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FAOETWO
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, ig42
®MIER Va£eCaMufc
w. D. HART & SON, Publisher*
0. D. Hart Lyndol E. lUrt
PUBLISHES) EACH TUESDAY
Entered as second class matter
at the postoffice at Cooper, Texas,
ruder the act of Confines, March
.1179.
Author of “How to Win Friend*
mod Influence People.**
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EXPIRATIONS—The address la-
bel on your paper shows the time
to which your subscription is paid.
Thus Jan 1-41 means that your
subscription expires on the fin*
day of January, 1941.
THE WOMAN OVER 40 , 2. If you are over forty and
Here are six valuable sugges-! have never worked in a store or
an office, you will find it very
difficult to get a position. If
you can’t find a job, why not
tions for the woman over 40.
These suggestions grew out of
years of study by an expert in a
NO-STRIKE LAW WANTED
If popular opinion still
counts in this country, we
have probably about seen the
field where many women are cm- think of going into business for
ployed; the department stores. yourself?
Gladys Chase Gilmore, who 3. Analyze your aptitudes,
rose from a humble assistant in I you like people, or things?
one store to an office of her own, 1 other words, should
sells her advice to
stores from coast to coast.
Mrs. Gilmore says that
over 40 who have
Do
In
you seek
department j work which will bring you in
j contact with people or should you
when | work at something where your
never | success does not depend on get-
had any business experience j ting along with others,
suddenly find themselves feeling 4. Have you sales ability?
the necessity of earning a living, Then look for something
they should begin with self an- you can sell. Try to find a per-
[ son, or firm, which has the kind
she | of work you understand, and un-
dertake to build up your depart-
hold iment on a percentage basis. Don’t
as/k for a salary. Then you will
employee
alysis.
‘*You must bo prepared,
says to those women, “to find a
job increasingly hard to
after the fateful age of forty.
, Face facts; prepare for them;i not have the average
end of strikes ill wai pioduc- | aruj you’u be doubly armed. Here problem.
tion industries.
Dr. George Gallup, who has
become famous for his ac-
curate measuring of public
opinion, reports that today
86 per cent of the peopple of your own.
all classes favor legislation
forbidding strikes in war in-
dustries for the duration and
that such a law is even fav-
ored by 81 per cent of the
workers themselves.
Congressmen will want to
check up on opinion in their
districts, but this
whelming figure of
Gallup’s would indicate an
order by the people of the
United States that such leg-
islation be enacted.
Many congressmen from
industrial districts realize
that difficulties between em-
ployees and employers are
not always the fault of the
union men. There have been ;
a good many cases where the!
employer is to blame and I
are some suggestions. j 5. Watch your personal appear-
1. No matter how secure you | ance. Some women, after 40,
think your job, some day you 1 forget there is such a thing as a
will be let out. This >s inevitable, mirror. They do as they “al-
Make plans for this day. Consid- J ways have done,” and hate to
er conducting a small business of ] change even their hair-do.
You can thus capita-
lize on your years of experience;
you can think of yourself as
having taken a training course
and been paid for it. You will
have added responsibility; and
(J. If you apply for a job, face
it squarely. Try to sell your
experience. Accent that. And
[ don’t, for goodness sakes! tell a
prospective employer that you
! need the ij*>b. He will be think-
O V e r- I fire you.
Doctor
you’ll probably work harder than | ing of himself and his own needs;
you ever did when you had a pay : fij yourseslf into that. Go to
envelope; but y°u W>M have other ! your interview with confidence,
things to make up for this. You Tell your hoped-for employe*-
are independent. No one can ! what you can do to help him in-
! crease his business.
The Quiz Reporter
Of The Council For Democracy
THE PEOPLE
Six distinguished citizens who
| came from other lands and chose
| the United States for their coun-
try.
THE QUESTION
Why do you believe in America?
THE ANSWERS
Vera Zorina, talented dancer
and stage star, born in Germany
of Norwegian parentage: “Amer-
ca is so fresh—
so vital, strong
—like a great,
c 1 e a n heart
beating, and
not hampered
by d e c a d ent
culture or old-
fashioned tra-
ditions. Here,
there is a wave
of confidence
a feeling of unlimited power,
which is created by the confi-
dence of each individual in him-
self. There is no tradition of hate
in this country as there is abroad
. . . here you have people from
every land on earth living togeth-
er peacfully . . .”
Frank Capra, one of Holly-
wood’s most distinguished produc-
ers, born in Italy: “I love Amer- j head,
ica, not be-
I
IS THIS -•••
Noted Commentator Warns It’. The Only Kmd We Can
*" , a ** *. — ** oLJ. £
nioue designed “to divide and bassador to the Soviet Union j,,
1 .. . tried and true friend of the !n.
,)0. dian, the Chinese, and the Russian
peoples. His rise at this time
should give all of Asia a tremen.
dous moral lift—and a moral lift
is about nil we can offer the
BY QUINCY HOWE .....
'big help to Mr. Hitler
and their payi-mm****—| *-• —
the United Nations in the months ””far0i their propaganda tech-1 Asia. The former British Am.
to come. It is just as well to
face that fact and let it spur
Us to maximum effort that will
bear fruit when that effort be-
gins to crystallize and mature.
It is in the very nature of this
onquer” the United Nations.
The outcome of this
pends upon the people of Amer-
ica waking U|k to the fact u
this can become their war, as it
struggle that bad news has al- war „f the British people,
Zorina
ways been the spur for those
nations fighting the Axis. The
people of those nations can be
told the truth and tuke it. It was
when the news was darkest for
Britain in 1940 that the people of
Britain united for the first time.
And wo know how superbly the
Russian people were united in
those dank months when the Nazi spit
drive reached the very gates ot of grandeur, "<■
Moscow. Britain and Russia were
saved in
cause the
tries united in their determination
and the people Asiatic peoples at the moment!
Anglo-Saxon Dilution*
Until now, the British have al-
peoples’ way* assumed they could not be
the Russian people
of Chin^ and India—the
of three-quarters of the
w ar^i n't he't rue 'sc me *0: f Vhe word, beaten, and we have always taken
people
globe.
can this war be won by our side.
We Can’t Win Alone
For the hard, bitter truth is, in
of Anglo-Saxon delusions
have no roBFon
to believe tha‘ even the combined
their blackest hour be- might of the EnglUh-sptuking
people of those coun- nations ever could ha\e "on t is
war. Much more
than Anglo-
resist without compromise, to American solidarity is necd< d t<>
the death if need he.
them at their own evaluation
Recently, it must have conie ns a
shook in some quarters over here
when Winston Churchill frankly
acknowledged that only with full
American participation in the war
could the Empire be saved. Was
not it Churchill who said “give
us the tools and we’ll finish the
job?” Of course we have no
business to patronize Britain_
even apart from Pearl Harbor. We
win the kind of war we are fight
However this war started, who- ing now. The Red army, lor ex- have our own delusions of grand
has tied un millions ot
management that brought it to a
this war can become
It is obviously
I GIVE
YOU
Call on F. 1). R.
BOYCE
HOUSE
A cow—according to the Sul-
where the workers are justi- J phur Springs News-Telegram—is
fied in demanding
conditions.
But no matter who
is to
better | ail angular feminine bovine, with |
J four legs, am alto voice, a well I
established milk route and a face
that inspires confidence.
blame in any labor dispute, I A cow’s husband is a bull. A j
the attitude of the people to- cow’s brat is! a calf- Calves are i
day is that a strike must not | PrenoruUy used in the manufacture I
‘ . , , , . I of chicken salad. W hen part of |
be used as a tool toi l ernedv - a caif gets breaded, it is called a J
irg the situation—that the i cutiet.
one who gains most from any : a cow provides vitamins for j
strike today is Hitler. 1 double chocolate malted milks un-1
T , . ,, , , til she is old enough to enter a
Labor in ths country knows “n of cor„ bCff hash I
that our government is bend- | Her uU u fa„tened t0 the rear j
ing over backwards to see ; 0f jier back it has a universal
that it gets fair treatment. < joint at one end and a fly swatter
Even with the strike weapon at the other,
ruled out, the working men, j An old cow has a tough time of
it. Ini the end, she gets skinned j
cause once
was a ragged
newsboy on the
streets of Los
Angeles at the
age of six—
—but because
it is possible in
America for a
six year old
newsboy to
grow and dream, and to make his
dreams materialize. Life to an
American is an adventure—it’s
humorous . . . Always there is
hope, an overcoming of difficul-
ties against great odds by some
common individual. That is Amer-
ica to me—the sum total of dar-
ing, hopeful individuals who are
ever was responsible for the bad ample, lias thil u] innn i eur. Me have always believed
Germai troops on the Eastern t(ia( America could do absolutely
a front. China alone has the bases Knything in the world it wanted
I people’s war. It is obviously a and the man power to nttn k the to (lo—and (lo jt with one hand
•people’s ....... Russia when I ' ’ A,M not tied behind our back per-
I every man, woman and child re- there are 350,000,000 Indians hapS( i>ut engaging in business as
sisted in the effort to stem the who are only now beginning to usman
j Nazi tide, and at last, to turn it. get mobilized for the war ettort. j \ye need to iearn u,e Jessson the
It became a people’s war in Brit- What can the Vnglo-Saxon peo- people have learned, and
iain when the British civilian pies hope to achieve unless they j hope we learn it in time. It is
line have the peoples' of these vast
found himself in the front
during ninety days of
unceasing Eastern countries on their side?
* Capra
What Americans need is to see j thp United
it whole—a picture of war en-
“blitz.” The people of Britain,
no less than the people of Russia,
are making sacrifices the extent circling the globe, linking
of which the people of America peoples of the whole world
cannot yet conceive.
Precious Time Lost
■ cvitably together in a common I
fate. They must stop thinking of
The people of America are be- this "'ar as Americans' fighting' peopie> the Chinese people, the
Russian people.
doubtful, in my opinion, that even
the combined all-out forces of
States and Britain
can rule the world any more. This
] is not running down our side—
far from it. It’s reoognizing th
new forces are abroad, especial
in Asia—the force of the Indian
in-
ginning to‘wake up, but they are the Japanese, or even Hitler, for
that matter. Because America
not wakening fast enough. It
would be a pity if a true awaken- alone calinot lick Hltlcr’ a,ul evt‘n
ing must wait for a grim object
lesson, for the bombs to begin to
fall. We are losing time,
not afraid to live.”
Franz Werfel, distinguished ! time hag been the key to this war.
novelist, born in Austria: “You From the beginning the unfortu-
can understand that being an
i nale slogan of those fighting the
Axis) has been “too late!” From
the beginning, they have been
trying t° catch up with time lost.
The commander of the Canadian
Overseas army, Lieut. Gen. A. G.
L. MacNaughton, held an extended
eonfcrcnce with President Roose-
velt, hut would not discuss its na-
ture. Photo shows Canadian Min-
ister Leighton McCarthy, left, and
Lieut. Gen. A. G. L. MacNaughton
leaving the White House.
being
American is a
very sacred
matter to one j
who knows
what it means
to be denied
those liberties
and freedoms—
guaranteed by
the American
Const itution
—Perhaps some
day I may be permitted to render
modest thanks through my new
writings in return fori the gift 1
have received from the soil and
soul of America.” I .
famous ot‘lel‘ feH°w, to start bickering
in Po- 1 amon£ ourselves. O)
Werfel
if we could lick the Japanese
cinglehanded, it wouldn’t do us
am| j much good if Hitler wins.
Importance of Asia
What Americans
all, is much more
of the importance of the peoples
of Asia in this struggle,
peoples of Asia have no reason
America’s entrance into the war to love the Axis. Unhappily, they
may make it possible to catch up have not much more reason to
with! time lost by Britain during love, or trust the white man.
the months of the “phoney” war And it is not enough to present1 step out now and cut his throat
and before. But if America loses this- war as a choice between two j quietly. Those causes were lost
time now, there is no nation left evils. It is essential to prove to j long before the fight began.
Statu* Quo Doomed
Because these are new forces,
they scare some of us half to
death, some of us here and in
England. The possibility that the
day of the Anglo-Saxon gentle-
need, above man may be over still sticks in our
understanding craws.
Of courses, and again | in my
The opinion, anyone who thinks this
war is being fought to restore
Coolidge prosperity here or to
bring back Stanley Baldwin im-
perialism abroad might as well
in the world to turn to, no un- them that this wai for freedom 1
tapped reservoir of power
! But to say that the status quo
cap- is being fought as a peoples’ war ' is doomed is not to say that the
able of making up the time lost, for the peoples of all the world. Axis is going to triumph. Exactly
Right from the beginning, tire including the peoples of Asia. In- the reverse. The British and our-
nations fighting the Axis have
made mistakes. But it’s no good
crying over spilt milk. It doesn’t
help to put the blame on the
upon whom the nation de-
pends for arms, can be as-
sured that any serious diffi-
culties which they face will
be taken care of.
The American people want
the laboring man to have
fair treatment, but they no
longer want any men in the pointments have been of a uni-
in the labor form^ eve an( none aas
it now) what Hitler was going to
do and what the Japs were up to
—but didn’t say anything about
it. If they’re telling the truth
! about having known all this, then
! their failure to warn us makes
them mighty close to being trai-
tors. If they) didn’t know (and
A slice of a cow s hindquarters { d<m,t thjnk they did)( then they
are liars.
One foreign correspondent
kept a diary. Some greatl think-
er—I think it was Thomas Carlyle
—said that no man with a first-
class mind has ever kept a syste-
by those she has benefitted
as you and I.
is very valuable to a cow but it
jis worth a nickel to a farmer. 16
I cents to a meat packer, 40 cents
j to a retail butcher, and $1.25 in a
j restaurant, not counting the tip.
Governor Coke Stevenson’s ap-
laboring force, or
unions, who refuses to put
the future of their country
before immediate selfish
gains.
-O--
“Money does not always bring j
happiness. A man with $10,000,-
000 is no happier than a man
with $9,000,000.”
Abbott: “Do you ever think of
the thrills of the days just be-
fore you and your wife got mar-
ried?”
Costello: “Sure. We’d step on
the gas from seven till eleven,
then ges on the steps from
eleven till seven.”
none
I met with more widespread ap-
proval than his recent naming of
Harry Benge Crozier to the
State Unemployment Compensa-
tion Commission. Crozier, a
native Texan, hailing from the
beautiful Heart c’ the Hills Coun-
try, was ti e ace reporter for
years on the Dallas News; is a
keen observer of men and meas-
ures; a lover of literature and
history; a pungent conversation-
alist; loyal to his friends (one of
whom for years has been the
present governor) and is an all-
’round fine fellow.
Remember the joke about the
Irishman who had made a for-
tune after 10 years effort in
Leopold Stokowski,
symphony conductor, born
land: “Music; to me is un adven-
ture. I must
still be experi-
menting, devel-
oping, blazing
new paths. In
the Old World
traditions often
prevent this
but a pioneer
vitality still re-
mains in Amer-
ica. It is still
receptive to untried ways and
new ideas . . . An orchestra is one
of the most democratic institu-
tions possible. We do not ask where
a player is born, only whether he
is a competent musician. Artistic
freedom cannot exist without
other liberties which America
rather
deed, if we do not win the trust
and cooperation of the peoples of
Asia, we shall lose the war before
we know what hit us!
That is why the best recent
news out of England was the
selves huve close to one billion
allies in Asia. We can and shall
win this war, if we can convince
them that this is a people’s war,
for the liberation of all the peo-
ples of the world.
Stokowski
sesses.
Paul Lukas, noted actor, horn
in Hungary: “America is the only
country in the world which was
founded on a
matic diary. But waiving that: I
read the first three installments j more tkan any other country pos-
and was that boy good! Why, he
never missed a shot; he called
every turn. Only some sinister
monster would insinuate that this
great man kept a diary all right
buti that he went back over it a
good deal later and doctored it
up.
A cynic might declare that
when witnesses in the trial of a
case are trying to tell the truth,
they will not agree exactly in
their stories because, under ex-
citement, men will see things dif-
ferently; but it is when witnesses
agree perfectly that you are en-
titled to think that maybe so they
were “coached” by a criminal
put these things—justice, free-
dom, equality, into a Constitu-
tion to make sure of keeping
them.”
Thomas Mann, distinguished
author, who was born in Ger-
jmany: “Dhave found in America
a second home
where I can
continue m y
life’s work in
peace and free-
dom ... We
who have come
to America
from Eur o p e
have seen how
easily the high-
est motives and
ideals of youth can be exploited i
by unscrupulous despots and made |
to serve the lowest kind of polit- |
ical strategy . . . Democracy j
wishes to raise up mankind, to !
give it freedom, and its greatest
strength lies in its deep spiritual \
and moral self-con: ciousness.
“When a woman’s toes stick
cut of her .hoe, she’s fashionahle. | Hei said
When a man’s toe sticks out, he
is a bum.”
America, so he decided to eat in j lawyer,
the finest Broadway restaurant? j
“Bring me everything
Teacher: “Yes, children, an
Indian wife is celled a squaw.
Now what do you suppose Indian
babies are called?”
Bright pupil: “I know—
squawkere.”
But the dear old American pub
lie, putting down such remarks
on the bill of fare.” He consum- j to spite, has gone for the diary
cd things he’d never seen before : book in a great, big way and so
—soup, lobster and lettuce gar- have the self-confessed smart
nished with parsley. But when! book reviewers,
the waiter* put a platter of fried , And that, little boys1 and girls,
eels in front of him, Pat roared “is how “best sellers" are made.
“I’ve drunk yer dish water; I’ve Just before rationing of tires
et yer insecks; I’ve swallcred yer and automobiles went into etfect.
clearly defined
idea—the idea
that h u m a n
beings have a
right to be
free . . . The
men of the
American Rev-
olution, from
the leaders
down to the
soldiers of the line knew the
things that they were fighting
! for and when they had won, they
Lukas
“Some people complain be- j
cause they don’t get what’s
coming to them, and others be- 1
cause they do.”
grass but I’ll be
eat yer worms.”
My chief aversion of the mo-
ment consists of these great
"foreign correspondents” who
knew for years (to hoar them tell
damned if I’ll the latest thing in the way of a
home: Garage for three cars with
built-in living room.
Typewriter ribbons for sale at
the Review and Courier office.
A teacher was giving a lesson
on the circulation of the blood
and was trying to make the mat-
ter clearer.
Teacher: “Now, hoys, if I
stood on my head the blood, as
you know, would run into it, and
I should turn red in the face.”
Boys: “Yes, sir.”
Teacher: “Then why is it that
while I am standing upright in
the ordinary position the blood
doesn’t run into my feet?”
Little fellow (shouting) :
“Cause your feet ain’t empty.”
Customer: “I simply couldn’t
wear this coat. It’s too tight for
me.”
Clerk: “I’m sorry, madam, but
I’ve shown you all of our stock. |
That happens to be your own j
coat you have on.”
Ab: “Jones’ wife thinks the!
world of her husband.”
Nab: “Does she?”
. -
Prom lhtlaJtlpMa I'tccfi-
A farmer visiting his son at
the university toojk the hoy
downtown to have his photo- ]
graph taken. The photographer
suggested that the son stand with
his hand on his father’s should-
er.
“It would be more appropriate,” j
remarked the father, “i‘f he
stood with his hand in my pock- j
et.”
“When hubby reported that
the bank had returned his check, I
his wife is reported to have said
it was splendid and that they||
’ could buy something else with it.”
Hi-way Lumber
& Grocery Co.
We have a limited amount of galvanized
iron for a low price of $5.50 to $5.60 per,
square. 6 to 12 foot lengths.
Also some 3-8 inch white rope for 1 6c 16-*^!
Ladies full fashioned hose.....08c pr-
Men s work gloves ........49c pr.
Also windows, doors, roll roofing. A sav-
ing. Come to see us.
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