The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1943 Page: 3 of 8
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TWO-HEADED MATCH
APPEARS IN ENGLAND
DENVER, Colo. — Coin collectors
probably will feel many a .pang at a
decision recently announced by
Moses E. Smith, Superintendent of
the United States mint. The decision
is to melt up, for recasting into
dimes, quarters and half-dollars, ap-
“ uncurrent”
and
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LONDON.—Stanley Tomkins,
of Kensington, London, has invented
a two-headed match which he claims
will solve the acute match shortage
in Britain.
The match has a striking head
each end, and is about 1
length as ordinary safety
The middle of the stick is
nated with a non-inflammable solu-
tion adding to its safety.
It is Tomkins’ first invention and,
if permitted by the government, he
plans to manufacture the matches to
sell at five cents a hundred.
BLACK-
DRAUGHT
West is
a region
lars.
The Denver mint, traditional home
of silver coinage because it is the
“Silver State” and in the center of
the silver-producing country, was
originated when in 1863 the govern-
ment bought the private mint of
Clark, Gruber and Co., which had
been minting the gold of the Rockies
into $5, $10 and $20 gold pieces. The
mint acted until 1906 as a bullion-
receiver merely, then it began coin-
age. Its last gold coins date from
1931.
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No good book or good thing of any
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Carlyle.
proximately 13,000.000
—damaged or defaced by time
wear—silver dollars dating back
the 1850s.
For many years, silver dollars
taken out of circulation have been
sent to the Denver branch for stor-
age. Now, according to Mr. Smith,
their melting and reuse will
the war effort iri two ways:
Approximately 10,400,000
ounces of virgin silver, about
tons, can be used elsewhere than in
coins, because the old dollars will be
used.
The old dollars are already alloyed
for coinage, their silver being mixed
with copper, so valuable copper will
not have to be diverted to making
the new coins.
Silver dollars are never recoined
into new silver dollars, but are al-
ways used to make minor coins.
Although the Denver branch has
not coined any silver dollars for nine
years, there still is a reserve of ap-
proximately 30,000,000 new ones
stored in its valuts.
Use of silver dollars is not exten-
sive. The East prefers the light and
compact currency, and many a tour-
ist in past years has been thrilled at
the strange Western custom of using
silver dollars in every-day transac-
tions, and has taken home one or
more as a souvenir.
On the other hand, the
amused at the notion of
which does not use the bulky, jin-
gling things. ’One extreme silverite,
Frank E. Gimiett of Arbor Villa,
Colo., claims that he never uses any-
thing else in his nation-wide travels,
and goes on a long trip loaded down
with from seven to 20 pounds of dol-
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Wall Paper
of
the
situation—the unsettled homes,
confusion and the restlessness,
“last fling” philosophy. Two
and two girls go into a tavern
Irish
“When ye’re licked in a foight ye
ought to say ye’ve had enough.”
“Sure if Oi can speak at all Oi’m
not licked yet.”
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“Neighborly Service”
Paints, Varnishes
One $18.75 war bond will pay for
a fur-lined flying jacket for a Navy
flier, risking death in an open plane
without heating equipment five or
six miles above the earth.
One $75 war bond will pay for a
.30 caliber semi-automatic rifle for a
Marine who is going to help establish
a bridgehead in the Japanese archi-
pelago some day this year or next.
Four $75 bonds will buy a balsa
wood life float capable of sustaining
60 men whose ship has been sunk by
the Nazis or the Japs.
What do you need so much as our
fighting men need these things?
out
insisted,
a child’s
girl who
a soldier. He is
starts running
half way
stolen car.
Here is a boy whose mother is
dead. His father is so busy with his
war job that he doesn’t bother with
him. The boy sees something in a
five-and-ten that appeals to him and
steals it. He falls in with another
youngster and breaks into a filling
station. Then they get bigger ideas.
They put an 80-pound angle iron
across a railroad track, thinking to
loot the wrecked train. Fortunately,
somebody catches them in the act,
and there is no wreck—except the
wreckage of that boy’s life.
Mounting Tragedy
These are typical, every day cases.
They could have happened any time,
because there always have been neg-
lected children, unguided children,
undisciplined children. The point is
that such cases are multiplying to a
point of crisis. It is time we asked
ourselves: Is this a wholesale break-
down of discipline?
The war greatly aggravates the
the
the
boys
and
get some drinks. They get to talking
about the big money to be made in
the war plants in the city a hundred
miles away. Why stay cooped up in
this one-horse town One of the boys
gets a revolver, they steal a car, and
are on the way. They are finally
caught only after a running gun bat-
tle.
I have heard people speak of young
girls as being over-enamored of uni-
forms. Too many are, and again, the
consequences are often tragic.
Here is a 16-year-old
falls in love with
transferred. She
around with other men in uniform,
then ends up in a house of ill fame.
That is a common progression—so
common that it is adding up to a ma-
jor tragedy.
And here is the more violent type
of progression. A girl quits going to
school and Sunday school, begins go
ing to dives. She gets coarse and
'vulgar, while her parents stand by
and do nothing, and when a police
man attempts to reason with her, she
throws a brick at him. She is sent to
a training school, then released.
Within a few weeks she is back in
the hands of the law again, for pick-
ing up men and blackjacking them.
Another effect of the war, of
course, is that it is making it possible
for many youngsters to earn mdre
money than ever before. For young-
sters who have been trained in no
higher' motives than self-gratifica-
tion, that is merely an opportunity
for loose living. Count the cheap
places of entertainment in your
neighborhood, and study the ages of
the customers, if you doubt it.
I am not blaming the youngsters. I
am trying, very definitely, to do ex-
actly the opposite—to put the blame,
where it belongs, on my own genera-
tion, which has failed in its responsi-
bility to its children.
J. Edgar Hoover in This Week
Magazine
This country is in deadly peril. We
■can win this war, and still lose free-
dom for all in America. For a creep-
ing rot of moral disintegration is
^eating into our nation.
I am not easily shocked nor easily
•alarmed. But today, like thousands
■of others, I am both shocked and
alarmed. The arests of ’teen age boys
and girls, over the country, are stag-
gering. Some of the crimes young-
sters are committing are almost un-
speakable. Prostitution, murder,
rape. These are ugly words. But it
is an ugly situation. If we are to cor-
rect it, we must face it.
You read, in the news columns, of
the most flagrant cases. The sordid
movie-theatre gang-assault in New
York. The vicious railroad-track
murder in Houston. The tragic case
of the 16-year-old boy in Michigan
who killed his little sister after un-
mentionable cruelties.
These are not isolated horrors from
another world. They are danger sig-
nals which every parent—every re-
sponsible American should heed.
These are symptoms—of a condition
which threatens to develop a new
“lost generation,” more hopelessly
lost than any that has gone before.
Consider: In the last year, 17 per
cent more boys under 21 were ar-
rested for assault than the year be-
fore, 26 per cent more for disorderly
conduct, 30 per cent more for drunk-
enness, 10 per cent more for rape.
And that despite the fact that many
of this age group had already gone to
war or were productively employed.
For girls, the figures are even more
startling: 39 per cent more for
drunkenness, 64 per cent more for
prostitution, 69 per cent more for dis-
orderly conduct, 124 per cent more
vagrancy.
And these were only the ones who
-were arrested—the advances cases.
Undisciplined
The other day a friend of mine,
who is a police chief, saw a 15-year-
old girl coming out of a tavern. She
had obviously been drinking. The
chief knew her family—respectable,
serious-minded people. Shocked, he
took the girl home to her mother. He
told me about it as an example of
how even the best homes are being
hit.
But to me, the rest of his story was
even more significant. He had ex-
pected the child’s mother to be upset,
and she was—but not in the way that
he had expected. She was upset be-
cause of the indignity he had in-
flicted on the girl by bringing her
home. Of course the girl had done
wrong, she admitted; but she should
have been allowed to look out for
herself. That, the mother
was the way to develop
character.
And that, I insist, is the kind
crackpot theory which has laid
groundwork for our present surge of
’teen-age trouble. For years, we have
listened to some quack theorists and
pseudo-psychologists who have
preached that discipline and control
were bad for children—that they
should be left uninhibited to work
■out their own life patterns, their own
self-discipline. But you don’t acquire
self-discipline if you never learn
what discipline is; neither can life’s
problems be worked out without ex-
periences which can be secured only
“through hard knocks or by guidance
from the experience of others.
Now we are reaping the harvest.
Bathers have gone to war, or are
working long hours. Many mothers,
too, are working, on day or night
shifts. The youngsters are left to
their own devices. And the tragic
fallacy of the theory that self-
discipline “just grows” is being dem-
onstrated day by day.
Our FBI fingerprint files are full
■of the proof. Here is a case that is
sickeningly typical: Two girls, one
14, the other 15. Fathers in the
Army, mothers working in war
plants. Left to themselves", they stroll
the streets, get picked up by two
boys, and are finally apprehended
across the continent in a
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DRAFT OF LABOR
NOW VIEWED AS
WAR NECESSITY
WASHINGTON. — Faced with
need to recruit 3,600,000 men
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and
women for essential industries in the
next 12 months, the Administration
today was said to look more favor-
ably upon a National Service Act
which would permit labor drafts.
Responsible officials said espouse-
ment on the Wadsworth Austin bill
to permit drafting of men and wom-
en for war work by President Roose-
velt was likely to come when Con-
gress returns from its summer recess.
War Manpower Commission offi-
cials, estimating that 3,600,000 per-
sons must take or be shifted to war
jobs by July, 1944, said that the
problem of recruiting “is becoming
increasingly difficult now that the
more readily available persons have
already been absorbed.”
War Manpower Chief Paul V. Mc-
Nutt, who believes that a labor draft
act is “inevitable,” has been pleading
for time in which to exhaust all vol-
untary measures. He believes that
the passage of legislation should be
delayed until the voluntary program
fails.
Rep. James W. Wadsworth, Repub-
lican, New York, co-author of the
proposed labor draft act, conferred
recently with Mr. Roosevelt concern-
ing the bill. From Wadsworth and
from sources close to Mr. Roosevelt
came reports that the President was
giving considerable attention to man-
power needs and programs designed
to solve them, and more particularly
to a national service act.
One Administration official said
that it had been decided to start
pressing for passage of a labor draft
act as soon as the Congress’ recess
ends. Inasmuch as McNutt, in dis-
cussing the bill, has taken the cue
from higher officials, it was assumed
that he, too, would begin to broach
shortly the need of Congressional ac-
tion.
The 3,600,000 needed workers,
WMC officials said, must be obtained
by encouraging the transfer of 2,-
300,000 persons from the non-essen-
tial activities to the essential indus-
tries. The additional 1,300,000 must
come from the pool of men and
women not now in the labor force.
The real problem lies in persuading
the larger number to leave their less
essential jobs for war work.
The “work-or-fight” border of Mc-
Nutt issued in February which de-
nied deferments, even for depend-
ency reasons, to draft-age men
failed to drive appreciable numbers
from the shoe shine parlors, tailor
shops, or factories manufacturing
baubles.
Strange Reaction
Friend—“And what did you think
of when you looked into the barrel
of the holdup man’s pistol?”
Victim — “I thought to myself
‘That’s the first tunnel I ever saw
that had a handle on it’.”
CITATION NO. 49699
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To: Charles H. Coffman, Greeting:
You are commanded to appear and
answer the Plaintiff’s petition at or
before 10 o’clock A. M. on the first
Monday after the expiration of 42
days from the date of issuance of
this Citation, the same being Monday
the 26th day of July, A. D., 1943, at
or before 10 o’clock A. M., before the
Honorable Fifteenth District Court
of Grayson County, at the Court
House in Sherman, Texas.
Said plaintiff’s petition was filed
on the 17th day of May, 1943. The
file number of said suit being No.
49699. The names of the parties in
said suit are: Fannie Coffman, Plain-
tiff, and Charles H. Coffman, De-
fendant.
The nature of said suit being sub-
stantially as follows, to-wit: Divorce
on the grounds of cruel treatment.
Issued this the 12th day of June,
1943.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office in Sherman,
Texas, this the 12th day of June, A.
D., 1943.
S. V. Earnest, Clerk, District Court,
Grayson County, Texas. By R. C.
Steed, Deputy. 4T-Jly.8
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Thursday, July 8, 1943.
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1943, newspaper, July 8, 1943; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230865/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.