The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 2, No. 23, Ed. 1, Friday, February 16, 1940 Page: 1
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TROUBLES OF A LADYS MAN
they look at the record before they
insist that the Allies are nghtlng for
us and that we have to rely on the
British navy
If Greece Italy Abyssinia Po
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Finland and perhaps Rumania
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rattlesnake was caught in Miami last
week very unusual so early in the
year
Mr and Mrs F A Blue and
family left Monday for a weeks va-
cation in Corpus Christ
Mr and Mrs Mike Reagan were
in Darrouzett Friday visiting Mr
and Mrs Merle Cross and son
Editor ifenderson of the Higgins
News Is right we need snow fences
in the Panhandle
The Twentieth Century Culture
club is sponsoring a rummage sale
Saturday
than therr vague good wQI
Washington was right when he
warned us that there is no soft-
hearted altruism in the selfish and
unscrupulous tenagllng of European
diplomacy especially in times of
war and danger France sent us
help in our Revolution but it was
only because it was a terrible blow
at her enemy England
We can rely on nothing In these
times but our own hardboiled com-
mon sense and the strength of our
own right arm They are enough
GIRL8 IN MENS JOBS
Miss Anderson of the Womens bu-
reau of the department of labor
warns Madam Perkins in a formal
report that family life In this coun-
try will suffer serious consequences
if a prejudice against women work-
ers marrying is allowed to spread
Who Is prejudiced against work-
ing women marrying Such a pre
udlce would be positively immoral
Doesnt Miss Anderson really mean
a possible prejudice not against
working women marrying but
against married women working
In our pioneering and develop-
ment days when Adam delved and
Eve span being a woman whether
married or not was pure drudgery
Many a sturdy father wore out and
burled from two to ten wives In the
course of a lifetime having babies
making soap bread butter beer
and candles spinning laundering
clothesrnaklng cooking preserving
food curing hog meat hewing wood
drawing water and raising children
All this is changed Taking care
of a home and family is now only a
parttime job
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12 Abraham Lincoln s birth-
day
13llobert Lansing resigned
as secretary ol state
182a
li Valentine Day
lS New farm bill passed by
senate 193a
15 Paul McNutt mods high
commissioner of Philip-
pines 1937
17 Louisiana tornado killed
thirty 1933
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GEN HUGH S JOHNSON
General Johnson will cover nation
al and world events exclusively for
The News in this territory every
week from now on You may not
agree with him but you will enjoy
his column Head it
The News is sincerely trying to
give you an interesting paper one
that is different Were not trying to
give you a bis paper which after you
have read it you wonder how bo
much space can be taken up in
saying so little
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Family Has Pet Snakes
Live in Screened Cages
RIO WIS If youre looking for
unusual pets David Jennings sug-
gests snakes The whole Jennings
family are snake fanciers and on
their farm near here each has his
immaculate screened cages where
he keeps his pets
Snakes declared Jennings are the
most misunderstood creatures on
earth
The hobby starti d when Davids
younger brother Norman and his
sister Wealthy heard a high school
lecturer on reptiles They set out
to collect as many types as they
could And In the locality and soon
had specimens of the fox snake
garter snake and a five foot king
snake imported from Missouri
The garter snakes frequent their
dooryard and have become quite
tame when they meet with members
of the Jennings family
David lists the fox snake errone-
ously called the spotted adder
and copperhead as the most valu-
able of the species in this vicinity
He explained
The United States department
of agriculture estimates that the fox
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RUMMAGE SALESaturday
Feb 17 9 a m to 6 p m old Town-
send building Many fine bargains
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GENERAL
HUGH S
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SMALL TOWN nOSFITALS
NEW YORK CITY It li hard to
write a word unfavorable to the
Presidents plan to have the fed-
eral government begin building
small experimental hospitals In
towns that do not have such serv-
ice I have lived In such towns
myself Even in larger towns which
have had such hospitals I have been
made personally and painfully
aware of the backwardness of some
doctors who do not or cannot keep in
touch with the rapidly improving
and developing medical profession
It is desirable to have hospitals in
places where they are not So are
many other things desirable
If it is just and proper for the
eovernment to favor one small com-
munity by building a hospital for it
how can it refuse to build one in
every town in similar clrcum
stances That wouldnt be a mat-
ter of 10000000
Furthermore the mere building
of a hospital is only a beginning
The cost of maintaining it is high
If it had been only a matter of
providing buildings the billions that
have gone through WPA into some
far less worthy projects could prob-
ably have built all the hospitals
that are needed especially in tho
old federal and civil works admin-
istrations where billions appropri-
ated in part for national defense
went for raking leaves
Hard boiled as any criticism of
this project must seem congress
owes a positive and pressing duty
to examine in all its implications
before it opens any more expanding
spigots into the federal treasury
lit has all the earmarks of the Arabs
camel which began by persuading
lta master to let it stick just the
Ip of its nose under the tent to get
lit out of the cold and wound up
by wearing the tent as a horse
blanket leaving the Arab nose and
all In the chill of the outer dark
cess
WASHINGTON WAS RIGHT
Finland is holding tho pass lead-
ing to the Allied left flank Yet
thus far she has no Allied aid Ru-
mania is under pressure from the
Allies Germany Russia Bulgaria
and Hungary She too has prom-
ises of Allied assistance But does
she believe in them and if so why
The record of the Allies in help-
ing small countries which they have
persuaded to stand with them is
uniform uniformly rotten
Every time I write like this I am
accused of bias in favor of Hitler
and against England I despise Hit-
ler and like England but In any In-
ternational war situation I wouldnt
trust our fat to either of them as
far as I could toss a bull by the tall
My only point in reciting them is
to suggest to some among my mn
guild of columnist kibitzers that
CANADIAN TEXAS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16 1940
From Here and Near
We see by the Miami Chief that a
No 23
WAR CONVERSATION
Stalin quite confused Where
am I
Hitler You mean Where are
weChamberlain
Chamberlain You boys shouldnt
have any trouble getting your bear
tags you planned It this way
Mussolini sarcastically Thats
what THEY thought
Hitler to Stalin I thought you
had an army
Stalin So did II
Hitler The secret of victory Is a
swift powerful attack a terrific body
blow Why didnt you do just as I
did in Poland
Stalin There were no Finns In Po-
land
Chamberlain wearily X wish
you would stop arguing I want a
little peace
Both A little is all youll get
Chamberlain Oh I dunno Im
not dolna in hadly
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 2, No. 23, Ed. 1, Friday, February 16, 1940, newspaper, February 16, 1940; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47130/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.