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COOPER REVIEW
COOPER REVIEW
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SOUNDING OUT CANDIDATES FOR
THE LEGISLATURE
Determined to g'et a definite commitment
from every legislative candidate on the ques-
fios of naturral resource taxes to pay social
security obligations, the Women’s Commit-
tee on Economic Policy for Texas today had
laid down the first barrage of a drive for ful-
fillment of its legislative program, Mrs. Jud
Collier of Mumford, chairman, announced.
Instructions have been mailed to 1,000 Texas
-women leaders, asking them to get a frank,
unequivocal statement from all legislative
candidates as to whether they favor an in-
crease of natural resource taxes to pay old
age pensions to the needy and to finance the
teachers’ retirement program, Mrs. Collier,
deckird. “We have prepared a special ques-
tionnaire which these women leaders will
have tall candidates sign, and these signed
forms will be returned to state headquarters;
for compilation,” she pointed out.
This womens’ committee is going at the
root of the problem of financing social se-
curity in Texas. Most of the candidates for
governor, especially Ersest. Thompson and
Harry Hines favor a tax on natural resources
for paying social seiurity. but the governor
does not levy taxes, and it is the members of
legislature who have that responsibility. If
the people of Texas desire the social security
paid, which they are entitled, they should
elect members of the legislature who are
willing to levy taxes for paying it. If they
desire this burden placed on the natural re-
sources of the state they should elect mem-
bers to the legislature who will do so, and if
they desire the funds raised by a tax on sales
or transactions they should support candi-
dates who will do that. Now is the time to
select members of the legislature who will
<k> the will of the people, and the voters are
entitled to know wh'at a legislator proposes
to do before they cast their vote.
WRIGHT PATMAN'S
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN
TEXAS -
Buijr Days
The week just closed proved to
be a very busy one in both branch-
es of the Congress. The tragic
events taking place abroad wers
reflected in the American Con-
the South Americas, but right
here in the United States—all for
the purpose of keeping the Allies
busy on this side of the Atlantic
j and to pave the way for spreading
J his sphere of influence into the
that we already have a fifth col-
umn movement here and we should
he on the alert for the purpose of
discovering it in each community
where it exists and destroy it as
quickly as possible.
It is my belief that Congress will
pass a law requiring the fingejj
„WH AT MEN WILL DIE FOR
There has grown up among the younger
generation is America a belief that war is
somehow imposed upon a nation for the fin-
ancial benefit or personal aggrandizement of
profiteers and politicians. That doctrine bas
Iteen preached by many popular writers in
the past twenty years, until it has become
the fashion to sneer at sfich slogans as “mak-
ing the world safe for democracy.”
The very word “Liberty” has lost its
meaning to a generation which has never
been threatened with the loss of all that
liberty means and has meant to Americans
The subtle subversive propaganda of those
who seek to undermine our American system
has convinced great numbers of young folk
that somehow they have been deprived of
rights and privileges which, they are led to
believe, would be theirs under some Utopian
scheme of government whereby a paternal
state believes every c'tizen of all responsi-
bility.
They have yet to learn, these deluded
young people, that where there is no respon-
sibility there can be no liberty. The German
peopU have learned it. the Italians, the Rus-
sians, have letmied that, in surrendering theii
personal responsibilities to the government
they have surrendered their liberties. Anil
those who look on complacently while they
see free peoples brought into slavery to dic-
tators are simpleton* if they believe that
there is no danger that Americans may face
the prospect of similar enslavement.
No American wants to plunge this country
into war to fight other people's battles
Every American worthy of the name wants
to ifruild such barriers against aggression as
will prevent any other nation or power from
depriving us of our most precious heritage.
When our liberty is threatened, it is no time
to count the cost of defense. Free men can
survive poverty. They cannot survive
slavery.
press. The allies with their backs
against the wall were fighting a
series of desperate battles to stop
the overwhelming motorized forces
of the man who is set not only
upon emulating Caesar. Alexander
the Great, Napoleon, and Kaiser
Wilhelm but to succeed where
they failed. Adolph Hitler in his
unprecedented blitzkrieg has
awakened the American ocoplo
and the Congress to a profound
sense of their own vulnerability.
Defend* Bills
It is therefore no wonder that
the Senate by a vote of 74 to 0
approved the $1,823,254,624 army
appropriation hill, as well as th*
? 1,458,756,728 naval appropria-
tions hill, and that the House by a
vote of 391 to 1 passed the Emer-
gency National Defense Bill, au-
thorizing an unlimited expansion
of army war plane strength and
unlimited funds for expanding
production of munitions and sup-
plies. The dissenting vote eam<
not from a Democrat or from .
Republican but from New York’s
one and only American Labor
Party representative. Such unani-
mity in the Congress certainly ba
not been witnessed since the day.
of the World War. Uncle Sam has
certainly tightened his belt, and
rn all fronts there is a general
tightening of the defense lines.
Moreover, this preparedness pro-
gram is proceeding a'ong sane and
sound lines. While we hear a great
deal about 50,000 airplanes, 250,-
000 pilots, an increase of the army
and navy personnel, and the ex- j
penditure of billions of dollars, it
must be borne in mind that the
Administration is proceeding with
caution. For instance, no one ser-
iously believes—the newspaper
comments to the contrary not-
withstanding—that it is the pur-
pose of the Administration to im-
mediately build 50,000 planes.
This no doubt would be an unwise
procedure. No one jn official
Western Hemisphere if he wins.
We are now convinced that Vie
best guarantee of peace in the
Americas is a navy, an! army and
cn air force that will even make
Hitler sit up and take notice.
Home Guards For American
Defense
It is my belief that Home
Guards for American Defense
should he organized in each coun-
t.\ in the United States. This
croup can report any disloyalty to
the proper authorities. It should,
however, be composed of peopie
with coo] heads as this is no time
for a strong group with public
sentiment behind them to act in-
discreetly. Such a group should
have as its first resolution, “there
" iH be no violence.’* During tho
last war when public sentiment
printing of all aliens. Government
officials believe that this is neces-
sary in order to keep the proper
check on them.
Freight Rates
One of the major barrier for
which the Federal government is
responsible is that caused by
freight rate differences, which are
definitely designed to favor man-
ufacturing in the Northeast and
preclude it from other sections. 5
rate zones have been set up in the
nation. The rates in the Southern
zone, that is the territory West of
the Mississippi and south of the
Ohio, average 40 per cent higher
than those in the Eastern zone
which js east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio. We have the
highest rate in the Southwestern
zone, 75 per cent higher than in
the Eastern zone.
The passage of S. 2009, the
Transportation Bill, will likely
eliminate these discriminatory
Vacation Malaria
Today in the United States
there are approximately 200,000
trailers and 30,000,000 automo-
biles, mest of which are used for
the purpose of bringing families
away from the crowded cities and
allowing them\ to draw closer to
nature.
It is estimated that these trail-
ers carry annually about 1.500,-
000 men, women and children
over the ‘land to spend Song or
short periods in overnight camps.
Obviously it is impossible to even
approximately estimate how many
millions of Americans use their
automobiles for the same pur-
pose.
| To accommodate these automo-
bile gypsies there are scattered
[ throughout the land 2,500 camps
or stopping places. Less than 200
of these resting spots are sanitary
and high-grade in every sense of
the word, aocordin^, to the best
authorities. Many states require
that these tourist, stops have mod-
ern conveniences and that they
he inspected by the local health
authorities, but unfortunately
about 2,300 of them have no med-
ical supervision and are all too
frequently located near railroads,
dump-heaps, gas stations, or close
to the banks of Ipakes, rivers and
stagnant bodies of water, which
are ideail- breeding places for mos-
quitoes.
As a consequence there is al-
ways a probability that these va-
cationists are liable to contract
malaria, due to the bite of the
anopheline mosquito, especially if
they make their camps near marsh
lands or water, which they usually
do because of the fact that it is
apt to be cooler and offers the
advantage! of a bath, after a hot
day’s ride.
No one is completely immune
from attacks of malaria and chil-
dren! are far more susceptible
than adults and ‘liable to be more
severely affected. One attack of
malaria does not confer immun-
ity, as many think. Indeed I
have known many to have con-
tracted malaria repeatedly.
When on trips such as these,
tourists should be sure to carry a
liberal supply of sulphate of qui-
nine—the only drug known tr
physicians which acts directly on
this disease. Quinine is absolute-
ly harmless, and may be taken as
a prophylaxis to ward off malar-
ia. or aftep the attacks have de-
veloped to cure the patient. P
is inexpensive, efficient, easily
carried, and may be procured
without a physician’s prescription-
As a prophylaxis—to prevent
malaria—an ad'ult should take a
TODAY m
TOMORROW
By Frank Parker Stockbridgs
MEMORIES ....
1 don’t know hew old a man has to ba before his
memories become boresome to younger people. But
I’m taking a chance that some of my memories of
the past seventy years may interest some *vhn
haven’t lived that long.
I think of Lillian Russell first, because a new
motion picture purporting to tell her life story has
just been released and probably everybody who
reads this will have seen it. My memory of Lillian
goes back more than fifty years. She was far more
beautiful than Alice Faye is ini the film. Beauty
was her profession.
On or off the stage Lillian was a beauty,
her in sports clothes on Jesse Lewisohn’s ya<
the Hud....., and thought I had ngirer'V®*®-
a more lovely picture. The last time I saw hi? she was
past sixty. I sat next to her at a preview of one of
Theda Bara’s silent films. More people looked at
I.illialrl than at the picture. She was aravinhii
beauty to the very end of her life.
GRANT .... cigar*
As a boy jn Washington in my early ’teens I was
carrying a 'newspaper route when General Grant
died. I remember that I got a hundred extra papers
and sold them all that day. I had often seen th#
General, driving i«D and cut of his brother-in-law’#
home, always smoking a big, black cigar. He had a
cancer of the throat, and his doctor had limited
him to one cigar a day, so he had some specially
made, nearly a foot lonfe'. The cancer finally killed
him.
General Grant in his army days had the reputa-
tion of being a heavy drinker. Ini later years I got
to know his son, General Frederick Dent Grant.
One day at a dinner party I 'noticed that he refused
all drinks. He caught my eye and smiled.
“I saw, as a |joy, what liquor did to my father,"
he said, “and decided that I would never take a
dri’’k; and I never have.’’ Fred Grant went on to
tell me of his experiences as a boy of fourteen ]gj
when his father took him to war with him and h®
served as a special aide in the siege of Vicksburg.
“I could get through the line and brinjg back infor- j
mation, where a grown-up man would have been
caught,” he said. *
TEDDY
forceful
ufqc 1,: U . Congress that is intended to wipe
was so uitrh many sulf-serviiitr in- , ...... .• i
j- • v , , , .. . out these differentials,
cividuals blotted, stained and in
■ onie cases actually destroyed the ,
good character of patriotic Amer-
an citizens bv the mere accusa-
tion of disloyalty. In other cases
patriotic citizens acted too zeal-
ously, although honestly and con-
scientiously, and did the same
ibing. Let us not have such act*
onrato-l during this emergency.
At the same time, the alien ene-
mies, “pies and stooges of dictor-
•nl powers should not be allowed,
to build up a fifth column move-
ment in America. It js my belief
rate®. It is the first time that a
bill is receiving the attention of daily dose of 6 grains of quinin
in the! evening, during the vaca- [ made him President,
tion trip. Should malaria develo>
the symptoms of which are lassi
tude, headache, aching hips and
loins, chilliness along the spine
and
How many people remember that the first Pres-
ident Roosevelt had a career much like that of the
present President, in his early days? A Harvard
graduate, he went into politics as a member of the
New York Legislature, fathered important legisla-
tion which made him famous, rain* for Mayor of
New York, was a member of the first U. S. Civil
Service Commission, police commissioner of Ni
York, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
which he resigned to take part in the war
Spain, where he won fame as Colonel of the “Bough
Riders.”
I knew him first in Washington in. hte late ’80’s,
Then I was with him in his campaign! for Governor
of New York in 1898 and spent the entire term of
his service in Alham|y as r. newspaper correspond-
ent. “Teddy” Roosevelt was the most forceful and
active man I ever knew in public life.
Professional politicians hated him, because he1
would not stand for political chicanery. His own
patty leaders tried to get rid of him by “kicking
him upstairs” into tbe vice preside,nicy. Six months
after he took that office President McKinley’s death
Mrs. Finis Strickland and son
Chas. Strickland, cf Shreveport
La., and, Miss Laura Flanders of j desire to yawn and stretch
possibly nausea, one should tak
20 grains of quinine sulphate for
from five to seven days. Childrer
j Waskom have been guests thi
week of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Chan
cellor. Mrs. Strickland will driv-
a new Chevrolet sedan on her re
turn home purchased from Hoi
ger Chevrolet Go.
Mrs. Howard Russell and son
Billy, were called to Lubb-oc’
Monday on account of the illnes
of relatives.
IN YEARS GONE BY—
A Review Of The Past In
Cooner anrl Delta Countv .
should be administered quinine
in doses according to their weigh'
and age.
No automobile trip should be.
undertaken without a liber-'
upply of quinine sulphate in th-
medicine kit.
ALICE
politician
Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Elearfor Roose-
velt, the President’s wife, are first cousins. Mrs.
Roosevelt’s father was “Teddy’s” brother. Though
they arc politically as far apart as the poles, the
ladies ar- warm personal friends.
When. I first krlew Alice Roosevelt she was a long-
legged girl of fourteen, very much bent on having
her own wav. She has hrd it, most of the time. I
knew her husband, “Nick” Longworth, very well, j
More than once I have heard him say; “I’ll have 101
ask Alice,” before committing l.lmself on, some|
proposal- He had a high respect for his wife’s poll-j
I tical judgment.
-—TV . .! Most folk have forgotten that Alice K™Eevel*|
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Haddock and; ^ ..TeddyV» daughter by his first wife. She was
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TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
,k ; Tn' wh0 ha* « l>«*d in Cooper for th,
thtee years is making arrangements for another P
reason.
successful summer
Mrs. Margaret Gray visited Thin s
day night in the home of Mrs.
Dan Jordan and daughter, Puu
line, in Commerce Mrs. Ear!
Bowman and daughter, Nancy, o*
Houston were visiting Mrs. Bow-
man’s mother and sister for tw<
weeks.
JOEG7/H
Alice Lee of an old Boston family, whom he met
while ."indent at Ha.tanl. Both -Ted.iyV Wf.l
and his mother died within a week after
birth. He retired to his ranch in Montana intend
to follow a literary career, but was called bacKj
ir.'g
to run
for Mayor of New Yolk.
many
Washington lyith authority to act ------------------ K ease oi tile square.
believes that this country,will be ans °.1 I)l- Llwood J. Bulgin of Portland, Oregon, to preach
invaded within the next few <’var|!rc> ,st>c meeting here this summer have been laid by a committee,
months. The main objective is to j TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
prepare for the production of the] July ''st 'SSUC(' for the first week of District Court is
necessary planes, munitions, etc., jj^ws: J. H. Millsap, W. S. Unsell, J. M. Wells, J.
as fol-
M. M^Crsi’y W S
on a mass scale so that they may [ Ellis, N. B. Woodside, J. R. Jack, J. B. Allard, Robert Rainey, C. F.
be attainable if and when they are i R,lrl0w. L- S. Noland, J. A. Branncn, G. A. Maxwell, W. C. Ratliff
needed. The main objective soughts Brntley Moon, A. P. Miller, F. O. Miller, W. S. Slough, E. G. Gideon
is to turn out the necessary ouan- • Sam Marsh, M. L. Huggins, B. Adams, J. n Kitchen, L. R. Alexander,
titles at the proper time and to ' R- R- 1 ecman, P. V. Carrington, Gus Taylor, L. L. Crump, S. V;. Ski
insure that our war machines will [ ner, J. C Chessher, F. L. Steed, J. N. Holly, P. P. Proffer, J. C. Jeter
not be obsolete but of the latest "n,l W. H. Gunter.
and most modern structure.
Many here are con ince i tbn!
Hitler, fearing American aid to
the Allies, is bending nP efforts
I to incite discord, riot and revolu-
! tion not only in Mexico, and in
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Bonds for the riew school building for East Cooper has been ap-
t>. i<> eu by the attorney general and ®ea!ed bid? for the construction
have been received.
Rov. E. G. Prewitt has resigned his pastorship of the Christian
Church here and will go to Shawnee, Okla.
What -tarfd »n tha.c
CHANGES
What stai
niscerfees was the realization that on
reach my 70th birthday. In these threwcoie y*ats
seen many changes, but hu
1870 and for
CARTER'S Y0UN6 U*'
60T IN VSBB A TRIPLE FEATURt
ON A CHILD'S TICKET, BUT TN'
LAD WAS OLD ENOUGH T'
VOTE WHEN tiM CAME OUT...
f If so many changes, affecting everybody’* wr.S
| jf living, can come about in the span! of one man 4
} life, who can predict what may occur in anothei
I 70 years? In thousands of laboratoriei brilliant rol
I search *rs are working on projects none of us havf
j heard of, which mav. and probably will, mnke till
1 world of 2010 entire!} different from any of o«l
dreams in 1940. Only the people will be tbe same.l
h
.....
ture is the same as it was in
thousand years before. Fckronifcionl
In my lifetime I l»v. .eon m.ny new .n«nl,o j
into n« to mate llvhw ea««PM
it* pace. The telephonic, the motion r>cti#«
airplane, radio, mechanical refrigeration, tl
mobile, the typewriter, the phonograph the electri
light and the electric motor, the *£&**%*
and its progeny, the film camera, the tJ1****f
machine, the half-tone process of printing p ct
the bicycle—those are a few of the things that
so rlew that I can remember when they were fir*^
i" as&i
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