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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Thursday, March 19, 1942
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Jesus the Messiah Foretells His Death
HIGHLIGHTS ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
V .X,
By NEWMAN CAMPBELL
(The International Uniform
Lesson on the above topic for
March 22 is Matthew 16:13-28;
Mark 8:27-37; Luke 9:18-25, the
Golden Text being Mark 8:35,
"For whosoever would save his
life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life for my sake and
the gospel's shall save it.”)
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ADMIRAL HART’S REPORT
Admiral Hart’s report on the war
in the Far East cites Japanese air
superiority as the major factqf in
the chain of triumphs by the Axis
partner in Asia.
Admiral Hart, who received first-
hand information of Japanese suc-
cesses while he was commander of
the Allied naval forces in the Wes-
tern Pacific, explained how super-
ior Japanese air power initially
knocked out British, American and
Dutch air and naval bases. The
pattern of this swift offense was
identical with that followed by Ger-
many in Poland and France in the
first year of the war.
Japanese control of the air led to
the sinking of the British battle-
ships, Repulse and Prince of Wales,
which Admiral Hart explained were
the only capital ships which the
United Nations had in the Far East.
The British, Americans and the
Dutch, therefore, have suffered the
handicap of naval as well as aerial
inferiority in resisting the Japanese
©nsaught. They have also lacked
tanks, guns and trained men in suf-
ficient numbers to halt Japan’s
drive. In the circumstances, the on-
ly course possible for the Allies was
"retreat while waging a war of at-
trition, which Admiral Hart explain-
ed has caused serious losses for
Japan.
Admiral Hart’s advice to the Am-
erican peopie, who must weight his
experienced judgment, is that only
offense will win the war. A harsh
corollary is that Japan will win if
the Allied offensive is long delayed.
For counter-attack, Admiral Hart
pointedly told the American peo-
ple, "we’ve got to have-more ships,
more guns, more everything.”
Bluntly, America is not yet the
arsenal of democracy, and it lacks
WE SPEND our Sunday school
hour today with Jesus and His
disciples. The latter had accom-
panied the Master to the villages
of Caesarea Philippi which our
commentator says "were distin-
guished from that upon the coast
of the Mediterranean, as Caesarea
Philippi. It was in Philip’s tet-
archy, and had recently been re-
built by Philip and named after
Augustus.” This place was the
farthest north in Palestine
reached by Jesus during His life.
The Master first asked the dis-
ciples who the people thought He
was. He knew He was a much
discussed person, and as the Jews
were always looking for the Mes-
siah, who was to come and reign
as prophet, priest and king, on an
earthly throne for ever more,
Jesus was very much interested
to know what was said concern-
ing Him and who the people to
whom He preached thought He
was. Some of the disciples said
He was thought to be John the
Baptist, others thought He was
Elijah, and still others conjec-
tured that He was one of the other
prophets come back. Then Jesus
asked them directly, "But who
say ye that I am?” Peter, the
ready speaker, answered at once,
"Thou art the Christ."
Answer Pleased Jesus
The answer pleased Jesus who
knew then that these men who
were so closely associated with
Him and who would carry on the
work when He was on earth no
longer, understood the truth. He
commended Peter for his answer
and told him that God only could
have revealed it to him, but
warned the disciples to tell no
one.
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He felt then that the time had
come to tell these associates of
His of His coming trial, death
and resurrection. Evefi though
they knew He was the Christ, it
must have been a severe shock to
hear about the suffering to come
of this Christ whom they so loved.
Peter answered quickly, aside to
his Lord, "Be It far from Thee,
Lord: this shall not be unto Thee.”
He was immediately rebuked by
Jesus, who said, “Get thee behind
me Satan: thou art an offence un-
to Me: for thou savourest not the
things that be of God, but those
that be of men.”
The rebuke seemed extreme
after the praise just bestowed up-
on Peter. Undoubtedly Jesus did
not mean that Peter was evil, but
that He, like Satan, was tempting
his Lord, to whom, in His earthly
body, the sufferings to come would
be great. The Master then told the
disciples what was the supreme
test of a Christian, or follower of
His.
“If any man will come after
Me, let him deny himself, and take
up his cross, and follow Me. For
whosoever will save his life shall
lose it: and whosoever will lose
his life for my sake shall find It.
"For what is a man profited, if
he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul?"
The life of the follower of
Jesus, then, is sacrifice. He must
shoulder his cross, and follow in
the footsteps of the Master. He
must not so enjoy the good things
of this world that he forgets that
there is something far more im-
portant. For if he does, he will
find that he has lost the really
good things of life—those of the
spirit—and what he has is 'dust
and ashes in his mouth.
The soul of man Is the impor-
tant part of him. He may go
through untold suffering here, but
If he keep steadfast and true,
stepping in the footsteps of his
Master even unto death, he "need
fear no ill," for the Lord will be
with him, and he will be com-
forted and crowned with "eternal
life.”
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two ... or whether to giveit the kind of care
which would make it last for many years.
That choice exists no longer. Every patri-
otic citizen must make his car last longer.
Since no car can ever be any younger
than its motor, you must explore every pos-
sible way of saving wear and tear. So keep the
following facts in mind when you are deciding
which oil to use:
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requirements vary as much as their
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YOU'RE TELLING ME!
-By WILLIAM RITT-
Central Press Writer
GRANDPAPPY JENKINS has
Views of Contemporaries
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Reporter From Berlin Says
Germany Knows She's Licked
But Will Keep On Fighting
Germany today knows she is lick-
ed but continues to fight with un-
dimininished fury in an effort to
postpone as long as possible the
time of postwar reprisals, according
to Alex Dreier, NBC correspondent
and last newsman to leave Berlin
before war was declared.
“I saw the first crack in Ger-
many’s morale when the blitz vic-
tory over Russia, which Hitler had
promised, failed to materialize,"
Dreirer states in a signed article in
the current issue of The American
with Germans who believe that a
murderous horde of avengers
MARRIED MEN CALLED
Randall county has been called
upon to send the first married men
into military service. This Is one
of the very few counties which has
been able to leave married men at
home. This group will be the van-
guard of scores of other married
men who will be called into mili-
tary service. Most men are willing
to take their turns and do not com-
plain when their number is called
in, breathless, and finally managed
to stammer out that a thousand
Japs were creeping up through a
ravine.
The four marines looked at each
other, then finally one said,
“O. K. I’ll take care of them.
I’m dummy, anyhow.”—Jimmie Gil-
lentine in Hereford Brand
a scheme to bolster sale of De-
fense Stamps to the kiddies.
He’d flavor them with vanilla.
It’s a sweet thought, all right.
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In planning the spring garden
the family would do well to in-
sist on a unified command.
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The radio speech maker has
this advantage, the snores of his
audience never upset him.
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The dog that was bitten by a
man will have to move over and
make room for that tiny mon-
grel which leaped into a Cana-
dian river and saved a huge St.
Bernard from drowning.
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Fleas hop backward, we read.
No wonder dogs get upset—they
never know whether the pests
are leaving or just arriving.
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A new type of popcorn has a
much louder pop. Ought to be
an Ideal way of celebrating a
safe and sane Fourth of July.
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Zadok Dumbkopf has gotten
even with the neighbor who
boasted of mailing all his Christ-
mas cards by Dec. 1. Zadok paid
his Income tax a month ahead of
time.
WHY NOT?
Those women factory workers
up. However, a few always feel that wno are asking for men’s pay must
the other man should be called
murderous norae oi avengers - ;whlle they arg_ allowed to stay at
downtrodden Russians, Poles, Serbs, I home ls war and ^ Coun-
Magazine. “As relations between
planes, ships, tanks and trained men Washington and Berlin grew more
for carrying the war to Japan. The tense, I saw the widespread uncer-
Japanese victories on the Far East tainty of victory turn into a con-
should certainly have blasted away viction of defeat,
the delusion that victory can be “On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Ger-
Czechs, Norwegians, Belgians,
Danes, Dutch and French — will
swarm over Germany once military
operations have ceased. A Nazi of-
ficer told me that if Germany is
defeated 30,000,000 Germans will die
—and not on the battlefield.
“Th Nazis told the world they
started this war as a crusade. But
the average German told me he
was continuing it out of fear—fear
of postwar reprisals.”
Dreier was the last American cor-
respondent to leave Germany and
his conclusions are based on last-
minute observation and informa-
tion. He quit the Reich at almost
try is worth saving! If we do not
save the nation, then there will be
nothing worthwhile to live for.—
Clyde Warwick in Canyon News.
be getting polite. We always under-
stood that women took men’s pay
as a natural right.—T. A. Landers
in McLean News
‘It’s Your Life”!
By George Clarke,
Managing Director
Texas Safety Association
COLLEGE STUDENTS
CAN JOIN!!, S. NAVY
Let’s be completely selfish for a
moment.
Let’s forget that it’s patriotic
1 and you’re able to get a new car,
maybe you’ll have acquired -thA
safety habit and will drive safeljT-
just because you have found it’s
^ smart business.
i Here are a few “Smash-Up Sav-
.ers”:
I 1. Start sooner. Take it easy. Al4£
low more time for that extra war-
to I time traffic.
easy. We have confusedly regarded many had been so undermined with the moment that Jap pianes swoop-
our potential military power of the
future as a state of present prepar-
edness. Otherwise, the recalcitrancy
and self-interest of minorities are
unthinkable—Fort Worth Star Tele-
gram.
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Buy U. S. Defense Bonds and
Stamps, the I. O. U. of the Red,
White, and Blue.
hopelessness that even Nazi offi-
cials talked openly of their fears
of ultimate disaster. I don’t mean
that the Nazi regime is about to
crack up. Far from it. I've seen its
fighting machine and it is still mag-
nificent despite losses on the east-
ern front. In fact, recent setbacks
ed down on Pearl Harbor. Later in
Switzerland, Spain and Portugal,
while waiting for a plane home, he
was able to maintain news pipelines
into Germany. He says that today
the average German faces the war
like this:
"We’ve knocked over nine coun-
SUGAR RATIONING
Not only are the American peo-
ple accepting the idea of sugar ra-
tioning cheerfully, but some are ac-
tually making sort of a game of i
it. For instance, Mrs. T. D. Daniel J
says that each member of her fam- j
ily will have his own individual |
sugar ration, and if one uses up his |
sugar before time to get more he'll I N by entering an
just have to do without; and if at
the end of the week, there is some |
sugar left in any of the jars, it will
be pooled to make cake, candy
cookies, or pie.—Tulia Herald
have given Germany a will to fight trles ,n Europe and what has it got
Every time you get your pay, buy
Bonds and Stamps for the U. S. A.
with a new ferocity.
“The little fellow under Hitler is
afraid of what will happen to him
after he stops fighting. I talked
Htmu lllaid/ru} l&Tim
5 When you feel well It is misery when you don’t
Have you ever dragged through a day made miserable
by a Headache, Neuralgia, Muscular Pains or Functional
Menstrual Pains—a day when only your sense of duty;
kept you on the job?
"Jr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills
usually relieve Headaches. You will find them effective
also in the relief of the other nagging pains mentioned
above. KwnUr Pack***
package of these ^J£Up.cbi.
acting pain re- ist "
may save you
of suffering.
us? Our food isn’t better and our
clothes are worse. Something has
gone wrong in Russia and now
we’ve got the United States against
us too. We’ll be licked in the end,
but can’t quit.”
Dreier reports that after two and
a half years of war, Germany is rife
with anti-war and anti-Nazi senti-
ment,, but he warns that just as
the Nazis committed an unpardon-
able military sin in underestimat-
ing Russian strength, the Allies
must not commit the same sin in
underestimating German strength.
“There is no immediate chance of
internal collapse in Germany,” he
writes. The average German places
no faith in the protestations of the
democratic world that a fair peace
will be established after the Nazi
overlords are overthrown. He thinks
of President Wilson’s Fourteen
Points that never materialized and
he describes the Roosevelt-Churchill
Atlantic Charter as Wilson’s ideal-
ism boiled down to eight points. He
knows that before Victory ls in their
grasp the United Nations must suf-
YOUTHS FROM 17 TO 19 CAN
ENLIST BY ENTERING AN
ACCREDITED COLLEGE
CANYON—High school youths 17
to 19 years old may enlist In the U.
accredited
drive safely and sanely, and there-
fore save rubber, oil and gas. Let’s
forge that a little courtesy and com-
mon sense on the highway saves
lives . . . including your own.
Let’s foget all that. But, brother,
if you smash, this car, where are
you going to get another?
If you ruin even one tire in a
miner accident, where are you going
to get another?
This is one time when, for purely
college or university, according to
information received by West Texas selfish reasons, you .can t afford to
drive recklessly. You may have
MISTAKES
One of the collateral problems in
connection with the lack of rubber
is that of finding something else
with which to correct mistakes.
Aware of the very first rubber pro-
ducts manufactured was the pencil
eraser, which gave the product its
name. If the shortage reaches a
point where there are no more
erasers, how shall mistakes be cor-
rected? It is because of human mis-
takes that rubber mats were in-
vented to place under cuspidors.
Another rubber product, the girdle,
may be said to play a part In mis-
take correcting, for its use is often
made advisable by mistakes in diet.
We can be sure of one thing, that
mistakes will continue to be made.
—John Gould in Wichita Falls
Daily Times
WAR STORY
Four of General Mac Arthur’s
boys were sitting at a table the
other day, busily engaged in a game
of bridge. Suddenly a native rushed
State College.
High school boys may enroll at
West Texas State on May 27, for
instance, then apply to a Naval Re-
cruiting Station for enlistment in
Classification V-l. Such enlistment
permits them to remain in college
to obtain the training needed by
the Navy, and they will pot be sub-
ject to the draft.
On completion of the first half of
the sophomore year, the V-l group
will apply for transfer to Classifi-
cations V-5 or V-7 (Aviation Ca-
dets or Midshipmen of the U. S.
Naval Reserve.) The Navy will re-
quire 80.000 of these college-trained
fliers and officers. Trained fliers
will draw $245 a month, or more,
and midshipmen $183 a month or
more. They will have four years of
college training.
Certain courses In mathematics
must be taken In college by the en-
listed men.
Recently four members of the
West Texas State's tall basketball
team enlisted in the Navy. They will
remain in college to complete re-
quired courses.
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Our boys at the front need a
plenty of money . . . you may not
give a hoot about your own neck
or anyone else’s . . . but you do
want to keep on driving!
Then drive safely! And one of
these days, when we’ve won this war
2. Cut your speed. The safe life
of a tire at 50 miles an hour is
only half of what it is at 30 milea
an hour. At 70 miles an hour it falls*
to only 30 per cent of normal life.
3. Don’t drive if you drink.
4. Keep your car in tip-top shape
. . . motor . . . brakes . . . tires
. . . lights . . . horn . . . battery . . ?-
etc.
5. Try turning on your charm
behind the wheel ... be courteous
to other drivers and pedestrians.
6. Remember . . . drive it safely,
brother . . . you can’t get another!.^
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Be a regular on the home front!
Make regular pay-roll purchases of
U. S. Defense Savings Bonds and
Stamps.
i steady . flow of supplies. You can
ter tremendous losses and endure j assure this by systematic purchase
untold hardships, and so his fear of of U. S. Defense Bonds and Stamps
postwar revenge, I am convinced, j -o-
will keep him fighting desperately, j BUY OR SELL THROUGH A
if futilely, to the bitter end.” I TEXAN WANT-AD
Fire is a glutton—every year mil-
lions of dollars are lost because
of fires. Practice fire prevention—
and also carry plenty of fire insur-
ance.
(PROOF NEXT THURSDAY)
PROOF OF LAST WEEK’S AD
Lightning Does Not Zigzag
Lightning curves, twists, meandere
and branches, but it does not turn
in acute angles or zigzag. In 1856
James Nasmyth, a Scottish engineer,
called this fact to the attention of
the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, after obser-
vations over a period of years. 1.—
“Uncommon Knowledge”—Geo. W.
Stimpson.
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 84, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1942, newspaper, March 19, 1942; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528986/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.