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The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08
Today and Tomorrow
automobiles
BY DON ROBERTSON

DEATH q automobiles
Not having driven a car any dis
tance on a busy highway since the
start of the war, | had almost for
gotten what a dangerous pastime
that is. But the other day | had
occasion to join in with a horn
footing, brake-screeching weekend
throng end although the traffic was
nothing compared with pre-Pearl
Harbor week ends, it was heavy
enough to serve as a reminder of
the dangers with which we will
have to contend when we Get back
to the good old days
The fact that the casualties on
our highways were higher, even
during 1943 and 1914, than were the
total number killed and wounded
on all of our battlefronts in those
two years, serves as a grim warn
ing of the destruction of human
lives which we can expect, begin
ing in 194x, when the ban on gaso-
line, on war speeds and on auto
mobile production are lifted
We can count on the heaviest
highway toll in history unless the
road engineers. the state licensing
authorities, the safety organization
and the law enforcement agencies
act, before that time comes, to
take strong effective measures to
keep automobile traffic under con-
troll.
Today the chief concern of our
nation, so far as postwar plans are
concerned, is the kind of inter
national set-up it is necessary to
have to prevent future wars. But,
when we compare figures on death
by automobile and death by war, 1t
seems equally important that a ma
tionwide plan be devised to pre-
vent murder on the highway front.
The figures show that when your
boy returns from war he will face
almost as grave a danger in driv-
ing an automobile as he did in
driving tank toward the Rhine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

who prefer different speeds is pro-
badly the greatest cause of acci-
dents.
If the pent-up wartime motorist
gets back to the normal" he Is
longing for, and once again is able
to enjoy the antics of "hogging"
or burning up" a busy road, the
Monday morning casualty lists will
be as gruesome as any which has
yet come out of the war.
SCIENCE , , & e force
Unfortunately, no matter how
much education on safe living
may be spread among our people,
and no matter how well law en-
forcement may be improved. it is
extremely doubtful if casualties can
be cut down to any great extent.
The only answer l can see for
making driving comparatively safe
is the application of all kinds of
new inventions to highway travel.
l do not know what new highway
improvements are now under con-
sinderation, but some which have
been mentioned as possible life
saving devices are:
Sse of the electric eye to make
it impossible for an automobile to
pass through a red light or to cross
a white line;
Mechanical speed traps, which
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

LAWS personalities
Contemplating on the post war
problem, while trying to obey the
war speed limit among a crowd
which seemed to have on such in
tention, l was made keenly aware
of how futile laws are in control
ling traffic unless they are strictly
enforced.
Speed law enforcement must in
the postwar years, be carried on
much more effectively than in the
past. Penalties will probably have
to be much more severe But more
important than laws will be the
necessity of educating every driver
concerning the need for such laws
-thet they are not made to curb
his pleasure but to save his life.
Somehow automobile drivers in
general have become the most i'm
patient, nerve-wracked group on
our American scene. A perfectly
placid individual at home adonts a
totally changed personality when
he gets behind a wheel. If he wants
to drive slowly, he works himself
into a state of furor over the other
drivers who keep speeding by. He
is often tempted to keep in the
center of the road in order to block
their progress. On the other hand,
if he is anxious to get somewhere
in a hurry, he becomes equally en-
ragged at the blankety-b blank slow
pokes who are in his way This
continuous battle between those
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08
Sales To Small
Towns Promise
Large Returns
Substantial slice of countrys
business to come from
ru-al areas says writer.

"Sales Potentials In Small
Towns" is the attention-arresting
caption of a special article which
appears in the December edition of
Domestic Commerce" official pub
lication of the U. S. Department of
Commerce. Written by Paul H.
Anderson of the Distribution Man
agement Unit, Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, the story
brings before all business men
many phases of small towns as out
lets for their products and incident
ally reveals the need for utilizing
daily and weekly newspapers as
media for reaching this vast reser-
voir of purchasing power. AS the
article is long, only excerpts are
published herewith.
"A substantial slice of the coun-
try's total output of goods after the
war will be purchased by farmers
when they make use of their accu-
mulating purchasing power to sat
isfy a pent-up and increasing back
log of denied wants.
Distributors can service the
bulk of this rich farm market
through the many small towns
which were never canvassed ex-
tensively in the pre-war days. The
magnitude of opportunity for sell
ing these small towns and through
them the surrounding rural areas
is reflected in the statistics on re-
tail sales and population.
The Census of Business shows
that. during 1889, sales by retail
merchants doing business in rural
areas and urban places with $500
or less people amounted to some
: billion dollars. and accounted for
173 percent of the Nations total
retail sales. To marketers it is
significant that A percent of the
1910 population lived in these small
communities and rural areas"
Since 1899 and particularly
since the advent of war. significant
financial and other changes have
occurred in agriculture. These war
time shifts are particularly vital to
marketing men who must sell the
large volume of goods that must be
produced If we are to have full en-
ployment in the reconstruction per-
iod ahead"
"Nearness to the market,
which is the people, gives the
small-town merchant an intimate
acquaintance with his customers.
1t is his chief advantage over COM
petitors. and when combined with
sufficient quantities of goods to
provide an adequate selection, the
small-town merchant will have little
difficulty in attracting his rural
trade. But in so doing he must
have the assistance of his suppli-
ers. Both stand to gain from their
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

Perhaps you do not like the
idea of an anesthetic that puts
you to sleep or makes you
become unconscious. On the 9TH
er hand you wonder what general
effect upon your MUD nd body
will result from havi-g al- iajec
ton into this spine.
Your physician will reas-ure
you as to the safety of spinal
anesthesia. You are afraid be
fore the operation which saves
your strength. Also there is Do
shock, no gas formation 40 vorn
iting that follows ethel q, h'ore
form. OF course there are Ger
tain conditions where Sn.nsI
anesthesia Is not advisable.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

. Mrs. Earvveline Palmer Parker
was taken to Florence Hospital
Saturday, where she is reported to
be improving.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

which, in the aggregate, will repre-
sent a huge sales potential that can
be realized if distributors and mar
keting men recognize their oppor-
tunity, and seize it."
The article concludes with a
table showing by town-size groups
the farmer deposits on town banks
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

. Miss Lee Ella Odom has been
initiated into the Pan American
Club at Colorado Womans College,
Denver, Colorado, according to
word received from there this week
The features of this groups activi-
ties are the presentation of playlets
and novel in Spanish.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-08

can be changed in location daily,
and which will automatically in
form police officials of any car
which violates speed laws;
New highway lighting systems
which produce light comparable to
daylight and make visibility just
as good as it is in the daytime;
Automobile lights which make it
easy to see IN fog.
Those are just a few possibilities
but they indicate how science
may eventually be able to force us
to live longer even though we can
not be persuaded to take voluntary
precautions.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-12-02
WASHINGTON
BEARS NOW
PHILLY BOYS

WAshiNfToN AMI slAl-
y MS i.ms az tho year. .
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season eta fae as'Al'.ss 81 pro
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segonl yts ;aey ~ere iarnet over
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-12-02

bored With Joe LOUIS.
Pat took Billy conn 70 their
heaTts Mos, Of them are now
rredH'irs Conn VIII whip Louis
n they ever meet aeain That's
natural British reaction The
british can watch two clever box
crs 60 ~ rounds without a punch
(ContinEed on page i2l
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-12-02
Robinson Brilliant in Defeat OF Dellicant
1874 Fraternal Cage Champion
Defeats Al-Stars As Season OpsD,

The Phi BETA sls-t
ty, winner Of last years
nal Basketball Leasae
from behind to data,
Stars by the score
Thanksgiving nist al
Antoine lWcA. The Al
ihe League were tarsss.s.
Tavern smith Tom 81.
witt Williams CAna3
as Nillic bryant, Th-6
l'arer Virgin Jones sons. M
fdtie Evans wilNe S
Charles Wilson THn
a flfihg start hoeae
lrnfni- lr-- ~ rae s IS
FIRST qaarifr The Sis4 p
Siorfs'feft Ni.aN
William Broaar.
Murray jackson
oon pgi on press.
ihe Ssme ~ me last
81 play
IsroadnaA Nho
Lang goal >ets,d
~hca fais fosfs w
peeemhor . b. Aiff
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-12-02
LOFTS DISAPPOINTED
british CRITICS.

II sce where ne Fn1iish hcx-
rr writer's are fAgcfatly inn
dressed with orr paly Conn who
= over on the other side giving
tShloitlons FOR tho entertainment
~ hafilc-~eary serve men Ac-
ording to report In Pill Corr
ems corner. the -g7ri'ish critics
we're disappointed and triile
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-12-02
BREWSTER KEEPS HARLEM BOYS
TOO BUSY FOR USUAL TRICKS;
WINS HOLIDAY CAGE TILT

Playing before one o. the
largest THANKSGIVING crowds in
iae history az he center Brew
sitr five defeated the Harlem
Globe TroIiers 50 10 IS Bress,er
took the lead after few seconds
a play and kep' thai lead until
'he final gun when the FIRST half
ended Brewster WAS our N fgort
~ points Brewster Is. Globe
tgoiiers ~
Mhen the final half got under
wsy- the local quintet turned on
'ne heat hnt their rivals made
several Ions shots that puf them
LACK il the game VIXEN mo game
erced Brs nSier MAS s,al hold-
ING Tas' afc po.a, lead
What. No Tricks'
The Globe Trot'trs famous FOR
'he h.cder ha. TRICK and many
'thers d.dr have time 20 80 .r,o
their trick has The crowd VAS
s-rprisef iQr no, one time did
tsil former Norld champs spin me
tat go iheir FINGERS The crowd
ser,ed sn UPSET after tho first
hslf when Brewster oaiplayes
'her ara ono spectator ie- or a
ioQt v What. so tricks to-
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-12-02
POWELL
OUTPOINTS
PEAKS
b. ALFONSO caro-

sampson Powell. the great local
iniddleweishi. evened the count
With Buster Peaks at Arcadia
las, Monday night, Soy 20. when
ho defeated his rival In the man
event Powell won eight OF ne
ten rounds and looked fresh
enough 20 so ten more when the
tght Was over Referee slim
Heneses bad 70 stop the clever
Peaks from holding on several
times ia the rshi Peaks won the
first round and the third round.
hu, from then on me hard HIT
ting Powell was master OF the
efening Powell had 10 follow
bis opponent agound the ring "a
order 70 sci good shot AZ his
target several times Peaks iriea
10 stand tee 10 TOE win Powell
and siuS j; oui hai had 10 give
sround 20 ne man whom he had
defeated Ia ;hs same ring year
50 Powell was GOO! throughout
he NSh and looked ike real
ehAnmpn
viii Meet tll Comcr>
GRADY Jackson and Thomas
Game managers Ok Powell. err
nouucsd ihai ineir tighter would
,..-t 4 al
Evening star., 1944-10-22

James L. Edwards Samuel McKenney
John s. Nevins, Paul Stevens and B. M.
Miller
Temperance Society of the Methodist
Protestant Church, Georgetown-Paul
Stevens and Joel Brown.
Alexandria Temperance SocieJy Vt.
Smith, H. Stringfellow, C. F. Lee, J.
Vanzant and John Withers.
Temperance Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Alexandria-Wil
Veitch, Benoni Wheat, John Wood, Ben
jamin Waters and DR.. Joseph Wheel
right.
Rock Creek Temperance Society-The
Rev. c. Wiltberger, Washington Berry,
George H. Marshall, Caleb Perkins and
Enos Ray.
Eastern Temperance Society of Wash
ington-William Doughty, ST.; James
Friend, George H. Grant. Thomas
Blagden and William Doughty, jr.
Francis Scott Key Report
Tenleytown Temperance Society-Jo-
seph Foreman, George Shoemaker, Aza
Gladman, Daniel Lightfoot and John
Harry.
AS early as July 4, 1885, we find the
Evening star., 1944-10-22
Temperance in Washington
Bv John CIagett Proctor

BY John Clagett Proctor.
If there ever was an opportune time
for reviving the old temperance organ
izations Of this city that time is GER
tainly now, when the need for such
bodies never was greater.
At one time, and until the eighteenth
or prohibition amendment went into ef-
feet in 1920, there were at times many
temperance societies in Washington.
where young men and young girls in
particular could go and spend pleasant
evening in refined atmosphere.
Indeed, at nearly all the temperance
meetings in the '80s and '9Os where
the young folk would gather there would
always be wholesome entertainment.
followed by dancing, which afforded
them good time in a decent way. OF
these organizations the writer recalls
especially Minnehaha Lodge No. /, Good
Templars, which met in Timms' Hall,
then on the top floor over the clothing
store of George F. Timms Co. 400 Sew
enth street NV. Millers, and later
Johns Restaurant, occupied quarters in
the basement part of the building.
Minnehaha Lodge met on Tuesday
Evening star., 1944-10-22

evenings, and in addition to dancing the
program put on by the young people
generally included the popular recita-
tions of the day. including "Casabianca, :"
Somebody's Mother" and Punch,
Punch, Punch With Care while Lar
board Watch" and "Babys Left the
Cradle and other songs of that period
were sung by amateur talent. Every one
had good time and went home sober
and happy.
Many Drinking Places
Among those who attended these
meetings were George w. Rea. A. Kali
strom, M. P. Caldwell William T. Bailey,
Charles. D. Bond, Harry A. Coleman,
Stella Harbough and Minnie Nye, who
resided at Tenth and Q streets NV, and
ever so many others.
The question Of encouraging temper
ance in this country has always been
a great problem and dates back to the
very beginning of the republic In the
District of Columbia it was agitated from
the first by the number of drinking
places then permitted to exist here.
there being at an early date an esti-
mated number of ESQ in Washington,
Georgetown and the county, or an aver
age of one for every 90 persons.
w. B. Bryan tells us that in 1872 the
average had become one licensed place
to every 5l2 inhabitants. indicating that
at the latter date the situation had
greatly improved
Mr.. Bryan also tells us that in the
early days of temperance bodies here
distinction was made between distilled
and fermented drinks, as in the consti-
tuition of the Franklin Temperance So
ciety of Washington, having a mem
bership chiefly Of printers, which
barred forms of liquors except in
cases of bodily hurt or sickness" but
Evening star., 1944-10-22

did not prohibit the moderate use of
malt liquor, wine or cider. Unfortu-
nately, only the names of the first three
officers of this society have come down
to us: Reuben Johnson, president; A.
Rothwell, vice president, and s. A. Ell
liot, secretary.
An earlier organization than the
Franklin Society was the Temperance
Society of Washington, which held its
preliminary meeting in the City Hall on
July 2l, 1928, and later selected
William Cranch as president; Rev. DR..
Robert B. Semple, vice president;
James L. Edwards, treasurer, and John
Coyle, jr., secretary. The directors were
the Revs. John Davis, Reuben Post, Obe-
diah B. Brown, Andrew Coyle and James
H. Handy. Mr.. Cranch later was for
many years the chief justice of the
District of Columbia Court and jurist
greatly esteemed and regarded even to
this day for his many valuable decisions.
Naturally of interest are the names
OF those Washingtonians who repre-
sented their respective societies at the
forming of the Temperance Union Of
the District Of Columbia in 1882. They
were:
Evening star., 1944-10-22

supreme body meeting in the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Alexandria, then
a part of the District of Columbia, at
which time the officers for the ensuing
year were selected and the managers for
the union decided upon, as follows:
John Shackford, president; Marina
duke Dove, first vice president; Thomas
Turner, second vice president; Benoni
Wheat, third vice president; John Coyle,
corresponding secretary; Floroardo
Howard, recording secretary, and z. w.
Denham, treasurer.
At this period Francis Scott Key,
author of THE Star Spangled Banner"
was the United States district attorney
for the District Of Columbia and was
called upon for report on the criminal
cases prosecuted by him and their
bearing In relation to drunkenness
After giving the information requested,
he concluded by saying:
This will show what the United
States pays annually in Washington
County in the prosecution and punish
vigilant police and the suppression of
dram shops would diminish it at least
one-haf"
Members of Congress soon became
interested in the temperance move
ment, especially in connection with the
American Congressional Temperance
Society, formed in 1888, where 100 mem
bers Of Congress and officers of the Gov
ernment are reported to have signed the
constitution Of their society and pledged
themselves "by example and moral in
f1uence to discountenance the use of
ardent spirits and its traffic" But ap-
parently this did not stop members of
Congress from wanting their toddy, for
few years later the Temperance Union
OF the city deplored the sale of intoxi-
Evening star., 1944-10-22

coal has made her heavy metallurgical
industries poor fourth in Europe She
leans more to fine craftsmanship in
small plants than to mass output
West of the Paris Basin lies the area
generally referred to as the West" It
includes the western half of Normandy
(the "bocage country where the most
terrible fighting of the French cam
palgn took place., all of Brittany and
the Vendee, south of Nantes There
Yanks have noticed the traditionalism
often pictured as the dominant charac-
terlstlc OF French farmers Parisians
joke about Norman and Breton provin-
cials. but are glad to have the Vests
rich buffers and cheeses on their tables
The French frontier is nearly all nat
ural. The English Channel, the Atlantic
Ocean, the Pyrenees Mountains the
Mediterranean Sea, the Alps, the Jura
Mountains, the Rhine River and the
Ardennes uplift leave very little geo.
graphically unprotected border. The
Alps and the Pyrenees for centuries cut
OIL land communication between France
and her Latin sisters-1taly and Spain.
The low Land on either side of the Ar
dennes, however, allowed passage to ag-
gressor Germany across Belgium and
through the Saar.
In area France equals Texas without
the Panhandle. Her pr--ar population
''42,oo ,o0o) was nearly seven times that
OF the Lone Star State but less than
Englands or Italy's and far below that
OF Germany. More than half of all
Frenchmen were farmers or fishermen
living in small villages.
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raw silk production. French cocoon
growers once supplied silk for the mills
of Lyon Though now importing most
of its raw silk, Lyon has remained Eu-
ropes silk center.
The Aquitaine Basin around Bor-
deauX and the Garonne River. is the
southWesternmost extremity of the
great Northern European plain that
stretches to Russia. In climate and
economy it is halfway between the
Mediterranean region and the Paris
Basin; like the former it is warm and
grows grapes, like the latter its main
crop Is wheat and it has plenty of ram.
Lie is easy in the Aquitaine. Toulouse,
at the edge of the basin. was prewsr
Frances fastest growing city, with in
dustrles run by water power from the
Pyrenees Mountains.
The Paris Basin is the north-central
fourth OF France. In some respects 1t is
france. Paris owes It's location and i'm
portance to the geologic layout of the
basin, to its fertility and climate. and
to accessible routes provided by the
Seine and Loire Rivers.
The basin is breadbasket, dairy barn
and butcher shop. 1t is one Of the most
self-suff1cient regions In the world,
Paris relies on it almost entirely for
Sustenance-a direct contrast to London.
which imports nearly all foodstuffs.
At the edges of the basin, along the
Belgian border and in disputed Lor-
ralne, lie Frances comparatively undo
Veloped mineral riches France ranks
nrst IN Europe in iron ore reserves.
but her lack of an abundant cokinp
Evening star., 1944-10-22
How Long Can Germany Last?

Gen. Goering recently told an audi
ence: Whatever we have to suffer to-
day by air attacks, whatever we have
TO suffer in discomforts, in losses, in
most bitter and cruel things; all that
is nothing compared to what would
happen to us if only one of our enemies
had chance"
On the second point, the National
Aeltung of Essen said in a recent edi-
torial:
we must clearly realize that it is
an absolute fact that our enemies
wanted this war at all costs unless we
bowed to their demands in advance
Particularly during this final phase the
enemy Is endeavoring to confuse us, as
though we could possibly have avoided
war by assuming different policy"
Secret Weapons
For many months, as German armies
retrteated in Poland, Italy and. later.
france, the Nazi government attempt-
ed to buoy up the hope of the people
as well as the soldiers by fantastic
propaganda about the coming secret
weapons" which would win the war
speedily. When rocket bombs" began
hitting London, their promises were
given some point.
NOW this propaganda line seems to be
changing. Very significantly, the Ger
man official news agency DNB a few
days ago broadcast to the German Army
newspaper, Front Und Heimat, an ar
ticle which warned against placing too
much faith in the vengeance" wea-
pons.
Declaring that some persons were let
ting their imagination run riot" the
agency told the soldiers that "our last
decisive strength lies in ourselves"
A Hopeless People
That, then, is the picture of Germany
today, so far as it can be drawn from
information f1ltering outside the bor-
oers OF the Reich-a hopeless people
held under check by police brutality,
inspired to believe that peace would
be even worse than war, and fed bv
vain hopes that somehow, some time
victory will be theirs.
How long the Germans can hold out
no one can guess. Some observers be-
heve that with the coming of bitter
winter homeless. underfed people will
revolt, despite the worst that Himmler
can do. But there is no certainty of
that.
The American Government today is
pinning its hopes of victory solely on
the increasing might Of the Allied
armies.