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I'AGE TWO
THE COOPER REVIEW
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941
COOPER REVIEW
W. D. .HART & SON, BubUshers ____
W. D. HART LYNDOL E. HAR1
». ii ■ »th S. W. corner squM* Telephone 86
the hope op the world
The world as a v^hole does not judge us
very kindly. We are an enigma people to the
populac e of other nations—an enigma which
they solve periodically by calling us "money-
mad”, "boisterous”, "qtwrrel-’ome”, "un-
stable”, “emotional”, or just plain "crazy.”
They are prone to pick the most lurid ac-
counts from our newspapers, label them
“American” and file them in a corner of their
minds to be plucked out and examined when
the next idiosyrvcracy of the Western Hemis-1
phere is reported.
Last year we had a registration day on j
which every man between thie ages of 21 and
35, with a few exceptions, registered for '
compulsory military service. It is true that j
the radio devolted istpecial time to the new 1
draftees, that a few people stayed up all
night so that they might be the first to reg-
ister, 'belt on the Whole the day passed very
much as any other day.
The lurid "tales of that registration whidr
have drifted back from the otlner side woiuld
make your hair stand on end: "Mass regis-
trations. People cheering in the streets.
Business© 1 closed for the day. Bands playing.
Flags waving. Drums rolling."—that is the
impression Europeans have of America. If
we 'had had that much fun out of it, we’d
register twice a month.
Perhaps that feeling is the reason why we
are misjudged abroad. A foreigner points
out our childish antics and instead of con-
tradicting him, we are more likely to say:
“You’re darn tootin’! And watch our dust
from here on in!” An*d that, though it too
sound! like fun, hits far wide of the expres-
sion of the true America—the most stable
nation on earth. The one nation with a mes-
sage for mankind. A message that will din
into the ears of modern tyrants as they fall,
as surely as that first message from Amer-
ica. in the words of Thomas Carlyle, clanged
in the corridors of Versailles when Louis the
fifteenth, King' of France, lay dying:
“Borne over the Atlantic, to tlhe closing
ear of Louis, King by the Grace of God, what
sounds are these; muffled, ominous, new in
our centuries? Boston Harbor is blick with
unexpected Tea: behold a Pennsylvanian
Congress gather; and ere long, on Bunker
Hill. Democracy announcing, in rifle-volleys,
death-winged, under her Star Banner, to
the tune of Yankee-doodle-doo.i that she is
born, and, whirlwind-like, will envelop the
world!”
The world is not enveloped—not yet. But
America stands fast, holding to the principle-',
of her birth. There is your stable America.
There is your America tlhat has never lost
sight of the freedom and dignity of man,
the rights of the individual, the right to
self-determination. There, through all our
blustering, our boisterousness, our “Git up
and go” is the thing wet hold moat dear. The
thing that yet will rise again in Europe, in
Asia, in Africa. Will rise to conquer the
world-while t'hei-hots of Lexington and Con-
cord echo in men’s hearts wherever they may
be. There is your true America. America, the
hope of the world!
LOWERED EXEMPTIONS ON INCOMES
Uncle Sam (must have much more money
«.v th which * . & d Eng.and a • > prepnc for
war which means that the peope must pay
for more than they ever have paid. The
amended income tax law limits exemptions
to $800 for single persons and $2,000 for
married people. Due to lowering of exemp-
tions the internal revenue department will
limit the aid to Ihose making income tax re-
turns. No corporation, estate or gift ta-;es
and no complicated personal income above
ten thousand dollars iwill receive aid in pre-
paring their returns. No return! will pe pre-
pared for individuals who do not 'have avail-
able all complete information nor those re-
quiring additional schedules.
Inauguration, 1941!
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TODAY AND
TOMORROW
DON ROBINSON
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
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— CONGRESSMAN — TEXAS —
seaboard states. In the days
ahead more and more national de-
fense projects will be established
in the South and West.
hwEAuawBumm
Dr. Mudd
The assassination of President
Lincoln was one of the biggest
tragedies of all time, for he was
loved by those who lived in the
South as well as by the Norther-
ners. Undoubtedly the man who
caused his death was not mental-
ly balanced hut felt that in do-
ing what he did he was perform-
ing a feat that would rank him
as a great hero of the Southland,
when, as a matter of fact it did
just the opposite. I speak as a
man who knows what he is talk-
ing about for I was born in Vir-
ginia, that state where the great-
est dramas of the Civil War were
staged and whose people suffered
more than in any other during
Ihose terrible days.
After Booth killed President
Lincoln who was seated in a box
in Fnrd’g__Theatre, he. jumped
WAR
committee*
Mt. Joy
War Situation
Notwithstanding any aid
| the labor that will be released by
and j defense industry when the pre-
the great/ aid that will be given
by our country to the democracies
that are fighting for their lives,
our country will not send men
overseas to engage in a war.
When, the war in Europe first
commenced and the people in
this country were sympathizing
with the nations that were being
overrun by aggressors and dicta-
tors. many of our people were
saying through [ the newspapers
and over the air that if our coun-
try, the United States, could gel
the soldiers of England or China
or any of the affected, countries
to do the fighting that it would
be a fine thing for us to furnish
them with the equipment includ-
ing gun! and ammunition. In
other words, our man power would
not run any risk at all and the
only sacrifice our country would
paredness program is, finished.
The President made it plain j
that no one will be allowed to get
rich out of the preparedness pro-
gram and that taxes must be lev-
ied to pay all costs.
WPA
Congress is now considering the
WPA appropriation) for the one
year commencing July 1, 1941,
and ending June 30, 1942. How-
ard O. Hunter, Acting Work Pro-
jects Commissioner, states that
the WPA rolls will have to he cut
beginning in March; that the WPA
now employs an average of about
1,900,000; that WPA will reduce
its rolls to 1,500,000 by June 30,
1041 and in the fiscal year that
follows will employ an average of
only 1,300,000.
The question is, what will be-
come of the 000,000 persons
make would be to pay for the dropped from the rolls? It is
production of the war equipment, [estimated that defense activity
It is thought that if Hitler | will create 2,000,000 new jobs
should get control of the Eastern this year in piivate industry and
hemisphere that this country and that about 400,000 persons prob-
the entire Western hemisphere
would be in danger from then on;
that for the next generation or
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Cooper
have moved to their new home
near Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Cooper moved into the house va-
cated by his father.
Earl Foster is ill with the flu
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Gillean
of Lake Creek, spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Gil-
lean.
Mrs. John Harvey Toon and
Mrs. Jewell Skeen and baby,
Margaret Ann, spent Thursday in
Paris visiting Mrs. Skeen’s tooth-
er, Mrs. Hattie Stanley.
Roland and Bud Rainey went
to Abilene where they are em-
ployed driving trucks.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Gillean
and baby spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Carrington
visited Mr. and Mrs. G. Skeen
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowry Rainey and
baby, Linda Sue, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Rainey.
There* was a party at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Robbins practice
from the second floor to the stage
and in doing so broke several
small bones of his foot. Limping
he reached his horse, held in the
alley behind the theatre by a
Negro hoy, and fled to Maryland,
crossing the Anocostia bridge,
hoping to get into the South.
However, his foot began swell-
ing and the pain was so intense
that he was forced to dismount
and seek medical help. He woke
Dr. Mudd, a country physician,
who never before had seen or even
heard of himj and after being
ministered to by the doctor, who
helped him remount his steed,
continued his journey. Instead
of going further on as he told
Dr. Mudd, he went into hiding in
the physician’s barn and was
found there and shot by Sergeant
Corbett of a Michigan Cavalry
Regiment.
Dr. Mudd was arrested and al-
though absolutely innocent was
tried as an accomplice for the
murder of the President and found
guilty. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment in a fort in the
Dry Tortugas, a group of coral
islands, situated off the cost of
Florida.
Yellow fever broke out among
the garrison and many officers
and men succumbed to its at-
tack. Finally the army surgeon
died in the epidemic, and in this
crisis Dr. Mudd volunteered to
act, with such success that there
were no more deaths. Later at
the request of the entire garrison
he was pardoned.
I was stationed at the > Naval
Proving Ground at Indian Head,
Maryland, about five miles from
the home of Dr. Mudd, where he
had retired to again resume the
of medicine. Frequent-
Whatever your attitude is toward war, there’s a
committee to fit it. But at the same time, there are
a hundred and one other committees which hope
to make you think differently than you do now.
The war has caused the greatest epidemic of
public opinion committees that has ever , been
known in this country. Most of them are organ-
ized by people who are absolutely sincere in think-
ing that they hold the best solution for the futur^^
of America. A few are backed by agents of
eign governments and are purely propaganda
agencies and a few others are just rackets—rack-
ets whereby individuals hope to get rich by asking
for donations to a “committee” with a patriotic
sounding name.
The idea behind most of the committees is fun-
damentally Democratic—it is based on the p inci.
pal that people who have the same interests should
hand together to make their voices heard in a land
where the people rule.
But the committees have been organized so thick
and fast that most of us are in a total state of
confusion about them. Consequently, many of us
have been milled into sending donations to com-
mittees which actually are at total variance with
our attitude.
OPPOSITION
choice
If you want this country to keep! its hands off
of foreign affairs, in an effort to avoid war, the
America First Committee, headed by General Rob-
ert E. Wood, is prepared to plead your cause. So
is the No Foreign War Committee, recently organ-
ized by Verne Marshall, Iowa newspaper man, who
says that he is working closely with the; America
First Committee.
If you’re a woman, with these views, you might
prefer to tie up with a committee confined to your
own sex. In that case, there’s the Women’s Inter-
national League for Peace and Freedom, or the
Women’s National Committee to Keep the United
States Out of War.
Or perhaps you are young and would like to
speak through an organization of young people.
Then you can join up with the Youth Committee
Against War. And if you’re a writer, perhaps
you’d prefer the Writers Anti-War Bureau, or if
you’re a laborer you might want to contribute to
the Labor Anti-War Council. Methodists might
prefer to work throught the World Peace Commis-
sion of the Methodist Church.
No matter what you are, there’s a group to fit
you.
LIST
conf uiion
Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Babe Toon of
Milam visited Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
nold Jones and family Sunday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Coker vis-
IN YEARS GONE BY—
With Senator Aiken and Joe (Coon Creek)
Gandy in Austin, we have felt our interests
pretty ably represented in the iegisla- j possible restriction in either the
lily will be taken from WPA rolls
to fill thes- jobs. Three is a
waiting list for WPA jobs that
even half century or longer peo-|now totals 1,000,000 applicants,
pin of the Western hemisphere j The greatest need for WPA help
would have to devote practically j seems to be in the states thatlited in Bairdstown last week.
all of their time and attention to j over the Midwest running South--
defense efforts; that there would I from Montana, North Dakota and Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Harris and
be no peace in the world so long i Minnesota. [granddaughter, Miss Laconia Har-
as the dictators had control of I In the rush to obta.n planes, ris, of Winnsboro, were week end
Europe. ; tanks, gunj and ammunition 80 guests of; his sisters, Mrs. M. B.
It is contended that tne dicta-|P°r cent of National Defense Miller, Mrs. Roy McClain, and
tors have an advantage over the !< ontracts have been let in the Airs. J. Elmer Thompson,
democracies because they can aetl__
quickly and speedily; that they '
have no Congress to block, retard 1
or delay their efforts. The ad- j
ministration in power and the i
Congress realizes this situation I
and is now considering giving I
President Roosevelt blanket pow-
er and authority to do what he
believes is necessary to assist
those countries whose defense the
President deems vital, to the de-
fense of the United States and
that are opposing invasion by the
dictators. The countries that will
likely receive the aid, if such
power is granted, will be Britain,
Greece and China. It is con-
templated that the power given
will he “notwithstanding the pro-
vision of any other law.” This,
without naming them, waives any
A Review Of The Bast In
Cooper ami Delta County .
ly in the evening I rode over to
spend the evening with this vener-
able doctor and talk of old times.
He was bitter in his denunciation
of the treatment he had received
and many, many times told me
had he known who Booth was and
what he had done, that he would
have turned him over to the au-
thorities.
But if you don’t care for committees limited to
your age, sex or leligious beliefs, there are still
plenty of anti-war organizations to choose from in
addition to the America First Committee and tl^
No Foreign War Committee. ^
You could, for example, look into the activities
of the National Council for the Prevention of War,
the Keep America Out of War Congress, the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee, the National Coun-
cil for the Prevention of War, Peace House,
Church Peace Union, World Peace Foundation, Pan
American Society, Inc., Citizens National Keep
America Out of War Committee, National Com-
mittee to Keep America Out of War, Department
of International Justice and Goodwill, World
League for Permanent Peace or the American
Peace Mobilization. Just to name a few.
It is obvious from these names that some have
specific jobs they are attempting to accomplish.
But the great majority could be combined under
one head and by so doing would end confusion and
build up a strong organization to replace a lot of
weak ones.
selection
Barbara Jean Cathey
- - AID . . .
Doctors Creek News So far I’ve just mentioned committees which are
strongly opposed to any moved, which might in-
volve the United States in war. But there are al-
most as many committees which are taking a
F. C. Fisher, Jr. has slightly ptronP anti-appeasement attitude,
improved and is able to be hack 1 *u> ^est known of these is the Committee to De-
in school. fend America by Aiding the Allies. This commit-
wor
ture which convened this week, but
Creek, who has been in Austin for a 'week
"getting on to the ropes” announces that he.
is going1 to b d with the chickens in his little
ten hy ten 'hotel room and that 'he gets up lie-
fore day light, as is hii-i custom, and we know’
he can’t keep up with those legislators and
lobbyists with those 'hours. It 'may be that
Joe will be up by tfrti© time the others come in'
from their poker1 games and nightly forays
and in that instance he will get the low down
on the boys and save' the situation. We are
betting on him being on time for roll call.
Taken from the files of The Cooper Review.
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The Cooper Boy Scout troop presented a program at (the Cooper
High School Monday night to a large audiencie. Presented on the
program were Vance Carrell, James Loran Fulton, Albert Gene Lain,
Glendell Jenkins, Clint Kennemer, Elwyn Byrns, and Durwood Flem-
ing.
Aliss Marion Thomas of Cooper has been named as one of the
beauties for the East Texas State Teachers College annual in Com-
merce.
Miss Laverne Briscoe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Briscoe of
Cooper route two, has been named the winner of a $25 prize for
story writing for a leading magazine.
TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The following officers have been elected in the Klondike State
Rank: J. J. Hunt, I. J. Bills, Jeff D. Lindley, W. T. Peek, Oscar Tid-
well, L. L. Allard, Mrs. W. A. Thomason, J. M. Clower, directors: J.
J. Hunt, president, I. J. Bills, vice president, J. M. Clower, cashier,
L. L. Allard, assistant cashier. Following are the officers for the
Pecan Gap State Bank: S. D. Miller, president, W. E. Weldon, vice
president, W. I. Bartley, vice president and cashier, D. I). Dunn, as-
sistant cashier, Hal R. Little, bookkeeper.
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Announcement has been made of the approaching marriage of Miss
Bertha Pillman and Dixon M. Smith of Dallas. The wedding will take
ciples of parity and soil conserva- : place at the home of the bride-to-be’s mother, Mrs. Florence Pillman.
tion. He disclosed that a pro- The brick work on the Fisher-Hart building on the southeast cor
gram is now being worked out to ner of the square has been completed and woodwork will hp rushed
arrange for a reservoir of con- j to completion. It is expected that the first issue of the Cooper Rc- |
struction projects to help absorb view will be published in the building by Feb. 1.
Coon I Johnson Act or the Neutrality
Act.
President’* Message
In his message to Congress the
President insisted that our social
and economic program must he
retained in the face of war
changes; that the social security
program should be enlarged and
the agriculture program continu-
ed to definitely manitain the prin
Mr. and Airs. Thurman Cathey,
Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Hudson and
Marlin Cathey went to Paris Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hamm spent
the day at Post Oak Sunday and
attended singing also Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Ward attended the
singing.
Mrs. Bessie Cathey has gone to
Carthage to be with relatives who
are ill.
Miss Dorothy Allison spent the
week end with Opal Caldwell at
Milam.
Miss Sina Hamm and Barbara
Jean Cathey spent the night with
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hamm in
their new home at Craig-Tranquil.
The Doctors Creek school start-
ed their hot lunch program Mon-
day.
Every one is invited to* attend
the singing at Doctors Creek
school house.
tee, until recently headed by the well known Kan-
sas publisher, William Allen White, does not seem
to be quite clear on its present stand. But there is
little doubt that it will continue to work for all-out
aid to the British under the whip-lash of the most
active of its present leaders, New York’s Mayor
LaGuardia.
If you’re all for going the limit to help Great
Britain, the White Committee won’t let you down.
But, again, you have a wide choice of other com-
mittees which stand for very much the same thing.
A few of thi> leading ones are: Nation^)
Committee; League for Human Rights, Fret^Jtfl ♦
and Democracy; American Defenders, Inc.; Amen^fc
ican Defenders of Freedom, Inc.; The Americal^
Anti-Fascist League; American League for Toler-
ance; American Student Defense League; National
Defense Alliance.
H. D. Bonner of Sulphur
Springs, superintendent of the
Rehoboth Baptist Sunday School
Association, preached at the Bap-
tist Church Sunday morning in
the absence of the pastor, the
Rev. R. E. Streetmnn.
UNITY
needed
It 49 men who were just slightly different types
of New Dealers from the President, and another 49,
who varied an iota or two from the views of Mr.
W illkie, had all decided to run for President, each
'•n a different ticket, we’d have about the same
kind of hopeless confusion that is caused by the
pdesentt committee set-up.
1 here nre two distinct groups of committees—
those which want peace at almost any price and
those who want the dictators defeated at any price.
Bud the committee which is needed most today
is a committee to unite committees.
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