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VOL. XIX
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Coal mining is hard,
dirty and dangerous
business and John L.
Lewis, another great
humanitarian, is
doing a great work
in his efforts to
take his men out of
the mines and keep
them out. I don’t
have the figures
showing how many coal
miners there were
thirty, twenty or ten
years ago, but I am
reasonably certain
that the number is
decreasing every
year and that it
is only a question
of time when coal
mining in this
country will be a
thing of the past and
it is just as well;
fuel oil and gas will
be used altogether
for heating and for
industrial purposes. •
John Lewis has gone
at it in an indirect
way but one that is
proving very effec
tive. Some day when
there is no more oil
and gas in this
country it may be
necessary to go back
to mining coal, but
good old John has
been making it so
expensive and so
inconvenient to heat
homes and office
buildings with coal
that other means will
soon be used one
hundred per cent.
Then those miners
who will not be
drawing their SIOO
a month pensions
will be getting
their unemployment
compensation 52
weeks in the year
(until eligible for
pensions) and John
will draw retirement
pay which will be
the same amount he
now draws as salary,
|50,000 a year. That
coal miner who was
thrown out of the
union for heating
his home with gas
was twenty years
ahead of his time.
BISBEE, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950
DOWN IN COCHISE COUNTY
By George Bideaux
TOO LITERATE?
We read about
Those spuds in Maine
And now our souls
Are filled with pain.
As we reflect
On that foul deed
We wish we’d never
Learned to read.
—pete
History has always repeated it
self and we suppose that it always
will. Sometimes, tho, it comes
around in a cycle so fast that it
leaves us breathless. It seems as
tho it were only yesterday that
Hennery Wallace killed those lit
tle pigs and we were porkless for
many a moon. The hue and cry
that went up seemed to preclude
any like attempt for some time to
come. But now the potatoes—and
we shelling out sheckels for food
for the welfare groups the while.
Sure, we know that there are two
sides to the question or probfem
or whatever you want to call it.
But isn’t there someone in all this
great country with brains enough
to figure out some way of saving
all that good provender? We may
need it come another year and a
possible crop failure.
For we are sending plenty
abroad in these days of good
times. When we read about the
lettuce and grapefruit being de
stroyed under our very noses,
(and who can blame the grower
for wanting to get his cost of pro
duction, at least), we wonder about
the whole business. Of course we
could blame it onto Congress, like
some folks do everything else they
don’t like. They never think of
blaming themselves. Oh! certain
ly the other fellows subsidy should
be abolished in order that prices
be lowered and living costs cut.
But how about the worker, the
farmer, the business man and
manufacturer? We all want our
own particular subsidy, no thot
about the day of reckoning there.
Speaking of Congress, by the
time this is read the vote on the
Colorado River deal will have been
taken in the Senate. We are mak
ing no predictions at this time nor
will we prognosticate the vote in
the House if it reaches that delib
erative body. But we know for
certain that whatever the outcome
our little Congressional delegation
deserves a lot of praise for the
battle they have put up. Califor
nia has the power, the money, the
advantage of being a key state
with thousands of votes against
our few. But they know that
they’ve been in a fight. Sen. Ern
est McFarland has worked day
and night spearheading the attack.
PICTURE OF A DISBRUNT
LED U. S. SENATOR—One Alex
ander Wiley (R. Wis.), announced
his opposition to the Central Ari
zona Project measure last Friday
and called upon his colleagues in
the Great Lakes basin states to
support his stand. His reason for
doing this, he stated, is because
the senate has not passed the St.
Lawrence waterway bill. Wiley,
never noted for statesmanship in
(Continued on Page Four)
RYDING THE RANGE WITH
JACK VAN RYDER
FEPC, or the Betrayal of
White Americans
If every individual in the Unit
ed States would try to understand
(most do) what this vicious piece
of legislation means, there would
be an uproar coming across the
country which would make the ex
plosion of many atom bombs seem
like a firecracker in the hands of
a child.
If only the members of Con
gress would forget the slogan,
“Thar’s votes in my state in that
, thar hokum,”
' 1 a nd would vote
their exact con
-7.' I victions on this
' communis t i c
piece of fallacy,
I doubt if it
\ would get 75
“ A v es ” ou *
f j the entire
isd membership of
the House of Representatives
which number 435 ... It is a most
brazen attempt, and dangerous
skullduggery, to fasten upon the
white people of America a sys
tem of subjugation and control by
alien and minority groups that has
been since the fall of the Roman
Empire . . . were the readers of
this column acquainted with the
names, the background and the
subversive activities of the spon
sors of this legislation, the Amer
ican would call a sudden halt to
the career of his Congressman
should he favor this sell-out of the
white race.
The protection and sanctity this
organization would get by law
would destroy everything that we
told the American soldier he was
fighting for. Instead of liberty,
free speech, free enterprise, free
dom and democracy, he would find
himself sold into bondage, herded
like sheep and cattle, humiliated,
and regimented by alient influ
ences directed by Moscow ... in
the form of the destructive doc
trine of Karl Marx, which prin
ciples dominate hatred of Chris
tianity, and everything based upon
those ideals.
This bill, if passed, will be a
manifestation in legislative form
of that infidelity that has closed
thousands of Christian churches
in Europe and has been respon
sible for the liquidation (murder to
you) of not thousands, but mil
lions, of honest and upright Chris
tians.
This bill is not directed entirely
against the white folks of the
South. Were this the only reason,
the white folks in the North would
have no reason whatever to worry
. . . The South knows how,'and
does take care of its subversive
elements, and that is no fooling.
Henry Grady said at one time
when the South wrested itself
from such domination, “When the
Federal drumbeat hedged closer
to the ballot box of the South than
it ever will again in this Repub
lic.”
It seems that the people of the
North would realize what this mea
sure would mean; not only to their
present existence, but to the off
spring who are the future of this
great land of ours . . . The FEPC
will bring strife, hatred, race-riots
(Continued on Page Four)
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
RATTLING THE BOARDS
With Mac
There are so many reasons why
the fans and business men of Bis
bee and Douglas, should raise $lO,-
000 to finance the Copper Kings
this coming season that it seems a
shame that the baseball commit
tees of the two communities
should not be able to reach their
respective goals, $5,000 for each
city. The principal trouble in Bis
bee is that there are not enough
workers to see every one who
might be interested in coming
in with ten bucks or more. Prob
ably the same thing is the case in
Douglas.
One of the reasons why the
fans and others of Bisbee and
Douglas want baseball is that it
affords entertainment for thou
sands of people for almost half of
the year. It is the policy of the
club officials to put the cost for
the youngsters at little or noth
ing; they realize that the boys and
girls are the future fans and be
sides it furnishes them good clean
entertainment. When a working
man donates ten dollars toward
the ball club he is helping some
youngsters see some ball games
this summer. He is inspiring both
the boys and girls to become
sports minded and to take part
in athletics in their school pro
grams.
The boys read of such success
ful baseball players as Pete Vu
curevich, Buster Adams and Clary
Maddern, all of whom were born
right here in Bisbee and who are
now playing in Organized Ball.
Some of the boys now playing on
their grammar school and high
school teams will make baseball a
career; if they prove to have the
ability and can make the grade
they can in future years make not
only a good living but something
more. The salaries at the top and
even below the top in baseball are
very good.
The high school and Junior Le
gion players will have every op
portunity to work out this sum
mer with the Copper Kings and
Manager Buck Elliott will be glad
to help the boys in every way he
can. There will be morning prac
tice in Warren Park during the
season, as the members of the •
team will be living in Bisbee, and
amateur players will have the op
portunity not only of watching and
learning but of working out.
Yuma will have a team in the
Sunset League this year, but it
will be at a considerable larger ex
pense than the local fans are being
put to. About $25,000 has been
raised as the club there had to
start from scratch. The rent of
the park is S2OOO (here there is no
park rent as the School Board has
donated its use for the club) and
there is the problem of getting
players, as the club is operating
independently and must find play
ers where it can. The Bisbee-
Douglas Club had a very sad expe
rience in doing just that last
spring, both sad and expensive,
but this year it will be different,
neither sad nor expensive.
But if Yuma can raise $25,000
why can’t Bisbee and Douglas
raise SIO,OOO between them?
Why???
Art Lilly, an ex-leaguer, will
(Continued on Page Eight)
DON’S
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No. 52
Advertising Sins: Speaking be
fore a group of advertising men in
Reno recently, James E. McCar
thy, dean of the school of com
merce at Notre Dame, said in parti
“People are becoming word-weary
and bewildered by the clamor of
advertising voices demanding to be
heard.
“We have run out of words,
breath and adjectives in our ex
uberance to extoll the merits of
advertised products. Simplicity,
honesty, straightforwardness and
sincerity have been subordinated
to cleverness, wordiness, shallow
ness and an implied contempt for
the thinking and mental processes
of the people to whom it addresses
itself.
“Are the seven deadly sins —■
pride, covetousness, lust, anger,
envy, gluttony and sloth—the hard
core around which advertising!
copy and avertising appeal must
be based? ...”
Those who read the advertise
ments and hear them on the radio
can say “Amen” to the Dean’s ob
servations. The biggest sinners, I
would say, are the cigarette and
soap makers. In cigarettes, the
hypocritical offerings of one brand
which started the therapeutical
claims of cigarettes by saying “Not
a cough in a carload,” but which,
now disowns such claims, and off
ers “A treat instead of a treat
ment” are nauseating. And the
claims of super-mildness, heaven
ly delights, physical and mental
improvements to be had from
smoking other brands, are hard to
inhale.
As for soap, no soap ever made
will beautify the complexion as
per claims. And the various
brands of laundry soaps made by
the same manufacturer insult the
intellect by claiming that each
brand is better than the other. Duz
does everything whiter, cleaner,
easier, faster than any soap on
earth. But the half dozen other
brands made by this company does
even more than that!
Locally, merchants have started
turning out home-grown singing
commercials. Anything that hits
your ear-drums the hardest is con
sidered effective. A local real es
tate dealer uses a kettle drum,
background with a female chant
ing the advantages of buying a
home he has for sale.
Advertising is an essential part
of our American way of life, but
much of it the buying public
views with disgust even though
they tolerate it.
Short Thoughts: It’s rodeo time
in Tucson, and the dudes are diked
out in their frontier pants. May
be they should be called REARtier
pants—some of the lady dudes
have a bigger tier in the rear than
in the front. . . Truman put a fact
finding board to work op the coal
strike. The sad fact there is John
L. Lewis —why look farther? . . .
Some of my business letters are
answered by returning them to
me with pencilled notes at the bot
tom. At least that’s better than a
reply from a third assistant secre
tary . . . The Hopalong Cassidy
(William Boyd) Enterprises advis
es me that I’ll be involved in a
lawsuit if I publish a song with
the words “hop alpng” as denot
ing movement in it. Ok—l’ll make
my cowboy song “Git Along, Slop
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