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"FOR THE HONOR OF OUR COUNTRY ... *
The Olympic Games, planned for Finland this
summer, are definitely off. Even after the war
with Russia was concluded, Finland, with character-
istic gallantry, tried to arrange the games.
Despite her own suffering, Finland might have been
able to carry on. But the condition of a Europe at war
makes the project impossible, and the Finnish com-
mittee has had to cancel the games definitely and fin-
ally.
So in this year of 1940 there will be no white-clad
group of keen, eager young men and women standing
in the bright sunshine to take once more the tradi-
tional Olympic oath:
"We swear that we will take part in the Olympic
Games in loyal competition, respecting the regu-
lations which govern them and desirous of partici-
pating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship
for the honor of our country and for the glory of
sport "
Not this year. The keen young men of more than
half the world are today engaged in playing a grim-
mer game. They have been told that they are playing
this game, too, for the honor of their countries. How-
ever that may be. it is already clear that for many,
many thousands of them the prize is not some gay
ribbon or bright medal, but the dark garland of death.
It is because those games are not to be held this
summer, and because that oath is not to be taken v
by the young men and young women, that we have
reprinted it above. For thought they have been tem-
porarily set aside bv a world intent on graver mat-
ters, those principles must not be forgotten.
The time will come, some day, when the world
must remember "loyal competition." The time will come
when "respecting the regulations" will not be a sign
of weakness, but of strength. The time will come when
the "true spirit of sportsmanship" will again have value
foy men who have had to forget it in the necessities of
a game that is played for keeps. And for "the honor
of our country," things are being- done today which
perhaps people of a later time will not look upon as
redounding much to anybody's honor.
In the thick international murk of 1940, to look
so far ahead as 1944 seems impossible. Yet it will
come, and perhaps one may even now dare to hope
that when it has come the world will have remem-
bered those words it cast aside in 1940—"loyal
competition," and "regulations," and "sportsman-
ship," and "honor."
FIRST IN 19 YEARS
In June an event will occur which has not hap-
pene in the United States in 19 years.
A battleship will be launched. Two of them, in fact.
They are our first since 1921. Probably, considering
the losses to the British fleet in the present European
war, the United States now has the world's most power-
ful navy.
We were in that position once before. At the Wash-
ington conference after the World War we prov-
ed that we would stop building battleships if others
would. We still feel that way. But if others insist,
we have no alternative, and the answer is on the
ship-ways at Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
NOTED POET
HORIZONTAL
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25 Bitter herb.
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23 Baseball team
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31 Giant king.
32 Smart knock.
34 Canceler of
stamps.
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eagle.
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GOP May Try Roosevelt
Stunt At Philadelphia
15V BRI CK CATTON
WASHINGTON — (NEA)
—The man the republicans
nominate for president this
year will borrow a spectacu-
lar leaf from FDR's book, if
plans now being pushed by
high party officials are
adopted.
In brief, the idea is • to
have the nominee make a
hurry-up trip to Philadel-
phia immediately after his
nomination and address his
acceptance speech to the del-
egates as the grand climax
of the convention, just as
Roosevelt did when he flew
to Chicago in 1032.
As outlined tentatively,
the speech would be deliv-
ered in Franklin Field, the
University of Pennsylvan-
ia's big football stadium in
Philadelphia, probably on
the final evening of the
convention. In that way, it
is argued, the nominee and
the party would get a rous-
ing send-off for the cam-
paign. and the anti-climax
usually caused by the long
wait between nomination
and acceptance would be
Acceptance of the plan
depends chiefly on the reac-
tion of the leading candi-
dates. who are being sound-
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—Sunrise Jamboree.
(!:45—Talk.
7:00—Musical Clock.
—News of the Day.
8:00—Oil the Mall.
S:I.T—Salon Music,
N::iO—Devotional.
8:45—Music of (lie Masters.
9:00—Hits from the Musical
Shows.
—First Methodist Church.
! :4o—Music Graphs.
10:00—News of the l)a.v.
10:0.->—Interlude of Music.
10:15—Green House.
10:30—Master Singers.
10:45—Variety Hour.
11:45—Hymns You Love.
12:1(0—Headline News.
12:10—K< Theatre Time.
12:15—Singing Sam.
I2::i0—Ted Steele Novatime.
12:45—On with the Dance.
1:00—Tropical Moods.
1:50—Dolly Dawn.
1:45—Hilltop Harmon lasers.
2:00—All Request Hour.
:i:00—Songs of the West.
3:15—Matinee Melodies.
3:15— Hymn Time.
4:00—.Moments Musical.
4:30—Mrs. Donley Htephenson, |
Reader.
4:45—Vocal Varieties.
5:00—Melody Time.
5:30—Supper Dance Hour.
6:1.V—United Press News.
«:30—Bill, Mack A Jimmle
0:45—Twilight Time.
7i00—Sign Off.
ed out now.
VOL CAN'T TELL JOB
m ITS VAMU
There are 17,000 different
kinds of jobs in America to-
day, and nearly 30,000 Cities
are used to describe tli<jm—
and lots of the titles don't
mean at all what you'd
think.
This appears from a , stu-
dy of the new Job Directory
brought out by the IJ. is.
Employment Service, after
five years research by a staff
headed by William A. Stead.
A pulpit man, for in-
stance, isn't a minister; he is
a chap who charges and dis-
charges a steel furnace. If
you get a job as a screen
ape, you won't be working
in Hollywood —you'll l>e in
a mine, screening coal. And
a cat skinner is the opera-
tor of a tractor, not a taxi-
dermist.
Similarly — a moocher is
a gent who inspects rivets,
joints and seams in steel
structure. A doodler is a
coal miner who scrapes up
the fine coal left in the
grooves made by cutting
machines.
A flathead is a man who
fells trees for a living, and
a punk is any beginner on a
construction job. You can
be a masher, a lurer or a
nt-cker without being any
sort of a ladies' man; you
needn't be a tough guy in
order to be a fisticuffer or a
scalper.
WAONKR ACT
VICTORY COSTM
A year ago the New Deal
licked all efforts to modify
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TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940 weorge' Bennitt and Russell' Bennitt,' Pubs,
PA«f. irAC a,so Sunday morning and Its weekly edition
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High Tax Plans
Flayed by Hines
SAN ANTONIO — (UP)—Ad-
vocates of $50,000,000 to $60,000,-
000 new taxes are those trying
to fool the people into voting
for a sales tax and those seeking
to block all taxes, Highway Com-
missioner Harry Hines of Wich-
ita Falls, candidate for govern-
or. said in a radio speech here
Monday night.
Hines said $15,000,000 new rev-
enue will be adequate for the
state needs. The state general
revenue fund deficit, he said,
had been accumulated over a 10-
year period and should'be grad-
ually reduced in another 10
year period. He said that the
money now required to retire
the state's $20,000,000 "bread
bonds" will be available for that
purpose soon.
The $15,000,000 additional ex-
penditures which Hines endors-
ed are: $0,408,000 to match fully
federal old age grants; $2,600,000
to match teacher retirement pay-
ments and $1,000,000 to meet
i past-due payments; $1,500,000 for
dependent children: $1,500,000
for public education; $1,000,000
for insane and other state wards;
$250,000 to match federal public
health grants; $350,000 to in-
crease the state highway pa-
trol: $100,000 for needy blind.
Hines proposed to raise $12,-
| 500,000 by increased taxes on
i natural resources and $2,500,000 i
I by increased franchise tax.
The $6,408,000 for old age as-
sistance would be in addition to I
$9,000,000 now provided and
Hines said the public welfare de-|
partment estimated the amount |
named would be adequate.
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the Wagner act. Now it is
paying through the nose for
that victory.
Top-heavy though the
House Democratic majority
is. that body is 'way oi'f the
reservation. M passed the
Walter-Logan bill with a
whoop, is about to amend
the wage-hour law, and will
probably go quite a way
with Congressman Smith's
Wagner act amendments.
Last year's House couldn't
get, any action on the labor
law. All amendments were
smothered quietly in com-
mittee. Despite widespread
feeling that the law at least
had a few quirks that
ought to be straightened out,
the administration would
listen to no talk of change.
So the House got sore. Us
soreness branched out to
executive agencies in gen-
eral, and now it's getting
even. And the ironic part of
it all is that if in 1939 the
New Deal had agreed to the
Wagner act amendments
which it is now sponsoring,
almost all of its present trou-
bles would have been avert-
ed.
121 Survivors Left
By Gladewater Man
OLADEWATER — It was re-
vealed today that William J.
Lindsey, 80, who died at West
Mountain community, left .121
survivors. They included Mrs.
Lindsey, widowed after 54 years'
married life: 15 of the 16 child-
ren born to them, 7(i grandchild-
ren, and 29 great grandchildren.
Parents Support
Students' Strike
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
The 05 male students of Lake
Worth high school, supported
by most of their parents, were
out on strike Tuesday protest-
ing against the dismissal of their
principal. R. E. Ramsey, for his
wisecracks about sex and the
birth rate in nazi Germany.
Classes continued for the bene-1
fit of five girl students. The
school board, in failing tn reap-
point Ramsey last Friday, had!
I announced that his extraneous
classroom remarks embarrassed
girl students. The girls partial-1
ly confirmed this by refusing to
strike.
None (jf the boys remember-
ed exactly what Ramsey had
said about sex or Germany's ef-
forts to increase its birth rate;
the girls were modestly silent,
and Ramsey himself had retir-
ed to his ranch, 15 miles from
town.
Parents defending Ramsey
said the trouble was political;
that Ramsey had opposed Wat-
son for the superintendency in
the school board election April 9,
and that he had been discharg-
ed for that rather than for any-
thing he had said about sex.
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Helen Keller Kin
On State Board
AUSTIN — (UP) — Phillip
Brooks Keller of Dallas, broth-
er of Miss Helen Keller, noted
blind author and lecturer. Tues-
day became a member of the
state commission for the blind.
He will fill the unexpired term
of the late James Boddeker of
Galveston.
The commission for the blind
is a state-supported commission
to look after welfare of blind
persons. It has established
"lighthouses" in Austin, Fort
Worth, F1 Paso, Houston, San
Antonio. Galveston and in Smith
county. The state pays salaries
of supervisors of these light-
houses and also salaries of a
number of home visitors who in-
struct blind persons. Distribu-
tion of talking books also is fos-
tered by the commission.
Keller's world-known sister
who now is (it) years old was
stricken blind through illness
when she was an infant.
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When economic trouhle.s rained down on I'uiil Satko, unem-
ployed welder of Tacoma, Wash., lie decided he needed an ark
to escape the deluge. So lie liullt the "Ark of .luncail," loaded
liis wife and seven children aboard, sailed off for Alaska, where
he planned to homestead. ISut, two days out. the craft went (
aground off Seattle, as seen above. I nroinautic police decided
the Ark was uutriistworthy at sea, jailed Satko and took
charge of five of the children, lielow, the Satkos wave from
their homemade boat.
Rival Old Folks
In Demonstration
AUSTIN — (UP) - Rival old
folks shouted "Thompson" and]
"O'Daniel" ai a political demon-
stration in front of Governor W.j
Lee O'Daniel's office on the state j
capitol grounds Monday after-!
noon.
The meeting, sponsored by j
neither O'Daniel nor Col. Ern-|
est O. Thompson,. developed a
sharp rivalry between gray-head-;
ed adherents of the two.
Jack Ballard, youthful organ-
izer of the demonstration, faced'
the governor's office windows I
and called for the governor to;
come out and answer questions. |
The governor was not at his of- j
fice. Nor was Thompson.
Cotton Arrives
For Mattresses
Additional cotton arrwin/®
Monday for completion of 30
mattresses in a program to use
the government's surplus cotton,
work is to get underway Tues-
day in Decker on assembling se*
on mattresses for farm families
of low income.
Miss Viarena Stinson, count.v
demonstraiion agent, and Miss
Katherine l.ightfoot, assistai*
agent, will be in Blackwell Wed-
nesday for supervising the mak-
ing of Id mattresses, going to
Koscoe to finish six and on tu
Hylion Thursday where 13 win
be made. At the close of the
week a total of 120 mattresses
will have been made.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By William
Ferguson
"Beadin' want ads again 1 Can't you ever conquer the
wolfish desire for worldly gain,"
'Spring Fever' Is
Hilarious Comedy
"Spring Fever", to be present-
ed by the Senior class at 8 to-
night. (Tuesday) in Newman
high auditorium, is to be a hil-
arious comedy in three acts.
The play reveals the effect of
spring and a girl, played by
Florence Mullins, on the emo-
tions of an ambitious young
man, played by Chase Stinch-
enmb. A truly great evening of
entertainment is in store for
children and adults alike, ac-
cording to the press agent.
"Bert Barnett and His Nine
Gentlemen of Sophisticated
Swing" are to entertain between
the first and second acts. Bill
Mullins and his "Sparkplug
Band" will be the feature attrac-
tion between the second and
third acts.
An admission fee of 25 cents
is to be charged. The proceeds
are to be used in defraying ex-
pends of Senior Day, May 7, at
Lake Sweetwater.
IN I930,
THERK WERE ABOUT
<S>a-AA!LLION
PERSONS IN THE
UNITED STATES
OVER.
65 VEAPS
Ot= AfcE./
IN I <3(SO
IT IS ESTI-
MATED THERE
WILL BE ABOUT
/5 MILLION
S<2
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IF THE EARTH
DID NOT ROTATE
ON ITS OWN AXIS
THE SUN WOULD
RISE AMD SET
ONCE DURING* THE
VEAR, DUE TO THE
EARTH'S JOURNEY
AROUND IT.
COPP. 1M0 0V NEA SERVICE. INC
WHAT A\ODE OF
TRAVEL., STILL IN USE
'1-iO ) TODAV, DID INDIANS
CONTRIBUTE. TO
'AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONI
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 303, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 30, 1940, newspaper, April 30, 1940; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282300/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.