The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 25, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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It took *n Amerfciin to wake up
Japan, and now America muit
put her to sleep!
While the men still consider a
tire the most important thing, you
can’t convince the women that at-
tire isn’t
As we understand it, the Nazis
got cold feet in Russia and how
they are hot-footing It back to
Germany.
if ELL, Advertising Manager.
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ae, with charily tor all, with firmness in
i as te see the right.—Abraham Lincoln.
AEFs GO OUT TO FIGHT
A cold sjwwer can be greatly
improve^ by the addition of three
parts hot water to one 6f cold.
Washington may succeed in
curtailing the use of Hires, gaso-
line and metal, but no curb will
ever be put on her extravagant
use of red tape.
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try-
f colow, and 1
il be on their
yet they go to
or more American men will be
Uar4 of half-dozen AEFs
'hey go out to fight in for-
to defend their own cotin-
re still more fortunate, in the very fact of these
mpaigns, than the people of most of the other
m the wfir. We still have a chance to keep ac-
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things go worse than we nave a right to ex-
i is no reason to expect any major fighting in the
ites Itself.
ig singular Ill-fortune, we should not have to
homeland overrun as the people of a dozen coun-
ive been forced to see it, China, Russia, France,
m, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Norway,
B, Yugoslavia—all these and many others have been
:ed to undergo the ultimate in war horror, the destruc-
j and downfall of their own homes, lands And institu-
tions. We shall be forced to undergo the death of many
a fine American soldier, and that will be hard enough to
bear. But the added horrors whiqh Lpndon has seen, and
Rotterdam, which Chungking find Shanghai and Peking
have undergone, may be spared us.
The farther from our American shore our soldiers go
to fjght the enemies of America, the less the chance that
the War itself can come literally to America." Our AEFs
go to drive war as far away from America as they can.
It is in order to spare their people at home from meeting
face to free war's horrors, that these Americans go to
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The weather wan took the price
administrator’s freezing orders se-
riously. Ho Immediately froze ev-
erything in sight for ten days.
With 185,000 planes, 120,000
tanks and millions of trained men
coming up it should be evident to
even the most ignorant Jap that
the land of the rising sun is doom-
ed to go trrto s total eclipse. ......
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Merchants Face Light Shelves and Heavy Worries
As Price Control and Rationing Enter War Effort
W/ASHINGXON.
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BY PETER EDSON
NBA Service Washington Correspondent
What happens to the retail merchant in
If
In expecting a lot of your
country the most important fact
should not be overlooked that your
country expects a lot of you.
Conscience may keep-a lot of
folks from doing evil, but we
have an idea that a vigilant police
force has something to do with it
also.
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Sbuthern Florida is trying to
sell you 82-degfce temperature,
as if your own heating plant or
fireplace couldn’t provide you the
same comfort at less cost. But
they may be devoid of Florida
glamour.
ua who remain
IpSlfi or Africa, it is just as'well for
owiiad to remember, that it is to protect us and keep ac-
tual war at a long arm’s length from America that they
go forth.
Is it, possible that the people for whose protection at
homjJheLgo ouUo die in strange places at the world’s
end* Will do less than see that they are supplied with
Thpto 9/ us who could not un-
80 far derstand the Japs have learned
Australia great deal about them since
When you rush your work too
through in time to do it over again.
fast, you may get
cember the seventh. Wo
learned that they regard a
the back as_a righteouf litary
achievement. It Is now I 1 turn
to learn something aboi .meri-
cans, And how!
“What hurts
living," says
the cost of sup
pie who hand!
it reaches you.
Two hundred California women were sworn in to
serve as policemen in case of emergency. If nothing else,
tty'll arrest attention.
What this country needs is buttons on little kids’
ghirt sleeves that won’t hurt their noses.
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Many a '‘sugar daddy” probably is just a plain sap.
jl8 Years Ago
(Taken from file* of the News-
Teiegram of January 24, 1924).
Cattle selling cheap — J. D.
Spence and Brie* Minter received
aa average of |7 a head on car
sold In Fort Worth. It cost
around |2 a head to ship, leaving
5 per head for cattle.
T. Greer and B. H. Morris
prospect* for bumper peach
good.
Royal Ramey received by
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Express a fine Rhode Island Red
cockerel to head his flock of
chickens.
Miss Rosalind Rutland was host-
ess to bridge club.
Lewis Ferguson home from Ft.
Worth where he shipped car cat-
tle.
Tom Cannon says wood dropped
two-bits a toad today when the
sun came out.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Duke are
visiting in Whitowrlght.
Madeline, little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Moore, has the
measles.
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Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
The Amende Honorable
By IRVIN S. COBB
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years ago ft. certain gentleman became very prominent,
and financially, In Denver. IIo chose to turn r. former
s- made himself unpopular with ceitsin of his fcllow-
»me of them, in retaliation, undertook to pry into his for-
s «ad Us present business methods. V A A a,>.
e of his most outspoken opponents wns M. B. Carpenter, u
of th# Civil War, a successful politician and a member of the
reputation for having
■use it.
M| day {n the course of a debate the name of hi* pet aversion J
reformer—came up.
r," smarted Senator Carpenter. “Don’t bo throwing that
He pays three lawyers by the year to keep him out
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went oa the warpath forthwith. He dummied
md apology and, ip default of thwo, sent C;.r-
cod to accept the dire con.-equenaet.
a chastened look op his face, Mr. Carpenter
■“ fe art: ar? Mil
waanotl
Analyzing
ar News
toj|; the cost of
Quillin, “hut
jrting all the peo-
the living before
There is talk of a federal edict
restricting the speed of cars to
not more thnn, forty miles an
hour. No doubt such a speed
would save tiros and gasoline and
many lives. Something ts terribly
at fault with our motor transpor-
'TaWh system lives a
year are chalked up against it.
Nat even a Japanese silkworm
would have been foolish enough to
start a war against the United
State* and Great Britain. It may
bo to the silkworm's interest to
move out of Japan.
the war news. It makes North Af-
rica an unknown quantity in both
Allied and Axis strategy.
Resurgent German tank units
lihder heavy' air protection have
stabbed eastward again nearly
100 miles to retake Agetlabia, of-
fensive advance base of the Brit-
ish. The news obviously jarred
London spokesmen. There and In
Cairo the battered Axis forces un-
der Nazi General Rommel had
been represented us whittled
down to rearguard defense size,
able only to delay, not to halt the
British annihilation drive.
Yet they have leaped eastward
and, according to Cairo accounts,
ping down the Malaya Peninsula I of them to the glory land last
went on unchecked. The only AI- j week.
lied bright spots in the Far Pa- ! -—
cific are General MncArthur’e i \ mother tells me she feels
land on Luzon, and American, ! quite discouraged when her little
Dutch and Chinese counterblows j hoy walked away from a dozen or
by air and sea. | to streamlined mechanical toys
. .British retreat4n Libya to yield and.insists on playing with an old
Agedabia back to the Axis could i tobacco can he found last sum-
mark a strategic move. The main | mer where someone had thrown
iously j ■
must be standing somewhere west j ——-
of Bengasi and the Libyan bump, ! Claude Cailan says; “Our
possibly with, new orders. If that ligion is a dim light. Most of
is what deployment of only , tipie it burns brightly when
light” British forces about Al-- are in danger und newt help.”
d'ibla means, it would be sigiui'i- 1
cant. The explanation must be the
transfer nf empjte—forces front
the Near East und Mediterranean
to bolster Allied defense resour-
ces in the South Pacific buttle
' The answer to that one can’t be given In full, but it is beginning
appear and the resu’ivthui far are a little surprising even to son
of ale economists who thought they knew all
answers.
The shortage problem has hit everyone
alike. There are some lines of merchandise that.l
if not already gone, will simply disappear from the!
shelves as soon as existing stocks are consumed.!
That is the first step, end it is here the 1,700,0
retail merchants of the country have been handed]
one of the toughest assignments of the war,
Attached to the civilian supply section of the I
Office of Price Administration is'what’s known as I
the Industry Council, a committee made up of some]
of the leading merchandisers of the country who I
act as consultants on some of these supply problems. I
This Industry Council has given to the retailer* I
of the country the Job of selling their pntrons on I
Edson the idea of accepting these shortages as a wartime
necessity. Advertising staffs are Importuned to
hammer away on the reasons why goods are scarce
and to do an educational and morale building )ob on the general public. I
/AN top of this comes the problem of price control. With scarcities |
J in many lines of merchandise, the temptation is to kite prices as
the demand rises. Here the trade associations of the retail merchants,
remembering the tough times they had with inflationary price rises
during the last war, have counseled their members against boosting
prices or substituting inferior merchandise at the prices formerly
prevailing on better qualities.
As Edgar J. Kau/mann, president of a Pittsburgh chain of stores’!
and a member of the OPA industry council, points out. only two of
the price ceilings which OPA has ordered thus far have been imposed
at the retail level. These were on flashlights and tires. All the other i
pcire maxtmums decreed-on cigarets, sugar, cotton and rayon goods
and the like have been at wholesale or higher levels. The retailer
and his customers get the benefits of these latter ceilings, but the
flashlight and tire schedules directly affect toe retail trade. The I
flashlight ceiling was imposed to stop a run which would develop a j
shortage and the tire ceiling was imposed because there was a a gen-
uine shortage.
FREEZING the prices on tire retreading and rationing the sale of
tires revealed many surprising facts which are interesting because |
they shed light on what may happen as other items of common trade
are rationed—as they certainly will be.
Most significant w'as the fact the little man was not hurt as much
as the big denier. The explanation, as OPA Interprets it, was simple.
The small business man had diversified. Knowing that he couldn’t !
make his living on tires and nothing but tires, he had taken on other !
lines—a filling station, soft drinks, a hot dog- st.fnd, fresh country I
vegetables, a restaurant or a dance hall.
It was the one-commodity merchant who was hit the hardest—
the fellow who did nothing but sell tires—the fellotf who had built
up n big business selling tires—the fellow with from $100,000 to half
a million invested in a one-purpo.se establishment. He is taking an
awful beating.
irke L. Simpsoti, Associated
Press Writer.)
startling and unexpected
setback in Libya headlinesara^ in Lil,ya obviously over their back fence.
time his son showed tremendous
murage was last month when he
started to grow a moustache. He
says the lad is now ready to go to
war.
An acquaintance sayk the
The Government is making a
qompiendable effort to keep down
profiteering. War time is no time
to collect blood money.
tnek in the same region last year
precipitated a retreat that threw
the British almost out of Libya.
There was no mastery about
that. In a futile effort to save
Greece from Axlff ttmquest, Brit-
ain loft little more than a token
force to hold Libyan gains and
scaled down her air and sea block-
ade in the Mediterranean waist-
line, the Sicilian Straits. The Brit-
ish gambled with Libya and lost,...
War Debate Impending.
That they have similarly gam-
bled with Singapore, even Austra-
lia, and already lost Hong Kong,
is the charge raised against Prime
Minister Churchill by his parlia-
mentary critics. A full-dress war
debate, to he capped by another
vote on Churchill's war leadership,
is impending. The loss of Agoda-
bia, unless it can be explained on
high strategy grounds, will add to
the heat of the London war de-
bate.
_ It Is possible the Libyan re trim.
. •. .i ! can be so explained. The British
We haven t more than our quo-1< . ,, „ , . .,
j i, uJ ,, still hold Bengasi and the Libyan
ta of curiosity, but we would like . , . . . , ,
to know what Hitler, Mussolini ^mp. which are important as air
and Tojo said after they heard , ^ '^vnentmg Hnt.sh control
| of the Central Mediterranean.
Pressure upon both London and
Washington tor effective Allied
It is not until a man becomes
a millionaire himself that he may
actually appreciate the Inconven-
iences that go with money.
Remember ’way back when the
highbrows called for something
“more expensive?’’ Now that we
have reached an era when ceilings
and taxes everywhere stare one In
the face, Mrs. Highbrow Is con-
tent to buy like the rest of us.
and like it.
zone.
Jnpanrif Take Hand.
There has been a recent hint
from Japanese sources of British
capital ships in the IndiannOcean
and Malacca Strait. The Japanese
invasion of New Britain and New
Guinea looks like an effort to cut
STORIES
IN STAMPS
■thejoJw^j^ncountercd only Brit
ish ‘light'Torres.”■ a*.«a*w*w«l? -tongririff' ftWefr-rtW*
munication lines in the South‘Pa-
cific. Tokyo plainly sees a crisis
in its war effort brewing in that
island-dotted area.
Yet Axis strategy which drew
PFH/VKI
a a iMiiotu
Japan into the battle-to December | Malay Junat<5 SldwS
nnn *Aoeod if i I 1. is i 1 ^ _
Pace of Axis Blitz
about this country’s 59 billion
dollar war program. They are no j
doubt fast revising their opinion
that this is a weak nation.
THE TRUTH
ABOUT TROUBLE
"When you tell a threatener,
“You can’t make trouble for me,”
you may think you ate bluffing,
but you are tolling the plain, un-
varnished truth. It is hard for a
man who has a clean slate and a
clear conscience to get into seri-
ous trouble. He may be made the
victim of more or leas annoyance
and persecution, but at long last
—a longer last in some caws than
in others—the record will be
cleared and the persecuted one
not only justified but avenged.—
Strrcklsnd Gillilan in Your life
Magazine.
reinforcement of Pacific and Chi-
na Sea bastions has been increas-
ingly heavy as British baek-stop-
has definitely scored if it has
forced the British to halt their
Libyan offensive in order to save |
Singapore, "the Netherlands East •
Indies and Australia, That was j
one of Berlin’s purposes in luring
its Pacific teammate into action,
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HOMER M. PRICE, IN
MARSHALL NEWS
I see in a paper where a man
up in Oklahoma lost his mind
after drinking a quart of bootleg
liquor. I don’t know why the pa-
per said he lost him mind “after”
he drunk it.
1 talked with a real titcwad the
ether day and he maintained, like
all titewads, he was “too gener-
ous for his own good.” He had j
taken out a Red Cross member, j
ship for one buck.
The Japs believe they go
straight to heaven when they get
killed in battle. If that is true
the heathern Chinese sent 35,000
r|’HK world has heard of the tre-
1 mendouf strides warfare has
taken in the past quarter century
and it, has come to fear the word
panzer in the wars of movement.
It is different in Malaya
The war between Japanese and
British in Malaya is with modern
weapons, but in Jungle terrain.
.Military tactics there are as old-
fashioned as the headgear on the
Sultan Iskandar pictured on the
stamp above, issued in 1935.
Reporters with the British
troops in the Straits Settlements
say that the small arms—bayonet,
pistol, and submachine gun—are
the most effective in the tangled
forests where tank and armored
car movement is restricted.
Conflict between Jap and Tom-
my is a stalking encounter with
camouflage the greatest offensive
and defensive aid. Swampy land
and thick underbrush make pas-
sage of the big guns impossible.
Targets, too, arc obscured. Fo-
liage and heavy mist shroud ob-
jectives. Effectiveness of artillery
fire cannot be gauged, for shells
plop into mud unseen by observa-
tion posts or airplanes.
The Malayan jungle put the
blitz on the fritz.
as touch-
the usual
the other
re- A mother says: “1
roe C(i by the postscript to
prayer of my little son
k i s ■ '■ ■
only. | any'lRf fei cmV now. l'lease
President Roosevetl lick hell
of them dirty Japs.’ ”
NOBODY HATES
A RATTLESNAKE
“No case of super-heated hate
that ever came under my observa-
tion had any basis in human real-
Dchi l.oid, we are-' ities.” writes Jack Woodford ip,
hat doesn’t make ; Your Life Magazine. “It is almost
help | impossible to hate what you thor-
oughly Uhderstand, even if it ts
completely detestable. Nobody,
for example, hates a rattlesnake.
You can understand a rattle-
snake.”
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Remember Pearl Harbor — buy
more Government Defense Bonds
and Stamps.
rec'lar fellers
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Bagwell, Eric. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 25, 1942, newspaper, January 25, 1942; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825959/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.