Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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tAGE TWO
COOPER REVIEW
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.FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1946.
A SENSE OF VALUES
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One of the worst results of
war-time wages and prices
will be damage to our sense
of values. Our young people,
in particular, can hardly es-
cape the feeling that money
is the only measure of value
in life. When an uneducated
and scantily clad girl serving
food and drinks at a “drive-
in” resturant can make more
money in a week than most
highly trained teachers can
make in a month, and a green
farm hand in a war plant can
make more than a brilliant
preacher, there is something
radically out of joint in our
scheme of things.
A young friend of mine
with a talent for music of the
currently popular “jive" style
can make as much money in
a few hours in one night with
an orchestra as his father
made in a week in his first
job when he was supplying
this young man with food,
shelter, and three-cornered
pants. How can we blame this
charming youngster for a lack
of enthusiasm about his
school work when he sees all
around him concrete evidence
that those who cater to a-
musement-lovers are more
highly rewarded than those
who contribute to the lasting
qualities of mind and heart.
He has not lived long enough
with life and its tears and
heartaches to realize that a
jazz orchestra would not be
an “ever present help in time
of trouble" when the sha-
dows gather, sorrow comes,
and the going gets rough.
It is hard to make clear the
difference between real val-
ues and just money when a
pipe-welder can make more
than a bank president and the
owner of hat-check conces-
sion in a night club can gross
more profit than a legitimate
merchant who contributes
something wholesome and
helpful to his community.
This is not an arguement
against good wages for real
services rendered but if East
Texas boys and girls ever get
the idea that the only mea-
sure of value in the world is
money and not worth-while
service, we shall have lost
some some of the finer things
in our community life.
Our pioneer ancestors were
not concerned about hours and
wages; many great scientists
and inventors who made life
richer and easier for us all
were failures in dollar in-
come; some of our finest
composers of prose and poetry
whose words lift up our hearts
and inspire us were poorly
paid. Did Madam Curie and
her brilliant husband think
of their monthly income in
dollars when in cold and hung-
er they pursued and revealed
the magic secrets of radium
for the healing of mannind?
Are Robert Browning’s words
of wisdom and comfort less
valuable than some filthy,
| GPA Restored
One of the hottest issues ever
facing Congress was settled last
week when President Truman
signed the bill restoring price con-
trols until June 30, 1947, after
having vetoed a measure less
than a month ago which would
have given the OPA another year
to run.
Perhaps the greatest difference
between the new law and the
earlier measure is that a three-
man control board has been creat-
ed with broad powers to lift ceil-
ings whenever it determines that
demand and supply are practically
equal.
The OPA will be deprived of
•much of the power, which it had
prior to June 30th, as the Secre-
tary of Agriculture has been giv-
en the authority to overrule its
decisions on farm commodities
and may decontrol them, pro-
vided that the three-man board
concurs.
Prices on meat, dairy products,
grains, cottonseed and soybeans
will be recontrolled on August
21. Poultry, eggs, petroleum and
tobacco will be free of price con-
trols unless decontrol board pla-
ces them on the control list a-
gain.
The discreation erf the OPA is
further limited by a formula un-
der the new law which allows
producers the average 1940 price
plus the average cost of produc-
tion increase since that time, and
permits the OPA to make a de-
cision only where the producer
was making average production
costs plus a “reasonable profit”.
The only provision of the origi-
nal wartime Price Control Act,
which remains unchanged, is the
one pertaining to rents. Land-
lords, who have received increases
during the lapse of OPA, will be
permitted to keep these increases
for the lapsed time only, and must
now go back to the June 30th
ceiling.
In my opinion, the new- law will
prevent ‘runaway’ prices, even
though it does not keep them at
a low level. Veterans, in particu-
lar, who are still improperly hous-
ed, will at least have the pro-
tection again*’* erhnrbitnnt rents.
Moreover, manufacturers will be
pven increases, which they h«. >
demanded since the OPA was
first created. Congress intended
that all controls be lifted just as
soon as possible, and that cost of
subsidy payments eventually
would be absorbed under the price
fixing formula. The successful
administration of the new law is
largely dependent on the power-
ful decontrol board.
Highway Construction
Plans for Federal assistance for
highway construction have hit a
snag. Contractors’ estimates are
up 50 per cent of what they were
in 1940, so consequently many
States will not go ahead with their
construction projects. A shortage
of steel for bridges and concrete
reinforcements has also caused
delay, and just now there is a
shortage of cement.
Beginning last December, two
billion dollars was provided for
a two year period, however, so
far only a little over four houdred
million has been used. Under a
Federal plan providing for out-
right grants of money for high-
way construction, or under a SO-
SO plan with the states, five hun-
dred million dollars a year will
be spent during three fiscal years
on an over-all system of highways.
Veterans’ Employment
The Labor Department reports
that the discharge rate of veterans
I in industries is less than of non-
veterans. An average of only 17
out of every thousand veterans
have been fired from their jobs,
while 21 out of every thousand
non-veterans have been asked to
quit. Voluntary separation of vet-
erans from jobs average 60 per
thousand, as compared to 39 per
thousand non-veterans. These fig-
ures are significant as they in-
dicate that industry, generally, is
favoring the veteran and that the
veteran is changing jobs to better
himself.
Many veterans have gone into
businesses for themselves, as re-
flected in the recent figures of
of the War Assets Administra-
tion on one typical item. In the
first six months of the year, vet-
erans bought 40 per cent of the
67,000 trucks offered for sale.
Expanded Merchant Marine
The Maritime Commission has
pro-
modern, sexy book that sold
the motion picture rights for
a quarter of a million dollars
while Browning never had a
radio contract ? Does the val-
ue of any lasting service to ! authorized a reconversion
the community depend upon j sram providing for the sale of
j the pay received, or whether 95 °f the best merchant ships
[ any pay was received? I built as part of the war-time fleet.
Let’s stop a minute in this | This plan is aimed at reviving the
dizzy whirl and get our sense American Merchant Marine and
of values straight.—Hubert I regaining some of the costs of
M. Harrison.
The chairman of the Negro
Democratic League in Dallas
'says that 4000 Negro votes
were cast in Saturday’s Dem-
ocratic primary and that it
elected several candidates and
put others in the run off,
building the ships. American
steamship operators have already
made applications to purchase 166
of such vessels.
The sale of surplus cargo ves-
sels is looked upon by Govern-
ment shipping officials as a fore-
runner of the creation of new
shipping companies. Some com-
panies are expected to apply for
Homer P. Rainey for gover
nor and Sarah T. Hughes for i new routes, but many will want
congrass, being two of them. ! t0 follow routes established by
THE DEMOCRATIC
WAY OF LIFE
By Ruth Taylor
Like the Pharisee of old, we
have spoken glibly of the hard
life under totalitarian rule, of
the subjugation of the individual
to the State, of the regimentation
which like *be bed of Procrustes
stretches or shortens all men to
a common stature. Yet the demo-
cratic way of life demands more
of its followers than any other
form of government.
The democratic way of life de-
mands thought. Its citizens are
not ruled by orders but have to
govern themselves—what laws
they have are made by them, so
that there is no alibi when they
fall short.
The democratic way of life de-
mands self control. Man is not
restrained by force, but must rea-
son and restrain himself.
The democratic way of life de-
mands education. Not the edu-
cation given to children in the
dictator ruled state—but the train-
ing in thinking things out and in
thinking thing? through. Man must
learn to live in a democracy. He
must be educated to live with his
fellow man, to cooperate without
meddling, to act in a spirit of
fellowship without any attempt
to domineer over the life of some-
one else, and to accept the peculi-
arities of another as he expects
his own peculiarities to be ac-
cepted.
The democratic way of life de-
mands cooperation. In order to
make it work there must be an
opvortunity for each citizen to
earn a living, to have opportuni-
ties to the utmost. We have gone
far under the capitalist system,
and if we want to see free enter,
prise continue we will have to see
that it works for the good of all.
The democratic way of life de-
mands constructive action. We
must not be content with things
as they were or things as they
are, but we must plan and work
for a better world tomorrow. We
have progressed because our
standards have gone up. We can
progress only as we take steps
to insure still finer things for
the coming generation.
The democratic way of life de-
mands consecration. Democracy
is not a free gift—it must be
earned and earned anew by each
generation. We must defend our
democratic heritage both from the
enemies without and from the
enemies of indifference, neglect
and carelessness within. We must
rededicate ourselves to the prin-
ciples upon which our govern-
ment is founded—and live up to
them in our daily life as well as
in our public utterances. Thus
and thus only will the democratic
way of life endure.
♦ NEEDMORE
♦ MRS. F. L. LAKE ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•>
Our revival meeting closed
Sunday night. We had four con-
versions and eight additions to
the church. Sorry we did not have
more conversions and additions,
but we are greatful for the ones
we did have. We wish to thank
our many friends oi neighboring
communities for their coopera-
tion Jur.ng tbs meeting. We invite
you to come Dack and be with
us any time.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Henry and
family of Memphis were here
Sunday meeting old friends and
neighbors.
Grandmother Weems has as
her guest her daughter, Mrs.
Willie McClain of Lubbock.
Mrs. Norma Lee Harding who
has been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Otis Weems, has return-
ed to Alabama.
Msis Mattie Rex visited Mrs.
H. O. Stooksberry Saturday.
Mrs. F. M. Bacon and son,
Dorsa, visited in the J S. Lake
home Sunday.
Several children of this com-
munity started to school at West
Delta Monday.
Mrs. E. W. Roland of San An-
tonio is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Roark.
Rev. I. E. Driggers returned to
his home in Mt. Pleasant Satur-
day. Billy Branch accompanied
him home for a short visit.
Mr. and Mr*. K. W. Chancellor
and daughter, Lanette, visited
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Chancellor and Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Garner, over the weekend.
Lanette remained over to spend
the week with her grandmother,
Mrs. W. E. Chancellor.
Covered buttons, tailored belts,
and covered buckles. King’s. 31
S.J.R. No. 5
A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Texas
authorizing the Legislature to ap?
propriate Seventy-five Thousand
($75,000.00) Dollars, or so much
thereof as may he necessary, to
pay claims incurred by John Tarle-
ton Agricultural College for thd
construction of a building on the
campus of such college pursuant
to deficiency authorization of the
Governor of Texas on August 31
1937.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
legislature or the state
OP TEXAS:
Section 1. That the Constitution
of the State of Texas be amended
by adding a new section, as follow*.
•The Legislature is authorized to
appropriate so much money as may
he necessary, not to exceed Seventy-
five Thousand (*76,000.00) Dollars,
to pay claims Incurred by John
Turbiton Agricultural College for
the construction of a building on
the campus of such college pursu-
ant to deficiency authorization by
the Governor of Texas on August
31 1937."
Sec. 2. The foregoing Constitu
tlonal Amendment shall be su
mitts’ to a vote of tie qualified
electors of this state at the next
general eleetion to be held on the
first Tuesday alter the first Mon-
day in November, A.D., 1946, at
which all ballots shall have print?
ed thereon:
.•FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL
amendment authorizing the
LEGISLATURE TO RAY FOR
BUILDING CONSTRUCTED FOR
JOHN TAKLETON AGRICULTUR-
AL COLLEGE"; and
"AGAINST THE CONBTITUTION-
FRIDAY,
al amendment authoriz.n,,
the legislature to pay J;,!
BUILDING CONSTRUCTKD p(,o
JOHN TARLETON AGRIcrLTljR
AL COLLEGE."
Each voter shall mark out on*
of said clauses on the ballot lenv
ing the one expressing his vote on
the proposed amendment.
Sec. 3. The Governor shall |8gu.
the necessary proclamation for 88u
election and have the same
lished as required by the Coiiiti!
tution and laws of this state.
Sec 4. The sum of Five Thousand
(15,00(100) Dollars, or «0 mucv
thereof as may be necessary j",
any
hereby appropriated out of
furds In t.ie treasmy of the stats
not otherwise appropriated, to pay
the expenses of „jch publication
and election.
Chamberlain Electric
Service & Repairs
Phone 443
For All Your Insurance Needs
Carl L. McDonaldf Agency
COOPER, TEXAS
DEAD ANIMAL REMOVER
We pick up dead or crippled stock free.
Phone 153, Paris—Collect.
Central Hide & Rendering Co.
NOTICE
We Can Now Install Your
BUTANE SYSTEMS
At Once.
Henslee Hardware
80,000 TRIPS
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kern of
Dallas visited their daughter, Mrs.
Morris Smith and husband, last
week.
WORLD
Jane Anderson, daughter _of
Mr. and Mrs. Rube Anderson, left
last week to visit relatives in
Lubbock.
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of German and Japanese compe-
tition and the forecasts for in-
creased foreign trade have been
an incentive for the formation
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This vote was cast from pre-
pared ballots supplied the
Negro voters, he says. How-
ever well intended this was
done, it is unfortunate for
the colored race. If they be-
come a block of voters they1
will soon create strong op-
position, for free Americans
dislike group politics, and
these voters will sooner or
later find that their leaders
are using them for selfish
ends.
the aid line firms. The removal
of new companies. We must have
a large Merchant Marine.
In Years Gone By
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper And Delta County
It is with poor grace that
Walter Reuther, 35, who re-
mained at home during the
war to lead labor agitators,
presumes to tell the return-
ed GI’s what to do.
The way to prevent infla-
tion is to produce consumer
goods, and the government
'desist from extravagant
spending.
Now that the election is
over, we can worry about hav-
ing nothing to worry about.
The most out-of-date thing
today is a candidate’s cards
and posters.
We all know Senator Meade
now as head of the muck rak-
ing committee.
TEN YEARS AGO
Charles A. Hardy died at his home Wednesday evening follow-
ing an illness of less than a week.
Roi Cornish was presented with a gold pin signifying 20 years
service with the Gulf States Telephone Co. Mr. Cornish has been
manager of the local office for 17 years.
Delegates to the Democratic County Convention chosen from
Boxes 1 and 2 are W. C. Ratliff, G. Fred Turner, C. C. McKinney,
J. C. Tynes, T. B. Cunmming, Tom Rountree, W. D. Hart, L. F.
Hooten, Luke Robinson, W. H. Crunk, Hollis White, Oscar Scott,
Dock Leeman, Will Slough, S. P. Sansing, G. E. Cross and Charley
Acton.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Delegates to the Republican County Convention elected thir
week are T. Y. Skeen, C. Harris, W. W. White, J. L. Darwin, J.
S. Phillips, Herman Phillips, J. H. Jenkins, J. A. Blackwell, T. J.
Pearson, C. V. Rattan, J. A. Darwin, and H. H. Baker.
A serious accident was narrowly avoided Wednesday morning
when a large asphalt truck ran into a gravel truck on the southwest
corner of the square and crashed into the Ilooten Drug Co. building.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
The seven year old daughter of Mr. %?d Mrs. John Johnson was
kicked by a mule and lived only a short while.
Miss Pauline Jordan has returned to Fort Worth where she
will attend the summer session of Texas Weslyan College.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Mrs. D. O. Lowry of Enloe visited in Cooper Wednesday.
Rev. R. E. Joiner left here Monday night for Decatur, 111. where
he will attend the Presbyterian General Assembly.
R. N. Stovall of New Hope visited friends in Cooper Saturday.
80,000 times around the world-2 billion miles. That’s the distance
civilian trucks and buses travel every year on Sinclair Lubricants.
Truck and bus operators select Sinclair Lubricants because
they can be counted on to save wear and help prevent breakdowns
in the tough grind of hard war duty. Sinclair Lubricants of the
same high quality that safeguard fleets of trucks and buses are
sold by your Sinclair Dealer to protect your car.
So see your Sinclair Dealer and let him lubricate
your car regularly to save wear and breakdowns.
Stop where you see the Sinclair H-C Gasoline sign.
E. J. McKINNEY, Agent Phone 344, 400 or 378
Opal T.
Thanks
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