much a pro-
duct of government (policy to-
day as A1 Capone was a pro-
duct of the Volstead act and
the Eighteenth Amendment.
If we fail to shake off this
vicious combination of gov-
ernment and labor gangsters
now, we may never have an-
other opportunity. The way
to break up the combine is
to insist that the rule of men
be thrown out and the rule
of law restored. This can be
done by amending the Wag-
ner act to insure equality for
both the employer and the
Democracy, Soci*li»m, and
Cummunikm
A democracy is defined by Web-
ster as being ‘•government by the
people and exercised either direct-
supreme power is retained by the
pecfle and exercised either derect-
ly (absolute or pure democracy),
or indirectly (representative de-
mocracy), through a system of re-
presentation.” A few hundred
yaais ago in Greece there was a
pure democracy. The people met
en masse and enacted the laws to
govern themselves. When one pro-
posed a new law he was required
worker. It can be done by re-
moving once and for all organ-
ized labor’s exemption from
the antitrust laws and the
antiracketeering laws.
These first steps must be
taken now! Tomorrow may
be too late! The Lewises,
Whitneys, Petrillos and Reu-
thers count on delay. They
count on men who say, “Yes,
we know all these things, but
what can we do? They count
on men who say, “They are
organized; we aren’t
Write to congressmen and
senators. Write to them every
day, if necessary. Write to
your friends and business ac-
quaintances. Telephone them.
Solicit their support for the
movement to return these
United States to the people.
Act!
Don’t let the Lewises,
Whitneys, Petrillos and Reu-
thers steal your country! And
don't let anyone tell you that
what is happening today is
inevitable!
THE COOPER REVIEW
ON JOY AND SORROW
By Ruth Taylor
Friends of Texas State Uni-
versity have hoped that the
institution would not be drag-
ged into the campaign of its
deposed president, Homer T.
Rainey, and further injury,
but any such hope has been
dispelled. Dr. Rainey is going
about the country denounc-
ing the board of regents as
representing selfish interests.
One of the professors has re-
signed to accept work at Har-
vard, giving as his reason,
lack of academic freedom at
this institution, as shown to-
ward Dr. Rainey, and the As-
sociation of University Pro-
fessors announces from Chi-
cago that Texas University
administration is on its list
of censure because of at-
tempts by a political group
to impose its social and edu-
cational view’s on the univer-
sity. The resignation and this
action coming two years af-
ter Dr. Raineyfs dismissal,
and while he is in his cam-
paign for governor, which
would put him in charge of
this great institution, indi-
cates a conserted action to
get control of this school, re-
gardless of the injury to the
school that may be necessary
to acomplish the task. This
Association to which Dr.
Rainey no doubt belongs ex-
cerises its influence to main-
tain its members in their jobs,
and it is a fact that when one
once gets on a faculty it is
difficult to remove him. It
looks as if Dr. Rainey’s cam
paign is going to develop into
an issue of who is running
Texas State University, the
people or the professors.
to present the question from a
plutform in Ine middle oi the
crowd. A nocse was inserted a-
round his neck and remained there
during the discussion of his pro-
posal in order to remind him what
might happen if a bad law were
proposed.
Communism seems to be gain-
ing ground in Europe in all the
countries where elections are be-
ing held. The people there have
never had self-rule or a democra-
cy and, therefore, are unable to
appreciate our form of govern-
ment. Communism is defined by
Webster as “A system of social
organization in which goods are
held in common.” Formerly social-
ism was defined and considered
what communism is considered to-
day, but now socialism as defined
by Webster is “A social organiza-
tion based on collective or gov-
ernment and democratic manage-
ment of the essential means for
the production and distribution
of goods.” In a democracy we
believe in free enterprise, yet our
Government was accused of social-
ism when public schools were a-
dopted, on the theory that it de-
stroyed private schools, which were
private business; when toll roads
and toll bridges were abolished,
it was stated our country was turn-
ing socialistic on the theory that
private business was being de-
stroyed; and in case of other re-
forms which were purely in the
public interest.
Now the principal difference be-
tween communism and socialism
seems to be that the Oommunitsts
want everything held in eomon,
each to share equally with others,
whereas the Socialists believe in
a representative democracy but
insist that the public should own
and control such essential things
in aur economy as railroads, tele-
graph, telephone, and electric
power companies. Our present
Government remains the best in
the world.
I don’t like unhappiness. I don’t
like sorrow.
Who does? No one. But too
often when sorrow strikes us we
close not merely the windows of
our houses, but tbe windows of
our souls. We sit in the dark with|
our grief. We keep away from
the light, from the things that
give happiness.
It was Whittier who wrote ‘‘The
window of my soul I throw wide
open to the sun.” He had the
secret of peace of mind—of joy.
He had learned the truth which
he expressed in another poem,
“God’s ways seem dark but soon
or late, they touch the shining
hills of day.”
There is so much joy in the
world—if we would only take
time to enjoy it. My favorite hymn
when I was a tiny tot was “weep-
ing may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning.” It
was such a promiseful sort of
hymn. No morbid repinings. No
carrying over of sorrow, but a
%ctto
income had been cut in half.
Farmers borrowed heavily to tide
them over to better times, but the
better times never came. After*
the agricultural prices stiffened,
farmerse were unable to meet obli-
gations assumed at high inflated
rates. Wave after wave of fore-
closures swept the country. By
1936, more than two and a half
million farms had been lost by
their owners through forced sales.
Farm prices were 115 per cent
of parity in 1918 and 105 per
cent of parity during the infla-
tionary period in the two years
1919-1920, but dropped to 82 per
cent in 1921. Now, in 1946, farm
prices are 117 per cent of parity.
This will all be wiped out, how-
ever, if the farmer is compelled
to pay greatly increased prices
for what he buys. Farmers and
low-income groups suffer first and
the most from a “bust” after a
“boom”.
Here’s a little poem whose au-
thor is unknown, entitled “Give
Them the Flowers Now”:
Closed eyes can’t see white roses,
Ciost-d hands can’t h Id them,
you know;
Breath that is stilled can not
gather
The odors that sweet from them
blow.
Death, with a peace beyond
dreaming,
Its children of earth doth endow;
Life is the time we can help them,
So give them the flowers now.
Here are the struggles and striv-
ing,
Here are the cares and the
tears;
Now is the time to be smoothing
Farm Inflation
In view of the history of the
period immediately following
World War I, we should profit
by it and not suffer the same
hardships after this war, if it is
possible to avoid them.
When farmrs’ purchasing power
is high, they can build and buy
without going into debt. But if
the purchasing power drops, as it
did after the last war, then the
farmers will see another big ex-
pansion in their debt load such
as occurred after the last war.
After World War I, during the
inflationary period, farm income
dropped steadily and farmers went
still deeper into debt. When the
boom collapsed in 1921, less than
three years after the war, farm
Terminal Leave Pay
The House has just passed and
sent to the Senate a bill providing
pay for enlisted personnel for ac-
cumulated leave, liberty or fur-
lough. Each enlisted man is en-
titled to two and a half days
leave each month for the time that
he was in the service since Sept-
ember 8, 1939. He will receive
pay under this bill at the rate he
was receiving at the time of his
separation from the service. He
will also receive a minimum of
70 cents per day for quarters and
subsistence allowance for leave or1
furlough time. If he actually was
on leave thirty days a year, or
two and a half days a month, he
will not be entitled to the pay.
The leave time that was actually
will be deducte((.
Application must be made with-
in a year from the time the bill
becomes a law. Dependents of a
deceased veteran will be entitled
to this payment.
In Years Gone By
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper And Delta County
Last week was the first
week in the year that weather
conditions permitted unin-
teritpted work, and the farm-
ers put in full time, some run-
ning tractors day and night.
Many crops were cleaned and
much unplanted cotton was
planted. Some crops are be-
yond reclaiming and much
land may lay idle this year.
Farmers who have available
time would do well to plant
their idle land to row feed,
as any feed will bring good
prices.
Wonder if our modern fix-
ers can see any connection be-
tween the short work week
theory and the scarcity of
food and clothing? Any way,
we can now avoid plowing
under crops and killing live
stock.
TEN YEARS AGO
Harvey Oyler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Oyler of Enloe, was
instantly killed and four others injured when the car in which
he was riding ram into a ditch and overturned.
Henry Hurley left a cotton bloom at the Review office June
10, the first of the season. The cotton was planted April 10.
Sam Bartley suffered a serious injury to his foot while frog
gigging Wednesday night. While cleaning a frog a knife slipped
and severed an artery in his foot.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Word was received Tuesday by Home Demonstration Agent
Carrie Helms that Mrs. Watt Miller had been awarded first place
in the kitchen demonstration contest held over the district com-
prising 10 counties.
Miss Tom A. Lambeth of Cooper is spending her vacation in
Atlanta, Ga. where she is teaching in the Atlanta School of Ex-
pression and Oratory.
Editor and Mrs. W. D. Hart left Wednesday for San Antonio
where they will attend the 47th Annual Texas Press Association
meeting.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
J. T. Rountree has received a telegram from Washington Tues-
day stating that Postmaster General sent his name to the senate
for confirmation as postiiMster to suceed C. V. Rattan.
Claude Brackeen and Aliss Vala Crawford were married at the
home of the bride’s parents. Only a few friends and relatives
witnessed the ceremony.
Charlie McKinney returned from Dallas Tuesday where he at-
tended the annual alumni banquet and made the main address.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The Democratic Executative will hold its regular meeting Wed-
nesday. The committee is composed of the following: W. E. Moss,
chairman; L. E. Foster, S. H. Lewis, L. H. Hayes, W. W. Rushing’
Ed Hendricks, and E. W. Pickard.
W. L. Ramsey, publisher of the Pecan Gap New Era. and M. L.
Garner, publisher of the Delta Democrat in Ben Franklin, visited
the Review office "Wednesday.
knowledge that such things had
an end, that happiness could and
would follow grief.
If you have ever been serious-
ly ill, you know that thrill that
comes when first you realize that
you are alive, that health is com-
ing back. So it is with any suf-
fering. It but breaks the shell—
it makes you conscious of the
beauty in the world. It is as
though you were a tight-closed
crocus bud that the sunlight is
just opening.
In pain you have learned to
undei-stand, and to want to share
that understanding. The more you
have suffered the deeper has be-
come your capacity for enjoy-
ment. It need not be much to
make you happy—just the every-
day things of life, the beauty
around you, the pleasure of work,
of companionship, of friends.
I have offer wondered how dif-
ferent the world would be if peo-
ple felt free to enjoy life. To
say “I am happy” and to spend
more time thinking of that hap-
piness, no matter how simple, than
to ponder on the sorrow that pre-
ceded it. A great man once said:
“Joy is the grace we say to God.”
Be happy. You can be, if you
will but open the windows of your
soul to God’s sunlight.
The frowns and the furrow*
and fears.
What, to closed ears, are kind
sayings?
What, to hushed heart, is deep
vow?
Naught can avail after parting,
So give them the flowers now.
Just a kind word or a greeting,
Just a warm clasp or u Bm'le
There are the flowers that will
lighten
The burdens for many a mile.
After the journey is over,
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946
What is the use of them?
Can they carry them, who mait
be carried,
Oh, give them the flower* n<^ I
Blooms from the happy h**j#
garden,
Plucked in the spirit of l^.
Blooms that are earthly reflection*
Of flowers that blossom above
Words can not tell what a measure
Of blessings such gift* luty
allow
To dwell in the lives of many;
So give them the flowers no*.
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Farm machinery may be hard to get again
this year. If your tractor has to serve another
season, it should have a complete check-up
and possibly an overhauling.
Our mechanics use the latest type equipment
for valve-grinding, compression testing, etc.
A tractor motor overhauled and adjusted in
our shop is the nearest thing to a new motor.
Don't delay! We can give you faster service
if you schedule your tractor with us now.
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SALES &
SERVICE
Hanna & Young
East Side Square
Cooper, Texas
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