Stephens County Sun (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1946 Page: 4 of 8
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THE AMERICAN—BRECKEWRIOGE, TEXAS
KVIBMESSEE
■■ -" By Helen Morris
tlnit«d Ptnm SloSI Corto pan<ient
NASRVILLE, Tenn.—Teniits.-ee J
—"pioneer in centennial e-qiosi-
tions""—is plan-rung her sesi|tiic<ih'-
tennial anniversary celebration
this year. But official aiiniit the
1946 celebration will not heirin to
compare with the lavish exposi-
tion of 1807.
Observance of the state':-. loHth
anniversary lies mos.rly in the
hands of her school children ami
is a strictly non-i (Wtinen-ial. af-
fair. Approximately .">.ti"n >ie-
\ pict the history of r-mip w ri ■<
• jmireabt which1 the <• i'
to call ■tTenni':;rfee Thnttinii ■1 he.
Years.''
President Tr-unsin arid' -'Git'dell
Hull;, former Secretary <if Sibitc..
have already accepted i'nvital ;< >n
to attend. The |in>tjr.ui) of even!:-,
designed by the i hildien '•> i e
dedicated to Hull—'".i>-ai' ' h\ n>-_'
Tennessean." Other feature;-, in-
clude the unveihntr of maHirer-v T< -
varioUM historical . pot • in the::? tare
and the presentation ,>f tin; 1 m-
ffell Hull award t o' t he cic.nty
which prepares the be.-1 county
history.
Tennessee has ..the' distinction of
being- the fir t srat.'e"to ci.-ic'nrate
her entrance into the 1,'n.ied states
with a centennial exposition, and
at that time,, she wa- a. Soiitherii .
1 state- with: secession just a genera- ;
tfon or so past.
The- ideal for the- •exposition- was
■ iKim during a period of economic
pknfc, a Presidential election 'and' !
". '"fhn B'iejri lining of the electric ape,
The exposition was formally .op""-
•id on May 1, WOT, when President
MeKinley Rave the signal front the
White House by pushing a button-:
More than t,7S<5,7! -I visitor:-- from
all over the world came to before
ft was cldsed by President McKin-
ley on Oct. 30.
The exposition wa first • chi-.:-
Where Fire Claimed 7 In Bosfcora
By lively n Brown
United Press Statf Correspondent
BOSTOln.—The ffofern m e it t:
must step in and subsidize the
dying art of opera composition.
Boris Goldovsky, Metropolitan
1 Opera intermission radio commen-
tator, believes.
The genial: supervisor of the New
England conservatory of music
opera school, who flies to New
York, weekly foe the Saturday af-
ternoon broadcasts, said .in an in-
terview that unless the pay-as^
you-go basis by which operas are
produced is abolished, no new
operas will he written.
"It takes, a year for a composer
to write an opera,,"' he said, "and
he's never sure it will, be pro-
duced.' ■
v He, sat® Richard Ffindeinitlrs
"Marthfs dat Staler," an, "import-
ant opera" that: never has been
heard? anywhere Because it would
he too expensive for any private
company to produce, was an exam-
I pie of what is happening to opera
1 in general. Excerpts from the Hin-
' demith pieces: have, been heard:
J and! widely acclaimed, he said;
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THURSDAY
Save Earth
From Suns|
LAKE BLUFF. Ill; — Dhiturl
a rices on the sun cause weathei
changes on the earth, accot.;j%g: to
Sydney Pake peace- Woodfs ^jpeorr-^
suiting engineer..
Writing in a paper entitled!
"The Planetary Cycles;''" fit' Hie-
Illinois Engineer, Wood saftl rela-
tive positions of the planets, lead'
to such disturbances on the; sun;
as fiery streamers one million or
more mites long' anil sunspotsr;
great vortices of fire.
When the planets are- more' or
less in aliuiiment and exerting':
1 heir force on the sun in a single
direction, Wood' salojl| the effect is
enormously amplified
"We can he thankful^" Wood!!
wrote, "that all of the planets
never seem to- fall',' in a perfect1
line frir I idaf: action, as a power,
line of this sorl. might: lead) to-'
such an outburst, of sunspots Chat
life would be destroyed! otr thci
earth.''
'Rcwiatr with their soldier in Europe it the llirauglit' uppermost irr the: miirifcaf Mrs. Celestirre Bradley and'sons, Rudolph Eugene, T, and Fcfea Nnc Radical:
5pml:nUe III, 3; as: they read War Department notification- that-theyare: to join Pfir. Spurlin Bradley. Jr., medical corps, who Jrrar been ; "The idea of govern men t-Sllh-
it.itionrd in Austria since December 1945. Mrs. Bradley ani sons are now residing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Portele in Marling sidized opera," he said, "is not so
Toa*.. Ti-,-Bradleys are amonj 1,700 Army wives and children who will leave far the Eiiron^an-Theater nf Ooerations next montli- ralical. Just as public libraries are I — — :
considered cultural: necessities—so ! cal,an,j naiue(U
Firemen carry a victim from the apartment hotis- in Elusion whei-
lire eiai'med the lives of seven persons; including, three children.
rii'tc •.< ;<>. on Aug-, a; liho, a
single boi'iiti; dropped on the .lap-
ririrse city of Hiroshima, and re-,
nnr'.i-d t explode at a height of
! .li'lO- l.'ltO feel., totally demolished
ont" four or more square miles
of that city. Structures 10 miles
from the center of the blast were
tiled for 1896, the actual 100th year rrawirted leveled. Sixty thousand
of Tennessee's statehood, but ,ilm | i were-"killed'outrightor in
the year of the Bryan-M«-K in icy con Kcueence of the explosion, ;r50|£
Presidential race. The exposition Vjno more were ctisualties:
management decirled (.hey would! j|ul . H.t,a tiu. "aLom bomb,'
b« faced with financial ruin■ tt r.hey ; h rHp„rts claim , to
attempted , the project while inter- : ^ - ^ of ,olm. 20,000
est was centered on the out come , " ■ f iUtl.0(klCed to a dazed
^.1th^1Ce' amI " W<1 world A -nude bomb accomplished
tie work of 2,Oho Superfortresses
demolishing 20 cities, kill HI mil-
lion of our population, destroy over
OS per cent of our industrial po-
tential. This is the "one-minute"
war of the future. This is the war
that will be hanging: over the heads
of the nations of the world when:
magazine:-: dealittB vvirh amazing
opera will be—in the next to year..
"Slowly our attitude is chatt'.!,'• j
'Mori; and mm" |
pseudo-acienttfic fiction may ■ ha« | ^ '?e , - -
decided tnat- ucl, a situation might j whecher the mfey of people «o | ^r„p^ gi^en'TSil "
seem slightly lartetclied to even to see opera or not.' .... ' shudder at the animosity cowarrj
their most inveterate -readers, liur, Ooldovsky cheerUtlly cited_ both . suc(, 0pttra8 only 10 years ago;'?
hundreds of sober, serious- minrie.'l ^}u/ iM-iincisco and St. Louis as | Goldovsky smr^osted a reviv-i
scientists, in terms of trhe cotcleJfe-J c,tJS where opera now recejves; (Jjf| European cust.:j
logic, base! upon their positive 'V' SBPPnrt- .We also include. pat,onage. He urged too th:
knowledge of technical advances,; H> ^ork City music center government establish a 1
unil 1897.
The; exposition featured a., mid-
way with, all sorts of attract ions,
a woman's building filled with lat-
est' books and. inventions by wdh'jeri.
••■uTyrpK 10 tons of bombs each!
A -econd bomb, dropped a few
'later, umler >imilar circtim-
ciiu ijijim.' aim im" ciivu'm-i i _) <■■ ) i •ii, . r. . , ■ .
a children's ^ntS'ling known a- the > ^an, <•?. at- NaurasaKi. was reported
jrein," an etlucanon built my " ' "improyed mi del, already
Wlrich catered tc. the trend of rite ' n.Ki.ki1ngr-f,he first bomb used: obso-
'ISoTi<ters •-of!; Sci*?.niie,,: a: f'-V'^n i ftodgrh 'the-'- terrain
Sfg" showing the pfot!:re.<r- rtf 'lie i''V' fnvoralile than at Hiroshima).
Ncjp'o from plantation <l iv- am« rhi- ilamayre was more severe,
numerous achers. Pl'hie of r.hc ex- 10-Ton Homh Forecast
position was the Parthenon only j % (, h „ seLcled 0I1
,&eacfc replica of the original Oreek am| Nratr,;,akif ;
Olinhant of Kn(fian(i, who shared
■in the development of the: atomic
bomb predicted that lO-tdrr bombs
were :u ;.itactical' possibility: the
structure existintr today
- Every day was a "sperm 1 day" at
tire exposition and various persons,
groups and states were Honored.
And- memories of tlie famed cen-
tennial are special, for Tennessean:-
—for it really was the "Wonder of
for examining ears.
A better world lies- before the
man who doesn't do so himself.
When your friends start over-
looking you, it's time for you to
Itart looking yourself over.
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Breckenridge to Eli Paso'.'Si>;S{) j
BfcCckenridge tn Dallas .. sj i,() |
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eiimvaient of it),000.000 tons of
TNT hi "a. -ingle 10-ton . parcel of
Oc i r a tint., according to Dr. Oli-
I'sf:''
, We-have -aid that the effects of
the fit -t atom homb were like those
of .-> 2,000-plnne Super fort rafdf
: 'This is" probably an underestima-
: : tun of -:.he damage done, because
; in t he absence of direct hits, the
ii ual ore of TNT bomb may do
i as'onhihirigi.y little damage. With
the atom Im'iih, it may be expected:
! hat a radii,i m of five to II) miles off
efi ccrive da4iia«e may he.aehi'cvqdc,
with.in a minimum radius of two to
ihrt nulc.s, dc-trucrmn will be ab-
solute, ft; ■> (dear, therefore, that a
single projectile may serve the
pui-no: c of a raid by thousands of
planes, and perhaps even more
Hi '-c fully. This changes the na-
ture of warfare immeasurably.
At the close of the European
:■' 'phase of' this past, world war, the
< >i n t i-, possessed a rocket-bomb,
the V~'4, vltich wa~ used!at a range
of i.vcr 200 miles. It carried a oner,
ton •.varhtfflil. The unused "V-t"
rocket::;: or i;6t>:kecs of bur own,, of
«ii.-h we have been told, but
whuh have not seen action, would
have ranges of 1,000 and perhaps
seyeral thousand miles, rt is thus
idea, that through sucfcrockets, or
throiiurh roiiot-controlled airplanes,
or t.elevi.'oion.controlled missiles; or
planes, attacks can be made wili
atmor; explosive from such dis-
tances that the ,iti; of origin neerl
not be. known. Furthermore, such
mis-dies as stratosphere rockets
cannot be detected much before
rhtir impact, so that, none of the
norma1 detection methods ilor
those- radijf mechanisims develop-
ed: .i:11-111;.r the v.ar wotilrl he useful.
Box Can Hold Komh
P.nr. niisisil'fes from above do not
constitute the soie method :of war-
d-arc with atomic explosives. The
..Hmyt'c Report on wartime atomic-
cm rcy dev.-lopnu-.tit indicates that
: two kilot?r'anis (two-and-a-fiftli
pounr[.i to too kilograms is the
ratnre of the ""critical mass"—the
amoui't ,-f rariium-235 or pluto-
mum-'i.'lb material needed to give;
i, an cKplosiivii. If we take at) kilo-
gntm# t iiiout. 110-priiinds) as a fair
yaluei-.'we:! sfe that a trunk or box
is siifiij-iently large to house a
mechanism which may destroy
most of a city.. Sent: or carried; into
a ciry, left in a warehouse, base-
j men!:,, or baggage room, either a
: time mie-hantsm or a radio device
conld Iv- nsert to set it off when
[..'desired.
I Trareh-s.s Aggression
The picture of the next war-thus
| becomes one of surprise, of sudden
i and unannounced: aggression,, of
: an "ane-riymoiist war,'1' in which: che
f ai.*gi-es#or: leaves-- no friwes* ntoKil-
izes tto armies, proclaims: no hos-
. iililie.s. A city may explode one
: night, another the nejet. In one
1 night, a flight, of rockets may,, by
earpi-ritlv point our to the public j c1s e^'"Pl& of the -enormous
that such is the best, and past quarter-
all' have possessed themselves of truthful picture of the future- that: •■Onp','..
atomic explosive and sit in fes.r x,.-
and trembling, wondering when
their neighbor—or a country on
the opposite side of the glahe—
may press the fateful key. This is
the war that will be set off in
frenzy of self-protective fear by a
nation wiheh finally decides that it
cannot wait until- others act. This
is the next war in a world in
which no international control ex-
ists over atomic explosives.
Jules Verne's imagination may
have been inadequate to picture !
such a situation. Publishers of i
nil of
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aid in "siatsfyit'ig" tlie people's Heed
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can be jiiven at this time. Opera lovers a,re- liv-ing on the p0|. ther newcomer, to opera iis-
This picture is not projected; of the past generatians K.nini,. eibitlovsky suggested
century or even half a century into ° Europeans, h:e said,. People
the future; if is a possibility five ; who Produced a Verdi opera were
years from now certainU m !•" j wH'nR to take financial'1 loss two
ft does no,. depend upon re'loase of ttll,ee rimPS before it finally
a iiori-evi-tei-t i of -m "too,c bold." and became popular,
atomic bom,,. Ii wa.- ni-xorahly de- I Artists Caming
terminer! \iijr .i 1:14:7. when 11,in- [hl' commentator who is heard
sh.ma disappi.-roo ... a column of wuckl^ «eas(?.n
average o:t !:0,000;00f> ratlip! listen-
ers. was Enthusiastic about the
fact that yeairs .ago; the "Met-"1"
: K irs Worth Selling : could boast only a handful of
i - — ... _ American singers whereas today
'E'.'■&{bzit. i:t':;'' Ma rf ia ge o f ;E)gUrti.
'J. IS-zr-t's (Airmen. ■
V.-.-rdi'.-- Aiila,
■f. VV'agiii-r's K'tfitest-::- rsi-i'irict rp.
■"i;. iVfiisietui^sKy's 'Bori>; (ioitdi-
Id Ifc-iiurc Fti'cc Vil.anuii.H
SK W OR I,KAN'S:- A new com-
pan.-/ in he known as Rice• BfvricHt
nicti!. Inc.. lias been formed to rc-
-to-1 Iiist vitamins to rice-.. The
fii ni will manufacture an enricliedt
rits- pi-'-inix to milled rice vitamins
and' ntinera I values lost in,:.the' pro-
ce.-.r inc. Spine :i0- Southern, inills
i have agreiRd to use the new:
| priKlnct.
WAVE YQO'TRIED A
smoke and dust.
"opera peaks" fro in which'the :'!"-
ritory could;l lie surveyed. They
were;
.T-fV-ro ar'r 0 cood* roasons why
lint 1 l::;l 11: i.-? o t'" inrirriefl' womca- f
rely ii;kui CERTAME, HKdE
Xiowiter doncim. 11 Soothe:!
Kensirtvi-: I'e.MlKss; ,(i) f lie-
oili ii-iriiisi'i ( j l'.,.:-ave:--i no i t:e!I - 1
l;i:|i- u:, • rl i I ■ i u nl <>rl ojr. 'I're m
CERTAne. tt cost:; linl.lo. tf T
-not iileaKed. -sroiii- inone;.- Iiiu:ki|"
and no ([inriitionfi itslterl.,.
Preaei'-i-.v ynm- rrjiCtiriiil dainti-
tie.-oi ti.v- aei i-.tr CERTA N.B- J
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Advertise 1$.
nearly "half the house" is Aim en-
ktLeto" Relives
"Gum" Discomfor't
■Jioti: can: not: looK". nor 'expect
to, feel1 your best with irritated
"GUMS.,"--Bruggists refund mo-
ney if "LETO'S" fails- - Io satisfy.
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Marketing': .ftj he -'op'ert.wI'-. i'iext:-! :l:itl'f'
lay, the f'olfege;:, of," Ootrtmerce at:
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and" protect your trade-in value J # # While pro-
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new cars are built to supply afl who want them, fn
the meantime, it's a common sense precaution to
give your car the best possible care and attention.
I Ttour Ford dealer has the skilled mechanics
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