The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-18
4 R1zoNA 2 OF
IA AIR
by TEX HANCOCK
STRIKES

1t all seems foreign to our general
idea of democracy and of our own
United States.
To fight for a chance to work
seems within reason, but to refuse
to work and and fight to keep
others from working-who want
to work-that doesn't jibe with
out idea of things.
While we are whooping things
up to go over seas to fight for
democracy 1t would seem that
possibly a little fighting for it
here at home might be a logical
first step.
We have boasted much of our
freedom of expression here in the
United States, holding it up as
one of the advantages of demo
cracy over relationships. But an
ever increasing group of persons
over here is attempting to limit
what that freedom expression is.
This group is saying it is not
freedom to express yourself in
work-unless you do it our way.
Our members of congress are
becoming much disturbed over the
strike situation and soHe are
crying for legislation to curb it.
They should remember, however,
that they passed the legislation
that made it possible for the
unions to take control of the labor
field. We have felt for sometime
that they were thinking more of
the coming election, when they
capitulated to organized labor,
than they were of what was real
ly fair and just to all concerned.
While Europe burns we are
doomed to do a lot of fiddling
around before We set our house in
order. And the fiddling stands a
chance of delaying help overseas
until it is> too late.
To overcome the monopoly of
capitalism only to fall under the
rule of monopoly of labor leaves
he patient still sick with possibly
just another kind of malady.
THE LAST SQUEEZE
Ny tube of shaving cream
dwindled down next to empty. For
several days | reminded myself
that | should get a new one, that
the supply was gone. Each last
time | squeezed cream for shave
( told myself it was the last one.
But time for the next shave came
and still no new tubee, and so
picked up the old tube and sQueez-
ed hard, and got enough cream
for one more shave. | did this
five times, each tAle saying 1t
was the last.
When the tube was new and
full | was extravagant in the use
of it. | might even say Wasteful,
now. | was surprised, at the last,
to see how little cream fellow
could get a shave out of. Yester-
day | got the new tube. | started
out using it in liberal quantities
as beforehand the thought
struck me-we are that way about
ourselves.
While there are plenty of us-I
mean health, strength, youth-we
use ourselves extravagantly. When
the physical machine begins to fail
in its supply of strength, when
we lose health, we begin to
squeeze out an existence with de-
termination. And we are sur
prised, often, in ourselves and in
others, to see how long life lasts
that had once thought was al
ready finished.
recall that a few years ago
General Pershing was supposed to
have died in Tucson. The papers
had him dying every day for
over week. Flowers were
ordered from the coast, a car
load. for his funeral. But he
squeezed one more time on the
tube. He is still with us.
1t is this belief that there is
enough for one more shave that
keeps many a man from going un-
der. Certainly it keeps him going
far beyond what he would go II
he didn't believe it.
LAST WORD
The late DR.. Joseph Parker,
famous minister of London CITY
Tabernacle, found an envelope on
his pulpit desk one Sunday morn
ing. He opened it, thinking II
contained a question someone
wanted him to answer. The con-
tents, however, proved to be a
piece of paper with the word
"FOOK" printed in large letters.
He looked at it silently moment
and then said in a gruff voice:
II often receive communications
to which no signature is attached,
but it is vary rarely that | get a
communication which contains
nothing but the signature"
ANOTHER CASE