Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-06-26
WHAT! NO NEW AUTO MODELS?

| changes IN auCOmOD1le mOQelS our
ing this year, but the decision should
not be made except as last resort.
Few things will break down the mo-
rale of the people more than sud-
den suspension of their ancient right
to trek down to the annual auto show
and see how many gadgets have
been shifted.
There is limit to sacrifice. And
it may be reached when you ask
Americans to go through whole
year in which even the windows in
automobiles open the same way they
did before
You can get Gus @. Citizen to
give up many things in crisis with
out squawk. He will give up meat,
cut down on fuel, and if necessary
climb into uniform to defend his
country, but when you ask him to
take calmly the news that Detroit
will turn out sedans with the humps
and bulges unchanged, you're TAX
ing chance on Instruction.
Elmer Twitchell is among those
Mortified by the prospect and he has
written the following appeal to the
President:
"Dear Franklin:
eff you want the morale of Amer
lea kept intact, do something at
once to stop this idea of no changes
in auto models during the emer-
gency. Year after year, through
| floods, fires, dust storms, quakes,
strikes, erosions and depressions, no
matter what happened to the coun-
| try, automobile models came out
every season full of changes. The
more trouble, the more changes.
And the people of America are not
going to feel that everything is all
right if cars come out next fall
with the starting button right where
it is today, and with the gear shift
not lowered, raised, hidden or cam
oufaged in any way.
81 think l could stand news of
an American reverse in battle bet
ter than l could endure the sudden
realization that the ash trays in
our limousines were to be left as in
the 1941 models, and that nobody
had decided on new type of bump
er.
"Franklin, if we are to come
through this great crisis okay, don't
prevent those auto makers from
monkeying with the gadgets, color
schemes and front ends. It's little
things like that that undermine con-
fidence, kill causes and lose wars.
"Of course I want the auto in
dustry to concentrate on defense, but
it must make a few changes in the
limousine and roadster models if
we are to remain happy people.
See that the least they do is to keep
shifting the doorknobs.
"Yours for unity and harder
search for the starting button every
season,
ELMER Twitchell."
And we think Elmer is right. If
the President doesn't do something,
congress should.
FOOT NOTE
Some of our lady knitters-
Their spirit can't be beat
Seem to think the British soldier
Runs to large and lumpy feet.
Length and strength are featured
Rather than the fit;
Heaven help the British army
In some of those socks they knit
We understand that the new movie
''Hudson's Bay had a tough time
getting through under that title. A
lot of Hollywood people wanted to
call it "Bay Meets Girl"
The height of something or other:
an advertisement by racing tip
ster claiming POSITIVELY no guess
work"
LAFAYETTE, WE ARE HERE!
Modern versiOn.)
From Rome they started out to fight
Old Egypt's troops who wear the
fez,
And British soldiers in their might
Who man the forts that guard
Suez.
A quarter million strong they fare
To Libya colony's cleaning
strands,
And thence to swarm by land and
air
Gross Egypt's leagues of desert
sands.
Suez at last No victory's throne!
No flash of arms No bugles,
clear!
Seventy thousand captives drone,
"Mussolini, we are here!"
w. F. Dix.
PREPAREDNESS
| Hi
l saw d fellow walking up and
down a gangplank naked, blindfold-
ed and wearing roller skate on one