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With malice toward none, wMi charity for all, with firmneu in
the right ai God givea us to see the right.—Abraham Lincoln.
THE ELECTION IS OVER-
NOW LET’S WIN THE WAR
.Another hotly contested and, in some instances, hit-
ter political campaign, has now come to a close in Texas.
W. I.<ee O’Daniel, Junior U. S. Senator from Texas, seek-
ing re-election, emerged the winner over two of the
strongest political figures in the State, James V. Allred
and Dan Moody, the latter being eliminated in the first
primary. Almost 900,000 votes were cast in the Satur-
day’s election and the count shows that the majority were
in favor of O’Daniel. Regardless of how a fellow voted,
O’Daniel won the race fair and square. Personally, The
Echo Man II did not vote for O’Daniel this time, in fact,
he has never voted for hinj, but' that is neither here nor
there. We are not bitter against him, as we realize that
regardless of all the accusations hurled against him, any j
man who can poll the vote he did is bound to have many j
good qualifications. Abraham Lincoln once said, “You
can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all
of the people a|l of the time,” or words to that effect.
While he did not get all of the votes in Saturday’s elec-*
tion, O’Daniel did get more than Allred, thus proving that i
more people were for him than were against him.
In county politics, it was a different story. While
only three county races were run, they were all cond
Analyzing
War
or underhanded methods so common in many campa
elsewhere. All the contestants were high class, honor-
ed and respected citizens of Hopkins County, and regard-
A Second Front.
There is much populur pres-
sure, in both England and Ameri-
too badly about the results, realizing that they did their
best and ran a good race.
To the winners, The Echo Man II offers congrat
tions and trusts that their term in public office will be'
pleasant and successful, and that, their friends will ever
be proud for having cast a vote for them. To the unsuc-
cessful aspirants, we also offer congratulations for a good
race run and to remind them that although they did not Ua, for a second front to relieve
receive the largest vote-, the vote they polled was one to the hard-pressed Russians in the
he proud of and was a public testimonial to the popular- Caucasus. In due time there will
ity and the confidence they carried. [be a second front—when w« are
And, now the election over, and this section blessed [strong and can hit hard wherever
with a good rain, we trust that, any little enmities or bit-1 we decide to hit and just keep hit-
ter jealousies will all he forgotten SO that one and all may'ting. Military men will decide the
join in doing their part in the winning of the war, which! time umi the place We cannot af-
is the paramount and, in fact, the only real issue in Amer-
ica today.
•WR11H T.;;PAT MAN'S
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TEXAS —’ ^
painless taxes .... This is the
207th week of the SinokJapanese
war; the 154th week of World
War II; the 61st week of the
Russo-Axis war, and the 87th
week of the U.S.-Axis war—and
have “just begun to fight” . . .
But for the successful last-ditch
stand of Moscow and Leningrad,
the doom of Stalingrad would ap-
pear almost inevitable on the face
of discouraging reports from the
Caucasus.
At two or more points, the in-
vaders have managed at last to
ram armored spearheads across
the Don River, only forty or fifty
miles from the vital Volga eity,'
and its lfi.st remaining natural de-
fense line. Ahead of the Nazis
is only the narrow corridor be-
tween the two rivers, sloping
downward to terrain which is be-
low sea level.
Already Stulingrad has been
largely isolated, the single through
rail connection with Moscow and
the north having been severed by
bombing, the Germans assert.
Nazi planes are attacking shipping
on the Volga.
Marshal Simeon Timoshenko’s
original southern army has in ef-
fect been cut in two while escap-
ing entrapment, and the dire per-
il of the altered strategic situa-
tion has been duly recognized by
the Churchill-Stalin conference
and by the subsequent steps tak
en to holster the Middle East*
Stalingrad Not Yet Lott.
This is only the seamy side of
the picture. Actually it is defi-
nitely premature to count Stalin-
grad lost. The Germans them-
selves speak of the prospects in
guarded language, venturing only
a statement credited that "the
great decisive battle for Stalin-
yrud has now begun.”
Assuming that the Russians
will now be obliged to fall back
after having checked the foe ut
the Don elbow, the whole nature
of the struggle for the Caucasus
suggests that they are prepared
to make a continuing, hucks to-
18 Years Ago I
(Taken from the files of The
Daily News Telegram of August
25, 1924.)
Mrs. W. T. Waits passes away
after lingering illness.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Pounds and
daughter, Dorothy, return from
Bella Vista, Ark.
Bebe, little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Tucker, quite sick.
Boyd Ewing of Houston here to
visit parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Ewing.
Mrs. John Haynsworth
tains Southside 42 Club.
entei -
ford to let untrained popular cla-
mor drive us into another disas-
terous Dunkirk. Large numbers of
Kanangoora is now in port at Sar
Francisco loading relief supplies
of medicine, clothing, food, to-
bacco and messages, to American
prisoners held in Japan and Chi-
na by Japan. The vessel will not
sail until safe conduct is guaran-
teed by Japan.
The Home Front.
Manufacture of hairpins will be
discontinued September 15 . . . .
Auto tires cannot be regrooved
without written permission by ra
tioning boards .... Look for a
It took one million gallons of gas
oline to put 1,000 planes over’Co-
logne-—the equivalent to 200,000
barrels of crude oil ... . The
American battle of production is
producing “torrents of weapons"
. . . . The Government is bracing
itself for a long, hard war . . . .
All-out American
Edson’s Washington Coin
Baltimj
Note: This bt4the first oj several articles telling how
Is trying to solve critical manpower problems In guinea-pig (
periments tohich may furnish a guide for the rest of the noth
tear production centers.
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Service Washington Correspondent
T/'EEP your eyes on Baltimore for the next few months, If jJ
A* !n4nti/in4>ul in Ir nmiri n ft iithollifiv Ihoro ifi In I'M* £1 MlltintHlI I
pulsory war labor law to draft workers and force their tr
to essential industries. For Baltimore is the public guinea pig
on this whole business of solving all the problems
of war labor supply and., demand by voluntary
co-opi-rition of labor, management and the gen-
eral public.
Baltimore gets this dubious honor by reason of
being the first eity in which the War Manpower
Commission has set up a regional office, with a
labor-management advisory committee which will
try to work out all these complicated problems
of labor pirating, labor hoarding, increased em-
ployment of women, control of labor migration, in-
creased training of unskilled and semi-skilled lubor,
housing, transportation and all such headaches. If
Baltimore can solve these problems by voluntary
co-operation within the community, the voluntary
co-operation metnod might slick for the duration.
If it’s no go in Baltimore, then look out for in-
creased agitation for a law that will draft labor
the same way it has drafted men for the Army—a
law that will give the government power to say in effect, “You, bt
have the rare talent for pouring sand in a boot, while you, s
are God’s gift to the buttonhole industry,
diately repair to St. Louis, Mo., tote
You will therefore in
pour sand and cut out the goods
that a buttonhole goes around.
There may have to be a law
tike that, anyway, no matter how
the Baltimore experiment works
out. After election, when Con-
gress gets back on the job. the
lawmakers may cut loose on the
theory that nobody else is better
than a soldier and therefore every-
body that doesn't fight will have
to do war work.
the manpower problems were
His first job—his first two
really—were to get about a <
federal, state and local got
merit agencies together and
them all shooting at the same
get, which was mobilizatio
manpower for war production
IT is doubtful if a law that dras-
* tie could be forced through
Congress, but in the same breath
it must be admitted that winning
a long war with only voluntary
regulation of labor supply is like
going to hat with two strikes al-
ready called.
To start the ball rolling. War
Manpower Commissioner Paul V.
McNutt’s organization picked one
of its br ight young men and told
him he was to be regional war
plGHT along with this carm
problem of setting up a li
management advisory comer
to run the show for the Baltii
urea. Getting a good strong
mittec was important. It was
tough. WMC’s original job f
ing order hud been a bust. I
employer had been grabbing
lor himself, looking out for
own interests. Management w
any too anxious to sit on a
mittee with the unions. But fi
a committee of nine was a$
on, four from A. F. of L., C.
Machinists and Maritime
unions, a general manage
Bethlehem Steel, a vice pres;
divi
manpower commissioner for the i
Baltimo* > area. The man pickod of a Koppers company
was A, A Liveright of Chicago, , a vice president of Martin
wh0 had been on the McNutt I craft and the piesrdent
the-wall fight for Joseph Stulm’s | Washington ^alT and knew what [ A Blackwell,
namesake city, perhaps matching'
in
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fury last year’s defense of the
Soviet capital. Too much is at
stake to permit any more stra-
tegic withdrawals.
Exposed though Stalingrad is,
with its back to the Volga and
only rolling open country in front,
the Russians appear to have a
better chance of holding it than
of retaining the Grozny oil field
Vl‘‘r ’’p" 1U 101 | and other threatened parts of the
will reach 7-billion dollars per
troops and mountains of material sharp reduction in civilian goods
and food must be moved enormous
distances over hazardous subma-
rine routes. A mistake now. as the
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lindley Mr re8ult of “"disciplined public cla-
and Mrs. Taylor Barrett, Mr. and n,or' mi*ht Puralyze °“r *lriki"*
Mrs. Ed Hans and baby and Floyd j f°T ,a*r T * J”! ^
Stacey return from trip to Okla-
homa.
Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Shook vis-
iting here from Corsicana.
Mr. and Mrs. John West of
Star Ridge visiting in home of Mr.
and. Mrs. O. E. Walters.
Lost—Bulldog named
—Joe Ewing (want. ud).
Laugning Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
No Hope for Slavery
By IRVIN S. COBB
COME twenty-fife of thirty years ago an eccentric genius, Joe Mu,
& hatton by name, and by birth a Kentuckian, exercised a vivid
imagination in writing accounts for newspaper publication, or marvel-
ous discoveries Vhich he claimed to have made in obscure parts of his
native state—and mine. He was the prototype of that equally gifted
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but anonymous genius who lately has made the town of Winsted, Conn.,
famous all over America by the sending out of press stories of faunal
wonders and natural freaks which are alleged to huve occurred in or
near this one particular community.
Month after month Mulhatton piled his unique calling while his
andience grew. He found a cavern in the Knobs that was larger than
Mammoth cave and filled with huge mountains of solid ice; a meteorite
that was bigger than any court-house in the atate and all ablaze with
rare and previously unclassified jewels; a breed of tree;climbing fish
which had fins with claws on them. Always he gave complete
of the phenomena and, curious though it may seem, there were a great
maay persons in back districts who accepted his yarns as gospel truth.
One day he burst into print with the tale of a planter up on 1’aibt
Lick who had taught six pet monkeys to pick the worms off of
I grow-
ing tobacco. At that time an interesting character, “Bully” Mason,
kept a hotel and saloon in the town of Lancaster in the lower edge of
the Blue Grass country. “Bully” was an unreconstructed Confederate,
and to credulous that he believed everything he read—even Mulhatton’s
yams.
A group of tobacco growers, in for the day from the places on
Buckeye Creek and Sugar Creek, took advantage of the old gentleman’s
trustful nature. Gathering in the bar room they harkened while one
of the members read aloud the Mulhattonesque fiction and then all
joined in a discussion of this latest development in agriculture. It was
decided that a fund should be raised with which to import and purchase
a carload of monkeys and to hire experts whose job it would be to
educate them for service in the patches against thst persistent enemy
of the weed-grower—the tobacco worm.
All at once “Bully” broke in.
“Boys," he said, “don’t you think of doing no such of a thing.
Just about the time you get your monkeys trained right, the dam'
Yankees will come down here agin and set ’em free!”
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erals—not the curbstone generals
-must decide this question.
Farm Price Brake*.
The war has increased farm
commodity prices considerably,
which have always been too low
| in relation to prices generally.
‘Tige.” ! Farmers know that inflation wilt
j affect farm costa as well as farm
! prices. Inflation will bring a dis-
! astrous deflation in its wake. Dur-
ing inflation, farm lands are bid
up—doubled and trebled. Farm
lands pay for themselves over a
long-run period. The land mort-
gage debt following the inflatior-
ary period after World War 1
was ten billion dollars, with a real
value of six billion. This infla-
tionary water had to be squeezed
out by scaledowns.' Inflation of
farm prices will cause the farm
debt to soar, then when the bub-
ble bursts, the farmer will go
through our 1920 experiences
again. The remedy to inflation
now is not necessarily to release
farm prices from control, although
the farmer is entitled to an ad-
justment upward, hut to extend
controls to all other consumer
goods for the duration of the
war. ’
Great Wheat Crop.
The official Government Crop
Report for August forecasts the
greatest wheat crop in 27 years—
since 1915—with a total harvest
of 955,172,000 bushels. The pre-
dicted corn crop of 2,753,696,000
bushels is the largest since 1932.
This bumper crop insures suffi-
cient food for us and our Allies
for the rest of 1942 and 1943.
September wheat is $1.17 and
corn 86 cents with farm prices
showing a tendency for a gradual
rise, which is justified, due to in-
creased cost of labor.
Prisoners of War.
The American Red Cross han-
dles contacts and communications
with war prisoners in Japan and
elsewhere. It is a mercy organiza-
tion und under the Geneva Agree-
ment on International War, it<
ships and cargo will not be mo-
lested. The 7000-ton Swedish ship
before the holidays .... A torpe-
do costs $12,000 and a ton of
powder makes only three shots
. . Patriotism is abstract, hut
its application is concrete—-buy
bonds .... Daily war costs dur-
ing July were $184,000,000 ....
The 19-year-olds, who have be-
come 20 since June*20, will get
their order numbers soon . . . .
National Fire Prevention Week
will be observed from October 4
to 10 ... . An inventory of sec-
ond-hand machinery will be taken
soon .... Oil is second to gold as
the world's most important com-
modity .... Automatic rise of 2
per cent in payroll tax January 1
. ... We are producing more
wheat than we can use as flour
. . . . The first anniversary of the
Atlantic Charter finds the United
Nations strongly united for Vic-
tory and “a happier world” . . . .
July employment averaged 46.7
hours weekly with a total employ-
ment of 53,300,000 persons . . . ,
“Happy Days,” weekly paper of
the Civilian Conservation Corps,
is now called the “Civilian Front”
und will carry Civilian Defense
news .... The steel in a pair of
roller skates will make two Army
helmet* .... Cotton bale ties will
be sold as of the price of August
1, 1941.
The War at a Glance.
Military experts believe Hitler
can be beaten only by fighting
.... The farmer and the assem-
bly line worker are soldiers in the
rear, producing for the man at the
front .... War taxas are not
month by 1943 .... Secretary of
War Stimson says his department
will “(fish out” the had news with
the good, with confidence that tie
American people “cun take it”
Hitler is staking his life and
eventual victory on conquest of
Russian oil fields .... Donald
Nelson, WPB chairman, has brok-
en the bottleneck on plane pro-
duction .... Under Elmer Davis,
OWI director, the people are get-
ting facts instead of pep slogans
. . . . Brazilian declaration of war
would give the United Nations
control of the South Atlantic.
North Caucasus. At the Don the
Red army has shown itself to be
both strong and stubborn. There
have been weeks in which to
strengthen fortifications. Beyond
the Volga is an unbroken, paral-
leling railway artery for arms and
reinforcements.
eastward in two further,
than 300 miles, an i Should Stalingrad’s
prove too difficult, von Boi
tains the alternative of by-pi
the metropolis und striking
ward down the Volga towar
mouth at Astrakhan on the
pian Sea. The seizure of
khan is demanded by the p
of overrunning the C'aucusa,
severing the direct southern
! for Russian supplies from
have pushed
months more
advance nearly as great a* last
year's drive through the Ukraine
which recoiled at Rostov in lute
November. Now ull the military
i dificulties of distance which
played a major role in checking
the invaders previously seem to
he making themselves felt. Nazi
progress has been notably slower
in the last week or so. Beginning I Astrakhan, however, is ar
next month the fall rains of the 250 miles or so further on
Steppes are due, with their prom Adplf Hitler cannot count ot
ise of slowing up progress still us Bn „l|y
Buy War Bonds and Stamps.
Nazi* Lo*<- Momentum.
Possibly of greater importance,
there is some evidence that the
Nazi war inachine is losing much
of its momentum, The original
rate of progress eastward from
Rostov would have carried the
Germans all the way to the Volga
early this month.
Gen. Fedor yon Bock’s armies
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