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BROWNWOOD (T«ut) BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JUNE !♦, 1442
Comment, Features
Fiction
THE BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Published every evening end morning at Brown wood, Ttxei
Entered et the Post Office et Brown wood. Texes, es aecond cless mall
Better. , 1
Back to the Back Yawl
HE'S NOT A
AL WEARER—HE'S DEAD—
Reno Becomes
Pure as Snow
RENO. Ner
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or reputation of any
person, firm, or corporation which may appear In the columns of The
Brown wood Bulletin wtll be gladly corrected upon Its being brought to
the attention of the publisher.
(UP >—This city,
with s reputation for easy divorce
end wide-open gambling, is becom-
ing sa pure sa the snow on the
mountains behind it
At the request of army officials,
city and county authorities have
outlawed prostitution
The reason for the re-birth of
Reno is the war. This city is in a
military tone. The navy has an-
nounced it will build a training
station at nearby Lake Tahoe and
the army has announced an air
baas near Reno.
New laws are pending to reduce
the number of saloons and caba-
rets. This is sponsored by local
authorities as a measure to protect
the community from "fly-by-night'
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By HENRY Ms LEI
NEW YORK. J^
ly 1 wrote a proti
awarding of medal;
few of the men j
forces. It wes myj
there are a lot mj
there are medals.]
Criticism of j
started with public^
umn and is still T
without exception'1
the obvious and ed
that 1 had brsnd-.
the men who ha<
ora from the G4
December 7. '
I am not goingjj
self nor my attitm
done for me with
touching eloquent!
yond my typeu-itC
All He did Was g|
I quote from 1
to me by a Gold £
lives in Salt Lake 9
‘Thanks for yti
coming the confdj
on American soldi
“! agree with yfif
haps because my 6
Woodrow Wilson5
the battle in wj|
0‘Mare became tta
"My son was thi
ed in that battle
think every man ft
should have reettf
nltion. True, O’Hi
five planes himeyf
matned thirteen Ji
planes to be defy
Who shot the J
"No game or "b
won by one mart
"I shouldn't v.^
cited for somethin
but he did give hs£
"Keep writing m
you'll do much K
Use America. §1
"Sincerely, Mmf
son *
There is a perfu|
critics.
She Doesn't
Mrs Wilson s fig
one She begrud^
honors, no woruB
She merely
there is anything
can do fbr his jS§
give it his life.sfl
fight the unseeml
warded? Must tAfi
to duel and losmjli
ful or better e-lu
overlooked or jm
mother who ha^S
that hia aacrificfS
any man's cm, ldtfs
I can't help but feel that this
Utah mother ia right.
After all, this is a war of little
people. Millions and millioiu of
little people. It isn't a war of mil-
itary titan*, dragon slayers, and
knights ia shining armor. It is a
war for all of us. It is a war so
big that it 'has to be fought by
•ho* clerks, subway, guards, floor-
walkers. mining engineers, farm-
ers. sandwich cutters, bankers,
doctors and everyone else you can
name.
All over the world Uttle lower
case people are carrying the hod
for those of os who still live in
plenty and security. As this la
being written they are dying on
far flung fraats. Tbev are dying
unseen and alone, without bene-
fit of ribbon*, medals, or public-
ity. But they are dying, which la
the limit to which a man can con-
tribute to a cause
Who Shall We Overlook?
Who Is there capable of decid-
ing whom to honor With a bright
ribbon end whom to overlook?
Who la there to say that those
tired and beaten men of MacAr-
thur who blinked those lights
along Bataan's shores after its fall,
were less deserving of a general
citation than some more glamor
ous soldier?
I wouldn i want the job.
If it war* left to me I would
award them all the order of the
Stars and Stripes, and inscribe on
the records of both the living and
the dead; ''Greater love hath no
man"
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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
RALPH R MULLIGAN. 441 Lexington Av*„ New York, N. Y.
C. J. ANDERSON 3$ E Wacker Drive. Chicago, OL
viewpoint
i of the eoi-
g on, and
critics took
ous attitude
a urjworthy
reived hon-
HOW ABOUT THE ALEUTIAN FOG, MR. MICHELSON?
H. R. Knickerbocker. Who went up from a boyhood in
Brownwood to become one of the nation’s famous war corres-
pondents, said in Dallas the other day that hopes the war will
end in three years are insanely optimistic.
Yet some air raid wardens in Brownwood have expressed
the view that it's useless for them to train extensively because
the war will be over in a few months.
; Either of these extremes could be right or wrong. The im-
portant thing is that nobody knows how long the war will
last; and since we do not know how long it will last, we are
foolish if we do not plan for the worst possible eventuality-
invasion. *
Knickerbocker, just back from Australia, savs the present
Japanese drive against the Aleutians may well be the start
of this attack.
“I think the evidence Is preponderant that this drive is a
serious attempt to take Aluxe, which would certainly be the
beginning of an attempt to mvade our West Coast through
The divorce rate, compared with
the marriage rate, continue* to d*
chn*. Last year there were 25,000
couple* married here and only
2,000 divorced.
Lest survivors of “the wild west
to«n are gambling and liquor
When army authorities met with
civic leaders to ask a ban on pros-
titution, ministers Joined in urgtnf
defend my-
lit has been
ij simple and
that is be-
>e Bn Life
ft ter written
r mother who
I, Utah.
* article con-
ig of medals
• ten on gambling and liquor
But the cbuck-e-luck. roulette
d>c* and poker games continue in
Rono’a gaudy gambling houses, 24
boars a day. Whisky flows freely
in the 74 bare and cabarets
Defend Liqoer
'One minister Jumped to his feel
at the vice control mooting—"Let i
do away with the gambling and thi
ban, toe," be demanded "I'm sick
and tired of having fellow clergy
men of my church pointing at ms
and aaying ‘Navada ia an outlaw
•tat*’"
Old-timers doubted that any
movement to do away with whisky
and gambling would got much sup
port. Boom said westerner* got ths
habit of drinking when th
heartily, per-
f, Ensign John
MB* killed in
K Lieutenant
lly pilot kill-
»r»onal!y, 1
bat squadron
some recog-
shot down
>ut there re-
•re Japanese
rs down?
le was ever
John to be
i* didn't do.
habit of drinking when they first
cam* west, because water was van
scarce. And. then, too, there wai
not much home life in the early-
day mining camps and the boyi
had to have some place to spend
the eveninpr
Thus, the Red Dog saloon. Mike's
bar, Rattlesnake Inn, Idle Houi
Charlie s, the Silver Dollar caba-
ret—4o mention a few of the bet-
ter known establishments—beeams
the center of activity
They won't go without e good
healthy fight, the old-timers de-
clare.
b articles and
br p democra-
if. Roy Wtl-
.answer to the
Miss Helen Durham of Brown-
wood spent th* week-end with Mias
Murlene Bruton.
Misses Dorse* Wilson and Kath-
leen* Mclntire were in Fort Worth
over the week-end visiting Mrs.
Perry Sandifer.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Stacy had
aa guest Sunday, their daughter,
Miss Dorris Stacy of Coleman
• Mrs. Fred Vincent of'Glen Cove
is spending the week with her
mother, Mrs Lanford.
Mias Ella Mae Scott of Brown-
wood visited Mrs. Gib Porter one
day lest week
Mrs. Gib Porter left Tuesday
for Kentucky where she wiH visit
her mother, Mrs. Hattie Horn.
ter criticizes no
m no man hia
pper hi* hero,
iqers whether
tare that a boy
uptry than to
list those who
a|tles go unre-
who chance
a more skill-
pped foe, be
■gotten? This
>ft a son feeU
ras as great aa
supposedly dug into every phase
of contemporary economics—was
was woefully weak in iU studies
of this subject.
In this Wartime controlled econ-
omy. there are a half a dosen gov-
ernment agencies concerning them-
selves with some phase of distri-
bution. though no one has general,
co-ordinating supervision and it
would probably be too big a Job
for anyone to tackle.
Production U Easy
, The new Food Requirements
committee, set up under Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard. has th*
problem of seeing that there U
enough food produced for the
United States and the United Na-
tions. too. but iU responsibility
stops there. Production, however,
isn't the problem All that has to
be done to get production is tell
the farmers to produce and guar-
antee them a price, both of which
have been done
Thus, though the law says there
must be 55 million acres allotted
for the production of wheat, pres-
ent surpluses are so great that the
country could get by next year if
only 21 million acres were planted
Similarly, there may be vast sur-
pluses of pork, cheese and other
food products Th* problem of
storing these surpluses, of trans-
porting them to market, is thus a
primary worry.
Agricultural Marketing Admin-
istration has gained a little exper-
ience in the problems of distribu-
tion through its programs for buy-
ing up surpluses of some commodi-
ties and distributing them through
the food stamp plan, but this is
an artificial and rudimentary ap-
proach to the problem
Trapped In Middle
The civilian Interests in this
matter are supposedly looked after
by the Consumers Division of ht*
Office of Price Administration it
is an advisory organization, purely,
but its advice carries weight in the
making of decisions which OPA
hands down aa to what shall be ra-
tioned. and when and how. There
is foreseen no necessity to ration
clothing this year, no need to re-
quisition housing, no shortage of
essential foods Where shortages
So They Say
the Japs keep on plastering Port Moresby with 20 to 30 bomb-
ers a day; or in China, where the Japs keep on bombing and
chasing the Chinese armies; or in Libya, where the British
have again shown themselves to be excellent runners; or in
Burma, where there ain't no Ten Commandments; or in the
Philippines, where the mighty dead of Bataan and Corregidor
are still being trod upon by the bloody boots of the Nip rap-
ists; or in Jugoslavia, where a heroic guerrilla leader has chal-
lenged many times his weight in Axis troops with little help
from the United Nations; or in Greece, where thousands die
every day of hunger; or in France, where the coasts are being
prepared by the Axis to shatter any attempted Allied inva-
sion; or in the Mediterranean, where British convoys go to
pieces before superior air attack. I \
The Russians are still fighting for their very lives against
trip-hammer German offensives, and there is no note to indi-
cate that our flood stage of production has given the Russians
the wherewithal to sweep the Ukraine clear of German and
Rumanian invaders.
Rommel again out-guessed the British in Africa, striking
first and keeping on striking until the British—with the aid of
American 28-ton tanks—were ready for the race back into
Egypt-
MacArlhur’s failure to get into offensive action in the Pa-
cific shows that we are still on the defensive there, as we are
e\ e: '■■ whci e else.
What looked like the turn of the tide two months ago now
appears to be a continuation for the rest of the summer of
Axis assaults and Allied defense.
And defense can’t win the war, as everybody but the un-
wept strategist* of the Maginot line will admit.
Our air victories in the Coral Sea and Midway battles were
defensive victories—the most dangerously deceptive kind
imaginable. They're apt to give some big shots the idea that
we can keep on intercepting Japanese thrusts. That's what
the British thought before Singapore. They probably don’t
think so any more.
' Lest we grow too gloomy over this picture, We hasten to
add that time is undoubtedly working against the Germans if
not against the Japs. And the African desert war has provided
a valuable test of American equipment. All over the world our
heavy bombers have shown superiority while our fighter
planes haven’t looked so hot except those flown by the immor-
tal handful of independents, the Flying Tigers inChiha. They
During the months ahead man-
power and labor supply will ex-
ercise a more determining control
over production than plant capac-
ity. Without adequate housing we
won’t get the manpower
—Edward Weinfied. New York
State Housing Commissioner.
SI Cent* Paid for Wool
SAN ANGELO, June 15—(UP
—A price of 51 cents a pound lot
Corriedal* crossbred wool. high-
eot in Texas since immediatelj
after the last World War, had bees
paid her*.
1 am telling Tokyo that we have
thousands more Colin Kellys and
Butch O "Hares and Jimmy Dolit-
tles on the way This is just the
dawn of a day of wrath
—Lt-Gen. H H Arnold. com-
mander Army Air Force.
• SERIAk|$TORY
SPORTING BLOOD
HARRISON KROLL~
In Washinqton
By PETER EDSON
Bulletin Washington
Correspondent
The major problems of the war
effort can be shaken down into a
single problem of distribution - Not
just transportation, though that's
important and closely related, but
the much broader meaning of dis-
tribution which includes supply
and allocation and rationing
It's really amazing how little It
known about this subject. It takes
a war economy to bring but that
fact in stark nakedness Any prob-
lem of produetion can be licked
Rut the problems of distribution
are something else again and they
hit at every level from local distri-
bution of the mornings milk, of
which there is a surplus, to world
distribution of rubber, of which
there Is an artificial scarcity The
problems of distribution therefore
reduce themselves to taking these
surpluses and shortages and find-
ing ways to divide them up so that
everyofte has enough to get by on.
There are no rules for this mat-
ter of distribution The only rule
of thumb has been that nothing
was ever distributed to anyone un-
less it was profitable to do so ■
No one government agency has
ever concerned itself with the
over all aspects of distribution
Even TNEC—The Temporary Na-
tional Economic Committee, which
It will take more than statistics
to crush Hitlerism We need all
the efforts of the Army and the
Navy and of civilians to win an
unconditional surrender by the
enemy
—James G . Blaine, chairman
Greater New York Civilian De-
\ fens* Volunteer Office.
—I mean th* sporting tnsLnet
which is such a marked character-
istic of our*."
"No—bluntly, I don't care tor it
•t all."
tltnd Ballard had
f sat on hia cot
fw to laugh, though
am a crying mat-
nsd come with a
altering the crime
s real reason was
fun lor. Because
all along had been
i# same thing, it
if they could get
trouble was that
|s not quite pre-
| crime of which
it to save another
wanting som<
It was much
ter. i Ballard
vague hope to
on Hunter,
to shield po
Hunter's moU
pretty much
might seem
together. T|
Hunter Dent
pared to c*q
he wai inro/
who seemed i
Whatever l
him hastily d
•on cam* for*
th* telephonj
cally.
“If I have]
mighty guen
aim to mat®
Thdfr* you si
“Hello," H;
“This is T|
be with youH
that be tuned
“Okay. |
enough." I
Hunter rt|
derson oblfi
morning pap
war news, a
thing to Hull
the local myf*i
Kiker, had %
police woui#
cry momenta
the night of I
expected bey
plant acandw
Ghibardo h$
charge of
CHE earn* and looked down at
him, and tousled his hair. “Be
you don't 15m us?“
1 didn't My that I don't Ilk*
this so-called sporting blood you
all have. Granting that life la
pretty much ot a gamble, there
are Mil enough good laws tn the
universe for anybody to live by*
"Come on." she urged. Tt'a a
good text and th* sermon should
he uplifting. Your idee is use
yeur brains, work hard be hon-
est early to bed and early to riae."
The medical profession is the
first to require rationing The is-
sue is who shall do the rationing,
for America must have the doctors
it needs
—Federal Security Administrator
Paul V McNutt
The vfry origin of the American
way of life has always been In-
dissolubly linked with freedom
—Admiral Ernest J King, com-
msnder-lmchief of U S Fleet
“You cant make me ashamed
of th* old-fashioned virtues. I
guess we can be realistic."
“Fleaaal” shd begged “When
felks go realistic they are usually
disagreeable"
“Just the same, when Junior
gets out of the woods he ia still
likely to be in a jam. I’ve been
trying pretty hard to shield him.
But 1 cant do it and get my neck
in the noose You and I know
Junior's involved in this nasty
business. My Idea is that young
Temple gave the secret of the
money movement away. Someone
bet Junior he eould not intercept
the messenger, stag* a lake stick-
up, and get away with it Now the
messenger ia dead, the money's
gone, Junior’s shot I’m in jail,
your daddy is about to have a
nervous break-dewn. and—wall,
iant that enough? Wouldnt you
be said an th* old-fashioned plati-
tudea if they would have prevented
this, m they would?"
She was smiling when he leaked
up at her loweriagiy. She had an
insolent and beautiful way of
standing, her hand on her hip,
just eyeing him
“ITI lay you a wafer, Hunter."
He said crossly, “Go play Uka
you’ra a squirrel and run up and
develop, as possibly in coffee and
tea. rationing will have to be aplied
for equitable distribution
Caught In trie middle of all this
planning of distribution are the
agencies governing transportation,
the War Shipping Administration,
allotting space for exports and im-
ports. and the Office of Defense
Transportation, co-ordinating the
movement of goods at home. With
shortages of all transport facilities,
with normal sources of suply cut
off. with extra loads of troops and
war supplies to carry, theirs ia the
job of trying to facilitate the dis-
tribution of such goods as there
are
Maybe, out of all the experience
gained in meeting these wartime
problems of distribution, enough
knowledge will be acquired to lick
dat ol’ debbil distribution as called
for by Point Four of the Atlantic
Charter, "to further the enjoyment
by all states . . .of access ... to
the raw materials pf the world
which are needed for their eco-
nomic prosperity."
Washington Hamburger
FelrUpar'icost 50 to 75 cents a
hundredweight, wholesale' is re-
commended by Geological Sur-
vey as the best putter-outer of
magnesium incendiary bombs
. . . Lumber produced in Alaska
has been declared exempt from
prom price regulation for 80
days. . . You even have to get
a permit to buy a new airplane
Ur*. . . . Manufacturers of medi-
cine are now restricted aa to th*
amount of apices they can use.
. . . U. 8. soap output la half a.
billion a year, equal to the cost
of the Panama canal. . . . Scien-
tific research prdjects not con-
nected with th* war effort won't
be given laboratory equipment.
... Wooden pails and tuba will
do # comeback owing to restric-
tions on manufacture of steel
palls and tu bs. . .. Twenty mil-
CpirtTs call. It took
m. When Andcr-
qnter to talk over
fee laughed ireni-
ijr more high-t&d-
|lke you. Dent, I
'a private- phone.
■r Mid.
Hannings. I cant
T 10 o'clock. Will
usiness
■}I make it tim*
d to hia cell. An-
ty brought tb*
Aside from th*
most interesting
wea th* dope on
• BARBS
The girl,
in released. Th*
watching her *v-
diacover her escort
murder. Tb* long-
in the ordnance
am*. The elder
ten arrested tn the
1 in th* contracts
> great plant, and
tom* up in Federal
rst National, and
rial ioAaraata, were
ad. other financial
When the U. S. flyer* get through. Japan won’t have a
flagship on which to hout a white flag.
Many a flat tire owes hia condition to one big blowout.
t
Taking youngster* to a summer resort is a perfect way to
keep on being tired out.
, Man is funny—he breaks his back trying to make grass
grow so he can break hia back all summer keeping it cut. *
The horse race business is the only one where it really
pays to play favorites.
Look et the bright side. Supposing you had to lather your
lawn before cutting it.
terribly as you
interest* cr
who had
that came
this invol
Ballard as
Tracy K
pointed tit
whole mat
qg Pcrhap? it was
*it that had taken
ao quickly.
&fs came et the ap-
•They went over the
detail by detalL
J)URINO
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