The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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WAR BONDS
“I wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death year right to say it.”—Voltaire
Page Two Mineola, Texas, December 9, 1943 Editorial Page
uMl Mfil BONDS
Fraud
Harmless
One phase of the Wagner-Murray (social-
ized medicuie) bill now before Congress, to
broaden the Social Security Act, of which
not too much is said by its supporters, is
cost of the proposal. The old fallacy has
been encouraged that a magnanimous gov-
ernment stands ready to “give” something
to the people once the measure is passed.
Provisions for medical and hospital care con-
tained in the bill are heavily stressed with
the influence that xhey too will be free.
Such high- pressure sales tactics are fraud-
ulent, unfair and unethical. The government
will never give anything away because it
has nothing to give until it first takes it
from the tax-paying people. If the Wagner
Bill becomes law—let us hope it doesn’t—
the government will begin immediately to
collect additional billions of dollars in taxes
to pay for the “benefits” it will later hand
out. As a doctor recently told a patient: “If
you earn $200 a month, your (social security)
bill will be $12.00 a month, six times as much
than is now taken out of your pay check
or $144 per year. Your employer will pay a
like amount, which means that your bread,
you car, your refrigerator, and everything
else you buy would have more hidden taxes
wrapped up in it—If you are self-employed,
you deduct seven percent.”
Every time a deduction is made from the
salaries and wages of the people and turned
over to the government, the power of gov-
ernment ovt the people grows accordingly.
During wartime the people accept necessarily
high deductions, together with unprecedent-
ed official domination over their personal
Affairs, without a murmur. This should not
be taken as any indication that they will tol-
erate a permanent halter on freedom in
peacetime, even in the form of the Wagner
Bill.
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Freight Rates
A preliminary victory has been won in the
long fight of the South and Southwest
against discriminatory freight rates. It was
recommended Saturday by two Interstate
Commerce Commission examiners that uni-
form freight rate classifications should be
adopted for the entire country. We say pre-
liminary, because the recommendation ap-
plies only to classification and not to rates.
At the present time a separate hearing is
being held that will deal with freight rates.
The recommendacion of the examiners if
approved would do away with the present
complex, top-heavy structure of classifica-
tions for different parts of the country. Un-
der the present set-up each major territory
has its own classifications and class rates.
For example, the same article would prob-
ably take a different classification in the
South, the North or West or between these
regions. Also, in most oases the same article
costs more to ship to the North from the
South than from the North to the South.
We doubt seriously, whether the men that
handle the freight and figure out the bills,
know for sure every time that they are right.
It is highly complicated and the average
person is at a loss when trying to interpret
it.
Every person in the South and Southwest
should make it a point next year to find out
what their U. S. Senator and Representative
candidates think about this vital problem
and what they personally intend to do about
it. It might be well to give Presidential can-
didates the same once-over. It’s high time
the powers-that-be at Washington remove
this obstacle blocking half-a-nation’s prog-
ress!
Is debt harmless? A leading exponent of
the public-debt-without-limit philosophy re-
iterates that, “If the national debt is all in-
ternal, as ours is, the nation can harlly go
bankrupt.”
This philosophy will require more and
more explaining as time goes on. People
whose earnings and savings are reeling under
the double impact of taxes and inflation,
are going to ask some questions that will
be hard to answer. Not being accomplished
economists, they wi’l inquire why, if the size
of the debt is unimportant, should they be
asked to pay heavier taxes as the debt in-
creases? And why, if it is merely a matter
of owing the debt to ourselves, should the
tax collector be so merciless in collecting to
the last penny?
The “owe ourselves” theorists have always
claimed that as the debt grew, the affairs
of the country could be so arranged that the
debt would actually be beneficial. They call
it managed economy. Today we have a huge
debt plus a managed economy more com-
plete than the believers in harmless debt
ever dared hope for. We also have confis-
catory taxes, uncontrolled strikes, and short-
ages of everything from shoe laces to loco-
motives. The people are nearly convinced
that managed enconomy is a flop, and they
are oeginning to wonder just how harmless
is debt. At any rate, they are demanding
that government economize wherever possi-
ble; that is something tangible which they
can understand.
The people in their collective wisdom may
yet save the nation.
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Rights
The American people must be a patient
people—they are long suffering at the hands
of the European trouble makers. Our good
disposition caused the bullying bosses of the
enslaved peoples to think they could kick
us around with impunity. Well, they have
had their eyes opened.
Ironically, a somewhat parallel situation
exists at home. We want peace in the labor
field—all of us, union or non-union! Under
our constitution, workers have a right to
join a labor union if they choose, or the
right not to join—although this latter right
has been broken with many people being
forced to pay high fees in order to get em-
ployment. That’s not hearsay, it’s too easily
proven.
Management has no right to control Am-
erica! The so-called white-collar class, prob-
ably the most pinched in wartime and
howling the least, has no right to control
America! The labor unions have no right to
control America! Together, the three can
make America an even grander place in
which to live. But if class antagonism keeps
on being encouraged, then the whole bunch
is headed for trouble—but quick!
“When Workers Quit, Soldiers Die. Tell
That to the Rat Who Advocates Strikes.”
Tell Him That the Blood of Those Young
Men Across the Seas Fighting a Fight For
Our Freedom Will Not Be On Your Hands
or On Your Conscience!” Who in the world
said that? No, it wasn’t the writer—nor was
it management. It was DANIEL J. TOBIN,
president of the International Teamsters Un-
ion in the magazine International Teamster.
This fine article has an answer to wartime
striking that cannot be ignored. Every Am-
erican, union and non-union alike, should
read it!
(Dtp Mtoola Monitor
Published Every Thursday In Mineola,
WOOD COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
Wood County, Texas, by the
R. H. CARRAWAY, Managing Editor
Entered at the postoffice at Mineola, Texas, as second class mail matter under the
A'ct 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)----
MEMBER
Texas Press Association, North and
East Texas Press Association
Texas Editorial Association
Slint'9 : t Allied war material being lowered into ati
nmph'bu*::* truck at Naples. (Rural Press Section—OWJ.)
LOOKING BACK
inthe ’iles or the Monitor
Amphibious Truck Gets Cargo
The buying of bonds is a dif-
ferent matter today.
IT’S OUR OWN WAR!
And war is made of pain and
death and heartbreak.
Of what value is the comfort
or the profit or the conven-
ience of the individual on the
home front when Texas boys
are storming the hills of Italy.
There are no slackers in the
36 Division at Salerno.
Let there be no slackers here.
BUY BONDS! WORK HARD!
SAVE GAS! TURN IN WASTE
FATS! AND PRAY!—San An-
tonio Light.
QgjTHROUGH
-MtS CHRISTMAS
Week of December 14, 1943
Funeral services were held
Tuesday for Horace Rufus Bass,
age 5, ton of Mrs. J. W. Bass,
who died with diphtheria.
Bruce Kelly sang “Dinner at
Eight” in a theatre review in
Shreveport, Louisiana last week
an dmade a hit with the crowd,
according to the Shreveport
Times.
Those receiving Yellow Jac-
ket letter awards were Hubert
(Editor’s Note: The follow-
ing was printed in the San An-
tonio Light in September.
Somehow, a copy of it must
have reached Italy. There a
copy of it was obtained and
sent to E. E. Richey by his son.
The Thirty-sixth is Texas’ own
and this fitting tribute should
be read by every thinking Tex-
an).
36th Division Is In!
It’s Our War Now!
The 36th Division is in that
bitter battle for the beaches at
Salerno. *
The 45the is in there too.
At least that’s what the Ger-
mans say and there has been
no denial from General Eisen-
hower.
The 36th is the former Texas
National Guard—our boys.
The 45th is mostly from Okla-
oma and from Texas.
Scarcely a Texan but has a
relative or a friend in one of
the other divisions.
It was our boys who stormed
ashore under conditions which
caused one correspondent to re-
port tnat no man who lived
through it would be willing to
repeat the experience.
From the shores they fought
their way inland against high
ground held by some of the
best troops the Nazis have-
veterans seasoned in the bloody
Russian campaigns.
It is our boys who are being
reinforced by vast flotillas of
ships from Sicily!
It is our boys the British 8th
army is making a 100-mile for-
ced march to rescue!
IT IS OUR WAR!
The news that the 36th is in
the thick of the battle came to
San Antonio Tuesday.
From that moment it was dif-
ferent war. San Antonians have
fought and died and been taken
prisoner before. They were on
Bataan and Corregidor.
They were and are in New
Guinea. Guadalcanal, North
Africa. They are in the air
over Germany.
But all that somehow was
different.
In the Philippines we were
not ready and we had the feel-
ing that all we could do was
await the hour of vengance.
The other Pacific battles have
Aaron, Ted Arnold, McCary Bo-
gan, Worth Bruner, Forrest Co-
vin, R C. Dean Jr. Francis
Devers, Bud Harris, Hubert
Humphries, Ramon Kennimer,
Gerald Puckett, Jim Robinson,
Glean Shields. Alfred Snyder,
Henry D. Speights, Gene Tilley,
James Williams and John D.
Wisentaker. Reserve letters
went to James Behrman, Hen-
ry Blankenship, Charles Boykin
William Caudle, Hershel Dean,
Lee Dunivant, Monroe Parsons,
Casey Welch and Royce Wisen-
baker.
been far away and the Texans
there, while they are many,
have been present as groups.
In North Africa we were win-
ning and those who fell were
heroes in a victory.
BUT THIS IS THE INVASION
The going is tough!
And our Texas boys are bear-
ing the brunt of the battle.
It’s a different war today
than it was Monday—and all
the days before.
Gasoline and food rationing
is a different matter today.
Resistance to the draft—even
the draft of fathers—is a dif-
ferent matter today.
During the holidays,
please use Long Distance only
if the call is vital.
War’s in a hurry
and it can’t wait...
not even for
the holidays.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.
BUY WAR BONDS
On the Run!
Keeping up 24-houi Service
for all war industries, home
and business is a big job,
says Reddy Kilowatt.
It keeps me on the run but
I’m glad I’m in condition to
go on the run. My service
costs you N© MORE.
Business-managed electric companies had
planned well for the future. They were
ready when the demand came for five
times as much power as was used in the
last war., They have been able to supply
all war needs and maintain full service on
the home front.
War-time conditions have created many
problems for Southwestern Gas and Elec-
tric Company, same as every other business.
But Reddy Kilowatt is still available for
24-hour service. He is on the run at all
times, but happy to serve you at no in-
crease in wages.
Use all the Electricity you need but don't waste it.
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company
02-43(0
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1943, newspaper, December 9, 1943; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth595678/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.