Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, DECEMBEF IS, 1942
# THE AMERICAN WAY
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The Learned
Dr. Temple
- By George Peck—
. . it is true that the more one
has, the less there is for others,
so that each man’s success re-
presents corresponding failure in
^^iis neighbors.”
We hasten to deny authorship
(of the aforegoing quotation. As
a matter of fact we consider it
one of the most riduculous stater
ments ever made—contrary to all
the teachings of history—a piece
t-, of silly, inane drivel.
Now if these words had been
spoken by some poor, ignorant,
uneducated, little-known citizen
or by one of the impecunious
“pinks”, we would have paid little
or no attention to it—would sim-
ply content ourselves with feel-
ing a twinge of sympathy for the
befuddled individual who gave
utterance to such silly puffle.
But they were uttered in a public
address by a man who occupies
the second highest ecclesiastical
office in the entire world—by a
man who has had ev$ry advan-
tage by education, experience and
contact—by none other than Dr.
Temple, the current edition of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Since
then Dr. Temple has added in-
sult to injury by publicly advo-
cating the abolition of private
property in England.
Has Dr. Temple read the Bible?
It seems hardly credible that he
has done so, yet somewhere along
the way in his study for the min-
istry, he must have encountered
the “Good Book”. We resist the
temptation to send a copy of this
“Primer” to the Primate of the
Church of England. We do, re-
commend that he make a belated
study of it for he will find bet-
ween its covers plenty of testi-
mony to give the lie to, “each
man’s success represents failure
in his neighbors.”
We also suggest a course of
reading in American history for
the erudite (?) churchman. It will
astound him. He wall learn when
the white man first came to what
is now United States, there were
just a few hundred thousand
Indians occupying the territory,
struggling for a bare existence.
Today, four centuries later, 135
million people, including 325,000
Indians live in that self-same ter-
ritory, and have achieved the
highest standard of living the
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His Master Given
Trial For Party
Gus F. Stevens appeared in a
Chicago court very apologetical-
ly Monday with his pet Big Boy,
a six-foot, brown, Russian bear.
Both were charged with drunken-
ness and disorderly conduct.
Stevens, with Big Boy at his
heels, had visited a tavern. Stev-
ens pounded on the bar and ord-
ered a drink. Big Boy stood up.
pounded on the bar, and drank his
liquor neat. The other patrons
cheered. Then came the part
that Mrs. Stevens objected to
Stevens and Big Boy played toe
many encores at too many tav-
erns.
Big Boy looked at the judge
when he entered the courtroom.
He thought he was an Army offi-
cer. He stook at attention and
saluted. The courtroom cheered.
“You don’t look like a drunk-
ard,’. said Judge Mason Sullivan.
Big Boy ambled over to the
bench.
“He wasn’t drunk,” said Stev-
ens . “As a matter of fact, he took
me home and took care of me.”
Big Boy walked around and
stood beside the judge.
“Where is the complaining wit-
ness,” asked Judge Sullivan.
“Mrs. Stevens isn’t here,” said
the bailiff.
Big Boy put-his arm around the
magistrate and gave him a friend-
ly hug.
“Case dismissed,’, said the
judge.
Police Capt. Louis Klatzco re-
minded the court that there was
a little matter of Big Boy mess-
ing the papers up on his desk,
chewing up his cigars and break-
ing down his chair.
Big Boy stepped down and put
his arm around Klatzco.
“I guess we can forget that
too,” said the police captain.
world has ever known.
Yes, the same country but the
white man pioneered it—he til-
led the fertile acres and develop-
ed its natural resources. He in-
vented machines and gadgets and
he worked. TODAY THE POOR-
EST CITIZEN OF THE UNITED
STATES IS RICHER THAN WAS
THE RICHEST INDIAN FOUR
CENTURIES AGO. Does’nt this
make somewhat absurd Dr. Tem-
ple’s “each man’s success repre-
sents corresponding failure in his
neighbors”?
Perhaps Dr. Temple thinks
there are no more frontiers in the
world today and especially in his
native England. In that event
he should be informed of the -Syn-
thetic Frontier which has been
scouted for some time by the
world’s engineers and chemists
a frontier that will raise the stan-
dard of living in England as well
as elsewhere—a frontier that
after the war will give more to
every Englishman without “eash
man’s” success representing cor-
responding failure in his neigh-
bors.”
Dr. Temple’s speech has had
wide publiety in this country.
His words have lent encourage-
ment to those here who seek to
tear down our American Way.
That is our only excuse for criti-
cizing a religious leader of our
gallant ally, England. We f^lt
it necessary to refute vigorously
the Archbishop’s doctrine that
“the more one has, the less there
is for others.” All that America
has been, is and WILL BE, de-
finitely disproves that statement.
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They Go to School
In Grandma’s Bus
Woman Starts 23rd Year of
Transporting Children.
JEFFERSON. OHIO. — Although
women cab drivers are not legal in
Ohio, a 55-year-old grandmother has
been skippering a school bus for 22
years.
Mrs. Millie May Hodge of New
Lyme road has never been involved
in an accident while transporting
children to or from school.
She drives the New Lyme town-
ship school bus and has now started
her 23rd year with the opening of
schooL
In the meantime, she has found
time to raise and mother a family
of five children. The three daugh-
ters and two sons are all married
and the always-popular woman bus
driver is the happy grandmother of
nine grandchildren.
Three of the grandchildren now
ride In “granny’s” bus.
In the neighborhood where Mrs.
Hodge and her silo-constructing hus-
band reside she is known simply as
“Millie Accommodation." Her neigh-
bors say that she is willing at all
times to help a neighbor.
On top of her jobs as wife, moth-
er, grandmother and bus driver, she
takes an active interest in school
affairs and was recently re-elected
to her second term as president of
the local Parent-Teachers associa-
tion.
Her record as a driver is marred
by one mishap with an empty bus—
not her fault. A skidding truck
smashed into her bus, causing her
injuries that kept her bedfast for
five weeks. Her first thought was
gratefulness that no children were
aboard the vehicle.
She says that she tries to act as
a “second mother” to bus loads of
school children, which shouldn’t be
hard for Mrs. Hodge, considering
the size of her own family and
grand-family.
1,100 Norway Ministers
Are Held in Their Homes
LONDON.—The Quisling regime
has confined more than 1,100 clergy-
men of the official Norwegian church
to their residences and replaced
members of parish councils with
Quisling followers, official Nor-
wegian sources here declared.
They said the move was “the
boldest attempt yet to take over all
church property.”
The priests were said to have de-
clined to recognize the Quisling
regime as the official government
and held to that stand for weeks
despite threats.
Norwegian circles here said that
“in an effort to keep the churches
open, Quisling is ordaining hundreds
of unqualified laymen to fill the pul-
pits of 750 churches.”
Doctors Treat Stricken
Community by Wireless
VANCOUVER, B. C.—The sick—
who include practically the entire
population of Telegraph Creek, a
backwoods community without phy-
sicians or nurses, were treated by
radio.
An epidemic had already killed
eight Indians and half breeds, but
medical advice radioed from Hazel-
ton, 250 miles south of the stricken
eommunity, has proved effective.
W. S. Leake, government radio
telegraph operator in Telegraph
Creek, reported the epidemic and
appealed to Prince Rupert, B. C.,
for physicians and nurses. The
provincial government was expect-
ed to send a physician as soon as
possible.
Woman Skipper Is Given
Toughest of Assignments
MONTREAL.—Capt. Ollie Johns-
ton, Canada’s only woman skipper
and master mariner, will soon begin
one of the toughest assignments of
her career, when, the salvage com-
pany she works for starts raising
the 1,900-ton freighter Henry C. Dar-
yaw from the bottom of the St. Law-
rence river.
The collier sank near Brockville
last fall and was given up as a total
loss by marine experts.
Captain Johnston, who took up her
career » because of bad health 16
years ago, has been fireman, deck-
hand, wheelman, mate, cook and
skipper. In her spare time she
takes her turn at washing decks and
shining brasswork.
Meet After 23 Years;
Find They’re Neighbors
BOISE, IDAHO.—A reunion, of the
2nd Idaho regiment of World War I
brought together Otto Zimmer and
Louis Taylor, wartime buddies who
had not met in 23 years. In the
meantime they had both lived in the
same district and Zimmer had often
hunted on Taylor’s property without
their meeting each other.
New Fireman Gains
Experience Quickly
ELYRIA, OHIO.—It didn’-t take
Elyria’s newest fireman long, to
see action. Immediately after an-
swering roll call his first morn-
ing on duty, and just as soon as
his equipment had been issued,
Lyle C. Scott rode with the fire
department to his first blaze. Oth-
er firemen had just finished tell-
ing him where to ride.
Second Wife
By R. H. WILKINSON
Associated Newspapers.
WNU Features.
T IFE began for Lionel Ainsley
L-v when he met Cynthia Trumble.
She was the fulfillment of dreams
that were dreamed while he sat
alone by his camp fire in the wilder-
ness, while he listened to the hoots
of owls and the screeches of bob-
cats and wondered if the time would
e^er come when somebody sat with
him by the fire and listened to the
night sounds that had been his only
companions since graduation from
the state school of forestry two years
ago.
He met Cynthia when he came
out of the bush one June for a short
vacation. From the first there was
an understanding between them.
They were married the day he was
due to start back into the woods.
Lionel didn’t know how it hap-
pened. He remembered telling her
about the forests and the strange
night noises and the sound of water
lapping against the side of a canoe,
and the sunsets and sunrises—and
she had been thrilled.
The first week was deliciously
sweet. Cynthia had been a country
girl and because Lionel was her first
real love, she eagerly looked for-
ward to spending weeks alone with
him in the wilderness.
That was before they reached
Woodsville, where Lionel had his
base. There was a big packing com-
pany at Woodsville, run by a man
named Benton, who had a son
named Austin. Fresh from college,
young Austin had come to Woods-
ville to learn the packing business.
Quite naturally the place was dull
and boring to one so sophisticated.
Then Lionel and his new wife
arrived, and Austin looked on
Cynthia and vowed to know her
better. Austin had that polish
about him that attracts women.
He was an experienced young
man, and when he smiled at
Cynthia she felt instantly that
irresistible desire to play with
fire. It was a desire she couldn’t
quite explain. She knew only
that after a week in the wilder-
ness with Lionel she wanted to
see people, to laugh and play
and be gay. But most of all
she wanted to charm young
Austin Benton with her beauty.
So when Lionel finally headed his
canoe toward Woodsville to replenish
their supplies, Cynthia’s pulse quick-
ened a little, and she kept her eyes
fastened on the bend in the river
that would first reveal the great
buildings of the packing house.
What followed made Cynthia a lit-
tle ashamed. She hated to hurt
Lionel, he was so fine and generous
and kind. And so devoted. She
thought he’d object to a divorce,
nr-d it was a little disappointing
when he agreed readily.
She saw the hurt look in his eyes
and almost hated herself. Then she
thought of young Austin, and she
knew that the shame and hurt and
pity would all vanish once she was
again in his arms.
And so Lionel went back into the
wilderness shortly after the divorce
was granted, and Cynthia, free and
exultant, waited for Austin to come
to her.
He came at last and stood near
where she lay in the hammock.
It was night and she could not see
his face.
“Cynthia, darling, why did you dc
it? I feel like a cad, breaking up
you and Lionel like that. He’s a
good sort and—well, I meant nothing
by my attentions. It was all—well,
sort of fun.”
“But, darling, you do love me? You
do want to marry me?” Misgiv-
ings chilled her heart.
Austin ran a finger under his
collar. “Well, you see, Cynthia
—you see, I can’t, that is—I’m
already married!”
Cynthia nearly swooned. When she
again opened her eyes Austin was
gone. She was alone. Alone! No
one to go to, no one to help her, no
one to love her. Panic gripped her,
then fear. Later she thought of
Lionel. She had not known how to
appreciate him. She’d wait. He’d
be out of the bush again in three
weeks. He’d understand. He was
so big and fine and generous.
It was almost unbearable, that
waiting. The people of Woodsville
looked at her curiously and whis-
pered among themselves. Three
weeks passed and Lionel didn’t re-
turn. Another week dragged by and
still no sign of him. Her funds were
nearly exhausted.
Then, at last, Lionel came back.
Cynthia, watching from the
veranda of her rooming house,
saw his canoe sweep into sight,
and her heart leaped. Lionel at
last! Lionel, whom she’d loved
and would love again. Lionel
who had loved her so tenderly.
Love like his didn’t die. She
had treated him miserably, but
she’d admit all that, ask his for-
giveness.
And then the canoe neared the
shore and Cynthia went down to
meet it. Lionel saw her, and waved
a greeting.
Cynthia’s heart stopped beating.
There was someone else in the canoe.
A girl.
The canoe touched tne shore.
Lionel grinned at her happily. “Cyn-
thia, it’s good to See you again. Hope
you and Austin are happy.” He ges-
tured toward the girl, who had turned
to stare. “Cynthia, meet the new
Mrs. Ainsley."
New York doctor is suing for a
$4,000 bill. That enough to make
the patient sick again.
Gas Proof Olive
Drab Garments Now
Issued Soldiers
It won’t be long now till we’ll
get out the garden tools and
start to raise blisters.
Every United States soldier sent
abroad soon will be wearing gas-
proof garments of olive drab with
underwear and handkerchiefs of
the same color.
At least, that’s what Maj. Rob-
ert L. Dillon of the Philadelphia
army depot told a conference of
government officials and South-
ern garment industry representa-
tives in New Orleans.
He said he was not revealing a
military secret when he showed
the group one of the olive drab
gas-proof shirts. Made of flan-
nel, the flaps of the neck turned
up to fit tightly with a hood as a
protection against gas.
The shirt he displayed was
made with a long tail which could
be adjusted around the thighs to
prevent gas sepage from below.
Major Dillon declared olive
drab soon will be the only color
authorized for army clothing be-
cause all other colors now in use,
including kahki, are easily spot-
ted from the air when laundered
and hung out to dry.
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Grand Master’s
Address Will Be
Given By Kelley
Several thousand Master Mas-
ons from southeast Texas will
gather in Houston, in the Scot-
tish Rite Cathedral, Polk and
Caroline Streets, Saturday, De-
cember 19th at 7:30 P. M. to hear
an address by M. W. Rogers
Kelley, Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Texas, A. F. &
A. M.
Following the Grand Master’s
address, a Master Mason.s De-
gree will be conferred in full
form on the stage by a Degree
team of the Joe Werner Lodge
of Trinity, Texas.
The presentation of this degree
is an annual affair in Houston
and brings together each year
thousands of Master Masons from
every section of southeast Texas.
For many years this has been
the largest gathering of Master
Masons held each year in the
state of Texas with the except-
ion of the Grand Lodge Commun-
ication in Waco.
of containers on the grocer's
shelves.
Looking at adjustments in the
clothing field, Miss Bryant says
consumers need not expect many
major changes in 1943, but 1944
may offer many problems. In
the year ahead homemakers will
find fewer cottons on the market,
less rayon and wool goods, and
more “blends.’ of wool and syn-
thetic fabrics. Articles such as
galoshes must be “duration
goods’., that is, they must last for
the duration.
“There are some new mixtures,
fibers and articles on the mar-
ket,” Miss Bryant says, “but they
are still in the experimental
stages, so don’t believe all the
claims made for new articles and
materials on the market.”
TRAMP! TRAMP!
Many Changes
Will Come With
The New Year
It used to be “tramp, tramp,
tramp the boys are marching.’.
Now it’s stamp, stamp, stamp,
to keep ’em flying. Buy all you
can!
PUNCHES CLOCK
AGAIN.. FOR BOY
IN J A P PRISON
Retired machinist back
in harness puts 20%
in War Bonds
OSCAR used to be a first-class
machinist. Five years ago he
retired to live out the rest of his
life on a pension.
The other morning he showed
up again at his old plant, which
now makes war equipment, and
asked for his old job back.
When pay day came, he signed
up with the Pay-Roll Savings
Plan to put 20 percent of his
pay in War Bonds.
Seems Oscar’s boy was on
Bataan.
Can’t you spare 10 percent?
With people like Oscar mak-
ing real sacrifices to help win
the war, is it too much for you
to put aside as little as 10 per-
cent of your pay for War Bonds?
Sign up for at least 10 percent at
your place of business today!
During 1943 homemakers can
expect to buy many foods in bulk
which they formerly bought in
more convenient cans. Sauerkraut
is one food, for example, which
likely will be sold only in bulk
during the year just ahead, says
Louise Bryant, specialist in home
management for the A. and M.
College Extension Service.
Planning meals by the week
and taking war-time adjustments
into consideration will increase
the homemaker’s efficiency the
specialist believes. She predicts
that before^the end of 1943 hous-
wives may make their soup at
home or buy it at her neighbor-
hood grocery store and take it
home in a jar or bucket. Manu-
facture of canned soups has
been curtailed because of un-
economical use of tin cans.
Miss Bryant says eliminating
the frills in packaged foeds and
other household articles may be
expected, too. Soap will have
fewer wrappings, and there will
not be as many types and sizes
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