The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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UNITED STATES DEFENSE
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1 wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire
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Mineola, Texas- Thursday, July 30,1942.
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A SAILOR SPEAKS
A leading Eastern daily newspaper tells
the story of a sailor on a bus who finally
wanned up enough to talk, to a fellow-pas-
senger. The incident happened since the
Nazis started their big push in Russia.
The sailor said that "folks at home still
don't feel this war." Pressed for an ex-
planation, he said he didn't know just ex-
actly, but that he had been at' sea for
ten months and that to him Americans
seemed to be asleep.
The listener stated he thought Pearl
Harbor had woke most of us, .but the sailor
retorted he thought it would take a Pearl
Harbor on the mainland to really do the
job pointing out the fact that so many
young men had not enlisted and that there
seemed to be a lot who wanted to chisel
the government in one way or another.
More than likely the sailor was right.
Many of us pride ourselves in saying that
we are awake to the danger, but do we
really know. Do we know like the British
and the Russians and the Chinese—and
those fallen nations? They know that Hit-
ler and the Japs are fighting for keeps.
Some folks don't realize yet that those brave
people are still doing, most of our fighting.
Say what you please about the English, but
Hitler hasn't invaded that little island yet.
-*Say what you please about Russia and harp
jon Communism—but thank your lucky stars
and stripes that they are still able to stand
lip and fight until Uncle Sam gets ready to
strike with all his might. Intelligence and
imagination can take the place of sad ex-
perience. But, because we are so far from
actual hostilities, our problem is greater.
Perhaps seeing ourselves as service men see
us, will help.
SETTING AN EXAMPLE
Gladewater, East Texas oilfield city and
our neighbor to the east, is one Texas oil
town that intends to be in good, sound
financial condition if and when its oil re-
sources dry up.
Gladewater has had considerable debt
-at times but never more than $132,000 at
one time. After September 1 of this year
there will be but $33,000 of this left. And
in 1945 it will all be gone. Gladewater is
not talking about voting any more bond
issues, either.
Although the boom phase of the big
oil field is now gone, Gladewater still has
an assessed valuation in excess of $4,000,000.
Its tax rate is now $1.50 and collections are
good. All of the city funds are on a cash
basis.
Any city county or other governmental
unit can reduce its operating expense if it
really wants to do so. During the past two
years expenses in the fire, health, street, and
inspection departments of Gladewater have
been greatly reduced and their officials say
they will be reduced more in the future.
Now that we have a war to win and
pay for, all unnecessary government ex-
pense must be cut down or discontinued.
Every local unit of government must leam
to get along on less money. Gladewater is
setting a good example for all to fol-
low.
o
"O'Daniel Family Bitter at Press and
Radio On Election Night"—headline. Now
maybe they know how the shoe feels on the
other foot.
DEMOCRACY AT WORK
Democracy was at work in Texas Sat-
urday when almost .a million Texans went
to the polls and exercised the right to choose
the officials who will serve them in the
future. Whether our choices were wise or
unwise, the fact remains that we still have
the privilege of a free and undictated
vote.
Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito would not
be able to understand why we still persist
in this old-fashioned method of govern-
ment. They do not- believe that the masses
of the people have any right to say how
they shall be governed. They believe that
the people exist for the benefit of the state
and not the state for the people.
After all, that is the basic reason for
this world-wide conflict in which we are
now engaged—locked in a death-struggle for
supremacy—will determine the history of
the world for more years than we can possi-
bly imagine right at this time.
A well informed electroate—and the
newspapers and radio help to assure that—
will make democracy work so that those
who are on our far-flung battlefronts will
not fight in vain. We who have the privi-
lege of voting should think before we vote
and be sure that we are sending the best
possible citizenship to represent us in offi-
cial plac«s of responsibility. As long as
we intelligently work at democracy, it will
be a success.
AMATEUR EXPERTS
Both in America and and England there
are millions of people who seem to consider
themselves highly qualified experts on mili-
tary tactics and strategy. Right at this time
it seems to be the favorite sport of all too
many of us. They all seem to know just
what is wrong with the United Nations' High
Commands and they think they could rem-
edy matters in short ordjer.
There has been a great deal of demand
from many quarters for the opening of a
second front in Western Europe. Only this
week a large assembly of English citizens
expressed a desire for such a move.
Theoretically, the opening of a second
front would mean much to the Allied cause.
It would mark the start of a real effort to
break Axis power at home, where it finally
must be broken.
Actually, the opening of a second front
would be one of the most hazardous under-
takings in all military history. There are
several hundred thousand well-trained
troops along the west coast. The coast
from Spain to Norway has been strongly
fortified at all strategic points.
Over-water invasion is one of the most
difficult movements imaginable. We would
have no direct land supply lines such as
the Germans. We would have no heavy
artillery to soften enemy positions. This
would have to be done by aircraft and the
cost would be staggering.
Even after the coast had been softened,
the losses in men which would follow in
the landing operations would be high. A
great amount of work lies ahead. The Unit-
ed Nations cannot afford another Dunkirk,
Singapore or Bataan.
o
Just a few more weeks and then Congress
can get back to the terribly important busi-
ness of winning the war.
fHttteola Monitor
Published Every Thursday In Mirieola, Wood County, Texas, by the
WOOD COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. R. H. CARRAWAY, Managing Editor
Entered at the postoffice at Mineola, Texas, as second class mail matter under the
Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person,
firm, or corporation which may appear in the columns of this newspaper will be
gladly corrected upon being brought to the attention of the publisher.
One Year (In Wood and Smith Counties)..
... $1.50
THE MONITOR'S 1942 PROGRAM OF IMPROVEMENT FOR MINEOLA AND WOOD
COUNTY:
1. A Modern Airport.
2. Municipal Park and Playground.
3. County Government on Cash Basis.
4. National Guard Armory, Defense Unit.
5. Sweet Potato Curing Plant.
6. Defeat of the Axis.
7. Street Lights in Residential Section.
8. Greater Farm Diversification.
9. No New Taxes During the War.
10. A Complete Farmer's Market.
MEMBER
Texas Press Association, North and
East Texas Press Association
Texas Editorial Association
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PRESS
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U. S. Treasury Dept.
'Tough luck, old man—my money's all in nontransferable
War Savings Bonds."
LOOKING BACK
in the files of the Monitor
A
July 28, 1942
Ray Carr Covington had been
appointed as a cadet to the
United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis.
D. R. Kennemer and Miss
Ethel Lester were maTried at
the home of the bride's par-
ents here on Thursday, July
21.
Mrs. J. E. Pugh died at the
family home here following a
long illness of cancer.
Zela Lsona, three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.
J. Darden, died early Tuesday
following a two-day illness.
A unique golf -tournament
will be staged at th^Mineola
Country Club with prized
awarded to the best and
golfers ar.d even the bigg'
liar, in addition to many
merjhandise prizes made possi-
ble by Mineola business firms.
wors
other
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Mrs. Clara Northcutt died,
a Dallas hospital following
lingering illness.
Ma Ferguson carried Wood
County in the governor's racej
leading a field of eight can-
didates.
B. F. Coleman, 90, one of
Wood County's oldest citizens,
passed away at his home here
Tuesday.
Contemporary
OPINION
MEMBERS OF the Rotary Club report a very interesting session
Monday, at which time they had as their guest one of Uncle
Sam's sailors who was in the middle of the hottest action during
the Battle of the Java Sea. Americans have to take their hats
off to the young men in uniform.
o
THERE WAS many a sunburned arm and neck and wringing wet
shirt or dress in Mineola Tuesday afternoon by the time W. Lee
O'Daniel and Hal Collins completed presentation of their plans
for a political Utopia. The crowd was estimated all the way from
500 to 1,000 person, with one person venturing to call it 1,500.
Regardless of the number, it was some contrast to the estimated
10,000 who heard O'Daniel at the time of his first appearance here
four years ago.
—o
INSTEAD OF inviting the folks to come and bring their horse feed,
Senator O'Daniel told them to come to Washington, but to be
sure to bring their own gasoline and tire patches.
o
RECENTLY Boyce* House carried a lengthy definition of Texas.
The following definition concerning Texas politicians comes from
the State Observer: "If all the politicians in Texas could be made
into one politician, he could stand with one foot on Cape Hatteras,
the other on the Golden Gate, tickle Nick's toes in Hades with his
finger, and with two blows of his hot air, one on Japan and one
on Germany, he could scorch their earth as is the Sahara, and
leave no sign of Flora or Fauna."
o
MINEOLA HAS two war heroes already on the list of Texas heroes
juts compiled. Corp. Melvin D. Bailey, listed as missing on Cor-
regidor and presumed to be a Jap priscmei, was awarded the Sil-
ver Star for heroism. Staff Sergt. Douglas V. Radney, a member
of the Tokyo bombing mission, together with all others, was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in the thrill-
ing flight. Relatives here have not heard from them for many
months.
o
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER man has deserted his typewriter and
gone to the war. Tom Campbell, publisher of the Wills Point
Chronicle, has volunteered for service and left Saturday for Of-
ficers' Training Camp. Mrs. Campbell will be the "boss" for the
duration. If all the names of editorial and mechanical employes
of Texas newspapers were compiled it would, indeed, be an im-
pressive and lengthy list of the contribution of the press of Texas
in the fight for freedom.
o
JOHN STUART MILL pens, the following potent thoughts on
Freedom :
"A People may pTefer a free Government, but if, from indol-
ence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they
are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they
will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be
deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by
momentary discouragement, or temporary panic, or a fit of en-
thusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their lib-
erties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers
which enable him to subvert their institutions; in all these cases
they are more or less unfit for liberty, and though it may be
for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are un-
likely long to enjoy it."
o
ALLIGATORS ARE harmless as long as you can keep their mouths
shut, says a well-known naturalist. As far as that matters, so
are gossips. So keep your mouth closed about the things you see
or learn concerning our war effort. Someone might be listening.
So don't be an alligator.
SHORTAGES
Shortages of materials due
to curtailed exports from coun-
tries controlled by our ene-
mies submarine warfare, and
increased demands for war pro-
duction are being felt more
and more in every household
as the months go by and we gu
deeper into this world strug-
gle.
The average American is will-
ing to make great sacrifices
to win this war if he can be
certain that his sacrifices are
necessary and that they are
accomplishing the promised re-
sults. What most Americans
do resent and deplore is the
feeling of uncertainty about
the whole program and the
doubt about the wisdom of
some of the national war plan-
ning.
It has been said that facts
are the world's scarcest raw
material. Right now we are
feeling keenly the shortage on
faCts. We are told by one gov-
ernment official one week that
such a course is necessary,
and the following week some
other high authority contra-
dicts the former statement.
We are called upon to econ-
omize and buy bonds and we
see exhorbitant and unrea-
sonable wages paid on war con-
tracts and outrageous fees
charged men by union offi-
cials for the right to work.
Another great shortage is in
common sense on the part of
theorists who announce im-
practical schemes from Wash-
ington which have to be re-
vised and re-revised at great
cost to business.
Americans are tough and they
can take it. But they want
facts and they want more com-
mon sense and courage in
Washington —Hubert M. Harri-
son, in East Texas.
o —
OPPORTUNITY THUNDERS
The contretemps posed by
the closing of the mammoth
shipyards of Andrew J. Hig-
gins at New Orleans in order,
the WPB says, to divert steel
to ships instead of to more
ship-ways and the suggestion
Monday by Henry J. Kaiser,
master shipbuilder of the West
Coast, that we convert pres-
ent shipyards into plane yards
really add up.
yhict^/j
The nine shipyards in the
United States could, within ten
months, be in full productic
of seventy-ton planes at the
rate of 5,000 a year sufficient
to carry 500,000 men to Eng-
land in a single day.
The next day, he declares,
they could take another trip
and bring 70,000 tons of fresh
milk beefsteak, sugar—and
bombs.
Kaiser, who has already
launched his fifty-fifth victory
ship, is no hare-brained theor-
ist. He knows whereof he
speaks when he says that ship-
yards could turn to mass pro-
duction of giant planes.
Twenty-five ships were
to subs last week and
material used in building
would have made a large num-
ber of aerial freighters wi
a sub could never have sigh}
which would have been
large to be shot down by
er aircraft, and which would"
laugh at blockades.
We would not have to turn
all the shipyards into plane
yards at once. We could start
on a few-and convert as con-
ditions permitted. And when
we had a good fleet of them
we could make loss of the Bur-
ma Road a good laugh for we
could land more supplies in
China in one day than the
trucks snaked over the Bur-
mest mountains in a month.
The fact that the proposal
is revolutionary is nothing
against it. Hitherto the Unit-
ed States has always enjoj
the reputation of being-]
country in which the uj
became standard practice
Europe was getting ready to
consider experimentation with
it. If industrial leadership, is
entailed, it should be our(
for we are industrial JealPrs
if we are anything.
No nation with less oil re- -
serves and resources than the
United States, moreover, could
consider competing with us in
fueling such an aerial armada.
Over and above our gasoline
resources we have tremendous
coal deposits and oil shale
in unestimated quantities. We1
have the fuel to operate for as',
far ahead as can be foreseen,]
certainly for the life of the,
machines which would be longf
enough to assure us of military, ]
commercial and economic su-!
premacy over the entire world.'!
President Roosevelt could jar
the nation loose from its in— f
hibitions on shipbuildin^^uf-
ficiently to get the thfl) inil
operation. We can assui^^im j
unending glory if he will put]
it over.—Longview News.
EDITORIAL SIDELIGHTS
The idea should be to make
the second front come first.—
Longview News.
An Illinois editor puts it
this way: "Rags make paper
paper makes money, money
makes banks, banks make
loans, loans make poverty, pov-
erty makes rages."—Pittsburg
Gazette.
Recipe for "How to Lose the
War': Gimme shorter hours,
gimme higher pay gimme
ger profits, gimme more pen
sions, gimme bigger crop bene
fits, gimme union dues, an
fees to work for Uncle
gimme closed shops gimme 1
taxes, gimme freedom
buying bonds.—Runge News.
big-
Sam,;
fror
sayil
Somebody adds to wise
ings the following: "Man
the only animal that blush
• . . or has need to."—Gran
Saline Sun.
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1942, newspaper, July 30, 1942; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299124/m1/2/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.