The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1942 Page: 2 of 6
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BREAD UPON THE WATERS
_fa. 0B tjjg w*tera,” adjured the
t find it after many days.”
the United States hast certain
the waters, in the form of life-saving and oth-
Ch it sent to Japan out of the fullness of
Jeye the suffering in the disastrous wave
and tidal-waves that swept the is-
; bread is being tfound again, after many
supplies, plainly marked “U. S. Army Trans-
were found in the invasion barges used by
oops to attack MacArthur’s Magnificents on
ula. The Merritt was the ship which car-
cargo from Manila in 1923; General Mac-
man who loaded that cargo when he was
of the Philippine Scouts,
ut a poor return the Japanese are making for
ua impulse of 19 years ago.
we regretthe impulse? We think not. We of
Man r
' we regretthe impulse?
~ States believe in a God of mercy.
It is with
that we must sauare our actions. If the Jajrn-
> in some sort of divinity that sees no shame in
benefactor in this way, so much the worse
rase. It iB they who must face the responsi-
leir actions, as we for ours.
^^^ igame way, the time may come when we will
. regret that we held open door to peace with Japan
itil a blast of gunfire came through that very door. It
I stands on the record, and we may have confidence that
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BOYCE
HOUSE
The sugar shortage calls t9
mind a sign in a little bcle-in-the-
wall restaurant where this com-
mentator used to eat in cub re-
porter days. The sign read, “Stir
like h—; we ddn’t mind the
noise."
Had the pleasure a few days
ago of handing to Governor Stev-
enson an invitation to the .Fat
Stock Show in Fort Worth, of
which your columnist is “good
wtU ambassador.” The message,
signed by President John Burns
and Manager John B. Davis, stat-
ed: v-
"We feel that Texas is indeed
fortunate in having as chief ex-
ecutive in this crisis a man who is
a ranchman—one who has known
the glow of the campfire and has
unrolled his bedding many a night
and gone to sleep beneath the
flickering stars, and who thinks
there is no music sweeter than tjto
low of cgttle, the bleat of sheep
and the whinny of a horse.”
Governor Stevenson will rule a
horse In the parade on the after-
noon of Friday, March 13, And will
formally open the Fat Stock Show
that night.
Old Horace sang:
“Lord of himself that mgn will be
And happy in his life always
Who still at e’en can say with
free, .. .
Contented soul, ‘I’ve lived to-
day’.’’
words
cept of morality different from our own, is not less. but.
more reason to be true to our own
Shakespeare makes King Henry
which we may well remember today:
"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
“Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
“And he but naked, though locked up in steel
“Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
That we can remember when bread returns like that
\ came to Bataan. That we can remember when
trials come. That we can remember when our
. is tried.
We shall wip, not simply because our cause is just,
but because consciousness that it is just will give us, in the
end, the strength to win.—Selected.
"Are you the girl who took my
order?” asked an impatient cus-
•Yes.
I'll
"you
don’t look a day older.”
Germany’s public debt has trebled since the war be-
The statistics refer only to money, of course.
Don’t tell us there is a shortage of textiles after the
way the ladies have been saving material on dresses all
these years!
The idea of moving the clocks ahead an hour in war-
time is to get us all up earlier to get ahead of the Rising
Sun.
When it comes to man-to-mon
campaigning, Ralph Yarborough
is one of the best. In one of hi*
races, a big merchant was against
him. Knowing this, Yarborough
entered at the alley dqor, shook
hands with each employe and, at
the front door where the proprie-
tor was standing to greet cus-
tomers, the candidate came up be-
hind him, handed the startled
storekeeper a card, smiled, shook
hi» hand and‘'deported. The busi-
nessman. when he recovered uis
composure, was so impressed by
Yarborough's energy and cordial-
ity that he wound up by voting
for him.
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone;
And when she got there,
The cupboard was bare—
And was her face red!
Fifth-Column Job
Edson’s Washington Colum
War Literally May Put Us on Our Feet
When Full Force of Auto Curtailment Is Felt
Analyzing
War News
18 Years Ago
(Taken from files of The Daily
N«w*-Telegram of February 10,
1924).
Attorney Gen. Eliper Teer files
case for foot speeding against Lee
Tittle on ConnaUy street.
Mrs. J. N. Polk, who recently
moved to Florida, remembers Bap-
tist Ladies’ Circles with box of
fresh fruit.
Roger Parnell and Miss Ina
Crosby were Dallas visitors to-
day.
Cooper Bar endorses J. M. Mel-
son for Attorney General
Constable W. H. Buchanan ar-
rests man in Tittle & Hurley
Store on hot check charge. *
Mrs. O. L. Guy and two chil-
dren sick with measles.
Smallpox reported spreading at
Dike, but local doctors unatde to
get out there on account of bad
roads.
Temperature of 10 degrees pre-
dicted here tonight.
More Mexican wisdom:
Of the great speak neither well
nor ill, for if you speak well you
lie, and if ill, you 'place yourself
in danger.
Of safe courses, the safest of
all is to doubt.
The majesty and the grandeur
do not lie in being a lord but in
being acknowledged one.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
Seeking The Real Victim
By IRVIN S. COBB
Late Pete Dailey, one of the stars of the old Weber and Fields
r, was famous on and off the stage for his ready wit. During
is Chicago engagements he made the acquaintance of a resident
city whom we shall denominate by the name of Smith. He
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well help making the acquaintance of the gentleman,
was a person who made a specialty of ramming
without an invitation, but generally without, into
people were assembled. He was not lacking
chief social drawback was that immediately
he proceeded to take entire charge of the eon-
____ig out all competition by virtue of his superior
and on in a loud strong voice for so long as he had
Congressman Clifford Duvis, an
old schoolmate, read the comment
in this column recently about the
excessive deliveries and waste of
bread^-and took the matter up
with Price Administrator Ia>on
Henderson, who is conducting a
study of the subject . . . Not even
the dead are safe from Texas loan
sharks. A widow was called upon
to pay off a loan which a usurer
claimed to have made to her hue
hand. Experts pronounced the
purported signature a forgery.
Thus it seems that the sharks, in
their greed, will invade' even the
grave!
(By Kirkc L. Simpson, Associated
Press Writer.)
Critical developments in Burma
and the tightening Japanese
squeeze attack on Java tend to
obscure to American eyes the fact
that an even more portentlous
crisis may be close at hand to
Russia.
jjithin a mputh yeasier sonji-
tions on the southern flank of the
Russian front are apt to permit a
resumption of the German drive
for oil. Wherever else Hitler plans
to strike in the Berlin-advertised
spring blitzkrieg, it is inconceiva-
ble that the main thrust will not
be in Russia and at the Caucasus.
Failure to do so wbuld tremen-
dously alter the whole war scene
in allied favor. It would bo con-
vincing that the Russian winter
campaign hwl reaped its full har-
vest.
It was planned ami executed
for one prime purpose. That was
to cripple or at least greatly di-
minish Nazi striking power in
Russia come spring. If it does not
succeed in doing that, the outlook
for the allies will be as ill-omened
in the European whi- zone as it
still appears to be in the Fur Pa-
cific.
Germans Hold Huge Bulge.
Neither side has clearly defined
the major fighting fronts in Rus-
sia since the German retreat from
Mozhaisk weeks ago. A ttorj^s of
tremendous salients and counter,
salients is indicated from the
Azov seacoast to the Baltic. The
strain on both sides to keep tries •
manned against entrapment of ad-
vance forces by an enemy junc-
tion across the base of each sali-
ent must be terrific.
In the center, west of Moscow,
and supported by the Smolensk
and Vitebsk junctions, tiro Ger-
mans appear still holding a huge
eastward buigh. It still is an omi-
nous threat to Moscow along the
Napoleonic route if the Russians
fail to creek it finally. of the city tax rolls.
Unofficial reports, however, J The condition here is n||t unique,
have indicated that Russian spear- 1 Practically all towns and counties
heads have been driven deeply i have staggering lists of delinquent
-■» -*— I taxes which hang
from year to year.
Yet the condition is utterly un-
necessary. Taxes could easily he
collected 100 per dent every year .
The law furnishes the means of
doing that and good business
management would do the rest.
Yet the problem is as old as
taxes themselves, even
there is no real excuse
condition.
The same business practices ap
plied by private companies to
their collections would take care
of tax payments. An installment
monthly pay
Westward on both sides of the
bulge. One has been reported
across the Vitebsk-Novel road ami
rail -connection and reaching the
vicinity of Polotsk. If that is true
a Red force is operating close to
the old Polish border more than
100 miles west and north of Smo-
lensk. It not only has cut direct
communications between the Suio
lensk area and the German north-
ern flank, but is menacing the
Vitebsk key to the great Nazi
bulge in the center.
Communications Threatened.
Similar reports place a second
Red spearhead west of Smolensk j plan, with regular
This (a the second of a series on the war's impact on U. S. auto-,
mobile civilization. ....... '<§ f
YY7ASHINGTON.—When the country's automobile “revolution 4
™ rotrofeo’1 ehalroa Anum If twill ha f,uisul IKM * ha neimnrHI wmaSiiiJ ■
need of the privately owned passenger automobile will be for
transportation of war workers from home to lob and vice versa. Fii
thermore, if auto transportation of these work*
breaks down, it is going to be extremely difficult <
And substitutes.
H. S. Fairbank, chief of research tor Public 1
Prftnsylvania railroad runs right by the plant, btj;
possible to provide the 10 locomotives. 100
snd 30 train crews that would be needed for
60 trains a day this mass movement of work*
this number In Ypsilanti, so most of the worke
will have to come from the Detroit area. That will take from
Those Am situations indicate the extent to which war weaken mux
depend on private car transport. As a matter of fact, when the plan
sites for many of these war industries ware selected, it was deilber
ately planned that the labor force would ride to and from work b; kirV 4
private car on public highways to relieve the railroads. Approacl
roads affb parking lots were constructed accordingly. This thinklnf^^
was done before Pearl Harbor and the rfe*Citing threats of rubb
shortage.
Over the last 20 years, there has been a mania for learmg up stree
car tracks. Admittedly, these municipal railways were slow am
blocked traffic and couldn't be operated profitably. Competition trod 1
busses knocked the trolleys right off their tracks and the tracki 1
themselves were yanked up and sold for junk. Before this war
over, there will be lots of communities that will wish they hadn't
been so hasty. The trolley car is due for a temporary wartime co
back.
There being a power shortage in the offing, through the need -of con-|
serving electrical energy for war production, expansion of electric
railways may be out of the question.
JDOR Is the outlook for additional bps equipment encouraging,
all the truck and bus plants are going full tilt on War require-
ments. During March, the manufacturers of busses to carry
more passengers are to be allowed unlimited production, though
February they are being restricted to 1000 busses, which compares
with a production of 450 in February, 1940. ' ,
Now, more busses may have to be built Just to save private car*. >
and these war busses may be so designed that they provide maxi-
mum space for straphangers, minimum space for seats.
There are today an estimated 4000 bus line operators with a com-
bined fleet of 60.000 vehicles, in addition, there are about 93.000
school busses and perhaps 2500 sight-seeing Jobs. Pooling all thsse,
changing routes, staggering trips—all these are possibilities. For in-
stance. Director Eastman has suggested that school hours and factory
shift hours in any community might be staggered so that the samw
fleet of conveyances could serve both loads.
to the south at Kirov (Gherikov)
on the Sojh tributary to the Dnio
per. If that is true the Russians
arc within 40 miles or so of the
Dnieper below Orsha. They
threatening direct communication.:
between the Smolensk bulge and
Nazi forces to the south and ,il- j
ready across the Vitehsk-Smn-
len.sk-Rosavl-Brya nsk -Ore 1 rail and j
highway system that appears to be j
I the communications key to the '
whole German front in the center.
Northward in the Kalinin Val j
dai-Novgorod sectors the situation '
is more obscure. It is clear, bowev- J
er. that Russian thrusts have driv-
en twin salients into German lines .
toward vita! junctions. Enforced
exansion of Nazi forces to eon
tain these multiple drives in un
questionably sapping German re
serves intended for spring often
sive use, probably far to the south j
against the Caucasus.
Along the Azov seacoast at j
Taganrog and north of that point
at Staiino, the Germans have
clung grimly to wfetUial spring
hoards for renewal of the effott j
to turn the Rostov corner into the j
Caucasus. Deep Russian salients
are indicated on both sides of Sta-
iino that to the north is almost in
sight of the great-southern bend
of the Dnieper at Dniepropetrov-k.
STORIES
IN STAMPS
a •
ments, would ease the burden for
the taxpayer.
It works with automobiles pur
I chased “on time.” It works with
though | water, electric, gas and telephone
for the | hilts. It works with all sorts of
j credit business. Those bills don't
| go unpaid for years—for a very
! good reason, as the average read-
| er well knows.
Municipal and county govern- j
I ments have the same opportunity
] to keep their tax rolls clean, but
| they ignore it.
Yet over the state, cities and
Newspapers get along a let bol-
ter than they used to with each
other. There was nothing much
more (jitter than a feud between
two newspapers in the same town
or in rival towns.
In an East Texas town, one
journal announced that it has
purchased a new, high-speed press.
The announcement continued,
"The press is being Installed in
the basement in such a position as
to be visible from the sidewalk.
This ureas can print 10,000 papers
un haur and it will make its first
run next Tuesday afternoon at
3:80 o’clock.”
The rival paper printed ibis
was created before the recent
Dallas blackout when a report got
started that all bald-headed men
would have to wear skullcaps.
DELINQUENT TAX
Marshall Messenger. The charge
recently made (hat Marshall is fud
of "dead beat” tax payers would
probably be backed up by consid-
erable weight by an examination
REGLAR FELLERS Jimmie* Hint Is Heeded
liked to Hite a work of their own (n once
_jtat«d against his popularity. You may hare
. alftstsgst|”
ahunned—among all the snow fwk.
___ray one day, met a friend from Chicago.
his acquaintances in the City by the lake.
14, Smith ?”
ear-drum,** said the Chicagoan.
K«w« natures, taaj
be on hand promptly beeauae. at
exactly 2:38 o’clock, the entire
circulation of our competitor will
have been run off on that preas.”
And quite
a lit of
excitement
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THIS CURIOUS WORLD
SNMMUMUIIDK:
Javanese Natives Help
Dutch Fight Invaders
IMPORTANT factors in Dutch *
* successes over Jap invaders in
the Netherlands East .Indies are j
the small, sturdy natives who have
put away tribal dress rind donned j
battle garments in defense of their J
homes and peaceful way of life.
The stamp above, issued in 1941,
pictures a Javanese dancer. Java j
is one of the larger islands of the ’
Malay archipelago known as the
Sundra islands.
Capital of Java and the Dutch
East Indies is Batavia, a city heav- ,
ily Dutch in flavor but where na- ;
tives still come to the houses to
sell vegetables and other wares, j
Javanese — before bombs and
shells volcanically disrupted them
—•led smooth, unruffled lives. Gen- |
lie, happy, they hr,ve much the
same character and attitude to-
ward life as their more-publicized ;
neighbors, the Balinese.
The butcher, baker, milkman
and flower boy—traveling market
people who brought their goods
from the country to the house- ,
wife’s door in the city—are now
leading Dutch troops through is-
land thickets.
JOHN VINCENT
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA.,
/M//.£\5"... BECAUSE
HE CARRIED MAIL.
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Bagwell, Eric. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1942, newspaper, February 19, 1942; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825890/m1/2/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.