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World Wide Thinking With our East Texas boys fighting in far places, our thought horizon has been broadened enorfriously. As Wendell Wilkie says in his challenging book, One World, “Our thinking in the future must be world-wide.” Today we follow eagerly events in strange places of which we had scarcely heard two years ago. We cannot ignore what is happening in any part of the globe because it may affect us. We^iave learned through “blood, sweat and tears”that what happened in a beer hall in Berlin affects business in Beaumont. We know now that Tunisia and Tyler, Moscow and Marshall, Par- is, France, and Parjp, Texas, are much closer to each other than we realized. When our fighting men come home and tell the gang down at the drug store and the barber shop of the people in foreign lands- their aims and hopes and habits and opinions of America—East Texans will never again confine themselves to neighborhood thinking. East Texas oil, cotton, lumber, iron, and food products now fight on every front. Arab boys in North Africa beg for “chew gum.” Primitive natives in Pacific islands listen wide-eeyed to American radios and some day will buy them. Our gadgets and conveniences, our motion pictures, our ideas and methods have left their imprints upon the minds of men around the globe. They have awakened new desires and new markets for our farms and factories. From now on, Main Street in Littleville will think and talk of the home town in terms of world events. Some men’e minds never nave been able to go beyond the county line. That sort of thinking will be jolted out of its narrow rut. Today East Texans must help to plan the program of a new and Intimately related world.— Hubert M. Harrison in “East Texas.”
The Detroit News-Herald (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1943,
newspaper,
June 3, 1943;
Detroit, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth855436/m1/4/:
accessed July 18, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Red River County Public Library.