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THE DELTA COURIER
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 194()
DELTA COURIER
COOPER, TEXAS
W. D. HART & SON, Publisher*
W. D. Hart Lyndol E. Hart
PUBLISHED EACH TUESDAY
Pirat door south S. W. Cor. Square
$1.00 Per Year in Advance
Entered as second class matter
•t the postoffice at Cooper, Texas,
under the act of Congress, March
1879.
Author of **How to Win Friend$
and Influence People."
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McGinity’s Fifth
Reader For 2940 A. D.
BY GIBBONS POTEET
CURING AN INFERIORITY
____________________________ COMPLEX
EXPIRATIONS—The address la- In Galveston there is a woman
t>el on your paper shows the time who conquered an inferiority eom-
to which your subscription is paid, plex without aid and without pay-
Thua Jan 1-41 means that
cobecription expires on the
day of January, 1941.
your
first
OBITUARIES, ETC.—All obituar-
ies, resolutions of respect, cards
tf thanks and matters of like char
•eter will be charged for at
rate of 1-2 cent per word.
Advertising rate made en ap-
plication.
I ing a cent. She is Mrs. Rosella
H. Werlin.
She had a good reason for hav-
ing an inferiority complex. Her
father, a country preacher, had
seven children, and Rosella was
. thq homely girl of the family. All
her sisters were good looking, but
she had protruding teeth and a
I scrawny face. Once she read
The Ugly Duckling” and for two
read something in a newspaper
which changed her life. It said
that the best way to cure an in-
feriority complex is little by
little. That is, achieve success in
some small thing, realize if you
have done it once you can do it
again. She thought of how she
had made a success of the inter-
view and said to herself, ‘‘I did
it once, I can do it again.” She
took courage from this and went
out on the next interview without
being haunted by thoughts of fail-
ure. She began to develop into
star reporter; the fat assignments
THE KING WHO TRUMPED
HIMSELF
Once upon a time there was a
young king ready to set up in the
king business. But he had learned
from his father, the old king, that
the king business had just about
played out—that a king was not
head of ‘plant.” “Oh,” says the
king, “that is all right. But you
said we had made $1,000,000.
Where is that?” Charlie says-
“That means the goods left on
hand.” “Why were the, goods left
on hand, Charlie?” "Because the
people could not buy them. You
paid out only a million, but mark-
ed the goods $1,100,000. The
people paid all the million back
to you but that left $100,000
goods on hand—in inventory. That
was your profit.”
The king says: “Where is that
baby of
been
any more than a seven spot—that 1 inventory Charlie?” “In the gran-
I know 1 have trumped myself and
crooked myselff pretty bad too.
“Boliver, did you know it would
turn out this way?" “Yes sir. ’
“Then why did you not tell me.'
“You didn’t ask me. And besides
if I had told you, it wouldn’t have
made you know it. The old lady j you jmve nmde something better
experience keeps a dear school —you h(ive nlu(]e a way ^
but she teaches. Now you know thousand fine families to make a
**•” lliving. They are happy. Don’t
Then the king jumped up and | you hear them singing as they
yelled “inventory, inventory, I j p|ow down the row and don’t you
wish I had never heard that word i hear the women singing?
Mrs. W. T. McCarty of Abilen,
and Mrs. Durwuod McCorkle
reetwater wh„
visiting Mrs. McCarty's
parents Mr. and Mrs. J. R. jot)es
for the past week left Friday f0r
their respective homes.
I nights in succession dreamed that j carne her way-
1 she awoke and looked in the mir- ! Finally she went into publicity
PRfiM
TON
ENLOE NEWS
MRS. A. C. VOYLES
ror and was beautiful. On top
of all this she had to wear higgle-
de-piggly, homemade clothes.
She attended the University of
Texas suffering from this same in-
feriority complex, but finally
managed to get a job on a news-
paper. Her first assignment was
to go out and interview a family
where an old Negro couple had
served for fifty years. She was
so nervous about it that she walk-
and began making a name for her-
self. She wa« living in Houston,
but Galveston swallowed its pride
and hired her although she was
from Houston. She has put over
some outstanding publicity stunts
for Galveston. She originated a
“Hay Fever” contest which got
3,000 inches of publicity. When
the Badgett quadruplets came
along she helped publicize that
event; helped make them famous.
Today she is probably the only
woman director of publicity for a
Delbert Patterson is quite lame
due to an injury he received while
loading a bale of cotton. In some led past the door three times bc-
way it fell and caught his foot j fore she could bring herself to
smashing it badly. ring the bell. Finally she went chamber of commerce in a large
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mullins vis- in, got the interview, and wrote 1 city in the United States She
ited Wallace Whitaker and family ; a story that the city editor com- 1 climbed up because of what she
plimented her on. She was thrill- | happened to read one day__that
e<h | the best way to cure an inferior-
A day or two after that she ity complex is little by little.
of Faught this week.
Mrs. A. A. Brannon is ill at her
home in the Greenwood commun-
ity three miles north of town.
A. W. Enloe and Gaither Moore
were Paris visitors Friday.
George Dewitt is unimproved
at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Dewitt of
Cooper visited relatives here
Thursday night.
W. H. Iglehart was a business
visitor in Cooper Friday.
Paul Brown attended to busi-
ness in Cooper Friday.
Eldon Bratton of Pecan Gap
visited Mr. and Mrs. Lane Cregg
Fric?ay.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Whitlock
and children, Mollie Jean, and
Donald, and Mrs. B. B. Viles were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Shilling
of Commerce the first of the week.
This Week
In
\V ashingtcm
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Are
we going to revise our neutrality
laws to make it legal for us to
give greater help to Great Britain?
That’s the most important sub-
ject under discussion here today.
That, and the fact that the Pres-
I which require intelligent consid-
j oration. One subject which is be-
. ing widely discussed at the mo-
I ment is that of changes in the
I representation in Congress based
j on the new 1940 census.
It is not expected1 that there
| will be an increase in the number
of representatives in the house,
since a law was passed in 1929 to
limit the number of representa-
tives to 435—the number which
have been in the house ever since
1910. That law could be changed
to incirease the number, but it is
not thought likely that that will be
done.
There are several, methods that
ident has been on a fishing trip.
For, to most of Washington a fish- i Congress can use to reapportion
Peggy To, tin? bttle^daughter of jt1 ^ trip heralds an important de-I The representation of the various
cision, and it is expected that soon j states based on their new popula-
after the President returns he is tion. At the present time each
apt to say just what he thinks we , representative speaks for slightly
Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Thomas, is ill
at this time.
Mrs. G. C. Coston returned this
week from a visit with her son-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Johnson.
Everett Powers of Paris visited
his mother, Mrs. Ola Powers, Fri-
day.
Mrs. J. E. Hopkins and son,
Dick, visited relatives in Dallas
this week. They were accompan-
ied home by their son and brother,
who made a brief stay with the
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McBride
and little daughter of Burkburnett
arrived Thursday morning for a
visit with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Odel Askew were
shopping in Paris Thursday.
Miss Opal Horton will present
her pupils i" a program at the
Enloe High School
Wednesday night.
Mrs. C. E. Cregg and Mrs. W. 1
H. Iglehart were shopping in
Paris Wednesday.
Mrs. Lane Cregg was called to
Pecan Gap Friday to see her
mother, Mrs. Bratton, who is ill.
Mrs. Dovie Johnson is suffering
with an infection in her hand.
Mr. and Mrs. John Davis of
Hugo, Okla., spent the week end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, G.
W. Davis.
should do about increasing help
to Britain and making it possible
to loan money to that country.
The visit of England’s Sir Fred-
erick Phillips to Washington, is
also expected to bring to a head a
over 300,000 people. After each
census action is taken to reappor-
tion representation in line with
population shifts.
If the method used after the
1930 census is adopted by this
decision on the loan to Britain ; Congress, eight states would gain
question. Sir Frederick came here '
primarily to lay the groundwork
ten states
for loans and to present figures
to show the present financial
strength of the British Empire and
its ability to pay. He has said
that Britain is now spending
about $45,000,000 a day on the
war and that help will be needed
soon.
Question of Involvment
To the people in this country,
" ; and to Congress, the problem isn’t
auditorium I , e . K
so mu h how England will pay. It
is more how much we will be in-
volved' in the war if we decide to
repeal our law which now prevents
loans to nations which haven’t paid
then- debts from the last war.
That law was one of several
which were passed in order to j
keep our country in a neutral po-
sition. Among the people as well
representatives and
would each lose one.
California would gain three and
the following states would each
gain one: Arizona, Florida, Mich-
igan, New Mexico, North Carolina,
Oregon, and Tennessee.
The states which would each
lose one are: Arkansas, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massach-
usetts, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma
and Pennsylvania.
Action on Died Report*
Revelations by the Dies Com-
mittee, of Fifth Column and Com-
munistic activities in this country,
have caused a lot of angry argu-
ments here and it is expected that
these arguments will grow more
fervent in discussions in Congress.
With the country sacrificing bil-
lions to build defenses, most Con-
gressmen are in no mood to per-
r.ioney is “monarch of all it sur-
veys” and that it had surveyed just
about all the world and taken pos-
session of it. So the young king
decided to find him a new land in
which to do his reigning. He took
one of his father’s ships and sailed
into the seven seas and did find a
brand new large island, a regular
little continent. He took possession
in the good old way, by right of
discovery.
The young king was a million
aire by inheritance, but he was
ambitious and wanted to ‘achieve’
nn<f be a man among men on bib
cwn hook. So he decided to be a
captain of industry. He reasoned
that if captains of industry in the
old country could make millions
when they owned only a small
port of the business that he could
make more money if he owned the
whole country and did all the busi-
ness. So he went to the old coun-
try and selected about a thousand
fine energetic families and1 brought
them to his new island. He built
and furnished them all houses. He
brought over seed, farming tools
and a start of livestock, and put
his farmers to breaking the new
ground and his herdsmen to tend-
ing their flocks. His island had
an ideal climate, rich -.op, and all
the natural resources.
He would have a complete plant,
manufacturing as we],] as agricul-
tural, so he brought over the lat-
est machinery and skilled engi-
neers to set it up. He would go
the common captains of industry
one better, and be raw producer,
manufacturer and merchant all in
one, then all the profits accruing
to the various industries would all
belong to him. He would employ
all the people at good wages, for
he was a fair young man.
With the people, having their
houses furnished and a promise of
permanent employment there was
ro occasion nor necessity to “save”
so they paid into the king’s stores
all their wages and salaries. No
saving nor hoarding at all.
He was a nohle young king and
aries, warehouses and stores:”
“Charlie do you mean to tell me
I have madle a hundred thousand
dollars and then have nothing to
show for it but a lot of weevilv
wheat and worm eaten cheese’
Boliver, I came over here to make
money.” “Yes, that is what I
heard you say, king.” “But” says
the king “that stuff is not money.
13 there any way that I may turn
it into money?” “Yes,” says Bol-
iver, “the usual way is to sell the
inventory to the people on credit.
Let them pay 10 per cent a month,
then in ten months the credits will j
be paid and you will have turned I
your profit stock into cash!" ]
“Good” says the king, “I am glad j
I brought you along, Boliver. j
Charlie, you hear Boliver. Sell
the goods on credit and charge j
them G per cent interest.” So it |
was done.
At the end of the second year
the knig says: “Charlie, how did)
we come out this time? Did the
people pay up their credits? “Yes”
says Charlie, “all the credits are
paid and we made another $100,••
000. this year—made another mil-
lion worth of goods. Marked them
—inventory is eating up all my
profits.” “No,” says Boliver, the
inventory is your profits. If it
had not been for the device of
credit, profits always would be
in goods—and when credit plays
out inventories stack up and the
game is blocked, and then the in-
crudites say we have a depression."
Then the king says, “Sir Boli-
vt-r, I want to know how it is that
captains of industry in the old
country make millions when they
own only a small part of the busi-
ness, whereas I own the whole
country and d'o all the business, I
can’t make a cent.”
Boiiver says, “King, did* all the
captains of industry make mil-
lions?” “No,” says the king, “as
I remember most of them finally
failed.” “And” says Boliver, “did
all the millions of working people
who helped the big ones make
millions—did these workers all
make a profit too?” “No”, says
the king, I think most of them
were usually half starved and I
fear thousands of them do actual-
ly starve to death.”
Then Sir Boliver says, “Well,
king, if you will put all these facts
into your head1 and let them rat-
tle round they may hatch out a
making a living, king, should be
the object of all business; and
making a Living and improving the
race and making it more humane
and happier is the only business
success there ever can be.
And you have learned a
economic truth, king, that
never could have learned witl
this experience. You may be abl^" **
to do the world good by showing
why inventories stack up and bring
on first “panics” and then wars.
But for the present quit worrying
about making money and let’s go
fishing.” The king says, “blamed
if T don’t go—I’ve been wanting
to go fishing for ten years.”
4aU>
C. A. COCKRELL
INSURANCE
NOTARY PUBLIC
PECAN GAP — TEXAS
up 10 per cent and that gave u* thought and then you can see how
another $100,000 profit. Here is
your balance sheet.”
The king looked at the balance
sheet and then jumped up one leg
wrapped around the other and
yelled, “By the eternal snow gods,
Boliver, Charlie has down here
inventory $200,000 this year—
more weevily wheat and wormy
cheese. Looks like I can’t get
rid of any inventory at all. I sold
last year’s inventory and Charlie
says it was paid for and then
here we have twice as much inven-
tory as before. Is that right,
Boliver—how is it?"
Sir Boliver says: “Certainly,
kin*, and how could it be other-
wise? It is this way: the people
had to pay for last year’s inven-
tory out of this year’s wages. You
paid them another million this
year in wages but $100,000 went
on last year’s goods, so that would
leave only $900,000 to buy this
onstrated"that'he'was'a Jesting
and had ‘made his pile’ he would
as among Congressmen, there is a I mit anti-Democratic groups
wide division of opinion on what
should be done. The question re-
volves around the one point whicli
affects so many decisions in
Washington today—namely: Are
we willing to risk war for Amer-
ica in order to aid Britain’s chances
of defeating the Axis powers?
On this subject, Congressional
thought ranges from those who
think we should enter the war im-
mediately to those who think that
it isn’t our war and we should
keep our handfc off no matter
what happens. Public opinion
has been polled on this question
many times, but there still seem?
CHARLESTON
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bangs of
Enloe visited Mr. and* Mrs. J. C.
Chessher Wednesday.
Mrs. Lois Wright was shopping
in Cooper Monday.
Mrs. Bill Oliver was attending
business in Paris Tuesday.
Gordon Irons of Upshur coun-
ty brought his basketball team to
East Delta Friday night.
Mrs. Sallie Eubanks and Mrs.
Katie Crumpton and daughter, has clearly said that it wants our
Geraldine, of Paris, visited with defense built to the hilt and that’s
Mis> Ruby and Ray Aldridge Wed- as far as it is willing to talk for
nesday. the record. But there is no doubt
Mrs. Rosa Nabors, who has been that the next session of Congress
visiting her mother in Hugo, Okla., will beforced to decide this vital
has returned home. question.
Mrs. N. L. Aldridge is visiting Change, in Representation
with her two daughters in Fort | Althought the war and our do-
! fense program overshadow every-
, thing else in Washington today,
Review and Courier, I year SI.BD there are still other problems
individuals to interfere with that
program. And it is expected that
they will propose legal means to
make fast work of putting the
screws on Fifth Column activities.
It is the general feeling that in
spite of the excellent work certain
individuals, such as J. Edgar
Hoover, are dbing to control these
activities, the government is being
too lax with the situation.
Closely tied up with these ac-
tivities, in the eyes of Congress,
are the labor problems and strikes
which have slowed up work in de-
fense industries. On the floor of
Congress, Representative Sumners
to be no clear group feeling on the I of Texas, who heads a suheoinn.it-
subjecit. The American nation
tee which is seeking the answer to
the defense strike situation, warn-
ed that unless action is taken, we
will have the same stuation as in
France, “where manufacturers
were concerned for a profit u'-d
the operatives were concerned for
what they called social gains.”
Mr. Sumners said that the na-
tion “will not tolerate for one
split second that anybody can par-
alyze the operation of these plants
upon which the safety of this na
donate the island to his people
who had helped him make his
money. Yes? With a rising in-
flection.
The old king says: “Son, you
are going into something you
know nothing about. You would
better take along Sir Boliver
Buckshot as your business advis-
er.” “Why father, Boliver has lost
all the jobs he ever had with the
big corporations and universities.”
“Yds, and I know why Boliver lost
his jobs, son. Truth is a bitter
dose to the exploiters. Boliver
knows more economic truth than
the whole shooting match.” So
Boliver was taken along. And
Charley Smart was to be head of
the accounting department. The
king says: “Boliver, I want you
to he fair to the people. Do you
think 10 per cent would be too
much profit to charge?” Sir Boli-
ver says, “No, inasmuch as you
are furnishing them their houses,
I think that would be very rea-
sonable.”
The young king’s business was
encouraged from the start. The
sun shined1, the showers came, the
gress grew, the crops flourished,
the birds and the women sang, the
anvils rang, and the machinery
hummed.
At the end of the first full
year’s business the king says,
“Charlie, how did we come out?”
“Fine, we made a million dollars
worth of goods and, as per your
instructions, marked the goods up
10 per cent. That gave us a pro-
fit of $100,000. Here is your bal-
ance sheet.”
The king says, “Charlje, how is
this? You have down here ‘cash
on hand’ $500,000. How is this
when I brought a million over
here?” Charlie says, “But you re-
member, king, that you sent bark
tr the old country $500,000 for
tools, stock, lumber, machinery,
etc., you will find that uudler the
year cost 1,000,000 but they were
marked up 10 per cent making the
selling price $1,100,000. Then
$1,100,000 less $900,000 would
leave $200,00 ) inventory. Just
elementary, k ng.”
Then the k!ng says: “This busi-
ness thing is not what I thought
it was. Here the hooks show that
in two years I have made $200,-
000 and still rash on hand $500,-
000. I haven’t made a cent of
money. Boliver it looks to mo
just; like I have trumped myself
—held all the cards and then
trumped myself.”
Then the king looked at his in-
ventory again and says: “Look
here, Charlie, this inventory is
$206,000—where does that $6,-
000 come in?” Charlie says: “You
ssid charge 6 per cent interest on
that last year’s profit stock—the
inventory—and 6 per cent of
$100,000 would be $6,000. The
folks had to pay that interest out
of this year’s wages and so their
purchasing power for this year’s
goods was cut $6,000 and that left
that much more goodis in the in-
ventory.”
Then the king says: “Boliver,
it looks to me just exactly like I
paid $6,000 interest myself—to
to myself. Did I?’’ “Certainly says
Sir Boliver, “and the $100,000
worth of goods I sold on credit.—
did I pay that too?” “Certainly”
says Boliver. “Who else could
jwiy it?” Then the king says, “Now
| owning and doing all the business
I you could not make any money
; whereas other men owning only a
part of the business can get mon-
ey.”
Then the king says, “I am dis-
gusteu with this thing called busi-
ness. I believe a pirate could make
J more money.” Boliver rays, “Now
king, when you said pirate, you i
were getting warm.” Rut the king |
says, “No that won’t do—they ]
hang all priates.” “No”, says I
Boliver, “not modern pirates
The up to date pirates have re-1
fined their business, and now get j
them a law that gives pirates a
legal right to scuttle ships in all j
the seas with impunity and im-
munity. Now that is a noble and
safe way to make money.”
The king says, “Stop fooling,
Boliver. I am in earnest. The peo-
ple cannot have enough purchas-
ing power to consume the goods
they make. If I sell to them on
credit, then I have to pay the
credit myself. I want to quit.
What would you do with this is- I
land? But don’t feel so bad—you !
have made a big sucees. Of j
course you cou'id not make any |
money unless you molded it. But
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