Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1939 Page: 2 of 8
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t»AGE TWO
THE OOOPER REVIEW
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939
COOPER REVIEW
W. D. HAKT & SON, Publishers
W. D. HAKT WILBUR HART
1%-st door south S. W. corner square—Telephone 86
Entered as second class matter at the post office
■t Cooper, Texas, under the act of Congress, March |
*fT9. !
THE RIGHTS OF A DOG
The Legislature of the State of New York
has refused to pass a law asked for by the
poet office authorities, providing that a
postman if bitten by a dog in the course of
his duties could collect damages from the
<dog s owner. * * *
Postmen have to go into people’s yards,
at least as far as the door, unless there is
an R. F. D. miailbox outside the gate. It is a
well understood principle of law that a tres-
jwsser—someone who goes on another per-
son's property without a permission—must
take Ihis own risk of being bitten by a dog.
Rut it hardly spems fair to compel the
aarvants of the people, going their rounds
to deliver the m'aal, to assume that risk.
To be sure, there is a remedy against a
dog known to be vicious. After he has bitten
two or three people a postman or anyone
else can bring an action for damages if a dog
of known bad character bites him.
But the argument which prevailed in the
"New York Legislature was that under the
old Common Laiw of England, which is more
<n less the fundamental law of every Amer-
ican state except Louisiana, “every dog is
entitled to one bite.” So the legislature, with
■tore sympathy for dogs than for mail car-
riers, voted down the proposed law.
We like dogs, as most folks like dogs. We
Amn’t like dogs that bite, especially when
Atey bite the mail man.
If there were some way whereby a dog
oodd be taught to discriminate between the
powtman and the tax collector, we would be
m flavor of giving the dog as many free bites
jm he wanted at the latter functionary. But
not at postmen.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
ttv Frank Parker Stockbridfe
TRAILERS .... home*
Now that spring is here and summer is close at
hand, the people who keep tab on such things are
predicting that there will be twice as many trailers
on the roads of the nation this year as last.
Something like 400,000 people will spend a lot
of time seeing America first and dragging their
homes behind them; and a lot of them will find
spots where they would like to stay and will stay
there, with no other home than the trailer.
A lot of people, including President Roosevelt,
are worried about the growth in the trailer popu-
latiorv. California is especially distressed about the
increasing number of people who come there ih
trailers and stay, without buying or renting a
house.
The President told Representative Elliott of
California that the Federal government was study-
ing that situation and would do something about
it. He thought the trailer folks ought to have per-
manent homes.
What Californians fear is .that a lot of these
nomads will become public charges. But I don’t
see in that any reason for blaming the trailer.
BEST COURSE TO PREVENT WAR
GYPSIES .... nomad*
In the year 1417 a strange, dark skinned people,
moving in small bands from place to place and set-
tling down nowhere, first began to flock into West-
ern Europe. Because people took them for Egyp-
tians, they came to be known as “Gypsies.”
They were really from India, and the strange
language they spoke, and their descendants still
speak all over the world, was a dialect of the an-
cient Sanskrit, the mother language of almost all
European and Indian tongues.
Gypsies got a bad reputation because of their
ability to get the better of simple folks in horse
trades, and because they fooled silly women into
believing they had the power to foretell the future.
And because the Gypsies had no fixed homes,
traveled in covered wagons or caravans and lived
in the open, “respectable” people came to look
with suspicion upon anybody of any race who
chose to roam instead of “staying put.”
I think that almost everybody still has in his
spirit something of the urge to move from place
to place, an urge inherited from our ancestors of
ten thousand years ago, who were all nomads.
Speaking of Dictators
European nations’ armies and navies are
Mobilized and facing each other ready for
war at a moments notice, yet we have faith
tfhat there will be no such general war. The
dictators are international bandits and bluf-
fers. They have taken what they could short
of war and seeing that the democracies have
American backing, are prepared to fight and
mean to do so upon the next aggression by
these bandits, we look for them to desist for
the present.
President Roosevelt is being severely
criticized for taking part in Eu/ilopean af-
fairs in warning the dictators plainly that
if a general war starts the United States
will have a part in it. Some of the critics are
political enemies and others actually fear we
will be drawn into such a war if it starts. It
is likely we will be drawn into such a war if
it comes and if the democracies are van-
quished it is certain we would have to fight
for South America. Mr. Roosevelt is doing
fjhe correct thing to warn the dictators that
we would take part, for force is all they can
understand and their memories are not too
short to remember America’s part in the
lest war.
ROAMERS .... liberty
As a people, we Americans have always been
reamers. The spirit of adventure is m bur blood.
Stop and think that every American is descended
from ancestors who came from somewhere else.
Even the Indians came to America from Asia.
Before automobiles were dreamed of, Americans
were always moving on from places where they
were reared to other parts of the country, and a
high proportion kept on moving, never staying
long enough in one place to establish themselves
permanently.
I think that national restlessness, the urge to
be on the move, had a good deal to do with mak-
ing this country the kind of place it is. Nowhere
else in the world could men move so freely over
such a wide area as in America.
Sunday School
. * Lesson •.
By RJCV. CHARLES} EL UIJK.V
M'FAUTTJL—* -
WRIGHT ; PATM AN
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TEXAS —
MIGRATION .... cen.u*
In Washington a short time ago I sat in a con-
ference of a hundred or more people who discuss- | demonetize
t-d for two days what sort of questions are to be
Placards advertising the coming senior
class play and bearing the likenesses of the
principal players are on display in show
windows of Cooper business houses this
week. Pictures of the local characters were
done by Wayne Robinson, student of Cooper
High School and reflect real ability. Con-
sidering that this boy has shown extraordi-
nary talent as an artist from early in life
and exhibits such splendid work without
any special training, indicates a brilliant
career if properly trained. Philanthropic
friends who desire that their funds count
for much in the future would make no mis-
take in seeing that this y%ung man had an
opportunity to develop his talents as an
artist.
With war imminent in Germany, Grover
C. Bergdoll, American born German and
notorious World War slacker, has decided to
return to his first love. Rather than submit
to the draft in 1917 he went to Germany
where he has been protected from a five
year sentence imposed on him in this coun-
try. He is sending his family here first as a
trial balloon and his wife says he will come
and submit to the sentence. It appears that
Bergdoll is not so mudh a traitor as just a
coward for he now deserts the fatherland
preferring jail in the U. S. to freedom in
Nazi Germany. But we don’t need cowards
asked of American people in the census of 1940.
I was most impressed by the insistence by the
majority of the group that everybody should be
required to tell where he or she lived ten years
ago. The purpose is, of course, to find out whether
people are still crowding into cities or moving
hack to the country.
From what I learned from the experts there, 1
was glad to find that the old roving spirit of
America still persists. The problem of internal
migration is a baffling one for those who would
like to see every American citizen planted in a
fixed spot.
It was interesting, too, to learn that the swing
of population is definitely away from the cities
and back to the country. More Americans than in
years are seeking security for their families by
whole time or part time subsistence farming.
But watch those fanrlies start roving as soon
as they are old enough to go out on their own.
They wouldn’t be Americans if they didn’t.
Gold
The daily statement of the
United States Treasury for April
5, 1939, discloses in its assets
$15,292,146,296.48 (billions) in
gold and $1,688,230,899.75 (bil-
lions) in silver. Under existing
law, the title to all this geld is in
the United States government.
The Federal Reserve Bank in
New York, acting under special
license granted, is holding $700,-
000,000 (millions) of gold ear-
marked for foreign countries and
foreign central banks that is not
included in this amount.
The United States is holding
60 per cent of the publicly re-
ported gold stocks of the world,
which Is more than any other
country in the world has ever held
at one time. The question is be-
ing asked:
“Is it possible that the rest of
the world having sold its gold to
the United States may proceed to
it, and, if so, what
would it be worth to us?”
tenants on long terms at a very
low rate of interest to purchase
farm homes. I introduced official
figures to show that when the
farmer prospers, the entire nation
prospers; and when -one dollar is
added to the farmer’s income, the
income of the wage-earner is also
increased one dollar.
2. Set aside a large amount of
this gold to be used for national
defense purposes. We do not
know what is going on in the
other countries, and we cannot
rely upon all of the information
we receive. Therefore, we should
be prepared and the use of a half
billion or a bullion dollars of this
gold will not only be helpful in
providing for adequate national
defense, but will give people
work and thereby reduce unem-
ployment. If our country were to
get into war, everybody would be
employed immediately to- engage
in a destructive business. It i*
possible for us to employ them
without getting into war, by the
use of even a small part of this
gold, and at the same time en
gage in a constructive business.
3. Congress should adopt the
policy of not issuing any more
bonds or securities of any kind
that are interest-bearing within
the next two years.
4. Set aside five million bales
cf surplus cotton to be used by
the Secretary of State to ex-
change for raw materials and
especially minerals that can only
be obtained from foreign ’ coun-
tries and which we need and use
in this country every day both in
time of peace and in time of war.
(We should also distribute a
large part of this cotton to an
agency in each of the 3,072 coun-
ties in the United States and give
it to people who need it if they
convert it into finished products,
such as mattresses, quilts and
other needed home comforts and
conveniences.)
We have produced too much of
everything to eat and too much
of everything to wear. If we did
not have gold or an orthodox way
of issuing a medium of exchange.
Paul Establishes Churches.
Lesson for Sunday, April lg
Acts 14.
Golden Text; 1st Gorin. 3:10,
After his conversion St. Paul
confined his energies for seven,
teen y?ars to a limited area, lab-
oring for three years in Damas-
cus, and then for fourteen years
in Tarsus, his birthplace, and in
Antioch of Syria, where the dis-
ciples were first called Christians.
But about the year 48 A. D. he
enlarged the scope of his activi-
ties by embarking on long mis-
sionary journeys as thei Apostle
of the Gentiles. At first, accom-
panied by Barnabas and Mark,
and later by other colleagues, he
visited Asia Minor, Macedonia
and Greece, establishing a Christ-
ian church in each important
center. Our lesson chapter tells of
his experiences at Iconium, Ly-
stra and Derbe. .4
How did Paul organize these
churches? A superficial reading
of the book of the Acts gives
the impression tha/t Christianity
sprang up as a great puo.’ic move-
ment in the c’t'es visited by the
apostle. But a closer study makes
it clear that Paul accomplished
more through quiet hand-to-hand
contacts than through his sensa-
tional sermons.
He made a great stir wherever
ho went, and provoked bitter op-
position from the “Judaizers”
who insisted, much to the apostle’s
dismay, that the newly converted
Gentile® must eat only kosher
meat and submit to the rite of
circumcision.
The result was sharp controver-
sy which more than once took the
form of rioting and violence. But
Paul won his converts in the main
not by his colorful public appear-
ances, but by direct personal in-
fluence.
Starting very likely with those
of his"own trade of tent-making
with whom he labored for hie
daily bread, he told them his gos-
pel one by one until he had gath-
ered about him a small circle out
of which grew a church.
In these days of miraculous
technical achievement, when a
message can be transmitted to the
whole world simultaneously with
its delivery, we need to remem-
ber that it still true, as it was in
Paul’s day, that the church is
made to grow fundamentally by
percjual work. There is no sub-
stitute for the face-to-face touch.
POPULATION .... ageing
By getting the reports from every state of the
number of babies born and the number of people
who die, and checking upon immigration from
abroad and emigration back to their fatherlands
of foreign-born residents, the census office keeps
a constant tab on the rate at which the nation is
growing.
More foreigners are leaving every year than are
coming in. People are living longer, so the death
rate is declining. Fewer babies are being born; so
that the total population of America is increasng
at a very much slower rate than at any time in
our history.
The statistical experts I talked with in the cen-
sus bureau say that, unless something happens to
change the picture, by 1970 our population will
be stationary, at about 142 millions. There will be
fewer children and young people, many more old
folks.
If that is so, there will be room for everybody to
roam and live as he or she pleases without fear of
being crowded out by newcomers. But with a peo-
ple averaging fifteen or twenty years oider than
novr, there may not be so much inclination to ram-
ble. The smaller proportion of youngsters will
have, it seems to me, a better chance.
here and if tihere is any way to keep him out
of this country it should be done.
The answer seems to be that
| the world will not sell all of its
gold to the United States; that
gold will not ba demonetized
and will very probably always be
in demand in ail countries. The
best reason for thinking that gold
will be wanted is that there is
nothing to take its place as a
monetary base where metal is
used. Silver has been gold’s only
rival since the time of Abraham,
and since the Silver Purchase Act,
the United States is absorbing
silver also. The gold coins of
Spain and Czechoslovakia are
good under any flag. Great Brit-
ain produces substantial quanti-
ties of gold and certainly desires
a continuation of gold as a mone-
tary medium; in fact, Great Brit-
ain produces almost one-half of
the world’s gold. Many other
countries producing relatively
small amounts find that those
small amounts are an important
source of national income to
them. England and France each
have more than $3,000,000,000
(billions) in gold and there are
substantial amounts in other coun-
tries. Although it is comparative-
ly easy for a country to abandon
gold or silver as a base for do-
mestic currency, yet these metals
are highly desirable and are now
necessary in world trade.
What should we do with thus
gold? Should we permit it to re-
main idle, or should we use it in
the interest of the people?
Surplus Gold And Cotton Can
Be Used
In a speech in the House of
Representatives recently, I advo-
cated the consideration of the
following:
1. Setting aside one billion
dollars or more of this gold upon
which 2 1-2 billion dollars coul l
sanely be issued to pay parity
price* to farmer* and to loan
IN YEARS GONE BY—
A Review Of The Patrt In
Ooper and Delta Caunty.
a a * a • •
a petition
to construct a
Vasco and Kensing.
Taken from the files of The Cooper Review:
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The new Hunt’s Dry Goods Store will open Friday in the W. A.
Tynes building. Local people included in the sales force are Neal
Pickens, Ed TurbevilLe, W. A. Tynes, Jr., Mrs. Ed Turbeville Mrs
Kate Grimes and Mrs. Jack Chesnut.
R. W. Knight has accepted a position witli the chamber of com-
merce at Crockett as secretary and will move his family to that place
in the near future.
Citizors of the ea.:t end of the county are circulating
to order an election to vote $75,000 worth of bonds
gravel road to connect Cooper with Charleston
TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Members of the Athletic Club entertained with a banquet Wed-
nesday honoring Lucile Sparks, Lorene Miller, Douglas Hendrix and
Herman Sparks all of whom won frst places in the League district
meet at Greenville last week end. Present were J. H. Newton R. L.
Stephenson, Chas. Naylor, Jr., Haywood Lain, Gaylen Chesnut,’Doug-
las Hendricks, Herman Sparks, Conway Jordan, Ivor Mullican Au-
brey Adair, Dave Hendricks, James Albright, John Garrard, Raymond
Walker, Lane Tynes, Bess Nanney, Frankie McKinney, Lillian Pierce
Clarice Winsett, Myra Dewitt, Mildred Fort, Margaret Brodhead!
Lucile Sparks, Lorene Miller, Cammie Wright, Janice Whittington!
Verna Adams, Sally Wright and Janice Culver. Mbs Sparks won in
spelling, Miss Miller in declamation, Hendrix and Sparks were tennis
champions.
A. C. (Allie) McDougal passed away at his home Tuesday morning
after a week’s illness of influenza. Rev. C. L. Bounds conducted the
funeral Wednesday. Other funerals held during the week were
those of Mrs. Henry Jenkins and Z. T. McVay.
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
A large trades day crowd was present Monday. R. E. Devers won
the $10 prize for having the largest family present, 14 in all, J. M.
Kinard was present with his family of 12, Lee Virgil and E. F. Wat-
son both had families of 11 each. Sam Simpson won the prize for
marketing the most chickens, L. B. Starks won the premium for the
best mule and Frank Chapman took the $5 for marketing the most
hogs.
A woman living west of town was taken violently insane last week
and after examination by Judge C. C. Dunagam and County Attorney
A. T. Stell she was ordered taken to Terrell by Sheriff j. E. Fraz-
ier.
Prof. J. H. Newton was painfully injured Monday when a large
pio«c of piaster fell from the calling and struck him. He waa taken
home and placed under the care of a physician.
many of our leaders would be
saying “if we only had gold to be
used as a vehicle to place produce
into the hands of the consumers,
our country would be well fixed.”
The sad part of it is that we do
have this gold and we are fading
] i to take advantage of the wonder-
j i ful opportunities that are ours to
j use it as a vehicle to place pro-
duction into the hands of people
who need it.
Federal Aid To Education
The Senate Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor has favorably
reported the bill providing Fed-
eral assistance to the states for
the support of public education.
The report is a pamphlet of twen-
ty-four pages and contains a very
interesting and instructive dis-
cussion of this proposed law. P
eludes a table showing the amount
of money that will be apportion-
ed to each state and other im-
portant information. I shall be
glad to send any one who requests
it a copy of this report, as I am
anxious t get the information
disseminated.
JO£
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Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1939, newspaper, April 14, 1939; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth895656/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Delta County Public Library.