The Coyote (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1941 Page: 2 of 4
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any other one thing.
willing to make a prediction.
which tume dout to be a very in- weeks later on December 16.
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Youth Fellowship
Has New President
I. R. C. Special
Meeting Called
To Discuss War
Merger Committee
Meets at Harvard
December 27-30
1. R. C. Dusses
Situation In Far
Eastern Crisis
been fooled. The Japanese wrote
for more plans and the British sent
them, but the same thing happened.
The Japanese sent them back saying
the same thing. However when the
FRANK RISEDEN
BUSINESS MANAGER
HAROLD OWEN"
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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The Young People had charge of
the evening service. They presented
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PUBLICITY MANAGER
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NEWS DIRECTOR
Fain, Craven........
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after. Just how this will be accom-
plished was the source of much de-
bate in the club, some thought that
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MONAH NEAL
PUBLICATION MANAGER
choir of the First Methodist Church ly and Germany will not be permit-
and the young people of the college ted to arm on to be able to open
will present the story of Christmas hostilities upon anyone in the here-
Jimmy Thomas—Jesse Moore
SPORTS EDITOR
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BEN HARTLEY
HEAD OF EDITORIAL STAFF
BETTY FAIN
SOCIETY EDITOR
EULA BESS WADSWORTH
STAFF REPORTER
ALTA KING
CIRCULATION MANAGER
CHARLES BELCHER
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER
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GLORIANNA COLVILLE
FEATURE EDITOR
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The International Relations Club
had a call meeting Tuesday night,
December 9, to discuss the new prob-
lems growing from the new war in
the Pacific, and to hear the presi-
dent of the United States make the
report to the nation on the progress
of the war. President Jearl Walker
said that the war with Japan throws
new light on the situation in the
Far East.
The Club discussed Japan’ attack
on the United States and what the
United States should do to counter-
act this, and also president Roose-
velt’s address to the people. The
president declared in his speech that
the United States were going to
fight the war to the end and win.
The I. R. C. discussed what the
Axis powers could do if Germany
and Italy were to declare war on
the United States (which was done
Thursday). The members generally
agreed that war with the rest of
the Axis was almost certain and it
turned out that they were right. The
club also payed particular ‘attention
to the statement by the president
tha this would be the last time that
this would happen, meaning that
Japan would not fight the United
States again. By this some members
took it to mean that the United
States was to police the seven seas
along with the help of the British
Empire, after the United States and
England won the war. Others took it
to mean that some system whereby
a world court could be set up to de-
bate the differences that arise be-
tween nations when the war is ov-
er. At any rate it is agreed that some
system will be set up whereby an
aggressive power such as Japan, Ita-
was Japan’s hard luck. The ship,
when onl ya few miles out on the
first run, capsized and turned upside
I down carrying over 400 Japanese
' sailors to the bottom with it. The
British had purposely made the ship
top-heavy and the Japanese couldn’t
detect it.
After Zellers made his report on
the Far East, Jearl Walker president
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L. A. ZELLERS
EDITOR
After the three reports the meet- believed that one of these policies
ing was adjourned to meet two would be adopted but none were
The International Relations Club
met Tuesday night December 2, in
its regular bi-monthly meeting for
the purpose of discussing problems
in the far East.
After the meeting was called to
order by president Jearl Walker a
report on Japan and the Far East
was given by L. A. Zellers.
At the first of his 25 minute re-
port on the Far East, Zellers stated
that the United States still had
rights in China that few other na-
tions enjoyed. This right Zellers said
was the right of Extraterritoritora-
lity which gave American citizens
the right in China to be tried in Am-
erican Courts or American court
proceedure for the crimes commit-
ted. This right he said had existed
since 1844 although the Chinese gov-
ernment has tried for years to do
away with it since Chinese in Ame-
rica were not allowed the same right.
The Chinese people have been aware
of the fact that the American gov-
ernment is interested in China but
they are glad that we are capable
of helping them, Zellers went on.
The Chinese, the Japanese, and the
Americans, he said had been on rath-
er friendly terms until the Japanese
invaded Manchuria in 1933, then
there was a parting of the ways; the
Japanese went one way and the
Chinese and Americans went the
other.
Concerning Japan and her legiti-
1 mate needs in China Zellers said
that Japan says that she is fighting
in China to end the war and set up
a new order in the Far East, but it
seems that the Japanese foreign
The Youth Fellowship met Sun-
day.. evening, Nov. 16, under the
leadership of the new president,
Florence Gwaltney. Barcus Moore
resigned after he had been appoint-
ed to the Azle Circuit. Stella Pearl
Ragsdale was elected Vice Presi-
dent to take Florence’s place. The
publicity chairman was elected, Oli-
via Latimer.
The delegates to the Texas Metho-
dist Student Conference at Fort
Worth, Nov. 21-23 were: Florence
Gwaltney, Nelda Weaver and Gor-
don Cragg. The alternative being
Iva Lee Self. Others who are going
are Stella Ragsdale, Oleta Wright,
the other civil liberties, abolish ra-
cial and religious discrimination in
civilian life and defense effort. And,
as democracy is a social as well as a
political system, we must maintain
and increase educational budgets
and social services like federal hous-
ing, the NYA and the CCC.
We insist that labor’s legitimate
rights to organize freely, to bargain
collectively, and to strike, be pro-
tected. And we strongly favor vol-
untary and impartial mediation in
defense labor disputes.
We must prevent selfish interest
from restricting vital output and
from forcing unwarranted increases
in wages or prices.
After the Victory ....
We realize that a military victory
is not enough and that democratic
terms of peace must play an in-
creasing part in our fight to win
the war. America must not repeat
the mistakes it made in the last war.
It must work to reconstruct a bet-
ter world from the chaos of this
struggle. We can and will take part
in establishing a new world order
which insures equitable access to
raw materials and markets and gua-
rantees a lasting peace.
This is the text of the policies of
the National Student Merger Com-
mittee, which is to meet for three
days, 27-30 at Harvard University.
The National Student Merger
Committee has asked the students
of Weatherford College to join them
for their convention, which is to be
held at Harvard University, Decem-
ber 27-30. The National Student
Merger is sometimes called the Stu-
dent Defenders of Democracy, the
College Division of the Committee to
Defend America, and the Student
League for Progressive Action. This
I committee is a National Committee
made up of students from all over
the United States. Each college and
high school is invited to send five
voting delegates to the Convention.
The common aims of the league are
presented so that one can get a
glimpse of the Committees and for
what they stand.
Foreign Policy ....
Since Nazism is the greatest men-
ace to freedom in the world today,
we believe that all means neecssary
should be adopted to bring about its
defeat. We favor all-out aid to ev-
ery nation resisting unjust aggres-
sion. And although we are opposed
to Communisim, we urge all possible
aid to Russia in her fight against
Hitler. We reject, however, any
program of coperation with Ameri-
can Communists toward this end.
Since Japanese totalitarianism and
aggression in Asia and the Pacific
are the counterpart of Nazism in
Europe, we are against any appease-
ment of Japan and we are in favor of
full aid to the Chinese Republic.
Domestic Policy ....
We call for vigorous maintenance
and amplification of democracy in
America, so that our strength may
be moral as well as material.
After twenty-three years of in-
terrupted peace our nation is again in-
volved in a bloody war, the mightiest
conflict ever before fought in this
world. A cunning, surprise attack on
American Hawaii by the Japanese was
intended as a knockout blow to put
America back on her heels before she
could get ready; that is precisely what
happened, for it seems that all defens-
es were sound asleep. The exact de-
tails of what happened are not yet
known, but it is fairly certain that
someone was asleep when all the shoot-
ing started.
It seems a little difficult for us of
the younger generation to believe that
we are really at war. We have never
had to face the hardships of war. We
have not seen the horrors of war first-
hand. We have heard only tales of war
and nonchalantly repeated that it can’t
happen here. We have not the slightest
idta.of what war really it. It seems un-
real, untrue, and fantastic for the Unit-
ed States , to be in war with Japan.
Slowly and gradually, however, the
dawn of realization will pass over us.
Our friends, school mates, brothers,
sweethearts will be enlisting in some
branch of the service; then day after
day as we frantically read through the
casualty lists, we will come to know
the horrors of war.
Japanese. Concerning the Japanese
income Zellers said that the average
income for the Japanese farmer was
$16.00 per year.
After Zellers had covered the Ja-
panese needs he brought up Japan’s
weaknesses. The army, he said con-
sisted of approximately 2,000,000
men which are not adequately equip-
ped with modern arms. He said that
the ordinary buck private in the
Japanese army has amazingly low
mentality, with almost no common
intelligence at all. Then Zellers ad-
ded that the Japanese had been high-
ly overated in previous years con-
cerning their initiative and fighting
" qualities, according to reports. Ac-
cording to a reporter in China, he
said a Japanese warship started
fireing at an ammunition dump, 75
feet by 100 and fired 900 shells at
the target. Out of this number of
shots only 9 direct hits were scored.
The U. S. Navy claims, Zellers added
that they could have hit anything
this size 99 times out of a hundred.
Zellers said that according to a re-
port in the Life Magazine the Japa-
nese eyesight is pothetic; 50 per cent
of the Japanese are wearing glasses
and there is no telling how many
more need them. Zellers said a story
from an observer at the Burma Road
said that the Japanese airforce
bombed a bridge over 100 feet long
for a week and never hit it once.
Then he said the U. S. army airforce
boasts that they coul dhave hit the
target and completely destroyed it
with one squadron of bombers
equipped with the famous Norden
bomb sights.
During the discussion of the Ja-
panese army and navy Zellers told
of an amusing incident connected
with the sinking of the Japanese
Battleship in 1930. In the early
twenties the Japanese wanted to
construct a new type battleship but
didn’t have the plans to build it. So
the Japanese, according to Zellers,
wrote to a British shipbuilding firm
asking for the plans of a battleship,
promising to pay fo rthem if they
were used. Then he said that the
Japanese copied the plans and sent
them back to England saying that
they were not good enogh, and that
they woul dnot pay for them since
they were not used. When a battle-
of the International Relations Club 1---l— — .....-
made a report on the dillusions of its virtues on granit.”
This war will change the entire
country in many different ways; the
perspective of the people, the labor si-
tuation, production, education, litera-
ture, music, economics, social stand-
ards, science, politics, religion, every-
thing—all overlapping in striving to-
ward one goal: to effect a victory over
the aggressor nations of this world.
The attitude of the people will go
a long way in achieving a final victory
over the Japanese Empire; it is often
the man behind the man behind the
gun who does as much to win the war
as the man behind the gun himself. Al-
ready since the Jap attack our nation
has been welded into an invincible na-
tion with that ifallible American spirit.
In Congress, in labor, in the homes
that unity and solidarity exist which
will take something mightier than the
forces of the Axis to destroy.
A complete reversal of the labor
situation will transpire; an about face
in the attitude of the labor leaders and
the laboring men themselves will out
law strikes and set a staggering pace
in production. John L. Lewis and Wil-
liam Green have pledged in behalf of
their respective unions complete sup-
port of the administration and their po-
licies. This anti-strike policy will in
itself step up production to an all time
high. No more strikes, peaceful settle-
ment of disputes, and harmony among
the workers themselves as well as the
employers will do as much to bring
about a victory for the democracies as
--------- „ the play “The Cross Lifted Up”,
battleship was launched in 1930, this which was very inspirational.
——r--------— - - 3 Dave Breedlove, Frances Hart An-
later the British knew that they hderson, John Barcus Moore,, Miss
Frances Bums, and Mr. Lamar
ciation for his good fighting spirit,
and fair play Dorothy Watt present-
ed Fain with a gift. Fain in return
thanked the football team for the gift
and what it meant to him.
Dalton Criswell acting in behalf
of the football team presented the
football sweetheart, Virginia Craven.
Miss Craven then made a brief
speech of appreciation to the foot-
ball team, and to the Thalian So-
ciety.
Mr. Cooper presented the guest
speaker of the evening, Coach Gus:
Miller of T. W. C. who worked with
our own Coach last year at T. W. C.
Coach Miller recalled his friendship'
with Coach Rutledge, and that “Red”’
was due to the credit for the success
of the football team as much as he
was himself. In conection with foot-
ball playing Coach Miller said that
he could tell whether a football paly-
er had plenty of money or not by
the way he played the game on the
gridiron. In this connection he said
that football boys that play good
never have money. Coach Miller
stressed the need for football in
national defense since we were at
war with Japan, and needed plenty
of husky youths to fight for freedom.
He condemned Japan’s cowardly at-
tack on the United States as treach-
ery and compared it to a football
team breaking into the opposing
team’s dressing room and knocking
two of the boys out before the game
even started. But he added quickly
that he never in his life saw a team
that played this kind of a game win
out in the end. He then praised the
players that Weatherford College'
turns out, that go to T. W. C. and
play after they graduate from here.
Among the players that received
most of the praise was W. H. Led-
better, 200 pound back who played
here last year, and Buford McCauley
who came to Weatherford College
some years ago. At the conclusion of
his speech he showed some films of
some of the football games that T.
W. C. played this year, among which
a 72 yard run for a touchdown which
was made by W. H. Ledbetter.
Old Black and Gold was sung
after the speech by Gus Miller was
completed. Everyone staod up as
the school song was sang, after
which the banquet was officially dis-
missed by Mr. Cooper.
the world. Walker read from the
book “International Dillusions”,
The education in the schools and
the education of the people as a whole
will be changed. War propaganda will
take the place of most other kinds of
education. Military science, naval
science, and aircraft science will come
to the fore. Patriotic literature will be
the latest style of writing for the mo-
dem authors. In the world of music
composers will principally concentrate
on patriotic songs which make people
have that funny warm feeling inside
when they are played or sung.
Vast economic changes will come
about which will change the standard
of living for every class of people in the
country. Higher taxes will be necessa-
ry of course to maintain our army and
navy. Sacrifices will have to be made
to feed our soldiers well. Besides taxes
liberal gifts will have to be made to
make our fighting forces more effici-
ent. Defense bonds and stamps must be
freely purchased to aid in the build-
ing of a mighty war machine. Besides
these gifts and sacrifices we must lend
our moral support to the fullest ex-
tent if it is not possible for us to ac-
tively serve Uncle Sam.
Science and medicine will follow
along the same lines as it has in pre-
vious wars. Scientists will turn their
attention to inventions which will per-
fect our fighting ability. Inventions
will be made which will enable our
men to defend themselves easier and
better and enable them to destroy the
enemy quicker and in greater num-
bers. Medicine will find ways to com-
bat disease which infects our troops.
In fact, the success of our forces great-
ly depend upon the ingenuity of our
inventors.
No longer will the Democrats and
Republicans vie for political suprema-
cy. No political machines will control
those offices which would be benefi-
cial to themselves. The political forces
will unite to keep America the best
place on the earth to live.
Finally, but not least, there will
be a definite trend toward a greater
religious unity among our people. A
trend toward a better Christian na-
tion coupled with a firm faith in God
that He will watch over us and see us
through this fight for the right. With
prayer and a never-faltering faith in
God we can certainly assure ouselves
that we have better than an even
chance of pulling through with a tri-
umph over the powers of evil.
policy is similar to the nearsighted We must vigilantly maintain all
teresting report. One of the most in- a world court was the thing while
spiring sentence made during his en- others thought that the United
tire address was the line “Germany States and England were going to
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