The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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The Paducah Post
The PADUCAH POST
Serving Cottle County for 35 Years
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Hitler Is Now Laughing
During the past few weeks our government has been
trying to gather all the available scrap iron in every sec-
tion of the country. This material is needed so badly that
at this time some of the manufacturers of war materials
and munitions have had to shut down—all because the
average person has been too careless to gather it or has
thought it of little consequence.
Yes. Hitler is laughing. So is Mussolini and Hirohito.
Nothing would please them better than to know that the
people of the United States are falling down on their part
of the war .And that's what we are doing. We are send-
ing the hoys ut there by the thousands and thousands,
yet we have mu gathered up the scrap iron that they may
have proper fight ing equipment. The dictators can well
»it UnT in tlnur a-, -hairs and talo' a hearty laugh. A
few vm,"s age Japan bought must < f the scrap iron over
this ceiintn and we almost ran o\ er ourselves collecting ii
and hi aging it to market. Today they are delivering it
back to ns in the way of bombs But when our nation
wants to hoy the scrap iron we sii idly by. refuse to sell
it. and say what's the use. 1’nelt1 Sam is not asking that
you gi\e tins old iron, but that you sell it so it may he
properly classified.
A good percentage ■ • t‘ t uttle (,'ouiity people have already
gathered this scrap iron and put it in the proper channels,
but tin"'1' ire thousands and thousands of pounds of it
still laying idle that should he put to use.
Wake up Americans, ami let's choke that broad smile
of Hitler’s with scrap iron.
—Buy War Savings Stamps—
Cutting- Down On Deliveries
Until the war is over, unusually fast delivery service by
stores should no 1 tiger he looked upon as a sign of an
outstanding merchant.
All stores widen use delivery trucks have been ordered
to conserve them t" the limit, since there will he no more
such trucks available until after the war. They must do
everything possible to make their tires last for the dura-
tion.
The merchants of this town are trying to carry out this
order to the best of their ability. But if one merchant.
"ii his desire to serve his customers as well as possible!
continues to carry m a "delivery as usual'- service, others,
who are making a greater effort to conserve their trucks,
are in danger of having their business hurt.
In the last analysis, the conservation of store trucks
lies ,i: ihe hands of the housewives who trade with the
stores. If all housewives would make an effort to carry
ail of the packages the\ can, to order for as many days
as possible at a time when they want delivery service and
to do their shopping with the idea of cutting down de-
liveries in mind, it will help necessary service to last
longer.
Author of “Row to Win Friends
and Influence People
THE CONQUEST OF FEAR
Unwarranted fear probably causes more distress than
any other trait known to human beings. And the most
distressing thing about fear is that so often it is not
recognized as fear. It’ fear were wiped out, failure would
come to few. This disastrous trait sometimes begins with
early childhood and remains with one through life.
I picked up on the train what appeared to be an adver-
tising pamphlet, but saw it was the magazine called
“Talk' running an article entitled “Childhood Fears.” It
has much of real help and I quote it herewith:
' What can I do to help my child overcome his fear?’
is perhaps the most, common question that parents ask.
Fears of the dark, of animals, of water, of imaginary crea-
tures. are commonplace among children . . habit.
But children’s fears are not had habits, and each one
lias a basis which parents should try to understand.
“Psychologists have found that merely trying to talk
the child out of his fears is of little avail. Help in acquir-
ing skills, and the confidence that comes from them, they
point out, are among the best means of dispelling fears
•that arise through a genera! sense of inadequacy,
“In combating specific fears, psychologists tell us. noth-
ing is so effective as having the child come to grips with
the situation that causes them. But this should he done by
degrees and with the help of an older person in whom the
child has confidence . . .
“Parents should avoid using a child's fears as a method
of discipline or punishment. Nothing is so injurious to his
mental health or his sense of security. The ‘bad man' in
the cellar may do mother temporary service at the cost of
irreparable emotional injury to Johnnie.
“If you want your child to grow up self-confident and
self reliant, don’t play on his fears or wait for him to
‘grow out’ of them. Help him to overcome them—now.”
—Buy War Savings Stamps—
Hots of talk about Hod. Home and County, but 1 under-
stand we are still short on our bond quota. The politicians,
preachers, magazines and newspapers keep talking and
writing, but honestly, Bill, it just seems like we can’t
wake up. Perhaps we need a few of you boys to come
home and give us a kick in the pants. We’ve shown more
interest in a political campaign teaching us to hate one
another than we have in the reverses in Russia or the vic-
tories in the Pacific.—Kd Bishop in The Dalhart Texan.
VaJ&CafiHsqis
Friday, September 2
Report to the Commander in Chief
Washington
Washington. D. C. (NWNS)-Hav-
ing completed their unofficial sum-
mer recess, most members of the
senate and house are now back in
Washington preparing to cast their
votes on taxes, on wage freezing,
on farm price stabilization and oth-
er vital legislation.
Following the President's “you
do it or I will" order in regard to
stabilizing wages and farm prices
in order to prevent further infla-
tion. both houses of congress are
showing how rapidly they can come
to an agreement when it seems nec-
essary. The President gave them
a deadline of October 1 for han-
dling this situation, and it now
seems quite definite that by that
date the President will have final
orders from congress to freeze
wages at what they were this sum-
mer and to put a parity ceiling on
farm prices.
The speed with which congress
has acted on this measure stands
out by contrast with the stalling
which they have done in regard to
the tax bill. It is argued that in
putting through the largest tax bill
in history much time must be con-
sumed to consider the arguments of
all interested groups, but it is still
the general opinion here that a lot
of the delay has been caused by
the desire of many congressmen to
postpone final action on taxes until
after the election.
Months ago the secretary of
treasury pleaded for immediate ac-
tion on taxes so that additional funds
could be collected this year, but all
talk of new taxes payable this year
has now been abandoned. Most of
the more recent pressure of the
treasury department has been con-
cerned with insisting on larger
taxes than congress wanted to en-
act. It is still questionable wheth-
er a tax measure will finally be
passed before the election, although
some experts here think it will be
difficult for congress to pos.pouo
final action for six weeks more.
At any rate, the taxes to be paid
next year will undoubtedly be stag-
gering as compared with other
years and even those people with
very low incomes will be required
to share in taxes. If the 5 per
cent Victory tax goes through,
which is just a small part of the
present tax bill, everyone earning
$12 a week or more will have 5
per cent deducted from wages or
salaries, part of which will be con-
sidered taxes and part a form of
compulsory saving, to be refunded
after the war.
As the tax proposals stand at
present, a married man with two
children and an income of $2,000
will pay a tax of $65. If his income
is $2,500, the tax will be $163, if it
S3.000, the tax will be $275, if
$4,000 the tax will be $528 and if
$5,000 the tax will be $807. u.
Congress also is expected within
the next two months to be asked
pass legislation for inducting
youths of 18 and 19 years old into
the armed services. Discussing the
future selective service situation,
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, na-
tional selective service director,
said, “we can't have a recess in
the war until people grow up to be
drafted." The young men have
proved most valuable to the army,
particularly in aviation, and it
therefore seems essential to our
military leaders that they dip into
the under-20 group, since the young
men in their early 20s are most alt
in the armed forces already if they
are not exempt because of physi-
cal unfitness or their necessity to
war production.
General Hershey also said that
married men with children would
probably be called for military
service next year. He pointed out
that although he has issued instruc-
tions not to break up homes until
necessary, there is no law or regu-
lation which prevents the drafting
of married men with children.
Pointing out the speed with which
men are being mobilized—which is
much faster than in the last war—
General Hershey said that it may
necessary to mobilize between
10.000,000 and 13,000.000 men. "We
will have to come to the realiza-
tion," he said, “that there are not
enough single men, that there are
not enough married men without
children" to mobilize such a force.
The supply of men is limited,” he
said, “even when you consider the
18 to 50 age group, because we are
rejecting about.33 per cent of those
called for duty.”
ABOVE ^ HULLABALOO
By LYTLE HULL
‘Paging Mr. Kaiser!’
HOUS E
— (Mnd-
Inj rn/my c uayrn
Author of Sitter Msry's Kitchen,
A general tightening up of those
things which are limiting production
is also expected to be pushed rap-
idly. Donald Nelson, head of the
War Production board, said that
production of war supplies has in-
creased 350 per cent since Pearl
Harbor, but that even greater pro-
duction must be speeded in order to
turn the tide of battle in our favor.
Longer hours of work in produc-
tion factories, plus the steering of
more and more materials into war
production can be expected from
now on.
The consumer will feel this tight-
ening up as new steps are taken to
conserve rubber by wider rationing
of gasoline, and as more and more
consumer goods become rationed or
eliminated. The report of the rub-
ber investigation shows that the
rubber situation really is perilous
and it appears likely that confisca-
tion of rubber products, including
tires, will be necessary unless the
public shows a much greater will-
ingness to co-operate than has been
demonstrated so far.
SURVIVORS PICKED LTP
BUENOS AIRES — An Ar-
gentine tanker bound from Tam-
oico to Buenos Aires has rescued
23 men found drifting in a life-
boat, the maritime prefecture
laid it had been informed today.
What vessel the^ were from and
other details were not given.
As everyone knows by now, Mr,
Henry J. Kaiser—the man who
builds cargo ships faster than you
can think—has proposed to the gov-
ernment that materials be released
to him for the construction of an
experimental number of huge cargo
planes. It appears there is going
to be the usual, long, dismal strug-
gle over the proposal: some au-
thorities claiming that “it can’t be
done," and some stating that it can,
and demanding that it be tried out.
We laymen only know what we
are told by aeronautical experts,
namely: that it is an aerodynamic
possibility to get off the ground,
and to make fly, planes of far great-
er weight and load capacity than
any which have heretofore been
constructed. So we would like to
see someone unwind a couple of
miles of red tape, and give Mr.
Kaiser a chance.
Already airplane manufacturers
are being accused of trying to
"spike" Mr, Kaiser’s plan because
"the airplane industry is opposed to
any outsider edging into its busi-
ness.” Some enthusiastic gentlemen
would have us believe—probably
because these manufacturers have
made a success of life and must
therefore be horse thieves by na-
ture — that these manufacturers
would rather see Hitler in the White
House than Kaiser in aeronautics.
As a matter of fact—strange as it
may seem—these villainous manu-
facturers are the same sort of pa-
triots that we think we are and
are just as interested in winning
this war.
The navy also is being "slapped
around" on the theory that their
objection to the Kaiser plan is
based upon a sort of weird assump-
tion that the more implements of
war which get into the air mean
the fewer will be needed on earth
and the sailor therefore will have
to get a job with WPA, or some
other alphabetical mushroom.
Now an old navy man is probably
a better patriot than we even think
we are. The odds are that he has
bought War Bonds until he is blue
in the face—and "red” in the bank.
So that abuse doesn’t hold much
water either. If the navy man says
it is more important to build war-
ships with the men and materials
which are available, than to experi-
ment with the big untried cargo
planes—ninety times out of a hun-
dred he belie%’es what he says. But
he may be mistaken! If the air-
plane manufact urer says we should
not allocate t the cargo planes the
aluminum etc., which is so badly
needed for lighters and bombers—
he believes what he says. But he
may be mistaken!
It is because they may be mis-
taken, that We The People—who
don't know anything about it—want
to take a chance and see it tried
out. After all it's our war. We
have a hunch that if the govern-
ment would sidetrack—for a while
—some of the big battleships which
are now being constructed, and
would do a little scrimping here
and there out of the old pork barrel,
it could find the material for at
least enough of the big cargo car-
riers to ascertain what they could
do.
Think how surprised the Japs
would be if they woke up some
morning—in far-away Burma for ii-
lustration—and found that a couple
of hundred planes had landed 200
men apiece just behind the wood-
shed. Think of the supplies we
could send in over-night to hard-
pressed China and to Russia.
Planes 10 times the size which Mr.
Kaiser proposes to build will be in
operation some day—why not begin
to grow now?
U. S. Soldier Is
Best Dressed Man
Sensible clothing contributes
not only to our comfort and
morale but also to our health by
building up immunity to disease.
Wrapping up too warmly is
likely to be even more harmful
than not being warm enough. Tue
body heat, which cannot escape,
causes us to perspire. This in turn
chills us off, which may cut down
our resistance to disease germs
that are everywhere around us.
Colors also have something to
do with comfort in clothes. Dark
colors are warmer because they
absorb the sun’s rays. Light col-
ors are cooler because they re-
flect them.
Shoes not only should conform
to the natural contour of the
foot, but, like hats, should also
be as well ventilated, comfortaole
and light as possible.
Best Dressed Americans
The American soldier is the
world’s best dreSsed man. From
helmet to hoots, his clothes are
entirely appropriate, whether lie
is a stratosphere flier, a para-
chute trooper, a “doughboy,” a
tank operator, or a desert fight-
er.
And now there is a new candi-
date for the honor of being the
world’s best dressed woman: the
woman worker in wartime Ameri-
Bj MARY E. DAfil E
An’liar of Sislcr Mary's Kitchen.
A- we live and acquire wc seer
to need more and more store.:
space, and certain it is. we c;u.
put things away if we don't have .
place to put 'em.
Often in an old house an arched
niche can be let into a wall, mak-
ing open shelves just deep enough
for small books and “objets d'art.'
A larger and deeper cupl ■ ard can
be made by cutting between the
studs of the wall. The opening
should be the right size to take the
completely assembled cupboard
with its outside edges flush with the
wall If necessary a light frame
molding or some c n cring strip can
be used to hide the jagged break
in the plaster.
Then of course you can always
add the hanging and standing cup-
boards to a room without the bene-
fit of a carpenter.
In a dining room a corner cup-
board usually is divided in two sec-
tions; the upper part having glass
doors and the lower, panelled ones.
Frequently, drawers are set be-
tween the upper and lower sections.
Occasionally the upper section is
left entirely open with an interest-
ing scrolled facing around the
shelves.
If a corner cupboard is put in a
bedroom for the storage of clothes
it's obvious that the doors should
be of solid wood panels. Choose a
corner cupboard in a bedroom only
as a last resort because they are
not “roomy.”
The success of the cupboard will
depend largely upon its finish. The
room and its furnishings will gov-
ern the style as well as the color
of the shelves and linings. You can
build one and paint it the color of
the woodwork or you can buy one
to match the furniture.
When it comes to closets, be sure
to have a light put in every one.
Tite height of the hooks is impor-
tant, too. There should be a few in
your own closet high enough to
hang your long dresses and wraps.
In the downstairs hall closet and
m the children's own, the hooks
must be low enough for them to
put up for children as well as one
for the grown-up members of the
family. A shoe rack fastened on
the closet side of the door will keep
rubbers and galoshes off the floor.
If the closet is large enough to
accommodate a set of low shelves,
provide one for each child.
Add "tags and labels” to your
shopping list for your next trip to
town. Then when you begin to
put summer things away for the
winter you’ll be armed with the
wherewithal for marking boxes so
youll know what’s in them with-
out opening them.
can industry.
American women are answering
the factory whistle’s call to arms
literally by the millions. They are
taking the place of men called to I reach. A shelf foUhats should be
the colors and helping fill up the
ranks of the great industrial army
which is building the weapons
needed for victory.
What to wear is one of tne
first questions these welcome
newcomers to the American pro-
duction scene ask when they re-
port for duty.
Many industrial plants now
employing women have designed
new working garb especially for
women workers.
Safety, health, appropriateness,
and comfort are the keynotes of
this attractive and highly practi-
cal type of women’s clothing.
Gone are the flowing skirts and
smocks, the dainty cuffs, tne
frills and furbelows, the long
billowy sleeves, loose jackets,
pendent jewelry, and long, flow-
ing hair-dos that might get caught
in the machinery.
Gone are impractical high heels,
thin soles and open-toe shoes.
In their place are neat, safe
and colorful streamlined overalls,
coveralls, two-piece slack suits!
jumpers, caps and comfortable
safety shoes.
These new feminine soldiers in
the battle of production will ;,,,
safe, sensible and stylish all at
once. They will he appropriated
dressed.
Maybe there’s a lesson for us
STILWELL IN CHUNGKING
CHUNGKING — Lieut. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell, commander
of American forces in China,
Burma and India, returned to
Chungking today from India
where he had spent about a
month.
DEATH RATE DECREASES
WASHINGTON — Pneumonia
and influenza claimed 92,525
lives in the United States in 1940,
the census bureau reported to-
'hiy, a rate of 70.3 deaths per
100.000 population, which com-
pared with 99,097 deaths and a
rate of 75.7 in 1939.
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Dr- P- A. PreslJ
Optometrist
Eyes Examined Glasse.^
Services Warranted
Fees Cash
Roberson-Eubank Drug
Childress, Term
on the ‘home front” in the way
Uncle Sam’s nephews in the army
and his new nieces in industry
dress today.
TRY CONOCO
KEROSENE
Thi. Kerosene i, elp,c|,||
recommended to be used f»
Electrolux Refrigeration.
ONLY
7c Per Gallon
J. F. POWELL
AGENT
CONTINENTAL OIL CO.
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Monuments
Joe Dill Lyndell J. Dill|
Dill and Son
Granite Co.
DISTRIBUTORS OF
GRANITF. AND MARBLE I
P. O. Box 343 Childress, Tcl|
Office at Cemetery
Individual Mausoleums, Grt*e|
Protectors, Memorials, Granite|
and Marble
Veterinarian
Dr. Raymond
Hander
GRADUATE
VETERINARIAN
Both Large and Small Animals J
Office: City Hall
Residence: 302 Ave. F. |
Phone 306
Childress, Teml
Insurance
T. L. WILKINS
AGENCY
Insurance, Abstracts, Lo»l"'j
and Bonds
Phone 108
Charlie Blount
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
GENERAL CIVIL PRACTICI
OFFICE HALL BUILDIN9
James M. Whatk
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office In
first National Bank BW’|
Boomi 1 and 2,
Jeweler^
Watch and Jeweir
REPAIRING
By a Man That Knows H |
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