Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 8, 1941 Page: 4 of 6
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brought to attention of the publishers.
Editorials—SWEETWATER REPORTER-F« tures
Published each afternoon except Sp.tiAay,
PAGE FOUR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1941
office in Sweetwater. Texas, Feb- 9, 1920.
George Bennitt and Russell Bennitt, Pub#.
RELAX AND STAY SANE
A lot of recreation experts and professional fun in-
stigators are considering in convention the general
prospects for play, and being pretty darned serious
about it, too.
From the President down, one after another, they
have repeated something that is pretty clear to any-
body who thinks about it for a moment: namely, if all
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy in ordinary
times, all work and no play in times like these are like-
ly to bring the man in the white coat knocking on the
door. Dr. McCracken, president of Vassar college, put
it with greater dignity when he told the National Re-
creation congress that without the spirit of play the
world will go mad.
* * *
That is pretty obviously true, and it requires no
experts to tell the average man that a judicious mix-
ture of work and play is the right way to live.
There has to be a certain amount of spontaneity
about play, however, for it to have full value.
When 70,000 howling baseball fans watch the clas-
sic clash of Yanks and Dodgers, the first thing to note
is that they are having a whale of a good time. The
second thing to note is that nobody told them they
had to go to the game; nobody was fining them if they
didn't appear, or checking up on whether they went or
not. Nobody was telling them when to cheer, or \\hat
was cheerable. They were all at the park because that
was where they wanted to be; hence they were relaxed
and for a couple of hours the world was well forgotten.
And that is as it should be.
* * *
That is the American way to have fun and to get
the kind of relaxation that really does some good. In
the dictator countries they recognize the need for re-
laxation, too. so there are camps and resorts, and games.
But they can't possibly be any fun with that insignifi-
cant looking fellow with the mustache gazing down from
every wall; after 11 hours at the factory it can't be very
helpful to have some brawny Storm Trooper come along
tap you on the shoulder, and say "Come on, now! It's
time to have fun! Heil Hitler!"
What is fun, anyway? Why, a little time to do what
you want to do without interference; to lose yourself in
what you would be doing all the time if you could, whe-
ther it is yelling for a homer, trolling for bass, or re-
mounting a stamp collection.
Give opportunity and the people will find their own
fun.
o
Pull opens the door to success on but rare occa-
sions—so we'd suggest using push.
Some of the new fall styles and fads are so sensible
they probably won't last long.
Being a coward isn't worth half as much as it
costs.
New Yorker who turned in a false alarm told police
he had no home. They gave him one—for 30 da vs.
Inside Dope
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HORIZONTAL
1 Sea animal.
7 Acquiesces.
13 Liquid alka-
loid (pi.).
15 Mob.
17 Refuse (pi ).
18Jagua palm.
20 South African
farmer.
21 Greek letter
(pl.).
22 Pieces of
baked clay.
23 Obstacle.
24 Note in
Guido's scale.
25 Capital of"
Norway.
26 River in Italy
28 Virginia
(abbr ).
29 Natives of
Latvia.
32 End of month
(abbr).
34 Face with
stone slabs.
37 Worships.
39 Resident of a
convent.
41 Load.
42 Parrot.
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46 Hastened.
48 In that place.
50 Most lame.
53 Timber tree.
55 Negative.
50 Northeast
(abbr).
57 Chaldean city.
58 You and I.
60 Print
measure.
61 Pictured bird.
64 Graspy plain.
66 Editor (abbr.)
67 Chinese
dynasty.
68 Finish.
69 Regarding
(abbr.).
70 Destroyed.
72 Suffix.
73 Pounces.
VERTICAL
1 Woolen yarn.
2 Opposed.
3 Not as much.
4 Rhode Island
(abbr.).
5 Parts.
6 Doling.
8 Comprehend.
9 Sun god.
10 Decreases.
11 Very black.
12 Untwisted.
13 Short transi-
tion passage.
14 Grog-shop.
16 Worker ant
(comb. form).
19 French for
"I."
25 Island near
Esthonia.
27 Otherwise.
30 Eskimo hut.
31 Past tense of
"tread."
33 Silent.
35 Country of
South Assyria
36 Weathercock.
38 Cunning.
40 Nothing.
43 Yonder.
45 Musical note.
46 Gushes forth
47 Possibly.
49 Wanderer.
51 Grimaced.
52 Susceptible.
54 Formula for
gold.
59 Slumber.
62 Sufficient.
63 Exchange
premium.
65 Finishes.
71 Behold.
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IJ.v PETER IODSOX
,Sweet water Reporter
Washington < 'oiTcspondent
WASHINGTON — Existence
of a huge, governmental propa-
ganda machine has frequently
been charged, and has been look-
ed upon with considerable fear
and trembling. But there is one
bit of information about ycur
government which no one has
yet made public.
It is, paradoxically jnough,
how many people there are as-
signed to the Job of giving out
information about your govern-
ment.
Call the press agents, propa-
gandists, public relations ex
perts, directors of information,
departments of education, coor-
dinators or whatever you will.
They exisit under all these and
other officials and unofficial
names. Hut no one has given
out the dope of how many there
are.
There is in the Office of Gov-
ernment Reports a section known
as the United States Informa-
| tion service. One of the OGR
functions is to take all the in-
formation handouts and press
releases put out by the govern-
ment agencies and press releas-
es put out by the government
agencies and boil them down for
the information of all the gov -
ernment agencies. But US IS has
no idea of how many informa-
tion specialists there are.
Then there is the United States
Civil Service, tvhich grades and
classifies all government employ-
es. But USCS can only guess at
how many information special-
ists there are in government
service today, for the reason
that many of the men in the top
Jobs don't avail themselves of
the opportunity to get civil ser-
vice rating by taking what's call-
ed an "Unassembled ' examina-
tion," which isn't any examina-
tion of fitness at all, but a mere
listing of experience and quali
fications.
THK NII'MBEB
IS IN THOUSANDS
At the end of 19.18, the Civil
Service attempted a tabulation
of those who had been classified
as information specialists, and
came up with an approximation
that there were about, 2(100 in
such work all over the country.
Six hundred of them had quali-
fied for the higher ratings such
as chief of an information sec-
tion or assistant chief, with sal-
aries of from $11800 to $10,000 a
year. The other 2000 were clas-
sified as clerical workers in in-
formation section , 17 per cent
of them making over $2000 a
year
Those figures, now nearly
three years old, don't bejjfn to
tell the story but they provide
the only official public estimate
to date on the size of the huge!
information machine set up|
within the framework of the
federal government, grinding]
out answers to questions that
have been asked and often to
questions that haven't been ask-
ed.
At the request of a sub-pom
mittee of the House Committee
on Appropriations, the Bureau
of the budget has prepared a
confidential report on informa-
tion sections of the government,
but so far that report has not
been given out, and if it is no
more complete than previous
confidential reports of the kind
have been, it will not begin to
tell the story.
CONFLICT WITH
LAW CITED
One thing that makes it ex-
tremely difficult to get any of-
ficial estimates on the size of
this human machinery of in-
formation spreading is that there
is a law against it, passed by
Congress back in October, 1913.
An examination of this law, pa;
ragraph 54, title 5, U. S. code,
reveals this significant sen-
tence:
"No money appropriated by
any act shall be used for the
compensation of any publicity
expert unless specifically appro
priated for that purpose."
The term "publicity" as used
in this act has been interpreted
to cover activities which might
be said to advertise functions or
services rendered by any govern-
ment agency, or which might be
j put out with the idea of obtain-
ing public support for the con-
tinuation or expansion of exist-
ing departmental activities What
Congress particularly had in
mind, back in those distant pre-
World War I days, was the fear
that government agencies might
get busy and try to solid pres-
sure from interested groups
which in turn would bring pres
sure on congress to increase ap-
propriations for some particular
activity, or prevent Congress
from reducing an existing ap-
propriation.
In 1913, when that law was
passed, the word "propaganda"
had not come into common use.
That was reserved for 1911 and
the outbreak of the war, when
the kaiser's propaganda machine
started spooning out the grease
that has been skidding the world
slantwise ever since. But even
it congfessmen didn't have a
word for it in those distant times
they knew what it was and
what it might do, even when
spread upon the domestic fields.
Today, however, this; anti-gov-
ernmental propaganda law is
practically a dead letter. It is
cited now and then in hearings
before the appropriation com-
mittee when some federal de-
partment of cabinet lank, or
: orne independent agency is
presenting its budget and its re-
quest for funds to continue op-
ei at ions. But in every case, the
government, agency will reply in
effect that it has no publicity
experts, that it, is engaged in no
propaganda like activiites. Tech-
nically, that may Ik- a correct
answer. But it still cannot ft reen
the actual existence of the huge
public information - spreading
in Washington principally, but
scattered all over the country—
in practically every one of the
thousands of administrative
branch offices which the federal
departments maintain.
KROM CONV ENIEN 'K
TO CANCER
The existence of this compli-
cated service of information can
be justified on many counts,
the principal one being that in
a democracy, the citizens are en-
titled to know what their gov-
ernment is doing. And many
government agencies, in the
acts of congress creating them,
are spefically charged with the
task of furnishing the public
with information.
No newspaper man could func-
tion in Washington today with-
out the help of these informa-
tion specialists and in most cas-
es, the government public rela-
tions men are former newspa-
per men who have a definite
knowledge of what newspaper
and trade papers want, and see
that they get it.
At the same time, in the con-
stantly increasing complexity
of government, with new bu-
reaus springing up so fast that
they crowd each other out of
Washington, the original good
intentions and noble motives of
the public information sections
have been perverted to an amaz-
ing degree. The growth of the
public intormation machine in
Washington began with the New
Deal and with the superimpos-
ing of the defense effort on the
New Deal the public relations
racket has become a govern-
ment cancer.
v
Hereford Sales
Of Capitola
Exhibitor Good
By MRS. J. L. WADDELIi
CAPITOLA — Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis Fair were in Roby Wed-
nesday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waddell
and sons, Franklin and Donnie,
Mr. and Mrs. J, A. Waddell of
Roby and Mrs. S. N. Carpenter
and Mrs. Jimmie Whitworth of
Sweetwater were visitors in the
.1. L. Waddell home Sunday.
Fred Allen Brown Is suffer-
ing from a broken arm.
Several from this community
attended the Abilene fair this
week.
J. L. Waddell, jr., returned
Thursday from the fair in Abi-
lene after taking Walter
Boothe's Herefords to the ex-
hibit. He reported good sales
on the cattle.
Miss Mary Etta McCain and
.lean Waddell visited Mrs. Gla-
dys Brown Wednesday evening.
The Hobhs school has turned
out for two weeks of cotton
picking.
Mr. and Mrs. Presley Chilcoat
entertained the young folks with
a dance Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Amnions
have returned from California.
Mr. Amnions is principal of Ca-
pitola school.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Horton
ON TUB A IB WITH
KXOX
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1242 Kilocycles
THURSDAY PROGRAMS
6:30 Sunrise Jamboree
6:45 Crazy Water Crystals
Gang
7:00 Stqmps Baxter
Foursome
7:15 Dawn Patrol
7:30 Wake lTp and Live
7:55 Morning News Flashes
8:00 Wake Up and Live
Continued
8:15 Salon Music
8-.:j0 Morning Devotional
8:45 Music in tile Air
9:00 What's Doing Around
Sweetwater
9:15 Reflections in Rhythm
9:30 Side Glances
9:45 Riding the Range
10:00 News of the Day
10:05 Hollywood Headliners
10:15 Listen You'll Like It.
10:30 Mellow Bits of Rhythm
10:45 Just Relax
J1:00 Control Room Capers
11:45 Hymns You Love
12:00 Headline News
12:10 Parade of Hits
12:15 Singing Sam
' 12:30 On With the Dance
12:45 Your Exchange
1:00 Down On the Farm
1:30 Concert Hall of the Air
2:00 All Request Hour
3:00 Quizzer Cluh
3:30 Blue Beetle
3:45 Words to Hit Tunes
4:00 Pulpit of the Air
4:15 For Dancers Only
4:30 Tea Time Tunes
4:45 Jesse Crawford, at the
Console
5:00 Swinging Down Melody
Lane
5:30 Aloha Land
5:45 Waltz Time
0:00 Supper Dance Hour
0:15 United Press News
0:30 Sundown Serenade
0:45 Sports Roundup
7:00 Oi-gan Reveries
7:30 William Wirges Orch.
7:45 Flow Gently Sweet
Rhythm
8:00 Home Folks Frolic
8:15 Let's Face the Music
and Dance
8:30 Song Hour
8:45 Here Comes the Band
9:00 Let's Dance
10:00 Goodnight
Stage Comic Bids
To Take Laurels
hi Screen Debut
Fast-talking Red Skelton, hail-
ed as 'funniest man on the stage'
bids fair to anex the same ti-
tle on the screen in "Whistling
in the Dark," his first MGM
starring picture, now showing
at the Texas Theater .
The comedian has the oppor-
tunity to "give his all" in the
hilarious story—and does just
that.
He plays a radio "crime crea-
tor" captured by racketeers who
want hiin to invent a "perfect
murder" for practical purposes.
His antics and adventures in
turning the tables on the crimi-
nals and extricating himself, Ann
Rutherford and Virginia Grey
from their clutches, provides an
evening of undiluted merriment.
fcSkelton's antics and wise
cracks are augmented by those
of "Rags" Ragland, comedy hit
of Broauway's "Panama flattie."
Conrad Veidt, who scored in
"A Woman's Face," plays an-
other mystery role as the satur-
nine cuitist leader. Other prin-
cipals in the picture are Henry
O'Neill, Eve Arden, Paul Stan-
ton and Don Douglas.
Sidney Wagner contributed
unusuaiiy effective photography
and Brotslaw Kaper an interest-
ing musical score. One of the
comedy highlights is the fight
between Auss Rutherford and
Mis^ Grey as feminine rivals for
the love of the comedian.
State Oil Lease
Awards Deferred
AUSTIN — (UP) — Awards
of oil leases on state tracts for
which bids were taken Tdesday
have been deferred until Oct. 14,
it was announced Wednesday at
the state land office.
Fifty ■eight bids were received
totalling $110,859 for leases on
8,305 acres of school land, sub-
merged ureas and river beds.
The are&s bid upon are in An-
drews, Aransas, Crockett, Ector,
Gaines, Pecos. Terry and Vic-
toria counties.
Largest single bid was that of
Stanollnd Oil and Gas Co., of
Houston of $15,174 for a tract
of 300 acres in Aransas Bay.
visited relatjves at llobbs Thurs-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen William-
son and son of Sweetwater vis-
ited Mrs. Gladys Brown, Sun-
day.
Preston Horton, Willis Mc-
Cain, M. E. Kldd, Edith McCain,
Ernestine Glass, Billie Brown,
Annie Clair Kldd and Bennle
Clinton Kldd visited Jean and
.1, L. Waddell, jr., Sunday eve
ning.
"Nlta" Davis of Sweetwater
was the weekend guest of Mr.
and Mrs. W. W'. Horton and son.
Preston.
CLASSIFIED ADS
One insertion 10c a line, 3 line or 30c minimum. Capital i&ter
lines, double rates. Special rates for more than 2 days. Card of
Thanks 10c per line. All classified ads payable in advance or after
first insertion. Display classifieds 50c column inch.
Closing hours: Week days 11 a. m.—Saturdays 3 p. m.
Phone In Your Classified - — Dial 6^8
Puss In Loot
Some Stun worth ol' fish and
cntr.ip is in order for .Mrs. May
liirdst ll's little black cat, Kit-
kit, after it turned up playing
with a $7,500 pearl necklace
on lawn of her Rye. N. J.
home. Insurance canipa^iy
paid the reward.
Musicians Post
Names Committee
For District Meet
Musician's Post No. 333, The
American Legion, in regular ses-
sion Tuesday night named O.
E. Barnett, E. L. Caskey and
Jack Armstrong as representa-
tatives of the post to meet with
a group from all posts in the
17th district at Cisco on Sun-
day, Oct.. 19 to form pians for
the district for the year.
Named also were Armstrong,
Wilson and Davidson on a com-
mittee to meet with other groups
in planning an Armistice day
progra m.
Most interest in the meeting
revolved around the plan for
each post in the state to put
forth every effort to enlist one
man for the United States navy
in the next three weeks. Men
selected for naval service, whose
enlistment is sponsored by a lo-
cal post, will be sworn in for
duty on steps of the state capi-
tol on Navy day, Oct. 27, with
many officials of the federal and
state governments attending.
This ay ivitiy is in response to
a plea from Secretary of the
Navy Knox.
A committee composed of Ern
est D. Wilson, James S. Nixon
and M. S. Goldman will lead the
effort to secure a navy enlist-
ment lor this post. Unmarried,
male citizens between the ages
of 17 and 31, whose physical,
mental and moral status will
meet the requirements laid
down by the Navy department
may contact the members of this
committee or the post officers
for further information. Appli-
cants betWeen 17 and 21 must
have parental consent and their
enlistment is for the period of
the minority. Others will be en
listed for a period of six years.
No Evidence Of
Milk Price Collusion
AUSTIN — (UP) — Atty. Gen.
Gerald C Mann said Wednesday
thatj the State's legal depart-
ment will continue to eye ad-
vancing commodity prices, in
announcing that evidence of
conspiracy or collusion suffi-
cient to warrant action was lack-
ing in a recent inquiry into a
sharp rise in milk prices at
Dallas.
Mann said the inquiry at. Dal-
las was made on complaint of
Dallas citizens and supplement-
ed a recent statewide investiga-
tion of the milk industry.
"It is the intention of this tie
partment," Mann said, "to scruti
nize closely all reports of alleg-
ed it regularities that might be
present as commodity prices
rise in our present national em-
ergency."
.—v
Defense Restricts
Show Girl Market
DALLAS — (UP) — Show
producer Earl Carroll said Wed
nesday that the portals "through
which pass the most beautiful
women in the world" will have
to he padlocked unless ho can
get a priorities number on pret
ty girls.
He telegraphed Donald Nel-
son, supply priorities chief, that
the defense program has creat-
ed so many Jobs for women that
the show business faces a short-
age of beauties. Where he used
to have 200 applicants for a
1 Special Notices
If you TRAVEL with SwettHvat-
er travel bureau we give Tree
accident policy. Dial 2492. 117
W. Bdwy.
Hospitalization and surgery in-
surance will not keep you
from going to the hospita^but
it will pay the expenses. See
Clif Boswell.
Wanted—A whole carload of
men's clothing , shoes, hats,
overcoats, suits, etc. We %uy,
sell or trade anything. 106 W.
First St.
We buy live horses and mules
for tankage. Also hides and
tallow. Call us. Phone 6^
We pick up dead animals. Call
Collect 654.
TYPEWRITERS, ADDING
MACHINES. Buy or <J"nt.
Prices right. Mrs. McCaulley,
Blue Bonnet building, dial
2491.
Storage, packing, moving. Sweet-
water Transfer. Dial 52(!jj
I Tire repairing, recapping guar-
anteed. 207 W. Bdwy. Dial
2583. Phil's O. K. Rubber
Welding Shop.
j Bring us your old furniELre,
heaters, cook stoves, etc. We
pay more. Days Furniture, 100
West First.
lb Loans
O
KS.ILD A HOME
ON F. II. A. LOANS
Quick service, no brokerage.
Payments like rent. Avoid un-
expected moving. See H A.
Walker. Texas Bank Bldj,.1
2 For Rent Rooms
Room with meals. Dial 2598.
Nicely furnished east front < :d-
room. Mrs. C. S. Boyles. 205
Hickory St.. Phone 2628. No
answer—call 2108.
Room, private entrance. Dial
2205. ^
3 for Rent Apts.
3 Unfurnished rooms. No gas
903 Cedar.
2 Room furnished apt. 1201 ttt al-
nut St.
For Rent: Furnished apart-
ment. Dial 484.
Fur. Apt. 401 I liglitower.^
7 Help Wonted
Wanted: Experienced operator,
salary and commission. Blue
Bonnet Beauty Shop. Dial 2041
or 2110. q
9 Real Estate For Sale
Account of non-rasident, will
sell cheap, strictly modern 5-
room house, hardwood fleers.
Close in. Box 127, BlackWell,
Texas.
12 Livestock For Sale
•• Registered Angora Billy Mats;
1 registered Jersey bull. Tom
Wade.
■ ■—-— . .
I horoughbred yearling Ratnbo-
uillet Bucks. I,. D. Brownfield,
4 mi. north of Nolan, Tex.
13 For SaJe Misr.
1'or (Sale: Cheap. Gas, coke or
wood convertible furnace,
suitable for church or large
floor spate. Phone 2341. f
Good gentle riding horse for
sale. Bargain. Pat. Ilutchins,
Lake Trammel.
Several used .sowing machines
$10 up. Kasy terms. fJLnd
new White Console Electrics
$57 up. White Sewing Ma-
chine Store, 111 Locust. Dial
581.
16 Lost And Found
#
LOST yhmw and white spot*
to«l milch *('ow with horns.
Any information appreciated.
Vergil Redden. Dial 519 -
Telephone
bc*>the
Life
\L/ Insurance
2(5 Years in Sweetwater
chorus assignment, he now has
10, he said. The problem hi4.k*r-
ed the casting of his "Vanities"
at tht! Texas State Fair.
"How about one of those pri-
ority numbers," he wired. "I'll
give you a couple of good •ties
in exchange."
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