The Democrat News (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1945 Page: 4 of 6
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The Democrat News
Cntered as Second Class Matter October 12 1920. at
Sapulpa, Oklahoma
HAY W OIERHART. Editor and Publisher -
JULIA MAYFIELD, PAULINE STAINBROOK
R^PorUr Bookkeeper
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THE DEMOCRAT HKWq, THURSDAY, APRIL12, IMS
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Published Every Thursday at 108 Last Dewey Avenue
Sapulpa Oklahoma
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LET S APPROVE PROPOSED BOVD ISM I
The present water system was built some 33 years ago
The only improvements mack since that time has been a
couple of dams built for additional water storage a storage
rraorvoir the installation of electrical pumps at tin pumn
station, replacing the steam pumps together uith neces-
sai.V marntenanc. all of which has been (inane, d from
receipts from the watei department No capital improve
2S2^tZS£a,mu*mt,Mm ‘,ta' *•»<*
?ty dads, have named th>s project as the No l job foi
d <. pa *urply the> know what they are Ulking about so
m^ff?rmlnveel °U‘ '°,e Tuesda>' <,UI u,,t Wlli **
A Mil INTONE o\ TIIE RO\D lo NOtVliKRE
. The electric utility Industry is not contemplatine ex
nff.t d^rrsl';.r' df: ad* of th( ***»« Ac-
ISSS5S
Marred Monuments
Thr itiort pathetic pier* of rtatu-
•ry | ever u» was a »2 'oot imagr
of Ramrm It. flat tti a Jungl* *hy
•n ami and a leg and all but lost
it weight countless ton* I’prighi.ng
It bi,filed Ffyptian rnfmffrt for
I untune* I am no art cntir I • 1
*«* impressed most of all by the
*kill and drvoied craftsmanahip (till
| showing ot the weathered aten* It*
| hrlplmatii aai dfpiFMini
Monumrrts resemble reputations
I They can be din,aged beyond repair
| by commonplace tilings, soon forgot-
ten Storms too trivial to have a
mm* can. in a few abort hours,
undermine huge foundations and
leave stalwart landmarks buried in
dirt There are only tarn factors in-
volved whether you view it literally
or figuratively How aturdy is the
structure" How flerce ts the storin'
Neblr Intentions
Ur-Will* with a S >rt of pity at the
aupme figure, a relic of Moses' day.
my thoughts raced back to a weil-
learned Chapter of American history
As a youth I almost wept over An-
tlicw Johnson, s truiy great man.
Before he was many years dead,
tre things he advocated w*cre proved,
in the light of actual events, to be
sound and nghl But Tennessee
school children were forgetting his
name
By birth a Southerner and by al-
iegiance a Democrat. Johnson was
sr. Independent th nker who wanted
the United States to stay all in one
I:ece He war.ted to carry out most
<•< the policies that Abraham Lincoln
had established, but he couldn't
Maybe Lincoln could have succeed-
ed with the 1IM pcs. war problem:
n.aybe a - lo-iJ y cojld History shows
orly this A great man's reputa-
tion acaled down, all but lost.
I’eeplr the Same
' school years I had
Imagined that President Johnson s
loo crude
but not so
fUs*sd Nof/oas PkwleJ
WHEN T1U FRENCH AND AMERICANS liberated Strasbourg, the Gee-
mtns left ir such basis that tbet abandoned tons nl materiel. Here these too
Trench children too soon* to hate »'ri In,mo enslhing hut invasion and
occupation-play with a Nasi light ni.-e ,ne gun in a Strasbourg square.
GOVERNOR
KERR
says
an? lhreat of mort' such competition aft ! ,r * 1c* “ became our un
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if nil of the combined fleets of
the world other than our own,
md including those of Britain
ner< lined up in battle arras they
than half of the fire power which:
"" , n‘n'- brci* of this nation
<1 Hid simultancoItaly I.rhduce Of
Nimltz. Halsey. Mitacher and many !
•herj »e are csf course proud 1
Ttc reerds reveal that Mifsrh-
Ct - appointment to the Naval
*cad-*ii y at Anralmlis was an
t'poinlment fr,,m Oklahoma His
AMFRII AN NI..HT As this I* ;""""ull,ni irony iiklahoma His
t.eing written we have Just heard Mh'’' w"s nn* of ,h* ***lF may-
the news of the , .-at victims of ’r^..0, 0k,"hl'l»» Oty »
; them as good an opportunity as
fltny can have In ne'c'iborlng
state* we must Improve what we
now have
Our banks are full of money
belonging to the people at home,
not to the service men arrl wo-
men The people at home own
hundreds uf hi lions of dollars
la war bonds and the reluming
rr - ■ man • ad worn. *• hi i ,Xr
to do more than a',, other num-
erically equal grov foi the re-
maining p -t of lb, live to pay
off the principal a’ I Ini. -esi of
• hes bo ds.
WE OW;i THEM E . ATEi'
True, tt.ry hi,* e ff p o , uirltinilv
to horrnv a llniii - i r' frr
the government to lie’, n*
a home or to grt starte i bus
nesw. hut they must pa* that
hc'k too with Interest
if we do not hav- an Indusi al
and agricultural economv 1,, .. s >,
thev can return in confidence
and in which they can find the-
opportunity for profitable em-
ployment wo will hove fallen far
short of our rwspnn-’bility, both
to them and to ourselves
I I have had this tn my mind in
recommending Increased appro-1
print inns for operational *>pen.«os .
and nee* ~~af> buildings in Okla-
homa institutions of higher learn-
ing
These are a part of the eon-
siderations 1 have had In my
mind In recommending In the
legislature to provide I lie money
with which to match present
available federal funds to build
primary and secondary highway*
and farm-to-market roads In Ok-
lahoma.
These are a few of the con-
sMerattafta 1 Inn had tn ny|
mind recommending to the legi«.(
lature that a gr »ler heellh |m,
gram he provided In Oklahoma
for Oklahoma citizens. Inrluding
our returning servics men and
women and thelt families
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P R, *“— »• 0. g. War lspsnee-1. gsM* of Pshlla Man
f ALL IN AN ENGINEER S JOB—Thi* is no g__r
/ It ia routine practica at aoldiert of tha Wh Enginaar Comm
I ing straw urd<r the wire tnesh of a hardstand during cam
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s
t-
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s
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if a
......... wi au Stas I MW CM I IfJ aui
lfM Allied AirRlript in Ormanjr. Straw
from forcinf Its wrjt iferetifh th# muih when Bpring Umi ra I
[((XTicial Stih AT phoUa) .
one of the cr*ndc.‘ character*
America ever produced, racked on
the same bed of torture postwar
prejudices, a divided party a Con
he could not man.i^c. end
v-
«U.r ** — ”
spent by prtvaU indu;tn- to provide jobs and tax revenue j
^tnt0,Ic^T h,undred<of millions of taxpayers dollars being
Sfnlv tZfeZr°y UXpaVlnk; PHWt*1 industry Thi- is ref-
nor i it the waybo bankr^>-
S«d*n, Old French War
Ground, Set Auto Style
pans, r breakthr ,gh that
flanked th* futile Magirot line in
1S40 Dccurred at Sedan Once bef :e
France» armies auficred de... se
***••* •* by aggres,:., Ger
many On September I. 1870 during
mo Franco-Prussan war. a French
•ony °f *1 000 found Itself corr.pi, ie
9 •MProunded and was tyetomatu ’
QT cut to pieces in a bloody tv dav
•atUe The mvaden quicalv pu-.-ed
an to Paria
to ltl4 France drew the enemy
•v. aUowing Sedan and otr.rr fr t
y, *ort* tr lall The decisive vie
Hattie »„ lough! or
mtrnt and Parj was saved Four
j**" l*ter. the American 1st and
divisions were un the pom! ,f
Ukmg Sedan wiien the Arm - ,
was signed The Vanks I d rr. .
th* suburbs across the Mi sr ruer
only mo kilamrtcr fr
November 11. 1918
ftiiing peace intervals Sccsr de
**loped a teatil* uidustry lt. 17.000
inhabitants were miU w rkns
•covers, and shopkeepers serving
th* large farriai.r Th* towc has
o**a credited with giving ut name
to the aedan chair and to the seda*
type automobile btsdy Covered and
(DM* times enclosed man-carried
■Nan-chairs provided the lashior.
Mia means of city transport in the
•URo centuries
Tar Paper Helpg Repel
Legles* Cabbaee Mapgotl
The flics of the cabbage maggot |
• pf^ar in most gardens rarl> tn 1
‘ 1 • • I
sums of cabbage cauiiflcwer broc- [
c .. and BrusFels sprouts plants T^ie ,
hatch into white legless mag- 1
got* which girdle the underground I
destroy the roots and
either kill or stunt the plants In- 1
jured plants wilt in the heat of day
The simplest treatment is to fit a
srr.a.] tarpaper disc around the f
stem fif each plant when it is set I
ir the ground The odor of the tar !
re; els the flies so that they lay their
,n ^ *oil so far from the
flants that few maggots ever reach
r
>r stems to cause damage
J?e asphalt treated roofing
ict -,f usually railed tar*
• u nut repei the n ag
boi k«» ir the tarpaper canin<>t be
purrh., sed dust th* Hen.» of th*
f i, ’ '* bflorr they ur* pUntcd »,th
a miktuie of 01,e-half ..otic* at c»lo-
n . ana 3 lablvsy, x-r-lu'? of com-
’ nuiua U dull f uf
of five dozen plant*. |
SEi.* .* the cal ,mel and cornstarch
toother .n . fmiaj cloMsl Jar ,n(J
punch some rail hole* in the cover
Lay the plant* an their tide tprinUe
the stems with water, dust them ,
wi’-h the mixture to whiter, the
-terns and l.rii 'jyr plants over to
s;Tinkle and dual the other side
President Johnson had amazing
? resight and a will that would not
t r walked on. W> know that now
He opposed the j»eop'.e s representa-
tives and his place in history was
carved for an unsymp-ihetic crank
President Wilaon had vision un-
clouded by prejudice, vision that
c*. errcached his century. But Wil-
sons contemporaries called him a
dreamer and p„,n!ed out a name
that should have brightened the
pages of in story
Might Hate Hcen
I President Vilin'i J»20 postwar
I E-Ir-S tor revamping Euiope icalled
so visionaryi. if they might have
Leer, backed by olhir men of his
day and political stai. r. could hate
l made Wurld War II unnecessarv
Mi-ie tE.cn a tr.Ihon of dollars and
millions of lives might have been
spared. But avaricious rulers
couldn't see the vision any- belter tn
Wnsoi. s day than jn J hnson a dav
or today
Through leases fash ned from the
fist we can watch history repeating
Itself with alarming fidelity Storms
lower again over postwar problems
National figures with international
pmb.ln.n* are liable », forget their
tea pons ib iL ty lo the r* prcsentatu *,
' Hi k ■
gredirtable struggle a d we may as
|»ell be ready to watch some high
Images fall, nuer to r.se Bom Uie
tilt of oblivion.
the news of the great victory of
ur nav y over w! at may be the
principal remaining portion of the
Japanese fleet The largrat Jajs-
anese battleship afloat the Ya-
rnalo we.ghing 45i»» t,sn*. It*,
cether with two cru.sers and a
number of destroyers were sunk
sn<1 several hundred Japanese
arrrraft shot down Apparently
w lost three desirovera and
seven airplanes When we real-
,/e that this battle was fou.cht
more than 10 000 miles from San
E'ranrisro,
City
W<\ of course will not con-
tinue our lerriflr building prO-
ram of the fleet after vtrfory
•r Japan, hut by the same
’< 1 * n An erica must never again
r ;l *h* <toy to dawn that she
d*„ s not rule the sea lanes of I
'he world upon which her security !
riepends |
Ol H GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
A w., think about out returning
-ervire men and women Chose
“ho have )u*t
Needs M - sture
Popeorr, need* moisture in order
to p*,p well Put a tai >spoon ,f
•riler tn a Jar ,f p, p --rn. shake
and let it stand for several days
before popping
Banana I xpntl*
In normal lime* Middle America
espirts ye. rly n *.ie 11 an i(» (so (««
bunches of bar si.as b all part* of
the world
______ about finished
incise, m enemy waters. v« t* . • n winning the war
the home waters of Japan and Germany and who will
J • runrw>«i- pint. < ______» , •< n bf lifrnir.0 lLair #
Booat Sapulpa IndtistDea
k’ V I W.r IV*—*~.V a.rsw. .( rwMV —----n
tES. AIRMI n USE B*ooMK_Cre« Chief S Sgt. Sirete 1
Tew i-ton, Ma ne. swer). th* an, w fr, ,n the Wing of • F-«T “
felt ftghter bomber of the Ninth Air f rco at a winter ht
Wrr* art treated wi'k alsukoi to that aovw will hog a
b* removed with a broom.
t
Opiual Krrvn
Th* nerves controlling the lens and
Ibe pupil of the eye work involun-
tarily.
the J;,panes, navi it speaks In
thunderous tones ,.f a power de
veloped h, in. United flutes o’
America since Pearl H.-.rhor.
For more than lVi years, the
words most often used with refer- ----- — —
ence to naval power on this earth mu,**r!ng-out
were "Brilanma rules the waves." -----------
And that laci liad great -an r
finance in our growth and oor
security because, for all practical
purposes its primary
line wa* in keeping the scalar,. „
of the world open and secure fo-
trade and commerce which bene-
filted us more than any other
nation except England alone
WE RIT-E THE WAVES
Knrt«ndU,w,,h^'.dofW,,heh';;i ^1 ,'tV we'g
we hold lor he. courage die " •*
daring with all of the *entiut*.il I think H.e people of Oklahoma
.flatbed we are proud tha, above win wan. filSS-l
'he storm mnd cloud- «.f wa, In. Vwwd women fTT^oTS
e.,.e:ged in tranacendt • , Oklaboi a I ih.i nu.k
portions the know,edge tna. ‘the menwVm^,'
the wavS 0t A'"MU* ru"‘,i *mr" ”> go lo -ohts.l m OkU-
' nomi If wf arc gmng to
n »*<* laming thc»ir eyes to thr
far west before they ran again1
find their way home, we are com-1
* iled to consider certain e|e-1
•-■nts of our responsibility to I
Each of them will re,. ,
- — 0 and cer-
tain educational opportunities. I
rki you know of anyone around j
you who ha* not accumulated!
Ur **<■'“ of $30o during the
idera-1 ■'p,r* that our fighting men and
I women have been engaged in
Iheir dangerous and vital, mis j
sions* Certainly no one ran he]
under the delusion that we are1
being generous with them In pm-|
- viding $.V»i mustering-out pay.!
w it'i J and certainly no one will deny
depend on you!,
fIV*
THE JANGLED
Frrnrb- speaking
Pans Montreal is the
largest French speaking
>A ARC, 816 80/
lay lAlS ROD akd reel/
m
Sheaffiics
Skfup
TUN
The \t*y uvb of ntultitwlea in war-lorn'
countriea depend on the filling of their des-
perate need for clothing
The demand a of Americe’a armed forces
■nd civilian need a arc ao treat that only a
■mall amount of new clothing can be -pa red
lor overaaaa relief.
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S'* *11 hut life itaalf toward the aaMMhlfr ’
iuH peace wa all are fiihtinl for.
Let’s |a< it .nit-and aeod it aC-
Coatpsnioas n ■
to make yout
pans and pencils write better.
****** wakes all peat last laager
theta clean by age aUee»
*■***■»>•■ dinjr. Sbeafer'a
atroager leads it all askn af
lm m$ pertmanE fact. Pint imp,**
*en. are UfMn« lmpra«ian* ... ha
•ure your caeFoman oat the beef
A beautiful, ttrikinf and dUhocfie#'
But af/ of ua ran apart some aervicaahla
i-+> provida tha 15# million
•hat must be collected this owsoth
What YOU Can
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