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THE COOPER REVIEW
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942
PAGE TWO______
COOPER REVIEW
W. D. HART & SON, Publishers
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at Cooper, Texas, under the act of Congress, March
1879.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
DON ROBINSON
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HOARDING MONEY
The hoarding of money is the latest prob-
lem on our home front and one of the most
difficult problems with which to deal.
It seems that until recently the amount of
money in circulation in this country averag-
ed between six and seven billion dollars a
year. But now there is between 11 and 12
billion dollars in pockets, tin boxes and
perhaps buried in back yards.
It is believed that considerable of
hoarded money has been hidden away by
foreigners in this country who have seen
bank deposits seized in their home lands
and fear similar action here.
There is, of course,! no reason for such
fear in the United States and there is no
reason to think that dollar bills are any more
secure than defense bonds. The chief dif- |
OFFENSE.....thinking
Even if every town and city in America had a
super defense organization, and* if we had guns
along every mile of our seu coasts, it probaoly
wouldn’t be of much help to us in winning this
war.
That lesson has been preached this month by
President Roosevelt, Secretary Stimson, Secretary
Knox, \dmiral Hart, General McNaughton of Can-
ada and many other leaders of the Allied forces,
all of whom are making it clear that victory de-
pends on offensive action.
This may be considered a second phase in our
attitude toward the war. It requires a major shift
in our thinking. For, until this month, we have
heard little hut defense, so far as civilian activities
are concerned. We have bought “defense bonds
and stamps. We have organized local “defense”
councils. We have read “defense” news. \V e have
contributed money to local “defense.”
Now we are being made to realize that we must
concentrate primarily on a united el fort to invade
enemy countries rather than give too much con-
| sideration to what will happen if the enemy at-
tempts to attack us.
DEFENSE.....limitation*
I do not mean to suggest that there should he
any slackening in our efforts to build strong local
defense organizations.
Our police auxiliaries, our motor corps, our
first aid squads, our air raid warden organizations
and our fire brigades should he trained to the
limit. Hut we mustn’t think that our job is done
when the defense of our towns seems to be ade-
this * quately provided for.
We must learn how to put out incendiary bombs
in case some are dropped on our towns—but we
must be more concerned with making it possible
for us to drop bombs on German cities.
We should be prepared to drive off enemy
planes which attempt to fly over our shores,
but we must be more concerned with getting our
planes over enemy countries in the shortest pos-
sible time and in the greatest possible number.
What each of) us can do to strengthen our na-
Above The
Hullabaloo
BY LYTLE HULL
ference between U. S. currency and govern-
ment bonds is that the bonds pay interest
and the currency doesn’t.
But the hoarding of money does create a
serious problem in that it holds a possible
threat of excessive spending and inflation
at any time.
If it continues, people who have hoarded
money may bo forced to report it or turn it
in, in very much the same iway which they
are now being requiied to leport theii i our nation’s invasion force:
:0wkiI^W.
WR5CHT PATMAN 'S
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — fEXAS
owner was holding it for “specu-
lative purposes.” The metal
seized will make four heavy
tanks.
Unity For Victory
iea, but there are more things
hoards of sugar. One way that this could
be done would be to require that old cur-
rency be cashed in, or at least exchanged
for new currency, before a certain date or
the holder would be liable to a heavy fine
when the money is released. 9
Ordinarily, what we do with our money
is our awn business. But, if a group of peo-
ple act to take a sizable amount of money
■uimy » vi * j i
tion'- potentialities for offensive action must be ^ye must uack our commander- right about Americw.
paramount in our thinking. in-chief in an all-out war effort. Women’* Volunteer
i Of course the most important thing any eligible Tho Unjted states cannot win |
! man can do in this direction is to join the armed 1 thp w and president Roosevelt
forces. And the next most important thing for lose jt President Roosevelt
both men and women, is to join the production j musl win or tbe war will be lost;
1 forces which are turning out the equipment for j tberefore’ we must cooperate
war. with our President.
' , Many irritating things will
INVASION.....idea.
Here are a few things I have heard of recently ^ Challenges to the President ^no^nlheri The corps, to be
which civilians are doing toward strengthening an(j administration leaders will
! be laid down by both enemies and
Corps
The house has voted) the crea-
tion of a Women’s Army Auxi-
liary Corps, strictly on a volun-
teer basis. Women from 21 to 45
may serve with the army as non-
combatants on foreign soil. The
corps is limited to 150,000, with 1
the first 12,500 to be used as
, mil,t hl> disannoint-i ’ | sease. But they, and all who
happen that mu. t telephone operators, clerks and
known ns the WAAC, will be un-
iformed and have their own of-
ficers ranking as high as a maj-
or. They will be granted “vet-
a level
A mechanic in one town has made a survey of I friends and likewise they will
every machine in his town which might concciva- . severe.y criticize; but the com-
bly be of use for war production and has reported mander-in-chief, in order to pro-, eran |,enefj^s» aj)out, on
his findings to the government. J tect your boys and mine, cannot wj^ soldiers.
A group of people in another town have orga- reply without giving away secrets
1 nized scrap collections on such an efficient basis that would be valuable to Hitlei, ,
that every available material of use in war pro-j Mussolini and the Emperor oi i
duction is being collected from every home in the Japan.
town. (Collections in that town are now more than When administration leaders
double in tonnage what they were when the col- refuse to release military secrets, Nations
they will be charged with playing : work
out of circulation, it could disrupt our whole lwtluns were handled on 11 hit or 'niss basis )
A woman in another section is busy seeing the
heads of defense plants to persuade them to install
economic system. Our economic system is
having; enough difficulties today without
permitting this new one to gain too much
headway.
So, if any of us want to bury money j doing,
away for a rainy day, let’s bury, it in the i A dramatic organization is
politics, soft-pedaling the issues bor, skilled and unskilled, has
and many other pneomplimen- been drafted for compulsory scr-
loud speaker systems throughout their plant and
broadcast inspiring music to keep the workers
keyed up about the importance of the job
tary things.
Selfish, greedy
form of defense bonds instead of currency.
show, to which factory workers
planning a gala
in the vicinity are | terests,
interests will
they endeavor to take advantage of
the serious hour we are going
through to further their own in-
but the people of this
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ru..., u* ------ ------------- |aH being invited, which has for its theme the de-jcountry are on to their ways and
Then it will keep growing while it is out of J pendonce of the nation on the “man behind the wil1 110t be m,sled theu' l,ro))a‘
circulation and when wo dig it up in ten jman behind the gun.” \ ^ ^ ^ any claSg or
years or so, every $18. <5 hoard Will be worth j in many towns, groups of people are planning
I community vegetable gardens to help assure ade- |
to the armed forces of the.
sympathize with their pet weak-
nesses, are entirely mistaken for
this sort of “nervousness” is not
a disease in the physical or med-
ical sense of the word. It is real-
ly a symptom of disarranged
physical functions or of bad men-
tal habits.
One of the most aggravating
causes of nervousness is self-con-
centration, constantly thinking
and talking about one’s own feel-
ings and condition, imagining
that they are in some way unique,
more interesting, more threaten-
ing, more severe, more to be pited
or wondered at than any exper-
ienced by other persons. This
, constant dwelling on and exag-
labors objection to industrial j *erating. one’s jns develops a
morbid attitude of mind which
. reacts harmfully upon all the
volunteer bas.s, but not permit- j physica] faculties.
ted to change jobs except b^ the | Tht, most helpful treatment in
War Department these neurotic cases is to use
F.r.t Scrap Requi.itioned I every possible device
Man Power In Au.tralia
With the Japs! pounding at the
coasts of Australia, she adopted
the most rigorous labor policy
employed by any of the United
everyone must either
or fight. All civilian la-
vice under government
and at army pay. To
direction j
off set
profits, they have been limited to
4 per cent. Women are on a
$25.
DEMOCRACY PI T TO WORK
quate supplies of food
United Nations.
OCO.....need
Although I hesitate to
suggest a new alphabet-
Making democracy work is one of Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s favorite expressions and
events of the last few days will prove to the
world that it does work. It the totalitarian
nations attacked this county under thd de-
lusion that we are hopelessly divided and
our industry impotent by reason of domina-
tion of labor unions* they were mistaken.
They might have been .justified in discount-
ing the President’s words that not a day
would he lost and work, around the clock
would produce war material, but if they did,
they reckoned without the temper of the
American people.
Our people have tolerated the sit-down
and slow-down strikes, paralyzed
in instances and enforced exhorbitant wages
and time and a half and double time for over
time and holidays, and unreasonable prices
for war material, but when our boys were
called to surrender their all—and their
lives if need be—they have spoken in reso-
lutions in mass meetings and letters to the
President and Congress; and it is getting
results. At first there was resentment at
Washington. The President has declared it there is an about face. Speaker Rayburn has
a sixth column, union heads have demanded reversed himself and pledges support of the
a congressional investigation of the people j people’s demands, union heads are pledging
taking their affairs in their own hands and I co-operation without legislation and some
The War Production Board, for the -patient- fr0m talking about
the first time under , the War his condition. When he starts on
Emergency Act of October 16 a„ the dcpresaing detailB> try t0
, , „ •)41’ ^Quisitioned two hundred change the| subject, tactfully but
turbing or harmful to our all- thousand pounds of scrap metal persistently. See if he cannot be
out war effort. ,rom an owner ,n Valparaiso, made to talk about politiCSl the
Winning War Paramount D.uc Indiana, who had “persistently next door neighbors, or anything
Personally, I know that the refused to sell it at WPB rates. else except
group to selfishly sponsor any
legislation or to advocate any
proposal that is likely to be dis-
ical branch of the government—since it already ; members from Texas feel as I An investigation showed that the 1 interests
takes a 700 page book to list the set up of present do, that the paramount issue is
government agencies—there seemes to be a need to win this war. The people
for an OCO, to stand for Office of Civilian Of- - want, and have a right to demand,
fense, which perhaps should be given even more ' immediate action that will insure
immediate attention than the present Office of proper results. At this time,
Civilian Defense.
The OCD may have overemphasized the com-
munity defense problem in our minds—at least to
the extent that] many communities are seeking
equipment, such as guns, gas masks, uniforms,
helmets, and air raid shelters which require mater-
ials which might otherwise be used for expedi-
tionary forces.
It would he nice if every community could have
such equipment,
industry I One °f ^be cb‘e^ needs for local defense orga-
nizations is to aid in guarding against sabotage of
every public servant should de-
vote 100 per cent of his time and
energy to winning this war. We
should be more concerned about
the Japs, the Germans and the
Italians than we are
theory or hobby of our own. The
public safety of our
should be placed above
thing else.
IN YEARS GONE BY-
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper and Delta County
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
t taxpayers association was organized at a meeting of Delta
,,,iy n T’Tn PayCZaSSemb,ed ^ the district court room Saturday w
own. The the followmg officers: J. H. McKinney, president; committeemen-
country Walter Wallace, Klondike; R. P. Jones, Horton; Tom Smith Yowe •
1 every- Sam A. Miller, Pecan Gap; Jeff Foster Ben Franklin- T \i v
The President’s word 'Enloe; Grover Pickering, Vasco; A. W. Templet™ ’ Cha iesto^T
must be made good:/ that there L. Good and J. C. Tynes Cooper ’ ' n,
............ „ .» ... ... ...»....... ......... „. , “'m| 'T n° -"“rr, “7 i'K R”V- '’U'lk'y’ °f«“ «« Christian Church h„
war industries. But if equipment bain* ,.re,luce,i , j'™1 "* c0mc °u> ol the '™r 1 **, "I"** br ‘hr Cooper Hitch School senior. their »pe,k’eP f”
for our armed forces is diverted to civilian dc- ' purthermore( every effort
Only One Side To, Thi* Questio
With the exception of a few
1 die-hard members of the old in
terventionist and isolationist pre-
j war parties—who seem more in-
! terested in blackening each other
| than they do in co-operating to
j defeat our external enemies—the
l people of this country are deter-
J mined that we shall dictate the
i peace terms at! the conclusion of
this war.
There are always periods, dur-
ing u long drawn out war, which
both “faint hearts,”) and also
some very clever people, believe
propitious moments in which
equitable peace terms should be
suggested. Viewed from the
standpoint of immediate expedi-
ency thesqi peace proponents of-
ten have a strong argument on
their side; hut under certain cir-
cumstances the merest though^ of
terminating a war except through
victory—might prove a fatal
blunder.
This nation is the fortunate
“victim” of just such circum-
stances. For if we ever allow
ourselves to sue for peace in this
or any other war—we will de-
stroy for ourselves and for our
posterity, that greatest of all
offensive or defensive weapons
that weapon which) our forefath-
ers have welded for Us in the last
150 years—the belief inherent in
all real Americans that we can
never be defeated.
We are today involved in what
is popularly termed a “life or
death struggle.” While thi8 ex-
pression is not to* be taken liter-
ally, it is not so very far from
the actual truth. For if our side
of this ciontest was finally} beat-
en, wt—America—would have
suffered defeat; and though we
could retire to our own country
and defend it against all comers
—the morale which is part of our
make up would have suffered;
Don’t Pamper The Neurotic | and the consciousness of defeat
Most neurotics regard them-1 would develop a destructive weak-
selves as invalids who must be I ness—like a cancer—in our na-
treated with special consideration j tional being.
as the natural right of their di- j Comparisonsi are usually odious
—so are illustrations. But never-
theless an apt comparison is a
world champion prize fighter.
Why is it that these championsJ
once dethroned—“never come
back?” They are just as strong,
and they can box just as well a*
before. But defeat has broken
down their morale—and morale
is 50 per cent of any struggle. A
good illustration is France. France
has suffered many defeats in her
war-filled history. It is nothing
new to her. She gave up this
time as a matter of expediency.
If she had fought on—as she
did twice in the First World War
when every ray of hope seemed
gone—she might have suffered
physically but have been spared
the mental anguish and the far-
reaching aftermath of defeat.
Today our side is getting the
beating of a life time—except in
Russia. But R >s a mathematical
certainty that the tide will turn,
and then it will be the enemy
who will have to “grit his teeth
and bear it” if he doesn’t want
to he “knocked out.”
Right or wrong, we are in this
war; and if we were a hundred
times wrong—we still must win
■ it, regardless of any other oon-
siideration. For the day America
j allows someone to dictate a peace
I to her—that day she forfeits her
I self-assurance as the Unbeaten
Champion of the World. That
j day she proves faithless to the
| trust in which she holds this land
i for her posterity. That day she
j loses that thing called morale,
| which—while it exists as part of
' her—will defend her freedom
! from without or from within.
Tin* day will come when the
nations of Europe are bled white,
and when the red blood of an un-
conquered people will be needed
to save mankind from a long,
long period of darkness. We must
never even think peace until the
enemy begs us to discuss it on
our terms.
vr
his own self-centered
fense, it could be just a.4 harmful as sabotage in
delaying delivery of full equipment to the men in
uniform.
It is vitally important from now on to take our
chances at home in ar y case where our civilian
protection might weaken our position on foreign
fronts.
must be made to equilize the
burdens and sacrifices of the
people in this war effort. Other-
wise, enormous adjustments will
have to be made after the war is
over. It will be much better to
equalize* them now than later.
More Things Right About Coun-
try Than Wrong
Every person in this land, who
loves his country and the Amer-
ican way of life, regardless of
political belief, creed, race or re-
the baccalaureate service.
TWENTjY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Thursday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sparks entertained i
members of the Chautauqua Club at their home, Mesdames Clem
Ratliff, Winsett. I.atta, W. A. Tynes, Pratt, Taylor, Henslee, Cleve-
land Ratliff and Carl Tynes assisting.
The completion of highway 35 to the Hunt county line and the
grading and bridges on the highway to Commerce is marked by the
inaugurating of a jitney line Monday between Cooper and Commerce.
Mes. rs. Oats and Hoss are operating the two cars.
thirty years ago this week
The following singers are expected at the Needmore singing con-
vention which will meet at Gough: I. Nowell, John Waldon, Lam-
Brothers. H. H. Smith, Mr. Derrett, Frank Wood, W. R. Clement Mr
administration officials tfaVe strong support industries are offering to return overcharge ligion, rhould immediately pledge Hammock, Mr. Andrews, E. Dafft, James Anderson, H. O Stooks-
to the labor unions status for war material. his or her undivided support, al-1 berry, Amos Crawford. Prof. Louis James, Mr. Margahar, L. L. Free-
vr,,.. ;h,t thev find that the nublic is in The people should not be satisfied until 'eKian,c" and ‘’ooperation to the man Elmer Milhap Mr Rowling, Jack Kitching, Rev. V. S. P.ukett,
MCU that tne> unit t la p . President of the United States, j W. R. Kerbow, Ah Stephenson and A. F. Stephenson.
earnest and is demanding a change in these I hi- Smi h >1 <>i sonu u o < ting a< ('iea < mus^ |lavc, unity. There are Jose Esparza and Mbs Zeoneda Diaz were, married Monda- by the
conditions to assure a victory with arms, protection to the public is put into law. some things wrong about Amor- Rev. E. F. Watson.
BETHANY CHURCH OF
CHRIST
The Bethany Church of Christ
meets each Friday night for Bible
ntudy. At the present time this
group is studying from the gospel
according to John. The time is
8:15 p. m. Leonard Mullens di-
rects this class. Why not pay
them a visit? |
Mir. J. A. Harrison has been
ill for ten, days at her home on
West First Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Lundy Ilooten,
Jr., and Mrs. Lundy Uooten, Sr.,
in Dallas Tuesday.
visited
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