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The Sunday Record, July 26,1942.
BUY IT IK MINEOLAl
THE SUNDAY RECORD
\ Published Every Sunday m Mineola, Wood County, Texas
at the postoffice at MSneola as second-class mail matter
voder Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
CKUe of paper changed from Wood County Record to The Sunday
Record on Sunday, November 26, 1939.
MEMBER: Texas Press Association; North and East Texas
Press Association.
Any erroneous reflection «pon the character, standing or repu-
tation of any person, firm, or corporation which may appear
In the columns of this newspaper will be gladly corrected
upon being brought to the attention of the publishers.
DECISIVE BATTLES
It may be that historians, poring over the
records of World War II, will find that the
summer of 1942, while the most critical of the
.war, did not in fact produce its decisive bat-
He. They may even agree that the battle
that insured the defeat was not one in which
' the United Nations triumphed but one in
which the potentially most powerful was
caught fast asleep.
For as Sir Edward Creasy chose the bat-
tle of Saratoga instead of Yorktown for his
''Fifteen Decisive Battles of the world," pub-
lished in 1851 and now a classic, so it should
turn out that the Japanese treachery at Pearl
Harbor guaranteed the defeat of the Axis.
It was the fact that Benedict Arnold's de-
feat of Burgoyne at Saratoga brought France
into the American war for independence that
-Creasy considered decisive.
How long the United States would have
remained a nonbelligerent party in World
War II were it not for Pearl Harbor is any-
body's guess. Perhaps not long. But it
might have been a long time before the coun-
try would have developed even as much emo-
tional drive as surged into being within a
few hours on December 7.
But for desiciveness Pearl Harbor may
have to share honors with that almost equal-
ly amazing thrust that Hitler ordered against
Russia in his midsummer madness of 1941.
Or shall we go back a little farther and ask
who would be making the decisions in Europe
today if the British people had not stood out
alone against the German air might through
a terrible year?
In a global war there may be a number
of decisive battles the results of any one of
which could affect all the rest.
Looking over Creasy's list, one is struck
by the thought that the world's concept of
decisive battles has been limited to epics of
violence. There was Marathon, Arbela,
Metaurus, Chalons, Tours, Hastings, Drake's
victory in the English Channel, Waterloo and
its prerequisite, Trafalgar. These are the
nine that still look pretty important, out of
the fifteen Creasy offers.
But they and all the rest were battles of
destruction, as were the so-called decisive
battles of World War L which were fought
along the Marne in 191^4 and 1918. What the
world knows today is that the really decisive
battles among nations may be won or lost
long after the shooting has ceased. The bat-
tles won along the Marne were lost again
by stages from Versailles, through Man-
churia, Ethiopia, the Rhineland and Spain
The lessons of that tragic moral retreat
should help us to win total victory next timp
—Christian Science Monitor.
Sheep Will Pay
Farm Dividends,
Sap Specialists
College Station.—If you need
food, comforts, or a lawn mow-
er, a few sheep on your ranch
or farm will help fill the bill.
That's the opinion of three
specialists of the Texas A&M
College Extension Service. Sheep
furnish meat for the table,
wool for fluffy, warm comforts,
and keep the premises neat,
trim and free from weeds.
Lamb adds variety to meals,
and is a delicious and valuable
food, says Jennie Camp, spe-
cialist in home production
planning. One animal will fur-
jiisn about forty pounds of
meat—and you can feast on
leg of lamb twice, two shoulder
rosts, laTio chops from the rib
and loin, and stew or ground
meat for patties.
And for your comfort, an
average sheep will produce
three pounds of clean wool
each year, enough to make a
good-sized cover. Since war
conditions will make it harder
to get wool scoured commer-
cially, you can do it yourself
and then card the washed wool
into bats for comforts, says
Mrs. Bernice Clayton, special-
ist in home improvement.
Finally, W. R. Nisbet, animal
husbandman, says sheep help
keep your farm pastures neat
and free from weeds. This and
the fact that they bring in
extia cash when sold are am-
ple reasons for every Texas
farm and ranch stocking a few
of the animals.
If you don't know how to pre-
pare delicious lamb dishes, or
need help in washing wool, con-
sult your county home demon-
stration agent or write to the
Extension Service, College Sta-
tion, for this information.
o
Approximately 40 per cent
of the area of Texas is excel-
lently adapted to natural wild-
life preservation because of
good natural cover, plentiful
water and sparse population.
Test New Aussie Gun
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SHOOTING FROM THE HIP and from the shoulder, two U. S. Army Air Corps officers try out Australia's
latest contribution to United Nations armament, the Owen gun. This odd-looking sub-machine gun,
capable of firing ten rounds a second, "has about as many parts as a walkmg-stick, according ko arms
experts and will operate under the toughest conditions. Its inventor, 27-year-old Evelyn Owen, a tor-
mer factory hand, .was ordered off a troopship recently to supervise mass production of nis gun.
On The Home Front
During the last week, civil-
ians on the Home Front got
the answer to one of their
worries of six months ago:
Whether our great civilian in-
dustries could be converted in-
to war production in time.
The answer came from Chair-
man Donald Nelson of the
War Production Board, who
said that our factories will
turn out a total of about 45
billion dollars worth of wea-
pons and military supplies and
equipment this year. And he
expects the figure to rise to
70 or 75 billions in 1943. •
This statement means more
than comfort to the Home
Front. It also means that we
are now shooting the works
for war, and as a result civil-
ians are going to have to do
without all the products that
formerly came out of those
factories that have been con-
verted.
But, doing without is a civil-
ian duty during wartime. We
must do without many things
now so that we may have many
more things in addition to
peace, after the war is won.
With war production figures
reaching colossal proportions
—on a scale never before at-
tained—it means that almost
nothing in the way of durable
goods such as autos, appliances
and gadgets for civilian use
will be made for the duration.
It also means that to feed
the furnaces for war produc-
tion, raw materials in unpre-
cedented proportions are going
to be necessary and salvaged
materials, highly vital among
the materials, are going to
have to be supplied in greater
quantities. With a better job
of salvage than we have been
doing, the WPB is pressing its
i new and continued national
salvage campaign. We've got
to stay on the salvage job un-
til the war is won.
With discontinued manufac-
ture of thousands of civilian
items already effected—bath-
tubs, golf clubs, musical in-
struments toys, vending ma-
chines, fishing tackle, etc—the
WPB added another long list
of items in a new "stop" or-
der during the week.
The new list for which iron
and steel cannot be used after
a specified deadline includes
such things as garden tools,
hospital equipment, merry-go-
rounds, magic lanterns umbrel-
la shafts and vanity cases. The
metals thus saved soon will
be in the hands of our soldiers
who can reap a far better har-
vest with a Garand rifle than
with a hoe, or get into the
thick of things with a tank
quicker and better than with
a merry-go-round.
Ration Books May
j Be Replaced.
j Procedure for prompt ;re-
. placement of lost, stolen or
destroyed war rations books has
been announced by OPA. Un-
der amendment 5 to the sugar
rationing order^local War Price
and Ration boards now may
issue new books without re-
quiring the two-months wait-
ing period formerly in effect.
Boards must be convinced be-
yond a reasonable doubt that
war ration books were lost, de-
stroyed or stolen before mak-
ing replacements.
Lumber Freeze
Extended
WPB has announced exten-
sion of all hardwood construc-
tion lumber orders due to ex-
pire on July lOo t, August 13.
The order bans sales and de-
liveries of softwood lumber
by producers, but does not re-
strict sales by lumber yards.
WPB's lumber and lumber pro-
ducts is working to complete
a study of the softwood lum-
ber supply-demand situation in
order to provide an orderly
system of distributions, based
on the relative essentiality of
lumber for war purposes.
Chemical Use Restricted.
Classifying the products on
the basis of the amount of
critical chemicals and other
materials they contain, WPB
has issued an order (L-17)
controlling manufacture of a
long list of toilet articles and
cosmetics. Unlimited produc-
tion is permitted for articles
on list 1, which require no
critical materials. Baby P°y
der shaving cream, and tooth
cleanser are included in t is
list. For articles on List 2, in-
cluding bath salts, cleansing
creams, cologne, face powder,
lipstick mascara, perfume, and
others items production at the
1941 rate may continue but a
reduction to 90 per cent of
marketable units is ordered.
List 3, including bubble bath,
eyelash curler, hair lacquer,
may be manufactured at the
rate of 80 per cent. The lim-
itation on the number of mar-
ketable units is designed to
save container material.
Tire Law Violators
Sentenced.
Three Houston men have re-
ceived sentences of $1,000 fines
and 20-month jail terms in
the federal penitentiary upon
conviction in the Federal Dis-
trict Court at Houston for
criminal violation of OPA tire
rationing and price ceiling
regulations. The action first
of its kind in the United States,
resulted from investigations by
Department of Justice and O
PA agents of a "tire black mar-
ket" operating at Houston. Two
additional Houston business-
men now are awaiting trial on
indictments charging them with
violating the OPA regulations.
Check Your Extra
Baggage. v
Rail travelers are asked by
OPT Director Eastman to con-
fine themselves to one suit-
case in a passenger car. Rail-
roads have reported that due
to the crowded conditions of
Pullmans and coaches, luggage
being taken into cars by pas-
sengers is becoming increas-
ingly difficult to handle. Check-
ing of extra baggage is urged.
Need for Scrap Cited.
Warning that scrap mater-
ials must not stagnate in deal-
ers' yards, J. L. Dellinger, re-
gional executive of the Bureau
Central Christian
Church
SLOAN GENTRY, Pastor
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Morning worship at 11. Th^
morning sermon subject will
"Saints In Caesar's Hot
hold."
Evening worship at 8:15.
mon, "Why Be a Chrises
You are cordially invit
attend the^e services.
First Baptist Church
R. E. STREETMAN, Pastor
Sunday school at 10 a. m., D
E. Brooks, superintendent.
Preaching service at 11 a. W-
Sermon subject, "Our Lord
Heartbroken."
Training Union, 7 p. m.,
B. H. Davidson, director.--'
Sermon at 8:15 p. m., subject,
"When Is a Calamity?'
At the close of the evening
service we will observe the
Ordinance of Baptism.
o
The Bluebonnet was adopted
as the state flower of Texas
by legislative action in 1901.
of Industrial Conservation has
announced that BIC's auto
graveyard section will supervise
the flow of scrap from yards
to steel furnaces. The flow
must be augmented immediate-
ly on account of the hea^
demand for scrap materia
and the difficulty of moving
during cold weather, he said.
The public must understand^
that the efficiency of a
is measured by the
scrap to the mills, rathei
the amount of material on
hand at one time, Mr. Dellen-
ger declared.
More Workers Needed.
Five million more workers
will be added to the 125,000,000
war industry force by the end
of 1942 War Manpower Com-
missioner McNutt declared. In-
creased employment of women
and other persons riot now in
the labor force will be neces-
sary to meet the demands for
war workers during the next
year and a half, he said. U. •
S. Employment Service offices
have all information on avail-
able war jobs.
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HEADQUARTERS
ORDERED THAT THE.
LEATHERNECK LIBERTY
UNIFORM INCLUDE A
SWAGGER STICK.CAKP.VlNG-
OF THE STICK HAS SINCE
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