The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1940 Page: 2 of 12
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The Graham Leader
Published every Thursday St GtO-
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under act of Oongrasa of March
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ef Publication. *1* Oak Street
Graham. Texas
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dead. Ten million adults became {RQN ORE
efugses^ It is estimated there are
15,000,000 refugees today, two-thirds
>f them Chinese. Millions of worn
en were prevented from marrying
by a shortage of men and the birth-
rate fell.
Economic efforts hsve never been
accurately gauged but loascs so.ired
to billion* of dollars. Governmental
debts everywehere mounted ami in
many cases were defaulted. Unskill-
ed labor suffered and caused popu-
lation shifts which still continue.
The war is credited with creation
of the dust bowl of the great plains
following wheat production on graas
lands subject to wind erosion.
What will be the penalties of this
war? No one can be certain save
that most of the age-old horrors of
conflict will be repeated and some
unheard-of ones added for bad meas-
ure.
All Cards of Thanks, Obituaries,
an like notices are charged for at
Blt (he regular rates
The liability of The Graham !>•»
Mr aad of Us publishers for any
«rrur la any advertisement Is limited
m the coat of such adrertlsment.
Subscription Rates
Tear, (out of county)----52 00
Tear (In county) ........$1.M
BIBLE THOUGHT
."•Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt
lute the Lord thy God with all thy
Smart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind."—Matt. 22:37.
GRAHAM
THE PARK CITY
T*Jk it! Talk it everywhere and
tiny may?
TTtai should be the order of the
4ay now for every citizen of Graham
and Yeung- county—talk Graham a«*
tfc* Park City.
Bvery community to become well
fetxwm throughout the land must
feare some, distinctively, outstanding
dongs about which it can becoifle
known'— something entirely differ-
wat from other cities or eommunitie*.
Graham has that distinction now—
feeing the only city pn Possum
K|B£oorr Lake and nearept to the
fr*at *Tow park being’”'est a Wish'd.
Graha m has alreridy gotten rtiuch
^tUirtty in the Wichita Falls pa-
ffn. the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
fej»d>o Station KGKO ai>d other me-
4w W. will get more. This
lost the beginning. Swtn when a
mBilTioT^ people- wi' ht-n - two <r three
fe«jrjr- drive of this great park and
btgg'^t body a*f water in Texas
fer«m to talk about a tup to it dr a
wnp -i vacation lie * th •> will
tfcmk and talk about .Graham and
•e* Grahan\._-an(! t»r* nd m nev in
>4iifa9iam to hfl,» e\* y ! -’sin sf in
«>*harr
4^ V- U cin- U.d.iy-- in_tulk_iibuut.
♦ur ^dhimir'i'y - ng a pffrt <*f this
freat pr ject. imfi'i' it in out
fertrrr- atfd spread tlu good new
■rwrywhore
BOOKS
FOR BOYS
Whu a niother wrote to Bruce
Ms r ton asking him for n list of
bosks fi.i her b' y to read, he an-
urerti. in part as follow;*:
“Ft ri with a Life of Lin-
coln'; then a ‘Life of Washington’;
‘"m a i ('■ mwi’i’ and Frank
Art's aetotoiography. When he has
i- ad these, j wm recommend some
•sere
‘'IF' net buy these book, for him
Tfsfc'- him to a book store ami let him
May them for himself. I,et his li-
brary la* HIS OWN library.”
Then Barton went on to ray'; ‘ Anil
♦s't forget that the biggest and
•vest book fibs all around him and
«sst» nothing. Do not let your boy
•row up without aome knowledge of
Cb" miracle of creation as it is (
•chibit'd m the growth of a garden
« fl«wtfx.~~-
■“These books that 1 have reconn-
wan S' '1 are the biographies of
•sighty men. Nature is the auto-
Mrtgraphy of Almighty God.”—De
hear Ei ee Preis.
ONLY THREE
LYNCHED
Only three persons, one white man
and two Negroes, were lynched in
the United States in 1939, the small
eat number of lynchings in a year
was six in 1938, while there were
eight in 1937 and eight in 1936.
Lynching reached its most fright-
ful height in 1892, when no less than
231 persons were killed by mobs. 69
of the victims being white men. The
next largest number, 211, were
lynched in 1884, and of these H>0
were white.
According to records kept at Tus
kogee Institute, Alabama, since 1882,
a total of 4,690 persons have been
lynched in the intervening 58 years,
of whom 1,291 were white. During
this 58 years no lynchings occurred,
in any of the New England states or
in the District of Columbia, only two
in the state of New York, and one
each in Delaware and New Jersey.
The resort to lynching is' inde-
fensible under any circumstances,
and is a reflection on any commun-
ity in which it occurs. The fact that
lynchings have been reduced from
231 in 1892 to only three in 1939
gives hope that this blot on Amer-
ican civilization may soon be en-
tirely removed.
Whether the so called anti-lynch-
ing bill, long before Congress, would
be of any practical benefit is open
to question. It is a highly contro-
versial subject which promises to
cause another bitter fight in the
Senate during the present session,
as it has, in years past, after pas-
sage of the House.—Haskell Free
Press.
THE PRICE
OF WAR
Tyler Courier-Times: A statisti-
rtrt* of a large life insuranee com-
g*"T has listed aome of the major
g^aeso ml destruction incident to the
HMaM War. There were 70.000.000
earn aider arms and 15 000JAM were
MM er died af wwmds. Die ease.
dMy mflaenxa. following every
Rrest war added 20.000,000 more,
■HR a grand total of 35,000,000
EDUCATIONAL
SURVEY
“Inequalities in the educational
system rf Texas are common knowl-
edge.” observes the Dulles Journal
“It is klso known, by everybody
who pays taxes at least, that the
cost of public school education has
:-ne up end up.....
“In contrast with t>-o e<»-t of nri
marv education is the c slips risor
u'oi’e by Dale Mill' r in The Texa*
Wreki", o' th co t of University
dueptian. In 1881 the State open
?551 mu student and. now spends
but 3211 . The Texas dbst" H*
about half the average for all the
sehoels in the Association of Ameri
can Universities.
“But pursuing the subject of pri
maty educhVon, • Miller find* reasor
why edu rtional costs in Texas may
he an unequal burden. He finds 25
per cent of T' xas population is of
school age, fi to IT. The average for
he rati n is 21 r“r cent. He finds
17 per cent are in the age group
hat rays the hi’.ls—above 25 years
'Id. For the. r"*t of the country it
52 per cent. And he finds the
per capita income of Texans lefts
than $407 a year, against $522 for
the nation as a whole. Fewer of us.
with less money, have the responsi-
bility of educating more children
than other States. Obviously wt
must do without other things to
maintain an average education stand
aid, or we must find the most effi
rient and economical system foi
maintaining that standard.
“While the University of Texas
makes an excellent showing, the
tax money spent for advanced edu-
cation is spread over too many In-
stitutions. Good roads and improve-
ment of transportation facilities
make practical the merging of > >m*
of these institutions. The same fa-
cilities justify the speeding up of
consolidation of public achool die
tricts. Then the whole expense of
education, school books and every
thing else should he gone into with
a view of finding ways to economy.
School plants should be eficient, ade
quate, bat not extravagantly built
or expensive to operate. Building
indebtedness can be held down.
“It is time for a complete surrey
of the Texas educational system.”
Admiral Jellicoe, British hero of
the battle of Jutland, said in the
world war one:
“We could, I believe, bring the
Germans to their knees in three
months by the blockade if the gov-
ernment would face the protests of
neutral countries, take a firm stand,
and risk a war with the United
States, Norway and Sweden.”
He meant that American trade
through Scandinavia to Germany
should be forcibly stopped. In 1916
the allies put a stop to transit trade
by rationing the foreign trade of
theae neutrals and of the Nether-
lands, and this action hastened the
and of the war.
In this world war, the alliei> have
been fortunate in the assistance com-
ing to them from America's cash'
and-carry neutrality. This policy of
ours has enabled the allies to ration
the northern countries without pro-
test from us. But there was a
minimum need to ration the north-
ern neutrals in this war since, at
the outbreak, all of them introduced
a system of export licenses where-
by none of the belligerents could
obtain from them more than the
normal trade.
But that normal trade Is Impor-
tant, since war supplies in the form
of raw materials particularly have
been demanded by Germany for
years in large volume from the
northern neutrals. Sweden is the
biggest source for Germany and the
main export is iron ore, this supply
of iron ore described by some as
Germany’s jugular vein. Indeed,
Germany's position on iron at the
opening of the war was more, vul-
nerable than in the last war.
In 1938 approximately 3,300,000
tons of iron ore came from home
productiqn and 12,000,000 tons from
imports. The imported ore has an
average iron content of 55 per cent
contrasted to 30 per cent from
domestic ore.
We see in this information an in-
dication of the seriousness with
which the Germans view the Scandi-
navian position. Sweden in the war
on the side of the allies or even
fighting with Finland against Russia
would be serious Indeed. Unlike oil
and other war supplies, iron can be
used over and over and scrap iron
would help some under the noted
Nazi habit of scrupulously saving
every resource. But in time the
position, without Swedish ore, would
inevitably be precarious.
Wi here, in watching the northern
neutrals in their right to avoid war,
can PppPPriatF their" importance to
both sides, and come to a better
idea of their difficulties, even above
that arising from their proximity to
the nations already involved. Britain
woos the neutrals, then attempts
to scare them. Germ&ny threatens
them. And iron ore figures greatly
in the piytMDN-.Shurman Democrat.
More than 108 colleges and uni-
ersities have conducted
wni for Boy Bcoot liadiro
SITTINC PRETTY!
A total of 27,232 Boy Scouts rep-
resented 536 Councils at the Nation-
al Jamboree held in Washington, D.
C., in 1937.
Two-thirds of the entering classes
at the United States Military and
Naval academies are composed ol
former Boy Scouts.
More than 6,300,000 copies of th'
Boy Scout Handbook have been dis-
tributed. making it one of the most [
widely read books. It has been es-
timated that each ropy is read by
five scouts.
the system of granting full recogni- society in which the general welfare
tion to the rights of the individual *f the nation would be. better pro-
to acquire and to own property andltected voluntarily than would be
to live an independent life, these in- j possible under any plan of govern
dividuals collectively would create a ment compulsory action.
up thp standard of living and to dis-
tribute them at a price within reach
of the buyer.
Those pioneer statesmen wht
framed the Constitution of the ^Uni-
ted States, sought to magnify the
principles of individual initiative
and free' enterprise, not because
they desired -to forget the social
welfare of the nation at larg's but
because they believed that under
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‘ PERCE STRINGS” by C. B. Hogue
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PROBLEMS
OF TODAY
The ' Dallas Journal: With the
country flooded with all types of
political philosophy, there is prob-
ably none so unintelligent a)» that
which | proposes to equalize oppor-
twfitiei by dividing th«^ wealth of
the country.' In the process of divi-
sion, you destroy. You cannot di
vide a railroad and give every man
in Texas a portion of it. You can-
not divide a great automobile manu-
facturing plant; you cannot divide »
great public utility, because aftei
all, the value of all these and of
other similar institutions lies in' the
ability to produce that which wr
need.
Government has opportunities and
responsibilities to serve its citizens
which did not exist under the pio-
neer system. State government ha
its responsibility to lay down thr
broad rules of conduct of business
to enforce these rules to the end that
the rights of the average citisenshal
be protected. Government hat
many other responsibilities. But »li
laws based on the theory that the
general good will he yrved by tnk
ing away from those who have and
giving to those who have not, are
doomed to failure.
Until we reach the day, if we eyi
do, when all of the wants of man
kind have been satisfied, the grea
eccnomic problem which faces thr
country is the problem of how wi
may produce efficiently and distri-
bute efficiently more of those thin*
which our people need. Laws which
tend to retard the production «.
necessary goods; all laws which tent
to place a penalty on one induatry
for the benefit of some competin'
induatry: all regulations which re-
tard rather than facili‘at» legiti
mate hualness, combine to lower
and not raioe, the atandard of liv
ing of the average man. The aver
age citizen of the United States has
a higher atandard of living tha.
that which prevails in other sec
Uons of the world because America'
enterprise h' * found n wny to pro-
done times things which go to woke
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uet touch
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GRACE CHEVROLET COMPANV
SOUTH SIDS OF SQUARE GRAHAM, TEXAS
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Trout, H. I. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1940, newspaper, February 15, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116490/m1/2/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.