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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
Published Every THURSDAY by Albert
Cooper, Ted Rogers and Arval Montgom-
ery, 407 N. Main St.
Albert Cooper
Arval Montgomery
Virginia Anderson
J. C. Howell ________
Ted Rogers........_
------v— Publisher
____________ Editor
. Society Editor
Local Advertising
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of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate by
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acter, standing of reputation of any per-
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gladly corrected upon duo notice being i
given to the editor personally at the office I
at 407 North Main St., Shamrock, Texas.
WHAT IS .CIVILIAN
DEFENSE ?
So that future controversy and
hard feelings may be avoided, there
should be a definition of Civilian
Defense, and its functions rather
than a superficial shifting of per-
sonnel which does not go to the
heart of the problem.
In approving $100,000,000 for Ci-
vilian Defense, which was not an
economical gesture by any means,
the House showed that it was for
something, and its discussions in-
dicated that the money should go
for gas masks, fire-fighting appara-
tus and other means of dealing with
possible air raids. On the other hand,
in the selection of a dancer for an
OCD job, Mrs. Roosevelt or some
other official clearly viewed Civilian
Defense as a morale-building
agency, and paid workers hold that
has been its primary purpose. If
both functions, civilian protection
and morale building, are to contin-
ue, there will be no quarrel with
employment of entertainers or
physical training experts. In the
controversy in the House, the critics
of Mrs. Roosevelt clearly held one
meaning and she another for the
abstract term, Civilian Defense.
As to modern methods of building
morale, some persons may be in-
clined to view them, as dubious in-
novations. Entertainment may keep
up the spirits of soldiers in camp
and of the civilian population in
wartime, but it is primarily re-
laxation and diversion. The morale
for war must come from the will
to win, willingness to die for a
country one loves, grim determina-
tion to make any sacrifice willingly
for an American victory. In pre-
vious wars, it has been necessary
for the people to hate their enemies,
and, physiologically, anger gives
strength for supreme effort through
its stimulation of the adrenal
glands. War 'today, according to
modernistic intellectuals, should not
be fought with such primitive
emotions, but failures of America
to date in preparedness and in halt-
ing the Japanese do not confirm
that theoretical assumption. At
least, the American people must be
imbued with a grim determination
to win the war, which means killing
Japanese, Germans and Italians
and maiming others and blasting
their material possessions to bits.
The war is certainly not to be
won by oratorical shadow-boxing
among super-patriots on the home
front.—Port Worth Star-Telegram.
NEW NAVAL CHIEF
The small Dutch navy has shown
amazing effectiveness against the
powerful Japanese fleet in the Far
Pacific, and the destruction of Japa-
nese ships by the Dutch has been
an important contribution to the
Allied cause. The appointment of
the Dutch commander, Vice Admir-
al Helfrich, as chief of Allied naval
forces in the South Pacific prom-
ises more of this effectiveness in
the future.
Admiral Helfrich, 55, is a native of
Java, and has a. better knowledge of
the region than any British or
American admiral. He has spent 20
of his 34 years of naval service in
the Indies, and already in this war
has earned the opportunity granted
him by the Allied high command.
The selection of Admiral Helfrich
gives the doughty Dutch a share
of leadership in the Par Pacific to
SYNOPSIS
Ronny Rokaby, crooner “Crown
Prince of the Air,” has “Ginger”
Drake, talented performer, black-
listed because she will not marry
him. Her booking agent says she
cannot get a job even as hat-check
girl in the city. However, he offers
her a spot at the Club Caribbean at
Miami, on condition that she get
there Monday. Ginger jumps at the
opportunity, but is at a loss to
know how to get there, as her
finances are low. Then she reads an
Hem in the personal column of a
newspaper that one Tony Taylor
will take passengers to Florida on
a share-expenses basis amounting
to $14. She telephones her reserva-
tion.
CHAPTER III
Ginger hung up, and stared for a
long moment at the telephone. It
was done. For the first time it oc-
curred to her that this man was a
stranger—the other share-expens-
ers equal strangers. Still, there
would be women along. Leaving the
booth, she found herself wondering
whether or not she would have gone,
anyway, if there had been no other
lady passengers. In her heart, she
knew she would not have, but she
told herself that she would. All that
counted in life at the moment was
that she reached the Club Caribbean
in Miami, by Monday noon.
The other end of the telephone
line Ginger had just disconnected
was in a bar in West 52nd Street,
that was popular with certain Park
Avenue bloods and visiting collegi-
ans. It was not a very original bar.
The lanky, broad-shouldered
young man with the unruly hair
and the friendly grin, hung up the
receiver picked up his drink, and
made himself comfortable again at
the bar. The glass was nearly
empty, and he ordered a repeat.
“Don’t spare the ponies, Jimmie
—this is the last shot of poison I’ll
be letting you give me, for a long
time.”
“Going away, Mr, Taylor?”
“Tomorrow morning, at the crack
of dawn.” He waxed confidential.
“I’m taking the road south, Jimmie
—the road to romance and adven-
ture. With an ex-lion tamer and a
lady Thespian for company. The
lion-tamer is bringing a cat, and the
lady a tropical fish. There’s another
couple going, too; lord knows what
they’ll bring, probably a whale. And
a girl—the one I was just talking
to on the phone.”
“What is it—a road company?"
“No—a caravan to the Fountain
of Youth,” said Mr. Taylor, gran-
diloquently.
“But how come you’re not going
back to New Haven?” Jimmie
wanted to know.
“Yale College and Anthony Tay-
lor, Junior, have parted company,
by mutual consent,” said the latter.
“Thrown out again, eh?"
“Not again,” said Mr. Taylor,
late of New Haven, severely. “For
the last time. The third and last,
incidentally.”
“Zat so?" said Jimmie. “What
you gotta do to get thrown out of
“You don’t say . . Jimmie was
a good listener.
"Principles that are at this very
moment changing the face of civili-
zation, Jimmie. The right of the
common man to earn his daily bread.
The right of self-determination for
the masses. The right of the pro-
letariat against the money-grasping
capitalist.”
“Which side were you on, Mr.
Taylor?”
“The side of freedom, of course,
Jimmie. You ought to know thatl
“Don’t misunderstand me,” said
Tony. “It’s not Dad I don’t approve
of—it’s what he represents. Now,
if he’d only share his money with
the masses—”
Excuse me, Mr. Taylor—let me
get this straight.” Jimmie was
definitely puzzled. “You want your
dad to give away his millions?”
“Of course I do,” declared Tony
earnestly. “I believe the rich should
share their wealth. I think everyone
should share everything, for that
matter.”
.. Daddy used Phillips 66 Poly Gas for ,
college like that, Mr. Taylor?”
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“In my case,” said Tony, “it was
merely a question of conflicting
principles."
“Oh, he’s filthy rich all right,” said Tony. "He owns bus line*, tan!
companies and even a railroad.”
“Which freedom, Mr. Taylor?"
“The poor man’s, of course.” Tony
set down his drink. “Do you realize,
Jimmie—that only a hundred rich
men practically own the wealth of
the United States of America?”
Jimmie wiped a glass, and
grinned.
“And isn’t it your father, that’s
one of them, Mr. Taylor?”
"I wouldn’t be surprised,” said
Tony, sadly. “A fellow can pick his
pals, Jimmie—but he can’t pick his
progenitor. You know that. Not
that the old man isn’t a great guy,
when he wants to be. It’s just that
his thinking is wrong. He’s been too
busy making money all his life to
think about his fellow man.”
“Worked up from a motorman
on a trolley-car to president of the
street-car company, didn’t he?”
"Oh, he’s filthy rich all right,”
said Tony. “He owns bus-lines, taxi
companies, and even a railroad. I
hate to say it, but I’m ashamed of
him.”
“You’re whatf’t demanded Jim-
mie, gaping.
Jimmie attempted a joke.
“Even their women, Mr. Taylor?”
“You can have my share of wom-
en,” said Tony, wryly. “If it weren’t
for the women of America, Jimmie
—this wouldn’t be the first capital-
istic country 0f the world. Women
are parasites, Jimmie—just born
parasites. But speaking of sharing
the wealth—”
“So they threw you out of college,
eh,” said Jimmie, anticipating him
“You—a millionaire’s son, wanting
to be a communist.” He scratched
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his head. “Maybe I’m tight, Mr.
Taylor.”
“Nothing of the sort," declared
Jimmie, with warmth. “Communism
will never breed in America. My
kind of radicalism, however, is com-
mon sense. We don’t need—”
“Here’s a customer needs a
drink,” interrupted Jimmie. "Ex-
cuse me, Mr. Taylor . . . highball,
Mr. Nunnally?”
(To be continued)
Copyright by Polan Banks;
Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Ina.
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which they are entitled, and it ing_wages and farm prices.—GER-
should have the further value of
ng morale in the Dutch
; Indies, which will be the major
z»ne of operations after the fall of
The enforced retirement of Ad-
miral Hart because of ill health Is
after the valiant work
our navy in Macassar Straits,
his successor from the Dutch
bears every promise of being
to finish the job begun
Worth Star-Telegram,
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VICIOUS CIRCLE
Acting under White House pres-
sure and to prevent a threatened
railroad strike, employes of railroad
lines were granted a wage increase,
which added $350,000,000 a year to
railroad operation cost, although
the fact-finding board which rec-
ommended the increase said that
the railroads could not assume the
additional cost without higher in-
come rates in return.
So now the Interstate Commerce
Commission has authorized a ten
per cent increase in passenger
fares, which will yield the railroads
$45,000,000 additional a year, and
intimated that an increase in
freight rates is also to be expected.
Tills means a higher cost of liv-
ing for virtually all Americans, for
the increased bills are always passed
on to the consumers. It is a perfect
example of this thing we know as
the inflationary spiral, which shoots
living costs even higher. Can noth-
ing be done to halt this dangerous
trend?
Not until Congress acquires nerve
enough to write a price control bill
with teeth in it, and this means a
price, ceiling on the two big things
that go to make up the cost of liv-
realize our mistakes of past years,
and we are taking steps to correct
these errors.—CLYDE WARWICK
in Canyon News.
TIE HASKETT in Childress County
News.
we are, and to become
capable of becoming
end of life.—Robert
EGO
The spirit of derision never pays.
As a nation, the Germans have
shown disdain for their neighbors.
Now Russia is doing a pretty good
job of taking the ego out of the
lordly huns. Americans have brag-
ged about our superiority over the
Japs. But since Selective Service
we find about 40% of our young
men to be unfit for military service,
while the Japs are proving to be a
fearless fighting nation. Thinking
well of oneself is fine, if it does
not get you down. Americans now
ANNUAL HEADACHE
I read one of those "buy our book
for a $1, and it will save you hun-
dreds of dollars and keep you out of
jail too, and you can file your in-
come tax return in a simple man-
ner,” books.
All the good I got out of it was
the knowledge that I’m a cinch for
a jail cell but there will be any
amount of company <and the Gov-
ernment will have to call off their
defense program and spend their
wife and the FBI.—DOUGLAS
MEADOR in Matador Tribune.
HOME FRONT
A nationally known speaker in a
Panhandle town was challenging
the city to “throw out the short
hours, the golf games and the oth-
er leisure occupations and go all out
for national defense,” just the night
after a local golf Club had outlined
an ambitious annual program for
the Scotch pasture game. This is
no criticism of golfers, for it seems
that few of us yet realize that there
is a war on and that we must make
some changes in our usual occupa-
tions and diversions. The sooner
this is done the sooner we may ex-
pect victory. Former wars were won
by fighting men but the home front
is just as important today.—T. A.
LANDERS in McLean News
PUBLIC APATHY
The political pot seems to be
boiling harder than in a long, long
time. Some of the races promise to
become pretty hot. Records show
200 fewer eligible voters than two
years ago. It has always been a
peculiar thing to me that people
time and money building jails for1 will sacrifice, fight and even die
| Milk served to employees beti$%en
meals reduced accidents by 30 per
j cent in the Thermoid Company
plant in Trenton, New Jersey. That
j is the estimate of Frederick E.
Schluter, President of the Company.
“At this time when we are press-
ing hard to speed up defense pro-
duction requirements, we find this
free distribution of milk an impor-
tant contribution,” says Mr. Schlu-
ter. “The five-minute recess when
milk is served is recognized as one
of our best investments. The plan
pays two-way dividends: to the
Company in increased production
and to the employees in increased
incomes.”
When an employee works from
seven o’clock in the morning until
three in the afternoon, there is us-
ually a let-down or fatigue point
around ten o’clock. Working on this
theory, milk distribution was plan-
ned to hit this low point and a
corresponding point during the
other two shifts.
A recent check of Thermoid Com-
pany records Incidates a reduction
in absences due to illness. The av-
erage time lost by Thermoid em-
ployees through illness and acci-
dents is nine and a half days a
year. On this basis, employees lose
13,300 man days a year and ap-
proximately $66,500 In wages.
“If you consider 17 million indus-
trial workers in the nation losing
170 million man days a year and a
loss in wages of over $800,000,000.
Any reduction of this figure at this
time should be a vital contribution
all the incorrigibles. There'll be an j for the right to vote in a free
acute shortage of labor, also.—DICK country—and then won’t even go to
COOKE in Clarendon News.
SUSPICION
As sugar rationing advances into
a nation at war, “stolen” sweets
are certain to embrace a different
and amplified meaning. A married
man attempting to appease his con-
science with a box of candy, is likely
to encounter suspicions of both his
the trouble of qualifying themselves
as voters.—JIMMIE GILLENTTNE
in Hereford Brand.
STRANGE SITUATION
A. A. Meredith, WPA district
manager, says 2,000,000 workers are
expected to be added to the na-
tional total of 4,500,000 employed
by next June! They are to come
from the small plant shutdowns due
to the defense production require-
ments of the nation.”
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Use Flowers For
Bayonets And
Improve Land
to priorities dnd the conversion of
manufacturing industries to war
production. That will be 6,500,000
men, unemployed at a time when
manpower is our greatest need,
when business is being told to burn
the midnight oil, if necessary, to get
the job done, laborers are asked to
work 50 to 60 hours per week and
manufacturers say they can’t get
enough help.—ED BISHOP in Dal-
hart Texan.
STILLWATER, Okla. — Hammer
the plows of the nation into bayo-
nets and the farmer and his land
will be better off, says Dr. Horace
J. Harper, president of the Soil
Science Society of America.
Reporting in an interview on some
results obtained in experimental
plowless farming, the professor of
soils at Oklahoma A. and M. College
declared:
“Since plowing actually hastens
the exploitation of the soil, we’ve
always tolerated it only because we
regarded it as a necessity.
Actually, however, plowing is an
expensive evil. One of the most
costly of operations, it is one of the
most vicious of fifth columnists so
far as the soil is concerned."
Only in the bottom lands, where
the plow may throw up contour
rows to check erosion, need it be
used, Dr. Harper argued.
How then is the seed bed to fVt
prepared?
In Eastern Oklahoma, where
plowless farming is increasing, Dr.
Harper said the ground for small
grains is prepared by disking.
Stalk cutters and cultivate s
which stir the soil without covering
much of the organic matter are
used for crops planted in rows.
Thus the seed bed is prepared in
the fall, leaving the drop residue
on the surface of the ground to dC. -
rich it, and waste of topsoil by
plowing is avoided.
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