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CftftBER REVIEW
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LEWIS IS UNGRATEFUL
It would be interesting if we couV tow
the thoughts of President Rooseve.v when
John L. Lewis attacked him as unacceptable
to labor and without a chance to be elected
for a third term, and his statement that his
Secretary of Labor Mrs. Frances Perkins is
woozy about the head and only qualified for
a housewife.
This must be disappointing to Mr. Roose-
velt and he must be very much disillusioned.
Born with all the advantages of life, Mr.
Roosevelt has been obsessed with the idea
of seeing the “forgotten man” has his just
p&rt of the better things in life and this has
been the key to his policies, not forgetting
the places where the votes are, for the Pres-
ident is a good politician as well as a states-
man.
The first three years of the administra-
tion did more for labor than any previous
administration had ever done and must have
been pleasing to Lewis and his laJbor leaders
for an understanding was reached by which
labor’s votes and considerable cash was
thrown to Mr. Roosevelt for re-election in
1936. Lewis must have expected too much,
for while the administration allowed Lewis’
CIO to hamstring industry with sit-down
■strikes, slow-down strikes, violence and
Secretary Perkins worked, and her N. L. ft.
B. worked hand in hand with radical labor
unions to dominate every industry of the
country and to coerce A. F. of L. to join ir
with them, yet is not satisfied and is damn-
ing administration leaders. His greatest dis-
appointment with the administration seems
to have come from his failure to control
Congress when he attempted to take charge
and give orders.
I FOOD .... greed
About a hundred and fifty years ago a young
man named Malthug wrote a book which profound-
I ly ofleeted the thinkirg if the world for nearly a
| century. He demonstrated that the population of
| the world was increasing so much faster than hu-
| man ability to grow food that it would be only a
J short time before people everywhere would be
starving.
That theory of the pressure of population upon
i the means of subsistence held good until the do-
' \->|opment of modern agricultural machinery, mod-
I ern fertilizing methods, and the opening to agncal-
; ture of the great unexplored areas of the Americas
The whole picture is changed. The world’s popu-
i lation has doubled, as Malthus predicted, but the
I woi Id’s food problem is how to get rid of the v']r~
j plus food-etuffs. The trouble is not with how to
| produce enough food, but how to get it distributed
se that everybody can eat when he is hungry. I he
principal barrier to world-wide distribution of all
j the food everybody wants is nationalistic greed,
| which sets up artificial barriers to keep food from
j other countries from getting to the mouths of those
I who need it.
FARMERS IN NEED OF PERMANENT
PROGRAM
With the threatened discontinuance of
subsidy export payments, reduction in par-
ity payments and reduction in acreage plant-
ed to cotton, the future doesn’t look rosy to
ootton growers, especially in Delta county
where cotton has always been the major
crop and our farmers are unaccustomed to
growing other crops and livestock as a major
industry. It looks very much like we are to
be confronted with a situation for which we
have been headed since surrendering our
world cotton marker.
The situation may not be so bad if we
maintain the farmers’ income through parity
payments, subsidy, or other means. These
benefits would likely be assured if funds
were available for them. But the time hat
come when we must cease the increase of
Federal debts and there is always opposition
to more taxes. One of the drawbacks to tlie
present farm program is the lack of per-
manentev.
It would no doubt be the best for the far-
mers, and have the most stabilizing influence
on the country as a whole if a tax was
established on processing farm products to
subsidize agriculture and livestock producers.
It is a fine deed to contribute money for
food and other necessities for civilians in
Finland where that little nation is so val-
iantly defending her freedom, but as out
Congress is unwilling for our nation to loan
thi3, the only nation which did not default
in her war debt, for fear of entanglement
■why shouldn’t our citizens give our money
to buy’ American bombers or other war ma-
terials for the gallant Finns to defend them-
selves? We believe they should.
Today, February 2, is groundhog day and
the legend is that this animal (now almost
extinct) comes out and sees his shadow he
■will re-enter his hole and await six weeks
wore winter. Here )H hoping it rains all day.
WAR .... bunk
The problem of food distribution lies at the root
of war. The nationalistic philosophy says that a
country must not be willing to exchange its own
products for the food which it can get from other
countries in abundance, but must control its own
sources of food supply, if it has to make war on its
neighbors to get more agricultural land.
Much of the political argument of that nature is
pure bunk. Germany has been wailing about its
lost colonies ever since the World War, pretending
that it was robbed of its main source of food Sup-
ply. The fact is that the German colonies never
provided the nation with any food at all. In 1914
Germany expected to get great food supplies from
the Russian Ukraine, Cut it turned out that thcie
wasn’t enough grown there to make a surplus
w orth fighting for.
There never was a time when Germany couldn’t
get all tlie food it needed in exchange for the goods
produced by its metal and chemical industries, as
England has done for more than a century.
SHORTAGE .... ambition
The first effect of a modern war is to bring
about a shortage of food, by the efforts of each
belligerent nation to starve the other into surrend-
er. The Prussians won a victory over France in
1870 by cutting off the food supplies of Paris.
After six weeks of living on dogs, cats and even
lats the French capital surrendered and France
paid Prussia a billion dollars in gold, which set the
German Empire on its feet and provided a war
chest for 1914.
Japan invaded China on the pretense that it
could not support its own people on its own iand
and needed more room. Nobody was -preventing
Japan from swapping its products in- the world
markets for all the food its people could eat, and
the Chinese welcomed Japanese settlers. Mussolini
seized Ethiopia on a similar pretext, but hasn’t got
enough fresh food supply from that source to be
worth mentioning.
The plain fact seems to me be that the peoples
of all the nations are perfectly willing to trade
with the peoples of all the other natinos, and the
only thing that stands between them and the food
they need is the ambit'on of rulers and politicians
for power and glory.
RATIONS .... Germany
The first effect of v ar is to deprive people of
some or most of their accustomed food supplier
England has rationed sugar, bacon, ham and but-
ter. The French, the most completely self-support-
ing nation in the world, still get all they want to
cat, hut nobody eats ir. Germany without express
permission. The only foods not yet rationed in the
Reich are fish, greens and wild game, for those
who can get them
Different classes of Germans have different vuier-
applied to them. Those engaged in the heaviest
work are allowed more food than others. Substi-
tutes for coffee, cream and ether luxuries are be-
ing made in chemical factories.
Italians are short of coffee, a real deprivation to
v people. They nrP eating rabbit meat as never
before, hut are using cottonseed oil instead cf
olive oil.
Food has been scarce and hard to huy at any
m-ice in Russia ever since the Communists began to
“liquidate” the farm owners. Millions of Russians
red of starvation a few years ago because of gov-
ernment interference with the food supply. Now
food is scarcer yet. in Moscow and other Russian
centers.
The
DOCTOR
Tells The Story
BY W. E. AUCHINBAUGH, M. D.
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WRlOHT^ATMAN’S^-gl
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TEH AS
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Appropriation* For Agriculture
The house of representatives is
now considering the appropria-
tion bill, which includes appro-
priations for agriculture. It will
be recalled that parity payments
for farmers are not included in j
ade along with the increased pop-
ulation until 1840, the number of
members totaled 232. Whereas,
>n 1880, the house increased to
S32, and in 1910 increased to the
present membership of 435.
24. y. Does the federal govern-
this bill. Farm learilers , in the
house are reluctant to make thtoj ment or congress determine a dis-j county lines, town " lilies
fight in the house to restore this J tnct line of a congressional dis- war() lines in cities, so that the
does not, the three additional
members will run at large from
tl.c entire state.
25. y. What is the population
of ‘i.e average Cungriir.onal dis-
trict:'
A. Under the census of 1910,
the ratio of population was 19i,-
182, as compared with 279,712
for the census of 1930.
26- Q. Do all congressional dis-
tricts have approximately the
same population?
A. Theoretically, they should
have, but in practice they do not.
It is due, in part, to the fact that
corgre.-sional district usually fol-
or
trict?
A. Np. Congress apportions to
restored there andj each state the numbed of repre-
ABSURRITY .... justice
Nothing could be more absurd than such situa-
tions in a world where there is food enough fo”
everybody. It just doesn’t make sense. I’m only one
rt’ a very large number of persons who have been
trying foi years to figure out the answer. Tim
most obvious reason why everybody can’t cat is
that rulers and statesmen stand in their way'. They
are more concerned with their power and glory
than they’ are with the welfare of the people.
I find myself in entire agreement with the King
of Brodingnag in “Glliver’s Ttaveis” who said that
the man who makes two blades of grass or two
stalks of corn grow where only one grew before
deserves better of humanity than the whole tribe
ol politicians put together.
T can/’t see any hope for the world until politic4
and government are nased upon human justice 'ami
love of humanity as a whole. There will be no end
to war, and people will starve in the midst of
plenty, so long as self-seeking, greedy and heart
less men govern the destinies of nations,
item believing that when the bill
goes to the senate, this item will
centainly be
it will be much easier to get tJhe
house to ratify the action of the
senate in restoring it than to pass
an amendment in the house re-
storing it when the bill is up. Th'e
bouse of representatives is com-
posed of a majority of members
frc,m| the cities Not true as to
the senate where there are twoi
members 'from each state*.
The President submitted what
Was referred to as a “bedrock
budget.’’ He cut expenditures by
$775,000,000. This cut was
made by the President at the ex-
pense of aid to agriculturr
$413,000,000; relief $562,000,-
000; flood control and river har-
bor development, $98,000,000;
the GOC, $64,000,000; and NY A,
$15,000,000. However, the cut
was offset to a considerable ex-
[ tent by the President’s request
I for additional defense funds,
whihe are expected to amount to
around two billion dollars in j
I 1941, ns compared with one bil j
Ion in 1938.
Many members have questioned,
the advisabiity of increasing!
funds for military purposes,)
which are expected to amount to
i<v payments for farmers, relief
funds, CCC and NYA allotments),
and an effort will be made to re-
store at least a part of these, if
not all The farm members are
working as they have never work-
ed before in an effort to get par-
ity payments for farmers restor-
ed and the appropriation for soil
conservation increased. We must
keep the country, including the
people who live in the cities, sold
on the fact that the prosperity
of this nation dfepends upon the
prosperity of the American farm-
ers The fanner’s part of the na-
tional income is entirely too low.
The house is passing one ap-
propriation bill a week- This will
require- eleven yveeks from the be-
ginning of this session of con-
gees.- on January 3rd.
A Catechism on the Federal
Government
eke bouse of repre-
sentatives always been composed
of 4 85 membv-V
A. No. Under the first appor-
tionment in 1789, there were only
65 members of the house. The
namber was increased each dec-
sentatives that may be elected
from chat state to the house of
representatives If the legisla-
ture desires, it can divide the
state up into the number of con-
gre stoiial districts equal to the
number of congressmen that may
be elected from that state. After
each decennial census, the legisla-
ture of a state, which is given an
increase in representation, usual-
ly re-districts the state However,
if the state is not re-districted
and there is an increase in rep-
resentation, the increase will be
made up from the state at large;
ir. other words, Texas has 21 con-
gressmen at this time. If the
census that is being taken this'
year discloses that Texas is en-
titled to three more members of
congress and is given the in-
crea„ed apportionment, the Texas
legislature will likely change the
congressional! district lines in
Texas, but if for any reason it
population cannot, therefore, \
divided with exactness.
27. Q What is gerrymander-
ing?
A. The practice was named far
Vice President Elibridge Gerry,
its inventor. If the Republicans
happen to control the legislature
of a statu when a re-districting
bill is pending, they crowd as
many of the Republican voters in-
to one district as they can and
vice versa. This results in what
are termed “shoe string districts”,
this term having been applied
first to certain districts in Miss-
issippi following the Reconstruc-
tion Period. At one time, a dis-
trict in Missouri extended in a
narrow line through the state
from one border to the ohter. To-
day a study qf the maip> showing
congressional district lines reveals
some peculiar formations repre-
sentating the exigencies of poli-
tics. In one district in North
Carolina, gerrymandering result-
ed in an odd formation resemb-
ling the salamander of Gerry’s
IN YEARS GONE BY—
A Review Of The Past In
Caopcr and DaRa County......
Taken from the files of The Cooper Review:
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Election for directors of the Chamber of Commerce was held Fri-
day night in the Chamber of Commerce offices.. Directors elected
wm-o: Rube S. Wells, A. R. Byrns, Ed F. Smith, J, H. McKinney, E.
J. McKinney, W. I. Bartley, R. N. Stovall, A. T. Smith and W. D.
Ilait. The directors will elect officers at the next meeting,
Charles Berry, C. M. McKinney, Rube Wells, Glenn Turner, R.
I».\ i ns, Ed I ucker and Dow Stockton were delegates to the quarterly
regional meeting of the Lions Club that was held in Bonham last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Stanley were injured Wednesday night when
their automobile caught fire and exploded. They were slightly cut
and bruised when they bad to jump from the flaming car.
TWENTY YF.ARS AGO THIS WEEK
Marriage licenses issued during the past week were to Tony Hobbs
and Myrtle Williams, E. W. Wierns and Verda Alexander, Willie
Cobb and T,uie Brewer, C. E, Hicks and Lorene Slough, Sam Norman
and Dora McDonald, R. D. Gary and Matilda Coleman, R. L. Cato -nd
Georgia Chambers.
The banks of Enloe and Klondike have elected officers for the en-
suing year. The First State Bank of Klondike; J. 1. Hunt, president;
I. J. Bills, vice president; Jeff Lindley, vice president; J, M. Clowor,
cashier. First National Bank at Enloe: C B. Anderson, president;
B. B. Taylor, vice president; r E. Cregg, vice president; A R Bvros
cashier. The Guaranty State Bank of Enloe: J. M. Hagood, president;
W. T. Moore, vice president; L. Anderson, vice president ; and Fred
Jackson, cashier.
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
John Simmons has resigned as rural route carrier on route four
and Postmaster Rattan has appointed Clifford Strong.
Food Preservation
Many men and nations have de-
veloped a hatred for one man who
once held the world practically in
the hollow of his hand. Books have
been written alternatingly prais-
ing and damning him. Bismarck
said he “was a great unrecognized
incapacity”—a terse phrase which
well described him. He knew no
law hut his own headstrong will*
and me only advice he ever
leptted came from big own wick^
heart. He thought he owned
world.
His wealth at one time was iSb-
ulous, yet he died a pauper. He
made millions of widows and or-
phans by his violence and his con-^
quests. His activities resulted in
the death of more than 2,000,909'
men. He led 500,000 soldiers urn-
warrantedly into Russia only to
have 450,000 of them knocked in-
to the grave by disease, the lack
of proper food, poor equipment
and the icy hammers of the windy
storms. He took with him on that
expedition machinery to counter-
feit the coins of the country he
invaded. He was a criminal at
heart and touched every string in
the gamut of crime from minder
to petty theft.
He talked of his love for his
adopted country and many men
believed him, despite the fact chat
he reduced it to poverty, lessened
its man power and spread misery
all over the land and much of
Furope as well. He was an incar-
nate demon and lived for one
person only. His name was
Napoleon.
Military men do not now con-
sider him a great genius for he
did nothing to lessen the burdens
of the men in the ranks—always
the first thought of the competr.nc
officer. He never improved then-
equipment or their arms,—never
added to their comfort. He was
harsh in his treatment of every
one with whom he came in con-
tact and seemed to be stimulated
only by the sight of blood and
maimed bodies. Unquestionably
was an egomaniac and an epiiep^
tic and should have been confined
ir an asylum or kept under re-
straint. He was a dangerous man
to be allowed at large.
In his life, however, he did one
thing for humanity and that he
did unintentionally. He learned
after repeated failures of his
military campaigns that an arm ’
marched as he used to say “on its
stomach,”—that troops must be
fed. He hoped to find sufficient
food in the towns he captured so
that he might feed his armies but
was often disappointed.
So he set chemists to -work to
d%vise means of preserving food
in order that his soldiers would
not starve. The results were des-
sieated vegetables, dried meats,
canned and preserved fruits and
vegetables, now used so extensive-
ly. That alone was the one kindly
gesture of Napoleon, as far as his
fellow man was concerned, and it
was a left handed one at that for
his purpose was to keep his sol-
diers fit to conquer more people
and more nations.
time, from which was derived in
the Old Bay State the paraphrase
“gerrymander.” The Federal re-
apportionment law requires dis-
tricts to be compact and compos-
ed of continuous territory, but as
to the compactness, the law is
honored in some states more in
the breach than in the observance.
For instance, Congressman Sam-
uel Dickstein of thei 12th district
i { New York 'City only has 90,-
671 people in his disTract; where-
as, Congressman Donald O’Toole
of the 8th district of New York
has 799,407 people in his district.
28. Q. Name the five *sta
that have the largest number
peprese’i’ali-.o-* and the live
ing the fewest number of
sentativos in the house.
A. Illinois, 27; New York, 45;
Ohio, 24; Pennsylvania, 34; and
Texas 21- Each state is entitled
to at least one representative in
the house, regardless of popula-
tion. States having one member
of the house each are: Arizona,
Delaware, Nevada, Vermont and
Wyoming.
Call Mrs. W. D. Hart far spurs
and funeral designs, pofcfcad plaata,
cut flowers and eorsagaa. Tala-
pfcaaa 81 ar 86. *rtf
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