Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1948 Page: 2 of 8
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THE COOPBR REVIEW, COOPER, TEXAS
REVIEW
SONS, Publishers,
Lth S. W. corner of
Thone 86.
“THE SUGAR AND
THE WHIP”
(From Industrial News)
Isecond class matter
|fice at Cooper, Tex-
Act of Congress,
Option rates
$2.00
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or sale, the regular
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made for publi
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public gatherings
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|of January, 1947.
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[SCHOOL AND
LURCH?
A. Cockrell
to this question
Ihc relationship of
Tinquency, Judge
1 Tatum of Nash-
Isays that it does,
[letter which is
pory.
Judge of the
Domestic Rela-
[on June 1, 1939.
lime I have tried
£ly 8,000 boys and
17 years of age
the law. Of that
r 42 were regular
ice in Sunday
liurch. Of course,
|e children had at
rone to Sunday
|hurch, but many
id not. Another
is that of these
re has not been a
,ie court whose
or mother attend-
Schoot and/or
llarly.”
if these figures
[the court records
Ite of Tennessee
pply with equal
in Qelta County?
piot, will someone
up, either way,
brse.
In to one hundred
Ins is the relation-
[ regular attend-
iday School and
rices as compared
lo were not regu-
idance in Tennes-
to the Tennessee
i was not one per-
tie 8,000 boys and
is found guilty of
• law, whose fath-
other was a regu-
int of Sunday
Church. May I
District Judges,
•les Berry and
lan Phillips, and
Judge C. V.
f any boy or girl
nty under seven-
>f age has been,
of violating our
vhose father and
regular Sunday
lant? Of course,
t if none of these
do not reply to
it, I think it can
>n for granted
iplies to Delta
e local corres-
[eased to state
i of these judges
i Church work,
of them should
and figures
lurch and Sun-
ittendance and
with the youth
[ trust that the
give their
:onsideration as
something well
% to.
Totalitarian governments
invariably come to power on
promises of a higher standard
of living for the people. Ev-
ery segment of society—the
farmer, the worker, the indus-
trialist, the professional class-
es, the capitalist— is tempted
with glowing promises. And
in every instance, the stand-
ard of living of the people
falls to rock bottom once the
dictators are firmly establish-
ed in the saddle.
Of existing governments,
the Soviet Union represents
the ultimate in dictatorship.
Recently a number of outhori-
tative analyses have been
made of the purchasing pow-
er of the average Russian
worker as compared with his
American counterpart. The
measuring stick has been the
number of hours each work
at his trade to earn enough
to buy food, furniture, cloth-
ing and other articles in com-
mon use. It has been found
that the Russian must work
three to twenty times as long
to earn what little he has.
This cannot be blamed on
the war—much of the Soviet
Union was untouched, and
or to the war conditions for
the masses were equally bad.
Nor is the Soviet Union a poor
country—its land area is the
greatest in the world and it
is rich in natural resources
of all kinds. The cause of
the Russian’s low living
standards, is part and parcel
of the system under which he
exists.
The New York Times, in a
long editorial on Russian
economic policy, put the case
this way: “The Soviet regime
not only employs all the fa-
miliar methods of the police
state, including the total regi-
mentation of every phase of
national life----but----has
established a complete slave
economy ruled by the old in-
centives of the sugar and the
whip... For in the absence of
any other employer the work-
er is totally dependent for his
job on the state, the only
capitalist, and must therefore
work for the state at wages
and conditions, and under a
discipline, fixed by the state,
or starve.”
That is the whole story.
The total state exploits the
masses for its own ends. The
only protection the people of
any nation have is to per-
petuate an economic system
upon which representative
government can be based and
preserved. We have such a
system, and we call it free
enterprise. It has given us
an unequalled standard of
living because it offers op-
portunity to all. And, more
important, it has given us a
greater degree of personal
liberty than any other sys-
tem tried since the world be-
gan. But the free enterprise
system is destroyed in direct
proportion to the extent to
which government usurps the
functious of business and
enters into active competition
with its citizens and taxpay-
ers.
WRiGHT PATMAN
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TEXAS —
G. 1. Allowances
Congress is expected to pass,
and the President is expected to
sign, a bill within the next 30
days to increase subsistence al-
lowances to single veterans from
$65 to $75 per month and married
veterans from $90 to $105 per
month, if one dependent, and $120
if more than one dependent.
Under the present law, a single
veleian council coin mine thou
$175 per month and a married
veteran more than $200. This is
expected to be increased to $250
for single veterans and $325 for
married veterans with one de-
pendent.
Battle Of Ideologies
In this country, most people
have assumed that there was little
difference between Communism
and Socialism in Europe. How-
ever, at this time, one of the
greatest struggles is taking place
in Europe, not between Commun-
ism and Capitalism, but between
Communism and Socialism. The
Communists are naming as their
enemies not just the capalistic
system but equally the Socialist
poiiy. Tiie Russian radio puls
Atlee and Bevin, leaders of the
British Socialist Government,
high on the list of those that
Communists regard as enemies of
the people.
It cannot be too often repeated
that Washington and the other
Western capitals do not want
WHAT KEEPS ’EM UP???
By MACKENZIE
war—they hate the very thought
of it—but they dread appease-
ment more. There is a feeling
that the standard of living
throughout all Western Europe
will be driven lower and lower
unless the constant Russian in-
citation of disorder and economic
chaos is stopped—and quickly.
Both Republicans and Democrats
have agreed to substantially in-
crease the appropriation for the
Air Force. Economy will not be
practiced in this part of the bud-
get and substantially more than
the President has asked for will
be granted. There is consider-
able sentiment in Congress that
money can be better spent by
strengthening the armed forces
than by using it in Western Eur-
ope other than for relief only.
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IN YEARS GONE B1
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper And Delta County......
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Taken from the files of the Cooper Review:
TO CURB INFLATION
Inflation can be Stopped
only by curing the causes,
and not by more government
spending and new controls to
handcuff productive efforts.
Recent Presidential mess-
ages to Congress have not
given a true picture of pres-
ent business profits. These
messages contended that pro-
fits are too high, but neg-
'ected to state that the vol-
ume of services business rend-
ers has nearly doubled.
Profits are necessary to
finance the productive expan-
sion that the country desper-
ately needs. Profit figures
which reflect a tremendous
amount of services rendered
seem large because America’s
enterprise system is vast and
effective. But profits are ex-
tremely small compared with
the total amount paid out in
wages, and they represent
but a small price for the cap-
ital used in production.
ndhog is in a
he is to retain
m for controlling
Emerging from
ling hole Feb. 2,
that if he sees
e will return for
_ ore of winter
if the sun is not
his day he will
or spring. The
ut a short time
ie other spots in
Need a
LAXATIVE?
Black-Draught is
1- Usually prompt
2- Usually thorough
3- Always economical
TEN YEARS AGO
The right of way for Highway 24 on the new route from North
Sulphur to Cooper was paid for by the Commissioner’s Court Mon-
day so that the Highway Department may let a contract February
23 for grading and draining of the road.
Delta County will cast between 2,900 and 3,000 ballots this
summer in the democratic primaries, payment of poll taxes indi-
cates. 2,544 poll taxes have been paid and 160 exemptions were
recorded.
Page Johnson, who has been associated in the management of
the local Western Auto Store for the past eight months, left Mon-
day for Dallas where he has accepted an executive position with
the same company.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Mrs. L. M. Anderson and Mrs. Henry Brooks are opening a
millinery business in the Phillips building on the north side of
the square.
F. C. Pennington Produce Co. has opened a cream buying sta-
tion in Cooper to run in connection with their produce business.
A Young Men’s Club was organized Monday night with Jack
Hagood. president: Roy Reynolds, vice-president; Otho Gillean,
secretary, and John R, McBay, Spurgeon Carrington, Peyton Town-
send, Haywood Lain and Douglas Albright, directors.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Postmaster J. T. Rountree stated Thursday he had sold $18,000
of War Saving and Thrift Stamps so far and had exhausted his
supply.
Mrs. Jess Pounds was seriously burned at her home near Lake
Creek Wednesday when a bottle of wood alcohol overturned and
spilled in a fireplace, painfully burning her from feet to waist.
Officers elected for the PTA were Mrs. J. A. Albright, presi-
dent: Mrs. Scott Mangrum, vice-president; Rev. Hambrick, secre-
tray; J. I. Moreland, reporter.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The 3-year-old son of A. B. Carrington, Mt. Joy merchant, had
a narrow escape from being gored to death by a cow last week.
He escaped with bruises when Prof. Wheeler, who boards with the
Carringtons, beat the cow off with a stick.
W. M. Pickens, pioneer citizen who settled near Foster’s Chapel
in 1847, died Monday at Rolf, Okla. Funeral services were held
here.
Officers elected at the First National Bank at Enloe were
C. E. Anderson, president; J. M. Hagood, vice-president; and C. B.
Anderson, cashier. Directors named were C. E. Anderson, Benoni
Anderson, J. M. Hagood, Jap Record, Dan Lattimer, J. T. Conway,
B. B. Taylor, L. N. DeWitt and Dr. D. O. Lowry.
Teach good
telephone manners
Children who are taught the correct way to uae the
telephone are a joy to everyone. Their good telephone manners
save other callers time and tempers. Telephone-wise
children do not tie up the lines with needless talking. They
know the telephone is not a plaything. We are grateful ,
to the many parents in our community who are teaching their
children such good telephone nmum-fx. This cooperation
helps us improve our service to everyone.
The National Budget
Eighty per cent of the amount
of the President’s budget for the
next fiscal year is for National
defense, international aid, veter-
ans, interest on debt and tax re-
funds. For instance, in 1939, we
were spending $8 per capita on
National defense—this year. $75;
15 cents on international expenses
—this year $48; on veterans, $4
^per capita in 1939—this year, $42;
| in 1939, $8 per capita for debt
interest and tax refund—this
I year, $49 per capita. The princi-
pal expenditures represent such
fixed charges as these and can-
not easily reduced substantial-
ly.
Crop Insurance
During the year 1947, crop in-
surance earned an over-all profit
of about $15-million. Corn was
the only crop that did not pay
out. Cotton was out of the red
for the first time. Wheat and
tobacco have made profits for
the third straight year.
Conservation
Farm leaders are excited over
a speech delivered by President
Milton Eisenhower, of Kansas
State College, attacking the Ag-
riculture Conservation Program
as “immoral” and “not wholly
free of hypocrisy” in that it
makes "income payments dis-
guised as conservation payments.”
He further said, “Some good has
been done, perhaps about 10 cents
worth of conservation for each
dollar spent.”
Secretary of Agriculture An-
derson replied in a speqeh in To-
peka defending the Agriculture
Conservation Program, saying
GrandMef
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that the public had gotten “a
dollar back for every 10 cents
spent.”
Miss Johnnie Mae Pollard, stu-
dent at Texas State College for
Women at Denton, spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Pollard, in Cooper.
Miss Ellene Stanley spent the
weekend with her brother Javon
Stanley, and wife in Dallas, re-
turning home Sunday.
Mrs. O. L. Bridges underwent
a minor operation at St. Josephs
Hospital in Paris Monday. She
has returned home and is re-
covering nicely.
FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gibson and
daughters, Lynna Dean and Mari-
lyn, visited her sister, Mrs. Clyde
Romans, and family in Dallas
over the weekend.
FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS
Carl L. McDonald Agency
COOPER, TEXAS
Instantly relief from head cold dis-
tress starts to come when you put a
little Vicks Va-tro-nol in each nostril.
And if used in time, Va-tro-nol also
helps prevent many colds from devel-
oping. Follow directions In package.
VICKS VA-TRO-NOL
IT TAKES MORE THAN A
SWITCH TO LIGHT A LAMP/
When you turn on a switch, day or night, your lights come on.
It’s as simple as that to you . . . hut it’s not so simple to us, be-
cause the power to provide that light must come irom the gen-
erators in the power piants. Generating electricity ... by steam
or water . . . and delivering it to you is an intricate process, involv-
ing many problems. The problem right now is an acute shortage
of generators ... a shortage that stems from the recent war.
During the war, manufacturers of electric generating equipment
were restrained from supplying any needs not directly connected
wuri*the t?Hi' effort. They, too, Here *v>rking for victory, and the
big turbo-geaerators they made were for war ships and lor ship-
ment to the war zone.- Thus, the war program put us behind in
our expansion of generating plant facilities . . . just as it did
other power companies. And, when the war was over, the pent-up
demand of a nation, and of the world, for urgently needed elec-
tric generating equipment had to he met . . . and manufacturers
who make these large generators are few in number—they were
swamped with orders!
To supplement its present 294,000 horsepower of electric power
resources, this company many months ago ordered an 84,000-
horsepower generating unit . . . which cannot he delivered for
installation before early 1950. It subsequently ordered other gen-
erating units totaling 24,000 horsepower, of which 8,000 will he
installed this year (1918) and 16,000 next year (1949).
Meanwhile, our existing equipment is being pushed to the limit
to provide you with the dependable type of service to which you
are accustomed.
So, when you flick that switch, think hack a moment to the source
of electric service . . . and hear with us, when called upon, in our
effort to make present equipment continue to provide for all
needs, pending the installation of new equipment now on order.
This company is now engaged in the most extensive expansion
program in its history, upon completion of which there will
again he an abundance of reserve power for future growth and
development.
We solicit continuance of the cooperation you have always
extended us.
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
JOHN W. CARPENTER, President and General Manager
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