The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice in Grand Saline,
Texas, under the Act of March 2, 1879_
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
4-H Clubs Celebrate
This week the nation is saluting its million and a half
4-H Club members who are doing war service on the
rural front. About 75,000 of these boys and girls are
Texans, according to figures from the State 4-H head-
quarters. And more than 1,000 are Van Zandt County
boys and girls. . .
National 4-H Club Week, April 5-11, is also a good
time to give recognition to the thousands ot other people
who are contributing to the success of the 4-H move-
ment, in the opinion of H. H. Williamson, director of
the Texas A. and M. College Extension Service.
He explains that there are 2,386 men who are giving
their services as adult leaders for the 1,1*71 boys’ 4-H
Clubs in the state plus 2,223 women who are serving as
sponsors for the 2,010 girls’ clubs. “It s all volunteer
work. These local leaders get no financial compensa-
tion blit the satisfactions of helping build future leaders
and of community service,” Director Williamson ex-
Pl4-H work in Texas is directed by the Texas A. and M.
College Extension Service. Working with farm youth
is one of the major jobs of the state’s 285 county agricul-
tural and assistant agertts and 217 county home demon-
stration and assistant agents. Assisting 4-H Club mem-
bers and helping county extension agents in their club
activities are jobs of Onah Jacks, state girls’ club agent;
L. L. Johnson, state boys’ club agent; and J. W. Potts, as-
sistant state boys’ club agent, and of other members of
the extension headquarters staff.
M. L. Wilson is director of Extension Work on a na-
tional level, and C. E. Potter, R. A. Turner, Gertrude L.
Warren, Madge J. Reese, and W. G. Lehman are extens-
ion field agents assigned to 4-H Club work.
The record made by Van Zandt County 4-H Clubs,
under the leadership of M. B. Hill. Assistant County
Agent and Miss Marjorie Miller, Assistant Home Dem-
onstration Agent, is a source of satisfaction and pride
to the thinking people of the county.
I GIVE
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TEXAS
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YOUR HEALTH
By DR. GEO. W. COX
State Health Officer
Guard Against Typhus
Austin, Texas, April 9—Typhus
fever is fast developing into a seri-
ous health menace in Texas accord-
ing to Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health
Officer, who today issued an apipeal
for every Texan to cooperate in the
prevention of this dread disease.
“Last year, the greatest .number of
cases in the history of the state were
reported, when there was a total of
733 cases of typhus fever in Texas.
While there were only forty-six cases
of typhus fever reported during the
first twelve weeks of last year, during
the same period of this present year,
here have been 131 cases, “iDr. Cox
stated. “With the peak of this disease
occuring in August, if the present
trend is continued, we may expect
Penipsey-Tunney fight—(the battle serious conditions resulting from ty-
of the long count). That afternoon, phus by the end of summer.”
Rip had gone through the "poster The type of typhus fever occuring
paper” i.y hand—the extra was to be in Texas is known as enedeuni or
. ] printed on colored paper—ami remov- ; Brill’s disease, and is transmitted to
! hoy have acniev-le.l all the yell.-.w sheets as he didn’t'human beings from infected rats, by
od State-wide recognition for their work in pork produc- L™,?1 t(‘ b* calk“l a "•vo!lov "^'^.^/^c^irh^ilh
tion and their annual Pig Show, staged at Grand Saline
No romance and fun to getting out
weekly paper?
I remember when I used to write
all the news for the daily paper in
Eastland, then take off most of one
day each week to go over to Ranger
anti help Rip Galloway get out a small
weekly he was issuing in competition
with the Ranger daily.
Never will I forget the night when
we put out an “extra” on the second
fight—(the battle
is known all over the state.
We suggest that pur readers pass along a word of ap-
preciation and encouragement to these boys and girls
and their leaders this week, ft is the least you can do.
FOSJDEFENSE
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Our country must be preserved at any cost.
What we sacrifice now in the way of money for de-
fense and fo rthe prosecution of the war, is but lit-
tle compared with the loss of liberty that will fol-
low an Axis victory.
LET EVERY AMERICAN DO HIS PART
Contributed by
THE GRAND SALINE SUN
| Three pages were set and "made , hazard, and a consistent program of
■ up" ourlv; all that was needed was the yat poisoning, rat trapping, and rat
| news of the fight. We knew our proofing will materially aid in the
! friends over at the daily also planned control of typhus in Texas.
! an extra and we hoped against hope Dr. Cox stressed tile fact that it is
_a ith our little press pitted against the patriotic duty of every Texan to
their big, high-speed one—that we cooperate in maintaining the highest
could beat them on the street. | possible health level, and the eradica-
When the first few copies of our tion of rats will promote tihe control of
paper had been run off, Galloway typhus among our civilian .population
grabbed them and head for the news as well as our armed forces.
'stand. By that time, another six or I ---
seven copies had been printed, so I Myrtle Springs 4-H Club girls ad-
seized them and started for the news |(|ej a bit of cheer for boys from bheir
community now in the army. They
made five boxes of cookies for these
boys and included letters and notes
on what is happening “back home”.
stand, too.
1 was hatless, coatless, tieless, hair
disheveled, face streaked with print-
er’s ink. Somebody yelled “Boy, let
me have one of those papers”—and I
sold all of them before I could get to
the stand. - j wholly laughed can be altogether lr-
Yes, sir, we beat the daily out. i reelaimably bad.
- I Wonder is the basis of worship; the
Limericks were Woodrow Witeon’s : reign of wonder is perennial, indes-
favorite form of humor. Here’s one | tructiole in man.
that sound new:
There was a young man of Fort
Worth,
Who was born on the day of his
birth.
He was married, some say,
On his wife’s wedding day,
And he died when the quitted the
earth.
An idea is all you nee! for success.
This observer has known Victor
Cornelius quite a few years, begin-
ning away back when Cornelius was I
painting signs in Eastland—-where he
still lives. But lie’s making round
a thousand dollars a month—and all
because he thought of constructing
napkin holders with a slot in the side
into which can be slid a card tolling
what’s at the picture show. Now his
service has spread to almost every
State in the Union; your columnist
saw his napkin-holders and cards on
restaurant and drug-htore counters,
even in Hollywood.
Incidentally, I’ve been working on I
ar> idea for years; rubber dishes. The
advantage is that when you drop one,
it won’t break but will bounce right
back into your hand. I had the thing
just about worked out—and then came
the rubber shortage.
Rightly viewed, no meanest object
| is insignificant; all objects are as
windows through which the philiso-
phic eye looks into Infinitude itself.
I Produce! Produce! Were it but the
pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a
' product, produce it, in God’s name!
| 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee:
out with it, then. Wlkitsoever thy
! hand findeth to do, do it with thy
! whole might. Work while it is called
Today; for the night eometh wherein
| no man can work.
Matt Moore of the DeLeon
Press is responsible for this:
My gas tank is gas-leass,
My crankcase is oil-less,
I’m getting more drive-less
day;
My wheels are all tire-less,
My radio’s wire-less-
They all lhave been taken away.
IMy driving’s suspended,
My walking’s beginded,
I don’t know just what war is
for,
But they say it takes walking,
And not so much squawking,
To conquer the Hun they call
Hitler.
F ree
each
Choice thoughts from old Tom
Carlyle:
Man’s -unhapipiness comes of his
greatness; it is because there is an
infinite in him.
No man nrho has once heartily and
f%[ f&nnijil/ise
“skimp to Beat a Skunk!”
qpO bleach yellowed linens,
A you may need nothing more
than sunshine—if you leave extra
moisture in the material, after
final rinsing. The damper the
fabric—the better the job Old Sol
will do in bleaching!
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jr Then buy dbfbnsb savings
' stamps instead of new linens— j
| But the sun will soon again shine
' on an America at peace!
WNU Service, 1S43 H Street, N-W,
Washington, D. C.
When I came back to the building
where I have a little office which
overlooks the tip of the Washington
monument I found both buttons on
the elevator signal missing. The
boy told me they had been broken
off. He also told me that he couldn’t
get any more.
Those buttons were either plastic
or hard rubber. That’s war. Prob-
ably somebody will have to whittle
two new buttons out of wood. I
wonder if someone can be found
who is handy enough with a jack-
knife today. If he can’t I’m kind of
sorry for America.
Well, a little later I sat in the
office of a man in the department
of commerce. We talked about the
corner store and what was going to
happen to it when the folks can’t
jump into the car and drive off to
the county seat to buy what they
want. I mean that in a few months
they won’t be able to do that be-
cause they won’t have the tires.
This man whose name is Fletcher
Rawls and who was brought up in
a small town was pretty optimistic
about the new world that the war is
creating. He was worried about
tome things but he relished the idea
that all of us are going to have to
lo a lot of things for ourselves.
Like the man who is going to have
to carve out the push buttons for
any elevator. (If I don’t have to take
time out and do it myself.)
He said:
’’Remember when we used to saw
a barrel in two and make two tubs
aut of It? Cut an oval hole in both
lides to make handles?
“Those tubs got you pretty clean
>n Saturday nights. Just as good as
i shiny porcelain tub. Well, we’re 1
ioing to have to get rid of a lot of
chromium steel kitchens, and por-
celain tubs. But we’ll be just as
clean and we’ll show a lot more
ngenuity.”
That was the text of a talk lie
•ead to me about how ingenious the
ur.all town merchant was going to
cave to be if he beat the idea of
’bigness” that has all but run away
vtth America.
ne wasn't quite as optimistic as
Earl Sproul, vice president of the
Western Newspaper Union, but he
uud a lot of sound ideas, too.
Mr. Sproul says: “That small
towns of the United States, always
important factors (hear! hear! I
was born in one) in the economic,
social and political life of the nation,
will now regain much of whatever
trade that was lost in the years that
saw almost every American family
owning a car, is so evident that the
new order demands the most serious
attention.”
In other words people can’t shop
where they happen to be because
they won’t be there. They’ve got to
shop near home. And the small
town retailer is nearer to half the
people than the big town merchant.
Half the national population is offi-
cially reported as rural; living in
towns of 2,500 or less or on fa: ms.
All right. That puts it squar
up to the small town merchant, the
cross roads store.
A Tough Job Ahead
And he has a tough job ahead of
him. He has got to be able to get the
stuff to sell. He has simply got to
go out and fight to get the supplies.
The storekeeper is going to be on a
ration just like the people who get
tires and he has got to prove that
he is eligible for the greatly reduced
output of non-war products that will
exist.
One thing the small town mer-
chant needn’t try to put on his
shelves is canned goods. The can
and the canning cost 90 cents out of
every dollar paid for canned goods.
But when it comes to frozen
goods, the new quick freeze method,
you get 70 cents worth of eating out
of every dollar you spend. Of course
that doesn’t take into consideration
transportation.
But right there is where the small
town merchant may find a new out.
The locker system is spreading.
There is now a project for estab-
lishing more of these cold-storage
lockers. Places where the farmer
can take his perishable products,
fruit, meat or vegetables and for a
small cost preserve them. There is
a possibility that the small mer-
chant can benefit by this m> I.
He can retail the surplus t
farmer doesn’t need for himself.
A whole new business may grow out
of that. ,
The days of the fancy goods are
over for a long while. The shiny
steel iceboxes and sinks and coun-
ters. The canned goods. The frills.
Those are the products of the big
manufacturer, they are the things
sold by the big merchant.
We are not only going to be forced
to deal with our neighborhood mer-
chant because we can’t get out of
the neighborhood but because we
are going to have to return to the
simpler things which the commu-
nity itself can produce.
The day has come when the man
with energy and without capital,
with American ingenuity and with-
out a father-in-law in the banking
business, is going to have a chance
to put his brains and his energy
against even odds.
We are going to get back to the
time when a man who can make
a better mouse-trap will be reward-
ed for it without having to have a
corporation lawyer organize a com-
pany and sell stock. The only stock
he will need is the kind he arrives
with in this world.
• • •
American»—
And Culture
1 once knew a man who worked
on the next desk in the office of a
great middlewestern newspaper. He
ran a semi-humorous column. He
printed in it a lot of miscellaneous
contributed verse. One contribu-
tor who had a funny pseudonym
(we’ll call it Jonathan X) wrote
stuff (as we called it) which really
amounted to poetry. The man who
ran the column was a man of rare
taste. His name was Kieth Preston.
He is now dead. He was so struck
by ’’Jonathan’s’’ work, wanted to
meet him. But the author refused
to be met. Finally he wrote: “I’ll
to!! you the truth. I am a physi-
cian. I have a very good practice.
If my patients knew I wrote poetry
they would be suspicious of me. I
couldn't afford to reveal the fact.”
He was probably right.
American people have a tendency
to sneer at the rentier arts. P, it
privately they arc proud of their
culture.
I'll tell you a story about that.
An acquaintance of mine published
a very popular magazine. It spe-
j cinlizcd on sea stories. It was
very* popular with sailors. The pub-
lisher knew that his sales were tre-
mendous among members of the
fleet.
He was soliciting an advertising ac-
count from a firm that sold chewing
tobacco. Sailors buy (or bought at
this time) a lot of chewing tobac-
co. The advertiser was hesitant.
So the publisher said:
“If I pay for sending a question-
naire to sailors on warships and if
they admit my publication is the
most popular with them, will you
give me the advertising?”
“Yes,” said the advertiser.
So the questionnaire was sent. It
r.sl:td the sailors to list in order
v.'hich magazine they preferred.
'Veil, the answers came in and
Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Cen-
tury, and all the high-brow publi-
cations led the list. The boys want-
ed to show their culture but they
read my friend's pulp publication
just the same.
This same principle is working out
to rob the boys in the army and
navy today of the books they really
want. I get that first hand from
the “Victory Book campaign,” an
organization sponsored by the Amer-
ican Library association, the Amer-
ican Red Cross and similar organi-
zations. They want donations of
old books for pien in the armed
services. They tell me this:
“The average donor comes in with
works of high literary or technical
merit (and these we want, of
course) but timidly half-hiding a
book he relished no little, a “west-
erner, ’ or a “thriller,” or perhaps a
detective story. Finally he manages
to ask if just one of this sort might
be acceptable. Please tell your lis-
teners ‘yes.’ ”
I pass that on to you as an ex-
■c' ‘'vice man who relished any book
he could get, who still loves detec-
tive stories. And I also think it's a
fine commentary on American’s
taste, actual and potential.
If you have any, turn them in to
a convenient Public Library or send
them to Victory Book Campaign, 24
V. ost 40th St., New York City.
B R 1 E
by Iiaukhage
The common cold is response.e
for approximately one-fourth of all
absences among school children, ac-
cording to the Public Health service.
Most people had the idea that the
Russians had driven the Germany
almost back to Berlin in their
counter-offensive. As a matter of
fact, even conservative observers
say that they won only one-fifth of
the conquered territory.
When the war is over the greatest
customer business will have will
be the government. And when
peace comes 50 per cent of Amer-
ica s production (war weapons) will
be a drug on the market.
There will be a shortage of Easter
rsJhn'*^r’ Ei8hteen million ot
the 23,000,000 lily plants sold in the
nation each year ordinarily come
from Japan.
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Applegate, C. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1942, newspaper, April 9, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003752/m1/2/: accessed May 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.