Cooper Review. (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1918 Page: 8 of 16
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THE COOPER WEEKLY REVIEW FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918.
THE STORE OF SERVICE
Our Tailored
Suits
Cil will not shorn
—have all the style
and quality to be found
in the suits for Fall.
We have them in all
the new colors and de-
signs, made of all the new materials.
We cordially invite you to in-
spect cur new assortment of these
suits before you make your selection.
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with
abandoned grief
BY AUGUSTUS THOMAS
To fear the dark, to fear the future, to fear
some man or set of men, to fear exposure of some hidden and
culpable act, to fear justice, to fear anything, is a retarding
and an inhibiting and sometimes a paralyzing condition.
To be courageous, to have confidence, to feel unblam-
able. to be ready to meet examination is to be normal, and “start scratch.”
j To be called upon in a moment of need or crisis, and to meet the call is a
gratifying expression. But to have a chance to rise to one’s full stature, to
strike twelve, not in a physical effort but in the arena of the soul, to stand
tip-toe spiritually is to be as near Godlike as man can be in this life.
Some boys in France, both those who fall and those who
go through safely, gladly meet the demand and know the furthest limit of
tha* trial and self-acquaintance. The mother or wife or sweetheart over
here who reads the name of her soldier in the list of dead, goes by another
way to the same supreme spiritual experience.
We others must accept such ways and means as may
come to us, wherein and whereby to make our answers. The corroding
thing will be to remember all one’s life an opportunity that we shunned or
avoided or shirked; a moment in which, while the soldier bled and fell, and
the woman lifted her brave face, and thought “I will not shame him with
abandoned grief,” we played safe.
That moment, trifling and easily put aside at first, will
be a demoralizing consciousness at two in the morning; a dreadful, weaken-
ing and undermining memory always; a ball and chain on one’s self
respect. One of these opportunities to be met or shirked is for us, the les-
ser ones, coming now. The government behind the boys asks us to lend it
whatever money we can, at fair interest and on the best security. The money
is to give the men defending us o?i the firing line an equal chance against the
Huns who attack.
Buy Liberty Bonds—Buy to Your Utmost
This Space Contributed to Winning the War by
FIRST STATE BANK BEN FRANKLIN MILLING CO.
CASSLES & FOSTER BROS. F. MORA J. F. GRAVES
X V. FOSTER DRUG CO. J. H. GROSS W.E. CHILES
Coats
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Our coats are of the latest tail-
ored models, in all the new materials j
and colors.
The quota of Ben Franklin Free
citizen to buy their share and put
inct is $35,800. .We expect exery
us “Over the Top.”
| v - Men’s Shoes
Our line °f Men’s
| D Shoes is now com-
* plete. We invite
you to come in and inspect our stock
and suggest you make your selec-
tion before the sizes are broken.
Men’s Fall Suits
—Just arrived, some of the latest
suits for men and young men in the
latest styles and patterns. We invite
you to inspect our line.
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Cooper Review. (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1918, newspaper, September 27, 1918; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth981788/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Delta County Public Library.