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«*AGE TWO
THE COOPER REVIEW
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1943
COOPER REVIEW
W D. HART & SON, Publisher*
W. D. HART LYNDOL E. HART
First door south S. W. corner squan—Telephone 86
Entered ag second cdass matter at the post office
at Cooper. Texas, under the act of Congress, March
18 7?
FOUNDATIONS FOR TWO FREEDOMS
Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles,
in urging that agreements based on tht
principles of the Atlantic Charter be reach-
ed by the United Nations before an armis-
tice is signed, so that among other things
rehabilitation measures can be undertaken
without delay, opens up a subject on the
successful solution of which the future well-
Leing and prosperity of(our country and the
world, depends.
“Freedom from fear—the assurance of
peace,” says Mr. Welles, "and freedom from
want—the assurance of individual personal
security, require all the implementations
which the genius of man can devise through
effective forms of international coopera-
tion.”
Peace—freedom from fear—cannot be as-
sured while war threatens anywhere
throughout the globe—and until nations
jointly exercise police powers to prevent
armed hostilities. Freedom from want, Mr.
Welles points out, depends upon people be-
ing able to find useful work continuously
and to exchange the things they produce
for things other people can make. The prob-
lem of removing obstacles to fair exchange
is more difficult than the problem of pro-
TODAY
and »
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
-V-
Hopeful Spring Planting
FATHERS ....... 22.000.000
To millions of families, selective service "arith-
metic,” which will determine when the head of
the family will be given a khaki uniform and a
pay check of $50 a month, is hemic given even
closer attention than the mathematical calculations
of point rationing.
Under the most recent regulations issued by
the selective service administration fathers will he
deferred until ull others not in vital war work
have been drafted, but according to Paul McNutt,
head of the War Manpower commission, that will
be just a matter of a few months.
Mr. McNutt estimates that there are 22,000,000
men between the ages of 18 and IIS. This includes
those already in uniform. He also figures that
only 1-1.000,000 of these men will be found physi-
cally, mentally and morally fit. Of that 14,000,-
000 a total of ,'1,200,000 will he deferred because
of the vital war work they do in industry and on
farms. That leaves 10800,000, which is approxi-
mately the number which the government hopes j
to have in service by the end of the year.
This “arithmetic” is subject to correction, j
since it may be found that the unfit are not as |
high a percentage as estimated, and it does not I
include the 200.000 or so young men who become j
18 each month- but it seems quite certain that
the great majority of married men with children
will be called before the year is over.
CONGRESS ,,,,,,, confusion
Probably because fathers and mothers consti-
duction. “It will take much wisdom, much me b>' !ar hottest group of voters in the un-
cooperative effort, and much surrender of tim' the house of representati"'s "as almost‘
-neii-ofu . , unar. nous n passing a bill to defer fathers until
private, short-sighted and sectional se f in- , -U J,, . . .....
. 1 ■ the ven er.d. T" s bill seems to have little signif-
eres f O make these things all come true. $:r.ce the selective service administration
But the goal is freedom from want, individ-
ual security and national prosperity."
As one of the first steps in ce.rrv -
such a program, the world will be watching
to see whether Congress
action on renewal of the
Agreement Act next Jur-
continuous production and
which the act encourages . ..
sary to the abundance -i- . t
the responsibility for
of procedure rests mere
United Nations today hr.-.- --
taxes ' a
Lociprxa'
decided to postpone the drafting of
u ::r. children as long as possible.
he ist b . however, known as the Kilday
.«=> te-.d to add a little orderliness to the
-yste:- r\ requiring that men from various
: eav.er.s he taken on a state-wide basis and
e fathers a state be taken until all other
es have beer, “.ducted.
- : te possible, however, that congressional
cr. se.eet.ve service will merely
E. H, Ikiolin and daughters
Mis. Harvey Collier, Mrs J je’
Whitaker and Mrs. Johnnie Aub-
rey of Paris were guests of Mi
■d Mrs. E. T. Trapp Thursday*.
In announcing the names of
the boys in service at the Clark
school pie supper, the names of
I’fe Hluford H. Johnson utl(j
Thomas Pennington were omitted.
Mrs Rosie Pearl Watkins and
little daughter, Sandra Sue, left
Thursday for Dalas to visit
father and mother-in-law,
and Mrs. C. W. Watkins.
Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Ellington,
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Ellington
and Mrs. Guy Mosley visited Mr.
and Mrs. John Ellington in Tex-
arkana Sunday.
blockade against China is the
tighe.st ever imposed against any
nation. Hitler is afraid that Amer-
ican food and friendship will re-
Spain and Portugal from
their non-belligerent Axis status.
Safety of ocean routes is still the
first concern of Allied sea strat-
egy.
DOCTOR
CRAWFORD
EYESIGHT
SPECIALIST
SULPHUR SPRINGS
WRIGHT PATMAN’S !.
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TEXAS —
In Older Of Dependent* | army serial sumber, service or-
House legislation, by adopting
the Kilday bill, has abolished de-
pendency as a basis of deferment,
and in place established depen-
dency deferment categories, with
.../ pre-Pearl Harbor fathers last on
'..... ' the list. Henceforth, eligibles will
ganization and army post office
number, and it will be expedi-
tiously handled.
Army Pay Allotment*
Since the start of operations
last July, the Office of Depend-
ency Benefits has processed and
mailed out 12,372,377 checks to
BLACK MARKET-
be peo
or are
From now it is pretty much up to
pie whether black markets f] ur.sh
wiped out of existence.
The Office of Price Administration has caP ra:rer : ar- a
set up adequate machinery for preventing FITNESS ...... 50% rejected
inflation and smothering black markets. One th.r.g. however, which it might be worth
Price ceilings have been set for all foods and wh;le for Congress to investigate are the rules
other products which would be tempting to, :01 . ,
, , , , . ■ , W eve all heard of the husky young: man who.
black market operators. If the people refuse I when turned down because of his teeth, wanted to
to pay prices higher than those
black markets can’t survive.
-?#et tr.e } ..r.n.“.g done by the " ar ; be deferred from military service
-re ..... -- For th.«. Kildav measure only for occupational or hard-1 more than 6,000,000 dependents.
aa« of A pr< -Pearl Harbor The ODB is now- geared to take
fathers with children born after care of the added load of induct-
8 UI ' ‘ September 15, 1942, will be ed Jatheri late in 1943. Depend-
-- -*7 • uu.-try ar.d tarms and at the ciassjfjed as 3-A—except those in
-a.-.e time supply all the men who are needed for 9pecified non-deferrable jobs,
the armed forces. . | They will be put in 1-A, Quotas
5 -..e the M-r.power commission and the seleo- would be established on a state-
£ serv.ee ad“ r strarer, seem, to be trying to wide basis rather than on a local
■» rk th.s c.m.p'.ex problem out in a way that will ■ basis as at present. The bill, if
, . , ,, ! enacted, would call registrants in
pr::e£t tr.e American family as .ong as possib.e. {he foUowing. order: (1) men
congressional revisions would seem to be a handi-. -without dependents; (2) single
ceilings know if he was supposed to bite the enemy or to
I shoot him. I know personally of the case of a
There will be many temptations to take! footba11 star who. after having caught 40 and 50
advantage of black market offers of goods *** forward *a5Ses. th* sea?on before' was *"rn*
, . , , , ..... ed down because his eyesight was poor. Other
which are temporarily not available through j perfectly heaIlh, younfr men are being rejected
legal channels. But if any sizable number of
us give in to these temptations, conditions
can soon reach a point where we will have
to rely on black markets.
If black markets get a permanent hold,
the cost of living will go sky high. To pre-
vent ruinous inflation it is the duty of all
of us to refuse to pay higher than ceiling
prices.
To identify black markets we can follow
this general rule: anyone who charges more
than established ceiling prices is a black
market operator.
by most branches of the service because they are
colorblind or because of other minor physical de-
fects.
In many of these cases it is apparent that they
might not be able to perform every service which,
is included in the army and navy curriculum, but
there are certainly plenty of jobs in the services
which the majority of them could perform ade-
quitely.
Mr, McNutt estimated that rejectoins up to the
present range from 43 to 50 per cent of those
examined. HealtJs records show that we are prob-
ably the healthiest nation in the world, but those
figures make it appear that the young men of our
country are largely cripples.
All the Southern states honor the Con-
Rationing rules and war time restrictions federate veterans each vear on varying
are necessary for the war effort but in some Lates Alabama> Georgia; Florida and Mis-
uses are very impractical and at times sissippi honored the dwindling ranks of the
work hardships on people that are not jus- Gray Monday> April 26, and it is reported
tified. There are many ways that individ- that scarcely 300 veterans of the Confeder-
ate cause are still living and about 10,000
of their widows.
men with dependents; (3) child-
less men. living with their wives,
and whose marriage occurred be-
fore December 8. 1941; (4) men
with wives and children or chil-
dren alone, maintaining a bona
fide family relationship. whose
marriage took place before De-
cember 8, 1941. The bill would
simply place all inductions in or-
der of dependency rather than
on an occupational basis as at
present.
U»e Of V-Mail
V-Mail saves ninety-eight per
cent of cargo space and enables
the War Department to transport
it overseas by air. One thousand
V-Mail letters weight but four
ounces, and 37 full mail sacks
are reduced to a single sack.
ents receive their first checks in
from five weeks to two months.
For instance, a soldier is induct-
ed April 5 and applies immediate-
ly for an allowance. The payment
starts accruing May 1, but the
dependent receives no checks un-
til the end of May. This is be-
cause the soilder is not paid in
advance and has no pay due him.
2.189,552 allowance applications
have been approved. The ODB can
now actually process an allowance
Application in four days. Let-
ters of inquiry from dependents
to ODB have fallen from 600 a
whose day to 75—delays are due mostly
to improper address of allottee.
The Home Front
The fight against inflation has
four legs: (1) price fixing; (2)
wage stabilization; (3) rationing;
and (4) taxes and savings. The
Commodity Credit Corporation
has made 46,774 loans on 55,-
J52.577 bushels of 1942 corn at
n average of 77 cents per bush-
el. “Desk patriots” will be
routed from bomb-proof jobs in
a nation wide induction clean
up. War demands will reduce
3, to be used as a “replacement,”
will be mailed to consumers in
July. The President’s power to
devalue the dollar expires June
30. The American people are
getting the facts as well as the
slogans of war. Ships are being
constructed at the rate of 'three
id a half a day now.
The War At A Glance
“Many roads lead to Tokyo,
and we shall neglect none of
them”—President Roosevelt.
There may be doubt as to the
duration of the war but none as
to the outcome. Our peak pro-
duction is having a withering ef-
fect on informed Nazis. Reports ;
show Germany has starved and j
ill-treated Greece and Poland |
worse than any of the conquered !
countries. Sweden is gradually be- |
;ng squeezed for more Nazi con- i
cessions contrary to her neutral- [
ity. Turkey is doing business with i
Germany—hut on a cash and
carry basis. In war time, 'the air
is always elqctrict with expect-
ancy. The all-inclusive purpose of
the peace conference must be for
permanent peace—not revenge
or reparations. Spain, still a
question mark, has become a sort
of international panhandler for
neutrality. Finland would like to
drop out of the war but the Nazi
magnet holds her helplessly. The
1918 desertions, suicides, insub-
ordination and mutiny, that de-
veloped in the Kaiser’s unrestrict-
ed submarine warfare, now plag-
ues Hitler. Rommel’s last stand
in “coffin corner” is heroic but
hopeless. Life in the United States
is luxurious compared to Japa-
nese austerity. The Japanese
USE
*4* TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS
Kidneys Must
Work Well-
For You To Feel Well
24 hours every day. 7 days every
work, never stopping, the kidneys filter
waste matter from the blood.
If more people were aware of how the
kidneys must constantly remove sur-
plus fluid, excess acids and other waste
matter that cannot stay in the blood
without injury to health, there would
be better understanding of why the
whole system is upset when kidneys fail
to function properly.
Burning, scanty or too frequent urina-
tion sometimes warns that something
is wrong. You may suffer nagging back-
ache. headaches, dizziness, rheumatic
pains, getting up at nights, swelling.
Why not try Doan’s Pills? You will
be using a medicine recommended the
country over. Doan’s stimulate the func-
tion of the kidneys and help them to
flush out poisonous waste from the
blood. They contain nothing harmful.
Get Doan’s today. Use with confidence.
At all drug stores.
Doans Pills
J. T. TAYLOR
ABSTRACT CO.
Basement of the courthouie
Abstracts, Loans,
Real Estate and
Surveying
Phone 168
Transport time of mail has been | civilian food supply only 6 per
reduced from weeks to hours by I cent during 1943. The War De-
uals may aid in the war which are not com-
manded by any rule. Avoiding unnecessary
waste is one way, and another is to con-
sume as little consumer goods as you can
get along with. Get all the wear you can
from a garment; use your old furniture for
the duration if you can and that goes for
many other items. Order only what food
you want and not a lot to be left and wast-
ed. These are little things we can do and if
practiced by the millions of America will
release many workers for war effort.
The Texas Senate has adopted a resolu-
tion endorsing a proposal by American Asso-
ciation of State Highway Officials for a
post war highway construction program.
This would be a wise provision to afford
employment while returning service men
and others are adjusting themselves to
peace time ecenomy.
The name bonehead implies anything but
wisdom, but the Bonehead luncheon club of
Dallas has displayed some good business
judgment in paying its indebtedness to one
of its members, Gus W. Thomasson, retir-
ing WPA supervisor, with a check. We do
not know why the club owed this gentleman
$26,041,527, unless it was for leniency ]
shown workers on some of his Dallas pro- they have a ioe
A house military subcommittee investigat-
ing draft deferments, reported last week
that of 2,370,166 federal employees, 840,578
are men of draft age, enough for 56 divi-
sions. Here is the place to get the recruits
for the armed forces without handicapping
war production or food production.
the V-Mail method. Unlike sur-
face mail, which is scbject to loss
through enemy action, V-Mail al-
ways arrives overseas. This ib
made possible by holding the orig-
inal until the photographic re-
production has arrived safely.
Forty million V-Mail letters have
already been handled without the
loss of a single letter. Since all
overseas mail is subject to mili-
tary censor, there is really more
privacy in a V-Mail letter than a
written one. Fifteen million
pieces of V-Mail are sent weekly
now to the two million men over-
seas ami delivered to them even
in the front line. Address the
partment is not considering rec-
ommending induction of the 17-
year olds, Texas has $4,048,393,-
000 in war contracts. The senior
high school crop of 18 year olds
will largely fill the June and
July quotas. War controls are to
prevent waste in bo'th men and
materials. Hogs at $14.50 per
hundred require a corn price of
?1.25 per bushel to approximate
a balance. Restrictions on tires
will be eased gradually through-
out the year. Redemption of small
savings bonds is remarkably low
—being only 5 per cent- The post-
war let down must come over a
period of years—not suddenly as
soldiers legibly, full name, rank, in World War I. Ration book No.
IN YEARS GONE BY—
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper and Delta County ,
Taken from the files of The Cooper Review,
I TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The Delta County Farmers Association stockholders annual meet-
ing was held Saturday with W. J. Lmmond, president, presiding, A
dividend of 20 per cent was paid.
Texans are soon to be enlisted in a work relief program.
Considerable damage was done by hail west and north of Cooper
Saturday.
RFC labor is protesting low wages being paid by tne government.
TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Mrs. W. M. Howell, 84, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Ben Russell, a't Lake Creek April 25.
Delta county fifth Sunday singing will be held at Cooper April
30. J. D. Wheeler and S- I). Wood will be in charge of the program-
Mrs. Locikie Davis, secretary, announces OES chapter meeting
May 3.1
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Mrs. Floyd Lain and Miss Corrine Culver were married at the j
home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Culver, Sunday at
7:30 p. m.
*------------- | The recent school census shows there are 4,000 scholastics in
Besides the German, Japanese and Ital- Delta county.
ian enemies our fighting men have to meet, i CoJSr&t?rdIy! U S'pSSdT a^h&ATVmm^Xhur
in striking labor in vital Springs to Paris via. Cooper.
ject«.
war work at home.
The north side of Enloe business aection was destroyed by fire
Friday morning.
It has been said:
"FOOD, TOO, HAS BECOME PART OF THE
GRAND STRATEGY OF WINNING THIS WAR"
We cannot win without FOOD—nor can we pro-
duce FOOD without FEED.
Feed Crops Include grains, hays—and COTTON
COTTON, for generations, has been the chief
source of protein in the United States.
COTTON produced more concentrated protein
(cottonseed meal and cake) than any other crop in
t e season 1941-42.. . . More tons of protein were
produced from cottonseed than from any other
crop, from August 1, 1942, to January 1. 1943.
do not have en°u<Jh COTTONSEED
CAKE and MEAL to supply the demand.
ENOUGH COTTON MUST BE PRODUCED IN 1943 TO SUPPLY
THE COTTONSEED MEAL AND CAKE NEEDEDl
Cooper Cotton
Oil Co.
•OOPER, Tin AS
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