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THE CITIZENS JOURNAL, ATLANTA, CASS COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942
LITTLE KNOWN BUT POTENT
CONTRIBUTOR TO THE
DEMOCRATIC SVSTEM WE
ARE FISHTINS FOR—
THE SYSTEM OF EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY UNDER WHICH
THE AVERAGE MAN IS FREE
TO CHOOSE HIS PRESENT //I
AND MAKE HIS FUTURE '■/!,
McLEOD
J. H. Walker, Reporter
Mr. Stanley Cooped of Dallas
spent the week-end here with his
wile, who is teaching in the Mc-
Leod high school.
Miss Laveme Capps has accept
ed a position at De Queen, Ark.,
and left Sunday to take up her
duties there.
Mr. and Mrs. Nealy Rives of
Vivian, La., were Sunday visitors
In the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
McLeod.
Miss Dorothy Ann Robinson has
accepted a position in the office
of Burr S. Cameron here.
Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Tolleson and
Patsy visited Mr. Tolleson's bro-
ther, Victor Tolleson at Texarkana
Sunday.
Rev. Sylvanous Echols and Rev.
L. J. Hosch and Velton Blizzard
and Solomon Long attended a Fel-
lowship meeting at Maroon City
La., Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Claiborne and
daughter Glonda, of Greenville,
Texas, were visitors in the home
of their daughter Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Betts Sunday.
Quite a few from here attended
the funeral of Mr. Allen at Tex-
arkana Sunday afternoon.
Mr. J.im Johnson of this place
is spending a few days on the
river farm of Mr. Gable near
Bradley, Ark.
The W. M. U. society met at
the McLeod school Monday to
quilt for Mrs. Charley Walton, who
was burned out not long ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Parrish and
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Brown visited
relatives at Malvern, Ark., Friday
to Sunday.
Miss Rose Ellon Hudson of Pine
Island v.isited Miss June Heskett
of McLeod last week-end.
Miss Margaret Outon, who is
1 teaching in the McLeod school
visited home folks at Ctarksville
last week-end.
Mrs. Sam Kirkland of McLeod
is confined to her bed with the
mumps.
Miss Evalyn Barber who as at-
tending college at Commerce is at
home here with her parents for
a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Wharton and
daughters, Misses Billie Arden
and Kathryn of 66 City attended
church at Good Exchange Sunday.
Mr. J. M. Davis had the misfor-
tune to get in a car wreck one day
last week and sustained severe
bruises and a general shakeup.
Buster Oliver living on the J.
B. Rodgers farm, reports the loss
of a nice barn, also a gun stolen
from his house last Wednesday.
Mrs. Chap L. Shelton was re-
ported quite sick Sunday.
Fires Destructive
in Timber Lands
The Texas Forest Service and
timber land owners are calling up
on everyone to assist them in help j no longer recognizes civilians as
ing prevent fires. Loose fires
are destructive—it's a waste that
is never repaid.
According to leading ectomolo-
gists, it is foolish to think that
the .insects can be controlled by
burning the woods. Good cultiva-
tion and insecticide control is
recommended and not burning. The
grass and weeds on cropland is too |
valuable as humas anc
to burn. Watch out for fires
OUR DEMOCRACY-
m
ORN IN A TINY
NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE
IN FEBRUARY 1804, HE
) WAS REARED IN A CABIN
IN A CLEARING IN THE
WESTERN RESERVE
NATURAL MATHEMATICIAN
HE BECAME KNOWN AS
THE FATHER OF MODERN
LIFE INSURANCE , AN IDEA
WHICH HAS GROWN TO
PROVIDE AN AVERAGE OF
NEARLY HOOO
EACH FAMILY
COUNTRY
Lend or Give!
ThiB is a day to rejoice my lad
As well as a time to moan,
You're not asked to give my lad
But merely asked to loan.
It's true we are not prepared,
my lad,
Like those to conquest turned
Nor has our country called on
Dads
To give up half they've earned.
People under the despots heels,
Are forced to go, not send
Their fate, dictators, by orders,
seals,
And they have to give, not lend.
We've had it pretty easy my son
I While our foes have slaved to
pay
High taxes for ships, airplanes
and guns,
To be ready for conquest day.
What is money compared to life
Would you give a boy for a Bank |
What would your property be j
worth to you
If overrun by gun and tank?
Your Part
A handful of Marines for days
held Wake Island against impossi-
ble odds. They didn't have a
chance, and they knew they didn't
have a chance. But there was a
thing called tradition to live up to.
They did their part.
Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., did-
not have a chance either, and he
knew it. But there was a job to
be done—he, too, played his part.
In the Philippines, in Hawaii, in
China, on the high seas, American
fighting men are doing their part,
writing into the record new chap-
ters in heroism and sacrifice.
What Can You Do?
The American Red Cross has an 1
answer. When Japanese bombs
fell on Pearl Harbor and Manila,
the Red Cross was ready and in ■ Western Union
action without delay. You ve seen gta (jn sa,e at 5QQQ bHc tele
the pictures—pictures of terrified J
little children and frantic mo-,
Give To the American
Red Cross War Fund!
It takes money to help in war-
time. The American Red Cross
needs that money, and there as no
time to waste. The War Fund
must be raised; not next year, not
next month, but NOW!
All of you can give. You can
give your money just as others
are giving their life blood. By so
doing you take up your station
with the Red Cross on the front
lines of mercy. The goal won't be
reached until you have done your
part.—GIVE TO THE RED CROSS
WAR FUND.
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Western Union to
Sell Defense Stamps
Now the despots' heel is on our i
land
Our boys are giving their all |
Volunteers are needed with
I *n ^nc' , . J Collection and sale of scrap iron
i Ihat our armed forces may not an(j s^eej ja on|y one 0j? the many
j ways Cass county farmers can help
„ , . I I'ck the Japs, the Nazis and the
The loss of our freedom, not to, Fascistsf according to 0. E. Mc-
count life, Gilvray, chairman of the Cass
Is the sad fate we face today 1 County USDA Dcfensc Board.
I Will you lend and help to halt .
this strife 1 Growing needs of a nation at war
Or keep it, and pay and pay and! Bel've to intensify demand for steel
v j and scrap iron to leed the hungry
i mouths of arms factories, the de-
This is a day to rejoice my lad J fe"f boartl chairman said.
As well as a time to moan ! appeal is also made to
You've been given a chance to the pubhc to gattier up ste^and
save, my boy
That you may lend, to save your
home.
BY ZACK MOSLSY*
SMILIN JACK
RIGHT/ WHEN YOU FLY YOU
REALIZE MORE THAN EVER
GREAT THIS COUNTRY IS -
AN P. THAT ONE OP THE BEST
WAYS TO DCFEAT ITS INfMI
IS TO BUY
WHAT/
YOU SAY VOO
BUY A DIFINH
BONO EVERY
TIME YOU
MAKE A
LANDING,
JACK ^
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Save Scrap Iron
For Defense
fication caine from Representative
Lindley Beckworth of the East
Texas District who in turn was
notified by Secretary of War Hen
ry L. Stimson.
The dehydrated sweet potato is
Contributed by:
(Rights Reserved)
Pa.
DEFENSE BOND
QUIZ
To aid the government in sell
ing United States defense stamps,
scrap and carry it to nearest deal-
ers for use in charging the nation's
steel furnaces. A list of dealers
for the county are on file in the
local AAA office and may be con-
sulted any time, he said.
We're not asking that you give
your scrap to our country. We're
asking that you sell it at prevail-
. , ing prices for immediate defense
Q What simple and satisfac-1 use> 5jcQjivray K;iid in explaining
tory way is provided for all "f us | that financial returns cannot be ex-
to express our gratitude for being | pecte,| be large, but results will
Americans. | be of untold value to farmers in
A—The means .is the purchase their whole victory effort,
of Defense Savings Bonds andi McGilvray explained that prices
Stamps—available to almost every, f()r scrap vary ;n different sections
man, woman and child. Ownership s sjnce t)eajers deduct costs of trans-
of even a 10-cent Stamp carnes portjn(r SCrap from shipping point
the satisfaction of knowing you
have helped the Nation to arm.
q—What denominations of De-
fense Savings Stamps are on sale
at retail stores?
A—Stores are concentrating on
selling 10-cent and 25-cent Stamps
in order to get a maximum num-
thers, the wounded and dead, in-
nocent victims of warfare which
non-combatants.
In the pictures you saw other
graph offices
United States.
Local employees of Western
Union have been instructed in the
sale of the stamps and have indi-
cated their enthusiastic coopera-
tion, it was announced by Ann Mer
people, men and women with Red ritt, local manager of the tele-
Crosses on their arms, who were graph company. The stamps will
on the job scarcely before the be sold in denominations of 10, 25
to mill, as well as preparation
charges.
It's just another way of saying
that we're at our posts on the farm
front, the chairman said. We're
in this war to win, and each of us
will have to do his part to get the
job done.
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rn f .. Army to Use Dehy-
Manv stores also carry 50-cent, $.1 _ t . .
land $5 Stamps. Stamps of all de- drated I otatoes
nominations may be purchased at j DflNT0N( Texas-Gilbert C.
''toTE-To buy Defense Bonds | Wilson industrial farm «:hemur-
and Stamps, go to the nearest post Klst at the North ,xa. . .
office, bank or savings and loan
association; or write to the Treas-
urer of the United States, Wash-
ington, D. C. for a mailorder form.
t is placing these >*r "f customers to participate in
nt. 5,000 public tnlp- the Defense Savings I rogram.
throughout
Teachers College , was notified
here this week that dehydrated
sweet potatoes has been officially
I accepted for army use. The noti-
one of the few dehydrated pro-
ducts which has been accepted for
army use since the last war, when
onions, potatoes and cabbage were
the only products dehydrated for
army use, Wilson said.
One of the army's main inter-
ests in the dehydrated sweet po-
tato, Wilson said, is its Vitamin
A potency. Our good grade Puer-
to Rico potatoes run a minimum
of 150 .international units per
gram, which means that one acre
of sweet potatoes would yield
about 6,000 pounds of concentrated
food containing a sum total of a
minimum of 2,043,000,000 inter-
national units per acre,
from governors, state and local
traffic directors and others high
in public life from every part of
the country. The Foundation made
a similar proposal for the three-
day July 4 holiday period in 1941,
which was accepted nationwide and
is believed to have been a factor
in reducing the number of holi-
day deaths by 100 less than in
1U40.
The revised Texas law was fos-
tered by George L. Clark, Direct-
ing Manager of the Texas Safety
Association of Austin, which or-
ganization has declared its inten-
tion of seeing that the law is
stiictly enforced. State police,
Bays Mr. Greer, have been instruct
i.o follow through in all cases
where there is evidence of drunk-
en driving.
UNITY —
'lhe treacherous Japs, with their
murderous attack on Pearl Har-
bor, unintentionally rendered
America a service by shocking the
people into UNITY of thought and
action. America — easy going,
high living, indifferent, arguing
and hickering—was not deeply con
1 cerned as a people about the war
j in spite of appeals of its leaders.
| until a foreign foe pretending
| friendship struck like a rattle-
A wave of deep and sacri-
ficial patriotism swept this Na-
tion like a prairie-fire, uniting pat-
ties, classes, sects, races and
groups of industry, agriculture
and labor, and demonstrating that
American stock still has .the virili-
ty and courage of our ancestors.
We shall always "Remember Pearl
Harbor" and so will the Japs.
They made the fatal mistake of
uniting the American people who
are terrible in their unity.
Unity is that intangible, neces-
sary psychological condition for
success in sports, in business, in
town building or in war. A town
with its leadership divided by
jealousness and factionalism, lan-
Experts agree that one soldier j gUjs|les an(j sometimes dies. An
requires from 4,000 to 5,000 in" j office, shop, mill or farm where
ternational units of Vitamin A j there is not unity has a handicap
potency per day, Wilson said, and „ften means ruin. Sometimes
pointed -out that if a soldier ha< ^ takes a catastrophe to shock a
as much as one pound of dehy- town int() unUy Perhaps now in
drated sweet potato per month a renewed fires of patriotism
his Vitamin A requirements wou t r people of our communities
be met.
Police to Enforce
State Law Covering
Drunken Drivers
State and local police through-
out Texas will rigidly enforce
the revised motor vehicle law cov-
ering drunken driving. This is
the word received by the Ameri-
can Business Men's Research
Foundation in response to its sug-
gestion for a nationwide mora
torium against drunken driving
for 1942.
The year's moratorium against
drunken driving was urged by the
American Business Men's Re-
search Foundation, as a major
step in bringing a reduction in au-
tomobile accidents in 104'_'. I he
Foundation offices have received
endorsements for the suggestion
throughout the land will find them
selves drawn together as never be
fore with enthusiasm to work for
town and Nation in UNITY.
—Hubert M. Harrison
In East Texas Magazine
V
The wild turkey has been called
America's greatest game bird, but
it is only within the past 10 years
that scientists have given serious
attention to improving the habi-
tat and management of the bird.
HERBINE
When Biliousness, Headache,
Flatulcnce or Gas, and Listless-
ness or that tired feeling are symp-
toms of Temnorary Constipation
and you take a laxative or cathar-
tic for relief, try Herbine. It is
strictly a vegetable medicine. 60c
a bottle.
WALKER DRUG CO., PHONE 67
bombers were out of sight.
Those Red Cross men and wo-
men had but one thought in mind
—mercy. They were doing their
fertilizer I Partl They were relieving suffer-
,m(l j ing where that relief was most
assist your Texas Forest Service
Patrolman by preventing unneces-
sary fires.
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needed—at the scene.
Under their ministrations thou-
sands of human beings, some of
them your former neighbors—per-
and 50 cents.
Secretary of the Treasury, Mor-
genthau, expressed his apprecia-
tion of this action by the telegraph
company in the following telegram
to President A. N. Williams of
Western Union:
"We at the Treasury Depart-
ment are very pleased to learn
that the Western Union Telegraph
During the mating season,
Rocky Mountain bighorn rams of-
off to
being
100 feet, and then at the rate of
20 miles an hour crash into each
other head on.
haps the man and his wife and the Company is placing defense
stamps on sale at its 5,000 offices
and also that your company lias
Instituted the payroll saving plan
for Western Union employees. The
opening of all your outlets for
stamp sales will be a major con-
cute Little girl who sailed
, Manila a year ago—are
ten lace each other, back up about helped
In Army camps and defense out
posts, naval stations, airdromes,
any spot where a U. S. man is
: landing guard over the future of tribution to the defense savings ef
Pyorrhea Mav America there the Red Cross flag
_ ,. , . ' waves.. 1 hose men appreciate the
r OilOW neglect Red Cross. To them it is a breath
Are your Bums unsightly? Do your gums 0f home and the sympathetic help
cnu.se 5"U i ittbarnsnroent? Druggists re- . . . . ,
turn money if first bottlo of "leto'S" they associate with home.
So, you want to know how you
n help?
fails to satisfy
WALKER DRUG CO.
fcffladtivsL
Simday, February Stli
We will have a slight schedule change,
effective Sunday, and in very few cases
will any schedule change more than 30
minutes.
Your T & P Agent will be glad to fur-
nish you the new figures upon reguest.
Effective 2.00 A.M., Monday, February 9th, by an Act
of Congress, the time will be advanced to 3.00 A.M.,
at which time all Texas and
Pacific trains will begin op-
erating on the new or so-
called Daylight Saving Time
TEXAS
FAST * S A F I * COHFOKTAILt
THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RY.
fort and will greatly assist us in
our program to stimulate regular
bond and stamp purchases
Americans everywhere.
IJvt. Stuckey
Appointed Cadet
Private John A. Stuckey, age
23, a well known Shreveport boy,
and a graduate of Centenary Col-
lege and the Louisiana State Uni-
versity, has been appointed an
Aviation Cadet in the Army Air
Corps. He left Biloxi, Miss., im-
mediately for Maxwell Field, Ala.,
where after several months train-
ing, he expects to be commissioned
a Second Lieutenant in the Air
Corps reserve.
He is the son of Mrs. Etta
Chessman of 444 E. College St.,
Shreveport. His father, Cleve
Stuckey was killed in a train
wreck at Oil City in 1020, John A.
being only 11 months old at the
time of his fathers death. Ho is
ti nephew of Mrs. J. W. Hanner
and Spurge Stuckey and the only
brother of Mrs. Dr. Ross H. Wor-
ley, of Shreveport.
His address is: Aviation Cadet
John A. Stuckey, Squadron A,
Class 42-1, Maxwell Field, Ala.
Though the blue whale is the
largest whale in existence and
sometimes is 100 feet long, curious
ly enough it feeds on small forms
of marine life, such as small her-
ring and shrimplike creatures no
bigger than grasshoppers.
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The American mink is one of the
few animals that is equally at
home on land or under water.
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1942
60,000 planes
45,000 tanks
12.3,000 pianos
i
7.3,000 tanks
•>.">,000 anti-
20,000 anti
aircraft guns
aire rati guns
10,000,000 tons
of shipping
8,000,000 tons
of shipping
t&W-;; n
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(Courtcty Council For Democracy)
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